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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15
Roosevelt Wants to Even
 the Score
TO DEFEAT LABOR LEADER
Omitted From Guests At White
 House ' '
President May Ask For Some Extra ordinary Labor Legislation Be- fore He Leaves the Chief
 Executive ChaiE.
nY ALFRED ,. STOPPER.

Washington, Nov. )--- IL is expected that President Roosevelt in his forthcoming message to Con- gress will have considerable to say concerning the necessary legislation he thinks labor should have.
 During the last session the head Of the nation fussed Q good deal with the lawmakers on this point. A na- tional election was to be held. and Sam Gompers and his associates were making demands which threatened to cause trouble at the polls for the Re- publican party.
 MT. Roosevelt got only a small por- tion of what he asked of Congress, and ms he is going to quit the White House in March and this will be hts last whnck at the legislators. 1t is natural that he should desire to have placed on the statutes some measures to which he can point with pride as hay- ing been forced through by him for the eternal benefit of the working man.
 TO some Of his callers the President has made no secret of the fact that he feels chopped up over his apparent faii- urs to have a labor pow-wow to his liking at the executive mansion next week. to be followed by dinner.
 The declinationa of some of the prominent lAboFftea interfered with the carefully laid plans to hold q con- ference that would be noted chiefly for the absence of Sam Gompers, master mind for some years of the American Federation of Labor. Friends of Com pers have had no hesitancy in saying that this conference and dinner was planned for the purpose of slighting Gompers.
 Ear and wide the impression has gone out that Roosevelt hates Com pers. and the friends of the latter have not been slow in charging that the White House frolic was originally conceived with e view to defeating if possible the election of Gompers for another term as President of the Fed eratton.
 The manner in which prominent of- 1icials of the organization have ex- pressed themselves would appear to in dicate that if President Roosevelt counted on fnjuring Gompers he has missed 1t. for the general opinion is that he has been helped rather than in- 1ured.
 Take Lumehoon ana TaIk.
 No President of the United States has ever rivalied Mfr. Roosevelt in the matter of reaching people through their stomaehs. By long odds he is the champion in the matter of inviting men formally and informally to dinners and luncheons. Hardly a day passes but that ha has from two to half dozen at luncheon with him, and invt- tations are sprung upon his guests when least expected.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15
staves tn AIahama..


 The Census Bureau has issued an in- terestinF bulletin showing the produc- ton of slack barrel slaves for 1907. The figures for Alabama are 9,400, the amount. being stated at thounsands. Pine slaves comprise the bulk of the Alabama production.
 AS compared with the states in which the production is 1arge--the total thousands for the entire United States being, 1,175. .977---Alabama however out- ranks the. following Southern states; Georgia. Louisans, North Carolina and Texas. Pennsyivania Missouri, Michl- gan, Arkansas. ane Virginia, ranking ir the order named. reported a produc- tion of over 10e million slaves each. The production of these states amounted to 667.9s2.o00 slaves. or 5s.s per cent of the total number produced. Tn the production of gum slaves Mis- souri led with 93.789.9o0. or 4t.5 per cent of the total. Of the remaining 72.052.o0o gum slaves, Kentucky, Illi- nois, Tennessee, and Mississippi rank ing in tho order named. reported hS,- 22e, 900. The number Of states report ing ths production of pine states was larger than the number reporting the production of slaves of any kind of wood. Virginia. with 3o.3 per cent of the total, reported the largest amount, followed by Maryland with 12.6 per cent Florida with e.7 per cent. and Penn sylvania with TT per cent. Michigan, with 57,S91, ,00O pieces, led in the pro- duction of elm slaves. producing more than the states next in order. Ohio. Indiana. ssand ArksnsasA combined.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15

