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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25
CURTAIL POWER
Of JUSTICES
Movement to Take Criminal
Jurisdiction From Peace
Officials.

The Mobile Item of yesterday says:
1t was stated by reliable authority
today that at the next session OF
the Alabama legislature a bill Will be
introduced to take away from JUS
tees of the peace of Mobile county
criminal Jurisdiction
Several years ago by an act O. the
Legislature, criminal jurisdiction OF
justices was abolished, but through
some misunderstanding on the part
Of the cCdifier of the new state code
the act was overlooked.
That is the reason, il is pointed
out. that justices are exercising GRIM
inaI jurisdiction today.
Indications are that there Is TO be
a strong fight against the Justices OF
the peace II Is claimed that some
have abused their rights
An instance of this was brought 10
attention a few days ago when three
negro women were tried in the re
corder's court on charges of disOr-
derry conduct. When the arrest was
made BY the police in the restricted
district an acting constable was about
to apprehend the persons, but the
police being the quicker the arrest
was made and the wOuld-be constable
held as a witness.
They were tried by Judge Clarke
and heavily fined When the case
was called in the recorders court
the constable produced warrants from
a Justice of the peace charging as
sault and battery, and demanded
that the prisoners be surrendered TO
him after serving the city Judge
Clarke refused the request
There is rapid growing sentiment
against the operations of some jus
tees of the peace The extremes to
which some cOnstables are going to
secure arrests and the encourage
ment given in another direction has
been the subject of much discussion
the past few days.
Out of il all grows the movement
to take away from the justices Grim
inal jurisdiction if not abolish the
office in Mobile county entirely. That
was the substance of an announce
ment made today by those who are
most prominent in the movement
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25
Standard Clothing Co
TERSELY TOLD.

The maximum temperature at Pen
sacola yesterday was IS degrees at
1910 D. M, while the minimum was
IL degrees at 4:35 p N. Last year
on the same date the maximum was
81 degrees and the minimum n de-
grees. The average maximum for this
date is 81 degrees and the average
minimum rs degrees
Sheriff Jas. c. Van Pelt and Cir
cult Clerk A NJ. Mcmillan left yesteT-
day for Atlanta, where they will spend
a short time. They will also visit 9th
er points in Georgia
Twelve eases were docketed for
trial yesterday morning in the record
er's court. OF this number two de-
PENDANTS were discharged, one case
continued and fines amounting to $50
imposed.
C. c. Clutter. of Mobile, is in the
city on business to-day.
w. A. F1nlay, of Pine Barren. arrfv-
ed in the city yesterday and will spend
a few days here
S. ]. Harvey came over from Mil
ton yesterday, being registered at >,
local hotel. He was warmly greeted
by his many Pensacola friends.
G. T. Sherwood and J. r. Rogers, of
New Orleans, are in the city
C. w Missell is registered at the
Merchants hotel. He is a prominent
resident of Opp, Ala
L. B. Pevis, of Mariana, is in the
city on business.
Eugene Holler. a South Carolina
commercial traveller. is registered at
the Manhattan.
j. f. POOre and wife and sister of
Milton, are at the Southern hotel en-
route to Camp Walton, where they
viii spend a short time
Friends of Attorney Shotter. of
Philadelphia. who was In the CITY for
several months last winter, will be
pleased to learn that he is again tour,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25
Excursion Notice

Steamer Capt. Fritz will
run excursions TO Santa Rosa
Island every Sunday evening
until further notice. leaving
Palafox wharf at 3 80 p. m,
returning $50 p. m, fares
DOC round trip, landing at
Monarch's Pavilion on the
island. As number OF pas
sengers allowed is at present
only one hundred, plenty of
seating room is assured to
those taking this boat. Fur
Their announcement in Sun
day paper.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25
SEN. TALIAFERRO
LEFT FOR HOME

Senator TaIiaferO. who arrived J.
the city on Thursday on a short sOcia
call among Pensacola people. left O.
the evening train yesterday for HI
home in Jacksonville During his sta
in Pensacola he met a large numb
of prominent citizens of the town. and
demonstrated his ability to make
friends in his characteristic manner.
He was registered at the Escambia.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25

