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Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-18

Corporation to Buy and Sell Cotton
and the Best Plan to Operate on" Hon.
S. A. Witherspoon, Meridian, Miss.
Immigration from the Standpoint
of Southern Farmers" Hon. E. A. Cal
vim, Dallas, Texas.
BEST Method of Obtaining Neces
sary and Desirable immigration for the
South" Governor d. C. Hayward of
South Carolina.
What Have We Accomplished
Hon. Walter Clark, Clarksdale, Miss.
How Shall We Finance the Cotton
Crop?" Hon. F. H. Hyatt Columbia,
S. c.
The program arranged for tonight's
session calls for addresses by Hon. II.
NJ. Jacoway of Dardendale, Ark, Hon.
E. D. Smith of Columbia, S. c., and
Prof. ]. H. Connell of Dallas. The last
named is to speak on the subject Of
the evils Of cotton speculation.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-18
CHRONICLE BUYS HOME.
Cotton Exhanse to Be Occupied by
Newspaper.

Earnest money has been posted and
papers drawn up whereby the direct.
ors of the Houston Cotton Exchange
and Board of Trade agree to sell to
the Houston Chronicle Publishing
company their building and lot at the
corner Of Travis and Franklin streets
for the sum of $4,000.
BY the terms of the contract the
Cotton Exchange reserves the right
to transfer to Mr. George Hermann
part OF the lot on the side of the
building and back of Lang's oyster
parlor, for the sum of $500. which
reduces the net cost for the building
and lot to be retained by the Houston
Chronicle Publishing company to
$72,5OO. In consideration OF the trade
to be made with Mr.. Hermann, that
gentleman agrees to perpetuate a five
foot alleyway or easement on the
south side of the Exchange building.
II is understood that Mr.. Hermann
procured an option on the fractional
part Of the lot for the purpose of COM
plotting his holdings between the Cot.
ton Exchange and Foley's store and
that he will erect a three-story build
ing thereon early in the spring. This
would remove some of the eye-sores
in the way Of one-story shacks that
are now standing there and would
complete the block with a substantial
brick building.
The building purchased by the
Houston Chronicle Publishing COM
pany is located on the ground front.
ing 81 feet ON Travis street and run
ming back 80 feet on Franklin with a
1O-foot alleyway in the rear The Cot.
ton Exchange building is one of the
best known in the city. and can very
easily be converted into a modern
newspaper building. 1t has a very
fine basement suitable for printing
presses and heavy machinery. and
also has three floors above the base
ment-Houston Chronicle.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-18
Golfers Meet at Chicago.

Special to the Herald.
Chicago, Jan. lS.-The eyes of golf
players throughout the country are
turned today toward this city, where
the United States Golf association is
holding it's annual session. The meet
in, which is being held at the Audi
forum, is the greatest in the history
of the organization. The delegates
met this afternoon to dispose OF
some preliminary matters, but the
real business of the meeting is not to
be transacted until tonight.
This is the first time that the gov
erning body has held its annual meet
ing in the West, and as a consequence
the golf clubs of Chicago and vicinity
have exerted themselves to their ut.
most in arranging for the social end
of the gathering. A luncheon ia
honor of the delegates was given at
the Auditorium this afternoon, and
numerous other features have been
arranged to make the stay of the Wis
itors pleasant one. 1t is expected
that many of the delegates will remain
in the city until the first of the week.
The chief business of the annual
meeting is the election of officers for
the year. In this matter the asso-
citation has merely to ratify the ticket
proposed by the nominating commit
tee, TO which no opposition will be
offered. Several new names appear
on the ticket. Daniel Chauncey of the
Garden City Golf club of New York
is to succeed Ransom H. Thomas of
the Morris County Golf club, who has
served two terms as president of the
association. There are to be no fur
Their alterations in the list of officers,
but the executive committee is to be
entirely new. The new executive
committee will be composed of Silas
H. Strawn, Midlothian Country club;
Leighton Calkins, Plainfield Country
club; Warren Dickinson, Des Moines
Golf and Country club, and Herbert
jacques, of the Country club of Brook
line. Those dropped from the COM
mittee are H. Chandler Egan of the
Exmoor Country club, A L. Ripley of
the Oakley Country club, and H. G.
Leavitt of the Omaha Country club.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-18
LOS ANGELS TO
SEE PRIZE FIGHT
HARRY BAKER AND ABE ATTELL
WILL MEET IN GREAT COMBAT.
NOT MUCH CHOICE.

