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The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-14
GREAT LAW AND ORDER
CONVENTION AT JACKSON
Mountain Counties Are to Meet First
Wednesday in Next
May

JACKSON, KY, Dec. IA great
convention of the people of the
mountain counties of Kentucky has
been called to meet at jackson on
the first Wednesday in May next to
consider the best means of preserv-
ing law and order and of convincing
capital that it will find welcome and
protection in Eastern Kentucky.
The advancement of agricultural,
educational and religious interests,
the improvement of highways and
the utilization of water power will
also be considered. The following
resolutions offered at the Law and
Order meeting by Judge W. M. Beck
ner, of Winchester, were unanimous
lv adopted:
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-14
COCKTAILS MAKES REPORT
Says Fourteen Killed and Fifty In
jured In Canal Zone Explosion.


Washington, Dec 14.-Fourteen men
are known to be dead, three of them
Americans, and SO injured, three or
four seriously, as a result of the
premature explosion of 81 tons of
dynamite at Bias Obispo, in the Pan
anna canal zone.
The following dispatch was receiv-
ed from Chief Engineer Goethals by
the chief of the Washington Office of
the isthmian, canal commission:
'The premature explosion Of 21
tons of dynamite at Bias Obispo re.
suited in the death of IA men and the
injury of so. Three or four of the in
jured will probably die. Following
Americans killed: James l.. Hummer
craneman steam shovel, Dunnellen,
N. j.; John j. Korp, steam shovel en-,
gineer, Phillippsburg, N. j.; John J.
Reidy, powder man, indianapolis, Ind
Seriously injured: Benjamin H. Cole
foreman, Rochester, N. Y. Slightly
wounded: Arthur H. Basett, foreman,
Philadelphia, Pa; w. G. Bell, fore
man, New York city; G. w. Hayden
steam shovel engineer, Sandusky, o.
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Lonoworth to Lead the Fioht.

Washington, Dec. 14-Determined
that the dignity of the United States
shall no longer be jeopardized by the
failure of this government to provide
suitable buildings for it's diplomatic
and consular representatives abroad,
advocates of an immediate appropri-
alton to begin the construction or
purchase of suitable buildings have
decided to press the matter at this
session of congress. Representative
Longworth of Ohio will lead the fight
again this season, as he did last. The
members of committee on foreign
affairs have agreed to stand behind
the Longworth bill, introduced at the
last session, authorizing the appro-
priation OF 100000 annually for the.
construction or purchase of embas.
sizes, legations and consular buildirgs
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Congressman Mouser III.

Wooster, o., Dec. 14.-Congress-
man Grant Mouser of Marion was
taken seriously i'll on a train just be-
fore reaching here and removed to a
hospital, where his identity was es-
tablished. His wife was sent for
Mr.. Mouser suffers from uraemic poi
soning and acute indigestion. AL
though he regained consciousness,
his condition is critical.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-14
New Phone No. 81.
MONDAY, DECEMBER IA, 1903
A NEW DEMOCRACY.

ThesNew York Evening Post in an
endeavor to find out what was the
matter with the Democratic party
and how it might be made effective
Vas a party addressed number of
letters. to leading Democrats and
Democratic editors throughout the
country. 1t is publishing from time
to time the answers it receives. The
Post thinks that the only hope for
the Democratic party is In the tariff.
The following were the questions
submitted:
"Should an effort at once be made
to put the organization of the party
In ADLER hands?
f.With the whole question of tariff
revision certain to come up In Con-
gress not later than March, should
not special zeal be shown in uniting
the Democratic minority for a Wig
orous fight in defense of the low
tariff views of the partyq Could
there be better way of preparing
for the congressional elections Of
1902
'In what way can the election of
Democratic Governors in Ohio, In
diana, and Minnesota be utilized to
infuse new spirit into the party, and
show it how to win popular support?
"What other suggestions can be
made as both true lessons of the de-
feat and hints for a constructive
plan that shall complete success?
The answers have been varied.
They are mostly a cropping in the
dark. Here is what a Democratic
editor of Central Kentucky thinks:
'Desha Breckenridge, president of
the Lexington, (Ky.) Herald.-In
my Judgment the first requisite is for
the Democratic members of Congress
to make the tariff the one issue up
on which they concentrate their ac-
tivity, and to which they devote their
efforts. In my opinion there is no
hope of the Democratic party win
ming a national victory upon any
other issue.
Guarantee of bank deposits, con-
demnation of the foreign policy of
the Government, efforts to follow the
example of Mr.. Roosevelt in the bun
co game of denouncing rich male
factors, while failing to enact any
law which will strike at the source
of their power and influence, prom
Uses of internal improvements, all
Sink into insignifcance in compari-
son with the tariff.
We can win if we have a leader in
whom the people have confidence,
and make the tariff and the honest
administration of the Government
the issue, and cannot win upon any
other issue.
The whole party organization
ought to be changed. Mr.. Bryan
was nominated for President, not
because majority Of the Democrat
ic party was for him, but because he
and his friends had control of the
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Naming of the Delegates.