DIR. las. H Randolph, assistant ply
stefan at the Florida state asylum tor
the insane. submitted to a thorough
examination yesterday morning IN the
criminal court before Judge Beggs,
his testimony having been interesting
from start to finish from sc1entlhc
standpoint The physician, WAC han
died himself admirably through
rapid fire of questioning at the hands
of the state and the lawyers for the
defense. is of the firm and unshaken
belief that the prisoner, Geo G
Scudamore, is and has always been
seigning insanity. He was able TO
explain the reason for this conclusion
through reference to the varied &C
tions of the patient during his stay
in Chattahoochee, and TO facts known
TO the medical world. Even when
the prisoner attempted an apparent
assault upon him yesterday, his be
lief was strengthened that ne IS
feigning insanity, on account OF the
seemingly half hearted nature OF the
attack and the fact that he was able
to handle him with one hand, and
with very little difficulty whatever
Insane persons, according TO DR. Ran
dolph. are possessed with maniacal
strength which requires several per-
sons at times TO handle them. The
demonstration, according to DR.. Ran
doIDh, which took place yesterday
morning, was perhaps more for eff
feet
Some Interesting Details.
According to statements made in
court yesterday by Dr. Randolph,
Scudamore appeared DETECTED when
he first came to ChattanOOchee, an
attitude which, 1t was soon noted,
he was able to throw off at times
when he had reason to believe that
he was not under surveillance When
persons alleged to have been connect
ed with criminal dealings are brought
to the infirmary there is always a
suspicion that they are feigninS. For
this reason a most careful watch IS
instituted upon the actions of the pa
tient in order to find, if possible, If
certain attitudes change under varied
circumstances. The correspondence
of physical and mental signs are also
noted. Upon his arrival at the in
stitution. SCudamOTe was accorded
the usual treatment given all those
who are brought into the infirmary-
He was put TO bed, and treated like
an ordinary sick person, being
placed in the care Of nurse, who
kept a complete record of the case.
When he was finally able to be out,
he soon developed symptoms of san
ity in many ways The detected ap-
pearance was only employed wien
Dr. Randolph came about
To ConVaIescent Ward.
The condition of the patient con
tiDuing to improve he was transfer
red to the convalescent ward, where
his condition became such as 10
cause DR.. Randolph to advise his rel
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25

ing the south, having come as far as
Atlanta on his way to Florida
Louis P. Head, national commit
teeman for the Independent party
from Florida, left last night for Chi
cago, where he will attend the ma
tionaI convention of the party, which
convenes there Monday.
DIR. Randolph, who testified in the
Scudamore hearing yesterday, and
who has many friends in the city
spent a greater part of the day yes
court room in making social calls
among his local friends While a
young man, the doctor has a wide ac-
quaintance throughout the state
Aaron Cook. colored, was found
guilty in the criminal court yester-
day of the charge of petty larceny, re-
ceiving a fine of IS and costs, with an
alternative of 80 days in the county
jail. Early Williams, cOlOred, chars-
ed with petty larceny, received S25
and costs. or three months. Maggie
Lanier, cOlored, was adiudged gull. :
of assault and battery and trespass.
but will not be sentenced until later
w. Barran Lewis, of The Journal
staff, left last night for Kansas City,
in response TO a telegram stating that
his mother is very i'll.
The inadequacy of the local hack
service was felt once more last even
ing when the streets SWAN in water,
making il almost an impossibility to
reach the passing cars. AS usual, the
demand exceeded the supply during
the severest part of the disturbance,
there being attendant difficulty in
many quarters
Yesterday was the lightest day
among the local hotels which has been
registered this season, a remarkably
light list resulting from the warm
weather, which has kept the travelling
public home as far as possible Hotel
men look for a heavy week in local
trade every other week.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25
Pepsi-CoIa at all founts, &c.
On Saturday and Monday

only, large size table peaches
90 cents per can, two for SO
cents. Large size pit peaches
8 cents per can. E. B. Hoff-
man & Son.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25
No Mustaches in Alaska.

