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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-02-09

Of the latter Its selling agents are in
structed to secure customers at any
sacrifice, says the report, and official
inspectors in differe&t states have been
bribed, according to evidence taken
under oath. The commission finds that
this policy of destroying competition
has been pursued without much ref
erence to decency or conscience" 1t is
also charged that the trust has syste-
matically purchased the influence of
certain newspapers throughout the
country.
Harriman's Hold on Slope.
How the Southern Pacific and Santa
Fe interests, controlled by e. III. Har-
riman, have come to monopolize the
rail transporta ton Of the entire state
Of California was brought into the day
light of official record at San Fran
cisco, when Commerce Commissioner
Lane lookup the. Investigation Of that
section of the country. Attorney Sew
erance appeared for the government
A. Ell. Payson, assistant to President
Ripley of the Santa Fee told Of the
agreement between his road and the
Southern Pacific doing away with all
competition, a contract now on file at
New York and to be produced in court.
BY it each is to have a majority Of the
board every other year.
Railroads In Coal Business.
The results Of the interstate COM
merce commissions inquiry into rail-
road ownership Of coal mines, as d.
rected* by congress last session, have
now been reported. 1t is shown that
the New York Central. the Pennsylva-
mia, the Baltimore and Ohio and other
carriers own directly or by stock in
other companies large interests in coal
lands. The commission recommends
that interstate carriers after a reason
able time be forbidden such ownership
except to supply their own coal con-
sumption.
report says that the ownership of coal
stock by officers and employees ''has
created a serious and dangerous condi-
tion," resulting in unfair distribution
of cars.
Evidence of conspiracies In restraint
Of trade are found in the Associated
Railways of Virginia and the Carolinas
and In the Tidewater Bituminous
Steam Coal Traffic association, in both
Of which exist agreements to maintain
prices and freight rates. Similar agree
ments were found to exist in the East
ern New York and New England All
Rail Bituminous Coal association and
in the Buffalo bureau Of bituminous
coal statistics.
The commission urges that all car
riers be required to make public their
system of car distribution: that car.
riers be prohibited from using private
cars in the coal traffic.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-02-09

Olive Fremstad. pay the expenses
out of his own pocket, and so 1T was
agreed that the owners of the house
should carry the loss. The defense of
"Salome'' was, in brief, that after hav-
ing been produced in more than TWEEN
ty European cities critics had called it
the greatest work which musical gen
ius had produced in this generation,
that in all operas the libretto is over
Swallowed by the music, that the only
religious parsonage, John the Baptist,
is treated reverently as pure man
and that the hideous deed of Salome
meets with swift retribution in death.
Chicago Fever Wave Spreading.
Extraordinary precautions have been
taken by the Chicago health authori-
ties in their efforts to checks the wave
of contagious disease-namely, scarlet
fever-which has now passed the star
Ting proportions of $4,000 cases In the
city and suburbs. Health Commission
er Whalen issued a proclamation ask
ing that all balls and public gather
ings be abandoned for a few weeks,
and q commission of doctors has been
formed by the city council to aid in
checking the disease. The death rate
has broken all records since the days
of the Worlds fair.
Tea as an Army Beverage.
Assistant Surgeon General Havartf
Of the army has recommended that tea
be substituted for coffee in the army
subsistence, thus following the practice
of the English, Russians and Japanese
armies. Colonel Hazard is satisfied
that tea is superior to coffee because
it is easier to transport, preserve and
prepare and can be drunk without any
disagreeable after effects.
Accidents.
An explosion Of fire damp in a coal
mine at st. Johann, Prussia, on Jan
% entombed a large number of min
ers, probably over 800, of whom at
least 100 are known to be dead. A
fire delayed the work of rescue and en-
dangered the lives of ALL
On the same day fire damp ex-
plosion in the mines at LEVIN. France.
four miles from Courriers, where 1000
miners lost their lives last spring, oc-
Cured while 800 workmen were under
ground, but most of them were able to
escape unframed
In the Stuart mines, near Thurmond
w. Va, on Jan. 90 an explosion bur
led about 100 men. seventy Of whom
lost their lives.
An ammonia explosion in the power
house of the Armour refrigerator plant
at Chicago caused panic of injured
men, and in their efforts to escape
from pit four were killed.
Five men were killed and one in
jured in freight and passenger train
collision on the Boston and Maine rail-
road near Deerfield, Mass.
The plant of the Phelps Publishing
company at Springfield. Mass, publish
ing Good Housekeeping, the American
Continued on page ?
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Governor swettenham Resigns.

