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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1908-04-30
County Division, Gilchrist and
Stockton.

As Brother WaIpole, OF the
Manatce Record, insists on max
ING the division of DeSoto county
n gubernatorial issue, he should
tell us how Mr.. Stockton stands
ON the question and whether, If
elected governor, he would veto
the proposed bill. AS Mr. Stock
ton announces that he proposes to
do as he pleases regarding the
recommendations of county com
mittees and county primary cleo
tons, it follows that he will exer-
else his own will as to bills passed
by the legislature; and, further, as
majority of those citizens Of this
county who will vote for Mr.
Stockton in the coming primary
are opposed to division, it is quite
reasonable to believe that, if he
becomes governor, he will defer
to their wishes by vetoing any bill
for the division of DeSoto county.
Per contra, we feel perfectly
safe in saying that Governor Gil
christ would not veto such a bill,
for he is a man who respects the
expressed will Of the people.
AS TO how and for whom Gener-
al Gilchrist will vote in the prima-
ries, we still insist that that is his
own private business and cannot
be made an issue in his campaign
for governor. And we further
and again insist that local issues,
such as county division, have
nothing to do with the gubernato-
rial contest. Those who think
differently, should make the same
demands of Messrs. Browne and
Stockton that they do of General
Gilchrist.
There is the Jacksonville char
tor bill, for instance, which comes
up in every legislature. What is
Mr.. Stockton's attitude towards
that measured Governor Brow
ard vetoed it presumably in the
interests of his friends, Messrs.
Bars and Stockton; and now will
Mr.. Stockton come out openly and
tell the people of Jacksonville
that, if the bill is passed by the
next legislature and he happens tc
be governor, he will veto itI II
he will, it will cost him some
votes.
And that is Just what Brother
Walpole is evidently aiming at in
his repeated demands that Genera
Gilchrist declare himself on the
question of county division; he
simply wants to hurt Gilchrist
His design is too apparent and il
will fail.
He makes a great pretence o.
wanting to help us divide the
county and says that Manatee il
furnishing the votes to this end,
which, in view of his previous
fiery demands that Manatee bt
given the right to name the sena
tor, is Ia lghable. For the priv
lege of naming the senator, Broth
er Walpole and his allies agreed
to give us county division, ant
nothing was said about Gilchris
and his probable attitude. Now
Brother Walpole, in his eagernes
to get Gilchrist into trouble, mp
pears ready to sacrifice county
division and Col. Barwick with it
. for he says, touching his unsel6sl
and noble efforts to give us divis
ion, 'In other words, and to b.
plain, we don't propose to assis
! a people who simply want on
help, but will not allow us voic
in the management of affairs" tn
"voice" being that Gilchrist shall
declare himself on this local issue
Then, "the jig's up" as tn
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1908-04-30
Mr.. Brown on County Division.

IL, Brown OhSeS his oppOSlUlOH W
county division upon untenable
grounds, as all records and statis-
tics show. He alleges as one reas-
on against division "the undevel-
oped condition Of the county,"
which is simply reason in favor
of it, as every thinking man
knows that three small counties
can be developed much more rap
idly than one huge one, such as
DeSoto is. You can weed out a
five-acre field much quicker than
you can one of a hundred acres.
The proposed size of the new
counties is another thing that dis
tresses Mr.. Brown, but why
should it, if the people who are
to constitute their population have
no objections The same may be
said of Mr.. Browns fear of IAN
increase in cost of administra-
ton" If the people are willing,
why should Mr.. Brown worryg
But statistics show that there will
be no increase in the cost OF adj
ministration; quite the contrary,
which is shown by the fact that all
the small counties have a less tax
rate than the large ones. For
evidence of this, scrutinize any
one of the annual reports of the
State Comptroller.
And so of expense of public
buildings and small salaries to
county officers. If the people
don't care, why should Mr.,
Brown distress himself9 But it
can be demonstrated, as 1t was
done two years ago, that in this
southern section at least the tax
rate would be so much lower than
the one we are now paying that
the difference would in a few years
pay for all the public buildings
needed. "Small salaries mean in
competent and unworthy county
officials" alleges Mr.. Brown, by
which rule all our county com
missioners from the creation of
this county until today are con-
demned as incompetent and un-
worthy" for, though the most
important officers of the county, it
is a notorious fact that they get
the smallest pay of all.
Suppose we consider the treas
urer of DeSoto county, for exam
pie: he gets possibly $1,000 a
year, and yet any bank in the
county, if the law permitted,
would do his work and do it well
for $500 year.
The financial panic, so called,
is another thing that troubles Mr..
Brown, but we don't see why it
should, as he himself is reputed to
have plenty of money, and we
hear of no suffering in the county.
No merchants are failing, no
banks breaking, nothing wrong
or distressing except the contents
of Mr.. Browns Uranium.
But-yes--there is something
wrong, for Mr.. Brown alleges
that the creation of two new coun-
ties "would establish supreme
rule by courthouse rings In three
counties" Three counties, do
you hear? This means that we
have one such ring in DeSoto,
which Mr.. Brown thinks is better
than having three; and as the
Wauchula papers accuse him OF
being the candidate of this ring
and he admits its existence, why
, should the people bother to vote
, for him? The ring folks appear
to be the only ones under any OBJ.
legations to vote for him; and as
he intimates that rings are bad
, things to have, we think the peo'
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-10-04
NEGRO WOMAN
 BREAKS FROM JAIL
Cheap Lock Used on Cell at Police Headquarters Responsible for Her tbSencc-Iias Not Been Re-
 captured.

