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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-07-23
ALL NATIONS
TO RIDE HERE
EoVEL AND ATTRACTIVE FEA.
TUBE FOR THE FALL FAIR
Mr.. WoLDRlDGE IN CHARGE

A b-sn new feature Of the Horse
/ Show and one that is sure to be even
more popular than its predecessor,
Will take place Wednesday night,
Sept 10 It will be known as the
Drive of All Nations and will take
the place of the musical ride which
has heretofore been perhaps the most
popular and attractive feature of the
entertainments. Each couple will be
dressed to represent some nation, and
j. is safe to say that the colors of all
the prominent nations when adjoining
Maury county's beauties, will be far
more splendid than when blended in
any 1&s OF blown by any wind. I'm
agine, or instance q couple repre-
senting our own country the gentle
man probably dressed as uncle Sam
and the lady as Miss Columbia. VIVA
could he more enhancing than some
twenty or more such couples drivins
the best horses ia the world and
Kopp's band playing Tor them.
OF course the contest will be in |
charge of Mr.. w. P Woodbridge. This
is hardly necessary I
as the fair management would hardly |
attempt such thing without Mr. VOL I
bridge as the leader and manager. I'm
Ter his guidance the musical ride grew
50 much in the estimation OF the peo-
lie that even such an innovation as
he Ride of All Nations will be less
Welcome to some because il necessi-
ates the abolition Of the musical ride
The fair management and ali those
however, are agreed that
his will be en- improvement, and it
rill in all probability be the greatest
lit since the Horse Show was started
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the past fifteen years. II was about
that long ago when the farm was pur-
chased by George Ramon for $4,000
The farm is accessible to town, is FER
tile and well watered and makes a
most desirable home. Mr.. Southall
will retain possession until the first
of the year Mr. VOORHEES, home is at
Napier, and il is not probable that he
will move here as he bought the place
more as an investment than with a
view of cultivating It.
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FRENCH AVIATOR
TAKES A PLUNGE
into THE CHANNEL
TRIED TO SAIL FROM DOVER TO
CALAIS BUT HAD TOUGH
LUCK.
PICKED UP By WAR VESSEL
Start Was Propitious But When at
Great Height Monster Bird Re.
fused to FIy-Welcomed Back to
Land With Kisses.

CALAIS, July 20.-Thinking that
Monday was a favorable day for a
trial trip in his aeroplane from Calais
to Dover, Hubert Latham, the great
French aviator, made an excellent
start, but after having gone fifteen
miles the motor failed to work and
the machine was carried down at a
rapid rate in the sea. Fortunately the
French torpedo boat destroyer Har-
pom was close at hand and rescued
Latham and saved his aeroplane from
!llin.
The start was made from the top of
cliff at Sangatte under the most ia
vOrable circumstances, Latham hav-
ing waited a week for good weather.
Latham spent the night in an old shed
Of the Tunnel Works at the foot of the
cliff, from which he made his start.
The monoplane was also housed here,
this being the best place in the vicini-
ty for the safe keeping Of the machine
As soon as the sun arose in the morn
ing Latham came out of his house and
clapped his hands with JOY at the
sight of the beautiful day. He made
the fight just after sunrise at a sig
nal from the torpedo boat destroyer. |
Latham was at great height when
the motor failed to work, and it was !
with difficulty that he kept his place |
in the machine when it began to de- i
scend rapidly.
While the monoplane was bein TAX
en- out and being pushed to the top of
he cliff a crowd of several thousand +
persons assembled to witness the
start, and the entire population of the
leighboring villages lined the shore
below. Latham was in high spirits
Is he carefully inspected every part
II the machine, and on making sever
i trials with the eight cylinder mo-
or, found the machine perfect. There
vas a wait Of an hour until the tor.
edo boats and tugs, strung out in a
inc toward the horizon, took up their
ositions. Finally all was in readi-
ess and the monoplane was pushed
ack two hundred yards from the
rest of the cliff, which has a precip-
Gus fal' of two hundred feet to the
"a.
Latham was clad in a knickerbock- :,
r suit and had donned a life preserv-
r. He showed no signs of nerves.
ess as he shook hands with his
lends and mounted the saddle.
Start the motor" he cried to his as
stants. and then with a nod Of the
Fad and. See you in Dover" threw
lie starting lever off, the machine
inning along the ground with In ~
eeasd momentum at every turn.
When the torpedo boat destroyer :,
ltered the harbor with Latham and !.
aboard the daring aviator :,
ceived a tremendous ovation. Dog =
S of times he was compelled to kiss :;
rls, who threw their arms around i
S neck.
NJ. Latham said the motor failed
out twelve miles out, and owing to =,
e slowing down of the engine he =
is unable to remain longer in the ;.
:. The aviator was neither injured
r discouraged and declared his IL
ltion of again trying to cross the :
annel.
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AND
BARN BURNED
SAM oAKLEY's RESIDENCE is DE.
sTRoYED AND BARN ON DR..
HAYES, FARM.

