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Holbrook argus., 1907-03-19
branches in schools.
HOUSE

branches in schools.
HOUSE
Bills passed:
Regulating Butcher licenses;
two bill referring to printing;
that board of control shall make
tax levy for territorial institu-
tions; removing prison to Flor
ence; to encourage 1mpoundlng
of water; relating to bank comp
troller and protecting depositors;
relief of Sullivan, Assessor of va
vapai County; authorizing ap-
pointment of county road super
supervisors salary bill.
Holbrook argus., 1907-03-19
"I SUFFERED AWFUL PAIN

Henry Despair, OF Holbrook
Arizona.
Anna Conner, of Holbrook,
Arizona.
Mary Evarts Larsen, of Hol-
brook, Arizona.
MILTON K. MOORE,
Register.
Holbrook argus., 1907-03-19

OFFICIAL PAPER OF NAVAJO COUNTY
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-12

The most amazing stupidity conceiv.
able Of any people with foreheads n
that they should allow their supply
Of food to pass into the hands Of one
speculative interest, says Charles I'd.
ward Russell In q powerful article
written by him in the Appeal to Rea-
son. You can understand how Q care
less community might tolerate Q mo-
nopoly Of some things, how Il might
endure to have It's transportation, for
instance, or It's electric light, control.
led by one ownership, for men can
live without sleeping cars or arc
lamps; but that Il should tolerate Q
monopoly Of the primal necessity Of
food Is beyond comprehension and
without precedent Even naked say.
ages have uniformly been too wise
for that, and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such q monstrous
condition Ii our own.
From a thousand illustrations Of the
injuries we oil suffer from this idiotic
arrangement let 10 cite one.
There 10 no way Of communicating
disease to the human body surer than
through infected meat tissue. Some
Of the worst and most destructive b.
GILL that prey upon mankind are com.
mon among the animals he eats for
food. Cows have tuberculosis and
spread vast quantities Of It through
the human population. Il II % com.
mon among cows TINT the wise and
the forewarned will use none but ster.
ilixed milk. What IL hog cholera
among swine ID merely typhoid feves
In men. Trichinea In hogs poisona
human beings. Both these diseases
IRE common among swine.
Worse than ali these, and more
deadly, il another fact that Ii seldom
commented upon because II ID too ap'
pailing to dwell much upon. What Il
called "lumpy jaw" In cattle II simply
cancer. Tho germs Of cancer are
communicable. Many cattle have
"lumpy Jaw" Any animal with
"lumpy jaw" Ia unit for human
food.
This opens a Aelo that demands the
immediate attention Of the govern
ment. Cancer IL the most terrible Of
oil diseases. After It has reached q
certain stage Of development It ID ab
solutely incurable. Its progress h
that stage may be without the pa
tents knowledge or suspicion. III
advance beyond that stage cannot
even be checked. Il Stays its victims
with the most horrible torture.
In this country the recent increase
Of this most terrible Of human AZ
filctions has been something to alarm
MS all. 1t was once rare; It now
threatens to become common. In thu
Cincinnati hospital, In the year 1870
n, the number Of cancer0us patients
was one In 5S7. IN 1904 the number
was one In 273. In 1870. when thu
total population Of the city was PIG.
go, the number Of cancer cases re
ported Mt all the institutions was ~
In 1900, with total population o.
325.002. the number of cancer casei
reported ut all the institutions wal
1903, and In 1908, with about the sam,
population, the number was 287.
append the table that shows this 40
tonlshing increase.
Here Is q similar report from twt
well.known hospitals elsewhere:
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL. NEW
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-12

You will see iron the above figures
that the average price paid by the
Beef Trust Is about 4 cents pound.
But do the people who have to pay
exOrbltant prices for food get good
food?
Let us look at some of the records
of the Chicago Health Department for
a reply:
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin OF Octo-
Der rs, 1905, speaks for Itself:
The city inspectors at the Union
Stock Yards condemned "FIVE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS,
WITH 4 PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT.
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS"
"They also condemned and destroyed
3,093 pounds of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas Cit, having
passed government inspection ut those
places"
This shows the sort Of government
Inspection we have.
If few of the governmental omis-
siOns are rectiiied how many thous-
ands are not!
How many homes In Europe and
America are at this moment harboring
CIts of meat from tuberculosis cattle?
Ts.s esscye report Of the Health Com.
sa.sss2nec s.,ss.ks Of meat hanging In
the coolers OF trust houses. with tuber-
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-12

