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The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
1908 CROP 1857, 306 BALES
Forty-Six Per Cent, Produced West
of Mississippi River.

Memphis, Tenn.-The finally revised
figures for the crop of 1908, expressed
in equivalent 500-pound bales and in
GLIDING ~linters, show a total production
of 1857, 1906 bales. This represents an
increase over 1907 of 2,211,S45 bales, or
1914 per cent. 1t is the third largest
crop ever produced, being exceeded only
by the crops of 1904 and 1906, and is
97s,751 bales larger than the average
crop of the last five years.
Of the total production in 1905, g.,
232,12s bales, or 4a.9 per cent, came
from the territory west of the Missis-
sippi, while the states east /of the Mis-
sissippi contributed 7,355,1fS bales, or
SAL per cent. In 1907 the states west
of the river produced AZ per cent. Of
the crop, and those east SO per cent;
while in COG the former reported 53.2
per cent. and the latter 46.s per cent.
The production reported for Texas, B.,
e13,os4 bales, is the second largest re.
corded, being exceeded only by that Of
1906, which was 1868, TAO bales larger.
This state showed a falling off in 1907
Of 44.9 per cent, as compared with
1908, but increased its crop in 1908
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
TWO MEN SHOOT UP TOWN
Breathitt County Desperadoes Fire
One Hundred Shots.

Jackson, Ky.-A. S. johnson, notorious
on account of his having SO intimidated
the officials of the Breathitt Circuit Court
two years ago as to cause the sending
of State troops to protect the court, is
again on the warpth. Having quarreled
with Circuit Judge j. P. Adams on ac-
count of a suit decided against him, he
sought Judge Adams at his hotel, and a
difficulty between the two men was only
averted by the interference of friends.
In company with Jake Noble, locally
known as the worst bad man" in
Breathitt county, he started in to shoot
up the town. After nearly q hundred
shots had been fired in and around John
sons pool room, the marshals arrested
Jake Noble, after empowering him and
knocking him in the head with a pistol.
While the officers were struggling with
Noble some of Johnson's friends took
him home with the idea of trying to
avoid the publicity of his being taken
through the streets to Jail. The officers,
however, later arrested johnson, and he
is now in Jail.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
REPORTS ON TRUSTS
HERBERT KNOX SMITH sUBM1Ta
HIS OFFICIAL DATA.
Commissioner Unable to Complete
His Investigations Owing to
Shortness of Help.

Washington.-President Taft got a
report Tuesday from Herbert Knox
Smith, commissioner of corporations, on
the result of investigations into the
harvester trust, cotton exchanges, lum.
Der industries, water transportation, to-
bacco trust and water power consolida'
lions.
The bureau of corporations has been
at work on these Investigations for
many months. Owing to a shortage
of Investigators, Mr.. Smith has been
unable to complete all of the investi'
cations. Some of them are so far ad.
vanced as to warrant partial reports.
and some publications are expected soon.
An immense amount of data has been
supplied by the 100 examiners connect
ed with the bureau. This data is now
being collected by Mr.. Smith.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
COTTON CONDITION is 81.1
First Report From Agricultural De-
partment.

Washington.-The crop reporting bu-
reau of the bureau of statistics of the
United States Department of Agriculture
estimates from the reports of the CORE
spondents and agents of the bureau,
that the area planted in cotton this year
O909) in the United States, including
that already planted and expected to be
planted, is about 95.6 per cent. OF the
area planted to cotton last year, equiva-
lent to about 31,91s,000 acres, as COM
pared with 3~3,37o,oo0 acres indicated by
bureaus revised estimates of last years
planted area, a decrease of about 1,452,-
900 acres, or "A per cent. The condi-
ton of the growing crop of May 25 was
s1.1 per cent. of a normal condition, as
compared with 1917 per cent. at the cor
responding day 1908, and STA per cent,
the average condition for the past ten
years On May 25.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
AIR MAY BECOME POWER.
Latest Invention of Motor by q
Chicago Man.

