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The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-06-09
THE CIRCUIT COURT.
A Few Civil Cases Disposed Of Since the
Leaders Last Report.

The Circuit Court OF Lincoln
county Monday morning entered
upon the fourth week of the May
term. by a resumption of work on
the civil docket. The mopping up
of water, wiping the smoot off the
furniture and spreading dry cotton
bagging on the floor of the court
room on account of the fire and
work of the firemen that morning
before daylight, delayed the open
ing of court one hour, and then
all was in readiness to proceed.
The following Juries wee empan-
eled for the week:
Jury No. IF. A. Cameron,
w. C. Douglass, Ira Hall, Hiram
East, j. j. Entrican, w. l.. Smith,
D.. S. Sutton, j. j. Osteen, w. E.
King, Burt Calcote. W. B. Hobbs,
j. w. Montgomery.
Jury No. Nv. M. May, F.
A. Girault, S. F. Richie, Isaac
May, P. 0. Linton, R. L. Davis,
L. C. Smith, W. R. Townsend. Ell
bert Lard, David Smith, j. w.
May, Jr., Henry Williams.
Since The Leaders, last report
the following civil cases have been
disposed OF:
J. J. Dickey VS.. Illinois Central
r. r. Co.-Jury and verdict for
plaintiff for $40 and costs.
Hebron Bank VS.. j. j. Strip
pling and Foster Bros. Jury and
verdict for plaintiff against Fos-
ter Bros. for $50 and costs.
7. H. Perkins Furniture Co, VS..
M. L. Guess. Jury and verdict
for plaintiff for $72.10 and adjudg-
ing certain property subject to a
lien.
David Smith VS.. F. F. Punches.
Compromised and dismissed at
cost of defendant and his sureties.
]. Lindsay Wells Co. VS.. R. L.
Davis. Jury and verdict in fav-
or of plaintiff for $248.68.
Jodle Anderson, minor, by next
friend, etc., VS.. Illinois Central
R. R. Co.-Jury and verdict for
plaintiff for $3.50 and costs.
M. L. Tyler VS.. Illinois Central
Railroad Co.-Jury and verdict
for plaintiff for $50 and costs.
Sam Thompson VS.. Illinois Cen
tral R. R. Co.-Jury and verdict
for plaintiff for $45 and costs.
Lizzie Black VS.. I. S. MITCHELL
Jury and verdict for defendant.
j. P. Buochillon VS.. l. C. R. R.
Co.-Jury and verdict for plaintiff
for 500 and costs.
G. A. Kerl VS.. L. P. Brister.
Jury and verdict for defendant.
Abney Furniture Co. VS.. H. l..
Watts. = Jury and verdict for
plaintiff for $65.91 and ordering
certain furniture redelivered to
the sheriff.
w. W. White VS.. A. Penning. =
Order continuing case and taxing
plaintiff with Gusts up to date.
l.. j. Laird VS.. Phyllis Jordan
ct al. Jury and verdict for the
possession of certain lands.
Henry Sibley VS.. Henry ToIer.-
Appeal of defendant dismissed for
want of prosecution.
j. P. Carruth & Sons VS.. T. D..
Lewis. = Jury and verdict for
plaintiff for thirty cents and court
costs.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-06-09
A SUNDAY HORROR.
Several Girls and Children Drowned at
Vaudeville. La.

Vaudeville, La, June EARLY
today it is stated that ten persons
lost their lives by the collapse of q
frail wharf here upon which about
sixty-fve persons rushed early yes
terday evening to board the excur-
sion steamer Margaret on the re-
turn trip to New Orleans. Early
today the search for the bodies of
seven other persons who are missing
and whom it is feared have been
lost was resumed.
The dead so far as now known
are:
Miss Lizzie Lott, Is years of age.
Miss Laura Ray, 18.
Miss Marie Gotten, 18.
Miss Kathleen GOTTEN, 20.
Miss Eugene Pabst. 13.
Alice Bonna Chopin.
Mrs. Eberhardt and child.
Mrs. Chas. Bruno and child.
All of them are residents OF New
Orleans.
The Margaret did not land at
the wharf at which she is accus-
toned to tie up. Intsead, she ran
into a dock built especially for
skiffs and small craft. This small
wharf was pulled by the steamers
ropes entirely away from the main
pier, and some seventy people went
into the lake in about eight feet of
water.
|, The cries and shrieks Of those
Hprecipitated into the lake were
heard all over this place, and many
men rushed to the wharf to join in
the heroic work Of rescue which
had begun. The officers and crew
|of the Margaret did excellent work
by throwing life preservers, and
some of them going into the wa
ter.
The bodies were all taken to
New Orleans last night on the
Margaret.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-06-09
Beware Of the Mail Order Habit.

