The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-16


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 The Texas Railroad commission does not believe that the Interstate Commerce commission. or any other Federal body, can compel Texans to submit to riding in the same Pullman sleeping cars with negroes.
 Eight bricks, much resembling so many loaves of bread for size. piled up on the table In the First National Bank were among the sights delight ing the eyes of hundreds of delegates to the National Convention of Bankers who visited Colorado Springs last week. The gold came from the great Portland mine, Cripple Creek, which has produced $25000,000 and paid SS,000000 in dividends, and resulted from ten days cleanup at the Port land mill, West Colorado Springs. The weight is 800 pounds and the value 1 S150000
 Disappointed after a searcn of two days in not finding Shep Jones, the negro who assassinated A. ]. Wall, a wealthy cotton planter at his home near Hickory Miss, a mob of fifty men has hanged one innocent negro and shot two others to death. The mob completed it's work by burning negro church and lodge hall near the scene in the negro colony.
 John D. Rockefeller has taken for nal possession of his new S1,000,000 house at Pocantico Hill, N. Y He ar ranged at the same time to station eighteen watchmen, two detectives and one great bloodhound to guard himself and family from annoyance.
 Col. William F. Stewart, who has been in exile" at the ungarrisoned post at Fort Grant, Ariz.. has been re- tired from active service. The report of the board which examined Col. Stewart was presented to the presi- dent and he immediately directed that | Col. Stewart be retired.
 Henry Baker, aged 42 years, once a noted heavyweight pugilist, was run over and killed by a train at Kansas City. Baker fought Jim Jeffries to a standstill for eight rounds May 19, 1897 in San Francisco. In the ninth round, however, Jeffries knocked Baker out and there were those who saw the fight who said .Jeffries won by 8 chance blow
 l Every important tus:ness place in the city of Inkster, N. D., except drug store, bank and hotel, was burned in | ht. fac ;aI, E,, polls and Northern elevator, and, crossing the street, swept the main business block clean. The loss is estimated at S150,00b
 The Bryan campaign fund is to be boosted in a novel way by the Demo cratic women of Belle Rive, III. They have formed their plans to hold pie supper-every woman to bring a pie and sell it to the highest bidder, the purchaser getting the privilege of eat ing the pie with it's maker
 Forced by the head of one of the semi-civilized Tartar tribes in the Caucasus to wall up the chieftain's daughter in living tomb somewhere in or near the town of Baku, Peter Kavulitch, an Austrian mason, has | gone made with horror and has just been committed to an institution in | Odessa.
 l Bound, gagged and locked in a box car by hazing students. William E. l Smith, freshman of Kentucky state college, has disappeared and the grand | jury is probing what may be a ghastly mystery, and police and railroad men are working desperately to ascertain his fate.
 Germany looms up large as an ob- | stacle in the way of an international l conference for settlement of the aBl kan imbroglio, according to the opin- ions expressed by the British diplo- mats today. No matter what reasons may be officially assigned for failure of the proposed conference, which seems possible, England will hold the kaiser responsible.
 | An appeal has been taken in the Hepburn commodity clause case by the government on the ground that the lower court was wrong in holding | the clause not to be proper exercise of the congressional powers as to the regulation of commerce. It is conten- ded that the court erred in ruling | the caluse confscatory. It is under stood the government will ask the supreme court to take up the case immediately, owing to the importance l of the case, Thirty days more time was given | the Bucks Stove and Range company of St. Louis for taking additiona. testimony in it's suit against Samuel | Gompers and others of the National Federationist.
 Miss Ruby R. Woten, a prominent l young woman of Paris, Tex, was found in Cliff Park lake in Dallas. The body was discovered by her father. The girl left home Friday and came | to Dallas.
 | Any student of the University of Missouri who prefers riding the blind baggage" to paying railroad fare IS | invited to become a member of the l Quo Vadis club, unique organization in American college life. l Tortured by robbers, beaten, kick 1 ed, pricked with pins for hours, sub. l mitted to dozens of indignities savor- | ing of the days of the inquisition-this | is the fate meted out to William l Chambers, "A years old, in an unsuc- | cessful attempt to wrest from him the l hiding place of his reputed hoard of | gold
 | Ben Price, negro was seized by a mob at Glen Flora, Tex, taken to the