Chicago.-Automobiling without gaso
line, electricity or steam; aerial naviga
ton without being dependent on the
wind; boating without oars, steam, cleo
tricity or gasoline-all these are within
the realm of possibility if the invention
of a Chicagoan proves equal to his ex
pectaticns. He declares his invention
solves the problem of aerial flight.
Should the inventor, John A. Wade.
be able to demonstrate the merits that
he claims for his machine, boulevards
will not see smoking automobiles a year
hence, for they will be III by atmos.
pheric pressure. That is the power and
the only power that is used in the Wade
invention.
The invention is so constructed that
if the owner wants to make his automo
bile fly up into the air instead of run
ming on the ground, all he has to do is
to turn a lever.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
DAVIS PARK DEDICATED
BIRTHPLACE OF CONFEDERATE
CHIEFTAIN NOW A MECCA.
Col. Bennett Young's Dedication
Speech Read by Col. w.
A. Milton.

H~opkinsville, Ky.-One hundred and
one years ago, when war clouds hung
low over the country, was born the first
and only president of the Confederate
States of America at Fairview, in Chris
tian county, now Todd county, Ken
lucky. In celebration of his natal an
niversary, and to dedicate and give to
the public as a Confederate Memorial
Park the portion of the original farm
which was recently purchased for that
purpose, a crowd of people, estimated at
being from five to six thousand, gath
cred at Fairview Thursday Drawing the
elements the people began the pilgrimage
at an early hour. Overland travel is the
only means of reaching Fairview, and
vehicles of every size, kind and descrip-
ton were brought into service.
Not only did it seem that the elements
c%onspired against the occasion, but at the
last minute a telegram was received from
Col. Bennett H. Young, who was to
have delivered the address dedicatiHg the
memorial park site and presenting it to
the public, stating that owing to impor-
tant business he would be unable to be
present. Col. w. A. Milton of Louisville
came in his stead and read with fine eff
feet the speech which Col. Young had
prepared for the occasion.
Although the purchase of the site for
the park is a great step forward in car
rying out the project, the work has only
sheen we'll begun. The seventeen acres
that have been bought cost $1,000, but
$4,000 more is needed to beautify the
park, build the memorial hall and carry
out the plans that have been arranged.
This money must come from the gener-
Gus people of the country.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
AUTO RECORDS SMASHED.
Cars Climb 5000 Feet Ascent in !
Minute. 81 3-5 Seconds.

Wilkesbarre, Pain the presence of
over 10000 spectators, David Bruce
Brown, in a 120-horse power Benz car,
smashed all records in the Wilkesbarre
Auto Clubs national hill climb up
Giants Despair Mountain, covering the
six thousand feet in one minute 81 3-5
seconds, or 6 3-5 seconds faster than
the previous record of 1888 2-5, made by
Willie Haupt in a big six Chadwick last
year. The Chadwick six, driven by
Iarzeler, which finished second, also
broke the record, covering the course in
1885 and De Palma in a Fiat, came in
third in 1886 3-5. Mrs. Cuneo was to
have given an unofficial trial up the hill
in the Knox giant, but as Chairman
Hover threatened to ~disqualify the car
from all races if she was allowed to
drive it, the trial was not held.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
ALASKA-YUKON FAIR OPENED
James ). Hill Makes Opening Ad.
dress to Great Crowd.

Seattle, Wash.-The Alaska-Yukon.
Pacific Exposition that cost $4,000.
600, and the first sod of which was
turned exactly two years ago, was Off
cially opened at noon, The military pa
rade, the speeches, President Taft's sig.
nal, the magic response-all were car
ried out exactly as planned.
When James j. Hill was introduced,
forty thousand persons cheered, and it
was several minutes before he could be-
gin his address. The program builders
had omitted to count IN this ovation,
and when President Taft pressed the
golden key at noon he touched off the
big signal gong and cut short Bishop
Kestor's benediction.
A striking feature Of the parade was
the popular applause for the Japanese
visitors of the cruisers Also and Soya.
The American officers enthusiastically
~applauded them, and by Japanese in
milder, but equally sincere ovation this
was done when the Americans passed.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
Confederate WIDOWS Honored.

Norfolk Va.-The one hundred and
first anniversary of JEFF. Davis was OBJ
served in Norfolk, Portsmouth and other
Virginia cities by the presentation of
crosses of honor to surviving Confed-
crates with an innovation including the
presentation of similar honors to widows
and descendants of Confederate soldiers.
The crosses of honor were presented by
the Daughters of the Confederacy. The
Davis anniversary celebration included
exercises in the schools where essays on
the life and character Of Davis were
read.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
Can't Gust Frisco.

