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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
Powell Trust Co.
Banking, Insurance,
Real Estate, &C.
2711 WASHINGTON AVE.
CAPTAIN PASSOW HERE
TO TAKE HIS STEAMER
Work Of overhauIlng and Repairing
The st. Paul Being Rushed
Night and Day.

Captain T. NJ. Passow. master of
tic mammoth American Line steam.
er ST. Paul. arrived In this city from
New York yesterday morning. &c take
command of his vessel. which Is nm.
dergoing extensive rel--rs at tho local
siiipyard. Captain passow is STAYING
mt Hotel Warwick
The st. Paul will leave tho ward for
Now York on the morning Of May
~ and will Immediately resume her
regular transatlantic trips between
that port and England Tho vesse;.s
crew of several hundred men will ar
rive here from New York next week.
The l'g steamer came here from
New York On January ~ to- be re.
paired at cost Of S25O.OOO. Since
she has been at the yard the vessel
has hai ten new boilers ana two new
smokes'acks installed, and has had
her staterooms and saloons repaired.
In addition she has hcen given thor.
ongh overhnuling from stem to stern
and mast hcnd to waterbottom.
In order that she may sail for Now
York on scheduled time work on
her Is being rushed night ana day
every day of the week. Including Sun.
days. Record time has been made
In repairing the ship and on MAY 81
she Will have been here only III days.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
Declares That senatorVoted Against
Interest Of People.
ATTACKS THE SENATE GENERALLY
Attorney Henry c. Wlcleham and the
Local Man Again and Again Sided
With the Corporation, Says the
Candidate.

Mr.. C. Aylett Ashby, who is offer
Ing for the nomination to the state
Senate from this district in the
Democratic primary to be held on
June 80. last night made his first
speech of the campaign in this city.
addressing Il large gathering at the
corner of Twenty.ninth street. Mayor
Samuel t. Buxton presided and i'm.
trodnced the candidate Among those
on the sand We're Messrs. Louis G..
Phillips, ID. G. Smith, Richard NJ.
Nelson and w. C. Ballard.
In the course of this address MIR.
Ashby made an attack on the State
Senate and especially on Senator
Henry G. ,Wickhan. general counsel
OF tho Chesapeake g. Ohio Railway
'Comapny. who is chairman of the
finance committee of the Senate. He
also attacked Senator Saxon w.
llolt's record in the Senate, decIar.
ing That time and again he had voted
for measures in favor of corporations
and against the interests OF the pco.
pie who elected him He also de.
clnred that Senator Holt had voted
against a bill that was passed an.
proprlatng small sum OF money TO
be used in caring for the graves of
tho soldiers that fell In Virginia
while defending the cause OF the Con.
fedcracy.
Mr.. Asliby also said that the sena.
tor from this distric. had voted for
the bill passed by the last Senate TAX.
ing away from the people the election
of Il commissioner of the revenue and
placing his appointment in tho hands
OF the Judge of the Corporation Court.
The speaker further declared that
such n bin should never haze beer,
passed that ii was the peoples right
to elect tho commissioner Of the rcvc-
nue. and every other public officer.
Continuing his discussion of Mr..
Hollis record, Mr.. Ashby declared
that the senator had refused to act
when requested by the council OF
Newport News to take mp the passage
of bill. which had passed the House
OF Delegates, giving the boards OF SUI.
pcrvisors of counties and the council
OF cities the right TO increase the tax
on property wherever in their judy.
ment the assessment was manifestly
100 small. Tho bill mover passed the
Senate.
The speaker declared that he was
IN favor OF such legislation as would
'''.'ep 80 INbllS SclNlCe CuEDOThIlOn,
ana utilities under the direct super.
vision OF the State Corporation Com.
mission and give the people redress
where they were overchareed for
light, water and electricity, that he
was IN favor of such legislation MS
would make railroads and factories
directly responsible for accidents re.
sulting from negligence on the part
% ftheir agents or employees. He
also declared that he was opposed ia
the present "land grabhers" law, by
which valuable land in the State was
SOLD FAR below its value to cover dc.
iihquent taxes on such property. He
SAID that the amount of delinquent
taxes should be held as Il lien ON the
property. /" tsvSg
Before the meeting the East Er:l
Ire company band gave torchlight.
parade.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
The following Fire Insurance Com
panies are represented by,
Powell Trust Co.

