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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1908-03-05

use faf iiiis purpose is little less
than marvellous. The position Of
these rivers as prime factors in the
Industrial growth of the South is
we'll recognized, and the power de-
velopment that has taken place in
the region thus watered is unparallel-
ed in any other portion of the United
States. Yet the amount of power
used is small when compared with
the immense resources of the region.
Engineers of the United States
Geological Survey. after making a
careful study of the streams, the
quantity of water they carry. and
their fall in various portions of their
courses, have estimated that they
afford at least about 100000 horse
power, at least so per cent of which
or 100000 horsepower, is available
IL auxiliary power we're provided to
supplement the water in short
seasons 21s timos this amount might
be profitably utilized; and IL the
flood waters could be stored and
the flow of the streams properly reg
ulated, the power might be increased
from three to fifteen times. It is
evident. therefore, that an estimate Of
the present value Of these water pow
ers, based on so per cent of the min
imum indicated horsepower. has so
many factors of safety that 1t is very
conservative.
An extremely low average of the
present rental value of water power is
$40 per horsepower per year. The
rental value of 100000 horsepower
would therefore amount to s2S. 5000. 900,
which is equivalent to an income of
3 per cent on a capital OF $685., 900,
900. The southern mountains own
Continued on Third Page)
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1908-03-05
NOW FOR The COUNTY UNIT BILL

The deadlock at Frankfort broken last Friday
by the election to the u. S. Senate of William o.
Bradley. -Four Democrats Senators II. S. McNutt
lard and Chris Mueller the ones who really elect
ed Bradley. The Citizen extends congratulations to
the Senator and is that he will fill his new Of
fee with great ability.
But, it is we'll known that in Politics men eigs
nothing Ter nothing Election to the Senate is thing
around which centers almost half Of the corruption in
American politics, and many has been bought
at the cost of political honor or hard cash There have
for weeks been rumors which The Citizen could not
believe but published that there to be deal where
by Bradley to go the Senate by the aid of whs
key Democrats. and the County Unit Bill which the
Republican party has pledged its honor to be de-
eated by Bradley Republicans.
Now, Bradley has gone to tie Senate By the aid of
yhiskty Democrats. The people of Kentucky, and par
tcuarly the Republicans of the state asking this
question; What was the price for which McNutt
Charlton, Mueller and Lard- all agents of the whs-
key ring which the people are fighting was the
price for which they voted for Bradley, Republican,
who has declared his support of the County Unit Bill?
Till that question is answered it would be unsafe to
congratulate either the the Republican party
The passage of the County Unit Bill would be the
best answer to this question: it would fulfill the
promise of the Republican platform and prove untrue
the charges the Democrats making The Citizen
the of the leading Republicans, expects
the passage of that bill.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1908-03-05

ber5 lest you be crowded out, but by
your own negligence. Mr.. j. A..
White, Richmond.
Il thank God for this git and fer
the agents whom he has used. | am
more and more convinced that all
things work together for coed to
them that love God. trust to the
wisdom of the trustees of Berea Coll
eye not to locate the new school out
side of Madison county."-R. T. II.
Brcaddus, Richmond.
I'VE all regret the change that sep
arated the white and colored students
in Berea, but We rejoice in the fact
that the dawn OF new day is at hand
for the colored people. Don't crit
icise the people who are blessed by
God. Mr.. l. McLaren.
At the close of the meeting a res
olution of thanks to President Frost
and Mr.. Carnegie for the gift was
adopted
Everybody expressed pleasure in
the results Of the meeting.
The letters read were from Mrs.
Ida Simpson Moore and her brother.
Curtis. Rev. p. ID. Dodge, DR.. Jas.
Bord, Rev. II. c. Baker, Prof. G. w,
Bell, Prof. w. A. Battle and Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. ]. Turner. of Wilberford. o.
q. Crenshaw.)
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1908-03-05
NEGRO PRAISE MEETING

