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Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-05
Judge Hines APPOINTMENT.

In selecting James K. Hines to represent the
people of Georgia before our new Railroad
Commission, Governor Hoke Smith has chosen
a capable man, an honest man, and deserv-
ing man.
For seventeen years, Judge Hines has been
one OF the most prominent, useful and level.
headed leaders of the Reform movement which
at last triumphed in the election of Governor
Smith,
We do not claim that Col Peek was elect
ed when he was candidate for Governor in
1892; nor that Seab Wright was elected in
1896; but we know that Hines was elected in
1894. He was kept from serving as Governor
just as Mr.. Watson was kept from going back
to Congress. In Watsons case, Boykin
Wright stuffed the ballot boxes of Augusta
with twelve thousand bogus ballots in Hines
case, the Atkinson managers held back the Re-
turns until they could be doctored
Every well-informed man in Georgia knows
that Maj. J. e. {. Black had no moral or legal
right to represent the Tenth District in Con-
gress. Every well-informed man knows that
w. Y. Atkinson had no legal or moral right to
the Governorship in 1894.
We say this without bitterness, but we saw
it, nevertheless. 1t is good to have the people
reminded of actual facts
The Democratic managers who melted ir
responsible and hot-headed boys to pelt Gen.
eral James B. Weaver with rotten eggs in
Macon, and to howl Watson down in Augusta
and Atlanta, WERE RECEIVING CAM
PAIGN FUNDS FROM THE SAME NEW
YORK GANG WHICH ORDERED BRYAN
AND THE NEBRASKA DEMOCRATS TO
CAST THEIR BALLOTS FOR THIS
SAME JAMES B. WEAVER.
Political managers who were capable of
ordering Bryan to vote for Weaver in Nebras-
ka' while they encouraged the disorderly
youngsters to rotten-egg him in Georgia, were
capable of anything.
And there was little, in the way of political
crime, they did not do.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-05


We rejoice in the fact that the Georgian
is going after the Atlanta end of the Bell Tel
ephone corporation
1t was high time that somebody should be
calling down the high-headed gentry who
manage that public utility.
Somewhere near the head of the manage
mcnt, in Atlanta, is an insoicnt and arrogant
little autocrat who deserves to be hung UP by
the thumbs on one of his own lines.
He has mean way of ordering out The
Phones when people don't do to suit him.
If you had claim for any amount against
the Bell Telephone Company, you would have
a sweet time getting your money. The rcd
tape, the letters to and fro, the auditing, the de-
lays long drawn cut would wear you to fraz-
zle Unless the claim is big one, 1t will pay
YOU to make any of these Yankee corpora
tons present of it, rather than try to, collect
it.
If they smash your freight, or let yonr
peaches rot, or lose a bale of your cotton
fail to deliver a telegram or overcharge on
Express parcels, you find it almost impossible
to get the thing attended to, and the claim
paid.
But if you happen to owe one of these Yam
kee concerns dollar or so-Lord, how they
make you dance! They don't want any red
tape delaying them. They can't wait for any
system of auditing accounts to grind their
meat into sausage.
No Stree, Bob!
You must go down into your jeans, at once,
and get that money, or something bad will
happen to you.
With the Telephone Company this some
thing bad" means that little stuck-up ty-
rant in the head Office "orders out" your
phone.
Then your business suffers, and you are in
convenenced; and you pay the bill, which
may be wrong, rather than endure the injury.
That's what the mean little tyrant counted
on when he ordered out" your Phone.
1t was hold up, pure and simple; and the
morals of it on par with the morality
which is giving such busy time to the pros
ecuting attorneys and the Standard Oil gang.
The Bell Telephone Company coolly moved
into my farm and set up its poles, and
stretched it's wires for a mile over my land:
they never paid a cent; they had no legal right
to be there; their legal attitude is that of toll
GRATED TRESPASSERS. Any day that
get ready, can go there, chop down those
poles, AND THROW THE BELL TELE-
PHONE COMPANY OFF MY PROP
ERTY
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
YouTsEY TELLS OF CRIME.
Powers Directly Connected With the
Murder of Governor Goebel.

