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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
"MISS SANTA CLAUS DEAD.
Miss Elizabeth Phillips Kills Self in
Il-HeaIth.

MISS EIiZapetH- FnlIllpS kllS OelI III
- Il-Health.
PHILADELPHIA, August 133.-Miss
Elizabeth A. Phillips, widely known as
Miss Santa Claus" committed sui
eide by inhaling Illuminating gas.
Pinned to the woman's clothing was
a note, which read:
'I have been in failing health for
some time. have always tried to do
my best for mankind"
Miss Phillips enjoyed almost ma
tional reputation by reason Of her work
at Christmas time among the poor
children. Two years ago at her re-
quest all the letters written by child
ren and mailed to Santa Claus were d.
livered to her and the requests of the
children so far as possible, were cont
piled with.
She was the daughter of a promi.
nent merchant of this city.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
Will APPOINT
CIRCUIT JUDGES
Noel VIII Make Two Ap-
1ointments Early in September
and is Now Considering Ap-
pIications.

JACKSON, August 1S.-Speaking
further of the appointment of Judges
in the First and Ninth Circuit Court
districts, which are to be made during
the first week in September, Gov
ernor Noel states that he will receive
endorsements and hear oral presenta-
tions ef claims up to that time.
The appointment for Chancellor in
the First District will be made some
time during the fall.
Appointments of Circuit Judges and
Chancellors whose terms expire next
spring or summer of that year, within
nine months of the next Legislature
will be made during the session of the
legislature, and applications and en-
dorsements can be submitted until the
end of this year.
Those judicial positions where the
terms expire more than nine months
after the meeting of the next legisla-
ture will be taken up about three or
four months before the end of the
term.
Until appointments are taken up for
consideration the field will be left
open. and when the governor decides
on an appointment 1t will be announc-
ed and the contest ended.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
Street PAVING
HAS BEGUN
improvements on Bouie Street Already
Under Way, and River Avenue Will
Get Attention as Soon as This
Is Finished.

The work of paving Bouie street
under the contract recently let to Mr.
Jerome Peacher was begun this morn
ing. A large force of hands have been
put to work and it will be rushed with
all possible haste in order to complete
the contract on time.
They began on Bouie street at the
Ninth street crossing and will work to-
ward the river.
The work on River avenue will be-
begun at the river and according to
estimates made will stop somewhere
about 900 feet east of the Mississippi
Central railroad.
It is believed by some that the pres
ent contract is only the beginning OF
the paving and that as fast as It can
be done the work will be carried on un-
I'll the whole streets are paved.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
OFFSET YELLOW PERIL.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark, August 13- -
That nothing less than the evaneel1
alton of China into a spirit Of Chris
tian forgiveness can offset the -yet
low peril" was the outline of a spin
tied address by DR.. G. w. Painter G..
D., Hangshow, China, now retired from
the service, but still actively inter,
ested in the work of the laymen' S
missionary movement, which is hold
ing its first Southern conference in
this city.
DR.. Painter described the Chinese as
a great race Of people, who have pa
tiently borne the wrongs, but have not
forgotten them, and who some day will
make answer in revengeful spirit ur-
less Christianity steps in and stops
what is now planned.
There were other speakers of promi-
nence before the conference today. and
the attendance was materially in
creased by late arrivals from many
Southern states,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
BODY HAS NOT YET
Been RECOVERED
Report That Two Were Drowned is
Without Foundation-River is Be-
ing Dredged to Recover the Body of
the Unfortunate Young Man.