A
 ~By George, Take luncheon with mo caught many calisr at the executive ofiices when he never dreamed that he would have the privilege of hreakIng bread with the President. By Such methods the President works out many a point.
 He Is also q hospitabie man. and dozens of his invitations during . ssa- son have no significance other than that Mir. Roosevelt really likes the in vlted one and wishes to haxe- him at his table. But generally speaking he some call 1t, until 1t has gotten to be a science.
 Of the prominent labor leaders Mir. Roosevelt is thought to think more of John Mitchell than any one else iden- tihed with the organization. Although Mitchell is a Democrat. he doubtless could have had a fat ofsice under this administration. Mitchell. however. has fought shy of political prefermeht. As is well known he could have had in all probability his party nomination for Governor of Illinois. if he had only spoken the word. And had he gone into the fight. the chances are he would have been elected. But Mitchell has eontended that ofiiceholding was not to his liking, and that his duty was to continue to battle as an individual for the rights of the working people.
 If he could get at him in any way Roosevelt would crush Gompers. He will never forgive him for his activity in behalf of Bryan and other Demo- crats in the recent presidential com test
 President Roosevelt has also shown the vindictive streak in his nature by making it a point to omit from White House dinners leading members of the Senate and House of Representatives who have either harshly criticized his policies or made stinging personal ate taclks upon him in their speeches.
 Two notable instances are Senator TilIman of South Carolina and the late Senator Carmack of Tennessee. The latter during the early part of his senatorial career got on the ta- beoed liet. and later made a speech eo9nplfmentlng the President on the stand he took in the Brownsville shooting ease. and then Mir. Roosevelt became so tickled that he Invited Mr. Carmack most cordially to a state din- ner. The Tennessean politely declined the invitation. But the President would never try to get in with Ttllman. and the fiery South carolinian has ale ways been proud of the line that has been drawn against him at the White House.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15
QUARANTINE PROCLAMATION.
Texas Takes . Radical Departure From
 any Previous Qmmrmntine.


 Austin. Tex, Nov. 14.-Governor Campbell today issued a quarantine proclamation. effective tomorrow. de- claring rigid quarantine against per- sons infected or liable to be infected with smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, typhus fever. bubdnic plague or other communicable disease. either within or without the State Of Texas.
 This is q radical. departure from any previous quarantine ever Issued by the State and while 1t is not expressly mentioned it is understood ''other com municable diseases" means tuberculo- sis. The State health oficer Is direct ed to establish and maintain local quarantine fin all cities, counties and towns in the State where these dis eases exist. This Is also the first time that a quarantine has been established against persons infected with typhus fever. The Governor In his proclama- tIon revokes the maritime quarantine against ports south of z5 degrees north latitude
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15
Olga Nether.oIe Sails

London. Nov. 14.-olga Nethersole will sail for New York the first week in December to engage an American company and begin rehearaals for a new play by W. J. Hurlburt, in which she makes her debut as actress-Enan- ager. The play will be put on in Washington the second week In Janu- ary. It has not yet been definitely named but probably. will be entitled ''The Submerged Tenth" .bsr5
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15

Forty -sev8n per cent of the production of beech staves, ss.s per cent of the maple. 72.0 per cent of the chestnut ts.4 per cent of the birch, and SA per cent. Of the basswood slaves were re- ported by Pennsylvania. over seven eighths of the spruce slaves are credit ed to Maine. Arkansas produced 42.s per cent of the ash slaves and s4.s per cent of the eottonwood slaves
 Tobacco in Augtraiia. z According to consular report maae public by the. Bureau of Manufactures the Australians are remarkable users of tobacco, and they get nearly all the weed required from the United States. The government statist Of Flc- toria shows that for last year neaiy 5,O0e.o0o ponuds of tobacco were mann- factured down there, in addition to ls, O0o. 900 cigars and 146,000.000 cigarettes 100000 cigars and 146,000,Oe0 clgaretts
 Of the tobacco habit among the Aus tralians the United States consul ct Melbourne writes:
 Men of all degrees and ages smoke. In the interior of Australia the pipe Is used in preference to cigars. and cigar cites. although the latter are extensive ly used both in the town and country The pipes used are mostly brier. There Is no doubt that the occupations of the country, such as grazing ana mining are responsible for the large amount of smoking as 1t conduces to Fraternity and, as Is well known 1t is me of the greatest Jewellers in social life Some idea of the surprising quantity of tobacco consumed in pipe, cigar, and cigarette smoking in this country may bc gained from the fact the the total weight of the manufactured article turned out by factories in the State Of Victoria alone in 1907 was 5.240.247 pounds, equivalent to nearly 2.42o tens.
 Almost all Of the raw matfial used In these manufactures Is of American origin. In addition to the above outr put, the State in 19e7 imported the following quantities, mostly from the United States: Manufactured tobacco. 3ss,s0s pounds; 7s.s4s pounds; clgare- ties 24,555 pounds"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15

'advisaBilIty of issuing 6 proclamation
 calling upon the men of his state to
 turn their thoughts for the week of December T-12 to the vital question of resources and conservation and urging
 as many as possible of them to be in
 Washington for the purpose of learn ing the full meaning of Southern re-
 sources and the influences these will exert upon the world ..ss z.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15
COURT IN GREENvILLE.

