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The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
TELEPHONE TRUST

VI all the trusts that exist the
telephone trust is telephone trust
j perhaps the most offensive.
The telephone company securing
the first privileges to do business
IN city, town or village in the
very nature of things has a
monopoly. Another company
given equal privileges does not
help matters, but actually adds
expense and annoyance. II
there are two companies in the
town, then the business houses
must have two phones, and if
the price on each should be cut,
the two will cost more than one.
while the annoyance is also in
creased. The Cumberland Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company
us one of the, most exaspers ting
m onopolies, probably in the
in the South, The next legisla-
tare ought to make laws strong
enough and broad enough to hold
this company within legitimate
and reasonable bounds. The
telephone has become a necessity
in the transaction of business;
the newspaper man, the mer-
chant, the lawyer, the doctor,
the broker, the manufacturer
and every firm of Individual deal
ing with the public, must have g
telephone but telephone company
in a town is better than two anC
hence the telephone is a natura
monopoly as before stated
However, the managers or tn,
directing forces of such monopo
ly ought to have some conadera
ton for the public and not tr,
to rub the fur the wrong way al
the time. -Greenville Democrat
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
HUGHES BECOMES MYSTERIOUS.
Refuses tn Discuss Report Thxt He
Wishes to iForestall Boom.

New York, Sept. 27-Gov Hughes
attitude toward the presidential nom
nation became decidedly an unknown
quantity Thursday, when the governor
refused positively to clear up state,
ment published Wednesday that he
would request his friends not to EN-.
barrass him with movement to in
dorse him as a candidate Of the organ
ization in New York.
1t was said in a Brooklyn newspa-
per that Gov. Hughes disapprDved an
effort that may be made by Odell and
other opponents of President Roose-
welt to launch a Hughes boom at the
meeting of the republican state com
mittee on October also that the gov
ernor had decided to forego presiden-
tial aspirations for 1908, and keep a
clear field for mis- duties to the state
of New York.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

Citizens of Corinth have asked
State Railroad Commissioner to
pass an order prohibiting the
Cumberland Telephone Company
from charging messenger fees.
Such am order would do just
as much good as the one recently
passed seeking to prohibit the
fnlI tolls for might messages.
The telephone trust would take
it into the Federal courts. Hat
tiesburg News.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
TRIED TO sRlRE JUROR.
$500 to $1,000 offered for Disagree
meslt in Oil Trust Case

Findlay, o., Sept 27.-L d. VIII
Hanson was arrested Wednesday on
an Indictment charging him with at
tempting to brtbe Charles E Thomp-
son, a juror in the case of the state OF
Ohio against the Standard on Co.,
which was tried here last June
Mrs. Charles E. Thompson said that
Williamson approached her and asked
her to persuade iher husband to dlisa-
gree and hang the jury in the Stand
ard Oil case. The final vote Of the
jury was eight to four, the last oppos-
ing conviction. Williamson, in a state
ment made the proposition to Mrs.
Thompson. saying that her husband
would be paid from $500 TO $1,000
should the jury disagree.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
From Saturdays Daily.1
r. ]. Burnett is in S

FROM SATURDAY bally,J
R. J. Burnett is in st. Louis.
]. W. Taylor is in Memphis to-
day.
R. A. East was a recent visitor
to st. Louis.
]. M. Boone visited Memphis
yesterday.
R. M. Weaver was a visitor to
Memphis today.
Mrs. Mary Stewart of Pawnee,
Okla, is visiting in the city.
R. L. Story returned last night
from a weeks visit to Rienzi.
Joe Shackelford of New Alba
nv is spending few days in the
city,
Mrs. Gabe Allen of jackson,
Tenn, is the guest of friends in
the city,
Prof. ]. A. Roberts of Rienzi
is snending 3 few days with
friends here.
Orphus Abenathy of the Sci
mer Sentinel, Selmer, Tenn,
was a visitor here today.
Misses Mary and Carrie Nc
Leran of Grand Junction, Tenn,
are guests of relatives here.
Mr., and Mrs. ]. H. Jones and
children returned this morning
from visit to North Carolina.
Victor Thornton of Cerro Prize
to, Mexico, was in the city laat
night, en- route to a visit to
Jackson, Tenn.
Mrs. w. X. Graham and little
daughter, and Master Charlie
Graham are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. S. ]. Richey in Rienzi.
lERev. W. H. Ryals, Rev. w.
M. Henderson, Hon. E. S. Can
dler. Jr., H. E. Ray and C. S.
Smith are attending Fifth Sun
day meeting near Baldwin.
MCotton is selling today at 1850,
about the same price of the spot
market in New Orleans.
The compress receipts of cot
ton now run about 100 a day.
Some cotton from wagons being
received, and good prices are
being paid by local buyers.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
SIX Nsnross rcIllsd.