Yesterday afternoon while in bath
ing in Leaf river Mr.. Wallace Patter-
son was drowned.
About 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon
party of gentlemen composed of
Messrs. Wallace Patterson, o. B.
Heideroff Howell Ammons and
Charles Dow, went to the bathing hole
on Leaf river just back of the log
pond of the J. J. Newman Company.
In some way the gentlemen got into
an extremely strong current and the
entire party came very near drowning,
one of the party being so nearly over
come that it was with difficulty that
he reached the bank without assist
ance.
All oi me party while not experts
lu .Ae arr OF swimming had been in
The ~iyer t-.- after time With no ac-
cident, ana it is orc o. those unex-
p,afnahio things rs 20 JUS, now it baP.
pened.
Mr.. Patterson was au eurioye Of
the Gulf and Ship Island railroad and
a young man Of excellent character.
The body has not been recovered al
though quite a number of persons
have been using every effort to locate
it.
Mr.. Pattrson's former home was at
Mendenhau and he came to this place
about two years ago and accepted a
position with the Gulf and Ship Island
railroad
He was a member Of the local lodge
of the Brotherhood of Railroad Fire
men and Engineers, among whose
membership he had many warm per-
sonal friends.
He leaves the following relatives to
mourn his loss: Mr.. A. Patterson,
his father. Of Mendenhall, also a
brother, Hugh, Of the same place,
Leon and VIII two brothers, of Lum-
berton and a sister, Mrs. Eva Jolly Of
this city.
A report is being circulated that
Two men were drowned yesterday af-
.ernoon in Lear river but is without
The young man who was
reported TO have been the second vic
line was not drowned, but rendered
all possible aid to those who we're
searching for the unfortunate young
nan who had been drowned.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
A Love FEAST
Pure And SIMPLE
Large Delegation of Hattiesburg Citi-
zens Enjoy a Visit to the Country
and Get Acquainted With Their
Neighbors-A Profitable Day.

Vehicles of every description were
brought into service. this morning to
convey the large crowd of citizens
from this city to the Merchants-Farm-
ers barbecue and love feast at Ideal
TODAY.
The day was undoubtedly a profit,
able and enjoyable one for all those
who attended, the weather being fine
and the dinner the best that could be
imagined, The speaking, too, added
greatly to the days entertainment, and
all together everything was as ii
should have been.
The Woodman band of this city left
in tallyho at an early hour this
morning and discoursed sweet music
throughout the day to the edificatio1
and enjoyment of the multitude. Be-
sides having a splendid time socially,
our citizens who attended the picnic
lcame back with a better knowledge Of
kthe agricultural possibilities of the
~ ktiesburg territory, and were very
surprised. some of them to see
ts6tent to which agricultural pur-
suits had gone in this county within
the reespt past and came back to the
city thoroughly imbued with the idea
that this is as fine farming country as
can be found anywhere.
The picnic was purely a social az
fair, business questions not en-
tering into the consideration of those
who attended, and will doubtless have
the desired reult that of etablihing
more friendly and intimate relations
,etween merchant and farmer, with the
view to cooperation for better condi-
tions in every way. 1t is hoped that
this will not be the last barbecue, and
that before the summer closes every
business man in Hattiesburg will be
personally acquainted with every far
mer in the COUNTY,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
WALLACE PATTERSON
DROWNED IN RIVER
CRIPPLED CHILD BARRED.
Father of Little Immigrant Must Give
Surety Company Bond.

PHILADELPHIA, August ia de-
cision of the immigration officials,
who say that they will only accept the
bond of a surety company in the future
for immigrants who might possibly
become charges of the state, has i'm.
posed a hardship upon the family of
Harry Goldberg, of Ala South Perth
street. 1t has been the custom for
the department to accept a personal
bond
Gldberg has been in this country
three years, employed as a cleaning in
spector by the Pennsylvania railroad.
About two months ago he sent $500
to bring his wife and two children to
this city.
When Mrs. Goldberg arrived it was
found that one of the children, Rosie
aged 81 years, was paralyzed in one
leg and the officials thought this suf-
ficient grounds for OBTAINING them I'M
til a surety company will go on the
bond.
David Phillips and Lewis Edward
Levy, president of the Hebrew Immi-
grafton Society, are endeavoring TO
have the decision of the immigration
modified and have ap-
pealed to Secretary Nagel, of the de-
partment of commerce and labor. In
the meantime Mrs. Goldberg and her
two children are detained at the i'm
migration pier, Delaware and Wash
ington avenues.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
PRESIDENT'S TRIP
TO THE SOUTH
Complete itinerary of the Chief Execu-
tive Arranged and Given Out by
Secretary Carpenter.

