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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-10
Can Settle For $4,000 and Costs.

washington. Aug. 10.-The Cascade
Distilling company OF Nashville,
Tenn, will be allowed to settle the
case against it and its officers. on ac-
count of whisky seizures in April last,
for $4,000 and costs. The depart
ment of justice today recommended
the acceptance of this compromise
and the treasury department has ap-
proved il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-10
Sending Gold to Japan.

New York, Aug. 10.-To replace
100000 in gold taken from San
francisco for export to Japan, the
Yokohama Specie bank, it was an
nounced today. will transfer through
the subtreasury here an equal amount
TO san Francisco. This makes a total
of S4.250,000 exported to japan by this
bank since Nav Ia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-10
&. & O. Merger Ratified.

Cincinnati, O., Aug. 1O.-The stock
holders of the B. & Q. railway met
here today and ratified the plan of
the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton
directors for the merger with the B.
& o. road. The meeting also approx
ed all the details Of the financial re-
organization as planned by J. P. Nor
gan. Further consent of the Cfncin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton creditors
must be secured before the re-organ-
izatiOn plan can be carried out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-10
Iost Witf. 200 On Board.

Durham, Aug. IU.-Ihe Brltisn
cruiser Pandora returned here today
after an unsuccessful search of eight
days for the British steamer Waratah,
which with 300 persons on board. has
been missing since July IS. The Pam
dora covered an area OF $50 square
miles and her commander is of the
opinion that If the Waratah is still
afieat he would have sighted her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-10
Discoverer of Cripple Creek Dead.

Colorado Springs, Colo, Aug. 10
Bob Womack, famous as the dI5cov
erer of Cripple Creek, died here today,
aged Sc. Death CANA after lingering
illness. He never profited by his great
discovery and died in comparative pow
erty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-10
E. E. SHOAF IS DEAD
Proprietor of Holiday House Dies in
South Dakota.

z. E. Shoaf. proprietor of the Holli-
cay House, died yesterday at Dallas,
South Dakota. Mr.. Shoaf lad a Farm
near that place and was there to visit
His property. The telegram which was
received last night did not give the
cause Of his death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-10
Death Comes to an Aged Actress.

Baltimore, Aug. 1O.-Mrs. Jane Cor
man, the aged actress. died here today
oI ailments incident TO old age. aged IS
years. She retired from the stage
eight or ten years ago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-10

Mrs. John O'ConnelI. IS years Of
age, died last night at the home of
her daughter. Mrs. James Dwyer. 300
Lawrence street. Funeral arrange
ments have not been announced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-10
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Mrs. d. L. Whitney died at her
home. 2O7 East Tenth avenue. at g
O'Clock this morning of apoplexy.
Funeral arrangements will be an
nounced later
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-10

Thomas J. Billings, aged - years,
died Monday afternoon at his home,
COL clay street. The funeral was
held this afternoon from the home of
his son. J. S. Billings, 1853 Clay
street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-10
Baseball Phone

Inc state Journal has snao,a,
oaseoaH telephone. For ali baseba1i
information, scores, etc. call ~
dependent phone No. SIS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-10

Wanted-Competent men to take
exclusive territory agency for a pop
ular automobile at medium prices. in
Topeka and other Kansas cities; adj
dress, DR.. C. F. Howe. Atchison, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-10

Marion Mcleod. the six-year-old
daughter of f. f. Mcleod of Chicago
died Monday from dysentery. Mr.. and
Mrs. Mcleod are both i'll with ths
same disease at Vancouver.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28
Deafness Cannot Be Cured.

