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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-24
Board Of Trades Views.


appointed to James Willett. a genuine and
unmistakable Washingtonian. who had
been the postmaster. At this juncture the
Board of Trade at largely attended
public meeting adopted the following
resolutions:
Whereas the official affairs of a
municipality are necessarily conducted
Ivy residents thereof acquainted with the
local public sentiment, which finds a
voice I'm the praise or blame of their
neighbors, while the Importation of nom
residents here to fill such offices exposes
d municipality to the tender mercies of
officials often ignorant of local affairs
and unrestrained by respect for a whole
some local sentiment: and
Whereas the nation has wisely recOg-
nized the applicability of the above stated
principles to local appointments iE the
District of Columbia. and has. through
Congress, enacted that q three-year resi-
dence is essential to appointment as q
civilian District Commissioner. and has
i'll the platform of both the great politi-
cal PARTIES extended this condition or
eligibility to the other local federal offices
by declaring. either specifically concern
ing the District or generally concerning
the District under the classification OF
territories, that all the federal officers ap-
pointed Tor it should be selected from
bona fide residents thereof
Therefore. the Washington Board OF
Trade, mindful of the welfare CT TINS
municipality, heartily indorses this action
of the political parties and of Congress.
and expresses the firm conviction that
these assurances against the use OF tle
local offices as rewards to Eon-residents
for national and partisan political serv-
ices rendered should never be violated
either in letter or in spirit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-24

At the urgent request of prosecution
and defense in the Tensleep murder cases.
in which seven prominent cattlemen of
wyoming are charged with the murder OF
three sheepmen, Judge Parmelee has or
dered an investigation Of the jury box and
jury list.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-24

Edward \. Jones, who founded the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
and raised the first S2oO.O0O of its work
ing capital. died Yesterday at his home
i'm East Orange N. j.. at the age of
eighty-five years. He was a native q
Wales.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-24

AS the result of quarrel over pos
session Of a parrot. Charles Bum yester-
day shot and fatally wounded his land
lady. Mrs Robert Nelson. and then shot
and killed himself at Anderson. Ind
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-24

of troops and police surrounded the build
ing to prevent disorders. Few socialist
meetings of protest of any Importance
have been reported so far, but it is ex-
pected that large meetings will be held
tomorrow
PARIS. October 23-By invitation of
the Russian emperor, NJ. Pichon, the
French foreign minister. will go to Mo-
dane in Savoie, to meet the emperor
Monday evening. when his majesty is re-
turning to Russia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-24

Rudolf A. Nieberding. German minister
of justice. has resigned his office because
of his advancing years. He was born in
1888.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-24

The unknown family of five lost in the
desert i'm San Diego county, Cal, may
have reached water and shelter i'm safety
but no word has come from them since
T. p. Kellogg, the miner, came in from
Tvs desert.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05

BY its conduct Halley's comet is
causing a lot of gossip.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
PHEN0ME NON AT SEA.
Shaft of Fire Plunged From Heavens
Into Water.

Galveston, Textile steamship Disa,
lust IL from Frontera, Mexico, reports
having witnessed an awe-inspiring and
terrifying phenomenon when about $50
miles north of the Mexican coast in the
gulf of Mexico on Oct. FL. Whether it
was a shaft of fire or light from heaven
or from the gulf, those who experienced
it could not tell. About 3 O'Clock in
the afternoon storm clouds made the
day dark as night. A half mile ahead
appeared the wide band of fire or light,
extending from sky to water and about
a quarter of a mile wide. In the heav
ems the light reflected the mountain of
surging black clouds, while the sea
boiled.
The crew begged the captain to turn
back, and all stood paralyzed with fright
as the vessel entered the brilliantly IL
Illuminated area. 1t was light enough to
read a paper on deck, and the sea was a
dead calm, while the water was boiling
hot. The fire pond was marked as clear
as a well, and Immediately after passing
beyond it the vessel entered a raging
sea, running mountainous waves and the
water cold.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
VARIED CROPS HOPE OF SOUTH
Boil Weevil Make Crop Diversifca-
ton Imperative.

