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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22

Nashville, nn.-Outrages by So
called night riders in the dark to-
bacco district appear to be increas-
ing, and Gov. Patterson offers a re-
ward Of 1,5OO for the arrest and con-
viction of any night rider in the coun
ties of Montgomery and Robertson,
and says that he will stop these acts
Of lawlessness that have caused ter
ror to the citizens of that section. The
governor has offered reward of ST.
500 for the arrest and conviction of
the persons who committed arson
when the storehouse Of w. E. Wall,
Of Montgomery county, was burned.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Hands Off in Strike.

President Roosevelt will not con.
Germ himself personally with the tele.
strike, according to the best
information obtainable. Appeals to
the president to take some action
looking to a settlement Of the strike
were received at the executive Office
here from the boards Of trade and
commercial bodies of large number
OF cities. The applications were sim
liar to those formulated by the Chica-
go board Of trade. The communica-
lions have been referred to Commits
sioner OF Labor Neill. It is under
stood that no instructions or. recon-
mendations have been >forwarde to
Mr.. Neill.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Don't Want to Lose Fleet.

A vigorous attempt is being made
+. to prevent the sending Of the battle
ship squadron to the Pacific. Back Of
it are the workmen who will be
thrown out of employment and thu
contractors for supplies who will find
their business gone. Both classes all
along the Atlantic are dismayed over
the prospect Of having the Pacific
coast gobble up their incomes.
A patch Of tall corn enabled Ed
Turner, negro convict, to make his
escape from the Sunfower farm.
Turner was working with q gang Of
hoe hands in cotton field. AS mo-
ment when the back Of the guard was
turned he made dash for the shelter
ing corn field nearby. The dogs were
put on the trail, but Turner had gain
ed such lead that the effort to
track him was fruitless. -
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Pulling More Trusts.

Attorney General Bonaparte is the
first member of the Cabinet to return
ito Washington after his vacation. He
will not stay longer than two weeks,
however, for he proposes to take an
other rest after pulling a few more
handfuls of hair out Of the trusts.
Various phases of pending suits are
constantly demanding the attention
Of the head Of the Department, and
Mr.. Bonaparte had not been. long N
his office before he was consulted by
Mr.. Charles w. Russell, who has been
acting attorney general for several
weeks. i
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
NO MONEY TO
PAY Big LOANS
AUTOMOBILE CONCERN IN
HANDS OF RECEIVER.
LACK OF WORKING CAPITAL
Assets Worth Many Times Amount
Of Liabilities Rigid Money Condi-
tions Said to Be Responsible for the
Pope Company Trouble.

Hartford, COMM the supreme
court here Albert L. Pope was appoint
ed receiver of the Pope Manufactur-
ing Company Of this city, upon appli-
cation Of the Mechanically Com
pany, Of Toledo. 0. Bonds were fixed
at 100000.
In the order it is specified that the
receiver may conduct the business and
contract for the sale and delivery Of
automobiles, bicycles and their ac-
cessories to such an extent as in his
judgment may be advisable and until
the further order of the court.
The Pope company has manufacture
ing plants in Hartford and Enfield
and at Westfield, Mass, and Hager-
town, Md. In the complaint the value
of the company's property in this
county is given at 1921 1893. 1t IS
asserted in the complaint that in the
hands Of competent receivers the af-
fairs of the company can be so admin
istered that the claims against it can
be paid in full. The McManus-K
ly Company claims damages of $685.
900. General receivers for the Pope
Company were appointed in New Jer
sey.
The appointment Of receiver for
the Pope Company was due to the
present condition Of the money mar
ket, according to a statement given
out by counsel for the receiver. The
statement follows:
"The necessity for the present pro-
ceedings in the case of the Pope Com
pany and its subsidiary company
arises from the curtailment Of credit
and reduction of loans. In a word,
the receivership proceedings are the
direct outcome Of the present rigid
money conditions. Loans are falling
due and the company was unable to
raise funds with which to meet them.
We have every reason to believe that
the amount of the liabilities if the
company Is continued as going con-
cern. We expect that such will be
the case.o
A director OF the Pope Manufac-
turing Company was quoted as saying
that the company has had trouble late
ly in negotiating its loans. 1t was
said that the company's working cap
ital was too small to carry on the
business, and that inability to borrow
money brought about the crisis. The
company was incorporated in Febru-
airy, 1903, in New Jersey, succeeding
the American Bicycle Company in the
manufacture Of bicycles and automo-
biles. 1t owns all the stock of the
Pope Motor Car and of the Federal
Manufacturing Company. There is
$10,OO0,OOO Of common stock, $780,
976 Of first preferred and $685., 100
of second preferred stock outstanding
There is no bonded indebtedness.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
MEETING OF MoNARCHS.
Conference Between British and Ger.
man Sovereigns.