Nustaches are not worn by men ex-
posed to the severity of an Alaskan
winter. They wear full boards 10 pro
tect the throat and face. but keep the
upper lin clean Shaveu- The moisture
from the breath eongeals 50 quickly
that a mU=tache becomes imbedded in
a solid cake of ice. and the face is
frozen in a short time.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25

the privilege of playing a one-day en-
gagement, and that on a certain day
in November, and the opportunity
viii be granted them Just at pres
ent the Republican party Is busy re-
ceiving applications, and the sign
hung out reads: Come unto US all
We that are heavy laden and We Will
give you rest"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25
DR.. J. H. Randolph Strong
in This Belief, and So
TestiheS.

SCUDAMORE MADE AN ATTACK
UPON THE WITNESS IN COURT,
WHICH ONLY STRENGTHENED
THE LATTER'S BELIEF THAT
THE MAN is NOT INSANE
GAVE THE REASONS WHY THIS
BELIEF EXISTS.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25
BANKRUPT STOCK
OFFERED FOR SALE

Bankrupt stock of merchandise and
store fixtures of the Bowman Mercan-
tile Co. located at McDavid, Fla. for
sale Appraisers valuation, $4,000.
For particulars address w. H Wag-
ner, trustee, Pensacola, Fla, 16Jytf
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25
ICE CREAM

is simply delightful if flaw II with
Blue Ribbon Vanilla It has an aroma
and delicacy of fiavors that is unsur-
passed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25
EDUCATIONAL.
STATE COLLEGE OR WOMEN
tallahassee. Ella.

The safest and best college for your
daughters High standard. Superior
advantages. Music and Fine Arts.
For catalogue address,
A. A. MurPhree. President.
Tallahassee, Fla.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25

A lot of old newspapers,
tied UP in neat bundles for
sale, sc a bundle, at The Jour
nal Office.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25
= STEAMER
.MONARCH'S
SCH EOUIE
Daily, Except SUNDAY

SCHEDULE
Daily, Except Sunday.
Leave City for Navy Yard and Pavilion
f:15 m.
Leave Pavilion for Navy Yard and CITY
$50 p. m, except on Saturdays, when
she leaves at II :45 a. m.
Sunday
Leave City for Pavilion 1910 a. m $40
p. m. and Z q. M
Leave Pavilion for City p. m, .. m.
and p. m
Friday
Leave City for Pavilion 7:I5 a. m s.1O
p, m, p. m. and p. m.
Leave Pavilion for City 4:SO. 6;45 and
1000 p. m.
Music at Pavilion Sunday and Friday.
Fare for round trip. 80 cents
Please note-BOat leaves promptly at
tine given
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25
ECONOMY
Is Fashionable This
Season

The way to economic IS to
buy your clothing at the
STANDARD" while the prices
are reduced 25 to so per cent.
We carry the best line of
ready-to-wear clothing made
in America, the Stein-BloCh
line-and none of this we'll
known line is withdrawn
from this sale. Come in to-
day.
$12.O0 Suits reduced to S 6.45
$500 Suits reduced to 9.45
$500 Suits reduced to 11.45
$1,000 Suits reduced to 14.5O
$500 Suits reduced to 1850
$500 Suits reduced to 1880
Standard Clothing Co.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25
The Yacht ''Waterboy"

Is now prepared to give
SPECIAL RATES
for excursions and parties to any part of
the bay or sound or into the Cult She
has fulI equipment and dressing rooms
f8r private parties
CHAS. tAROESTV, Owner.
146 Church STRAIT
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25
Prohibitionists Expect to
Win in Texas Primar,

Continued From First Page)
which has not yet ended. nas led to
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25
To ConvaIescent Ward.

The condition of the patient con
tinuing to improve he was transfer
red to the cOnvalesCent ward, where
his condition became such as 10
cause DR.. Randolph to advise his rel
atives of the change. The ultimate
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25

W. Barran Lewis, of The Journal
staff. left last night for Kansas City,
in response TO telegram stating that
his mother is very i'll.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-25

ing the south, having come as far as
Atlanta on his way to Florida
The Holly chieftain., 1908-11-27
GENERAL NEWS.

