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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-23
A WISE POLICY
Tramps Are Being Put on Roads of
BeXar County.

Tramps Are Being Put on Roads of
BeXar County.
San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 23.-
Restricting the circulation of
tramps and criminals and at the
same time extending the system of
good roads in this county, is the
wise policy that has been adopted
here in handling petty offenders,
The practice of making tramps and
other petty offenders move on to the
next town is rot conducive to check
ing the growth of such parasites on
the body Industrial. Here all such
offenders ale kept in a convict camp
on orc o. tbe various county roads
and kept hard at work. AS a result
the finest road system in Texas net
works BeXar county from this city.
There are one hundred and eighty
five miles of excellent macadam
The mutual benefit of this to the
farmers and the merchants makes
this the most important public work
of the county administration. This
method of handling petty offenders
has resulted not only in practical
results but has operated to keep
down petty crimes, and to frighten
away the undesirable army of ho-
boes that would otherwise infest
this city during the delightful win
ter months.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-23
SAILS FOR SOUTH
AMERICAN FLEET LEAVES RIO
WHILE GUNS BOOM AND
THRONGS CHEER.
FAREWELL IS NOTABLE
Until Punta Arenas Is Reached Ad-
miral Evans Great Squadron
Be Lost to the
World.

Rio Janeiro, Jan. 23.-With the
booming of guns and the cheers
from thousands of accompanying
craft, the American warships sailed
from Rio yesterday afternoon, bound
for Punta Arenas, in the straits of
Magellan. Ten days will bring the
fleet almost midway of it's IA 900
mile cruise to San Francisco, and
the ships and men carried with them
the godspeed and good wishes of
the whole Brazilian nation.
Not an untoward incident has
marred the visit of the Americans
here. They were feasted and feted,
both officers and men during their
sojourn in Rio Janeiro, and half the
populace turned out from early in
the morning to give them fitting
farewell. AS upon the arrival of the
fleet, so upon it's departure, the
quays, the public buildings and the
hills were crowded with thousands
watching the warships until they
had disappeared through the mouth
of the bay into the open sea-
The president of the republic, DR.,
Penna, came to Rio Janeiro from
Petropolis about l 1 o'clock, and pro-
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-23
BOARD Is Ne
GOTIATING FOR PURCHASE
OF BIG ESTATES.
MILLION DOLLAR DEAL
Property of the Cunningham Com.
pany and the Ellis Plantation
Tracts That State May
Purchase.

Houston, Texas, Jan. 23.-Nego-
tiations are pending for the pur-
chase of two of the largest sugar
plantations in the southwest, and
the largest in the state, for account
of the state of Texas fhese are the
largest sugar plantations in Texas,
and if purchased will give the state
a wide acreage on which to give out
Der of convicts.
Judge w. II. Gill, chairman of the
board; Captain NJ e. Shaw and
Col. Hicks, composing the peniten-
tiary board, and Captain j. A. Her
ring. superintendent of the state
penitentiaries, spent Tuesday and
Wednesday inspecting the proper
ties of the Cunningham Sugar Re-
fining company and the adjoining
property known as the Ellis planta-
ton, with view to proper con-
sideration of propositions that have
been made looking to sale of the
property with improvements. The
Cunningham Sugar Refining COM
by the Lincoln Trust company of St
Louis and Colonel e. H. Cunning
ham of Sugarland. Texas The Lin
coin Trust company is the controll-
ing factor, the property being man
aged by Colonel Cunningham, but
A. A. B. Worheide of the Lincoln
Trust company gives much attention
to the affairs of the business. 1t is
proposed to sell to the state 5000
ton in cane, and the Improvements
thereon, including the big sugar
mills, which is the largest in the
state.
The company also owns nineteen
miles of steam railroad from Sugar
land to Arcola, but it is not known
that this is included in the proposed
deal, as Mr.. Worheide has a high
regard for that railroad property
and it is believed he would want to
hold it for different purpose. The
Imperial railroad is being extended
from it's terminus 1t is understood
| that if the Cunningham plantation
| is bought, including the sugar mill
/ and refinery, it will be, in round
| figures, at a price of $1,000 900.
! However. the board may consider
/ the purchase of the lands without
the mill and refinery, in which event
the purchase price would not be so
| large.
| The Ellis plantation is owned by
t a company of which w T. Eldridge
is the head and interested with him
are Bassett Blakely of Fort Bend
county, the Kempners and others.
This plantation consists of 5,400
acres, 5000 acres of which are in
sugar cane cultivation This prop
erty is held at $3.50, geo 1t has on it
a very fine six-roller mill and re-
| finery which has been in operation
| for but four crops. The mill is guar
anteed to crush 900 tons a day
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-23

