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The Washington bee., 1907-03-02

uninterrupted steam communications
by steamboat and railroad between
the mouth of the Congo and this min
ing district. To reach the Katanga
province heretofore steamboats, have
ascended the Congo, the Kasai and
Sankuru rivers, a thousand miles to
the head of navigation on the Sankuru
at the western edge of Katanga.
From this point many hundreds OF
porters have carried freight across
country to Lake Mwero, the air line
distance being about 400 miles. For
half this distance navigable waters
may be utilized.
Automobile roads have now been
built to connect these nayigable wa.
terways leading in the desired dfrec.
ton. Bridges have been thrown across
rivers, the sections of the road have
been built in the best European man.
ner and the automobile service is in
operation, though as yet with made
quate equipment
A more nOTtherIy road has also been
constructed from the head of naviga-
tion on the Sankuru to a large collect
ing and distributing center. where
parties of pOrters are kept to carry the
auto freightage in various directions.
The Congo State was ENCOURAGED to
carry out these enterprises by the sue
cess of the automobile route from the
east coast of Madagascar to the capi.
tai, AntananaTiVO, about 12O miles in
land, which has revolutionized trans
pOrtation.
As late as 1901 the cost of moving
freight between the sea and the capi-
tai was SIS ton. The fine new road
completed in 1902 has reduced rates
three-fourths.
daily service Of automobiles for
passengers and freight is maintained
between the Indian ocean and Antana-
narivo- The people are happy over
the change, but the automobile will
resign in favor of the railroad to the
capital, which, it is expected. will be
completed in 1908.
Automobile transportation in a com-
mercial sense can be only a temporary
expedient, for cheap TRANSPORTATION
cannot be secured by dividing freight.
often OF small value in proportion to
bulk and weight, into small automo-
bile loads. 1t is as true in Africa as
elsewhere that cheap freight carriage
can be secured only by the concentra-
ton of a large bulk of merchandise
in large loads moved by the most now.
erful means of traction.
The automobile roads, however. will
probably pay for themselves many
times over before railroads supersede
them.
The Washington bee., 1907-03-02

similar. 1t was believed Dr. the nam
bers of the committee that the fpprs
with the overcoat was the more grs,a.
full Of the two.
John B. Elan and Evans W.ooua,
two Of the members OF the committee
recently saw in the Niehaus stgdio in
New York the clay models. about foB,
feet high, of the statue. PhotograDhs
showing various views OF these modals
were taken and these pborograrb,
were submitted at a meeting of tBs
committee in this city. The photo
graphs Of the figure show chair hack
Of the figure. but this chair was 0ra
that simply was in the studio There
Will be a chair back OF the finished
figure, but the committee has not ve-
decided as to the type of chair that
will be best.
The completed bronze figure will be
about eight and one-half feet high. and
will be mounted on a pedestal Of
either Tennessee marble or granite
The entire structure Will be about lg
feet high and back Of it will be an
exhedra. 1t will stand on the south
side of University Park. facing the
Indianapolis federal building. The
work of breaking ground for the
foundation will begin as soon as pos
sible in the spring, and it is probable
the monument will be completed in
the fall.
The Washington bee., 1907-03-02
RODE ON COWCATCHER
HOW A WOMAN SECURED FIRST
OKLAHOMA CLAIM.
Kentucky Daisy" Travelled on Front
of Engine to Newly Opened Tract
Tied Petticoat TO Tree to
Secure Land.

Guthrie Okla.-The first train that
came into Oklahoma from the south
Oh that memorable April p. 1889, car
ried as a passenger on the cowcatcher
a young woman VINO was later to play
an important part in Oklahoma poll
tics Sitting gracefully on the front
end of the engine. on that first train,
Miss Nanette Daisy gave the engineer
a prearranged signal when a few miles
north of what is now the town OF Brit
ton in Oklahoma county, and as in re-
sponse he slowed down the train some
what, she leaDed from the engine and,
climbing up the embankment, tied her
petticoat to a young blackjack tree,
calling to the other passengers on the
train, This is my claim" So far as
known she was the first woman to
file a claim in old" Oklahoma, and
also one of the thousands of people
who came into the territory that day
on trains. The persons who came in
on horseback and in wagons, of course,
filed earlier than she did. To this day
the claim is still in her name, al
though the matter of settling her es-
tate is now in the court From the
day she leaped from the cOwcatcher
and tied her petucoat to a tree she
was an eccentric character in the ter
ritOry.
The next morning, after stalking out
her claim, Nanette Daisy, who only
few months before had held the pO-
litical appointment of state superin-
tendent of instruction in Kentucky,
The Washington bee., 1907-03-02
smokeIess Railway Engine.

