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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08
Weepy

1T is strange how some people cry
at weddings"
Yes, but you've probably noticed
that it's never the single people who
cry
"Weu?"
well it is only the married ones
who realize the tragedy of ii. Hous.
ton Post
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08
Milder Methods.

We don't chop off the heads of no
litical enemies as our ancestors used
to do. remarked the man who thinks
humanity is improving
No, answered the practical person.
We let EN- lead campaign and then
chop off the head of the ticket. -
Washington Star
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08

Light blue eyes are generally the
most powerful and next to those are
gray The lighter the pupil the
greater and longer continued is the
degree Of tension the eye can sus-
tain.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08

Elephants foot takes longer to cook
than any other dish 1t must be baked
for thirty-six hours.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08

The majority of the inhabitants Of
Abyssinia are of the Caucasian race
and are we'll formed and handsome
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08

Any one who is acquainted with the
insect life Of Florida will remember
the ubiquitous ant; and now comes
the alarm, sounded in the Entomo-
logical News, that several varieties of
tropical ants have been discovered in
Florida and Alabama, being recent in
Productions. One of these, which is an
especially destructive pest feeds on
either vegetable or animal substances.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08
He Remembered.

EOp.
Yes, my son"
What kind of wood do they use
most in tanning?'
Well, when I went to school
my boy, they used birch. "-Yonkerg
Statesman.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08

Much has been written of the i'm
mense industry that has sprung up
through the discovery of the value of
cottonseed products as stock foods,
but now a Southern economist is en-
deavoring to educate the community
to the use of cottonseed meal as, a
constituent of bread and other articles
of human food. In recent lecture.
given on the subject samples of the
proposed foods which were made in
part from cottonseed meal were ex-
hibited, and on reflection there is
nothing unusual in the proposal,
aside from it's novelty.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08

Bavaria claims to possess the p
highest telegraph and telephone sta
lions in Germany, the highest of
which is that on the Zugspitze, at an
altitude of GIL feet. Since 1904 some
of these Alpine telegraph and tele-
phone stations are open throughout
the whole year, others only during the
summer. They were erected not only
for the convenience of tourists, but
also for the transmission Of valuable
meteorological observations.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08

A German bacteriologist was con-
Quoting an experiment in the source
of which he made use Of typhoid-in-
fected mice In another cage he had
some mice which were in good
health. Shortly after the Uninfected
mice also developed typhoid Inves-
tigation showed that ants were pass
ing from one cage to the other. Some
of these ants were examined, and
their bodies were found to be covered
with the typhoid germs which they
were carrying from the sick to the
we'll mice.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-02-08

The effect of very low temperature
in destroying bacteria has been
greatly over estimated, say E, F.
Smith and D. B. Swingle, who have
frozen different species of bacteria
and other plant and pathogenic forms
in liquid air. Liquid air which has a
temperature of 1870 degrees G. is no
more destructive than salts and
pounded ice. The critical point Of
bacteria seems to be about 0 degrees
c., and if they are able 10 stand this
amount of cold, further freezing.
seems to have little effect on them.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

