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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
Inbound Train Split Switch, Derai1ing Cars
NEGRO PORTER WAS MANGLED
Only One Death Regarded as
 Miraculous.
Passengers Were Shocked Pretty Bad ly But None Injured Beyond Bruises-BagEage and Ex-
 press Cars Demolished.

Western of Alabama Railway pas senger train No. 33. from Atlanta, met with an unusual accident yesterday af4 ternoon just as 1t was entering the To- cal yards and as a result James Turn CT of 7lS Cobb Street, was killed in- stantly.
 No one except the negro porter was injured to any extent but the nature of the wreck was such that it is re- markable that the passengers of the front coaches escaped with nothing more serious than a good scare and slight shaking-up.
 The train which Is due here at ( o'clock was coming In on time and running about fifteen miles an hour. The engine passed over a yard switch near the barrel factory and the vibra- ton attending its passage shook the frog open and the baggage car caught the side track rails and broke loose and continued down the siding till it jumped the track and struck a tele- graph pole full abreast. The telegraph pole was broken off af the ground and again broken in two. something over half way it's length.
 The baggage and express cars that struck the pole was thrown from the track and completely wrecked. For tunately. however. the passenger cars behind it held their upright position
 
 bruises /occasioned by jumping the track and blowing through the ground ten or twelve feet.
 Jim Turner. the negro porter, had just finished brushing of the train crew and stepped out on the platform of the second class coach when it was violently thrown against the bagEa@e car. It's progress was suddenly check ed by the telegraph pole. Turner's right arm and one of his legs were cut on and his whole body terribly man. gled. The body was at once picked up, In pieces. however. and quick mes- sage sent to H. A Lovelaces under taking establishment for an aznbulance to remove 1t there for attention.
 The passengers. after recovering from their shock and fright soon dis embarked and took conveyances for the city.
 The wreck has its own suspicious circumstances. The railroad officials did not hesitate to say that they be- lieve the track had been tampereu with.
 One of them declared that the road bed and the track at the point where the wreck occurred was as good as any in the south. That such an accident should occur there seemed impossible without outside assistance.
 Coroner Tice was told of this opinion and of the suspicious circumstances He is conducting an investigation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
STEAMERS COLLIDE
OVER THREE HUNDRED PAssEN-
 GERS IN PANIC.
Dense Fog Banks Wh1ch Fave Been Sweeping Ia From the sea fez Several Days, Is Giving
 Trouble.

New York, May 25--Dense fog banks which have been sweeping in from the sea for several days, enveloped the eastern seaboard with impenetrable curtains and delaying all shipping lured two coastwise steamships--the Clyde Line steamer Seminole. and an unknown steamer, off their courses to- day onto the shifting shoals that fringe the Jersey coast; caused a mid-riveT collision of two steamers tonight in the harbor, which threw over three hundred passengers into a state of panic; gen.
 erally snarled ferry-boat service in the harbor and kept two transatlantic liners hugging their anchorage all night tonight off Sandy Hook.
 The Seminole found herself hard aground on a sand key off Point Pleas ant near Long Branch, N. J., today while groping out in the fog the last leg of her voyage to New York from West Indian ports. The Seminole car ried only a few passengers, who were assured by the ships officers that there was no danger. Two life-saving crews put out to the stranded ship to give any needed assistance. The ves- sel, heavily freighted with cargo of sugar, cocoa and tobacco, lay in easy position in about twelve feet of water near the beach. Only a mild sea was running tonight and there Is every req son to believe that the Seminole will be fioated into deep water at the next high tide. There is a crew of fifty aboard.
 Repeated blasts of a fog horn gave warning to the life-savers of the Bay head and Mantoloking life-saving sta tions that another steamer was in diff fculty on the bars. The name of the ship was not learned.
 Over 400 passengers on the Depart ment of Charities steamer Thomas S. Brennan. returning from the launching of the steamer Lowell at New Bright ton, s. l., were precipitated into panic tonight when the steamship Maraval loomed out of a fog bank in the chan mel off Liberty Island and before the big steel freighter could swing off her course, crashed into the Brennan abaft the starboard oaddlewheel box and tore a rent in the steamers side near ly to the water line. Frightened by the shock of the collision and the sound of the splintering timbers. scores of the launching party, many of whom were women. put on life preservers and scrambled to the steamers rail and leaped to the bow Of the Maraval, which remained tightly wedged in the side of the listing Brennan. When 1t was discovered that the Maravers cut water had not penetrated below the water line. the Maraval backed on. leaving the Brennan to proceed to the Battery. where many of the passengers were landed.
 Outside of the gateway of New York, the Atlantic transport liner Minnehaha from London and the steamer Moltke. of the Hamburg American line. from Mediterranean ports. are anchored to- night. waiting for the fog to lift to or1yoA ttV1 fo their docks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26