The American Insurance Company
of Newark. N. ].
The Homestead Fire Insurance Cor.
poration. OF Franklin, Va.
The German Fire Insurance Com.
pnny, Of Baltimore, Md.
The Glens Falls Insurance Com.
pany. OF Glens Falls, N. Y.
The Hanover Fire Insurance Com.
pany, OF New York.
Tho Home Insurance Company, OF
New York.
The German Alliance Insurance
Company. of New York.
The Georgia Home Insurance Com.
pnny. of Columbus. Ga.
The National Surety Company, OF
New York.
The Standard Accident Insurance
Company, of Detroit, Mich.
Tho Massachusetts Mutual Life In.
snrance Company, Of Springfield
Mass.
We would be glad to have Mt least a
portion of your business.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
THE POWER OF STEAM.
Many IIny See nut It Takes Ceu.us TO
Realize.

When James Watt saw the steam
causing the kettle lid to jump UP ana
down he said There must be power in
that steam that 1t can lift such q
weight"
There was.
Millions p.ior to him had seen tho
same Phenomenon and regarded it MS
an unexplained mystery
Recent scientific research has pr. itJ
finger on the cause" of Dandrnr, Fall
ing Hair. and consequent Badness, ana
has unearthed tiny germ which eats
the life from the roots of human hair.
Newbro's Ilerpicide destroys this
germ and consequently resto~4s tho
hair to fts natural state
sod by leading druggists. Send loo in
stamps for sample 10 The IIerpicids Co.
Detroit. Mich.
Two sizes--50c and S1OO.
ALIENS DRUG STORE, SPECIAL
AGENTS.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
DR.. PERKINS TAKES
STAND IN BANK CASE
Cashier Of 0eIuncl Institution Says
he Didn't Handle Cash or Books
After March Il, 1904
SUBJECTED TO CROSS EXAMINATION
Testimony Brought Out Before Mo-
tary Yesterday Regarded as Very
Important by the PlaIntlffs-Depo.
sltlons VIII be Ready for Judge
Ingram In Near Future.

DIR. Carter Perkins, cashier of tho
defunct Savings Bank OF Newport
News, was called to the stand yester
day morning to give mis- deposItionH
TN the suit of the depostors against
the bank and the officers and direct.
ors Of the derunct institution, to re.
cover the full amount of their de.
posits. Dr.. Perkins was on the stand
throughout the day.
After Il recital OF the conduct OF
the affairs OF the institution during
the first several years of It's exist.
ence. the Witness testified that he
left the bank on March II, 1904. To
practice his profession and that from
that time until the suicide of The
late president, irwin Tucker, he did
not count the cash or examine tho
notes carried by the bank.
When asked by tho attorney for
the plaintiffs how lie was nblc Ia
sign the monthly statements of the
condition Of the bnnl's finances, tho
cashier replied that he signed the
statements on tho face OF the banks
books. which were kept by President
Tucker.
DIR. Perkins testimony was regard.
ed ns the most important vet given
In the suit and he was Subjected IL
q long cross examination by Attorney
Charles G. Berkeley, counsel for tho
denositors.,
It Is expected that the taking oil
the depositlons in the case will he
concluded In the near future. Attor
ney Allan ID. Jones, receiver sor the
bank, will be called to the stand soon
and after his testimony has heor
given detailed statement of the con
dition of the finances OF tho banl;
during the pnst few years, which Is
now being prepared by experts, Will
be nlncca IN evidence.
When the dispositions nre com
pleted they Will be forwarded t.;
Judge Ingram, of Richmond. who was
appointed by Governor Swanson t.
try the case. Mt the request or JUICE
II. j. Barhnm.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
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% SOri5I-P Personal As
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Miss Mabelle Parker has returned
from n visit to friends in Baltimore
md Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. T.. b. Emory has re.
turned to their home in Grafton after
u visit to friends here.
Miss Margaret Smith, of Raleigh,
N. C., Is visiting her cousins, the
Misses Smith, OH Twenty.ninth street.
Miss Harriet Bowman left ycstcr-
day for visit to relatives In the
North
Miss Margaret Howard has return.
ed from Tarboro, N. c., where she
was tho guest of relatives.
Miss Katherine Thompkins and her
cousins. the Misses Slater, left yes.
terday for Roanoke, where they will
spend the summer.
Miss Hildah Thomas left yesterday
for Scottsville to spend n week.
Mr.. j. c. Temple Is Ill at his home,
20 Thirty-fifth street, with append.
citis.
Mrs. 7. Herbert Charlton. who has
been living In Lexington, Va. for
two years, will return to the city to.
day to join Mr.. Charlton, who has
accpeted n position with the Chesa.
peake & Ohio railway here.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
NEWPORT NEWS THIRD
AS TO REAL ESTATE
Auditors Report Shows That This
City Comes Next to
Norfolk.