Governor Swettenham Resigns.
Following the reported formal with
drawal of the offensive letter to Rear
Admiral Davis by Governor Swetten-
ham of Jamaica and an expression of
regret for having written 1t the gov
ernor rendered his resignation, which
was promptly accepted by the British
government
France Won't Tax Pianos.
The French senate refused to assent
to the chambers proposed tariff on
pianos, it being held that democracy
should not strike at art and that peo-
pie of modest means found it their
only means Of understanding great
musical compositions The chamber
then receded. Both agreed on 2 per
cent tax on foreign securities.
Dissolution of Cortes.
Following discussions among the Lib
erals and Radicals over the proposed
separation of church and state Senior
Maura, the Conservative leader, form
ed cabinet friendly to the Clericals.
The king then dissolved the cortes and
ordered new election.
Japanese Minister'S Warning.
Viscount Hayashi. foreign minister
of Japan in a speech before the house
of representatives at Tokyo referred
to the test case raised by the United
States government to determine the
legal status Of California as to the ex-
clusion of Japanese children from the
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-02-09

according to his
new work, Mars
and It's Canals"
(Macmillan COM
pany), that it is
an organized en-
tity, with regular
connections over
the entire surface
Of the planet. He
believes that this
fact indicates "a
community of in
terest" among the
bitants and
that such a com
I,n11nitu iS M,nnnnr
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of the required
financial stand
ing. Mr.. Bangs
was the contract
or of the 500
canal locks, and
his New York
firm has had
m a n y govern
ment contracts
for Dire gin g.
Il n e r e c o L q
showed that he
was i'm arrears
on several Of
these. divers
bid was at the
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-02-09

ed beauty Of his
wife, Evely n.
Z ha w carried
b | m 8 elf well
through the te-
dious eight days
Of sparring for
jury m n, 1856
talesmen being
examined a n d
several chosen
ones being re-
jected before the
t w e ! v e seats
were occupied.
Jud ge Fitzger-
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Gle N TIFIC
The Latest About Mars.

The Latest About Mars.
That Mars is inhabited by beings of
some sort has long been affirmed by
the greatest authority ON that subject
Professor Percival Lowell of the Flag
staff (Ariz.) observatory Extended
study Of the system Of Marian canals
through the great eye of the telescope
has now convinced Professor Lowell
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-02-09
XEC TIV E
Middle of Canal Bids.

MIDDLE Of Canal Bids.
1t was reported semiofficially that
william J. Oliver of Knoxville, Tenn.
would receive the contract to con-
struct the Panama canal If within
ten days he could get satisfactory
partners in the enterprise. At the
same time the canal commission gave
notice that, by direction Of the prest-
dent, Arson f. Bangs had been re-
jected as participant in the bid be-
cause he had not furnished evidence
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-02-09
LEGAL-CRIMINAL


Defense In Thaw Case.
Special writer's and artists of high
degree have been enlisted by the daily
and weekly press of the country in an
effort to respond to the extraordinary
public interest in the trial at New
York of Harry Thaw for the murder
Of Stanford White, an interest grow
ing out Of the great wealth and
social station of the defendant and
due in large part to the widely herald
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-02-09
MISCELLANEOUS
New York Bars "Salome."