Hattiesburg, Miss, Sept. 27.--Ofi-
cels have been summoned to McLau-
rims Station, 10 miles southeast. on
the Gulf & Ship Island railroad, by a
race war between whites and blacks.
SIX negroes are reported killed and
many injured. So far as can be
learned here no whites have been Sc.
niously hurt, but 1T is feared there will
be further outbreaks.
The trouble arose at small lumber
settlement where negroes had re
placed white laborers in the sawmills
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
|Iese kilograms

VIZ at Tennessee homecoming,
Fales brilliant future for the
E'a as q result of Panama canal
Ralerway Improvements
resident Harahan of the Illinois
ny u Statement replying to Fish
nsns says deposed official Dor
N a,50o,00O without adequate Sc
''eculor Kellogg admits failure to
r. mlormation of whereabouts of
standard OILS certificate books.
II maj demand.
sn Of congress caused by deficit
eAg from Oklahoma census may
ngh officials of the admins
s'aal traffic and trunk lines will
w have a voice in the making
Sseontinental freight tariffs.
'eso'a attorney general seeks to
observance OF commodity rate
may be cited for contempt of
as'al court.
asnt Finley of the Southern
9sl the company is in no finan-
satlon at present to make
'ssded improvements.
II Borah accused only of a
hor. Counsel for government
Z statement declares he com
y felony. Jury hard to COM
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

APittsdurg detective arrested
a nonunion iron worker after a
pistol battle in which several
men were hurt. and the mob
which tried to hang the nonun,on
iron worker to telegraph pole
got the rope around the neck of
the detective instead. The 9e-
tective was dangling half way to
the top of the bole before friends
discovered the mistake; the de-
tective Ehad known of it some
time.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

Virginia is hot after the sa-
lions. Neerly every one of the
smaller cities has gone prohibit
ton, and Richmond proposes to
reduce the number of saloons to
to 100 and raise the tax TO $1,000.
There are now over 300 saloons
in the city. The 'aRtisalcon ele-
ment mas qualified to vote, while
the poll tax law will go far to re-
duce the opposition vote.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
GOES TO JAIL TO BE A MAN.
9ostman Who Could Have Run on
viii Prove He is Now Honest.

9ostman Who Could Have Run on
viii Prove He is Now Honest.
Chicago, Sept. 27.-John r. Mccaf-
frey, the mail carrier who was ex-
pected to report at the Brideweli pris.
on Wednesday morning to begin the
sentence imposed upon him by Judge
Lands, surprised everybody by stay
ing away McCaffrey said Thursday
morning:
81 waited for me papers, but they
did not come and l went to work. I
could have run away and satisfied the
unbelieving world that it was right
that no man is honest, that no human
being could withstand the temptation
put my way.
a did not do it. Why? Because L
believe that my crime has made
man of me. I have a beautiful wife.
have a wonderful child. l love them
better than life. realize that must
be punished. Then my honor will
have been purged and can go into
the world and pave the way to com
fort for them. will be at the prison
in the morning"
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

