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The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-10-19
VARDAMAN'S FAREWELL MESSAGE.
Il Will be Long and Devote Much Space
to State Insane Hospital I'm.
prOyementS.

Jackson, Miss, October Is.
ln a recent statement published
in these dispatches Governor Var
daman declared that his message
to the next Iegislature-his fare
we'll message would be the most
comprehensive and thorough that
be ever framed. The governor
indicated that his four years ex-
perience in the governors Office
coming into daily touch with the
various state institutions and the
management thereof, and study
ing the needs and conditions Of
the same, has impressed him with
Lcertain views that he desires to
present to the legislature in details
One of the most vital matters that
be will discuss in his forthcoming
message, will be that of the isola-
tion of the tubereular patients, or
persons afflicted with tuberculosis
in any of its various forms, from
the healthy inmates. This isola-
tion has been begun at the Insane
Hospital where there are so many
patients crowded together as to
make single case of tuberculosis
almost menace to the entire
institution. Not only is it neees-
sary to watch this trouble in the
Insane Hospital here and the one
at Meridian, but also in the peni-
tentiary and elsewhere. The
Insane Hospital here at Jackson
will come in B for considerable
space in the governors message.
He will have to report to the
Legislature the work that has al
ready been commenced in the way
of the establishment of the camp
already mentioned in these col
umns. The camp will need at
tendants and perhaps an extra
physician in charge, as it is de-
tached entirely from the main
building and the wards in which
the hundreds of patients are con-
fined.
The fact that science has at last
discovered the means for COM.
batting this dread scourge, the
governor thinks, makes it impera-
tive and binding upon the state to
give the unforunates in its care
the full benefit of the discovery.
The system proposed of isolation
in camps and keeping the patients
in the open air every possible
minute Of the day and night, is
the one which is meeting with
such wonderful success in the
northern states, and the one that
lis being adopted in the institu-
ftions of this character.
Yesterday the governor visited
the Insane Hospital and the tent
city in company with DR.. Ward,
president of the state board of
health. The Doctor made visit
here for the especial purpose of
viewing the camp and he will
most probably have something to
say along the same line in his re-
port to the legislature as presi-
dent of the board of health. DIR.
| Ward has devoted much time and
Industry to the study of the scien-
tific treatment of the disease and
there is not man in the state
who has, perhaps, as wide in
formation ON the subject. What
he will or may have to say will
therefore be Of great interest.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-10-19
STATE NEWS.

The dog poisoner is again at
work in jackson.
Magnolia's stock law will GO
into effect December l.
Two negroes accused of murder
escaped from the Purvis Jail.
Gov-eIect Noel was the guest o f
honor at the Hazlehurst fair.
The Truck Growers Associa-
tion held an important meeting at
Summit.
1t is proposed at Hattesburg to
establish school for children of
foreign parentage.
John Sharp Williams will lec-
ture in the Athenaeum at New
Orleans ON the 23rd.
Pascagoula is rapidly coming
to the front as cane-growing
section of the Gulf coast.
The Trades Carnival and County
Fair which opened at HazIehurst
Wednesday was largely attended.
State Superintendent Powers
wants officials to hurry up with
their reports. Oct. 30 is the
limit of the law.
4 The Mississippi Optical Asso-
citation convened at Jackson, Oct.
116. DR.. E. r. Won Seutter, Of
/ Jackson, is the president.
/ In the interest of the lumber
trade at the port Of Pascagoula,
/ Capt. f. Clinton, and Alf f.
/ Dantzler have left for Cuba.
j The express company. Of Meri-
dian has lately been losing suits Of
tailored clothes A negro has
been arrested on the charge.
{. The assessable values of Hat
tiesburg show an increase of ST.
350,0S6 The tax levy has been
. liked at 10 1-2 mills for the year.
At Meridian Tom Tucker was
robbed Of $3.50 by burglars who
, invaded his home. A fine gold
watch was left lying on the dress
Ter.
More land is posted in Kinds
.. county than ever before. Far
mers want the birds to help them
lin their fight against the boil
weevil.
Ernest 4. Williams, uf Ray,
mond, has mysteriously disap-
. peared. He is 26. and weighs
220 pounds, and is of a very
friendly and ioyial disposition.
James Cooper, travelling sales
imam, and Miss Johnnie May Vim
! cent, prominent III musical circle.
at jackson, we're married at ths
home of the brides sister, in Fort
Worth, Texas.
The Lewis Lumber and Manu-
facturing Company, of Hatties'
, burg. has received an order from
1.-THE Home Telephone CO., will
: headquarters at Detroit, Mich,
t for 2, 900, 900 cross arms. inyolv
ing an expenditure of about
1000 ((1(.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-10-19

