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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-04-09

W. ii. Osborne offers for sale his
residence. This property contains all
modern improvements, such as furnace,
city water, electric lights, bathroom,
laundry, fireplace, good cistern and
wood house. For further information
apply to Jas. Spensley. 5tf
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-04-09
GOOD MONEY IN POULTRY.

OOOD MONEY IN POOL KY.
A Pennsylvania schoomaster living
not far from Philadelphia owns a forty
acre farm near that metropolis which
gives him a larger income than he re.
ceives in HIS capacity as pedagogue
Sixteen acres are devoted to growing 20.
tatoes and fourteen to corn, while the re-
naming ten are given over to the rails
ing OF poultry. On this plot he aims 10
keep from 1000 to 200 laying hens
the year round. which give him an an
nual income of about $500. He never
keeps a hen over a year old and sells
all cockerels that he does not need for
his own use al three months old. He
raises White Leghorns exclusively and
has a contract with leading Philadel
phia hotel which gives him so per cent
above prevailing market prices on his
entire egg output on condition that lie
is to receive nothing at all for any
case of $50 eggs in which bad or
stale egg is found He aims to give
bis hens fresh clover pasture all of the
year possible and enough range so that
they are always clean He buys yearly
the best representatives Of the breed
that he can find and selects the best
layers from his own ilocks for his
breeding pens, His success is due not
only TO thoroughbred poultry. but the
best In the way of poultry houses and
conveniences and thoroughbred care.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-04-09
Best Raisins.

Best crown loose muscatel raisins
10 cents per pound. -Toay Grocery Co.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-04-09
Can Almost Step On Geese.

A GAINESVILLE, Mimi, dispatch, April
LIST says: zone of the worst storms of
the season is raging here. The prairies
are covered with wild ducks and geese,
and one can walk on them, so blinded
are they by the storm.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-04-09

Visitors to the Hoare mine and all
others entering upon the Hoare proper
ty are requested to travel the roadway
and keep off the grass.
lava w. q j. A. HoARE.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-04-09
ELGiN PRICE
For Butter Fat

For all hand-separated cream deliver
ed at the Mineral Point Creamery,
Mineral Point, Wis, we will pay this
week, ending Apr. IL, 30 cents per
pound for butter fat.
MINERAL POINT CREAMERY Co.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-04-09

Graduate of the American Conserva-
tory of Music, Chicago, will give piano
and organ lessons. For terms inquire at
her home in this city. Phone 81. 26tf
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-16
TAFT IN LEAD FOR NOMINATION
Reports Indicate That Big War Sec
rotary Is Still i'm the Lead

Washington, April 16.-Today's
state and district republican conven-
tions will probably serve to increase
the lead of Secretary Taft for the
presidential nomination, according
to reports received in Washington.
Minnesota's four delegates at large
will be selected today at a conven-
ton in Minneapolis and will un-
doubtedly be instructed for the war
secretary.
The hottest fight of the day will
be that in the convention of the
sixth Massachusetts district. in ses-
sion at Salem. The two Taft candi-
dates for delegates are opposed by
candidates who desire to go to Chi
cago without instructions. The cam
paign has been bitterly contested and
early reports from the scene of bat
tie indicate an acrimonious session.
Governor Hughes will gain two
delegates today in the thirty-fourth
congressional district of New York,
which is holding it's convention at
Batavia. Speaker Cannon will also
add two delegates to his column to-
day as a result of the thirteenth Illi-
nois district convention.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-16
CARGoEs OF CELESTIAL sTIFFs
Bones of Dead Chinese Being Re-
turned to Land of the Dragon.

San Francisco, April 16.-Vessels
leaving San Francisco for Chinese
ports during the next month or two
will carry back to the land of the
dragon many shipments of the bones
of departed Cinnamon. The annual
spring excavation of the graves of
dead celestials is now on in all Pa
cific coast towns having large ori
entail population and the corpse
agencies who handle this business
are very busy. According to the re-
ligiOus notions of the Chinese, the
souls of the departed will not be al
lowed to enter Paradise until the
bodies are buried in the fatherland,
and this belief has given rise to
profitable business for the trans-pa-
cific steamship companies. The bones
of the dead are wired together, la
beled and placed in caskets prior to
shipment to relatives or friends in
China. The corpse agencies are re-
quired to guarantee that not bone
will be missing, as only a complete
skeleton is allowed to enter the
heaven of the Chinese.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-16

The Annual Millinery Massacre Les
sening so Audubon Workers
Declare.

