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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-23
SPORTING NOTES

Riley Grammar. the noted turf plum
ger, has gone to Los Angeles, where ne
viii remain until the season opens in
the East again. Grammar had poor
luck 1T New Orleans.
Al shrub, the faSl English distance
runner, il to run lG-mile race at the
Park Square track next Saturday
night. having as opponents Frank
Randy, J. +. Myers ANA a. Will
h;.m%, Who viii run in relays against
him. \ l3niir amateur bicycle race
a:l 4 !ivc-mllc open amateur hanhi-
cap roller skating race are on the
card Tor the sam" evening.
~ u meeting If the Princeton Col
sc rowing Association it was de
cidcd to hold an interclaSS race at
commencement. Announcement was
made Of the gift Of two eight oared
shells BY the N"w York and Phladcl-
plIia alumni. This assures Il future cor
Princeton on tn water. Next spring
Princeton Will have four cghts ON
the water and will soon be compttin.,
III the intercollegiate regatta Several
ch1llrn8cS nave been received from
colleges. hut owing to the lack of prlc-
ticr the board deemed it wise not to
accept any Of these this season
President ISf.Er,4 Of fH,lt1p,I,I,-, y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-23

Bascballdom. Dec. EspeciaD .-
The question that is pcrplcXng thi:,
country, as wei as Tandoln, just now
is: How mn, II truth is there III thi.
rumprI Of war with which the atmos-
phcrc has been filed for some time
past? The situation just now is inter
estng to say the least? The Atlantic
League is Il strong outlaw organization
left over from last season. 1t did Il.
good business and seems to be getting
along well. The Union League is new
one. formed according to President
LaNSon's statement, not to antagoniZc
or injnrc any existing organization,
but simply to furnish Il little more Of
the spice Of life in its territory and in
cidentalIy 10 gather in its share Of
patronage. The two leagues have an
understanding with each other and
players jumping their contracts in
either league will be ineligible to play
i'm the other.
The Union League plans to carry out
several reforms. 1t frowns darkly on
the reserve clause, taking the stand
that it is contrary to the primary
principles of this land of the brave
and the free TO go wherever he will ami
sign with whom he chooscth, provided
he does it between seasons
The Union League contracts will all
he signed for one year and after the
season is over the player can listen to
all the bids for his services ana then
knock them down to the highest bidder
There will be no swapping 80 if q
player lands in n burg ne don't like it
is his own fault. because he signed the
cantract himself. The Union, the At
lantic and the Tristate are supposed to
circuit. The fan pays the price, if lie
has it. and takes his choice. If he
has it nit he goes to the game where
passes come the easiest or else climbs
q centrally located stceple and watches
all of them.
1t is different with the American
AssocI2t ton. That organization wants
to break into Chicago. but the Ameri-
can masnates say no with a great big
capital N-poSter type size. Ban
Johnson has been instructed to fight
the move to the last ditch and Ean-ha
takes more pleasure in fighting than n
country girl does in feeding peanuts to
the elephant or drinking pink lemonade
on circus day when he is convinced
that he will serve the interests Of the
American League by doing So
Brer johnsing ia already reported As
intinating that if tho American AsSO-
citation starts n war its territory will
lie invaded, and although this NAV be
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-23
BOXING NOTES

Frank Gotch Has arrived in Cltvrl'h'
and is looking bigger ana better MI"
ever. lie is hard as 4 rock ana SaY
is fit for championship match ii
fers 800 to any man that can stay w"
him for Il minutes Gotch included I'm
Poullin and Tom jenkins IN tllS "''.'
"Thcv all look the same to me- said W.
81 have met them all and l Will sidf'''P
for no one
Jack johnson, the heavyweight nS"t'''
has discovered n 1&5-pounder who ne n'-
lievas will be able to gain decisive WY"
rios over Fasteners Johnson's ma =
Bob Moha. a Milwaukee preliminary
fighter. who never gained high ratlhs /.
his home town. The Milwaukee ~ lit
been promised chance to come f'''S',
and when here he will be in ciarse "
Johnson. The great Negro boxer Sa"
Moha in action and admired the young
fellows gameness. - -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-23
FOOTBALL NOTES

