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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-09-24
, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,

A farmer in the country, who had
money in the bank, sent word that he
was too busy to come at once, but that
he would call in a week. What a con-
trast that is to the rush that is made
by depositors in banks where depes-
its are not guaranteed? There the
people almost beat down the doors tc
get their deposits.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-09-24

The welfare of the farmer is the
welfare of the nation, and both self.
interest and gratitude on our part
should prompt us all to accord to
them fair treatment and impartial jus
tice In the enactment OF laws and in
their enforcement.-Hon. Joseph Rus.
sell Of Missouri. Jan. 81. 1908.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-09-24
THEY ARE NOT AFRAID OF THE
"BITE."

"The speech may sound somewhat
unfavorable from the railroad point OF
view, but Wall Street believes that
Secretary Taft's public bark does not
necessarily portend serious bite later
on."-From the Stock Market Report
printed In the New York Journal Of
Commerce (Rep.) Issue Of July as,
1908, page 3.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-09-24
. ssesessss sssssss
. Living Cost-Wages. {

Has cost Of living increased
faster than have wages? The
answer Is found in the follow
ing table of two lines:
Increase.
Cost Of living ......49 per cent
Wages ............1 10 per cert
Frank w. Hitchcock, now
National Republican chairman,
former first assistant postmas-
ter-general, recommended
100000 increase in the COM
pensation of letter carriers, Civ
ing as his reason that cost of
living has materially increased.
Salaries of senators and repre-
sentatives were increased SO per
cent, and many speeches were
made in both bodies to show
that so heavy has been the in
crease in living cost tAat the
raise in congressional salaries
was necessary, lest only wealthy
men be able to accept Office in
either branch Of the congress.
Need any housewife be told
these facts? Is there a head of
a family who does not realize
their truth?
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-09-24
NOTICE.

This Bank is In the hands OF the
State Bank Commissioner.
Depositors will be paid in full by
The State Banking Board.
Please call and get your money.
n. n .SMOCk,
Bank Commissioner.
State Of Oklahoma.
May q, 1908.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-09-24

The Republican Party's Own Answer.
In his address to the Republican ma.
tional convention, Temporary Chair.
man Burrows referred to the Repub-
lican victory in 1904, and then asked:
"In view of this Endorsement, it be.
comes pertinent and opportune to in.
quire, what has the Republican party
done in the last four years of govern.
ment control to forfeit public conf.
dence or create distrust in it's capac.
ity for future administration?
For this question the Rochester
New York; Union and Advertiser
finds a striking answer. This is the
answer which the Union and Adver.
tiser takes out of the mouth of Sen.
ator Burrows own party as stated in
the Republican Platform of 1896: 'In
the broad effect of it's policy it has
precipitated panic, blighted industry
and trade with prolonged depression,
closed factories, reduced work and
wages, halted enterprise and crippled
American production Every consider.
alton OF public safety and individual
interest demands that the government
shall be rescued from the hands of
those who have shown themselves in.
cable of conducting it without dis.
aster."
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-09-24
WHY7 JUST WHY7

II your banker asks why you
think your deposit should be
guaranteed, ask him why he
thinks your note that he dis.
counts should be endorsed or
backed up with security.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-09-24

All Of the robberies committed By
all OF the insurance companies in all
times In the past does not amount To I
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-09-24
sAReEANT ON TAFT.

He Declared that Judge Taft Re
manded Workingmen to Serv-
ltude as Degrading as the
spartans Imposed Upon
Their Helots.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-09-24

IN a public address, Mr.. Shaw, re
Gently Secretary of the Treasury I'm
der Mr.. Roosevelt, said: "The strin
sency Of 1907 is generally conceded t
have been the severest the world ha,
ever Witnessed"
How consoling It is to read in tn,
republican platform this glowing sen
tence: "a Republican tariff has al
ways been followed by business pros
perity"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-02-11

Number Of Cases disposed Of nj Yes
terday's Session.

