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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-16

n EWMARK followed the thirty M three days work of the log
 drive with great interest Grad
 ually the men got used to him and ceased to treat him as an outsider. The drive went down as far as Red ding in thirty-three days The men worked fourteen and sixteen hours at times Several bad jams relieved the monotony. Problems of mechanics arose to be solved on the spot orde solved them by a rough and ready rule of thumb. He built structures which would have furnished a winters dis cussion to some committees. just as the loggers had built through a rough country hundreds of miles of road better than railroad grade and smooth as a turnpike. the quarter of which would have occupied the average coun- ty board of supervisors for five years.
 The drive was to be delivered at the booms of Morrison and Daly above the city of Bedding. a thriving place of about S0.oo0 inhabitants situated on long rapids forty miles from Lake Michigan
 The last camp was made six or eight miles above the mill. A good propor- ton of the rivermen. eager for the town. trahped down the road. to re- turn early in the morning more or less drunk One or two did not return
 Among the revelers was the cook, Charlie. commonly called the doctor" !" and he moped about disconsolarely. In the eveaing he looked so much like a chicken with the pip that Orde's at tencion was attracted
 "&ot that dark brown taste, CharlieT" he inquired, with mock solicitude-
 T tell you only had two glasses of beerT cried Charlie. goaded-
 Then why this joyless demeanor?' begged Orde-
 Charlie grumbled iercely inarticu- late. but Johnny Challan interposed with n chuckle of enjoyment
 He got 'bunked-'"
 .srell usT cried Orde delightedly.
 -It was down at McNeil's place." explained Johnny Challan. ''They was "a couple of sports there who throwed out three cards back up on the table and bet you couldn't pick the jack
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-16
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To the Board of County Commissioners
 of Fairfield County
 I hereby apply for a license to sell Spirituous and Intoxicating Liquors, Ale, Lager Beers. Rhine Wine and Cider, at 7e State street. Town of Bridgeport My place of business is net located within 200 feet in a direct line of a Church Edifice, Parochlal School or Public School-house. or the premises pertaining thereto. or any Post Office. Public Library or Gene tery.
 Dated at Bridgeport. this 18th day of Nov. A. D. 1909.
 AUGUST HARPER.
 Applicant. We. the undersigned. electors and taxpayers. as defined by law. Of the Town of Bridgeport. hereby endorse the application of the above named August Harter for such license. and we do severaIly certify each for him self that we are taxpayers upon real estate situated in said Town of Bridge port
 Dated at Bridgeport. this 18th day of Nov- A. D. 1909.
 Jonas J. Meyer. Bridgeport; August Steinmetz. Bridgeport: Andrew Mo Taggart. Bridgeport; c. H. schmidt, Bridgeport: Charles M Biltz. Bridge port.
 I hereby certify that the above named endorsers are electors and taxpayers. as defined by law. of the Town of Bridgeport Dated at Bridgeport. this 18th day of Nov. A. D. 1909.
 VIM. T. MULLINS. H16bs sp22 Asst Town Clerk.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-16

To the Board of County Commissioners for Fairfield County. I hereby apply for a Druggists Li- cense to sell SDirituous and Intoxicat- ing Liquors. Ale. Lager Beer. Rhine Wine and Cider. at 1655 Main street. Town of Bridgeport
 Dated at Bridgeport. this 18th day of Nov. A. D. 1909.
 JAMES P. LEvERTY.
 Applicant. We. the undersigned. electors and taxpayers. as defined by law. of the Town of Bridgeport. hereby endorse the application of the above named James P. Leverty for such license. and we do severally certify each for him self that we are taxpayers owning real estate situated in said Town of Bridge port.
 Dated at Bridgeport. this 18th day of Nov. A. D. 1909.
 James Leverty. Bridgeport: Charles Logan. Bridgeport; R. A. Lockhart Bridgeport: Michael Noonan. Bridge port: Jas. F. Kelly. Bridgeport. I hereby certify that the above named endorsers are electors and taxpayers, as defined by law. of the Town of Bridgeport.
 Dated at Bridgeport. this 18th day of Nov. A. D. 1909.
 VIM. THOMAS. H16b"p22 Town Clerk
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-16

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 Again Orde was permitted to pick up the jack
 You've got tbe best eye that's been tn this place since l got here" ex- claimed the dealer Here. Dennis" :" said he 10 his partner. You try him."
 Dennis obliGinEly look the cards and lost. By this time the men. augmented by The idlers. had drawn close
 Whether it was that the gamblers sensed the fact thar Orle might be led to plunge or whether they were using
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-16