Paris. Diplomatic and other cir
cles here are now discussing but one
topic. This is the recent meeting be-
tween Emperor William Of Germany
and King Edward Of England and tho
number of reports Of the various sub
jects which were taken up in the con-
ference between the two monarchs.
1t is generally construed here that the
event marked another great relaxa-
ton in European tensions and that
in the future the relations between the
two great countries will be Of the
most amicable nature. BY some it is
declared that tn understanding
brought about between the two coun
tries is Of even more friendly nature
than that reached by King Edward
and King Alfonso Of Spain several
months ago.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Cats to Fight the Plague.

London-The Salvation Army is IN
augurating at is colony at Muktipa,
India, an antiplague campaign with
cats. Accepting the Indian Plague
Commission IS dictum that the plague
is spread by rats, the members of the
Army there are importing English
cats to suppress the rodents. The first
batch Of twelve feline missionaries
sailed on the steamer Kincraig.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
BRYAN'S PLATFORM.
The Nebraskan Will Make an An
nouncement in Indiana.

New York.-The Tribune's special
from Remington, Ind, says: j. K.
Fisk, Democratic District Committee
man for the Nineteenth Congression-
al District, had conference with Will
liam Jennings Bryan and urged upon
him the necessity Of declaring him
self on public questions before the
new State Central Committee is chos-
en- in January. Mr.. Bryan then de-
cided to sound keynote for the Hoo
sier Democracy and fixed the time for
his speech. In November he will
speak at Lafayette and the meeting
will be made State affair, as Mr..
Bryan will announce his platform for
1908.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22

Memphis, Tenn While suffering
from an acute attack Of typhoid fever
Mrs. George w. Perkins, wife Of d
carpenter contractor, walked through
IN open widow On the second floor
Of Sanford . Infirmary. She pitched
headlong to the ground below, dis
lance Of thirty-odd feet, and sustain
ed such injuries as caused her death
an hour later. Mrs. Perkins fell .
martyr to love for her husband, as il
vas while caring rayages Of the dread
ca disease.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Lost a Million a Minute.

New York. John d. Rockefeller
lost money at the rate of million =
minute for while Saturday In Wall
Street. Standard Oil dropped on the
curb to $50, total drop Of so points
since Judge Lands rendered his opin-
ion at Chicago. It was the lowest
point reached by Standard Oil since
January, 1899, when it reached 434.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Cardinal Gibbons.

Cardinal Gibbons, who is resting at
Southampton, L. l., gave his opinion
of the Standard Oil Company. He
said.
"The fine certainly is large. But
I am not prepared to say, from my
knowledge of the case, whether or
not it is excessive. However, if the
fine is inadequate to compel compli-
ance with the law, the incarceration
Of the Standard Oil Company s gull
ty officials, with its attendant dis
grace, would prove the more effec-
tive remedy.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Pennsylvania Road to Start Opera
ators' School.


Pittsburg. Profiting by the exam
pie Of the prevailing, telegraphers
strike and the possibility Of strike
BY the Order Of Railway Operators,
the Pennsylvania railroad has an
nounced that it will take steps to es-
tablish q school Of Biography at Bed
ford, Pa, and educate and train its
own operators. J. F. Cessna, one Of
the best-known telegraph instructors
in the country has already been retain
ed as one Of the instructors ct tha
proposed school at Bedford. With
more than, 11,000 miles Of track and
its 100000 employees, the company
finds it profitable to establish the
school and provide against future
trouble.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Seventeen Summer Hotels Destroyed.