The Liberal party carried Cuba at
the election just held, electing Gen.
Jose Miguel Gomez by large major
ity.
Word has been received at Victoria,
B. c., that the British bark. Loeb Lo-
mond, has been lost off the Chatham
islands. with all on board.
Grand jurors, investigating the New
York police stations Unexpectedly made
the discovery that the police are meas
uring women prisoners and examining
them for marks, without the assistance
of matron. They came upon one
young woman undergoing this ordeal
and indictments are likely to result.
After a search lasting nearly ten
years Prof. Mark w. Harrington, once
chief Of the United Statessweather bu-
reau and noted scientist. has been
found helpless lunatic in the New
Jersey insane asylum at Morris Plains.
He was picked up in park at Trenton
eighteen months ago and entered as
"John Doe No. s.
The Holly chieftain., 1908-11-27

The loss of money through the defal-
cation Of M. Alberti, former minister
of justice in Denmark, heavy though
1t is, is not the greatest injury his
course will cause. He was tremen-
dously popular man, the peasants in
particular having confidence in his in
tegrity and financial judgment. The
failure of the bank of which he was
the head, through his reckless specu-
lations and embezzlements, means a
total loss of about $4,000, 900, much OF
which consists of small savings of
poor people. These people will suf-
fer for the lack of their money, but
they will suffer a greater injury in the
loss Of confidence in one whom they
trusted, loss that will be manifested
hereafter by distrust of better men
than he. The evil that such a man
does lives after him.
The Holly chieftain., 1908-11-27

Milk, and nothing else. is the latest
cure for stout people. Prof F. Moritz
of Strasburg, the pioneer of this new
dietary. declares positively that an ex-
elusive diet of milk is the simplest,
the most comfortable and cheapest
remedy for obesity A limited quantity
Of water may be taken, but, with this
exception, the patient takes absolutely
no food or drink but milk. The allow
ance varies in individual cases. from
little over two pints to 31a pints daily.
taken at five separate meal times"
Milk is filling and satisfying, and the
patient suffers neither from hunger
nor thirst. The cure is easy for the
doctor to direct, and makes no great
demands on the patient to carry out.
AS for its efficacy. Prof. Moritz says
that one patient lost Sc pounds in 81
cure days." an average Of more than
half pound daily. The cure is said
to be especially beneficial in all cases
when the patient has any heart or
kidney trouble.
The Holly chieftain., 1908-11-27
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Following the recent action of the
Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago in
refusing the government rehearing
of the Standard Oil case, made famous
by its $29,0O0,0O0 fine, the department
of justice has decided to take the case
to the Supreme Court of the United
States.
Maj. Gen. w. P. Duvall has been se-
lected to succeed Maj. Gen. John F.
Weston, in command of the troops In
the Philippines. General Duvall is as
sistant chief Of staff and in that posi-
tion probably will be succeeded by
Gen. Thomas H. Barry, now in com
mand OF the American army in Cuba.
Bids were opened Friday at the Treas
ury Department for the construction Of
public building at Trinidad, Colo. The
bidders were Deeter & Wegel, Wichi-
ia, Kas., $65,163; w. o. Morrison, Den
yer, $64,952; the Ladd-Sanger Con-
struction Company, Denver. $70,300;
George Hinchliff COMPANY, Chicago
$74,900.
We have already crossed the verge
OF a timber famine SO severe that it's
blight will be felt in every hamlet in
the land" said Theodore M. Happen, a
real estate dealer OF Minneapolis, at
Fridays tariff hearing. "1n five years
every sawmill in Minneapolis will be
abandoned; yet this industry in it's
prime employed 5000 to 10000 men,"
1t has become public that at a re.
cent cabinet meeting the members Of
the cabinet were asked by the Presi-
dent to make no recommendation in
their annual estimates to be submitted
to Congress for the increase Of salaries
In their respective departments. TLis
will apply to government employees
throughout the country. as well as at
Washington. The request that no In
crease in salaries be made does not ap
ply to cases of automatic promotion
of employees from one grade to anothz
The Holly chieftain., 1908-11-27
THE HOLLY CHIEFTAIN
COLORADO.
Forestry and Fire.