On account of the recent gift of
100000 by Mr.. Carnegie for the col
ored school in Kentucky, many of the
citizens Of Farristown and friends of
education from Berea College and
vicinity held a praise service at Far
ristown, Sunday afternoon, March 1.
Mr. Silas Simpson presided Many
interesting five-minute addresses were
made, and letters OF greeting were
read. The song service consisted of
several old time, soul-stirring hymns
which every one likes to hear, to-
gether with song beautifully rem
dcred by the girls of the Sunday
School.
OF the many good statements made
quote a few of the most pointed
ones.
Il praise at home, but | want to
praise here too. l thank God not on
ly for Pres. Frost, but for all the
white people, for they all help u.s."
Mr.. Horace Yates.
Il have been thinking of the. flu
ture of these boys and girls. With
great interest We shall watch the es-
tablishment OF the new school,
Mr.. T. ]. Osborne
II know from personal knowledge
that Pres. Frost has been wrongfully
accused of helping to get the Day
Law passed. "-Prof. l.. V. Dodge
when letters and resolutions were
going from Richmond to the Hon.
II. W. Miller at Frankfort, urging the
Day Law | was the only enc there
who spoke in behalf of the colored
people. All ! am and hope to be.
owe to Berea College. Years ago
told you to go to Berea In great num-
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1908-03-05
BRADLEY WINS
Republican War Horse Elected to u.
s. Senate after Long Deadlock
Still Rumors of a Deal.

The thing for which all Republic
cans OF the state have been hoping
ever since the election last fall
the choosing of w. o. Bradley as U.
s. Senator-happened last Friday, but
because OF the charges of a deal
there has not been the rejoicing that
was to have been expected. 1t is not
likely there will be until the County
Unit Bill about which tho stories
have conferred. has finally been pass
ed. and so any doubt about the meth
DDS by which the honor was won has
been cleared away.
Senator Bradley will be one Of the
ablest OF the senators in Washington
and will do his work in way 20 be
a credit TO the state. He is the first
Republican Senator from this state
for years, and his long service to the
party has entitled him to any reward
which Il can honorably give him. II
is fine thing for Il TO be able 20
pay the debt In this way
The only cloud on the sky is the
charge that his election means the
defeat Of the County Unit Bill This
has passed the House and now rests
In the Senate. There Is no way by
which the Republicans can escape
the responsibility II It fails to pass
for there are enough Democrats
known to be in favor Of Il to pass
II II the Republicans help. The fact
that the Democrats are in the major
ity does not affect this. for the DEM
ocrats never promised to pass the bill.
and the Republicans did Il is up to
tho Republicans to clear their skirts
OF the charge by passing the bill II
they do. II will oonfound all their
critics.
II they do not pass the bill the party
viii suffer. First, Il will have failed
TO carry out The promise which did
more than anything else to help it
win. In the second place. IL win
give Beckham. for whose defeat every
good man In Kentucky has been glad.
chance TO come out in support Of
the bill. 20 claim credit for It's passage
when Il does go thru. 10 regain b.
temperance help all OF what he has
lost. and finally to go to the senate
four years from now. Beckham is
not doing this because Of any love
either for temperance or the people,
and he has often shown that he does
not care FOR either. but many people
will not see this and the failure TO
pass the County Unit Bill will give
him a great chance to get into power
again.
Even IL the legislature fails in it's
duty there would still be a hope for
the Republican party. however. for we
have a good governor. who would
probably call a special session for
the passage OF that one bill. The Cit
izen is earnestly hoping that the
charges will be disproved. as II be-
lieves that only thru the Republican
party can Kentucky get the reforms
she so much needs, and knows that
any failure by the party to live up to
its promises will cause II to be drlv-
en- from power for years.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1908-03-05
FINE. BAND CONCERT

The Band Concert last night at the
Chapel was one of the most delight
full ever given here, and the perform
ance of the boys reflects the greatest
credit on their new leader, Glare
Garfield, and amply justifies the time
and pains he has been putting into
the training. The performances of
tho soloists of all kinds, too, were
most creditable, and those who failed
to attend missed a most pleasant
evening.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1908-03-05
WEALTH IN WATER

The streams whose headwaters lie
among the peaks of the Southern
Appalachians, flowing westward to
the Mississippi or eastward to the
Atlantic. furnish opportunities for
the development of water power so
wonderful that the smallness of their
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1908-03-05
IN OUR OWN STATE

L. & N. Stops Reduction-Important
Developments in Tobacco War
Killings in Breathitt and Elsewhere
Powers to Run for Congress.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-02
GEN. BULLER, HERO
Of LADYSM|TH IN
BOER WAR, DIES
Relieved City After Transvaal
Fighters Had Penned in
English llS Days.

