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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-19
JACKSON
SHAFT GIVEN TO GOVERNMENT.
Gov. Noel Dedicates It-Blewett Lee
Accepts the Mississippi Memorial.

The new granite shaft in Vicksburg
National Park, erected by the State to
the memory of the soldiers of Mississippi
who served during the siege of Vicksburg
was dedicated by Gov. Noel and received
for the United States government by
Blewett Lee of Chicago, son of the late
Gen. Stephen ID. Lee, before q large
crowd at Vicksburg.
This event was the browning event of
the State reunion of C~onfederates, and
was participated in by the veterans,
Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy
and the citizens in general.
The dedication address was made by
Gov. Noel. The governor reviewed the
work that has been lone in the National
Park by the Federal government, the
States and the South in particular-not,
he said, in honor of victory or defeat,
but to commemorate the heroism of
American soldiers on both sides. THE
Mississippi memorials are not to single
out any particular officer or soldier, or
even to be connected with the military
operations around or during the siege of
Vicksburg, but to glorify and perpetuate
the courage, the self-sacrifice, fortitude
and patriotism hat animated our States
contribution to that heroic army that
sought to ave Vicksburg for the South"
Blewett Lee, in the name of the secre-
tary of war, accepted the memorial for
the Federal government. The sight of
the son of Gen. Stephen ID. Lee was a
signal for more cheering by the old vet
Grams, many of whom had served under
his father upon the field where they now
stood.
The speaker expressed regret that the
secretary of war had been unable to be
present and accept the gift of Missis-
sippi in person. He dwelt upon the fact
that the men who wore the blue and who
wore the gray were both Americans.
There is glory enough for both," he
said, land reverence for all; and no true
American will ever have any different
feelings for men who offered up their
lives for their convictions of duty"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-19
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget Of State News Items Gathered BY Osr Special
Correspondent At Jackson.
Cotton Rates Case.

There was quite an attendance of rail-
road attorneys and traffic officials in
the United States court room Tuesday,
drawn there in connection with the in.
junction proceedings brought by the va
ZOO & Mississippi Valley Railway Com
pany, the New Orleans Great Northern
and Others to restrain the Mississippi
railroad commission from the enforce
ment of its newly accepted scale of
freight rates on uncompressed cotton
within the State. In its very elaborate
bill the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley al
leges that the proposed rates on cotton
are illegal, discriminatory, unjust and
not founded on actual conditions, or at
the urgent solicitation of the general
body of the taxpayers, and would have
the court permanently cnjoin and re-
strain the commission from enforcing
this alleged obnoxious rule. The an
swer insists and urges that the local cot
ton rate as fixed by the complainant
companies in their exhibit, as filed with
the bill, is grossly excessive and dis
c~riminatory as against cotton, the prin-
cipal commodity of the State. A COM
parison is instituted between the car
riers' cotton scale and their rates on
other commodities, citing as an instance
that where the rate on a bale of cotton
for a distance of five miles is $14.25 per
100 pounds, the rate on a bale of cot
tonseed is only 5 cents, on fertilizer 3
cents, and other commodities in proper
ton.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-19
Offers Aid and Cooperation.

DR.. S. II. Mclean, secretary of the
Mississippi state board of health, has
addressed a letter to the Rockefeller
commission offering the aid and CO.
operation of the State health authori-
ties in the campaign to be instituted for
the eradication OF the hook worm dis
ease. "Any plan proposed by the COM
mission for the suppression of this dis
ease will meet with our cordial sup
port" said Secretary Mclean, 'and am
confident the same spirit prevails among
members of the medical fraternity in
Mississippi
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-19
Marbles Loses His Case.

Albert Marbles, a negro. accused of
asaulting Duly Frank in Warren county,
Notwithstanding his contention, made to
the Supreme Court of the United States
that he can not have an impartial trial
in Mississippi on account of the preju-
dice which he asserts exists in that
State against negroes, the court dis
missed the appeal of Marbles, which he
took from the Federal Circuit Court at
st. Louis when hat tribunal refused to
release him on a writ of habeas corpus.
Marbles left Mississippi, so the indict-
ment charges, after he had murderously
assaulted Frank. He was caught in st.
Louis and ordered returned to Mississip-
pi on extradition proceedings.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-19
Tribute to Bishop Galloway.