"a theatrical train was wrecked
near Fayette.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-10-19
State Fair Notes.

The Agricultural Hall for the
State Fair at Jackson, which is
the largest building ever erected
for such a purpose in this State,
will be ready to install exhibits on
October 25th. The Fair is to
open November 5th and continue
eleven days. One fare rates have
been granted by all the principal
railroads in the State, from all
points in the State to jackson,
from November 3rd good to re-
turn till November 18th.
A series of Farmers Institutes,
under the direction Of A. & M. !.
College, assisted BY the United
States Agricultural Department
with illustrative work demonstra-
lions of stock judging, Institutes
to begin Friday, November, 8 and
continue for five days. A car
load of breeding stock will be
brought from the college 10 addl-
Ition to general exhibitions.
The Poultry show from the state
will be as good as any country
can produce. Mississippi will
soon be in the lead in this impor-
tant industry.
Prof. Baldwin, the WORLD
famous aeronaut, has been engag.
led to make daily flights around
| the city and Fair grounds in bis
lship California Arrow, j" that
Ihas been making successful saiis
for four years. He handles his
Eair ship as d boatman his canoe,
This will be the first air ship thai
has been to our state. Aeria
navigation is no lnnger q theory.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-10-19


Editor Robertson, of the Wes-
son Enterprise, is Offering to
give away house and lot to some
new subscriber who holds, th e
lucky number at a drawing which
is advertised to come off when
1900 new subscribers are received.
Bro. Robertson may count him-
self lucky if Uncle Sam doesn't
Jump on him for violating the
government postal regulations
against lottery schemes before
the 1900 new subscribers are
forthcoming.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-10-19
CONCERNING Women.

Governor Folk, of Missouri,
has appointed a woman, Miss
Adelaide j. Thompson, of Jeffer-
son City, member of the State
Library Commission.
The women of New Orleans re-
Gently made $4,000 for city
dispensary and visiting nurses
association by editing and publish
ing one issue of newspaper, The
Daily Item.
The Woman's Club House of
San Francisco was totally destroy
ed by the fire which followed the
earthquake But next month a
new and beautiful club house will
be ready for occupancy. Certain
ly California women are not easi-
ly daunted.
The next International meeting
of woman suffragists will be held
in this country in 1909, probably
in New York City, the home Of
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, the
President of the international
Woman Suffrage Alliance.
Miss Kate M. Gordon, CORES
ponding Secretary of the National
Woman Suffrage Association, has
just returned to her home in
New Orleans, after spending q
month at the Association Head
quarters in Warren, Ohio. Miss
IGordon believes that Southern
women will be enfranchised be-
fore their Northern sisters are.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-10-19
PREPARING FOR FREE DELIVERY.

Hon. Charles Fitzgerald, of the
United States Postoffice Depart
.ment, has been in Brookhaven
since Wednesday, going over and
inspecting the city and mapping
it off into carrier districts as a
preliminary step TO establishing
free city delivery, as heretofore
petitioned for by the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen and Postmas-
ter Thompson. TO begin with
the city will be subdivided into
carrier districts, one of them en-
bracing the business section and
the other two the residence sec
tions.
Mr.. Fitzgerald informs The
Leader that he finds Brookhaven
we'll into the carrier class of muni-
cipalities, and says its population
and yearly postoffice receipts en-
title it to both free mail delivery
and a government building.
Mr.. Fitzgerald, by the way, is
one of Mississippl's truest sons
and one of Natures noblemen,
who will do his best to see that
our growing little city, gets what
is justly coming to her.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-10-19