In III" mayors court yesterday a
number Of defendants We're on trial
and several were either sent TO the
reads or bound over to the higher
court.
Boyd Jones. charged with carrying
a concealed weapon and with assault
with a deadly weapon was bound over
on both charges bonds Of SIS In each
case being required.
Valentine How, for larceny Of chick
ems, was also bound over under n
bond OF $25.
c. T. Williams on \ charge OF yag-
rancy. was given a suspended sentence
OF 30 days Oh the roads
John Thomas FOR being .unk and
disorderly was sent To the roads for
80 days, as was also Frank Wilson
charged with disorderly conduct
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-02-11
OFFICIALS SIGN TREATY.
VIII Have to be Ratified by United
States and France Before it Be
comes Effective.

Washington, Feb. 10.-Secretary
Root and Ambassador Jusserand today
signed a treaty providing for the arbi-
tration of any issue that may arise be-
tween France and America. The treaty
will have to be submitted to the Amer
lean senate and the French executive
before it can become effective. Mean
while its provisions are withheld from
publication It is understood. however,
that the treaty drawn in accordance
with the recommendation with the late
Hague conference, which. finding it
impossible to draft q general arbitra-
tion treaty that could receive the as
sent and support of all of the great
powers adopted resolution recon-
mending that the various signators
powers undertake to make special ar
rangements between themselves for
the settlement Of disputes by arbitra-
ton. The present convention lis believ-
ed to be In terms very similar to one
prepared by Secretary Olney and Lord
Pcuncefots looking to the arbitration
of possible disputes between America
and Great Britain which convention
failed Of approval BY tbs United States
sdnAte. 4 !" E~a
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-02-11

London, Feb lO.-Tommy Burns. the
American heavy weight pugilist. to-
night knocked out Jack Palmer. OF
New Castle, the English champion in
the fourth round of what was schedul-
ed to be a twenty round contest for
the heavy weight championship. Some
1000 persons saw the fight which took
place at Wonderland. a big music hall
on the east side. but II was a one
sided affair from the sound cf the first
gong until the middle OF the fourth
when Palmer on his knees was finally
counted out
Palmer was beaten man for the
moment he entered the ring Burns
climbed under the ropes sailingly and
showed his customary confidence while
Palmer displayed great nervousness
Without any preliminary sparrins
Burns went after him and the first
round had hardly begun before the
Englishman was on his knees. lie took
the round and during the rest OF tho
round was busily engaged in covering
himself This was repeated in each OF
the other rounds, Palmer being hope
lessly outclassed.
In the final round he was sent to
the floor several times and at last was
barely able to drag himself to his
knees, where he remained with his ell
bows on The floor until after the count
of ten had been tolled of
Jem Roche. the champion Of Ireland,
who has been backed by n syndicate
headed by Richard Croker. the former
Tammany leader TO fight Burns in
Dublin on St. PatridCs day, was a.
spectator at the ringside tonight His
comment was: Palmer fights like an
old woman, while Burns Ia a master
or the art, and. besides. was In splendid
condition"
The fight was for $500 q side and
IS per cent OF the gate receipts Tho
odds were to 4 in favor OF the Am
crican, but there was very little bet
ting. There were no takers for beta
offered by Palmer that he would stay
rounds. Palmer is considered a some
what better fighter than Gamer L.
Moir whom Burns put away In ten
rounds, but has a reputation for hit
ting low, ii being on an alleged foul
blow that Moir was given the decision
over him when last they met.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-02-11
Ice Keeps Vessels i'm Harbor

Vineyard Haven, Mass, Feb. 10.-The
large feet of tugs and barges which
returned from Nantucket shoals yester-
day is still here tonight because Of the
heavy field of ice which extends from
this port to Pollock Rip. They have
forty-on barges loaded with coal and
three Standard Oil company barges
loaded with OIL Only nine sailing ves-
sells are in the harbor here
The unknown tramp steamer report
ed in the ice near Norton's shoal yes
terday succeeded in extricating her
self last night and started westward.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-02-11