Special to the Herald.
Los Angeles, Cal. Jan. 1S.-Tonight
before the Pacific Athletic club, Harry
Baker, who has been in the profes
sional ring less than year, will again
face Abe Attell in an endeavor 70
wrest the featherweight championship
title from that doughty hero of a
hundred battles" Ever since Baker
managed to stay twenty rounds with
Attell last October there has been a
great desire to see them come to-
gether again. AS the date for the bout
approached the interest has increased
and II Is certain that an immense
crowd will witness the contest.
Both fighters have been training
faithfully for several weeks past and
in the matter of condition there ap-
pears to be no room for choice be-
tween them. In weight and measure
ments they likewise compare closely.
But in the matter of experience At
tell, of course, has a most decided ad-
vantage. He has been in the fighting
game for six or seven years, during
which time he has faced the best men
in his division, among them frankie
Neil, kid" Herman, Jimmy Walsh,
Tommy Murphy, Harry Forbes, kid"
Broad, and so on down the list to the
days when George Dixon was in his
prime
Baker, on the other hand, is a COM
parative novice in the game. He has
been fighting for two years, but only
last March did he enter the profess
sional class. His fights with frankie
Neil and Abe Attell are the only no
table events in which he has engaged.
But in these two fights he made such
splendid show as to give his admir-
ers the greatest confidence in his fu-
ture. Both fights went the full limit
of twenty rounds. In the go with Neil
Baker he was given the decision, while
Baker was given the decision, while
In good condition he is counted upon
to give the little Hebrew champion a
lively tussle for the decision tonight,
and there is plenty of Baker money
taking up the Attell offers at odds
averaging 10 to z.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-18
AN AGRICULTURAL COURSE
In Public Schools Advocated by the
Texas Farmers Union.

Dallas, Texas, Jan. 1.-THE Texas
Farmers Union, through its delegate,
Z. A. Calvin, president of the union,
will endeavor to have the State legis-
lature pass a law requiring the addi-
ton of an elementary course in agri-
culture and horticulture to the course
of study of the public schools Of Texas.
Mr.. Calvin says this will be one of
his main objects at the State capitol
during the next few weeks. He has
correspondent with a number of legis-
lators in regard to the matter and
says that every one to whom he has
preached the matter has spoken ia.
vorably on it, and has either promised
or indicated that he would support
the measure If brought up in the leg
islature
Mr.. Calvin will remain in the State
capital several days each week in the
interest of legislation favorable to the
Texas Farmers Union and lal iners In
general.
Mr. Calvin says he will not favor
the adoption of any text book for the
Texas public schools, but will leave
the selection of books to the State
text book committee. He believes the
majority of the county Farmers I'M
ions of the State favor this.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-18
Interest in British Columbia Politics

