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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
TWO OTHER CITIES
ARE after CONCERN
Boxes and Crates From Yellow Pine
May Be Manufactured Here-con-
Germ Also Makes Toys-Would En-
pIoy Large Number of Men.

On the invitation of the Commercial
Club. Mr.. E. E. Williams of Buffalo
n, Y, is in the city today and is con-
ferring with Secretary Larson and
others with reference TO the location
of a large manufacturing plant in
the city of Hattiesburg.
The proposed plant will manufac-
ture boxes, crates, and a large line OF
novelties that are made from wood
Mr.. Williams owns the plant that he
Is thinking of moving to Hattiesburg
and it is now located in Buffalo. but
he has found it necessary to move to
the South on account of the health
of his family. He first started to
manufacture boxes and crates. but
a novelty manufacturing plant was
added, and now he is prepared to man.
ufacture any kind of wooden novelty
that is used by the trade. such as diff
ferent kinds of toys to some very use
ful articles some of which are used
in building He has modern machin-
cry and when piece of timber is put
into a machine it comes out in a fin
ished state. thereby, with labor-sav-
ing devises, making the cost much
less than when the work is done large
ly by hand.
The plant will employ at least forty
hands. Mr.. Williams is not asking for
a bonus and has fully decided to To-
cate in one Of three places-Hatties
burg, Houston, Tex. or Sherman Tex.
He does not intend to consider any
other locations and one of the three
places will get the enterprise. II is
stated that Houston, Tex. offers a
bonus of 500 for each hand employed
in manufacturing concern that To-
Gates there. but it is known that Hat
tiesburgs advantages will more than
offset this. For instance the plant
can use a great deal of the refuse
lumber that is now burnt at the saw
mills and which can be obtained for
nothing at this place 1t would be
situated right in the midst of the very
kind of timber-pine-that is mostly
used in the manufacture of the facto-
rvs products, and sufficient hard
wood timber can be easily obtained.
Secretary Larson has had some cor
respondence with Mr.. Williams and
when the latter read of the advantages
that would accrue in locating the plant
at Hattiesburg, he decided to come
here and investigate for himself and
he is well pleased with the outlook,
and while he hasn't said that he would
locate here, yet he is well pleased and
it is hoped that this will be his final
decision. He can be assured that he
will receive a cordial and hearty well
come and that he will he Iocatino in
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
TREASURY
IS BUSTED
THIS is THE UNPLEASINc PROS.
PEcT PRESENTING ITSELF.

Jackson, October 21-State Treas
urer Edwards has almost reached the
bottom of the treasury strong box.
and unless county tax collectors hustle
up and send in some settlements the
annual deficit will again become a
troublesome question, and it will be
necessary to defer payment on the
states warrants.
This prospective shortage is due to
legislative shortsightedness in fgur
ing on prospective receipts and eXpen-
ditures for the biennial period and,
be expected from the various counties
until the latter part of the year, it is
hard to see how a deficit can be
avoided
The county tax collectors have
opened their books for the current
year, but very few payments will be
made during the present month, ma
jority of the taxpayers waiting until
the time limit has almost expired. and
this will be especially true this year
on account OF the cotton holding move
ment among the farmers.
The receipts from county tax col
lectors during the early part of No
vember will probably be even smaller
than for the same month last year,
and even the December settlements
are likely to be very light The heavi-
est outstanding obligation to be made
before the close of the year is the an
nual distribution of the pension fund
amounting to $350000. The distribu-
tion list has been almost completed,
but Auditor Smith will doubtless hold
up the issuance of warrants until ad-
vised that there is a sufficient amount
of money in the treasury to meet the
warrants when they are returned from
the chancery clerks for payment.
Nearly all the funds now in depos-
itories in the various counties have
been withdrawn. The big volume of
tax payments will be made during the
month of December, settlements on
which will not reach the treasury un-
til the first week in January.
In all of the counties the collectors
are issuing notices that they will visit
the various voting precints with the
tax books during the next thirty days
for the purpose of meeting property
owners, but as a rule. these visits do
not accelerate payments. property
owners taking their own time about
it, and generally waiting until they
make their holiday visits to the coun-
tv seats before squaring accounts with
the state.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21

