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The Forrest City times., 1909-11-26

cotton There are more new cotton kings and princes today than before. Practically all of these are southerners who have had expert knowledge of this staple. Most of them have been cotton planters themselves large scale, and all their lives they have been studying cotton, its growth and it's overwhelming markets.
 Almost every day there have been rumors fly ing about as to what Patten was doing in cotton said about the real bull leader in the cotton mar ket the who has been the biggest specula tor in this staple and who recently has jumped into the multi timiIlionare class, Eugene c. Scales Of Dallas, Tex Scales Is the most towering bull probably that the cotton market eyer has known. Patten Is piker beside him Even the celebrated Mir. Sully in his palmiest days operated on such a huge basis as Scales has been in the last eight months
 This new and mighty multimillionaire in the cot ton market has steadfastly kept himself in the background. He is amateur speculator, how ever for five years ago he in one of the SulIy campaigns and retired from the fight with several large dents in his financial armor But now he has won back all his losses and a lot more
 Some among the many others who know cotton and have big fortunes through its rise in price are Fergus Reid of Norfolk Va; Morris H Roth. schild Of Woodyile, Miss: William P Brown Of New Orleans and Louis s Berg of Mississippi Berg had charge of the Chalmette terminals at New Orleans not long ago and was a hard working rallorad man A little later he pieced together a
 
 them into an effective and profitable system Then With modest fortune he came to New York and since then has been making money out of cotton
 And so the list runs Hardly a name among the thousands of new millionares is familiar to New 1orkers. They are practically unknown out. side oI the small communities they came from in the west and south They live in the costiest suites In the most expensive New York hotels Next summer, If they have no setback they will begin leasing or buying palaces at Newport Bar liar bor or other places where the socially elect are supposed to live. Then they will begin trying to break through the Imaginary inclosure with which society surrounds itself. There are so many of tnese new miiionaires that perhaps like the incur sion or new race they will overwhelm and con quer the relatively small group of people who have been birding themselves on having their wealth for a decade or more. At any rate. the names of most or these new millionares probably will be read for the hfst time in print in the next years books of social registry which form the nearest approach to the directory of the peerage that the pluto ,raey of America knows
The Forrest City times., 1909-11-26
erAsr cy OHIO CITY OF TOLEDO.

FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he n .ep.cs PPsftner Pf,L or n the hrm of F. J. CHENEY CO. doing nsAulrAs , lh the tity of Toledo. County and State sIoIesald and that said firm VIII pay the sum of ONE Iit NpkED DOLLARS for each and every case o CAfthuI that cannot be cured by the use oi HALLS CAIAHHA CtKE ~ VI
 FRANK J CHENEY
 sworn 10 before me and subscribed in my nresenes his eth day of December. A. D. iest
 SEAL " GLEASON. - NOTARY PUBLIC. itiiis oafarrh Cure ii taken internally and acts directly upon the blood and raucous surfaces n, m. nsteIn. send for testimonials free ~
 !, j. CHENEY < CO, Toledo O
 lAse Hau's seHlIIy Puls for combination
The Forrest City times., 1909-11-26

sprung up lately through the up ward sweep of prices in Wall street. Great corporations, like the fire and the life insurance com panies. have also profited stupen- dously. These tremendous reser' voirs of money own huge blocks of shares in scores of railway and in' dustrial companies-lots of from 10000 shares to almost a control ling interest. The most of these are sober. gilt-edged, dividend-pay- ing stocks that have not been spec tacular in their advance in price as compared with some of those that have gone up like skyrockets. Yet even these high priced shares have been enhanced in value from 20 to 50 per cent. in the last l2 months They were bought at panic prices, so the published records of these companies show, and these instltu tions now are said to be selling them off, cautiously and carefully at the fancy figures that have been prevailing of late. Unlike the in dividual investor, they believe in cashing in their winnings and salt ing them down until there Is an other chance to buy cheap.
 In the commodities ehere are new groups of millionaires and multi millionaires also. Some of these have won their wealth in wheat, others in corn. but most of them in
The Forrest City times., 1909-11-26
Fighting the Slave Trade.