New York Bars "SaIome."
The Richard Strauss musical setting
Of Oscar Wilde's famous one act
drama, "Salome,' which had its pre-
mier in the New York Metropolitan
Opera House last week with Fremstad
in the title role, has been officially bar
red from further production In that
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-02-09

house by the de-
cision of its owners
and directors, not
withstanding tn It
Director Conried Of
the leasing opera
company defended
the performance and
protested a gains t
the loss, W b &c h
might exceed $780,
600. J. P. Morgan
said that ra t b e r
than have the piece,
repeated he would
now tho avnQnSaS
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-02-09

Zig Trusts and Corporations
Again In Public Pillory
at Behest Of Roosevelt.
Theater Trust Indicted.
Japan's Threat Of War
Used to Impress Califor-
nians-Oliver Canal Bid
Held Up by President.
Ohio Senators Angered by
Appointment Of a Negro.
Swettenham Apologies.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-02-09

AN Absolutely Reliable Re-
view of the Leading News
of the Week in Politics,
Government, Education, La
Dor, Commerce, Religion,
Science and Sports.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06

Wews
Negro Desperate Killed.

After having shot and wounded >. a.
Showes, a white man, and attempting
to shoot the sheriff of Lawrence coun-
ty and the town marshal OF Silver
Creek, a negro desperate named Simon
Ward was shot and instantly killed by
the town marshal of Silver Creek on
board a Gulf and Ship Island train
neal Make, while the train was d
full Roadway.
Ward created a disturbance In the
negro coach, but could find no one to
take up a quarrel there. He said he
wanted to fight, and fight aboard the
train. The desperate then went into
the coach reserved for white passen-
gers. Brandishing two pistols, the me-
gro divcl in among the white people.
The sheriff ordered him to surrender,
and for reply the negro sent a bullet IN
the direction of the officer, which went
wild. Showes attempted to quell the
disturber, who shot the white man.
The town marshal of Silver Creek ther
drew his pistol apd commanded the ne
gro to drop his weapons. Ward refused
and fired at the marshal. The latter
then riddled the body OF the negro.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06
Is the Sailors, Friend.

Sixty thousand sailors look to H. A.
Hanbury for advice and for protec-
ton. Mr.. Hamburg Is the United
States shipping commissioner for the
port of New York. He is the sailors
judge and jury. The men who sign
on foreign craft now must appear be-
fore him for their papers instead OF
going to the consuls Of the various
countries. He decides all disputed
questions between the men and their
sailing masters. Many of the abuses
of these men that formerly were com.
mon, such as compelling them to buy
their outfits from the ship owners or
captains, have been done away with
under Mr.. H%anbury's rule. His office
is on the Battery park, New York,
where he easily can reach all the
ships leaving that port
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Young Lady Drowned.

Miss Victoria Luckett, Is years old,
daughter of Hon. o. A. Luckett, was
drowned neal Kosciusko. Miss Luchett
and Miss Lucy Love and q young man
named Taylor we're in a boat, when u
of a spirit of fun the young ladies be-
gan rocking the boat. 1t filled with
water and overturned. Mr.. Taylor
succeeded in saving Miss Love as she
was sinking the third time, buthe could
not reach Miss Luc1ett in time to
save her.
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Doing Business Regardless.

Notwithstanding the decision OF the
supreme court sustaining Insurance
Commissioners Cole IN his refusal to
grant a license to the Farmers Mutual
Fire Insurance Company, a concern
backed by the State branch OF the
Farmers Union, the company continues
to do business, and is writing policies
on farm property only. The Farmers.
Mutual claims to be a strictly mutual
company, returning all of its profits to
policy-holders.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06
Prof. Powers Appointed.

Gov. Vardaman appointed Prof. j.
N. Powers of West Point as State SUI
p~erintendent of education to till out the
uuexpired term of Hon. 81. l.. Whit
field, who was appointed to succeed
President A.. A. Kincannon OF the In
dustrial Institute and College. The
new superintendent is a weil-known
Mississippi educator, having been con-
nected with the public schools OF the
State for several years. At the last
teachers convention he was chosen as
president of the State Teachers Asso'
citation.
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there seemed no hope. Doan's Kid
ney Pills brought my first relief and
six boxes have SO thoroag hly cured
and regulated my kidneys that there
has been no return of my old trouble.
Sold by all dealers. so cents q box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06
New Banks.