A cottage in South Columbia occu.
pied by Sam oakley was destroyed by
fire Tuesday night with part of the
household furniture The building
was the property of ]. r. Lamb, and
was insured for $500 with Hendley,
Frierson & Cochran.
A barn on the Dr. Hayes farm,
known until recently as the Kirk
Loftin farm, was destroyed by fire
Monday night The property had been
insured until recently but the policy
had expired.
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ORVILLE WRIGHT
CUTS FIGURE Fights
WHILE IN THE AIR
AVIATOR MAKES PHENOMENAL
FLIGHT AND BREAKS AMER
IcAN RECORD.
EXHIBITION At WASHINGTON
Thousands Witness Remarkable DEM
onstration of Skill and Prowess-
Machine Responded to Every Call
of Operator.

WASHINGTON, July 21.-In the
most wonderful flight of all he has at
tempted, during which he cut figure
| Fights, made short cuts more than 500
feet in diameter and assembled to diff
Iferent heights, Orville Wright Monday
broke al American aeroplane records
b. remaining IN the cir enc hour,
twenty minutes and forty-fve seconds.
At one time he was nearly 200 feet
above the ground This is higher
than he has ever been before, which is
saying that it is higher than any one
on this continent has ever been in an
aeroplane.
The 5 art was perfect and every
movement OF the machine throughout
the long fight was splendidly made,
although several times when Orvillle
was making sharp turns there was a
violent rocking of the aerial craft
which made the spectators gasp and
had Wilbur Wright looking anxiously
up.
Several thousand people turned out
to see the fight, and it is safe TO say
that net one left before it vas over,
the fnish lid not come until
after sundown Orvilla had to ma
neuvre a couple of times around the
feld before he had the machine in
Just the RICH position for safe land
ing.
Conditions were again perfect
The Eachine sped on through space
With unruf7ed serenity and cCmposure,
dipping down and uD as it made the
turns and found different currents OF
air end temperature. The circles Or
Vile made were large and quite uni.
'orm in the beginning, but every now
md then he would bring the machine
Town to a smaller course and would
'ush rapidly through the air without
going near the outer edges of Fort
Iyer drill ground which have hereto
ore marked the boundaries of his
lights. With each spectacular short
ircle there was applause from the
rowd as the machine Strengthened
nut on its course and went to the high
r levels Orville usually follows in
making his trials.
When forty minutes had passed peo-
lie hoped that he intended to beat
ilenn Curtiss' record of ffty-three
minutes, made last week. He did
eat it. The crowd got excited. The
lflexible Wilbur standing below, cas-
ally glancing at the machine, now
nd then, did not step into the field
nd signal Orville to come down be-
IRE he had passed his mark OF sew
lty-four minutes made last year
At the south end of the field there
a smokestack seventy-fiye feet high.
Y this people measured his distance
ON earth. Some guessed 600 feet and
e conservative ones said 400. VIII
If from the north end OF the field
luged it with his eye and piece Of
ood and said after the fight that
Re prett. nearly 800 feet up.
vile had gone around the field fifty
ur tines making great speed, some
nes at 9 guess, as much as forty
e miles an hour, when suddenly he
t his regular course and started 10
lneuver, His machine minded him
--~
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LOCKER CLUBS
~ APE HELD LEGAL
JUDGE HART RULES NJ FAVOR OF
THE susTERFUGE-LlkELY
TO FLOURISH.
Special TO The Herald:

