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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31
IN CONNECTION WITH ScHMlTz
-RUEF TRIAL

Has Adjourned Until June 10 When
Additional Investigations viii Be
Made Regarding the San Francisco
Mudde.
San Francisco.-The Grand jury in
dicted six millionaires on charges OF
bribery and attempted bribery and re,
turned additional indictments against
Schmitz and Ruef.
Frank G. Brum, Eugene De Saba,
John Marin, Abe Ruef and Mayor
Schmitz were indicted on four counts
charging that they jointly bribed
enough of the supervisors in the sum
of $3.50, to fix the gas rate for 1906 at
IS cents instead of rs cents.
G. H. Umbsen, J. E. Green and w.
l. Broeck, and Ruef were indicted on
four counts, charging that they Jointly
attempted to bribe fourteen super
visors in the sum of $1,000 each to
vote trolley franchises to the Park
side Transit Company.
Judge Coffey fixed bail at $4,000
on each of the 126 counts contained
III the twenty-eight indictments.
The grand jury adjourned until
June 10 when investigation of alleged
bribery by officials of the Home Tele-
phone Company and by other persons
will be resumed.
Millionaires and multi-millionaires,
presidents and lesser officials of great
corporations crowded Judge Coffey's
court with their attorneys and at.
tendants. They had been summoned
to give bail in excess Of half mir
lion dollars to insure their personal
liberty pending the trial On felony
indictments re turned against them
by the grand jury yesterday.
Mayor Schmitz was called upon to
give 100000 bail in bonds in addi-
ton to the $4,000 bond already put
up by him on five grand jury indict-
ments charging him with extorting
money from French restaurant keep
ers.
Before leaving tie courtroom May
or Cchmitz said: 81 have no state
msnt to make at this time furtf
than this: The charges brought
against me are absolutely false and
malicious. shall prove my entire in
nocence in court"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31
TO REGULATE HOTELS.
Bill To Prevent Discrimination
Against Hebrews.


Albany, N. Y.-Senator SAKE intro
duced a bill to prohibit hotels IRON
discriminating against the patronage
Of Hebrews. The measure was prompt
ed by the Atlantic City incident,
where Mrs. Bertha Rayner Frank
sister of United States Senator Ray
ner, of Maryland was refused accom-
modation for several of her relatives
because of their lineage.
The SAKE bill provides that all per-
sons shall be entitled to the full and
equal enjoyment within the state OF
the accommodations and privileges Oh
any inn, tavern, hotel. whether con-
ducted for the accommodation and eli
tertainment of travellers or as re-
sort for those seeking health, reerea-
tion or rest," and of any restaurant
eating house, barber shop, etc, sub
ject only to the conditions or limita-
tions established by law, and appll-
cable alike to "persons of every race,
faith, creed and color, regardless OF
any previous condition of servitude. .
1t also prohibits any printing house
from printing signs, or any publ
cation from accepting advertisements
announcing a discrimination by hotel
proprietors against any class of pa
irons. The penalty for violation OF
this act is a fine Of not more thar
thirty days. The aggrieved person
can also recover damages to the
amount of $5OO-Special to the Times
Democrat.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31
Relief for Refugees.

The State Department. was advised
that the Greek Chamber of Depd-
ties had voted 100000 francs as
a relief fund for Bulgarian refugees
arriving in Greece. The text OF the
dispatch follows:
"Owing to great numbers of refu-
gees arriving in Greece from Bulgaria
and elsewhere, in Turkey, in Europe,
the Greek Chamber of Deputies be-
fcre adjourning for the Easter holi-
days authorized loan Of 10,O00,00O
francs for the purpose Of furnishing
these refugees with the implements,
ETC., necessary to enable them to be-
gin life in their new homes"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31
AT WILLS POINT.
Cotton Investigation.