Walter Davis was killed at
Meridian by two brothers, named
Key. He had ruined their sister,
married her, deserted her, and
then returned to che State, after
promising to remain permanently
away.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-10-19

Governor Vardaman has issued
requisition on the Governor of
Missouri for the return of a negro
named Albert Marble, who is un-
der arrest ut st. Louis, and for
whom rewards aggregating three
or four hundred dollars are pend
ing. Marble was porter at the
Elks Club at Vicksburg, and dur
ing a time when nn member OF the
club was present seized q billiard
cue and made a murderous assault
on the caterer. 1t is supposed
the object of the assault was rob-
berry, but the negro was frighten-
ed of before be had time to get
anything. The Elks offered the
reward and will see to it that the
negro is sent to the penitentiary.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-10-19

President Roosevelt surprised
his fellow bear hunters one of the
cold, frosty mornings the first of
this week by emerging from his
tent at an early hour, and inviting
them to join him in swimming
match in Bear Lake, on the banks
of which their camp was pitched.
While they stood around the camp
fire shivering at the very thought
of such thing, Teddy plunged
into the lake, swan hundred
yards to an island aud back, and
declared the fun and exercise fine.
There is but one Teddy.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-10-19
OKLAHOMA ELECTION RETURNS.
All Of the PreIiminaries Completed for
Entering Into Statehood.

The State Returning Board of
Oklahoma met at the Sth to can
vass the returns in the recent
Oklahoma state election, under
the provision of the election ordi-
nance formulated by the constftu-
tional convention. While the
complete and official figures will
not be known until the board has
completed its work, it is certain
that the entire Democratic state
ticket, headed by G. N. Haskell
for governor, has been elected by
a majority of about 10000 votes.
The official count is not expected
to materially change these figures.
The constitution of the new state,
written by a Democratic conven-
tion, was ratified by about $4,000.
1t is practically certain that the
Democrats have elected four Of
the FIVE congressman. The first
state Legislature will be largely
Democratic in both houses, insur-
ing the choice of Robert L. Owen
and Thomas p. Gore as the first
| United States senators.
AS soon as the canvass of re-
turns is completed the returning
board, composed of Chief Justice
j. III. Burford of Oklahoma,
Judge w. Ell. H.. Clayton of
Indian Territory, and Secretary
Charles Filson of the territory of
Oklahoma, will certify the result
to President Roosevelt. The
president will then have a period
of twenty days to determine
whether the constitution adopted
| is in accordance with the enabling
act and with the constitution of
the United States. Should his
ldecision be favorable, as it is ex-
pected it will be, he will then is,
sue proclamation declaring
IOklahoma a state. The state
lofficers will be Immediately sworn
/ in and another star will be added
to the national flag.
/ Charges Of fragrant Irregular.
tiles in the conduct of the election
have been made by Chairman
lCharles Hunter, of the Republi
can state central committee, anc
may serve as a foundation fol
much future litigation.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-10-19

Mr.. +. 4. Bellenger, OF The
Evening News, leaves today for
Ashville. M G., where he goes in.
The search Of health. His stay
will be prolonged one. and his
many friends 10 jackson wish for
himsmuch benefit from its health
frl atmosphere. Clarion Ledger,
10th.
The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-03-27

espoused their cause. But the struggle
is bitter. Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the noy-
elist, who is leader against equal suf-
frage, is characterized by the suffragists
as weak spirited, dependent creature,
and Mrs. Ward retaliated by calling the
raiders sexless. Apropos to the struggle
in England the following anecdote,
which started in the Denver Post, is be-
ing widely copied in daily newspapers:
Once upon time youth who had
commenced to navigate the sea of mat
rimony went to his father and said:
Father, who should be the boss, 1
or my wife?
"The old man smiled and said:
" Here are 100 chickens and team
of horses Hitch up the horses, load
the chickens into the wagon and wher-
ever you find a man and wife dwelling,
stop and make inquiry as to who is the
boss. Wherever you find woman run
ming things, leave a chicken. If you
come to a place where man is in con-
troll, give him one of the horses
after seventy-nine chickens had been
disposed of, he came to a house and
made the usual inquiry.
I'm boss of this ranch,' said the man.
"'Got to show me, said the boy.
so the wife was called and she af-
frmed her husbands assertion.
"'Take whichever horse you want
was the boys reply.
so the husband said: I'll take the
bay But the wife didn't like the bay
horse and she called her husband aside
and talked to him. He returned and
said: I believe I'll take the gray
horse
"'Not much said Missouri, you'll
take a chicken"
The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-03-27
Know the Japs.

