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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-03-12
DAN MAYbEE
To BE TRIED
IN JACKSON
His Attorneys Have Asked For
Special Venire Of 100 Men
to Select Jury.
Daily News Special.

Daily News Speclal.
JACKSON, Miss, March 12-Messrs.
Hamilton & Burch and Greaves, East
erling & Manship, attorneys for Dan
Maybee, charged with the murder OF
Sam Reber, have filed a motion in the
Kinds county circuit court, asking for
a special venire of not less than 100
men, TO be selected from the county
at large, in order that iurymen may be
secured who know nothing of the cir
cumstances in the case, thus insuring
an impartial jury.
Judge Potter has not yet acted upon
the motion, and since it will hardly
be opposed by the state, it is reason
ably certain that it will be granted
and that the special venire will be
drawn and summoned as soon as the
Sorsby case is disposed of, assuming
that the latter is to be taken up first
as it is evidently the intention of the
state to do unless some unforeseen
circumstance should result in delay
ing it.
Unlike the Sorshy case, that Of May
Continued on page eight
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-03-12

o. NJ. Donovan, residing on South
Francis street in the suburbs of this
city. relates an narrowing incident of
the electrical storm which passed over
this section about 2:30 o'clock yester-
day afternoon. What appeared to be
a great ball of fire fell from the clouds
and exploded about 100 feet above the
earth. From this explosion came a
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-03-12
SAYS CANADIAN MILLS
CUT SMALL FIGURE
Imports From That County Less Than
Two Per Cent of Gross consump-
tion-Fsvors a TarifS for Revenue
Only, and Will Fight Protection.

DR.. T. e. Ross, of this city, has re-
ceived the following letter from Con-
gressman Adam Byrd, setting forth his
position on the question of lumber
tariff:
MY Dear DR.. Ross:I would have
responded sooner to your communion
tions touching the retention of the
present duty on lumber, but have been
businly engaged in looking up statis-
tics and studying the lumber question,
in order that might be better able to
prepare an answer, and have con-
cluded that if our people in the South
had full information touching the mar
kets for Southern lumber, they would
not be so insistent upon maintaining
theh full amount of the present duty
as against the Canadian product.
'In a letter published in the Mem
phis papers some time since, I took
occasion to state that I was opposed
] tosa protective duty on lumber, or any
4 ONAASt al eiSlC III pOl NCQ 1ltO tAlo CO0A-
try, because to do otherwise would be
preaching every principle of democra-
cy. But am not to be understood in
that letter as opposing a revenue tariff
on lumber, as well as other Southern
products, such as rice, sugar, tobacco,
etc. This, think, is the position Of
nearly all of the Southern democrats,
and 1 am informed that duty to
certain amount will be retained on all
grades of lumber. OF course we may
expecta reduction of the duty, for the
reason that the leaders of the repub-
lican party are pledged to a reduction,
and l understand that in framing the
present bill, they intend to cut iron
and steel and other highly protected
schedules to such an extent as to pro-
duce a revenue and since they have
absolute control of the tariff bill, I am
quite sure they will not reduce the
duty on other products, without doing
the same on lumber. Again, would
like for you to remember that what
ever views the democrats from the
South, or from any other part of the
Union, may have as to what the tariff
ought to be, they will not be consider
ed in fixing the schedules. 1t is my
opinion that the bill will be framed
in the committee, brought into the
house, and passed under the gag
rule without giving any demecrat an
opportunity to amend the Same. as..
81 am very much of Tie oplnzon q |
the lumber manufacturers q The Nprt1
and the far Northwest are not feAilne
5 in a spirit of fairness with the South.
! ern lumber manufacturers, since they
' all stand for the importation of free
: logs from Canada into this country
/ and want to say that until recently
when Canada imposed small tax OF
logs exported, millions of dollars wortl
of logs were floated across the Grea
Lakes to the mills of Michigan, Wis
consin and other states, there sawe'
into lumber and put on the market II
n direct competition with the product o
\ the Southern mills. / am at loss t
know what good it viii do the South
ern manufacturers to tax out Canada
h. Continued on Page Two.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-03-12
BALL OF FIRE
FROM THE SKY
in Mid-Air a Hundred Feet
Above the Earth in Hattiesburg.
Cow is Instantly Killed.

