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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-11-01

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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-11-01

ST. MARY'S WOOL BIZ
have stood the test for gem
$500 to $1,000 pair. Specia
$500 and $500.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
GOV VARDAMAN MAY
NOT Be ON HAND
Lecture Date May Conflict With Date
Here-Optimistie Letter From sher-
Iff Of Warren Co.-Fire WAGON
Races Run BY Time.

hatuesburg is ready for the great
oouth mississippi Prosperity Celebra
tlon next Friday, only few minor de-
tails now remaining to be attended tn
before that day.
lay after tomorrow is official
cleaning up day for the citizens AZ
Hattlesburg, and on that day the city
authorities, too, win put the entire
scaVenger force to work cleaning ND
the streets and alleys in the business
district. The cooperation of the bus
mess men of the city is earnestly re-
! quested in getting this work dona
properly. Those having residences
near the central part of the city, es-
pecia.ly along the main streets and
those thoroughfares which will he
most used on the day of the big in
pilee, are urged to have their prem
ises thoroughly cleaned and any weeds
or high grass moved.
Reports from up and down the lines
OF all the railroads running into this
city indicate a tremendous crowd here
next Friday and the impression that
these visitors VIII get of Hattiesburg
On that day VIII be lasting one.
lheSs people will go home and talk
after they have been here. and thew
VIII all become "boostrs" or knock
ers'' according to the impression made
upon them and the general treatment
they are accorded. 1t therefore be-
hooVes the people of Hattiesburg to
put the best foot forward and to SEQ
that all visitors are made to feel at
home and Welcome.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
Had Been Drinking.

1t seems that these parties had been
to Prentiss together during the day,
and had started home in the same
wagon together, slightly under the in
fluence of liquor, when they came up
on a tree blown across the road; and
being unable to pass, they got out
and released the mules from the wag-
on. There the difficulty occurred,
from what causes and what surround
ings no one as yet knows. The signs
show, together with the meager re-
PORTS by the PARTIES, that one stand
iug on either side of the wagon tongue
began car'r~ the other, when Ir.
Williams d.ov his pistol and fired,
Mr.. Langrora Ealing. Mr.. Williams
believing IN dead went to his near
est neighbors to the scene of the diff
ficulty, to be followed by Mr.. Langs'
ton. who had recovered from the pistol
shot, and there another cutting took
place between the parties which end
ed in Mr.. Williams procuring shot
gun and emptying it in Mr.. Langs
tons left breast.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
George Langston and Dan Will
Jams Engage in a Bloody
Aifray.
BOTH OF The men HAD
been DRINKING LIQUOR
Landlord Shot With Pistol and Shot.
gun While Williams Is Badly Cut
Not Known What Started Trouble
Eo.l May Recover.

Eo..a May Recover.

Special 10 / he NeUs
PRENTISS, Miss, September 27.--
News reached this place today of a
rather serious if not fatal difficulty
Saturday night about nine o'clock, six
miles north of here in the Vixen
neiglborhood, between Mr.. George
Langston and Mr.. Dan Williams, both
highly respected citizens of that neigh
borhopd. And as result thereof both
men are today confined to their beds,
Mr.. Langston having received numer-
Gus knife cuts, a wound in the head
from pistol ball, and full charge of
shot gun in his left shoulder, pen
etrating the lung; while Mr.. Williams
received only knife wounds, having had
his neck lacerated for several inches,
almost reaching the larger blood YES
sells, very ugly and serious stab in
, the right breast as we'll as numerous
other cuts of more or less serious
ness.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
IN
CITY COURT
Merry Mix-Up Between Celestials
in a Hattiesburg Laundry
Last Night.
WHISKEY and AN
old PISTOL figure
stenographic Report Of Statements
Made by Moneolans on Witness
stand-Judee Assesses George
Ching $1o-spectators Amused.