The notion is somewhat general in the
East-it seems even to have influenced
some recent official action at Washing
ton-that the dislike of the Japanese in
California is confined to trade union
and other agitators of San Francisco.
1t has even been asserted in Eastern
periodicals that the San Francisco school
regulations, which were permitted to
assume an international aspect, repre-
sented nothing but the hostility of "the
rude rabble" toward "the gentle Jap"
The attention of persons who enter
tain such ideas is invited to the bill
passed by the California house on
Thursday forbidding aliens who do not
become citizens to hold real estate for
more than FIVE years.
While Japanese are not named in the
bill, its avowed purpose is to prevent
them from acquiring titles to lands. And
it must be observed that this is not the
act of a city council, but of men from all
over California and representing the
viewpoints of all kinds of its people.
The only conclusion to be drawn is
that the people of California, after con-
siderable personal experience, have
made up their minds that the Jap"
while picturesque and interesting spec
tacle at distance, is not a desirable
neighbor.
The truth of this matter is that the
people of California, as a whole, are
stirred and alarmed over the Japanese
question. They are in daily contact with
the japanese and with Japanese methods
as applied to American life They may
seem intolerant-they may be, in the
larger aspect, wrong-but they are in
deadly earnest, and this might as well
be understood by the japanese sym
pathizers elsewhere in the United States
California does not regard the Iapa-
nese as works of fiction, but as fact,
However painful this may be to Japa-
nese pride, it is manifest that Cali
fornians do not like them. However
painful, too, this may be to those who
have heroized the Japanese, the Cali
fornia attitude cannot be questioned for
other than what it is To California at
titude cannot be questioned for other
other than what it is. To Californidns
the japanese problem is real problem
and they refuse to look at it lightly -
Chicago Inter Ocean
The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-03-27

as hounds tooth, and whose long life
of rectitude among us is an earnest of
his desire and determination to safe
guard the public morality and the best
business interests of Boise.
The prospects for the election of Mr..
Haines are most reassuring. Many of
the keenest students of politics and of
the public pulse estimate that his plurality
will be at least 500. He enters the race
with his own party enthusiastically be-
hind him, with the unqualified endorse
ment of the Democratic party, and with
the opposition parties practically hopeless
of his defeat and, on the whole, not
very anxious for it.
The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-03-27
Who Is Boss.

The British parliament, with all its
pomp and dignity, is not without its ex-
citing scenes, and once again the wo-
men sufragists are causing the mem
bers of the house of commons no little
anxiety by their frequent attempts to
gain admission.
Wednesday occurred the most inn
posing raid that has yet taken place
Caste was abolished. Women, irrespec-
tive Of social standing, congregated at
the entrance to the house of commons,
shouting and shrieking and wildly de-
manding admission. Twice the mob
stormed the entrance, and the police
eventually satisfied their longing for the
sensational by arresting seven.
But the sufragists are not without
friends, for the Irish members have
The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-03-27
Duties HS Prescribed
Blu Charter
HAS CONTROL OF CONTRACTS
New Factor in Government of Citu
of Boise

