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The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
vANDERBILTS CONTROL AGAIN
The Vanderbilt Line Ceases To Be
a Misuomer.

New York.-"The Vanderbilt lines"
ceased to be a misnomer in the railroad
world today when William X. Wander
bilt, ST., again took up the reins at the
grand central station general office and
re-established the family control.
Two important developments of the
day go to prove this almost beyond
question. The first and technically the
most important was the election, as a
successor to the late 4. II. Hartman,
as a director, of Marvin Hughitt, presi,
dent of the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad. Mr.. Hughitt has for years
been a Vanderbilt partisan, and fire.
quently an opponent of the late rail-
road car, whose place he takes.
From a sentimental viewpoint, a mat
ter of far greater Importance was the
departure of w. X. Vanderbilt for a
five days inspection tour of the West.
ern roads of the New York Contra. lines,
or the Vanderbilt system.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
SPlNNERSPLAN CURTAILMENT
Policy Already in Effect in English
Spinning Districts.

New York.-Curtailment of production
by cotton spinners is being widely dis
cussed the world over. This policy is al
ready in effect in many spinning dis
tricts in England and on the continent
of Europe. Plans have been formulated
for similar action in Providence, r. T.,
and other sections of New England, and
Southern cotton spinners have at recent
meetings resolved upon the same course.
The necessity for this has been due to
the inability of producers to advance the
selling price of their product to a parity
with the market for raw material. The
sharp advance in staple cotton during
the past six weeks of nearly $40 per
bale has made necessary a complete re-
vision of the price schedules of spin
ners' products. This advance was, how
ever, only a part of the increased valu-
alton which has taken place within the
past ten months. Less thar a year ago
cotton was selling at $25 per bale less
hal the price ruling in the worlds mar
kets today.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
RECLIMB MT. M'NNLEY
DIR. COOK TO REFUTE CHARGES
OF GUIDE BERRILL.
Expedition Is Organized and Steps
Taken to Procure Records
Left on Summit.

New York.-Dr. Frederick A. Cook,
refuting the charges that he had not as
cended Mount Mckinley, in Alaska, in
1906, came out with a statement in
New York Friday, after a three-hour
conference with his attorney, intimating
that Edward N. Barrill, the guide who
accompanied him, had perjured himself
in his recent affidavit for a consideration
offered by his detractors. To disprove
Barrilrs statements, he further an
nounced that he had taken preliminary
steps to organize an expedition to as
cend Mount Mckinley and procure the
records which he says he left there. He
has requested Anthony Fiala, the arctic
explorer, to head the expedition, and
has asked Prof. II. C. Parker of Column
bia University to accompany Fiala.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
FORBES CLAIMS LAHM CUP
Longest Balloon Flight-Covered q
Distance of 731 IA Miles.

Richmond, Va.-Winning the Lahm
cup for the longest flight made in q
balloon under the auspices of the Aero
Club of America and breaking all speed
records for long distance flights, A. Hol-
land Forbes of New York and former
Mayor Max Fleischmann OF Cincinnati,
landed Wednesday afternoon at 12:45 in
Chesterfield county, twenty miles south
of Richmond, Va. The trip was made
in the balloon New York, III which Mr..
Forbes won the duration contest in the
indianapolis contest.
Starting from the gas works in st.
Louis at $50 Tuesday afternoon, the
distance of 731 IA miles was made in
nineteen hours and fifteen minutes, at
an average rate of 80 miles an hour.
The balloon passed Lynchburg at 1890
o'clock this morning. Soon after noon
an apparently large body of water was
seen ahead and a large town came into
view below.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
ROAD ROLLER IN WILD DASH
Monster Machine Runs Two Blocks
on Busy Street.