Cogswell, Cornish, Collister. Cutten,
Whitmore and Davis.
Committee on rules and regulations
Leeds (chalrman), Johnson of Sacra-
mento, Behan, Walsh and Mr.. Speaker.
Committee on state hospitals and asy-
lums-Held (charman), Jury, O'Brien,
PercIvaL Bush, Strobridge, Lemon.
Spaulding, Weske, Kelly and Beban.
Committee on state library-O' Brien
(chairman), Hans, Smith, Vogel and
Davis.
Committee on state prisons and re-
formatories-Lynch (chairman), Boyle,
cullen, Butler, Snyder, Barry, Pierce,
McMullin and Birdsall.
Committee on swamp and overflowed
lands and drainage--Percival CHAIR
NAM. Lynch, Devlln. Hewitt, Berry,
Campbell, Fratessa, McKeon and Nc
Connell.
Committee on Eshleman
(chairman), Chandler Case, Stetson,
Smith, Otis and Sackett.
Committee on ventilation and ac-
oustics-Cillister (chairman), Burke,
John, O'Brlen and Strohl.
Committee on ways and means-Es-
tudlllo (chairman), Burke, John, Jury,
Held, Chandler Devlln, stroll, Finney,
Costar. Higgins, Mcclellan, Weske and
Mcconnell.
San Francisco elegation-Strohl
(chairaan). Coughlan. Boyle, Cullen,
Vogel, Barry. Behan. Fisher, Fratessa,
Kelly, Hartman, Kohlman, McKeon,
Toomey, Thompson, Wessllng and Will
son.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
BEAST oUTDOES MINER HICKS
Mule Marooned in Snow Has to Wait
for Fluffy White to Melt Be-
fore Relief Comes
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
PASADENA, Jan. 14.-"The Tragedy
of Snowslide Gulch; or Miner Hicks
Outdone by a Mule" might be the title
of the one-act comedy that has been
enacted in the Sierra Medre mountains
since Thursday. On that day party of
drivers with a train of pack mules left
to pack provisions up the mountain
trail to the hotel at the top. Half way
up the animals refused to go further.
In attempting to urge the lead mule to
continue the journey Joe o'Keefe, one
of the drivers. urged too much and the
brute In sheer stubbornness made a
leap over the edge of the trail, turned
turtle and slid 1000 feet down the slop-
ing bank to the bottom OF the gulch.
Marooned In the snow, the mule is
fed hay and grain. but there is no
manner of means by which he can be
extrlcated from his position till the
snow melts from around him.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
TRAINS COLLIDE; KILL THREE
Railroad Employees of Rock Island
Lose Lives, but Passengers
Are Only Injured
BY Associated Press.


KANSAS CITY, MO, Jan. 14-Rock
Island passenger train No. 26 which
left here at 9:O5 tonight, collided with
freight train at Waldron, Mo-, seven
miles north of Parkville, Three train
men are dead and a number of passen-
gers injured,
The dead:
ENGINEER MCQUEEN of passenger
train.
BAGGAGEMAN CHARLES HUNT
Of passenger train.
Fireman Of passenger train, name
not learned.
The freight train was on switch
which had been left open and the pas
senger train, going at full speed, ran
onto the switch and crashed into the
freight. The freight engine was
ditched and the passenger plunged
through the freight cars, smashing
and derailng them until it was
stopped,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
FIND
MANY VICTIMS
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money he loaned them when they said
they We're temporarily short of funds
A few of the young men who are
said to have handed over money are:
l. C. Johnson, 81 West Sixth street
George H. Watt, 1043 Maple avenue.
w. Thayer, 405 Carolina street.
e. Vinegar, 49S California.
E. H. Bankson, 1433 East Fifty-sixt
street; teamster.
+. II. Felitz, 724 Wall street
Bankson was engaged to haul orders
to and from the depots He was wait
ing to be supplied with wagon and
he is said to have put down 81 to hold
his job.
John Stuck, 3411a South Spring street
was not stuck by the two men. They
wanted So from him, but he would not
cash in.
7, r. Leggett, a drummer Of twenty
years experience. did not cash in eth
err as he was afraid of the game.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
SENATE RECEIVES
BROWNSVILLE EXHIBITS
AND COMMUNICATION
BY Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-The presi-
dents Brownsville message, accompa-
MED by box neatly wrapped and tied
with red tape containing cartridges
and shells, as exhibited in the case,
was received by the senate today. The
message was attentively listened to
until Mr.. Foraker requested that it
be printed, with the accompanying ex-
hibits. He said that the testimony
had been taken as the other was, be-
hind closed doors, without anybody
representing the men, and he would
still insist that they be given hear
ing.
Later Mr.. Foraker went to the clerks
desk and unwrapped the package and
took from the cigar box for a thorough
inspection the bullets and shells the
president had sent
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