heavy rains and overnowed rivera rhs dead are:
 William M Lindlay. Anadarko; Tomp. kins Cbeek. Shawnee; w B. Hallers wife and child. Frederick: negro drowned at Guthrie: unidentified man found in Cimarron River. near Guth- rie.
 Trains are delayed on all roads and many are suspended. Crops are dam aged along the rivers.
 More than TOO houses in West Guth. rie are submerged. The flood fell to- day. but the bottoms are still sub merged and water knee deep is running through the streets. Hundreds are homeless and transportation from ons part of town to another is by means of boats.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
Tn Rnmhnrh nrsnn,n..

Fez, May 25.-Mulai Hafd's envoys have returned here with a letter from General Bagdani, chief of the army of Sultan Abdul Aziz. announcing his in- tention to lombard Mequinez. The usurping Sultan became furious at the defiance and placed General Bagdani's brother under arrest. He is now en- gagged in raising an army among the neighboring tribes with the avorsed purpose of exterminating General Bag dani and his forces.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
AN EXTENSIVE CRUISE.
Fleet Will Use Five Million Dollars
 Worth of Coal

NONAA VI GONls
 Washington. May 25.-Appr ximately S5,OOoO 900 is the estimate of the cost of the coal consumed by the Atlantic bat tleship fleet when it will have finished it's cruise around the world.
 The estimate of the cost of coal nec- essary to move the fleet from San Francisco to Hampton Roads by way of Honolulu, Manila and the Suez Ca- nal has been reported by the Chief of the Bureau of Equipment as amounting to 32.039. 900. The Navy Department has been in receipt of unofficial conn rnunications from the Australian Gov ernment offering to furnish without cost the coal required during the visit of the command in Australian waters.
 of course the Government could not think of accepting such an offer and all arrangements have been made to use American coal for the entire cruise.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
EDMUNDS s. ROBERTS
 DIES AT HOME IN GERARD

Columbus. Ga. May 95-(SDcial.)- Edmund :. Roberts died tonight at hia home in Girard. Ala. in his Slst war He was well known as a poet ana his poems appeared in many Northern and Southern publications, Most of his productions were relig- ious in their character and some of them were widely published His aged wife and a number of children survive him. .--,- ,.
 ..4iiar carerals office when the Cap ital was at MilledgeVllle.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
Hank Cashier Suicides,

Matched. Miss. May 25--J. O. David. son. cashier of the WoodvfIle Bank, in wilkinson County. committed suicide today by drinking earboiic acid. He was 40 years of age. While It Is al. legged Davidson has been speculatins In cotton futures and had lost heay- fly. 1t is understood that the bank will not be in any way affected.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
OMEHss ALABAMA. TUESDAY, 2e, Isos-TWELvE PAGES
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, MERRY WIDOW HATS DESTROY , THE SPIRIT OF WORSHIP.

. Newburgh, N. r.. May 25.- { . Let me say this: If there is any {
 . thing that will destroy the spirit { . of worship, 1t Is the merry widow {
 . hats standing between you and {
 . the preacher" said Rev. J. H. {
 . Reid. in the course of an address { . to the Young Woman's Christian . Association. c Every dress should be a work {
 . of art, and the laws of art and { ! health should govern rather than { . those of fashion. Don't bring { . your large hats with great plumes { c to church. The other night miss . ed from my congregation the face { . of a man who Is always present {
 ( and whose presence always in- ( . spires me. I wondered why he { . was absent. After a time found q that while he was really present
 . he was totally eclipsed by . merry widow hat"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
Da Cor NJias Wood.

