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Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
RAILROAD TO
ATTACK NEW
STATE LA W
MEASURE AIDS SHIPPERS;
CORPORATION ANGRY
General Solicitor for Northern Pacific
Announces His Intention of
Contesting the
Law

BY Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, Mimi. March 24.-W. r.
Begg. general solicitor of the Great
Northern railroad, in a letter today to
Attorney General Young, attacks the
reciprocal demurrage law passed by
the last Minnesota legislature, and
state officials infer from his letter that
the railroad company will contest the
law on constitutional grounds
The reciprocal demurrage law pro-
vides for the imposition of a penalty
upon the railroads for their failure to
furnish cars within certain prescribed
periods as well as upon the shippers
for their failure to load or unload with
in the time prescribed.
In his letter Mr.. Begg says congress
having fixed the duty of carriers with
reference to furnishing cars for inter-
state shipments. the state cannot there
fore interfere with that duty either by
making it more difficult by imposing
penalties. The Minnesota law by its
terms applies to all transportation, in
terstate and intrastate, and is void as
to interstate shipments. He argues
further that If the state supreme court
should construe the law as applicable
only to intrastate shipments then ii
directly burdens interstate commerce
because of the penalties imposed.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
FIGHT AT STANFORD
is NEAR A CRISIS
Professor Clark of Governing Commit
tee Announces Statement viii
Be Forthcoming
Today

BY Associated Press.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, March
24.-Prof. Clark, chairman of the stu
dent affairs committee, announced
this evening that he would issue a
statement tomorrow morning in re-
gard to the cases now under investi-
CATION He gives no intimation of the
committees probable action. 1t is sur
missed by the students that at least a
part of the 247 will be dismissed
DR.. Jordan, president of the univer-
sity. refuses to talk on the question.
The original twelve students suspended
have prepared an appeal to Mr.. Jor-
dan, to be presented If the committee
does not reinstate them tomorrow. No
student body meeting will be held un-
til the decision is announced.
A statement made by Prof. A. e.
Whitaker, a member of the student
affairs committee, in an informal ad-
dress today before body of the stu
dents is taken by the students to indi-
cate that the decision of the committee
tomorrow will be for suspension of the
247 students who have confessed par
ticipation in the parade.
Prof. whitaker said In effect that 1t
was only natural that the 247 should be
suspended, as they were as guilty as
the twelve already suspended.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
INDIANA DEMOCRATS
MEET FOR CONVENTION
Little Doubt That William j. Bryan
viii Be ndorsed by Gath
ering at Indian
apolis

BY Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 24.-Over
thousand of the 1900 delegates to the
Democratic state convention, which be-
gins here tomorrow. had arrived to-
night and were besieged by the twenty
seven candidates for places on the state
ticket.
The first session will be held tomor-
row morning at II o'clock and will be
brief. The afternoon will be devoted
to the thirteen district meetings at
which will be selected members of the
committees and delegates to the ma
tional convention, twenty-six In NUM-
ber. The four delegates at large VIII
be chosen by the convention Thursday.
In all probability the delegates will be
instructed for w. j. Bryan for presi-
dent.
GRAND FORKS, N. D., March "a
If any resolutions instructing the dele
gates to the Democratic national con-
vention at Denver are passed by the
Democratic state convention of North
Dakota. which will convene at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning in the Met
ropolitan theater here, those resolu-
tions will be for Bryan. That is the
definite statement made by delegates
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
GERMANY'S
FOREIGNPLAN
IS DEFENDED
PRINCE Won BUEL L0W UPH0LDS
POLICY
Chancellor Asserts All Nations Are,
Bound to Stand by the
Aigeciras Agree
ment

By Associated Press.
BERLIN. March 24.-Referring to the
Moroccan situation in the reichstag to-
day, Chancellor Won BueloW declared
that the Algeciras act was equally plnu-
ing upon all the powers. France has
had no occasion up to the present time
of reproaching Germany with a narrow
INTERPRETATION of the agreement, and IL
was not the intertion of Germany 10
change her views; but in return Tor
this Germany expected France to carry
out and observe the terms of the act IN
a peaceful and friendly manner
Referring to the Macedonian situation
Prince Won Buelow said the efforts of
the great powers concerned to extin-
euish the conflict had been rendered
futile because fresh fuel was continual
ly being thrown upon the fire from the
outside.
The foundation of the trouble did not
lie in strife between Christendom ana
Mohammedanism, but in the bitter
struggle between the various Christian
nationalities in the Balkans, each of
which sought supremacy of interests
and would try, in the event of the
downfall of the sovereignty of the
Porte. to secure the greatest possible
amount of Turkish territory.
(. Germany Interested
Germany was as much interested as
any other power, the chancellor said, In
the maintenance of the status quo
founded on the treaty of Berlin, and
consequently Germany greeted with
sympathy the project advanced by Aus
tria 10 extend her Bosnian railroad to
connect with the Turkish line at Nitro
vita. This extension would further the
advance of civilization.
II hope and believe" the chancellor
said. ''that the European concert viii
be maintained, and 1 understand that
this same feeling prevails in the other
cabinets where the slight differences Of
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Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
SIGNATURE OF WILL
DESTROYED BY MOUSE;
WOMAN MAY LOSE $4,000
Document Produced in Court Needs
Only Name to Make 1t Valid.
May Sue Adminis-
traitor