idences all over the neighborhood
were burned out. Most of the tele-
phone poles in the vicinity were
scorched, and large hole was torn in
the residence Of j. D. Carpenter.
On Katie avenue COW was instant
ly killed. This animal was standing
about fifty feet from the explosion,
being the only living thing that near
to the phenomena.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-03-12
THE SOUTHERN NEGRO
IS OUT OF POLITICS;
TAFT TO STAND PAT

CHICAGO, ILL.,, March 12.-The pass
ing of the professional Southern ne
gro politician as federal office hold
er by right of color has been assured
by President Taft, says the Chicago
Tribune.
News of the complete change in the
republican party's policy reached Chi
cago from the White House, where
Senator Cullom of Illinois had a talk
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-03-12

dense black smoke, which "drifted
windwardly down the line" according
to Mr.. Donovan's version.
Mr.. Donovan was standing in his
store door on Francis street, and says
that he experienced an awful shock.
The telegraph wires were heavily
charged with the current, and the tel
ephone and electric light fuses in res
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-03-12
tie yesterday with the president.

late yesterday with the president.
Hereafter Southern white republi-
cans of good standing in their commu-
mites will come in for the patronage.
The places which have been allotted
to the negroes as a matter of custom,
such as positions in the various de-
partments at Washington, will go to
Northern negroes instead of to South
ern negroes.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-03-12
STREAMS SWOLLEN
FROM HEAVY rain

Torrential rains have fallen through
out this section of the state since yes
terday, but little dasoage is thus far
reported. The Cult & Ship Island rail-
road suffered several serious wash
outs, both north and south If the city.
but these were quickly repaired and
little delay has resulted.
The river is rising rapidly and Ger
don Greek has been on a rampage
since early last night. Some of thz
lowlands near the river are flooded
but there is no property damage o
consequence.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-03-12
MONITORS Names
Will BE CHANGED

WASHINGTON, D. c.. March H.
The navy department has changed the
name OF the monitor Arkansas to
ozark, and tsat of the monitor Nevada
to Tonapah. In order to permit the fol-
lowing out Of the custom giving the
names of states TO oalx battleships
and arrnared crniserr
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-03-12
A CLEAR DOCKET.

Not a single case graced the docket
at the police station this morning
and Police Justice Davis merely "look
ed in" at the appointed hour. The
people of Hattiesburg are behaving
themselves beautifully these days.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-03-12
LuMsDEN Is SENTENCED
TO EIGHTEEN YEARS.

NEW YORK, Mar. 12-Joshua Lums-
den, of North Carolina the inventor,
who shot and killed Harry Suydam, a
broker, in this city last December, was
today sentenced to IS years in the
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-03-12

The structure Of character is builded
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-03-12

Continued on page eight
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-05
Menu SUGGESTIONS.

"Cut-and-dried menus!" OF these the
average housewife speaks with dis
gust they seem to her conventional,
tiresome, stupid. They make of living
bore, and of planning sort of elm
ical operation. To all these objections
the modern scientific cook answers,
that stereotyped, planned menus are
but the rational result of increased
knowledge of the art of household
science, and hygienic needs of the
system. Haphazard menus compris-
ing things most easily prepared and
most cheaply obtained are the rule,
but it is false idea of economy; a
false idea of the best use of time.
In making menu care must be ia
ken to select one dish rich enough in
nitrogen to supply the daily waste.
This dish may consist of beef. NUT
ton, eggs, fish, chicken or old peas,
beans, or nuts. Any one of these will
afford the necessary nitrogen. There
should always be also small amount
of fat-either butter, olive oil or
cream. (The healthful fats are those
which may be eaten without cooking;
the cooked fats of meat are indigest-
ible and would not come under con-
sideration In hygienic menu.) We
must have some form of starch; pota-
toes, rice, hominy and white bread.
Any one of these, but not necessar-
lily more than one as they are all
starchy foods. We must also have
mineral matter and acids; these are
supplied by the green vegetables and
fruits.
Above all, remember that a menu
may be well-balanced, well selected,
but to be alphabetically healthful
1t must be well cooked.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-05
Hotel at Needles, Cal.