An employe Of an Illinois paper
who during the past four years has
worked on the making OF catalogues
for the city mail order houses, is
authority for the statement that
there has been a systematic and
steady increase in the price Of arti-
cIes each year. This, he says, is
made possible BY the patrons of
mail order houses getting the
habit and keeping blindly on.
never noticing the advance. Get
down your catalogue and see for
yourself whether or not this is
true.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-06-09

Mrs. Mary Z. Brinson and chill
dren, Of Monticello. passed through
Brookhaven Monday en- route to-
Memphis for a short visit with rel
atives during the Confederate Re-
union.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-06-09

Don't be sensitive. but let
everybody treat everybody else with
due courtesy and respect.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-06-09


In
advertised
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The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-06-09

The teachers have come to town.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-06-09

We days buying ND fresh clean
stock Of Towels that will offer breaking
ToWesale Nothing but stock offered every value
IF YOU MISS OUR SALE ON ONE OF THESE DAYS, you
WILL REGRET 1T AS LONG AS YOU LIVE
NOW KINDLY REMEMBER There money in giving
this clearly
stock offered and then consider the be
positively understood of
stock these two days subject
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
CANDIDATES MAY SECURE
NOMINATING PETITIONS
City Attorney Has Documents Ready
for Those Who Desire Public
Place This Fall

City Attorney Hewitt will have the
petitions for candidates for city offices
under the new primary election law
ready by this afternoon, and those can
didates who have announced them
selves as seeking office may get them
and begin their canvass for signatures
The city attorney holds that the sixty
or eighty days clause in the charter
amendment means sixty or eighty days
before the general election and not be-
fore the primary nominating election.
This clause reads that candidates petit
tions must be filed with the city clerk
not earlier than eighty days nor later
than sixty days before the election, and
the nominating primaries must be held
not earlier than five weeks nor later
than three weeks before this election.
On one point in the law Mr.. Hewitt
had not made up his mind yesterday.
This is the clause that prohibits one
person from signing the petition of more
than one candidate for office. The
hitch comes in the matter of the coun-
ell. There are nine councilmen but re-
allv one office. Whether a voter can
sign for nine councilmen or only one is
a question.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
FREE SPENDERS IN JAIL;
SUSPECTED OF ROBBERY
William White and w. r. Stockwe II,
Arrested In Cheyenne, Tell Strange
Story of Coin Found in Cellar

CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 22.-The
lavish expenditure of money for cham
pagne by William White and w. K
Stockwell of Rock Creek led to the ar
rest of the two men at Laramie today
and the recovery of a large sum OF
money, believed by officers to have
been secured by bandits several years
ago in a Union Pacific train robbery al
Wilcox.
The arrest followed a spree, dur
ing which the two men spent S445 fol
wine while later depositing $4,000 in q
Laramie bank. White claimed he
found the money in a glass jar buried
in the cellar of William Taylor's resi-.
dence. All the money is gold coin and
bears dates many years back.
White will fight the charge of grand
larceny, claiming that Taylor knew
nothing of the money and that it was a
legitimate find. Taylor states that his
wife brought the money from Denver, a
few days ago and buried it in the
cellar.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
BASKET or EGGS TOO
RAWFOR HIGHWAYMAN
ONE SCREAM AND HEN FRUIT
SAVED c. E. MILLER
w. A. Wood, a Whittier Inmate, Tells
How He and His Comrades
Were Scared by In-
tended Victim

A scream and a dozen Of eggs saved
Charles r. Miller from being robbed,
according to the story told in Judge
Willis court yesterday by w. A. Wood,
an inmate of the Whittier state school,
during the trial of Del lie Roy Kohler
and A. J. Williams on charge of
holding up Miller, April 28.
Wood, who was sent to Whittier by
the juvenile court several weeks ago
after pleading guilty to the robbery,
took upon himself the whole respon-
sibility for the crime. Kohler and VIII
liams, he told the jury, hid in the long
grass by the roadside While he held
Miller up with a revolver.
did you get any money!" asked
Harry Dehm, attorney for the two de-
PENDANTS.
mo" replied the witness. MILLER
screamed and struck me on the head
with a bag of eggs. Then the three
of us ran away. l thought he had
knocked out my brains"
The jury returned a verdict in fifteen
minutes acquitting Kohler and VIII
Iiams of any completely in the holdup.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
WILL BUILD DRAIN
THROUGH BIG TRACT
Moot Question That Has Caused
Much Trouble for Public
Works Board Is
Settled