BEVERLY, Mass, August 13.-Sec-
retary Carpenter has announced the
detailed itinerary of the presidents
trip down the Mississippi river as az
ranged by himself and the Lakes to
Gulf Deep Waterways Association. Ar
irving at st. Louis from Texas over
the Iron Mountain railroad at 1927 a.
M, Monday, October 20, President
Taft will be entertained at breakfast
at $3.50 o'clock by the Commercial
Club at the st. Louis hotel.
At IL a. m. he will make an i'd
dress in the Coliseum, which holds
$4,000 people.
At 2 p. m. the president will be the
guest of the Business Mems League at
luncheon in the jefferson hotel and
will then proceed to East st. Louis, Ill.
to attend the dedication of a govern
ment building at p. m. The president
will return to st. Louis in time to sail
for New Orleans on the steamboat
MISSISSIPPI at p. m.
Arriving at Cape Girardeau, Mo-, at
a. M, Octber 26 the president will
be routed out of bed to make an ai'
dress from the upper deck of the
steamboat to the people gathered on
the wharf Leaving Cape Girardeau
at a. NJ, there will be five hour
run to Carlo, H., where at noon MIR.
Taft will make a second address from
the boat. Leaving Cairo, at l o'clock
the next stop is scheduled at Hickman,
Ky, at 4 p. m. where the third address
from the deck of the Mississippi will
be made.
Leaving Hickman at p. m, an all
night run will bring the party to Mem
phis, Tenn, at s o'clock on the morn
I ing of Wednesday, October 27 At
Memphis the president will leave the
steamer and be entertained in the city
for four hours, making an address
while there. Helena, Ark, wiiFX
reached at aep, m, on the 27th ands
address fronf$ she, boat is schedule0z
On Thursday 6steAer IS the only stop
is scheduled at VicfSsburg, where the
presidents party arrives at 6 p. NJ,
and remains until II p. m. Friday
morning the president arrives at
| Natchez at Z a. m, and remains there
Three hours, making an address in the
city during his stay.
Between Natchez and New Orleans
a stop is being arranged at Baton
Rouge, but the time of the visit has
rot been set. According to present
plans Mr. Taft viii reach New Orleans
Saturday October so at a. m, and
at 2 o'clock that afternoon will ad-
dress the waterways convention. Re-
naming in New Orleans all day Sun
day, the president will leave at a.
m, Monday, November 1, for the stops
scheduled in Mississippi.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
IMMIGRATION MATTER
WAS DISCUSSED
Joint Meeting of the Retail Merchants
Association and Commercial Club
Proved to be Very Profitable-Ad-
dresses by Prominent Citizens.

There was an enthusiastic meeting
of the Commercial Club and Mer-
chants Association at the Auditorium
last night, an occasion arranged for
the purpose of meeting Col. Geo. H
Smith, general passenger agent of the
Northeastern. The meeting was called
to order by President Jackson who
called upon Mr.. Frank Foote, r. l..
Bennett and John A. Mcleod to escort
Mr.. Smith to the stage. The open
ing business of the meeting was cor
fined to reports regarding the picnic
arrangements. Mr.. Foote made very
impressive talk, outlining the purposes
for which the event was arranged and
impressed on each member of the as
sociated business men to have rep
resentatives present and urged as
many of them as could to take their
families. Mr.. Foote's remarks were
warmly applauded. This brought some
humorous remarks from Mr.. Mcleod
who said that Mr.. Foote could we'll af-
ford to urge the others to take their
families, but his was so large that 1t
would bankrupt him to take them.
Mr.. Katz then reported for the Mer-
chants Association that all of the'r
members would be represented. Mr.
H. A. Camp replied to Mr.. Mcleod by
saving that his family was twice as
large as Mr.. McLeod's, but that he
intended to take all of them. Secre
tary Bixler then introduced Mr.
Smith. who delivered a very interest
ing address, though he had made no
preparation. He reviewed his first
visit to Hattiesburg and then took np
the question of immigration and urged
the necessity of concerted action and
said that his road was ready to do It's
share and that he felt sure that South
Mississippi would be the next storm
center of immigration If preparation
was made to get it. Mr.. H. A. Camp
was then called on and outlined MS
nIan which is familiar to our readers
Mr. Reeves. general passenger agent
of the Mississippi Central, who was
nresent. was called on and made few
remarks saying that they would do all
in their power to help develop this
country.
Mavor Donald was called on and
he urged the Importance of an organ
ized effort to get the state to estah
Iisb a farm here which should be de
voted to raising cane and manufac
turing sugar. He also spoke OF the
va1ue of Cassava for fattening hogs
The club adjourned and Will meet
again next Thursday night at whicr
time some very important matters
concerning freight rates are to be con
sidered. and every member Is urgeo
to be present.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
STANDS BY POLITICAL MACHINE.
Minister Says Sunday Saloons Won't
Hurt Atlantic City.