interest IN 6rltiSn Iolumpla Folitics.
Special to the Herald.
Victoria, B. c., Jan. 1S.-Much inter-
est is manifested in the nominations
tomorrow of candidates for the elev-
enth parliament of British Columbia.
The election will take place early next
month, and parliament will assemble
in March. Never has a campaign I'M
der British representative government
been so curiously complicated with
confusion of parties and issues, as is
the present one.
The political battle is not, as else
where in Canada, a straight fight be-
tween the liberal and conservative
forces. Premier Richard Mcbride ap-
peals to the country as leader OF a
straight liberal-conseryative party, ig-
noring the socialistic following which
has kept the present government in
power during the past three sessions.
The socialists will put up candidates
of their own in virtually all constitu-
encies, and in addition the embryo
labor party, given birth at the late
convention of the Canadian Trade and
Labor congress, is preparing TO take a
part in the fight.
The government will make its fight
principally upon the general prosper
ity of the country, the improved sta
bility Of conditions and provincial
credit since Premier McBride's acces-
sion to power, and adherence to a
policy of no subsidies for railway
builders. The liberals naturally will
contend that provincial prosperity,
improved credit, and the treasury sur
plus result not from governmental ef-
ficiency but despite government in
efiiciency-as a consequence OF for
tuitous fixed conditions and evolution
airy processes. They will also urge
the broader policy Of stimulating
rather than discouraging the opening
of the provincial waste places and
their dormant industries by means Of
colonization railroads, assisted II nee.
essary TO a reasonable extent.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-18
To HANG FOR A
DOUBLE MURDER
RAMON cAMPos, MEXICAN, PAYS
PENALTY FOR BRUTAL CRIME
IN MISSOURI.
Snecial to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 1S.-The sec
ond legal execution in the history of
Karnes county takes place today, the
victim being Ramon Campos, Next
can, whose crime was a most atroc-
ious one. Campos had divorced his
wife with the expectation of marrying
Juana McHaney, a Mexican woman
who lived near here. But after he had
obtained his divorce Juana changed
her mind and refused to marry him.
On the morning of March 26 last,
Campos met Juana, her sister, eyed
twenty years, and their little brother.
as they were driving across the coun-
try in buggy. He was walking and
they asked him to ride with them. He
accepted the invitation and after 60
ing a short way began to importune
Juana to marry him. She persisted in
her refusal Enraged at this, the man
drew a razor from his pocket and cut
the girls throat. When the younger
woman screamed he drew his pistol.
She grasped 1t and there was des-
perate fight for her life. Both fell
from the buggy and this released Cam
pos hold on the girl and she started
to run away. He fired at her, the bul
let taking effect in her head and re-
sulting in instant death. When ar.
rested the man confessed to his crime
and appeared Indifferent to his fate.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-18
ENGINEER KILLED.
Run Over by Log Train on the Hous
ton County Railroad.

Ratcliff, Texas. Jan. 17.-Robert NJ.
Carlton. an engineer on the Houston
County railroad. was run over by a
log train yesterday afternoon about 3
o'clock, receiving injuries from which
he died an hour later.
The remains were sent to his old
home at Tyler, where they will be in
TERED under the auspices of the Odd
Fellows and Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-18

The Herald sells metal checks OF all
kinda
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-18
Second Day of Cotton Convention

q Birmingham, Ala, Jan. 1S.-The
Southern Cotton association reassem-
bled this morning for the second day
OF its deliberations with an attendance
that had been increased by the ar
rival Of number of belated delegates
The session opened with a discussion
OF practical means of making line cot
ton bring to the farmer a just price.
During the day the chief addresses
were as follows:
Probable Profits to Stockholders I'm
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-18
FOR A CASH BASIS.
Bill to Relieve State Treasury at Once
Introduced.

Austin, Texas. Jan. IA bill by
which 1t is proposed to put the State
on a cash basis by the first Of next
week has been introduced by Senator
Murray. II the measure receives the
proper sanction, S55,357.3O will be
transferred to the general fund, and
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-18
PEACH TREES BLOOMING.
spring-like Weather Prevails All over
the State.

Corsica1a, Texas. Jan. 1.-THE
spring-like weather that has prevail.
ed in this section for several weeks
past is having a telling effect on veg
citation. Peach trees are blooming.
forest trees are budding, and grass is
growing like it does in April. pastur.
age being good for cattle.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-18

with the amount of S156,OOO. paid in
this week, will bring the amount to
the total necessary.
The $4,000 was collected through
the operation of the pure food law.
The s156.OOO represents the surplus in
the hands of the penitentiary board
by the operation of plantations. I'm
til this year a deficit existed.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-14
Trust Company Resumes.

The plan for the resumption of bust
ness by the Knickerbocker Trust COM
pany of New York provides that share
holders shall raise $2,400,O00, and the
stock of the company shall be placed
in the hands of a voting trust De
positors are to be paid 30 per cent of
their deposits at once in surplus GER
tificates, to bear interest of A per cent.
These certificates are to be retired
out of surplus that may exceed $780,
100000. Seventy per cent of the de-
posits are to be represented by ne
gotiable certificates of deposit, and 5
per cent of these certificates are to
be paid off every three months.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-14
OREGON ITEMS.