tube until II reaches the 100 mark
there are weeks at stretch when II
never falls below 100 even at night
One can cook eggs hard by simply
burying them In the hot sand. The
Mojave Indians of the lower valley OF
the Colorado river always go barefoot
loused their feet until they are as
hard and as insensible to pain as the
hoofs of horse; they can walk
through fire and trample red-hot Goals
without flinching.
The extreme heat is due to the low
altitude. combined with the proximity
of the Colorado and Mojave deserts.
For 1000 miles on the east, and 500
on the north and west, stretches a
waste of sand and cacti. With every
mile traversed by the winds they gath
er heat, so that cooling breeze
The man that traverses the deserts
doesn't wonder that Yuma and Needles
are hot. He only wonders that they
are not white hot.
Persons who can stand the exces-
sive heat find Needles and Yuma
health resort admirably adapted to
the cure of consumption, bronchitis
and rheumatism. However, most peo-
pie would consider the disease more
tolerable than the cure
A year ago pretentious hotel was
built at Needles for the purpose of
exploiting the place as a winter re-
sort. 1t is all right in winter time,
but in the summer months New York 8
tenement districts are cool and de-
lightful in comparison. Electric fans
are installed in the hotel in every
room and corridor, and wide balconies
protect every apartment from ever
receiving the direct rays of the sun.
At nights guests pull their beds out
on the corridors; but neither science
nor ingenuity has devised a way of
making life tolerable in Needles in
summer time.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-05

cent. and this I will declare to the
end
How many men when facing death
on the gallows have said the same.
wonder how many men have said
it truly. 1t Is true, as Pope says,
that hope springs eternal in the hui
| man breast, but I often wonder IL we
do not make a grievous error in not
| giving greater credence to the dying
statement of condemned man.
Jonathan Miller paid the penalty
of the death of Robert Conway with
the same stoical resignation which
had marked the end of many a man
in the same extremity. With his
death the case seemed at an end and
it passed from my mind along with
many other cases which have arisen
in long and busy career l probably
never again would have recalled it
except incidentally had it not been for
strange occurrence.
Il was just retiring for the night
one evening about two years after
the execution of Miller when 1 was
startled by the sound of horse dash
ing madly up to my gate. There
was a loud rapping on the door and
upon opening it the painting horseman
cried:
"'Buck Everett's just been shot
down in Kiley's saloon. He's dying
and wants to see you right away.
Says he's got an important confession
to make
Il hurried out. and mounting the
messengers horse, spurred full speed
for Kiley's place, which was disrep-
utable roadhouse about a mile dis
tant. On the way l tried to recall
who Buck Everett might be, and at
last remembered him as the porter
in Miller's hotel at the time of the
Conway murder. When l arrived at
the place he was almost gone. but
with the aid of stiff drink of whisky
he revived sufficiently to make the
following confession:
Tim goner, Judge, but before l
cash in I've got to get something off
my mind. It's Conway. I've seen him
day and night. My God, Judge, there
he is now pointing his bony finger
at me! Take him away. For Gods
sake take him away He gasped in
terror and the froth upon his paIlid
lips was bloody. We thought he was
going before his weighty secret was
told.
"'Come, Buck. have 1t out and
you'll go easier 1 said as held his
head.
eyes. judge, I've got to tell it, he
whispered. Tt was me that killed Con.
way. Miller never done it. The
thing took hold on me when took his
grips upstairs and he said they was
full of jewelry. slipped In and
knitted him as he slept and got what
there was In his pockets. l was just
turnin' to the grips when heard
the landlord comm down the hall. /
! slipped out and got past him. and
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-05
A Cool Beginning.

A nice beginning for a dinner Is
mixture of fruit (any kind, well
chilled and drained, and served in
small glasses or compotes with dash
of sherry and pulverized ice. A pleas
Ing combination is made of berries.
pineapple and oranges. Grapefruit
may be added, and grapes, too. But
the grapes should be seeded, and the
trouble is scarcely worth while.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-05

States army, grandson of President
been appointed superintendent of the
state, war and navy building at Wash
ington.
Capt. John H. Poole, corps of engi-
neers, held the Office of superintend-
ent for about four years. He succeed
ed Rear Admiral George w. Baird of
the navy.
Capt. Poole made many reforms and
improvements in what is known as
"the biggest Office building in the
world" and reduced expenses consid-
erably. He is relieved from this duty
to enable him to take two-year course
of instruction at the School of the
Line at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Officers of the army corps of en-
gineers are eligible to detail to the
superintendency since the naval corps
of engineers was merged into the
line of the navy several years ago.
Lieut.. Grant, the new superintend-
ent since his graduation near the
head of his class at West point, in
June, l5Vo, LIAM Serfeu lOur VI uuty
at the engineer school at Washing
ton barracks, and also as one of the
military aids Of President Roosevelt.
For several months past he has been
stationed at Boston on duty in connec-
ton with the river and harbor works
and Notifications in that vicinity.
Last year he married Miss Edith
Root, daughter of Senator Root, OF
New York.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-05