Old Orchard, Maine.-Two lives
were lost and Eve persons were in
jured, three seriously, as result of
the FIRE which swept through this sea-
shore resort, causing loss Of from
one-half to three-quarters of a mil
lion dollars. Seventeen summer no
tells, sixty cottages and a score Of
buildings occupied by stores, were de-
stroyed. The explosion which caused
50 many injuries occurred in drug
store on Old Orchard avenue. 1t is is
believed that the fire started from an
overturned lamp in the annex of the
Hotel Olympia. The total insurance
on the burned property, it is UNDER
stood. will not exceed $150.O00.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Republican National Convention.

There will be more than 1000 deic-
gates in the next Republican National
Convention. This estimate includes
the new State Of Oklahoma, which
will be entitled to fourteen delegates
It is assumed, Of course, that the ap'
portionment Of delegates will be thu
same as IN the last convention, as 10
action was ever taken toward reduc.
ing the delegates from the Southern
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Squadron Goes to Japan.

With squadron Of four crack
cruisers under his charge, Rear Admir-
81 Dayton, in command Of the Pacific
squadron, will make visit to Yoko-
hama, which is one Of the courtesy
and for the purpose Of demonstrating
the friendly relations existing be-
tween the governments Of the United
States and Japan.
Alcorn county will not have fair
this year for the purpose Of display
ing her splendid resources, but there
vii BE . colt and stock show. IS q be-
ginning at central point in the coun-
ty. Premiums have been offered and
at is expected TIT good showing will
be made for Alcorn. county ii the
stock-raising line. Next year there
should be organized . regular county
fair to be held at Corinth. No invest
ment that could Be made By the peo-
pie Of the county would prove better.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22

Nathan Jaffa, Of Roswell, New
Mexico, was appointed Secretary Of
New Mexico to succeed Secretary
Reynolds, resigned.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Extraordinary statements are con

Extraordinary statements are con
tanned in the report respecting the va
rying prices Of oil in this country. I:
is pointed out that as the STANDARD
does business indirectly with the re-
tail dealers, it is in q position to make
different localities and it actually
takes advantages Of that position. Il
localities where the Standard has nc
competition, it exacts immensely high
e. price for its product than it charg,
il localities where it is obliged td
meet competition. 3
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22

Chicago The bursting of 35-inch
water main at Chicago avenue and
Kingsbury avenue imperilled several
lives and caused considerable damage
to property. The main burst with
roar that brought frightened sleepers
from their beds for blocks around.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22

Lawrence county will vote this week
on the proposition to work the roads
by contract. It is good plan to SUBJ
NIT these important matters to the
people and Lawrence county is in the
right line
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI

Csmmercial A~vionlturoa
DEVELOPMENT eth ndsrful ~
Items Of AL Quartexs
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-15
SKETCH OF GOVERNOR GLENN

Governor Robert B. Glenn of North
Carolina, whose successful efforts to
enforce the railroad rate law in his
state have recently brought him prom
inently bfore the public, was born in
Buckingham county, North Carolina,
August IL, 1854. He was educated
first in the high school at Leaksville,
and then went to Davidson college for
three years. For two years he was at
the University OF Virginia. He studied
law under Chief Justice Pearson dur
ing 1875 and 1876, and was admitted
to the bar In 1877.
In 1881 he was sent to the legisla-
ture, and four years later was made
district solicitor in the ninth judicial
district He. was n Cleveland elector
in 1884 and 1899, and substituted as
a Cleveland elector in 1888. In 1888
he was appointed United States dis
trict attorney by President Cleveland
and served for five years. In 1889
he was state senator, and was a
member of the senate committee that
framed the North Carolina constitu-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-15
MARK TWAIN AS A DOCTOR.