New York. April 16.-Less bird
blood has been spilled to decorate
the Easter bonnets OF American
women this year than ever in recent
history, it was declared by experts in
this city today. Based on careful eX-
animation of the millinery market as
we'll as reports from agents through
out the country this conclusion was
announced at the headquarters of
the National Association of Audubon
Societies. With the help of the mil
lion women members of the National
Federation of Women's Clubs and
other organizations, the Audubon
workers promise to keep UP the fight
against this fashionable form of bird
butchery till preparation for Easter
Sunday no longer means a massacre
of breeding birds.
That minority among the wOm-
en- of this country still demands the
bloody scalps of the mother heron
for aigrettes is shown by the Illicit
and secret traffic in these plumes
which officers of the Audubon asso-
citation assert is today being con-
Quoted by the plume hunters. AL
though the Easter carnage among
this slightly species has practically eX-
terminated it in all Of its old haunts
in the United States, sections of
South America are now being secret
ly secured, as well as southern Eu-
rope, Africa and Asia, for this nup-
tial plume of the breeding heron.
Baked in their repeated attempts to
secure legislation in New York state
to make prosecution of such traffic
possible, the Audubon workers are
today unable to effectively check the
distribution from this city of aigret-
tes irrespective of where they come
from to the women who still wear
them.
Wherever the milliners still per-
sist in offering for sale such illicit
goods, however, the Audubon associ-
alton is today taking active meas
ures to stamp out the practice,
which womens organizations in
every town in the country are writ
ing them they no longer counten-
ance. Seven millinery establishments
in Columbus and Cincinnati have
just been convicted and heavily fined
it was reported by the Audubon
agents today, for having aigrettes in
their possession for sale. Until this
traffic is finally stopped and the plu-
mage of all wild birds from this OIL
any other country is no longer han
| died by the milliners, the Audubon
! workers declare their campaign viii
| be fought on along these lines. Thi!
movement, they declare, is interna
tional, not sectional or local.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-16
WAR UPON WHITES
STORY OF CONFLICTS IN NICAR-
Aqua TOLD BY ILLINOIS
MAN.
BEATEN BY SOLDIERS
Both Sides Slaughter Their Prison
ers Whenever and Wherever
They Can Lay Hands
Upon Them.

New Orleans, La, April ia
report that about sixty whites and
Indians have been killed in Nicara-
qua in bloody warfare waged by
Mosquito Indians, was brought yes
terday by w. P. Coffman, of Bloom
ington Ill, who was a passenger on
the steamer Dictator from Central
American ports. The death list of
whites numbers about twenty.
The fighting started over a month
ago on the Caribbean coast where
the Indians live. Late in February
about 100 Indians attacked PrinZa
Polcaber, small town. They hid
behind bushes, trees and other shell
ter, pouring into the village a fire
which killed two men. A long, hard
fight resulted, soldiers and citizen
volunteers driving the attackers back
from tree to tree until about doz-
en- of the Indians lay dead or NOR
tally wounded. The other Indians
fled, but many of them were captur-
ed and after being severely beaten
with rawhides, balls and chains were
placed about their legs and they
were imprisoned in improvised stock
AIDES in the woods.
Another engagement took place at
Cape Gracios, near the border OF
Nicaragua and Spanish Honduras
Here the casualties among the troops
were five, but the Mosquitoes We're nc
more successful than before and FLED
to retreats in the mountains.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-16
BOIL WEEVIL wins
BRAZOS VALLEY NOT REQUIRED
TO STOP TRAINS ON THE
JOINT TRACK.
As TO SUNDAY TRAINS
The Railroad Commissions Order
Did Not Except Operation of
Trains on Sunday-Decis-
ion Important.

Austin Texas, April f6.--District
Judge Wilcox rendered q most i'm
portant decision yesterday ia dis
posing of the case of the state or the
railroad commission against the
Trinity and Brazos Valley and Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railways,
which was decided against the COM
mission. He held that orders Of the
railroad commission regulating the
operation of trains should always eX-
cept Sunday, for the statutes pro-
vide that trains are not required to
be operated on that day
He said that even II the order was
in other respects valid. it could not
be enforced because it was directed
and did not except Sunday.
The decision as a whole is most
important, as there are numerous
joint trackage arrangements in
Texas. They will not be disturbed
unless Judge Wilcox is reversed
higher up.
The case arose from the refusal of
the Trinity and Brazos Valley to
obey the orders of the commission
to engage in local business between
Waxahachie and Dallas. where it
uses the track of the Katy under a
contract obligating it not to engage
in local business on the joint track.
The commission had suit brought for
penalties, a mandatory injunction
against the The Trinity and Brazos
Valley to make it comply with the
order and for an injunction to pre-
vent the Katy from interfering with
the Trinity and Brazos Valley in
obeying the order.
Judge Wilcox held in favor of the
railroad and decided three important
points. He held. first. that the joint
trackage contract was valid and en-
/ forcibla as between the two roads
under the stipulations therein, one
of which was that the Trinity anG
! Bra2os Valley os consideration
Wild not engage in local business
on the track and. second, that ever
! though the charter of the Trinity
and Brazos Valley provided that il
should build to Dallas and operate
trains into that place, the use of the
joint track does not compel it to en-
gage in local business on said track
that its obligation to operate int(
/ Dallas is satisfied and that it doe
not have to do a local business be
! tween Dallas and Waxahachie, ant
third that even if the order was 9th
erwise valid, it is not enforcible be
cause it does not exempt trains op
Grated on Sunday, as the statutes d.
not require the roads to operat
trains on that date, it being entirel,
optional with the railroads, there
fore, the commission can not compe
them to operate trains on Sundays.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-16
COTTON MEN IN SESSION.
Annual Convention Opened in Bos-
ton Thursday.