William Roper will l.. head coach Of
the Princeton football team nest fall. The
position has been rendered 10 Linn ana ln
has accepted ii. II viii ~ His third year
as dire ctor-ir-chicf Of Tie Nassau grid
iron campaign.
intercollegiate football. which ms been
barred from the Northwestern University
two years, will BE- resumed az Tie open
ing Of the season of l%N. The decision of
TIE trustees was read Saturday nv fIos-
ident IIanis in the pr"scacc o. 80 stu
dents ami was greeted with cheers. The
annual f0otlaK cpnto sts, however, are to
be limited TO three intercollegiate games.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-23
CUP FOR AERONAUTS.
For 100 mile Air Trip to Within Two
Miles of Poland Spring.

South Poland. Ne, Dec. 22.-The
proprietors Of the Poland Spring and
the hotels here have offered to the
Aero club Of New England 4 silver
cup valued At $1Oo. to be presented to
the pilot Of any balloon who starts $50
miles from Poland Spring and lands
his balloon within two miles Of South
Poland. The single condition is that
the donors must be advised before the
ascension is made that an attempt
will be made to win the cup.
The offer was communicated today to
Prof a. Lawrence ROtche of Boston.
president of the Aero Club of New
England, by Edward p Kicker.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-23
A New Record.

Portland. Me-, Dec. 22.-Wh!lc bowl
ing in Il friendly game Saturday hiS"'
James Kelley, known in bowling CIR
cles as the wonderful "Cyclon',' cs-
tablished a new record for this state
if not for the United States, in three
string match. His scores for e"ch
string We're las. 139. 123-f2o The game
was watched by an enthusiastic buhcn
Of rooters who seemed as highly pleas
ed ut the new record as Kelley NM
self.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-23
BETTING DENOUNCED.
Coach FenneIl CT Cornell Hits Out from
The Shoulder.

Itlaca n ", Dee In the Era is
sued Friday Thomas +. F-incll, graduate
ct::t,.h If the Cornell football t"a'n. Do
no unrcs collie" students who Wager ON
athletic events, saving they ~" "'nbrZ-
Zl,iS of Il cir parents lnOn"N.
HIS article was called forth J." H." fl
nancial stlngcnoy il Ithaca resulting
from heavy losses lN Cornell students
WHO brt un the Cornell i''nh+y l;aiia
game on THANKSGIVING DAY
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-23

Fritz Hanson, the Worcester light
weight wrestler, who has been abroad
with Hjalmar Lundir, sailed from
Christiania Dec u on the steamship
United States. after very successful
season. Hanson not only won every
match III which he took part. but also
captured the honors in straight falls.
Lundin also won all his matches. They
ale due to reach New York today or
Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-23
HICKMAN PURCHASED
BY the Cieveiands from the Chicago
American Team.

Cleveland, Dec. 22.-The Cleveland club
Saturday announced the purchas" Of
Charles Hickman Of the Chicago AIneri-
can League club. Hickman played with
the Maps ir 1902. '03 and '0i. ana was trad
eel to Detroit for Charles Carr. now the
manager of indianapolis Hickman will
he used as utility fielder and pinch hitter.
This will mako Ilickman's eighth big
lcacrr Job He has been n member of
every team except Philadelphia and st.
Louis.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-23
Portland H. S. SO; Freeport H. S. 2.

Portland, Ne. Dec -2.-Ey superior
team work AMI clever Shooting Tor h"S-
krts. Portland High school defeated Free
port High ut the ~ NJ. &. a. gymnasium
Saturday 20 to ,.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-23
DONAHUE REUNION.

Famous Ball Tossers Will Pass Christ
mas With Their Mother.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-23

Springfield, O.. Dec 23-The home of
Mrs. Mary Donohue, at No. III East
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15

Brother Phillips started in with an
uphill job before him, but by PLUCK
and constant hammering day after day
on the question, with determination
to win, he has won the victory and
we feel sure that in time to come the
people of New Bern will thank him for
having prevented them, in their short
siehtedness, having voted down the
proposition. We have watched this
contest in New Bern with great inter-
est, and we have never seen case in
which the press, working in the in
terest of the people, has won more
signal victory for them in spite or
their predetermined purpose to act in
opposition to their own interests.
Again we congratulate The Sun.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15

JUST LIKE DEMOCRATS.