New york, May 25.-Mae e Wood. who sued Senator Thomas c. Flatt for divorce alleging ,n I0af isoi Si' was released ~ sE ono hstl today. Miss Wood is rharg .@ nd with witb perjury in her testimony heard in inc case last week. When the bail bond Im was made out Miss Wood signed if Mae c. Wood Platt'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
sseetinR |. Postponed.

Fort Worth. Tex. May 25--With train service practically suspended be- cause of the floods in North Texas. the meeting of the State Democratic Ex- ecutive Committee called for today. has been indefinitely postponed. not mora than half a dozen members of the com Tnittee having reached the city. For the same reason, the State Damocratic Convention. called for tomorrow. for the purpose of naming delegates to the National Convention at Denver. will probably be postponed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
RecedIng slowix.

Tulsa, Ok, May 25.--The Arkansas River here began to reeedee slowly. No trains have come in from the west since Sunday morning. The Midland Valley and Frisco bridges are unsafe and the tracks on the west side of Tulsa are washed out for hundreds of yards. At the town of Jenks. fifteen miles south. four feet of water stands in the Midland Valley yards. and the doned.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
Tncome Tnx AtouteSl

Paris. May 15.-The Chamber of Dep utis today. by a vote of S4s to TO. adopted that section of the income tax bill by which dividends from renters and all other French and foreign Gov ernment stocks are made liable ts taxation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
eeven are proMned.

Oklahoma City, Ok, May 25-Seven oarsons are dead. about 4so are home issE thousands of acres of lowlands are inundated. hundreds of houses are washed away or damaged. railroad and wagon bridges are gone over a large area of the southern part of the state; several railroad bridges are damaged and the tracks of nearly every railroad company operating in the State are dis arranged tonight, as a result of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
RfiII serlnua-

Guthrie Ok. May 2S.-Flood conditions in Oklahoma were still serious today. No additional loss of life has been re- ported but several points are still iso- lated.
 Railroads over the State are practi- cally out of commission. While hum dreds of persons have abandoned their homes in the bottoms, no real distress has been reported. The towns that have suffered the greatest damage are West Guthrie, Tulsa. Jenks. a small town near Tulsa. Muskogee. Shawnee and Sapulpa. West Guthrie. parts of Tulsa and Sapulpa.
 At Muskogee the gas plant was food ed last night and closed down.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
NntionnI Holiday necresa.

San Salvador. May 25.-The Salvado- rean Government decreed today q na- tional holiday in celebration of the fn- auguration of the arbitration court at Cartago, Costa Rica.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
Another Rise Expected.
Situation Unimnrorsa.

Denison. Texas. May 25.-The high water situation in southern Oklahoma has not improved. Today the water is several inches deep over the St Louis and San Francisco track at North washita Bridge and loaded cars are being placed on the bridge to keep it from washing away.
 The South Washtta River is out of its banks and is still rising Thous- aEAs of acres of farming lands are un5Aer water. Several hundred men CT tFidge on the Frisco. The Red Riv- CT Fridge on the Frisco. The Red Fiv- CT atfthis point shows a rise of over twenty-two feet. the highest water since the great hooo or 1876.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
WEATHER FoREcAsT.

Washington, May 25s-FOr AIabauAa-- Showers Tuesday3 fair Wednesday,
 light to fresh south winds.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
JoHNsoN Is INVITED.