Washington.-Tha the Bureau IT
Corporations of the Department oil
Commerce and Labor will make good
in its investigation of the methods OF
the New York Cotton Exchange is the
opinion of Representative Livingston
of Georgia, who is in Washington to
assist in the investigation.
While discussing this matter Mr..
Livingston expressed qualification at
the progress that has already been
made. While there has been compara'
lively little stir about the investiga.
ton, he said, the agents of the Bureau
of Corporations have been hard at
work in New York for the past six
weeks, and have accomplished great
deal. In the near future they will visit
New Orleans and Memphis to look
into affairs of the cotton exchanges OF
these two cities.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31
Italian War Ships Looted.

Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans,
commander of the Atlantic feet,
made a bitter attack on American
souvenir fends, whom he charges with
having stripped the rooms of the
Duke Of Abruzzi and his staff while
the distinguished Italian was giving
a reception on board his hagship, the
Varese, at Hampton Roads. Admiral
Evans declares the American souvenir
hunter will steal anything except a
cellar full of water, and that he has
himself been their victim many times.
All naval officers concerned are
deeply mortified, and will do all pos
sible to trace the thefts. The Ital-
ian flag ship not only was despoiled
Of the personal effects of the duke
and his officers, but the whole ship
was relieved of gun sights, bric-a-brac
and whatever could be carried away
conveniently.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31
STATUTE HELD VOID
Farm Labor Contracts in
South Carolina are Null.
is DECISION OF BRAWLEY
demeanor and Judge Declared This
Feature of Law to Be Revolt
inq-Prisoners Released

In the United States district court
at Charleston, S. c., Thursday, Judge
w. H. Brawley rendered his decision
in the case brought in behalf of Enoch
and Elijah Drayton, colored, on hab-
cas- corpus proceedings, declaring the
act of the legislature making the
breach of q farm contract a misde-
meanor, to be unconstitutional, null
and void, and the two negroes are
ordered to be released from custody.
Judge Brawley's decision deals al
most entirely with the law on the sub
ject. The case is, however, briefly
reviewed, showing that the two ne.
groes were arrested in January, 1901,
upon a warrant for failure to perform
their contract under section 257 OF
the acts of 1904, and at that time
they were still under contract for q
task of the year, not yet performed.
The act provides that a conviction
discharge of the violator, and when
the negroes were arrested in January
it was the second time that they had
been hauled up, and put on the chain
gang for the same offenses.
The only criminal act" in the
words of the decision" was the fail
ure to work
While admitting that the legisla-
tion is a part of the local administers
ton in matters of greet convenience
to the industrial life of the state
Judge Brawley says; The remedy to
not found in statutes which chain
the laborer to the soil and force him
to labor whether he will or not Il
is by improving his condition and not
by still degrading it, that the remedy
may be found
Judge Brawley concludes by de-
claring the state act to be in conflict
with the thirteenth and fourteenth
amendments of the constitution of the
United States, and orders the release
of the prisoners.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

Under the old system of handling
cotton and allowing outside parties
to determine the price, the cry of over
production was worked at will to the
detriment of the planter.
For instance; The crop of 1904 was
a little more than nine and half mil
lion bales and brought, exclusive Of
seed, 1851, ,548. The next year,
although there was a great decrease
Ill the cotton on hand and available
for use at the beginning of the pick
ing season, the price was hammered
by crop of thirteen and half mil
lion bales to receipts of 1928, ,195, ,359.
The less than ten million crop of the
year before brought practically as
much as the big crop of 1905. The
following year, 1906, produced a crop
Of nearly eleven million bales that
brought $641, ,720,435. The stock on
hand for the year closing May 1st,
1906, and on which the price is pre-
dictated for the year closing May 1st,
1907 as well as the indications for a
yield. was hardly larger than for the
beginning of the year with the bump
er yield, but we do know that the
price suffered thereby. 1t is up to
the farmers to arrange warehouses
for their cotton so that the price can
not be made to suit the fellows who
have for so long profited at the ex-
pense Of the producer.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31
SECOND VENIRE
PROVES BARREN
HARD TO GET MEN QUALIFIED
TO ACT AS JURORS.
ONE ENDORSED ROOSEVELT
Said He Thought The Prisoner Was
An Undesirable Citizen. More Than
Twenty Ladies In The Court Room.
Selecting Jury Is Hard Task.

