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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1907-01-26
Hotel (OSnODO|itl
Calle de la Luna. -Yabucoa.

Calle de la Luna. -Yabucoa.
Casa de rueva construction. Ven
tilaci6n y capacidad en- las habitacio.
mes. Buenas mesas y bafos. Proxi'
mo a las principales casa de comercio
V a la ofcina dc correos, Admite abo.
nos, Precios m6dicos'
Fautino Ciutr6t.
Propietario.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1907-01-26
SECuON MERCANT|L
NoIas cemeIcls!es De San Juan

pRINCIPALES< ,ARTICULOS
Arroces: De partido q Japon a
S..
Idem valenciano de 6H q 6A
por extreme de classes.
Ajos de IS ctvs 40.
Bombones de $61a AZ.
Bacalao $7H.
Sardinas ahumadas a IA ctvs.
Cebollas espafiolas $6.
Idem americans 81.
Garbanzos $4H a 9.
Habichuelas Americanas colo
radas largas $s.2s. Blancas ameri-
canas 3A.
Harina de trigo $4.25d5A
Idem de maiz q $5A.
Jamones 81 drIH.
Jab6n Rocamora $5A, ameri-
no, $2H y4h.
Manteca $SA aS1a ell Il y en-
cajas de 80 10.
Mantequilla de SIC a 90.
Pasta del pals $5.2s q 4.5o.
Papas americans $IA.
Tocino ST. q $I9h.
Tasajo $9.
Quesos am. ST.. Patagras al.
;. Leehe spndensads 'Aguila' a
Idem id. acruz Ro-
ia" $4A.
1dem id. aMagno.
iian $4tts.
DEL PALS
Azdcar para el consume:
Mascabado claro de $4A.
De miel claro q S..
Centrifuga claro de Il q $5.
Americana de $5A a 5H.
DE Ponce $3h a 81.
Ron 40 grades Cartier 81. s.
ceutavos gallon pagados R. Inter
mas.
Maiz $2.5o
Tabaco, nominal.
pRECIoS DE CoMPRA
Alnlid6n a $3.50.
Algod6n de IS a $3.50.
Cocos de IS a IS millar.
Sebo de res $41a.
Cafe corriente nominal.
CAMBIOS CORRIENTES
Londres check 5 4.S7
Paris 3H aI1a D.
Hanburgo a4D.
New York a 10 ctvs.
Espaha 10 a IoH ctvs. D.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1907-01-26

de Diego, Degetau y Fernandez
Juncos.
4@ Sc ALQUILA.-Un mirador
con luz y baho. Informa-
ran San Jose II, altos, 1sv.
Miguel Requena, que agre-
dio Ell la marina q Jesds Salgado,
fue condenado a pagar IS de multa
8 sufrir 10 dias de arresto.
-Ha sido echada aver al aqua
una nueva lancha de vapor perte.
neciente 4 la estaci6n naval.
SEVENDE
I'm juego de tres sentrffugas slste
ina "Hepnoth" con su motor, su mez
clador y su elevator de az6car, todc
Ell magnffico estado. Dirigirse a dor
Julio Gay, hacienda pSanta Ana", Jun
cos, Puerto Rico.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1907-01-26

CEDULAS HIPOTECARIAS
Banco Territorial y Agrfcola
$50.
ACCIONES
Banco de Puerto Rico$2Sa 80.
Banco Territorial $24 a IS.
Banco Popular $40 Ar.
AZUCAR.-Para la exporta-
ci6n.
Sin operaciones.
BUOUES ANUNCIADOS
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1907-01-26
FdbIIca Do Mdqu|na' Dc TV;-
tal cafe Do v|ctlr Capdls'
San German P. r.

