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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-18

SUICIDE AFTER FRAUD.

Hos Springs. Ark. Feb. 1T.-Her-
man Franklin. whl killed himself in
st. Louis yesterday while refugee
from the officers at the army and
navy hospital here. left this city Sun
day morning. purchasing a ticket to
Little Rock with "a worthless check
FOR $50 and received the change in
cash. He deserted the army Dosr
here and fed, It Is alleged, because
OF string Of worthless checks which
bad been put IN circulation recenfIr
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-18

| After considering the evidence. ar
1 gumentS OF attorneys aud charge of
| the court for period of a little over
| two hours, the jury in the case OF
William Camp, charged with main
tanning gaming tables and keeping a
Sambilng house in connection with
the Commercial Club and DeIuna
Club. last night returned a verdict of
guilty on four of the five counts cor
! tanned in the Information. A motion
| for a new trial, preliminary to an ap--
peal 10 the state supreme court. was
immediately made by attorneys for
the defense, and will be argued On
Feb %.
The counts of which Camp was
found guilty are as follows:
housekeeping, exercising and
maintaining gaming tables from jan
l, 1908, until Dec. -, 1908.
Second-Maintaining and exercis-
ing a gaming room for the purpose
or gaming and gambling.
Ihlrd-Having charge and man
agement of the second and third
floors of a three-story brick build
ing On DeLuna street. did procure.
suffer and permit Divers persons TO
play therein for money and other
Fataa pie things at gamessof chance.
fIfth--kor knowingly rentIng to W
+. Brownsoil, John Brown. Harry pa
Wis and Harry Jeanette a room for
the purpose of gaming.
Strong Testimony.
The verdict of the jury followed a
day of testimony of the strongest ma
tuTe brought out against the defend
ant by the numerous witnesses for
the state who had, in the past few
months, been visitors to the clubs in
which gambling was charged.
When the state rested its case in
the afternoon the defense, to the
surprise of spectators, announced
that 1t would place no witnesses in
the chair About twenty-five had
been summoned. but not one was
called to testify.
The arguments b. County Solicitor
Loftin, who had conducted the prose
eutlon In q vigorous and able manner.
and OF Messrs. Reeves, Watson ana
Jones for the defense, were strong
and convincing, while the charge of
the court was clear and explicit.
Opening of Court.
When court opened yesterday
the court room contained
only about q dozen spectators, due 10
he early hour of converting, but
within an hour or so the seats had
been filled and throughout the dav
nc tOu4J IOOm was Wen nIlPd with
who listened eagerly 20
very word of testimony adduced.
sam WeatheTsps0n, eolored. porter
n the DeLuna Club, was the first
Witness Said he vas employed BY
amp last year 20 work az club for
z per week. He said he worked
'nly on the second floor, and did noe
work on the high" floor as Joe
worked there; that he saw then,
'laying cards on the high" floor. and
aw chips, some of which were oc
asiOnaliy given him, which he cashed
With Mr.. Davis. The first week. said
he witness. Mr.. Camp paid him. bus
fterwards he got half his wages from.
lr. Camp and half from the men up-
tairs
oe Harris, Porter.
Witness said he commenced work
5 porter in the club when it first
rarted. Said that Harry Davis made
arrangements with him. and raid
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-18
WILL MAKE FIGHT
ON EXTRADITION

Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. 17.-DeIe-
van Smith and Charles II. Williams,
owners of the Indianapolis News,
who were indicted by the federal
grand jury in Washington today, an
nOunced they would contest extradi-
ton OF the District of Columbia for
trial ON the ground that if any Of
Tense was committed il was commit
ted in Indianapolis, the place of pub
LEGATION Of the News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-18
TO RAISE THE MAINE.

Washington, Feo. Eff the bin
introduced by Representative Golden
authorizing the president TO calse
the raising Of the battleship Mine
from Havana hsrbOr becomes a tawy
enlisted men who lost their livS in
the disaster and whose bodies aIt re-
covered when the wreck Is hised
viii find resting place in II IA
Jionai cemetery at Arlington
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-18
COMMITTED hARI KARI.

Fort VORTEX, Feb. IA spe-
cisl from AsFillo says: Laborins
under the hpression that he was
about to depoTted, a Japanese
whose MAJ was not learned. com
mitted NJ kari yesterday in a res
rauraat teFe he had recently Sc
curst3 eFIOymenr as = waiter. using
3 razors q weapon. The man lit
..rsH, fembOweil3d himself.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-18
BY Associated Press.