BY a resolution passed by the city
council yesterday the long standing
Metz tract matter is to be settled. Inc
resolution instructed the city engineer
to prepare an ordinance and plans ana
specifications for a storm drain to run
through the Metz tract. The proper
ty owners in this tract will be COM
PEELED to pay for the drain.
This resolution was made necessary
by reason of the fact that the court re-
fused to dissolve an injunction re-
straining the city from opening cul-
vert through Marmion way until some
provision was made to take care of the
storm water.
The question of this storm water has
been thorn in the flesh of the board
of public works for several years.
When Pasadena avenue was improved
a natural water course was stopped
up and no provision made for carrying
storm water from the northeastern
part Of the city to the Arroyo Seco into
which it had flowed before the i'm
provement. Acting on the theory that
no more water would flow down on
what is known as the Metz tract, the
property was sold in lots and Is now
we'll built up with homes.
Would InJure Homes
But property owners in Garvanza
began to complain of the waters inn
pounded in the Garvanza arroyo and
a number threatened suits for dam
ages against the city. The city attor-
ney held they had a right to demand
damages and said something must be
done to relieve the situation
He advised that the board had a
right to open a culvert under Marmion
way and permit the water to follow
it's natural channel. When the board
made an effort to do this the property
owners in the Metz tract secured an
injunction against the city and the in
junction stands today. The city at
torney said yesterday the court was
not willing these people who had built
their little homes in good faith should
be damaged and that some provision
must be made to care for the water.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
BLAMES MURDER OF
WIFE TO LIQUORS
NEGRO WHO KILLED WOMAN
GIVEN 20 YEARS
HEAVY Sentence for Man Who, While
crazed with Drink, Shot
and Cut His Spouse,
Staying Her

MIXED drinks" according to the
statements of Judge Render, a negro
were responsible for his act In killing
his wife. Mary Render and an attempt
to take his own life February 20. Rem
der was in Judge Davis court yester-
day to be sentenced after pleading
guilty TO second degree murder After
listening to his story and the testimony
of several other witnesses, the court
imposed a sentence of twenty years In
Folsom penitentiary.
Render said his wife told him the day
before he shot her that she was tired
of him and wanted to become a sport.
The following day Doc Barnett,
friend. visited the Render home, bring
ing with him a quart bottle of whisky
When this was consumed by the trio
another friend Joined the circle with a
half gallon of beer
Render then purchased some more
whisky. and when this disappeared
everything was in readiness for trouble
1t began when Mrs. Render repeated
what she had said the day before, and
in a scuffle between Render and his
wife for the possession of a revolver
the weapon was discharged, the bullet
entering the woman's body.
This was followed by number OF
other shots, and while his wife lay
dying Render drew a sharp knife and
siashed his throat.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
Ache
and DiarrhGa

Eating green vegetables and
unripe fruit, sudden changes i'll
weather, excessive heat, gulping
down iced drinks, etc, cause
stomach ache, cramps and dysen-
terry. This causes a great deal of
discomfort and suffering, and
sometimes death.
In any case of this kind you
will find Duffy's Pure Malt Whis-
key sure and quick remedy. A
teaspoonful in half glass of milk
every hour will bring instant
relief.
Mrs. Freeman Vigorous at ia
In an interview with Mrs.
Campbell, who lives at Red Bank,
Pa, and who is the daughter OF
Mrs. Freeman Ola years of age),
she stated: "My mother has been
using Duffy's Pure Malt WhislSey
and is anxious to have me tell
you that she felt its strengthen
ing effects at once. We know
that it has done her a great deal
of good. She is ia years of age
and needs something to sustain
her strength She thinks it is a
great stimulant, and no old per-
son should be without it. !, my
self, know what she says abohs
your medicine is the truth.
1t kills the disease germs and
keeps the system in a normal,
healthy condition. 1t keeps the
old young, the young strong; 1t
is Invaluable as tonic for over
worked men, delicate women, and
sickly children. Duffy's Pure
Malt Whiskey is an absolutely
pure distillation of matted grain;
great care being used to have
every kernel thoroughly matted,
thus producing a liquid food re
quiring no digestion, i'll the form
of pharmaceutical whiskey,
which is one of the most effective
tonic stimulants and invigorators
known to science; its palatability
and freedom from injurious sub
stances render it so that it can he
retained by the most sensitive
stomach.
If weak and run down, take a
teaspoonful four times a day in
half a glass of milk or water.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
News OF the Courts
CATTLE MAN HELD
ON FORGERY CHARGE
BANKER COMPLAINS BENSON
PASSED BAD CHECK
Stockman, Well Known in Western
States, Arrested by Deputy
on Allegations of Serious
Nature

