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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-04-10
PERSONAL,

Miss Mayme Hollum spent the first
of the week in Goodman, having
charge of Pickens Bros Co.'S. milli.
merry opening at that place
r. M. Gwin spent Tuesday on the
idyllic banks of placid FuHnagu
and met with splendid success In his
piscatorial efforts.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. W. Pickens, of
Goodman, attended the Shelby. Gwin
nuptials at Grenada Tuesday.
DR.. j. r. Watson and j, s. Watson
went to Memphis Monday on business,
returning Thursday
Hon. and Mrs. Fl. II. EImore went
over to Durant yesterday on visit to
relatives.
Burwell Humphreys, of Ebenezer,
visited Lexington on business Tues
day.
Hon. G.. Fl. McMorrough went to
Cruger on legal business Wednesday.
John L, Dyson made social and bus.
mess calls at Tchula yesterday.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-04-10

Dr.. J. Fl. McBee, DR.. B. A. Shep.
herd and DIR. L. s, Rogers, of this
county, are on the program for discus
sion at the State Medical Associa-
tlon's meeting at jackson, which he.
gins on the 14th inst.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-04-10
New Medical Officers.

The Medical Society at its meeting
Tuesday elected the following officers
for the ensuing term DR.. B. ]. Mar.
shall, president; DR.. B. J. Farr,
vice president; DIR. j. 81 McBee, sec
retary and treasurer.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-04-10
Holmes Needs Geolosist.

John A. Williamson, while digging
well, at the depth of forty feet
struck stratum which to him had an
auriferous appearance. He brought a
sample to town and all local scientists
who saw it declared it to contain the
genuine article.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-04-10

Rev. S. G. Hutton, Of Winona, will
preach in the Presbyterian Church at
o'clock Tuesday evening, April 1 and
at 10 O'Clock in The morning and eight
in evening on May 1st. The public
generally is cordially invited to at
tend
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-04-10

If a man is In love, that is
his business; If a lady Is In
love, that Is her Business; II
YoU want anything In the
gents furnishing line, that is
our business. Lipsey-Keirn
tn
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Mr.. Tackett Improyine,

Hon. W. P. Tackett was taken yerv
Ill with congestive chills last Sunday,
but his condition has since been i'm.
proving.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-04-10

DR.. E. j. johnson, of Yazoo City,
was here one day last week to perform
an operation on Mrs. Slack, who is
with her daughter, Mrs. r. H. Cole
The operation was successful and the
patient is improving.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-04-10
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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-04-10

81. e. Buck has been suffering with
rheumatism in his eyes and last week
consulted DR.. Sims, the specialist.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-04-10

Among the prettiest homes in the
city is the newly completed residence
o.. DR.. Kenneth Farr, which is compli-
mented by all for its neat and tasty
appearance and snug convenience.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1908-04-10

Mrs. Martha Aldridge died Wednes.
day of last week at the residence of
her daughter, Mrs. Sam Ellington,
near Bowling Green. Sincere sympa
thy is extended to the sorrowing ones
Mrs. W. j. Overstreet had the mis-
fortune last week while lifting an OBJ
ject over wire fence to lose her bal
ance and fall on the fence badly lace.
rating her arm.
Mr., and Mrs. E. r. Lipsey, of
Franklin, have the congratulations of
friends over the arrival Of pair of
twins--a boy and girl, at their home
last week.
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Mr.. and Mrs. E. W. Pickens, of
Goodman, attended the Shelby. Gwin
nuptials at Grenada Tuesday.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-19
LEAGUE OF JUSTICE
TO DEMAND HONEST
NEWS OF GRAFT TRIALS

Fair treatment for the graft prose-
cutors in the news and editorial col
umns of the prograft press will be de-
manded by the Citizens League of JUS
tice Decision to that effect was
reached last night by the committee
of so of the League of Justice. and a
special committee to press the de-
mands will be appointed by Prof.
George III. Boke, secretary manager of
the league.
prefaced in resolution adopted at
the monster mass meeting held on sat
urday night declaring for an honest
press. The plan, as outlined by the
committee, Will consist of visits made
to locol prograft newspaper offices,
where demands will be made upon the
proprietors for honest treatment in
both news and editorial columns.
In this manner the committee hopes
to present the truthful version of graft
Speakers at the meeting last night de-
clared that the great confusion of
mind among the people of San Fran
cisco arose out of false, colored or sup
pressed reports. The committee pro-
poses to compel the elimination of
and will insist that no reports be sup
pressed which should be given to the
public.
A committee was also appointed to
INVESTIGATE proposed reforms in Grim
inal law in this state. According TO
members of the committee of so the
present criminal laws give an advan
tage to the criminal rather than to So
ciety. The committee will make an ef
fort to determine why legal technical
of the graft cases should not be swept
away.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-19
The
General Demand

