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The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-08-27
GOVERNMENT REPORT
ON FLORIDA FISHERIES

The Department of Commerce, B,i-
rea,I of the Census, recently made pub
lie the preliminary report of the lisher-
lea of Florida for the year ending De-
cember 81, 1908. All. .ho
These statistics are confined TO tne
fishing indu try and do not lnci,ide
wholesale fish dealers or cannerites' Inc
final report will contain an analysis Oh o..
the totals and will present statistics LOT
other pbrases of the industry. 49,,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
CANADA BEGINNING
TO ship fruits

SAN FRANCISCO, April 15.-E. w.
Peters, assistant to the second vice
president of the Canadian Pacific, with
headquarters at Winnipeg, is expected
in San Francisco shortly He is at
present in the City of Mexico. The
object of his trip to California is for
the purpose of looking into the pre-
cooling process of handling deciduous
fruits. Visits will be paid to Watson
vile to learn how apples are handled
and also to the towns of Newcastle,
Penryn, Loomis and Colfax. ]. W.
McClymonds and other officers of the
Pacific Fruit Express will be inter
viewed. The fruit industry is assum.
ing large proportions in Canada and
the Canadian Pacific is preparing to
handle the product. There are al
present only 1900 acres under cult
walton in the Dominion.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
Relatives of Will Sorsby
Willing to Accept Verdict;
His Wife Wants New Trial

Il al, and that would mean Jail con-
fill ement for a very lengthy period.
On the first ballot last Monday night
two jurors, Messrs. Key and Jones, la
vored acquittal, three favored life SEN
tence, Messrs. Robinette, Lott and
Johnson, while seven others, Messrs.
Hurst, Canada, Barlow, Collier, Yates,
Johnson and Griffin, voted for death
sentence. Again, it would be we'll
nigh impossible to get another jury in
Kinds county, and if change Of venue
should be asked for, and the case
taken to another county where local
influence could not be exerted, death
sentence would become more proba-
BILE.
In event the life sentence Is accept
ed Sorsby's relatives naturally hope
that he would be given some light EN-
ployment at the Rankin state con
vict farm. There is little likelihood
however, that he would be made g
trusty, for such employment is strict
ly forbidden by new code, section
No. 3645, framed to govern just sucf
cases, and which is as follows:
"The superintendent Of the peniten
tiary shall carefully guard agains
the abuse of the practice Of making
TRUSTEES of convicts. An influential
conspicuous or notorious crimina
shall in no case be made or employee
as a trusty.'
i This section, no doubt, in event
is enforced, will mean hard labor 70
Sorsby. and removes all likelihoo
that prison life will be made easie
for him than the average CT
j up to serve life sentence
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
46REAS0NSFOR
NEW TRIAL
CITED
Murderers Of Senator Carmack
Are Still Fighting For
Their Liberty.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 15.-For-
ty-six seperate and distinct reasons
why the defendants Duncan B. Coop
er and Robin Cooper, recently convict
ed of the murder of Senator E. w.
Carmack, should be granted a new
trial are set forth in the motion for a
new trial filed here today.
Exception is taken to the courts fail
ure to enter a mistrial when the jury
reported themselves as hopelessly
tied up the day an acquittal was
brought in for John Sharp.
Exceptions are also taken to much
of the evidence allowed to be entered
The court will reserve it's decision in
the matter until a later date.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
BRIDE Is IA, GROOM is.
Children EIope and Are Married ir
Florida.

PENSACOLA, Fla, April 15.-With
the bridegroom in short trousers and
the blushing bride in knee skirts and
her hair in two long braids, Jasper
Huckabana, aged fifteen, and Myrtle
Crawford, aged fourteen, were mar
ried at Paxton, near here, yesterday.
The children are believed to have es-
tablished a record for youthful princi-
pals in weddings in this state.
The children have been pupils in
the sixth grade at Florala, and that
they were childish sweethearts has
been known since the term opened
three months ago. He carried her
books and she waited for him before
and after school. Their devotion II
one another occasioned amusement,
but no serious consideration was given
to it.
The little lovers ran away from
school yesterday, played hooky in the
old way, went to Paxton, secured =
license some way, and, some way, in
duced a minister to marry them.
The teacher missed them later in
the afternoon, inquired and was toll
by the children that the pair had
eloped. The parents of both were
notified the little runaways wer fol
lowed, but the ceremony had been per
formed and the bride and groom calm
" announced that they were going tt
Housekeeping. The parents have no
decided what steps to take.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
STATE MEDICOS
have ADJOURNED
FIGHT FOR STATE HOSPITAL HAS
BEEN LAUNCHED.
Committee to Appear Before the Next
Legislature Asking For An Appro-
priation For a Central Hospital at
Jackson.