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, March "a. = The
nibbling of a small mouse in an eff
fort to obtain bits of paper to use In
making a. nest probably cheated Mrs.
Ida Brown out of bequest of $4,000
which had been left her by John Ar
rowsmith. A will which was produced
in Judge Grahams court today lacked
only the signature to make 1t valid,
and the place where the signature
would naturally be had been nibbled
away.
Judge Graham told Mrs. Brown that
although her claim as based on the
will could not be allowed, she could
probably recover by bringing suit
against the administrator.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25

NT ETHINKS l am Democrat, and then
Vb Methinks I'm not. Now, what the deuce am L
-AA Vain Fortunes sport; feather on the breeze
"A trail of smoke upon troubled sea;
The Lord knows what-and If indeed he Knows
But that sin to doubt So what am /!
Kind Heaven tell me true! Things come my way.
Dame Fortune smiles me. My hopes are hgh
MY boom. inflated, taketh shape and form.
Alack, my Paradise of idle hopes
Is but fools and all because of fools.
Now when the times ripest for my suit,
When my purse gapes and from its open mouth
The gen'rous coin flows in shining stream,
When this my League, my Independence League,
The CHERISHED of my hopes. my darling League,
MY own and only party, yea, my OWN,
The which paid for with my fathers scads
And eke my worthy mothers-when this League
Is well euuipp'd and ready for the fray,
And all the world proclams me full of pluck,
And all past wrongs are buried in the past,
And all my errors obscurd with years.
And all the futures bright. behold the fools
To spoil my Paradise and mar my hopes
And make a mock of ME! Alack the day!
OH that their too, too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and dissolve itself into dew,
Or that these mothers had never been
The sons of mothers. or that they'd been born
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
CORONER'S JURY
VIlNDICATES SHLPPY
After Investigation, Police Chief is
Declared to Have Been Justi-
fled in Staying
Averbuch
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March PA coroner's
jury tonight declared Chief of Police
Shippy and J. e. Foley. his driver to
have been justified in killing Aver
buch, the young Russian Jew, VINO at
tackled the chief in his home recently
The verdict was rendered after a
short deliberation following an ex-
exhaustive inquiry into the circum-
stances surrounding the shooting.
More than a score of witnesses were
examined.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
LA TOILETTE CONTINUES
SPEECH ON ALDRIcH BILL
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, March 24.-The cur
rency bill was given right of way in the
senate today, until II is finally disposed
of by an announcement by Senator
Aldrich that he would move tomorrow
to give it that status in the senate.
Senator la Toilette concluded the third
instalrent of his speech on the bill
today.
A question brought out statement
by Mr. Aldrich to the effect that he
hopes to see the creation of a joint
commission of the senate and house
authorized to consider permanent cur
rency reform before congress adjourns.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
HAMLET
w. r. HIS soIiloquy:

FVy o plague some other wight and not poor me
Whom my ambitions goad the while they mock
n On observation-disclosures. in vain art thou
The independence League. Now am dishd
And thou art done for by scourge o FOOLS
Oh Enterprise, what horrifying crimes
Are in thy name committed my papers
By those who eat my poor subsistence up
And leech on till I'm anemc grown,
Faint from the loss of blood. Oh woeful day
That brought the fleet to California's shores
And cost me cen that shred of what 1t was.
That little fag end of what might have been,
Cost me the last remaining measly scrap
OF my poor reputation. Woe is me!
What | do with this little League,
My ownest League my Independence League?
Hari Methinks I'll save the pieces stll,
By a fell stroke of cunning enterprise
The news of which will make Beau Brisbanes locks
Still curlier Hark My Independence League,
Dsdaining politics s-ignobe field
Will henceforth hold honorable place
In the affections of my fellow-men
OF this fair land; for let it be decreed
That after this my Leagues BASEBALL LEAGUE.
The deed is done Presto! The change is made.
Now-hump yourselves, you fellows. and play BALL.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
Mrs. EImIra Huntington Dead

SAN FRANCISCO, March 24.-Too
enfeebIed by age to resist the shock OF
a fall which she sustained last Satur-
da night, Mrs. Elmira Huntington of
Oakland, 80 years old and a relative OF
Henry e. Huntington, the traction mil
lionaire, died at her home this morning.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
p.nrose,s CONDITION serious
Ry Associated Press.