The powers and duties of the board
of public works are thus set forth in
the new charter of Boise:
Section S. There is hereby estab-
lished a board Of public works, to con-
sist of three members, who shall be
freeholders and qualified electors of the
city, and who shall not hold any other
office in the city government. Not more
than two of its members shall be ap-
pointed from any one political party.
2. Upon the election and qualihca-
ton of the mayor at the general mu-
nicipal election in April, 1907, the
mayor shall appoint one member of said
board to serve for one year, one mem
Der to serve for two years, and one
member to serve for thee years. At the
expiration of their several terms of of
flee their successors shall be appointed
by the mayor for terms of three years
each.
g. The board of public works shall
organize by the election of one of their
number as president, and by the selec-
ton of a secretary who need not be a
member of the board. The secretary
shall keep a record of all the meetings
and transactions of the board.
4. Any contract authorized by ordi-
nance of the council, involving the pay
ment of more than S1OO, for or in rela-
ton to the public works of the city,
shall be made and let by the board Of
public works; except as otherwise here
in provided
5. In the making and letting of such
contracts the board may require the ad-
vice and assistance of any officer of the
city in the line of the duties of his of
flee, and it is hereby made the duty of
any such officer to comply with such re-
quirement of the board.
6. No contract shall be valid unless
approved by at least two members of
the board and signed by the mayor, for
which purpose it shall be presented to
the mayor by the secretary of the board: :
Pro5'ided, That if the mayor fail to sign
such contract within three days after
such presentation the matter may be re-
ferred to the council, and if the council
thereupon by a three-fourths vote of
all its members approve such contract,
it shall become a valid and binding con-
tract, the same as if approved by the
mayor
7. The board shall report to the
council and mayor from time to time
such recommendations in regard to the
public works of the city as it may deem
necessary and proper, and shall per-
form such other duties in relation to the
public works of city as may be author
lied or directed by the council, ex-
cept as otherwise herein provided
The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-03-27

We have reached that stage in the
municipal campaign in Boise where the
public is craning its neck and fitting its
ears to catch even the whispered de-
tails about the character and capabilities
of prominent candidates, and since this
is especially so of John M. Haines, the
Republican nominee for mayor, whose
candidacy has been enthusiastically in
dorsed by the Democrats, we spread be-
fore our readers the following pertinent
facts:
John NJ Haines has been resident
of Boise for nearly II years. Its popu-
lation when he first anchored his fate
with the town was 5000. Today it num-
bers $4,000, and they are as intelligent,
prosperous and happy people as any
equal number in the entire Pacific north
west And every fair-minded citizen
of Boise who is familiar with the cir
cumstances knows that there has been
no more active spirit in peopling, de-
veloping, upbuilding and beautifying
Boise in the last 16 years than this same
John NJ Haines. He has proven him
self typical town-maker, and his has
been master hand in solving the prob
lens of Boise's greatest possibilities.
He has done this in connection with
his partners, W. E. Pierce and L. H.
Cox, under the firm name of w. E.
Pierce & Co., the largest, most progress
sive and most successful real estate op-
orators in Idaho since 1890, firm that
has unquestionably induced more home
and investment seekers to identify them
selves with Boise and its tributary coun-
try, and which has directly and indi-
rectly given employment to more labor
ers than any other one business estab-
1ishment in Boise. Not impertinent to
state also in this connection that this
firm has planted more shade trees in
Boise than have all other citizens com
bined, and have planted over 1000 this
very year.
Mr.. Haines first put in an appearance
"A years ago, his birthplace being Jas
per county, Iowa. Since that section
was in all the crudities of its pioneer
period and his parents were humbly
circumstanced, their chief asset being
their religious convictions, both being
devoted Quakers, young John early
formed an intimate acquaintance with
privation and hard work Up to his
seventeenth year he studied only the
drudgeries of the farm. By the most
rigid economy he was then enabled to
go to school for the first time, and the
next three years were spent in diligent
study at the Penn college Quaker
SCHOOL, at Oskaloosa, Iowa. His ven
cradle father is still living, robust and
rosy, a typical Quaker, rs years young.
Leaving school, John gained his first
business experience by working in a
bank for two years at Friend, Nebraska.
Then migrating to southwestern Kansas
he embarked in the real estate busi-
ness on his own account, and it was
here that he first met w. E. Pierce
and L. H. Cox, his business associates
since their advent into Boise in 1890.
Mr.. Haines resigned the office of reg
lister of deed of Morton county, Kansas,
to come to Boise.
In 1888, Mr.. Haines found a worthy
life-mate in Miss Mary Simmons, daugh-