AS the result of a merry mixup in
Chinese laundry in Hattiesburg last
nieht, George Ching, Charlie FunS and
Lee Yung, a trio of almond-eyed celes-
tials, were hailed before Judge Davis.
in the city court this morning. Ching
appeared in the role of defendant,
Fung as prosecutor and Yung as the
only witness. The charge on the
docket against Ching was assault and
battery.
The defendant Ching, was the first
to tell his story on the witness stand
and made the following tatement in
regard to the difficulty
Xxi vi iggy box wog CUB spiritus
frumenti cum homo tomorrow"
Ching said a good deal more thar
this, but it contains the substance Of
his testimony.
Fung took the stand next.
Nov tell what you know about thi:
| lIOuDiS, Sdlu
"Iggy biloxi Xxi vi woggy gig bum ia
rars bum-te a." said Fung, and judge
Davis let it go at that.
Lee Yungs Statement.
Lee Yung's story corroborated Char
lie Fung's. being couched in Language
which sounded very similar to boil
Charles and Georges, except that h
volunteered the following additiona
statement:
"Zwrxmsptuvwxyz balgcqsrzzzokbm
= uxisteryripilasetc."
This was "clincher" and convince
Judge Davis that Ching was guilty a
charged and fine of SO was impose'
upon him.
, AS nearly as could be discovered
Ching resented a remonstrance mad
by Charlie that he was drinking to
much whisky by hitting Charlie owe
the head with an old pistol causin
the blood to flow copiously. Chin
stated that Charlie had first struc
him in the eye with chair, but tn
d burden of proof was against him an
judge Davis assessed the fine spec
fled above.
The pigeon English of the Mong'
lians caused much amusement in tn
: court room.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
ALL READY FOR
THE GREAT DAY
AMERICAN M. DIS
ARE IN front
Far Ahead of Other Nations In Many
Branches of Surgery and
Medicine.

Special 10 The Neus
NEW YORK, September 27-Dr
Louis Livingston Seaman, one of the
American delegates TO the recent in
ternational medical congress at Buda-
pest, arrived the other DAY iIom Liy-
erpool and spoke very enthusiast coly
of the showing made there by Amer
lea and the success of the congress.
THE Americans are far ahead OF
other nations in many branches of sur.
gerry and medicine" said Dr. Seaman
'as shown by the testimony and ex
hibits at the congress. This is par
ticularly so in the case of appendicitis
where we excel both in the trea men'
CT the disease and the technique Of
the operation"
Speaking generally, DR.. Seaman sait
it was the height of insanity for Amer
leans to go abroad for treatment b,
foreign specialists, when there wer'
physicians at home who could wall
all around" the European medica
men.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
STOLE MONEY FROM FRIEND
WHILE The LATTER SLEPT

Charlie Kelly, colored, was fined SO
by Judge Davis in the city court this
morning upon conviction of charge
of larceny from the person.
Wesley Brown, another negro, stat
ed that he went to sleep sitting at a
table in a negro restaurant on Mobile
street Saturday night and that when
he woke up an hour or so later he
missed out of his pocket the sum OF
$1O.25. Kelly, he said, was seated at
the same table with him when he went
to sleep.
A negro boy who was in the restau
rant testified that While Brown was
sleeping Rely had gone through his
pockets. Kelly denied the charge lr
toto, but Judge Davis couldn't see il
his way.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
FEEDING TRANSIENTS
BY The HUNDRED

The fact thai tie ran S Oh ,he Louis
Vile & Nashville railroad are running
through Hattiesburg to and from Gulf
port and New Orleans, is proving a
good thing for the Hotel Hattiesburg
and also for the passengers on these
trains, in that the latter are enabled
to get a square meal while stopping
over here and that the hotel gets this
patronage Manager Hughes states
that on Saturday his hostlerly fed 81
of these transients while yesterday
102 of them took their dinners at th'
hotel.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
ARE Constructing
STANDARD GAUGE R 5AD
Work On the Survey of New Line Out
of Columbia Has Begun-Want to
Break Into the Yellow Pine Terri
tory,-6eaport Outlet Wanted.