Although slave trading is generally supposed 10 be thing of the past. the United States contributes annually sloo as Its share of the expense of keeping np at Brussels an institution known as the international bureau for the repression of the African slave trade.
The Forrest City times., 1909-11-26


 financial hopes and aspirations of those who had survived the various ills that followed in the wake of industrial oyer-expansion But since the panic clouds have cleared away there has come another and even more wonderful appreciation in values the most remarkable advance in the prices of all commodities and securities that this country has known Probably more millionaires have been made In the last 12 months by the steadily rising tide of tremendous prosperity than history ever has recorded In similar period of time The number of those who have grown rich quickly is greater. probably than it fin the time of mer ger and consolidation, nearly decade ago Be fore the panic of 1907 there were, perhaps 3 900 millionaires Tn New York. Now there are any where between 5000 and 10000
 The advances In the value of securities in the last two years have been almost incredible. There probably more than 100000 persons who are stockholders of United States Steel Tn October 1907 Steel Common was 2l7s in February 1909 it 41A this October 1t has been well above 90 The shares of the Pennsylvania railroad are more widely distributed than any other transpor- tation line. than 60,000 people being listed its books of shareholders. Two years ago 1t was 103: lately 1t has been above 150. Union Pa cihc is next to Pennsylyan In the length of it's stockholders list. It is not only one of the most popular investment securities. but also that Is specuated In most largely Union Pacific com 100 in 1907; this year it has been above 219 an increase of more than 100 per cent. New York Central Southern Pacific, Baltimore X Ohio Atlantic Coast Line. Illinois Central. Great Nor thern Standard Oil-practicay all the stocks in the long list of railways and industrials have ad- vanced from 30 to 100 or more per cent. in value since October 1907.
 Thousands of people who not spectators and who intolerant of speculation have profit. ed enormously by this wonderful rise in prices. They the ones who bought for investment when the prices were low and who are now reap ing the harvest During the panic enormous blocks of giltedge shares thrown on the markets when great spectators like Heinze and Morse, and some others who not spectac- uar or daring had to sacrifice anything and ev- erything for ready money Their holdings now are scattered throughout the country and have been tucked away in tens of thousands of safes and strong boxes.
 While some of the new millionaires come from the ranks of those who were bargain hunters in the days of panic. most of the new platccrats are from the army Of spectators.
 There many Of these new millionaires thst it ~ould be imoossible to list them all indi
The Forrest City times., 1909-11-26

The best preparation for the future Is the present well seen to, and the last duty we'll done
The Forrest City times., 1909-11-26

i.' ,"'s alton causes and aerra7aies many serlov, sal.s.s-,-, f. = ahVfnHRhiK cured hY Ir p5rnr.
 s.=t1s. Inc l4Yorits family iaxatiye
The Forrest City times., 1909-11-26

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
 nt,Gten teethlus, softens the gums reduces in AN'es4"a' AAAJk pain, cures wind eolG 2Sc bottle
The Forrest City times., 1909-11-26

he greatest necessity in a woman $ ule Is love.
The Forrest City times., 1909-11-26

1iiIS years big and record
 yield of wheat, corn and oth-
 CT staples has been heralded
 far and wide. But there is
 another harvest that has been growing and ripening ali unno ticed by government statisticians and by everybody else, and that is the bumper crop of new millionaires and multi-millionaires Never before were there so many in New York as there are today. Millionaires were made in 6 night by the great wave of consoli- dation and the merging of hundreds of industrial enterprises that was the feature of the opening years of the twentieth century. just after the close of the Spanish-American war There were steel kings, steamship kings pump kings. kings of car springs and of air brakes and of all sorts oi things. They blossomed forth between the sunset of one day and the dawn of the next. The select circle of plu. tocracy widened so swiftly that it broke all barriers and created new aristocracy of wealth in America. New York was invaded by a horde of westerners whose manners in some cases shocked even the imperturbable servitors at the expensive hotels where they monopolized the royal suites. Pittsburg, from being simply a great mill town, a city of grimy workmen. jumped into worldwide prominence because it was discovered suddenly that it had more millionaires to the square inch than any other spot on earth. In New York all sorts of people achieved fortunes, paper or actual. almost before they were aware; jockeys. walters. bartenders and other humble folk glanced with amaze at the balances with their brokers and began making plans for yachts and country houses. The his tory of this period was one of the wonders of America.
 Then, two years ago. the panic came and put dampener on the
The Forrest City times., 1909-11-26

HIS years big and record
 yield of wheat, corn and oth- CT staples has been heralded
 far and wide. But there is
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-10-23
DEATH rate OF
WHITE IPLAGUE.|S
STEADILY RISING

