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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-15

Delegates Page and Cooke are Joint
patrons Of House bill No. II, in rela
ton to the granting Of letters Of ad-
mlnistration on the estate Of any per-
son supposed to be dead, such suppo-
sition being based on the party,s alb
sence for seven years from the place
of his last domicie and not having
been heard from for that period. The
person wishing to obtain administra-
ton on the estate Of such missing
person shall make application to a
circuit or city court as the case may
be, and the court shall cause the fact
of such application to be published
once week for four successive weeks,
and on a certain day. at least two
weeks after the last publication. tho
court shall hear the evidence con-
corning the alleged absence OF the sup
posed decedent. and. II satisfied that
the presumption of deathsis made ou:,
shall so decree. A notice OF the find :
ings shall be inserted for two success
sive weeks In some newspaper publish
ed at or near the place IN the Com
monwealth where, when last heard
from, the supposed decedent had his
residence, which notice shall require
the person in question, If alive, or any
person for him. to produce to the court.
within twelve weeks from the time of
tue last lUSeTliollt SdtioAdCSOTy evidence
OF his continuance OF life. II, within
that time, such evidence Is not forth
coming the court shall direct the clerk
to Issue the letters OF administration
to the party entitled to them, and such
administrator shall have the same
rights and powers that he would have
If the person in question We're really
dead. The court may revoke these
letters at any time on satisfactory
proof that the supposed decedent is.
| in fact alive, but all things previously
done by the administrator shall be as
valid as If tho letters had not been
revoked, and the supposed decedent
may recover any amounts that may
| have been paid out. under the SUPPOSE
ton that he was dead. to his widow.
next OF kin. heirs or distributes.
Such administrator cannot pay money
to any such parties except upon their
Giving sufficient security, to be APP
proved by the court, that they viii
refund the amounts In case the sup
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-15
HERE AND THERE
in THE LEGISLATURE
Speaker Held Centre Of Stage
During Day in House Of
Delegates.
FIGHT COMING IN SENATE
New Attack on r., +. & P. slug,
gests Possibility Of Counter
Move.

~ Y long odds the most generally
interesting measure yet adopted
IN by either branch of the Gem
~ ernl Assembly at the present
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-15
City Government

That provision for such concentra-
ton OF power and Its corresponding
check are not possible In Virginia until
the State Constitution shnll be nmcnd-
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-05-13
A Notable Assemblage.
eCial to the Herald.


Washington, d. c., May 13-When
President Roosevelt called to order
the opening session of the great
White House conference at 10 o'clock
this morning there was gathered in
the east room of the executive man
sion the most notable assemblage of
men in the public eye that has ever
met in the history of the United
States.
The governors of many of the
states of the union were present,
and each was accompanied by three
advisers, carefully chosen from among
the learned of his state Besides the
governors. and their advisers, repre-
sentatives of all the important ma
tional organizations, the welfare of
which depends in greater or less de-
gree upon natural resources, were in
attendance, and, further, there were
present many members of congress
and the official heads of various de-
partments of the government.
The opening address of President
Roosevelt and of other leading partici-
pants occupied the greater part of the
initial session. No set program has
been prepared for the subsequent ses-
sions of the conference, which will
continue over Thursday and Friday.
1t is to be conference in the truest
sense of the word, with the single Dur
pose of getting down to a practical
working basis at once. To that end
there will be an absence of set papers
though in order to open the discus
slons, few recognized authorities will
present brief descriptions of existing
facts and conditions. 1t is hoped that
plans may be so formulated that there
will be immediate and concerted ac-
ton on the part of the different states
toward the conservation of natural
resources, the fundamentally vital
problem, according to the president,
before the people of the United States
today.
The conference will deal with prob |
ems upon which the continued pros
perity of the national vitality depends. !
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-05-13

