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Good school. Perfect title. Worth
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FIREl!--Insure your house and fur
niture In reliable companies. we
have them. II. j. Schwinn n Co.,
BIS Bankers Trust Bldg.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03
SUITS KNOCKED OUT
Demurrers in Eastern Oklahoma Title
Cases Started by United States
Are Sustained.

Muskogee, Okla.-Judge Ralph Camp
bell has sustained the demurrers in the
suits brought by the United States to
set aside various deeds and leases made
by citizen allottees in the five civilized
tribes in Eastern Oklahoma, and thus
settled a legal controversy that had been
the cause of considerable concern in that
part of the State.
The court reviewed the relation of the
United States to the five tribes since
they became a nation, and found that no
vestige of title to the lands allotted
them now remains in the United States.
The demurrers involved the question of
the citizenship of these Indians and the
court declared them to be citizens of the
United States with all the rights, priv.
ileges and immunities of citizenship. 1t
is held that the United States can not
maintain these suits on the principle that
it sustains to the individual Indian a
trust relation, such guardianship being
incompatible with citizenship, national
and State.
Finally the bills were held bad be-
cause numerous defendants are joined in
each bill who were connected with many
distinct transactions regarding as many
distinct tracts of land.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03
WILL OPERATE ON HARTMAN
Roads to His Mountain Home Pick
eted by Guards.

New York.-Edward II. Hartman, the
country's master mind in railroads, will
be operated on at his country home on
the mountain top near Arden, N. Y, UNI
less the eight medical specialists who are
there change their minds.
In Mr.. Harriman's present condition,
under weight and enfeebled by the
course of sprouts" given by the Eu>
ropean specialists he consulted, any ope-
ration is serious. There are grave posi-
bilities of a weakened heart, which puts
a threat into the necessary anesthetic.
According to information secured
shortly before midnight Friday, almost
directly from the specialists in charge
of Mr.. Hartman, he will be operated on
before noon Saturday. The operation, it
is said, is not unlike that which he had
last January and which gave him great
relief for a time.
Before that operation Mr.. Hartman
made a final will and dictated to Judge
Lovett and Alexander Millar his ideas of
the ultimate plans of the great railroad
monopoly which he has created.
Scraps of news dropped from the lips
of a relative, an assistant and an en-
ploye indicate that he spent a quiet day,
part of it outdoors, but there were other
incidents which led those who are drain
ing the meager channels of information
to believe that all was not so well.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03
HARTMAN BEAT STANDARD
Returns in Nick of Time Turns
Knife on Oil Crowd.

Chicago.-A sensational slump in
Union Pacific stock took place in Wall
street Thursday. 1t was followed by an
equally sensational story, which fur
nished LaSalle streets part of the fun.
While Union Pacific was dropping five
points, as much as the gilt-edged secur-
ity has suffered in weeks, the brokers
told each other with gusto how E. H.
Hartman, though feeble in body and
rushing from one health resort to anoth-
er, had once more triumphed over for
midable foes; how Standard Oil interests
sought to knife" him while he lay ply
sically Frustrated, and found the point
of the knife turned against themselves.
As the story goes, the interests" laid
their plot sometime ago, while Mr.. Har-
riman was in Bad Gastein. Certain men,
who are stronger in Union Pacific than
Hartman would like to have them, con-
ceived the sm~elon-cutting" scheme-the
declaring of an extra dividend without
Mr.. Harriman's authority. 1t was upon
getting wind of this scheme over the
cables that Mr.. Hartman deserted Bad
Gastein and his corps of anxious doctors
and rushed back over the Atlantic.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03