Mobile Commercial Club Wants Him to
 Speak There. |. Mobile, May 25.-(Special. )--Governor or John A. Johnson may visit Mobile. The following telegram was sent from this city today.
 Hon E. ". Faith. Tuscaloosa. Ala: The Commercial Club of Mobile ex-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26

GcOatinued on Page Ten.l
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The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-10
HIGH SCHOOL NOT
A CAMPAIGN ISSUE

The Democratic county convention
this year was not held until two days
after the Republicans had met anil
placed their ticket in the field. After
reading the terrific arraignment of
the wanton waste, extravaganza AMI
mismanagement of their present adj
ministration, made by their opponents,
the Democrats attempted to throw dust
their attention from the real issues of
the campaign by adopting a platform
that in all respects is irrelevant and
immaterial.
In one of its planks the party IS
pledged to support the movement for
the creation of a county high school,
and the attention of the voters is
called to the omission of a correspond
ing plank in the Republican platform
with unctious solicitude.
The question of the establishment OF
a county high school is in no sense a
party issue. If the gentlemen who
drafted the platform at the Republi-
can county convention thought of the
matter at all, is is probable that they
considered it best to omit reference to
the question, thereby avoiding Demo
cratic hostility to the propose
measure.
Since when did the Democratic
party assume guardianship over the
educational institutions of the countryf
Its unalterable and settled policy has
ever been opposed to progress and de-
velopment, which includes education.
"The leopard changes not his spots,
nor the Ethiopian his skim nor, it
might be added, does the Democratic
party change it's attitude of opposition
to all progressive measures.
The proposition to establish a county
high school, which will be submitted
to the voters at the coming election,
will no doubt carry, as it should, and
whatever opposition may develop
against this meritorious measure will
be of a sectional rather thar of u
political character.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-10
REPUBLICAN, DOCTRINE
OF PROJECTIONS

(From Taft's speech of acceptance.
The Republican doctrine of protec-
ton. as definitely announced by the
Republican convention or this year
and by previous conventions, is that =
tariff shall be imposed on all imported
products, whether of the factory,
farm or mine, sufficiently great to
equal the difference between the cost
of production abroad and at home, and
that this difference should, of course,
include the difference between the
higher wages paid in the country and
the wages paid abroad, and embrace a
reasonable profit to the American pro
Queer.
A system of protection thus adopted
and put in force has led to the estab-
lishment of a rate of wages here that
has greatly enhanced the standard of
living of the lamoring man. 1t is the
policy of the Republican party perma-
nently to continue that standard OF
living. In 1897 the Dingley tariff bill
was passed, under which we have had
a period of enormous prosperity.
The consequent material develop
ment has greatly changed the eondi
tions under which many articles de
scribed by the schedules of the tariff
are now produced. The tariff in a mum.
Der of the schedules exceeds the differ
ence between the cost of production
of such articles abroad and at hame,
including a reasonable profit to the
American producer. The excess over
that difference serves no useful pu:-
pose. but offers a temptation to those
who would m%onopolize the production
and sale Of such articles in this cour-
try, to profit by the excessive rats.
On the other hand, there are oth,r
schedules in which the tariff is not
sufficiently high to give the Measure Of
protection which they should receive
upon Republican principles, and as to
those the tariff should be raised. A
revision of the tadiff undertaken upon
this principle, which is at the basis or
our present business system, begun
promptly upon the incoming of the
new administration, and considered ar
a special session with the preliminary
Investigations already begun by the
appropriate committees of the house
and senate. will make the disturbance
of business incident to such a change
as little as possible.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-10
COUNTY TICKET

For State Senator-Peter Anker, of
Lovelock.
For Assemblymen-E. s. Chafey of
Chafey, j. M. Thompson of Lovelock,
and j. j. Barton of Seven Troughs.
For Sherif-S. G.. Lamb of Golconda.
For Assessor. j. Button of Col
conda.
For Clerk-A. L.. Shaw of Paradise.
For Recorder-H. G. Sommers of Love-
lock.
For Public Administrator-Samuel j.
Anderson of Winnemucca.
For Surveyor-R. M. Croker of
Chafey.
For COMMISSIONS (long term)-Hiram
Stoker of Lovelock.
For Commissioner (short term) w. H..
Wilkinson of Winnemucca.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-10