William S. Benson, a popular figure
along the Rialto and well known In
cattle circles in California, Arizona and
other western states, was arrested by
Deputy Sheriff Wright yesterday on a
charge of forgery.
The complaint, which was filed in
Justice Summerfield's court, was sworn
to by ]. E. Fishburn, president Of the
National Bank of California, and ac-
cuses Benson of forging the name of
Felix Mayhem to a check for $3.50 March
15 The check was cashed by the bank
on that date. Mayhem, who is a
wealthy cattleman, is said to have re-
fused to honor the check, stating that
while Benson was employed by him he
had no authority to sign his name.
Benson was arrested before Justice
Summerfield and his preliminary exam-
nation was set for Friday. He was
unable to furnish $4,000 bonds and is in
the county Jail
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
MAY INITIATE A
GAMBLING LAW
CHURCH FEDERATION TAKES
STAND ON GAMING
DICE THROWING is CONDEMNED
IN STRONG TERMS
Ministers Organization Makes Charges
Against Certain Councilmen
and May Invoke ln-
ltlatiVe Provision

The initiative provision of the city
charter may be invoked to repeal the
dice shaking ordinance, which Coun'
Gilman Wallace declares to be shame
and a disgrace to the statute books ol
the city of Los Angeles.
After the action OIL the council Tues'
day in refusing to grant the request o.
the police commission that the dice
shaking ordinance be repealed because
it makes gambling in other forms easy
and makes the detection of gambling
most difficult, a number of persons IN
terested in the cause of good govern
ment have been agitating the initla'
tive.
While the church federation has
taken no direct action in the matter
of invoking the initiative it has adopt
ed strong resolutions. These resolu'
tions follow:
When the amendment to the city
anti-gambling ordinance legaliZlng
the throwing of dice for merchan-
disc at cigar stands was ADOPTED,
the Church Federation of Los An
geles, by a written communica-
ton, protested against said amend
ment and demanded it's repeal.
The same organization has, upon
several occasions since that date,
made similar demands upon the
city council. This action of the
city council legalizing gambling in
the city has been denounced by the
newspapers of the city almost with
out exception. The police commis-
mission of the city has demanded
of said council a repeal OF said
amendment, pointing out to them
that said amendment made it very
difficult to enforce any laws with
reference to gambling at cigar
stands. All of these requests and
demands have been ignored and the
only member of the council VINO
formerly voted for the amendment
who has indicated any penitence,
is President Niles Pease.
On July 20, at a regular session
of the city council. another demand
of the police commission requesting
the repeal of said amendment was
presented by a member of said po-
lice commission, and said request
was refused by the votes of the fol-
lowing members of said council:
Messrs Blanchard, Clampitt, Hea-
lev, Dromgold, Lyon and Yonkin.
The action of said members of
the council indicates that they are
not actuated by desire to serve
the public, but are influenced by
private and sinister motives, and
said action indicates that they are
unworthy of public trust and conf
dence, and but for the fact that
their terms of office will shortly eX-
pire, they ought to be recalled as
unworthy trustees; therefore,
Be 1t resolved, by the Federation
club of Los Angeles that we de-
nounce the action of said members
of the city council of Los Angeles
in fostering gambling within the
city and denying the reasonable re-
quest of the police commission of
said city to repeal the amendment
to said gambling ordinance.
Be it further resolved, That we
commend Messrs. Pease. and Wal
lace for their support of the re-
quest of the police commission.
Resolved further, That copy of
this statement and these resolutions
be forwarded to the city council
and furnished to the newspapers OF
the city for publication.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
CONTRACT AWARDED FOR
FIRE ENGINE BUILDING

The board of fire commissioners yes
terday recommended that the board of
public works let the contract for the
Hewitt street engine house to Myers
& Condor. This firm was the lowest
bidder, offering to do the work for
1,316.
This is only one of several fire en-
CINE houses that are to be constructed
during the present fiscal year, but how
many more and where they will be To-
Gated is a question pu2zling both the
city council and the fire commission.
A number of engine house sites have
been purchased, some at a very high
figure, and it will be impossible to build
on all of them.
The budget committee Of the council
must wrestle with this question among
other knotty problems it will have to
solve.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
VOLUNTEERS WANT MORE
FIRE HOSE FOR DISTRICT