Some reflections that were given
much publicity about the time the
congress of governors met last spring
now comes back to memory, bearing q
twisted look We were all very virtu-
GUS just then. We had learned to our
surprise and horror that our progeni-
tors had been unparGonably reckless
in their dealings with the property
they should have left intact to us. We
scolded them vigorously because they
had cleaned off our forests until we
were within quarter of century of
national badness. The ghosts of
those pioneers must be holding their
sides when they look down on their
successors in this supposedly mex
haustible region of natural aff1uence
and behold us figuring up our fire
losses for this summer. The bureau
of forestry at Washington estimates
that the destruction in the forests SO
far would equal the cost of a whole
feet OF firstclass battleships. That
would probably amount to more than
$100,000,000. Either our forefathers
were not as extravagant as we have
been calling them, or we ourselves
have not profited by their example.
The offence is the more grievous on
our part since we realize how easily
our forests may be exhausted. Our
predecessors thought they would last
forever.-Detroit Free Press.
The Holly chieftain., 1908-11-27
WESTERN NEWS.

Mr.. and Mrs. William Jennings
Bryan left Lincoln Sunday for trip
to Mexico.
Maj Gen. Frederick D. Grant as
sumed command of the Department
of the Lakes at army headquarters in
Chicago Friday.
Burglars on the night of the 14th
inst. plundered the South Bend, Ind,
postoffice of over $4,000 in stamps and
escaped
The insurance commissioner of Tex
as, Thomas B. Love, has renewed his
campaign for a state rating commits
sion to fix fire insurance rates.
OIL prospecting is to be carried on
vigorously at point just across the
Colorado line in Utah, the nearest out
fitting point to which is Dolores on the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad.
The new divorce law, increasing the
period of residence from six months
to one year, was carried November 3rd
in South Dakota, by vote of two to
one, according TO unofficial figures.
The commission on country life will
be at Cheyenne December 5th, where
conference will be held with Governor
Brooks, the faculty of the state univer-
sity and all citizens of Wyoming who
wish to be present.
Fire early Sunday morning destroyed
the west half Of the Nebraska Moline
Plow Company building at Omaha, to-
gether with it's contents, large stock
Of buggies, wagons and farm machin-
cry. Loss 100000.
The First National bank of Fort
Scott, one Of the Oldest banks in the
state Of Kansas, closed its doors on the
goth inst. The bank had deposits Of
100000. The closing followed a run
on the bank, when depositors withdrew
$56.OO0.
The Nebraska Supreme Court Thurs
against the Union Pacific Railway
Company, directing it to issue no more
transportation in lieu OF newspaper ad-
vertising. 1t is alleged that the rail-
road Is issuing transportation to news
paper proprietors and editors in VIOLA
tion Of the statutes of the state.
The Lyon county grand jury at Rock
Rapids, Ia, has returned an indict-
ment against the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana, charging discrimina-
tion. 1t is charged that the Standard
OIL Company sells cents a gallon
cheaper at Allon, where there is an
Independent oil company, than at
Doom, there is no such competition.
Suit has been filed in the United
States Circuit Court at San Francisco
by Henry s. Ripley, to whom a large
number of claims have been assigned,
against the Spring Valley Water Com
pany to recover $1s,634,OO0, the value
of property lost in the great San Fran
cisco fire of April IS, 1906. The plain
tiff attributes the loss sustained to the
inadequacy of the Spring Valley sys-
tenn and its failure to provide water at
the time when it was most needed.
A Los Angeles paper says that line
of steamships will be established early
next spring between San Pedro and
San Salvador and intermediate points
by the Los Angeles Harbor Company.
The line probably will be under the
management Of Rear Admiral Robley
D. Evans, retired, who was made chair
man of the board of directors, and who
is expected 10 make his home in Los
Angeles.
The Holly chieftain., 1908-11-27
Pause and Reflect.

IF twothirds Of the girls who go on
the stage would 80 to the kitchen in
stead" says the Birmingham Age-Her-
aid, there would be whole lot more
happiness In this world" Think 1t
over, brother. How would you like
to have your dinner cooked by the
average chorus girl?