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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-02
knN COMPLIMENT TO

IN COMPLIMENT TO
 MISS VAUGHAN.
 A number of young men entertained at hop at Pickett Springs last even ing. given in compliment to Miss Nonte Moore Vaughan. who will leave, this morning for visit to friends in Lou isville and Cincinnati. The evening was a delightful one to the partici- pants. who enjoyed a dance by music rendered by Hoffman's band
 The party. which was chaperoned by MT. and Mrs. Sutherland Noble, MT and Mrs. John Young. and MT. and Mrs w. H. Padgett. included Miss Lucille Warren, Miss May Belle Jones. Miss McJunkins of Minnesota. Miss Celestine Gilmer, Miss Abbie Huber. Miss Claudia fletcher, Miss Lucille Jones. Miss Bar ron of Tuscaloosa. Miss Elizabeth Will Hams, Miss Lila Hannon. Mir. Minor Crimson. MT. Charles Butt, MT. Fon- vili,e Mir. James Ray, Mir. Decios of New Orleans MT. Bernard Young. MT. Glenn Pleasants. Mir. Robert Hudson, Mir. William Kohn. MT. O. D. Jones. and MT. Allen.
 NOTICE CITY MISSIONS. The Board of City Missions will meet this afternoon at o'clock at the Court Street Annex. All members are urged to attend.
 Mrs. w H. Thomas. President. Mrs. Hay. Recording Secretary. MT. and Mrs. Clifford A. Lanier and daughter, Mrs W. L. Durrs will leave tomorrow for Chautauqua, New York. From there they will go later to spend some time at Mingo Lodge, the summer home of Mrs. Upton, formerly Miss Rilla Johnson of Montgomery. at Ska neateles, near Syracuse, N. Y. They will be the guests there of Mrs. Upton and her sister. Mrs. shannon. Mrs. G. R. Doran and daughter. Miss Lydia Doran, returned last night from Mobile where they went to attend the marriage of Miss May Davidson and Mir. Romson. which took place Wednesday evening.
 A prominent feature of the social side of the encampment of the 1st Cav airy Squadron next week will be a dance given Wednesday evening by the members of the Beauvoir Club and the Country Club. The dance will be given in the pavilion at Pickett Springs.
 Miss Mary Frazer. of Mobile. and Miss Eleanor Ward, of Greensboro, are the guests of Miss Marion McGehee at her home. 113 Church Street.
 
 Miss Eva Ely will leave in few days for visit to friends in Eufaula and Blakely Ga.
 General and Mrs. Bibb Graves have returned from Selma, where they went to attend the encampment of the 2nd
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-02

today for : Louisville. where she will visit friends.
 Mrs. John Savage of Birming gham is the guest of her brother, Mrs. Glenn Fitzpatrick. at his home on Court Street.
 Mrs. Raiph D. Quisenberry will leave Monday for Virginia, where che goes to visit Mr ouisenberry's rela> tives.
 Mrs. W. c. Forehand has issued in- vitations to a largefp party. at which she will entertain this evening at her home in Fort Deposit, in honor of her guest. Miss 4nnie Warren Jones of Montgom- cry.
 Miss Regina Roswald. who is in Washington visiting relatives. will re- main until October. She is receiving many delightful social attentions dur ing her visit there.
 Mrs. J. A. Howard and little son of Mobile, are the guests of her sister, Mrs. w. $. Naftel. MT. Naftsl has gone to New York to spend some time. Mir, Fred whiting has gone to Black ESOCks SOuu.s SO ttOiS sAso Valentine Harrington. He will be joined by his moth\r. Mrs. Mary Whit ing. soon.
 Mrs. Samuel Bennett has returned from Cumberland Island. where she has been spending soms time.
 Mrs. c. L. Mathews and daughters. Mrs, Laura Little and Miss Fannie Ao Mtag Laura Little. who are in A"heville. N' C.. will be gone alS summer
 Ar. and Mrs. James P. Ferrall are at the Exchange Hotel for the present. Mrs. Ferrall win return to Demopolis. where she is spending the summer and where her little son Is convalescent from typhoid fever.
 Mrs. J. W. Ford. of Blakely. Ga. and Mrs. J. c. Boyd, of Barto. Fla. are vfs- iting Mrs W. F.. Ford. on McDonoukh street.
 Mi. Floy Smith has returned from a visit to friends in Union Springs
 Mir. and Mrs. E. H. Parker have TO- turned from . visit to Jamestown and relatives fin New York
 
 Mir. and Mrs. W. J. Drum will leave for Tate Spring tomorrow.
 MT. and Mrs Gunnels and two little girls, Mir W. William Gunnels and Miss Nellie Warmock. of Oxford. MT. and Mrs. Abercrombre and two little girls. of Tuscaloosa. Miss Mary An derson. Miss -'elle Anderson. and Miss Fannie Brown will form O party leaving this morning to be gone several weeks. visiting James, town. Virginia Beach and Washington. They will sail from Savannah.
 
