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s25,OOO,OOO TO CHARITY
The Largest Single Contribu~
ton Ever Made.
OTHER HANDSOME REQUESTS MADE
Widows Share is s1o,0OO,OOO and
Many Small Bequests Are Made
to His Employers and
Others.

New York.-John Steward Kenne~
dy, one of Americas g little known
rich men, who died of whooping
cough in his New York residence on
Sunday last, left requests of more
than S25, 900 to religious. char
table and educational institutions in
his will, filed for probate here. The
gift is the largest single contribu-
tion of its kind ever made and the
benefciaries include SO educational
and church institutions in all parts
of the United States and several
abroad. .}r
Nearly half of the $4,000. 900
goes to institutions connected with
the Presbyterian church of which
Mr.. Kennedy had been an active
member for many years. Other
large beneficiaries are the American
Bible Society, the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art, the New York Public
Library, the United Charities of New
York, Columbia University, and Rob-
ert College, Constantinople Aside
from these gifts, Mr.. Kennedy left
100000 approximately to his
wife and his relatives and a great
number of friends and employees.
The widows share will be about
$16,O0O,0O0 All of the testator's
employees received gifts Of from $500
to $4,000 each. The charitable, re-
ligious and educational Institutions
which receive the largest bequests
ar to share the residue Of the es-
tate left after definite gifts of ap-
proximately s12.OOO,0OO have been
paid out.
Mr.. Kennedy, whose death on Sum
day occurred with only brief COM
ment by the press, was one OF the
millionaire philanthropists whose
gifts, though measured in millions,
were made with as little publicity as
possible. AS he gave, so he lived,
nnostentatiously and made his
princely fortune with LITTLE blare or
trumpets. Besides being banker
he was one of the country's chief
builders of railroads, patron of art
and education and in his own quiet
way, one of New York's foremost
advocates of. scientifically organized
charity.
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Cotton picking Machine Tried.

It is believed that the question OF
picking cotton at a minimum ex-
pense of time, labor and money has
been at last solved by S. S. Thomas
and his associates of Gulfport who
have just completed cotton har-
vester that takes the place of hu-
man hands. It's practicability has
been demonstrated in the workshop
in which it was constructed. This
machine is built about four feet
high, and is wide enough to cover
two cotton rows of ordinary width
1t is equipped with twelve pickers,
and they are so arranged that two
being strapped to the same time with
perfect ease. After the cotton is TAX
en- from the boil, it is conveyed in
pipes to a receptacle with a capacity
of 500 pounds. A gasoline. engine
furnishes the power by which the ma
chine is operated. Experiments hav-
ing proven the effectiveness of the
machine, it will be Grated at once
and shipped to the cotton fields near
Jackson, where the field tests will
be applied. Those interested in the
machine, who are some of Gulfport's
best business men, will follow it to
the fields and direct the test of its
merit.
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stalks; but it ig the duty of the en-
tomologist to bend his efforts to the
finding of some way of fighting the
boil weevil other than by the des-
truction of this organic matter which
our soils need most.
rs there sufficient evidence to
show that cutting the cotton stalk
and plowing them under deeply is
sufficiently less effective than burning
the silks to justify the burning of
the stalks to justify the burning of
the land with all the bad practices
which it encourages and will surely
lead top
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NO APPOINTMENT SOON.
Delay in Filling Vacancy on Supreme
Rench.

