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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-04-21
PERSONALS

Geo. H. Speer of Sam Fordyce was
among the many visitors in the city
today.
Edw. NJ Lewis of Santa Maria is
spending few days in the city, the
guest of the Miller Hotel.
Bert Glover, a prosperous farmer
of the McAllen community, is a bust
ness visitor in the city today.
w. H. Flowers and w. E. Steven
son of Terrell, Texas, are among the
many visitors in the city today.
Walter Mcneil, the prominent
truck grower of Santa Maria, is a
business visitor in the city today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Clark of Har-
lingen came down on the branch last
night returning home this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. John ]. Young came
down from Delfino, their ranch in Hi
dalgo county yesterday and are visi-
tors in the city today
Mrs E. C. Green and children left
Champagne, ILL.,, where they will
spend several months.
B. H. Frazier of Raymondville
came down last night, spending today
in the city looking after his bust
ness interests here.
DIR. and Mrs. A. w. Roth. two chill
dren Miss Kerr and E. J. Gregory,
spent last night in the city, returning
home this morning
John Nicholson of Kingsville super
intendent of motive power of the ST.
L., B. & NJ. Ry., arrived in the city
today on the 1890 train.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Scobey of Mer-
cedes came down on the branch last
night, leaving on the 500 train this
morning for San Antonio where they
go to attend the Battle of Flowers
which began there today.
S. A. Robertson of San Benito was
in town yesterday afternoon on a
short business visit by auto. He left
in a hurry to return to San Benito
and make arrangements to catch the
afternoon train for Houston.
Col. and Mrs. Alba Haywood are
in Houston, with their baby boy,
Alba, Jr, who is seriously i'll. and
whom they took there for treatment.
Their hosts of friends sincerely hope
that their precious little son may re-
cover.
Joseph D. Shaw of the Fountain
Shaw engineering company of Hous-
ton has been in the city for several
days in the interest of the sewer
plant which it is proposed to con-
struct. Mr.. Shaw has just come from
Mission where his firm has let the
contract for a pumping plant for
Conway & Holt.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-04-21
What's in a Name?

/ know a man whose face is long;
He never laughs or sings song;
His name is Hope.
] know a man so glum and cross
For happiness he's at a loss;
His name is Smiles.
] know man who couldn't tell
What year it was that Carthage fell
His name is Wise.
! know man that mOps his brow
And says, Good Lord, it's sizzling
nowi'
His name is Snow.
I know a man who's always blue,
No matter what he tries to do
His name is Brown.
I know man who VOWS that he
viii never, never happy be
His name is Bliss.
] know man who's very high,
And people praise him passing by
His name is Lowe.
] know man who drags his feet,
And seems too blooming tired to eat,
His name is Swift.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-04-21
PROTECTION FROM FROST.
Cheap Method Used BY French Grape
Growers.

The French have method of pro-
ducing artificial clouds for the pro-
lection of vineyards from frost, which
is both simple and inexpensive. and
which could doubtless be adapted to
the same purpose for the protection
of any form of vegetation from the
effects of frost The Texas Stock
man and Farmer describes the meth
cd as follows:
The process consists of filling small
wooden boxes, open at the top, with
an infammable composition consisting
of mixture of equal parts of resin
Gus with earthly matters-clay. terra
alba, and the like-reduced to fine
powder. In the center wick extends
through the compound and serves to
kindle it. The wick, however, may be
dispensed with and the composition
ignited by pouring few drops of al
cohOl petroleum or other inf1ammable
oil over the mass and applying
match. These boxes, made about
eight inches long by six wide, made
of pine wood ordinarily, are placed in
line about thirty feet apart around
the vineyard.
III SldpCFlnOS, luC I1OSS dangerous
period of the year is in April, when
the young shoots are showing some
vigor and the juices running freely.
Then slight frost may mean disas-
ter. unless the plants are protected
in some way. There is but little dan
ger when a dark or cloudy morning
follows cold night The trouble
comes when the first rays of the
morning sun strike the almost frozen
unprotected plant By this process
a dense cloud of smoke is produced,
hanging over the vineyard long
enough to protect the plants from the
suns rays and give them a chance to
recuperate from the dangerous effects
Of the frost.
The composition in the boxes to
windward only is ignited, the thick,
black, heavy smoke hanging over the
field forming a shield against the
suns rays. If it is desired to extin-
guish the fires it is only necessary to
have an open box a trifle larger than
the others, by means of which the
flames are quickly smothered. 1t is
claimed that the protection of fifty
acres of this method of producing
smudges can be achieved at an ex-
penditure of 50.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-04-21
CITIZENS SUE RAILROADS.
Damage Suits For Injury to Property
in Houston.