JACKSON, Miss, September 27.-
The New Orleans Great Northern road
has commenced work on the survey OF
its new line out OF Columbia, to be
butt 4or the purpose Cf tapping the
virein pine forests of the Great South
ern Lumber Company in Marion coun-
ty.
Chief Engineer Haddow, who was in
the city last night, states that two
routes out OF Columbia have been pro
posed and a decision in the matter
will be reached within the next few
days.
While the ,-:cw line is astensibly for
logging purposes, it is significant that
the New Orleans Great Northern has
arranged to have standard trunk line
construction work, and it is currently
reported in railroad circles that the
company ultimately intends to build
line into Hattiesburg, connecting VIII
the Gulf & Ship Island road at the lat
ter point, and thus securing direc
connection outlets for lcmber pro
ducts to the harbors at Gulfport an(
Mobile.
Tie chief officials of the system de
cline to say whether they have suci
nlans in contemplation, but the Lint
ont of Columbia is pointed in the al
rection Of Hattiesburg, and the terri
tory that would be traversed by sucl
q, road is rich in agricultural resource
and badly in need { additional raj
road facilities.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
HIINAN FRECKLE TO
fight BILL SQUlRES

Rob Fitzsimmons is matched u
fiebt Bill Squires twenty rouhus d.
sydney, N. S. W., the day af'er
crbristmas, which is the first ami
..orsorv Of ther Johnson-Burns NIL
Ketcbel has begun training in Frisco
For the Johnson MILL He has three
weeks to fit himself and also ne VIII
weigh 1856 pounds for the negro ana
:. .+,n telling his friends that he VIII
win decisively. johnson rapidly &c.
Emo into great trim for this affair ano
,opards Ketchel as an easy mark. ING
.,.ol, man is taking six eight and Ten
no road runs. ii is said, and Wi
scale at 2O5 when he enters the ring
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
In Southern Cities Today In
Honor Of Centennial Of Ad-
miral Semmes Birth.
IS In CONFORMITY
With The ORDERS ISSUED
Memorial Exercises Being Held In
New Orleans, Mobile and Other
Cities of South With Which Confed-
crate Commander Was Identified.

NEW ORLEANS, September 81
In conformity with general orders is
sued from headquarters, the United
Confederate veterans in this ci,y and
in the South are today observing the
centennial Of the birth OF Rear Admi
raj Raphael Semmes, of the Confed
crate States navy.
Memorial exercises are being held i'll
many Southern cities, and the day Is
being observed in other ways at New
Orleans, Mobile and otner cities with
which Admiral Semmes was proml
nently identified.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
Gov. Vardaman's Letter.

IL now seems likely that former Gov
ernor Vardaman may not be here IN
SPEAK on Celebration Day, as was in.
umated by The News several days
ago. The following letter from Gov
Nardaman was received yesterday nv
Mr.. F. D. Lander, editor of The News.
and is self-explanatory:
jackson, Miss, Sept. "a, 'os.
Mr.. F. d. Lander,
Editor Hattiesburg News,
Hattiesburg, Miss.
My Dear Mr.. LANDER
Il notice that l am advertised to
speak in Hattiesburg at 12 O'Clock Oc-
tober 1st. l wrote YOU some days ago
trat the prob abilities were that :
would hot be IA Hattiesburg on that
date. VIII you be kind enough to
publish that fact in your paper. II
convenient l shall attend the meet
ing. But if I should not attend l DO
not want to be forced to explain why
| did not. Probably a few people will
so to Hattiesburg to hear me and
do not want them to be disappointed
please be lSird enough to announce
t!at it is probable that | will not be
present, and greatly oblige,
4 Yours. Cordially and sincerely
. aIAS. K. VARDAMAN.'s
Gov. EardaRan is under contract =
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
entertainment
At The College
Members of the New Press Associa-
tion Will Enjoy Rare Treat-Sev-
eral Have Arrived and Others Are
Expected Tonight and Tomorrow.

Fo rthe purpose Of organizing the
South Mississippi Press Association,
several editors and publishers of this
territory arrived in the city today, and
more are expected to come this after
noon, tonight and tomorrow morning,
Tonight the representatives of the
press win be the guests of the faculty
of the South Mississippi College, and
a splendid recital will be given for
their entertainment. The program
which has been arranged for this oc-
casion consists of musical numbers.
recitations and readings by members
of the faculty, and judging by pa t ef-
forts the entertainment will be most
enjoyable.
After the recital the visitors will be
invited to partake of refreshments
an appetizing menu having been ar
ranged by the faculty for this especial
purpose.
The visitors and local representa-
tives of the press will gather at the
Hotel Hattiesburg at 7:45 this even
ing. where conveyances will be Pre-
vided to take them to the college.
Although the recital is given compl'
mentary to the newspaper men, tn
public is cordially invited to attend
and doubtless the college chapel wi
be comfortably filled tonight, as usus
on such occasions.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27

Following are the cases disposed OF
b. Judge Da'-is l. the cir. co1t this
morning:
Joe Lewis, colored, manufacturing a
nuisance in the shape of hog pen on
his presises; dismissed upon payment
of costs provided that the hogs be
removed.
Jennie Howse, colored, profanity in
public, $3.50.
Sam Jones, colored, drunk in public
place, IS; same, indecent exposure of
the person, $3.50.
Sam Derr, colored, operating a
hack without license, $3.50.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
Probably Will Recover.