90. That the County Judges of
said counties be and are hereby re-
quested to appoint at least five del
egates from among their constituents
without respect to politics, who will
be most likely to take an interest
in the purposes of said convention.
g. That the chairman of this
meeting appoint an executive com
mittee of seven suitable persons,
whose duty it shall be to promote
said convention and to look after and
arrange all the details of same, with
plenary powers In the premises"
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-14
Convention Called For Nay.

@" That convention Of the coun-
ties of Eastern Kentucky, being the
counties lying east of Mason, Elem
ing and Bath in the Ninth Con-
gressional District, all the counties
in the Tenth Congressional District,
all the counties lying on the East of
Madison, Garard and Lincoln, in the
Eighth Congressional District, and
all the counties lying east of the
Knoxville branch of the Louisville &
Nashville railroad, be called and
held i'll jackson on the first Wednes-
day in May, 1909, at twelve o'clock
noon, to consider the best means of
preserving law and order, of salts
flying capital that it will find well
come and protection, of advancing
the interests of religion and educa-
ton, of improving the public high
ways, of utilizing the water powers,
of improving agricultural conditions,
and Of making it known to the world
that this section is inhabited by de-
scendants of the best Anglo Saxon
and Huguenot blood that came to
America, and that the only draw
backs to their development and prog
ress have been the lack of transpor-
tation facilities, of educational adj
vantages, and of capital with which
to make available the vast natural
resources with which God has bless
Cd tbaD1
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-14
LYNCHING THREATENED
White Man Charged With Murder of
Kentucky Girl.


Columbia, KY, Dec 14.-The ex-
element in the eastern end of Adair
county over the murder of Miss Ma
mic Womack eliminated with the ar
rest of James Hill, white man, near
the little town of Sano. The officers
had been looking for Hill for some
time since the murder, and found
him asleep at the home of a relative
He was taken before County Judge
Dunbar and impediately given a pre-
liminary hearing. Judge Dunbar held
him without bail. Immediately after.
ward Hill was hurried away to
jamestown, KY, for safe keeping.
The talk of lynching has been grow
ing hourly and the jailers at James
town have been warned that there is
danger of mob forming in tie east
ern end Of Adair county. The motive
Of the murder was criminal assault
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no cold blooded suggestions as to the
proper party position can make is
sues that viii successfully appeal to
the American people. Those issues
come Of themselves and the party
that is long-sighted enough to take
the proper side is bound ultimately to
triumph.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-14
UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

Blackburn, Mrs. Emma.
Baker, W. P.
Craven, W. B.
Clinkingbiard, Hood.
Fisher, Andrew.
Jackson, Miss Elizabeth.
King, Mrs. Mamie.
Mastin Jasper.
Rice, Willie.
rawlings, H. F.
Stone, Charlie.
White Miss Mary L. A. v.
Wills, Miss Anna.
R. r. PERRY,
Postmaster.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-14
Murderer Must Die.