The split among the democrats IN
Massachusetts is very unfortunate conf
ing Just at this time when the party
is trying to show a bold front and ID
draw to it disconnected republicans IN
such states as Massachusetts and some
others of the northwest where the re-
publicans are divided on the tarlH
o,astion With d united front and
sane declaration on tariff and reclproc-
itv the democrats would have a good
chance of bringing to their party In
the next presidential election good
manv republicans in those two sec
tions who are dissatisfied with the at
titude of their own party on these
questions. But what can the democrats
expect to do in the way of drawing TO
their aid disaffected republicans when
they open the coming presidential
campaign by a split in their own party
which they were to hope for the
greatest republican aid because OF
disagreements among men OF that
party on the most vital issue OF the
next campaign? If democrats cannot
agree on what their party stands Tor
how can they expect to gain recruits
from the enemy's ranks? But the
acti"" of the Massachusetts democrats
should cause no surprise. 1t is the
usual course of the party. 1t never
finds a chance of success thrown in its
way that it does not Immediately take
steps to throw away that. chance or ID
nullify prospective results of any good
fortune found tending it's way. 1t
would have been a surprise to the
whole country and entirely outside
the record of the party had the Mas
sachusetts democrats, on finding the
republicans of their state divided on
an important issue, kept together and
shown solid front to the enemy, thus
inviting support from those of the
other party who for reasons of busi-
ness and political economy found
themselves unable to endorse the prin-
ciples OF their party on these vital
points. -,sSiAa
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15
NOLLYCODDLE HUNTING.

The Charlotte Observer thinks it is
mollyeoddle to use rife against the
small black bears to be found in the
Louisiana swamps; that the president
should follow Gen. Wade Hampton's
example-"kill them with a hunting
knife, while the Baltimore Sun sug-
gests the idea that the president sail
over the canebrakes in an air ship
at a few thousand feet altitude and
drop down dynamite on the game,
thus keeping out of range of state
game Wardens This latter style OF
hunting, while keeping the huntsmen
,ut of danger from the "varmints" and
making the sport very tame so far as
contact with the game is concerned,
would carry with it as much excite
ment as hunting in the Hampton style.
The objection to the Baltimore Sun s
proposition is that a few hundred citi-
zens of the territory hunted over would
be as apt to become victims of the
hunters as would the few bears the
latter might spy. Until aerial navi-
cation becomes better perfected We
think the president had better confine
his mode of hunting to that now prac-
ticed bv the hunters of the Louisiana
swamps.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE

4 Durham preacher in his sermon
last Sunday criticised the merchants OF
that town for advertising in the sun
day newspapers
The next thing, We suppose, VIII DC
an effort to have the legislature pass
a law prohibiting a merchant or any
other person quitting an advertisement
in the Sunday issue of a newspaper
Should that be successful the next step
would be to prohibit the publication
of a paper on Sunday. Then the next
move most naturally, would be TO
prohibit anyone in the state reading
secular paper ca Sunday, no matter
on what day it was printed.
We believe in proper observance OF
the Sabbath, but there is such a thing
as carrying the restrictions too far, and
we think that Durham preacher is IN
danger of doing so. Sunday is day
of rest and recreation mentally and
physically for the laboring man as
we'll as a day of religious observance.
The man who spends six days in the
week at his desk, in an office, oenlho
the counter in a store, or in the tac-
tory or workshop, needs recreation on
Sunday. He has no other time fo~
relaxation of mind or muscle. Provi-
dence in it's wisdom and goodness has
given such men this opportunity for
recreation whereby each recurring Sun
day to fortify the brain and the sys-
tenn for the arduous duties CT the sue
ceeding six days of toll and labor. The
privileges, of course, can be and often
are abused, but within bounds Sunday,
in our creed, is as much Intended for
the poor mans holiday as i s for
day of religious observance.
In the days of the French revelation
when the attempt was made by legis~
lative enactment to do away with re-
ligion and to supplant Jehovah with
the Goddess of Reason it was enacted
that every tenth day, instead OF every
seventh, should be a day of rest ana
one devoted 20 ceremonies to that
goddess of heather origin. 1t was soon
found, however, that neither man nor
beast of burden could stand the strain
of resting only one day out Of ten and
return had to be made to the Biblical
rule OF rest one day in every seven.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15
THE TOBACCO TRUST WINS