NJUu ON1 Wd a
Sc fabrican estas maquinas del ia.
naiio y precios que Sc pidan. Exac-
tamente iguales q las que Sc importan
del extrangero, El tvmaiio de 10 pull
gadas de largo, 6 de ancho y 2 de al
to, vale dos dollars, De mayor tama-
iio suben los precios.
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:

THE DAILY MESSENGER by maj
one al $500; six months, SS.oo;
three months, $3.50; . mohth' 9o
cents.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY AEoSEN-
GER 1.-TWO eight page papers)' by mall
n year. 800: six months SO cents
In advance.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-19
STEALING BRYAN's CLOTHES

Bryan's friends claim that they
have caught some republicans plotting
to steal some more of Bryan's clothes
for Roosevelt. This time it is not an
old suit that he had worn some time
ago, but a bran new one-one, in fact,
which he has not had time to Ion. 1t
was a suit that he was saving with
great care to wear for the first time
at the democratic national convention
next summer Now it is said that the
friends of President Roosevelt having
received a hint of the existence of this
bran new suit, have gotten full descrip-
ton of it and are urging the president
to purloin it and appear in the same
when he opens the session Of the new
congress next December, thus ante
dating the proposed time of Bryan ex-
hibiting himself in it to the country
by seven or eight months. The ques-
ton is: Can Mr.. Roosevelt's friends
induce him to put on the clothes and
appear in them in public after they
ave stolen them from Bryan's ward
robe?
All this fuss about the stealing OF
Bryan's new clothes arises from the
fact, it is alleged, that some republl-
cans have discovered that Bryan has
a new scheme as to government own
ership OF railroads which he will at
tempt to induce the national v
ton to endorse. 1t is that the govern
ment shall become a stakeholder in all
the big railroad corporations in order
that it may have Representatives on the
boards of directors and thus keep it
self informed as to the inside work
ings of these corporations. These re-
nublicans are urging Roosevelt to fore
stall Bryan by incorporating this sug-
gestion in his message to congress and
urge it's adoption by the government.
A serious objection raised to the new
principle is that it would be the first
step toward government ownership
of the railroads. 1t is said that Ger
many made such step the first in her
subsequent movements to acquire pos
session. Of the railroads in that coun-
try. This fact may brighten the presi-
dent off and prevent his donning Bry-
ans new suit.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-19
THE CHARGE AGAINST BEV-
FRIDGE.

Senator Beveride, of Indiana, is
charged with being the instigator Of
the attack on Vice President Fair
banks for having cocktails at the
lunch served the president at the time
he attended the unwilling Of the mon
ument to General LaWton; that there
is a strong temperance sentiment in
Indiana, and the senator is taking adj
vantage of it and the cocktail episode
to stir up hostile feeling against this
presidential aspirant. It is said the
idea is to deprive him of the sup
port of the church and temperance
vote. 1t is hard to believe such state
ments; that a prominent member of
the senate would stoop to such low
politics as the creating of false i'm
pressions of a mans character by
such a Senator Beveridge is a
close personal friend of the president.
If the conduct charged to him were
true it might be charged that this at
tack on Mr.. Fairbanks was o prear-
ranged scheme of the Roosevelt-Taft
forces to put him out of the race
against the presidents candidate.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-19
TOO MANY MIGRANTS

The Raleigh Times calls for a more
rigid enforcement of the vagrancy law
in that city. It says with placards
calling for labor posted in the city
certain idle negroes lounge about. ask
for work on the premises of citizens
and after getting a square meal go ON.
saying the work is too hard or the pay
offered in not enough.
Such men are to be found in almost
every town in the south. and they
should be severely dealt with. They
are not only guilty of yagrancy, but
they secure their food through false
pretense. Every man who wants to
work can find it, and at good wages,
90. There is no excuse for a single
able-bodied man in the south being
idle. City and county officials should
be On the lookout all the time for
Migrants and every one who is caught
should be sent to the changing and
be made to work. The fewer Migrants
there are in a community the less
crime, especially stealing AMI pilfering,
there will be-. Strict enforcement Of
the vagrancy law, however, will not
put a stop entirely TO loafing by negro
men, for many will do just enough
work to put themselves within the law
and escape conviction. They will work
a day in a week and idle, living by
stealing or at some one else's expense,
for the other six days. Enforcement
Of the law will correct the evil to
great extent and put more laborers in
the field.
Migrants stand a poor chance in this
city, we are glad to know. Our police
| are energetic in this matter, and the
mayor adds another hand to the
| county road building force every time
the opportunity offers. Of course they
| cannot catch all that deserve to be
sent to the roads, but they do effective
! work along this line of policing the
city.
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NEED OF