BY AssocIateu Fress
PHILADELPHIA, March Ex-senator
Penrose was reported tonight to be IN
an extremely serious condition. his
temperature was lower, but otherwise
there was no Improvement
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
COURT sUSTAINS DEMURRER
OF UNION PACIFIC ROAD
BY Associated Press.

DENVER, March 24.-Judge r. e.
Lewis in the United States court today
sustained the demurrer of the Union
Pacific Railroad company to the COM
plant brought by the United States for
alleged infraction of the live stock ship
ping laws
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
SUMMARY OF THE News
FORECAST.

For Los Angeles and vicinity:
Increasing cIoudlness Wednesday,
possibly showers; fresh southwest
winds. Maximum temperature yes
terday, 72 degrees; minimum, a.
degrees.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
GOVERNOR GUILD GAINS
IN FIGHT FOR LIFE
Chief Executive Of Massachusetts,
Continues to Show Slight Inn
provement--Friends
Encouraged
BY Associated Fress.

BY Associated Press
BOSTON, March 24.-Up to a late
hour tonight Governor Curtis H. Guild
continued to rest easily and to hold the
ground he gained in the morning.
THE Improvement has not been great.
hut his condition today has somewhat
dispelIed the gloom which prevailed
throughout the city yesterday.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
WILLIAMS TO
USE LASH ON
REPUBLICANS
DEMOCRATIC LEADER TIRED
OF INACTIVITY
WILL FORCE CONGRESS TO PASS
NEEDED LAWS
Minority Chief Declares Employers
Liability, Anti-Injunction and
Other Measures Must
Go Through
Rv Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, March 24.-If John
Sharp williams of Mississippi, the mi
nority leader. makes good his warming
the Republicans will be forced to pass
certain legislation or else meet with OBJ
struction at every turn by Williams or
his Democratic colleagues.
Mr.. williams declared that up to now
the Republicans have had smooth sail
ing. He did not want the country to
think the minority was trying to as
sumo responsibility for legislation. He
did not desire to appear as trying to CO.
cree the majority until the Republicans
had absolutely demonstrated before
the country that they did not intend to
do anything at this session
He bad, he said, waited for the Re-
publicans to do something.
II have finally come to the conclusion
that the Republican party has forgotten
to do anything. 1t has become the
party of passivity, and as far as | can
see has no idea of doing anything-it Is
plain now that without some method OF
parliamentary coercion you're going to
be deaf to every demand of the coun-
try"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
LOCAL


Warrants secured charging railroad
contractor and his timekeeper with is
suing fictitious checks.
Harris Newmark and wife celebrate
fiftieth wedding anniversary at their
home. Many friends gather to offer
congratulations.
Woman from Illinois comes to Los
Angeles and offers aid to sisters said
to be demented.
Live ostriches used to illustrate ad-
dress by speaker at college.
Well known lawyer seriously injured
in auto accident.
City schools need large sum of
money and city fathers will be ap-
pealed to.
Woman loses life as result of burns
caused by exploding lamp.
Coroner's jury holds Southern Pacific
responsible for mans death.
Pioneer woman dies at family home.
EASTERN
Democratic leader announces that his
future policy in congress Will be that
of compelling the Republican majority
to enact needed legislation.
Invitation of China to American bait
tleship fleet to stop at some port in that
country is accepted by the state depart
ment at Washington.
operator causes disastrous wreck in
Kentucky.
Missouri plans to GUST lumber COM
bine,
Condition of Governor Guild of Mas
sacusetts shows some improvement.
FOREIGN
Prince Won Buelow defends foreign
policy of Germany.
Old Drury Lane theater in London is
destroyed by fire.
Duke of Devonshire, prominent figure
in English political life, dies.
Emperor William of Germany and
family leave for Corfu.
COAST
American battleship fleet is making
excellent record at Magdalena bay. Ad-
miral Evans expects to sail for San
Diego April IL.
Appellate court orders Abe Ruefs
bail reduced to $790,000
d. w. Stevens, who was shot by Ko-
rean in San Francisco yesterday, has
good chance for recovery.
Sailors desert cruiser at San Diego in
order to remain in Southern California
for the big entertainments planned for
the fleet.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25