Because the city of Pine Bluff found itself too poor to provide cne of the cells at the city jail with good Yale lock. Ida Anthony, a negress, arrested from d cell there last night and still
 enjoys liberty The woman broke a small ten cent lock in two pieces, with the aid of a piece of iron taken from a bedstead. and quietly walked cut of the building. The officers are making every effort to recapture her
 The Anthony woman was arrested yesterday afternoon by Deputy Con- stable HigSinbotham. She was placed in the city jail until warrant could be secured for her in d justice court and then she was to be transferred to the county jail It is alleged that she stole buggy and horse from J.. l.. Julian.
 Night Chief of Police Ed Francis was called to Westall's store, on West Sixth avenue, to take charge neSress who was reported to have fallen from a street car. sustaining injuries When he went to the place in the patrol wagon he left Deputy HigSnbotham fat the police headquarters. When he returned, he says, Higginbotham was not there and later it was discovered that the woman had broken the small F leck and escaped from the cell The matter was reported to Higsinbotham and up to a late hour last night the spM lIpMolS oIqplsuoO V!M ilndap l still searching for her.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-10-04

.f'a'eHs 4aa@a@ tie eGtf aIeg i"nishf. and arran2el 10 nave several thousand fans al each depot to meet both teams and each crowd of en- th'siasts will he accompanied jy bands Of music. rbe players will he escorted in state .o fheir hotels 10 give them ebaaee 2 rest mp before the games.
 Tn" r9oters have also planned to fake ail sorts oi noise-makine implc- ments to thc games and make the day hlatels With fhcif clamofous roofing.
 Pitt>bnre Crazy. Too.
 Plttsba9g, Oct, 3~-Three thousand enthusiastic fans are leaving here for Chicago tonight io witness tomorrow S ciash 1etween tiie Pirates and the Cubs. This game will probably de- eide which team 9 ia fly the bunting of supremacy ill he National League for l9oH. Local r0oters can see noth- ing to il but the Buccaneers and are going to Chicago with plenty of good Pittsbnrs money To back their iudg- ment.
 With the Pirates eight points to the good tonight, Fred Clarke is the man of the hour" His name is on everybody lips. Nothing is being discussed but the game fight being wased by the Pirate leader and his crew of pluckS pluggers. Twenty thousand fans gathered around the newspaper bulletin boards this alter noon and yelled themselves hoarsc when the news of the Giants defeat by the Quakers was displayed.
 When the Pirates victory over the lowly Cardinals was received, men hugSed each other in delight. Hats were thrown in the air and each Pi- rate was given three cheers and d tiger. The demonstration continued for two hours. In the excitement at tending the race even the SeQuie- Centennial celebration is being for gotten. The political campaign was forgotten week ago when Pitts burg cot within striking distance.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-10-04
Detroit t. Brown 0.