DR.. H. G. Williams of this place
was called to the relief of the suffer
ing men, and found that six large shot
had penetrated Mr.. Langston's lung.
Both of the parties will, in all prob
ability, recover. Both were very weak
from tNe 10 c Of b,ood rNon the arrival
of DR.. Williams, and Mr.. Langston hay
ing fallen by the roadside. and lain
there for several hours, was frozen tc
an unconscious state.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
RUNAWAY NEGRO Was
CAUGHT AT SLIDELL, La.

sheriff Magruder receives woro
from Sldell, La, this morning tna'
VIII McCaleb, co,ored, who escaped
from the county farm here, had peeh
captured in the Louisiana town ana
was being held subject to Mr.. Ma
prrders orders. Sheriff Magruder at
once dips ched Deputy Sher'it NC
Co.. lay he ne ro.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
WOMEN ARE FINED ON
CHARGE OF VAGRANCY

Fines of S1o each We're imposed by
Judge Davis in the city court this
morning upon Nettie Compton and Mel
lie Fuller, two residents Of that dis
triet known IS The Iupeles." The
,hcrga against TIE women as va
rrancy ard hot n a5.9 entity.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
CINCINNATI AFTER
NATIONAL AERIAL MEET,

CINCINNATI, o. September 27.-
Announcement is made by the Cincin.
natl Aero Club that two wealthy men
Of this city have pledged thems nives
as hackers to the extent Of. 100000
secure the international aerial nnef
! Tor Cincinnati in 1910.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
NO. & NE. GIVES
one CENT Rate

The New Orleans & Northeastern
Railroad has done the right thing and
has granted one cent per mile rate
f,r tn bis prosperity celebration in
this city next Friday.
The n. o. & ~ f. already had ad-
vertised a rate of one fare both ways
plus % cents, from points on its line,
but readily made the one-cent fare
when requested to meet the action of
the other roads coming into this city
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
Weather Favorable.

The weather during the past week
has been very favorable for picking
The days have been delightfully."- cool,
and splendid headway has been made
in the fields. Ginning plants are run
ming ON full time, and there seems to
be a general disposition among the
farmers to get the staple out of the
fields as quickly as possible, even
when they have no intention Of rush
ing it Immediately to market.
Probably the safest estimate Of the
seasons crop is about midway be
tween the maximum and mihimum fig
ures. In other words, it may fall
little short of 100000 bales, granc
| ing that normal weather conditions
will prevail during the next sixty days
during which period the bulk of th'
crop will be harvested.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27

Don't neglect to clean up for Gel
ebration Day.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27

P. NJ. Anderson of Richton, is il
the city.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27

c. E. Vosburg, O. NateLez, is at the
Klondyke.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27

R. P. Mlmp in the city ON lack
son.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27

W. S. Walsh is in the city from
Laurel.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27

A. L. Mitchell. of Picayune is in
the city.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27

r n. Jtrkins IS D Hattiesburg FROM
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27
HAVE Their EYES
On HAIT|ESbURG
AN estimate OF
THE COTTON CRPO
Mssissippi's Crop Is Now Figured at
100000 to 1,a5o,Ooo Baies-out.
look Is Encouraging.