DETROIT, March 24.--Over score
of persons were injured this afternoon
when an interurban car on the Ann
Arbor branch of the Detroit United
railway bound into the city from Jack
son. Mich, was derailed by defective
rail near the city and plowed across
the brick pavement into store build
ing. The car was wrecked and the
front of the two-story building was
demolished.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
HARD WORK AT MAGDALENA PLAY in CALIFORNIA EVANS PLAN
RAILROADS. ECONOMY"
CAUSES WRECK WHICH
INJURIES 20 PERSONS
Night Operator Discharged, No One
at Telegraph Key, Two Trains
Meet Head on In Coll
Iision % Q
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
LEXINGTON, KY, March "a =
Twenty passengers were injured, three
fatally, in headon collision between
Bluegrass special passenger train on
the Queen & Crescent railroad and
special freight train at Curdville cross
ing between Burgin and Highbridge
early today. The wreck, as near as can
be ascertained, was due to the fact that
the night telegraph operator at Burgin
had been discharged several weeks ago
after the new federal law went into
effect and the day operator had not
yet reported for duty.
When the Bluegrass special reached
the Burgin depot there was no order
and the train rushed on. At Curdville
crossing the freight was also proceed
ing at a good speed and crashed into 1T.
The cars were badly piled up and sew
eral hours were required to clear the
track.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
Demands Some Action

Mr. williams announced that from
this moment on, for the balance of the
session, this is not a lie-easy, wait on
the enemy session, but coercion Is go
ing to be exercised"
No recommendation for unanimous
consent would be granted unless 1t be
to adjourn or take a recess, until the
majority shows that 1t is sufficiently
alive to the demands of the country" to
report for consideration in the house
such matters as an employers liability
bill, some bill for the publicity of cam
paign contributions. a free wood pulp
and free print paper bill, and a bill
against ex parte injunctions acting as
Il supersedeas of law passed by SOW
ereign state.
The Lexington advertiser., 1908-11-20

Mrs. McCaleb, of Oak Grove, who
for some time past made her home
with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Smith,
of West Point. died at that place last
Friday morning. Her remains were
brought to Lexington on Saturday, and
ON Sunday morning amid the perfect
quiet and beauty Of nature, we com.
mitted her body to its kindred dust.
Mrs. McCaleb was born in Tennessee
in the year 1897 in 1875 they removed
to this state and settled near Lexing-
ton, where most of the remainder of
her life was spent. Although she had
her cloudy days as we'll as days of
sunshine. yet in her lite she had that
degree OF satisfaction and happiness
which is the lot of true mother in Is
rael. She was devoted mother and
true to her Religion. AT the age of 16
she united with thePresbyterian church
and has ever since been faithful and
consistent member of the denomina
tion. She had the pleasure of seeing
one or her sons enter the ministry of
her church. Although we sincerely
mourn her loss, we sorrow not without
hope, for the promise was with her,
Thou shalt come to thy grave in
full age Like as a shock of corn
cometh in its season. Thine eyes shall
see the King in His beauty. !"
T. KOOPMAE.
The Lexington advertiser., 1908-11-20
Kings Daughters Notes.

Fellow laborers' circle of Kings
Daughters held their meeting for No
vember with Mrs. r. A. Stigler. The
usual service was led by Mrs. Walter
Tackett, followed by the rules of or
der over which the leader. Mrs Bliss,
preided A motion was passed, max
ing the hostess OF each monthly meet.
ing an appointment to be made in al
phabetical order by the leader, subject
first to the convenience of each host
ess. The meeting for December will
be with Mrs. Boni Alexander.
A profitable afternoon hour was
spent last Sunday at the Presbyterian
church in listening to a programme
pesnted by The Kings Daughters in a
memorial servicessto MargaretBottome.
Only to the musical numbers were
male voices added, other wise the pro-
gramme was modestly rendered by
women of different denominations.
Episcopal, Methodist. Baptist, Presby-
terian and Jewish, united to embelish
this service with gems gathered from
Bible and prayer, song and verse. In
communing with the best thoughts of
Margaret Bottome the heart is sur
charged with emotions that tend to
renew right enthuslasms, refresh our
ideas and enlarge our conceptions of
work and duty.
The Old Ladies Home at jackson
will now very soon open its doors and
begin to receive inmates that under its
rules are eligible. Every Kings
Daughter will feel interested In the
news, that one poor and unfortunate
and whose condition our circle has
tried to ameliorate will be removed
from the County House of Holmes and
received within the hospitable walls of
the old ladies' home
The order of Kings Daughters is
growing. We have noticed the local
support given circles wherever formed.
So representative is the order that it is
more free from the would be facetious
The Lexington advertiser., 1908-11-20
remarks tbat are sometimes aimed 10