The eighth annual meeting of the
trustees of the Mississippi department
of archives and history was held Tues
day in the hall of history. A very in
teresting narrative report of the activ-
tiles and events of interest connected
with the work of the department was
submitted. The first part of the report
contains a clearly drawn sketch Of
Bishop Galloway, whose death was the
greatest blow sustained by the State as
well as the department of history since
that of Gen. Stephen ID. Lee, which was
reported at the previous annual meet
ing. The report among other things al
AIDES to Bishop Galloway as the Eek
ponent of the highest purposes, the holt
est aspirations, truest purposes, the
NEST steadfast convictions, whose loss
seems Unreasonable"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-19
Encouraging Reports.

Miss Susie V. Powell, director of the
School Improvement Associations activi-
ties in Mississippi, reports encouraging
results of the campaign that is being
conducted for practical as well as intel
lectual development of the rural schools.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-19
Opinion in School Case.

State Superintendent of Education
Powers received a communication from
the authorities of Tishomingo county
asking for information along the fol-
lowing line: did not a board of super
yisors have the authority to make d
local levy for the common schools for a
county prior and up to 1906, without
an election, and did not such action give
them the power to continue the levy
since 1906 without an election" Reply
ing, Attorney General Stirling held in
the affirmative.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-19
Laws in Interest of Health.

DIR. Mclean, in his biennial report,
will earnestly urge an adequate appro-
priation to continue the campaign of
education on sanitation and hygiene
which was abandoned several months
ago on account of lack of funds. He
also gives cordial endorsement to the
resolution adopted at the meeting of
the Southern Medical Association, urg-
ing the Southern States to perfect their
systems of gathering and recording vital
statistics. At present Mississippi has
no system for the collection of vital or
mortuary statistics.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-19
Fair Will Be Bigger and Better.

John f. Mckay, secretary and mana
ger of the Mississippi State Fair Assoc
citation, makes the gratifying announce
ment that already arrangements have
been made for financing the 1910 enter
prise in order to make it bigger, better
and more thoroughly demonstrative thar
ever before. The men who are behind
this great practical enterprise are not
without hope that the Legislature will
see the way clear to extending some
measure of State aid.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-19
State Sues for $215, 10000.

The attorneys for the State have fled
at Tupelo their amended bill in the Dust.
er suit against the thirty-eight fire in
surance companies charged with the vio-
lation of the antitrust laws of the State
in having formed al alleged combina-
ton to fix rates and from whom penal
ties aggregating $215, 100000 are asked.
The amended bill superseded the orig
inal, to several parts Of which the de-
murrer of the defense was sustained by
Chancellor Robbins scale time ago.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-19
E. L. Barley Appointed.

The membership of the State Teach
ers' Association will no doubt be inter-
ested and gratiied to know that Super
i%ntendent Edward L. Bailey of the Jack
son city schools, has been appointed by
President Ellis as secretary of that as
ISOLATION, vice John T. Connell of Gulf
port who, owing to his entry into other
lines than pedagogy, has resigned.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-19
Fiscal Shoe Is Pinching.

The fiscal shoe in Mississippi is pinch
ing nightly at the present time, so
far as the State exchequer is concerned,
and those whose duty it is to handle
the purse strings and keep the accounts
will be more than glad when the cash
resulting from tax payments begins to
find its way into the repositories and to
the treasury.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-19

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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-22
ACTRESS IN FIGHT
SLABS WITH HATPIN
WOMAN SEVERELY WOUNDS
TWO MEN
Starts Commotion When Refused Ser
vice of Drinks After Night-At-
torneys Pay Fine and
Costs