The veteran humorist, Samuel l..
Clemens, says that three slices Of
watermelon will cure the severest
case of dysentery and that stiff hair
brush will beat any hair restorer on
earth securing luxurious growth of
hair. He tells in his characteristic
way how he discovered that lying on
the left side would cure "heart
burn"
For eight years." he said, II was
troubled with indigestion, which took
the form Of an insurrection in my
stomach after went to bed. The
various things thought were good
things began quarreling among
themselves, and trying, to agree upon
fusion ticket that would win out.
Four years ago I was in a foreign
land where there were no drug stores,
SO 1 had to resort to the Swedish
cure, which does not allow one to
take medicine. Therefore, I used
carbonate of soda every night. When
the heartburn came on took
handful of it. One night when I had
no soda, said to myself, 4 would
rather stand the pain Purely by
accident I stretched myself on my
left side, and, curiously enough, the
pain passed away. / made the same
experiment several times with the
same result"
He says that in London he made
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-15
MAKING A MAN.

Hurry the baby as fast as you can;
Hurry. him, worry him, make him a
man.
Off with his baby clothes, get him in
pants,
Feed him on brain foods and make
him advance.
Hustle him soon as he is able to
walk,
Into a grammar school; cram him
with talk.
Fill his poor head full of figures and
facts,
Keep on a-jumping them In till it
cracks.
Once boys grew up at rational rate,
Now we develop man while you
wait.
Rush him through college, compel
him b grab
OF every known subject dip and a
dab.
Get him in business and after the
cash,
All by the time he can grow mus
ia tache. -
Let him forget he ever was a boy,
Make gold his god, and its Jingle his
Joy. sra
Keep him adjusting and clear out Of
breath
Until he wins-nervous prostration
and death.
the New Orleans Picayune.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-15
. SAINT JOHN; NEMESIS FRANK.

The revelations which Frank Rock
efeller in an interview with the New
York World promises about his
brother John ID. will afford the live
liest reading that has been put before
the public in many years, provided
Frank goes ahead and backs up his
threats, The interview which the
World publishes was written year
ago, but at Frank Rockefel-
ler's request was withheld un-
til now. He states that his
brothef John is mono
maniac in the way of egotism and self
Righteousness; that he (John,) be
lieves he is a god who can do no
wrong" Just what is hurting Frank
no one seems TO know. If he goes
ahead and publishes the intimately
personal life of his brother which he
says is now fully written and which
will be published, perhaps the animus
of his BITTERNESS toward John will be
made apparent. If it is not, 1t is
probable that John d. will inform
the public on that point, provided he,
John D., dares enter any defense at
all.
Among other interesting and broth
erly allegations which Frank makes
In the World interview is that he will
in his book tell things about John D.
that will make that uncanonized saint
"a kissing and a byword;" in fact,
that will make it so hot for him that
he is liable to be stoned on the
streets, and in all events he is certain
to abandon his residence in America
and hike for foreign climes where
there will not be the intense personal
interest in his career that there is in
America.
All of which reminds that some
years ago st. Louis newspaper man
with plenty of time in which to do
the necessary delving, ascertained, to
his own satisfaction and that of many
others, that since 1868 or thereabouts,
approximately 100 persons whom
John D. Rockefeller had ruined in
business and left hopeless wrecks fl
nancially had committed suicide. At
the time this astonishing statement
was made nobody but the socialists
and other alarmists paid much atten-
ton to it. 1t will be easy to believe
now, provided Frank Rockefeller
backs up his threats to expose his
brother.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-15
August Record Broken in One Day.

August Record Broken In One Day.
Last week was a record breaker for
the amount of rainfall in this section
of the country, says the Yakima Re-
public. More rain fell in one day
than has been known to fall during
one entire August for the past is
years. AS recorded by H. B. Scudder
the fall was Sc of an inch. This Is
nearly double the amount that has
ever been known to fall at one time
heretofore. the greatest amount re-
corded being .39 of an inch. During
the month of August in Is years.
2.S5 inches of rain has fallen. or
little over four times the amount that
fell in the one day last week
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-15
SKETCH OF SENATOR HOPKINS.