LONDON, June General Sir Red
vers Henry Butler, who had been ill
for some weeks, is dead. He was born
in 1889
General Butler entered the army in
1858, and in 1891 he had risen to the
rank of lieutenant-g general. He served
in China in 1860, in the Ashanti war
in 1874. in the Kaffir war and the
Zulu war in 1S7S-79; he was in South
Africa in 1881 and in Egypt in 1882,
and was present at the battle of Tel
el-Kebir; he also fought in the Sudan
war in 1884 and was Under Secretary
for Ireland in 1887.
He became we'll known during the
Boer war as the man who relieved
Ladysmith. He went out to South
Africa in 1899, first as general COM
manding the forces in South Africa
and afterward as general officer COM
handing in Natal. He conducted the
operations for the relief of Ladysmith,
which was successfully accomplished
after an investment of 11S days, and
subsequently he conducted the opera
tions that resulted in the expulsion of
the Boer army from Natal.
General Butler married Lady Audrey
Jane Charlotte, daughter of the fourth
Marquis Townshend.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-02
GETS RID OF $3.50
ROLL IN A JIFFX,
THOUGH ONLY BABE
Wilhelm Sturm Learns How to
Throw Away Money at
II Months.

Mrs. Jacob Sturm. a mighty pretty
little housewife, living on the third floor
CT As Jones street, was tearfully making
the rounds of the banks today in quest
of twenty three SO bills in the lower
left hand corner of each of which was
written the letter IS" with blue pencil.
She suspects her 17-months-old baby
Wilhelm. Not tnat he stole the money,
but that in a moment of joyous revelry
he tossed the family bankroll from the
window.
Mrs. Sturm went back to bed yester-
day, after giving her husband his
breakfast and the baby was permitted
to amuse himself about the house
Wilhelm is an affectionate child. He
likes to hug his mother. He did so yes
terday while she was trying to Sleep
His little fat hand may have slipped
under the pillow and came in contact
with the $3.50 wrapped in piece OF
The window was open
Wilhelm has a habit of throwing things
out of the window 1t is believed that
he tossed the roll out.
Anyway, the money was gone when
Mrs. Sturm got up to do her housework.
She called her husband home and he
interviewed the police. The money was
not on the ground. Many persons had
iassed there. Sturm told the police that
a few nights before he had written the
letter "S" on each one of the bills. The
police could do nothing and in the hope
that the finder of the money had taken
it to a bank. Mrs. Sturm today Wis
tied the banks in search of $40 bills
marked with the letter IS"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-02
HEAD OFFICERS
Of HATTERS TAKE
HAND IN TROUBLE
National Executive Committee
Calls Meeting of Hatters
for Tomorrow.

officers of the national organization
of the United Hatters of North Amer
lea met in Orange today to consider
what steps may be taken to break the
lockout of the manufacturers against
the union women trimmers, now in eff
feet for several weeks.
At the conclusion of the conference
John A. Moffitt, president, issued the
following statement:
THE national executive board of the
United Hatters of North America re-
quest the members of Local No. II of
the Oranges to meet tomorrow morning
at the Orange armory at 10 o'clock
sharp"
After issuing the statement the ma
tional officers resumed their conference.
A crowd of fully 1000 hatters assembled
near the conference place in Cone
ST. eet
At this big mass-meeting the whole
situation will once more be talked over.
The unions had a meeting late yes
terday, at which it was decided, by a
large majority, to hold out until the
women are taken back. A motion that
the union hatters go back and then
walk out again if non union trimmers
should be employed was defeated.
The meeting grew to be so large that
the men adjourned before it was half
over to the Orange Armory.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-02
EDUCATION BOARD
IN PUZZLE OVER
B|SSELL APPEAL
Case Goes Over to Next Meet
ing When Brought Up
Today.
COMMITTEE APPOINTED
TO DRAW NEW BYLAWS
Special Course for FOreign-BOrn
Students in Newark
Approved.