Book Haven. Miss, tcO. lu-Ell
1Igot, the negro who cr-mlnally as
Sc Lifted Miss Williams yOung "hlte
woman near here severa4 weeks g.,
..>.s taAeu f1o.u Tie c~sto~y o. t---
jackson milita.y company and a posse
c4 deputies today and hanged from ID
telegraph pole within less tuan hun
ured yards OF the court house. lie
was to have bene tried Ior lis Cr4me
Today. The military company am
The police were oyerpowered by mob
OF more than two thousand cIt.z Is.
Several shots were fired during the me-
lee and two members of the mob were
wounded.
Pigot reached Brook Haven .rur
Jackson this morning in Custody CT
| Sheriff Frank Greer and under arm
ed escort of the capital light guard, o.
dered into service Dy the governor
to protect the prisoner.
When the soldiers and the negro
alighted from the train the mob sursed
around the man and q mad fight ensu-
ed in which fists were used freely.
Soldiers dubbed the members of the
mob with their guns. Alter the fight
had lasted five minutes, the mil tia
started with the prisoner to the court
house. The mob reinforced and re-
organized made another attack, Sc
cured the prisoner, dragged him to
telephone pole and hanged him.
The mob began to assemble here
before daylight in wagons, on horse
back and walking. 1t included some
Of the most prominent farmers in Lin
coin county, especially in the neigh
bOrhOod Of Ruth, wnere the assault
is alleged to have occurred.
BY the time the train from jackson
had arrived there were over >wo thous-
and men in the mob at the railroad
station.
No attempt at concea1ment Was made
not man in the mob. wearing a mask.
The first attempt to take the ne
gro from the militia proved futile, the
soldiers beating the members of the
mob back with the butts of their rifles
and taking up the march to the court
house Before the court house was
reached however, the growing mob
surrounded the soldiers and swept
down upon them. The command was
given to fire by the captain of the
company and two men droppe1 but
the soldiers We're swept from their
feet and the negro was dragged away
from them.
|. Judge Wilkinson, @ho was to have
presided at the negrO's trial, witnessed
the lynching, but was powerlcss to
prevent it.
The two men shot down in the fish.
were Joseph Cole of Brook Haven and
an unidentified farmer Neither is Sc
riously wounded.
Capt AL. Sairley was commander
of Jackson Guard which has in ranks
about thirty men. He has reported
the affair to the governor and is await
ing orders
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-02-11
Charleston. 8. c.. Feb. 1o.-Georg

Charleston, 8. c.. Feb. 10.-George
Herbert Sass, who under nom deplume
OF Barton Gray, was we'll known as n
writer Of verse and for many years
has been literary editor Of the Sun
day News of this city. died today. He
vas a lawyer and for about 20 years
held the oflce Of master I'm equity for
Charleston coUty.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-02-11

the fact that his vessel had been seiz-
ed by the United States marshal on
a libel for 5000 Captain Ray. OF the
German steamer Delto. weighed an
Choir today and sailed for Rotterdam.
The matter has been reported TO At
torney General Bonaparte at Wash
ington and 1t is expected that n rev.
enue cutter will be sent in pursuit OF
the steamer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-02-11
DETERMINED MOB
Lynch Negro fiend in Missis-
slppi Town
IHE MILITARY PUMtRLESS
Several Shots Fired and Two Mem.
sbers Of Mob Wounded

..EiaiLary and Officers OVerpOWered
Oy more Than Two Thousand CitI-
Zeiis-)uu2e Who Was TO Have
Iresided at NegrO'S Trial Nit
ness Lyncnlng-.sien Engaged LII
AAair shade NO Attempt to Conceal
Lnelr identity.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-02-11
REPuES TO DENIAL
Senator Foraker Takes Issue
With President Roosevelt
Is TEMP ERATE IN REMARKS
But Has Best of MIR. President in
Matter

Difficult to Cases of Character of
ittnd i'm Dispute, Says the Ohio
Senator But Tn.re is One Case i'm
Ohio Where There is Written
TestimOny-Postm General
Brought Into the Question.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-02-11

Washington. Feb. i0.-Representa-
i've James T. Lloyd. Of Missouri. was
tonight elected chairman Of the demo-
sr1tis congressional campaign commit
- Tn vote was .3 10 L.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-02-11
in FOURTH R0GND
American Sent BTitCn to His
Knees !.
WAS A ONE -5IDtO AFFAIR
Jack Palmer no Match for Tommy
Burns