Boston, April 16.-Cotton manu-
facturers representing total cap
ital of over $700,000,000 are in at
tendance at the annual meeting of
their national association, opened
this morning in Huntington Hall of
tie Massa cnusetts Institute of Tech
nology. An address of welcome by
Lieutenant Governor Eben S. Dra
per opened the session. The conven-
ticn will extend through tomorrow.
The annual banquet will be held to-
night at the Hotel Brunswick, the
speakers on the program including
Mayor George A. Hibbard of Boston,
Henry Clews of New York, Presi-
dent Frederick w Hamilton of Tufts
College, and William Whitman. Will
liam D. Hartshorne of Lawrence,
Mass, is president of the association
and c. H. Woodbury. of Boston, is
secretary.
Among the subjects to be consid-
cred by the delegates are: Arts of
weaving and spinning, belts and belt
transmission, combing short staple
cotton, conditioning cotton yarns,
construction and ventilation of.
weave shed, cotton cultivation in
West Africa, economic possibilities of
good fabrication, Egyptian cotton,
heating systems for mills, improve
ments in the cotton fibre from the
storage of seed cotton, improvements
of the cotton staple, need and advan-
tages of a cotton exchange in New
England, sea island cotton steam
turbines, textile mill stocks as in
vestments, the steady1ng power OF
consolidation, what manufacturer
should know about coal, and yarn
testing.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-16

Montgomery, Ala, April 10
Hundreds of Alabama pedagogues
wrote their names on the convention
rolls of the Alabama Educational as
sociation today and every train into
the city is adding to the throng. The
feature of tonight's session will be
an address by President Lincoln
Hulley of Stetson University, Leland,
Fla. and a general reception to the
visitors. Tomorrow and Saturday
will be occupied with the transac-
ton of the business of the associa-
ton and addresses by many promin-
ent educators of Alabama and other
states, among them DR.. w. O.
Thompson of the University of Ohio,
State Superintendent H. c. Gunnels
and Dr. Hulley Governor Conner
will also address the convention.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-16
Election Returns.

The Daily Light has sent notice
to the chaimen of voting boxes
in Ellis county requesting that he
phone us the result of his box on
May 2, Immediately after the polls
close. A large bulletin board will be
placed on the west wall of the City
Drug Store on which the returns
will be posted. Enterprise Pub. Co. If
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-16
A Quiet Marriage.

John H. Stephens and Miss Sallie
Stevens were united in marriage
Wednesday night at O'Clock at the
family residence on East Franklin
street. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. J. T. Mcclure The event was
witnessed by few relatives and
friends
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-16
Instruct Chicago Farmers.

Chicago, April 16.-District con-
ferences of the Illinois Farmers In
stitute were commenced today in the
Briggs House and have attracted a
large number of farmers from the
country surrounding Chicago
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-16

In the secretary of states Office at
Austin Wednesday charter was
granted the Buena Vista Telephone
company of WaXahachie. The capital
stock is $4,000. The incorporators
are G. w. Davis, D. L. Owen and L.
j. Paul
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-16
Gun Club Shoot.

The WaXahachie Gun Club will
have shoot at the club grounds
east of town tomorrow afternoon at
2:30. All members of the club are
expected to be present.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-16
The Champion Oats.

Dr.. S. Fl. Watson brought to this
office this morning several stalks of
oats from a patch at his home on
Monroe street. The stalks were
about three feet high and had well
developed heads.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-16
ERWIN < COOK
GENERAL CONTRACTORS AND
ILDERS.-HOUSE PLANS
A SPECIALITY.

Manufacturers of planning mill
products of all kinds A few days
more only for reduced prices on
house screens. Office at mill on
South Monroe street, near Katy
freight depot. S. w. Phone 490.
WAXAHACHIE planning MILL co
S. J. Erwin, Mgr.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-16

We trade new furniture, stoves,
refrigerators, etc, for old goo1 ).
Cash or installment. r. f. Moo e
Furniture Co. tt
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-07-23
NASHVILLE MEETING OF THE PEG
PLIES PARTY.