Washington.-Unless President
Taft decides to violate the prece-
dents. which as lawyer he is unlike
" to do, no justice will take the
place on the Supreme Bench vacated
by the recent death of Justice Peck
ham, before the assembling of con-
gress in regular session next Decem-
ber. All of the surviving justices
with one exception were nominated
for their high positions during the
sessions of congress. The exception
was Justice Harlan, who was ap-
pointed by President Hayes Nov
20. 1877, but although he had al
ready received his commission, JUS
tice Harlan refrained from taking
his place on the bench until Dec. 10
following, by which time his noml-
nation had been passed upon by the
senate.
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syrian Nav Become American Citizen,

Los Angeles, cal.-The right of a
native syrian to become a citizen OF
fhe United States was upheld by
Tudge Hutton. in the superior court
of los Angeles county, against the
eeenrfs of the federal authorities. The
court ruled that Syrian was mot
> Monaghan, but of the Aryan race
and hence could not be barred from
citizepshiu. The government will ap-
neal fo the federal courts. It was
confended that George Shishhim, a
syrian horn in Lebanon, owed allie
Glance TO Turkey, and hence should
nof not be classed as a Mongolian.
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One of the most beautiful collec-
tions Of chrysanthemums which has
ever been sent out of Hazlehurst
and Crystal Springs for exhibition
purposes was that which greeted the
eyes of visitors at the State Fair
Grounds. There were some local
exhibitors. but in the miscellaneous
class, of cut flowers, potted plants
and similar displays, but, as usual,
the Copiah County growers were
easily first in the chrysanthemum
lines. Hon. William Hemingway,
who has been the superintendent of
the flowers here for years, stated that
it was undoubtedly the best and most
extensive display ever sent, This was
particularly so with the cut blooms,
in white, yellow and pink, to say
nothing of the variegated and hy-
bridized productions of the florists
art.
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HOOK WORM NOT so BAD.
Looks Like Rockefeller Picked
Wrong Pest.

Washington.-In language far
more forceful than elegant it may be
said that John D. Rockefeller picked
a lemon when he announced that he
would back the fight against the hook
worm to the extent of s1,000,00O. A
census bulletin was published show
ing that If all deaths from amemia
we're caused by the hook worm 1t is
one of the most harmless diseases in
the country. The bulletin shows the
number to have been 2152.
During the same period there were
deaths from accidental causes num-
bering 22,71O other than the slaugh-
ter caused by the railroads. In the
same period cancer killed 555,956
appopIexy 32,567, and consumption
1928. The total number of deaths
reported was 691,574.
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POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.
Post Office Report Carries Argument
in Favor.


Washington.-An argument in IA
vor Of the establishment Of postal
savings banks is contained in the
annual report of o. Chance, aud
itor for the Postoffice Department.
He alleges that in the last twenty
years foreigners in the United States
have sent back to their homes by
means Of money orders the enormous
sum of $431, ,956,62S in excess Of the
amount that they have received from
abroad. This represents the surplus
earnings of foreign labor employed
in the gigantic industrial and COM
mercial business of the country. Aud
itor Chance says that it is fair as
sumption that a majority of the for
eign element sojourning in this coun-
try would patronize government pos
tai savings banks, and thus a con-
siderable share of the millions OF
dollars now annually spent abroS$i
for deposit in banks Of their own
countries would remain here in the
custody of the Secretary Of the Treas
ury.
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Benefits From Correct Cultivation.

G.. L. Will, who is large planter
near Hermanville in writing DR.. S. A.
Knapp, at Washington, concerning
the result obtained by adhering
strictly to the government instruc-
tion, said: For my benefit as well
as that of my tenants and neighbors,
1 worked two demonstration patches
this year, both the same land in the
same field, and the same amount of
fertilizer per acre. l cultivated six
acres under the instructions of your
G. H. Afford and obtained five bales
weighing an average of $40 pounds.
Four acres worked according to the
old methods produced one bale
weighing 445 pounds.
"W. A. Fife cultivated twelve acres
according to government instruc-
tions and obtained $3.50 pounds OF
lint. Two hundred acres on his plan
tation cultivated by old methods
produced fifteen bales.
&C. McMurchy cultivated five acres
by the government instructions and
obtained $500 pounds of seed cot.
ton. Twelve acres on his farm cul.
tivated by the old method produced
835 pounds of lint"
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GREAT RECORD FOR L & n.
Earnings Will Justify Is Per Cent
Dividend. 1t Is Said.