Georgetown, Ky.-Henry r. Youtsey,
now serving life sentence for com
plicity in the assassination OF william,
Goebel, was a witness on Tuesday in
the trial of Caleb Powers.
Youtsey detailed the events leading
to the tragedy, and the preparations
which he had arranged for the shoot
ing. 1t was Youtsey who met James
Howard, who Is alleged to have done
the shooting, upon his arrival in
Frankfort. Youtsey told Of placing
guns In Powers office. raising the win
dow and drawing the curtain to the
window. of pointing out Goebel as he
approached the capitol, and seeing
Howard aim at his victim
He then left the room and heard the
crack OF the rifle as he was descend
Ing the stairs. The witness connected
Powers directly by stating that he
fixed the door for the entrance OF the
assassin and approved of the plan.
Youtsey also said former Governor
Taylor dictated letter to him asking
Howard to come to Frankfort to do
the Job"
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
PETT|BONE TRIAL
At LAST BEGUN
Foundation is Laid for Orchard to
Testify and Evidence Similar
to Haywood Case Used.
Attorney Hswiey in Opening State
ment Declares That Pettibone Was
Most Guilty OF All Those Charged
With the Murder Of Steun-
enbere.

Boise. Ida Charging that George A.
Pettibobe. the defendant at bar. is the
most guilty OF all those charged with
causing the death OF Ex-Governor
Frank steunenberg. James II. Hawley
outlined the states case on Tuesday.
Little effort at oratory was made by
the chief prosecutor. but he plainly
told the jury what 1t is proposed to
prove. For two hours he spoke OF
what he termed the most gigantic con
, spiracy In the annals of crime, always
keeping In the foreground the part
which 1t Il alleged Pettibone took In
II.
The taking OF evidence began at the
afternoon session. and before court
adjourned for the day the state had
established the corpus delecti clearing
the way for Harry Orchard. who Will,
for the second time, tell to jury his
story of blood Orchard was brought
from the penitentiary to the city
Tuesday afternoon.
The evidence viii be similar to that
OF the Haywood case. The statement
was made by Attorney Hawley that
''Pettibne was the most important rae
tor of the conspiracy. He was the
mediator between the federation lead
ers and the desperate men who made
murder a trade and assassination
means " livelihood. 1t was Pettibone
who manufactured a peculiar kind OF
explosive. known as 'Pettibone dope,
which, when thrown upon anything
causes fire which cannot be put out;
that 1t was he who sawed off the shot
guns which became common weapons
for the->use of the assassins, that he
helped to make the bombs which
caused a score of Deaths
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
MINE OWNERS LOWER WAGES
NON-UNION MEN IN MINES
1,ooos Are to be Scattered through
out ooIdfeld District to Guard
the Mining Properties-ut'
mstum of Mine Owners
Association.

colaaeid Neyada.-The Goldneid
Mine owners association has issued
its ultimatum 10 the miners IN uoin-
aeld in the shape OF set OF resoiu'
tions adopted at a meeting winch
was held last Monday. lhese
resolutions embody the new scale Oh
wages to be In vogue from this ume
on, showing lowering OF the scale oi
about 20 per cent.
The reduction in wages is practi-
cally 81 per day for all classes Oh
workmen. The association furtner
declares that members of the associa'
ton will not in the future employ IN
or around his mine or around MS MIL
any member of Goldfield local union
No 220 of the Western Federation OF
Miners or of any union connected with
or affiliated with the said Western
Federation of Miners, and that all
men hereafter employed by any men,
her Of this association in or around
his mine or mill be required, as
condition OF his employment, to sign
a written contract which contains an
agreement that the miner Is not now
and will not be during the time he is
working, a member of the Goldheld
Miners union No. 220 of the Western
Federation OF Miners or Of union in
Goldfield or elsewhere that is direct
~ or indirectly affiliated with or has
any connection of any kind, nature
or description with said Western Fed
Grafton of Miners.
The resolutions further declare that
IL there is not sufficient number OF
men willing to go to work upon the
terms of the resolutions before De-
cember IL, it will employ men from
such sources as it may be able to Sc
cure them.
Another portion of the resolution Is
that 1t is the sense of this associa-
ton that the cost of living in the Gold
field mining district be reduced at
least 90 per cent from what 1t now is,
and unless this be done within rea-
sonable time this association will
construct and operate a general mer.
chandise store or stores and board
ing houses that will guarantee to the
ren employed in and around the
mines and mills a reduction to this
or greater amount
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
KANSAS CITY BANK
FORCED TO CLOSE
One Of Largest Institutions in West
Unable to Stem the Tide Of
Adverse Circumstances.
Suspension Due to the Fact That se
eurities Could Not be Disposed o.,
But Depositors Will Not Lose
a Cent by Failure.