The Tennessee Populist State Convention
met in the Hall of Representatives at the
state capitol at Nashville on last Thursday,
and perfected their organization. Hon. II. ].
Mullens, of Franklin, Secretary of the State
Executive Committee, called the convention
to order and made a most pleasing address.
Mr.. Mullens saw before him "unmistakable
evidences that the darkness which had en-
shrouded the party for some time had passed
and a new era was about to dawn" Of Mr..
Watson he said:
"Under his leadership we are going to break
the columns of the solid South and place
Georgia in the ranks Of the Populsts. Our
enemies, both Republican and Democrat, are
divided, with but one aim, that of obtaining
a seat at the pie counter. The fundamental
feature of the Peoples Party is monetary
reform. "
Mr.. Watson spoke twice during the session
to large and responsive audience. Mr.. Wat
son s appeal was for that Jeffersonian De-
mocracy which was ''buried under the debris
of the Civil War; One of the most striking
truths he uttered was this: ga mans ballot
is never thrown away when it carries into the
ballot box his own conviction. If every man
ir this Union will have the spunk to vote
according to his convictions, Populism will
poll it's millions
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-07-23
PAGE FIVE

Hoosier State to make people sit up and take
notice. The meeting he had on July 4, was an
epoch maker in Sullivan county, where he is
individually known to hundreds Of substantial
citizens and where his splendid personality
and record insures him an enormous following.
Mr. Williams spoke briefly on patriotic
subjects appropriate to the national anniver-
sary, and then launched into comprehensive
discussion of the People s party platform.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-07-23
THE NOTIFICATION OF JUDGE
WILLIAMS.

attorney and statesman of Vincennes, Ind,
who, at the National Convention Of the Peo-
pies Party held in St. Louis some months
ago, was honored by his party, by being nomi-
mated as their candidate for Vice-President of
the United States, as the running mate of
Hon. Thos. E. Watson of Georgia, the partys
candidate for President, was officially notified
of his nomination at public meeting held
at the Grand Opera House Wednesday even
ing. Mr. Williams accepted the honor which
had been conferred upon him in brilliant
speech, which we hope to publish in another
issue.
That Judge Williams own community loves
him and is glad to do him honor, is clearly
apparent. They have hearty way of going
about things, anyhow, out West, and it is
gratifying to hear of the ovation rendered him
by thousands Of his fellow-citizens as we'll as
the distinguished visitors. The stage was
beautifully decorated with palms and ported
plants, while exquisite bouquets Of cut flowers
presented by admirers.
Framed pictures of the party's national
candidates, Hon. Thos. E. Watson and Hon.
Samuel W. Williams, occupied positions at the
front of the stage, along with the pictures of
Lincoln and jefferson
The notification committee consisted of Hon.
10 A. Parker, Of Louisville, Ky, Oscar
Parker of Georgia. Jay w. Forrest of N. "
r. Brewer Of Miss, }. H. Farriss of Ill, J. H.
Hills of Missouri, Albert Griffin of Kan, Gen.
j. S. Coxey, Of Ohio, Geo. A, Honnecker of
N. j., and Hon. F. J. Robinson.
In his address Of welcome to the city,
Mayor Geo. E. Green paid a deserved and
eloquent tribute to Judge Williams. Dr.
Flavous Van Vohris, of indianapolis, a pro-
minent author and political economist, res
ponded in a mastery address, during which
he urged that people lay aside their party
fealty and cast their ballots as conscience and
conviction directed. He alluded to Bryan as
man "recently nominated for President of
the United States by one Of the leading
political parties, who has for several years
wandered over the face of the country, from
coast to coast and from lake to gulf, making
speeches to the people and accusing President
Roosevelt Of stealing his principles when In
truth, the principles referred to were stolen
goods in the hands of both, having been stolen
originally from the platform of the Peoples
Party.'
Chairman Robinson introduced Hon. 10 A.
Parker Of Louisville, KY, who officially no.
tilted Mr.. Williams Of his nomination
The Indiana campaign has been warm one
from the first and, unless watched closely,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-07-23
A NEW POPULIsT PAPER.

The People s Advocate is the name of new
Peoples party paper just started at Do,
Miss, by W. B. O Neal. 1t is s pages, five col
umns to the page. In his salutatory Editor
O'Neal makes out strong case against the
old parties and proves the necessity for the
Peoples party. We. will repeat the name of
the town where published, Do, as it
is an odd name and we repeat it so that
our readers will not think the printer made
a mistake in setting it up. We hope reform
ers, especially Mississippi refomers, will give
the Advocate liberal support.
"Scientists say that the earth is fitting"
~ wouldn't wonder. Crops mighty
heavy in this section '-Louisville Courier
Journal.
Teacher-Tommie, can you tell me what
effect the moon has on the river?
Tommie-Yes IN; makes it moonlight
Yonkeys Statesman. r.