express the regret of the school board
in his retirement.
Third That copy of this resolu,
ton be forwarded to Dr. Link and
spread on the minutes.
(Signed): Messrs Campbell, Eason,
Hodges, Sterne.
DIR. Link replied feelingly, and stat
ed that he had ever tried to do his
full duty by the school, and that he
very highly appreciated the compli-
ment bestowed upon him.
The business of the old board being
finished the new board proceeded to
organize by the election of Mr.. w. c.
Campbell president and Mr. c. A
Sterne secretary. There being va
cancy by the resignation of Mr.. Ezell,
Mr.. ]. w. Nance was elected to serve
the uneXpired term.
DR.. Garrison of the State University
who visited and inspected the Pales-
tine school, was present, and being in
troduced by Prof. King, superintend,
ent, spoke of the school here, stating
some of its needs, and commencing
the work that is being done. DR.. Gar.
rison said, however, that because of
lack of funds, etc, the school here
was not doing the work it should do,
and would have to improve to retain
its affiliation with the State Univer-
sity, as the standard for admittance
to the university had been raised, and
that all schools will be required to
come up to that standard. He empha-
sized the necessity for nine months
term, etc.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-05-13
ROOSEVELT SAYS IF CONGRESS
DOES NOT PERPETUATE THE
WATERWAYS COMMISSION
THAT HE WILL.
White House Conference
Is Attended BY Governors of Eight
States and Many Prominent Men
From Different Sections of
the Country-President
Is Presiding.
Special to the Herald.


Washington, D. c., May 13.-With
about eight governors and many gen
eral officials and scientists and citi.
zens present for the conference OF
Natural Resources" the sessions be.
gan today President Roosevelt greet.
ed the visitors and invited them into
the east room of the White House.
w. j. Bryan and Governor Hughes oc,
cupied seats together in the front row
of visitors The Marine Band render.
ed a selection, and Rev. Edward Ever.
EFT Hale pronounced the invocation
The president addressed the body,
and concluded his speech by saying
that if congress does not perpetuate
the waterways commission that he
will do it himself.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-05-13
A SW|NDLE EXPOSED
Ambitious Song Writers Have Con
tributed to a Skin Game Carried
on In New York.
Special to the Herald.

Special TO the Herald.
New York, May 1S.-The arrest of
Edward Madden, the song writer, and
the seizure of literature put out by
Madden and his confederates, was the
beginning of an effort on the part of
federal officers to put an end to a
swindle they declare has been per-
petrated upon numerous victims
throughout the country who had am
billions to shine as song writer's. The
government alleges that the men ad-
Vertised to write music and print the
songs for a fee, but all they ever did
was to collect the fee Madden was
the author of Way Down In My Heart
I've Got Feeling For You," and
other songs.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-05-13
REORGANIZATION OF
THE SCHOOL BOARD
MEssRs. c. A. sTERNE, LEO. DA-
WILSON AND w. M. HAMIL-
TON DECLARED ELECT
ED BY THE BOARD.
v. C. Campbell President
New Member Is Chosen to Succeed
Mr.. EzeII, Resigned. w.
Nance Is Selected AS New
Member Enrolment
Is Reported.
The school board met at the Board
d Trade rooms last evening, and the

The school board met at the Board
Trade rooms last evening, and the
routine business was transacted
There were present Dr. Ed Link, pres
ident; Secretary Sterne, and Trustees
Eason, Campbell and Hodges of the
old board, and Messrs. Leo. Davidson
and w. M. Hamilton, the newly elect
ed members.
Superintendent King in his report
gave the enrolment as follows:
Whites, 1902; colored, 56S; total
1,765. Average attendance, whites
S76; colored 1852; total, 1,22S.
The resignation of Mr. E. J. Eel
was read and accepted. All bills for
supplies, election, ETC., were allowed
The election returns for trustees on
the second of May were canvassed
and the following declared elected to
serve for two years: c. A. Sterne IRE
,elected), Leo. Davidson and w. M.
Hamilton The newly elected trustees
were duly sworn in by Judge Phillips,
and they took their seats.
The following resolution was pre-
sented by the four old members of the
board:
Resolved, That the retirement from
the school board of DR.. E. w. Link,
president of the board, is regarded by
the board of trustees as loss to the
public school interests of Palestine.
DR.. Link has given his time and best
efforts for the success of the schools,
and during the first two years of his
service as treasurer, donated to the
school fund the commissions of his
office, amounting to over $4,000.
Second That approaching the pa
triotic service of Dr. Link, we hereby
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-05-13