ATLANTICCITY, N. j., August 18.-
Openly advocating the stand taken 5v
heads of the local political machine
for Sunday baseball and saloons, the
Rev. Sydney Goodman. rector of the
Mems church, today declared his faith
in the judgment of Commodore Louis
Kuehnie, Republican boss of the city.
and admitted his willingness to allow
Kuehnlo and Mayor Stov to run the
resort without interference from re.
formers.
Il will not come out openly and say
that we should have Sunday baseball
or allow the saloons to open on the
sabbath he said, "but if Commodore
Kuehnle thinks that they are the best
thing for the resort his judgement
should certainly he considered.
Il believe that in allowing the sa.
looms to open the management Of the
resort is following the best plan it
knows. Atlantic City is different from
other towns. People come here OH
Sunday for pleasure, and there must
be a difference in its management
from that of their own cities and
towns"
Pastors of other churches, who head
the Lords Day Alliance, are expected
+o mako a hitter return attack on Mr..
Goodman, whose new ideas. including
and vaudeville in church, have
rallied thousands of men to his sup
port.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
OFFERS REWARD
FOR TWO negroes
ConVcts Who Escaped From the
Bolivar County Jail.

JACKSON, August Ex-Governor
Noel has offered a reward of 800
each for the arrest of Tom Watkins
and Walter Casey, two negroes who
escaped from the Bolivar county jail
at Cleveland on the night of the 9Th
of August, both being under sentence
of death, having been convicted at
the late term of court, and having ap-
peals pending in the supreme court.
These rewards by the governor are
supplemented to TIE reward offered by
Sheriff E. H. Wray, who advises the
governor that he will pay 5000 for the
arrest of Tom Watkins and delivery to
him. and 800 for Walter Casey-these
sums to be paid without any delay,
says the sheriff.
Tom Watkins is a yellow negro, 6
feet, l or inches tall, weighs about
175 or 1S5 pounds, smooth shaven
wears No. IL shoe, has heavy eye
brows, was shot through foot about
eight months ago, but does not limp,
has impediment in speech and shutters
when a little excited, Fuckers upper
lip when talking.
Walter Casey is a black negro, IS
years old, about feet, 6 inches in
height, weighs about 135 pounds, wear
No. . or shoe and when he escaped
wore tan low quarters, with high
spool heels, has plain scar on his up
per LID.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
PINcHoT MAY LOSE HIS JOB.

WASHINGTON. August 13.-Lively
talk has been caused here by the at
tack of Clifford Pinchot, chief forester.
upon the Taft-Ballinger policy of pre-.
serving the forests. Information from
the summer capital at Beverly is also
to the effect that the politicians as
sembled there think that unless Mr..
Pinchot takes back the filings he has
made at his superiors in office he is
not likely to remain long in the gov
ernment service.
Former President Roosevelt laid
great stock by Pinchot and his work,
and few men connected with his ad
ministration were as close to the AT
rican lion hunter as he. Pinchot's zeal
in his work has been intense. Being
a man of large wealth the salary at
tached to the office is of no conse-
quence and it is said that repeatedly
when Congress was slow in making
specific appropriations for some piece
of work he thought ought to be done
promptly he would so down into his
own pocket and take his chances OF
getting his money back. Mr.. Pinchot
had the entire confidence and backing
of Roosevelt in all his policies, and ir
he breaks now with President Taft
there is much speculation as to where
Roosevelt will stand when the issue
has to be squarely drawn.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
MRS. THAW SELLS PROPERTY,
Needs Money to Carry on Sons Fight
For Freedom.

PITTSBURG, August 13.-On the
heels of an adverse decision in the
case Of Harry X Thaw by judge
Mills, Mrs. William Thaw, through
her Pittsburg agents, late this after
noon. disposed of one of her most I'M
portant pieces of property in Pitts
burg, her apparent object being to
raise money at once to be used in fur-
ther fighting the case of Harry. For
the sum. said to be 100000 cash in
hand, she sold part of the famous
Lyndhurst here to w. w. Wilcox, one
of the rich business men of Pittsburg.
who will erect a home, but one which
will almost completely shut Lynd-
hurst off from public view. 1t is
said the deal has been on for some
time, but was to be losed only in case
Harry was not liberated.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
NEGRO PUG GETS PULLED AGAIN.