The Manufacturers Record Of last
week has an article On the need OF i'm
migration to the south. 1t takes as
its text the address before the recent
meeting of the North Carolina Bank
ers' Association by Mr.. W. A. Mclean,
president Of the Bank of Lumberton.
The article is chiefly a summary OF
that address and an emphasis of the
strong points made therein, showing
the need in this section Of more men
on farm and in factory. The most
significant point in the whole article
in the statement-and its correctness
is we'll known by employers in this
section-that with a certain class or
labor the recent increase in wages is no
incentive to laborers to do more work;
in fact, it is a hindrance; fer. as The
Record says, the average negro accus-
toned to work six days in the week
for z dollar d udS Is not luSpITSu 10
work a whole week at a dollar and a
half a day.
The negro can now make money
enough ito keep him" by working three
or four days a week, and he will do
no more, for all he wants is a bare
living.
The Records article is a very full
exposition of the labor troubles in our
section and the means that are being
employed to overcome them. Of two
prominent movements along this line
it says:
For a solution of this problem Mr..
Mclean looks to immigration, bbth
domestic and foreign, and he points
to the marked success Of the Chad
hourn enterprise and of the plan OF
Nessrs. Hugh MacRae &c Co, of VIII
mineton, n. c., as illustrations or
what may be done through properly
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-19
GEO. ". yANDERBILT'S TAXES.

George w. Vanderbilt is registering
a mighty kick before the board Of tax
equalization in Buncombe because Of
the increased valuation put on his
property by the assessors in that
county. They have given it a pref
ty steep raise. For the last four years
Mr.. Va%nderbilt's state and county
taxes have been $500 a year. I'm
der the new assessment they will
amount to $23, PA. The valuation now
placed upon his property in Asheville
and in the county amounts to $780,
427. which is an increase of about
$4,000. The Biltmore house was as
sessed at 81, 500, 900 and the personal
property in it at s1O4, 221. The balance
is made I'D on Biltmore village and
farm and the twenty-Odd thousand
acres of forest lands he owns in the
county.
Mr.. Vanderbilt's property should not
be over valued any more than that Of
the poorest man in the county, but if
he has been paying taxes all these years
on a too low valuation that is no rea-
son why such conditions should be al
lowed to continue; and because he has
spent much money in that section and
brought about great improvements is
| no reason why his property should not
| peal it's proper burden Of taxation. He
| should not be taxed excessively be-
cause he is the millionaire Vanderbilt.
| nor because he is such should he be
shown any favoriteism in the matter
| of leving taxes for the support of the
| state and the county.
| The system under which property
| has peer valued for taxation in this
| state has always been very defective
| There are too many loopholes through
| which people can dodge payment OF
| taxes. improvements have been made
! in the system, but it is still far from
| perfect. There is yet entirely too
much property in the state which pays
| no taxes, thus making heavier the bur
| den of state and county governments
| to those who do pay than it would
| be if the burden was more justly dis.
tributed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-19
ADVISES VIOLATING THE IN
JUNCTION.

Yesterdays press dispatches IN
bounced that the order of injunction
by Judge Pritchard in the Virginia
| railroad rate case forbade the newspa-
| pers to publish the order of the corpC
ration commission promulgating the
two-cent passenger rate, as we'll as
! ~forbidding the corporation commission
| or it's clerk to issue such an order.
The Richmond Journal, in an edi-
torial on this subject, says it is i'm
portant to get the question involved
in the decree before the federal SUI
| preme court as soon as possible; and
it advises the members of the commits
| sion. in order to do this, to ignore the
| decree of the court SO that they may
| be sent to prison for contempt of court
pus from the supreme court thus test
ing the jurisdiction of the circuit
court in the rate case. 1t says that
should the higher court decide that
the other had no jurisdiction the re-
lease Of the prisoners would be order
ed, but eff it should hold that
the circuit court had jurisdiction they
would be remanded to the custody of
the officers of the court" The Journal
does not say what then would be done
with the commissioners or how they
would secure their release from the
| custody of those officers. Who knows
what punishment Judge. Pritchard
| for deliberate violation of the decree
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-19
WILMINGTON'S TROLLEY CAR
SYSTEM.