Nashville, Tenn, Feb. I7-MarkeC
by bitter quarrels between attorneys
aud new and startling testimony. the
second day of the Cooper Sharp trial
closed tonight with the state highly
elated and the defense visibIy per-
turbed. The tension between the fac
items frightened visibly. too.
There were three star witnesses,
all women. Miss Mary Skofnngton,
state librarian, first told how, on the
day Of the murder, she left the Ii
brary and walked down Seventh ave-
nue.. When within two hundred feet
or the scene Of the killing she met
John D. Sharp. the defendant, whom
She had known a number of years.
just IS she greeted him she heard
three shots. and asked what they
meant. Without turning around to
learn. she says Sharp replied;
That's Dune Cooper shooting
Senator Carmack."
Result of Conspiracy.
BY the second witness. Miss Daisy
Lee, the state laId the foundation
upon which to base the contention
that the Staying OF Carmack was the
result Of a conspiracy She WAS
stenographer in the office OF James
Bradford, one of the attorneys for
the defense Robin Cooper had an
Office with the Bradford's law firm.
Trembling with fright and almost
sick with worry. she told how, on
the morning of November ninth. the
day of the traged-. when she arrived
az the Office she found Colonel Coop
er already there in conference with
Robin. She heard the colonel de-
nOunce Carmack for using his Coop
eE'sl name, and declared he had "a
right TO protect himself. Later she
beard Colonel Cooper apply to him
(Carmack) epithets so vile that she
cried when orderad to repeat them
today. The court permitted her to
write them and whom they were read
she covered her face with her hands.
Conference Before Killing.
Miss Lee then told how at three
O'Clock there began a conference in
BradfOTd'S Office between the two
COopers, Bradford and Adjutant
General TulIey Brown. of the state
guard. which lasted until 4 o'clock,
when the Coopers left together. She
said there was a look OF worry and
trouble on the boys face she had
never seen there before.
One OF her duties was TO answer
the telephone and half an hour after
the CooperS left the Office the tele-
phone rang. Miss Lee answered it
and heard Colonel Cooper's voice
say:
rs that YOU, JIM" and she heard
Attorney Bradford say; Yes" A
moment later she heard Bradford
say: And did Robin kill him.
Well, I'll be right Up there"
She insisted that Bradford was
not in the habit of answering the
telephone unless called by her. 1t
appeared 10 be the intention of the
state te have the jury believe a con-
ference to slay Carmack was held
and the killing resulted from the con-
ference.
The third witness was Miss DOME
BraXter. maid in the service of Mrs
I.ucius Burch, daughter of Colonel
Cooper. with whom she made her
homo. She said she heard Colonial
Cooper come home about noon on the
day of the tragedy and tell Mrs.
Purch something which greatly eX-
cited her She, heard her say;
lie viii kill you. papa" and Col.
Cooper replied; He is as liable to
be killed as I am"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-18
FIVE PERSONS KILLED.

Valencia. Spain. Feb. 17-Five
persons were killed today and sew
enty-eighJ injured. twenty-eight Sc
TiousIy. by JhE collapse or Z floor in
= hall vnere lots We're being drawn
for consumption.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-18
SCHOONER ASHORE.

New York. Feb. 1.-THE four
masted schooner Miles Nj Merry
TeGt ashore early today near the
Ike saving station at Moriches. Z
Her crew Of twelve men was saved.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-18
GERONIMO, FAMED
INDIAN CHIEF, DEAD.
BY Associates Press.

LaWton. Okla, Feb. IL
Geronimo, the noted Indian
chief, died today at Fort Sill.
where he had been confined
as prisoner of war for a
number Of years
During the first period of his
confinement as a federal pris-
Oner Geronimo was held at
Fort Pickens. There he re-
manned a prisoner for q period
of about Is months but il is
claimed that owing TO his
health he was taken 10 the
west to remain prisoner
during the remainder of his
liIe
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-18
Conference IN the Bradford
Law Office Detailed by
Stenographer.
HEARD COOPER
CURSE CARMACK

EPITHETS WERE SO VILE THAT
WITNESS WAS ALLOWED TO
WRITE THEM-AFTER THE
cooPERS LEFT THE TELE-
PHONE RANG AND SHE HEARD
BRADFORD ASK, "ANp DID
RO5IN KILL HIM?"-STATE
HIGHLY ELATED AT OUTCOME.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-18
EXTRA SESSION OF
CONGRESS MARCH IS.
~ Associated Press.