For this reason it's deliberations are
more fundamentally important and far
reaching than any since the birth OF
the hepublic Never before have the
chic executives of so many states
met one body presided over by the
| chie1 Executive of the nation, and
never before has there been a subject
bigger or broader to cause such q
meet hg.
The range of subjects to be discuss
ed covers the entire program of ma
tional conservation. Preservation oil
existing forests and demonstration OF
lands at present producing nothing,
storage of surplus waters, inland
waterways, irrigation, conservation of
minerals and the prevention of waste
in mining, relation of waterways to
transportation and the relation of rail-
wayd to water lines of carriage, pre-
vent bn of floods and their consequent
destruction of life and property, care
Of the range lands of the West-their
re-gr ssing and proper utilization
thes$ are few of the grand divisions
of the questions to be eXhaustively dis
cussed by the conference.
The keynote of the conference will
be the necessity for cooperation in
conserving the country's natural re-
sources. 1t will first face the trans
portation question. After a paper by
James J. Hill, president of the Great
Northern railroad, the delegates will
discuss the relation between rail and
water transportation. A particularly
important part of this discussion will
relate to terminals The railroads
have at many points gained control of
shore line, which is of strategic i'm
portance in the development of in
land waterways.
Facts will be presented among the
present water transportation systems,
and figures to show the modern de-
cline of transportation upon the inland
waterways. The delegates will con-
slider how the rivers can be utilized
for navigation, power, community sup
ply and irrigation, and how their
proper development for navigation can
be co-ordinated with their use for
those other purposes.
Turning to land resources, the del
egates will be shown how soil is being
impoverished by improper cultivation,
and especially by erosion. This mat
ter of erosion will be gone into very
deeply. Not only will the direct loss
to agriculture be explained, but the
delegates will consider the indirect
losst due to the securing of chan
nels.p THE deposition of debris on bot
tom lands, the building of sandbars
and lthe diversion of streams.
The means of prevention of soil
erosion will be gone into briefly,
and this will lead to discussion of
fUyos wood famine, already
upon the country, will be graphically
preSented, and, as bearing upon the
necessity for forest conservation and
for |reforestration, the conference will
cong slider the beneficial effects of the
forest on the soil, the stream flow,
ground water and the purity and vol
ume of rivers, and, indirectly, on nav
igation.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-05-13
Car Load of Fruit.

A car of mixed fruit, bananas, lem,
ons and cocoatnuts, is now on the
track west of the Ezell Grocery COM
pany, and it is the best fruit yet Of
fered here in a car, and is consigned
directly to w. H. Smith, the original
fruit man. If you want good fruit at
close prices come to the car at once.
Fruit delivered anywhere in the city.
w. H. SMITH,
12-tf The Original Fruit Man.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-05-13
Get the Habit-cook With Gas.
Piles! Piles! PiIesI

Williams Indian Pile Ointment will
cure Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles
1t absorbs the tumors, allays itching
at once, acts as poultice, gives in
slant relief. Williams Indian Pile
Ointment is prepared for Piles and
itching. Sold by druggists, mail SOC
and $100. Williams Manufacturing
Co., Props, Cleveland, o.
For sale by Bratton Drug Co.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-05-13
PROGRAM
For Knights of Pythias Memorial Ser
vice Sunday Afternoon.

Following is the program for the X
of p. memorial service. to be held at
Pythian Castle Hall Sunday afternoon
next at 8 O'clock The public is cor,
daily invited
Prayer by Prelate
Opening Ode-Members.
Vocal Solo, There's a Green Hill
Far Away"-Miss Annie Walker.
Sometime Wen Under
stand"
Memorial Address,. V. Swift.
Quartette-"We1l Never Say Good
Bye"
Vocal Solo, THE Homeland"-Miss
Frances Teamer
Remarks by Chancellor Commander.
Invocation by Prelate
Closing Ode
The company will then proceed to
the cemeteries and decorate graves.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-05-13
Fell From a Tree.

Little Ed Matthews, son of Mrs. Ed
Matthews, Old Town, fell from tree
few days ago, landing on picket
fence, and it is understood one of the
pickets entered his shoulder. He is
suffering much pain as result of the
accident
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-05-13
LETTER IS WITHDRAWN
Socialist Convention Will Not Press
Criticism of President Roose-
veIt-Debbs Out of Race.
Special 10 the Herald.

Chicago, ILL.,, May 13-The socialist
resolutions committee recommended
that the open letter to President
Roosevelt, criticising his attitude as
the chief executive be withdrawn and
not read and acted on by the conven-
ton. Indications today point to the
nomination of Benjamin Hanford of
New York for president and Max Hays
of Ohio as vice president Debbs has
signified that he does not want the
presidential nomination on account
of his bad health.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-05-13

1--WE Frame Pictures" Ed Kings
bury; phone 2e6. The New siIIiman
Building. 13-tf
The Washington herald., 1908-07-04
BAILEY WINS PLACE
Engineer in Surface Depart
ment to Direct Sewers.
DISTRICT employees GO UP
Changes Authorized by Last ApPrO-
priatiOn Take Effect with Opening
ment, Pumping Station Force, nnd
Permit Clerks office Affected.