Washington.-Dr. B. 7. Galloway,
chief of the bureau of plant industry,
United States department of agriculture,
and Prof. Spillman, agriculturist in
charge of farm management investiga-
tions, bureau Of plant industry, both
say that the farmers of the cotton area
of the Southern states have got to diver
sify their crops or lose out altogether,
as the boil weevil already has gained a
foothold which makes the diversified
tion of crops absolutely imperative.
These experts say also that diversified
crops does not mean simply that a bet
ter price will be paid for cotton because
of the decrease in the acreage, but that
the money returns from the products of
the farms will be greatly increased.
Corn is the crop most favored and
recommended for the agricultural region
of which Memphis is the chief trade cen
ter, because the farmers understand it's
cultivation; and secondly, indications are
that the price of corn will remain re-
munerative. Besides corn cal live
stock, principally hogs, which are always
a safe and steady money producer.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
BUYING INDIA COTTON.
Southern Mills for First Time Go
Abroad for Material.

Anderson, S. CAS- a result of the
prevailing high prices of American cot
ton, Southern mills for the first time
in their history are purchasing cotton
grown in India. President II. G. Town
send, of the Townsend Irvine Mills, has
placed orders for several hundred bales
of Indian cotton, and it is understood
that the other mills in the Piedmont
section of South Carolina have done
likewise.
The Indian cotton is of a shorter
staple thar the upland cotton, but is as
white and smooth. The mills are going
to experiment with this cotton and if it
proves satisfactory, as the mill men are
confident it will, large orders will be
placed at once.
The Indian cotton was bought Mt
II is cents f.. o. b. New York. The
freight to Anderson is Sc cents pei
hundred pounds. This cotton can
therefore, be laid down here for about
II ID cents, while the American cotton
is bring Is IA cents here now
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
BANK IS BROKEN lNT0|
BREATHITT FEUDIsTS FIGHT
OVER BALLOTS.
Sheriff in r ursuit Of Those Who
Forcibly Took Ballots and Es-
capped to the Mountains.

Jackson, Ky.-Breathitt county, the
scat of a feud which has been a promi-
nent feature of the political history for
many years past, is in the throts Of a
campaign which threatens to result in
serious trouble. A full set of county
officers is to be elected, and feeling has
been at fever heat for several weeks
past. This eliminated in the seizure
of the stock of official ballots by a body
of armed men, who forcibly took them
from u local bank, where they had been
deposited for safekeeping, and made oft
with them to a small hamlet in an al
most Inaccessible part of the county.
Sheriff Crawford, armed with val
rants for the arrest of S. II. Hurst,
county clerk, and William Sebastian,
summoned a posse and went after the
men and ballots. The sheriff says that
when he and his posse approached the
house in which the ballots are alleged
to be held they were covered with sixty
guns in the hands of men who had been
in the party which made the raid on
the ballots in the bank here, and the
sheriff and his men returned to Jack
son.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
IMPORTS TO U. S. INCREASING
Growth in Principal Manufacturers
Materials Shown.

Washington.-Large increases, in some
instances to from 40 to 200 per cent, In
quantities of the principal manufactur-
ers' materials imported into the United
States for the month of September, last,
compared with the figures of September
a year ago, are shown by a statement
issued by the department OF statistics
Thursday.
Wool imports aggregated 25,250,0Oo
pounds, against s,500,00o in September,
1908; cotton imports, 5000 900 pounds,
against practically 100000 pounds;
hides and skins, over 81 900, 900 pounds,
against about $4,000, 00O; pig iron, g.
500, 900 pounds against 6,750,0oo in Sep
TENDER 1908.
Imports of fbers show a considerable
decrease, the figures being 1924 tons,
against 26,3os tons for September, 1908.
Food stuffs, in most cases, show a de-
cline in imports during September COM
pared with the same month in 1908.
Sugar imports were over 227,o0o,0 900
pounds, against nearly 3s3,0o0,00
pounds in September of last year. Tea
was practically 100000 pounds,
against about 100000 pounds in Sep
TENDER, 1909.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
Ho0KW0RM'S ENEMY FOUND
John d. Rockefeller Gives 81, o00,-
900 to Fight Disease.