By local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by an inflamed con-
dition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube is
inflamed you have a rumbling sound
or imperfect hearing, and when it IS
entirely closed, Deafness is the result,
and unless the inflammation can be TAX
en- out and this tube restored to it's
normal condition, hearing will be de-
stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by Catarrh, which is moth.
ing but an inflamed condition of the
mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness Caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circu.
lars free.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE.

|, r. S. Hall, Trustee under the pro
visions and by virtue of the authori
ty conferred upon me in Deed OF
Trust made by A. A. Sumrall and /
M. Sumrall, his wife, to the Hatties.
burg Trust & Banking Company on
the 21st day of October, 1907, to Sc
cure a certain Indebtedness to said
Hattiesburg Trust & Banking Com
pany and which Deed of Trust is re-
corded in Book l, pages 1856 and 1877
in the Chancery Clerks office of the
Second District of Perry County, now
Forrest county, Miss, l will on Mon
day, the 3rd day of May, 1909, offer
for sale and will sell at public auction
for cash to the highest and best bidder
at the front door of the court house
of Forrest county, during legal hours
the following described property, to-
wit:
All of blocks thirty-six 1860 and thir.
ty-seven (37) in the Montazuma, Hart.
fields addition to the city of Hatties.
burg, Mississippi, County of Perry, as
per maps of plats of said land filed in
the Chancery Clerks office.
Witness my signature this the 3rd
day of April, 1909.
r. s. HALL, Trustee.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28
NOEL UPHELD
BY COURT
The Simmons Land Act Which
He Vetoed is Declared Un-
constitutional.

JACKSON. Miss, April 2S.-Gov-
ernor Noel has been sustained by the
Supreme Court in its decision in the
Winton VS.. Day case yesterday which,
knocked out the Simmons act to re-
linquish title and claim to certain land
sold for delinquent taxes prior to the
abatement act of 1875. When this bill
became a law it was over the veto of
the Governor.
In his veto message Governor Noel
pointed out that the bill was in direct
conflict with section 25 of the Con-
stitution, which forbids the donation,
directly or indirectly, to private cor
porations or individuals or railroad
companies" of lands belonging to or
under the control of the State.
He also found that it was in conflict
with section 100 of the Constitution,
which declares: That no obligation,
or liability of any person, association,
or corporation, shall ever be RENTED,
released, postponed, or in any way d.
minished by the legislature" etc, as
the court construes the law to be, in
effect.
The following is a synopsis of the
bill:
Section l of the act, which is chap
ter 121 of the laws of 90S, provides:
THAT all lands struck off to the
sac of Mississippi prior o 1878, A. D.,
for delinquent taxes, and which were
not embraced in the list returned
that year to the auditor under the
abatement act, and which have not pre-
viously and validity been disposed of
by the State of Mississippi, and which
are now in possession, actual or con-
structive, of bona fide owners, and
legally assessed for taxes as required
by law, are hereby relinquished to
those persons. who but for the sale, or
sales, would now be lawfully and equit-
ably the owners thereof, and which
said were not properly sold and ac-
counted for to the auditor on or be.
fore the date of May 10, 1875"
Section 2, of the act provides that
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28

man cannot answer" and when Sena-
tor Bailey proposed a restriction on
immigration of cheap foreign labor,
n behalf of American labor, Aldrich
countered with the remark that the
Texas Senator was willing to permit
American labor to compete with this
foreign cheap labor, that is In their
home country. This is what Is called
a tariff argument. The Senator from
Texas could have just as pertinently
retorted that the Senator from Rhode
Is land favored the opening of the doors
cheap foreign labor by corporations
t. compete with American labor at
home. This would have been another
tariff argument. The thing to do in
political arguments is to get in the
last lick and the laugh on the right
side. That is, if the argufyer wants
to win.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28

