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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-07-01

Smokers like Lewis Single Binder cigar
for its rich, mellow quality.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-07-01

Just 1000, 900 tons of butter and
cheese were eaten all over the world.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-07-01

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children %teething, softens the gums, reduces in-
hammation, allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c a bottle
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-07-01

Tell the Dealer you want a Lewis Single
Binder cigar for its rich, mellow quality.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-07-01
REVEN {.

The Professor-I've been a vege-
tartan all my life; from now on I'll eat.
nothing but beef!
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
TRUST GIVEN 4 SOP
Vast Sum of 500, 900 Goes to
Manufacturers,

New York.-The startling declaration
that more than 1921. 100000 had been
given to the tobacco manufacturers,
largely to the tobocco trust, through the
inadvertence or design Of Congress, was
made Tuesday by tobacco experts when
they heard from Washington that the
new tariff will probably fix the tax on
chewing and smoking tobacco at 8 cents
a pound.
This vast sun became the property OF
the consumers since the beginning of the
Spanish American Wor. 1t is an excess
of profit over the extra war tax Of 6
cents a pound put on such tobacco to
provide funds with which the country
was to fight Spain. It came to the man
ufacturers largely because Congress was
Indifferent when it came to striking out
the provisions for decreased weight pack.
ages when the var tax was repealed in
April, 1902.
That most of this vast revenue in.
crease went to the tobacco trust is def
nitely shown by the stock records of the
American Tobacco Company. Prior to
June, 1908, the common stock Of the
trust sold as low as so. In June of that
year, the very month in which the wal
tax was put on, the stock was quoted
at 9sk. 1t is now selling at about 14O
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
JOHN D, ADDS TO GIFTS FLOODS CAUSE DEATHS
GIVES $1o,ooo,o 900 TO CAUSE OF
EDUCATION.
General Board Empowered to Dis
tribute Funds-His Total Do
nation $52, 900, 900.

New York.-John D. Rockefeller Fri
day increased his donations to the
general educational board by a gift of
$40, 600, 900 and also released the board
from the obligation to hold in perpetu.
ity the funds contributed by him. The
gift announced brings Mr.. Rockefeller's
donations to the board to $4,000, 900.
The gift was contributed, according to
the statement made by Chairman Gates,
because the income of the present fund
available for appropriation had been ex-
hausted and a larger income to meet
educational needs of great Importance
had become necessary.
Mr.. Rockefeller's action in empower
ing the board and its successors to dis
tribute the principal of funds contrib
uted by him upon the affirmative vote
OF two-thirds of its members was said
to be taken in consideration of the
possibility, now remote, that at some
future tine the object and purpose of
the Rockefeller foundation might be-
come obsolete. Under the original con.
ditions imposed the fund would have to
continue in perpetuity regardless OF
whether a public demand for it's contn'
uation exists or not.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
The Good Roads Campaign.

: Baton Rouge.-The good roads
campaign conducted by Governor
Sanders has not only stimulated in
terest in good roads and created a
general demand for the %convicts from
the different parishes Of the state, but
has also directed attention to the
fact that the parish convicts could
be worked with great profit on the
roads If the work was directed with
system and intelligence. The Win
field parish grand jury, in a report,
says. 1--WE further recommend that
the public roads Of the parish be
worked by the convicts who are SEN
fenced to terms in the parish Jail,
and we believe this can be done to
the great advantage Of the parish,
and at the same time benefit the
health of the parish. The expense of
the parish for feeding prisoners is
very great, and we think that the
parish should get some return for
this outlay, and the working Of the
public reads by these prisoners is the
only feasible plan that suggests it.
self to our mind"
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
SUCCESSOR TO D|AZ
Mexico Concerned Over Coming
ViCe-Presidential Election.
Ramon Corral, a Protege Of Dlaz, and
Gen. Reyes, idol of Army, Lead
ina Candidates Now, With Jose
limantour a Possibility.