some time. Recently. however. they
heard that the feeling against them
had somewhat subsided. There were
some legal papers at Walnut Log,
which needed attention, and the attor-
neys went there yesterday to see
about them. Their presence was soon
made known to all of the fishermen,
and band of men was quickly
formed. 1t is not known whether the
men were from Obion county or from
Lake county.
They lost no time, but proceeded to
the hotel after the guests had retired
for the night, and quietly accom-
plished their purpose.
A man named Powell, who hauls fish
from the LOG" to Hickman. is said to
have been forced to accompany the
mob which numbered about eighty
members. Powell had been stopping
at the hotel and when the riders called
everyone out and compelled them to
line up Powell, Colonel Taylor, Cap
tain Rankin, and the surveyor, a man
named Carpenter, are said to have
been taken away. the others being per-
mitted to return to their beds.
Powell states, it is said, that after
killing Rankin, vote was taken re-
garding the disposition to be made of
Taylor. During the dispute Taylor
made a dash and jumped into the
bayou, starting to swim across it. A
number of shots were fired at him, and
in the confusion Powell slipped away
and brought back the story of the es-
cape, or attempted escape of Taylor.
Searchers found the trees on the
edge of the bayou clipped by bullets,
and there were deep footprints in the
mud along the shore. On the other
side of the bayou there was a single
footprint.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
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Nashville, Tenn, October 21.-The
reward of Governor Patterson for the
capture and conviction of the might
riders" responsible for the lynching
of Colonel R. 2. Taylor and Captain @.
Rankin at Reelfoot Lake yesterday
morning will stand at $4,000. 1t is
understood that a supplementary re-
ward, will be offered by the relatives
and friends of the murdered men.
Colonel Taylor was go years of age
and was one of the most popular men,
bers of the Tennessee bar. Captain
Rankin was also well known. Both
men resided at Trenton and excite
ment is running high in that vicinity.
Sheriff Eastwood. of Obion County
and a large posse of armed men are
securing the woods in search of the
perpetrators of the crime and several
arrests have already been made.
Manager Ward of the Walnut Log
Hotel, near Reelfoot Lake. says that
he can identify at least two of the
masked men who came to the hotel
and carried Colonel Taylor and Cap
tain Rankin into the woods. 1t was
then directly after midnight Tuesday
morning and it is presumed that the
lynching occurred a few minutes
later.
The two lawyers had represented
a fishing club in contending for fish
ing privileges on the lake and it was
for this offense that the mob decided
to lynch them. They were carried to
the bank of Reelfoot Lake, where
Captain Rankin was hanged to the
limb of a tree and his body riddled
with bullets.
The lake separates Obion and Lake
counties in the extreme northwestern
corner of Tennessee. Numbers of the
residents in that neighborhood have
made their living for some time by
fishing in the lake and they became
indignant when what they claimed as
their rights" were disturbed. They
made demands of the land company.
These were followed by threats.
Colonel Taylor desired the protec-
tion, in some form, of the state, and
he secured the passage in the legisla-
ture of an act regulating fishing on
Reelfoot lake. This act made it a
misdemeanor to fish in the lake with
out first paying heavy penalty.
This only served to more thoroughly
arouse the fishermen.
Fearing trouble, Captain Rankin
and Colonel Taylor have remained
away from the vicinity of the lake for
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21

OUR COTTON
GULFPORT PLAN LIKELY TO BE
CARRIED OUT SUCCESSFULLY.
Believed That All the Railroads Will
Finally Join in An Agreement and
That Mississippi Will Have Export
Point of Her Own.
Daily News Special.

Daily News Special
Jackson, October 21-At it's next
monthly meeting the Mississippi rail
road commission will again consider
the rates on cotton from various Mis-
sissippi points to Gulfport, issued with
the view of making Gulfport an ex-
porting point for the souths great
staple.
1t is stated that the commissioners
have received a number of semi-offi-
cial assurances from common carriers
that they will adopt the new rates
without protest and make them effec-
tive at the time adopted by the COM
mission.
Other roads, however. are very re-
luctant about stating what they intend
to do in the matter. but If majority
of the lines agreed to adopt the rates
without legal protest, all will doubt
less do so.
The Gulfport Commercial Union has
given the assurance that it will have
ample. facilities provided for cotton
exports and If the plans now being
framed are carried to successful con-
summation the bulk of Mississippi's
corn sold for export will doubtless go
to sea through her own harbor.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
SUPREME court HAS
RENDERED DECISION
Verdict of the Jones County Circuit
Court Is Sustained and the Amount
of the Policy Must Be paid by the
Insurance Company.
Daily News Special.