CINCINNATI, April 2f.-Bonita
leading woman with the Wine, Wom-
an and Song company, which went
to pieces here, was arrested in her
room at the Sinton hotel early this
morning after a fight with the hotel
clerk and was locked up in police
cell. Bonita was charged with disor-
derby conduct.
After languishing two hours in the
cell she was. released. Later, when
her case was called in court, Bonita
failed to appear. She had skipped to
New York on an early train.
A fine of S. and costs was assessed
against her and it was paid by her
attorney.
Previous to the arrest a desperate
fight took plact in an elevator of the
hosiery between the woman, who
was armed with a hatpin, and Night
Clerk William Hetlich, jr, and Watch
man Adam Matz.
Both Hetlich and Matz were severely
stabbed during the scuffle and physi-
clans had to be called to dress their
wounds. The trouble started when the
woman tried to order drinks from the
bar after night.
Bonita started a commotion in the
hallway, and guests, panic-stricken,
rushed from their rooms. Several pa
trolmen were summoned to the hotel
and Bonita was taken to police head
quarters in a patrol wagon.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-22
HORSE THIEVES ROB
AND HANDCUFF A
SLEEPING DEPUTY
SAN BERNARDlNO SHERIFF Is
LEFT ON DESERT
Rescued by Prospector After Two
Days Wandering, ManacIed in
Sagebrush-Posse Organized
to Pursue Thieves
Especial to The Herald.I

SAN BERNARDINO, April 21.-
After wandering two days on the des-
ert near Crestline, where he had been
handcuffed and left by two alleged
horse thieves whom he had arrested,
Deputy Sheriff H. G. Maxwell of San
Bernardino county was rescued late
yesterday afternoon by Walter c. Max
well, a prospector.
The deputy sheriff is said to have
laid down for a nap under a clump of
sage brush while bringing his charges
to Crestline, and the latter, taking un
unkind advantage of his condition, re-
moved their handouts, placed them on
Maxwell's wrists, took his money, re-
Volver and valuables and departed.
The two men, who gave their names
as Bert West and Cooper Davis, were
arrested Sunday near Crestline on a
charge Of horse stealing, and Tuesday
morning Maxwell undertook to take
them to San Bernardino. He was al
most exhausted from hunger and ex-
posture yesterday when found by the
prospector, lost in the desert. A posse
was quickly organized in Crestline and
is securing the country for the cruel
horse thieves. They are thought to
have crossed the line into Nevada.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-22
BAY CITY PLANS TO
ENTERTAIN JAPANESE
PUBLIC RECEPTION WILL BE
HELD FOR SEAMEN
Army, Navy, Civic Authorities and
Commercial Organizations VIII
Combine to Show Asiatics
Good Time

SAN FRANCISCO, April 21.-At a
meeting of representatives of the army,
navy. civic authorities and commercial
organizations at the office of Mayor
Taylor today plans were made for the
reception of the Japanese training
squadron, which will visit this port the
first week in May.
The program tentatively announced
will include banquets, receptions, illu-
limitations and trips to various points
of interest for the officers and crews.
A banquet to Admiral Ijichi and his
officers at the Fairmont on the evening
of May will be the first shore function
in honor of the visitors.
Later, on some afternoon yet to be
designated, a public reception will be
held at the Merchants exchange. Trips
will be taken by the Japanese sea-
fighters to Santa Clara valley, the
naval training station on Goat island,
and the navy yard at Mare island.
The Japanese enlisted men will be
entertained on board the American war
ships in the harbor. Efforts will be
made to have the street car lines pro-
vide free rides for the sailors The
harbor commissioners have promised to
illuminate the Ferry building, and the
warships will be as brilliantly lighted
as they were when the Atlantic fleet
was in the bay.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-22
STATE EDUCATIONAL BOARD
HEARS BOOK AGENTS. PLEA
Strong Effort Made for Adoption by
State of New School
Books

SACRAMENTO, April 21.-Book
agents talked all day today before the
state board of education in an en-
deavor to lure an acceptance of the
text books their houses have SUD-
mitted.
Readers were being talked up by the
agents today, representing a bakers
dozen of publishing houses. The bids
in each case have already been opened
but they will not be given out for pub
lication until the talkfest ceases. II
is possible that the state board Will
not change the readers being used IN
the schools now, at least not all OF
them. 1t depends on whether the ones
now being talked up are very great
Improvement on the old ones. When
the books are selected they will be used
in the schools for the next four years
The state board has set apart tomor-
row for the agents who will represent
the advantages of the histories to be
used, and Friday for the representa-
tives for the books on civil govern
ment.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-22
FULL-CREW MEASURE
WOULD BE INJUSTICE
MOTOR CARS INCLUDED IN
PROVISIONS
Governor GiIIett Discovers Error Over
looked by Assembly and Senate.
Bill viii Not Become
Law