OF the Well-Informed of the World has
always been for a simple, pleasant
and efficient liquid laxative remedy of
known value; a laxative which physi-
clans could sanction for family use
because its component parts are
known to them to be wholesome and
truly beneficial in effect, acceptable
to the system and gentle. yet promnt
in action.
In supplying that demand with it's
excellent combination of Syrup of
Figs and Elixir OF SIENNA, the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along
ethical lines and relies on the merits
OF the laxative for it's remarkable
success.
!. That is one of many reasons wny
syrup OF Figs and Elixir of Senna is
given the preference by the Well
Informed. To get its beneficial effects
always buy the genuine-manufac
tured by the California Fig Syrup Co..
only. and for sale by all leading
Guggists. Price fifty cents per bottle
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-19
SHERIFF TESTIFIFS
AGAINST LAMPHER[
Officer duplicates Defendant in
Tragedies at the GUINNESS
Place

LA PORTE, Ind, Nov. 1S.-Carefully
working up to the evidence with which
he will try to show that Ray Lamphere
set fire to the home of Mrs. Guinness
and thereby supposedly caused the
death of Mrs. Guinness and her three
children, Prosecutor Smith in the trial
of Lamphere today unraveled before
the jury stories of the fire told by men
who were earliest on the scene. The
greatest interest naturally eentered
about the testimony of Joseph Max
son, Mrs. Guinness hired man, who es-
capped from the burning Guinness home.
Sheriff Smutzer told on the stand of
the circumstances connected with An
drew Helgelein's presence in La Porte.
He said that early in January Ray
Lamphere came to him and said: 'If
want to tell something I can make it
interesting for her"
Sheriff Shutter understood him to
mean Mrs. Guinness. Lamphere went
on to tell the sheriff that Mrs. Guinness
was then looking for a man named
Helgelein, who was wanted in South
Dakota for murder, having held up a
man in a gambling house and secured
$4,000. but had been forced to kill the
fellow before he could get away. Sher-
iff Shutter Immediately wired to the
authorities in Aberdeen and received
in reply a telegram which said that
there had been no murder. no $4,000
robbery, that Andrew Helgelein was
a well known farmer in that vicinity
and that he was not wanted there for
any crime.
month later Lampherc, when ques-
tiioned by Sheriff Shutter regarding
Helgelein, told the officer that Hell
gelein had left La Porte FOR Chicago
that morning on the $40 train.
Sheriff Shutter said he was notified
of the fire about o'clock on the
morning of April IS, and told of finding
the bodies in the northeast corner
where the fire had been the hottest all
day, and where the greatest amount of
debris was found. The finding of
Helgelein's dismempered body was also
described by the witness.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-19
Stomach Gases
and Torpid Liyers
Give Way Before the Peculiar PHri-
Tying Power of Stuart's Char
coal LOzenges
A Trial Package sent Free.

The foul gases Of the stomach and
the torpid action of the liver are easy
victims for charcoal to overcome.
This great natural cleaner and ab-
sOrbent will most certainly be relished
by a system afflicted with gaseous or
sluggish tendencies.
Charcoal has long been known as q
great absorbent OF gas A painful OF
charcoal viii positively purify room
filled with foul odors and decay. It's
absorbing ratio is one hundred times
greater than its own volume.
The ancients gave charcoal for many
human ills successfully. The North
American Indians used IL for snake
bite and poison from eating wild herbs
and cured what they called stomach
bad medicine" with il.
Willow charcoal seems to be the best
the peculiar curative property OF the
quality q isiGU in its Y' charcoal -
willow and rVSSi sweet honey nesIS Blended @ by
tremendous power and compression
into a very palatable lozenge. Two or
prevent the process OF digestion from
producing nOXiOus gases They will
vivify a lazy liver and aid every organ
which is most likely to be overcome
through its contact with impurities
They cleanse the stomach and inteS-
tines. bring purity and sweetness out
of fermentation and decay and aid di-
aid you and your stomach. The bene-
fetal effects are made evident after
each meal when you use charcoal as
night they are excellent and one arises
in the morning without that terrible
nauseating bad breath which destroys
appetite and renders one miserable
All druggists sell Stuart's Charcoal
Lozenges. price twenty-five cents. or
send US your name and address and we
will send you a trial package by mail
free. Address F. A. Stuart Co. zoo
Stuart BLDG. Marshall. Mich
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-19
WOMEN'S LEAGUE TO
DECLARE FOR LAW
Preamble Supporting Prosecu-
ton to Be Signed at
Mass Meeting
Committee Drafts in Ringing
Phrases Expression of
Fealty to Justice

