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Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-24

NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
ro the Stockholders of the Omaha Southern
Railway Company:
You are hereby Notified tina by resolu-
tons OF the Board of Directors OF Omaha
Southern Railway Company, duly adopted
at a meeting Of said board on the 18th day
stockholders of Omaha Southern Railway
Company has been called to be held at the
general offices and principal business Of
flee Of said company, at the office of c. e.
Wagar, at the southeast corner Of Fifteenth
street and Farnam street, in the city of
Omaha Nebraska, on the 2Sd day Of Octo-
Der, 1903. at 8 o'clock In the forenoon. for
the following purposes: 81
a. To consider the sale, conveyance
and transfer by This Company OF the whole
and every part OF its line of railroad and
branches, constructed or to be constructed,
together with all the real estate and Other
mixed. rights priviIeess' fTsnoSises novve ~
and immunities Of this company. and all
interests therein, TO The Missouri Pacific
ton of the states OF Missouri, kansas and
Nebraska, formed under a certain Con-
tract and Articles Of Consolidation dated
The 18th day OF May, 1903; and to deter
mine whether such sale, conveyance and
transfer, and the terms thereof, shall be
consented to, ratified, assented to, approved
"a II it h be determined by the
stockholders that such sale, conveyance
and transfer be consented to, ratified, as-
scented to, approved and adopted. then 10
authorize and direct the proper officers OF
this company from time to time to execute
and deliver any and all deeds and other
instruments OF whatever nature, and %
take all further or other action, necessary
or proper to carry such sale, conveyance
and uansfer fully into effect; and
90 To ratify and confirm all action
taken and authorized by the Board OF Iii
~rectors OF this Company, and 20 take ans
other action in the premises, and to trans,
act any other business that may properly
come before the meeting.
For the purpose OF this meeting the
stock transfer books Of this Company vii
be closed at the close OF business on the
18TH day OF October, 1909, and remain closed
until the opening OF business on the 25th
day OF October, 1905.
Dated August IL, 1903.
s.. b. SCHUYLER,
President OF Omaha Southern Railway
Company,
+. w. IRLAND,
Secretary OF Omaha Southern Railway
Company. Al9d21t
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-24
LEGAL NOTICES

NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
To the Stockholders Of Omaha Belt Rail
way Company:
You are hereby notified that by resolu-
lions of the Board Of Directors of the
Omaha Belt Railway Company. duly
adopted at a meeting of said Board on the
nth day Of August, 1909, a special meeting
Of the stockholders of Omaha Belt RAILWAY
Company has been called to be held at the
general offices and principal business office
Of said company, at the office OF 9. 70.
wagar, at the southeast corner OF 18th
street and Farnam street, In the city Of
Omaha, Nebraska, on the 23rd day of Octo-
Der, 1909, at nine o'clock in the forenoon,
for the following purposes;
~ TIC consider the sale, conveyance ana
transfer by this Company Of the whole and
every part OF its line OF railroad and
branches, constructed or TO be constructed.
together with all the real essste and other
assets and property, real, personal or
mixed, rights, privileges. franchises,
powers and immunitles Of this Company,
and all interests therein, to The Missouri
Pacific Railway Company, a consolidated
corporation of the states OF Missouri, Kan
sas and Nebraska, formed under a certain
Contract and articles OF Consolidation
dated the 29th day of May, 1909; and to
determine whether such sale. conveyance
and transfer, and the terms thereof, shall
be consented to, ratified, assented to, ap-
proved and adoptedi and,
90 II It shall be determined by the
stockholders that such sale, conveyance
and transfer be consented to. ratified, as
scented to, approved and adopted, then to
authorize and direct the proper officers of
this Company from time to time to ex-
ecute and deliver my and all deeds And
other instruments of whatever nature, and
to take all further OF other action. neces-
sary or proper to carry such sale, convey
ance and transfer fully into effect; and,
90 To ratify ard confirm ul action
taken and authorized by the Board Of Di-
rectors OF this Company, and to take any
other action in the premises, and to
transact any other business that may prop
erly come before the meeting.
For the purpose OF this meeting the stock
transfer books of this Company will be
closed at the close of business on the 18th
day of October, 1909, and remain closed
until the opening Of business on the 18th
day OF October, 1905.
Dated August nth, 1909.
c. s. CLARKE,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-24
South Omaha Home

Modern 7-room house; hot-water heat,
large. airy rooms, newly paved street
and garage. CAN al 2614 Il. ST., South
Omaha, or phone South 59L
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-24
Third Prize Story
q FROM THE BEE