Boise. Ida.-The second venire of
talesmen in the Stuenenburg murder
case is proving barren of men quail
fed to act as jurors. Unless the
form shown by the first half of them
is reversed in the second half there
must be another special venire.
The first half has yielded only one
man who actually qualified and only
one more man who may qualify; the
rest went down for fixed opinion or
bias Of various force. Only twenty.
six of the venire remained and on the
assumption that all peremptory chal-
lenges will be used seven more jurors
must be found.
In the procession of the disqualified
that passed through Judge Wood s
court came the first man since the
trial began who unqualified stands by
President Roosevelt and his utterance
as to Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone
W. B. Feeter, farmer and long ago
member of the Knights of Labor.
He came to the stand late in the af-
ternoon and the states examination
barely qualified him because he had
a cetain amount Of prejudice against
labor unions of any kind or combi-
nations designed to fix prices; was
unfriendly to the Western Federation
of Miners and against socialism. He
made a distinction between the Fed
Grafton and between socialism and
socialists, however, and finally the
state passed him.
At several points in the examina-
ton by the defense there were indi-
cations that Feeter's answer would
give cause for challenge but he cross
ed all the thin ice down to the ques-
tion Of the letters Of President Roose-
welt. In answer to a question from f
F. Richardson, he said that he en-
dorsed the letter, of President Roose-
velt in which the prisoners were char
acterized as unsnapped question
about the czar of Russia approving
the attitude of President Roosevelt
but the state excluded it with an OBJ
lection. Mr.. Richardson then asked
the talesmen if he thought the prisoner
had been guilty of melting riot and
was an undesirable icitizen and got
an affirmative answer
The court sustained the challenge
of the defense and Mr.. Feeter walked
the plank Of bias.
Early in the morning Henry Curtis
qualified for one vacant seat and the
defense examined and passed John
Whitlock. That opened the way for
peremptories again. The state chal-
lenged Isaac Bedell, seat No. 2, ere
the proceedings halted. Nineteen tales
men occupied the chair during the
day and the only person why may
stay in it is Finley Mclean, who
reached it late this afternoon.
More women came into the court
room than on any other day and at
one time there was more than twenty
in the room.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31
Preferred Death to Capture.

A dispatch received here by Senior
Herrarte, the minister from Guate-
mala, reports that the day before four
men who attempted to take the life
of President Cabrera on April 20 had
committed suicide. Because Of the
nature of their crime they had been
refused shelter. Finally they took
refuge in a hut in the suburbs of the
city, and when a detachment of sol
diers was sent to arrest them they
killed themselves
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

Lahore, May "A Hindu revolu-
ZIONIST, who aroused the fanatics of
the Punjab- into a state of great ex-
citement by circulating the fantastic
statement that the alleged epidemic
of the plague did not exist and that
the 100000 deaths weekly attributed
to it were really caused by the poi
soning of drinking wells by Govern
ment emissaries, was sentenced Il
two years rigorous Imprisonment
An accomplice who dropped harm
less balls into the wells, alleging that
he did so by order of the Govern
ment, was condemned to eighteen
months Imprisonment.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31
Presidents River Trip.

The president, it is said at the
white house, will not make more than
three stops on his way down the Mis-
sissippi river after he leaves Can.
ton on the 3Oth of September. The
three stops will be at st. Louis, Cal
70, ILL.,, and Memphis, Tenn. He
will embark at some point in Iowa.
The trip is to be made with the in
land waterways commission and the
members Of the Lakes o-the-Gslf [
Deep Waterways Association.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