The Industrial News, of Greensboro.
of recent date contained a local ar
ticIe. under a scare head" on that
city's street and suburban car line.
1t stated that with the completion
wood and Piedmont Heights, Green's
boro has ten miles of street car lines,
and for a part of the distance the line
is doubled-tracked," and that zone may
ride six or more miles now for five
cents" It also said that while the
city's car service gets many knocks
and it is not the purpose of this ar
ticle to say whether they are or are
not just-there is much about 1t of
which the city may be proud"
This article in The Industrial News
coming just at the time when the
Wilmington street and suburban troll
ley car line mas Deeu HdAIuS 50 mdIa
and great improvements on its lines,
has caused us to consider it a duty
to the patrons of The Messenger TO
Law before them and the citizens OF
Wilmington generally some facts re-
garding our city and suburban lines.
As our readers know, the troll
ley car company has Of late
been doing a great Zeal OF
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-19
PREACHING MULTIPLICATION.

Notification" we suppose will soon
be the cry of the organ" of the rad-
ical clique OF the democratic parts in
this state. The leader OF the move
ment should remember that Il was ,
native OF North Carolina who put a
stop to that movement years 60.
When president Of the United States.
he showed backbone enough 10 save
the country from disruption at the
time.
We are q strong advocate OF states
rights and of state sovereignty in re-
gard to those matters which the states
Lave not yet voluntarily surrendered
TO the federal government, but for one
We protest against the people Of North
Carolina being fooled into conflict with
the federal government at the instance
of a man who uses his power as an
editor for the sole purposes of his own
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and the venting Of per
sonal spleen against certain corpora
tons. 1t is time the people Of this
state-the men who have her true in
terests at heart-were opening tn ir
eyes to the true conditions which ex-
ist in certain quartrrs falsely denomi-
mated as democratic. Are our people
for ever going to submit to be made
tools of for the sole purpose of salts
flying the personal and political ambi-
ton of one la as well as for graft
flying his personal cnmity toward her
citizens of the state? What a this
man or his immediate ancestors done
for North Carolina that he should as
sumo the right 10 be the Moses to lead
our people out Of the wilderness in
which he claims they have wandered?
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of his court? IL in the habeas corpus
proceedings the supreme court should
sustain the jurisdiction OF the circuit
court the commissioners might find 1t
much harder to get out of prison than
it was to get into it. 1t might not be
a matter of merely paying a fine. Very
probably the sentence would be im-
prisonment for a certain period OIL IN
til the order promulgating the new rate
was revoked. We suppose the Virginia
corporation commission is composed OF
good men who wish to do their duty
and to serve their state; but We do
not reckon that any of them are anx-
ious TO run the risk OF a term in Jail
just for the purpose OF Fastening the
time when final decision of the case
can be had.
The Journal declares its willingness
to do it's part In taking the risk OF go
ing to prison. 1t announces its~readi-
| ness to publish any decree the corpora
ton commission may issue regardless
of any Injunction forbidding it to 10
| SO. That sounds very patriotic. but
| it must be remembered that h COM
| mission must issue the decree before
it can be published in a newspaper,
and we do not suppose anybody ex-
poets the Virginia corporation commits
sion to deliberately violate the order
OF the court, as advised by The
Journal.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-19
RED TO Kill FAMILY