Observation-Disclosures much larger
w than the senate, with many more
members to look out for and more
ground to cover, the house is allowed
A page boys, and in age they are the
seniors Of the senate pages. while
their pay is just the same. House
pages must be between the ages Of
fourteen and IS years. They go on
duty at nine o'clock each day and
stay until the house adjourns. They
place the copies of the Record on the
desks of members, keep the desks in
order and are at the beck and call of
members whenever wanted. They are
under the immediate supervision of a
chief page on each side of the house.
Some of them are assigned to- duty as
telegraph pages and others as tele-
phone pages, but most of them are on
duty on the floor.
The house pages are appointed on
the recommendation of members by
the head doorkeeper, who has general
supervision of the boys. Generally,
the member who has secured the
boys appointment will look after his
physical and moral welfare while he
is here. and it has happened that a
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03
Washington Women Are Auction Mad

their retiring than there are ministers
to retire. But who's going to keep
tab? Diplomatic debris is always al
a premium. Discards from legations
whether genuine or a~pocryphal, are
gobbled gluttonously. Most congress
sional wives go back home laden with
sacred relics from auction houses,
more or less authenticated.
One of these ardent ladies picked ur
recently, at a rare bargain, in prime
condition apparently, an oriental rug
warranted to have been highly priced
by a prominent diplomat, who parted
with it reluctantly upon his recall to
his own country. The rug, which had
never known a foreign football, wore
beautifully for a month or two, then
fell all to pieces at n fell swoop.
like the wonderful one-horse shay
The fabric, which was literally worn
in holes, had been strengthened and
renewed by a preparation of glue on
the back, the threadbare spots filled
up to a firm consistency by the use
of red egg dye paint. The Olsen
chanted lady had only a shoddy rug
to show for her SIS expenditure. Still
the thrall of the auction room ley
diminiSheS.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03
NEWMAN CASE ENDED
SILENCE FOLLOWS THE COURTS
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Gun Toters Denied Entrance-Shirt
Sleeves Observation-Disclosures
Is Withdrawn.

Meadville, Miss.-The Chancery Court
convened here Wednesday with Judge
J. S. Hicks of Fayette presiding, to hear
the charges of assault with intent to
murder against Ferd Middleton and
Bunkley Halford for the attempt on the
life of Ernest Newman, clerk of the
Chancery Court. Sitting with Judge
Hicks was L. A. Wilmington, mayor of
the town, and w. j. Sullivan, justice of
the peace, before whom the charges were
made.
"The court assembled to hear the
charges against you," spoke Mayor
Wilmington, after the bell in the court
tower proclaimed the opening of a spe-
cial term. "The prosecution wishes the
charges against you dismissed because
of lack of evidence to sustain the allie
cations. You are both discharged"
The silence following the announce
ment of the verdict of the court was
ominous. The court room was crowded
with friends of the Newman boys and
also of the prisoners. Every man in the
court room was Ill HIS SHTC sletFtS "
show that he carried no weapons. At
the entrance stood a guard of four men.
Another guard stood at the aisle lead
ing to the bar.
"If it please the court, I would like
to have you hear some of my witnesses"
spoke Middleton, breaking the silence.
Things have been said about me that
l would like to disprove."
The accused was informed that the de-
cision of the court was a complete vim
d~ication and that the charges were dis
missed. With a slight show of emotion,
Middleton expressed his thanks to the
court and bowed himself out. Halford
appeared pleased with the turn of af-
fairs and hurried from the court room.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03
National Capital Is a Clean City

cleaning department. it was discov
cred that there is about ten times
as much street area in the district to
be cared for as in New Orleans; but
the visiting official told the local
heads that the streets of Washington
are cleaner than those in New Or
leans.
The New Orleans official went care
fully into all the details of the sys-
tenn of street cleaning in the national
capital, and declared that he found
many new ideas which could be used
in the southern city.
One of the advanced steps taken in
New Orleans looking to cleanliness,
Superintendent Gleason explained.
was along the line of making the
street railway companies sprinkle
their tracks. While the old lines oil
the city cannot be made to carry Out
that course, the new lines are given
charters containing a compulsory
clause. The results are excellent, ii
was reported, and the system is te
be extended in the future. Nothing
like this has been tried in the dis
trict.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03