Within the past month charters have
been granted to four new banks in this
State with an aggregate capital stock
authorized Of $1,000 Banks have
been multiplying in Mississippi for the
past four years at an unprecedented
rate, but they have not outstripped the
demands of increasing business.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06
The State Fair.

Work will be commenced early this
month on the new agricultural build
ing on the exposition grounds at jack
son. The new structure will be con-
siderably larger than the n used last
e and will be used exclusively for
agricultural exhibits. Manager Mckay
is confident that the 1907 exposition
will in every respect surpass former
events.
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Ideal Friendship.

OF all intellectual friendships, none
are SO beautiful as those which sub
sist between old and ripe men and
their younger brethren in science or
literature or art. 1t Is by these pri-
yate friendships. even more than by
public perforr ance, that the tradition
of sound thi ling and great doing is
perpetuatee ..om age to age--Philip
Gilbert Hanle. ton.
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Court Term P~retermitted.

AT the request of many lawyers,
planters and others interested, Judge
Niles consented to pretermit the regu-
lar July term of United States court at
Vicksburg. The next regular session
will begin Jan. l.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06
Booze Floods the Street.

Five full wagon loads OF liquid re-
freshments, ranging all the way from
the finest imported champagne to the
commonest sort of pine-top whisky, in
Guiding several cases of wines and
casks of beer, were destroyed on the
streets by the officers of Hattiesburg.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06
EnaIand,s pebt to France.

One of the chief debts to France 10
that she nourishes Il ideaa, trans
forr~s them, makes them her own,
Just as she t~ransplanted ami trans
United the flower of the Renaissance
In an earlier day. With ali our ma
tional vanity we never dispute the
parentage. 1t is only territory and
diplomatic prestige and commerce
about which we quarrel with our
sweet enemy."-London Academy.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06
A Vast Supply.

Solomon was the wisest man." re-
marked the student.
"Yes," answered Mr.. Meekton, h
couldn't help being wise with SO many
wives to give him advice"
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Potter Made Judge.

The governor appointed Hon. Wylie
H. Potter, one of the prominent mem-
bers OF the Jackson bar, to be judge OF
The Seventh circuit court district. vice
Judge David M. Miller, resigned.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06
Storm at Natchez.

A forty-mile-an-hour wind storm
struck Natchez, doing considerable
damage. The Belle Prince, a 2oo-ton
boat lying at the wharf, was turned
over and sank in deep water.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06
Beware
of Tainted
Bargains
Bv Mrs. Maud Nathan

= BY Mrs. Maud Nathan g
Bargain Hunting an Expensive
Recreation - Bargains Legiti-
mate and Otherwise - Sweat
Shop Clothing Often Physically
Tainted Morally Tainted Bar
gains Even More Dangerous
Smuggling Goods Encourages
Unsclupulous Merchants-Lace
Made at Cost of Poor Woman's
Eyesight - Purchasers Should
Demand a Cuaranty-The Perils
of Tenement Made Baby Under
wear.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06

using Doan's Kid
ney Pills / was SO
run down and mis-
cradle that / could
hardly endure it.
Terrible pains In
the back attacked
me frequently and
the kidney secre-
tons were much
d~isordered. I was a
nervous wreck and
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06
Shake Into Your Shoes

Aliens Foot-Ease. 1t cures painful, swollen,
smarting, sweating feet. Makes new shoes
easy. Sold by all Druggists and Shoe Stores.
Address A. S. Olmsted, lie Roy, n. Y.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06
Red Men to Celebrate.

Delegations from sixty-seven tribes
of Red Men throughout the State at
tended the Red Mems great Fourth OF
July celebration at Vicksburg.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06
Baptist Encampment.