Bridgeport. My place of business is not located within 200 feet in a direct line of a Church Edifice. Paroehial School or Public School-house. or the premises pertaining thereto. or any Post Office. Public Library or Ceme- tery.
 Dated at Bridgeport. this 18th day of Nov. A. ID. 1909.
 HUGH LAvERY.
 Applicant. We, the undersigned. electors and taxpayers. as defined by law. of the Town of Bridgeport. hereby endorse the application of the above named Hugh Lavery for such license. and we do severaliy certify each for him. self that we are taxpayers upon real estate situated in said Town of Bridge port.
 Dated at Bridgeport. this 18th day of Nov. A D. 1909.
 Wm. O. Flatherty. James Peck. An thony H. Mccarthy. Michael J. Whalen. John A Lynch.
 hereby certify that the above named endorsers are electors and taxpayers. as defined by law. of the Town of Bridgeport.
 Dated at Bridgeport. this 18th day of Nov. A D. 1909.
 VIM. THOMAS. H sp22 Town Clerk.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-16
To the Board of County Commissioners

To the Board of County Commissioners
 of Fairfield County.
 hereby apply for a license to sell Spirituous and Intoxicating Liquors, Ale, Lager Beers. Rhine Wine and Cider. at 1885 State street. Town of Bridgeport. My place of business is not located within 200 feet in a direct line of a Church Edifice. Paroch.al School or Public School-house. or the premises pertaining thereto. or any Post Office. Public Library or Gene tery.
 Dated at Bridgeport. this 18th day of Nov. A. D. 1909.
 WILLIAM H. FRY.
 Applicant.
 We. the undersigned. electors and taxpayers, as defined by law. of the Town of Bridgeport. hereby endorse the application of the above named William H. Fry for such license. and we do severally certify each for him self that we are taxpayers upon real estate situated in said Town of Bridge port.
 Dated at Bridgeport. this 18th day of Nov. A D. 1909.
 Hubert Hutton. Bridgeport: Harry D. Fitzgerald, Bridgeport; Peter Per son, Bridgeport: Marshall E. Gray, Bridgeport; Louis Boujon. Bridgeport
 hereby certify that the above named endorsers are electors and taxpayers. as defined by law. of the Town of Bridgeport
 Dated at Bridgeport. this 18th day of Nov. A. D. 1909.
 H1sb.p22 Town Clerk.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-16
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To the Board of County Commissioners
 of Fairfield County.
 I hereby apply for a license to sell Spirituous and Intoxicating Liquors. Ale. Lager Beers. Rhine Wine and Cider. at 721 Water street. Town of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-16
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-16
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-16
AUGUST HARPER.

.p22 Asst. Town Clerk.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-20
WOMAN DRAGGED AWAY
 AND FOULLY MURDERED

Broxton, Ga, Aug. Is.-News reached here tonight of the murder of Mss Hattie Graham. which occurred some time during last night near her home two miles north of Hokesboro in Cof- fee County. The woman was dragged to a branch half a mile from her house, where evidences of a desperate struggle were shown. The body was beaten and the skull crushed.
 The object of the murder was evil dently robbery as she was a rich wo- man. An autopsy. however, may reveal evidence of a more serious crime. She was prominent and highly connected.
 Miss Graham was ona of two maiden sisters who occupied their home alone. The other sister was away from home at the time of the murder.
 Sheriff Dave Ricketson was at once notified and In company with the cor oner went to the scene of the crime.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-20
FIRE INTO STEAMER Make Attack on Import
 cd Men. TROOPERS CHARGE INTO MOB System of Peonage Charged hy
 New Conner. Claims Cempany OmcisIs Will Not AL low strike-Breakers Outside of sheSs--sheri6 DeJes Such
 Is the Case.
TROOPERS CHARGE INTO MOB

