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The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-25
Poineer Citizen of Texarkana Dead.

MT. c. c. Staiti received tele- gram last night at 8:3O o'clock from New Orleans saying that MT. c. B. Hayden's condition was not improved but that he was slowly growing weaker.
 This morning about 9 o'clock another message was received by Mir. Staiti announcing that Mir. Haydon was dead. At just what time the patient breathed his last was not stated but it was at an early hour this morning.
 Mrs. Haydon had reached her husbands bedside couple of days ag go and with their son Har- ry wasspresent when the final summons came.
 While not unexpected, the death of Mir. Haydon is a great shock to the community where he has so long been resident and~where his splendid worth as man and a citizen are so well understood and appreciated.
 AS will be remembered Mir. Haydon, while bathing in the surf at Pass Christian, Miss, on Tuesday last, in making a dive in what proved to be shallow water (only four feet deep) struck his head against some hard sub stance, badly fracturing his skull at the base of the brain and ren, dering him at once unconscious from which condition he never fully rallied. He was given sur gical attention immediately and that afternoon was hurried to New Orleans, where an opera. tion was performed 6 few hours later as last hope for saving his life, but all to no avail. The Grim Reaper had marked him for his own. His time had come.
 Mr, Haydon was a poineer set tier of Texarkana having come here in 1880 from Shelbyville, H., and he has resided here contin- uOuSly ever since with the ex- ception of about two years spent in Little Rock. He has been en- gagged at different times in the lumber and mercantile lines and in the former he is widely known. His large dry goods store on East Broad street (one of the largest in the city) was de- stroyed by fire a few months ago, since which he has devoted his time and attention to his lum- Der interests.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-25
DISAGREEABLE AT HOME

Lots of men and women who are agreeable with others, get cranky at home. It's not disposi- tion, it's the liver. If you find in yourself, you feel cross around the house little things worry you just buy a bottle of BalNrd's Heroine and put your liver in shape. You and everybody around you will feel better for it.
 Price 50 cents per bottle Sod by Hesterly Drug Store.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-25
For Sale

Horse, buggy and harness. 1-Three-piece bed room suit. 1-Kitchen Cabinet.
 Flight foot pedestal eXten- sion table.
 Apply to A. w. Newth at Pho tograph Gallery.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
THE USEFUL PIG.

Thrift is not generally supposed to
be among the qualities Of the negro.
A writer in the Philadelphia Public
Ledger, however, tells story OF a
colored woman who should be an ex-
ample to her race. She was an ex-
tremely black African, and was being
examined at conference at Tuskegee.
do the people in your community
own homesy' came the query from Mr..
Booker Washington.
Il thinks they's fixing to own EN-,
sah"
But do they own themY
"A heap Of times you can't just tell.
sab. But they's holding 'em down."
do you own your home?"
Eyes, sab, d." proudly. "And /
can tell you jest how 1 got it. !
snapped a puppy-dog for it,
Tell us about it."
"Well, it was this way. When l
started, 1 didn't have anything at all
but jest little yaller puppy dog.
Il took the dog over to my brother
in-law's. He had eight little bits of
pigs, oh, jest so little; an l swapped
the puppy with him for one of the
pigs.
''It was sech a little pig that It
didn't look like it would live, but I
nursed it good, and l prayed to the
Lord to make that little pig come for
ard to do me good, and the pig lived
and grew.
1.-THE first year l turned her out, and
when she came back in the fall she
brought me seven little pigs with her.
THAT was my start. I've never had
to buy any meat since. This winter
I've killed three hogs. and I've got an
other at home now ready to kill.
1--WE got forty acres Of land now.
all paid for, and house, and it all
come from that one little puppy"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13

with huge and attentive audiences. It
matters not whether You go to the Isl
and gardens set in the midst of the
dreary slums of Poplar, or to the
Green Park within hail of Piccadilly.
you will notice the same outstanding
features-the great size Of the audi
ence, Its good behavior and its keen
appreciation of the music.
OF course the music is carefully ar.
ranged to suit the taste of the people
OF the neighborhood. The band that
plays in the Embankment gardens or
the Green park would not play the
same music as that which Is given to
the people of the Poplar. But from
the outset the county council has
never lost sight of the educative side
OF these concerts. In Its contracts
with the various bands engaged it is
always stipulated that a draft pro-
gram OF the music to be performed
must be sent to Dr. ArmDruster. the
councils musical adviser, who has
power to alter or revise it, as seems
good to him. Year by year he finds It
possible to lift the character of the
program little higher in every dis
trict, and to do 1t without in any way
decreasing the popularity Of the en-
tertainment or driving away those PEG
pie for whom It was originally intend
ed.
Al : general rule no two pieces By
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13

