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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-02-07

Committees representing various
commercial organizations of Vicks-
burg and other places Of Warren
county met, Saturday, in the inter
est of the betterment of the roads
of that county 4 better system of
working the roads and of building
permanent roadways was discussed
and it was decided to cooperate with
the board Of supervisors and to lend
that body every aid to improve the
public thoroughfares. This appears
to be a good move and the Weekly
be'ieves that if the trade organiza-
+ s9f Aberdeen and Amory. would
take similar steps that much good
might result.
Saloon licenses werc Issued to four
concerns at Nicksburg, Saturday.
This means that the Hill City will
be wet one year longer whether
the Legislature enacts State prohi-
bitiOn or not.
Senator Leftwich voted yea on the
bill to exempt money from taxation
loaned at per cent.
-~~s
Politics is politics. High as Judge
Gray's character is, and valuable as
his services have been on the bench,
were he to become his party's nomi-
nee for President he would be sub
jected to as savage a raking over as
ever a candidate underwent The ex-
treme silver men would allege some
discreditable influence behind his op-
position to Mr.. Bryan in 1896, Just as
+. the anti-imperialists would echo these
severe sentiments of the Springfield
Republican. Between the two he
would fare badly at the polls, and
maybe go down in a defeat even
worse than that encountered by Judge
Parker. Judge Gray gives no encour-
agement to the anti -Bryanites, who,
with less thought of him than of their
own half-masked scheme, are boom
ing him for political leadership. He
knows the field, the game, and the
players, and that no quarter is given,
! Where he now is no quarter is, OF
need be, asked. He has a life office
for which he is eminently qualified
and his service in it is without criti
cism of any kind from any source
Washington Star, Rep.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-02-07

ratified or repudiated by them The
method is safe, cheap and expedi-
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-02-07

THE sWIFT sPEcIFIC Co, ATLANTA. GA.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-02-07

Senator Leftwich voted yea on the
bill to exempt money from taxation
loaned at 8 per cent.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30

Washington, Nov. 3O.-The largest
deficit In the history of the postoffice
department is shown in the annual
report Of Postmaster General Meyer.
The report covers the fiscal year end
ing June 80 Of this year, and shows
the department was run at a loss of
S16,s73,225.
A recommendation was made for
the improvement Of country roads
for the rural delivery.
Requests for legislation creating
postal savings banks and the creation
OF the position of director of posts
are also features of the report
A director of posts is required for
the purpose of maintaining a contin-
ucus policy for the benefit of the de-
partment and the maintenance of suit
able service in New York city, are
among the problems facing the de-
partment. According to the report
each year there is a heavier conges-
tion of mail matter in the metropolis.
The figures given show that four
railway clerks and two substitutes
were killed in wrecks during the year
while llt We're seriously and $50
slightly injured -
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30

That the planking along the North
ern Pacific track on Webb street
should be removed and the entire
street, from curb to curb, should be
cindered, is the opinion of ]. L. De
Force, superintendent of the Pasco
division who in company with ]. G.
Cutler, assistant superintendent, has
been here today.
AT Pasco we have furnished Gin
ders for street work and the result
has been very good" said Mr.. De
Force this afternoon. IF the city will
give us permission to we will replace
the planking within the tracks with
cinders and We may also be able to
furnish cnders for the improvement
of the entire street"
While here this afternoon Messrs.
De Force and Cutler consulted with
Mayor Murphy regarding the PROPOSE
tion of cindering the street. At their
request Mr.. Murphy promised to bring
the subject befoe the council at its
next meeting
~'iNehil W iiIlG ptllu4SS4bAl IDS DtEn Civ
en- the railroad men TO place cinders
for block or two along their line in
order to demonstrate the value of Gin
ders for that purpose. Should the ma
terial be found suitable for the pur-
pose there is little doubt but that the
city will improve the entire street pro-
vided the Northern Pacific company
will provide the cinders.
According to Mr. De Force, cinders
were found very satisfactory for street
Improvement at Pasco and he believes
that the people here will appreciate
the fact when they see sample block
or two of such a street
Within a short time the Northern
Pacific will have to tear up its pres
ent planking in order to renew the
lies now under the rails. If the re-
quest of the raiload men is granted
they will be allowed to substitute Gin
ders for the planking at that time.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
CAPTAIN HAMS TELLS
STORY OF LIFE TRAGEDY