The dream of smokeIess cities is
likely to be realized at no distant day.
European engineers have visions OF
smokeless railways, and method OF
solving this part of the problem is
being tested between Ostend and Brus.
sells. The engine used is of special
construction. 1t has an aspirator.
which sucks in all smoke and steam.
and a special receptacle where the
vapors are chemically decomposed.
Neither smoke nor steam escapes into
the open air.
The Washington bee., 1907-03-02
SPITE FENCE COVERS WINDOW.
Raised on Stills, 1t Shuts Out the
I Light From a second-story Room.

Baltimore, Md-For a quarter of a
century one of the oldest spite fences
on record has shut out the light from
the second-stoTy hall window on the
north side of a house on Pennsylvania
avenue and now, though it is old and
mossy and covered with vines which
have grown with the years, there
seems TO be no prospect that it will
not live to remind more generations
of the ancient misunderstanding
The Washington bee., 1907-03-02

Oklahoma Claim.)
was at the Guthrie land office to make
the proper filings on the land. She
soon became acquainted with politi-
clans and newspaper men, among
whom there was not a better organ
izer and wire puller than Nanette
Daisy Throughout the territory she
was known as Kentucky Daisy" and
under this name she entered politics,
becoming a friend politically of many
men prominent at that time and since
in territorial affairs. Although these
friendships were formed with promi-
nent men in both parties, yet to the
last she remained true to the Bourbon
democracy which she had inherited
from a long line of Kentucky ances-
tors.
In the first Fourth of July celebra-
ton in Guthrie Nanette Daisy repre-
sented Columbia" in the big parade,
being chosen for that honor by a ma
jOrity vote of the people She was an
unusually fine looking young woman,
intelligent and cultured, having been d
successful teacher in Kentucky, quick
at repartee and generally popular.
These qualities brought her constantly
before the public and on all occasions
she was among the first to be sOlic.
tied to participate in the hOnOrs and
social events of the youthful territory
capital. Frequently she was solicited,
too, to address conventions, political
and educational, and her talent as an
elocutionist was both marked and in
teresting. In her addresses she used
this talent with such success that she
became a very popular speaker.
When the Sac and Fox country in
eastern Oklahoma was opened to set
tlement in 1892 Nanette Daisy again
came into prominence Astride a
strong horse, with thousands of 9TH
ers, she made the race on to the. town
site of Chandler to secure a town lot
The race was across a broken, hilly
country, at times through the Deep
Fork valley, wooded and filled with un-
derbrush. After reaching the town
site, in running her horse underneath
a tree, her hair caught on a limb. pull
ing her from the horse. She received
injuries that at the time were SUD-
posed to be fatal In fact, that she did
escape was miraculous, for where she
was thrown other horses by the hun
dreds galloped afterward, and in the
crush it was believed that she would
be killed under their hOOfs, even if her
first injuries were not fatal.
Nanette Daisy-for such she still
remains in memory to the people of
Guthrie and "old" OkIahoma-later
left Guthrie for Chicago.
From the time of her departure for
Chicago the life of Nanette Daisy
was unknown to Oklahomans, until at
tOrneys arrived here four years ago to
investigate her property interests.
They stated that she had died sudden
ly in that city. Her property interests
in this vicinity are extensive. incIud-
ing the claim which she staked of on
that first day when she made her en-
trance on the cowcatcher. and the lot
on which she fell on the Chandler
town site when she made the run into
the Sac and Fox country. She also
owned town lots in Guthrie. The set
tlement of her estate is still in the
courts.
The Washington bee., 1907-03-02
BENJAMIN HARRISON Statue
Committee Selects Model Of NJ
ment TO Ex-Presidsnt

Indianapolis, md.-One Of rb. -.
models furnished by Charles p w w
haus, the New York sculptor. has ba.-
decided on by the committee Of ~
Benjamin Harrison Monument as-'
citation having in immediate cF,-D
the erection OF the monument nv
figure selected shows the former r--'
ldent standing, wearing an ara-oo.,
The other figure was of the fa-.r-~
president wearing Prince 4ba-
coat. Otherwise the two figures ~ ~
The Washington bee., 1907-03-02
Morocco,s First Railway