Thirty-elGht Convictions. Secured by
 Solicitor Bricken.
 Creenville.. Nov. 14.-(Special. )--Af- ter two weeks session Circuit Court has adjourned. having disposed Of many cases.
 There were thirty eight convictions. Several were before, the court for VI 'olation of the prohibition. law.
 Of all who were tried during court only three escaped conviction, show Inr that the grand jury did not find hills except where conviction was ale most certain.
 Solicitor Braicken made a record that will be terror to law breakers
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15

dence of the growth of independent voting in the State. Though the hal- lot was the most cumbersome in his- tory. an electorate which gave Judge Taft a plurality of approximately 75.- 900 returned Judson Harmon, Demo- cratic candidate for the Goyernorship by a margin of about 16.000, and de- feated the Republican candidate for the State treasurership, against whom charges of misconduct in off1ce were made, by something like 5000 votes. Hamilton County (CincinnatD gave pluralities of 1s,OoO for Taft and i9Ooo for Harmon; Cuyahoga (Cleveland) gave 1e,500 for Taft and 1850 for Har- mon; Franklin (Columbus) gave 5,700 for Taft and 1850 for Harmon; Lucas (Toledo) gave 2,500 for Taft and 2.000 for Harmon; Montgomery (Dayton) gave 55c for Bryan and 5000 for liar mon. Something like the same ratio of Republican loss on the State. ticket was maintained in the bulk of the heavily Republican rural counties to which the Republican organization looked to offset Judge Harmon's strength in the cities.
 Anti-SaIO0n League ReyeFses.
 One other feature of the Ohio elea-
 tion worth noting is the series of re- verses sustained by the Anti-Saloon League. which has been power in
 state politics in recent years. All the power of tho league was exerted against Judge Harmon. who was rep
 resented as the enemy of temperance and denounced by the anti-saloon ora tors from one end Of the state 10 tne other. vet he overcame a great Repub- Iican plurality and won. The author of the local option bill under which more than thirty counties have beon voted dry was beaten fer reelection though he had large Republican piu- rality to count on, and several or the foremoHt advocates of his measure
 went down with him. In cases where
 the Anti-Saloon League endorsed can
 didates for the. Legislature'' they al-
 most, without exception, ran heaVily behind their tickets.
 ried to extremes in Ohio: evidently the pendulum is now swinging back but it probably will not get quite so far back as it was before.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15
FRurT cArkE T1mRrRs.

FRUIT CAhE EEMHEEt9s fe oz. pkg. Fancy Seeded RaIsins, 12 I-2e. Ie oz. pkg. Fancy Cleaned Currantu, IF 1-2e. 4s
 Fancy Leghorn Citron, per h., z5c. Large Layer Ffgs, h., 15e. ConpIefe line of Spices, per psEg.s 5c.
 BROCK GROCERY O.,
 The Pure Food Stores.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15
HEnGEs vs. FENCES.

Hedges are cheaper than fences and add beauty to your grounds. lumber soon falls into decays hedges last llfe- time. California and AmOOr River Privet, SS-Oo per 100 and upward
 s. B. STERN & co. Phone 1901.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15
President of Duma.

St. Petersburg. Nov. 14.-NikoIai Khomyakoh was to-day reelected president of the duma by SIS votes to 3A.- uVice. Presidents XolkOnsky and Meyerdorff and Secretary Sasonon were also reelected.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15
MARINE NEWS.

Port Eads. Nov. 14.---ArrRed: Steam CTS Excelsior (Amn.), Birney, Havana; Conway (Br.), Sponk, Huelvas Kings tonian (Br.). Kerruish, Bremen.
 Sailed: Steamers Heimdal (Nor.) ], Riis, .Odense. Svendborg and Veil via Norfolk; Dictator (Nor.), Gudmund- sen, Bluehelds via Belize; Morgan (Amn.). Thompson. Tampa via Mobile: via Aalborg;> Comus (Amn.), Boyd, New York; Cavour (Br.J, Carnah, New York Greeubrier (rB.ls Gait, Bocas del Toro; Cartago (Br.), Peterson. Colon via Port Barrios.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15

Fancy dyelng and eleaning in our speciality, the most elaborate garment made to look fresh and new, don't throw them away. send them to us.
 French Dry Cleaning Co.,, PhOne 113. 2O3 Dexter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15