 Misses Nellie and Paulina Stephens. of San Antonia, Tex, are visiting Mrs. Oma P. Larkin.
 Miss Annie Kelly has returned from a visit to friends in Troy.
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 Mrs. Emmett Whitworth. of Camilla. Ga., Is visiting Mrs. L. C. Bennett. of South Court street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-02
MUST SERVE TIME
NEGRO WHO SOUGHT ESCAPE IN
 CONDCUH IS CONVICTED.
usAaM L0wefy Applied for Habeas Corpus Writ and Was Able to Put on Return to Mont
 gOmePy.

Isham Lowery, the negro over whom Sherin Belser had 50 much trouble some time ago in extraditing from Conscuh to Montgomery County, was tried in the City Court yesterday for assault to murder and convicted In another case of assault to murder he pleaded guilty.
 arrested in Copecuh County at the in- stance of Sheriff Belser The negro's attorney began habeaa corpus proceed ings and succeeded in retaining the negro iI Conecuh County ,,ntil Chan cellor Parks directed the Sheriff Of Conecuh County to bring the prisoner to Montgomery for a hearing of the circumstances. after which Lowery was remanded to the custody of Sheriff Belser.
 Lowery shot Joe Smith, negro. and his wife. some time ago. The shooting occurred in the southern part of the County, about twenty miles from Mont gomery.
 Other cases disposed of yesterday were:
 Jimmie Stewart. grand larceny pleaded guilty.
 Ed Thomas. false pretenses. pleaded guilty.
 Robert Williams. assault to murder ptoduSu tdsSduit dHu battery and fined SIS.
 Included in today's call are three cases of embezzlement against Nathan iel Askew. a young white man, ac- cused of misappropriating the funds of a furniture company while employed as a collector
 Other cases set for trial today are Lee Andrews vagrancy; George Adams, grand larceny; Rich Afford assault to murder. two cases; R. l.. Bartlett, abandonment; Coleman Benson, assault to murder.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-02
COMPANY PROMISES
 4 BETTER SERVICE
Council Committee Decides Not to
 Further Prosecute Company,

The joint committee of the Council on Franchises. Privileges and EIectri- cal Control. met last evening in a lengthy session at the City Hall. thor oughly reviewed the present telephone situation and came to the conclusion that in view of all circumstances, ihe branch of the Southern Bell Teleph ,n q system in this city was doing its best to insure good service. and to guaran- tee attention to the wants of its pa irons.
 President smith of Atlanta, the high est official of the company was present at the session. and upon invitation ex- plained In detail the difficulties under which the Montgomery company was operating. Manager Edward Lyle and Superintendent F. L. Woodruff were also present, and both advised the AL dermen of their intentions to please and thoroughly satisfy the patrons in Montgomery.
 It was represented to the commit tee that the local company had suffered much from rain and electric storms human and extraordinary agencies, and that 1t was endeavoring to the best of its ability to get on more substan- tial basis. It was cited that improve ment in the local system had already been made. and the committee was as- sured that in the course of d few months. more discernible progress would be noticeab in the city.
 The Aldermen will report to he Council on Monday night that review of the conditions had satisfied them of the excellent intentions on the part of the company and win recommend in all probability. no further prosecu- ton. The following Aldermen were present at the session. Chairman Tait and Counciimen Jones, Sullivan, Coins and Ryan MT. Steiner the corhpany's attorney, was also present.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-02
Draro Doctrine Dead.

