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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-06
THREE WERE. KILLED
Attacking Party Came From New
YOrk-Chased Their Vic.ms Into
UOOfwayS and shot Them Down.
several were Arresteu.

oeVeral were Arrested.
Boston, Mass, August 2.-Burning
with hatred for their deadly enemies
belonging to the rival On LSong
Tong Society, a band of New York
Cinnamon. numbering a dozen or
more and said to be members OF the
notorious Hep Sing Tong organiza-
ton. entered a narrow alley in China
town tonight and drawing revolvers
opened fire upon half a hundred
Cinnamon. killing three mad injuring
seven. AT the first volley the China
men rushed for their quarters,
stumbling over one another in their
haste to reach shelter. The Hep
Sing Tong men chased their victims
into their own doorways and shot
them down as they rushed upstairs
or into side rooms. Then casting
away their guns the strange visitors
ran from the Chinese quarter. most of
them escaping the police.
n dead: ok, -~rnbrndah ash
Immediately after the shooting one
of the He Sing Tong men, from New
ork was captured by a policeman as
he was running away. The nan gave
the name of MIN Sing.
He was dressed IN American
clothes. Later an officer at the south
station took into custody Hong WOOn,
aged "a, of New York whose hands
were powder stained. Both prisoners
are charged with manslaughter.
The police placed under arrest on
suspicion seven other Cinnamon, who
are strangers n the local colony.
The shooting occurred in Oxford
place in the center of Chinatown
where about fifty Cinnamon were
smoking in the open air.
Fully fifty shots were fired. That
the visitors shot with careful accu-
racy was apparent from the fact that
each of the three men killed was shot
through the heart.
The trouble of tonight has been
anticipated for more than a week.
About ten days e nearly a dozen
Cinnamon who were ali strangers
came to Boston and rented room
near Chinatown. The police were no.
titled of the fact by Boston China
men who feared trouble. Special de-
tails OF police were at once placed
on duty in the Chinese quarter and
strangers suddenly disappeared.
The trouble is attributed by some
TO the shooting which occurred in
Ph1ladelphia recently for which it is
SAID Boston Cinnamon were partially |
blamed 1t is thought the Cinnamon
VINO did the shooting tonight came
from New York to punish the On
Leong Tongs for the PHILADELPHIA out
break.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-06

Chippewa Falls, Wis August l.
Congressman Jenkins, chairman,
of the judiciary committee of the ma
tional house of representatives, has
issued a statement relative to the
North Carolina railroad rate inn
broglio.
He says there has never been any
event since the civil way that calls
for so severe condemnation as the
recent senseless TRADE on behalf of
states against the nation.
He adds that it is humfliating
that the matter has been compromis-
ed, and hat the nation has TO some
extent surrendered.
The civil a was the result of
such agitation, and We may have
earlier than we want another civil
war" he said.
ITO avert such a calamity and to
preserve the nation, We must con-
form to the law, obey the law anu
have the law enforced according TO
the frame work provided in the con-
stitutiOn."
Judge Jenkins points out that the
supreme court OF the United States
is made the final Judge between state
and nation.
Mr.. Jenkins believes that the ex-
ecutive Of the state should keep cool,
maintain his dignity and remember
We have to depend upon the judicial
ry OF the country, to ave the I'M
ion.
Ever since the civil war" he
said, ''Other states have had similar
troubles and did not make fools of
themselves or declare war, and the
questions involved we're decided by
the supreme court and no bad feel
ing followed.
IF ali state authorities are going
to usurp functions Of the supreme
court and judge what federal act
shall be nullifed no one can tell
where it will end"
; MI. Jenkins says Re is opposed 10
Z weakening the powers of both state
and nation and calls attention to the
+fact that the state has the remedy
in the supreme court if the nation
encrOaches upon it's rights.
why should state authority de-
clare they will exercise every pow
sr at their command to prevent such
consumatiOn," he askes. This is an
unlawful attempt to oppose lawful
efforts.
This continual talk about state
authorities resisting federal power
by armed forces will sooner or later
end III bloodshed, possibly in the
disruption of the union"
In concluding, Mr.. Jenking says
the supreme court of the United
States may err. 1t nay differ with
the views Of a great majority of The
people, but however, that may be,
the constitution says its decision is
final and must be regarded as the
supreme law o fthe land and that IS
what must govern us.
Better live under Il wrong deciS-
ion than amidst anarchy that must
prevail in this country if each state
authority is going to- disregard the
constitution of the United States and
assert it's own power, thereby weak
ening and absolutely disregarding
this great government that has cost
many generations so much to make
and preserve it"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-06
FOR WIFE MURDER
Magin and Bride of Four Weeks i'm
Court When Indictment Was Re-
furned-NlOtiOn Made to ConsoI-
idate the Two Cases.