THE presidential people never cease
to be objects of the most poignant
interest. They never pail on the pub
lie curiosity, even here in Washing
ton. where presidents are human ma
lures daily food.
Shortly before Mrs. Taft's departure
for her summering she attended a
concert at a fashionable theater. Her
discarded program dropped to the
floor as she got up to leave. Instant
" those near by who were watching
every motion of the notable lady made
a stampede for the worthless piece OF
paper, each anxious to secure it as
a relic.
On one of her latest shopping ex-
petitions. Mrs. Taft, being a careful
and economical buyer. deliberated
for a considerable while owe the
choice of a piece of lace at the lace
counter. After she had finally made
her selection and departed. a fellow
customer of the shop, much more
SLOWLY and handsomely dressed than
the presidents wife, who, from a lit
tie distance had been watching the
proceedings like a hawk, bounced
down upon the saleswoman that Mrs.
Taft had just released, who was busy
folding up her stock. Which piece
did Mrs. Taft buy?" asked the eager
onlooker with avidity. She was
shown. 'In take all the rest Of that
piece Of lace. the woman ~feverishly
declared. The Taftian touch and the
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03

THE loyal legion of congress wom-
! en-, who hung on in Washington
during the dog days, encouraging
their husbands. found s%urcease for
sultry solitude in auctions. The Wash
ington female is auction mad. There's
a greater glamour here over the sale
of other peoples old rubbish than any
where else in the country. Power is
always changing hands. Nobody
stays put in his high estate. and when
the dignitaries get their walking pa
pers they sell out all their household
goods, as q rule. Hence the avid fem
mime scramble for foreign and his
toric relics. The smartest society is
always to be found in the fashionable
auction rooms in Washington.
The retiring foreign minister"
dodge is worked to a fine financial
finish by foxy auctioneers. There are
usually more auctions to celebrate
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03
REGISTRATION FEElNCREASED
Two Cents to Be Added-Postmaster-
General Makes Announcement.

General Makes Announcement.
Washington.-An increase of two cents
is to be made in the near future in the
fee for the registration of letters and
mail packages. Announcement of the
proposed change was made Wednesday
by Postmaster General Hitchcock. The
decision of Sir. Hitchcock to increase
the registry fee followed an extended
inquiry into the registry system by a
special committee appointed by the post
master general. 1t was decided to call
in a score of registry officials of ripe
experience and ability from various parts
of the country for a more general meet
ing with the postmaster general. 1t is
understood to be Mr.. Hitchcock's pur-
pose to take up the registry system first
in considering all branches of the postal
service for reorganization wherever great
efficiency and less expenditure may be
effected.
It is thought that the service may be
placed on a more business-like basis
without working undue hardship or i'm
posing unreasonable burdens on the pub
lie. By law the postmaster general is
authorized to make the registry fee as
high as 20 cents. In 1874 it was re-
duced from fifteen to eight cents, but in
creased to ten cents in 1875. 1t was
reduced from ten to eight cents in 1898.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03
Use of Flag Hurt Dobbs.

Louisville, ky.-The use of the Con-
federate flag as a background in the adj
vertising matter of "Dobbs and Dixie"
used to promote the candidacy of Dobbs
of Atlanta for president Of the Associat-
ed Advertising Clubs, is believed to have
seriously affected his chances. There is
no resentment of the Confederate flag,
but there is considerable feeling against
its use in this manner. The Cincinnati
paper published daily during the meeting
criticises this use of it in an editorial.
1t urges greater respect for the Confed-
crate flag.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03
FREIGHT PROJECT GOES
SEvENTY-SIx MISSISSIPPI VAL
LEY MEN SUBSCRIBE.
500, 900, 900 Is in Sight Kama
naugh Will Soon Call Conference
to Effect Organization.