Springfield, ILL.,, Dec. lathe SUI.
preme court denied a motion for a
writ of error and supersedeas in the
case of Frank Bryant, sentenced to
be hanged here Friday, Dec Is, for
the murder of Thomas Grady. Brv.
ant killed Grady in order to get
money to enable him to go to Chi
cago to see his sweetheart.
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DON'T READ THIS.

Just received a fresh lot of nuts,
etc., for Christmas.
Fine line of Lowney's fancy can
dies in beautiful boxes for Christmas.
Buy your Christmas candies, ap-
pies, oranges, nuts, etc., from F.
Amati. 12-12-1t.
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We Are Being Buried

with hurry orders for feed because
our customers know that we are
selling none but the best grades, at
about the lowest prices asked in to-
days market. 1t pays, under these
conditions, to lay in a good stock
for the rest of the Winter. Shrfwd
buyers will come forward now and
do their selecting before prices rise
again. Try sack of Purina I"
Horse and Mule Feed.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-14
CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to thank all of the
friends and neighbors who so loving
ly~ and tenderly ministered to us in
our sad bereavement caused by the
tragic death of our son, Roy.
Your kindness and sympathy to
us in this great hour Of sorrow have
endeared you to our hearts forever
and we shall never forget you.
The Lord only can, and will bless
each and every one of you.
MR.. AND MRS. GEO. ANDES.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-14
An Earl At the White House

Washington, Dec. 1.-THE Earl of
Warwick of England dined at the
White House and related to the pres
ident many interesting experiences
in Africa
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-14

as candidate for Circuit .in,lge +.
the Twentyfitth Judicial ili~uic'
composed Of Clark Power e~-:.
mine and Madison counties 7ablec,
to the action of the Democrs ,e}p.
ty.
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as candidate for Circuit Jude TOR
the Twenty-ffth Judicial District.
composed of Clark, Powell Jessa-
mine and Madison counties. subject
to the action of the Democratic. par
ty.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-14
The Character of Action.

1t is circumstance and proper me.
sure that give an action its charscte
and make it either good or bad
Plutarch.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-14
Is PER CENT DISCOUNT.
ON ALL CHINA In store maxi

some prices below cost.
C. H. BOWEN.
12-14-3t.
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The WINN-MARTIN COAL 6SUPPLY co.
INCORPORATED.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-14
J. SMITH HAYS

We are authorized to aaaouops
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FOR CIRCUIT JUDGE.
JAMES M. BENTON

We are authorized to announc
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Daily. Except Stunt ay.

Entered as second class matter,
November %, 1908 at the post office
at Winchester, Kentucky under the
Act of March 3, 1879"
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-02
WEIGHT
TRIAL TO-DAY

The trial of Clarence Marsh,
owner of the Lundbreck Coal Co.,
on a charge of selling short weight
preferred by M. Wick. is going on
this afternoon before Justice Mann.
Wick charges that he paid for
three tons and received only 5215
pounds He went through the
iaborious process of weighing the
three tons in a wash boiler on a
small scales.
E. A. Powell, weight inspector,
testified of frequent complaints
aga INST Mr.. Marsh previously. One
time he found Marsh 200 pounds
short, and the difference was made
up in cash to the purchaser. He
found him 200 pounds over weight
once. Powell examined Wick's
scales and found them correct.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-02
BRILLIANT OPENING
OF NEW PALACE