Clinton, Ills, August 1.-The grand
jury which has been investigating the
death of Mrs. Pet Magil the first wife
Of Frederick Magil1, who, with his Sec
ond wife is in Jail here, having been
brought back from California to
answer to the charge of having caused
the death of Mrs. Pet Magill, today re-
turned one indictment against Magill
and one Indictment against Mrs. FAY
Graham Magill.
The six counts in each indictment
follows:
That Mrs. Pet Magil was murdered
by the administration of strychnine
poison; that the murder was done by
arsenic; that she was smOthered with
a quilt; that she was strangled to death
by chloroform; that she committed
suicide as the result of a compact and
agreement with the defendants, n
by their advice INC counsel in that
her death was caused by the defend
ants, by some neal unknown to the
grand jury.
Magill and his bride of four weeks
were in the court room when the in
dictments were returned.
During the afternoon session Judge
Cochran sustained a motion to quash
the sixth count of both indictments.
He over ruled the motion to quash
other counts holding that they were
good. The defense Immediately filed
a motion to consOlidat the two cases
so that both husband and wife would
be tried together, and the court took
this under a~dvisement. The defense
then asked that the trials be set as
speedily as possible, and Judge Coch-
ran announced that tomorrow he
would decide whether the trials shall
begin next week Or in November. The
defendants pleaded not guilty.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-06
PILGRIM JOE'S DO|NGS
Meets Up. With an Old Man Who
Is k's0 travelling.
6uT THEY FAIL TO AGREE.
The Pilgrim ckous How Integrity
~Triurphs 10 the Long Run-He Has
a Rather Caee- Experience In the
Town oF t;appy Day.
copyright. 1851. By P. c. Eastment.l

copyright. 1851. By P. c. Eastment.l
was on tue road with my outfit
between the enterprIsin' towns Of Lost
Hopes and Kerplunk when l met up
with an Die kuss who was travelin' In
tie opposite direction. With his white
i,Iir and whittier whiskers he had a
venerable appearance, and at first I
{ alieved him to be in the pilgrim
business with myself. AS we both
halted I smiled a greetin' at him and
said:
Truth may be buried for a day, but
truth cannot be squelched."
And though integrity may now and
then stop to rest she gets there just
the same" he replied.
Then we began to tell how good il
felt to be good, and I had got to
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-06
His Cor!eoa Record.

Did young SpurtIeigh make a good
nec~rd during his collegiate cOurse?'
"No: tho wind, was against him"
"Whet's that?"
~ say he Won the hundred and the,
twenty-five all right. but he had to dc,
1t against the wind and his time waa@
poor."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-06
Hicks apudE Cures

It's not q narcotic or dope bat removes
the cause. Get a bottle and try it for
headaches, soul stomach, indigestion
pains or colds. It's ~liquid-affects i'm
mediately-pleasant 10 take Sold at
all drug stores.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-06
MUST OBEY THE LAW

Illuminating, He says, That the Mat
ter Has Been Compromised-The
Civil War Was the Result of
Such Agitation-Intimates That
North Carolina Has made n Fool
OF Itself.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-06

Dyspepsia is our national ai1ment
Burdock Blood Bitters is the national
: cure for 1t. It strengthens stomach
membranes. promotes flow of diges-
tive juices, purihes the blood, builds
you up.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-06

We wish the people of this section
could share their superabundance of
rain with their up-country friends
whose crops are suffering from
drought.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-06
LAYERS CSpe-arto.

