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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-10-18
To Raise School Funds.

In his speech at Calhoun, Gordon
county, on October %, when he will
visit the Gordon county fair, Governor
Smith will, it is stated outline plan
for raising fund of 100000 next year
for the agricultural schools, the agri-
cultural college, the state normal
! school and the archaeological school.
The governor has just drawn war
rant on the state treasury for $4,000
to be paid to certain counties on &C
count of the common school fund. This
payment practically brings all the
counties in the state up to 20 per
cent of the present years fund, and it
is hoped within the next few weeks to
bring every county in the state up to
that point.
There are no unpaid school fund bal
ances now remaining in the treasury,
all of these which had accumulated
having been paid out to the respective
counties several days ago
Conductor lack Martin Drops Dead.
Captain lack Martin, one of the old
est railroad conductors in the serv-
ice of the Atlanta and West Point rail
road, Sunday night, at o'clock, drop
ped dead in a coach on his train, due
to excitement from small fire in the
mail car.
The West Point train, on which
Captain Martin has been running for
many years, left the terminal station
in Atlanta about 1880 o'clock, and
on the run between Atlanta and More
land, about As miles distant, the mail
car in some way caught fire. During
the excitment of extinguishing the
flames Captain Martin dropped dead
in a coach from heart failure.
Captain Martin leaves a wife and re-
sided at 81 Poplar street. Atlanta. He
was one OF the oldest conductors in
the city, and had been in the services
of the West Point for over thirty-ive
years.
No Uniform Price for Cotton Seed.
Great good is expected to result
from the conference just held among
the committees from the State and
Southern Cotton Associations, the
State and Interstate Cotton Seed
Crushers Association, in regard to
cotton seed and its by-products. After
a general discussion the conference
decided that owing to the great diff
ference in freight rates, the varying
qualities of cotton seed, the Auctuation
caused by supply and demand through
out the south, that no uniform value
or price for cotton seed could be fixed
and that the local conditions must
govern both.
A general discussion was entered
into upon the subject of cotton seed
and it's products; the many usages
to which it was put and how this
usage would be sure to increase in the
near future were outlined. The plant
ers summed up the needs to which
cotton seed was put for planting. feed
ing, fertilizing and the like. When
this was totaled for the south, it was
demonstrated that there was sin g..
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-10-18
WON'T CHANGE HUNTING GROUND
President Reconsiders Proposition to
Move to Another Locality.

A dispatch from STEAMBOAT, La,
says: The president will not go to
Tensas Parish as he announced he
would. A courier arrived from the
Bear Lake camp. Saturday night say
Ing that such excellent bear signs had
been discovered there as to persuade
him that it would be unwise to change
and he decided at the last moment not
to do so.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-10-18
DOles-cOok Brigade survivors.


This is to officially notify the mem
bers of the Doles-Cook Brigade Sur
viVors' Association that our annual re-.
union will be held in Augusta, Ca, at
the same time that the Georgia division
of Confederate Veterans assemblies for
reunion there, commencing on the 18th
day of November, 1907
Major V. ID. Barbot, of the third bat
talon, third infantry, National Guards,
has kindly rendered the Officers.
room" of their armory for the trans
action of all brigade and regimental
business.
w. w. HUBERT, Commander.
H. w. THOMAS, Sec'y and Treas.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-10-18
Exploding Boiler Kills Three.

N"PIVNIIF8 IVIISI 'N'TI3 CO
While the locomotive of freight train
No. So, on the Central of Georgia rail.
road, was taking water at the tank
near the Reynolds station early Sat.
urday morning, the boiler exploded.
Engineer Avery, Conductor Allen and
the negro fireman We're instantly kill
ed The boiler of the locomotive was
blown hundred yards, and the sta.
ton was badly damaged by the force
Of the explosion. Engineer Avery
was on the locomotive at the time
and his body was blown to fragments
All those killed lived in Macon.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an infamed con-
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus-
tachian Tube. When this tube is infam-
ed you have rumbling sound or imper-
feet hearing, and when it is entirely clos
ed, Deafness is the result, and unless the
Inflammation can be taken out and this
tube restored to its normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases ont of ten are caused by Catarrh,
which is nothing but an infa1ned condi-
ton of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness Caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Onre. Send for circulars Tree.
F. J.CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Take Halls FamilyPills for constipation
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08
FRIDAY MARCH s, 1907.
ESCAPED NOTICE.