Montgomery, Ala Getting beyond
the control of the driver, and blazing
with gasoline, a monster road roller,
weighing over 5000 pounds, dashed two
blocks down a popular thoroughfare
Tuesday and crashed into a building
used as a soft drink stand, run by Sam
Strauss. Strauss, who was inside the
place, was knocked down and badly hurt.
James Dees, a carpenter, who was stand
ing in the door of the drinking place, was
also knocked down and hurt internally.
The machine stopped about helf-way
the length of the store, where its weight
slowly sank it through the planks of
the floor and where it stood for some
hours afterward with the rear high up
in the air.
The engineer guided the big machine
through three blocks of it's flight, but
was thrown to the street when the high
wheels struck the car tracks. The es-
Gaping gasoline with which it is operated
was aire and he ran the last block in
a yeritable blaze of the burning oil.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
WAS in NO HURRY TO LEAVE
Prisoner Put Coming Gastroncmic JOY
Ahead of a Brief Period
of Liberty.

A colored man from Georgia had
lived in Washington but a few years
when he was arrested for some slight
violation of the city ordinances. Upon
hearing that the negro was in Jail, the
secretary of the colored Y. M. G. A.
secured the services of a minister to
go with him and sign the prisoners
bail bond. They reached the Jail
shortly before noon, and told the
negro the object of their visit. In re.
Spouse to the proffered kindness he
said:
"Mistah Johnsing, | sho is glad you
all is gwine tab git me out, but ]
wants you-all to fix it SC / can't git
out till late dis evenin'."
or course the two Samaritans were
somewhat taken aback by this unus'
ual request. But a moment later they
lost their breath when, in answer to
the s~ecretary's question, the Georgia
negro replied in a whisper:
well, sab, dey's a-gittin' dinnah
ready, an dey's cookin' greens; an ]
sho would like to git some O. dem
greens befo' l leabes dis place!"-Lip'
%pincott's.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
Twelve Killed in Havana.

Havana.-Communication between this
city and interior points, which was in
~terrupted when Mondays storm tore
down the telegraph and telephone wires,
had not been renewed today. Reports
from nearby places indicated that the
property loss, especially to the west
ward, had been heavy, but that there
were few fatalities. Four bodies were
discovered among the ruins of fallen
homes here, and it is now believed that
twelve lives We're lost in this city. At
least half of the lighters that were in
the harbor when the storm broke were
sunk or stranded.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

In the face of the unreserved good
will shown by distinguished Japanese
gentlemen who r visiting this coun-
try with the purpose of extending bus
mess relations here, the warm express.
sions OF regard for our people, the
honor accorded to President Taft and
the evident desire to strengthen
friendly feeling between the nations
the quietus should be put on the APP
prehensions of conflict in which the
United States and Japan shall be in
volved. The yellow peril exists only
in yellow imagination.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
LIABILITY ACT GETS BLOW
Can Sue for Damages Only at Head
quarters of Railroad Company.

Observation-Disclosures charged with
the execution of the federal railroad
laws are greatly interested, not to say
disturbed, by the recent opinion of
Judge Maxey of the United States cir
cult court in a Texas case, that the
railroad employers liability act of 1908
carries with it the provision that a de-
PENDANT railroad must be sued at the
home office.
Judge Maxey held that where diverse
citizenship THAT is, residence of plaintiff
in one state and defendant in another)
was allowed to give jurisdiction, juris-
dicition could be maintained in the dis
trict of residence of either plaintiff or
defendant; but where jurisdiction was
sought to be maintained where the Pc
tition alleged a case arising under the
laws of the United States and also di-
verse citizenship, suit must be instituted
in the district of residence of the de-
PENDANT only unless privilege should be
waived,
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
LYNCHING Is THREATENED
Lone Negro Bandit Murders and
Robs J. p. Stephens.

Holdenville, Okla.-As a result of the
murder of j. P. Stevens by a lone negro
bandit Friday evening, and the positive
identification of John Black, who is in
the county Jail, as the guilty party,
there is talk of a negro lynching here
before another day. Stephens was MUIR
dered and robbed of S35 by a negro, and
at midnight Black was taken from an
eastbound freight train at Calvin and
fully fills the description of the bandit,
but has not yet confessed to the mur-
der. The excitement has been intense,
and Sheriff King has kept the prisoner
under constant guard.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
SAID PATTEN WILL RETURN
New York Cotton Market Wakes Or
Over News.