New York.-A new high record
for net earnings will be made by the
Louisville and Nashville this year.
The surplus earnings will be sum-
cient to Justify a Is per cent divi-
dend. nj three months this road,
which has been showing remarkable
recuperative powers ever since 1t be-
came necessary to take eognizance
of the public conditions by limiting
operating expenses more closely, has
reported total net earnings OF s4s-
41O.267. At this point last year the
net amounted to $S,665,292, three
quarters of a million less, and In
1907 the total was s1,1s4.416 less.
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Federal Court In Session.

Three days later than usual owing
to various conflicting circumstances,
Judge H. G. Niles, United States dis
trict Judge, convened the regular fall
term of Federal Court at Jackson.
The courtroom and adjacent corri-
dors and roomD were filed to over
flowing with humanity. the bulk Of
them witnesses and veniremen, from
which latter class but little time
was consumed in selecting a grand
jury composed to twenty-three cfti-
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state Fair was Great Success.

All conditions have broken right
and have happened favorable to the
success of this years state exposi-
ton, and the chief factor has been
the set fair weather which has pre-
vailed. OF course. the fact that Dan
Patch and Minor Heir, the confer
ence of supervisors from over the
state and President Taft were there
during the season as leading features
and head-liners has drawn the crowds
are essential to the success of such an
exposition.
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TRIES no CHEAT MOOSE.
DIR. Elliott Takes Poison--Was to
Be Hanged Today.

La Grange, Ga.-Dr. Judd NJ. Ell
lott. who was sentenced to pay the
death penalty on the gallows, at
tempted suicide here by taking nine
grains of mercury in tablet form. The
condemned man was found in an un-
conscious condition in his Gel. It was
at nrst thought he was dead, but al
ter physicians were hurried to the
jaiI he was restored to consciousness
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, Come to Confederate Reunion.

General Order No. so:
The attention of all Confederate
veterans who anticipate visiting the
city of Vicksburg on the occasion of
the Reunion of the United Confeder-
ate Veterans on Nov. IL and II, are
reminded of the fact that arrange
ments have been made with all of
the railroads in the State to sell
round-trip tickets for the occasion
at one fare plus 25 cents. Tickets on
sale Nov. 10, II and IL, good for
return on the 18th inst. but not later
than midnight of said date. All who
anticipate making the trip should at
once interview their respective ticket
agent and find out if he has the nee
essary instructions on file, if not that
he may have the time to communi-
cate with his official head by wire.
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TENsAs Delta LAND co.
Suit Involves Land to The Amount
Of a Million Dollars.

Suit Involves Land to The Amount
of a Million Dollars.
New Orleans. was brought
in the state District court here
against the Tensas Delta Land Com
pany, the petitioner being the state
of Louisiana. The suit involves the
title to land in northern Louisiana
valued at upwards of million dol
lars. 1t is alleged in the petition
that the Tensas Basin Board praeti-
cally gave to the Tensas Delta Land
Company about 100000 acres of
state land, Disgusting the donation
as a sale. The Suit follows re-
cent investigation by the state Off
cials which caused quite a sensa-
tfon.
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REDUCE RATE 8 CENTS.
Eastern Trunk Line RAILROADS Up II
Arms.

New York.-The Eastern trunk
line railroads decided to reduce the
rate on sugar from this city to St.
Louis and Mississippi river points
eight cents a hundred pounds. The
new rate, which will become effective
Dec. 20, will be twenty cents hum
dred pounds, instead of twenty-eight
as at present It will not apply to
intermediate points between here and
ST. Louis.
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ROOSEVELT STORY DENIED.
Last Heard From Nothing Unusual
Had Then Happened.