JACKSON, Miss, April 15.-The
Mississippi State Medical association,
before the adjournment of its annual
convention today, renewed its recon-
mendation for the establishment of
a state charity hospital in Jackson,
and a memorial on the subject will
be presented at the January meeting
of the law-making body.
The fight for the hospital will be
in charge of DR.. l.. S. Rogers, of West
Miss, member of the lower house
from Holmes county, and chairman
of the committee on public health ant
quarantine of that body. DR.. Rogers
has been an earnest advocate of the
hospital plan for several years, ant
he especially desires to have the in
stitution located in Jackson, becaust
of the central location.
/ At former legislative sessions thu
| bills introduced to secure the estab
lishment of a state hospital have beel
defeated because of opposition b,
Vicksburg and Natchez lawmakers
who feared that a big institution i
Jackson would result in the smalle
hospitals in those cities, supported b
the state, being abolished.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
GROOM AZ; BRIDE ID.
Irate Father Beats Son-in-LaW and
Serious Trouble Feared.

WINSTON SALEM, N. c., April Is
S. L. Tuttle, a prosperous Stokes coun-
ty farmer, aged forty-seven, was mar
ried yesterday at Martinsville, Va,
to Hettie Fulp, the 14-year-old daugh-
ter of H. A. Fulp, merchant of Hill
top, Stokes county, having eloped on
Monday. When they alighted from the
train at Germantown last night they
were met by the irate father of the
bride, who attacked Tuttle, beating
him numerically before onlookers in
terceded. Tuttle was taken to a hotel
and locked in a room. Against her
wishes, Fulp attempted to take his
daughter to his home, but was told
he must first have the marriage an
nulled, relatives agreeing in the mean
time to keep watch upon the girl.
A telephone message from German
town says that serious trouble il
threatened If Tuttle attempts to ge
possession of the girl bride. The girl
1t is said, declares that her father ha
not been kind to her and she propose
! to stand by her husband.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
Grafton FOSTER
FELL FROM Shed;
PAINFULLY HURT

Mr.. Grafton Foster, a young paint
er, who fell from the new finishing
shed of the J. ]. Newman Lumber
company mill. is reported this morn
ing as getting along nicely, land it is
said he will be able to sit up in
week Or ten days.
At the time of the accident Mr..
Foster was painting the roof of the
new finishing shed, when his foot
slipped on the early morning frost
which covered the roof. With moth
ing by which he could check his fall,
he slid to the edge of the roof and
fell clear 80 or 35 feet, landing on
his hands and feet; but in the descent
his side struck a stump.
This proved to be the worst feature
of the fall, as the force with which
he struck the stump tore loose three
lower ribs. In addition he suffered
from a wrenched arm and ankle. Mr.,
Foster is now at the South Missis'
sippi infirmary.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
MERIDIAN MAN GETS
VERDICT FOR $4,000

MERIDIAN, Miss, April 15.-Just
before 12 o'clock last night the jury
rendered a verdict in the case OF
Ford G. Harrison VS.. the Southern
railroad awarding the plaintiff dam
ages in the sum of $4,000. The jury
had the case only few minutes be-
fore rendering the decision. 1t is un-
derstood that the attorneys for the
railroad company will appeal the
case to the supreme court.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15