Anent the proposition made by the
Farmers Union to hold a school this
summer for the purpose of educating
all who desire it, along the lines of
the proper grading of cotton, the fol-
lowing from an exchange is offered
to show something of the necessity for
such work:
The Farmers Union has men,
bership of $4,000 in Mississippi, 80,-
$50 in Arkansas and $4,000 in Tennes
see. now has state organizations in ev-
cry cotton state, where they have a
thousand warehouses for the purpose
of storing cotton until the market
viii justify the minimum fixed an
nnally by the National Union. III
view Of the fact that the farmers who
produce the staple are absolutely un-
acquainted with the different grades
and are yet at the mercy of the cot
ton buyers, the great necessity OF the
cotton grading school in various Sec
tions of the South is apparent. Last
year was the first time that a school
of this character was ever attempted
which was taught at Dallas, Texas.
In that state the membership of the
Farmers Union numbers over halt
million. They are now prepared to
keep off tie fall market over million
bales by the system of Farmers I'm
ion warehouses, and the cotton graded
by producers who have been trained
in ne Farmers Union cotton grading
schools. In discussing the question
Mr.. Higgs stated to a reporter that
there would probably be over 100 fal
mers attending the Tri-State Farmers
Union Cotton Grading School In Mem
phis which opens about July 1st ana
that the tuition and incidental ex'
penses would be about $50 per pupil.
Headquarters for study, sampling
grading has been arranged by Mr..
Montgomery, who has the matter in
charge"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

Yazoo county has gone into tne fair
proposition in the right way and will
surely meet with success. A canvas
of the entire county was made and
the aid and cooperation of good cit
izens in every beat secured. Ground
has been bought, building arranged
for the announcement made that va
ZOO will give the biggest county fair
ever held in the state. The spirit dis
played will win every time and the
fair will no exception.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

The United States as a leader in
the manufacture in shoes and the
great increase in value of every kind
of boots and shoes are interesting
points brought out in a report is
sued by the Census Bureau relating
to the manufacture Of boots and
shoes, leather and leather gloves and
mittens for 1905. 1t shows that there
were 1876 establishments engaged III
the industry, having $122, ,526,092 cap
ital, 149,924 wage earners, wages
amounting to $69, 500, $50, cost of ma
terials amounting to $197 1868, ,495 and
products valued at $320,107,458.
All of thes eitems, except the num-
Der of establishments, show increases
for the fve-year period since the
twelfth census.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31
Business is suffering in Mississippi

Business is suffering in Mississippi
now at the hands of surplus Of pol
itics, but it will not be for long. Just
a little more than two months until
the agony will be over. Then we can
again look to the improvement of con-
ditions in general, the roads and 9th
er important matters in particular.
Remember these important things are
to be considered as soon as there is a
breathing spell after the primary cleo
tions.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

Supt. Smith of Holmes is pushing
the corn clubs organized in his coun-
ty some time since. The list of pre-
miums published last week in the To-
cal papers is evidence of his good
work as we'll as the iliberality Of the
business men of the county. This
corn club idea is one that deserves the
support of every one interested in the
future welfare of Mississippi. and
Holmes is naturally looked to as the
leader of the movement
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

From every section of the state comes
complaint about the telephone service
rendered aEd the exhorbitant prices
being charged. An individual is pow
erless in the face Of the gigantic tel
ephone corporation that controls the
business in Mississippi and there
seems to be little use for him to kick.
The next Legislature should pass some
stringent laws bearing upon this very
important proposition, guaranteeing
to every subscriber some thing for thu
money he pays out in tolls.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31
CRAZY MAN CLAIMS ALICE.
Says He is Husband of Mrs. Long

Says He is Husband of Mrs. Long,
worth and Nick is an Interloper.
James Frieze, who is confined in
sanitarium at Columbus, Ohio, has
applied to the criminal court for his
release on the ground that his mind
is all right. He declares that he is
the rightful husband of Alice Roose-
welt Longworth, and that Nicholas
Longworth is an inteEeper, and ought
to be shot. He threatens to kill May
or Bagder and the city authorities
when he gets out.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31
The disgraceful miscarriages of jus

fhe dlsgfaceidI ihiscaIfIages " Jus
tice during the past few years is CIV
mo to our state bad name as the
writer has said, and we will suffer for
all this. It is too often said when
4 crime is committed that if the guilty
party has sufficient funds that noted
{ criminal lawyers can clear him. This
is all wrong and tends to weaken the
foundation of onr government. The
matter is one Of enough Importance
to demand the careful consideration
Of our best people all over the state
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