American Had Everything His Own
Way from Tap of Gong-Fight
was for the Heavy Weight Cham
pionship and was Scheduled to bc
Twenty Round Contcst-Nitncss-
ed by 1000 Persons.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-02-11
THEY ALWAYS PLEASE

No matter what kind you've been
using. Bine Ribbon Lemon and vmlI-
IN win please ron better.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-26
Stones From Glass House.
(RrOOkIyn EapIc)

Mr.. Bryan says that his election will
create a panic in the Taft family, for
Nj. Taft's Federal salary will be with
drawn for the first time in twenty
years" Well there is an impression
that the services thus paid for We're
worth what they cost. And it hap
pens to be a fact that they did not
cost enough to enable Mr.. Taft to
grow richer year by year, as Mr..
Bryan has succeeded in doing
1t is not far short Of twenty years
since Mr.. Bryan entered public life.
For the first four he drew pay as 4
congressman. Since then, he has held
no office save that OF colonel of
volunteers. but-hc has tried hard
enough. And he is still engaged in an
effort to draw $4,000 year for four
years.
Some things arc better left unsaid
Allusior to Taft family panic is one
of them. 1t was q paltry fling.
especially when it is remembered that
Mr.. Bryan sought to become the secret
beneficiary of the Bennett will. When
he drew that instrument he built q
glass house for himself II for no
other reason, stone throwing should
not be included in his pastimes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-26
Fox Hunting a Costly Sport.

In The course of an interesting aftl-
rla on fox-hunting in Hampton
broadway Magazine, ellison Wlliets
tells of the expense and danger OF
this most expensive of American sports.
What qualities one for foX-huntlnS
no asks. Besides hOrscmanShlp, the
chief qualifications are, judgement ana
determination. For among sports 1oN-
hunting is one of the most exactinS
as ven as one of the most exciting
ard most picturesque.
One must also possess leisure ana d
n,,rsn nlethoric. For this is even a
more expensive sport than polo To
hunt several times a week a man must
have three or four hunters, as the same
horse cannot be used more than once
or tMic, a week owing to the liESlcal
tax on the animal To mount q mouse
marty requires a stable OF fifteen TO
tN entv hunting horses besides dozen
cxpcnsiye hounds, representing an in
itial investment of $4,000 to $4,000
in horses and dogs. The cost of a
hunter ranges from $500 to $1,000, and
as mach as $1,000 may be spent for a
single pack of hounds. Add to this the
wages CT groomS, coachman ana over
seer. and it will be seen that hunting
is not within the range of the average
purse.
Dangers, risk of limb and life, are
ever present in this sport that requires
great nerve as we'll as great skill.
Mrs. William G. Whitney, member
of the Meadowbrok Club, received in
iuries that resulted in her death.
While riding to hounds at Aiken. 5. G.
her horse dashed under a low bridge
against which she struck her head
and was thrown. A whole year she
survived helpless invalid, passing
much of her time propped up on pill
lows in sun parlor whence, for hours
at a time she would watch her favor
tie horses, ridden by grooms, jump
barriers erected for the purpose on
her lawn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-26
Campaign Comment.
The Whimper of the Whipped.
Baltimore American.)

Please, oh please. gentlemen of the
Democratic party, do not take up the
cutters cry of bought election.
This fall, more clearly than IN any
other campaign, the voters VIII near
in that vail the moan of the whipped
Novembers will be the election that
the country will know was not bought.
We have in other years been indignant
at the charge that the people would sell
their presidency to the highest bidder
and have refused to believe IN any
such wickcdress without taking the
trouble to bet down the falsehood with
proof This year we do not need To re-
~ upon faith in the national honestly
we know. No party has collected mon
CIV enough for the purchase. The cry
Of the bought election is the Whlmper
of the gutter Don't quit. The issue
of the struggle will not be decided I'M
til the polls close in the evening OF
Nov. 3 Fight it out to the end.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-26