aShinsJou, Feb. 1.-The
extra session Of congress will
be convened on March 18th.
This was definitely settled TO-
day.
Formal announcement OF
the date was made b. Repub-
lican Floor Leader Payne To-
day for The information ur the
hOus-.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-18

Jury Rendered Verdict at
Conclusion of Trial
Last Night.
NO WITNESSES
FOR THE DEFENSE

STATE CONCLUDED LATE IN THE
AFTERNOON, WHEN THE DE-
TENSE ANNOUNCED 1T WOULD
OFFER NO EVDENcE-MoT1oN
FOR A NEW TRIAL MADE AND
BOND FURNISHED IN THE SUM
OF $500.
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Continues on Page Two.J
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Joe Harris, Porter.

Witness said he commenced work
as porter in the club when it first
started. Said that Harry Davis made
arrangements with him. and raid
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Pensacola
| Nj A K Dbl CIR A s.
Carnival
| FEBRUARY u and %
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Meet King Priscus
i'm Pensacola
February 22-23
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
Bottles and Babies.

A prominent woman physician has
this to say about the feeding OF bot
tie babies: Babies are creatures OF
habit, and can easily be trained to the
utmost regularity. To this end the in.
FAINT should be allowed 20 minutes to
each bottle. and if it is not finished
then it ought to be taken away. Thus
it will learn to take its meals regularly
and quickly"
For everybody knows that babies
will dawdle over the bottle, keeping
the nipple in the lips longer than is
good, either for digestion or the shape
of the mouth.
eals properly apportioned are suf'
icient when methodically taken. II
baby cries, give 1T water. And remem.
Der that baby's food should be regulat.
ed, not only by age, but by growth. Re.
CARELESS of the months, a large fast.
growing child requires more food than
n who is small and slow in growth.
There is a tendency to act opposite to
this, and over-feed the puny child.
This is bad because the sickly child
will suffer more from the over-crowd.
ing of a weak stomach than from toe
little food. Fresh air, plenty of sleep,
and care and regularity in what he
eats are more important than quantity.
Give the larger amount to the strong,
healthy child who shows that he can
take are of and asSimilate it.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
Cuisine Queries,

What is, or was, a Franklin stove!
The lame is now generally applied to
any open stove-that is, a stove
wherein outside air is applied directly
to the fire. The first stove of such a
description was introduced by Benja.
min Franklin.
What is a fricandeau? The French
name for a fancy dish Of boned fowl
served as an entree or side dish.
What is a dossil? A plug or spigot
attached to cask or barrel. s
What is e%mpyreuma? The expires.
sion, "a taste of empyreuma" is only
another way Of saying that the thing.
vegetable or meat, has a burnt flavor.
For many people, a slight taste of the
fire is, if anything, an improvement.
and a hint of empyreuma" does not
mean that the dinner is burnt.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07

followed by an address by Dr.. Benja.
American Peace Society, on "The Pres
ent Position of the Peace Movement
What Has Been Accomplished.
DR.. Trueblood said in part:
Let me sketch in the barest out.
lines what has already been accom-
plished. The Interpretation will take
care of itself.
II. The men and women, now a
great host, who believe that the day
is past when blind brute force should
direct the policies of nations and pre-
side at the settlement of their diff
ferences, are now thoroughly organ
fzed. A hundred years ago there was
not a society in existence organized
to promote appeal to the forum of
reason and right in the adjustment Of
international controversies. To-day
there are more than 500, nearly
every important nation having
its group of peace organizations. Their
constituents are numbered by tens of
thousands, from every rank and class
in Observation-Disclosures, men of
trade and commerce, educators and
jurists, workingmen, statesmen, rulers
even.
The organized peace party has its
international Peace bureau at Berne,
Switzerland, binding all its sections
into one world body. It has its Inter
national Peace congress which has
held II meetings in 20 years-con-
crosses v which statesmen now feel
1t An honor to preside and which are
welcomed by kings and presidents
with a warmth Of interest and a gen
erousness of hospitality scarcely &C.
corded to IN other organizations. 1t
has its great national congresses in
many countries, like this present one,
and that in Carnegie hall, New York,
two years ago; and its special confer
ence like that at Mohonk lake. It has
dts unsurpassed ~banquets and festi-
walls, like that given to the Seven.
teenth International Peace congress
by the British government in London
last July, and those recently given by
the Peace society Of the city of New
York.
Triumph Of Arbitration.
; III. The position which the peace
movement has reached is no less dis.
tinctly determined by the practical at
,tainments of arbitration. We are this
year celebrating what is really the
one h~undredth anniversary of the birth
OF our movement, for it was in 1909
that David l.. Dodge, a Christian mer-
chant of New York city, wrote the
pamphlet which brought the move
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
GREAT CONGRESS OF PEACE
WORKERS HELD in CHICAGO
thousands of the Opponents of Warfare, Including Many
Distinguished Diplomats and Statesmen, Gather to
Discuss Disarmament and Worldwide
Arbitration.