hundred visitors arrived here today
for the opening session of the thir-
ty-third annual state convention of
the Wisconsin Young Mems Chris
tian association. The meeting will
last until next Sunday inclusive.
Several prominent clregymen will
speak before the convention. On
Sunday, the closing day, a great
mems evangelical meeting will be
held.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-23
To Confer With Railroads.

Nashville, Tenn, Jan. 23.-In or
der to prevent the necessity for
calling special session of the legis-
lature to deal with the reduction OF
railroad rates. Governor Patterson
has invited the presidents of all
railroads operating in Tennessee to
hold conference with him next
Monday. 1t is hoped by this action
that a mutually agreeable reduction
may be decided upon.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-23
DO IT NOW.

= Under the law voters may .
= pay the poll tax at any time =
= before midnight on Jan. 81, =
= 1908. That time is not far off. =
= Those who wait until the .
= last day will find the rush so =
= great that they will be COM .
= PEELED to stand in line and wait =
= three or four hours for their .
= turn. This has been the expert =
= ence of the late ones in pre- =
= Vious years. .
= Therefore, in order to dis =
= charge one of your most i'm =
= portant duties as a citizen with =
= minimum of inconvenience =
= to yourself, you should procure =
= your poll tax receipt now. .
= Do it today-not tomorrow. =
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-01-23

The Enterprise Publishing COM
pany has millions OF candidate
cards, call and get yours. tt
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-09
The Sitting Waltz

An observing contemporary remarks
that the young people who indulge in
the giddy mazes of the waltz will hear
with interest that the heads of Wash
ington and New York society have
declared that sitting waltz" will be
more fashionable from now on than
dancing. The sitting out embodies
same position as dancing, the only diff
ference is that you sit instead Of dance.
The mans right arm is around the
girls waist, while his left hand holds
her right. Her left hand is placed on
his shoulder while her head rests low
ingly upon his bosom, and all they
have to do is sit and listen to the mu-
sic. Now that is something like it. We
have always regarded it as quite nui-
sance to gallop a mile or two to get
hug or two. A room full Of people
sitting on sofas hugging to music is
more to our notion. This will give the
old rheumatic brethren another chance
to waltz. Men waltz, not for the dance,
but for the position, and while a man
may lose his appetite for dancing he has
to become wonderfully old before he
loses his appetite for hugging pretty
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-09

him. But he hasn't the least con-
ception of how to set about gaining
that love. He's like the COW in the
fable that was crazy to be pet and
envying the dog the caresses its master
lavished upon it, threw herself into
the mans lap as he sat asleep in an
orchard"
In business Mr.. Rockefeller early
learned that lesson of the trusts,
Never pay anyone profit" He did
not have to learn the lesson of secrecy
since he was born secret. In his pri-
vate life he pays back as little profit,
as is as sedulous to stanch every leak
of waste as he is in business. Every
member of his household is brought
up to plainness and economy. There
are no famous pictures, no expensive
books, no rich furnishings about the
Rockefeller houses. There are hun
dreds of acres of the richest land
about his two country houses one in
east Cleveland, one near Washington
Irving's Sleepy Hollow; Mr.. Rookie
feller will deny himself nothing in
broad rich acres, since broad rich acres
go up in value. So, also, of his town
house and the lot it stands on in
Euclid Avenue, Cleveland.
Against Mr.. Rockefeller personally
little or less can be said. He has no
angers, no RACES, speaks evil of no one.
When a confidential inside agent be-
trayed him to Wall Street spectators
he exhausted his spirit for revenge
when he gave the traitor two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars in money,
made him the high salaried president
of a sub-company of Standard Oil, and
cast him out. Mr.. Rockefeller has no
vices, although that, like his want of
dinner going, may be due to an abb
sence of stomach. No one may be
very vicious without a stomach. l
said he had no vices. That is wrong.
He permits himself the luxury of lies.
Given cause Mr.. Rockefeller will make
Ananias look like a beginner. Also
he'll defend himself in his mendacities.
He claims that you have no more right
to search his head than to search his
pockets; that whoever may lock door
may lie. And between you and me
I am by no means sure he isn't right.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-09
It's Too Great a Risk