Daily News Special.
Laurel, Miss, October. 21.-Mrs.
Laura Hyde, of this city will be paid
$4,000 by the Home Life Insurance
Company in settlement of a policy car
ried by her son, jeff Hyde, who COM
mitted suicide in Meridian hotel a
year ago.
The insurance company contested
the payment of the policy on the
ground that it contained a clause re-
voking its payment in the event of
the suicide of the insured during the
first year. The matter was decided
against the insurance company in the
Jones County circuit court and the
company appealed to the state SUI
preme court, which has just handed
down a decision upholding the action
of the lower tribunal.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
SARA TOGA
Hotel
FIRE
Hearst News Service.

Saratoga, Miss, October 21.-The
two-story frame hotel at this place
burned at II o'clock this morning. The
fire is supposed to have started in the
kitchen and the flames had gained
good headway when discovered. The
entire structure, together with most
of its contents, was reduced to ashes
in less than thirty minutes.
Several guests were in the building,
but made their escape without diff
ficulty and none were injured.
The hotel was erected by Captain
Bulls when the Gulf and Ship Island
Railroad was first constructed through
the town. On account of the splendid
mineral springs here he intended to
make the hotel a resort.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
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:: POLITICAL POINTS
I: IN THE DAYS NEWS.

: Three members of President Z
: Cleveland's cabinet spoke at Car
: negie Hall in New York last
= night in the interest of Bryan
:: and Kern. They were: David
: Francis, of Missouri; Judson Har-
: mon, of Ohio. and Hilary A Her Z
= bert, of Alabama. The enthus- :
: iasm was great.
= Taft will speak in New York, Z
:: Ohio and Indiana from now until
= the election, according to an
:. nouncement of Chairman Hitch Z
=: cock. The Democratic forces
= will be marshaled in the same
: states.
: w. ]. Bryan spoke at Louis
:. vile last night after a trip
:: through Indiana. He was given
: an ovation.
: President Roosevelt will prob
: ably make a speech for Taft and Z
:. Hughes in New York City on Oc- Z
:: tober 30.
: The New York World charges
: that Roosevelt granted an exclu-
: sive franchise to the Standard :
: Oil Company to operate in the I
!. canal zone over the protest of Z
: Shonts.
!: Treasurer Shelton, of the Re-
I: publican Committee, is said to be
: mixed up in the New York ice Z
!: pool scandal.
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21

Almost every day brings cheering
news from the lumbermen of South
Mississippi. These letters have
reached our desk since Monday:
Gulfport-The Gulfport Sash, Door
and Blind Manufacturing Company
says: I'VE are running on full time
and the future looks good to us. We
have had 100 per cent. more inquiries
in thel asst fifteen days than in the
previous thirty days and have booked
so per cent. more orders"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
FUTURE LOOKS GOOD
TO THE LUMBERlNEN

Richton-Richton Lumber Company
says: 1--WE are running and prospects
are improving"
Saratoga-A. j. Weems Lumber
Company: "The market is experience
ing a gradual improvement and we
look for much better prices in the next
thirty days. The present demand
is very good"
Bogalusa-H. A. Vaught G. Co.: "We
are doing a fair business, but are
quoting higher prices"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
TORRO ADMITS THEFT,
PREFERRED TO STEAL
RATHER THAN DIE POOR

he stole the money for his daughter,
and that he has placed it where it
cannot be recovered. Torro is suf-
fering from incurable cancer of the
liver and has not long to live. He
says that he preferred to steal rather
than leave his family in poverty"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
JUDGE TAYLOR
HSUL LIVING
Troops Are Rushed to Reelfoot Lake to Chase
Members of Murderous Mob.
Aged Zazvyer Scam Lake
To Escape "MIgbt Rdeyy"

Memphis Tenn October 2Judge zack Taylor taken from the
hotel Walnut log Tenn
kim his law partner lynched
vile, having escaped from the fishermen might riders"
While the might dispung
deth Judge Taylor from the the
Reeoo Lake and hundred
A voey lawyer
surface
completely exhausted
hours before then
through the Tponvle
tired sorefrom the
the horrible details his experience miserable
partner, Captain
Judge
after which several shots
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
HAMS CASE
POSTPONED
Hearst News Service.