City of MexicO.-What is quite gen.
orally conceded to be equivalent to a
campaign for the presidency of Mex
leo is now being waged in this cOun-
try, the contestants being Ramon
Corral, the present vice president. ana
Gen. Bernardo Reyes, governor OF the
state of Nuevo Leon. These men are
active candidates for vice-president.
The election is not until neXt year,
and the race promises to become very
exciting by that time.
President Diaz. who has agreed to &C.
cept the presidency for another term
of six years, will be so years Old Sep
TENDER Is, 1910, and it can hardly Dc
expected that he will live out his term
of office. 1t is for this reason that
so much Importance is attached to the
election of a vice-president.
The vice-presidency of Mexico was
created by an amendment to the con-
stitution six years ago, and Ramon
Corral was the first man elected to
that Office. His election was a mere
formality, as he was in reality selected
for the place by President Diaz, who
is said to have had him in training
with the view of making him his sue
cessor. Vice-President Corral was re-
Gently renominated for the office on
the ticket with President Diaz. The
nomination was not unanimous, rs
some of the delegates to the conven-
ton insisted in voting for Gen.
Reyes, and others wanted to support
Jose Ives Limantour, present minis
ter of finance, but the Corral adher.
ents were in the majority and their
candidate was nominated.
The nomination of Gen. Reyes for
| vice-president has not been done in
| the usual convention form. He has
been put up for the Office by means Of
n%umerously signed petitions by his
! friends and admirers all over the
country. 1t was originally planned
that he was to be a candidate for
| president, but when Diaz reconsidered
his intention of not again being a
candidate for the high office, it was
decided that Reyes should make the
race against Corral for vice-president.
The anti-American issue promises
to become largely involved in this
campaign. Supporters of Gen. Reyes
are already making an open charge
that it was through Mr.. Corral that
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
BEAUTY SEEKS DIVORCE
WANTS $1oo,ooo FOR ALIENAT-
ING HUSBANDS AFFECTIONS
Cruelty and Drunkenness Charged.
Claims Husband Turned
Bulldog on Her.

Baltimore. Md.-Mrs. Frank Brown
Jr., who has been called by admirers
the most beautiful woman in the
South" Tuesday filed her bill Of divorc"
agains, the young son OF eN-Gov. Frank
Brown, alleging extreme and sensational
cruelty.
Young Mrs. Brown charges that her
husband dragged his vicious bulldog into
her apartment and set the dog upon her,
so that she had to flee and take refuge
with friends; that he pulled her hair, hit
her, kicked her, cursed her and abused
her before others in the vilest language;
that he threatened her life with a pistol;
that while in company he had thrown
cards, food and other articles in her
face.
Mrs. Brown alleged that frequently in
the presence Of male and female ac-
quaintanccs her husband tore up and de-
stroyed her clothes and articles of
adornment, and she was forced to seek
the protection of friends from the vio-
lent abuses of her husband.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
TWO THOUSAND HOMELESS IN
KANSAS AND MISSOURI.
Great Suffering at Springfield, tho
City Being Practically Sub
merged-Loss 81, 500, 900.
oTHAUG~~EJT

Kansas City.-Close to 1000 persons
rendered temporarily homeless, with a
property loss estimated at 81, 10000 0 six
persons injured, railway traffic to the
north, west and south Of Kansas City
demoralized, and thousands of acres of
rich farming land and miles of railway
tracks inundated, summarizes the flood
situation in Missouri and Kansas.
The greatest suffering was at Spring
field in Southern Missouri, and at Otta.
wa, Kas., 81 miles southwest of Kansas
City. Both these towns were practically
submerged by the sudden overflow of
local streams. Elsewhere in these two
states nearly every stream was receding,
and the worst of the flood was believed
to be over.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
JAPS TO BREAK 1904 TREATY
Sudden Recall of Ambassador Taxa
hira Significant.

Washington.-The announcement OF
the political purpose in dispatching the
Pacific fleet to the Philippines startled
the state department. On the surface at
the state department the attitude is that
it is up to Japan to make the first move
to denounce the treaty of 1904, and
which expires by limitation in 1871.
It is incumbent on either party in or.
der to abrogate the treaty to give one
years notice. There is a we}l-founded
suspicion that Japan has already given
this notice in order to hasten the settle
ment of the labor question on the coast,
which is the crucial consideration in
that convention. At the department they
say automatically that the matter is not
under consideration yet.
The most significant development in
the whole japanese treaty question is
the sudden determination of Ambassador
Takahira to get back home.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
Will Aid the State CAPITAL,

Baton ROuge.-This city has begun
feeling the effects Of having the Uni
ted States land records for Louisiana
here, although the records have not
been received. There have been sew
eral persons in Baton Rouge for the
purpose of looking Owe the records.
These parties were under the impress
sion that the records were received
here on July l. Fred Grace, register
of the state land Office, estimates that
five or six hundred people will be
brought to Baton Rouge every year
for the purpose of inspecting the orig
inal land entries. The surveyor gen.
eral in New Orleans still has his force
busy packing the records and will
not have them ready for shipment
before the first of next week. The
record rooms at the state house have
been completed and the books can
be stored away any time they are
received.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
Tax Scheme Abandoned.