Train Schedule of a Certain South.
ern Railroad Beaten by Hog.
"For several years l have been a
commuter on the Erie said the sun
burned man. according to the New
York Herald, land l have Joined in
the general raillery at the expense Of
| that unique system. But never again.
have just come from Florida, where
they have railroads compared with
which the Erie is the personifcation
Of rapid transit. If you get off the
main line of travel in Florida you are
up against it good and plenty.
81 wanted to 60 from Tampa over
to the east coast, and part Of the it.
:nerary took in a branch road from
Orange City Junction to New Smyrna.
The distance is twenty-seven miles.
You leave Orange City Junction at
:35 D. M, and if the train Is ON time
it gets you to New Smyrna at 7:15.
Only two hours and forty-seven min
utes to come twenty-seven miles
That's all. Two trains a day are op-
Grated over this road-combinatio
passenger and freight trains.
There used to be an engineer
named Bill Rogers who ran this after
noon train: He is dead. now. I'M
derstand the strenuous life was too
much for him. Bill used to be greatly
annoyed by the razorback hogs that
roam at large through the country,
branded just like cattle. There was
one hog in particular that gave Bill
lot of trouble. Every evening he
could be found lying comfortably be-
tween the rails at a point about two
miles outside of New Smyrna, and
Bill would have to climb down from
his cab and pry the hog off with
crowbar. You can kill negro down
In that country and nothing is thought
Of it, but you mustn't kill a hog. If
you do, you are liable to go to Jail.
"Well. Bill had a crouch on one
day, and when he saw the hog stretch
ed out in the usual wallow he deter
mined to defy the law. SO, instead Of
stopping to pry the hog Off the track.
he opened up his throttle and started
for the obstruction at full speed. Just
as the engine was almost upon him
the hog seemed to realize that some
thing was wrong. Not waiting for the
usual assistance, he got up, shook
himself, and started down the track
ahead of the engine And l have the
assurance of at least a dozen respecta-
BILE witnesses that the hog beat the
train into New Smyrna station by
| fraction over three minutes -
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13

OF the ground already has been pur-
chased and the remainder is under
option. The building will be known
as The Amphitheater and will have a
seating capacity, exclusive of the
arena, of $4,000. Including the arena
space there will be roof for seating
more than $4,000 persons. The build
ing can be used not only for conven-
lions, but also for large spectacular
productions and exhibitions.
The amphitheater will be 600 feet
long, $40 feet wide and 100 feet high.
It's length will be practically the same
as that of the noted Roman amphithe-
alter. 1t will be of steel and cement
construction and will have an exhibit
space of more than 100000 square feet.
Five tiers Of seats will surround the
arena.
In addition to this building, plans
have been made for another across the
way, to be used for exhibits of manu-
featured goods throughout the year.
This structure will extend from Michi-
gan avenue to Wabash avenue on Thir-
ty-ninth street. It will be five stories,
$50 feet long and 80 feet wide. It
will contain 125,00O feet of floor space
and will be connected with the amphi-
theater by subway and also bridge.
The cost Of the site and both build
ings will be $3,000,000. the outlay for
the ground alone to be 100000.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13

noyance Is worth. Window screens and w,r. .
doors are inexpensive fixtures and why any housss'
should be content to be without them passes comn.
sion. 1t Is mistake to delay installing these es
agencies of protection for health and comfort rn.u
weather Is reached The flies of May are inst a ,, NV
and just dangerous as those of July. Once In n.
house. their expulsion is difhcut They find n,. s
feed upon and just much at home in thu vrts
pail az in the sugar bowl.
house free from files and mosquitoes Is tho o,,u
home in which approximation to comfortable 1vn =,
possible 1t u.s. however. the only home in which ~.
and health as well safeguarded prudence demands
DIR. ]. c. Bayles in New York American
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
I could find words Barbara was speak.