BY Alice Weed, Bailey, Neb., aged III
father, Ed s. Weed; sixth grade.
A WOMAN private secretaryi must also
be a first-class b~Ookkeeper and stenOR-
rRpher. Answer in own handwriting to
r. O. Drawer - Council Bluffs, Ia.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-24

What shall 1 dot" said Marjorie Burns
TO her friend. Brmy Tracy. Il am frying
to get a position, and 1 really don't know
where to so. 1 can write shorthand and
Raan hanLuu
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-24

Z. II. HENDERSON.
29 Board Of Trade. Phone Douglas ll69.
Omaha City Real Estate.
Keith County Land.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-24

Secretary OF Omaha Southern Railway
Company. Al9d21t
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-24

ISIS NJ. 10th ST., s rooms. modern, extra
nice home. See owner, 11O1 N. 18th St.
= TO 8 o'clock.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-24
REAL ESTATE LOANS

$500 to 5000 on homes in Omaha. O'Keefe
Real Estate Co, 1901 ~. Y. Life. Doug. o.
A-2l52.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-24

b-ROOM house. modern except heat. 500
Maple St, SIS. 5 rooms, modern except
heat, 400 William. SIS. 6 rooms I'd floor
toilet, 1905 N. 18th ST.. SIS. 7-roOm modern,
NJ N, 18th St., S25.
CHRIS BOYER
22d and Cunning SITS.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-24

sHEATING at SIS per M. q. C. Dim
mock & Sons, South Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-24
HoUsEs-Psters Trust Co, N. Y. L. Bids

OMAHA EMPRESS CO.. furniture and
piano moving. 4l6 N. nth. D. 1854.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07

CHARGE WILLS WERE FORGED.
Relatives Dispute Transfer Of $780,
600 Estate to Conductors Widow.

New Orleans.-Relatives of Carroll
Burr Hall, a Texas and Pacific and
former Iron Mountain conductor, VINO
was killed by a negro six months ago
filed a sensational petition in the civil
court, declaring that the TWO olo
graphic Wills of the deceased hled
BY the wife OF the deceased two days
before are forgeries. Halls marriage
to a widow occurred only a few
weeks before the tragedy.
Hall left an estate worth S30,ooo'
of which $4,000 is in his brothers
bank at Thayer, Mo. The relatives
who are praying to have the wills set
aside are: Mrs. Harriet H. Peters,
sister, of Commerce, Tex: Clark
brother, Of Thayer, Mo-; Mrs. Nellie
II. Cross of New York, niece, and
Mrs. Nellie Free of St. Louis, niece
1t is alleged in the petition flee
that after Halls death the widow
wrote them asking for legal transfers
and releases. They refused, and 81
months thereafter, they charge. sh'
produced the two Geographic wills
They admit that Hall left some type
written instructions regarding IN
disposal of his estate, but declar
that the wills filed were %forgeries.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07
|BLAck ROT HURTS COTTON
Georgia Farmers Lose Over Million
Per Year by It.

Atlanta, Ga.-"From the reports COM
ing in from various sections of the State
in regard to the increased damage done
to the growing cotton crop by the black
root disease, it now appears that this
will cause a loss to the Georgia farmers
of over a million dollars this year."
This statement was made by State En-
tomologist f. L. Worsham in discussing
the ravages of the black root, which is
proving SO disastrous to the cotton crop
throughout the State of Georgia. tie is
making a strong fight for the approprla'
ton of $4,000 asked for in the bill OF
Representative Henderson of Irwin, one
of the largest cotton growers in the
South.
Prof. Worsham says that black root i:
worse than the boil weevil in that whe1
z stalk of cotton is attacked by black
root the whole stalk dies, thereby losing
all the product in cotton, while the Dol
weevil gets only a certain per cent OF tn
DOLLS.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07
COTTON NEEDS rain
IRREGULAR STANDS TEND TC
MAKE THE AVERAGE LOW.
Local Showers Beneficial Only II
Limited Area-Boll Weevil
on the Increase.