Entebbe, Uganda.-The rumors
that harm has come to Col. Roosevelt
may be denied with assurance. The
last word from the party came out
that nothing unusual had occurred.
Roosevelt was in excellent health
Oct. %, and news. of the party re-
ceived on Oct. 80 reported all well. A
letter dated Nov. 8 has been received
from the party, who at the time the
message was sent, were on the Guas
Ingishu plateau. The letter made no
mention at all of Col. Roosevelt. If
any of the party is sick, we, the
nearest medical help, have received
no news of such sickness"
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HIGH sCHOLL STUDENTS WIN.

Cleveland.-A strike Of 500 girl
and boy students of the West High
school in this city has already forced
the school board to recommend the
abolishment of the lunchroom con-
cession at the school. The board OF
education has promised to furnish
wholesome meals in the future.
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sa~-~s~-n-ruu-nu-u-'-sas'-a
"A MONSTER PIE
President Taft's Thanksgiving Gift
From Strikers.

New York.-President Taft, who
has been partaking of all kinds Of
new and strange dishes on his tour
and smiling as if he liked them, has
another ordeal before him. The Pie
Salesmen's Union, whose members
are on strike with the pie bakers, de-
cided to make the President a
Thanksgiving Day present Of mon
ster union hince pie, the largest and
best eyer baked. -
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BOLD DAYLIGHT ROBBERY. /,

Cashier Sandbagged and $15s56O
Stolen in Station.
Niagara Falls, OntaTio.-William
Dohson. cashier of the Canadian Ex-
press Company, was sandbagged here
In the company's Office at the Grand
Trunk station and package con-
tanning $15,560 taken from him by
two men. The robbery was commit
ed in broad daylight, with score of
the station employees within twen-
ty feet of the Office.
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MYSTERIOUS HOTEL DEATH.
Wealthy Nashville Man Dies Sud
denly in Colorado.

Colorado Springs, Coi.-Apparent-
" mysterious circumstances con-
nected with the death in a local ho-
tel of James Cox, Jr., of Nashville,
Tenn, have caused the police to in
vestigate. A woman is being held
until the cause of Cox's death can be
ascertained. The woman said she had
given Cox a teaspoonful of medicine
on the advice of a bell boy.
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sPANIARDs no MEET TRIBEsMEN
Infanto Carlos seizes Important
Position.

Melilla.-The avance guard OF six
.een thousand Spanish troops unoer
the Infanto Carlos of Bour,
which began an advance over the
BENZ Sicar territory seized the i'm
portant strategic point at Hidim.
The point was seized without firing
a shot. the Moors making a hasty re-
treat. A squadron of the kings
regiment, however, had an engage
ment with the tribesmen and, in a
brilliant charge several officers were
killed.
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Tots Play Physician and Patient.

Two little tots, aged 8 and 5 years
children of prominent parents at
Gulfport decided during a short alb
sence of their mother to play physi-
clan and patient. This drama being
agreed upon, the boy, the younger OF
the two, actin9 in the role of physi-
clan, proceeded TO get his mothers s
pill box from the family medicine
chest and to administer one of them
to his patient, who had gone to bed.
Not making a satisfactory improve
ment, the young doctor gave another
in a few minutes, and still nothing
no change for the better, gave anoth-
er. This process continued until the
box was emptied, there having been
five pills in all administered. Just
after the last pill was given the moth
er of the children came upon the
scene, and a physician of the ole
school was hastily summoned, and
his timely arrival prevented a seri
GUS elimination from the drug the
child had SO freely taken.
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HONDURAS NOT HELPING.
Guatemala Also Rrefrains From
MeddIing.

Washington.-Assurances OF
most solemn character we're given
Secretary Knox that honduras is not
helping President Zelaya and that
Guatemala would not think Of sucn
a dastardly thing as aiding and abett-
ing Juan ]. Estrada, the leader OF
the Nicaraguan revolution.
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The Pike County Lumber Com
pany asks for a charter for fifty
years, with capital stock of $780,
600 of shares of the par value of
500 each The domicile of the
company is named as Lexie, Miss, a
station on the New Orleans Great
Northern Railroad, four miles south
of Tylertown, and they have acquired
the ohldings of the Edwards Hines
Lumber Company in this section and
viii at once install $4,000 mill
plant at Lexie and begin active opera
tion as soon as possible.
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Game Abundant for Huhtsmen.

