The Dickinson press., 1909-06-05


of Equity, led BY the Hoosiers from
Indiana and in operation for the last
threeyeare The American Tobacco Trust
buys from two-thirds to three-fourths of
the leaf grown in Kentucky and
and stores it in. association
warehouses. waiting for higher prices.
For this reason the nightriders began
burning and blowing up buildings. up
roofing fields and shooting to kilI if
necessary. &
AT Hopkinsville they made ~pris9fers
of the mayor aid police and set frSsk to
the largest stemmery in the south. where
half a million pounds of tobaccoS4are
held. Immediately after this attack,
Governor Wilson of Kentucky sends 3two
companies of state troops to aid their
local forces.
1.-The atrocious murder of Captain
Quentin Rankin by the -nightriders of
Tennessee served at last to bring
this alarming state of lawlessness in
the tobacco and cotton districts of the
south to a dramatic climax. Governor
Patterson of Tennessee proposed a confer
of the governors OF Mississippi.
Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia
and Louisiana to plan the restoration
of law and order and to settle once for
all the question whether the legal
authorities or the nightriders are in
control in the south. T.
In less than three months eight
leaders Of the band were convicted of
the murder of Captain Rankin, six->re-
ceivine the death sentence and the
others twenty year in the penitentiary.
AS soon as the niehtriders r convinced
that the officers of the law are really
preparing to suppress their outrages at
whatever cost, activities will doubtless
end promptly. S
THE nightrider spirit has spreadfrom
Kentucky into many other states 81 the
south. The time is at hand for ts:sup-
preston and the authorities will con-
tinue till the niehtrider of The south is
no more
After the three essays the solo by Mrs.
j. H. Wood came as a pleasing change
and she appeared at her best, delighting
everyone.
The public has time and again been
astonished at some marvellous form of
plant culture made by Luther Burbank
and in the grafton, Luther Burbank.
the American Wizard" Nellie Dinsdale
presented a subject that held the inter
fest of the audience from start to finish.
She said,, briefly: e
This is an age Of miracles and plant
culture has kept pace with the develop-
ment along other lines. Luther BufbanA
ranks as leader in this field of Svork.
For years has he not been creating
absolutely new forms of life. impapvint
old varieties of fruits. flowers. grasses,
trees and vegetables. and civiliziNe thu
wild degenerate types?
Mi. Burbank carries IN his v&sqEk il
a. large scale. Several hundred experi.
ments are under way at one time, iEeact
test probably a million or more nants.
Perhaps out Of this million. n ffs all
he saves, this one the best of the mil
lion. He sometimes works for twenty
years before. a new flower is reproduced.
lit would be difficult to satisfactorily
estimate the amount that has; beer
added to The worlds wealth by Mr..
Burbank's commercial creations. The
first to bring his name into prominence
was the Burbank potato. which has
conquered the earth. The thorny un.
edible cactus, the enemy of and
beast, by his magic touch has been
converted into a thornless. spineletssand
edible plant. By this act whole deser,
regions may. become reservoirs ofssEbod.
1.-The most important plum MI: Bur.
bank has created is the one without pit,
which will in time supplant theH"'6ldel
varieties.
''Of his flower creations, the Shasta
daisy. a beautiful snow-white creation.
has blossoms five inches in diameter and
was made from a tiny field daisy: The
dahlia has been made to give up. its
d~isagreeab}e odor and accept that Of the
magnolia; a chestnut tree bearing nuts
in Is months from the time of seed
planting: fruit trees which will with
stand freezing in bud and. flower; black:
berries without thorns, the white black.
berry; these are only thousands OF: crea-
tions from his hands: ~
HAS a man not made his life worth
living, who has done these wonderful
things? l think you will all agree
with me that Mr.. Burbank has earned
the name of Wizard"
Of more commercial nature was the
grafton THE Material Resources of
GRANDDAUGHTER Walter Ray chose sas his
subject. The marvellous development OF
our sister country and its great resources