Lcxers' Esperanto.
Their words L leased vet any took
er on,
Were he but scaEty wise.
Nigh, see t.e conversation sakrg Or
Continued n t.e!r eyes.
And when their oroa3 dialogue wa.
done
TIE, stiu rnI'd -a1e-s.4.j
BY rS.:E f's1.. a 1nIFx!Sdi ode
Tie press e q q kard
Ellen a1rns ShaIEnaa n Life
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-06
Not an Undivided Third,

"Is that your husbanQ?"
"Well, partially. think I haze
about a third equity in him."-Judgee
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10
Editor Shot and Killed.

MINATARE - Samuel d. Cox, edit
or of the 4-inatare Sentinel, founder
of the Lincoln Daily Call, was shot
and instantly killed here by %. S.
Kennison, landloard of the Enterprise
hotel A scrimmage took place be-
tween the men on the street. After
short scufTle, Mr.. Kennison is said
to have pulled gun from his pocket
and fired three shots. All of them
took effect.
The killing is regarded as cold
blooded in every detail and it is paint
ed with some degree of color that it
Is the outgrowth of a strong campaign
on the part Of Cox against the liquor
traffic. Kennison was playing cards
and few moments before the tragedy
after losing several hands, remarked
he was going up the street and lick
the first man he didn't like. He walked
into the White drug store and called
Cox outside. No one was near enough
to hear the conversation, but they
were soon scufiiing and Kennison
drew gun and fired three shots, the
third one entering Cox's left breast
and he fell.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10
Imaginary Troubles Are Fatal.

observation-disclosures Fisse, aged
40. of Deshler, was found dead in his
room in the Lepin hotel. He shot
himself with a revolver. Among the
dead mans personal effects was a GER
titicate of deposit issued by the State
Bank of Deshler for $4,000, also three
certificates by the same bank for $50
each. 1t is believed ne worried over
imaginary troubles and that it was
dependency of this sort that induced
him to commit suicide.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10
NEBRASKA NOTES
MlScELLANEoUS MATTERS IN
THE COMMONWEALTH.
CHILD LABOR is DISCUSSED
Senator Beverage Makes an Address
Before the State Teachers Assocla-
ton Editor Of Nebraska Paper
Killed by a Hotel Landlord.
Mr.. Beveridee on child Labor.

The State Teachers association
meeting at Lincoln closed with an ad.
dress by United States Senator Bev.
eridge The occasion was made more
interesting by the fact that W. j..
Bryan introduced the speaker, it being
remembered that these two exchanged
compliments in speeches at Lincoln
during the campaign. Mr.. Beveridge
said in part:
Nothing shows how greed forgets
humanity as child slavery. There is
something with a prosperity which is
so immense that it finally comes to
feed upon the lives Of little children.
Men who make money by working in
fants are making too much money.
There are, at low estimate, 100000
children under ID at work in cotton
mills, glass factories, sweat shops,
mines and like industries. Those
whom such toll does not kill are being
ruined for citizenship. We are turn
ing out, at low estimate, 100000
adult Indon "hooligans" every years;
and these become in turn the parents
of hundreds of thousands of other de-
generates. And so this civic pesti-
lence riots and spreads.
1t must be stopped-if not for the
sake of these children themselves,
then for our own sake; il not for the
cake Of common humanity, then for
the sake OF the republics safety. For
this republic is based on citizenship.
We cannot SOW the winds today with
out reapng the whirlwind tomorrow.
"If everybody, including the most
Earnest advocate Of state rights"
could agree on national quarantine
law to keep out yellow fever, which
does not kill twenty people in twenty
years, how much more should we
agree on national child labor law
to stop practice that actually kills
thousands of children and irreclaim-
ably ruins tens Of thousands every
year?"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10
Reduction of Interest Rate.