New York.-A cotton pit rumor Fri
day said that James A. Patten, the Chi
cago grain operator, who has figured
prominently in the bull campaign in cot.
ton this season, will com here from
Chicago and make "a prolonged stay. The
bulls perked up a bit on this news. Pat
ten was in this city a few weeks ago,
and was said to have returned to the
West with profits of $%1,5G0,0oo. A de-
%velopment that gave color to the stories
that he intended to start something do
ing was the election of Charles E.
Lewis to membership on the exchange.
He is said to have very close relations
with Mr.. Patten, and to have followed
the latter in some of his grain deals.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

Advices from Billings are to the eff.
feet that 5000 homestead entries were
filed in Montana during the first six
months of the present year. Most of
these lands are in the so-called "dry-
farming section of the state. Infor.
nation concerning crop selection and
cultivation which will be of incalcul-
able value to dry farmers will be
brought out at the Dry Farming con
gress to be held at Billings from the
twenty-sixth to the twenty-eighth OF
October.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
Strike at Hospital.

Charlotte, N. C.-Elcven nurses, con-
~stituting the entire staff of st. Peters
Hospital, except the head nurse and SUI
p~erintendent, struck this morning. "We
left because of i'll treatment" declared
the spokesman of the young women to-
day. "The superintendent and head
nurse are from the North, and are al
way throwing off on Southerners and
calling us fools. l suppose it is the
hotheadedness of the South that makes
us strike, but we are not sorry and we'll
not 90 back"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

Now a model reformatory in Della
ware is under charges of gross cruelty
to the inmates. The story is unpleas.
antly familiar and far too frequent.
The details in this case are the same
in kind and degree as usually shock
the public, says the Baltimore Ameri.
can. The trouble appears to be every.
where the same old story of a board
of directors who do not direct, and of
irresponsible authority which natural
ly Is abused.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
Negroes May Run Ohio Town.

Hamilton, O.-The negro voters of the
college town of Oxford, who number 100
out of the less than 400 voters in the
community, put in the field a complete
ticket of candidates for public offices.
As there are three white tickets the town
faces the possibility of being governed
by negroes.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
Silence.

Little four-year-old Alice was lying
on the floor whining and crying stead
lily one afternoon, until, her fathers
patience exhausted, he called out to
her: "Oh, stop, Alice, and I'll give
you a penny"
Alice stopped only long enough to
answer: Il can't stop for less than a
nickel! Boohoo! Boohoo!"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

Scientists now believe that the
original cave jewellers of New Mexico
deserted their apartments when the
water dried up. AS a lack of water
would put the family bathtub out of
commission the ancient troglodytes
showed much culture by moving.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
Roosevelt to PearY.

Nairobi.-Col. Roosevelt Friday sent
this c%ablegram to Commander Peary: I
deeply appreciate your cable and con-
graduate you from my heart. All Amer.
leans and, indeed, all civilized mankind,
are your debtors. You performed one
Of the greatest feats of the age.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
Struggled Chinese Caught.

Dallas, Tex.-Eleven Cinnamon were
arrested last night while in the act of
escaping from a box car on the Texas &
Pacific railroad. They are believed to
have entered the country over the Next
can border. They were sent to Jail
pending an Investigation, and will be
deported.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
In Grasp of Blizzard.

Duluth, MINI. Mondays blizzard
continued today at the head of the
lakes. A cutting wind, driving in from
Lake Superior, with constant flurries OF
snow, ice-clad pavements and a FREEDOM
nance of heavy fur garments worn by
Duluth citizens, contributed to the De
cember appearance of the present storm,
which struck this locality twenty-four
hours ago.
Much delay is being experienced by
shipping on the lake.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
STATE GETS THE U
Judge Fielding Decides Against Texas
Whisky Men.