JACKSON, Miss, April 15.-Despite
the motion filed for new trial, as
preliminary to supreme court appeal
it is believed that the relatives OF
William A. Sorsby, convicted slayer
of Postoffice Inspector Charles Fitz-
gerald, will allow him to go to the
penitentiary to serve life sentence
without waiting for the lower court
verdict to be reviewed by the tribu-
nal of last resort.
1t is known that some of Sorsby' 5
relatives regard this as the advisable
course, and have So stated. The vile
of the prisoner, however, is strongly
opposed to accepting the verdict OF
the jury, and is apparently imbued
with the hope that a reversal can be
secured.
Sorsby's attorneys are very much
averse to discussing the subject.
Some of them admit that the matter
is being seriously considered, but
they are reluctant to venture their
own views until the family of the de
fendant reaches decision.
Two apparently strong reasons ar;
being offered to show why Sorsby
ought to submit to the verdict of the
jury without further fighting. A re
yersal would of course be followet
by another trial for murder and th'
likelihood of death sentence on sec
ond conviction. The nature Of tn
testimony offered at the first tria
| warrants the assertion that no hop
whatever could ever be entertaine
for an acquittal. In fact, the best tina
could be hoped for would be mi'
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
RAN into Horse;
TRAIN IS DITCHED
and one IS dead

MORGAN CITY, La, April 15-One
man was killed and another seriously
injured as the result of wreck here
early today on the Southern Pacific
railroad. An engine was showing an
empty box car down the track when
it ran into a horse derailing the car
and engine and spilling the crew.
Brakeman Mike Ryan, of New Or
leans, was crushed to death and Fire
man Quinlin of Algiers, was seriously
hurt. Ryan was a brother of City
Councilman Eddy Ryan, of New Or
leans. His body was taken home on
an eastbound passenger train today
Quinlin was sent to the hospital.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
CARRIED Thru SEWERS
Necessity For Campaign of Education
Among Egg Producers is Pointed
Out.-Cause of Deterioration is Plain
Iy Set Forth.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-Millions
of dollars are carried down the sew
ers of the country in the shape of
bad" eggs, according to Milo M. Hast
ings, scientific assistant of the Bureau
of Animal Industry of the Department
of Agriculture. He has just completed
some interesting results of study
made during the past year of the con-
ditions surrounding the production and
marketing of eggs, with view to de-
termining causes of deterioration in
quality and consequent loss. Mr.. Hast
ings' observations are presented in
bulletin entitled "The Egg Trade of
the United States" In this publica-
ton he calls attention to the enormous
loss due to the spelling of eggs which
it is pointed out could largely be pre-
vented by improved methods.
Briefly, Mr. Hastings points out the
necessity first for campaign of edu-
cation among egg producers at will
show every farmers wife that when
eggs are allowed to remain in damp
nests, under broody hens, or in hot
kitchens there is a loss in quality
which means an actual loss of money
to herself and to her neighbors; and,
secondly, a system Of buying eggs eN
actly in accordance with what those
eggs are worth.
Although an individual farmer may
appear to make few cents by holding
or picking his eggs" says Mr.. Hast
ings, the gain is apparent only, fol
the destruction of wealth involved il
the injury to the quality of the egs
must be born by the farmer himself
Above all else, the infallible rule con
cerning the marketing of eggs is fol
the farmer to sell his eggs as soon al
possible after they are laid"
The great bulk of the poultry wealth
of the country is produced by the gen
; eral farms of the Mississippi Valley
and it is also in this region that tn,
most rapid increase in production i
: shown. Some idea of the rapid growtl
: of this industry in this region may b
gained from the figures for Kansas
the value of poultry and eggs sold il
that state increasing from $6,49S,S ,S5
i in 1908 to $1O,3OOOS2 in 1907.
. In spite of the rapid increase in tn
: production of poultry products, tn
, supply has not kept pace with the dc
mand. The price of eggs for the las
ten or twelve years has shown not onl
an absolute rise, but also a relativ
:, rise when compared with the gener;
:, average of values of either farm croI
or food products.
Attention is called to the fact th'
> the quality of American eggs in IL
,e general market is decidedly inferior
~ that of several European countries.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
MESSAGE IS FOUND
FLOATING in BOTTLE
Young Woman Says That She is Sub
jected to All Sorts of lndignities
at the Hands of Her captor.-PeIiee
is Now Investigating.