CHICAGO, August 13.-Jack John
son, the negro heavyweight champion
was fined $l5 ANA costs today in the
Harrison street court for exceeding
the municipal speed limit.
Johnson said the rapid pace at which
his car was g6iu4 was due to his de-
sire to catch a train and not to the
racing spirit. The magistrate refus-
ed to accept the excuse and imposed
the fine which was Immediately paid.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
LASH is APPLIED BY
THE NIGHT RIDERS.

BROWNSVILLE, KY, August ia
masked band of night rider regulators
took Andrew Farris from his nome
Tuesday night and beat him insensi'
BILE. They then went to the house Oh
Belle Crosse took her and another wo-
out and lashed them on their bare
backs. They next visited Hardin
Minton, who tried to flee, but was shot
through the leg.
The raid occurred only short dis
tance from where John Stinson was
called to his door and shot to death
by masked men in Allen county Mon
day night. Memoirs of the family
say Stinson avs killed because of the
part he took in law suit.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
SHOOTING AT NASHVILLE.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, August 13.-
William Wigs, a carpenter was shot
and killed last night, by James R.
Hamilton, Jr., at the home of the lat
ter, in Trimble Bottom, small suburb
near here. Wigs is said to have been
Jealous of the attentions Hamilton paid
a fourteen-year-old girl in his neigh
borhood. He quarreled with Hamii-
ton and the shooting followed.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
GREAT FLEET TO GATHER.
Naval Display in Taft's Honor at New
Orleans.

orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, August 13-A
fleet of seventy-five warships, repre-
senting the government of the United
States and of the foreign powers, and
comprising one of the most magnifi-
cent naval displays in the history Of
the world, is part of the reception
planned by the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep
Water Association for President Taft
when he comes to New Orleans in
Nocember next.
The Progressive Union was informed
that the navy department had been
asked to send the entire Caribbean sea
squadron large part of the North
Atlantic squadron and a mosquito
fleet to New Orleans, and that the de-
partment would probably grant the
request.
President Taft will be accorded ful
military honors and there viii be elab-
crate ceremonies in honor Of the COM
mander-in-chief of the nations army
and navy.
About forty-five countries will be
represented at the convention and
about twenty-five win be invited to
send warships. &
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
ENTIRE TOWN is
DESTROYED BY FIRE

MILTON, Della, August 1S,-Almost
the entire town of Milton was de
stroyed by fire here today. Over one
hundred houses, lumber yards and
bank were destroyed The loss will
amount to several hundred thousand
dollars. Several hundred persons
we're made homeless by the fire. Only
twelve houses in the entire town es-
capped the flames.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-13
BACK TO ASYLUM
ON AUGUST 1s.

MT. VERNON, N. Y, August 1S.-
Harry X. Thaw will go back to Mat
teawan asylum Wednesday, August Is.
Justice Isaac N. Mills today signed the
formal order returning him to the
asylum on that date.
Evening star., 1909-06-30
The World of Finance and Trade.
Washington: New York; London.
LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS.

With an attendance of brokers larger
than usual for the summer season, the
regular session of the Washington Stock
Exchange at noon today was practical
ly devoid of interest, save that which
naturally centered in the continued activ-
ity in Washington Gas. The demand for
this stock was we'll sustained, and, as
has been the rule with each succeeding
day since the movement began, it was
necessary TO stablish new high record
before any owners of the security could
be persuaded to part with their holdings.
The closing sale yesterday was at 727s.
but the figures today rose to 1915 before
any stock appeared. Four quotation lots
Of twenty-five shares each. besides q few
fractional lots, changed hands at this
figure. while later transactions pushed
the sale price to 1874 and 73ss.
On account Of the adoption by the
stock exchange recently of the rule spec
flying that all bond sales on and after
July ! shall be 'and interest" 1t is an
ticipated that the bond quotations at
tomorrow's session OF the exchange may
show some slight variations incident to
the operation of this system. This will
include all of the bonds. both of local
corporations and Of the United States
government. which are listed In the
Washington market. and the working of
the new proposition will have the effect
Of making the quotations show the
practically established and stationary
values of the bonds. Consequently, the
sales prices quoted hereafter will not
indicate the actual amount of money
involved In the different transactions,
because the interest accrued upon each
bond from the last interest period to
the date of sale will be added before
the actual transfer takes place.
For the first time in several months
the stock Of Riggs National Bank fig
ured In transaction on the floor Of
the exchange, and the sale recorded es-
tablished a higher record in price than
has obtained for a considerable period.
Eight shares of Riggs were sold at
$500 per share.