Realizing the serious condition of
public affairs in this city, and fearing
the degradation of the city in the
eyes of the world, should we, from a
low and torpid state of the public con-
science. acquiesce in any permanent
miscarriage of justice, l hereby ex-
press my condemnation of every act
to impede the course of law in the
trial of the graft cases and pledge
my complete services in the cause now
before us-that Of establishing justice
in our midst"
After careful consideration a COM
mittee representing the womens
branch of the Citizens League or JUS
tice adopted the foregoing preamble
that will appear above the names of
hundreds of women who will attend
the Women'S mass meeting TO be held
next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
An effort is being made by this com
mittee to obtain permission to hold
the meeting in Calvary Presbyterian
church. in Fillmore street near Jack
son.
This action was decided upon after
the first meeting of the women's
branch held on Tuesday afternoon in
the assembly room of the Pacific
building. when De Young's Chronicle
and Hearst's Examiner were held up
TO scorn and caustically criticised.
Since the first meeting hundreds of
women have Joined the Citizens league
and many have lent assistance to the
routine work that is being done by
the league in the way of mailing let
ters to hundreds of San Franciscans
asking their hearty support in the
hgnt against the pro-graft forces.
The second meeting of the women's
branch will be held this afternoon at
z o'clock in the Pacific building as
sembly room and further consideration
will be given to the details of the
mass meeting. There yet remains to
be accomplished. of the preliminary
work, the selection of prominent
speakers, including men who are in
terested in the fight for decency, club
women and representatives of the
working women. A strong effort will
be made to interest the latter in the
The meeting today will be in charge
of Mrs. Alfred Gerberding. chairman;
Mrs. I. A. Stark, secretary; Mrs. Ella
Rose Hathaway and Miss Catherine
Hittell
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-19
RICH CONTRACTOR
OPPOSES DIVORCE
Mrs. Thomas w. Butcher of San
MateO Park Charges Many
Acts of Cruelty

REDWOOD CITY. Nov. 1S.-The mari
tai troubles of the Thomas w. Butcher
family, one time prominent residents
of San Mateo park, where they owned
a $50 900 home. We're publicly aired to-
day in Judge Bucks court in the hear
ing Of the suit for divorce brought by
the wife. Emma W. Butcher. on the
ground of cruelty. William H. Schooler
appeared for Mrs. Butcher in the place
of Sullivan & Sullivan & Roche. who
have Withdrawn from the case, while
the interests of the contractor were
in the hands of Frank II. Gould.
Putting before the court the wishes
OF his client regarding property and
stating that Butcher was worth $780,
600. of which he had S51, 900 on hand
while ne was credited with an income
of $500 a month, Schooler opened the
proceedings by placing Mrs. Masshardt
on the stand.
The complaint recited that Butcher
had been especially cruel to his wife
for seven years. in places ranging from
Blackpool, England. and the lakes of
Killarney to Florence, Italy, and round
the globe TO San Francisco. In Flor
ence. according to the complaint, Butch
er accused his wife of having improper
relations with people in San Francisco;
while on the lakes OF Killarney he
showed her so forcibly while they were
in a boat that Mrs. Butcher fell into
the water
Mrs. Masshardt, who was employed
by the Butchers as house keeper,
brought the testimony down to May s,
1908. when, the house keeper said,
Butcher swore at his wife and said
that his wife was attempting to get
a rich man in the house, adding, You'll
need one when 1 get through with it,"
During the quarrel doors were de-
stroyed, a box of tin containing papers
and innumerable shirt waists. skirts
and articles of underwear belonging to
Mrs. Butcher We're destroyed or dam
aged by the contractor.
Mrs. Butchers cross examination was
of a highly sensational order Hear
ing viii be resumed tomorrow morning.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-19
TRAIN OF ORANGES
PILES Up IN WRECK
Sixteen Carloads of California
Fruit Scattered Along
Track in Nevada
Smashup, Worst in Years, Ties
Up Passenger Traffic for
Twelve Hours
SPECIAL DrsPATcH TO THE CALL