Tho State Board of Education, which
met today in the Montclair Hotel, Mont
clair, found itself in a puzzling condi-
tion when it considered the appeal of
Thomas J. Bssell. who had been re-
moved from the Charlton Street School,
Newark The State superintendent had
removed Principal Bissell and the State
Board of Examiners had sustained the
removal.
When the matter came up today on
an appeal the State board decided that
it's bylaws permitted it to consider
only an appeal from the State super
intendent and not from the board of
examiners. A motion to ask the at
torney- general for an opinion was car
ried, and therefore no action will be
taken on the appeal until the next
meeting of the board.
A committee on law and legislation
was then appointed with authority to
draw up a new set of bylaws, which
would permit the board to consider ap-
peals from any source.
j. M. Gregory s. request to be retired
as superintendent OF the colored school
.
Carruthers was appointed in his place.
Mr.. Gregory was made supervisor at
$1,000 year, and his wife assistant
supervisor at $780,
The appeal of Miss Anna McGill from
the State superintendent, who removed
her as a teacher in the schools at
Gloucester, was denied. She demanded
her salary for the balance of the year,
which the board declined today to
grant.
Under the law, which provided spe
cial courses for foreign-born students,
the board approved of the courses in
the schools of Newark and Elizabeth.
The German Theological Seminary of
Bloomfield, and the New Jersey Mill
tary Academy, at Freehold, filed their
applications and were admitted to the
list of authorized private schools.
Under the recent law authorizing
municipalities to establish agricultural
and manual training schools, Cape May
City made the only application for
authority to establish such a school,
and it was granted.
The faculty of the normal school at
Montclair was completed by the State
Board. This faculty will take charge
at the next session.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-02
K|RK'S FATE IN
BLACK HAND CASE
DEPENDS ON notes
Young Watchman Accused OF
Writing Two Letters Is
Placed on Trial.

Charged with having sent two Black
Hand letters to his former employer,
louis r Clarendon, president of the
T. Kelly Leather Company, FRANK
n Kirk. a former night Waterman at
its factory, 300 Norfolk street, was
,,1ooad IN trial before Judge Ten Eyck
and a Jury in the Court OF quarter
cassions today. In each letter the de-
,,,ond is made for money, $100 in one
inetance and $500 in the other, with
threats of dire results unless the money
is forthcoming
pefore the letters were received by
+bo president, Kirk reported that ne
"a renulsed an attack by five men,
r. had rushed into the yard. He salu
W. erod Eve shots at them, and the
attack was said at the time APrIl
last to have been a "take' III oIuei ~
coax a raise of salary
Much of the first letter slsheu
..5laol, Hand" could not be declphereo'
~ tbo second, received several Gays
,ater and put in evidence salu'
'''.N I'D this letter to the police as you
49, d,,st one. Now you are given
warming TO put $500 under the hrs' ',', .lvu
south Orange avenue, or YOU
faotorv o win be blown up with o Do.iip,
i''e, S,,orordon. who lived at So South Maple
n,,o East orange, at the tlnle' ~ @
H.. in Hackensack, told ABOUT nc
now ,,lt ntes of - the letters. and 50 did his his
reeeip' e 1,hev u were given to her at the
house and promptly tprlieu 20 of the
1aplati .3h police Precinct, who detaiieu d,l
l.Ii FouItn i,tbeeman Kaas and Roundsmal
PIalnI'or''ttb a,n, ~, tbe case. The result was tne
seioeI %. otcbman's t,, arrest. He Is only
% years old and VIII pus tootorv ~ and has
He lives opposite the he, Ia'sofS Braun r as
Assemblynan Rudolph a. braun
his counsel. i,volved is as to
The whole question, MYERS latters "
the identification Of the ie''eis' -
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-02
HANGS FROM WIRE
CURRENT SHOOTING
THROUGH BODY
Henry V. Kerr, Telephone Line
man, Suffers in Sight of
Watching Crowd.

With 1000 volts of electricity shoot
ing through his body, Henry v, Kerr,
telephone lineman, today was sus-
pended from an electric wire near the
pole at South Ninth street and Fif-
teenth avenue while great crowd
watched.
Edward Herbert. another lineman.
rescued Kerr when the latter was un-
conscious and just as the powerful
current had burned through his hands
and he was about to drop thirty feet
to the street.
On this pole both electric light and
telephone wires are stretched. Kerr
was repairing a telephone wire when he
slipped and to save himselw from fall
ing to the street, he caught both hands
on to the heavily charged electric
lighting and power wire.
He gave one shout and the crowd
could see pale blue smoke floating up
from where his hands came in contact
with the live wire. The current doubled
up his hands so that he coul dnot re-
lease himself. He hung there, his whole
weight on the wire, while the current
burned through his hands.
Herbert was on the next pole, and,
seeing his companions predicament,
descended and got ladder from their
repair wagon With this he assembled
the pole and lifted Kerr down just as
he was about to fall. Kerr, who lives
at 1913 Hunterdon street, was hurried
10 the City Hospital. There it was said
that he had sustained very serious in
iuries but they expected to save him.
II was tow hours before he regained
consciousness.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-02
PHILIP LOESER IN
HIDING AND TRIAL
BAIL IS FORFEITED
Fails to Appear When Primary
Fraud Indictment Is Called
in Quarter Sessions.
VALENTINE BRAUN ON
HIS BOND FOR $500
Other Counts Against Missing
Man on Charges of Illegal
Political Activity.