New York.-A gift of one million dol
lars by John d. Rockefeller to fight the
'hookworm disease" was announced at
the office of the Standard Oil Company
here Thursday.
A dozen well known educators and
scientists, selected in a large part from
institutions of learning in the South,
where the parasite is prevalent, were
called in conference with Mr.. Rockefel-
ler's representative at the Standard Oil
Company's offices, at &c Broadway, last
Tuesday, and at that meeting Mr.. Rock
e~feller's desire to organize a commission
to carry on a campaign against the
malady was discussed. As a result Of
this discussion of the situation, the
Rockefeller commission FOR the eradica-
ton of the hookworm disease was or
ganized.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05


dresses full OF hopeful enthusiasm.
Kavanau9h Opens Convention.
William X. Kavanaugh of Missouri,
president of the association, called the
convention to order Saturday morning
and set forth briefly the aims and
plans of the organization. He said the
deep waterway work is Q in this
condition:
/. The sanitary district of Chicago
has built the deep waterway, practi-
cally to Joliet, nearly 40 miles, and
$50, 0OO, 900 have been spent thus far
on the work.
2. The entire route of the lakes-to-
the-gulf deep waterway from Joliet to
New Orleans. through the Des PLANES
river, the Illinois river and the Mis-
sissippi river, has been surveyed I'M
der direction OF congress by United
States engineers, who have officially
reported to congress that the building
OF the deep waterway is feasible.
5. The people of the state of Hi
nois have adopted a constitutional
amendment providing for a bond is
sue of $40, 000, 900, the money to be
spent in constructing the deep water
way southwark from Joliet.
4. A bill introduced by United States
Representative Richard Bartholdt of
Missouri is now pending in congress,
providing for the issuance by the
United States government of bonds to
the amount of $500, 000, 900, the money
to be spent in constructing this deep
waterway from the lakes to the gulf
and other meritorious projected river
improvements.
5. 1t is intended to ask the Sixty
first congress to pass a bill providing
definitely that the United States gov
eminent undertake the construction
of the deep waterway from the point
where the Illinois work will end, to
the Gulf of Mexico.
In the afternoon, following the ad-
dress OF President Taft, Clifford Pin
chot, head of the government forestry
department, made an address on the
conservation of the nations natural
resources.
In the evening the delegates to the
convention were entertained at a stag
smoker by the Progressive union of
New Orleans. This evening all the
delegates and the ladies accompany
ing them were the guests of the Pro
gressive union at the New Orleans
Opera house, where La Juive" was
given by the French Opera Com
pany.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
ON COTTON
PATTON rs LONG BY ABOUT
2OO.OO BALES.
Every Change of a Point Means
$4,000 to Millionaire
Grain Dealer.

Chicago.-James A. Patten became
approximately S 100000 richer through
a wild rise in American and English
cotton markets Thursday. He is long
about 100000 bales, much of which he
accumulated when cotton was selling
around 0 cents a pound. An advance to
IA 5-S cents at the opening when shorts
attempted to cover, gives him an aver
g profit of four cents a pound.
Every change of a point in the market
means $4,000 to the millionaire grain
trader, who won about $5,000,00O IN
wheat on the board of trade last May.
Since last spring cotton has advanced
about FIVE cents, and as a result Patterns
Chicago followers have been richly re-
warded, as they were last spring in
wheat.
With the exception of six years ago,
when cotton sold at 1866 cents i'll the
New York market, the present era OF
quotations is the highest in the history
of the market.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
Presid ent Taft.

the past, and that a new method
should be adopted.
Il believe in the deep waterway"
said the president. Il am for it, and
| shall use all the power that l pos
sess in doing what may be accom-
plished to give you citizens OF this
great valley what you so earnestly de-
sire. 1t is all a part of a still great
er movement inaugurated by Theo-
dore Roosevelt, and properly called
by him the conservation of our ma
tional resources.
THE projects for irrigation and for
the improvement of waterways in the
future are not to be for the purpose
of distributing pork to every part of
the country. Every easur is to be
adopted on the ground hat 1t will be
useful to the whole country. They
are not to be adopted for sending
certain congressman back to Wash
ington or for making certain parts of
the country profitable during the ex-
penditure of the money.
1--WE should take up every compre-
hensive project on its merits and de-
termine whether the country where
the project is to be carried out has SO
far developed as to justify the enor-
nous expenditure of money and if it
will be useful when done. When we
decide in favor of a project, | believe
in issuing bonds to carry it to COM
pletion as rapidly as possible. 1t has
been proposed that we issue bonds for
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
COST OF DEEP WATER
REDUCTION FROM FORMER CAL
CULATIoES.
Little Saving in 0-Foot Depth-Em-
bankments Cost Same Regard
less of Channel Depth.