Guthrie, Okla.-The order of the Sec
rotary of state of Oklahoma, revoking
the chartec of the st. Louis and San
Francisco Railway Company, because
it was alleged it did not comply with
the laws of the State, was declared null
and void here today by Federal Judge
Cotteral, who restrained that official
from further interfering with the COM
pany. The revocation rested on the
fact that the railway was domiciled In
another State than Oklahoma in viola
ton of a law passed by the last Legis-
lature.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
Negroes Want Rights.

New York.-Strict application of con-
stitutional rights as guaranteed under
the fourteenth amendment, equal edu-
c~ational opportunities and the right to
the ballot on the same terms with other
citizens in every state in the Union,
were among the more important recon.
mendations embodied in the platform
adopted at the closing session of the ma
tional negro conference here Tuesday.
As was the case at the afternoon SEES
sion, there was discussion of President
Taft's attitude toward the black man.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
Roads File Demurrers.

jefferson City, Motive additional
roads fled demurrers to the information
Of Attorney General Major in the suit
by which he seeks to have fifteen Mis-
souri, trunk lines ousted from the State
for alleged violation of the, Missouri
a~nti-rate law. The Frisco, Rock Island,
Kansas City Southern, st. Louis, Kansas
and Colorado and the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul systems are the defend
ants. Their pleadings correspond with
the demurrers filed by the Chicago and
Alton and the st. Louis and Southwest
49, ~ #M@
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
Yalobusha Overfows.

Grenada, Miss.-The rain continues.
The Yalebusha is higher than it has
been for several years. Much of the
farm land contiguous to the river is
under water. 1t is impossible to any
thing like accurately estimate the dam
age done to the farming interests in this
section. Conservative citizens say that
this section never before experienced
such a disastrous spell of weather, and
whether or not the worst has come is
not known. The weather is still threat
ening, and it il raining here now.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

jackson, Miss.-Secretary Maxwell,
OF the railroad commission, was in re-
ceipt of a telegram this afternoon from
~Vice-President T. P. Hale, Of the G. Il
S. /. Ry. Co., in which he intlmates that
they are in hopes of reopeEing the line
for through traffic by Thursday of this
week. Meanwhile, he states they are
making every effort to accommodate
and serve the public, under very try
ing conditions. Whether tile heavy rains
of today will further prolpng the tie-up
at this end is still to be seen.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
Chauffeur Sentenced.

New York; sentence of not less
than seven years nor more than twenty
years in Sing Sing prison was imposed
upon William Darragh, a chauffeur,
whose automobile ran down and killed
Ingvaard Trimble in this city on March
~. Darragh was trying OUT a car
and moving at a fast rate when his ma
chine struck the boy. Leaving the boy
living in the street, Darragh kept the
car going and on the following day he
fed from the city, being afterward ar
rested at Port Arthur, Texas,
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
Mortgage on Niagara Power.

Buffalo, N. Y.-Stockholders of the
Niagara Falls Power Company have au-
:horized the placing of a mortgage OF
Iced of trust upon the company's Canad-
ian and American property, rights, priv
ieges and franchises to secure q 6 per
.ent bond issue Of $25,OOo,0oo payable
Jan. /, 1882. Certain debentures mature
between April, 1910, and November, 1914,
and the directors in connection with the
-efunding considered this an opportune
lime to deal with the question of financ.
ng additional construction IN the Canad-
an side.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
Seek Pardon for Harlan.

Washington. The attorney general
having revoked his suspension of the or.
der for the arrest of w. S. Harlan of
Covington county, Alabama, convicted of
peonage and sentenced to eighteen
months imprisonment and to pay q fine
Of $4,000, nothing remained for the de-
PENDANT but to enlist his friends in q
movement to secure his pardon. Sena-
tors Johnston and Taliaferro appealed to
President Taft to grant the pardon. The
president promised to give the case care
full consideration.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
Cotton Exports on Increase.

Westinghouse the result Of q re-
turn toward normal conditions, the
American exports of cotton goods to
China are again on the increase, accord
ing to the bureau of statistics. Exports
of cotton cloths to China averaged in
the fiscal years 1905 and 1906, 4S6,0oo,-
600 yards per annum; in 1907 and 1908
they averaged but $4,000, 900 per annum.
This large falling off was due chiefly at
least to the fact that the imports Of
that country in 1905 and 1906 we're alb
normally large.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
Public Debt Shows Increase.