st. Louis, Nov. X. Kavanaugh, the
Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterways AS
sociation's president, who is interested
in the organization of the $~10,000,000
company to operate freight boats down
the Mississippi from st. Louis to New
Orleans, announced Thursday that the
promoters had secured the signatures of
seventy-six prominent Mississippi val
ley men indorsing the project; that he
believes the necessary $40, 700 900 will
be raised at the proper time, and that
he will call a meeting, to be held here
early next month, of these men who had
agreed to finance the proposition and Ell
feet an organization.
Kavanaugh says that railways not
having a New Orleans outlet lend their
assistance, and that Attorney Arthur N.
Sager's Southern trip for the project was
successful.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03
TWELVE MEN HURLED IN AIR
Seven Hundred Pounds of Dynamite
Explodes With Fatal Results.

Key West, Fla.-As a result of the ex
plosion at noon Friday of 700 pounds
of dynamite at B~ocachica, twelve miles
from Key West, on the Florida East
Coast railway, twelve men are dead, five
probably fatally injured, and at least a
dozen others are suffering from less Sc.
rious injuries.
The explosion was caused by a mem
Der of the railroad construction force
carelessly throwing a lighted cigarette
into a box of fuses.
Nine of the workmen met instant
death and the others died while being
brought to the hospital here.
The men were hurled high into the
air and the bodies of the dead were al
most beyond recognition, arms and legs
being torn from the bodies of some,
while the faces of others were mere
masses of flesh.
When the explosion occurred the work
men were standing in water four feet
deep and directly beneath them was the
700 pounds of dynamite, ready for the
blast, when the men shouted "Stop work
for dinner"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03
shrewd Act, of Duchess

The famous Sarah, duchess of MARI
borough, was the ~shrewdest of women,
and hardly any n ever got the better
of her. The fashionable dressmaker
of the day was a Mrs. Buda, and the
duchess sent her some costly material
to be made up into a court dress.
When the gown came home her grace
noticed that the mount of material
used did not correspond with the
quantity sent, and resolved to punish
the fraud. Mrs. Buda was wearing
a beautiful diamond ring which the
duchess pretended to greatly admire.
and she asked the fiattered dress
maker to lend it her in order that she
might have a similar ring made. In
a few days Mrs. Buda received a let
ter from the duchess saying that she
held the ring as a pledge for the yards
of brocade that had been taken from
the piece sent for her gown. Needless
to say, the brocade was speedily re-
turned and the ring was placed on
Mrs. Buda's finger, the sarcastic Ouch.
ess improving the occasion with causs
tics remarks on the offense.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03
NEGRO SHOT UP TOWN
MONROE, La, SCENE OF ExCIT-
ING TRAGEDY.
Negro Finally Brought Down With
Bullet in Heart-Body Cremated
in Public.

Monroe, La.-Angered, it is believed,
because two of his friends had recently
been shot by police officers in this city,
William s. Wade, a negro, Tuesday ran
amuck on the principal business street
Of Monroe with a double-barreled shot
gun, shooting first at every white man
he saw an then firing indiscriminately at
every object before him.
The fire was returned, and the negro
finally fell dead with a bullet through
his heart, but not before twenty-nine
men, three of them members of his W
race, had been more or less seriously
wounded.
Wade's body was publicly burned after
it had been cut down from a pole on
which it hung for half an hour OF more
after he was killed.
1t was at first reported that Wade was
half-crazed at the time from the effects
of cocaine and cheap whisky, but an in
vestigation by the police showed that
box of shells, a few minutes before he
opened fire on the first man, there was
nothing unusual in his manner or be-
havior. Other negroes, who were with
him say that he had not been drinking,
nor did he show any effects of having
taken cocaine.
Wade came to Monroe recently from
Pine Bluff, Ark. He was accompanied
by several other negroes, and they COM
menced to make trouble for the local po-
lice SOC after they arrived. 1t was al
legged that they were members of a so
ciety in Arkansas which had as it's OBJ
ject revenge for injuries done the black
race. As a result, these negroes clashed
with the police OIL many occasions, and
twice recently they have exchanged shots
with the officers. 1t is also alleged that
Wade was heard to say that no white
man was going to shoot him.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03