The annual report of the State au.
ditor, which has Just been made pub.
lie, shows that Newport News ranks
the third city in the Sttae as to the
assessed value OF real estate. The
total amount of axes assessed. incluG-
Ing bob white and colored property
owners. Is nearly $4,000.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
Funeral Services.

Tho funeral of The infant daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs j. r. Webb took place
Yesterday morning Mt the residence
on Oak avenue. Rev. j. n. Green
conducted the services. The body
was Inferred ut Greenlawn cemetery.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
Ford Is Discharged

United States Commissioner A. c.
Garrett yesterday discharged Caesar
Ford the negro who had been held
on the charge of attempting to pass
counterfeit money. The evidence
showed that the money which got tho
negro in trouble was perfectly good,
but had become coated with quick
silver which Ford was. carrying in
his pocket,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
pevllblss Surprises EN-,

j. 70. DeVilbiss, the well known
pool room man of this city, surprised
the shots of Richmond at the JET.
fersnn Hotel Thursday evening by
beating with ease all of the cham.
pions of the capital city. The News.
Leader yesterday put n double column
head on a story in which the down.
fall of the Richmonders before the
visitor.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
War on street Eakirs.

The Merchants Association will
send Il committee to the ordinance
and nolice committee of the council
to ask that a prohibitive license tax
be imposed upon street fakirs. The
committee will hold : regular meet
ing on the first Monday night in june.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
Hon. o. w. Dibbs Dead.

News was received in this city yes
torday of the death ut Staunton of
Hon. w. W. Dbhs. an uncle Of Mrs
Richmond ID. Vcllines, OF this city
Mr.. Dibhs was one of the oldest cit.
2cns OF Staunton and was known
throughout the upper portion of the
State
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
Harner Case Continued.

The case of c. G. Harper, tho young
man who was arrested Thursday
evening ON the charge Of betrayal
was continued in tho police court
Yesterday until next Wednesday,
Harper was rcmnnded to Jail, 10 at
tempt 10 give bail being made.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
HELD FOR GRAND JURY.
Negro Charged With Assaultlna Little
Girl Of His Race

Girl OF His Race.
John Lewis Moore, II negro who
came here recently from South Caro-
lima. was held for the grand jury by
Justice Brown in the police court
yesterday morning on the charge of
criminally assaulting Annie Jackson
II seven-yearold negro girl, who lives
with her parents on Twenty.fonrth
street.
The prisoner was committed to Jail
without bail The evidence against
him was strong, the child Identifying
him positively. He told n rambling
story and denied his guilt.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
Her Part.

I'VE may each contribute to the
city beautiful" said the enthusiastic
speaker; each add little to the
adjoining Of the streets"
Il Will volunteer" said one of the
hearers, ITO wear my new hat down
to the matinee this very afternoon II
the sun Observation-Disclosures Led
ger.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
5-lS-l2t.

A, girl who has fallen neir to one
OF these Rocky Mountain Tea com.
plexions Is to be cnvied Girls whose
mothers and grandmothers took Hol.
listers Rocky Mountain Tea conveyed
blessing on their children, J. C..
Gorsuch & Co.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
Housebreaklna CHARGED.

Justice Brown yesterday held for
the grand Jury, negro named VIII
liam Parker, charged with breaking
into the house of Henry Coleman, also
colored.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18

Granted Liquor License.
In the Corporation Court yesterday
Judge Barham granted A. Reisfield a
linnor license for saloon to be To-
Gated ut 1000 Jefferson avenue.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18

Girls will smile through the years.
Their eyes will always glisten with
glee,
They will never be hidden by tears.
If they take Rocky Mountain Tea.
j. c. Gorsuch &c Co.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18

Offices for rent in Siisby building
5.1S-12t.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18

Miss Mabelle Parker has returned
from visit to friends in Baltimore
and Washington.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18
Miss Hildah Thomas left yesterda,
for Scottsyille to spend week.