The American Tobacco Company
wins a suit in a New York court on
q very important question-that Of re-
fusal to sell its goods to a dealer be-
cause the latter would not promise not
to handle the products of the indepen-
dent concerns. The company was sued
under the state antitrust law and the
provision of the law under which the
suit was brought was declared to be
void, the court holding that a man
cannot be restricted by law as to whom
he shall or shall not sell his wares
and merchandise. The decision of the
court was unanimous. Following is an
extract from the opinion of the justice
who rendered the decision:
1t is well settled law of this state
that the refusal TO maintain trade re-
lations with any individual is an in
herent right which every person may
exercise lawfully, whether such refu-
sal is based upon reason or is the re-
suit of mere caprice, prejudice or NAL
ce 49, -
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15
WHERE WE GET SOUTH CARO-
LIMA.

South Carolina will have to admit
in one particular at least that North
Carolina is ahead of her, for the re-
cords and figures are at hand to show
for it, That is in the consumption Of
raw cotton by the mills of the two
states. South Carolina may deny that
there ever was such a thing as the
Mecklenburg Declaration of lnde-
pendence. She may put up strenuous
protest, backed up with supposed proof
against the claim that Andrew Jackson
was born on this side of the state
line; but she cannot deny that the
North Carolina mills last year con-
sumed close on to sixty-six thousand
more bales of cotton than did those
of her own state.
If South Carolina had not kicked up
such a rumpus about the Andrew Jack
son and Mecklenburg declaration af-
fairs, We would not be inclined to
humiliate her on the cotton mill mat
ter for We do not believe in rubbing
it in with any one who has gotten
the worst Of the contention; but she
deserves a little growing over on the
cotton statistics, because of her as
sumption and arrogance as to other
matters of contention between the two
states.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15
THE MIDDLE MAN IN COTTON
SAIH.

The cotton producers and the cotton
manufacturers seem to be determined
to get rid of the middle men in the
cotton business. The mill men want to
make arrangements whereby they can
buy their supplies directly from the
farmers. It is a good idea if it can be
made practicable, but we have our
that could such be done the farmers
of the south would get better prices
for cotton and the mill men would
be supplied at lower prices. In other
words the millions of dollars the mid
die men make out of every crop would
be divided between the producers and
the manufacturers. But the question
is how are you going to do it? To carry
out this plan won't the farmers or the
mill men have to keep agents in the
field to do the purchasing from the
farmers by the mill men? Can the
farmers in the Carolinas or Texas sell
direct to - mill men of New England
or MancEt ter without an agent in the
field to represent one or the other, or
both? That agent will have to be paid
for his work.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15
LABOR NOT SATISFACTORY
Norwegian Crews on Fruit Vessel
to be Replaced by Cinnamon

Mobile, Ala, Oct. 1O.-Nearly all
the vessels in the Central American
fruit trade will, it is said. in the
next few weeks replace their Nor
wegian crews with Cinnamon. About
80 per cent of the vessels are char
tered from Norwegian owners, who.
1t Is said, have concluded that owing
to the unsatisfactory labor of their
countrymen, their unreliability, in
temperate hapits and the increasing
number OF desertions, partly on ac-
count of interference of boarding
house runners, they will no longer
employ them.
Each vessel will sign probably 35
men bringing the total number of
Chinese to 1850.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15

The Charlotte News says that a
storm in the mountains is always
grand. Buncombe's capital was swep.
by one Tuesday, and it is headed down
the mountains, so Salisbury had better
crawl through the storm door into the
cyclone cellar" Surely The News does
not want Salisbury 10 escape the effect
lodging the issue?
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15

Who can be the New Bern Suns
candidate for governor? 1t says the
man to nominate must be one who is
not running as an avOwed enemy of
any industrial enterprise. Any man
who comes out with that announce
ment of his position will have the cor
gam and all the organs followers de-
nouncing him as a "subsidized' can
didate and the hireling of some rail-
road or the tobacco trust.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15
CONGRATULATIONS To THE NEW
BERN sun.

