The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-11-11

: Man Still Lives with Neck Broken
RECEIVER ASKED:-G. w. Nc
MILAN and thirty-two others filed a
suit in the Circuit Court at Lexington
= on Nov 9 against the Burley Tobacco
Society, Clarence Lebus, G. A. Brooks,
j. M. Rankin, Clark County National
Bank, Citizens National Bank, and
Peoples State Bank. The plaintiff al
lege tnas defendants are wasting a
balance of 100000 which rightfully
belongs to men who had their crops
in the 19O6-7 pool
hurley SUED AGAIN:-Another
fight in the Burley Tobacco Society
gives further evidence that it is going
to pieces. This suit comes from the
old home of the Society-Clark Coun-
ty-and alleges about. the same charge
as the other suit. 1t claims that mon
ey belonging to the former pool is be-
ing used without the consent Of its
lawful owners, and asks a receiver for
the Society.
MERCHANT KILLED: = Albert
Koch a well known Swiss merchant of
East Bernstadt was called out of his
house Just after dark on the night Of
Nov. 4 and shot down. Some unknown
person called for him TO come out
to his store only a few steps from
his residence and he was shot as
soon as he reached his place of BUSH
ness. His family hearing shots, hur-
ried to the scene and found Mr. Koch
lying dead with a bullet hole in his
head and saw his assassin fleeing.
QUIET IN BREATHITT:-All is
quiet in Jackson and the outlook is
so fair that the authorities deem it
unnecessary to keep the troops long
Ell and the Cynthiana Company left
for home on Nov. 3rd. The Lexington
Company had not arrived in town when
the train left but a special car was
left for them. The report that one of
the soldiers Of the Lexington Company
was killed by comrade is not true.
BLACKBURN WILL RESIGN
Since his return to Versailles, Gov. ].
is. c. Blackburn has declared his in
tentlon to spend the remainder of
his days among his own Kentucky peo-
PIE and the friends of his boyhood
days. This is the first time since
the story of his proposed resignation
as Governor of the Canal Zone was
published that he has given it practi-
cal confirmation.
KILLED WITH BAT:-At Owens
boro, Delbert Osborne. aged sixteen
killed Willie Corum, seventeen years
old by striking him on the head with
a baseball bat. The boys were in the
same loom at school. Osborne had mis-
behaved and the teacher being unable
to punish him, called on the Corum
boy to assist. After being punished
the Osborne boy swore he would kill
Corum before morning. After school
had been closed the boy slipped up
behind his victim and struck him
'"NA - Hoe NouSAu6 his QcdJu.
MOUNTAINS SLANDERED:-The
campaign of SANDER and misrepresen-
tation against the mountain people
goes merrily on. A former Berea boy
has sent us from the West a clip
ping with flaming headlines about
Bloody Breathitt" and evidently blam-
ing all the mountains for conditions
there. Newspaper men hundreds Of
miles away can hardly be blamed for
playing up" anything that looks ex-
citing, for the world has come to ex-
pect 1t, but what shall be said of the
mountain boys, who, for a few dollars,
will sell the reputation of their native
states? These lying stories of the noun
tains come from the mountain men
themselves, most Of the time--no con-
domination is strong enough for such.
LIVES WITH BROKEN NECK
John Ramsey, of Winchester, broke
his neck four weeks ago by a fall
from tree, but is still alive. His
death is expected at any time, how
ever.