Kansas City.-The National BanB
Of Commerce OF Kansas City, MO-,
one of the largest in the west, with
deposits of s16,000,000, closed Its
doors Thursday morning and was
taken in charge by national bank
examiner upon an order OF the comp
trpller of the currency. Later two
small outlying banks in which the
Commerce was interested, the Stock
wards Bank of Commerce and the
Union Avenue Bank of Commerce
also closed.
The failure OF these banks has been
predicted for several days and but
little excitement followed the an
nouncement of the news, although
crowds of depositors gathered about
the doors of these institutions. The
officials of the Commerce, which is
affiliated with many banks here and
in other parts of the southwest, ex
. press the opinion that none OF them
will be seriously affected. The fail
ure is laid to the withdrawal of out
side banks within the past two
months of $1S000,000 of deposits
They expect to reopen soon and say
depositors will be protected in full
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
INCREASED CIRCULATION.
More Money Being Put into the
Hands Of the People.

New York. The events of the past
week In the financial world have been
such as usually mark the gradual re-
turn of confidence and the restoration
Of normal conditions In the banks.
fhe decision of the secretary OF the
treasury to issue only about $4,000.
900 Of the si50,0O0,000 In new securi-
ties. which he expressed a willingness
TO issue II conditions required, the
disclosure Of unusually strong re-
serves by country banks reporting to
the comptroller OF the currency. the
decline In the currency premium and
the improvement In the New York
hank statement have all been features
Apf the week which have tended
Towards stability and reinsurance.
The Increase In money In circulation
outside the treasury. as shown by the
monthly statement OF the treasury
department for November. was $751;
S72.SS7. or this amount the increase
In gold In the country IL computed at
about $72.000,000. including domestic
production as well as importation
from abroad. The other principal
form of increase Is In bank clrcula
ton. In which an Increase OF 1888 .521
was obtained by the disbursement of
bank notes held In the treasury cash.
and $46.237,730 was obtained by ac-
tual increase In the notes issued by
the comptroller and outstanding.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
NEW Works. BLUE SUNDAY.
Lack OF Arusements Not Appreciated
by Residents Of Gotham.

New York. New York on Sunday
treated Its millions of residents and
tens Of thousands weekend visitors
TO the novelty of u thoroughly blue"
Sunday. the tirst. and probably the
last. In the history OF the metropolis.
The aldermen win meet during the
week 10 modify the ordinances 40 far
as their authority goes.
broadway was deserted. except for
those who found nothing better to do
than 60 walk the streets, Upon the
ciosed doors of the opera houses. the
aters. music halls. dancing acade-
miles. skating Kinks and penny ar.
cades placards had been posted
These blantly announced that the
places had been closed for the day
In accordance with Justice o'Gor-
mans decision. AZ the thoaters even
the box offices were closed and the
advance sales FIR the week interrupts
ed The blue" SUNDAY restraint was
applied only Co plaeCN OF amusement.
and some of the theatrical men de-
ciared that from q saloon standpoint
the town was unusually wide open.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
RUSSIA WILL BORROW MONEY.
Rebuilding of Fleet and Other Expen.
dtures Can Not be Met by Pres
ent Revenues.

st. Petersburg. 1t is learned from
official sources that Russia probably
will market foreign loan the latter
part of 1908, If international condi-
lions are then favorable. The pres
ent revenues are adequate to cover
the ordinary expenses on the eco
nomic scale which M. Kokovsoff has
instituted since the war, with perhaps
some assistance from a small inter-
nal loan. but for the introduction of
general education, the construc-
ton of railroads, the rebuilding of
the fleet and similar projects, the me-
cessity of financial help from abroad
Is frankly admitted. These expendi-
lures can be deferred for a time, but
not indefinitely, and the government
believes that parliament has recog-
nized the necessity of and will au-
thorize loan, the amount of which
shall not be fixed, but will depend
largely upon the realization of the
1908 budget, which will be known by
september or October.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
THROWN DOWN THE GAUNTLET.
Mine Owners Declare They VIII Ms'ke
Goidheld an Open Camp.