Congress should ut once add to the
meat inspection law these three pro-
visions:
Fuckers should be obliged to
bear all the expense attached to in
spectiOn.
PACKERS should be obliged to
print date of canning Oh the labels Of
all canned goods.
3-All meat In transit should be In
spected by the government.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-12

An average Of 10000 pounds of dis
eased meat Is condemned every week by
Chicago Health Department inspectors
In butcher shops aud grocery and de-
partment stores 'lnside the Union
loop"
If this great amount, of tubercular.
cancerous and maggoty material can be
found by the inspectors ana destroyed
"inslde the loop" small territory
bounded by the river, Van Buren, street.
Wabash and Fifth avenues, how many
million pounds are sold to the public
and consumed in the vast territory out
side the loOpi
This is very pertinent Question.
That 10000 pounds of diseased meat
can escape stockyards Inspection every
week and find Itself into department
and other stores 'inslde the loop"
should suffice to call attention to the
vast amount Of poisonous food that ss-
capes inspection at the stockyards and
Ia sold outside the loop.
Facts are facts. and dgurss nevs- ">
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-12

Congress should pass law con-.
Polling packers to print the date Of
the canning on the labels of all canned
goods sold by them.
The fact that the Beef Trust fought
q proposed law to this effect, last year,
only goes to emphasize the necessity
that exists for one.
According to all accounts the canned
goods Of the Beef Trust are bad enough
when comparatively new, without un.
londing on the public canned goods that
have been years In warehouse.
More than that. the government
should compel the packers to pay oil
the expenses Of meat inspection.
The government should also inspect
oil meat In transit.
Lately the Beef Trust has been
branching out and gobbling up other
lines Of business.
1t controls the meat business.
1t controls the poultry trade.
1t controls the egg market.
1t controls the hide market.
It controls the boot and shoe trade.
And lately It has stepped into the
control Of n large part Of the vegetable
market.
1t Is the Beef Trust and the Beef
Trust alone that has made the cost
Of living us high Us It Is.
The Beef Trust buys cattle, swine
and sheep OH the hoof for almost moth.
ing.
II you will take the trouble to look
Mt the market reports Of the daily
papers you will see that the trust pays
from sl.25 to SO per 100 pounds for
canning cows. This Is u cent ana a
quarter to two cents a pound. For
very high grade meat they pay as
high rs five or six cents pound.
The trust utllizes every portion Of the
cattle, hoofs, horns. intcstInes, hide,
hair and bones.
1t could AFFORD to sell the people
meat ut reasonable prices and make a
big profit itself.
But II Is too hogglsh to do this. II
has the American public by the throat
aud makes the american public pay
outrageous prices
The following from the Chicago
Daily Journal market report for Oct.
o, 1907, Is Il fair sample Of what the
Beef Trust pays Tor cattle, per 100
pounds:
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19

question of these purchases from
themselves, and yet in true sense
the ''dust" transaction was again
brought to the front, as it was in
the insurance investigation, the
"duaP' transaction consisting in
the directors in control acting at
the same time as buyers and sell
ers.
The Union Pacific was charter
ed as an operating company, and
it has successively served the pur-
poses of a holding company and a
bank, as we'll as a transportation
concern. Apparently it has now
disposed of its immense cash sur
plus, and is in the position of an
Investment company. 1t owns
the stocks, and the capitalists who
sold them now have the cash.
Now all this is not necessarily IL
legal. But it will inevitably
leave bad taste in the public
mouth. 1t will give aid and en-
couragement to the agitation of
government ownership of rail
roads, of which W. j. Bryan is
the most distinguished exponent.
"a bad taste in the public
mouth y and a hostile heart in the
public breast, is the logic of Har-
riman. Henceforth his name is a
new one for the cnnjuration of
corporation distrust and hate.
This is the harvest which legiti-
mate and honest railroad manage
ment will reap from Hartman.
Name Hartman, and mems evil
passions are touched as by pub
lie enemy. The feeling is resist
less and universal-it will in
fiuence and infame the most con-
servative and the least prejudiced.
The evil of building up such SEN
timent toward corporate institut
ions is simply incalculable. -
Vicksburg Herald.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19
ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF
GEN. ROBERT E. LEE.