SACRAMENTO, April 21.-It is not
hostility to the intent of the full-crew
bill that will cause Governor Gillett to
withhold his assent to its becoming a
law, but because in the form 1t passed
the senate it would not do otherwise
than work hardship on the railroads.
The governor would have signed the
bill if it had excluded motor cars from
the operation of the rule, which would
have compelled the railroads to place
a full crew on single cars.
To an accident is attributed the de-
feat of the railroad men in an effort to
minimize the danger to the public and
themselves. In its original form the
bill did not exclude motor cars.
1t was amended by the assembly
committee on common, carriers so that
it would exclude them, sections l and
2 having been so altered as to describe
only trains drawn by steam engines.
Section was also amended to make
it consistent with the others, but IN
some inexplicable way the amending
words were inserted in the wrong place
and unfortunately in such way as to
make the bill apply to motor cars as
well as to steam cars. The bill passed
the assembly and senate without the
mistake being discovered, and it was
not until yesterday, when it was being
discussed before the governor, that II
deyeloped
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-22
WOMAN DEMANDS SHARE IN
ESTATE OF RAILROAD MAN
Sister-in-Law of Late Freight Agent
for Southern Pacific to
Contest Will

SAN FRANCISCO, April PA con
testant' to the will of George w
Fletcher, former freight agent for the
Southern Pacific company, appeared
today when Salina Patterson, sister,
in-law of the deceased, filed COM
plant with the county clerk OF Ala
media county declaring that Artemus
n FLETCHER. to whom the bulk of the
estate, valued at over $4,000, was left
and Miss Adeline Wellendorff, so
ciety woman of Berkeley, who also was
a beneficiary under the will, had ex-
erted undue influence over the dece-
dent.
Miss Patterson asks that the estate
be reapportioned by the court, giving
Fletcher's mother. and herself, as the
heir of Mrs. Fletcher, their rightful
share of the property.
T. c. West, attorney for the heirs
says there is no merit to the suit
brought by Miss Patterson, and that
the allegation of incompetency includ-
ed in the complaint is absurd.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-22
OFFICERS ARE INSTALLED
BY ROYAL ARCH MAS0NS
Grand Chapter Meets in Golden Gate
Commandery Hall at San
Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, April 21.-The
grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons
of California met today in Golden Gate
commandery hall and installed the fol-
lowing officers, to serve for the ensuing
term:
Grand high priest, George Fl. Mum
roe of Fresno; deputy grand high priest,
James H. Tapscott, Yreka; grand King,
Charles W. Norton, Stockton; grand
treasurer, Franklin H. Day, San Fran
cisco; grand secretary, William A.
Davies Alameda.
The grand commandery of knights
Templar will meet tomorrow.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-22
SAY RATES TO
UTAH TOO HIGH
CHARGES ARE FILED AGAINST
WESTERN RAILWAYS
TAFT PROMISES coNGREssMEN
TO ACT AT ONCE
Alleged That Freight Schedules to
Intermountain Cities Are Larger
Than to Pacific
Coast
LRy Associated Press. ]