RENO. New. Nov. 1s.-Sixteen cars OF
one of the first trains OF California
oranges to leave that state were de-
molished in a wreck of a Southern
Pacific freight train six miles west OF
Golconda at 1 o'clock this morning,
and trains have been delayed over Il
hours as a result.
Railroad officials say the wreck is
the most disastrous to occur In the
state in years. Transcontinental trains.
including the Overland limited for chi
cagO and No. 4. are on the west side
of the wreck. while the westoound
flyer and No. 5 are on the east side,
thus tying up traffic both ways Side
tracks for $50 miles on either side OF
the wreck are filed with stalled trains
The scattered debris piled the tracks
high with parts Of the cargo. rails
were torn up and the ties destroyed
Late this afternoon wreckers from
Sparks and Carlin were removing the
mass and Iaborers started to build a
temporary track around the blockade
A broken journal caused the wreck
L. A Graves, brakeman. was injured
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-19
BARES CONSPIRACY OF
ALASKA GOLD THIEVES
Mine Laborers Organized for
High Grading; One Is
Caught and Confesses
SPECIAL. DISPATCH TO THE CALL

SEATTLE, Nov. 1s.-R. r. Reed,
charged with bringing stolen property
into the state. was yesterday released
from the county jail on parole by the
assistant prosecuting attorney after
making a clean breast of all his
crimes. Reed has laid bare the organ
lied conspiracy on the part of the
Alaska mine laborers to steal gold
from the Alaska mine owners and hide
it away until opportunity offered to
take it out of the district Reed will
be taken to Fairbanks, where his evil
dence will be used in the apprehension
and conviction of the gang of crimi-
nails.
During the three months in which
he stated he committed the thefts. he
cleaned up $4,000 of $4,000 of which
$500 was recovered, being dug up from
spot in his yard designated by him.
Twenty or 80 men are implicated in
the thieving and all will be brought
to justice.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-19
CARTER TOO BUSY TO
TALK OF HIS LAWSUIT
Former Captain of Engineer
Corps Acting as Superin=
tendent of Brick Company
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALI

MEXICO. Mo. Nov 1s.-oberlin
Montgomery Carter, former captain OF
the engineer crops of the United States
army was found today acting as the
superintendent of the Mexico BRICK
and fire clay company a New York
concern.
Carter was reticent wien seen By
a repr sentative OF the press concern
ing his case in the federal courts in
Chicago. and refused TO discuss The
merits of his suit against the United
States government
4 do not care for any further news
paper notoriery." he said. L am too
busily engaged to discuss my personal
business"
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-19
PROSECUTION LEADERS
TO ADDRESS BIG MASS
MEETING IN BERKELEY

BERKELEY, Nov. 1S.-Prof. Lincoln
Hutchinson of the University of Cali
fornia announced today the names of
those who will speak at the big citi-
zens' mass meeting to be held in this
city in Harmon gymnasium tomorrow
night TO indorse the work of the graft
prosecution. They are as follows
ATTORNEY Charles S. Wheeler, regent
of the university and one of the lead
ing members of the bar; Rudolph
Spreckels, main supporter of the prose-
cution in San Francisco; J. A. Elston,
local attorney and Prof. A. c. Miller.
head of the department of economics
of the university
More than 100 leading citizens of
this city have signed the roll calling
the meeting. Mayor Francis Ferrier
of this city will preside at the meetr
ing. which will be held under the di-
rection of the town officials. university
faculty and citizens of Berkeley. The
university students will attend in a
body
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-19
BERKELEY BOARDS
DFNOUNCE GRAFT
Educators and Town Trustees
Deplore Conditions in San
Francisco
Give Vigorous Endorsement of
Prosecution and Ask for
Stringent Laws