Would it not be dangerous to place
in the hands of three men the unhm-
tied power to segregate the different
kinds OF property Of the state into
separate classes for the purpose of tax
alton, making it possible for them
either to impose unjust taxes or to
practically exempt railroad and other
corporation property from taxation7
This is what the proposed amend
ment to the constitution will do if it is
carried by the voters at the coming
election.
The argument which was advanced
by the tax commission at the last ses-
sion of the legislature in favor of sub
mitting this amendment was that it
would give the commission power to
make the railroads pay a large share of
the state taxes, if not all of them, and
exempt this class of property from
county, municipal and school taxes.
II was contended that if this was done
the railroads would be made to pay a
more fair share of the taxes than they
do at present.
In theory this may sound good to
the tax commissioners and to many
voters; in fact, it has nothing to rec
ommend it. The trouble is that it gives
the commission too much power and
subjects the members OF the commits
sion to temptation that might not be
resisted. With such an amendment in
force the railroads might exert every
influence in their power to obtain con-
troll of the tax commission and could
we'll afford to spend thousands, or ten:
of thousands Of dollars for bribery pur.
poses. To pass this amendment woulc
be to trust the three members of the
tax commission to be honest in the face
of a great temptation and to do 81
would be dangerous.
Under the present constitutional pro
vision all property must be taxed Oh
the same basis, according to its value
1t should be hard for the advocates o
the amendment to convince the voter
that there is any necessity for th'
abandonment OF this provision. .-Spo
kane Chronicle.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-09

This has been poor year for the
growing of potatoes in central Wash
ington, and those having a crop will
make good money. The season opened
here by the dealers paying SIS per ton
then the price jumped to $40 and now
spuds have takers at $25 per ton. 1t
is said that at Brewster this week
potatoes were selling at 21a cents per
pound. Dealers here express them
selves that by spring the price will be
double the price paid this fall.-We-
natchee Republic.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-09

An enormous Wolf river apple was
brought to Wenatchee last week from
the w. S. Richardson place above
Monitor. 1t weighs "a ounces and is
on display in the Red Apple Real
Estate company office in Wenatchee.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-09
A Pertinent Query
girl.

Effie, the little daughter OF a clergy
man, pranced into her fathers study
one evening while the reverend gentle
man was preparing lengthy sermon
for the following Sunday. She looked
curiously at the manuscript for a mo-
ment and then turned to her father.
Papa" she began seriously, does
God tell you what to writer"
Certainly, dearie," replied the
clergyman.
Then why do you scratch so much
of it out7" asked Effie.-Harpers
Weekly.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-09
NEWS ITEMS

P. I. Kern will move his family down
from Leavenworth this week. He has
bought a part Of A. H. Smiths ranch
on Washington avenue.-Wenatchee
World.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-09

A contract was closed this week,
says the Wenatchee Republic, between
a buyer for we'll known eastern fruit
firm and the Wenatchee Fruit Growers
Association for $50 cars of apples.
The contract includes some OF all the
varieties pooled with the association
and at figure better considerably than
that bid last week and which the asso-
ciation turned down. The association
also has the option Of furnishing
another $50 car loads at the same fig
ure to the same firm, but President
Tibbits has not decided as to whether
or not he will sell now or hold the
apples for shipment later on. The
price was not made public.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-09