Detroit. Oct $.-Detroit took an- other twist in the American League pennant today when they defeated the Si. l.onjs Browns 10 0. Donovan was cn the mound for the Tigers and pitched his usual masterly game. The Tigers did not hit Powell more freely than the Browns hit Donovan but the Tiger bingles were all timely and all meant runs The Tigers left for Chi caso tonight. where they will meet the White SOX tOmQrrOW Score.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-10-04
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llicaou ;. Cleveland ,.

Cleveland. Oct 3.-The Nal,s Io7a fodaE $ game because of their inabl- fly tp hit Walsh when a long hit would have won. Liebhardc and smith started the game, but both were talk en out. With the bases full i'll Inc seventh inning and TWO out Walsh famed the mighty I.al0e. Score:
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-10-04
CHICAGO bA$E-
 BALI. CRAZY

Cubs and White sox Play in Chicago Today and Pen. nant Rag Will Be stubbornly Foueht For in Roth Leagues-Three Thousand Fans Go From Pitts burg to See the Grand Fnish-Race in National Closest Ever Known
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-10-04

Summary: Bases on balls, off lieb- hardt 3, off Smith 5. off Rhodes 1. Struck cut, by I.iebhardt 6. by Smith Joie CD, Parent, Stovall. Wild pitch, Liebhardt. Empires. OIoughlin and Connolly.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-10-04

New York. Which loomed lii ike I grevbeunr beside q Daschun6 Il few days ago. is HOW hanging Dx one eye winker. Her only hop" of whining lies in the defeat of Pittsburg fnnIor- row by Chicago, three victories oyeT poston next week and a favorable de cision by the board of directors in .ha disputed game of September B be. tween Kew York and Chicago. This outcome would give her 8 record of 9G gan1es won and o5 lost to Pittsburg's 9S games won and 56 lost. If New York follower can get any consoia- ton out of this he is eligible to tue grand mogulslip of the optimist club. This pipe dream outcome would leave the Cubs half game short of the Giants.
 The situation tonight in he Ma tional is as follows:
 Won Lost To Play Win Lose Pittsburg 9S oo 6i t;36 Chicago 91 :,5 64l 63} l N York g.. 55 641 *
 *Lose one game puts Giants out ot
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-10-04

York which 1"on'q nI like 1nr. 44a tie ez m eyheun beside Dachnnj tonish an4eI 10 nave sever
The Prescott daily news., 1908-03-03
K x 6 s ste rIy DRUG STORE
 IN OUR NEW BUILDING

If you should turn backward. 0, time in your flight, and make me a child again, just for tonight. would my mother draw me once more OCT her knee, and with her slipper raise blisters on me? Would she take the fine comb and examine with care, this fine old cocoanut that used to grow hair? Would she blow up my scalp and blow it up deep, and if l objected slap me to sleep? Turn back to the time when I was too young to vote, and the bank wasn't crowding me on that 50 day note; when 1 didn't have to hustle to pay grocery bill, and my little bosom with goslin love thrilled. Take from my muscles this rheumatic pain; take it and give me my childhood again. I have grown weary of dust and decay, weary of humping from day to day; weary of sowing for boil weevil to reap, but need no one to rock me to sleep.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-03-03
$s N E W s

J. w. Nelson, of Blevins, was here today.
 Fresh shipment of package and bulk candy.-Geo. J. Terry Go.
 We ice our fountain the year around.
 Geo. J. Terry & Co. We are sorry to report the illness of the little son Otis, of D. J. Montgomery.
 Fresh Shipment of Blanke- Wenneker choice chocolates. = George. J. Terry Co.
 R. P. Hamby, of this city, was commissioned a notary public yesterday by the Secretary of State.
 David B. Thompson and mother Mrs. Annie Thompson, of Hope, are visiting relatives and friends in Prescott.
 We have just received a car of sash and doors full and com. plete assortment = Mcdaniel Hardware Go.
 Mrs. OIL. Dunaway and child ren arrived here last night from Bee Branch to spend some time with Prof Dunaway.
 R. c. Baily, who formerly re- sided in Prescott, was here yes terday. He returned to his home in Gurdon this morning.
 w. J. White, who is travelling for the Texas Produce Co.,, was here yesterday and to-day on ac- count of the illness of his chil- dren
The Prescott daily news., 1908-03-03