We wish to make our best bow 70
Brother Phillips of the New Bern Sun
and to offer him our heartiest cOngrat-
ulatlons on the signal victory won in
his city by the advocates of a bond
issue for street improvement Until
The Sun went into this fight (figura-
lively speaking) coat off and sleeves
rolled up it looked like the advocates
of progress and improvement were
going to be greatly in the minority.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15

The Durham Herald cannot under
stand how it is that there have all
along been so many saloons in Ashe-
Vile if she had among her citizens the
large number of prohibitionists as
was shown by last Tuesdays election.
The Heralds observation in it's owa
town ought to have taught it that
sometimes saloons are patronized by
men who vote to close them whenever
the question is made public one.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15

The Raleigh Times comes out pretty
know that The Times was so pronounc-
ed on this question. 1t has got clean
over the fence now, however, on the
side of those who oppose the sale of
the poison when it says:
1t has been the cry OF those favor
ing the selling Of whiskey that prohi-
tion does not prohibit. Laws punish
ing men for committing murder do
not prohibit, but there are none who
will say that we should repeal the
laws Furnishing the guilty ones for this
crime. Whether prohibition prohibits
or not, neither the city nor the state
has the moral right. to ALLOW the
deadly poison ito be sold.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15

Attorney General Bonaparte has just
rendered a decision in the case Of an
immigrant brought to Louisiana b.
that states immigration bureau which
is going to have serious effect on for
eign immigration to the south as il,
if sustained and declared to be the
law, will almost entirely put a stop
o the work of state immigration
agents in Europe. The attorney gen.
eral holds that state cannot offer
certain employment as an inducement
to a person to come to this country.
He says that the law against such con-
duct does not make an exception in
favor of the states Or of states agents
and therefore, it is just as much
against the law for them to bring
in Immigrants under such pledges as
it is for individuals to do so.
In the case passed upon the state
VI
grafton agent, paid the transpor-
tation from cuba of a man and assur-
ed him of work, having made arrange
ment for his employment by certain
person, but allowing him the privil
ege Of securing work anywhere else
if he choose The attorney general
rests his decision on the promise of
employment and not on the assistance
in the way of payment of passage from
Cuba. He says in his decision:
The assurances given to Garcia by
the state agents constitute. in my
opinion, promises of employment
within the inhibition. of the statute.
While it is provided that aliens COM
ing to this country in consequence of
advertisements by a state Of Its in
ducements to immigration shall not
be treated as coming under promise OF
employment, there is no exception i'm
favor of state in reference to speci-
fic promises Of employment to jnd1-
vidual immigrants such as were held
out to Garcia by the representatives
of the state board.
The attorney generals decision on
the facts in this case is that Garcia
must be sent back to Crba; that under
the anti-foreign labor contract law he
cannot remain in this country.
It is expected that the state of Louis
lana will take this case into the courts
and try to have the attorney generals
decision reversed.
The decision of the attorney gen
eral in such cases is not a final de-
termination of the law, but is only for
the guidance of government officials
until the question passed on by him is
decided by the federal courts. If this
case is not taken into the courts his
decision will govern the action OF all
federal officials and will do SO, even If
the case goes to the courts, until he
has been overruled by judicial dec1a
alton.
We hope the state Of Louisiana will
take this case into the courts and
make a test case out of it in order that
the question may be settled once for
all as to the rights and powers of state
immigration agents in their efforts to
secure immigrants from foreign coun-
tries. 1t is a very important question
and one about which there has been
much contention. Until it is settled
state agents will not know how far
they can go in offering aid or induce
ments to foreigners who contemplate
coming to this country.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15

1t is a part of the liberty of action
which the constitutions, state and fed
eral guarantee to the citizen.
II lis not within the power of the
courts to compel an owner of prop
erty to sell or part with his title TO IL,
without his consent and against his
wishes, to ary particular person.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15

assertion that he will see prohibition
in every county in the state-estab-
lished by one means or another-be-
fore he takes his seat in the United
States senate as Mr.. Overman's sue
cessor. TT ffss