Houston Texas. April 20.-In the
District Court seven damage suits
have been filed against the Houston
Belt & Terminal Railway Company ct
al by parties who are seeking to re
cover sums ranging all the way from
$4,000 to $4,000 for damages al
legged to have been done property on
Mary street and Odin avenue and
other places adjacent to the right of
way of the company The Trinity &
BrazOs Valley Railroad Company,
Gulf. Colorado and Santa Fe Ry. Co..
Beaumont, Sour Lake & Western
Railway Company and the St Louis,
Brownsville and Mexico Railway
Company were also made parties to
the suits. Those filing suits were
Amelia Riley and husband, Thomas
Lyons p W. Schwander, Meyer
Moltz Mrs Annie Housard and
Adam Mcdonald. The allegations set
forth in all the petitions are about
the same. and in each case pecuniary
recompense is asked for the harm al
legged to have heretofore been done
the property by the presence of the
railroad and yards.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-04-21
A GYMNASIUM.
Much Needed Enterprise Opened
- Here by A. G. Mason.

A new and much needed enterprise
for Brownsville which has been es-
tablished recently by Albert G. Ma
son. is the Brownsville Athletic Club.
The club is equipped with gymnasium
which is supplied with various kinds
of apparatus for exercising, such as
rings, trapezes, punching bags, box
ing gloves, fencing outfits, Indian
club. dumb bells. etc. A shower bath
for the use of these taking these ex-
ercises is an important feature of the
gym As soon as the membership
will warrant it, a competent physical
director will be secured. 1t is the
desire of Mr.. Mason. just as soon as
possible. to convert the club INTO a
Young Mems Christian Association
which will take charge of the gym.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-28
GOVERNMENT PUTS MAIL CARS
IN OPERATION WITHOUT
MUCH INTERFERENCE.
PEOPLE ALONG LINE
oisAPPRovE OF NEGROES
Several coIored Firsmsn and Mail
Clerks Among Members Of Train
crews--company Apparently Maxi
ing Ready to Start Other Trains and
Trouble is ioipated.

Atlanta, Ga. May 2S.-Carrylng
negro fireman. the first train of any
sort run over the Georgia Railroad In
over five days. consisting of engine and
mall car. left hero at 1880 this morning.
Many spectators were at the station,
but no demonstration was made.
The engineers upon all trains today
were regular men who stopped work
last Saturday. They returned TO work
with assurance from Assistant Chief
Burgess, OF the order OF locomotive en-
gineers, that they would be protected.
The train made only little over seven
miles In Its first hours run. owing to
the stop at Decatur the firs, town east
OF Atlanta, where the newspaper mon
who had started to make tho trip I'm the
baggage car were pue OF There waS
long conference with the officials os
the road over their presence and IL
MIS- finally decided that they were pas
sengers. and that the road had no right
to carry passengers.
Disapproral and In a few instances
indignation against the presence OF
negro firemen was expressed today in
the reports wired from the first dozen
towns thru which the mail trains
passed Reports were received that
supplies of fuel and other Indications
of preparations to start trains wero
being made at tho way stations. There
are twentS-one Idle engines along tho
main line between here and Augusta.
The train from Augusta completed
the run over the mail line into Atlanta
early this afternoon, without having
encountered any demonstration.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-28
SENATOR BRADLEY, OF KEN.
TUcKY, SCORES AMERICAN
COMPANY IN SPEECH.
ENGINEERED COMBINES
TO sTIFLE COMPETITION
Companies Accused of Agreeing On
Fixed Prices to Be Paid For Leaf
Tobacco and Apportionns Territory
to Each Interested Concern - The
Tariff Debate.

