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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27
FOUND GUILTY
OF CONTEMPT.
Tha United States Supreme Court Is
SertS Its Dignity in Sheriff Ships
Case, Which Grew Out Of
LynChing Of a NEGRO.

Washington, May 25.-For the first
time in so serious a case, the Supreme
Court of the United States will on next
Tuesday undertake to mete out punish
ment for the crime of contempt of that
court itself, and the Importance of the
occasion will be enhanced by the num-
Der of the defendants.
The proceedings will take place in
connection with the cases of Sheriff
Shipp and Deputy Sheriff Gibson, of
Hamilton county, Tennessee, and four
other residents of that county, named
respectively, Williams, Nolan, Padgett,
and May. These men were today de-
clared by the court to be guilty of an
act of contempt in combining in March,
1905, in a conspiracy to lynch a negro,
Ed Johnson, who had been sentenced to
death by the local courts on the charge
of rape, and in whose case the Supreme
Court had interfered to the extent of
granting an appeal which had the effect
of supersedeas.
On the night following the announce
ment of the courts action johnson was
taken out of the jail in Chattanooga by
a mob and lynched. There was no re-
sistance on the part of the Jail au-
thorities and Shipp and a number
Of his deputies, as well as about 20 citi-
zens, were proceeded against on the
charge Of contempt of the Federal
Court
The case has been pending ever since,
and the number Of defendants was from
time to time reduced to nine. OF these
nine, three were today found guiltless,
while the other six were ordered to be
brought into court next Tuesday for
sentence. They will be taken into Gus
tody Immediately, and will appear in
court in charge Of Marshal Wright. The
sentence may be either fine or imprison-
ment, or both.
The case is regarded as of exceptional
interest because it is practically the
first time that this, the highest court in
the United States. has ever undertaken
to assert its dignity or to resent acts or
words rejecting upon it. In one previ-
GUS case some years ago q defendant
was fined for some expression of con-
tempt, but the case was so compare
lively insignificant as to practically
leave the present proceeding standing
alone.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27
Shack Mills.

Shack Mills, Va, May 24.-My de-
parture is at hand. Today leave my
old Virginia home and will try the sum
shine and mosquitoes of Tennessee.
Ny stay will be for an indefinite time,
and in saying goodbye feel sting of
sorrow in my heart that is not easy to
lay aside. Buchanan is not the best
place on earth, but while it is not the
best, neither is 1t the worst. With her
crystal water, mountain breezes, sweet
singing birds and lovely flowers she can
well be called the center Of the uni
verse. Her location upon the hilltops
Of many mountains enables her to gaze
eastward toward the Atlantic and throw
kisses at her sisters in Tdewater.
Crouching over her Ia the blue sky of
heaven, and her bed is made on count
less tons Of coal, which has given her a
reputation nationwide.
When ! am gone from Virginia
want the Republican to be my visitor
each week. would that could see q
letter from my old home in each issue.
Anything coming from Southwest Vir-
ginia will be welcome, and hope the
editor will continue his battles for bet
ter rulers for our State and counties.
I expect to vote in the primary for
Tucker, and for that reason will re-
turn to Virginia in August. hope to
be able TO forever call Virginia my
home, and should my last day on earth
come and find me absent from my ma
tive State, ] hope to die with my face
toward home, and then be carried back
and buried where the breezes of Vir-
ginia blow.
With regards to all readers of the
Republican, ! am still,
WEARY WILLIE.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27
CONFEDERATE
MEMORIAL DAY
Hon. Harry 81. George Tucker Will
DeliIer the Memorial Address at
II O'clock A. M.-BeStOWaI N
Of Crosses Of Honor.