Memphis, CHARACTERIZATION of the
cotton crop has nov been about com
pleted and its fate depends entirely upon
the weather, which at present IS dry
Photographic reports show that moderate
local rains fell on Friday and Saturday.
in Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and
Alabama. They were highly beneficial.
but were not sufficient to relieve the
drouth, as many sections got no rain
at all.
The only section of the cotton belt not
in need of rain lies east OF Alabama
Elsewhere the need with local exception:
is becoming inSistent. The plant ha:
| reached the f~ruiting stage. and BEN!
small and late needs moisture to pro
mote both growth and fruiting.
The cotton in central and northern
Texas and southern Oklahoma is faS
losing ground because Of drouth. II
Louisiana the weather is favorable, bu
wccvils are on the increase.
Owing to the irregular distribution o
rainfall for the past month crops ar
spotted. There is much cotton in a
parts of the South not more than a foo
high on this the second day of August
This fact and irregular stands which al
a heritage of the grassy condition c
early summer, makes the average low
although there are districts with GOO
cotton.
The plant is stocky, healthy and in
clean state of cultivation. General rail
would greatly improve the outlook.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07
MEXICO HAS SHAKES
ONE TOWN DEsTROYED-FOUR'
TEEN DEATHS.
Poems Predicted Disaster Because
the Snow Melted on
Popocatepetl.

Mexico City.-Central Mexico from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and from Vurrato,
on the north, to Oaxaca, on the south, Il
distance covering more b il l,ooo square
miles. was shaken at an early hour FRI
day morning by a series OF the se'er's'
earthquakes that have been felt III TINS
region for the past quarter OF a century
Returns telling of the loss OF HE result
inc from the shocks are as yet lnconl'
plete, but the official figures show ina
fourteen persons were killed outright,
while more than a score were mortalty
injured, The towns Of Acapulco and
ChilDancinrO. in the Stnc of Guerrero,
have been partially destroyed. The peol
classes were terribly frightened over the
| shocks because for days those humble
folk have been predicting a disaster, be
ca,se the SHOWS on the peak OF the vol
cauo Popoca,epetl" visible from TN:
CITY, have been melting. An old Aztec
legend declares that when the SHOWS OF
this volcano disappear, SO, too, VIII III
city at its base.
The wailing and praying of the In
dams in the Alameda, Zocato and olhe
public squares added to the we'rdness o
the scene and painted an untorgettabl
picture on the minds of the half'clat
shivering hordes Of frightened men, won
en- and children, who stood out IN tn
drilling rain waiting for the coming c
daylight. When the shone the PEE
ple returned to their homes, having sui
ciently recovered.
A message from G. Peyres, an Amer
can commercial traveller, received fro
, the town of Chilpancingo, says that u
n),ce has been completely destroye
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07
JEALOUS WFE'S AWFUL DEED
Shot Husband to Death, Cut Woman
to Pieces.

Canton, O.-Tired OF being made a
slave of by the man she married, Mrs,
Tony PAMELA, wife of a prominent East
End grover, fired two bullets through his
head, when she found him embracing
Clara Pizzana, his clerk. Death wa in
Simultaneous.
Afterwards she turned the revolver on
Mrs. Pizzana. Being too excited to shoot,
she threw it down and seized a large
butcher knife with which she literally
cut the woman to pieces. Later with the
bloody knife still in her hand, she went
to a nearby barber shop where she tele
phoned the police.
"They got what they deserved. an
not sorry for my crime,' said Mrs. Pa
nella, when taken to central police ata
ton, her dress soaked with blood.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07
coNGREssMEN AGAINST kEEF.
Louisiana Men Want $4,000 Spent
for Immigration Station.

IOE IulIItINt oAISV
Washington.-The Louisiana dele
CATION in Congress is up in arms
against Commissioner General of I'm
migration Keefe. Keefe recently
made a tour of many OF the immlgra'
ton stations Of the United States,
including that at New Orleans. While
in that city ne expressed surprise at
the small number Of immigrants who
arrived there during the last year.
and this was taken by persons there
as indicating that Keefe would not
look with approval upon the expendl'
ture of $4,000 which he has avail
able for the establishment OF a new
station there.
Citizens Of New Orleans have del
uged their representatives in Con
| gress to head Keefe off, and the en-
tire delegation appeared before Sec
rotary Nagel and asked to be heart
before any final action is taken on tn
subject of the establishment OF a new
enlarged station. Secretary Mage
will give the Louisiana delegation
hearing. -
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07
WEEKS DOlNCS
IN LOUISIANA
FARMERS UNION CONVENTION
OPENS AT OPELOUSAS.
ATTACKS GAME AND CODE COMMISSION
Railroad Officials Are Optimistic
Frisco Enters New Orleans on
September 1-Louisiana Con-
gressmen Ask $4,000 tor
immigration Station.