Washington.-The monthly statement
of the public debt shows that at the
close of business May 81, 1909, the debt,
less cash in the treasury, amounted to
81, o3o,129,6lO which is an increase for
the month Of $4,245,955. The cash in
the treasury is classified as follows:
Gold reserve, $780, 900; trust funds,
s., s3s,519,se9; general funds, s154,.
46s,0s2. In national bank depositaries,
$72, 9A6, o79; in philippine treasury, 81,
2S2, s07; total, $1,715,216,s19.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
x WHEAT $1.35.
Farmers Now Selling Early Harvest.
Threshing Begun.

Fort Worth, Tex.-Reports received
here from Denton, in the wheat growing
belt of North Texas, say first this sea-
sons wheat in United States being con-
tracted today at $1.35 and upward, IN
some instances farmers securing con
tracts that they are to receive advance
in market at time wheat is threshed.
Following report, cash wheat touched
S1.65 in Eastern markets, highest price
since 1868. Contracts for this seasons
crops in Texas have advanced from
S1.25 to S1.35 and upward. Millers
eagerly taking crop at prevailing quota
lions.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
PLEADS TO The SOUTH
ALDRICH TELLS SoUTHERNERS
TO PROTECT THEIR OWN.
Says Only Ten Per Cent of Cotton
Goods Articles Have Been
Increased.

Washington.-Through the forenoon,
AFTERNOON and evening sessions, the Sen
ate Friday labored on the cotton sched-
ule. Mr.. La Toilette completed his
long speech attacking the changes in the
Dingley rates, which were recommended
by the Senate finance committee.
At the night session Chairman Aid
rich replied to Mr.. LaFollette's assaults
upon the work of the finance committee,
and made a general defense of amend
ments which he asserted were necessary
to carry out the intent of the trainers
of the Dingley law.
He reviewed the process of the South
ern States in the manufacture of cotton
goods, declared that South Carolina had
become second only to Massachusetts,,
that North Carolina is third and Geor-
gia fourth.
ut is not for me to say how the sem
ators from the South shall vote on this
schedule" said Mr.. Aldrich.
He declared that the stake of the
South was greater than that of the
North, and he predicted that when an
other bill is drafted the South would
have three-fourths of the cotton mills.
Indicating that he was as vitality In
terested in the prosperity of the South
as in the progress of his own section,
Mr.. Aldrich appealed directly to the
Southern senators to meet the question
fairly. He said:
81 appeal to you directly, not to vote
for this bill, for l know that this you
will not do while | am in the Senate
but to look at this question as affecting
the prosperity of your section. The
time will come when the South will be
found standing shoulder to shoulder
with the North in an effort to perpetu-
ste this great industry"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
Wheat Shipped West.

New York.-For the first time in his
tory, wheat has been shipped back from
New York to the West for consumption.
Recent inquiries have been received from
as far away as Texas for New York red
wheat. Already two boatloads are en-
route from here to Buffalo, four more are
loading, and some shipments have been
made by rail.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
FINED s 2 500 IN REBATE CASES.
Iron Mountain and Missouri Pacific
Plead Guilty.

Little Rock, Ark.-The Missouri Pa
ciic and Iron Mountain Railway Com
panies were each fined $500 by Judge
Trieber in Federal Court this afternoon
for violating the statutes relative to
the giving of rebates. This made the
total fine assessed $4,000, and it was
entered upon the plea of guilty OF the
companies to the first count in the in
dictment. On motion of the United
States district attorney the remaining
81 counts in the; Indictment were nolle
pressed. By the assessing of the fine
the litigation inytlsing t. II. Bunch of
Little Rock, Wilbur &C. stith of st.
Louis and the Iron Mountain Railroad,
is now a matter of history.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
Torrential Rain at Natchez.

Natchez, Miss.-As a result OF the
tor, entail rain of the past seven days,
the streets of the city are in-bad con-
dition. Gullies have been washed
through the roadbeds, bridges are re-
ported to have settled at the approaches
in several places. The total rainfall dur
ing the past week has been l foot. The
embankmcnt under the Natchez and
Southern track caved away for about
20 feet, leaving the track unsupported,
wrecking a large wooden aqueduct.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
No umpires reported killed thus far
in the baseball season, but let us not
be given to vain boasting.