A large number of the mem. bers of the Knights of Pythias attended the meeting here last pight and an unusually interest ing meeting was had. c. P.Dar- ling was initiated into the rank of Esquire and Jno c. White and Finis E. Murrah into the rank of Knight. The committee appoint ed some time ago to devise ways and means for the erection of a hall on West Front street were not ready to make their report.
 The Burglar and the Waif" which was introduced by the Mcdonald Stock Company at the Opera House last night was witnessed by a large crowd of Prescott theatre goers. The play was moderately good but the characters in the production were just fine and everybody present enjoyed the show. The specialities between acts were all good and added much to the evenings enjoyment. They will give another D CT 0 r m a Il C e " Utah " this evening, and we bespeake for them a liberal pat ronage.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-03-03
Reduced Rates

Account Texas Cattle Raisers Association Convention, March II, 15, Is, and F, will sell round trip tickets to San Antonio, Tex, good to return leaving San An. tonic not later than March 26, 1908, at Sl9.20.
 J. T. J. Dawson, Agt.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-03-03
March Events.

8 City Council meets at Sam o. Logan's office. 6-Measuring Party at Mrs. w. T. Hart's; benefit Cemetery
 Association 2-7-McDonald Stock Go. al
 Opera House. INV. F. Kirby, candidate fol governor, speaks in Prescoet
The Prescott daily news., 1908-03-03

You can get fresh candies at o1ge J. Terry Go.
 Are we to have a have a base Il team this season? Floyd Denman, returned this )rning from Little Rock. Sheriff Hood and his gang" Il be in tomorrow night. Chas Clark, of Philadelphia, IS in Prescott few hours this Drning.
 I. c. Moody is putting in water the new Mckenzie building on st Elm.
 Cor Sale-Second hand buggy l delivery wagon. Apply at S office
 Fe are sorry to report the dition of Mrs. Jno. Weaver lnimproved.
 Dick" City, of Ozan, is spend
 a few days here with rela- IS and friends.
 aster Terrell Moore is spend
 this week in Emmet visiting uncle Jno Moore.
 tiss Lottie Weaver, of Nash
 after spending a few days I our city visiting, returned to MT. and Mrs. Joe Olive, of brennan, have been in the city Or a few days visiting. Mr. hive returned home this morn lg.
 E. A. Short moved today from ne of the residences of Mrs. ell on West Third Street to le Gill residence on East 4th treet.
 Call at our store for anything Sually sold in a tirst-class drug ore. If you can't call use your none. Nevada County Drug l tore. Miss Mildred Dougherty, of J. Louis is in the city and IS charge of the trimming de trtment of Mrs. w. w. Teal's illinery store. MT. and Mrs. Ben Webb, of | title Rock, who have been visit g relatives and friends here 1T several days, left this morn g for Hope, where they will | bend several days before re rning home.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-03-03

Prescott ( Northwestern By. Co.
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The Prescott daily news., 1908-03-03
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The Prescott daily news., 1908-03-03

J. T. J. Dawson, Agt.
Arizona republican., 1908-05-28

that woula inspire even a tramp to rejuvenating ablutions.
 The purpose of all this is to inspire the faithful to congregate in July and give St Paul the sort of warming up that her expenditure for this event deserves. Anybody who can wear a fez and make signs in the language of the desert, and who figures on a sum mer trip should secure a copy of this folder and read up. It is worth while. If he wants to know anything about railroad rates, there are two first class lines in this village which will supply them to anybody who looks like he had the price of a ticket in his pocket. From the program the following off cial announcement is taken, addressed To Every Shriner in North America
 Fl SaIamu Aleikum.
 My Dear Noble: At the last annual session of the Imperial Council, An cient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mys- tic Shrine, held at Los Angeles, the Oasis of St. Paul was unanimously chosen as the meeting place of the thirty-four annual session to be held July 14 and 15, 1908. Osman Temple T appreciate this honor, and the Various Committees under the direction of the Executive Committee have arranged a program of entertainment long to be remembered by the visiting Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and their ladies.
 St. Paul, the central point of North America, and the natural gateway to the Northwest, is nestled in a para disc of lakes and parks. enjoying at this season of the year a most delight ful climate and offering to you all that is desirable for an ideal vacation period which most people have the privilege of spending during the month of July. While there will be only two days of the Official Session of the Imperial Council. a full week will be devoted to the entertainment of our guests. Ar range your itinerary so as to allow you to spend the entire week in the Twin Cities.
 Osman Temple extends to you a Moslem greeting and welcomes you to our green oasis to eat salt with us and share our hospitality
 Any further information is at your command by addressing any chairman of the Various Committees, or,
 Yours in the Faith,
 GEORGE c. KNISPEL, Chairman Executive Committed. Hotel
 Ryan.
Arizona republican., 1908-05-28
IMPERIAL COUNCIL
 OF MYSTIC SHRINE
The Dope" Is Being PeddIed Out to --The Faithful For the Thirty Fourth
 Annual Sesison.