New York, October 21.-The ar
raignment of the Hams brothers was
delayed again today, when J. H. Nc
lntyre, counsel for the defense de-
murred to the double Indictment of T.
jenkins Hams. Judge Garretson or
dered Mcintyre and District Attorney
Darrin to prepare briefs which will be
submitted to the court Friday and he
will render his decision Monday. when
the Hams brothers will again be
brought before the court.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
TWO SENATORS
ELECTED TODAY

Montpelier, VT, October 21.-The
Vermont legislature today elected W.
V. Dillingham; to succeed himself in
the United States senate and chose
Carroll s. Page to fill out
the unexpired term of the late Senator
Redfield Proctor
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
FIRE NOW
RAGING IN
OIL FIELD.
Hearst NewS Service.

Sault Ste Marie. Mich, October 21.
Hundreds of residents of this dis
trict who have been fighting forest
fires for the past several weeks are to-
day depending on predictions of
rains to stay the flames.
A high gale has spread the flames
in all directions.
Sugar Island, with a population of
1000 is reported to be on fire from
end to end and it is feared that many
lives will be lost.
Many small towns are surrounded
by flames.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
EIGHT LIVES LOSTM
SIMILAR ACCIDENTS

Chicago, October 21.-Four men
were cooked to death in the engine
room of the steam barge Maggie Mar
shal at point on the lake thirty
miles east of Kenosha Monday night.
The men were in the compartment un-
der the engine room when the steam
pipe burst. They were scalded to
death before the vessel could be towed
to land.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21

Newburgh, n. Y, October 21.-Four
men of the crew of the Albany day
line steamer New York were burned
to death on board early this morning
and the vessel was totally destroyed
The fire started from an explosion
of lamp. The pumps had been put
away in preparation for inspection and
it was impossible to stop the flames.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21

IS upheld

Clarksburg, w. Va, October 21.-
Resolutions endorsing the stand of
Samuel Gompers in the advocacy of
the election of Bryan were passed
unanimously by the state convention
of the American Federation of Labor
in session here today.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
Hearst News Service.

Havana. Cuba, October 21.-La
Lucha, the leading Spanish paper of
Cuba, says: Miguel De La Torro, ac-
cused by Governor Magoon of the
theft of $19O.000 from the treasury
of the Havana fiscal zone, admits that
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
OIL FIELD ON FIRE.
Hearst News Service.

Wheeling, w. Va, October 21.-A
terrific forest fire is sweeping over
large area near Decker Station, and
as the water is scarce the loss will
be enormous. The fire is in the oil ter
ritory, which it is feared will be swept
clean of all tanks and derricks.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21

Herbert H. Henry, prominent lum-
berman OF Gulfport, and now repre-
senting Leatherburg & White, of Mo-
bile, is in the city today on business
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21

When a man isn't ashamed to talk
about earning his bread and butter,
generally it's worth earning.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
BIG BUFFALO FACTORY
SEEKS BETTER LOCATION:
HATTIESBURG WANTS 1T
Turks Do Battle
With Bulgarians

London, October 21.-A dispatch to
a local news agency from Athens re-
ports an engagement between Turkish
and Bulgarian troops at Djuma on the
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21

frontier It is said that seventy Bull
garians and ten Turks were killed.
No confirmation of this report can be
obtained from any source.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-21
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: TROOPS ORDERED 4
. TO REELFOOT LAKE. .
Hearst News Service.