Washington.-Congress will be in
formed in December of the amount that
can he deducted from the estimate Of
$4,000, 900 for the division from Chi
cago to st. Louis Of the lakes-to-the-
gulf deep waterway.
The general board, of which Gen. Blk
by is chairman, found that 5000 300
and $4,000 for annual maintenance
was the least estimate for a fourteen
foot waterway from Chicago to st. Louis.
The report has made, as ordered, u
new estimate for q nine-foot waterway
from Chicago to st. Louis, and that
the figures are substantially $23,000,000
Engineers here to whom the nine-foot
estimates will eventually be submitted
before sending them to congress are of
the opinion that it is impossible to re-
duce very much the estimates for the
scheme from Cairo to the gulf.
The reason for this is that most of
the money for that long division is neces-
sary for "embankment work." and this
work must be the same whether or not
the whole route shall be fourteen feet
or nine feet. This point has never been
brought out before, and is of extreme
Importance, because it shows that little
is to be expected in the way of reduction
from the original estimate from st.
Louis to the gulf.
In other words, congress will, as it
stands now, be furnished with a scheme
of $143, 900, 900 for a nine-foot channel,
as against $4,000, 900 for a fourteen
foot channel.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
PRINCE ITO MURDERED
WHOLE WORLD REGRETS HIS
ASSASSINATION.
Death of Great Statesman Will Not
Affect the Policy He Had
Mapped Out.

Tokio.-Hiorbumi Ito, a prince of Ja-
pan, but the greatest IN in the
empire, and for two years the uncrowned
ruler of Korea, who, hoping to rebuild
the country, stood between Korea and
the degradation of immediate annexa-
ton, was assassinated by Koreans at
Hardin, Manchuria, to which he went
in his capacity as president of the privy
council, on a mission of peace.
Prior to his departure Prince Ito said
to the Associated Press: Il am going
on my own initiative, with the approval
of my emperor, with the hope of secur-
ing a better understanding with China
and of assuring the world that Japan's
intentions in Manchuria are amicable to
China and friendly to the m OF
all nations. When i return | hope to
give positive evidence of this"
Undoubtedly Prince Ito intended to
inaugurate and enforce a distinct policy
in Manchuria, but the exact nature of
this was not disclosed. Marquis Katsura,
the premier and minister of finance, aft
er the assassination, said in an inter
view:
"The death of PRINCE Ito will not
change the policies of Japan. The pacific
motives of Prince Ito will ever be main
tanned, and the traditions left by him
will always be followed"
The entire nation is in mourning, the
flags of the foreign embassies have been
placed at halfmast, while all public and
many private functions have been aban-
doned. The japanese and foreign news
papers appear with black borders. Only
the death of the emperor could arouse
similar demonstrations OF sympathy. Per
haps Prince Ito's death causes more uni
versal sincerity and grief because he was
idolized by the masses as the great
counsellor of the elder statesmen, the
creator of the cabinet and the friend of
the emperor himself.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
Casualties Decrease.

Wsshington.-A decrease in the num-
Der of casualties on American railroads
for the year ending June 30, 1909, Is
shown by a report published by the IN
terstate commerce commission.
During the year 2,791 persons were
killed and 5000 were injured on rail
roads as against 1894 killed and 6s,76o
injured during the previous fiscal year.
This was a decrease of 973 killed and
5,4e0 injured. The report shows that
the number of employees killed in coup
ling and u%ncoupling cars and engines was
80 per cent less than during the fiscal
year of 1908.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
Victor Blue Gets Command.

Washington. = His first important
command was given to Lieut.-Comdr.
Victor Blue, when the navy department
assigned him to the gunboat Yorktown.
Commander Blue won fame and a pro-
motion by locating the Spanish feet in
Santiago harbor during the Spanish
American war and carrying the first in
formation in regard to its exact Local
ton to the American fleet. For some
time Commander Blue has been the ex-
ecutive officer of the North Carolina.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05

$500, 00O. 900 or 81 600. 000, 000, and cut
1t up and parcel the money out in this
and that section of the country. 1
am opposed to any such proposition,
because 1t not only smells Of the
pork barrel but would be . pork
BARREL"
Sherman, Too, 10 for Il.
vi~ce-President James 8. Sherman
has brought to the people of the mid
die west the message OF the east,
promising enthusiastic support of the
waterway program. we people of
the east depend on your people Of the
west,' said he. When we help you,
we help ourselves. SO there is every
reason why we should do all in our
power for you, as 500 as we realize
what you want and why you want it."
Speaker Cannon and Secretary OF
War Dickinson are no less outspoken
in their assurances of support, and
many senators and representatives,
among them Senator Lorimer Of I'LL
nois, the father Of the deeD waterway
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
DEEP waterway IS
DEMANDED BY ALL
Great River Convention Is Held
in New Orleans.
PRESIDENT FAv0Rs PROJECT
Promises the Present Administration
VIII Support Issuance Of Federal
Bonds II Fourteen-Foot Pro-
gram Proves Feasible.