The sentiment for a strict enforce
ment of all existing laws in Mississip-
pi, more especially the crime of muir
der, is gaining strength every day
Let US hope that this gain will be aug
mented until jury will not dare turn
loose criminals any nature to again
take up their infamous practices
From the Magnolia News is taken the
following strong article:
sfLet it be written upon the hearts
of Missippians, taught in their schools
and Numbered from their pulpits and
press, that murder is enfamous anC
the perpetrator must atone for the
crime with his life. Any other view
of the subject is unjust, unholy and
unwise. The most enlightened and
religious nations have found capital
punishment necessary. In Mississippi
where life sentence for many muir
ders is a force, hanging as a sover-
eign remedy for the crime is most i'm
perative. The lives of the victims
Of murderers in this state for the next
twelve months are worth more than the
lives of all the murderers of the past
fifty years. Deeds of violence-blood
guiltiness-has made Mississippi by
word and a reproach. The individual
citizen should make up his mind tc
wash his hands of the stain.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31
INSULT WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
Strikers in San Francisco Acting the
Part of BuIIies and Thugs.

Part Of BulIies and Thugs.
Ten special policemen in plain
clothes have begun a careful invest-
CATION at San Francisco into the
treatment accorded women and chill
dren who ride on the street cars, with
a view to protect them from violence
and insult from strikers and report
ing regular policemen who are dere-
lict in their duty.
Twenty attorneys have also been
appointed by the bar association to
watch the administration of justice
in the police courts and endeavor to
secure adequate punishment for the
men who have attacked street cars
and created disorder.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

Premier Stolypin warned the Rus
sian Douma that the forcible expro-
priation Of land would not be per-
mitted.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

Joseph T. Cowan. Of Dallas, Tex,
was convicted Of fraud in connection
Wit hthen nth nan nan tr lananl
with the Hartsfeld claim.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

Methods of spreading the peace pro
paganda were discussed by the inter
national arbitration conference at
Lake Mohonk.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

Lauderdale is still pushing the prol
osition to improve the public roads
and the good citizens are showing 8
comendable interest in the PROPOSE
ton. The mass meetings recently he'd
have been largely attended by by the
people from every section of the cour
ty and the plans adopted are being
worked out before attempting to put
them into operation. Lauderdale il
not alone in the need for better road:
and the interest shown everywhere
will cause the experiment in that cour
ty to be watched with interest.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

It was stated that the conspirators
in the plot to blow up the Cars pal
ace were eonneced with American
anarchists.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

A conference was held at the State
Department on the clause inserted by
the Domican Congress in the new
treaty.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

Mrs. William Mckinley was strick-
en- with paralysis and no hope was
given for her recovery.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

Additional testimony against meth
DDS Of the Standard Oil Company
were heard by the Interstate Com
merce Commission at Washington.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31
GIRL SUES FOR A DIPLOMA.
Barred from Graduation Because She
Attended a Dance

NtkSI8uSW RdII~cs
Because she was not permitted to
graduate on account of having at
tended a dance contrary to the school
rules, Miss Sadie McGinnis of Dan
vile, KY, has brought suit against
the Campbell Hagerman Female col.
lege for $4,000 damages.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

Gov. John A. Johnson of Mime
sotat and party were at 'Vicksburg Ia
dedicate the Minnesota monument.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

Chinese immigrants at Guayamas,
Mexico, attempted to land in defiance
of quarantine officers.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

Striking freight handlers at Bnffa-
10 had clash with the police.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

The Northern Presbyterian general
assembly adopted the report Of the
special committee on marriage d.
vorce.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

New York jewelers. started search
for diamond broker, charged with
perpetrating gigantic swindles.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-31

One of the greatest losses caused
by the recent rains has been from the
washing away of fertilizer already in
the ground. One fertilizer man was
heard to remark some days since that
the greater portion of the output
from his mill for the season was al
ready in the Gulf of Mexico or at
some other point lower down.