This thing of married people
finding 'soul-sisters" and Spirit
brothers" is all very well in its
way and harmless enough to the
divorce and remarrying point.
What we cannot understand IS
why there should deem it abso-
luteIy necessary to taansmute
spiritual affinities into physical
relations. Cannot the minds and
spirits and understandings of a
man and a woman communicate
with perfect innocuity and pleas
ure outside of the marriage or
physical relation?
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
uuaaINc pIscLosEs STATION
" VAS BUILT TO EvApE HEP
" BURN ACT.
nj GER AGAIN ON THE STAND
.y,.nt Contends That the Ter
''', .,usI station at Centre Bride,
Pennsylvania, Is q
subterfuge.

vork Sept. 27.-The pipe line
Nr - the National Transit Co., a
sa lara OH corporation at Center
s S.'ssa pa. on the New Jersey State
D'|s s,b,cb the company contends is a
no. wi station, was built in 1906. on
= advice Of John G. Miloarn' of coun-
i tor the company.
~ Millburn is representing the
~ $500 ON Co. in the federal hear
= INV IN progress in this city.
y, * i oonsended by the government
I. shs Centre Bridge station was
ps -, i nominal delivery point in
s s.,s - svade the Hepburn act, which
l'.s s,ssd that pipeline carriers shall
''s s',s, schedules OF tariff to their ter
nlnsls ,.,on, .h.+ +ho
sa.nv,s real terminal is Bayonne,
rp ~,
~, Cor the government, asked c. NJ.
, sssus an employe of the Standard,
~ advised the building Of the deliv-
~ ~ tanks at Centre Bridge.
Lawyer Advised II.
q dId" interposed Mr.. Milburn,
-, thought, under the law, that
.ss,s should be a delivery point there
! thought 1t excellent advice"
4 don't" said Mr.. Kellogg.
u, PAYNE who, with H. NJ. Folger,
!. owns the Corsicana Refining Co.,
!, rsras was placed on the stand
I'll, Thursday to give testimony In
~ government suit against the Stand
"A and furnish further information
.oDeeruIng the pipe lines of the oil
,,ust over which he has general super
,,slou Mr.. Payne said that at the
,s,mluus of the pipe line of the Ma
,IonsI Transit Co. at Centre Bridge, on
n state line between New Jersey and
PENNSYLVANIA, where the company
motes its tariffs for shipment of crude
Ii there was pumping station.
n is not a delivery station, rs itg'
ussd Mr.. Kellogg, after the witness
IA testified that at Centre Bridge the
j from the pipes of the National com
sny was pumped into the pipes of the
sandard OIL Co. of New Jersey.
SAYS It's Pumping Station.
1T is pumping station" answered
Ne Witness
4 show you a statement of the Ma
hnal Transit Co.. showing that tanks
|ssre built in Centre Bridge in 1906.
i Rhat we're they for?'
For the purpose of making deliv-
b at delivery station" replied Mr..
: Payne
20 whom did you deliver the oil
fuey asked Mr.. Kellogg. who con
!. htds that the Standard Oil Co. has
y gadsd the Hepburn law of 1906, which
81 ypyided that pipe carriers shall sub
d Bill schedules Of tariff to their termi'
'a Eak and that the real terminal is
y hlpnne, N. j., at tidewater.
~ ~ 10 the Standard OH Co. of New
III fssey, answered Mr.. Payne.
Il DO you deliver to anyone elseT"
nd Sor
p 40 one has asked for delivery of
~ I hre7"
40; not that l know or said Mr..
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

A Baltimore man aged 80 has
just married a Baltimore woman
aged 70. He fought Though the
war with Mexico, and the flower
girls at the wedding were the
granddaughter of the pride and
groom. The fountain of youth
rises in their back yard.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
COURTESY STOPS ON CENTRAL.
Rockefeller, Utility-Lsw DrafteH and
Bishop Potter Refused.

