The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-05-07

made public list of lis places in
Shelby county outside the city of
Memphis at which liquors are being
sold in violation of the four-mile
law. A delegation called on Sheriff
Monteverde, asking that the road
houses and four-mile yiolators be
wiped out. and assurances were CIV
en- the delegation by the sheriff that
he would enforce the law against
this class of violators. Orders were
then given by the sheriff to his dep
uties to notify all the proprietors
of such places to get ready to quit
The liquor sellers in the country out
side the corporate limits have all
taken out government licenses and,
in many instances, have paid state
and county licenses, although the
four-mile law prohibits their running
even with a license. The movement
is generally believed to be the begin
ming of a determined effort to defeat
Sheriff Monteverde for reelection
with T. G. Tate, who is opposing
him, the latter running on an indie
pendent ticket.
Former slaves, or their heirs, are
to be benefited to the extent of a mil
lion dollars, if bill favorably re-
ported by the House Committee on
Banking and Currency becomes a
law. The measure, which has been
in Congress many years, has passed
the Senate. It is based upon the
claims of former slaves who lost
money deposited in the Freedmen's
bank, which was established in
Washington for the benefit of negroes
soon after the close of the Civil war.
An outbreak occurred in the street
at Santa Barbara, CAL, in which sew
eral hundred sailors threw stones
and clubs and partially wrecked "a
small restaurant at 121 State street,
owned by John Senich. 1t was a
elimination of numerous small diff
culties which occurred during the
week the fleet was there between sail
ors and local tradesmen. The bad
feeling was due principally to a
system of overcharge for meals and
other purchases with which the sail
ors were confronted.
Gov. Folk has granted a respite
until June 4 to William Jeffries, sem
fenced to be hanged at st. Charles,
Mo-, May 4. This action was large
ly due to President Ayers of Linden
wood Seminary, a school for young
girls at st. Charles. DR.. Ayers pro-
tested that an execution so near the
school would have a demoralizing
effect and asked that it be postponed
until the school closes about June l..
Because his newly-purchased revolt
yer failed to kill him when he at
tempted suicide, at Baraboo, Wis,
Nathan Wood returned it to the store
and demanded his money back in
accordance with an agreement made
when he bought the weapon that it
would "work right" or the cash
would be refunded. Wood succeeded
in inficting only flesh wound on
himself. He got his money back.
Walter Darnell and Iva Powell,
coal miners, were badly burned, the
former probably fatally, in an explo-
sion at the Princeton Coal Company's
mine at Princeton, Ind, ten or twelve
other men were in the mine at the
time and narrowly escaped. Two
or three received slight burns.
A British subject, Scott Mon
Grief, deputy inspector Of the Blue
Nile province, together with a native
official, has been assassinated at the
instance of a local sheik, at Cairo,
who proclaimed himself prophet of
Mesalamieh, about $50 miles from
Khartoum.
The 11-year-old-son Of B. H.
White, who lives at Sontag, II miles
east of Brookhaven, Miss, shot and
instantly killed his 13-year-old broth
er while his parents were absent at
church. The boy claims they were
examining an old, unused shotgun
when it went off, the entire load
lodged in his elder brothers side.
While children were playing