chamber turned these questions oven
ing my mind, never finding an an.
swer that was satisfactory to my
conscience. I seriously considered re-
signing from the bench. My faith
in mans justice had received crush
ing blow. For five years l carried
that weight Of self accusing guilt, and
only the sympathy of my friends and
the loyalty and trust Of my townsmen
sustained me.
One night was seated in the study
of Rev Charles Poindexter, the rec
tor of the Episcopalian church. Be-
fore CHEEKY CRATE fire we talked into
the night and to him unburdened my
soul
my heavens, judge he said to me-
laying his hand on my shoulder
Why haven't you told me all this be-
fore? l might have saved you these
years of troubling. Never before have
/ disclosed that which has been i'm.
parted to me in the confessional, but
in this case believe my duty to
the dead is outweighted by my duty
to the living. When you sentenced
Jonathan Miller you condemned a
guilty man. You remember that I at
tended him as spiritual adviser in
his last hours. To me alone he told
the true story of that fatal night He
was guilty of Conway's death although
his hand did not strike the blow.
He went to Conway's room with the
intent to murder him and rob him Of
his wealth. 1t was for that fell pur.
pose that he took the knife and Ian.
tern. When he reached the room
he found the deed already done, and
even as the two travelling men en-
tered the room he was meditating
upon how he might secure the con.
tents of the satchels and hide them.
Let your mind rest, Judge; his hand
was as guilty as the hand that struck
the blow!
Thus was the weight of years lift.
ed from my mind. and this, gentle
men, is my story"
Amid the congratulations and
thanks Of the members of the Calf
Skin club Judge Grower from the
chair announced that Judge Sturgis
had story for the next meeting.
| copyright. 1909. by W. G. Chapman,
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-05
Indian keduerie.

This recipe was obtained in India
by Mrs. Clinton Locks and she found
1t popular with her friends the world
over.
Take equal parts of halibut and
rice. with red pepper to taste (the
taste, of course, depending on the
country. Add cream sauce. The fish
and the rice are separately cooked
and stirred with the sauce into the
pepper.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-05

l never could understand why he
didn't see me. When they put 1t
on him l hadn't the nerve to speak
up. My God, I've got Miller on my
soul, too! There they both stand.
Take em away and he went into
unintelligible rawlings which finally
ended in the gasp of death.
"You can imagine my state OF
mind upon hearing this terrible con-
fession. Was not Miller's death
upon my soul as well? Was l not
equally culpable for not having
keener insight into character that l
might have read his innocence IN
his steadfast attitude? Many long
night as l walked the floor OF my
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-05
Which is HOTTEST PLAcEi
Yuma, Arlz., and Needles, CAL, Where
Thermometer Daily Reaches 1870
Mark, Given Honor.

New York.-With the advent of hot
weather the old controversy between
Yuma and Needles, the first IN Ariz
ona, and the other in California. as tc
which Is the hottest place in the Uni
ted States has been revived. Neither
is clamoring for the distinction oh
no, each is striving to thrust 1t upon
the other! AS matter of fact, the
difference is so slight that 1t isn't
worth quarreling abort.
From now on until late in Septem
Der the mercury will climb up In the
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-05
|Z1ek!FFG5HIEN
|g2sEGABINET
THE cHILDREN's BREAD-LINE-

THE bread-line OF the chlldren!"
This Is one of the pictures to be
seen any day in Chicago; a row
of hungry, ill-clad children of all
ages, sexes and colors, with baskets
on their arms, standing in line at
the door of one of the large, whole
sale bakeries. When the door opens,
they file in with pitiful order
pitiful because it shows automatic
obedience and sullen fear. They re-
ceive the stale bread and leftover
cake and cookies and file out again
where? The imagination follows them
where?
Now to some onlookers this picture
speaks volumes for the charity and
kindness in the world; how much bet
ter than wasting that bread; how
thoughtful to provide those starved
children with such a good meal a day.
At least one meal of wholesome
(stale) bread day!
But the cynic might laugh; the
thoughtful will grieve; the pessimist
might see in this the worst arraign-
ment OF our social order; pictorial
presentment of economic laundering
displayed by our most effective ac-
tors, the children.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-05
AUTHORS NOTE.