bona fide owners of such lands may
be allowed to perfect titles and receive
patent, on application to the land
commissioner, who is directed on re-
ceipt of a fee of $3.50 cash, to issue
his patent for such lands similar to for
feited tax land patent, in all respects
but the patent to issue subject to the
provisions of the first section of the
act.
Section 3 provides that claimants un-
der the act must relinquish all claims
for taxes paid heretofore, to the
state, county, levee board, city, town
or village, to have taxes refunded.
The fourth section specifies that
where such lands are not in bona fide
possession of any one, the land COM
missioner shall bring them forward
and enter them upon the regular sales
list of his department, as other lands
sold since 1878 are listed.
Following the enforcing clause there
appears appended the following:
This is to certify that this bill was
vetoed by the Governor by message
sent to the Senate on the fifty-sixth
day of it's session, March II, 1908. And
on March 8. beng the fifty-eighth day.
again passed the Senate, notwithstand
ing the Governors veto, by the con-
stitutional majority, being yeas and
nays"
This was signed by Luther Manship,
president of the Senate, and Frank
Robertson, secretary of the Senate. On
March 9, the day following, the vetoed
bill was passed by the house by vote
of IA yeas to % nays.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28

In the last issue of the Outlook Mr..
Roosevelt is quoted: city life is not a
full measure of our civilization, for
our civilization rests at bottom on the
wholesomeness, the attractiveness
and the completeness as well as the
III osperity, of life in the country. The
men and the women on the farms
stand for what is fundamentally best
and most needed in our American
life" Fundamentally. If NAV
be said that the city marks the
first step in the decadence of ciyiliz-
alton. 1t is not necessary to go back
to profiigacy of the cities of old to
show this. The luxurious and extrav-
agance of the rich of Americas mod
ern Gotham teaches every day of the
decadence that this life brings. 1t is
to be found in the inane and unprofit-
able life of the younger generations
of those who went from the farm 10
the city where by industrious toll they
laid the foundations of those great
fortunes which the younger genera
tons now spend their time trying to
squander in idle and prof1tless living.
1t Is this element that defines this
method of living and civilization as
one and the same thing. It is this
sham civilization that would make
he true civilization of the coun- |
.ry rotten to core if not checked
~ that higher civilization that is
ound in the men and women of the
arm.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28

Iowa has two candidates. for the
presidential nomination by the Repub-
lican convention in 1912 n the persons
of Cummins and Deliver, and both
have early entered the arena with
guards up ready for the fray. Cum
Minis has the advantage of having in
vented the "Cummins' Idea" in Iowa
and worked it to the doors of the
United States Senate. The "Cummins'
Idea" in Iowa means revision Of the
tariff downwards. Cummins had the
good fortune to succeed Iowa's great
Senator, Allison, and this fact has
gotten into Delivers ribs. Hence, he
sees the necessity Of doing something
to rally the Iowa tariff forces around
himself and pick feather out of
Cummins' plume. This was the basic
foundation Of his speech in the Senate
the other day in which he locked horns
with the Rhode Island boss of the
ldlIH Ulll. IulS dtJdCh Was IudQ6 u0-
der the cover of chagrin because Aid
rich put Smoot instead of Deliver on
the finance committee which has
charge of the tariff bill. 1t was a fine
bit of political by-play to try to down
Aldrich, the tariff headsman in the
Senate, and he made a speech vigor-
GUS enough to make it heard far out
side of the confines of Iowa. In fact.
his speech has been made the basis
OF fierce attacks by Western tariff re-
vision newspapers on the bold attempt
of New England to run the entire
country, just as if the Great West"
was to have nothing to say at all. 1t
looks like a clean cut stab on Doll
ver's part not only to try and clip
Cummins' wings as a Western tariff
revisionist, but as possible Rspub-
lican presidential nominee from Iowa.
Cummins is expected to shy his cas-
tor into the ring and try conclusions
with his Iowa competitor and trip him
up in his aspirations. It's to be a
pretty fight which an anxious public
awaits.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28
Circulation Double That of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
IMAGINATION IN BUSINESS.