Special 10 The Herald:
NASHVILLE. Tenn, July 21.-The
case against the Nashville saloonist,
NAo has opened a locker club, was
'"ned ont Of court by Criminal Judge
har. today, which means that the
locker system viii be allowed and
is likely to flourish in Nashville.
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ALBERT LAWSON IS
TAKEN FROM JAIL
AND HANGED TO TREE
PARIS MOB MAKES QUICK WORK
OF NEGRO WHO SHOT
SHERIFF.
THE LYNCHlNG PARTY SMALL
Black Was Found Asleep Under Cabin
and Surrendered On Promise Of
Protection-Nervy to the Very
End.

PARIS, Tenn, July 2O.-At o'clocl
Monday night a masked mob of q
men took the negro, Albert Lawson
who shot Sheriff Compton on Sunday
from the city prison and hanged him
to q tree in the yard just back of the
prison. 1t was the second attempt to
lynch the negro Monday.
The mob entered the prison and de-
manded the keys of the Marshal, JEFF
D. Phillips. Securing these they en-
tered the prison proper and opened
the cell with crowbar.
The negro retained his nerve to the
end but said not word from the time
the mob took him.
Lawson was captured this morn.
rg under q house in the eastern part
of town. He told a remarkable story
of his adventures since Sunday morn
ine when he shot the sheriff. The
rhy sicians think that Sheriff Comp.
ten has an excellent chance 10 re.
cover.
Soon after the shooting Sunday
morning, Lawson made his way to the
house of two negro friends, Frank and
Houston Duncan, about three miles
from here. These negroes gave him
pepper and onions to put on his feet
to throw the dogs off the trail. Prob
ably 700 people in a dozen or more
squads were in pursuit by Sunday af
ternoon.. Once a party came in about
City feet of him and fired about fifty
shots at him, but he dived into the
brush and managed to escape.
Sunday afternoon the Duncan ne
oroes were found by the mob and
swung TO tree until they bled at
The mouth and nose. They then con-
'essed that they had aided Lawson in
MS escape, and were arrested and |
lrought to Paris and put in jail
After leaving the Duncan house.
lawson stated that he travelled west
ward and northward, never being fur
her than three miles from the city.
Sunday night he entered the house of
negro and demanded supper.
While he was eating the negro sent
Or the mob and he narrowly escaped
aptuTe at that time.
He Stated that Monday he was in
earring distance of the dogs all day
eng, and that time and again he saw
lembers of the posse looking for him.
lie wanted to give himself up but
,as afraid they would hang him on
he spot.
Monday night he decided that he |
ould come into Paris, where he I
Ould surrender to the authorities, but t
Re town was filed with people and he {
ared not give himself I'D then, so he J
'awled under a house and went to Ii
eep. Early Tuesday morning he was '
zen by negro woman, who immedi- p
ely reported the fact to City Mar d
lal Phillips, who, with posse of six
en-, went to the house and arrested Il
m, waking him up. He made no re- "
stance.
He was taken to the jail, but his tt
essence there disturbed Sheriff v
,npton. who is also in the JAIL and
was removed to the city prison =
became noised about that he would
removed 10 some other city on the
ain, and an immense crowd gather
|
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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-12
CHINAMAN BARRED
ON RETURN TRIP