WASHINGTON. April 21.-President
Taft today took up for investigation,
and promised to act at once on COM
plant filed with him alleging that the
western railroads are discriminating
against Salt Lake City, Ogden and 9TH
er intermountain cities in the matter
of freight rates, and are violating the
antitrust laws. The charges were made
by Senators Smoot and Sutherland and
Representative Howell, all of Utah.
They asked that the matter be taken
up by the department of justice, rather
than by the interstate commerce COM
mission.
The papers filed alleged that Mr.. Har-
riman shows no respect for any law but
the federal. The papers declare the
Hartman lines are enormously profit
able, and include a petition from COM
mercial bodies in Utah saying the dis
elimination has been carried on for
many years, and that the roads have
steadily increased rates and eliminated
competition.
Higher rates, it is said, are being
charged for freight from Chicago, Mis-
souri, river points and Denver TO the
Utah territory than for the much longer
haul to Pacific coast cities.
The roads specified are the Southern
Pacific, the Union Pacific, the Oregon
Short line, the Oregon Railroad & Nav
igation company, the San Pedro, Los
Angeles & Salt Lake, the Denver & Rio
Grande, the Missouri Pacific the Col
orado Midland, the Colorado & South
ern, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy,
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, and
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.
1t is stated that on cocoa beans the
rate per car from Chicago to Utah is
1894, while for the same car all the way
70 n
S255. On ear of nails the charge from
Chicago to Utah is $40, and from Chi
cago to San Francisco only $3.50. On a
car of printing paper the rate from
Chicago to Utah is 1920, and to San
Francisco only $500.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-22
UNCROWNED KING
LEAVES CHICAGO
PATTEN STARTS ON GENERAL
TOUR OF INSPECTION
CONFLICTING WINTER WHEAT
CROPS WILL BE CHECKED
Probability of Delivering New Crop OF
Wheat In July of Utmost ln'-
portance to Successful
Manlpulator
TBv Associated Press.l

CHICAGO, April 21.-James Patten,
bull leader in wheat, left this city to-
day possibly to inspect the crop out
look, particularly as it bears upon the
amount of wheat which may be dellV-
cred to him on July contracts. Mr..
Patterns departure was made quietly
and was discovered by the majority OF
his associates only after 1t had been
accomplished. He is accompanied by
an expert, and it is believed viii IN
spect the winter wheat crop in Hi
nois and adjacent states, among them
Missouri, where reports are conflicting.
The most recent tidings from that
commonwealth were bearfsh, declaring
that, despite a backward season and
ploughing under, an average crop was
expected Whether this neighboring
state will be able. to deliver new crop
wheat in July is a matter of greatest
importance to traders, as the bulls
have operated on the theory that this
wheat will not be available for deliv-
cry here; the bears, of course, to the
contrary.
The market was rather featureless
early in the session today. July re-
luctantIy rose a cent from yesterday
close, but the May price seemed con-
tent with the position given during the
previous session.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-22
LATTER DAY SAINTS END
56TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Representatives from New Zealand,
England, Honolulu, Samoa and
Australia Attend Sessions

LAMONT, Iowa, April 21.-The fifty
sixth annual conference of the reorgan-
lied Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints, now in session here, adj
journed today to meet next year at In
dependence Mo. An expected reVela-
ton through President Joseph Smith
that was given to the conference in
volved several important changes in the
personnel of the church.
1t released from the office of the pres
idency Elder r. c. Evans of Canada
and confirms the appointment of Albert
A. Smith of Lamont. 1t also released
Apostles Joseph Turf of Independence,
Mo, and Hiram C. Smith of Lamont,
James f. Curtis of Utah and R, C.
Russell of Canada were created apos-
ties.
composed of Joseph Smith. his son,
Frank Smith, and his nephew, Albert
A. Smith.
Representatives from New Zealand,
England, Honolulu, Canada, Samoa and
Australia have been in attendance.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-22
SAYS HE TOOK BRIDES TO
MAKE GOVERNMENT CASE
Former Land Office EmpIoye Testifies
In Bribery Case of San
Franciscan

WASHINGTON, April 21.-Interest in
the trial in criminal court here of John
A. Benson of San Francisco, charged
with having bribed Division Chief Har-
Ian and Clerk William E. Walk, for
merly of the general land office, to re-
veal to him the contents of a secret
report relating to alleged land frauds
in the west, centered in the testimony
of Harlan. His testimony bore on his
meetings with Benson and the receipt
of money for service in expediting gov
eminent work. He testified that he
and Walk divided the money.
Attorney Campbell, of counsel for
Benson, tried to make Harlan impeach
his testimony in the previous trial.
Harlan testified today that he was try
ing to make a case for the government,
and that certain letters which he had
written to Benson contained sugges-
lions that he pay for certain informa-
ton that would be of value to him, had
been written at the instigation of Sc
cret service agents.
r. L. Smith, Harlan's son-in-law, adj
mitted having received a letter from
San Francisco containing a 500 bill,
which he turned over to Harlan.