Rio Janeiro. August l-The Tribuna says that the Drago doctrine Is definite lv dead and will soon be forgotten.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-02
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Regiment Mrs. Graves was regimen tai chaperone.
 Miss Lula Jackson Mcqueen of Mont gomery, who has been visiting Mrs. Mark B. Lewis on Highland Avenue, has returned to Montgomery. Miss Mo- Queen has many friends here and in Selma. where she has been sponsor for company at the encampment of the End Regiment. Alabama National Guard.-Birmingham Age-Herald.
 Mrs. W c. Oates and son, Mir. W. c. Oates, Jr., will leave this morning for Tate Spring, where they will join Gen. eral Oates. Mir. Toney, who has been waiting hts sister. Mrs. W. C.. Oates, has returned to his home in Eufaula,
 Miss Carolyn Jackson and Master Melville Jackson. who has been visiting 6 their aunt. Mrs.sW c. Oates. have re- turned to the home of their aunt. Mrs. Tlournoy. in Eufaula.
 Mrs. J. c. Lee and sister. Mrs. Bes- son. have reached Los Angeles and are enjoying their visit to their brother. Mir. W. H. Graves. there.
 Miss Florence Harris has returned from Mountain Creek. where she has been visiting friends.
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 Mrs. Lutz. matron of the Young wo- mans Christian Association, ' enjoy ing her vacation at her old home in Wisconsin.
 When the members of the Sewing Circle met at Pickett Springs Tues day afternoon, the party included Miss Lucille Wolff. Miss Lyra Meyer. Miss Blanche Mohr. Miss Blanche En- gle. Miss Kate Steiner. Miss Edith Meyer. Miss Hilda Moritz. Miss Cecile Loeb. Miss Carrie Behr, Miss Ella Klein. Miss Philippa Marks. Miss Dora Marcus.
 At the home of Mir. and Mrs. A. c. Forbes yesterday morning. Acard club among the younger set was organized. with Miss Clara Ellen Forbes as host ess of the occa sion. Following the busi- ness meeting was game of eucnre and afterwards a course luncheon was served. The plan is that the members will meet two mornings week at the homes of the various members. who are: Miss Clara Ellen Forbes. Miss Florence Davidson. Miss Mildred An drew. Miss Annie Danziger, Miss Katie Boothe Miss Sara Warren Wilkerson. Miss Mary Cobbs. Miss Isabel Cobbs. Miss Maryellen Harris, Miss 4ene Burke, Miss Elizabeth Andrew, Miss Rebecca Rutledge and Miss Maude Howe.
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 Mrs. John G. Finley will arrive Sat urday from Montgomery to visit MT. and Mrs. J. F. Reynolds.-Talladega Mountain Home.
 
 Miss Lena Mae Harris, who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. warren Jones, has returned to her home in Union Springs.
 Miss Annie Warren Jones has gone to Fort Deposit to visit Mrs. W. G. Forehand.
 Miss Nonie Moore Vaughan will leave
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-02
INTERNATIONAL COPS.
COmmissioner Bingham Has Plan To
 Improve Service,

COmmisslonef Bingham Has Plan To
 Improve Service.
 New York. August l-Police Com missioner Bingham is planning to es- tablish a secret service that may be in- ternational in scope.
 The Commissioner thinks there should be a body of men who would not be known even to the central office de- tectives. The Commissioner believes that the European cities and the cities throughout the United States should work together. and he has scheme in mind seeking to improve the methods of communication. so that all cities will be constantly in touch In this way criminals could be traced easily after the commission of a crime.
 Commissioner Bingham expects to ask for a city appropriation of s50.0oo to further his plans.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-02

police headquarters as Jim Williams. Jim Brown Garfield Johnson, John Ma lone, Wilson Walker. Mark Broadnax and Alfred Brown. Failing the re- Quisite sum to purchase their liberty they will have to labor for the city until the fine Is paid in work.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-25
The Steel Merger.

They picked up everything in sight, hurried to Chicago, and, within week after the opening of their cam paign, they had the whole company organized This is the way that Gates likes to do things. Gates and all his followers cleaned up fortunes in this Notation. The public appetite was keen for industrial stocks, especially for steel stocks, and the conversion of millions of dollars worth of newly manufactured stock certificates into the coin of the realm was accom- plished in a short time. Two years later the big trust was formed in the steel trade, and the Gates companies were turned into the merger. Gates wanted 10 go on the steel board but the chief promoter, MT Morgan, wouldn't have it. The banker said he didn't think that Gates was a safe man to have in great corporation direc- torate.
 MT. Morgan's coldness toward him didn't seem to worry him at all Not many, months later Gates began to
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-25