The College Tract Improvement as
sociation Yesterday asked the fire COM
mission for an additional 500 feet Of
hose. The property owners of this
tract, which is in the southwestern
part of the city, maintain a volunteer
fire department.
They were given 500 feet Of hose Of
the fire department several months ago.
They then asked for reel on which
to wind the hose. The reel was added
to their equipment and yesterday they
declared there were sctions of their dis
trict they could not protect without an
additional 500 feet of hose.
This last request was filed by the
commission because in the last month
new engine company, with thousand
feet of hose has been established In
this district and the volunteer depart
ment may no longer be needed.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23

Rev. Mr.. Dixon is pastor of the
Moody church in Chicago, and is one
of the prominent evangelists of the
Baptist denomination. He is a brother
to T. Dixon, the well known novelist.
Dr. Dixon has held important pastor
ates in both Boston and New York
before taking up the work of the
Moody church in Chicago.
Rev. George Gates will give a lee
ture at the assembly next Tuesday
evening on Achievements of Democ-
racy in the Antipodes." He has re-
Gently returned from Australia where
he paid an extensive visit and his
lecture is looked forward to as one of
the most interesting of the series.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
COLLECTOR FOR PRODUCE
MERCHANT UNDER ARREST
Charged with Msappropriating $82.99
Belonging to His Employers Young
Man Is Hailed to Court

William Foerbera, a collector for the
Allaway & Layton company, produce
merchants, was arrested by Deputy
Constable : Milllauschutz yesterday
charged with misappropriating $S2.89
belonging to his employers.
He was arraigned before Justice Sum
merfeld and released on bond of
$500, to appear August for prelim-
mary examination.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
Blu Run of Salmon

SEATTLE, July 22.-The sockeye
salmon run which has been so unsatis-
factory recently that Gamers were be-
ginning to feel alarmed has set in with
a vigor that encourages belief that the
experts who predicted prodigious run
would be justified. The big runs come
at four-year intervals, and tugs scout
ing in the Strait of Fuca report the
fish are coming up from the ocean in
millions
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
CORPORATION TAX GOOD,
SAYS N0RGANS PARTNER
Business Associate OF Banker J. Pier
pont at Cordova, Alaska, After
Trip of Mining Inspection

CORDOVA. Alaska, July 22-George
w. Perkins, who is closely associated
with j. p. Morgan, and who brought
a party of eastern capitalists to Alaska
on the private yacht Yucatan 10 in
spect the Morgan -Guggenheim inter-
ests here, declared himself in favor Of
the proposed corporation tax in an
interview here today.
Mr. Perkins and his party have
returned from their inspection trip
over the Copper River & Northwestern
railroad now under course Of con-
struction He said it will be COM
pleted into the interior by next
year
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
ACCUSED MANS PARTNER
PLEADS FOR LENIENCY
Young Attorney, Who Is Alleged to
Have Broken Parole, Is Repre-
sented by Associate

Attorney Frank F. Pratt delivered a
touching appeal for leniency in behalf
of his business associate, stephen Sui
nvan, when the latter appeared before
Judge Wilbur yesterday on a charge OF
violating his probation by drinking and
issuing fictitious checks.
Mr.. Pratt offered to assume the re-
sponsibility for all checks which were
signed by the legal firms name,
and pleaded with the court to give Sui
Iivan another chance to redeem himself.
Judge Wilbur remanded Sullivan to
tho county Jail until decision is rem
del ed.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
Don Carlos Buried

VAREZ, Lombardy July 22.-The fu-
neral of Don Carlos of Bourbon, the
pretender to the Spanish throne, who
died here July 18, was held today in
the church at Casbeno with imposing
ceremonies. The body was shipped to
Trueste, where it will be buried.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
RESIDENCE DISTRICT LAW
CAUSES INCONVENIENCE

The new ordinance, making the en-
tire city a residence district, except
those portions that have been pre-
Viously designated as industrial dis
tricts, has created trouble in several
sections.
One man complained to Mayor Alex
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23

nLANS are being completed for one
of the most interesting Baptist as
Il sembues ever held in Southern
California, to open in Long Beach next
Sunday.
David p Ward is the president of
the assembly and will preside. There
will be large number of prominent
speakers including Revs. A. c. Dixon,
Chicago; Charles H. Dodd, Baltimore;
Arthur S. Phelps, Los Angeles; S. M.
Bowling, Pasadena; ]. H. Garnett,
Santa Ana; George Gates, formerly
president of Pomona college; Albert
Hatcher Smith, Pasadena, and w. C.
Cook of Clovis.