Washington, May 2S.-That the out
RACES of the night riders of Kentucky
and Tennessee resulted from the op-
preston of the American Tobacco
Company and that unless the internal
revenue tax on leaf tobacco in hand is
repealed these outrages will lagain oc-
cur was the declaration made by SEN
ator Bradley of Kentucky, today in
urging the adoption of his amendment
to the senate tari ffbill.
This amendment proposes to restore
in the tariff bill the house provision for
the free sale of leaf tobacco by the
farmer, which was stricken out by the
finance committee of the senate.
After reviewing the growth of the
American Tobacco Company, Bradley
said that, not content with destroying
all competition in the United States,
this concern drove the Imperial Tobac-
oc Company of Great Britain, it's chief
competitor. to compromise and OBJ
tanned an agreement by which the Inn
perial yielded up all competition in the
oAiilCQ OldtCS
France, Austria, italy, Portugal, and
other countries each in the meanwhile
decreed that the government would buy
and import tobacco as business. the
profit going into the Golfers of the
government under what is known as
the Reggie SYSTEM" said Bradley. "The
American Tobacco Company. seeing
danger in this direction, entered into
a conspiracy with the Reggie agents by
which the territory should be and was
divided, all agreeing to pay the same
fixed price and alloting the territory
into we'll defined districts so that there
could be no conflict of interests
Thus the producers found themselves
powerless, hemmed in on every side,
continued Bradley, and after appealing
to congress without effect, as a last re-
sort organized pooling societies, which
resulted in the saturnalia Of crime in
Kentucky and Tennessee. While de-
nouncing the night rider outrages,
Bradley declared tobacco leaf growers
were sorely pressed and that they were
forced to combine to protect them
selves, and that the crimes which re-
suited We're due to the trusts op-
preston.
Farmers Also Petition.
There was a flood of protests by
sugar refining companies in the senate,
against the charge that they We're con-
trolled by the American Sugar Refln-
ing Company. The farmers Of Utah
and Michigan were also largely rep
resented in petitions presented, pray
ing against any reductions in sugar
duties provided in the pending tariff
bill
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-28
DUNN's TRADE REVIEW.
Bank clearinas Last Weak of Month
Hardly Up to AVERAGE.

New York, May 2S.-,Dun's Review
tomorrow VIII say: Bank clearings
dwindlcd slightly this week. and for
the fourth week of the month arc
scarcely up to the average Of earlier
weeks. total exchanges for all leading
cities being s2.521,476 900. or 1913 per
cent larger than in the corresponding
week last year. There Is also very
small increase over 1906. II allowance,
il made for the fact that the comparl
son Is with only five days in the Week
that year. For the month 10 date panh
clearings are one nth larger than a
year ago. and slightly under / per cent
larger than In May OF 1906. when trade
was veryactive AS noted above. the
increase IN comparison whh tha report
three years ago, shown In earlier re-
turns. Is hardly maintained in the last
week of the month
Dispatches to Dun's Review Indicate
that irregular weather practically re-
tards the movement of seasonabie,
goods, but all Indications point to al
steady Improvement in business coaai-
tions The marked progress In iron AMI
steel, is having beneficial effect ON
the general trade.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-28
IOWA, FRIDAY MAY 2S, 1909

shall be examined at once, and lead
connections substituted for iron, at the
expense of the property owner failure
to comply being threatened with heavy
penalty. The paving district will en-
brace the whole of Broad street and
the larger part OF Park. Main and West
streets, together with parts of Third.
Fourth and Fifth avenues. and all of
Sixth avenue. east of West street, and
the one block constituting Commercial
street.
The council also granted the petl-
ton of the Interior Telephone Com
pany, that they be allowed to place
their wires in the business portion of
the city in underground conduits run
ming east and west on Fourth avenue
and north and south, In the alley be-
tween Main and Broad streets
Montezuma has also taken action
through the council and mayor towards
paving. but have decided to use brick.
Captain j. w. Carr has been chosen
city attorney. and James A. Mortand
as city engineer, and the work of prep
aration and paving is to be pushed as
rapidly as practicable.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-28
IOWA MAN HOLDING SENATE Po.
slTloN SAID TO BE TOOL OF
ALpRIcH.
AS READING CLERK
HE AIDS IN GAG LAW
Bacon, Of Georgia. Severely Rebukos
A!drieh and Crockett For cs.sr:-:.J
to Prevent His Efforts to Got Recos.
milton and Be Permitted to Speak.
Special to Times -Rcpublican