Baton Rouge.-The three mill spe
cial school tax for the public schools
of East Baton Rouge has been aban.
doned. The entire scheme was laid
ever by the parish school board at
its meeting recently. The reports or
the country members of the board
showed a distinct opposition from
the farmers. They claim that the
crcp conditions are such in view of
the ravages of the boil weevil that
it is impossible to bear any addition
al taxes. The general report was that
the farming interests would not, at
this time, support a 3-mill tax for
the schools. In view Of the conditions
the parish school board decided to
carry the entire proposed school tax
over until a later date, which means
next year. 1t was the original inten.
ton Of the board to open a campaign
for three mills for three years.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17

COTTON NEEDING RAIN
PLANT SHOWS THE EFFECTS
AND WILL DETERIORATE.
Crop Is Doing Fairly Well, But the
Plant in Mississippi Is Small
and Stands Are Poor.

Memphis, Tenn.-Returns from the
cotton crop this week are mixed. In
prorement is noted in Georgia, Ala.
bama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Oklahoma and Northern and Eastern
Texas. No improvement or loss occurred
in North Carolina, Souh Carolina, Louis
lana and Central, Southern and Western
Texas.
The plant in Arkansas, Oklahoma ana
Northern Texas is large, fruiting well,
thrifty and full of promise. East OF
the Mississippi river, although improve
ment has taken place as noted, the plant
is small and not always healthy and oc-
c%asionally stands are bad. The crop
promise is regarded as still uncertain, al
| though with favorable weather for the
remainder Of the season a fair yield can
be made.
Tennessee-What rain fell during the
week was beneficial. The crop is now
about clean, and although the plant is
small it is growing rapidly and the
crops promise is much improved.
Mississippi-A week of dry weather
was favorable to the crop, which is now
nearly free of grass. The plant is small,
but looks healthy and is rapidly round
ing into good condition. In som sec.
lions stands are poor.
Alabama-The week was generally
dry and hot and much work was done in
the fields. In spite of the progress OF
the seven days the plant is still small
and no hopes are held of making an av-
erage crop.
Arkansas-The cotton crop in this
State is free of grass and in a healthy
condition. In many places the plant is
large. Generally the crops promise is
regarded as good. Boil weevil has done
little damage.
Louisiana-Thc week was favorable
as to weather, but the plant has not re-
covered from early vicissitudes, while
the activity of the weevil makes many
correspondents believe in the possibility
of Il half crop only with favorable
weather.
Oklahoma-Weather conditions con.
tinue favorable in this State, and the
cotton crcp is very promising. The
plant is large and now rapidly putting
on squa'es.
TeNas--The cotton in Texas south Of
Waco and east of Palestine is in need OF
rain. Owing to the small winter ram
fall great apprehension exists regarding
a summer drought. In some of this ter
ritory little damage has as yet beer
done, but even where this is the case
correspondents regard the crop condition
as approaching the precarious.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
BRIEF MENTION,

Charlton in Cameron parish Is pro-
nounced to be epidemic, flies spread
ing the disease to humans.
Tallulah voted $4,000 bonds for
water works and electric lighting.
Homer c. Gibson, a negro, was ar.
rested at Alexandria on suspicion. of
being connected with the murder Of
Policeman Imbert at Whitecastle.
Italians have been ordered out Of
Bossier parish. La, as a result Of the
Boney tragedy.
Rev. A. SIEVE committed suicide at
French Settlement.
An election on the proposition to
levy a 2-mill school tax throughout
St. John parish will be held August 3.
Tony Montalbano, an Italian mer-
chant of White Castle, was charged
with being accessory to the shooting
and wounding of Officer Pierre EN-
bert.
Emma Milton, a ne;gress, shot and
killed Tom Williams, a negro, at
Monroe, after making an unsuccessful
attempt to stab him with scissors.
The agricultural urs a the ap.
proved agricultural high schools Of
Louisiana will be inaugurated at the
beginning Of next session.
Eight persons were injured in a
passenger wreck on the Kansas City
Southern railroad at Frierson.
Governor Sanders, In an address at
Arcadia, gave further assurance Of
his desire to aid parish police juries
in the good roads campaign.
The army detailed Captain Monroe
C. Kerth to give instruction at Camp
Sample, where problem work will sue
coed the old-time sham battle. The
Seventeenth Infantry band was order
ed to report.
The cornerstone Of the new court
house for Vernon parish was laid at
Leesville with Masonic ceremonies.
Governor Sanders delivered a good
roads address at Winfield Central
high school recently.
The Lafayette Parish Farmers
Club will organize a truck growers
association.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
CENTRAL KENTUCKY SUFFERS
Wheat and Corn Crop Will Not
Make Half Yield.