l could find words Barbara was speak
ing.
"If there is one thing I particularly
dislike" she said, lit is curiosity. II
you must know, we came out here to hunt
sand-snipe, and we're just about to be-
gin. That's all you may 60 now and
she waved her hand towards the pines.
The men were clearly surprised. They
were more so when they saw the girl
calmly sit down on the sand. motion me to
do likewise, and proceed to load one of the
revolvers Shortly after, they withdrew,
whispering to each other.
In order to disarm suspicion. we sat
there some time, and l built miniature
sand Notifications in order to teach Bar
bara the art of war.
II wonder if l can learn to shoot?'
she said presently. ''If l meet many more
like those, shall be tempted to try"
1 handed her loaded pistol. Aim at
that rock out there" l said. pointing at
one showing above the water.
She took aim, did not close her eyes,
pulled the trigger. The report, sharp and
clear, cut the silence of the beach like a
knife. We saw the water splash where
the bullet entered. A frightened gull
screamed loudly away.
The little puff of smoke faded; all was
still again.
Barbara looked at the revolver, then at
me. Her lips were smiling, but her eyes
were deep with excitement.
1.-The war has begun" l said. "That
shot was to let the world know that Alas
tair is armed"
ITO be continued.)
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
LONDON BARS NEGRO TUNES.
Free Concerts In the Parks Con-
stantly Improving in Quality.

Free Concerts In the Parks Con-
stantly Improving in Quality.
Throughout the summer the London
county council will have bands playing
in the evening in more than fifty of
the parks, open places and recreation
grounds under its control. For this
purpose a sum Of f12,500 has been
voted, an increase of $500 over last
summer; and a free open air concert
will be given on two or three evenings
week in each of the selected dis
tricts, London correspondent of the
New York Sun says.
1t would be impossible to exagger
ate the popularity of these county
council bands. On every concert night
the parks and gardens are crowded
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13

the same composer are allowed on
any program and dance music must
not be included in any program to Do
played on Sunday. In certain specf
fed places of the superior residential
class, such as Battersea park and
Chaplain common, one-half of the con-
cert programs must be entirely free
from barn dances, cake walks, hack
neyed national fantasies and SINH
lar pieces" and only one such piece
will be allowed in any one program al
other places.
This year the county council mas
started an index expurgatorius. Some
pieces are banned entirely. No longer
may any band engaged by the councn
play the "Suwanee River" or Happy
Days in Dixie" and way Down III
Tennessee" will never again earn coun
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
HUGE HALL Is PLANNED.
Three Times Bigger Than Madison
Garden, Covering Blocks There.

Garden, Covering Blocks There.
The largest convention hall in the
country times larger than Mad
ison Square Garden in New York and
four times the size of the Chicago
Coliseum been planned for Chi
cago, according to an announcement
made by Harlow N. Higinbotham.
The building will be elliptical in
form and, with slight notifications,
will be a reproduction of the histor-
ical Flavian amphitheater in Rome.
The site for the structure is the full
block between Thirty-ninth and Forti-
eth streets and extending from Michi-
gan avenue to Wabash avenue. Part
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13

ty council money. The other pl'', !,
put on the black list are "CroSn
Honor" (Richards), Golden o' ,,..,.
(Hermann), "A Georgia Camp wv =,
Ing" "Gilderoy" (Bleger), "CroS'
Jerusalem" (Bleger), Life " "a
Troopship," Life on the Ocean' =.
Soldiers Life" "A Hunting 0' ~
(Bucalossi), water Melon fss w.,
"Darkies' Cake Walk" Tine oo'"
Hive" (Brepsant), 1.-THE Diau ON
(Harmann), Coon Band Confess
Ole Kentucky" "A Coon's ho'.Ds
"Darkies' Reyels,' "Dusky D'n'D
plantation Revelry."
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13