A desperate attempt was mad ',s-
terday afternoon To poison The Ia lily
of Nj. c. Jones, of 9ilboa this comfy.
The timely arrival of DR.. Ross n
was summoned from East Durham
saved the lives Of both Mr. Il .i,s
Jones, who were in an extremely Sc
rious condition and not laI / ON
death when the physician arrived.
The attempt of this cowardly crime
was made by some person or persons
slipping into the kitchen yesterday al
tsrnoon and placing a lot Of arsenic IN
the coffee pot. Up TO this time there
is 30 clue as TO who did the aC'. Mr..
Jones drank more OF the coffee I'm
did his wife and he was in a more -
rious condition than she. The aa'iSh-
ter did not drink any of the coffee and
she was not i'll.
YCuerday afternoon abo"t ! o'c.OCk
Mrs. Jones and her daughter lay down
for a little sleep and rest. II Is sup
| posed that while they were asleep that
the one who attempted this murder
s ipped into the kitchen ana placed the
arsenic into the coffee pot. Las hight
when MI Jones who has a large ILet-
camille business came in for s'p2ec
the wife found that the coffee was out.
Rather than for him to go back 10 The
store for coffee she decided TO boil
| over the coffee hat way left In 'he>
pot for breakfast and by this means
there was enough coffee for supper.
Soon after the supper meal was over,
this being something after s O'Clock,
Mr.. Jones was taken i'll with pairs in
his stomach and he was almost in1ne-
diately in great agony. Then Mrs.
| Jones was taken i'll. There va, no
thought Of poison until they grew
| worse and then a messenger was Sur-
ried to East Durham 10 get Or. EJss.
He went 10 the home and when he ar
| rived shortly after Q o'clock he found
| both in a dying condition. Heroi" ef-
forts were necessary to save tho two
but when he left the home this moTn-
( lux lItN "'It p.Jh fllaA ohk u al
! ger and DR.. Ross thinks now that they
will recover.
! Yesterday morning the family we're
served coffee from the same coffee pot
! and there was no i'll effects. Last cv~
ening the coffee served was filed With
the deadly drug. DR.. Ross says that he
made an examination Of the coffee
was a considerable quantity OF arsenic
in the pOt-enough to have killed sew
eral people If il had all been drank
As il was Mr.. Jones was very wehS
almost on the point of collarse and
| Mrs Jones vas not much better.-
Durham Herald
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crest OF the dam to the tail race In
I29 feet
The Whitney Company no only
proposes TO transmit power 20 ad-
joining industrial centres within n
adjacent commercial electrical trans
mission area. but will sell a vast bnlk
OF IL near the plant. The company
has in operation six miles of rail DAD
connecting the Southern Railway
with It's property and is laying the
metal and ties for an extension OF
four miles which will cross the canal
and bisect its manufacturing sites so
that every industrial establishment
erected there will have a railroad con-
nection on its property. Part OF this
great area lying W. the canal
and the river has been laid out n
sites for residences and for industrial
enterprises
The company owns n fine quarry
and has let the contract for the burn
ing Of IS million brick.
II am OF the opinion that the pied
mont region will dominate the worlds
market In manufactured cot ons within
the next few decades believe that
the development OF the water pow ers
Of the south will pay no small T>art
in bringing this TO pass, The scutn
today controls the worlds supply OF
raw cotton as il will q few ccade
hence the worlds supply OF manuiGct-
ured cotton goods. The headQua t>rs
OF the textile trade from field 10 &C
tory, will be located south OF he
Mason and Dbrsn line, Within a
radius of 100 miles Of the Whitney de-
| velopment are many machine stops,
furniture factories. knitting and cotton
! mills. Not less than $l5,GO0,000 II ln-
! vested in cotton mills alone in his t.r-
| ritory &c say nothing of the new plants
constantly erected. II has been d m
OF rated that steam as a motive inw-
er CaLrct compete with ele icit'
| eItrCr IL efficiency oc est. IN [: re
! he .rieItnce is clear lat a reat ale
! vii - .orce be found MS soon - The
L"w,r is available" -Charlot'' OBJ
server.
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WILMINGTON. N. c.

D JULY 10, 1907.