In the will of the late Francis w.
Carr, provision was made for the erec-
ton of bronze tablets in st. johns
Episcopal church. Bangor in memory
of Mr.. Cars father, mother. wife and
sister. These tablets were last week
placed in position at st. Johns church.
being located beside the pew. which
Mr.. Cars father. Joshua Wingate
Carr, occupied for so many years. The
memorial. which was designed by
Miss Mabel Harlow of Boston,
formerly of this city. and a designer
of considerable merit. is in the shape
of four heavy bronze tablets, placed
side by side. and framed in weathered
oak Each tablet is surmounted with
a cross and under it is the name Of
the person it memories. with the date
of birth and death. The tablets are in
memory of Joshua Wingate Carr
Hannah Rollins Carr. Margaret Web
ster Carr and Mary Elliot Wilson
The frame. which is of heavy
weathered oak is finely carved and OF
general Gothic design. Miss Harlow
has planned many church memorials
and her latest creation reflects much
credit on her.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-26

land WAS increased from az to LOG, ana
tie indications arc that the new acreage
of l40S will be even greater, says Harper
Magazine. ,
by the high price of the drug ana by Inc
successful results of experimental plant
lug v hil, camphor will not grow at sea
level in Ccylon, it finds conGenlal cor
ut,pns in the mountainous parts of the
jSla,ld and thriveS finely at elevations of
from $50 to S,COo feet. The situation Is
50 favorable To. its profitable pr"duc' i3'a
that enthusiastic planters onte!tain the
belief that Ceyl"n in IL lew years VIII
produce camphor in quantity Greatcl
tnau tho worlds present dcnard. 1t Is
estimated that the planting Of between
l5,WO and 10000 acres in Ceyl"n would
-tlevtlop a production OF SW0.HC POUNDS,
which according to most authorities IS
the quantity of camphor dehlanded "h-
Tie rapid growth of the twies, and the
cheapncSs of land and Labor, are inc
factors depended upon by planters , I"
give CCylon on advanta,;" over OF +
camphor- producing countries. Tie NJ
ares given by planters to represent III"
cost Of Il pound Of C"vlon can:phor are
much below the figures representing th'
rcputed cost Of synthetic camphor pro
ducpd in tie United States from tur-
pentine oil.
The growing of the camphor tree ~
Cevlou was first undertaken in a purely
scentfi, WAY at the government "X1'"li-
mental gardens IT Hakga'a. The expert
me ats were emienty successful. Lutte
attention was paid to the outcome Of
these experiments At first. as the Hlic''
of can.pllcr then ranged as low as 50 t"
SD per hundred weight. But Wheh me
Russo japanese War more lhan d'''',i,l
The price, Il commercial interest iii tn"
tree was created. Last Eeal II vas
demonstrated beyond q doubt that cam
phor cultivated il Ceylon could be made
portation Of seed from Janan was begun.
and it has continued To the present DAY.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-26

wears business is disturbed by tnt
recurrence of our national elections
Much of the talk is probably not be-
l;eyed in by those who are most IN
dustrious in circulating 1t. But
though it is put out solely fr political
effect it has it's influence just the
same. The fact, therefore, that al
present every branch of industry Is
showing marked increase of business
is a sufficiently strong indication that
no disturbance of existing polltlca'
conditions is looked for. The con-
tinuance of the Republican party IN
mower is discounted in advance by the
sbrewd heads of business, than whom
there are no more careful and accurate
forecasters. When such organizations
as the National Association of Manu-
lecturers announce publicly that buSl-
ness is picking up rapidly and predlct
= return to our normal condition OF
prosperity by another year 1T IS evil
dent that in their belief, no occasion
exists for trotting out the old DOGGY
and the expectation that political con-
ditions will remain as they are Tor
another four years is not without soma
foundation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-26
The Men Of Tarascon.

Many an English tourist knows that
Tarascon does not depend solely upon
Alphonsc Daudct and his famous
marksman here for Il name. 1t posses
scS remarkably fine castle, and 3
beautiful old church. 1t is also celc-
brated iii history. and is renowned i,
the Legends Of Provence 1t is sat
that Saint Martha came here and dc.
liVered the countryside from famou:
dragon But, apart from the place
itself, it seems that since the death 81
our regretted friend Tartarin I'aras-
con has not been without it's interest
ing characters who do not maxi
pages III the Letters from my Wind
mill' and Monday Stories" seem ar
Chaic or absurd.
| do not know whether the mon o