The proposition made by some of
the members of the Commercial club
to arrange an educational trip is a
good one, and 1t is safe to say that
it would be money most wisely spent
Everyone may not know it, but
most people lack Imagination, and
especially when applied to business
The Hattiesburg business men are as
intelligent and wide awake as the
average of American business men,
but they need something to stimulate
their imagination as to the posi-
bilities of the territory surrounding
Hattiesburg. They cannot understand
what has been done in the Southwest
in the past ten years, because they
have nothing by which to make CON-
PARSONS. The cities that have been
and are being built there and the de-
velopment which is going on would
be revelation to most of our bust.
ness men, and it would stimulate their
Imagination and inspire them to eff
forts, which would start our immigra-
ton movement off with force that
would be irresistible.
The man who can't understand pos
sibilities, cannot prepare for proba-
bilities. We have all the resources
needed for the creation of great
wealth, and brains and ideas in a new
country are the next best thing to a
bank account. Every line of business
in Hattiesburg would double in vol
ume in two years, II we had such an
Immigration movement here as is
going on In Northwest Texas, and our
business men would need nothing
more than well established credit to
expand their business.
1t. is no reflection on the intellt
gence of our business interests that
they do not understand these POSSIBLE
ities, for they have not seen them,
and the man who is sightless cannot
understand the voluptuous beauty of
the rose or the chaste wilderness of
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28

JACKSON, Miss, April 2S.-The
Water Valley Southeastern railroad is
a new road, proclamation of incorpora-
ton of which has been issued by Gov
ernor Noel.
The line is proposed to run from
Water Valley to Eupora, in Webster
county, a distance of about sixty
miles.
The incorporators are understood to
have held a meeting at Water Valley
yesterday for purpose of organization,
and efforts are to be made to put the
enterprise through at as early a day
as possible, the funds for same having
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28

the lily. Wonderful indeed would be
the power of expression which could
explain to one horn kightless the
variegated hues of the peacock, yet
with blindness banished, a glance at
the fowl would suffice Men may
ride through country of wonderful
possibilities and not understand tho
Significance of what they see because
they have no one to explain 1t to
them, and perhaps they are out for
pleasure and are trying to forget their
cares.
On such a trip as Ia proposed by
the Commercial Club, the secretary
could arrange In advance for our bus
mess men to meet the members OF
the different business mems organ
izations In the cities they visit, and
each individual would get Information
that would not only benefit his own
line of business, but would at the
same time equip him to assist in solv-
ing problems which affect the well
fare of the city as whole.
One of the pleasing signs of the
times in Hattiesburg Is that each
business man, to whom it has been
proposed, has given it his hearty en-
dorsement, as the progressive business
man of today is fully alive to the fact
that he never gets to old to learn
or to profit by the experience of
others
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28
MAY BE LINK IN GREAT
TRUNK Line ACROSS STATE

been negotiated by Chester H. Pond,
well known railroad promoter.
1t is believed here that this short
line is simply a link in a great trunk
line that is being projected from the
Mississippi river to the Gulf of Mexico.
At Water Valley it taps the Illinois
Central Silroad, and at Eupora con-
meets with the Southern railway. It
may reach the Mississippi river at
Memphis over the Illinois Central
tracks, or the road may be pushed on
across the state to the Mississippi riv-
er at or near Clarksdale. From Eupora
the line may be extended to Pensacola,
Mobile or other deep water cities.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28

The large amount of valuable and
Interesting Mississippi State news pub
hshed by The New Orleans Picayune
every day makes it great favorite
with the people of the State. Besides
giving all the political and general
news of the world The Picayune has.
a most admirable Commercial and
Financial Report daily, covering, in
from seven to ten columns, every arti-
Gle and point that can be of interest to,
a live American residing in the South.
The Daily Picayune (seven issues a
week. is sent to subscribers for $500
for three months; The Twice-a-Week
Picayune ISSUED Mondays and Thurs,
days. Ia mailed for $1.00 year.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28
negro MURDERERS
ARE CONDEMNED

LAKE CHARLES, La April IS
Henry Blackford and Monroe Smith.
the negroes, who waylaid, murdered
and robbed Rena Reed, a prominent
merchant of Ward, Calcasieu parish,
on March 10, were last night found
guilty as charged, the verdict of the
jury carrying with it the death pen
atty.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28

Has an intensely increased roar
heard at Nairobi anything to do with
the cablegram from that place yes
terday saying that lions are numer-
Gus in East Africa?"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28
TEACHERS GOING TO NATcHEz.