Philadelphia, Pa, Aug. 12.-senator
Ernest L. Tustin. Of this city, is using
his utmost endeavors to bring about
the admission into this country Of Har-
ry Lee Sing, the Philadelphia China
man, who with his bride is being held
by the United States authorities at Ma
lone, N. Y.
The state senator has addressed a let
ter to the secretary Of commerce and
labor in which he say il he does no
receive a satisfactory reply he will 20
to Malone and release Sing by a writ OF
habeas corpus.
In the letter the senator " liar
ry Lee Sing is an American citizen and
a voter Of the city of Phil )elphia. He
left ~Philadelphia some time ago. mar
ried a Chinese bride, and was on his
way back to the United States when he
was stopped by h ~authorities at Ma
Some time g sing determined to
marry and he went to China to choose a
bride. When he reached the American
harbor at Malone on his return, the
authorities detained him.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-12
NEWELL GIVES DATA
AS TO RECLAMATION,
Director of Government serv.
ice Tells of Work Done and
That Proposed.

Spokane, Wash, Aug. 12.-One OF the
principal speakers at today's session Of
the National Irrigation congress, was
F. H. Newell, director of the United
was 1.-The National Irrigation Situa-
tor" Newell said in part: THE pres
ent situation in national irrigation is
that homes are being provided for thou-
sands Of self supporting citizens at no
cost to the taxpayer.
Seven years have elapsed since the
passage of the reclamation act. Under
its operation irrigation work nave been
built in the 13 western states and two
territories by which waters are con-
served and distributed and nearly 700,-
600 acres already brought under irriga-
ton, with returns to the fund amount
ing already to over 100000
Fund Of $%52,0oo,ooo.
1.-THE government reclamation fund
has been larger thar was ex-
pected upwards Of s52. ooo.o 900 being
ing twice as much as was fore
seen. There have beer laid out sys-
TENS which involve the ultimate re-
clamation OF several million acres.
Large works, whose magnitude Is such
that they have been passed owe by pri-
q I ard corporate enterprise. nave
been built.
I'm all. 1t may be stated that in round
numbers, there were ready for irriga-
ton at the beginning of the irrigation
season of the present year, eve 5000
farms, with an aggregate acreage Of
700,O 900 acres.
Faults in Act.
o course. there is always another
side to every large problem. 1t is not
conceivable that the reclamation act
could be wholly perfect or that It's ad-
m~inistration could be without flaw,
The very benefits brought about by the
act have been a source of criticism.
1.-The requirement of residence on the
land, or in the neighborhood, is freely
criticised rs involving unnecessary
hardship, and yet this is one of the
requirements which the majority OF
congress considered as being an essen
tial condition for the advancement OF.
federal funds"
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THE PLAN IS GOOD,
b BUT STOP FIGHTING

Des Moines, Aug. 7.-The Des
Moines plan is completely vindicated
and highly commended by the state
municipal examiners, NJ. F. Cox and
r. NJ. Abbott, who filed the results of
their examination with State Auditor
Bleakley today. This is the first state
examination since the commission form
was adopted. The report says:
I'm the management Of the state af-
fairs Of the city Of Des Moines we
find nothing but what we can highly
commend"
The examiners advise councilmen to
work together more tremendously and
say in that case 1.-The form Of govern
ment such as Des Moines has would
need no defense. for we believe the
principle to be correct Of examining
the methods of receiving and dis
bursting the amount of money that 1t
takes to run Des Moines,"
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MAKES NEW
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
oWA AND SOUTH DA.
k0TA ASSIGNMENTS

Kennedy, chairman mileage
and member rivers and harbors.
Dawson, naval affairs, reform
in civil service accounts.
Pickett, public lands, railways
and canals, Ievees and improve
ments Of Mississippi river.
hausen, agriculture, war
Good, territories, war claims,
irrigation Of arid lands.
Kendall, coinage weights and
measures and Indian affairs.
Hull, chairman military affairs,
and member militia.
Jameson, Indian affairs, Paci-
fc railroads.
Smith, appropriations, pre-
viously chosen member rules by
caucus nomination.
Woods, Pacific railroads, in.
dustriai arts and expeditions.
Hubbard, insular affairs, ex-
penditures in department. OF JUS
tics.
buildings and grounds.
Burke, chairman Indian affairs
and member library.
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OIL WELLS NATAL"
TO Be OBSERVED
Anniversary of Striking Of
First Gusher to Be Cele-
brated on August 90.