The material facts In this
story Of circumstantial evidence
are drawn from an actual re-
corded case, only such change
Of names and local color being
made as to remove them from
the classification Of legal re-
ports to that Of fiction. All the
essential points Of evidence,
however, are retained.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-05

5 the members of the Cali
Skin club dropped into
their accustomed places
Judge bennett entered
with a stranger of distin-
guished mein, and dignified
bearing. His white hair
andwhite mutton-chop whis-
kers betokened the coun-
try jurist of long expert
ence whose reverence for
the English hen,.h csused
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-08-05
Testing Flour.

Flour should be yellowish-white in
color; not of a blush cast Throw
little flour against dry, smooth sur
face; il it sticks, 1t is good; other
wise 1t is poor quality. Again, II
-four squeezed in the hand retains the
shape of the fingers it is good sign.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-06-10
Ordnance No. IS.

An ordinance designating the time Of holding
NE regular meeting OF the Board OF Trustees
OF the village Of Rexperce. fixing the hour
thereof aud prescribing the place for hold.
ing the same
he y ordained BY the Chairman ana Board
Perez, Idaho;
., sreiion !. Al regular meetings Of the Board
~ fnstt - Of The filiags Of KeEpeTee shall be-
month -
seciionz The hour Of holding such meet.
inss shall b. 20 y. al
section That she placs for holding such
nesting Of ne board Of Trustees shall be Al
me village hall in The said village Of Mex
section 4. This ordinance shall be IN full
s soass ana snsrl rom and aftsr its passage.
II. Passed and approved this lat day Of June.
Published in she Kerrsree Herald June io.h.
cHAhIfk D. THOMAS.
Chairman 81 be- b. 4 Of Trustees
An.sfi y the Niiisge Of Nezperce
village CLERK.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-06-10
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
A. A ALyORD.
Village CLERK.

Department Of the Interior, Land once Al
Lewiston, Idaho. May ~, 1909.
Notice IL hereby given that william n.
Campbell, Of Aezperee. Idaho. who, on June
% 1904, made Homestead EntrF No. I0se6,
~ y = shh NWL NE5< \ sAL NM NEl<
SKA hh1< NEi<. NEt< RNL kEl<. and Ek5
hN5<. Section rs. Township 81 North. Range
East. Boise Meridiar. has MED notice Of infen-
fl0n 20 make nnsl 5-year proof, 10 establish
claim 10 the land above described. before W.
". Hammeii, 8. Commissioner. al Hezperce,
Idaho, on the 18th day Of June, 1909.
Claimant names A. witnesses. Joseph Foster
Charles fiafi John Harris. Philip Lunger, all
OF AeEperce, Idaho.
7. II. BARTLEfI. Register.
Pint publication Nay p. 1909.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-06-10
NOTICE OF PROVING WILL.

N the Probate Court Of Eez Perez County.
Idaho.
In the matter Of the estste Of Sarah A. Bond.
deceased
Pursuant 70 an order Of said Probate Court.
made on The 18th day Of Nay. 1873, notice II
hereby given that Friday. the llth day Of June
1873, 81 n 80 a. m. OF said day AZ The court
room Of said court, ~ the court house in Lew
lfton, County Of kexperce, has been appointed
a. ihe time and place tor proving the VIII Of
said sarah A. Bond. deceased. and for hearing
the application Of sarah X. Boughfon for the
issuance 70 herof iciters Tefiamentory. when
and contest the same.
Dated ihis 18th day Of Nay. 1909.
Ap ~ 7. o. HAKIoN, clerk.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-06-10

OF al nnes. oets or other money received By
him nhlle acting ia such capacity aud be
must pay the same 20 The village treasurer.
taking his receipt therefor.
section n All the powers confessed and
dulles fei forth IN the general laws Of the
state OF Idaho relafing 10 village ofieers shell
apply 10 and govern the officers IN this ordin-
ance mentioned.
Section Y. AL ordinances and part Of ordin-
aneea In conflict herewith are hereby re
pealod.
Section Is. This ordinance shall be In force
aud effect from and after its passage, approval
and publication.
Passed and approved this lst day Of June.
Published In the gezperes Herald. June 10.
CHkRLKs y. Thomas,
Chairman Of the board Of Trustees.
Aitests
A. ALyORD.
Village CLERK.