Goldheld. New, --Encouraged, doubt
less. by the presence of Federal troops
In Goldneld. the Goldheld Mine Own
ers' association held meeting Satur.
day afternoon and at night gave out q
statement In which II Ia openly said
that the members OF the association
have decided to make determined
struggle TO free Goldfleld OF union
domination aud make this. an open
camp. The statement OF the purpose
OF the mine owners IN direct and un.
eauivocal. and throws down the gannt.
Let to the Western Federation OF Min.
era. Oiiicers OF the association re-
fused To say II any steps have already
been taken toward importing nom
union miners In sufficient numbers to
reopen the mines. which are now idle
and rapidly fllllng with water, but
stated that many kilograms are being
received hourly offering men.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
SWEDEN M0URNS
FOR HER KING
King Oscar II Had Endeared Him
self to All the People as an
Intimate, Personal Friend.
Oldest Son Of the Swedish King, o.
car Gustaye Adolphe, Succeeds 70
the Throne. Taking the Oath
OF Allegiance a Few Hours
After the Death OF
His Father.

Stockholm. Oscar II. king OF swe.
den, died at $40 O'clock Sunday
morning. The death Of the venerable
monarch occurred In the royal apart
ment Of the palace, where. surrounded
by the members OF his family, includ-
Ing the aged Queen Sophia and the
Crown Prince Oscar Gustave, the high
ministers al STATE, the inevitable end
had been awaited. while outside the
palace great crowds stood with bowed
heads and fearful eyes long after the
announcement came OF the death OF
their welLloved sovereign. The whole
country IL bowed with grief, for King
Oscar was something more than q
ruler OF his people and had endeared
himself To them an an intimate and
personal friend. When the flag on
the palace was dipped to half.mast
there was moan of anguish from
the assembled multitude, and many OF
them cried. Our dear old king 10
dead"
The succession to TIE throne OF
Sweden now passes to Oscar Gustaye
Adoiphe, Duke OF verland. the eldest
son of the late king. At a meeting
OF the council OF state Sunday after
noon the new king took the oath OF
allegiance under the title OF Gustaye
v, and adopted the motto. with the
people Of the fatherland." The
princess then took the oath OF alleg-
lance and the new monarch accepted
the homage OF the state officials.
The last hours OF the expiring mon
arch were passed In unconsciousness
and up 10 the end he gave no sign OF
peeogulzins those about him. The
queen was grlef-stricken because he
could not bid her farewell
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
BANDITS HOLD UP TOWN.
Intiridate Citizens and Blow Open
Safe in the Bank.

Carney, Okla.-Five men, at an
early hour Thursday morning, sue.
ceeded after firing five nitroglycer-
inc shots, in breaking into the coin
safe of the Carney bank and secured
$4,000 The buarglary was the most
desperate on record in the new state.
While two men, time after time
charged the safe cracks with nitro
glycerine, and explosion after explo-
sion shattered and broke up bank
furniture, the other robbers stood
guard on the outside of the building
and kept up a steady rifle fire in
every direction, shooting at any citi-
zen of the town who made an appear
anCe.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
BRIDGE COLLAPSED.
Seven Men Killed and Many Others In,
jured.

Bloomsbury. Pa,-High water caused
the collapse of new bridge in course
Of construction over the west branch
Of the Susquehanna river at Miftiin'
Vile. eight mites north of here. Tues.
day night. and resulted in the death
of seven men and the injury OF nearly
score of others. two perhaps fatally
Forty men were at work on the trav.
eler on the middle span OF the struc
ture when II collapsed, They were all
thrown into the swollen river The &C
cident occurred just at nightfall wher
the men were preparing to abandon
their work. As a result, the work OF
resculng those who were thrown into
the water and caught In the mass OF
twisted iron and steel was greatly re
tarded.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
KENTUCKY TOWN TERR0RlEO
BY DREADED NIGHT RAIDERS
Warehouses Burned and Several PEG.
pie injured &C Result Of Tobacco
War in the Blue Grass State.

Hopkinsville. Kys-Fiye hundred
night riders" masked and heavily
armed. marched into Hopkinsyille
early Saturday and destroyed property
valued ut more than 100000, while
tho citizens, In terror OF their lives.
feared 70 open their windows. The
police. fire department, telephone and
telephone Offices. and even the rail-
road stations, were In possession OF .
wild mob, shooting right and left. The
flames from burning buildings mean
while lighted up the city and the sur
rounding country until II seemed the
whole town was abiaze.
One or two men were injured. one
OF them being Lindsay Mitchell. To-
bacco buyer. who was severely beaten
with switches and clubs, and the
other a brakeman, who was shot In
the back while trying to move his
train from the path OF the flames.
The raid OF the night riders"
caught the city unawares, az for some
time the depredations resulting from
the tobacco war had been OF minor
nature, and IL was generally thought
that In the dark district" ut least the
worst was over.
AS soon as the might riders" left
town, posse OF about fifteen. headed
by Major Bassett OF the local militia
and Deputy Sheriff Cravens, entered
buggies and followed the trail.
AZ soon, as the posse could get near
enough they opened fire ON the flee
ing mob. and the pursued returned the
shots, 1t is believed none OF the
might riders" was hit Members OF
the posse escaped injury. They we're
soon outdistaneed by the mounted
men, and, after chasing the men past
Gracey, the officers returned home.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
Accused of Selling Girl to Gypsies.