OAKLAND, Calf, April 15-In a
bottle picked up here on the water
front there has been found message
written in a girls hand saying that
the writer's name is Rosaline Rockayn,
and that she is being held a prisoner
On board a ship at sea.
Il am writing this appeal, she says
land hope that the bottle containing
the message which l shall throw out
of the port hole will be picked up by
someone who will make known my
plight"
The girl goes on to briefly state that
she went from Denver, Colo, to San
Francisco, and while looking for a
place to board, she was persuaded by
the guide to go abroad ship, the
name of which she does not know.
She was then drugged. When she
came to the ship was at sea, and she
was being held in a small cabin as a
prisoner of a man who subjected her
to all kinds of outrages.
Police here and in Denver are max
ing an investigation.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
DEMOCRATS Want
AN INCOME TAX

WASHINGTON, April 15.-For more
than four hours the Democratic mem
bers of the senate conferred last night
in an effort to agree upon a policy
toward the tariff legislation. At the
end of that time Senator Culbertson,
the minority leader, announced that
the Democrats had agreed to support
an income tax amendment, and to
stand for substantial reductions in
schedules, and particularly for a de-
crease in the rates on necessaries of
life.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
Conference DETAILS
ARE NOT MADE PUBLIC
1t Was Agreed, However, That Most
Important Matter Now Is Listing
of Lands for Settlement Railroads
Evince Interest.

An important conference was held
yesterday afternoon in the CONNER
cial club room between the secretary
and Jas. r. Hearn, industrial agent
of the New Orleans & Northeastern
railway, and H. H. Bolton, immigra-
trion agent of the Mobile, Jackson &
Kansas City railway.
The conference was for the purpose
of outlining plan of campaign to Sc
cure cutover lands along the line OF
all the railroads entering Hattiesburg,
and it was felt by all interested that
now is the best time that has ever
been experienced to push the work of
bringing the settlers to South Mis-
sissippi.
While the details of the conference
We're not for publication it is not out
of place to say that it is the begin
ming of the active work that will be
necessary to accomplish what has
been planned by the Commercial club.
Mr.. Heain said that he had noted
more interest in his work on the part
of his superors in the past six months
than he had experienced in the past
six years. This he took to mean that
~ The officials Of his road realized the
importance of doing something now
ana that they were willing to do their
share to get the immigration move
ment under way.
If was thoroughly agreed that the
most important thing of getting set
tiers is one of detail, and will be com
paratiyelv easy of accomplishment.
Owners of cutover lands are re
ouested to correspond with either MI
Hearn, Mr.. Bolton or the secretary
Of the Commercial club, and any on
or all of them will be glad to call oi
any one and explain the plans to b
pursued.
Another matter which was discus;
ed was the necessity of soil surve!
of Southeast Mississippi. So far oni
two counties, Jasper and Pontoto'
have been SO favored by the govern
ment, and this whole territory shoul
no surveyed so that more may D
known of the possibilities from a
agricultural standpoint
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
MASSACRE Of
ARNEN|ANS
GROWS
Citizens Of Christian Communi-
ties Are Appealing to the
Consuls For Help.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April ia
massacre af Armenians is in progress
today at Mersina, a seaport of Asia
Minor. Enraged at the murder of two
moslems by an Armenian, the Moham-
hedan population of Mersina took the
law into their own hands and began a
massacre in the Armenian quarters.
The Christian communities of Mersina
are appealing to the counsuls for help.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
cARRoL MCLEOD DOING WELL.

Young Carroll Mcleod, who was in
jured while at play at the Main street
High School, is reported to be get
ting along nicely The injury proved
to be dislocation of the left elbow
but no bones were fractured.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
SKATING RINK IS
DESTROYED; LOSS
IS ABOUT 100000

NEW ORLEANS, April 15.-The
Coliseum Skating Rink near the city
park was destroyed by fire today. The
loss is about $4,000. 1t is believed
to have been of an incendiary origin
The owners say they carried no in
Surance.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
CHILD BURNS TO DEATH.
Four-Year-Oid Daughter of Henry
Jones, Near Waynesboro.