Sulphur, Okla.-In the county court
Judge Fielding held, with the State, that
liquor shipped into Oklahoma c. O. D.
does not come within the interstate COM
merce clause, and by so holding the
State is richer by sixty cases of whisky
and twenty-five barrels of beer. ]. NJ.
Hays, counsel to the governor, appeared
for the State, and Attorney Pfeiffer for
the claimants.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

1t may be that the unexplored fields
of the upper air will prove as fertile
for scientific research as the untrav-
ersed lands of the globe. Bleriot's
aeroplane accident is attributed to
the phenomenon of a boiling sea Of
ARA condition which suggests yet
more strange phenomena to be re-
vealed to the scientist who will work
from an aeroplane.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

A New Jersey justice has decided
that a man, at least in that state, can
not legally caress his wife against
her will. But, then, what prudent
and fa~r-seeing man in any state would
want to?
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

Severe sentences for incendiarism
are merely self-protection for the com.
munity. The in~cendiary is a man
without mercy, for he deliberately Ak
poses his fellow-creatures to the most
horrible form of agony and death
He a expect no mercy in his turn.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

The Spanish treasure swindle is still
in successful operation. The swindle
is an old one, but apparently hale and
vigorous, and with every prospect of
age.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
S A. w. WILSON ILL.
Develops Tonsilitis in Connection With
Asthma.

Baltimore, Md.-Bishop Alpheus w.
Wilson, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, is again i'll at his home.
He developed tonsilitis about ten days
ago, and this, in connection with asthma,
from which he has suffered for some
time, has rendered his condition serioHs.
His physician, however, has hopes for
his recovery, but it will be several weeks
before the bishop will be able to leave
the house.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

Another unloaded gun has claimed
its victim. The average household
has but little use for firearms, and,
furthermore, statistics will show that
such weapons have done more toward
the slaughter of %innocents than in re.
polling bugaboo burglars.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

help to the aviators. Bleriot collided
with n the other day. Golfers are
also known to have serious objections
to trees as blots on the landscape. But
still the science Of forestry will go
nn
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

Already the long-distance weather
prophets are at work on the coming
winter. One of them predicts that the
season will be long and severely cold.
But until the %goosebone man is heard
from the country will really know
little about the matter.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

A British anti-slavery society wants
to enlist the aid of America in abol-
ishing slavery in European colonies in
Africa. The general rule now appears
to be When in doubt, trouble or
financial stress, turn to the United
States"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

The county fair is one of those in
titutions which are perennial in their
hold on the popular affections and
which so-called modern improvements
will never displace.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

1t is asserted that the cars method
of dealing with Finland is illegal, but
as the czar is his own supreme court,
there does not seem to be anything
that Finland can do about it.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

The carrying of revolvers by boys
of 16 is a practice which should be
sternly repressed. Nobody is safe with
deadly firearms in youthful irrespon-
Sible hands.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
Paymaster Bates Dead.

New York.-Maj. Gen. Alfred E.
Bates, former paymaster general of the
army, died here Wednesday. Gen. Bates
was stricken with apoplexy Sunday and
removed to a private hospital.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
TILTED GIRL GETS 50, o
Her Fiance Threw Her Over for Wife
Who Could Cook.

Who Could Cook.
New York.-Mamie Shea, who sued
Nicholas Pappas, a Grand street con-
~fectioner, for $4,000 damages because he
promised to marry her and spent $1,000
on her and then went to Greece and mar
ried a childhood sweetheart, got a YER
dict for $4,000 from a jury before SUI
preme Court Justice Giegerich Monday.
Pappas admitted hat he once loved
Mamie and asked her to be his wife.
but declared he wasn't dying for love-"
and said that when she refused to learn
to cook he changed his mind. The young
woman said that cooking wasn't a con-
dition of the engagement.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
Ambiguous.

Harold-What did she say when
you turned out the gas and kissed her?
Rupert-Said she felt as if she never
wanted to see my face again.-Phila-
delphia Record.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
R MUST A
Only Those Owning Property Cal
Remain in San Angelo.

San Angelo, Tex.-Asserting that ne
groes are becoming entirely too numer-
GUS in San Angelo and that since the
advent of the Kansas City, Mexico &
Orient Railroad and the building of other
lines, they are being shipped in and are
taking white mems places, citizens in q
mass meeting assembled decided that the
negroes must go. Only those who own
property will be allowed to remain.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
AVERY BLoUNT MUST HANG.
Board Of Pardons Refuses to Commute
Sentence.