Pittsburg, Pa. Aug. 1s--Three thou sand strikers lined the banks of the Ohio River and men in the crowd fired more than q hundred shots from pistols when the Pressed Steel Car Company at McKee's Rock landed fifty more im- ported men from the steamer P. M. Pfeit today.
 A detail of ten troopers of the State constabulary In command of a ser geant, all mounted. sallied from the plant as the boat pulled near the land ing place, and held the strikers in check and dispersed them. No one was injured. Deputy sheriffs today arr rested an imported workingman from Philadelphia on charge of breaking windows inside the plant of the car com pany. After his arrest the workingman informed the sheriff that his reason for breaking the windows was simply to get out of the plant, as every request he has made of superintendents to be permitted to go outside had been re- fused The arrested man also said he. with 2e0 other men. had been hired in Philadelphia, as well as about 100 in New York. and had been told that they were to work in an open plant as riv- eters and heaters.
 On the strength of the charge made by the man. Sheriff Gumbert. of Alle- gheny County officially investigated the justice of the complaint. He said afterwards that 1t was without foundation.
 The strikers say that they have wit messed the efforts of the imported workingmen to pass guards stationed at the gates of the car plant and have seen the imported men beaten back by clubs.
 The sheriff stated tonight that his deputies were at the plant for no other purpose than to protect property.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-20
PEACE NOW AT HAND
SHAM ARMIES PREPARED TO wIND
 UP.
Red and Blue Forces Camp Only One Hundred Yards Apart and Final Battle Ia
 Near.

Hanover. Mass. Aug. 1s--with the heads of their columns within 100 yards of each other. at a point one and a quarter miles north of Hanover Tour corners" the Red and Blue armies rested when the hostilities were sus- pended at ?. m.. today, to be resumed at a. m. tomorrow.
 Just before the period closed, General W. A. Pew, commanding the Blue Mas sachusetts army of defense, had man. aged. by Q wonderful series of forced marches. to place battalion of four companies of the 9th Massachusetts h. fantry on a knoll commanding the cross roads over which the Red army must pass before it's ultimate object, the cap. ture of Boston, can be attained.
 The Red and Blue armies kept up a running fight all day long, marching along parallel roads leading to Boston The road followed by the Blue army of defense. was shorter than that taken by General Tasker H. Bliss's army of invasion. and as result. General Pew was able to concentrate his scattered forces in fairly good shape.
 At the close of hostilities today, the prospects were that tomorrow would see the climax of the campaign
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-20
GOING HIGHER UP''
BREWERY PRESIDENT IMPLICAT-
 FED WITH PERSCH.
Another Broker and . Trust Company Employe Also Indicted By Grand Jury InveetigatimG Case.

New York. Aug. 1s.---Ripples of the big spiashes in the financiai pool cre- ated by the arrest gpf Donald L. Persch a note broker. Oh charges 0f grand lar- cency. continue to widen and late today reached Charles Katz. president of the Eastern Brewing Co. of Brooklyn. He was indicted today by the grand jury for complicity in the alleged theft of 20.00O shares of copper stock l. which disappeared from the custody of the Windsor Trust company. with whom 1t had been deposited as collateral for loan of s50.o0o to M. M. Joyce. q broker for F. August Heinxe and bob bed up again in the curb market when Heinze bought 1t back.
 w. L. Clark. the broker who ap- preached the trust company for Joyce. was also indicted today. ,.
 Another development was the is- suance of a warrant for Sterling Bir- mingham, the trust company's dis charged loan clerk. who is accused of having accepted a gratuity of s250 for putting the loan through. To accept such fee is a misdemeanor under the laws of this state.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-20
TAFT A JOY RIDER'
TIMID FRIENDS FEAR FOR PREsI-
 DENTS SAFETY,
Speed of Executive Auto Causes Alarm Instructs Chauffeur to Limit Machine to Twenty
 Mile Gait.

Beverly. Mass, Aug. 19.-President Taft combined a little official business with his golf today. He met Secre- tary of the Navy Meyer at the Myopia Club this morning and talked depart mental matters over with him both be- fore and after he had played around the eighteen hole course and had lost two-bail match to Captain Butt, his military aide. by one up.
 Stories that have. gone abroad about the great speed at which President 1rhft,s chauffeur takes the Chief Mag istrate along smooth roadwayB at Bev- erly have caused the summer White House mall to be flooded with letters from timid admirers of Mir. Taft. urg- ing that RobinsonS. who drives the Presidents car the greater part or the time be directed to exercise more caution. Some Of the writers have enclosed clippings from newspapers telling of fatal automobile accidents.
 It is a fact that the President does like to go fast when out In a machine and the day Is fine, but to reassure those who have taken the interest to write, 1t was officially announced today that Robinson has specific instructions not to exceed twenty miles an hour at any time, and that the needle on the speedometer which remains fixed at the maximum speed until reset. never nowadays shows a fraction above the twenty-mile mark.
 Charles P. Taft. the Presidents brother. who, with Mrs. Taft, has been visiting at the Boardman's. at Beverly farms. will leave Monday next. Charles Taft will go down to his big ranch near Corpus Christi. Tex. before many days, to prepare for the welcome to be extended the President when he vis- it's there late in october. Mir. Tart will spend four days on the ranch, the longest stop he will mako at any place during his 13.000-mile trip.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-20
1arrant Anti Social Club
 Biu Passed by The House