The following telegram from Tan
gier has been received at Berlin: "On
December 10 the first train ran over
the new narrOw-gauge railway to the
Quarries built by the German Harbor
Construction company. The railway.
the first in Morocco worked by steam
traction, is two kilometers Zone and a
quarter miles, long"
The Washington bee., 1907-03-02

ough, H., for a while, and then went
south and became prosecuting attor-
ney in an Alabama county. In 1890
he went to Chicago and practiced law
there for two years. Coming West,
from 1893 until 1897, he was Judge of
the superior court of the district COM
prising Jefferson, Island, San Juan,
Callam and Skagit counties, Washing
ton.
The Washington bee., 1907-03-02
Railway Acquaintances in America.

hailWdy acquaintance m Hfncl IJa'
You may travel 1000 miles % q
railway in Europe and never a man.
whether English, French German o.
what not, will open his mouth %
speak to you if you are a stranger
said J. w. Pike Of Philadelphia.
For a total freezeOut I accord ll'
palm to the English. Your true Bri.o-
regards any man who has nerve "
speak to him without ever having 3st-
formally introduced as Teehlls "--.
effrontery and, therefore, 10 be- lls
dained and snubbed. / want 10 exec"
from these a class of EngIishmsI a'
have been about the world q good ys
I've met a few Of this sOr- "a9 L-1
knocked about the world and VI"
were not suspicious Of a stranger "-y
addressed them that he had aesi5-'
on their pOcketbOOk
Maybe in the course Of tine an
the process of evolution we may -
the same cIamIiIle reserve oF"- -7-.
in America. but / don't expect TO 75s
it in my lifetime, and / am 7-Al
think whenever ] enter a DaE.yl 20.
for a ride to San Francisco or oea--5
that though I may not know q 9.-s5'-
man on the that train when i enc,
ere 100 miles have been JTaE5isv-
shall be talking with some 5'
American whom I never saw 2e-o-s
as though we had been frlelas '-
comrades from our earliest yOl-L.
The Washington bee., 1907-03-02

often called by the name of the hyena
dog. Its most striking external fea-
lures are the large size of its ears
and the great length of leg. They
hunt in packs, relieving one another
when exhausted, so that those who
have been resting and outstanding
their strength in tire rear of the chase
come forward and take the lead.
The Washington bee., 1907-03-02
IS AN OKLAHOMA PIONEER.
Judge" Embry Made Federal District
Attorney of New State.

Chandler. Ok.-JOhn Embry, whose
appointment as United States district
attorney for Oklahoma has been con-
firmed by the senate, has successfully
undergone four investigations by the
federal authorities. He was first ap-
pointed by President Roosevelt last
spring, but the senate refused to sane
tion his name and the president ap-
The Washington bee., 1907-03-02
strozzi Palace at Florence, Italy.

Benedetto de NajanO The coruice Of
the palace, which is considered TO be
"a beautiful addition to the structure
was added some years later by Crol'
aca. The old Tuscan palaces general
ly We're designed as fortresses- owing
TO the turbulent period in which their
owners lived. They were accessible
only by a huge gate (similar 10 that
in the StrOzzi palace) LEADING into a
central courtyard, on which .ae nnl.
cipal living apartments opened. ana
their street front had a frOwHiug and
fOrbidding appearance.
The Washington bee., 1907-03-02
FAMOUS sTRozZI PALACE SOLD.
Historic Structure at Florence. Italy,
Bought by a Manufacturer.

Rome.-The Srozzi palace at Flor
ence, Italy, which has just been sold
to a manufacturer for 100000. is a
historic structure It was built in 1859
for FilippO StrOzzi, who at that time
was the chief rival of the Medici fam
lily. The architect was the famous
The Washington bee., 1907-03-02
LOOKS LIKE A HYENA.
Cape Hunting Dog Not a Handsome
Animal in Appearance.

LOndOn.-The Cape hunting dog.
owing to its resemblance, both in col
Oring and marking, to the hyena, is
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-18

Havis Nixon this afternoon informed a Graphic representative that Attorney Shaw did accompany the negress as far as Poss' grocery store on west Sixth avenue, which is within stones throw of the Womans home' where Constable Stewart recovered the stolen money. Mr. Nixon makes a misstatement when he says Attor- ney Shaw did not go to their clients home or anywhere else.' It was only after the negress discovered that
 Constable Stewart had searched hel home and taken away what he is con fident is the stolen money, that Attor-
 ney Shaw returned to his office down town. The attorneys, as MT. Nixon ad- mits, were not long in surrenoering their client to the jailer, afterWard
 The Graphic publishes facts and does not purposely attempt to injure any
 person Or persons. Constable Stewar will corroborate the Graphic's state
 ments of yesterday.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-18
THE COST OF THE THAW CASE.