WAYNESBORO, Miss, April 10
The little four-year-old daughter of
Mr.. Henry Jones, living near here, was
burned to death yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Jones and his wife had gone to
the field near the house leaving four
small children at the house when the
little girls clothing caught on fire
and before her parents could reach
her she was burned beyond human aid.
dying this morning at o'clock.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
BRYAN Will run
FOR i. S. SENATE

LINCOLN, Neb., April 15.-Friends
of William Jennings Bryan confirm
the report that he will be a candidate
for the senate to succeed Senator
Bnrkett. 1t is believed that he can be
elected.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
80 KILLED IN
AN EXPLOSION

SULLIVAN, Ind, April 15.-Tne
nitroglycerine factory at Gordon, just
across the Wabash river from here
was destroyed by an explosion this
afternoon. 1t is reported that thirty
were killed. The explosion was felt
for 35 miles.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
TAFTS MESSAGES
ARE Still short

WASHINGTON, D. c., April Is
Another one of President Taft's brief
messages to congress was sent in to-
day. It dealt with the Philippine tariff
question and recommended that it be
revised and simplified.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
WHEAT GOING DOWN.

CHICAGO, April 15.-Wheat bulls
received a setback today when the
prices toppled precipitately. July feH
3-sc. May 1-4c. September 8 1-sc.
Patten. leading bull. bought furious
ly all along the line. The close show
ed feaction averaging over one cent
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
HARRISON COUNTY TREASURER.
w. H. Boone Appointed by Governor
For Unexpired Term.

JACKSON, Miss April 15.-Govern. r
Noel has appointed w. H. Boone of
McHenry treasurer of Harrison coun-
ty, the former treasurer having died
a few days since.
W. M. Harvard has been appointed
election commissioner of Greene
county.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
THREE KILLED IN EXPLOSION,

PARAMOUNT, w. Va, April 15.-
In gas explosion In the mine Of
George Creek Coal and Iron Co., at
Pennington, three miners were killed
today. The mine caught fire and the
bodies have not yet been recovered.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15
NO ELECTION YET.

SPRINGFIELD, H.. April 15.-The
seventy-first ballot for United States
senator today resulted in no choice.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-15

No wonder women kick when stocN-
1nq are touched by ruthless congress-
men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-31

& Go. say that the facts about wom- ems gloves are not fully told. The Chicago firm says that in 1905 the do- mestic product was s17,74O.3s5, and the importations were but S4,S99.79S.
 The proposed addition to the duties on women's gloves will add from 33 to so cents to the cost of each pair to the consumer. and this increase will go to swell the profits of the Lit tauers of Fulton county, New York.
 The proposed duties on women's gloves will increase the cost of living and it will bring no revenue to the treasury, for the rates are absolutely prohibitive. They are intended to be prohibitive in order to boom the fac tories of the Littauers of Fulton coun- ty, New York.
 It simply shows how the people are to be robbed by the Payne bill in order to transform this or that lot of bene- ficiaries into millionaires quickly and surely. We feel" said MT. Littauer, "that what we have demonstrated on mems gloves, we will demonstrate on ladies' gloves" He wants the revenue rate abolished and the S4 rate substi tuted This would make Fulton coun- ty, New York, prosperous, but it woull add to the cost of living of S0,000,0G0 people outside of that favored county
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-31
Absurb Story.

T have been surprised in looking over souvenir books about Richmond on the Jeems, to find the absurd statement under a picture of the old stone house down on Main street, 'Washington's headquarters, said a member of Birminghams Virginia colony.
 General Washington never had head quarters in Richmond. He was never in Richmond until after the revolutionary war, and was then an invited guest of the city. He remained only a short time, and while there was quartered at a hotel.
 '.,The stone house legend was fabricated only about twenty-five or thirty years ago. It was started by negro hack drivers for the purpose of interesting tourists. But the story was so often repeated that citizens generally. who had forgot his tory, began to accept 1t as true. I came across this fake story today in hand some folder recently issued by a trans portation company. It is all right to per- petuate fanciful legends when they 70 not reverse plain history. Those fabrications of the stone House sort should be shelved once and for all, so that innocent strangers may be no longer imposed upon."