Mr.. j. G. Temple Is Ill ut his home
20 Thirty-fifth street, with append
cits.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18

Mr.. and Mrs. l.. b. Emory has re-
turned to their home in Grafton after
Il visit to friends here.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18

Miss Margaret Smith, of Raleigh
N. c., is visiting her cousins, tn
Misses Smith, OH Twenty.ninth street
The independent., 1907-02-14
HALT FOR COUNTY OPTION.

The defeat of county option In the
senate by the vote of twenty to eleven
seems on the surface to be decisive,
but it will probably be found to be the
beginning and not the end of the agl-
tation against the saloon in Nebraska
The apparent ease with which the bill
was defeated was due more to the
absence of this issue from the cam
paign last fall than to opposition 10 the
measure among the people. Other Is
sues are just now felt to be more I'M
portant, not because they are so, per-
haps, but because recent events have
brought them more sharply to pubic
attention. After the matters dealt with
in the republican platform of 1906 are
disposed of it will be possible to make
the saloon an issue in this state, and
when that time comes an advance on
the Slocumb law can be brought ABOUT
in one campaign
While the present failure will prove
serious disappointment tc many good
citizens, they have no reason to be dis
coura ged or to resolve that in the fu-
ture they will fight for state wide plo-
hibition or nothing. The policy of
squeezing out the saloon by the slower
but more certain policy Of local option
and a steadily advancing license fee
need not be given up because OF The
action of the senate yesterday.
The independent., 1907-02-14
PATHS OF PEACE.

A riot on an Oregon railroad is
caused by a discharge of white labor
erS to make room for Japanese. This
timely incident should add piquancy to
the negotiations now going on in Wash
inton with the San Francisco school
board Hourly kilograms from home
urging the deputation to stand firm
for hearth and home and Japanless
schools add further to the picturesque
ness of the parley. Fortunately there
does not seem to be trace OF dyna-
mite in the case. 1t is only necessary
so to adjust matters that both San
Francisco and Japan shall have their
own way, and this is easy. San Fran
cisco must treat all foreigners alike,
including Japanese. SO she must not
segregate the Japanese. This saves
japanese pride. But there is no objec-
ton to establishing special schools for
the accommodation Of pupils who can
not speak English. The nom English
speaking child does not get fair
show in a school whose language he
knows nothing of, anyway. II TINS
policy should happen to segregate the
Japanese it is only a hap, and yet ii
saves the San Francisco pride. Then
il remains to attack the source OF the
whole trouble, the Pacific coast dread
of labor competition from the orient,
the latest evidence of which is Sun
days Oregon incident. What could be
more fair than that Japan should ex-
clude American labor and America in
turn exclude Japanese labor3 As luck
has it, the present treaty With Japan
expires by limitation in about month
and Japan is said to be ready to make
that bargain in a new treaty Japan
wants her emigrants to go to Man
churia anyway, and no American
laborer has wish to hire out in
japan How is 1t possible 20 quarrel
where there is SO perfect a union O
nina and interest?
The independent., 1907-02-14
FEBRUARY IA, 1907

him for his vote before he had told
his colleagues atout it, and as soon as
he could get to the public prosecutor
he turned the money over to him as
the necessary proofs for successful
prosecution.
Nothing could be more despicable in
the conduct of Colorado publicist
This man was a traitor to his craft
bent on revealing its secret work, and
therefore must be disciplined. And
disciplincc ne was in the pitiable weak
way of a Legislature that notorlously
sold itself out in the selection OF Il
millionaire senator whose chief quail
fication for the place was his possession
of the price and his readiness as pro-
ducer
Before such a body no man with an
honest purpose such as Morgan at
least may have had could hope to get
a fair hearing. and if half that is open
ly proclaimed of the deception ana
cunning practced to compass his
humiliation is true, nothing in the
odoriferous record of Colorado politics
approaches in vicious, shameless politi-
cal depravity the expulsion of Senator
Morgan, Not even the injection of the
odious bull pen into politics nor the
theft of the governorship compares
with this dastardy degradation OF a
man whose offense was an effort to
expose bribery.
TO be expelled from such body as
the Colorado legislature must, TO those
who have kept in casual touch With
the tempestuous trend of politics i'll
that state commend itself as something
Of an honor to be coveted. Perhaps
Morgan may not have been entirely
blameless, or perhaps his work was
crude and spectacular, but in view
Of the deceptions practiced upon him
to prevent him from appearing in his
own behalf, his expulsion in the man
ner and for the cause for which it was
effected, win wipe his record clean in
the minds of honest men.
The independent., 1907-02-14
TWO SIDES. AS USUAL.