NEW YORK, Oct. 21.-A bulletin
issued by the New York State Char
tiles Aid association among other
white plague statistics for that state
says: IAN investigation shows that
there are not less than $50 deaths in
Albany county in 1908. alone, or near
ly one for each day of the year. The
death rate per 100000 population for
Albany was 900, ana for Cohoes
202.0, which are the two leading cities.
In the city Of. Albany in September
of this year there were is deaths
from this disease, and in CoIoes with
one-fourth the population the deaths
were g.; <SI r. .-''~:!, IT, N {, i.
: From October. l, t190s,s to October l.,
1903, at the South End dispensary,
Albany, there have been 2O2 free ex-
aminations of suspected eases Of tu-
berculosis, 10 of these cases having
been found to be tuberculosis, and
60 of which have entered institutions
for a long or. short period Of time.
There have been 4S examinations at
the homes OF patients, disclosing S8
cases Of tuberculosis. The Albany
hospital tent colony has acconamod dat
ed 80 in the short period Of its ex-
istence and at present is caring for
10 patients. The Red Cross Day
Camp during the past summer has
treated Is patients and has at pres
ent 10. - %:g I
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-10-23
Lad u LAT ! v W|AN|TloN||l'yl N! y ..
!. s'|i;|l SHOT Q DOWN d w BY y !.
f.. THUG SAILOR
strikebreaker off Steel Trust
Steamer Joliet Fires Revolver
Into Crowd of Children ~
Companion Admits He Served
Time In Ohio Pen and is Well \
'<>:5, Known As Desperate.

Frank Morris, a non-union fireman
on. the Steel Trust steamer Joliet, is
a prisoner in Duluth charged. with
!hrutally shooting down fifteen-yeat-
old Paul Ferguson Of 1881 Martin
street last Tuesday evening. :, -, =
I. Morris. with another member of
the Joliet crew, Frank Casey, alias
Richardson, alias Tug Wilson, was
on his way back to the docks, where
his boat was tied up, in "a drunken
Condition. = ..~-.' ~.
e. He was with many oaths and
much shouting, shouldering along
the much-named Casey who was al
most helpless from drink: . IT,: + :
!. "A crowd ofs school children, attracted
asy me e% Shouting ranto tteaalls ttss aas
Fired without Warming. ii. ~ i i
r Jerking out a revolver Morris with
many Qaths ordered them away and
before the startled little ones could
move began shooting at their legs.
Little Paul Ferguson fell when 8.
bullet crashed through his ankle and
his companions scattered in fear.
/ Bystanders called the police while
others took up the pursuit of the
burly ruffian. He was cornered be-
fore he could reach his boat and after
a struggle subdued and handed over
to Captain Fiskett and his men who
arrived promptly after the alarm was
received at headquarters. :
In municipal court Wednesday
morning he was bound over to the
grand jury on a charge of shooting
to kill under bond Of $500 -
Got Off With $3 Fine. d.
The Casey Richardson-W Wilson party
was fined three dollars and costs for
drunkenness and on payment of his
fine was turned loose
Before he was freed, however.
members Of the striking Seamen's
union visited headquarters and iden-
titled him as a professional strike
breaker, notorious on the lower lakes
for his misdeeds.
" 1t is declared that he was one
time a member of the Seamen's
union but later betrayed the un-
lon and misapproprtated1 its funds.
The fellow admitted himself
that he had served seventeen {
months in the Ohio penitentiary at
Columbus for burglary under the
name of Wilson,. ~ >,''
Just think of this, you decent, law
abiding people WHO won't stand
hitched for labor unions. .,%1
A self-confessed felon. a profess
sional thug and strikebreaker,t is be-
ing used to do the work that the Steel
Trust, could not get honest, competent
seamen to do under the abominable
conditions 1t would have imposed up
on them. 80: -
And this Casey-Ri Richard son-Wilson
a... = Continued ON PaRe 4,
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loyalty to their home city think
not. # HI }ts 55i:. ss6
BDycotted Duluth Labor.
n How long Is 1t since they went out
OF the city TO get Eworkmen# from the
Twin Cities, in fact from anywhere
in preference to Duluth I? 55s4s 4 81. 5Ssz; N
81 81 Not SO very long ago II memory
serves right. q 3Sfs2 .s 1f:ssi .ss
# SO now It appears that the con-
tractors Of Duluth are getting q dose
Sof heir own rnedi icine, and are max
ing some very wry faces as they
swallow Il Il
h A fact that may mpress the com
mon people OF Dulut Is this: ssss
Iandquist & Ilsll Lev, the Chicago
contractors. are EN- mployinE Duluth.
sworkmen wheneYer5 they can obtain
them. .sts 5sE3 ss3 ss. 81 VI
50 they evidently find DuIut1, work
men comp
Il SO ITS to the ntractors to
keep on lsingl, WY faces their
a z II as ( I'll
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WILL EXPERT GRAY
find REAL SOURCE Of
!. HIGH COST OF. II LIVING 6
Member of University Faculty Is
on His Way to Insert Special ;.
>. -s> Probe of His Own. =. ser !.
Careful Housekeepers Can Point
Out Speedy Way of Tightening
Load of Wagearners.