The 'gunpowder plot appears
TO have escaped notice entirely in
the Penrose case, as we'll as in the
senatorial investigation of the
negro soldier outrage upon Browns
vile. That the attempt of the
negro soldiers to break into the
arsenal the night before leaving
Fort Brown was part of a diabol-
zeal plot to destroy the town can
not be doubted, and that our people
had a very narrow escape from
death and ruin by the accidental
discovery of the fends in the act
of forcing the arsenal door is equal
Iy true. This cold-blooded con-
spiracy was made possible, just as
the outrage of the night of Aug.
18th. was, by lack of discipline
and precautionary measures on the
part of Major Penrose. and the in
acident ought to have been made
one of the strongest points against
dir1, get it has been ignored by
the prosecution.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08
SPOONS.
Date Of Their Origin Unknown, They
Are So Very Ancient.

Date Of Their Origin Unknown, They
Are So Very Ancient
If you desire to know about the
scarcity of really reliable data on
the history of spoons, take down
your handbooks and encyclopedias
and see if it doesn't take you long
while to learn anything concerning
their origin, nativity" etc. In
fact, the antiquarians do not pre-
tend to give us anything of value in
that line. 1t is admitted that they
are "very ancient but just exactly
how old they are and by whom and
where they were first used are
points upon which we are left COM
pletely in the dark. Creighton
says, Spoons must have been a
very ancient invention, for a Saxon
spoon of perforated silver gilt, or
namented with gems, was found in a
grave at Sarre, Thanet."
When forks were unknown spoons
played very important part at the
table. Spoons of the thirteenth
century, and even later, had handles
terminating in a knob, knot, acorn
or other odd and cumbersome de-
vices. About the period of the
restoration, of which so much is
said in English history, great
change was made in the forms of
spoons. In some Of the unique pat
terms the spoon" part was divided
into two, three and even four parts,
and the handles always split or
twisted and turned up instead of
down and back. Spoons of that
period were all blunt instead of be-
ing pointed, as in the forms general
ly seen at present. They continued
short and blunt to the time of
George L, when they were first
made pointed and had the handles
turned down instead of up.
About the year 1900 what were
known as apostle spoons, were IN
troduced. They were so called be-
cause they had the figures of the
twelve apostles carved upon their
handles. They we're generally given
by sponsors to children at their time
of baptism. The wealthy presented
the entire twelve, those who could
not afford to indulge in such extrav-
agance giving one or more, accord
ing as they felt able.
The most curious and remarkable
spoon in the world perhaps is
Coronation SPOON" preserved
among the other royal relics in the
Tower of London. The bowl is of
gold and the handle of silver. The
handle is split down the middle and
set with all kinds of precious stones.
The relic is valued at about 920,-
900, or upward of 100000.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08
NATURE TELLS YOU.
As Many a Brownsville Reader Knows
Too Well.

When the kidneys are sick
Nature tells you all about it.
The urine is natures calendar.
Infrequent or too frequent action;
ANY urinary trouble tells of kidney
ills.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure all kidney
ills.
G. K. Page, real estate and in
surance agent, of Corpus Christi,
Texas, says: My wife thinks
great deal of Deans Kidney Pills
and SAYS they relieved the dull
aching pain in her hack which
had given her considerable annoy
ance for over year. They also
corrected the action of the kidney
secretions which had been rather
irregular. Knowing this to be a
fact l have no hesitation in en-
dorsing this remedy, and thus it
may be the means of helping
others similarly afflicted.
Plenty more proof like this from
Brownsville people. Call at J. L.
Putegnat & Bros drug store and
ask what customers report. ?"
Fer sale by all dealers. Price so
cents Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08
Raising Shetland Ponies.