Thomas c. ]. Bailey. jr.. assistant engi-
neer in the surface division. engineer de-
partment of the District has been trans
ferred and promoted to assistant engineer
in charge OF the sewer department
The vacancy thus filled was caused two
months ago by the resignation of d. ].
McComb, who left the Service of the Dis
trict TO accept an important position in
Havana. Cuba.
Mr.. Bailey has been I'm the service of the
District for more than ten years, and his
promotion has been well earned. His
salary as assistant engineer Of the sewer
department will be $21OO. an increase OF
$500 over his present compensation. The
vacancy caused I'm the surface division has
not yet been filed.
Other Promotions Announced.
Other promotions in the Office Of the
superintendent OF sewers. brought about
by the appropriation bill for the new fiscal
year, were announced by the Commits
sioners yesterday, as follows:
W. s. Sheets. inspector, at 81 30 pr annum. "a
be inspector az 81. 100 per annum; Henry Donovan.
dTuftSman. az 81 30 per annum. 10 Be inspector al
Nv
draftsman. at $3.50 per annum. 90 be craftsman
at N.2O per aunum; n. Y. Middleton. rodman, at
s. pr diem. 20 be draftman at 81 $50 pcr annum.
vice SagrariO. J. L. Ford. roiman. az $50 per an
num- 10 be rudman AT s. per diem vice Middleton
Victor Miudelef. skilled laborer the Temporary
roll. at s. 80 per diem. 10 be rOdman at $50 pei
annum. vice Ford
Appointments and promotions for the
new fiscal year in the force OF steam en-
| gineers at the sewerage pumping station
are ordered by the Commissioners as fol
| lows:
L. J. Barr, acting steam engineer at $50 per diem
! 20 be steam engineer at Sl.aO per annuIni William
Bopp. acting steam engineer at s. 50 per diem, Il
/ Be- steam engineer at Sl,aO per annum; II. V
Bowers assistant steam engineer al 1859 pr an
mum. 10 BE- steam engineer at SDO per annmn: j
/ Z. Farley acting steam engineer az s. PER diem. e
be steam engineer at 81 $50 pr annum vice Bowers
d. A. Connor skilled laborer az 81 per diem. u
be storekeepcr at 500 per
Changes I'm Permit office.
In the office Of the permit clerk. the
| following are the advancements for the
year. TO take effect from July l:
H. T. Brooks. assistant permit clerk at 500 pe
annum. 20 assistant permit clerk at Sl.OOO per an
nun.
Mabel Key smith. index clerk and typewriter a
SD per annum. 10 b. index clerk and typevrite
az so per annum.
James p. Parry assistant inspector in the ofic
Of the inspector Of buildings az 81 80 per snnum
promoted 90 inspector Of hre escapes at LOO DC
annum. 20 take effect July l. 1905
The Washington herald., 1908-07-04
TEN FIREMEN ARE NEEDED.
Chief Belt Has Places for Good Men
in His Department.

Eight or ten big. husky men are wanted
by Chief William IT. Belt. Of the local
fire department. 10 hH vacancies now
existing. Fifteen appointments We're made
recently, according to the chief. but there
are still some vacancies.
This state OF affairs is considered un-
accountable Firemen on entering the
service are paid $3.50 per annum. and are
soon advanced 70 Sl.OS0.
Applicants for the positions in the fire
department are required to undergo a
mental and physical examination. Chief
Belt said yesterday. however. that those
who pass the physical examination may
be appointed. and need not take the
mental test until later.
The preference Of the department Is for
good. healthy men. weighing in the neigh
borhood OF 145 pounds. and about feet I
inches tall Men Of such description who
desire 20 apply for these positions may
apply at fire headquarters. 467 & street
northwest. and at the new District Build
ing
The Washington herald., 1908-07-04
]. Y. POTTS LAID TO REST.
Late Police Court Clerks Body
Buried in Oak Hill.