New York, Sept. 27-No more
courtesy stops are made on the New
York Central. John d. Rockefeller
learned this when he wanted to take
a fast train at Tarrytown to go to Chi.
oago to testify before Judge Lands.
Bishop Potter, too, wanted FAST
train stopped somewhere up along the
Hudson, so he could get aboard, but
was refused. One Of the men who
drafted the public utilities bill made
courtesy stops illegal, forgot about the
law and filed request for a stop az
his summer home. He was referred
to the provisions Of his own bill.
The courtesy" stop has become q
great nuisance on all railroads.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

When Grover Cleveland was
asked by a reporter the other
day about his reported critical
illness, Grover replied. you can
see | feel. 1.-THE ex-presidt at
must be very i'll, for never in his
life before did he string six one-
syllabled words together in a
speech
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

The Old Ladies' Home Association
Of Mississippi has secured $4,000
with which to build an old ia6ies
nome ut jackson. The object Of
the movement is to provide for
those old ladies who are without
relatives and friends and have no
means of support.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

An exchange remarks that Hat
tieshurg is putting ON city airs
She is makinga fight for an UNDER
ground conduit system for electric
wires and is also agitating the
question of a union depot.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

Binghamton. N. Y. Sept. 27.-Wil-
liam O'Brien. 15-year-old son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Cornelius O'Brien of Cort-
land, N. Y, died Wednesday afternoon
of hemorrhage Of the brain. He played
in a practice game of football on
Thursday and received an injury in
the game which the doctors believe
resulted in his death
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
WI TING FANG OPPOSED.
Foes In U. s. Besiege Roosevelt IN
Fight on chinaman.

Washington, Sept. 27.-All is not
smooth sailing at the state depart
ment for WI Ting Fang. U. S. Min
lister Rockhill has officially notified
this government of the appointment
of WI. but no reply has been sent, in
dicating whether the former minister
is acceptable to this country or not.
Nor will such a message be sent until
President Roosevelt has been consult
ed on the subject.
Strong influences have been brought
to bear to prevent this government
accepting the Chinese diplomat.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
utah Miners 60 on Strike.

Park City, Utah, Sept. 27.-obiect.
ing to the employment of non-union
miners, $50 miners employed by the
Da'y, West Ontario and Little Bell
mines. all members of the Western
Federation of Miners, quit work
Wednesday and the properties aus
pended operations
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
J Snuff Users.

= you buy snuff you want
~ Red Brand Pure Scotch
! 'ne kind that will give you
J, satisfaction, IT is made
Y highest grade of snuff to-
! earefully cured and is all its
'''pnes--a pure Scotch snuff
very highest quality.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

The Walnut Grove Dawn Of
Light. edited by a minister, is re-
spcnsible for this story: "a farmer
had II log he wanted split and as it
was very ugh he got a stick of
dynamite, intending to blow the
the log into Smithereens. He laid
the dynamite down by the barn
dor and went inside to put his
team away. A pig found the dyna-
mite. swallowed it and walked into
stall where a spau of mules were
tied. One of the mules kicked the
pig and the jar sent the dynamite
off. The explosion blinded the
farmer. killed one mule, toro the
harness off the other, tore the end
out of the barn and nearly killed
tho pig.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
COAL. PROBLEM
TO PRESIDENT
METcALF poDoEs RESPONSIBLE
iTY FOR $40, ooo, 600 PACIFIC
CRUISE OUTLAY.
LEGAL QUESTION INVOLVED
Yankee Shippers sore--They chai-
lenoe the Governments Right
to Use Alien Col
lleries.