st. Louis-Marie Thompson, the
l6-year-old girl who was taken from
a gypsy camp on Wednesday on a
writ of habeas corpus, secured at the
Clayton circuit court by her parents
Antonio Thompson and wife of Los
Angeles, Cal, was on Thursday given
into the custody of her parents. I'm
mediately afterward Antonio Thomp-
son and his wife were arrested at
the court house on the charge of hav-
ing sold their daughter into slavery
The charge was based on the declar.
alton of Peter Adams, gypsy, who
asserted that he had paid Thompson
$500 in gold for his daughter.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
Soldier court.Martialed Because he
Did Not Stop Fight.

Des Molnes. la.-Captain Kulp, com
pany h, |. N G.. was placed on trial
here before court martial. charged with
disobeying the orders of a superior of
acer. Kulp Is accused OF permitting a
prize fight at Davenport after Ad1utant
General Thrift. al the direction Of Gov,
ernor cummins, had ordered him to
stop H. kulp claims that he dis.
charged the generals orders In that he
permitted a boxing exhibition. General
Thrift maintains that kulp had no
right TO determine the nature of the
bout.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19

London ~ Heavy gales In the chan.
mel and the dislocation OF the cross
channel traflc are said to have re
suited In a disastrous collision OF
Folksione Sunday msning between
the Dutch steamer Scheldcstroom and
the British bark Forfarshlre. The
scheldestroom was badly damaged and
run for Folkestone. where she was
heachad The captain Of the Dutch
vessel together With ten Of the crew.
entered = boat which was driven ON
the rocks and wrecked. Seven OF the
men. including the captain. were
drowned.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
Mrs. Bradley VIII Sell Books.

washingtou.-Mrs, Annie NJ. Brad.
ley has decided 10 remain here and en-
deayor to earn funds to pay her ex
penses TO Salt Lake City To aid her
in doing this Mrs Ellis Dan Moore. a
Washington authoress. has presented
600 copies OF one Of her production to
Mrs. Bradley. who win sell them and
thus raise money TO pay her immediate
living expenses and enable her later
to return to Salt axe City with her
children. Mrs. Bradley is now with
her mother and her children.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
Violated Sunday CLOSING Law,

Chicago.-Warrants were issuaa on
Monday by Municipal Judge Sadler
Tor the keepers of twenty-eight large
hotels charging them with violation
oil the Sunday closing law. The war
.a"'S were sworn out by Daniel Cruce.
an attorney, who promised thormyb
prosecution in every case. Among
tne hotels named in the warrants are
.ne rainier House, Auditorium Annex
lexington. Victoria. WslBngto,,
sherman, Grand Pacific, Metnno,a
Stratford, Saratoga and the Morr;Srs'
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
New Steamship Record.

Queenstown, Ireland.-The Cunard
line steamer Mauretania arrived here
at 5:49 Thursday afternoon, thus
breaking the east-bound record. The
arrival of the Mauritania off Daunt's
Rock Queenstown at 5:49 means
that she has covered the distance
from Sandy Hook lightship in four
days, twenty-five hours and twenty
nine minutes The previous record,
four days twenty-five hours and fifty
minutes, was made by the Lusitania,
sister ship of the Mauretania Conse-
quently the Mauretania has beaten
the Lusitania by twenty-one minutes.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
Chicago Chosen by Republicans.

Washington The Republican ma
tional convention for 1908 win be held
In Chicago on June 16. This was de-
eided at meeting OF the national
committee held in this city on Satur-
day. The meeting began at 1918 a.
NJ. and adjourned at 1886 D, m. and
At that time the claims Of Chicago,
Kansas City and Denver for the con
yentlon location were all pointedly
presented by advocates OF the various
places. The vote stood 81 for Chicago.
IL for Kansas City and for Denver.
after which the Chicago ehpice was
declared to be by reclamation.