Four floors of the magnificent
new Palace store at the corner OF
Main and Post was formally open
ed to the public last evening and
thousands of people crowded the
floors from o'clock till 1920. The
big building was a blaze of cleo.
tricity on the outside and was in
gala attire within. Three orches.
tras dispensed music on as many
floors and the visitors were RECALLED
with fine program.
Many business houses of the city
contributed beautiful floral offer
ings, and just before the opening,
Mrs. We'll, owner of the store, was
presented with loving cup by the
employees, to which she responded
with a banquet at the Hall of the
Doges at Davenport's. Over 300
sat down at the tables and the ban
quet and dancing followed.
The opening of the Palace Is an
other mark in new era of Spo-
kane's commercial life, as well as
starting a new retail district, as
two of Spokane's leading stores
now on Main avenue, Kemp &
Hebert's new building on Main and
Washington having been opened a
few days ago.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-02
BOY STOLE ENOUGH GERMS
TO KILL NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Oct. Enough
germs of diseases to kill all New
York, if they were let loose to null
tiply. were found by two venture
some but nerveless detectives when
they broke in on and arrested boy
of II years, who. in his ardent pur-
suit of meteorological knowledge,
had stolen and was gloating over
dozens of glass slides.
These little transparent plates.
viewed by person who didn't
know where the boy scientist had
purloined them, would have called
forth only the remark:
Kind of dirty, hey? Need to
have those little specks cleaned
off"
The man woh said 1t would have
turned gray with terror had he
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-02
DEAD NURSES
MOTHER here
esq
BODY is STILL IN RIVER, AND
DOMESTIC MYSTERY NOW
COMPLEXITIES SEARCH. FOR
SUICIDE MOTIVE. t5

The cause of the suicide of Miss
Helen Wood, a nurse who was EN-
ployed at Sacred Heart hospital, is
still as much mystery as ever
and her mother, Mrs. j.. H. Field
of Mica Bay. Idaho. who reached
the city last night. is, unable to
throw any light on the subject
Mrs. Field was greatly. shocked
at learning of her daughters death.
The first she heard Of it was when
she saw it in the papers yesterday.
A telegram had been sent, to her
at Lyondale, Idaho, where, she had
been living before going to Mica
Bay, but she was then en- route to
Spokane. ...,
She went at once to the hospital
last night, but was not questioned
by attendants, as her trouble over
came her and she could do nothing
but weep. She called at the hos
pital again this morning and tried
to find out some reason for her
daughters rash act.
my poor. poor girl" was. all she
would say when questioned.
A report from Walla Walla, the
former home of the family. limited
at a family estrangement, but the
heart broken mother denies 1t.
There was never anything .. that
caused an arrangement between
u.s." she said
All day men in boats dragged
the river in the vicinity Of the
Division street bridge for the body.
Dynamiting the river was tried
without success. It is believed that
the garments of the drowned girl
caught on something at the bot
tom. otherwise the body would
have f1oated to the surface
Hospital attendants believe that
when Mrs. Field is able to compose
herself sufficiently she may think
of some cause to which to- attribute
the suicide. At present, however,
she is too heart broken to talk
much on the subject. Her address
in the city was not learned. she
left the hospital saying she would
return when she felt better.
A strange circumstances which
is unexplainable at present is. the
fact that Miss Wood always pre-
tended she was an orphan without
father or mother. She did. not men
ton her parents in the farewell
note. yet the mother says there
was no trouble.
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and it is not shown that they were
not members of the union at the
time of the action, all members are
held liable for judgment, although
only one person, as in this the
president of the union, may be
named in the suit
The case, which is entitled
Vance against mckinley, president
of the Building Laborers' union No.
1. J. 8. Vance, a member of the
building laborers' union of Butte.
was injured and claimed that he
was entitled to certain benefits.
The union denied this. In the trial
the jury gave Vance judgment
and Vance attached the pay of six
members of the union. The decis-
ion sustains this attachment.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-02
WENTWORTH OPENING
FULL DRESS AFFAIR

No less than 10000 people were
the guests of the Wentworth Cloth
ing Co. last evening at the formal
opening of their new second floor
store. Mr.. Wentworth states that
it was the best attended and most
successful opening that they have
ever had. The store was decorated
in red and white, one of the novel
features being solid red window
on the second floor. All statesmen
were in full dress and orchestras
on both the first and second floors
rendered music during the entire
evening. The store has just been
refurnished and refitted at a cost
of $4,000 All of the fixtures were
made in Spokane.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-02
LOW WAGES
LONG HOURS
SHORTER LIFE

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-"Today
those nations having the highest
rate of wages and shortest hours
of work have the lowest death
rate" said DR.. Woods Hutchinson,
New York, speaking on the rela-
tions between income and tubercu-
losiS.
Consumption is the price of civ
ilization, and it is paid by the low
er two thirds for the benefit of the
upper third. There is a sound
biologic basis for our modern deter.
mination to acquire wealth, since
those who obtain it reduce their
chances of dying from tuberculosis
so per cent"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-02
ECONOMIC CLUB
RESUMES. SUNDAY