In the raising of Shetland pom
les there is good money. The
demand far exceeds the supply.
The prices paid range anywhere
800 to $3.50 each, and the expense
of raising them is small. They
are IN great demand for children
IN large cities. The writer saw
letter last summer from a man in
Chicago, written to a Texas man
who, had a half dozen or so, Of
sSering $S5 piece for IS. He has
seen them sold at SIPS, and then
heard the seller regret the sale as he
could have gotten 5000 just as
easy. OF course only especially
pretty ones bring the highest
prices, but any sort is good for as
high a price at two years Of age as
a good mule of the same age.
Shetlands are very hardy, as easy
to raise as goats and as gentle as
dogs. Given a pasture and they
require very little feed. The an
finals are large enough for small
children to ride at 10 months, and
at two years or less will do to
work to light buggy. A man
could raise FIVE or six every year
With far less expense than any
other kind of stock and get a fine
0rIce for them.-Cuero Star.
Color and Gold Enamels, Buggy
Ioor, Roof and House Paint to be
zad al Cross Lumber Co.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08
Administrators Notice.

ESTATE OF MARY J. EGAN, DEC D.
All persons having claims against
the Estate of Mary J. Egan, late OF
Cameron County, Texas, deceased
are hereby notified to present the
same to me within Sixty Coo days,
duly sworn to as required by the
Probate Laws of this State, for ad-
justment and payment.
]. P. VIvTER,
Temporary Administrator OF the
Estate of Mary J. Egan, deceased
Brownsville, Texas, February
9, A. D., 1907.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08
fexican Central roads.

You cannot raise truck or fruit
successfully even in this rich soil
and favorable climate. without in
telligence and industry. But given,
the combination of Rio Grande
valley soil. Hsmall amount of Rio
Graude water, good, carefully select
ed seed, and the requisite amount
ofcare and labor, and this section
cannot be surpassed anywhere in
The world for results.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08

WANTED: Local representative
in Brownsville to look after renew
ais and increase subscription list,
for prominent monthly magazine
with large, high-class circulation,
on a salary and commission basis,
with a continuing interest from
yea1 to year in the business Great
ed. Experience desirable, but not
essential. Good opportunity for the
right person. Address Publisher,
box 50, Station o, New York.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08
Gulf Coast Line Nurseries
KfngsvlIle, Texas.

Everything in trees, plants and
vines to develop horticulture in
this new semi-tropic Texas-that
is, everything of certain adarta-
bility as to sort and variety.
Almost all fruits succeed here,
but only in certain special varie-
ties or grated on special roots.
We handle these only.
Write for CataIOg and Price List.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08

Naples Velvet Finish is new
thing in the paint line, that will
give you a fat. egg shell finish.
This is the most appropriate paint
for the inside of rooms. Call at
Cross Lumber Co. and get a card
showing shades free.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08
ADVERTISEMENT FOR PROPOSALS

Brownsville, Texas, March 4, 1907
Sealed proposals will be received at this
building until O'Clock p. m, Monday,
March IL, 1907, for furnishing fuel,
lights. water, ice, miscellaneous sup
plies, washing towels, hauling ashes,
and sprinkling streets for this building
during fiscal year ending June 80, l9Oo,
or such portion of the year as may be
deemed advisable. The right to reject
any and all bids is reserved by the
Treasury Department.
JOHN w. VANN, Custodian.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08
Notice.