CT crops, and threshing proved so profitable that before the winter came young Gates had made enough money to buy out his two partners. At one of the farms where the lad had threshed wheat he fell in love with farmers rosy-cheeked daughter This gave him an incentive to go ahead and make a fortune
 farming community away from the railways does not present many golden opportunities to an 1S-year-old boy. Near the farm was a strip of woodland where Gates shot par tridges and squirrels. Tramping along footpath in the woods one day the idea came to him that if the farmer would sell him the timber rights he could fell the hard wood and cut it up into frewOod to sell to the neighboring Villages. The boy went home after a tape measure, paper and pencil, and then back to the woods "timber-look- ing" Going about the woods, select ing small areas, counting the hard woods and measuring them, he got an idea of the density of the forest He sat down on stump, and by dint of figuring he made a rough estimate of the number of cords of firewood an acre would yield Then he went to the owner to make a bargain. He made an offer for all the timber, agreeing to pay for it as money came in from his sales of firewood.
 'l haven't any money" the boy told the farmer, but you can have my threshing machine as security"
 Co ahead, Johnny; your word is as good as a government bond"
 Gates as a Woodcutter.
 All through the winter the lad was out in the wood lot before daybreak working with woodchopper he hired to help him. The great trees were felled, sawed into short lengths, and split into firewood Young Gates de livered two loads of wood a day by sled to the neighboring villages. Be- fore the snow was off the ground the woods had been cleared, the owner had been paid in full, and the boy had $1 ,000 in the bank He took this money and opened a hardware shop at the neighboring railway junction. He sold the farmers their implements
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-25

want to hurt anybody. The road looked good to him and he had bought some of the stock In fact, he had bought the control. Gates didn't have any special use for a railroad with $500 miles of track, and he looked around for a purchaser. He went to Mir. Morgan's office one morning, and said: Morgan, own the control of the Louisville. If you want it or have a buyer for it. you can take it off my hands" Mir Morgan found buyer and Gates cleaned up fortune.
 Gates is born gambler. When he was country shopkeeper out in Illi- nois he spent many a night in box car on the siding, playing the great American game by the light of a trainman's lantern.
 Tn active markets it has not been unusual for Gates to carry a line of 25.000,000 or 0,000,0 ,000 worth of stocks on margin. Some of the older men in the street have tried again and again to tie him up, but they have never succeeded. Gates has always had his eyes open. Where he couldn't see far enough with his own eyes, he paid somebody else to look out for him. No operator in Wall Street ever organized a more elabor- ate system of getting advance infor- nation of things that would affect Wall street. When the street was waiting anXiously for the final decis- ion in the Northern Securities case. and the Union Pacific party believed that it had defeated James I Hill. Mir. Gates one day sent word to Mir. Hills office that he had something to tell him. The railroad president walked down Nassau street and across Wall street to the plunger's office There he learned from Gates that the Su- preme court decision would be against the Union Pacific. Gates didn't tell how he knew it, but he assured Mr. Hill that he knew what he was talk ing about. Northern Securities began to soar that day and never stopped until it had advanced $70 share. Some days later the Supreme court decision was made public. It was just what Gates said it would be.
 Of the hordes of newly created mill ionaires borne into Wall street on the wave of industrial combinations which overwhelmed the country from 1898 to 1901, Gates was the most pictur- esque. He has added to that distinc- tion the further honor of lasting the longest and of retiring not without laurels. One may not wonder if 1t might not be said of him now what he once said of himself on another question, that he is not broke, but badly bent"
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-25
JOHN w. GATES IN
 MANY WAYS TRUE
 TYPE OF AMERICAN
Few of the Striking Episodes in the Life of the Great Plunger Who Has Raked In Some of the Biggest Jack pots Known to the World of High Finance-Has Had Many Years of Unvarying Success.

New York.-John w. Gates, the most picturesque plunger who ever rose to fame and fortune in Wall street, has leased a great hunting pre- serve in France, and is winding up the business of his House of Twelve Partners" He is through with Wall street, writes Frank Fayrant in the Times. When market operator of his prominence quits the speculative game immediately after a disastrous panic in the market it is but natural for the gossips of the street to say: They've got him at last" Ever since Gates began swinging big lines of stock in bull markets and running afoul of men of great power in Wall street the deniZens of the street have shook their heads wisely and said: They'll get him some day" During the panicky days of March, when the rumOr mongers were telling of the huge losses piling up against wealthy operators, they were sure that the House of Twelve Partners was in deep water. And now that the famous house. that in big markets has carried at times $125, eco coo worth of stock on margin, is going out of business, the rumor mongers are saying: T told you so.'
 But John, w. only smiles and says: q wish they were all as comfortably fixed as l am" His friends say that he began trimming his sails last win ter, when stocks were selling at sky prices, and that when the storm broke in March he had all his reefs in. They say that he actually bought stocks during the panicky days of March, and that banks were carrying millions of dollars of free cash for him when some very wealthy men were lying awake nights wondering how they would make their bank bal ances good the next day His friends think that he is worth at least $25, coo, and perhaps good deal more.
 So John w. isn't exactly broke.
 Barbed Wire the Beginning.
 It was in barbed wire that Gates be- gan to build his fortune Gates was a poor farmers boy out west. His first business venture was contracting to husk neighbor's corn. From the money he saved out of this work he
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-25
ITCHING RASH 18 YEARS.
Girls Rash Spread and Grew Worse Under Specialists Care-Perfect
 Cure by Cuticura Remedies.