Today, Jan. 19, 1907, is the one
hundreth anniversary of the birth
of Gen. Robert E. Lee, the
South's great exemplar as Chris
tian soldier and patriot, and it is
indeed meet that his comrades in
arms of 45 years ago and thous-
ands of others who have descend
ed from the patriots of the sixties,
should assemble throughout the
Southland to do honor to his
cherished memory.
A man whose strength was the
might of gentleness and self-com-
mand; a modest, God loving gen
tleman, a firm, staunch patriot
and intrepid soldier, brilliant
commander, magnanimous foe,
a thorough scholar, a useful and
honored citizen, Robert Edward
Lees place is at the head of the
great men of recorded time.
''We cannot have too many
biographies of him, we cannot see
his gentle face too often. Noble,
just and generous, tender, strong
and loving, he is venerated and
loved Throughout the world. !"
We never contemplate the
majesty and inspiring character of
Robert E. Lee, tinged as it is
with solemn, tender pathos, that
we do not recall the tribute of
Georgia's great orator, Ben Hill
He was a foe without hate, a
friend without treachery, a sol
dier without cruelty; victor
without oppression, and victim
without murmurlng. lie was
Christian without hypocrisy ,and a
man without guile He was a
Cesar without his ambition; a
Frederick without his tyranny
a Napoleon without his selfshness,
and Washington without his re-
ward. Z
The youth and young manhood
of the South and of the world car
look to no higher exemplar Of
human greatness; they can dc
nothing nobler than to always
strive to initiate his shining vir.
tues.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19

today's Leader is a sample of how
be is viewed by old friends and
supporters who have turned by
the thousands against him. Bailey
has refused to lay down the nomi-
nation given him last summer and
60 before the people or the Legis-
lature on the new issue raised,
and In characteristic Bailey style,
while clinglng to the nomination
with death-like tenacity, is trying
TO brow-beat the opposition and
force his reelection by the Legis-
lature under the party lash and
prevent full and complete inves-
tigation of his Waters Pierce rec
ord.
Whether he succeeds or not,
enough has already been proved
by records and admitted by him
to forever destroy public conf
dence in him and unfit him to
longer represent the people of
Texas in the United States Sen
ate.
The election for Senator set
for next Tuesday has been called
off, pending the movement to have
thorough investigation.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19

a better condition of equipment,
of supply of shortage of cars,
tracks and motive power, re-
sources are handed over to HarrI-
man In scoops of rival systems
and smashes of hostile influences.
The situation be has created is
thus we'll described in the follow
ing from the Wall Street journal:
Never before, even in all the
literature of the Standard Oil, has
there ever been spread upon the
records such an amazing exhibit
of financial concentration as was
made in the two days proceed
ings at this inquiry. Various
forms of legal procedure were
gone through with, but the auto
crat was Mr.. Hartman, and the
board of directors and even the
executive committee simply re-
corded what he villed. Mr.. Har-
riman's will was shown to be a
scheme of imperial railroad ex-
pansion covering the whole coun-
try, East and West, the creation
of vast continental system reach
ing from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, both North and South.
Moreover, it appears that
among the extraordinary stock in
vestments made by the Union
Pacific we're a number of large
purchases from Mr.. Hartman,
Mr.. Rogers and Mr.. StiIlman, all
three directors of the company.
These gentlemen, indeed, did vote
in the board of directors on the
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19
Assessors Troubles.

The assessors of the State pro-
pose to hold a delegate convention
at Jackson early in February to
endeavor to agree upon some con-
certed plan of action in regard to
the additional work imposed upon
them by the last Legislature with
out providing any additional pay
for this work. The work referred
to consists of gathering agricultu-
raj statistics for the Office of the
State Commissioner of Agricul-
ture and Commerce, while making
their annual assessments and the
law imposing this extra labor is
mandatory, with no pay provided.
Assessor G. W. Maxwell, of Lin
coin county, has been suggested
as the delegate from the counties
composing the Seventh Congress
sional District, anG the suggestion
is good one. The failure to
provide pay for this service was
evidently an oversight of the last
Legislature, which the next body
of lawmakers should remedy.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19
AMAZING EXHIBIT OF FINANCIAL CON.
CENTRATION.