Notice is hereby given that a
meeting of the Bord Holders of
the first mortgage 6 per cent inter
est bearing bonds of the Rio Gran
de Railroad company will be held
on the eleventh day of March, A.
D. 1907, at Brownsville, Cameron
County, Tex, for the purpose of
appointing trustee to fill the place
left vacant by the death of M.
Schools.
Signed, GERMANARAMBURU.
Signed, JOSE FERNANDEZ
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08

The military white-wash which
IS being so artistically applied at
Fort Sam Houston is made by the
same old recipe as that which is
often used in official Investigations
in civil life.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08

THE HERALD has it on good
authority that the railroad bridge
between Brownsville and Matamo-
ros is sure thing, and the build
Grs will the Mexican National and
Mexican Central roads.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08

Your clothes pressed while you
take Hot or Cold Bath at the In
ternational Steam Laundry. 2-2-tf.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08
Terms Of Subscription:

DAILY:-Published every evening ex-
<ept Sunday, daily by mail postpaid to
any point in the United States, Mexico
or Canada, or delivered by carrier to any
part of Brownsville, Texas, or Matamoros,
Mexico;
One cf=y one year So-OO
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WEEKLY :-Published Saturday, by
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able in advance.
advertising rates on application.
Makes all checks payable to
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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08

Just received at Hancock's, two
cars of furniture. 3-2-tt.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08

Wedding cakes a specially.
Prices S. to SIS. Call and inspect
my line of ornaments for fancy
cakes before ordering elsewhere.
CLAWS BAKERY. Phone 81.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08
JAMESB. WELLS
attorney
at LAW

Successor to Powers & Maxan,
Powers & Wells, Wells & Rentfro
Wells, Rentfro & Hicks, Wells &
Hicks, Wells. Stayton & Klebe-s
1 buy and sell ReuI Estate and
investigate land titles. A complete
abstract C. all titles of record in
Cameron County. Texas.
Practice in all state and federal
courts, when especially employed.
Land Litigation and corporation
practice.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-03-08

Color and Gold Enamels, Buggy,
FLOOR. Roof and House Paint to be
cad at Cross Lumber Co.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1907-01-25
SEN. ALGER IS DEAD
DEATH FOLLOWS ACUTE a Z
TACK or oEDEMA OF LUNGS
IN SENATE ON DAY BEFORE
Mich gan Scion, Who Resigned unoer
Ere as Secretary of War. sue
cumbs at Washington.

washington, D. c., Jan. c5.--Unitee
States Senator Russell A. Alger o.
Michigan died suddenly at his mons
IN this city at S:45 o'clock yesteraas
morning. There were practically nc
premonitory sypmtons that the enc
was near. At $3.50 the senator had
pleasant chat with Mrs. Alger In hel
room and then went down STAIRS
A few minutes later the senator SUI
fered a recurrence of heart trouble
from which he had suffered for &
long time, and death came quickly.
The senator had not been feeling
well for several days. Tuesday night
he had expected to attend dinner
at the home of Congressman William
Alden Smith, the new senator'electt
but at the last moment word came
from him that he would not be abs
to come. His physicians had advise
him against going out that night be
cause Of his not feeling very well
Senator Alger had suffered for years
from chronic valvular disease OIL tht
heart. The senator was in the sen
ate chamber Tuesday afternoon
where he stayed throughout most o.
the entire session, listening to the
discussion of the BROWNSVILLE affair
About 4 o'clock he retired to the
cloak room, where he sat with Colo
mel Rans6ell, seEgeant-at-aTms OF the
senate, and Senator Warner OF Mis-
souri, telling war stories. - =
DR.. Gerry Morgan, Senator Algers
physician, aid:
General Alger lad suffered for q
good many years with chronic valvu'
lar disease of the heart, but of late
he seemed to he a good deal better.
This morning he awakened as usual
about Z O'Clock, and about 5 O'Clock
got up and went about the room for
few minutes. Then he laid dow
and was at once stricken with acute
oedema Of the lungs. Ten minute:
after he was stricken he was uncon
scious and did not regain conscious
ness. His death was quiet and pain
less"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1907-01-25
HAWKEYE NOTES.