: Nashville, October 21.-One ::
:. hundred militiamen, under COM ::
:. mand of Colonel w. G. Tatom, ::
:. left this morning for Reelfoot ::
:: lake to assist in hunting down ::
:. the might riders" who lynched ::
:. Colonel Taylor and Captain Ran !:
: kin. Z:
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-16
Physician is Arrested.

st. Louis, April 13 DR., Enge
hardt Voerster, ir., former CHIEF
physician at the city dispensary, and
one Of the most prominent physi.
ciansin the city, was arrested, charg.
ed with the killing of Reese Bell, a
psperhanger, 20 years old.
Bell was killed while escorting a
woman and two OF her daughters
from party. Bell was singing as he
walked along and met a man and wo.
man, the man remarking that the
singing was rotten" Bell retorted
that the mans companion had a
voice like that of a mud lark, when
her companion whipped out a revol.
yer and shot Bell In the head. The
slayer hurried away before a police.
man came. Detectives have been
working hard on the case for four
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-16
Fair Politician is Baked.

Montgomery, Mo, April.-The old
City Council refused to issue com.
mission as Collector to Mrs. Gertrude
Barney, the young widow and tele.
phone operator, who was elected to
that office. The refusal was on the
ground that she was ineligible under
the laws OF this State. When this
was learned her friends decided to
put her aged father, Elder W. l..
Carr, on the ticket at a special cleo.
ton, with the understanding that II
elected he appoint bis dsugh ter clerk,
so that she would In fact be Collect.
or and receive the salary.
Mr.. Carr, a preacher, is Ill In bed.
Members OF the Democratic City
Committee also decided that they
would not select any candidate to
oppose s'ticket at the special cleo.
ton that Mrs. Barney's friends
might put 10 the field.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-16
Negroes Are Against Taft.

Philadelphia Pa-April.-A con.
vention Of negroes from various Sec
tions OF the nation was held here to
take concerted action, it was stated,
to protest against the nomination
OF Secretary OF War Taft for the
presidency, and to petition the Sen
ate to pass the Foraker bill to re.
store the negro soldiers OF the United
States Infantry, who we're dismissed
from the service following the
"shoot up" OF Brownsville.
Twenty. seven States we're repre-
sented by 200 delegates. Professor
William NJ. Trot.er, OF Boston, was
elected president and Bishop Alex
snder Walker, OF New York, vice
president OF the convention.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-16
The Amen Corner.
Boston Advertiser.

Boston Advertiser.
Senator Plat wipes the tears of
memory from his eyes as the day az
proaches for the railing of the bis.
toric Fifth avenue hotel OF New York,
and the disappearance OF the Amen
Corner The spot is full OF memories
for the politician. Here 1t was that
Reu. Mr.. Burchard made his address
for the clergymen who had called on
Blaine. Says the aged Senator: II
heard him utter the famous words,
Rum, Romanism and Rebellion, but
| attached no Importance to them.
Nobody else noticed them or read
into the phrase any significance. 1t
was not until the next day that we
woke up to what it meant and was
going to mean and then it was TOO
late. The harm was DONE"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-04-16
Teaching Baby to Walk.
By DIR. MAUDE KENT,

By DIR MAUDE KENT,
Editor Medical Department, "Americsn
Housekeeper."
Never encourage baby to try to
walk II he seems unwilling to learn.
The sockets OF the joints are very
shallow In tiny children, and the
bones 80 ieebly connected that they
are easily dislocsted. Besides which,
bowed legs are much easier to avoid
than to cure, and standing before
the legs are strong enough to bear
the weight OF the body may result In
permanent deiormity, that willcause
a co Instant regret.
About the ninth or tenth month
the first attempt usually is made to
place the child on the feet. At the
eleventh OF twelfth month the child
will stand with some assistance. The
first attempts at walking are seen
about the thirteenth month. The
average age at which children walk
alone is about the fifteenth or six.
teenth month. Much depends upon
the surroundings. A great differ
ence Is seen In different families In re.
gard to time OF walking. Previous
sickness may retard walking, or,
most common OF all, the condition OF
the bones known as ricketts,. In
some instances spinal disease may
be the cause.
Massage Of the hips and legs ior
ten minutes after the morning bath,
Is the best external treatment; pour
a teaspooniul OF olive oil into the
palm OF the hand and do not mas
sage very rapidly or vigorously
The even, firm pressure is the best
motion In a case OF this sort, and
com bines a soothing effect and the
desired stimulation OF the circula.
ton.
Twice day give half teaspoon
iul OF Scott's Emulsion. The com
bination OF the oil and hypophos'
phites OF lime and soda will assist
the other food to build bone tissue
rapidly, and is equally necessary
where the spinal nerves are diseased