Cnlcago.-Every civilized country on
tne globe was represented in the Sec
n National Peace Congress, which
began here Monday. The gathering
was the greatest of its kind ever held
IN America and brought to Chicago
some $4,000 persons who are Jealous
workers in the cause Of worldwide
peace. Among these were eminent
statesmen and diplomats of this and
other nations. Unfortunately, official
duties prevented both President Taft,
the honorary president, and Secretary
OF War Dickinson, the president of the
congress, from being present.
On Sunday there were special serv-
Ices in nos of the Chicago churches,
peace meetings under the auspices of
socialist and labor organizations, and
a large mass meeting which was adj
dressed by President Schurman of
Cornell university, Rev. Jenkins Lloyd
Jones and DR.. Emil G. Hirsch of Chi
cage
Welcome to the Congress.
Orchestra hall was filled to the
limit Monday when the first session
was called to order by Robert Treat
Paine of Boston, the presiding officer,
for governors, mayors and hundreds of
clubs had been asked to appoint dele
gates, and most of them had re-
sponded. President Dickinson's ad-
dress, the same he delivered several
weekssago before the Hamilton club,
was read, and the congress was then
formally welcomed by Gov. Charles S.
Deneen for the state, Mayor Fred A.
Busse for the city and Rev. A. Eugene
Bartlett, chairman of the reception
committee. The secretary then read a
brief letter from President Taft, in
which the chief executive heartily
commended the aims of the congress-.
Miss Anna B. Eckstein of Boston
next vas introduced to the meeting
and read a World Petition to the
Third Hague Conference" This was
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
What Is ~Saccharin?

A chemical substance used in place
Of ordinary sugar for sweetening
purposes. 1t al be purchased at any
drug store, and is very superior in
strength to sugar. Twenty-six grains
of saccharin will equal in sweetening
power n pound of sugar. Therefore
it must be used sparingly and with
care. 1t must also be thoroughly dis.
solved or there will be tiny atoms OF
~nauseating sweetness through the
dish.
The English use saccharin in the
preparation of marmalade. They oft.
en- add gelatine to give the necessary
body" to the preserve.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07

women to look forth anG
see the unmarked graves of those who
had fallen, for home and loved ones
men who had been as truly heroes as
were many of those lying beneath
stately shafts, which told to all who
ran the noble deeds of those beneath
the marble
Since that sweet day, when
thoughtful, tender woman-hearts
went out in sympathy to those so
lonely lying, and gentle woman-hands
reached forth and put upon graves,
unmarked Except with a pail Of vel
vet green which generous nature laid
above them) the flowers of memory
and of love-
Since that far time there has been
somewhat of bitter in-mingled with
the sweet of that remembrance, and
among the women of the southland,
the beauty of the deed which will
live in song and story, as surely as
ever in days of old the deeds of love
and daring lived in songs of min
strelsy-is marred by the rivalry
which has arisen as to whose hands
first laid the commemorative blooms
upon the breasts of the boys who
wore the gray, writes Kate Markham
Power.
Before proceeding let me say that
1t is to my native state, Mississippi
if not to my native town-that the
credit belongs, of having instituted
this beautiful ceremony of Memorial
day-a custom observed in the south
on April 26, and in the north on May
81, and the credit is, of course, a wom-
an's-but whether it is a woman of
Jackson or a woman of the town that
lies by the finland river"-Columbus
4 cannot swear-though I am GER
tain, after years of thought and search
ing among old letters and papers, that
it is to the former that the fair fame
Is due.
In the Jackson Clarion of the date
of April 26, 1866, is a most exquisite
editorial, all of which I should like
to give you, but have not the space.
1t begins thus: Yesterday being the
day set apart for the decoration OF
the graves of the dead who yielded
up their lives in the service of their
country vas very generally observed
here" etc.
Nowhere have I been able to find
any reference that would lead m to
believe that the observance of this
date was the first, or an innovation
among the people of Mississippi. Sure
ly, had it been so, there would have
been in some of the notices, or calls |
for flowers, or with the programs,
to indicate that it was the
drst oc the sort in the state.
These facts taken together with the
following letters from the lady who
to have done this noble work
irst, and, added to these, the positive
statements of several of the parties
who were present at the home Of Mr..
Boyd (still standing as 1t was on that
day. upon the afternoon
to, convince me that it is to
ny own city that the credit should be
accorded. But If there are others who
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
in the South.