Special to Times Republican.
Washington. May 2S.-John c.
Crockett, of Eldora, Iowa, former clerk
of the Iowa supreme court and now
one of the senate reading clerks, came
In for n sharp rebuke today.
Adrich was trying to force vote
on a paragraph in the sugar sched-
ule and Bacon, of Georgia, was seek
Ing recognition to speak. Crockett be-
gan reading the roll call while Bacon
clamored for the floor. Bacon stopped
the call and said.
"The Rhode Islander and reading
clerk together can not force this sor,
of thing, and 1t must be stopped
remember that the same thing was
done to Senator LaIrollette on the oc-
casion Of his great speech against the
currency bin year ago, and he was
taken off the floor. If am pressed I
will tell what I know about the ar
rangement of that performance, which
will reflect credit on neither the sem
atorial nor the other participants"
The roll was not called. Adrich has
done such actions notoriously. and
Crockett has during the present ses-
sion been willing help TO the Rhode
Islander.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-28
CHURCH AND STATE LOCK HORNS
General Presbyterian Assembly Con-
demns Setting Aside of Church

General Presbyterian Assembly Con-
demns Setting Aside Of Church
Union.
Denver. May 2s-The church locked
horns with tho state today. when .he
general assembly of the Presbyterian
church In effect. condemned the action
OF the state courts of Tennessee. In set
ting aside the union OF the Preshyter-
ian church In the United States Of
America with the Cumberland Pres
byterian church.
Tho assembly's criticism OF tho
courts. which was unsparing, was
based on the report OF the committee
ca ch.rC,i co-operht,cn, which s5i;1rrss
was written by William Henry Rob-
erts. stated clerk of the assembly. It
set out In effect, that OF the three es-
,ahlshcd doctrines with respect to tho
relation OF the church and state, they
being the Roman Catholic. wherein the
church Is superior 10 the stnte. the
theory recognized in England and
some parts OF the United States, Is
that the state Is superior to the church
and Calvinistic. wherein the church
and state possess distinct Jurisdictions.
the latter is the preferable view and
will be held to in the Presbyterian
church. The report rebukes the Ten
nessec courts for presuming to pass
judgment upon matters or church
doctrine
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-28
YOUNG WOMAN MISSING.
Draws Deposit From Bank and Disap.
pears From Dyersville.

Draws Deposit From Bank and Oisap.
pears From Dyersvlle.
Dyersville, May 2S-This city is con-
siderably wrought up over the fact
that Miss Ella Moon, highly re-
spected and popular young lady of
this city. has completely disappeared
from the home OF her aunt. Mrs. j.
Moon, to never return again. The
fact of her disappearance, which is
supposed to have occurred last week
when she was seen to board a Central
train, did not become known until
yesterday,
Mrs. j. Moon has been visiting with
relatives In Wisconsin and when she
returned to her home In this city
Tuesday she was surprised to find that
her niece was not at home nor could
any of the neighbors tell where she
was. Going through the house she
found note which gave her the first
intimation she had received that her
niece had left her. The note was
couched In but few words and read.
Gone. can't explain"
Miss Moon, who Is % years of age
and a most attractive and popular
girl, seemed to be of the jollIest dis
are at loss to understand her ac-
ton. She had something like 5000 in
local bank and this deposit she
withdrew last Thursday She took
none of her jewelry nor any of her
clothes beside those which she wore
when last seen on the streets here
Thursday. Tho entire affair Is
shrouded in the deepest mystery and
has caused much comment and ex-
element here. She was young lady
of excellent character but was at
times morose. Her friends fear she
may have met with foul play.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-28
HASKELL AGAIN INDICTED.
Oklahoma Executive Held For Lane
Frauds.

Tulsa, Okla. May 2S.-1ndictments
charging fraud in the Muskogee town
lot cases were returned by the United
States grand jury last night against
Gov. Charles N. Haskell, F. B. Sewers,
w 7. Hutchins. G. w. Turner, A. n
English and W. R. Eaton.
The accused men are charged with
obtaining titles from the government
to town lots in Muskogee by illegal
methods. Bond in each case was fixed
at $4,000 and was promptly furnished
Interest in the land fraud proceedings
was heightened by an order from Judge
Marshall citing William Stryker, editor
of the Tulsa Democrat to appear be-
fore the United States court at Meal
ester June IA to answer charge of
contempt of court
The grand jury returning the indict-
ments is the third summoned in the
case. The second, which convened April
20, was dismissed before it had a
chance to vote on the indictments.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-28
INTERCOLLEGIATE MEET
Preliminary Events in Thirty-fourth
Annual Meet, Take Place Today at
Undergraduates Present From
Twenty Institutions of Learning.