New York, Nov. 30.-Captain Peter
Hams, who killed VIM. Annis, the
magazine publisher at the Bayside
Yacht club last August, today told his
story for the first time.
In as far as remembering the ira
gedy his mind seems to be a blank.
He declared it his belief that he had
never been at Bayside
He said Annis taught his wife to
drink, smoke and indulge in orgies
while he was in the Philippines. When
he confronted her with the stories re-
garding her relations with Annis, he
said she broke down and confessed
that she loved Annis.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
SAYS RAILROADS CONTROL
MOST FEDERAL JUDGES

Lawrence, Kan. Nov. 30.-The
declaration OF United States Senator
elect j. l.. Bristow that the railroads
control the greater number of judges
throughout the United States Is taken
as an indication that he will insist ON
recommending an untrammeicd man
10 Taft when vacancies occur In the
roster of federal judges. Br'istOw said
yesterday that the president usually
appoints judges on the recommends
ton of congressional delegations.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
THREE ATTACKS UPON LOCAL OPTION LAW

Three separate attacks upon local
option in Malheur county were filed
today with Major Lee Moorhouse,
clerk of the supreme court, for hear--
ing at the May session of the court In
this city.
In each case the action is based up
on city charter. passed since the pro-
hibition act of 1904,s which provides
for city regulation OF the liquor traf-
fic. Two cases are from the town Of
Vale, the third Is from Westfall. Both
city charters were granted In Febru-
ary, 1905.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30

Guthrie, Okla, New, Nov. 30.-Sev-
en- persons are dead, many missing
and thousands homeless today, as a
result of floods in Oklahoma, Texas,
southwestern Missouri and Southern
Kansas Rivers throughout the whole
section are rising rapidly and the
worst floods in years are expected.
Constant rain for 80 hours is respon-
sible.
Scores of rescuing parties are taxi
ing persons from upper stories.
Hundreds of men are working to
control the flooded rivers in the south
western part of this state. A hun
dred miles along the river banks and
lOwlands are reported to be inundated.
Spring river is threatening to flood
mines.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
BRUTAL MURDER
ST|RS PORTLAND
PROMINENT ATTORNEY
SHOT DOWN BY CUR.
Ralph B. Fisher Murdered I'm His Of
flee by James A. Finch Saturday
Aftcrnoon-COld BloOded and Pre-
meditated Crime Committed for Re
venge-Siurder Believed to BE Re-
suit of Plot.

BY the murder of Attorney Ralph
h. Fisher by the recently disbarred
attorney, James A. Finch. in Portland
Saturday afternoon, the city is stirred
from center to circumference by the
wholly unjustified crime which has
seldom been surpassed by the cold
biooded and premeditated character
of the deed. Finch. believed to be
feigning insanity, is now lodged in
Jail. while the officers are working
Oh the theory that he was the tool of
conspiracy and that the insanity
play is a part of the game.
Fisher was one of the most promis-
ing of the younger lawyers i'm Port
land and II was he who recently
drafted the resolutions of sympathy
which were sent to Mrs. Heney by the
bar association. He was married
about four years ago to Bertha Kay.
youngest daughter of the late Tom
Kay. the well known woolen manu-
facturer, and is a sister of State SEN
ator Tom Kay, proprietor of the Sa-
lem woolen mills and n prominent
candidate for president of the senate.
Finch, while having been polite
ian Of some prominence, has always
been considered an unprincipled char
aeter His career started in Linn
county where he was engaged in poll
itics and journalism at the same time.
From Albany he went to Salem where
he was city editor of the Capital Jour
nal. AS reward for his political
services to leaders of the republican
party, he was made calendar clerk of
the 1905 legislative session. Later he
was admitted to the practice of law,
first opening an office in Salem and
then going to Portland.
AS prosecutor for the grievance
committee of the Portland Bar asso-
citation, 1t became the duty of At
tcrney Ralph Fisher to prefer and
prosecute charges of unprofessional
conduct against Finch The charges
were sustained and Finch was disbar-
red for one year, II being only through
the clemency urged by Fisher that
the dsbarment was not made perma-
nent 1t was in revenge for his part
IN the disbarment proceedings that
Fisher was slain in his office without
being given the slightest chance for
his life.
Fisher had received number of
threatening communications and so
strong was the fear entertained by
both himself and wife, that he would |
meet with foul play, that he recently |
yielded to the urgings of his wife and |
had his picture taken with his baby
son in his arms.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30

welt and Cohen as directors, and OF
Mr. Roosevelt. Judge Fitz Gerald and
Mr. knight to their respective execu-
tive positions indicates. the stock
county will visit eFrndale, Fruitvale
way pleased with the big success Of
the last fair and are planning and hop
ing for a similarly successful event
during the coming season.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
COAST MEMBERS WILL
WORK IN HARMONY