taxes and make the, delinquent taxes start only after the adoption of the amendment. MT. Long of Butler. opposed the bill, saying that 1t would seriously interfere with the purposes of the franchise provisions that were fought out in 1901. and If men persist entity refused to pay poll taxes they ought to be disqualified to vote.
 Mir. Tunktall. of Hale opposed the bil' saying 1t was an unwise experimep
 motion of MT. Pitts, of Perry, 11 table the bill and amendments was ', by Sl to S2.
 MT. John, of Jefferson declas Q his belief that the present .syste4S dis franchises more white men in hfs sec ton than negroes" He made an emo tionai appeal to pass the bill on behalf of the thousands of disfrancnised white people of Alabama.
 The motion of MT. Tunstail to table the bill and an amendment of Mir. Lee. of Etowah, was lost S2 to 4S.
 The amendment of MT. Lee was to make the delinquent taxes date back to 1902 so far as qualifying the party to vote is concerned. The amendment, was lost.
 The bill was lost by e vote of 51 to 3s, the requisite number being sixty four or three fifths of the voting growth of the House.
 Mir. John, of Jefferson, introdueed q bill to appropriate s1o.o00 to pay the expenses of publishing the Governors proclamation for the election on Con- stitutional prohibition.
 The amendments proposed by the Governor to tfe-Sbili providing for f1l- ing vacancies in municipal offices were ooncurred in by the House.
 The House passed the Long (ButlerJ bill which requires clerks of courts of record Co report annually all witness fees held by him but uncalled for and the list of the parties to whom due, Is preserved so that if in six years ap- plication therefore is made. the fees shall be paid. Otherwise, they escheat to the State.
 The bill applies to all fees that have been collected by the clerks two years, and uncailed for, prior to the report to the treasurer, and also regulates the discharge generally of all liabilities of clerks when successors come into offi- ce. There was no opposition to the bill.
 Next to be considered was the Glover
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-20
CONNECTS DESPERATELY
 BATTLE IN BIG PRISON

Pittsburg. Pa, Aug. 1s--Battling des- perately, one to kill and the other to save his life, two convicts of the West ern penitentiary In the cell on Monday afternoon, furnished a thrilling after math of the daring attempt at jail de- livery discovered at the big prison last Thursday afternoon.
 As a result of the fight Convict A4s77 Is in the prison hospital with several stab wounds in the stomach. and his assailant. Convict 6e42 is in solitary connement.
 Late tonight 1t was learned that the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-20
LncIknon (aIvea Up.

Jackson, MISE, Aug, 1y.-Atter a fu- tile attempt to raise S10.00e for the purpose of purchasing a Southern League franchise. and learning that inc Little Rock and Montgomery fran chises were not on the market. Jack son fans have abandoned all hope of getting into the Southern League. The committee in charge to raise the fund announced today that no further at tempt would be made toNput Jackson in the League
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-20
FALSE WEALTH GONE BOLD COUNTERFEITER CAUGHT IN
 KENTUCKY. Had Brass Bound Trunk Contafntn9 sI,0O0,0O0 In Spurious Mexican
 PesOs--Faee Long Terms
 In Federal Prison.