tee on mines and mining, after giving
it, in the form then presented, exhaust
i've consideration, found it defective in
many particulars, reported against its
passage and they followed the recon-
mendation of the committee.
1t is to be remembered that the
eight-hour law was not an issue in the
platforms of either party in the cam
paign Of 1900. The question was nor
discussed during that campaign and
was only raised by the introduction CT
the Burke bill in the twentieth session
of the legislature. This bill was
crudely constructed and its defeat in
the senate failed to cause a ripple OF
comment in the press of the state.
Democratic or Republican. The ques-
ton came up as a campaign issue W
years later and the present eight-hour
bin passed, being supported by a
number who had voted against the bill
in its previous form.
The assailing Of Senator Flanagan by
the Democrats for voting against the
original eight-hour bill, after a Demo
cratic committee had reported on it un-
favorably, with the recommendation
that it do not pass, is a very modifying
spectacle.
The consistency of a party that de
nounces the opponent of Senator New
lands (who with millions of capital
yet employs nc labor in Nevada) AS
being an enemy of labor, when Flanagan
has been one of the largest employers
of skilled and unskilled labor in the
state, liked and respected by all whom
he employs, is a problem in political
pulchritude that would make a rhi-
noceros blush.
Senator Flanagan in his statement
expresses his views on organized labor,
the strong feature of which IS
that his declarations are backed by his
record.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-10
NATIONAL TICKET

For President - WILLIAM III. TAFT
of Ohio.
For Vice President-JAMES S. SHER-
MAN of New York.
For Presidential Electors:
J. G. Thompson, of Esmeralda,
II. A. Comins, of White Pine,
w. r. Thomas, of Lincoln.
State Ticket.
For United States Senator-Patrick L..
Flanagan, of Washoe.
For Congressman-Col. II. B. Maxson,
Of Washoe.
For Justice of the Supreme Court,
Hugh H. Brown, of wye.
For Surveyor General-Con A. Ahera,
of Storey.
For .Regents-A. A. Codd and 0 J.
Smith for the long term and II. 8.
Starrett for the short term.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-10
SPOKANE GETS NEXT CONGRESS

Spokane, Wash, was selected as the
meeting place of the 18th national irri-
CATION congress, at the close of the 18th
annual session on last Saturday, Octo-
Der 3, at Albuquerque. Pueblo. Colo,
withdrew at the last moment and the
vote was made unanimous. The clos.
ing session was made interesting by a
strong address by Congressman Joseph
Ransdell of Louisiana, president of the
national rivers and harbors congress,
who urged cooperation between his
organization and the national irriga-
ton congress.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-10
STOP THE "JINGo"

With the passing of the ''tin horn
and bass drum method of re-estai
fishing prosperity, we may reasonably
expect to see the country progress
toward a normal trade condition in =
legitimate manner. The prospect for
fair crops and the slow but sure awak.
ening of business confidence mean sat
isfactory conditions beginning with the
first month of 1909. The prosperity
clamor may have served a good pur
pose, and it has not unduly excited the
conservative manufacturer, but all the
cutlery and hubbub have not increased
the respect and the business confidence
of our foreign customers. We can
imagine the importers and consumers
of Argentine or Cape Colony, or New
South Wales, reading with some amaze
ment of the tom-tom beating and war
dances recently carried on here in the
name of prosperity. If we, on our
part, should see in the mornings cable
dispatches that "A German Prosperity
league mad foregathered AT Hamburg,
there to shout innumerable "Hochs, -
in favor of q return o. prosperity, our
natural impression would be that thu
Ieutonic business MAJ was whistlin,,
to keep his courage up. Optimism is
a fine thing, but it doesn't pay bills or
turn the factory wheels.--American In
dustries for September.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-10
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The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-10

AT Louisville, Ky, the other even
ing, Henri Watterson, once upon a
time known as a brilliant journalist and
orator, made his first political speech
for many years, and it is also said
that it was probably his last public APP
p%earance. Mr.. Watterson has evidently
had a change of heart in the last
twelve years, as he said Many kind
things of Bryan, whom he formerly
despised, and could not find language
of sufficient venom with which to de-
pict Roosevelt, and Henri is possessed
of rather an extensive vocabulary, at
that.