The Spokane Economic club will
begin its fall and winter campaign
Sunday afternoon at o'clock in
Apollo hall, S10R Riverside. The
program committee is busy ar
ranging speakers and music for
every succeeding Sunday after
noon The fall program will in
clude lectures and papers on i'm
portant economic questions, includ-
ing finance, tariff, initiative and
referendum, needed legislation and
taxation, graduated land tax as
practiced in New Zealand, causes
of industrial depressions and
financial panics, laws of distribu-
ton, rent wages and interest.
The various theories of govern
ment from the viewpoint of an
archy. socialism. democracy and
republicanism are covered. Also
talks on Herbert Spencer and the
land question. Thomas Paine and
his economic teaching; Henry
George and his single tax philoso-
ply: the political policies of Alex
ander Hamilton and Thomas JEFF
ferson are to be discussed
All members and the many
friends of the club are urgently
invited to be present at next Sum
days meeting, to take part In the
election of officers and cffecting a
thorough organization for the sea
son. Brief talks will also be made
on economic and social questions
by members OF the club. The Eco
nomic club has been meeting for
the past four years and has done
effective work by way of interest
ing men in the study of vital ques-
tons
An invitation is extended old as
we'll as young and ladies'.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-02
GAN GUT OFF
a MILES

That there exists positively no
necessity for a tax rate of over
% mills for city, county, school
and state taxes for the property
holders of Spokane is the opinion
of County Assessor Galbraith
On levy of eight mills for the
city there will be available about
s85 900 more than last year.
A tax levy of six mills for the
school fund will bring $4,000
more than last year, and in add
ton to this there Is available for
the schools $4,000 from the state
school fund that was not dis
tributed last year. ....
Theh county levy WIN in all
probability not exceed four and one
half mills and on that basis there
will be available $145,000 in ex
cess of last years funds. The
state levy has not been announced
as yet, but it will not likely ex
coed four and one half mills.
In the aggregate the levy fol
Spokane property. according to
these figures, will be % mills.
Last years total Spokane levy
was 81 mills. The assessor pro
poses a decrease of IA mills.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-02
INTERSTATE FAIR ASKS
LEVY ALLOWED BY Law

the support of the fair would be
more equally distributed by coun-
ty appropriation. The fair is a
matter of benefit to all the people
of the county-farmers as well as
city folk-and therefore the burden
of it's maintenance should not be
placed upon a few. it was argued.
The matter of fixing the county
tax levy has not yet come officially
before the commissioners. Chair
man Collins announced that the
matter would shortly be up for
consideration before the board in
executive session and the levy de-
cided upon. If any is allowed 1T
will be announced Monday.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-02
HE'S STOPPED
HERE TO STAY

Spokane looked 80 good to one
easterner this morning that he de-
cided to stop here instead of going
through to Portland. Ore. So he
approached two men on a street
corner, not knowing that one of
them was Detective Briley.
Say" he said, this town looks
mighty good to me and | want to
stay. I've ticket through to
Portland and want to find ticket
broker"
He was informed that the
brokerage of tickets is prohibited
in this state and that there isn't a
concern here in the business"
well. if | can't give it away
I'll throw it away I'm here to
stick" he declared. I'll
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-02

known that those pinpoint sized
blotches were baccilli of smallpox,
typhoid fever, diphtheria and the
still deadlier typhus.
Ambition to become great scien.
fist had so seized upon young Irv-
ing Benton of Brooklyn that he was
determined to get material for his
studies, no matter how he got 1t.
His mother is sscrubwoman earn
ing so poor living that If cirrhosis
cultures were on sale at bargain
counters for dime tube she
could not afford to buy one atom
for her boy. At police headquarters
young Benton, weeping, admitted
he had stolen microscope, an
X-ray machine and bacteria slides
so that he might be able to equip
himself for a scientific career.