every year since the fire may be pardoned necessary
rehabiitate its public property but what of vote
than twothirds of the people of Cincinnati IN
a proposition to borrow s5,ooo,ooo to build hospital
and make street and sewer improvements? wisely
administered city old as Cincinnati ought to be able
buy most of these things with current revenues M
doubt the waste of a large proportion of the money
raised by taxation by spshod, If not corrupt city a
ministration makes 1t easier to shoulder the cost Of e.
traordtnary improvements of onto posterity than to
raise the levy a few mills when Improvements ara
needed The process of bond voting is going soma
cities rate that hints of the conscaon property
values in another generation unless it is curbed-Ne
braska State Journal.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13

day passed three men and girl struggling in the
ter-their canoe having been upset Neither would
stop to offer aid. A passenger cared little
whether the victims lived drowned that he yelled
tauntingly to them: We'll be back next week."
Fortunately people In other boats saw the plight Of
the drowning and reached them just in time
cue them exhausted and carry them to shore The
earth ought to be cursed with the presence Of
PAROLES humanity. and sooner or later they will
meet the fate they richly deserve-Des Moines Cay
ita1.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13

Taxicab an Ancient InVe .or.
Few persons imagine that 'n'
cab is an ancient Chinese 1nVen'' ...,ha
far eastern journal, "lOstasi' lion
Lloyd" proves by drawings .a..u.
from a famous collection, tne n
thu hae," that vehicles klnaleu o.rs
the taxicab existed in China ooO 18th
ago. The ''giligulicha" was n.'.1 IN 8
an instrument which sounaeu .oy.r,
drum every mile passed. NV. av,ded
the Chinese taxlmeter was pitt, ,.nrc.
with a compass, a desirable ~ sb1rs
when travelling In q country
routes are not indicated. !.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13

has recently confirmed the removal VI 'no ~ ~ ~
M. County for his failure to take precautions against
rnnching It was that he had timely warning OF
the affair but that made preparations to resist
and on the contrary, went home early justice o"p
eon in handing down the opinion said: III the law Is
right mob law is wrong and must be stopped II there
10 to he maintained the institution of government In
free country
Other Southern communities have awakened to the
evils that stalk the train of mob rule. The deln-
ouent sheriff of Nashville is threatened with court
punishment while Texas county has started proceed
ings against it's sheriff On the other hand sherfs who
do their duty beginning to find strong support In
the law-abidng majorties of their counties Mobs make
much noise and gather large crowds But 1t Is seldom
that they represent the real sentiment of the commune
ty Sheriff Pet of Pensacola, Fla, killed two men
and three otherspersonal friends they were
too-in his efforts to prevent the ynching OF negro
prisoner last July. In the following November his
course Endorsed by reelection with 1920 majority.
encouraging indication of growing respect for
the in the South that weak compaisant sheriffs
held responsible for nchings they might have
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
HANGING TOO GOOD.

HE cold-blooded and heartless CONTEMPT
which certain of the New York blood-suck.
ing rich have for their fellows makes one
feel at times that the scaffold or the cleo.
trio chair are too tame as agencies Of pun.
ishment The swell-headed occupants Of
tmo Launched ON North river thu otha.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
cuRrNa THE LYNCHINd HABIT.

NEW cure for the lynching habit Is no"
being tried out. It consists in holding the
sheriff responsible, and removing him from
oface when he fails to exercise due watch
fitness and care to prevent SESSIONS "
Judge Lynch's court within his ]urlsolc-
tion The Supreme Court OF Alabama
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13

by the agency of ies and psychologists reaching
the conclusion that great many other worms of
tagon and infection propagated In the same way
Even those upon whom statements of this kind, how
ever supported by scientific authority make little
or impression would shudder at the thought of eat
ing what the fly has walked and probed here and
there they could what the microscopic when
he looks for what he has left behind him. Elminat
ing the of specific danger it should not be
able to a rghtminded human being to have his food
polluted by the filth which the fly carries with him
There fouler thing in nature than the fly. The
carrion crow and the buzzard immaculate COM
pared with him.
To keep flies out of house involves very little
pense and no more trouble than the immunity from an
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
Overlooking POSTERITY

HE cities Of the United States confirm. >.
rush into debt without regard to tho hr.
den Of annual interest charges and anna.
emily without understanding that som.
day the principal must be paid in hard do,.
lars. An extension of the credit Of San
Francisco by several millions Of don.--
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13

II a mans blum does not N.raI
Il liable to ind himself ID -
position.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
THE MENACE OF THE FLY.

n single "f1yspeck," about the size of Pc
Rod used in punctuating an American ed
itorial article, as many as 5000 typhoid
bacilli have been found. Careful observa-
lions have established the fact that the
spread of typhoid fever in var time among
the troops in the field Is effected chiefly
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
WAS A TRIFLE SLOW.