eriy winds.
The rain which Forecaster Wollaber
is again invoking to submerge the city
is a live argument against permitting
a Seattle weather man, accustomed to
calling forth rain daily, TO WELD the
rod of power in the sunshine city of
Los Angeles.
AS a rancher's delight the present
season of 1887 inches of rain has been
a decided success, but for the ordinary
inhabitant of the Angel City such
muchness of moisture covering the
streets and sidewalks is far from
pleasant.
The sunshine machine is becoming
stiff jointed from lack of use, while
the rain recorder Is almost worn out
from overexertion.
The present storm is described by
Mr. Wollaber as a moderate disturb
ance central off the northern coast or
California" Its influence is being felt
all over the southwest, showers hav-
ing occurred throughout California and
the adjoining states.
Directly east of the storm Is great
high area which is effectually prevent
ing it's movement eastward. This high
area has caused the coolest weather OF
the year in the northwest, while even
as far south as Nebraska the thermom-
eter has dropped to zero.
At Havre 3S degrees below zero was
the minimum temperature, while Bis
marck registered 22 below. Northfield,
for long time the coldest place on the
weather map, has at last got rid OF its
undesirable notoriety by forgetting to
send In the weather forecast, so the
outside world no longer knows what
that little village Is suffering.
In the north the rains have not pre-
vented the railraod company from COM
pleting the repairs on their tracks, and
by today 1t Is expected that the entire
coast line viii be thrown open for
traffic. Yesterday the entire line had
been repaired with the exception of
a stretch between Santa Barbara and
Ventura and In the Lompoc country.
AS soon as this Is repaired the trains
will be sent outI and the company ex-
pected to have 1t ready for traffic by
today.
The valley line which has been de-
pended upon to bring down the coast
trains, has not suffered from wash
outs.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
LOS ANGELES MAN is
BRITISH VICE-CONSUL
By Assoclated PICS.

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 14.-Allen Hutchin-
son, formerly of Los Angeles, has been
appointed temporary British vice con-
sui, 10 take the place of A. l.. Best,
who for a short time took the place of
the late Major Allen. His papers are
expected to arrive daily, as his ap-
pointment dates from January 1.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

wagon became imbedded in the mud,
and while he was urging the horse to
pull the load Hickey caught up to him
and ordered his arrest. Martinez was
about fifty feet from the city Jail when
he was taken into custody, and his
delivery at the structure was made
mucho pronto.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
FEAR To BUILD
ON STATES LAND
Discover That Fraction of Work Calls
for Usurping Comm onwealth's
Territory and Doubt Le-
gaIity of Contract
Special to The Herald.

Special TO Ihe Herald.
VENICE, Jan. t4.-Work on the con-
struction of the citys proposed $4,000
seawall to extend a third of a mile
south from Center street Is being held
up because of the contracting firms re-
cent discovery that a fraction of the
work calls for usurping state land, over
which the city has no authority, and
which might cause question being
raised as to the validity of the con-
tract.
City Trustee Force Parker, a Los
Angeles attorney, states that the law
provides for municipality protect
ing it's sea frontage, and as the sea-
wall Is being built because of the pc
titions of property owners who must
foot the cost and as no objection has
been raised to it's construction the con-
tractor Is unduly alarmed and that
there is not the remotest possibility
of the legality of the contract affecting
the payment for the work. In some
quarters the belief is expressed that
the parties having the work i'm hand
have encountered obstacles that were
not taken into consideration when the
contract was bid in, and would well
come an opportunity to get out of
their bargain.
More Trouble for Kinney
ly the threats and discord coming from
the bath house management, Abbot
Kinney has taken steps to abrogate
the contract existing between the
lessees of the bath house and himself.
The last rupture Is said to have oc-
Cured a few days ago when announce
ment was made that unless certain
overtures We're made suit would be
| brought against Mr.. Kinney for dam
age sustained to property in the build
ing through leaks that let in the rain.
Recently Mr.. Kinney was put to con-
siderable embarrassment through the
attitude of the lessees in threatening to
bring suit against him If the city
should build a municipal building on a
site that he had donated for that pur-
pose, but which the bath house peo-
pie claimed he had promised to make
another use os when they had entered
into their agreement with him. Lo-
cally 1t Is believed that Mr.. Kinney
viii have little trouble showing cause
why the contract should be invalidated.
Robbed While at Work
Jere de Conte, who conducts a small
vegetable stall on Trolleyway, reported
to the police this morning that thieves
had entered his place and stolen SIS
from the cash till. The robbery was
committed while De Conte was busy In
the front OF his establishment.
M. Martinez, a vagrant Mexican, was
arrested shortly after 5 o'clock this
morning after he had attempted to
drive out of the city with a wagonload
of lumber that belonged to w. Hickey,
who is building a residence structure
ceeded about three blocks when the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