A folder containing almost as much information as Webster's dictionary and a great deal more entertainingly written, is being circulated among the nObles of the Mystic Shrine by J. J. Sweeney. It is ornamented with the head of the sphinx and the Minnesota capitol dome, a procession of camels and an Arabic inscription that nobody can read unless he is a shriner. and then he can't, in all probability. It announces the 34th annual session of the Imperial council of that Ancient and Arabic order which will be held in St. Paul, Minn., July 14 and 15 with a week Of entertainment for visiting nobles and ladies, the dates being July 12 to IS inclusive.
 The inside of the folder tells all about it. The official program looms up like an advertisement of Ayers Pills on a country fence and there are pictures of St. Paul that make any body who sees them want to go there whether he has the pass word or not. There is all manner of information about that wonderful city and its en- even to a picture of the stock yards and the free public baths
Arizona republican., 1908-05-28
A GOVERNMENT CLAIM.

Mark Twain, in the story of the Great Beef Contract, sets off the vicissitudes which traditionalIy beset the effort to establish and collect a claim against the government. The recital is scarcely more extravagant than the true tale which comes from Fall River, Mass. of the eliminating Ie- gal proceeding for the distribution of a legacy which represented a share in the. French spoliation claims. The near war with France, in the closing year of the eighteenth century, ere ated these claims. The navy depart ment was established in 179S, and the first business to which it addressed itself was the protection of American merchantmen from the aggressions of French warships, privateers and pir- ates. The main theater of that brief and brisk conflict, which satisfied the French that the young nation would no longer be imposed upon, was the neighborhood of the West Indies. The
Arizona republican., 1908-05-28

fleet, of which the Constellation was the champion, acquitted itself in so workmanlike a fashion that American commerce was relieved from dep redations and serious war was averted.
 American merchants who had suf- fered losses during the period of na- tional submission to French piracy promptly submitted claims for money damages. Diplomatic exchanges re- suited in the release of France from settling them and more than three quarters of a century passed before the congress of the United States finally arranged for liquidation in favor of the original claimants or their descendants Redress was ob- tained by adjudication of the court of claims. The total awards to pe- titioners was nearly s4,S00.O00.
 The Providence Journal recently told how the administrator of an es- tate to which the sum of $400 of the awards fell, sought to distribute that curious legacy. After the expenses of necessary procedure, one hundred and eighty dollars remained for dis tribution among the heirs, who num- Der seventy two, expanding to the great great great -grandchild degree of kinship. Eighteen dollars repre- sents the largest share and thirty cents the smallest. The government in the case of these spoliation claims is thus again shown to be a des- perately slow party to collect a bill from. Furthermore, it disdains to permit interest to be reckoned against it
Arizona republican., 1908-05-28
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
Of the Phoenix Building & Loan Association at Phoenix, in the Territory of Arizona, at the close of Business May
 14th, 1908

RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts, less
 due from Directors .... .$166,650.41 Banking House, Furniture
 and Fixtures ........ 425.OO Other Real Estate ...... 1,O40.S5 Current Expenses and Tax
 es paid ............. 1S6.21 Other items not carried as
 cash-treasurer .. ...... 3,191.31 Discount dues paid in ad-
 vance ......... ......... 13O.76 Real Estate Contracts ..... 10,O36.3O Fines ... ...... 7S.10 Interest ..... .......... 6O.96
 Total ....... .s1S2, ,349.9O
Arizona republican., 1908-05-28

1OIdl Sl S'ofo.oV Territory of Arizona, County of Mar icopa-ss. I, R. H. Greene. secretary of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
 R. H. GREENE,
 Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th day of May. 1908.
 HENRY JENNINGS, (SeaD Notary Public. My commission expires November 19. 1909. Correct-Attest:
 WALTER TALBOT,
 H. M. KENNEDY,
 HARVEY J. LEE,
 Directors.