New Orleans, Nov. L. Ringing
demands for IA feet through the val
ley" and elaborate argument in sup
port of the program for the creation
of a deep waterway from the lakes to
the gulf have marked the great con-
vention of the Deep Waterway asso-
citation that opened here Saturday.
President Taft, Vice-President Sher-
man, Speaker Cannon. governors of
tn Mississippi valley states, innumer-
able senators and representatives and
a mighty throng of private citizens
who believe in the big river project
are here and all urge that it be un-
dertaken and carried to a speedy con-
clusion.
President Taft Promises Support.
President Taft, who arrived in New
Orleans escorted by a great t~lotilla,
after an Illuminating trip down the
Mississippi river from st. Louis, land
ed from the lighthouse tender Clean
der about eight o'clock Saturday
morning, and was driven to his ho-
tel trough SITeclS INA we're CdlO-
pied with magnolia branches. palmet-
toes and southern moss, and every
where entwined in the decorations
were the notices Fourteen Feet
Through the Valley" and River Rate
Regulation Is Rate Regulation" AT
the Athenaeum in the afternoon the
president aroused a storm of cheers
by promising that if the 14-feet project
proved feasible and advisable, the
present administration would favor
the issuance of government bonds to
defray the cost.
Not for a "Pork Barrel"
At the same time Mr.. Taft made it
plain that he would not stand for any
plan to make a pork barrel" of the
project. He said he opposed any
such general bond issue of $500, 000;-
900 or $1,000, 00O. 900 for waterways
improvement, the money TO be cut
up and parceled out to different sec
tions. He declared that the improve
ment of waterways had been carried
forward in a haphazard fashion in
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
The Tupelo Journal
TUPELo. MISSISSIPPI

PUBLrsHED WEEKLY.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
Sold level Trunk for SIS.

Baton Rogue, La.-While in charge of
her husbands store for a short time,
Mrs. Peter Mansur deposited several hun
dred dollars worth of jewelry in a trunk
for temporary safekeeping. Following
the return of her husband, Mrs. Mansur,
upon reaching home recalled that she had
left her jewelry. Returning hurriedly
to the store, she learned that Mansur
had sold the trunk for So. Several hours
later, however, the purchaser notified
Mansur that he had discovered the jew
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
His Politics at Home.

A political canvasser called at a
home the other day and inquired as
to the political affiliations of the man
of the house.
"Oh, WE'LL" said the housewife,
hes everything. He's nice when he's
away, and he's not SO nice at other
times
But about politics. said the can
vasser. rs he a Democrat or a Re-
publican?"
We'll, it depends on who he is
with" said the lady. IF it's policy
to be a Democrat when he's with Dem
ocrats, he's a Democrat, and when
he's with Republicans he's a Repub-
lican."
Il understand" persisted the can
vasser, but between ourselves, what
is he at homer"
"Oh, at home he's a perfect terror"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
ITO GETS SEA, 500 FUNERAL.
Statesman Will Finally Rest With
Great Men of Empire.

Tokio.-The funeral ceremony over
the body of Prince Ito will bS conduct
ed in Hibya Park and intermcnt will
be made at Omo1i, q short distance
south of Toxic, on a wooded bluff over
loking Toxic Bay and on which is stu
ated the celebrated Temple of Ikegami.
Later. when a tomb is erected, the body
will be given a final resting place in
Shiba Park amid the temples and the
tombs of famous japanese. The State
has appropriated $4,000 for the ex-
penses of the stieesman's funeral.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-05
Debt Limit Sought.

New York.-The judicial determine
ton Of New York City's debt limit
the court of appeals having recently
found that the city had more than $780,
600, 900 borrowing capacity-resulted IN
action by the board Of estimate which
will result in further subway extern
sion. The board voted SIS, 100000 for
the construction Of the Fourth avenue
subway in Brooklyn and approved the
contracts for the work. This subway
win eventually open up = asw ~ last
route to Coney Island.