The main underlying purpose
of the legislation in restriction of
railroads has been to prevent the
destruction of competition. To
that end one of the practices
chiefly guarded against has been
the merger ownership of parallel
or competing roads. How utter
ly and fagrantIy this policy has
been set at naught the public is
now being told through the testi-
mony revealing the operations of
the Hartman and its affiliated
systems. A more amazing narra-
tive of the ways and means of
American high finance, of the art
of Juggling great property stocks
and bonds for speculative pur-
poses, the Imagination has never
conceived. Some of the evidence
taken before the interstate COM
mission would be exceedingly edi-
flying if it were not so palpabIy
impudent. 1t required cast iron
face to sit behind the sworn state
ment that bringing the Union
Pacific and the Southern Pacific,
and all the vast intermediate grid
iron of roads under the Hartman
sceptre, had not affected competi-
tion in transcontinental freights.
That was the story Traffic Direct
or j. G. Stubbs, who swore in
general and in particular that it,
was not possible for competition
to be stifled, no matter who owned
the parallel lines" If this were
true, what a waste of legislation
has there been. Though if it IS
false, Hartman has made waste
of the laws to prevent possession
of parallel lines. By the side of
other offenders against such laws
E. H. Hartman is the giant, or
the monster of the age.
One effect of the Hartman pic
ture has been to give Rockefeller
rival IN the detestation of the
people. 1t matters not what the
real moral quality Of the methods
and achievements, whether legal
or Iawless, there is no question of
the odium of the case of this con-
tinent bestridIng colossus. The
boundless rapacity Of bis speoula
tive manipulation of railroad
properties and credits, for the ac-
cumulation Of enormous private
fortunes. can only be at the cost
and neglect of their designed uses
and facilities as common carriers.
1t comes home to every shipper
or passenger as a personal wrong
and robbery. Instead Of going to
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19
News from Hattiesbure.

Hattiesburg, Miss, Jan. 16.-
A general Jail delivery from the
city prison was averted this morn
ing only by the accidental discov-
cry by policeman who visited
the Jail. Robert RCane and Joe
Sims, two desperate fugitivNs, ne
groes, from Meridian, had been
busy picking a hole in the brick
wall, and in another ten minutes
would have been able to crawl
through. The negroes were car
ried back to Meridian today.
Since the new city administration
took charge of affairs the city Jail
has been kept crowded with pris-
oners, so that 1t is impossible to
find room for all of them in the
steel cage, and the providing of
additional jail facilities is being
agitated.
The Hattlesburg postofice has
Just given out a statement of its
business for the year 1906, from
which at appears that this Office
will soon be raised from the Sec
ond to the first class if the present
rate of increase shall be maintain
ed for another year. The total
business for the year was $751;
338.3S. The receipts for the last
quarter of the year were $10,219.-
IS. The total for the previous
fiscal year was only $29, ,S76.63.
The immediate necessity for the
city to supply a crematory for
the disposal of its decaying gar
bage was emphasized today when
the City Council received letter
from Sheriff j. G. Magruder to
the effect that hereafter the city
will not be permitted to deposit
such matter in the county. The
city ordinances prevent it being
deposited in the city. The Fed
eral laws prevent it being con-
signed to the river. There is
nothing left to do but send it up
in smoke.
The annual meeting of the
South Mississippi Lumbermen's
Association was held in this city
this afternoon.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19
How to Deal With the Butcher.

1t is quite as true. that wisdom
is money as that time is money,
and never so true as when dealing
with the butcher. To know how
to buy piece of beef that will
cost only twenty cents but when
cooked Alright will be as delicious
and as nourishing as one which
costs forty cents means money to
the housewife. Many house
wives, however, do not even know
one cut of beef from another ex-
cept as the butcher labels it.
Along these lines a series of artl-
cles in the New Idea Woman's
Magazine is giving information.
Miss Elizabeth w. Morrison, the
we'll known writer on food topics,
talks of The Hind Quarter Of
Beef" in the February number,
showing by diagrams where each
cut lies and following the general
treatment of the subject by a
number of good recipes, such as
pot roast and beefsteak rolls.
The future numbers will take up
veal and lamb in the same way.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19