Lexington, Ky.-The heavy rains
throughout kentucky during the past few
weeks are believed to have worked havoc
with many of the crops, and it is the
claim of the farmers of Central Kentucky
that the corn and wheat crops will not
yield half as much to the acre as in the
past few years.
Much of the wheat throughout this sec
ton was cut during the past week, and
is still in the shock, and most of the
damage to this crop will occur because
of the fact that it is shocked and the
thresher cannot be used on it. Others
claim that it will be greatly damaged be.
cause of that fact.
The greatest amount of rainfall known
in Kentucky in the past twenty years
has fallen during the past six weeks,
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
LOUISIANA EVENTS
All Around the State During the Past
Few Days-What is Gong On
and Where and Why.

Government. Figures on loui1iana.
New OrleaHs.-There has Just been
completed and issued by the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor the STA
iistical abstract of the United States
covering the period to the close OF
the calendar year 1908. Some figures
are given concerning Louisiana, its
people, products and wealth III real
estate and values which are or IN
terest. Under original homestead
entries there were in 1913 32,SZi.oo
acres; land areas unapproprlated ana
unreserved, 1929 acres, and public
lands disposed OF for cash, 59,43O.26
acres. OF swamp and overflow lands
there were 100000 acres. Developed
water in the same year aggregated
70 wheels, with 1854 horsepower.
Area Of petroleum embraced 6O
square miles, while the natural gas
area was 10 square miles. In popu'
lation, according to the last census.
the state ranked twenty-third. there
being 730,S21 whites and 65O,SO4 col
ored in a total of 1,381,625. Of this
total there we're 694,733 males and
CSC, 1892 females. There were 1,32S,722
%native-born and 5000 f~oreign-born.
There are 1880 farms, Of which
1855, 532 acres were improved and
6,392,595 acres unimproved, the total
acreage being 1~l,O59,l27, or an aver
age of 95.4 acres to a farm, the per-
centage Of improved farm land being
42.2. Value of farm property with
improvements, including buildings,
was $141,130,610; implements and
machinery, s2S,536,790 live stock,
$2S,S69,506, or a total value Of $685.
5S6,9O6 for all farm property Out
of a total production of 7~73,24S,000
pounds of cane sugar, Louisiana pro
duced $780, 400, 700, the total for tae
other Southern states being 22,S4S,
900 pounds. Of molasses Louisiana
produced 20,4S2, 100 gallons, the other
Southern states ~4,717,518 of the total
OF 2~5,200,21S gallons.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
NEAR BEER" SAVES GEORGIA
Tax Will Be Sufficient to Pay Legis-
lators' Salaries.

Atlanta, Ca With the treasury
empty and no money in sight to pay
current bills, the legislative and other
officials are saved from going without
salary only by near beer.
Some energetic scion discovered that
there was something like $23O,0OO in
the treasury collected from zeal beer
tax, but which is supposed to be used
for the purchase of a prison farm. As
the administration has decided not to
buy the farm now, the funds will be
turned back into the treasury for use
in the emergency.
When prohibition went into effect it
was decided that intoxicating liquor to
be intoxicating much contain more than
4 per cent. of alcohol. As none of the
American beers contain more than 4
per cent. the sale of them has been
practically unmolested. The state put a
tax of 5000 a year upon each near beer
saloon in the state.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
FOR KING COTTON
Idea Developed at Meeting Of Com
mercial Secretaries.