Seattle, Nov. S0.-Discussing the
importance of Pacific coast lawmak-
ers working in harmony Washington
United States Senator Piles said to-
day that he is certain the coast MEM
bers will keep in close touch with
each other during. the coming session.
They realize what helps one coast
state helps all.
He says all have matters of inter-
est affecting us and with the proper
reciprocal spirit l think much can be
ACCOMPLISHED.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
+ ++*** **++*
REBELS ABOUT TO
TAKE HAYTIAN CAPITAL.

4 Port Au Prince, Hayti. Nov.
4 30.-The advance guard of
Z General Slmon's army of rebels
+ Is expected to arrive here today
4 and great excitement is prevail :
+ ing. Hundreds Of persons are
+ fleeing, hiding their Jewels and
T. valuables, fearing that the city
4 will be looted.
4 Washington, Nov 3O.-A
T. Haytian report says General 81
& mon Is advancing upon Port Au 4
+ Prince with a strong force and
I. a fierce fight is expected with
T. in "a hours. I
4 The government troops are 4
4 mutinous, the men being tied .
T. together during transportation 1
4 by water to prevent desertion. !
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
LAMPHERE DOES NOT
GET NEW TRIAL

La Porte, Ind, Nov. SO.-A motion
for a new trial for Ray Lamphere,
convicted of burning the home of Mrs.
Belle Guinness in the ruins of which
several bodies were found, was de-
MED today. The defense decided to
carry the case to the higher court on
the ground that the court erred in its
Instructions to the jury, and that the
verdict does not conform with the
Indiana Jaw.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
ARCHBOLD TELLS OF
STANDARDS GROWTH

New York, Nov. 3O.--Archbold,
vice president of the Standard oil
company, resumed the stand in the
federal suit for a dissolution of the
trust today, and told of the company S
growth. He declared the Pacific
states market was controlled by the
Standard Oil of California, that of
Michigan and Minnesota by the STAN
dard Oil of Indiana and that of the
Rocky mountain territory by the con-
tinental oil company.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
WIFE PITCHED HAY To FAY BOOZE BILLS

Charging that she was forced to
earn the family's living by selling
milk and that her husband collected
the milk bills and spent the money
for liquor, Mrs Nancy Jane Lapham
has brought suit against Burton Ralph
Lapham. The Lapham's lived at
Umatilla where the wife resides, but
recently the husband has made his
home at Joseph.
Mrs. Lapham charges drunkenness
and cruelty in her complaint. she ac-
cuses her husband Of calling her vile
names and Of taking undue liberties
with her daughter by former hus-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
RIVERS CO ON
WILD RAMPAGE
Thousands Rendered Home
less in Oklahoma, Missouri
Kansas and Texas.
SEVEN PERSONS DEAD
AND MANY MISSING

Rivers Rising Rapidly and Worst
Floods In History OF Country Are
Expcctcd-Rescuing Parties Take
Hundreds from Roof Tops and Up
per Stories-Men Working I'm Vain
TO Control Flooding RivcrS-Thirty
Hours Rain Is Responsible for the
Terrible Conditions.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30

The suits are entitled respectively,
]. II. Hart, plaintiff and appellant,
James Haven and l.. b. Teter, plain
tiffs and appellants, and Floyd Garri-
son. plaintiff and appellant, vs. the
county court of Malheur county. b. C.
Richardson, judge, and w. ]. Scott
and G. B. Glover, commissioners, de-
fendant in each instance.
The first entitled cause is from
Westfall the others from Vale, and in
each g. w. Hayes represents the ap-
pellant and J. w. McCulIoch the
state
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
+**+***+ +
NINE GIVING UP
MANGLED VICTIMS.