The fetwa of the sheik-ul-islam.
which decreed the bouncing" of Sui
tan Abdul Hamid, seems to be about
as effective as formerly was the ukase
of a Russian car. But there is a diff
ference. The fetwa is issued in the
interest of liberalism and against
autocracy and despotic power. And
the ukase is not what it used to be.
The world is outgrowing one-man
rule.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

A hypothetical question of $1,000
words has been ruled out by the Mas
sachusetts court which was trying a
murder case on the ground that it is
too long. 1t is not surprising that it
was ruled out, but it is surprising that
counsel ver proposed to put such a
question. No layman would ever de.
wise a question that would fill three
or four pages Of a newspaper.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

People who believe that English Is
likely to become the language of the
world will find confirmation for their
opinion in the fact that President
Manuel Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala
has signed a decree making the study
of English compulsory in the primary
schools of that republic.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

The most promising method for
strengthening their position in the
next three years would be for the an
thracite mine workers to take the adj
vice of the anthracite strike commits
sion regarding union reorganization.
The miners leaders will urge the con,
vention, which is to meet soon, to ac-
cept the new offer made by the OPP
orators.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

Of course there will be many opin-
ions as to the militant preacher in
Texas that thumped a bully who had
made a practice of cursing the domi-
ME on sight. But eve the turn-the-
other-cheek non-combatives have a
sneaking satisfaction that the abusive
sinner did not have to wait until
reaching the next world before getting
what was coming to him.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

The rage to be an oficeholder
springs eternal in the human breast.
Thsi abnormal craving of American
human ambition was shown lately in
the case of a Connecticut postmaster
who offered to trade his job for a
with offers,
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
Approye Blue.Gray Reunion,

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. from leaders
Of the Grand Army and Confederate Vet
Grams all over the country are being re
,eived by the Minneapolis Journal in APP
prevail of a campaign for a great reunion
Of the blue and gray to be held next
year in Washington
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

Pittsburg churches have taken up
the matter of abolishing pew rent and
have made considerable progress
along that line. Those that have tried
the experiment claim their receipts are
larger and their opportunity for doing
good correspondingly expanded.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

Down in Maine the long-vexed ques-
ton whether cells breed like other fish
or lay large eggs like snakes has
been settled by the discovery of
spawn in one. For a fish that has
been so largely used as food the eel
has strangely escaped both scientific
investigation and legal protection.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

Persian nationalists are appealing
to the civilized world to force the
deposition of the shah. The ideas of
representative government and of the
abolition of absolutism are catching,
even in the conservative east.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

Indians and cowboys, going to ex-
hibitions, delighted London crowds by
w~ar-whoops and cries as they passed
through the streets. This perform
ance will leave an abiding impression
upon many London minds that the av-
erage street life in the United States
is of the same vociferous kind.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11
Rained for Two Weeks.

Chalybeate, Miss.-It has rained in
this section every day for two weeks,
one of the heaviest that has ever been
known falling Sunday night. Much of
the hill crop is washed away, while the
bottoms are flooded. The damage to
crops through this section is
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

Whatever else may happen, there Is
a significance in recent occurrences
in the east which cannot be misrepre-
scented. An enlightened world has de-
creed the downfall of autocracy, and
every despot, great or small, will act
the part of wisdom in recognizing the
fact and governing himself accord
inp1v
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

1t may be true, as the London Times
says, that England has an inventor
who can fly much better than the
Wrights, "if he wants to-" but this
sort of ~aeronauting couldn't win a
prize at any county fxsr that we ever
heard of.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

OF course navies are built for fight
ing, but let us not forget the great
service they perform in impressing
our size and Importance upon the
other nations of the earth. 1--WE don't
want to fight, but by lingo if we do"
ato
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

1t is expected by French scientists
will show between thirty and forty
million stars. The stage, according to
the stellar outburst annually an
nounced, is running the armament
rattle hard.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

A New York milliner declares that
she has never seen a suffragette wear
a fashionable hat. Taking the fashion.
able hat of this spring as a basis from
which to reason, this is a splendid
compliment to the suffragette.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

This scare about peroxide blondes
being germ-infested to such an extent
that deadly danger turks in their
kisses, is supposed to have been
started by their jealous brunette sis
tiers.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-11

Another American heiress is to mar
ry a foreign nobleman. Now that they
are framing up a new tariff, why not
protect our own manageable young
men by putting in a stiff prohibitive
duty on coronets?