Opelousas.-The State Farmers
Educational and Cooperative nc
of Louisiana met here in annual con-
vention with State President }. =.
Bullard presiding and State Secretary
J.. N. Deloach at his desk.
Mayor Halphen formally welcomed
the delegates soon after the conVen'
| ton was called to order, the response
on behalf of the Farmers Union be-
ing delivered by State Secretary De-
loach. Addresses were also delivered
bv Delegate Davis Of Acadia and Ma
tional President Charles Barrett OF
Georgia. All the speakers were llb-
orally applauded.
The feature of the opening session
was the address of Hon. Thomas II.
Lewis of Opelousas, who in a care
fully prepared speech attacked first
the protective tariff system and then
what he termed the obnoxious laws
which nave been passed during the
laSt ltSISldluIS VAIN 49,.
$50 new offices. In vigorous language
he denounced the legislati ion which
created the game commission, the
civil code commission and the other
commissions and Offices created by
the last General Assembly, and ar
! gued for their repeal. He spoke al
some length on the primary election
law and said that while that system
was firmly embedded in our law and
in the minds of the people that IT
was evident that party conventions
r should be held before any primary
election to select candidates which
y should adopt a platform upon which
candidates should be required to de
clare themselves.
Most of the sessions of the associa
ton we're held behind closed doors.
# A complimentary excursion owe
a. the Opelousas and Gulf railroad t
q Crowley, and from thence over tn
Frisco to Eunice and back here, wa
a rendered the delegates the secon'
day, but owing to press OF bushes
er the invitation was declined by tn
convention, and the body rename
IS In session all day.
Governor Sanders arrived at
u o'clock from Baton Rouge and wa
met at the depot by a large numbe
of citizens, including Company {
er State National Guard; a brass ban
and a cavalcade composed OF litt]
girls, who followed the governor. TT
procession disbanded at the com
q any's armory, where the governor M
the members of the organization ar
mt made a brief address, thanking the
for coming out to meet him, and r
Id. ferring to their excellent record du
it. Ing the Alexandria encampment.
to At $3.50 p. m. Governor Sanders a
dressed the delegates to the Farmer
ou. Union convention and the citize'
generally on the subject of Mod
err. Road Building" An immense crov
attended the meeting, which was ne
Ter on the court house square, the spec
being made from the stand erect
ars for the purpose.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07
Horace-Ah! Miss Gwace, what
lhould a young man do when he wants
to write spring poetry?
Grace-He should see a doctor.
The Force of Habit.

One of the campers had done some
thing peculiarly idiotic, and the dean
said: Dick reminds me OF Thomas
colt"
"What about Thomas colt?" asked
Dick, cheerfully.
why" the dean responded, read
lily, where l lived in Maine when l
was a boy an old man named Thomas
raised horses. He once put out to
pasture a colt, which had been fed
from its birth in a box stall and wa
tered at the trough in the yard.
THE pasture lay across a small
| river, and in the middle OF the day the
| colt swan the stream to 60 up to the
barn-yard for a drink Of WATER
| Youths Companion.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07
WRIGHT MADE RECORD FLIGHT
Established Beyond Dispute Practl'
cabilitv of Aeroplane.


cability of Aeroplane.
Washington.-Orville Wright, Friday
evening, attained the zenith Of hard
earned success. In a ten-mlle, cross
country flight in the famous a%eroplane
built by himself and his elder brother,
Wilbur, and accompanied by Lieut.. Benz.
D. Foulois, of the Signal Corps, he not
only surpassed the speed requirements OF
his contract with the United States gov
eminent, but accomplished the most diff
cult and daring flight ever planned tor
q heavier-than.air flying machine.
incidentally he broke all speed records
over a measured course, and he estab'
lished beyond dispute the practicability
of an %aeroplane in time Of peace and in
| time of war.
His speed was over forty'two miles an
hour. He made the ten-mile flight from
Fort Myer and back in IA minutes and
AZ seconds, including the more than u
seconds required for the turn beyond
the line at Shutter Hill, the southern enc
of the course. He attained q height il
crossing the valley of Four-mile Run o
nearly 500 feet, and the average attitude
of his practically level course was abou
200 feet above the ground.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07
n .Sss s;ss * a.. %1hompson's Eye Water
STARTED THE TEARS AFRESH.
ThouohtIess Act of Little Eben That
Reminded Sorrowful Widow OF
Her Loss.

Mr.. Jefferson had not been Alto
;ether an exemplary husband and Ia
Their, but he possessed certain engag'
ing qualities which secured him many
friends, and made his death the cause
of sincere mourning to his widow.
Mis- Jeff'son, she's done broke up
over Eb'nezer's being took on 1rm
pneumony," said n of the neigh
bors.
"She sutt'nly u.s." said another.
"Mournin' round de house all de time.
she goes. Why, day befo' yistday l
was thar helpin' her, an she only
stop cryin' once, an dat was to spank
little Eben for takin' m'lasses out n
de jug right into his mouf' when her
back was turned.
when she spanked him good an
set him down, she say to me: he
makes me t'ink OBJ his pa so much !
cyan't bear it, and bus right ou'
erwin agin."-Youth's Companion.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07
THE UNWRiTTEN LAW.
Sensational Case on Trial Before a
Jury at Lake Charles.