The annual State encampment OF the
Baptist Young Peoples Union was held
at Blue Mountain with a good attend
ance,
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06

There are times when the still,
small voice of conscience seems to
come from the big end of a mega
phone.
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THE HANDS of the housewife will
be kept soft and white and free from
all chap, redness or roughness if Borax
fS ucad
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06

One idea OF a ~hypocrite is a man
who really admires his motherin.law,
but IL too contrary to admit the
fact.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06

Twas afaicted with a sore on my
was q small pimple at first but it
gradually grew larger and worse
in every way until I became
alarmed about it and consulted
several physicians. They all
treated me but the sore continued
to grow worse. Isaw s.. s. 8. adj
and after taking it q while / was
completely cured. My blood II
now pure and healthy from tho
erect Of s. s. s., nnd there has not
been any sign OF the core since
s. s. 8. curod it. -
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06
Henry for Insurance Commissioners

Hon. T. M. Henry, present State
auditor, ex-newspaper man, a frieAd OF
every publisher in the State. is a can
didate for insurance commissioner.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06
Too m:

Too many men mistake notoriety
for fame.
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some surroundings tne workers are
compelled to toll IA and 16 hours a
day-poor folk who must pay the rent
of the workrooms, pay for the light
Ing and heating CT them, for the ma
chinery and tools and for the deliv-
cry of goods; go articles sold cheap
because children under legal age have
been employed, or the factory laws In
other ways violated, or because the
workers have not received a fair liv-
ing wage fer their work or have been
in some other way imposed upon for
selfish and avaricious purposes.
Dangers Turk in many so-called bar
gains, such as cheap wall paper that
exudes arsenic, cheap plumbing that
causes illness, cheap medicine tnat
does not cure. There Is, however, a
large class of intelligent and we'll
TODD shoppers who entirely ignore the
dangers lurking in another class OF
bargains. | know a mother who so
carefully guarded her child that she
had never allowed her to ride in a
street car nor play in the park with
other children, nor go to any schooi,
lest she might contract some contagl-
Gus disease. Yet this same careful
mother had purchased a cheap cloak
ready made. at a well-known estab-
lishment, where only the custom
made" clothing was made in the firms
own workrooms, the rest being pur-
chased from manufacturers VINO
shirked all responsibility by giving
their work out to be done under the
contract system. The child died from
scarlet fever. Where caught? No one
knows. But another case came under
my personal observation, where In
vestigation was possible. A woman
bought a shirt waist at a bargain
counter a few years ago and shortly
after wearing it noticed a peculiar
rash on her body. This proved to De
a well-known skin disease, which the
physicians found difficult to cure. Her
husband. made a search and discovered
that the shirt waist had been made
in a dirty sweatshop by a young girl
who for years had been a victim OF
this disease. These bargains were In
deed costly to the purchasers, n the
foolhardiness of buying sweatshop
bargains, physically tainted, becomes
at once apparent.
1t Is conceded that tuberculosis is
Infectious; it is an established TACT
hat many of the tenement houses In
that quarter of New York city known
as the "east side" are filled with
tuberculosis germs; the dried tubercle
has been found in the dust taken by
way of experiment from different
houses at random. There are about
104, 900 people in the entire state or
New York employed in the garment
making industry and of this number
about $4,000 work in this crowded
tenement-house district. Men, women
and children in the last stages OF
consumption work until they are too
weak to sit up, and the garments made
in these infected novels are distributed
all over the country. Is there any
wonder that o~ne-seventh Of the entire
number of deaths is due to tuberculo-
sis? Persons living in Kalamazoo,
Topeka, Richmond or Savannah are
Just as likely to buy these germs with
their garments as though they p.ur-
chased them in New York.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children ~teething, softens the gums, reduces IN
dammation, sllays pain. cures wind collie 25ca bottle.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06
TWO TERRIBLE A
The Untold Agonies of Neglected Kid
ney Troubles.

Mrs. James French, IS Weir Street,
Taunton, Mass, says: when ! began
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-06

A title to heaven = worth more
than all the titles Of earth