Cambridge, Mass. May 2s.-Hun-
dreds Of trained college athletes gath
cred in Harvard stadium today, under
somewhat dubious weather conditions.
for the preliminary events in the thir-
ty-fourth annual meeting of the Inter-
collegiate Athletic Association. The
survivors of today's contests will COM
pete for the championship tomorrow.
Besides Harvard and Yale there were
present delegations of athletes from
Pennsylvania. Cornell. Michigan,
Princeton, Dartsmouth, Bowdoin, Will
Nams, Amherst, Brown, Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology, Syracuse,
Swarthmore. Columbia, Stevens Insti-
tute, Haverford, Johns Hopkins, New
York University, and Fordham.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-28
TRAIN RoBBER SUSPECTS
Omaha Police Have Men in Custody,
But Lack Evidence to Identify Them
Believe They Have Right Men.

Omaha May 2s-Thc police OF South
Omaha and Omaha have been busy to-
day following every clew that promised
to furnish the identification of the men
arrested last night on suspicion of be-
ing the Union Pacific train robbers,
but little material progress had been
made up to noon. The belief that the
right men have been caught Is strong.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-28
PAGE ONE.

PAGE ONE.
Telegraphio Nows:
Collapse OF Junkin Feared
States Evidence Nearly Finished.
Trains Started on Georgia Railrond
Recent Quake Opens Cavern In Min
nesota.
Rivers Waters Swallowed Up.
Train Robber Suspects Held.
College Student Murdered
Canal Wants s35,000.o00.
Rogers Gives 100000 to Education.
Tobacco Trus; and Night Riders. -.
Lynchings in the South
Sunday Tells of Heaven.
PAGES TWO, THREE AND FOUR.
Iowa News:
Aged Man Dies of Exposure.
Iowa Has Auto Craze.
Delilah Fails Freed
Iowa Saloons Doomed?
Grafters' Victim Gets Money Back.
PAGE FIVE.
County News:
County High School Commence
mcnts.
PAGE SIX.
EDITORIAL:
Gettinf Licked at School.
The Dunkers.
Henry Wallace's Advice.
Topics of the Times
Iowa Opinions and Notes.
LOCKER on In Iowa.
PAGES SEVEN, EIGHT AND NINE.
City News:
New Methodist Assistant Pastor.
May Build Fine Club Home.
Investigating Creamery Location.
Masonic Temple May Go Five Sto-
ries.
Stipps Celebrate Silver Wedding.
Noah and the Flood in Slang.
Must Have Faith-Sunday.
General News OF the City.
PAGE TEN.
Markets and General:
Wheat Begins to Sag.
Shorts Active Corn Buyers.
Steers Steady. Butcher Stuff Weak.
Hogs 10 to Is Cents Lower
Income Tax Amendment Dead.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-28
BAILEY IN FIST FIGHT.
Texas Senator Attacks Newspaper
Mantle is Passed.


Washington, May 2S.-Just after the
senate adjourned yesterday Senator
Bailey, of Texas, and w. S. Manning,
representative of the New York
Times, engaged in fisticuff in front Of
the senate committee on finance. There
was a reference to Bailey's character
1zation of the New York Times writer
as IAN Infamous liar" and too soon for
bystanders to apprehend what it was
all about Manning struck Bailey with
his umbrella and the two men clinched.
They were Immediately separated with
out injury.
The Times article charged that
Bailey had played into the hands of
Aldrich by his course in demanding
an immediate vote on the income tax
amendment and had thus caused a
split Of the forces supporting such an
amendment.
The speech by Bailey in regard to
the article was one of the most scath-
ing arraignments of newspaper cor
respondent that has ever taken place
in the senate. The senator not only
asserted that the writer of the article
was IAN infamous liar" but that he
was "a miserable creature unfit to as
sociate with honest men,"