Washington, Sept. 27.--As nearly as
possible Secretary Metcalf, of the
navy department is going to place the
responsibility for spending the $2,b00,-
300 for coal for the Pacific cruise OF
he battleship feet upon the shoulders
Of President Roosevelt. He said on
Thursday that owing to the important
legal and political questions involved
be viii not act until after consultation
with the president
The political question is, whether
congress will ST. quietly by and see
what one of the naval journals char
acterizes as a display OF cheap poll
tics and ill-advised yainglory."
The legal question is, whether the
proposed employment of foreign regis
tered ships in the transportation oil
coal from one American port to an
other, in apparent violation of the
coastwise navigation laws, is really
setting the laws OF congress in con
tempt.
Must Use Foreign Ships.
The administration has been ad-
vised by Attorney General Bonaparte
that the discretion vested in the presi-
dent for using foreign bottoms, if he
thinks the rates made by American
ships are too high, absolves him from
the obligation in the coastwise law.
But if foreign ships are used 1t Will
not be question of rates, but of suffi-
cient tonnage and promptness.
If the fleet is to go to the Pacific for
eign ships must be employed to carry
coal. The cruise must be postponed
otherwise, until such time as the linn
tied American shipping facilities can
move the coal.
The courts will not intervene In any
case where discretion is vested in an
administrative officer, unless It Is
charged that he is influenced by cor
ruption or other fraudulent motives
None of the protesting American shil
owners go as far rs that.
Admiral Cowles, chief of thSpurea'
of equipment, said today that from
cursory examination Of the bids It =
evident that not pouhu u NSisi
coal will be used, because of the low
/: bids for carrying American coal in for
eign bottoms.
Calls It an Outrage.
w. L. Marvin, a representative Q
American shipping interests, gave gu
statement Thursday in which he sal
the proposed award to foreign ships
! an outrage against American ship Owl
ers and American sailors and Anne
lean laborers. because It deprives ther
of the benefits of the protective polio
which this government applies
every other American industry.
He contends that the employmer
American shipping make the cost {
operating an American ship so hig
that it requires $4,000 a year more
operate an American steam collie
than British ship Of the same CT
pacity.
: Hhe contends that the employmer
of foreign ships would be as fagrar
violation of law as that committe
, by the Standard Oil Co.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
EVELYN THAw WORSE.
Mrs. Thaw Constant in Remembrance
of Imprisoned Husband.

New York, Sept. 27.-Mrs. Harr, X,
Thaw, who has been confined at home
with cold since last Saturday, Is re-
ported somewhat worse. Her automo-
bile, however, makes its daily trip to
the Tombs to. bring messages to Harry
Thaw, with luncheon and supper Tor
the prisoner. .-.~-, -.----.-..---.-s
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

Mississippi cotton growers. us
represented by the Farmers Union
and the Cotton Association, are
holding out for price of fifteen
cents per pound.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
MARRIED IN AN AUTO.
Couple ARE Made One on Trip to
Catch Train.

indianapolis, Sept. 27.-Cupid had
the wings of an eagle to meet an
emergency in the affairs of Chauncey
r. Benifield, wealthy ranchman OF
Dallas, Tex, and Lotta Williams of
Terre Haute. They we're married in
large touring car while making a
flying trip to the union station to catch
train for Chicago. -Four hours be-
fore the ceremony Benitield was in
Cincinnati and Miss Williams was in
Terre Haute. There was only 80 min
utes between trains here. Benifield
telephoned from Cincinnati to his
fiancee to meet him here; he tele-
phoned to friend to have his car
meet him. The Terre Haute train and
the Cincinnati train arrived at the
same minute. The car sped to the
courthouse, a license was secured, a
minister was found and the ceremony
performed while the car was speeding
back to the station The couple
caught their train for Chicago.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
Psychological Doubts.

''I see that man in so many places
that sometimes l think he is ubiqui-
tous." 80 do /, and it's puzzling me
to decide whether he's leading 3
double life or II he's twiRD."
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

The boil weevil is said to be with
in three miles of the Mississippi
line and trouble is feared next year.
so far no way has been found to
to successfully check its progress
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

One Or two more turns of the
screw win raise the price of meat
so high that a look at it viii take
away the appetite.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

A rural contempora gets poetic
in the following timely paragraph :
"Cheer up, cheer up, the sum
mer's DER, the piping quail is up u
four September sweet is on the job ;
and the green corn ripens on the
cob October crisp will soon be
here With sofCly falling leaf and
sere, with frosty morn and hunters
moon and pumpkin pics yet
but soon. "
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

l: Carrie Nation is right in saying
that every thine she goes to jail
she takes a step toward Heaven.
she must be almost there.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

Jno. D. Rockefeller, Jr., has
dropped his Bible class. That
famous class will drop out of ex-
istence very quick now.
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

pvlns '.lso.ss.s'--.T,- n u,,. .eu.t H. c. Mo
throughout the state, ine lise of Hungar
The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03

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