The notorious and noted Thaw case of New York, which was begun on the 23d of January and brought to close on the 18th day of April, after 47 hours consideration by jury, which couldn't agree, was a very costly case in the aggregate to the state and the accused. While it is impossible to figure the cost of the trial indirectly the cost di- rectly is not beyond reasonable estimate. This may be placed at fully $235, ,O0O. And yet there was a mistrial. The laws are indeed a costly protection to the people.
 Many estimates of the cost of the Thaw trial have been published, but most of them were greatly ex- aggerated. The cost to the county is matter of record and is now put at $7S,6S6. The cost to the Thaw family was much greater It has been estimated as high as $1,- 000.O00, but careful review of the case has resulted in total of about $235,O00. e
 Expert testimony probably cost the Thaws $45 ,000. It is said that Dr. Evans alone received S1O,000 for the testimony which added "brain-storm' to the vocabulary of the alienists. Attorneys fees are estimated at S140,0OO Opinions regarding the stipend of Lawyer Delmas range all the way from s5O,000 to $100.O00. According to one report. half of the larger sum has been paid hm already. On good authority, S1,000,0O0 is said to be the sum agreed upon as Lawyer Delmas fee, with an added bonus in case of an aequittal. The fees of Attorney Gleason, Partridge. Dan O'Rielly and Peabody proba- bly, will foot up s40,000 more. Of this sum, Hartridge will get about s15,000. The expenses of Black, Clcott and Gruber, originally re-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-18
A-vertising Rates Made Known on
 Application.
WHAT IS A "MOLLYCODDLE!"

Since President Roosevelt used the word "mollycoddle" in his address at Harvard sometime ago, the word has come into general use by the press but has been so indiscriminately and variously employed that it was diff cult to form any definite conception of it's meaning.
 Readers of the Graphic know full well how restless this paper has been to learn the genus homo of molly coddle." We have applied to Web- sters dictionary in vain; We have ap- pealed to various newspapers to en- tighten us on the subject-even to Editor Givens, of the Batesville Guard, who spends much of his time in Washington, where "mollycoddles' are supposed to flourish-but even all of these have vouchsafed us no infor- nation. In the desperation of our despair, we have even sought the cru dite editor of our afternoon contem- porary-the "Nestor of Arkansas jour nalism" and the sage from Mont- cello"-but no information was vouch- safed us there. Nay. verify, has our heart yearned for the meaning of this word even as the hart panteth for the waterbrook. And even yet we thirst for this knowledge. We are told that this word occurs in Thackeray $ works and that it was used for a great many years colloquially in Eng land. Even Stephen Crane is said tc have used it in his story of "The Lover and the Telltale," but none ol these tell the tale of what a molly coddle" is, and thus we are still Jeff to wander in the labyrinthine mazes of the uncertainties of the Englisf vernacular.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-18

tained to defend Thaw, are estl- mated at not less than $20,O0O.
 Expenses of detectives, travellnS expenses of special sleuths, etc, 5000.
 Special meals for the prisoner, s1.5Oo, travelling expenses rom Europe of members of the family 1,000.
 Cables, telegrams, messengers cabs, etc, S2,500.
 Tracing up testimony regarding Whites past life, the money eX- pended in the tenderloin among the most voracious of humanity, S5,ooo to SIP 900.
 The district attorneys office es- inmates the cost to the county at S3O,OOO, but omits salaries and cer- tain fees paid from general funds.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-18
RATHER HAVE WOMEN THAN
 MEN BOARDERS.

Chicago woman who is said to bave made modest competence bv keeping private hotel, mas come gallantly to the rescue of her sex by declaring she would rather have women as boarders than men. Perhaps they are little 1nq"ls'- five about one another's affairs, she admits. and disposed to find 1aoi1 oftener than they are Justlneo Ill doing. On the other hand' they usually voice their complaints elth- CT directly, or in such manner that the criticisms soon reach the landlady,s ears. Men, of the con- trarv. don't lodge so many open complaints, but they make pl'ter romarls to one another and It IS seldom their remarks are repeated to inc hostess until too late to off- set their bad effect. This woman puts herself on record as saying that when men are inclined to De at all disagreeable, they are m"eh more difficult to deal with than women. One can always soothe a diseruntled woman by little eN- fra attention to their comfort, she says. but the male boarder or hotel guest who undertakes to criticise a place harshly is hope less case.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-18
---------------Os3sU-- HELP RUrILD UP YOUR TOWN.