Special 10 ne NeUS
JACKSON, Miss, September 81
Estimates of Mississippi's cotton crop,
taking into consideration the damage
wrought by the tropical hurricane one
week ago, vary from 1.10v,0v0 to l.
25O,0OO bales.
Crop experts are busi;y engaged in
collecting reports showing the ex-
tent of crop damage. Some of these
reports from the same sections are
conflicting in character, but their gen
eral tenor indicates that the damage
was not as heavy as at first believed.
Accepting the minimum figure OF
100000 bales-and few persons are
placing it that low-figures show con-
clusively that, at existing market
prices, the farmers of Mississippi will
receive more money for this years
crop than they obtained from the crop
of last season, and, as the holding
movement seems to be gaining
strength, they have good prospects OF
being still further enriched by ris
| ing market
viii Bring More Money.
The price of cotton seed will alst
help to fatten the farmers purse fol
| the seed from one bale OF cotton a
prevailing quotations is worth $40, ant
there are prospects of steady ad
vance, for in some sections mills are
paying as high as $3.50 and $23 pc
ton for seed.
Unfortunately the farmers vii
not share uniformity in this prosperity
for the crop which promises to brin!
| Sl00,000,000 into the state is yer,
spotted. Some sections report tn
crop from 80 to 70 per cent. short
while in South Mississippi from tn
Alabama line to the Illinois Centra
and southwark from the A. & V. roa
to the coast, the crop is undoubtedl
the best in many years.
However,, in no section can it b
said that the cotton crop is complet
failure, this even applying to the bo
weevil district, where the yield is e.
timated at fifty per cent. of the no
| NAL
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-27

ucl on Page eight
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-09
Pays $l.4O a Day.

Little Rock, Ark. Nov. o. R. l.. Raleigh, the convict contrac- tor who is paying S1.5O per day for convicts has consented to the Capitol Commission taking 40 of the convicts from the state farm and paying the Penitentiary Board S1.4O per day for them.
 The board permitted the com mission to take the men yesterday with the provision that the con- tractor who was to have all of the men not used on the state farm ~r Capitol bui, ding under the legislative act which granted the commission 100, had no objection Raleigh will pay the state only $ 40 per day for the convicts ne
 from next Saturday until April 1.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-09
Out of Southern League

Little Rock, Ark, Nov. o. Sentiment is divided in Little Rock over the dropping of the Capitol city from the Southern League meeting in Memphis yesterday and those who are sore are not the least backward in asserting upon whose shoulders should fall the blame. Some few of the Fans ere satisfied with a berth in the IeXas League which is yet to pe secured but they do not want
 this unless Little Rock is to have
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-09
Big Meeting December IIth.

Litt,e Rock, Ark. Nov. D. At the county seat of every counN ty in the state on Dec. II there Will take place a big meeting and each of the meetings will be bre.. sided over by some man high Tn the councils, and in the Anti Saloon League of Arkansas At these meetings the county organizatt' Xons will be perfected and the work of the campaign outlmed The county organizations will be expected to take charge of the work in that county and take up the proposition of sending prohi- bition men to the General As sembly. The Anti Saloon Leuage at first expected to gain control of only the Senate by the election of new members from prohibition ranks. Now they feel as though 1t will be an easy manner to elect Representatives as well and will go in for that also. Tn the big counties of the state men of prom thence in the state organization will be sent to preside. Great care is to be taken in the county organizatIons to get workers. as no mistakes are to be made and tho chances of success. which are considered to be excellent, lessen4 cd in any degree.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-11-09
Country meal at w. B. Walters.

Country meal at w. B. Walters. Mrs. T. s. Bryan returned today from visit to Arkadelphia.
 MT. Lee Hitchcock is able to be up again after quite a long spell of sickness.
 For Sale-A good milch COW For further particulars, apply to J. R. Wilson's residence.
 Mack Rogers and Alex Warmack of Wlilisville were visitors in Prescott yesterday.
 The Fortnightly Club is being entertained this afternoon by Miss Lauralee Powell
 For sale cheap - Enclycopedia Britannica complete. Easy terms.
 II. B. Mckenzie. Miss Geraldine Johnson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. l.. Johnson, is suffering with an ath tack of scarlet fever.
 1 desire to thank my friends for the interest manifested for me during my recent illness and to assure them that it is highly ap- preciated. l.. P Hitchcock.
 We have just received the larg- est stock of cut glass ever brought to Prescott. The assortment is complete. Call and see the dis~ play.
 Mcdaniel Hardware Co.
 The many friends of Mrs. J. B.. Warren Will regret to learn Of her death which occurred a few days ago at Fit. Towsen, Oklahoma Mrs. Warren formerly lived here. and the News joins her host of friends in extending to the fam ily it's deepest sympathy.