Gov. Vardaman has appointed
Judge j. G. Longstreet, of the
Jackson bar, to preside as special
chancellor in the Kinds County
Chancery Court during the hear
ing of the suit of the Mississippi
Bank and Trust Company VS.. the
New York Life Insurance Compa-
ny and E. B. Enochs, Chancellor
Lyell being disqualified.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19

The grand jury of Claiborne
county returned 40 indictments.
Among the indicted persons we're
three justices of the peace who
had failed to keep records Of their
cases as provided by law.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19

The town of Newton has voted
in favor Of a $4,000 bond issue
for water works, by vote of 81
to II.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19

Fifteen members of the Confed-
crate Congress are known to be
yet in the land of the living, viz:
John Goode and Roger A. Pryor,
of Virginia; A. S. Colyar, j. D..
G. Atkins, Joseph II. Heiskel,
and John V. Wright, of Tennes-
see; Hiram P. Bell, of Georgia;
Henry Q. Jones, of Florida; Jas.
L. Pngh, of Alabama; S. B. Cal
lahan, of the Indian Territory j.
A. P. Campbell, of Mississippi;
S. II. Ford, OF Kentucky. and
w. II. Tibbs, Of North Carolina.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19

Hon. E. +. Noel spoke at
Waynesboro "Wednesday.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19

Some people miss happiness be-
cause they go to far from home to
find it.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19

Crystal Springs has a well or
ganized progressive league, with
w. E. Biggs, president; R. E.
Lott, secretary; and A. I. Towns,
treasurer. The objects of the
league are: To improve the COM
mercial, Industrial, moral and
educational status of Crystal
Springs and vicinity; to acquaint
the public with this sections
special resources and advantages;
to encourage desirable immigra-
ton: to promote local improve
ments: to foster spirit of frater-
nalism and cooperation along
industrial aud com mercial lines.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19

The annual conference of the
African Nj. e. Church was held
here Thursday. Bishop j. F..
Berry, of Buffalo, N. T., presided
and another prominent figure of
the Methodist church present was
DR.. Eaton, of the Eaton & Main
Publishing House, Of New York
and Cincinnati. There were, per-
haps, 140 negro preachers in
attendance upon the conference.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-01-19

Matte Wills, a yonng white
woman, was convicted in the
Lauderdale Circuit Court, of re-
celVing stolen goods.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-02-22
Jury Found Lumm Not Guilty.

In Judge Fifield's court Friday even
ing it took the jury just five minutes to
bring In a verdict in favor of the de-
fendant in the case of the State of Wis
consin vs.. Charles Lumm.
The defendant is lone fisherman who
resides in a little shack on the shores of
Lake Koshkonong, making living as
best he can by fishing and hunting.
Game Warden Drafahl recently paid
Lumm visit and while at his place
asked him for few minnows SO that he
might enjoy days fishing. Lumm took
his net and went into the minnow box
where he secured dozen sinners for
Drafehl, among the number being one
tiny bass less than six inches in length.
Game Warden Drafehl had no more
than got his eyes ON Mr.. Bass when he
notified Lumm that he was under arrest
for having in his possession bass less
than six inches in length. Lumm said
that he did not know how this particu-
lar minnow got into the box and that he
never placed it there.
When the case was called Atty. l.. E.
Gettle appeared for Mr.. Lumm and be-
fore he finished addressing the jury he
certainly pulled the warden over the
Goals in way that rivaled the work Of
Jerome in the famous Thaw trial. The
tiny minnow was offered in evidence and
the entire evidence was of such a slim
character that the jury fingered over the
affair just five minutes before bringing
in verdict.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-02-22
New Century Club at Home to the sister

New Century Club at Home to the sister
Clubs of the City.
The sister clubs of the city found their
New Century hostesses and pretty
scene awaiting them at the home of Mrs.
u. |. Wilson on Thursday evening.
Carnations and st. Valentines favors
abounded, and one needed only to look
about at the bright eyes, smiling lips
and appreciative countenances to realize
how thorough was the enjoyment of the
occasion
The Sotus male quartette of James
vile furnished very delightful pro-
gram. They were assisted by Miss Nina
Cutter, recent graduate of the Chicago
Cumnock School of Oratory, and Miss
Edna Wilson as accompanist.
Slight refreshments and the accom-
panying sociabihty completed the very
pleasant evening. The New Century
club are to be congratulated on having
mastered the art of entertaining.