LINCOLN - recommendation is
made by Land Commissioner Eaton in
his biennial report to the governor
that the interest rate to be charged
purchasers of school lands on any
amount they are unable to pay shall
be S per cent instead of per cent
Mr.. Eaton is of the opinion that this
will bring in large interest revenue
to the state, as now the farmers are
in the habit of borrowing money from
the loan companies at s per cent and
paying the state in full
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10

The French have a neat way of,
showing disfavor. When Boni de Cas-,
tellane, who Is member Of the house,
Of deputies, assembled the tribune tol
make a speech, half of his fellow
members arose and left the chamber
administering such public snub as,
has seldom been inflicted. Boni has
a reputation as duelist, but 1t Is
doubtful il he will feel impelled to
challenge every manly man who took
such an opportunity to express an
opinion of Castellane's conduct.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10
The LANGUAGE of Commerce.

Great Britain and her colonies and
the United States represent together
the fabulous total OF 111,00O,O 5000
English-speaking persons, figures
which leave all competitors hopeless
ly In the rear. Germany and Russia
occupy second place with 100000
apiece, and France, Spain, Italy and
Portugal follow, with 100000. Az
100000. 3S0OO,C0o and 100000 re-
spectively, according to The Atlas of
the Worlds Commerce.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10
500 Reward. SlOO.

The readers OF this paper will be pleased to learn
that there at least disease that science
has been able TO cure In all It's stages, and that IL
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure n the only positive
being a constitutional disease requires constitu.
tional treatment. Halre Catarrh euro Is taken ia.
ternaly, acting directly upon the blood aud mucous
surfaces or the System, thereby destroying the
foundation OF the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and assist.
Ing nature in doing its work. The proprletors have
so much faith In It's curative powers that they offer
One Hundred Dollars for any case that II faIlJ to
cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address f. J. CHENEY d CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10
THE PROGRESS OF THE CANA
DIAN WEST.
Nearly 100000 Of an Increase In Cana
da'k immigration in 1906.

da'k Immigration IN ISOo'
The progress of new country can
not be better ascertained than by not
ing the increase of railroad mileage in
its transportation system, and, judged
by this standard, the Canadian West
leads all the countries in the world
during the current year. Thirty years
ago there was not one hundred miles
of railroad west of the Great Lakes,
and very little prospect of a trans
continental route for many years to
come, but by the end of 1885 the
Canadian Pacific Railway was within
measurable distance Of completion,
and last year-twenty years later
over 5000 miles of railroad traversed
the provinces of Manitoba, Sas'
katchewan and Alberta.
In the past year the work OF rail-
road construction has been vigorously
prosecuted, and by the end of 1906,
some 5000 miles of completed railroad
has been added, making a total OF
fully 1900 miles in the three great
grain producing provinces of Canada.
Such an increase in the transportation
facilities of the country is bound to
make good times not only in the dis
tricts where the railroads are being
built, but throughout the entire west.
Allowing $4,000 a mile for construc-
ton, the sum of $1O0,000,000 will be
put in circulation, and this in itself
should cause good times to prevail in
q land where work is plentiful, wages
are high, and the cost of living Is mod
crate.
But the building of new railroads
through Western Canada means
greater benefit to the country than
merely the money put in circulation
by the cost of construction. Addition
al railway building means the opening
of new agricultural districts and an
additional area under crops; a largely
increased output Of grain to foreign
markets with consequent financial re-
turns; the erection of elevators and
the growth of villages, towns and cit
les; and everything else that makes
for the progress of national life, and
the opening up of additional thousands
of free homesteads, so extensively ad-
vertised by the Canadian government
agent, whose address appears else
where.
1t was stated on the floor Of the
Canadian Parliament recently by
prominent representative that ten
years from now would see the bulk of
the population of Canada residing
west of the Great Lakes, and if the
work of railway building during the
present year is any criterion, the
prophecy made by the Canadian states
man may be easily fulfilled inside of
the time stated. During the present
year no less than 1S9,064 persons have
found homes in the Canadian west,
Of whom 57,796 were Americans who
have seen the great possibilities of
this new West, and have decided to
cast in their lot with it. Certainly,
our neighbor north Of the 49th parallel
is making great record, and deserves
the success that appears to be coming
its way.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10

A Frenchman now visiting London
has discovered why the ballet over
here is as far In advance Of the ballet
IN Paris as French drama is ahead of
English drama, declares the London
Chronicle Coming away from one of
our best music halls in ecstasies, he
put the matter briefly but clearly:
1T is true" he said, "that the ladies
of your ballet have more beautiful
figures than ours, and why? In Eng
land your girls are tall and scraggy-
and you can put on. In France our
girls are short and fat-helas! mon
ami, you can not take OIL"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10
THE STORY.