(To be continued.)
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-08-05
HOUSE ADOPTS
The REPORT OF
The COMMITTEE
lBy Associated Press. J.

WASHINGTON, Aug. Garry
ing an aggregate appropriation OF
$1,10O,OOO, $666,OOO more than or
iginally reported, the conference re-
port on the urgency deficiency ap-
preparation bill was today adopted
by. the house. The opposition is
directed against the provisions re-
specting the establishment of a GUS
toms court, and providing for the
purchase of automobiles for the vice
president and the speaker. An at.
tempt to send the report back to
conference was defeated.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4-The con.
current resolution making correc'
tions in the leather schedule of the
tariff was reported to the senate
from the finance committee by Aid
rich today. 1t will be acted upor
after the conference report is dis
posed of.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-08-05
government
To SOON ISSUE
new pennies

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4.-The
Philadelphia mint will issue today
the new Lincoln pennies, which the
treasury department has caused to
be designed and struck off in honor
of the one hundredth anniversary of
the late presidents birth.
The head of Lincoln, which ap-
pears on the coin, was designed
from photograph in the possession
of Charles Eliot Norton. The face
is relaxed and smiling, the artist
having sought to reproduce particu-
larly Lincoln's expression when talk
ing to children.
The artist, Victor d. Brenner, is
81 years old and is a Russian who
came to this country as a boy and
sold matches in the street and stud
led art at night at Cooper Union.
He saved up enough money to
continue his studies in Paris and on
his return opened a studio.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-08-05
STATE RESTS IT'S CASE TN THE
THAW PROCEEDINGS
Attorney Takes the Stand in Behalf of the Man on
Trial to Prove to the World That He Is Sane
(Associat ed Press.N

WHITEPLAINS, 4The state rested in the Thaw =
devoves Harry and his attorney,
the testimony of the aens
that Thaw still
community if Char .
the last aenist called by the state He
B. Thaws original ad =
White Thaw's aid
the old mysteries sweeping
apparent vagae which Jerome dwet pers
important statement from the prisoners
the dropping of the law firm of Black
Gruber Boynge L. L. Deafeld and the
gamenet chief counsel for Thaw This
Gleasons) orders he d and wasn't due to
Trying clear the prisoner of another
Gleason presented report of the detectives re-
garding alleged Thaws life December "a
1908.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-08-05
JAP EDITOR
STABBED IN NECK
BY STRIKER

HONOLULU, Aug. 4.-Sometara
Sheba, editor of the Hawaii Shinpo,
Japanese newspaper which has op-
posed the course of the plantation
strikers, was attacked on the street
today and stabbed in the neck by
T. Mori, a Japanese delegate from
the island to convention of labor
ers from all the islands of the
Hawaiian group. Sheba was taken
to a hospital where it was found
that his wound was not serious.
Mori, who was arrested, confessed
that he committed the deed.
The attack caused the adjourn
ment of the trial of the Japanese
strikers accused of conspiracy and
on receipt of the news the Higher
Wage association hurriedly called a
meeting and passed resolutions dis
claiming responsibility for and re-
GREETING the act.
Mori, who committed the assault,
is the official interpreter of the cir
cult court of Mauri.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-08-05
HAS HARD time
TRYING TO MARRY
JAP AFFINITY

WALLA WALLA (Wash.), Aug.
AFTER obtaining a marriage IL
cense here this afternoon, Frank
Ishikue, a Japanese, aged 80, and
Miss Minnie Crockett, aged 80, a
white woman, both of Walla Walla,
were unable to find minister will
ing to perform the ceremony.
Refused in turn by at least six
teen clerymen in Walla Walla, the
local justice of the peace and Judge
Brents of the superior court, the
couple assert they will bring man,
damus proceedings against the su.
perior court judge to force him tc
perform the ceremony.