New orleans, La. Nov. 14-Cleared: {: Steamers Sicanania (Ital.), zImiti, Pa lermo. Barcelona, Genoa and Naples via Newport News; Julia Luckenbach (Amn.), conneIl Porto Rico; Linwood (Br.), Searle, Nakasko and Copenha- gen via Norfolk; Harry T. Inge (Nor.)
 Sannes. Bocas del Toro via Port .Llmon: Castillian Prince (Br,). Chambers, New
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15

Galveston. Tex. Nov. 14.--Arrived; Steamers Almerian (Br). Cook, Liver pool via Port Cabello; Belle of Ireland (Br.). Dowler. St. Lucia; Lampasas (Amin.), Johnstone, New York; Fl Paso (Amn.). Knowles. New York.
 Cleared: Steamers Inkum (Br.), Me- Kegg, Liverpool; Comal (Amn.). Young. New York; Greystoke Castue (Br), Lewis. Antwerp; Fl Dia (Amn.), Mason New York.
 Sailed: Steamers COmal (Amn.) Young, New York; Fl Dia (Amn.). Ma son, New York; Canterbury CBr). Will lis. Hamburg.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15

Mobile. Ala. Nov. 14.-Arrived. Steamers Alamo (Amn.l. Avery. New York: Bodo (Nor.), Larsen. Puerto Cor tez; bark Kate F. Troop (Br.). Smith Barbadoes.
 Cleared: Steamers Richmond (Br). Cox, Amsterdam; Alamo (Amn.) Avery, New York; schooner Doris AxeIsen Ponce.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-14
SOLUTIONS BY
SENIOR PUPILS
|cLAss DECLARES TITS NOT IN
SYMPATHY WITH oPPosT-
TloN TO SUNDAY.

Enraged at the board of education
for its action In refusing permission to
Rev. w. A. Sunday to speak before the
students, the senior class held a spe-
cial meeting this noon and drafted
scathing resolutions directed at the
board and in the same instrument
lauded the work of the evangelist. In
utter defiance Of the action Of the
board, the senior students tonight will
attend the Sunday meeting and in ev.
cry possible way show their apprecia-
tion and sanction of the work of the
evangelist.
The resolutions drafted follow:
AT special meeting Of the senior
class of 1909 Ottumwa high school,
Whereas the Ottumwa school board
has taken action to refuse permission
to Rev. w. A. Sunday to speak to us
In the high school and the Iaculty of
the school has been forbidden to give
due announcement to the high school
students to attend tonight, we the
senior class, 1909. Ottumwa high
school, having duly considered tha
matter, do hereby announce and pub
lish the following resolutions:
heBolVed, InaG we the senior class
take the matter in our own hands, for
rnally and unanimously recognize his
invitation of our special attendance ut
his special high school services to-
night. That we appoint committee to
decorate the tabernacle in high school
colors and In every way endeavor to
make the service a distinctly high
school one.
Resolved, That we meet in body
at the First Baptist church at O'Clock
occupy seats reserved for us in the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-14
MAY NEVER FACE TRIAL
Mrs. Allen F. VRead, Who Threatened
life CT Denver Woman,
: Critically III.

Denver, Nov. 13-Weakened by
disease and drugs, Mrs. Allen f.
Read, who threatened the life Of Mrs
Genevieve Chandler Phipps with dyna.
mite last Monday may never live to
undergo the experiences OF a prison
cell or mad house as consequence
of her daring attempt at extortion
Late last night information reached
Chief of Police Armstrong from Mrs
Reads husband that her condition was
extremely critical.
This information was corroborated
by Mrs. Reads physician.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-14
REPORT OF coRoNER's VERDICT
AND EVIDENCE is ADMITTED
OVER OBJECTIONS OF COUNSEL
FOR LAMPHERE.
STRONG CHARGE is
MADE TO THE JURY
PROSECUTOR SAYS HE WILL
PROVE THAT DEFENDANT
BURNED HOME AND OCCUPANTS
AFTER QUARREL.