Funeral services for Joseph y. Potts.
late clerk Of the Police Court whose death
occurred at Providence Hospital last
wednesday morning. after an Illness of
three weeks duration. were held at 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon from llOl II
street northwest. The impressive services
Of the Masonic order followed there and
at the grave
Claude KEEPER. eminent commander Of
Washington Commandery. Of which Mr.
Potts was a member for more than thirty
years. conducted the first service. W. B.
Davis. master Of Harmony Lodge. had
charge Of the services at the grave. in
Oak Hill Cemetery.
Members Of the Masonic fraternity at
tended In a body. the commandery being
IN uniform. A large number OF personal
friends Of Mr.. Potts were present.
The pallbearers were Selected from the
Masonic fraternity and the Elks. They
we're q. O. Burke and W. w. Chambers,
from Harmony Lodge, No. i; Edward
Kolb and George Spransy. Of Washington
Commandery. No. I; r. NJ. Carter and J.
l.. sullivan. Of Columbia Chapter. No. I,
and ]. +. Nicholson and L. $ Schmidt, OF
Washington Lodge OF Elks.
The Washington herald., 1908-07-04
BOY BITTEN BY BULLDOG.
Yet Justice Denies Warrant on the
Charge that Canine Is Dangerous.

After her son, seven years old, had
been bitten by a bulldog yesterday after
noon Mrs Shaddinger. Of 106 Second
street northwest, applied to the assistant
corporation counsel for a warrant for
the arrest Of the owner OF the animal on
a charge OF keeping dangerous dog
The warrant was refused on the ground
that Mrs. Shaddinger had no proof that
the dog that had bitten her son was dan
gerOuS.
Mrs Shaddinger's son, Elmer. was at
tacked at Second and G streets northwest.
shortly after noon. The boy was bare
footed and the dogs teeth sank deep
into his flesh. The injury was band
aged by the mother and the boy was
taken to the Emergency Hospital. where
the wound was cauterized.
The dog is said 10 be owned by Mrs.
Langley. OF 100 Second street. The canine
was not muzzled
The Washington herald., 1908-07-04

Issuing of certificates permitting chill
dren under sixteen years OF age 10 work
as prescribed by the new child labor law
Of the District was continued yesterday
at the Franklin School
Supt. Stuart, under whose direction the
certificates are issued. said the law would
not be effective at once, owing 10 the
limited clerical force and the slow prog
ress in examining applicants
i do not propose to force women and
children TO stand in line in the hot sun
for hours. many Of them losing time from
work. just TO make 1t possible 10 begin
the enforcement of the law few days
earlier, said the superintendent
illustrates Situation.
To illustrate his remark. he pointed out
several mothers and children standing in
line in the sun. Some Of them spent hours
there before they were given certificates.
Supt. Stuart conferred with the District
officials. and IL was arranged 70 post
pone the enforcement OF the law until the
issuing Of certificates is finished. II was
also decided to issue certificates at night
In order to avoid compelling parents and
applicants 10 stand in the hot sun
OF the 800 children coming under the
jurisdiction OF the superintendent Of
schools. only seven Of them have been re-
jected, according TO the statement OF r.
o. Wilmarth. clerk OF the board Of educa-
tion.
"One thousand children have presented
themselves for permits. Half Of these
were sent TO Judge De Lacy. as we did
not have jurisdiction. They wanted per
mits 10 90 inside work" said Mr.. VII
marth. Il understand there are bad con-
ditions in the District. and Judge De
Lacy will encounter them as he pro-
crosses in his work
In the investigation OF some Of the ap-
piicants on Wednesday. II was discovered
that twenty-esgbt persons have been
forced 10 work in basement room about
. by 10 feet in size, ventilated only by a
small window about the size OF an ordi-
nary transom"
| Several Of these children applied for
/ permits TO work Mr. Wilmarth refused
/ two Of them. and referred the others 10
Judge DE Lacy, of the Juvenile Court
Boy Was Too FrniI.
Medical inspectors refused TO approve
/ the application OF a ten-year-old boy who
wanted TO sell papers. The doctor found
/ the lad too frail to do the work
/ Two boys were told TO come back again
| and stand a test. One was fifteen years
old. and could not repeat any Of the
/ multiplication table. and another was a
boy OF twelve years. who could not DO
subtraction. Both boys had certificates
| that they had attended school the last
! fun term, but were marked low men,
tality' by the teacher who issued the
| certificate.