was to prove false to nv sworn duty.
IF any one of the men discharged
hereafter shows to my satisfaction that
he Is clear Of guilt or of shielding the
guilty I will take what action Is war
ranted; but circumstances have above
detailed most certainly put on such
man the duty Of clearing himself
"(Signed)
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
THE White House. Jan. IL, 1907"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
Snow Near San Jose

BY Associated Press.
SAN JOSE, Jan, 14,-Snow fell in
Alum Rock park, seven miles from
this city, this afternoon.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15

into her beautiful azure eyes,
AS he kissed and called her dear"
For they had been married year.
Chicago News.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
RAIN RECORDER
IS WEARING OUT
Disturbance Along Coast Of California
Unable to Move East on Account
of High Area Caused by
Frigid Weather

Total rainfall of season, 1857 inches.
Rainfall to date last year, $40 inches.
Precipitation yesterday, IL of an
inch.
Forecast--Rain Tuesday; brisk south
erIy winds.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
SECRETARY TAFT
ADDS EVIDENCE TO
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
Rv Associnted pross.

BY NSSOCi0ted Iross.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-The fol-
lowing letter of Secretary Taft to the
president, transmitting additional testi-
mony on the Brownsville case, was
submitted with the message:
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
mo- OURE A GOLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Asromo Quinine Tablets
Druggists refund money II II fails to cure
u. w. Groves signature is on each box. 25c
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
WAR DEPARTMENT.
"WASHINGTON. Jan. 12, 1907.


My dear Mr. President: on the
ed day of December, 1906, you directed
me to send Major Blocksom of Browns
vile and neighborng places to pro-
cure sworn testimony. reduced to
writing, and signed by the witnesses,
with reference to the persons who were
the perpetrators of the outrage COM
mitted at Brownsville on the night of
August 13, and ordered the assistant
TO the attorney general, Mr., Purdy, to
accompany Major Blocksom to assist
him in the examination of the Wit
nesses.
II have the honor to transmit to YOU
Il copy of all the testimony taken, and
reduced to writing by Major Blocksonl,
under Mr.. Purdy's examination, ex-
cept the statement of one witness,
which had little or no bearing on the
issues raised upon the present evil
dence, nor did it have a direct bear
ing on the issue to be raised in the
court-martial proceedings pending
against Captain Macklin, and which l
have transmitted to Brigadier General
McCaskey, commanding the Depart
ment of Texas. to be delivered to the
judge advocate in the court-martial
proceedings.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
Gives Detailed Evidence

II also enclose sworn statement of
one witness, who is a hospital steward
named Francis Oltmans. taken by In
spector General Darlington. l also en-
close a report from General Crozier,
chief of the ordnance, and Captain
Rice, with respect to the Springfield
rifle, model of 1898, in use by the SOL
diers of the Twenty-f1fth infantry, its
operations, its caliber and its rifling,
the existence of other guns using the
same cartridges of the same size, ETC."
Secretary Taft then submits a de-
tailed review of all the evidence taken
which indicates that the shooting was
done by negro soldiers using Spring
field rifles.
Secretary Taft today sent to the
president brief supplemental letter
referring to the evidence of Pauloni
Preciado, which the secretary COM
mented on in his summary of the tes-
timony taken by Mr.. Purdy, and say
ing that since sending in the evidence
and letter of transmittal he has come
across what purports to be a copy of
the Preciado evidence before the grand
jury which expressly contradicts and
impeaches his later evidence.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-15
Rest of Order Stands

LAS o the rest OF the order dismlsslng
the individuals I'm question without
honor and declaring the effect of such
discharge under the law and regula-
tions to lie a bar to their future re-
enlistment either i'm the army or the
navy there is no doubt of my consti-
tutional and legal power The order
was within my discretion, under the
and the laws, and cannot
be reviewed or reversed save by an ex-
ecutiye order The facts did not merely
warrant the action l took-they rem
dered such action imperative unless /
The Washington herald., 1907-01-11
yerdict Of the Coroner-s Iu,-v.