HIGH tribute to the cleanliness OF
III the streets of the national capitai
was paid recently by Joseph A, Glea-
son, general superintendent of the de-
partment of public works of New Or
leans.
He called at the district building
to find out how it was done, and
chatted with Commissioner West and
Superintendent James NJ. Wood OF We
STRENGTHENING department.
washington is the cleanest and
the best city I have been in" he told
Commissioner West, after relating
experiences in visiting many of the
leading cities of the eastern and CEN
trail states. Il want to find out how
you do it."
During his conference with SUI
perintendent Wood of the street
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03
Pages Need Supervision

member has sent home a boy who
fell into bad ways and could not be
brought under discipline. Their Is
not such a large proportion of the dis
trict boys in the house as in the sen
ate. They come from many states
but some of the more distant states
are not represented.
It is doubtless a fact that the boys
in both houses of congress are under
closer supervision than was the case
at one time. A few examples opened
the eyes of the authorities to what
dangers might confront boys far from
home without the refining influences
that are inseparable from a mothers
love and care. While the restraint
is not irksome, 1t is designed to be at
least wholesome and for the entire
good of the youths who may very
likely grow up to be themselves max
ers of laws and rulers of the land.
Without doubt it has been a great
trial to most of the youngsters to be-
deprived of their vacations for such
a long time. The call of the woods
and fields is strangely insistent to
youth. Every normal, healthy, man
ly boy yearns to get out in the open
to swim, ride, shoot, sail or disport
himself in the water. To be confined
within even marble walls cannot com
pensate for the freedom of the fields,
and so the page boys are happy at
last in the prospect of unlimited en-
ioyment for a time and a rest from
the cares which sit but i'll at best or
young shoulders.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03
TWO NEGROESLYNCHED
ESCAPED NEGRO CONVICT DOES
DEADLY WORK WITH GUN.
Kills Prominent Georgia Planter and
Wounds Several Other Men-on
Trail of Woman.

Soperton, Ga.-Two negroes lynched
and a posse in pursuit of the wife of
one of the victims; the killing of a prom
inent planter, a member of the posse;
the probable fatal injury of the sheriff
of Montgomery county, and the wound.
ing of -four other members of the posse
summarizes the result of one of the most
exciting man hunts this section has ever
known.
Ben Clark, an escaped convict from
the Bibb county chain gang, was shot to
death after a fierce battle early Friday
and his body was burned. The negro
threatened tt kill Nicholas Adams, a
merchant of Kibbee, land a hundred
Others"
John Sweeney, who harbored the tx
convict, was taken from a passenger
train a mile from Tarrytown and
lynched.
The posse then set out in search of
Sweeney's wife, who, it is said, was in
the neighborhood.
James Burden, a prominent planter
and member of the posse which captured
Clark, was shot and instantly killed.
The posse found Clark in Sweeney's
house. Sweeneys wife was at home, but
Sweeney was absent. The sheriff called
on Clark to surrender. For answer he
received a 44-caliber bullet, fired from an
automatic gun. Burden was shot, and
other members of the posse fell before
the torrent of lead dealt out by the ne
gro. He continued to fire until his am
munition was exhausted. He was then
overpowered and his body riddled with
bullets
The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-03
William Muldoon, the professional

William Muldoon, the professional
athlete and trainer, declares that col
lege athletics are all wrong, and that
it is a wonder more young college
men do not succumb to the strain. He
says this strain is as bad for the
mind as it is for the heart, as it with
draws vitality from the brain to other
parts of the body-that athletics
should be second, not first, in a col
lege course. This sounds sensible
SO sensible that it is somewhat odd
that it is a professional athlete, not
the college professors themselves,
who is championing the superior
claims of intellect over football and
rowing teams.