4 Mariana, Pa, Nov. 30.-Esti-
4 mates of the dead as the result
+ Of the great disaster Saturday in
i the mine of the Pittsburg &
4 Buffalo Coal company, today
+ vary from 120 to 243. The Of
4 ficlals insist there are not more
8 than 12O while the foreman says
I, 244 were in the mine. Only one
u man escaped.
4 Eighty-three bodies have been Z
+ recovered. The rescue party :
+ says $50 bodies are still in the :
4 shaft.
& Only IS Of those recovered .
+ have been identified, the other :
+ five being decapitated and man. :
+ gold so that it is impossible to :
4 identify them. Thirty bodies !
+ were u sight Of the rescuers
+ this morning and will be recov- .
J. cred today. .
!. 4 J. 4 + j. j. = ! + J. i i + i
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
CANS REFUSES TO
MEET MFARLAND

San Francisco. Nov 3O.-Fight
Promoter James Cofforth received a
telegram from Joe Cans today in
which the latter declines to meet
Packy Mcfarland here on New Years
day. Cans says he is making too
much money in his Baltimore resort
to come to the coast for a battle. Nc
Farland is willing TO meet Cans.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
700 REPORTED DROWNED
OFF CHINESE COAST

London, Nov. 3O.-An unconfirmed
rumor from Che Foo says hundreds
of lives were lost I'm a collision of two
steamers off the Chinese coast.
IL is reported this afternoon that
seven hundred were drowned. Relief
steamers have gone TO the scene. The
details are unknown.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
POSTAL DEFICIT
LARGEST EVER
Department Rar Behind Al
most Seventeen Million
Dollars in One Year.
ANNUAL REPORT OF POST
MASTER GENERAL Is MADE.

Myer Recommends Establishment OF
Postal Savings Bank and Parcels
POst--Says Former Is Greatly
Needed and That Latter Will Bring
Millions of Dollars TO Postoffice
Department and BE Great Aid to
Farmers and Merchants in Every
City.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30

band.
The complaint recites that the wife
was forced to milk the cows, feed 20
hogs and pitch hay in the field, like
a man, to make living for her
daughter, herself and her husband.
The man, she says in the complaint.
then forced her to pay his bar bills.
amounting at times to as much as $40
per month. Lapham is accused not
only of refusing to work as long as
his wife would do so. but when she
sick the neighbors were forced to
milk Mrs. Lapham's cows, the plead
ing says.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
Brandenburg Trial,

New York, Nov. 30.-Broughton
Brandenburg, indicted for grand lar
ceny in connection with the sale to
New York newspaper of an article
purporting to have been written by
Governor Cleveland, will be placed on
trial today.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
POPE TOO ILL TO
RECEIVE AUDIENCES

Rome, Nov SO.-All audiences at
the vatican were suspended indefi-
nitely today owing to a slight change
for the worse in the condition of the
pope. His cold is worse and fever has
developed. His physicians say it is
nothing serious.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
WILL ASK ROAD
LAW CHANGES
ENTHUSIASTS WOULD GIVE
EACH DISTRICT POWERS
Although Approving Present Law Be-
lief Is Expressed BY Good Roads
Agitators That II Should Be
Amended So No District Could Be
Hampered BY Less Progressive
Neighbors.

Although approving the good roads
law as explained by State Senator C,
j. Smith to that organization Satur-
day afternoon at a special meeting in
the rooms of the Commercial associa-
tion, the Good Roads league advocat-
ty to the proposed legislation. The
local enthusiasts do not want each
road district limited in its road i'm
provements by less progressive neigh
bors, and will advocate a change in
the law to permit individual districts
to vote taxes for their own particular
use in addition to the regular county
taxes, so that in progressive COM
munities road building may be car
ried on, without limitation by less
progressive portions of the county.
The only other step taken at Sat-
urday's meeting was the adoption of
the finance committees plan of charg-
ing 81 membership fee from the men,
bers to secure a small fund for fur
ther agitation.
Work Is Bearing Fruit.
Although the Good Roads league
is just entering upon its usefulness, in
the opinion of President H. ]. Tay-
lor, that organization has already ac-
complished something by its agita-
tion, in focusing the attention of the
farmers upon the present conditions
of the roads, with the result that even
now eight miles of road are being
built at the expense of enthusiasts up
on surveys furnished by the county
court, These roads are four miles
west of town. being contracted by
Dave Nelson and Louis Hagen, and
four miles. north of town, being built
by Ike Christopher. Mr.. Taylor is of
the opinion that the same plan will
be adopted by the enthusiasts in his
own district, No. 16, where work is !
needed
According to President Taylor the
work of importance before the good |
roads association is to procure two
highways across the Umatilla Indian
and in this the association
hopes to have the cooperation of the
sheepmen of the county. A commit
tee from both organizations will work
together to secure this needed i'm
provement which will have to come
as the result of an act of congress.
One road planned would come south
from Athena, while the other would
cross the reservation from Meacham
10 this city.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
Panama Canal Bids,