Sensational Case on Trial Before a
Jury at Lake Charles.
Lake Charles.-The most sensation
al case of the jury term began last
week when Harrison Deane, a young
white man, was placed on trial on a
charge Of murder, the man who lost
his life being John Aston. The trag-
edy which resulted in the death OF
Aston was enacted at Bon Ami, near
De Ridder. Deane and his wife kept
the boarding house for the log crew
and bad blood arose between Deane
and Aston on account of the latter's
| attentions to Mrs. Deane. Friends
| of Deane claim that Aston repeatedly
made threats against the young man.
There were no witnesses to the trag'
edy. Aston met his death from a
gunshot wound. Deane Immediately
made his way to the nearest deputy
sheriff and surrendered.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07

T. B. Harris, state superintendent
of education. has addressed a letter
to the parish superintendent advis-
ing them that there are still some
teachers in the summer schools who
have not yet secured positions and
protesting against the employment of
teachers from other states until all
competent Louisiana teachers have
been supplied with jobs.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07
Railroad Officials Optimistic.

Alexandria, party of prominent
officials of the Iron Mountain rail-
road was in the city on their special
train making a tour of inspection.
Among other property they inspected
the progress of the work on the new
union station at this point and ex-
pressed the belief that it will be
ready for use by September l. The
party went north into Arkansas,
thence to St. Louis and everywhere
they went they gave encouraging
signs of a general revival Of business,
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07
CAROLINA DRY PRO TEN.
Twentv.One Wet Counties Viii Vote on
Retention of Liquor.

Columbia, S. C.-South Carolina has
been added to the fold of statewide pro-
hibition territory, which now embraces
well-nigh all of the Southeastern States.
However, the drought in this State is to
be temporary-unless the voters in the
q wet counties that are to hold local
option elections on Tuesday, August II,
declare for perpetual dryness.
Due to the strategy of the prohibition
lists in the South Carolina legislature, the
drys have all to gain and nothing to lose
in the approaching contest. Literally this
State is "half and half" q counties be-
ing already in the prohibition camp and
exactly the same number being officially
engaged in the sale Of intoXicants under
what is known as the county dispenser!
system.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07
NEAR BEER TAX DOUBLED.
GEORGIA Lower House Passes Bill fol-
Additional Revenue.

Atlanta, Ga.-An amendment to the
tax laws, doubling the near beer state
tax, was introduced in the house by
Representative Alexander, leader Of the
nrohibitionists. The amendment raises
the tax on manufacturers and agen,s
from $500 to $1,000 yearly, and on re
tailers from 5000 to $500 yearly, bot
taxes payable quarterly. The Alexands'
bill passed the house
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07
DRILLING CONTINUES.
Gas Company Is Penetrating Solid
Rock at Monroe,

Monroe.-The drillers at the gas
we'll at Forsythe Park are now about
five feet into the solid rock, which
seems to be getting gradually a little
softer. The cap rock In the Caddo
field is about 20 feet thick. Whether
this rock here is as thick, or thicker,
remains to be seen. The flow OF gas
continues undated, with a slight in
crease in the amount as the drlllers
20 further into the rock. The con-
tractors confidently expect a gas
blowout almost at any time, espe'
cially when this rock is penetrated.
The big flow Of salt water struck
before the gas was discovered con
tinues undated. The water Is run
ming out of the we'll now at the rate
of over 1000 barrels every "a hours
BY the use of an air compressor thi:
could be increased many times over
and the question of filling the artif1
cial lake would be easily solved.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07
Two Neqroes Are Lynched.

Opelousas.-Onezime Thomas and
Emile Antoine, negroes, who were
being brought to Jail here by two
deputy sheriffs, were taken from the
officers and shot to death near Grand
Prairie, in this parish.
Thomas shot and seriously wound
ed Thomas Fontenot, a farmer near
Grand Prairie, about two months ago.
II is claimed that his act was utterly
without provocation. After eluding
capture for many weeks, sit was dis
covered that he was in the house OF
Antoine. Both negroes were arrest
ed. The officers had not gone far,
however, with their prisoners when
the mob met them and riddled the
bodies of the two negroes with bull
lets, No arrests of the members o.
the mob have been made.