A party Of Hattiesburg school
teachers will leave tomorrow On a
special train over the Mississippi
Central for Natchez to attend the SEES
sion of the teachers association,
which will be held there tomorrow,
Friday and Saturday.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28

Heavy is the head that wears a
crown" is not what is now worry
Jig the sultan of Turkey. What he
wants to know is if he is to be allowed
to wear his head.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28
CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to thank our many
friends for their kind help and heart
felt sympathy in the illness and death
of cur husband and father.
MRS. w. L. COOK AND FAMILY. |
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28
Member Of the Associated Press

Entered as second-class matter on
May %. 1907. at the postoffice at Hat
tiesburg, Miss. under the Act OF Con-
zress of March 2, 1879
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28

Something new in melodrama."
How now?" "The heroine's spring
hat gets hit by a piledriver, which
mashes it into lovely new shape"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28

Boss Aldrich is sly and adroit. He
has Heard of the old saying that "a
fool can ask questions which a wise
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28

To the grounding, 1t looks as if
Hamid is in danger of becoming
"EAm-and-."
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28

OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OF HAT
TiEs7uRG AND COUNTY OF FOR.
REST.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28

SOUTHERN REPRESENTATIVE
For Louisiana. Arkansas, Texas and
Oklahoma: The Crockett Agency,
New Orleans and Dallas.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28

r. ]. Collins is the only authorized
travelling representative of The Hat
tiesburg News and is authorized to col
lect for subscriptions and advertising
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28
For the washing of

For the washing of
blankets, lace curtains
and fine laces; for the
washing of dishes, cut
glass and costly bric-a-
brac; for the toilet, nur-
sery and bedroom, this
excellent soap Ivory
never fails.
And the woman who
discards all the other
soaps and uses Ivory
in every department of
the home has gone a
long ways toward max
ing homework a pleas
ure and a pride.
american Householder
Ivory Soap |
80 900 Per Gent. Pure.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-28

FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVE:
The s. G.. Beckwith Special Agency,
Tribune Bldg, New York. Tribune
Bldg. Chicago.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-02-27
NINE TRAINS.

Leave East Ely, a. nj 40;
11:30;--p. m, 1925.
Leave Ely, n. m.-6.45; 1895;
p. m. 5:30.
Returning: Leave Mines. a. NJ
7:35; p. IN. 1928: 5:35.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-02-27
OIL WE'LL INTO sHALE.
Blair Drill Now Down 775 Feet and
Excellent Indications are Found.

BLAIR. Feb. 27.-rhe well being
sunk for oil ON the salt marsh has
reached depth of 775 feet, accord
ing to reports received from the scene
yesterday afternoon by Mr.. J. II. cof-
fin. treasurer of the company.
According TO my information,
said Mr.. Coffin, the drill Is down 10
feet and is now penetrating a body
of shael which gives every indication
of being the covering of the basin of
oil or gas. II seems that the stratum
contains a goodly quantity of the oil
itself, and that the smell of the ar
ticle can be plainly discerned some
distance from the well.
while of course we do not know
what to expect, at the same time. we
feel that we are nearing the end of
our undertaking, and that 1t remains
only matter of days when we shall
get what we are after.
Mr.. W. II. Miller stated that every
thing Is going along smoothly, and
that he expects another shipment of
casing to arrive at once. He also says
that II the stratum of shale holds out
for any length of time that ii is ex-
pected the flow will he obtained upon
penetrating IT,