Washington, Nov. Solids will be
received by the treasury department
all of this week, up TO the close of
business on Saturday. for the new is
sue of sSO,OOO,OOO in per cent Pam
anna canal gold bonds.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
WOULD PAVE
WITH C|NOERS
Northern Pacific Officials
Suggest Improvement for
Webb Street.
ASK PERMISSION TO
MAKE SAMPLE BLOCK

superintendent De Force and Assist
ant Superintendent Cutler Anxious
for Better ThOrOughfares-Pia
ing Is Mistake-Cinders Used at
Pasco With Success - Company
May Provide Material Gratis II
Pendleton VIII Order Improvement
Improvements on Track.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30

President c. Il. Roosevelt, Judg,
L.. Knight as treasurer. will continue
their respective duties In the manage
ment OF the Third District East ore.
gon fair next year, having been re-
elected Saturday at n meeting of thC
new directorate At a meeting of the
stockholders in the association Just
preceding the directors meeting. Il
w. McComas was elected director tC
succeed Lee Teutsch.
The election Saturday leaves the
organization Of the association as fol-
lows:
President, c. Il. Roosevelt; secre-
tary Thos. Fitz Gerald; treasurer, A.
L. Knight; directors, c. e. Roosevelt,
+. w. McComas and Leon Cohen
elected by the stockholders from Uma-
tllla county, NJ. II. Cockburn and
Frank Frazier appointed by the gov
ernor from this county. and r. f.
Hynd, elected by the stockholders
and Addison Bennett, appointed by
the governor from Morrow county.
President Roosevelt will be ex-offi-
clio chairman and with Messrs. Cohen,
Frazier and McComas will compose
the executive committee of the as
sociation.
No Change I'm Location.
There will be no change in the To-
cation OF the fair for the coming year
unless some unforeseen boon in the
way of transportation falls to the lot
of the city. Although the directors
and stockholders in the association
favor changing the location of the
fair to grounds outside the city, where
a race track might be established, it
was agreed Saturday that such a
change would be impossible until
means of transportation could be Sc
cured. Instead the directorate will
concentrate its efforts in making
bigger and better fair at the present
location.
Premiums TO BE Increased.
The fair association is not I'm favor
of laying up treasures where moth
break through and steal" II proposes
to spend its money as 1t makes II, and
since the admissions last year were
sufficient to cover the cost OF the big
improvements made, the directors an
ticipate n similarly large attendance
next year. with the result that they
will revise and increase the premiums
offered, more particularly on agricul-
tural and fruit products, and live
stock.
This revision of the premium list
Is placed in the hands of Frank Fra
zier and Judge Fitz Gerald, the for
mer to handle the livestock, the lat
ter to revise the premiums on farm
and orchard products. Judge Fltz
Gerald will also revise the premiums
the premiums on articles no longer
made, and adding several of the new
err forms of art handicraft which have
hitherto not been included in that de-
partment
Stock Pavilion Enlarged.
The directors will make few i'm
provements in the large pavilion, but
have found 1t necessary increase the
size of the stock tent and pavilion,
which will be done. When the new
stock tent was purchased for the last
fair 1t was believed to be big enough
to last for several years, but the
space was all taken and fully one
third of the stock brought In for COM
petition was unable to get into the
tent-hence 1t will be necessary to
secure big addition for next year.
Everybody Pleased.
holders and directors were In every
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30
ROBBERS LOOT KANSAS
BANK AND ESCAPE

Olpe, Kan. Nov. 3O.-Robbers to-
day blew the safe of the state bank
here and escaped with $4,000. on a
hand car.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30

Same Men Will Continue to
Direct DeStinies Of Third
District Fair.
ANNUAL ELECTION HELD
SATURDAY AFTERNOON

II. w. McCOmas Chosen TO Succeed
Lee Teutsch as Dircctor-Addls0n
Bennett, Recently Appointed by
Governor Chamberlain Is Only 9th
er New Man on Board of Directors
-Enlargment Plans for Next Year
Arc Discussal-StOck Pavilion Was
Too Small This Year.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-30

postal conveniences. The repeal OF
the law complained Of is urged.