A clash between capitalistic and or
ganized labor interests may be expect
ed soon in Portland.
Near Candy, Respondent and broken
in health because of the hard work on
the farm, Mrs Martha Olsen com
mitted suicide by hanging.
A conservative estimate places the
value of products of Umatilla county
for the year 1907 at 100000, or
$500 for every man, woman and child
in the entire county, estimating the
entire population of the county at
1000.
One more week of holidays has been
proclaimed by Governor Chamberlain
for the further protection of banks.
The governor is being urged to call a
special session of the legislature to
untangle the middle into which legal
work of all kinds finds itself
Attorney General Bonaparte is in
communication with District Attorney
Bristol and Francis j. Heney, relative
to an early resumption of the Oregon
land fraud trials.
A street car collision occurred at
Portland Saturday, and Motorman
Mott will die, and two passengers,
Joseph Reid and Joseph Jarvis, who
were also on the platform of the same
car, were seriously hurt
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-14
GREAT FIRE ATT HOUSTON.
Business Center of Texas City De-
stroyed Last Monday
MorninQ.

Houston, Tex, Dec. 3.-Fire Monday
morning destroyed business property
in the heart of Houston to the value
of $750,000. Breaking out in the rear
of the Frank Dunn jewelry store and
pawnshop, the flames spread in all di-
rections through the block and it was
not until o'clock this morning that
the confagration was under control
The losses are: Houston theater,
$220,000; Mrs. Miller's building, corner
Preston and Franklin streets, $4,000;
Frank Dunn's jewelry store and pawn
shop, building and contents, $4,000;
s. l.. Sans dry goods store (bank-
rupt), building and stock, $4,000; j..
Sweeney Jewelry company, $4,000 to
building and stock; j. N. TaHben &
Son, wholesale cigar house, $4,000;
John Miller's Saloon and building,
corner Fannin and Congress streets,
900; Levy Bros, dry goods store,
$4,000 damage to stock and building;
Sellers building, $4,000; Morris Bros,
clothing store, damage to building and
stock, 100000.
The destruction of offices on the up
per floors of the buildings burned will
make total loss in excess of $3.50, 900
The federal court offices were locat-
ed in the theater building, and all
records and fixtures are total loss
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-14
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-Crop Outlook Is Good.
IDAHO NEWS.

Professor H. T.. French, director of
the experiment station, University of
Idaho, announces the selection of r. E.
Hyslip, M. S., of the University of
Missouri, as agronomist to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
George H. Crosthwait.
The historic poplar trees that line
Main street in Lewiston are being cut
down. The trees are becoming rotten
While engaged in uncoupling the
air hose between the cars of work
train on the o. r. & N. at Grange City
Junction recently, Paul Shannon, the
conductor, fell under the wheels and
was instantly killed. Two truck wheels
passed over him, cutting his body IN
two.
The third member Of the Juliaetta
horsethief gang, Frank White, has con-
fessed. The officials think that White
will make a complete detailed confess
sion, covering a series of crimes ex-
tending over period of nine years.
George Foresman, the fourth member
Of the gang, refuses to talk
Bob Jackson a saloon keeper of Nc
Cannon, was shot and killed recently
at Pocatello by Charles Evans, negro
porter. The negro escaped, but was
captured by a posse near McCammon.
For the alleged reason that difficult
grades render it impossible to make
connections between the Great North
ern and Northern Pacific near Trent,
in the Spokane valley east of Spokane,
the Portland & Seattle railroad will
be heightened 50 miles, extending to
Standpoint, Idaho, where the terminus
of the line will be established and it's
shops built, according to E. j. Cannon,
its attorney.
Dell Wooley of Meridian, who was
sentenced to serve four years in the
penitentiary by Judge Wood recently
at Boise for forgery, made an unsuc-
cessful attempt at taking his life in
the county Jail by drinking a small
quantity of carbolic acid
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-14
MONTANA NOTES.

Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail
road officials announce a reduction of
wages in all classes of labor on the
grade of rs cents day. The contract
ors state that any amount of men is
now available. Four weeks ago labor
of any kind was at premium.
Two Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad contractors, Michael jennings
and d. A. Mcintosh were found guilty
recently of violating the eight-hour
statute and fined 800 each, with costs.
Immediate notice of appeal was given,
1t being the intention Of the contract
ors to test the constitutionality of the
statute. The contractors aver that if
the law is upheld it will greatly retard
construction work on the St. Paul road
in Montana
Somebody recently stole the city
jail and it's prisoners from the town
of st. Regis.
Holding that the punishment i'm
posed by the jury when it found
George Melville guilty of second de-
gree murder for the killing of Winfield
Guthrie near Helena last July to be
excessive, District Judge Clements has
reduced the penalty from so to 20
years in the state prison.
Dine Marks, the freight brakeman
on the Northern Pacific, who was &C
cused of stealing a number of boxes
OF cigars from one of the freight cars
near Avon, was sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-14

The stand of the Montana Fedora
ton of Labor regarding the Industrial
Workers of the World and its stand
in the Bell telephone fight has been
unanimously upheld by the American
Federation of Labor.
The advance in the freight rate on
wheat between Lewiston and Duluth,
amounting to 10 cents per bushel, has
gone into effect, but there is reason to
hope that the old rate may be shortly
restored.
Resolutions emphatically demanding
that the aldermen pass midnight
closing ordinance, to include all clubs
and other places where liquor is dis
pensed, was presented to Helena coun-
cilmen Monday night.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-14
New Sea Wall at San Francisco.

The board of harbor commissioners
have completed plans for the harbor
improvements under the first $1,000
600 bond issue authorized by the state
legislature. The improvements as
projected will consist of two sections
of sea wall and seven large concrete
piers. They will give to San Francisco
1000 feet of harbor frontage, with an
equipment unexcelled at any port in
the whole world The work is to be
done in the vicinity of the Mail docks
and will be carried forward with as
great speed as possible.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-14
GRANNY MINES TO RESUME.
Shelter Also to Start Up-Lower
Wage for 900 Men.

Grand Forks, B. c., Dec. 3.-Jay P.
Graves, general manager of the CRANKY
Consolidated company, which owns ex-
tensive copper mines at Phoenix, 23
miles distant, and the largest copper
smelling works in Canada here in
Grand Forks, states that the directors
of the company have decided to re-
open the mines of the company Deem
Der and the smelter two or three
days later, giving employment to some
900 men when operating at full ca
pacity. They have agreed to accept
the scale of wages paid one year ago,
thereby allowing mines to operate.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-14
OK TEAM AT EATloNA, CAPITAL
Ezra Meeker Shows Roosevelt Notice
Schooner.

President Roosevelt stepped out of
his office Saturday and made critical
examination of Ezra Meeker's yoke of
oxen and prairie schooner, which has
just accomplished 5000 mile trip
from Puyallup on the west coast of
the state of Washington, the route
being over the old Oregon trail. Mr..
Meeker was introduced to the presi-
dent by Senator Piles and Represen-
tative Cushman of Washington. He
made plea to have the Oregon trail
made a national highway, and the
president listened with interest.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-14
Nome Covered by Ash.

Nome and probably the entire sea-
ward peninsula is shrouded in an ashy
haze, and the ground for miles is COW
cred several inches deep with fine
gritty powder, which is believed to be
volcanic ash.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-14
LIncoIn,s Law Partner Dead.

Fairfield Ill.-Colonel Haviland
Tomphns, lawyer and land owner,
who practiced law in partnership with
Abraham Lincoln in Champaign, died
on his farm near here recently, aged
"a years. He was recluse and eccen-
trio.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-14
Repeal Duty on Print Paper.

At the first opportunity after the
converting Of congress, Representative
Champ Clark of Missouri will intro
duce bill repeating the law imposing
duty on paper for printing
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-14

During the fiscal year 1907 the ex-
ports of farm products exceeded the
imports by $444 100000, balance that
has been exceeded only four times
in 1898, 1899, 1901 and 1902.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-14

The well preserved woman is moi
usually what would be called G
peach"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-14

How long will the world continue to
sacrifice her saviors?
The At survive-the unit perish.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-14
Wheat Valuation.

The wheat crop of 1907 is 625, 576, 900
bushels. 5 per cent less than the aver
age quantity for the five preceding
years. But the value is about $500, 000,-
900, or 5h per cent more than the
average, although the crops of 1900
1902 and 1905 had each slightly high
or value than that of this year
The farm value of sugar beets, SUI
gar cane, sorghum cane and molasses
land syrup made on the farm is s64,
100000