, do not see it as l do, they must &C.
knowledge (fOr the proofs are there to
be seen of all men who will go into
the Hall Of History of the Mississippi
Archives) that Mississippi was right
along with all the rest and, if not a
whole year ahead of them, had at
least "a hours start along the path
of fame-thankS to the devoted la
dies of Columbus! AS to the facts of
the Jackson decoration, which Mrs.
Sue Landon Vaughan claims to have
instituted, the story taken very brief
ly from her published history Of Deco
ration day is that on the evening of
April 25, when rumors of disaster and
defeat were thick and dark, a party
of young men and maidens were gath
cred in the parlor of Mrs. James H.
Boyd, on North Jefferson street, try
ing, by music and other diversions, to
pass the heavy hours. Suddenly, just
before midnight, two young men,
scouts, rode in with the dread news
that the federals were coming.
Gen. Lee had surrendered at Apo
mattox; Gen. Johnston's forces were
surrounded, and disaster was immi-
nent.
AS she stood at the piano, Miss
Adams (as she was them seized a
pencil and wrote a call to the people
of Jackson to meet at the cemetery
the next day, bringing with them all
the flowers that they could gather, for
the purpose of decorating the graves
of the soldiers who wore the gray.
This call, Mrs. Vaughn says, in a per-
sonal letter, was printed in the Missis-
sippian of the next day, and she says
that she has a copy of the paper in
her possession. If this paper could
but be shown to the doubling public,
it would forever settle the question
as to what city the credit for Decora-
ton day belongs. But the lady is
naturally reluctant to have the pre-
cious document leave her possession.
After receiving the letter from her,
we visited many Of our older citizens
and sought confederation of all the
statements made in her letters. This
we had in fullest measure, but always
accompanied by the fatal words: IT
think it was at that time" or some
thing of that sort.
Of course, to all who know Mrs.
Sue Landon Vaughn her word was
as good as her bond" But to those
who were strangers to her, some COR
testimony was deemed
needful. Hence, though satisfied in
my own mind that the cemetery out
on West street-Greenwood, as it is
called-was the scene of the first pub
lie ceremony in connection with the
of the soldiers graves. I
understand that others
especially those whose homes claim
the honor for themselves-will be re-
luctant to accept my conclusions en-
Hence, II in all the southern land
there may be found to-day men or
who remember aught that an
he Columbus claim, April IS.
1866, l shall be glad to hear from
them, and should it be that n of
these faithful ones possess written or
Documents upon the subject.
which they will trust to me for copy
ng, ! will gladly insure them, and re-
turn in safety. And. better still. I
will give the facts cleaned from them
% your readers and settle the yexed
question II it be possible.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07

Rain. say which wind thou lowest best.
The north? The south? The burly west?
One thing I know. thou likest least
drive before the churlish east.
Rain, rain upon the quick and dead,
fallest alike upon the head
Of unjust n of just. with free
And all impartial charity.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
APRIL RAIN.

ONE rain, soft April rain,
Bring back the flowers
again,
Come, rain. make Of my
gambrel caves,
A swimming-pool for win
ter's leaves.
Then rain on budding
sprouts and say
Tomorrow will bring an
other day.
And April's sun and my
wet kiss
Shall waken thee to sum-
mer bliss"
Come rain, soft April
rain,
Bring summer back
again!
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07

AHU pretty nearly ole
And by the time I'd nursed him 'roui
And helped that wife o. his,
/ felt SO. we'll I clear forgot
All bout my rheumatic.
Another time I started in
With a dyspepsy scare, .
Then MarthX had a. baby, and
1 had to go out there,
Then Mas back got to achin' so
Seemed nothin' .would relieve her,
And just as she got easy, Pa
Came down with typhoid fever.
So how on earth can / get sick?
'Twould almost be a crime,
With everybody else upset,
L never find the time.