Titusvil1e. Pa, Aug. THE eyes OF
oildom will be turned here the latter
end Of this month when the golden
oil well in the world will be celebrated.
The qualities Of petroleum had been
known for centuries, but it remained
for Colonel Edwin w. Drake to drill
tie first artesian we'll in search of 1t
on August 20, 1859, Just southeast Of
Titusville.
The drill tapped a vent Of oil esh
feet below the surface which produced
at first 40 barrels a day.
Canandohta Chapter, Daughters Of
the American Revolution, of Titusville,
has started a movement to erect a suit
able memorial on the site Of the old
Drake well.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-12
POLICE CAPTURE
QUEEN Of TAKERS

San Francisco, Cal. Aug. 12.-Ac-
cused Of having swindled railroad COM.
Ra IN New York, Portland, Seattle,
cities in various parts Of the countrv
by. means Of clever sham injuries re,
ceived In fake accidents, a woman
giving her name as Mrs. Maud MYRTLE
was arrested al the Merritt
hospital IN Oakland, and will be held
ties. i
According to the police Mrs. johnson
has worked under many oliases and
has obtained thousands of dollars nv
fraud. Her method is said to have
beer to throw her limbs out Of toint
and put a red powder into her mo,,th
to simulate hemorrhaee. ~
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-12

Washington. Aug. 7.-Speaker Can
non named the house committees Just
before the House adjourned yesterday,
and. in naming them, smote his enc
mics and remembered his friends.
Iowa was left with few important
It had last session. While most of the
insurgent members were given punish
ment by Speaker Cannon, 1t Is never
theless true that they were treated
somewhat better than many had ex-
pected.
Hubbard Punished.
Representative Hubbard, who has
consistently fought Cannon on rules
and the tariff, is punished by removal
from the committee on revision of
laws, but retains his places on COM
mittees on expenditures In the depart
ment Of Justice and on insular at
fairs.
OF the new men those who Jared
best were r1 R ; ant Waaas Good n.saa and and
so well treated. Representative Hull
was not changed. He is still chair
man Of the military affairs commit
tee and q member Of the militia COM
mittee. Representative Smith is on
rules and appropriations as he was
appointed when the special session
opened. Both the committees are of
high Importance and Of the first rank.
Kennedy Rewarded.
Representative Kennedy Of the First
district, who has always lined up with
the Cannon 9fganization, has been
and we'll doing in the cause Of the
speaker. He Is chairman Of the mile
age committee and Is made q member
OF the rivers and harbors committee.
This "a the place which Judge Bird
| sail formerly held.
important chairmanships retained by
members are:
Appropriations. Tawney, OF Min
nesota; agriculture. Scott, Of Kan
sas; census. Crumpacker, of In
diana; military affairs, Hull, OF
Iowa: naval affairs, Foss Of ILL.,
nois: pensions, Loudenslager. Of
New Jersey; District OF Columbia,
smith, Of Michigan: immigration
and naturalization. Howell, Of New
Jersey: irrigation of arid lands.
Reeder. OF Kansas; labor, Gardner,
Of New Jersey; library. Mccall Of
Massachusetts: manufactures Nc.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-12