Marshall Bohnsask is taking a va
cation by visiting the Spokane Fair
this week. c. M. Wilcox is acting
deputy marshall in Mr.. Bohnsack's
absence.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-09

The Wenatchee public schools are
full to overlooking. Additional room
must be provided says the board, and
two more school buildings are talked
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-09

The Echo turned out lot of 1909
calendars for Leavenworth business
houses this week.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-10-09

Cashmere is now supplied with cleo
tric lights. The Valley Power Co., is
furnishing the juice. The same com
pany will also furnish the power to
supply the town with water from the
Wenatchee river. The water is to be
pumped into a reservoir.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
Photographs without Camera.

The first American account of the won
derful new process of relief photography
announced by NJ. Lippmann of Paris has
appeared in the Washington Pathfinder.
Lippmann is the specialist who invented
the system of color photography by means
of the interference of light rays. His
relief plates require no camera lens or
plate holder. but are virtually automatic
in reproducing the object yor objects to
which it is exposed in such a way that
you get a different view every time you
look at the picture from a different di-
rection, just as the real object would. The
plates are formed out of two films of
collodion, which have been stamped in a
SOFT of microscopic honeycomb pattern
in such a way as to bring the depressions
exactly opposite one another and form a
sheet of very tiny globes, each one of
which Is an eye or camera lens in itself.
They are so minute that there are about
$4,000 of them to the square inch. Their
walls are rendered opaque with a pig
ment. except at the side toward the OBJ
ject. and the interior surfaces are sensi-
TIED. In this way the object is repro
duced in a myriad of aspects. The pro-
cess requires great skill at present. but
the inventor hopes TO bring it to a com
mercal basis.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21

j. W. SlaytOn, Of Pennsylvania, with
i votes. and G. w. Woody, the negro
Socialist from California, who was
given one vote.
Amid the most exciting scenes ever
witnessed at a Socialist gathering, and
the most exciting speeches ever deliv
cred before Socialist body in Ameri-
ca, Phil Gallery, of Missouri, placed
the name of Debs before the delegates
as the only standard bearer for the
party TO consider in the campaign that
they expect to be the greatest ever gone
through.
1t was speech in which the
cheers came long before the name of
Debs was mentioned, and when the
speaker had taken his seat il was amid
the widest applause and weeping on
the part of both many men and women.
1t was Il speech in which Roosevelt was
mathematician, Taft ridiculed and VIII
liam Jennings Bryan held to contempt.
The naming of Meyer, Haywood and
Pettibone brought out cheers, and it
was in connection with their names
and the allei,ed persecution of them as
leaders of the working class that the
name of President Roosevelt was held
up to the scorn and hatred of the So
cialists. The weak stand that Bryan
took at the time Of the trial of the
miners was held i'm contempt and i'm
light comparison with the attitude of
the Nebraskan toward the Filipinos.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
NEW YORK.

Weather, trade and crop reports are
irregular, warm days alternating with
heavy transforms. and retail and jobbing
demand has been of a fuctuating charac-
ter. There is evident. however, a meas
urable improvement in the tone of affairs,
commercial and industrial, a partial re-
Election, perhaps, OF the better feeling in
financial lines. The most significant fea-
ture in actual trade circles is perhaps the
wider acceptance of the belief in the cot
ton goods trade that this branch Of trade
has seen the bottom as to prices. There
are reports of a slight gain in orders by
wooden manufacturers and large auction
sales of carpets and silk ribbons have de-
veloped demand.
Best reports as 10 the improvement IN
fall buying come from the larger centers
like New York. Chicago and st. Louis,
while current retail trade reports are best
in the Southwest and Northwest.
Agreements to maintain pig iron quota
tons having proved Intellectual, efforts to
peg" the market at a steady level have
been abandoned. Therefore prices are
easier. and those who were bound by OBJ
legations are again in q position TO take
business.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending May IA number 2S1,
against 2SS last week, 1S4 in the same
week of 1907. 161 in 1906. 191 in 1905
and 215 in 1904. Business failures in
Canada for the week number %, against
% last week and % in the corresponding
week of 1907.-Bradstreet's Commercial
Report.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
POINTS PRESIDENT MADE
IN RESOURCES SPEECH