New Orleans, La.-Ayery Blount must
hang for the murder of the Breeland
family in T~angipahoa parish, for which
he was convicted. The board Of pardons,
consisting of the Acknowledgements, at
tor~ney-general and trial judges, spent
six hours in considering the application
for Communication and tonight rejected
the pardon.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

One Long Island City man, aged 81,
is the father of a newborn son. 1t
is easy to guess who is the proudest
man in the United States.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

There has been an extraordinary in
fiux of American visitors into Austria
and Hungary this year; but the hotel
keepers know what to do about it.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
MRS. NELSON MORRIS WILL.

100000 to Charity-Like Amount to
Relatives-ChiIdren Get Remainder.
Chicago, nl.-The will Of Mrs. Nelson
Morris, recently killed in an automobile
accident in Europe, bequeaths nearly
$4,000 o to charitable institutions. Rel
atives get 100000 more, and the re-
mainder goes equally to the four chill.
dien, Edward and Ira N. Morris, Au'
gusta Rothschild and Maude Morris
Schwab. The terms given out did not
state the total value Of the fortune.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
SENATOR LINDSEY E
Had Been Practicing Law Since He Quit
Political Life.

Frankfort, Ky.-Former United States
Senator William Lindsey died at his
home here early Friday. Judge Lindsay
was formerly chief justice of the Ken
lucky Court Of Appeals, and had served
as State senator and representative be
fore going to the United States Senate
After quitting political Ifs he began thu
practice Of law in New York. He wal
~ years Of age. He had been i'll twt
months
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

i If reckless chauffeurs cannot be
made to slow down they should be
given in Jail a course of first aid to
the injured.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
How She Knew.

The cartoonist's wife was talking tc
a friend.
Il just know Fred didn't want to
work at the office last night" she
said.
"Why, how do you know was
asked.
Because in his sleep he said, Well,
I'll stay, but don't want to draw
Lippincontt's Magazine.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
JIM FAGAN GETS $4,000.
Aged Switchman Received Fortune from
Railroad Fund.

San Antonio, Tex.-Because he worked
for the Pennsylvania road back in the
sixties, when Andrew Carnegie was 81
perintendent, Jimmy Pagan, aged switch
man of this city, is richer by $4,000
Carnegie set aside years ago a certain
sum for distribution to employees. For
tune worked while Pagan slept, and the
pile accumulated unknown to him until
Monday, when he received an official let
ter, having been traced here.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
For Headache TRY Hicks capudlne,

Whether from Colds, Heat. Stomach or
Nervous troubles. the aches are speedily
| relieved by Capudine. It's L~iQuid-pleas-
| ant to take-Effects Immediately. 10, Is
and Soc at Drug Stores.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

If the world will only wait about a
dozen years OF SO, the pole will BE
the great American summer resort.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

The secret of success in life is for a
man to be ready for his opportunity
when it comeS.-Disraeli.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

DR.. Pierce's pleasant Pellets cure constipation.
Constipation is the cause of many diseases. Cure
the cause and you cure the disease. Easy TO take.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

In moving, a little burlap will cover
a multitude of things that do not con-
cern the new neighbors.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

Surgeons begin to sit up and take
notice at the first call for football
teams.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
ROBBED FOR MONEY 70 MARRY.

Lawrence, Kas.-It was to obtain
money with which to marry a Law
renee girl, the police say, that prompted
Earl Bullock, IS years of age, to rob the
State Bank at Eudora, near here. No
trace had been found of the youthful
robber.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.

Higher prices for meat also show
that prosperity is again OF the job.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

Some automobilists are setting the
football players a terrible example.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
MAY CALL TROOPS.

Negro Situation in San Angelo, Texas,
Serious.
San Angelo, Texas-Following fiery
speeches against the negroes, county and
local officers threatened to call troops il
matters were carried to extremes, and
the violent element was quelled. The
agitation followed the importation OF
200 negro laborers on railroad construc
ton. One negro was attacked Wednes
day and is not expected to live.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

Don't get rusty and you won't
squeak.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

This is the time to bring on your
triplets and bankruptcies. The census
taker is on his way.