Laporte, Ind, Nov 1S.--The de-
fense in the Lamphere case in It's ef-
forts to prevent certain information
going to the jury suffered its first de-
feat when Judge Richter ruled that the
report of the coroner's verdict was ad-
missibIe as primary evidence. The
ruling followed exhaustive arguments.
Coroner Mack was the first witness.
He testified to finding the bodies in
the ruins and said that one was that
Of an adult female and the other three
Were those Of children.
He also found number Of bones,
Including the seventh vertebrae and
the part of the lower jaw bone of a
human being. The bones, which had
been sealed in a jar, were introduced
in evidence. The report of the co.,
oner's inquest was also offered in evil
dence
Says Lamphere Was Guinness Aid.
The jury to try Ray Lamphere on
the charge of numbering Mrs Belle
Guinness and hef three children was
completed at 4 o'clock yesterday aft
ernoon Ten minutes after the jurors
had been sworn In DeIore Judge John
G.. Richter Prosecutor Ralph N. Smith
outlined the case of the state in an
opening statement.
His speech disclosed that the muir
der of Andrew X. Helgelein, the South,
Dakota farmer whose body was
among those found, dismembered and
sewn in gunnysacks, In shallow
graves in Mrs. Guinness chicken yard
is to be as much the subject Of testi-
mony rs the charge of murder by ar
son against Lamphere, which is the
formal question before the jury
With the avowed purpose of develop
ing the motive for the burning Of the
Guinness house Prosecutor Smith de
clared that he will prove Lamphere
knew of the murders by Mrs. Guinness
and was her active accomplice in dis
posing Of Helgelein's body.
Further, the attorney for the state
said he would show that Lamphere
shared in the loot taken from Hell
gelein and later blackmailed Mrs. Gun.
ness until this method of obtaining
money created such animosity be-
tween them that he fired her house.
This statement, showing that Lam
phere virtually is on trial on charge
tremendous interest into the case. It
meant that whatever secret evidence
exists concerning the operations of the
mistress of the murder farm is to be
given on the winess stand in open
court
Personnel Of the Jury,
The jury is composed of the follow
ing men,
RICHARD HOLLAND, farmer.
6. H. HALL, carpenter
FRANK A. BLOCK, merchant
WILLIAM GLASGOW, farmer.
HENRY MILLS. retired farmer.
CHARLES TRAVIS, farmer.
J. DROLLINGER, farmer
G. JESSUP, farmer.
I. B. COLLINGS, farmer.
BRUCE MCCORMICK, carpenter.
J. BENTZ, farmer
G. P. NELSON, farmer.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-14

Chicago, Nov. 13.-Miss Mae E.
Otis, So years old, was arrested here
last night, charged by the police with
having instigated a plot to murder
her mother, Mrs. Sarah Otis, 81 years
old. According to the police the
mother was to have arrived in Chi
cago from Mauston, Wisconsin, on
next Saturday and private detective
supposed by Miss Otis to be .'slug-
GER had been employed to help her.
Instead of promoting the scheme, the
detective notified Police Captain
O'Brien The mother is said to have
money and life insurance together
worth $4,000
The woman's movements have been
watched by the police for several days.
Some time ago she called on a private
detective agency and the police to car
~ on the plans. Detective Mackay
was introduced as a ''slugger' from
Pittsburg. Last night Mackey met
Miss Otis and, according to him she
paid him $100 on account and gave
him promissory note for So, 400 more
Just as Mackay received the money at
Miss Otis home in Forty-sixth place.
SAS PoiiSS oiliSidiS wiz llctu UStlI Gull
cealed there stepped out and took the
woman into custody.
When locked UP the police say, the
woman confessed to the plot.
Mother Defends Daughter.
Mrs. Sarah Otis, Mis- Otiss mother,
was interviewed by telephone at Maus-
ton, Wis, today. With reference to
the statement made by the detectives
who mad the arrest that Mrs. Otis
was to be murdered by hired thugs
upon her return to Chicago Saturday
night, Mrs. Otis declared she had not
intended to come to Chicago on that
day, had made no plans, in fact, and
had not been urged by her daughter
to come. She spoke in the highest
terms of her daughter and expressed
the intention of coming at once to Chi
cago to the girls aid.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-14
Emperor of China
is Reported Dead;
the Empress Dying.

ss sss Sc . =
Peking, Nov. 13.-The emperor
OF China was reported dead at a
o'clock this afternoon. However
it has been impossible to secure
an official confirmation of the
announcement up to s O'Clock
this, evening. His Majesty was
transferred to the death cham
her at 2 o'clock In the afternoon.
At that hour he was still breath
ing.
1t Is reported this evening the
doWager empress is also dying.
Two imperial edicts were Is-
sued from the palace this after
noon In quiet succession. rhe
first makes Prince Chur regent
OF the empire, the second ap-
pointe his son, Pu Vol, heIr
presumptIve:
The emperor has been suffer
Ing for ten years from chronic
nePhritis, condition now COM
plicated with diabetes and sci
atica.
Washington Gets News.
Washington, D. c., Nov. 13. -
a dispatch received at the state
department just before noon to.
day from American Minister
RockhllI at Peking. reporting
that the emperor Of China was
dying.
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