In his address to the resources con-
yentiOn President Roosevelt made the
following points:
The convention is called to consider
the weightiest problem before the nation
the conservation of natural resources.
The national resources are in danger of
exhaustion because of wasteful methods.
If Congress does not appropriate the
money TO perpetuate the waterways COM
mission l will perpetuate it myself.
The vast wealth of lumber. coal, oil
and minerals and the riches of the soil
have made the conditions of life in this
country unparalleled for comfort and con-
venence.
The prosperity of the people depends
on how these natural resources are used.
The natural waterways have been in
jured by neglect and there is less navi-
CATION on them now than fifty years ago.
The mines, if used. must necessarily be-
come exhausted, and therefore they must
be used wisely.
Irrigation will add enormous tracts of
the most valuable agricultural land.
We can enormously increase our trans
portation facilities by the canalization OF
our rivers so as to complete a great sys-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
PNTICS@ah,


Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley,
retired, will be offered the secretaryship
of the navy in case William ]. Bryan is
elected President, according to Wash
ington report.
The national conference of negroes at
Philadelphia. attended by delegates from
thrty-seyen States, Endorsed Foraker or
Knox for President. saying that neither
Taft nor Roosevelt could get the negro
vote.
Leading Democrats of Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland met
at Philadelphia and organized the George
Gray League. for the purpose of pushing
the candidac.' of Judge Gray for Presi-
dent.
Many Republicans of St. Paul and Min
neapolis have sent letters TO Washington
urging the appointment OF Judge David
r. Simpson of Minnea polls. as successor
to Judge Lochren on the federal district
bench for Minnesota.
The Delaware Republican State con-
vention at Dover decided to send dele
gates to Chicago not instructed for any
candidate, the convention being controlled
by Senators Du Pont and Richardson and
the friends of Taft being defeated. The
platform indorses the administration and
favors tariff revision.
If the assertions of the political man.
ayers may be credited, the two presi-
Dental candidates this year are as good
as chosen by the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties, namely, Taft by the for
mer and Bryan by the latter. Up to
April % the Taft managers had counted
900 delegates TO the national convention
pledged to their man, and 491 is ma
jority This estimate did rot include
any Southern State, where there Is a
contest. The Bryan bureau at Lincoln
claimed that three-fourths of the Demo
cratic delegates were on record for their
man.
Two Republican conventions were held
at Rockford, " d., and two sets of dele
gates were elected to represent Eddy
county at the State convention in Minot.
The ''nsurgents" were in control of the
organization, and when ''stalwart' ap-
peared with no credentials from his pre-
cinct save those signed by himself, he
was turned down. He boltcd the conven-
ton. and with some others held another
session at which another set of delegates
was elected.
The dominant faction in the New York
Republican party is said to have selected
George Il. Cortelyou. now Secretary of
the Treasury. as candidate for Governor
to succeed Hughes.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

Busts of Franklin and Washington
have been placed in the American en-
bassy in London.
Fire at the Jamestown exposition
grounds destroyed the arts and crafts
village and other buildings.
The massacre of 1000 persons and the
pillaging of thirty-six villages by Kurds
is reported from northern Persia.
4 design has been selected for New
York City's skyscraper. in which are to
be housed most of the municipal DEPART
Inents.
One man probably was 'atally injured.
many were slightly hurt and traffic on
the PENNSYLVANIA railroad was suspend
ed for several hours when a passenger
train colided with freight near South
Elizabeth Station. " j.
Desrondent because the sale for his
oriental curios had fallen off, Long wun-
do. New York Chinaman. jumped from
the roof of a six-story building and was
instcntly killed
John ID. Rockefeller has donated $500
to enable tie Fifth Avenue Baptist
church of Now York 10 continue its cho-
rus. This il his smallest church contri-
button.