BERKELEY. Nov. 1S.-By unanimous
vote the board of education went on
record last night and strongly de-
nounced the conditions in the graft
trials in San Francisco. Pointing with
special emphasis to the fraud and
chicanery which have been practiced.
the board declared that the laws must be
changed to stop the jockeying that has
marked the obstructionist tactics of
the grafters. The resolutions, pre-
sented by Prof E. P. Lewis, president
of the board and a member of the
faculty of the University of California,
are as follows:
Whereas, the efforts of the prose-
cutting officers of San Francisco to
bring to. trial persons charged with
grave offenses against the community
for, more than two years have been
Dalked by unreasonable distractions on
the part of the accused and by appeals
TO the selfish interests and preJudices
Tor the purpose of obscuring the points
at issue and defeating the adminlstra-
tion of Justice and
Whereas, unchecked civic corruption
and the impotence and the prostitution
of the laws are shameful blots on our
democracy and a practical object lesson
TO our children, which no teach1ng OF
abstract patriotism in our schools can
counteract. be it
Resolved, that the board of education
of Berkeley having especially in mind
the influence of these widespread eVlIs
on the children of the community, here-
by expresses it's adherence of all at
tempts 10 defeat the ends of Justice py
technical delays, trickery and violence
and its belief that the principal saIe-
guard of the republic lies in the
prompt. just and impartial enforcement
of the laws; be it further
Resolved That we hereby request
our legislative representatives TO en-
deavor to so amend the laws tnat
efforts to delay and defeat the ADMIN,
istration of Justice on immaterlai
grounds shall be made Intellectual; be
1t further
Resolved, that copies of these resolu-
tions be sent to the legislative repre-
senta tives
TRUSTEES EXPRESS SYMPATHY
The board of town trustees unanl :
mouSly adopted resolutions last nlsht
which were introduced by Trustee f; r.
Connor, expressing the boards entlre
accord and sympathy with every nom
est effort which San Francisco was
making to bring criminals to justice.
Sympathy was extended to Francis j.
Heney with the hope that he would be
speedily restored to complete health.
The attempt to murder him was de-
plored Admiration was expressed for
the sister city at the Golden Gate ana
the hope that San Francisco would
speedily be able TO rid itself of crimi-
nal bribe givers and bribe takers
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-19
WORLDS LARGEST LENS
EN- ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA
Big Glass for Mount Wilson
Weighs Over Six Tons and
Is Worth 100000
sPECIAL DIsPATCH TO THE -

NEW YORK. Nov. 1s.-what is said
to be the most costly and biggest tele-
scopic lens ever imported to this coun-
try was unloaded today from the
steamship St. Andrew Of the Phoenix
line. at the foot Of Seventh street.
Hoboken. consigned to the Mount VIII
son observatory at Pasadena. CaL Dr.
George Hale. scientific authority on the
sun and a famous astronomer. was in
charge.
The lens was cast at St. Godin.
France. 1t is 100 inches in diameter
and weighs nearly six and half tons
In its unpublished state ii is valued at
$4,000.
So precious and difficult to handle
was this huge stellar mirror that two
steamship companies refused 10 ship il.
Many hours were consumed in trans
ferring the parcel TO the Morgan line,
which win carry il TO New Orleans.
Thence a specially prepared freightear
will transfer 1t over the Southern Pa
eifc TO Pasadena.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-19
CHORAL UNION PLANS
CONCERT OF 500 VOICES
All Singers on Peninsula to Be
Organized by PaIo Alto
Society

PALO ALTO. Nov. 1s.-The first meet
ing of the Palo Alto choral union, which
eventually hopes to combine all of the
singing societies of the peninsula,in one
organization, was held last night and
proved most successful. Forty of the
better known local singers were pres
ent and the first rehearsal of the
"Stabat Mater was given under the
direction of Prof H. Roland Roberts.
Plans are being made for the produc-
tion of a great entertainment at Stan
ford university in March, at which time
the combined chorus selected from the
various peninsula cities will consist OF
at least 500 voices. A series of three
concerts will be given, the first being
in the nature of an artists recital. On
the following afternoon concert Will
be given by the Chicago symphony or
chestra the choral union appearing in
"Stabat Mater" that evening.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-19
RENDERS OPINION ON
INDECENT SICK CASES
City Attorney Says Pauper Pa
tients May Be Returned
to Their Counties

According TO an opinion given by
the city attorney to the health board
yesterday the city is in the unique
position of being able to send back
indigent sick 10 counties Of the state
from which they have come to the
city and county hospital. This applies
10 those who have not had a residence
Of three months in this county. The
authorities however. have no such
power in regard to a person entering
the institution from another state.
The question arose when DR. Dorr
of the hospital received a man diving
Of tuberculosis whose fare had been
paid from Weed. Oregon. by a con-
tractor who formerly employed the
sufferer. DR. DORIS action was upheld
by Long as not only humane but legal.
and the Office could suggest no way
whereby the cost Of the mans main
tenance could be laid upon the Oregon
county