Senator Albert ]. Hopkins of Illi-
nois, whose term will expire in 1909,
and who is now fighting for re-elec-
tion, was born in De Kalb county,
Illinois, August 15, 1916. His edu-
cation was received at Hillsdale Col
lege, in Michigan, and after gradual
ing from that institution he studied
law and was admitted to the bar. He
began the practice of law at Auro-
ra, which city he has ever since made
his home. His first public office
was that of states attorney of Kane
county, to which he was elected in
1872 and served four years. From
1878 to 1880 he was a member of the
republican state central committee of
Illinois and in 1884 was a president
ial elector on the Blaine and Logan
ticket. In 1885 he was sent to con-
gress by his district and served con-
tinuously until 1908, when he was
honored with the United States sem
atorship.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-15
THE NAGGER.

Don't nag. Don't even in your
mind. 1t is worse to look naggy than
1t is to say naggy things, because the
naggee is apt to imagine more than
there really Is.
Some mothers have nagged their
boys straight into liquor saloons, and
their girls straight into the arms
which they naggingly disapproved of.
1t is hard but 1t is true.
There isn't bit of love in a nag
however the nagger may talk about
affection.
1t is full of unrest and friction and
selfishness, and works more destruc-
ton than all the cyclones and earth
quakes that ever happened. They
kill at once. The poison of the nag
is insidious, and the naggers and the
victim die by degrees.
If all the worlds a stage, where do
the critics come in?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-15
LUMBER RATE PROBLEMS.

Commenting on coast lumber and
railroad rates, the New York Com
mercial has to say:
The fight is on, and the fray is
thickening in the contest between the
Pacific coast lumbermen and the
lumber interests of the south.
Competition was bound to come
from these two great lumber interests,
and the claim of each that the other
is infringing upon its rights, or in
vading its territory, was to be ex-
pected.
Thanks to low rate, the Pacific
coast lumbermen have been able to
place their product, not only in the
middle west, but even in the east
Large business has grown up,
thanks to the existence of a reason
able, if not low, freight rate.
This business, it is claimed by the
western lumbermen, is done at small
profit in each case, but with large
aggregate profit for the business.
with a tremendous increase in
lumber shipments has come short
age of cars.
ITO correct this shortage, the rail-
roads have adopted a new schedule
10 be put into effect this fall. raising
the rates to such an extent as will re-
duce the shipments and so solve the
problem of our shortage.
"A simpler solution of the problem,
not to say more unbusinesslike one,
could hardly be imagined.
ITO say that this reason for raising
the rates is scoffed at by the western
lumbermen is to put 1t very mildly.
IAN appeal to the interstate COM
merce commission will probably de-
termine what is fair rate on lumber;
If the rates are at present too low,
the lumbermen will have to content
themselves with more circumscrib-
ed field of sales.
I'm that case competition between
the business interests of the south
and the Pacific coast will adjust
boundaries in the usual effective way,
and each section will get the trade it
is really entitled to.
THAT western Washington lumber
men should have pledged one hun
dred thousand dollars to fight the pro-
posed advance in railroad freight on
lumber seems just little inexplicable
without more detailed information as
to what they propose to do with a
fund of that size.
Possibly they propose to remem-
Der that the Pacific coast will soon be
no longer dependent on two systems
Of railroads for its transportation.
Three new transcontinental lines
are now headed for the Pacific coast.
and it is not unreasonable to suppose
that all of them will be in the field
for lumber transportation business.
"It hardly seems reasonable that the
present roads, under these circum-
stances, would insist upon an advance
Of rates If there was a reasonable
profit in the transportation itself"
All of which is not merely interest
ing, but bears the impress of logic
and probability. An interesting con-
tribution TO the sum total of inform,
alton on the subject would be a cor
rect prognosis Of the rate schedule
on lumber from the south to the
northwest should a serious attempt
be made to relieve the situation by
such a diversion of traffic. The pos
sibility that there is jointure Of
interests between the lumber trust"
and certain railroads to confine con-
sumption TO natural fields" (an-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-15

inquiry among many physicians as to
the explanation of his discovery. but
none could give It. The royal ply
sician, Sir VIM. Thompson, confessed
that he had made the same discovery
so years ago. but had forgotten about
1t, while all of those years he was
emptying drug stores into the stom-
achs of his patients with no good re-
suits,