Atlanta, Ga.-A King Cotton carnival,
to be held annually in some Southern
city, changing its location eacl, year, was
the slogan sung by the commercial sec
retaries gathering here for the first an
nual convention of the Southern Com
mercial Secretaries Association.
The "Three-K" exhibition is to be for
the purpose Of exploiting the prodWcts
of cotton, its b%y-products and the thou
sands of articles into which cotton fiber
enters in some indispensable form.
The discussion will cover the relations
of state and municipal governments and
railroads to the advertising of the re.
sources of Southern municipalities. Good
roads will be studied in concrete form
during a trip by automobile from Allan.
ia to Roswell, Ga, the ancestral home Of
Theodore Roosevelt,
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17

E. H. Hartman obtained from tho
Mexican government a remarkably
favorable concession for the railroad
which he is building down the Pa.
cifc slope of Mexico, and that the
great American railroad magnate will
draw from the public treasury of Mex
leo as a subsidy for building this road
more than 800 0 900. It is claimed
that Mr.. Hartman has other great in
dustrial favors to ask of the Mexican
government and that he is lending his
aid to bring about the election of Mr.
Corral to another term as vice-presi-
dent and to ultimately elevate him to
the presidency.
MI. Corral, as vice-president, per.
forms the dual duty of minister OF the
interior. In this Office he s%upervises
the internal affairs of the country, In
which many Americans, among them
Mr.. Hartman. are interested, but his
| friends deny that he has extended any
unusual favors to any person.
Mr.. Corral IS unpopular with the
army, and without it's united support
Mr.. Corral, or any other ruler of Mex
leo, would be badly handicapped in
preserving peace and order. Gen.
| Reyes is the idol of the army. His
bravery has been proved upon many
battlefelds. He also has the conf
| dence and highest respect of a large
| part of the business element through.
| out the country. 1t Is stated that Gen.
| Reyes personally deplores the fact
| that the anti-American issue has been
! injected into the campaign. During
| the long period that he has been con-
stitutiOnal governor Of the state Of
Nuevo Leon he has always extended
a warm welcome to the investment OF
American capital in that commons.
wealth. Monterey, the capital of the
| state and the home Of Gen. Reyes.
is the most AmericaI!zed city in
| Mexico. Many millions of dollars Of
American capital are invested there
in smelters and other large industrial
enterprises. 1t has been through the
liberal encouragement offered by Gen.
REYES to investments OF this charac-
ter that has caused that city TO grow
and prosper to a wonderful degree.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
NO PEACHES ON SUNDAY
Gov. Brown Will Not Allow Growers
to Pluck Fruit.

Atlanta, GA peach is a peach on
Sunday, and while you may pluck it on
week days, you are a criminal If you
pick it on the Sabbath. Gov. Brown has
so decided.
From Norwood, Ga, came a hurried
telegram Friday, signed by NJ. Y.
Scruggs, and r~eciting how the rain had
delayed the picking of the alberta
peaches. If the growers were not per-
mitted to gather the fruit on Sunday
they would lose much fruit and money.
Would the governor issue a proclama-
ton permitting labor on the Sabbath
for the sake of the Georgia peaches?
The governor took the communication
to Acknowledgement Hart. The attorney
general gave it deep thought, and then
shook his head. The governor replied:
"While / sympathize with the peach
growers, the executive has no authority
to suspend a criminal law. l cannot,
therefore, issue the proclamation you de.
sire"
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
Give Back Figureheads.

Washington.-The fgurehead Of the
battleship Mississippi will be given to
the state of Mississippi if Gov. Noel will
make a formal request for it. Repre-
sentative Humphreys received a letter
to that effect from Secretary Meyer
in answer to the congressman's request
that the igurehead be given to the state.
The probability is that the fgureheads
of all the battleships will be donated to
the states the names of which they bear.
They are to be removed because they
offer too shining marks for searchlights.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
Shoot Doqs Wholesale,

Crowley.-One hundred and seven.
ty-fve dogs had been shot down on
the streets of this town on Thurs.
day. Following the biting of a large
number of persons by alleged mad
dogs during the last few weeks OF
intensely hot weather an order was
issued to shoot all dogs which were
round running at large. In conse-
quence, Crowley's small police force
has been kept busy trying their
craftsmanship on the numerous packs
of lean and hungry looking CANNES
which have infested the streets here
for many We; IS.