The Tazewell Chapter of the Virginia
Division Of the United Daughters Of
the Confederacy have fixed upon next
wednesday, the second day of June,
notice of which has heretofore been
given, to entertain the Confederate
veterans by providing dinner for them
on the court house square at Tazewell,
to decorate the graves of the dead Con-
tederate soldiers buried in jefferson
vile Cemetery, for a public address,
and the bestowal of Crosses of Honor
upon the veterans.
The Chief Marshal of the day select
ed by the Chapter is James P. Whitman,
formerly Adjutant Of the 10Th Virginia
Regiment Of Cavalry, c. S. A. volun-
teers. He will have as assistant Mar
shals Robert Moss, G. W. Doak, H. S.
Bowen, John G. O'Keeffe.
The address will be delivered at the
Methodist church, promptly at IL a. m. ,
by the Honorable Harry St. George
Tucker, introduced by Mr.. J. W..
SPOTS.
The school children of the town, with
all who may wish to accompany them,
will assemble at a. M, at the Method
ist church, and promptly at $50 a. m. =,
will march to Jeffersonville Cemetery.
under charge Of the marshals-t the vet
erans being especially invited to join
them in the march.
Capt. A. J. Tynes, Commandant Of
the Brown-Harman Camp, will be in
charge of the services at the Cemetery,
subject to this program, and he will in
troduce the Rev. J. Tyler Frazier, who
will deliver the prayer of invocation.
Music by the school children and band,
and decoration Of the graves by chill
dren.
Return to the Methodist church by II
a. m. to hear the memorial address by
Mr.. Tucker.
There will be music by school children
and band, assisted by local talent. Be-
stowal Of Crosses of Honor on the fol-
lowing veterans:
John w. Booth, ]. NJ Hankins. Laze-
well Henkel, Eliza Osborne, ]. c.
Spots. R. F. Cecil, George H. Hankins,
VIM. M. Hurt, T. A. Repass and R. C.
Wells.
Benediction by Rev. G. C. Rector.
After this dinner will be served in the
court house square to the veterans.
The people generally are invited to at
tend and bring their lunch, and make
pleasant picnic occasion out of this day.
The people of Tazewell should attend
the memorial exercises to hear the dis
speaker, and to express their
appreciation of the heroic dead, and to
do honor to the veterans who are still
in our midst.
MRS. S. C. GRAHAM,
Fres. Tazewell Chap, Va. Div, u. D. c.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27
SEVERELY ARRAIGES TUCKER.
Judge Hann Says BE is Absolutely Un-
fit to Become States Governor.

Richmond, Va, May 25.-The ILL., ia
ted jamestown Exposition, now in re-
ceivers' hands, was brought into the
Virginia gubernatorisl campaign as
political issue today by Judge Will I'M
Hodges Mann, who, in a speech at Pow
hatan Court House, charged that the
lack OF business and executive ability
displayed by his opponent, Harry st.
George Tucker, president of the exposi-
tion, evidences his unfitness to occupy
the chair as business governor of Vir-
ginia- He further charged that the
failure Of the exposition was due to the
management of the president, Mr..
Tucker.
Judge Mann assailed Mr.. Tucker un-
mercifully, his speech being the most
vigorous and aggressive made by him
since the opening of the campaign. In
closing that part of his speech relating
to the exposition, he dramatically said
that if Mr.. Tucker proposes to man
age the States affairs as he managed
those of the exposition, can only say,
God save the Commonwealth"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27
WANT HIGH SUGAR TARIFF.
MCEnery and Foster, Democrats, ChOered
By Republicans.

Washington, May 25.-The Senate
today began formal consideration of the
sugar schedule but did not approach q
vote upon it. The two speeches on the
subject, while made by Democrats,
were in strong advocacy of high tariff
on sugar. The speeches were by Sena-
tors Foster and McEnery, of Louisiana.
Mr.. Foster deprecated the application
of the word protection" to his atti-
tude, but Mr.. McEnery boldly espoused
the protective theory. He declared
protection to be in line with Democratic
policy. Mr.. McEnery was cheered by
leading Republican Senators but his re-
marks received scant attention from
his Democratic colleagues.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27
COEFESSES TO HORRIBLE CRIME.
John Thompson, Young White Nan,
Says He Murdered Little Girl

That murder will out has again been
verified by the confession of John
Thompson, a worthless young white
man, of Welch, w. Va, that he was the
slayer of little nine-year-old Lou Stat
ford at that place on September the
18th last.
Following close upon the murder the
county court of Mcdowell met and of
fered a reward of 81, 900 for the capture
and conviction of the murderer, and
many of the shrewdest detectives of the
country were soon in Welch endeavor-
ing to fasten the dastardly crime upon
some one, and the result was that many
innocent persons were either arrested
charged with the actual perpetration of
the offense or being in some way con-
nected with it. But in every instance
those arrested were enabled to establish
their innocence, and. of course, were
set free. Weeks and months passed by.
the awful affair gradually losing place
In the thoughts and minds of the people
of Welch, and it was beginning to look
as if the slayer of the child was to 90
unpunished, but not so.
Ever since the dreadful affair hap
pened, United States Deputy Marshal
John H. Waldron, of Welch, has been
quietly at work on the case, and one
day last week arrested John THOMPSON.
worthless young white man of the
town, charging him with the crime. So
cleverly had the young officer woven
together his chain of evidence that when
arrested and confronted with the facts
Thompson broke down and confessed,
relating in detail the particulars of the
horrible affair.
He stated that he killed the girl at a
spring only short distance above the
bridge that spans Tug River at that
place at about o'clock in the evening.
then concealed the body in a clump of
shrubbery and went upon the streets of
the town. A soon as ths child was miss
ed from home, search for her was insti-
tuted, but no clue obtaining as to her
whereabouts the people Of Welch gener-
ally supposed she had been spirited away
by her father, who had only a short
time before separated from his wife,
and the search was soon abandoned.
All during the search Thompson min
gled with the crowd, occasionally offer
ing some suggestion as a possible solu-
tion Of the child's disappearance. When
the search had ended, Thompson went
to his home, but fearing suspicion would
be directed against him he slipped from
the house at midnight and returned to
the scene of the crime, gathered up the
body and carried it by a round about
way to the court house yard where he
deposited it in among a clump of small
shrubbery, where it was found three
days later. So great was the feeling
against Thompson after his confession
became known, that he was hastily
hustled aboard train and hurried to
the Huntington Jail for safe keeping.
He will be brought back to Welch for
indictment and trial at the next term of
the Mcdowell criminal court, which
meets in July.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27
NEGRO COEPESSES BRUTAL MURDER
Robert Moore, Under Arrest for Horse
Stealing, Admits He KillSd James
Hines an Abingdon Youth.