When il is remembered that some Of
the best literature has made use II
crime and trials for crime TO serve not
only dramatic but moral and intellect
ual ends the assumption that all in
terest in such trials as the one now in
progress I'm New York is of the morbid
order appears altogether erroneous. III
II Is ever worth while 10 know human
life AZ its worst and II Is always
dangerous To argue in favor OF sup
pressing cold fact. then the ThaW trial
afTods n means OF education diyested
of thc doubtful reality Of the story
hook There are few lawyers. ana
probably few doctors, with keen In
tcrr-t in their profession who have not
gniioVod the ease with close attention.
The examination of expert witnesses.
recurring Il thorough knowledge on the
mart of ne trial lawyer ~ phHses ~
medical science. has particularly In
terrstcd the lawyers one lawyer. rot
kuo,glns hut he maE b. tn need NJ
such special knoWle ledge at any time,
writes THE paper for explanations of
terms uzcd hy Mr Jerome iu cross
svomlnlnp pr Wylte 90 eaurse tnfr-
bld minds are peculiarly liahla to dwell
upSn snct cases pcsslhly some such
minds arc see by knowledge df this
eririe upon ambitious efforts io deF iss
ard rlfpetrtte q crime nf mare rss
f,art't, circumstances This Involves
.ss 4I tsr side ~ the matter, AMI a
most .rP' Xlng side
The independent., 1907-02-14
CHINESE EXCLUSION.
Power of Banishment Possessed by
Immigration Officers.

The highest court of our country,
saws eX- Secretary of State John w.
Foster in the Independent has decided
that due process of law is granted by
the hearing before the immigration
official; that trial by jury may be in
the same way superseded; that cit
izen may suffer the infamous punish
ment of perpetual Punishment from
the land of his birth by the same pro-
cedure, and that the writ of nabeas
corpus, SO dearly Lrized as "the rem
edy which the law gives for the en-
forcement of the civil right cf per-
sonal liberty" is ineffective against
the decision CT an obscure imm"ra
ton officer.
Under the authority of the laws
passed by congress for the exclusion
Of Chinese laborers a series Of rules
nave been adopted by the immigration
bureau. These rules provide that
when a Chinese person arrives at
port or on the frontier of the United
States the immigration officer shall
prevent the Chinese person from hav"
ing communication with any one but
the officer. that the officer shall ex
anime him in private touching his
right to admission, without any op-
Dortunitv to secure the assistance of
an attorney or friend, and that only
such witnesses shall be heard as the
examining officer shall designate, and
they examined in private. In this way
the right of the Chinese applicant TO
admission is determined. If admission
is denied the applicant is advised of
Ills right of appeal to the secretary of
commerce and labor, when he can en-
ploy counsel, who is permitted upon
/ vol mir l,Ilt
not to copy, the eX parte evidence
taken by the immigration officer.
N, ticr Of arp' al must be filed With
in two days, and within three days a
record Of the case, including new affi
davits (for there is no open or public
hearing), must be forwarded to Wash
ngton. The turden on proof is placed
on the Chinese person, and in every
doubtful case the benefit of the doubt
is given to the government. No pro-
! vision is made for summoning wit
nesss from a distance (for instance,
| from the state in the applicant was
born) or taking depositions. Well
might Mr. Justice Brewer ASK
IF this be not a star chamber pro-
! cecding of the most stringent sort,
| what more is necessary to make it
! one? | do not see how any one can
read those rules and hold that they
constitute due process of law lnr the
arrest and dcporta ton of citizen of
4 the United States"
/ And this in a case whore the appl-
! cant had been Judcially determined
/ to be an American citizen. Under
/ such circumstance the Justice quoted
4 and the two colleagues who unite
/ with him in dissent Gustices Peck
/ ham and Day) are jusuiied in the
4 declarations such decision Il ap
4 paling
The independent., 1907-02-14

lnnaInn rrnnAcrIntl

IN his report to the president the seere-
tary 0f agriculture estimated the beet
sugar production VI the country for l9~
nt .EaN0 long toms valued At Eto00te
This Il. ciutrasted with the crnp seven
years ago wLich amounted to Nmp0o
"a mattoT ~ fact on The basis of CT
lures later than his the seasons crop
will 4ggrtgate about t51en tons "a =
NnIuAllnn ~ ennaIhlrNhlN over 81 .-s1. IN
The independent., 1907-02-14
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