remarks that are sometimes aimed to-
ward women's organizations. The
order directs effort along different lines
of Christian endeavor and its attitude
ssand.. is rarely misunderstood
The Kings Daughters of Lexington
broadened the circles scope Of work a
year ago and undertook to stimulate
public spirit towards improving and
maintaining order in our streets and
public buildings Much has been
written and said. The advancement
Of education along any lines is slow.
There is no royal road to learning.
Mr.. Shuttleworth, the successor of Mr..
Newsom. as street contractor. answers
the complaint about the contents of
garbags boxes being given such prom
inence on some. .of our streets by say
ing that he will hereafter givesshis per-
sonal supervision TO the task and seek
prominent places for the garbage taken
from the public square.
The Lexington advertiser., 1908-11-20
u. DC. Resolutions.

At a regular meeting of the b. G..
Humphreys Chapter U. d. C. among
other business transacted, it was re-
solved,
That, whereas, Honorable John
Sharp Williams, at the request of the
chapter, had unselfishly consented to
deliver his great lecture, "A Talk
about Takers, for the benefit of the
fund now being raised to erect suit
able monument to the memory of the
Confederate soldiers of Holmes county,
and had generously donated the entire
proceeds of the lecture to tho fund and
the sacred object it commentaries
Be il further resolved, that the
thanks of the chapter, and of every
individual.member thereof, be extended
to him for his generous assistance and
patriotic interest in their cause, to
gether.with their profound well wishes
for his future success and prosperity.
LULA I'll. BEALL, Pres.
ELLA d. STANfIELD, Sec'ty.
The Lexington advertiser., 1908-11-20

A party of newspaper men recently
made trip through the northwest.
, Asked about the scenery and the at
tractive things seen en- route. the lead
er OF the party--a well known writer
replied THE pr, ttiest thing saw
en- route was hand of four kings ALI
inine--just before we reached Winni-
pegi"
W. K. Gwin, of Tchula, transacted
business at Memphis the fore part .oE
the week
On Saturday. November IA, the Lex
ington compress books showed 8646
bales as the total receipts for th is
year. On same date last year the fig
ures were 10, Ola, difference of 1863
bales in favor of last year.
W. l. Pickens visited Ki Harrington.
near Goodman. Sunday
j. W. Burwell, of Ebenezar, sent up
liberal amount of cotton to this mar
ket Saturday
Eric Norquist returned Wednesday
from trip to Memphis and st. Louis.
where he purchased stock of goods
for his store which he win shortly
open.
B. Dickey has resigned bis position
with the j. Nj. Alexander Drug Com
pany, at Tchula, to take job ia
drug store at Yazoo City.
Otho Brown made Tchula business
visit Monday.
The Lexington advertiser., 1908-11-20
He Fought al Gettysburg.

David Parker, of Fayette, N. Y,
who lost foot at Gettysburg, writes
Electric Bitters have done me more
good than any medicine / ever took.
For several years had stomach trou.
BILE, and paid out much money for med.
iciDe to little purpose, until / began
taking Electric Bitters. / would NOS
take $500 for what they have done for
me-. Grand tonic for the aged and
for female weaknesses. Great alterna-
tive and body builder: sure cure for
lame back and weak kidneys. Qua
ranteed by b. s. Beail and Swinney 81
Stigler, druggists. soc.
The Lexington advertiser., 1908-11-20
ELLA D. STANFIELD, Sec'ty.

At regular meeting Of the B. g
Humphreys Chapter, u D. c., among
other business transacted, on motion 1t
was resolved.
That the thanks of the chapter and
the individual members be extended
to the Advertiser PublishingC Company,
the force of the Lexington Advertiser,
and in especial to the manager, Mr..
R. A. Povall, for the untiring, gener-
GUS and asle assistance rendered by
each and all of them to the chapter at
all times, but particularly towards
raising the fund for the monument to
the Confederate soldiers of Holmes
county. LULA H. BEALL, Pres.
ELLA D. STANFIELD D, Sect'y.