THE STORY.
A CHAN looked about him. No other
"A Israelite was in sight. In his Gag
erness to get into the midst of Jericho
he had left his comrades quite in the
rear, and as he went about applying
the torch that the city might be
burned as the Lord had commanded,
curiosity led him to enter wing Of
what was evidently the kings pal.
ace, and there before his eyes were
gold and silver and rich garments
scattered about in reckless profu.
sion.
They had gathered their treasure,
and then had to leave it behind in
their effort to escape" muttered
Achan as he stopped and dug his
fingers into the silvery pile at his feet,
and then let the coins sift through
them with a merry Jingle.
Beneath the coins thus displaced he
caught the CLEAN of gold, and push
ing the silver aside, eagerly, there
soon lay revealed before him a great
bar Of rich yellow gold. He took it
in his hands. 1t was more wealth than
he had ever held in his hands before.
and the wish half formed came into
his heart that it belonged to him.
Suddenly a voice seemed to speak
right at his elbow, saying:
And We, in any wise, keep your
seves from the accursed thing, lest ye
make yourselves accursed, when We
take of the accursed thing, and make
the camp of Israel a curse, and trou.
BILE it."
With a start Achan looked about
him, letting the wedge of gold fall
upon pile of silver with clatter, but
he saw no one, and partly treasured,
he turned his eyes again upon the
glittering gold at his feet.
Who was to know if he took just
this one piece of gold from the midst
of so much?' he asked himself, and
his conscience answered back:
But Joshua solemnly told us not
to touch the accused thing"
Yes, but was not the gold and the
silver to be gathered and turned into
the treasury OF the Lordr" questioned
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10

Sir Patrick Manson, in his recent
lectures on tropical diseases, although
accepting the theory that the only
mode Of transmission of marsh, or ma,
larial, fever is through the bite OF the
Anopheles mosquito, adds the state
ment, which will probably be new to-
most readers, that the mosquitoes are
capable Of becoming infected by alb.
sorbing the blood not merely Of
human patients, but also of anthro-
poid apes, and perhaps even of vari-
GUS other mammals. which, In an evo.
lutionary sense. are related to man.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10
Bryan Paws the Bill.

Notwithstanding that his home
coming reception should cause pain to
any one, w, ]. Bryan quietly provid-
ed for the care of little colored boy,
the son of ]. S. Andrews, waiter at
the Lincoln hotel. who was injured in
the crush Of the parade last fall.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10

A London medical journal suggests
that for the sake Of safety steps of
stairways should be of standard size,
of uniform height and breadth the
world over, and wide enough to take
the whole foot. An equally necessary
reform is the removal of the extra
step, which in the dark one thinks is
not there, to that other place where
In the dark one thinks there is a
step, and find only unsustaining air.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10

The smokeless condition in Berlin
is ascribed to the preponderant use
of smokeless fuel, in the form of coke
and briquettes, the skillful, scientific
construction Of boiler furnaces and
chimneys and finally to the high
standard Of skill taught and enforced
among firemen who stoke furnaces
with coal for steam and other pur.
poses. Before a man can assume
such a charge in Berlin he must be
taught the theory and practice Of
economical, scientific firing.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10

Persons who think the railroad,
companies do not do all that they,
might for the comfort of passengers,
will be interested to hear a report
made recently to the Royal Meteoro-,
logical society in London about the,
cars on the Uganda railway in Afri-
ca. To exist amid armies OF wood.
eating insects the cars are built Of
metal. The large ventilators are pro-
tected by gauze against mosquitoes.
The windows are of green tinted
glass, which allows the passenger to-
sec the landscape and at the same
time shields him from the glare of the
tropical sun.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10
case Settled Out Of court.

CENTRAL CITY-A check for $500
has been received bp A. F. McMasters
from the Union Pacific Railroad COM
pany in settlement of a claim for
$4,000 damages, which he had filed
against that company.