The Commercial club Of this city
is evidently not satisfied with the
Judgment passed by the real estate
exchange on the cost Cf high liv,Eg
in DuIlth.
It has engaged the services of Pro-
fessor John H. Gray of the University
of Minnesota who will come and ram
a probe of his own into the high-beef,
high-vegetable game.
AS Professor Gray is a part of tho
political economy department of the
university he should come we'll
equipped for the task.
But frankly between you and me
there isn't need of committee of
real estate peddlers or a college pro-
fessor to discover the source of
high prices here.
r. The real estate men and the COM
mission men and the butchers and
grOcers, through their combines,
have assuredly helped boost the grub
stakes, but two of the most potent
factors in maintaining high cost Of
living in Duluth are the lazy house,
wife and the handy telephone.
Phone Too Handy
The telephone is close by and the
housewife thinks it far easier to ring
up John Doe the grocer and have him
send up a bill of goods than it is to
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I|k|covlP ! \! ] En- : IS ...
BRING ) '|I|| I RI / RUIN 70 / !.
ii ! sE./. %Ma ftsS< fI5EE tf Ezs5 f. {r5#s5 ID,
" LAk \ ( / ENGINES /: \ | /:
Visit of international Officers to
Great Lakes Reveals True !. =, I, !,
49,. t,.~ = COnQ1C10nS. - ]
Damage Done to Boats By Hands
of Strikebreakers Has Filled
=. Lake Machine Shops;

w. H. Frazier, secretary treasurer
and Victor: Olander, vice president Of
the International Seamen's union OF
America, have just completed a. tour
Of the great lakes in which they
investigated the lake strike infinitely.
Their report, contained In recent
issue of the Coast Seamen's Journal,
shows conclusively that there can be
but one result to the strike and that.
victory for the sailors ss&f S@z-. S@1z- .,s
: On, all sides, especially on the low
er lakes, evidences OF the grim clutch
of the Lake Carriers com bineI and.
its ally, the steel trust, were seen.
: 5Stockades. Have Been Erected, !.
At..Ashtabula and other Lake Erie
ports asthey found the water. fronts
fenced IN with high board fences ana
barbed wire. The zpawerssso greed
had not sven left I;pp1n Tor the towns.
people to see the lake. let alone fish
or hathe. /} !: E=.. & s: 81;
They found, too, at Ashtabula and
other points that the dock police
were the big thing, lording 1T over.
the public and; the municipal police
And last and most important Of
all they found on all sides uncon-
trovertible u evidence OF the damage
done Ito the property Of the shipping:
trust by the Inexperienced hands OF
the college lads and dock loafers
who have been. "filling in" all sum-
mer.. =. ~. -. ~1%: r, I
Deatails Have Been Suppressed. 7
They were told that not half the
casualties that have befallen lake
boats this season have been pub
nshed and sthat the costly machinery
on many Of the largest steamers has
been utterly ruined by incompetent
engineers: s.& ,%s&5. Il d. ]: .*$ s@x HI
= The data contained In their report
are amply corroborated by the fact
that since the strike was inaugur-.
ated every marine machine shop
along the great lakes has been work
over time patching up the damage
sustained by the employment OF in
experienced non-uilion men. RI t:
= Il I Z Storm Damages Not Given. III =.
u But a tenth OF the casualties sus-.
tanned by boats on Lake Superior
during the recent storm have ap-
peared in the daily papers and the
nearer the end Of the season comes.
the more the vessel owners are dread
ing the footing Of the expense bills
that are piling up to offset their Ill
gotten profits. s..5 s.5a. Sst. 4: st. 5st.
> Meantime from all sides come to
the striking seamen assurances Of
assistance, financial and moral, from.
kindred organizations. 81 Il. ~ sss ! Isl Il I:
iii The salt water sailors organiza-
ton alone contributed the sum @f5of
$4,000, and more is promised as the
fight progresses. ;5 :a @a s } E5Y RI S ,ia St
lake seamen are prepared to fight
With this assurance the striking
it out to the bitter end. SSzs :. 3z5l5' S55l
4 81, q g tgfF - -
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ALL I CLASSES JOINED Il :
N G0MP|.E::RI|;S |: ! WELCOME NJ
Warhorse Of Organized Labor
Unable to Conceal Emotion at
Greeting rendered Him.