Abingdon, Va, May 22.-The town
is greatly excited today over a confess
sion made last night by negro who is
confined in the county jail on the charge
OF horse stealing, that he killed and
robbed James Hines, the sixteen year
old son of r. A. Hines, of this place,
near Freezing, Dickenson county, Va,
and the negro was spirited away to pre-
vent lynching.
On the 3rd day of April last, James
Hines ran away from his home in Alb
lngdon. His father, R. A. Hines, a
well known citizen of the town and
manager of the dispensary, made in
quiry for him but he could not be To-
Gated. 1t was known that he left here
with a negro named Robert Moore, and
the last heard of them they were ar
rested at Marion for riding a freight
train. A short time ago the decapitat-
ed body of boy was found near Pound
River, in Dickenson county, by some
people who were bathing in the river,
and that it appeared to be the body of a
boy some sixteen years of age and that
the flesh was badly decomposed.
A few days ago two horses were sto-
len in Abingdon and telephone messages
were sent out in all direction, and the
thief was arrested in Smyth county
with the horses and returned to Abing-
don. On his arrival here he was recog-
nized as Robert Moore, negro about
% years old and well known about town.
Knowing that he left here with the
Hines boy, he was asked when and
where he had last seen him, and his an
swer was that it was near Freezing
about the middle of April. This state
ment, coupled with the finding of the
body near Freezing, created strong
suspicion that it might be young Hines.
Mayor Hines, an uncle, and Edgar
Hines, a brother of the missing boy,
have gone by private conveyance to
Freezing to investigate. They did not
know when they left that the negro had
made confession. They will exhume
the body and ship it to Abingdon.
Other prisoners in the jail reported
to Sheriff Fleenor that Moore walked
the floor constantly and talked of moth
ing but James Hines, and said: ''These
people must think that l cut his throat.
when they know that if l did would
have blood on my clothing" Last
night the sheriff and Sergeant Crab
tree went into to his cell and began to
talk with him. He contradicted him
self in several statements, but finally
admitted that he and another negro
killed the boy and took his money,
which he said was $66. He described
the place and said that they covered
the body with brush.
The confession was reported to Judge
Hutton and he directed Sheriff Fleenor
to get the negro away from Abingdon
as soon as possible, and suggested that
he either take him to Lynchburg for
safe keeping, or to Chntwood, the coun-
ty seat of the county where the crime
was committed.
His statement that he had an accom-
plice in the crime is not believed, but
his confession is accepted here as true.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27

The Bordeaux mixture is the proper
remedy to use for all fungous troubles,
viz: mildew and rust of beans; potato
and tomato rot and lesf-blight; melon
and cucumber diseases; celery leaf
blight and rust, ct. The half-strength
mixture 1.-TWO pounds copper sulphate,
two pounds quicklime, fifty gallons wa
ter) is strong enough to use in the veg
etable garden, except for potatoes. -
Farm Journal.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27
Children Who Are SIekly.

Mothers who value their own comfort
and the welfare of their children, should
never be without box of Mother
Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. for
use throughout the season. They
break up colds, cure fsverishness, con-
stipation, teething disorders, headache
and stomach troubles. THESE POWDERS
NEVER FAIL. Sold by all drug stores,
25c. Don't accept any substitute. A
trial package will be sent FREE to any
mother who will address Allen s. Olm-
sted, lie Roy, N. Y.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27
MEMORIAL DINNER.