The verdict of the coroner's jury in re-
Iation TO the railroad tragedy at Terra
Gotta has received universal commenda-
ton. The law must now deal with the
men held to be directly or Indirectly re-
sponsible for the terrible affair
The recommendations Of the jury in re-
gard to the system in vogue on the Net
ropolitan Branch will appeal to every one
as being the natural outcome Of the reve-
lations made upon the witness stand. a
railroad is supposed, above an things. 20
be well managed It's officials are men
of superior intelligence, who are generally
promoted after long service and expert
ence. and who are acquainted with every
detail of train movement. It is evident.
however, that into the management of
the Baltimore and Ohio road there had
Crept laxity which, in the end, was at
tended with fatal results. 1t was a mis-
take. in the first place, To establish block
signal stations which were In commission
at G.29 D. m and out Of commission at
C:sl. two minutes later; but when such
system had been inaugurated. it was GER
tainly somebody's duty TO see that the
operators cdrefuliN observed Jie closing
time. As a matter of fact. some Of these
offices We're closed as early as ii
few minutes after s on one night and
others remained open until nearly = In
addition 70 all this uncertainty, there was
no rule or practice which positively as
sured constant agreement between the
clocks in the signal stations and the
watches of the conductors and engineers.
There was a sort Of haphazagd. happy-go-
lucky air about the management which
impressed the jury most unfavorably.
II is evident. too. that long hours Of la
Dor and multiplicity Of duties seriously
interfered with the efficiency Of the men
who were responsible for the movement
Of trains The jury was right when il
called attention to these conditions. and il
is to be hoped that the warning win not
The Washington herald., 1907-01-11
A Good Sign.

Glad hope, long deferred and persist
emily discouraged, viii convert into a true
sign OF policy the executive action this
week in appointing Col L. S. Godfrey,
Ninth Cavalry, 20 the grade Of brigadier
general Of the army. He succeeds 10 the
vacancy made by the appointment Of Brig.
Gen. J. Franklin Bell 10 be a major gem
eral, and the incident sets at rest a
rivalry which included many army officers
in the list Of active or expectant candi-
dates, even to those of the rank OF cap
tain. The President has seven brigadier-
ships 70 hll this year, and the appointment
Of Godfrey makes none less, since that
odicer goes on the retired list under oper-
alton Of law in October and so affords an
opportunity within that period for the ap-
pOutment of his successor.
The practice-for it has become a prac-
uce-of appointing junior army officers to
the position Of brigadier general has been
demoralizing in the array 1t has caused
much discomfort. as il was bound 70 do.
TIE captains and majors who were can
didates, and who failed Of the recognition
they felt vas due them. have unwillingiy
resumed their subordinate tasks. for il
may be imagined that a captain or a
major who feels he should be appointed a
brigadier general can have no heart in
The performance of his duties In any
lesser grade. But the effect was more
than that upon the disappointed indi-
viduai asPirants. The prodigious jump OF
juniors over seniors has had a discourag
ing effect upon the military personnel
generally. No eloquent defense Of the vio-
lencc committed in this way has served
to lessen the dissatisfaction.
II is high time that the President
frowned upon favOritism in army ap-
pointments, and il is with wholesome ef-
feet that his latest action IN filing a va
cant brigadiership results in the selection
Of a colonel Of the line. and tie senior
colonel at that, man of splendid record.
especially on the frontier against the in-
dians. No one can find fault with such
an appointment, FOR Gen. Godfrey meets
all the requirements of personal reputa-
uon, professional fitness. and service
achievement in the characteristics Of a
b-igadier general
1t is to be hoped the President viii con-
fine this years appointments 10 the grade
of brigadier general Of The army @ colo
usls Of the line. There are enough OF
them in the cavalry. artillery, and infan-
try to make II unnecessary TO seek benef-
ciaries among the junior officers.