(: A striking example OF the high re-
tenn il which d Samuel n Gompesrrss,
president OF the "A. +. OF L.,.is held
by trades unionists, was presented In
Washington the other day on the oc-
casion {: Of his return from abroad, says
an eastern exc llange. s.5 4.
Evidence OF his great popularity
with the toiling masses was strongly.
manifested nc immedi diately upon landing
at the pier In New York, but 1t, re-
;nlained for the people Of the nations
capita, among llom he has spent
much of his life and who, therefore,
know him best. to cap the climax
III one of the greatest ovations ever
accorded an American citizen.
sfl monster parade and reception In
his honor was 81 tended by distin-
sgsaished men Of capital .as well as of
labor, each striving to- soutdo the other
in the welc come home prepared for,
the great leader. s.s
was q sight never to BE forgot
ten by those fortunate teS enough to be
present Comp man OF iron
that he fall ed utterly to hide
slits emo ton. 10 ali soutwa appear
gsnccs calm and a dignified Us usual, iti
sawAs neXeft IS plainly evid ent sto
many % his lend that he deep
"a ss
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- 4 i e.
by the fact that he went out Of the
city IN letting the contract for the
building Of his skyscraper. :$.3.
Favored Chicago Firm. Il 81. +.
He let the contract to the firm of
Landquist e Ilsley$ of 81 Chicago, the
same firm which built the new
county building n 3.S q n NJ y
. \ It was q terrible, q most unright-.
eous thing to do with SO many good
competent contractors ready and wills
ing to cut each others throats to-
get the plum fx \. II q
q So u that august organizat ion. the.
Builders Exchange, has placed, they
say, 8 black mark \ against the name
OF NJ; EI. Alworth and h will pro badly
get even by falling to Invite him to
their annual feast his winter ri
d hut ..,ssgs says Alworth.
when friend q speak him of ,e
territle thing n .ss store TOR him.
i I..II .s.sIIIaYe the toI hemselyes.I
a nv t,e for|
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CITY Transfers y. .
OF minneapolis
: 10 : - - sfs $ssts ts
ASK / |. !, .,N'AGE D [ RAISE
I cgi g sendsaDez
Il and for Increase to Coun-.@ s
III II = cilmanic Body. ,.5s. ss. ! /
Ask All Team Work in City be
Put In Charge Of Union 4
- Teamsters. =. .''s :, -.

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 21-A ma
terial increase III wages and an eight
hour day schedule Is demanded OF the
city Of Minneapolis by; the teamsters
and team owners who do the street
sprinkling, garbage collecting and
general order work. t5. ], q t5.>
! The demand calls for an increase
Of from 81 to $5fsper day for general
order work, an increase from $110 g.
j N 4 onti nti to 1920 month for street
sprink ling, to $115 q month where the
wards furnish their own tanks, as
well as an increase from $50 to 81 90
g month for the collection OF garbage
This demand has been sent to the
city council by the trades and labor
assembly committee that had the
matter under consideration: j. 81
THAT on and after April 1, 1910.
all team work performed for the city
of Minneapolis shall be at 621A cents
an hour, and that eight hours shall
constitute q days work contractors
take notice. and that all sprinkling
of, streets by the different wards shall
be at 1920 a month and $115 where
the wards furnish their own tanks.
Garbage Hauling Worth 800.
5 "All garbage hauling shall be at 800
g month, summer and winter This
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Phil IlPPlNE { Bill THROWS
DOWN BARS FOR DISEASE

and scratch. while the air Is rank
with the smell Of decayed fish ana
rank cocoanut oil, which the women
use on their hair. Now, s. imagine
one Of these natives, whose teeth have
rotted black by the constant chewing
of the betel-nut biting out heads,
which 7 took barticular notice to see
II they I'd using their splttle
to- help paste the heads on their work
and you can form some idea of what
the American smoker will get when
the trust dumps these far-famed
Manila cigars on the market f5s
Makes Quarantine ineffective.
. The United States government
spends thousands Of dollars to allar.
antine against these Asiatic diseases,
and when one leaves the island for;
this country, himself and effects are
thoroughly disinfected and In the face
Of all this our law makers propose
to put their seal Of approval on this
bill which Will put into the mouths
OF thousands Of our citizens, a most
prolific means Of contagion, and IL,
as firmly believe, it will be the
means OF injecting those filthy Asia
tic diseases into the blood Of the
American people, the present admin-
istration can thank Itself for it,