Eugene Klein OF Carroll died from
heart failure, due to vaccination.
ATOMS opera house was DESTROYED
by fire at a loss Of about $4,000.
j. II. Mcdonald, former cashier ~
a defunct bank at Sidney, has hean
arrested on the charge OF embezzle.
ment. ~ NJ
w Senator Charles Aldrich asks ssa
1914 from the legislature for the n,, u.
pose Of comp eting the historical
building. q 4. 81 IL 5s y q a;''1
III. D. Phileo, for many years |.
prominent business man 81 Cada,
Falls. but now charged with perinrv
has become mental wreck, N.''
The late Rev. Father Luehrsma1 = \,
Lamotte left his fortune of 31sJ An M
Ia; his house keeper, Miss Anna ssas.
aAn His heirs are contestins
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1907-01-25
NEW CHARGES AGAINST BAILEY
AI.egat on That He Use i Position Tc
Graft in Land Grants.

AI.egat on That He Use ]. p osition Tc
Graft in Land Grants.
Austin, Tex, Jan. l5.-The special
committees appointed by the two
branches Of the State legislature to
Investigate charges preferred against
United States Senator Joseph w.
Bailey, met in joint session yesterday.
Additional charges were preferred
against Senator Bailey by Representa-
tive Cooke concerning alleged deals
in Indian territory lands charged that
in 1901, while Senator abbey repre-
scented the state of Texas, in the
United States senate, he represented
S. B. Burnett OF Fort Worth, Tex.
relative to the leasing of certain
lands in the kiowa and Comaache
reservations from the department OF
the interior and ''that the same Bur-
nett. fer his said services paid him
large sums of money as a fee or loan
or gift" and that in 1900 Senator
Bailey represented the firm Of Sugg
Bros, before the department OF the
interior in reference to the approval
Of leases Of kiowa and Comanche
lands which the firm were endeavor-
ing to lease and that large sums Of
money we're paid Bailey in the way
OF fees, loans or gifts.
Continuing, the charges declare
that Senator Bailey secured lean
from Judge J. M. Lindsay of Gains
vile, Tex, in 1892, while procuring
from congress right of way through
InGian territory for the GAINESVILLE,
McAlester & st. Louis Railway COM
pany. Senator Bailey was at that
time representative in congress.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1907-01-25
70 TRY CUNNING AGAIN.
Supervisors Of Rlnggoid County Ac'
.ft- 10 xha Matter '.t.E t.lH

Supervisors Of Rlnggoid County Ac'
In the Matter.
Mt. Ayr.--Day Dunning Will nave
q stand third trial, the board OF
supervisors having ordered the M.
AYR banker tried once more on the
.harge of fraudulent banking.
Hon. Jerry B. Sullivan OF Des
Moineg has been retained by tne
BOARD to help prosecute the case. L.
W. Laughlin, who was originally APP
pointed special county attorney 10
AXE charge of the case, and VINO
since that appointment expired mas
,een hired by the board to assist IN
he case, was again retained, as ne
has all the particulars OF the case AZ
MS command.
The Dunning case does not now be-
long in the courts of Ringgold coun-
". When change OF venue was
granted all the cases went to the
,ourts Of Clarke county and there
every step in the proceedings must
be taken. Nominally County Attor-
ley Lloyd Thurston Of that county
will be in charge Of the case, al
hough as a matter of fact the bur.
den will fall upon Mr.. Sullivan and
Mr.. Laughlin. The next term OF
court In Clarke county convenes Mon
day, February 4, at the same time
Judge Evans opens court here.
While the defense can bring the case
up at any time, the usual custom Is
not to change trial judges, and 1t Is
considered more likely that the Dun
ming case will come up at Osceola
when Judge Evans next convenes
court there, which is on April %.
The attorneys for the defendant
will no doubt seek to have all the
indictments set aside on the ground
that the grand jury which indicted
him contained three members who as
election officers had certified their
own names as eligible to jury ser
vice. Under the rulings of the courts
In Dubuque and Polk counties this
cause is ground for challenge, but
where the challenge Is not exercised
there is said to be no ground for re-
versal on that point. However, 1t is
pointed out by attorneys that Mr..
Dunning had no opportunity to chal-
lenge the grand jurors, as he was
never arraigned, but was indicted
without preliminary trial.