Philip Loeser, one of the principals
in the alleged frauds at the primaries
last September, failed to appear when
called for trial before Judge Ten Eyck
in the Court of Quarter Sessions today,
and his bail in $1,000 was declared for
feited. Court Crier Samuel Birn made
the formal announcement at the direc-
tion of the court. after First Assistant
Prosecutor Thomas L. Raymond had
moved the forfeiture.
Valentine Braun, contractor, of East
Orange, went on Loeser's bail to the
amount named in connection with the
particular indictment that had been set
down for trial today.
This indictment set forth that Loeser,
together with Frank Corbitt and Fred
erick Thompson on September 10 last,
had induced Harry Mendel, of So Cherry
street, to vote illegally in the second
district of the Fourth Ward.
No counsel appeared in court to rep
resent Loeser when his name was first
called, and it was only after his name
had beer called repeatedly that Mr..
Raymond moved the forfeiture of the
bail. Mr. Raymond made the motion in
the absence of Prosecutor Mott, who is
in Trenton before the Supreme Court,
representing the State in the renewed
application of Samuel Kalisch for the
review of the election cases on which
Chief Justice Gummere refused to allow
a writ of certiorari.
There are half a dozen other indict-
ments against Loeser. in which he is
implicated with others, and on all of
them he has been bailed, Mr.. Braun
and "Tony" Bellingham, of this city,
being the bondsmen.
Sheriff Frank H. Sommer said today
he did not know where Loeser is.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-02
BURGLARS PAY A
BIRTHDAY CALL ON
MISS T|CHENOR
With Family at Their Summer
Home Entrance Was Eas-
lily Made.
BURGLAR ALARMS IN
HOUSE DID NOT WORK
Thieves Got Valuables Ready for
Removal and Intended
TO Return.

Burglars intent ON obtaining big
booty broke into the IuxuriOusly fur
nisheG home of Miss Anna l.. TIchenor,
at 1912 Broad street, in the early morn
ing of her birthday. They made minute
plans for n big hau1 and left, apparently
with the intention of returning for their
DIunder. The house was closed for the
summer, during the absence of Miss
Tichenor at Marblehead. but maid
next door noticed a window carelessly
left open by the intruder and gave the
alarm.
The police found the contents of the
mansion in a state of chaos Drawers
had been torn open and their contents
thrown around through the second and
third floors, costly furniture had been
shifted close to the windows, several
hundred dollars worth of cut glass had
been brought from it's resting place
and put on table where it could be
hurriedly bundled away, and every in
dication pointed to a contemplated re-
turn of the burglars.
The house was entered through a
rear window Miss Tichenor her sister,
Mrs. Henry Hambleton, and hen niece,
Mrs. Hambleton's daughter, locked the
doors for the summer on May 25 when
they left for their summer home at
Marblehead. on the Massachusetts,
coast The house was fully equipped
with burglar alarms, and the family
Jewels and silver was stored in n safey
deposit vault. Miss Ida Dodd, a neigh
Dor, was left in charge of the empty
house.
The police are of the opinion that the
house was entered during the day, and
that the thieves intended to return at
night The lock on the window was
broken, and a large chisel which had
cut and scraped the paint from the sill
was found nearby.
Miss Tichenor is well known in New
Jersey society, as is her sister, Mrs.
Hambleton, the former being president
of an influential woman's club and
member of several Others Before her
departure for Europe last summer she
had a burglar alarm installed in the
house Apparently the alarm did not
work. The loss, if any, is fully covered
by burglary insurance.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-02
DESERTION ENDS
ONE ROMANCE AND
PRISON ANOTHER
Tennessee Mountain Beauty Lured to Newark by
PaSsaiC Business Man, She Says, StarveS While
Awaiting Money From FOrgiving Papa.
AGNES NOLAN REMAINS In JAIL so She CAN BE
NEAR MCDONALD, WHO MARRIED HER, SHE SAYS

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house. The lin the Tombs
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like
IN erview
Her anxious
as she S near he
in a street waiting remittance
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