Moran, Of Kentucky: merchant
marine and fisheries; Green, OF
Massachusetts; patents, Currier, ct
New Jersey: public buildings and
grounds. Bartholdt. OF Missouri;
public lands. Mondell. Of Wyoming:
revision Of the laws. Moon. Of Penn
sylvania, and territories, Hamilton.
of Michigan.
The following new craftsmanship
were also announced:
Election No. 1, Knapp, of Illinois:
8 levees and Improvements of the
Mississippi river, Campbell, of Kan
sas; education, Burke. Of Pepnsyl-
wanna; private land claims, Roberts.
Of Massachusetts; ventilation and
acoustics, McCreary, of Pennsylva-
mia: expenditures in the state de-
partment. Edwards. Of Kentucky;
expenditures in the treasury depart
ment. Hill, Of Connecticut: expendi-
lures in the interior department..
MCGUIRE. of Oklahoma. and expen-
dttures in the department Of agri-
culture. Graham, of Pennsylvania.
New Appointments.
New appointments to membership o.
committees follow:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Of 1lli-
nois: Taylor. of Ohio; Maltby, Of
New York, republicans; Kelliher,
of Massachusetts,, democrat.
Judiciary-Higgins, Of Connecti-
cut; Goebel. OF Ohio; DENLY, Of
Michigan; Rowland, of Ohio; Nye,
Of Minnesota; Sheffield, of Rhode
Island, republicans.
sey, of Maine; Campbell, Of Kan
sas; Millington, of New York;
Joyce, Of Ohio; Barnard, of 1ndi-
ana, and Heald, Of Delaware, re-
publicans, and Hammond, Of Min
nesota, and Barnhart, Of Indiana,
democrats.
. Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Miller, of Kansas; Stafford, of
Wisconsin,; Calder, of New York,
and Washburn, Of Massachusetts,
republicans, and Simms, Of Ten
nessee, and Peters, Of Massachu-
sets. democrats.
Rivers and MISUNDERSTANDING,
of Illinois; Humphrey. of Wash
ington; Madden. of Illinois: Ken
nedy, of Iowa: Cassidy, of Ohio.
and. Tener, of Pennsylvania, repub-
licans, nnd Edwards, of Georgia,
democrat.
Acknowledgement. of Utah;
Chapman, OF Illinois; Pratt. of
Dakota: Plumbey, Of Vermont, re-
oAAN ASSt Va LIN
McDermott, of Illinois, democrats.
Military Affairs-Knapp, Of New
York; Morgan, of Missouri. and
Tillson, of Connecticut, republicans,
and Cravens, of Arkansas, and
Dent, Of Alabama. democrats.
Naval Acknowledgements, Of
California. and Slemp, of Virginia,
republicans, and Kithin, Of North
Carolina; Mason. of Arkansas. and
Estopinal, Of Louisiana, : demo-
Gratis.
Postof1ces and Postroads-Payet.
te, of New York; Smith, OF Cal
tfornia; Lowden, of Illinois;
Dury, of New York; Haner, Of
Idaho, and Dodds, of Michigan, re-
publicans, and Cox. of Indiana,
democrat. .
MISUNDERSTANDING, of Maine.
Langham. Of Pennsylvania, and
Good. of Iowa, republicans; Hum
phrey, of mississippi: Conry. of New
York. and Driscoll, of New York,
democrats; and Delegate Wicker
sham. Of Alaska.
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Reflections Of q Bachelor.

From the New York Press. ~
What makes a girls hair SO nice and
curly Is her imagination.
The Irritating thing about a good rep
utation is all the fun you miss keep
What a woman means ly having a
fine figure is being able to dress 1t as
IL It were.
A woman can be as sure Of her re-
ligion as OF what a iii character the
baby is going to have.
The average man is always sure-he
could have done a splendid business
stroke IL he had happened to think Of
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-12
%"REvEiLLE" is SOUNDED

-Plttsburg, Pa, Aug. 12.-Awakenine
from their slumbers at Camn Aiaxe
anger L. Hawkins early TO-DAY nv the
notes OF he same bugle that soTndad
laps for the Spanish flag at SANTIAGO
me delegates to the convention Of the
army OF the Philippines and the Amer
manos veterans Of Foreign Service, COM
Both organizations are nation.i I1ei H.
character. and a movement is on foot
70 amalgamate them during the sess