When my daughter was baby she had a breaking out behind the ears. The doctor said that she would out. grow it, and it did get somewhat bet. ter until she was about fifteen years old, and after that she could get noth. ing that would drive it away. She was always applying something in the way of salves. It troubled her behind the knees, opposite the elbows, back of the neck and ears, under the chin, and then it got on the face. That was about three years ago. She took treat, ment with a specialist and seemed to get worse all the time. We were then advised to try the Cuticura Remedies, and now don't see any breaking out. M. Curley, 11-19 Sixteenth St, Bay City, Mich, May 20, 1906."
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-25
FIT THE GROCER
Wife Made the Suggestion.

A grocer has excellent opportunity to know the effects of special foods on his customers. A Cleveland grocer has a long list of customers that have been helped in health by leaving off co1ee and using Postum Food Coffee.
 He says, regarding his own expe' rience: Two years ago 1 had been drinking coffee and must say that was almost wrecked in my nerves.
 Particularly in the morning l was so irritable and upset that 1 could hardly wait until the coffee was served, and then had no appetite Tor breakfast and did not feel like attend ing to my store duties.
 One day my wife suggested that inasmuch as l was selling SO much Postum there must be some merit ih 1t and suggested that we try it. LOOK home a package and she prepared It according to directions. The result was very happy one. My nervous ness gradually disappeared and today l am all right. I would advise every one affected in any way with nervous ness or stomach troubles, to leave on coffee and use Postum Food Conee. There's a Reason" Read. The koae to Wsllville," in pkgs.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-25
The Money Devil.

Its my candid opinion" he said, that money is infested with seven devils, and 1 shouldn't wonder if 70 wouldn't be more correct There is trouble and a world of worry in the very name of it! When l haven't got 1t, I'm worrying as to where I'll get it, and when l get it worry about what to do with it; if put it in the bank l worry because it don't grow fast enough, and if l spend it l worry because l got rid of it so soon; so you see, it's world full O trouble anyway you take it. The poor bless and curse it; the rich don't know what to do with it; there isn't hand full of happiness in ton of it. Here comes a bill collector now, to get what little I haven't got. Stay here and entertain him while climb to the roof!"-Atlanta Constitution.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-25

plunge heavily in Louisville & Nash vile. He told his friends. that 1t was great property and that it ought to go higher. He and his following in New York and Chicago, which by that time had grown to large proportions because of the money he had made for them in his steel stocks, put the stock from around par to above $15O. The street woke up one morning to dis cover that Gates had "cornered'' Lou isville. The Northern Pacific corner panic was still fresh in the mind of Wall street and there was a momen- tary scare. But Gates said he didn't
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-25
The Last Dash,

The autoists in higheat attitudes gathered around and mournfully con- templated dark body that lay upon the gleaming ice before them.
 At that moment De Villiers, the last Of the party, who had been detained by faulty adjustment, rode up.
 What's the trouble?" he asked
 One of the fur-clad group looked around. His voice was choked with rage.
 That idiotic chauffeur whom Dasher insisted on bringing along didn't look where he was going"
 Yes"
 He smashed into the pole and broke 1t short off."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-25

an Illinois town, from whom he had been buying his wire.
 This was Col Isaac Elwood, a pion- ger in the business. He was not look ing for partners, but he gave the bright young country shopkeeper a job as travelling man for the con cern. Gates travelled back and forth through the wheat belt selling barbed wire, and made reputation as one of the best "drummers" on the road But he wasn't content with his drum mers'' commissions. He wanted to divide the manufacturing profits with Col. Ellwood. The manufacturer
The Prescott daily news., 1907-05-25
Journalistic Difficulties.

Since it's reappearance in Belgrade ten days ago the journal Otatsbina has been confscated four times. It's editor, Capt Novokavitch, has been sentenced to months imprisonment; the printers have been locked up on various charges, and the office boy ex- pelled to Zemlin. In spite of these little difficulties the paper continues to appear daily.-London Standard.