Louisville. Ky. Aug. 1s.-Dreams of wealth which reflected their gaudy lrues from brass bound trunk contain ing . million dollars in counterfeit Mexican pesos were shattered for John c. and Marion Roberts here today when Deputy United States Marshall William Blaydes arrested Johp Roberts in shsibv countx with the money in his pcssession. Since the hour of the arrest this morning thefe has been nn- travelled in the custom house in Louis- vile and in central police station . tale of attempted financial buccaneer- ing that puts into shadow some of the boidest exploits in the history of coun- terfeiting.
 Roberts. sitting in the oface of the secret service bureau here today. cool ly said that he would plead guilty at the October term of the Federal Court and seemed philosophic about spending a majority of his years in the United States prisen at Atlanta, Ga. He had played a bold game and failed. he said he would have been rich beyond his dreams had 1t succeeded.
 Now he was poor and in the hands of the sternest law on earth. but he iayed rather fiattering unction to his soul that the scheme had been daring and romantic.
 It was through Marion Roberts that the counterfeiters were apprehended. Marion Roberts. some days ago ap- preached Louisville broker and made him the proposition that he dispose of counterfeit Mexican pesos at a high commission. The broker notified Chief of Police J. H. Haager. who at once enlisted the secret service men and the trap to catch Morton Roberts was laid. Marion fell into 1t Monday and since that time the police and secret ser- vice men have been extracting from him the information which led to the descent upon his brother at Simpson vile today.
 When Marshal Blaydes confronted John Roberts in the hamlet in Shell by county the chief counterfeiter ad- mitted that he was behind the plan to dispose of tho imitation pesos through the Louisville broker.
 He showed Biaydes brass bound trunk of the sort especially construct cd to figure in romsnces and this was filled with s1.ooo.ooo in the crisp Mex fcan notes.
 Roberts said that he would nava been in Mexico with the trunk a week ago. had he not been awaiting the ar- rival Of perforating machine and & device for numbering the bills,
 Did you suspecs that the Federal officers were after your" Roberts was asked in the custom house orics to- day.
 If I had. I'd never hesn In slmp. sonville," he replied laughing.
 VIII Koenig, a printer. was also ar- rested In connection with the case, All three men will have examining trials before the United States commission shortly
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-20
INTERMARRIAGE WITH INDIANS.
soclolog4st ThinIks it Would Improve
 Race.

Los Angeles. Cal. Aug. 1s.--After reading the statement of Professor William Matthews. of Chicago. that a little American Indian blood mingled with that of our race would produce a strain which would be hard to equal. Professor Rockwell D. Hunt, of the department of sociology in the Uni versity of Southern California, and a student of Indian life. said yesterday that he agreed thoroughly with the Chicago professor.
 While there are wide variations in the different tribes," said Professor Hunt. "by choosing the better Indians believe that the intermarrlage of Indians and members of our race would result in good. Some of the best families of Kentucky have a straina of Indian blood in their veins and in oklahoma and South Dakota I know of marked examples of inter- marriages"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-20
MoRGAN's MEN MEET.

Carlisle. Ky, Aug. 19.--Men wha rode under General John H. Morgan. the flashing Kentucky Confederate cavalrytnan of the civil war. ended their annual reunion of two days as Parks Hill, in this. Nicholas county. last night. General Basil W. Duke. of Louisville. second in command to General Morgan. presided
 Twelve Morgan men have died dur ing 1908 and these were remembered in tho talks about the big camp fire which Is an annual feature of the Fe- union.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-20
KANSAS TOWN OPEN
MAY cLAsR WITH STATE PROHIBl-
 TION LAWS.
Quarrel Between Police and City Com- missioners Lower Bars on Liquor Selling and GambIinE-Beer
 Now Imported.

Wichita, Kas.. Aug. 1s.--After five months of strict prohibition. liquor selling and gambling were resumed here last night.
 Owing to a quarrel between the po- lice and the city commissioners. be- cause the latter failed to pass an ordi- nance prohibiting the sale of imitation beer. the police vigilance relaxed and a carload of beer was sold. It Is ex- pected the recall will be invoked un- less the commission restores full pro- hibition at once.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-20
wriEhts sue societx.

New York.-Aug. 19.-Wilbur Wright and orviile Wright, the aeronauts. to- day etnered suit in the United States Circuit Court here against the Aero nautic Society of this city. charging of patent rights on their aeroplane inventions. The Wrights complain that the society procured from Herring -Curtiss Company and from Glenn H. Curtiss flying machines alleged to infringe on the Wright's patents and secured -Curtlss tc give public exhibitions for which an admis- sion fee was charged.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-20
Sell Plant for sI,

. Birmingham, Aug. 19.-The Council of North Birmingham. one of the su- burbs taken into Birmingham by tho bill passed by the Legislature of Ala bama yesterday. at a meeting tonighk authorized the sale of the city'a water works plant for S1. The purchaser is also to assume the bonded indebted- ness of the plant. which amounts to SIg0 000