Touching the ever interesting ana forever important subject of spending vour money at home, an exchange re- marks as follows:
 You can spend your money at home and help build up your town ana country, or you can spend it away and if never comes back again. The mall order house will never benefit you or your peighbor. It never spends cent for the advancement of your local en- terprises. It never pays into your treasury a cent of taxes; it contributes nothing to build up your puD9c schools. your churches or your charl- table institutions. Every dollar you snend at home will remain there to be spent again; send it away and it never returns. It's usefulness so far as your peiehbors are concerned, is gone TOT good The man who does all his trad ing at home is blessing to the coun- try. the one who buys all his goods from the mail order house is like a leach on the community, sucking It's blood and giving nothing ill return.
 This states the case so clearly 1t IS unnecessary to say more. Just ao right
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-18
GOV. LITTLE PLANS
 TRIP TO THE WEST
He Will Stop in Arkansas for a Few Days Before Proceeding to California - Is in
 Fine Spirits.

Corpus Christi, Tex, April IT, Governor Little is making arrange ments to leave in a short time for Arkansas, where he will remain a few days before departing for Cal ifornia or Colorado. He is in fine spirits and the prospect of getting back to his native state has frightened him up considerably. Paul Little, who has been with his father for the past week, left for Little Rock Tuesday greatly pleased with the improvement in the condi- tion of the governor.
 Dr. Hailey of Haileyville, ]. T., is still attending the patient at the Spohn Sanitarium and will accom- pany him on his Western trip.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-18
REWARDS OF VALOR.

According to London Tit-Blts' Great Britain has generally been generous. in rewarding her soldiers Perhaps the Duke of Yelling came off best in this respect. In his earlier peninsular campaign he was granted pension of 2,00O pounds a year for two generations, and on the conclusion of the peninsular war, in 1872, he was voted l0O,Ooo pounds for the purchase of an es- tate. After Waterloo the govern ment bought for him the estate Of .Strathfieldsaye, at a cost Of 263,- 900 pounds. Lord Wolsely re ceiyed a grant of 25,000 pounds on completing his Ashanti campaign; Sir Hugh Cough, for the Sikh war an annuity of 2,OO0 pounds: Sir Colin Campbell, 2,000 pounds for wiping out the Indian mutiny, and Sir Henry Havelock, for the relief of Lucknow, 1000 pounds a year. Coming to more recent times. Lord Roberts received 100000 pounds for his services in the South African campaign, and Lord Kitchener re- ceived 3O,OOO pounds after Omdur- man.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-18
''money Has People, ''
 Declares Bryan
(Continued From Page One.)


 We would guard with vigilance and courage he said, state rights and local self-government, but the South ern Democratic party stands as a great divide between monopolistlc greed on the one hand and socialistic ruin on the other.
 Mir. James hailed Mir. Bryan as one of the pioneers of the Democratic par ty and added:
 .The Southern Democracy is to- night gathered about William J. Bry- an and from the blooming flowers ot Florida to the waving blue grass ri Kentucky, the Democracy of all Dixie proclaims that it wants Bryan to lead in the next great fight. The South says of Bryan, for twelve long years we have stood all kinds of weather but in all those years Bryan never broke his VOW and we would not change for a new leader now even Ii We could.'
 This Southern sentiment was warm ly applauded.
 Gov. Warfield of Maryland delivered still another message from the South He said that the Democrats Of that section continued to support Bryan and that the South was for Bryan for the next presidential nomination.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-18
YOUNG WOMAN
 MISSION WORKER
Will Address the Various Mission Societies at the Main Street
 Methodist Church Tonight.

Miss Mable Head of Nashville, Tenn, will address the various local societies at the Main Street Metho- dist church tonight at 7:43 o'clock. The members of all the so- cieties are expected to attend and any who are interested in missions will be repaid for coming.
 Miss Head is associate secretary of the general board of home mis- sions and has studied the conditions that confront home mission workers in our large cities and comes here full of the enthusiasm of young womanhood.
 Miss Head is a guest of Mesdames R. H. M. Mills and Mrs. V. s. Me Clellan while in the city.