All who wish to contribute toward
the memorial dinner for the veterans
will please send their contributions to
Mr.. Hankins' store, plainly marked
with their names, and for Daughters
of the Confederacy." Mr.. Hankins
has agreed to take charge of such con-
tributions, and they should be sent early
Wednesday morning.
MRS. S. C. GRAHAM.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27
Rev. ]. N. Harman's

Regular preaching appointments for
April and May, 1909:
TAZEwELL-lst, End and 3rd Sunday
nights.
HoNAKER-lst Sundays at IL a. m.
RAvEN-2nd Sundays at ii a. m.
POUNDING MILL-3rd Sundays at IL a.
m. and Saturday nights before.
RIcHLANDs-4th Sundays at IL a. m.
and at night.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27
Meet In LswIsburs Next Year.

Savannah, Ca, May 25.-The General
Assembly Of the Presbyterian Church
accepted the invitation Of Lewisburg,
w. Va, to hold its next meeting there.
DR.. George Il. Denny, president Of
Washington and Lee University, de-
livered an address tonight ON the SUBJ
ject, "Calvin's Contribution to Educa-
tional Progress.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27
PRIMARY PLAN FOR RICHMOND.
Said to Have Been Adopted Secretly by
Committee on Last Thursday

Richmond, Va, May 22.-It was
learned today that the City Democratic
Committee had been called together
secretly last Thursday by Clyde w.
Saunders, chairman, at which time a
plan for the primary was drafted and a
pledge of extraordinary character sub
mitted The facts did not leak out un-
I'll this morning. This pledge is said to
be a complicated proposition, lengthy
and burdened with technical phrasing.
1t binds the voters to support the Dem
ocratic nominees in the gubernatoriaI
election. 1t is so worded. however. that
the wide scope of the pledge is not
readily apparent.
The members of the Plans Committee
decline to give any information on the
subject. They will neither confirm nor
deny the report concerning the peculiar
construction of the pledge. 1t is said
that the pledge is 50 long and intricate
that a voter will not have time to study
it out in the polling booth, but will be
forced to vote blindly
The candidates for city Offices are
anxious and alarmed. They fear a
pledge that will keep thousands of vot-
ers away from the polls on primary day,
and it is freely predicted that this will
be the natural result of the enforce
ment OF the proposed pledge.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27
Pounding Mill, Va,
May, 25th, 1909.

Mr.. Editor;-
You will find enclosed one dollar to
pay for the years subscription to your
charming paper, whose pages are al
ways clean and wholesome, and one a
father need not fear to place in the
hands of his boys,
] wish could say the same for all the
political journals, but party prejudice
has become so rancorous that even some
of our text books are injurious to the
minds Of the rising generation. Take
our common school histories for in
stance. In them you will find facts so
twisted by malignity that the old veter-
an can scarcely realize in what battle
he received his scars.
wish ] had the brains and could
WELD the pen of a ready writer, for then
! would hold up to public gaze the in
trigues of the Democratic party.
] would be delighted if Hon. A. P.
Gillespie could be induced to run for
Governor. would like to cast my vote
for him, even should he lose in the race,
for he is one of Virginia's noblest sons.
Wishing you success, am, sir,
Yours Very Respectfully,
T. M. P.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27

Dinner will be served to the Veterans
on June End, Memorial Day, at Taze-
well, instead of on Pension Day.
Crosses of Honor will also be delivered
on that day, and there will be public
speaking and music.
MRS. S. C. GRAHAM,
Pres. Tazewell Chap. Va Div. u. D. C.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27
NOTfcEI

All persons are warned against OBJ
structlng any of the roads of this coun-
", or any ditch constructed for the
drainage OF any road, by throwing
whatsoever.
BY order of the Board of Supervisors.
S. nj. GRAHAM, Clerk.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27
Appreciates Its Worth.

One Of our most substantial and ap-
preciative subscribers expresses himself
in the following manner concerning our
efforts to give to our readers clean,
wholesome family newspaper. His
words have an inspiring effect, and we
most sincerely appreciate such encour-
agement;
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27

MERCHANTS AND FARMERS
We want all the Mayapple Root you can
get; Will pay you good price in spot
cash; Also want all other staple Roots
and Herbs at good prices. Write us.
Respectfully,
R. 7. Greer & Co.,
ST Marion, Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27

TOMATO PLANTS-SI.O 90 per 100.
Sweet Potato Plants 25 cents per 100
Prompt shipments.
Fallon, Florist,
Roanoke, Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27

Pobst has a beautiful lot of Ham
mocks this season and the prices are
right.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-27

Some handsome China Dinner Sets
just received at Pobst's.
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