Since the hunting season opened
in Pike county on the first local
sportsmen have been bagging all the
game allowed by the laws without
difficulty. The watchfulness of the
game wardens in this end of the
county has so protected it that there
is no scarcity of squirrels and quail,
and some wild ducks and turkey have
been reported from the swamps to
the south.
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NEW GOVERNOR OF PHILIPPINES.
w. Cameron Forbes Appointed 60 |
High Position.

ETIgn POSITION.
Washington, .. CIV. Cameron
Forbes, vice governor general Of the
Philippines, has been named by Pres
ident Taft as governor general to
succeed the present governor. general,
James Smith, VINO resigned
Mr.. Forbes has been acting for sew
eral months as governor general In
the absence of Mr.. Smith. The man
ner in which he administered the du-
ties of his difficult position won for
him the admiration Of the president
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Franchise Granted Cumberland.

Franchise Granted Cumberland.
A franchise was granted to the
Cumberland Telephone Company at
Tylertown to construct and operate
in the town telephone exchange and
telegraph and telephone lines. The
only condition imposed by the ordin-
ance is that the permission so grant
ed shall be exercised within one
year from the date Of its grant.
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MfE. sTETNHEIL FAINTs.

Woman Unnerved By Ordeal IN
French Court.
Paris.-After having withstood
for nearly three days merciless ex-
animation at the hands Of the pre-
siding judge of Court Of Assizes,
where she is being tried on charge
of numbering her husband and her
stepmother, the iron nerves Of Nine.
Marguerite Steinheil gave way and
she was led from the witness stand
in a state of utter collapse.
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Cotton Sales Ahead of Last Year.

Up to Nov. Tylertown had bought
about 3,1O0 bales of cotton. This
is far ahead of last year, and the
merchants hope to reach the 10000
mark before the season is finished.
Cotton seed has also been marketed
at lively rate.
The committee appointed by the
Natchez Chamber to raise the $751;
600 capital stock for the meat-pack-
ing plant met and prepared its plans
to raise the stock:
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zens Of the United States, including
two negroes.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-09-10

An Ordinance OF the City OF Black
foot, providing for the construction OF
cement sidewalks within the corpor-.
ate limits, OF the City Of Blackfoot.
County OF Bingham, State OF Idaho,
around and on the four sides OF
Block No. "A, OF Shillings addition to
the City of Blackfoot, and providing
for the laying of a cement sidewalk
along the streets entirely around said
Block "A, and estimating the cost
thereof, and providing for special
assessment to pay for the same against
the property fronting and abutting on
said proposed sidewalk, and fixing
the time in which the persons effected
thereby may file protests.
Be 1t Ordained by the Mayor and
City Council of the City of Blackfoos.
I Sec. 1. That 1t is for the best In
terests OF the City of Blackfoot and
its people and for the public good,
that sidewalks be constructed within
the COZ porate limi.s of the City ~
Blackfoot as follows:
Beginning at the northwest corner
of Block No. "A. at the intersec-
ton OF East Main and judicial streets,
running thence In an easterly direc-
ton to the northeast corner OF said
Block "A, to the intersection of Judi
cial street and Shilling avenue; rum
ming thence in southerly direction
along the east side Of said block TO
the southeast corner thereof. at the
intersection Of Shilling avenue and
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Court street: running thence In a
westerly direction along said Block
A, to the southwest corner thereof,
at the intersection OF Court and East
Main streets; running thence In a
northerly direction along said Block
"A, to the northwest corner thereof
the place of beginning,
Sec. g That said sidewalks shall
be constructed on a uniform grade
and shall be constructed under the
direction and supervision of the street
commissioner.
Sec. 8. That said sidewalks to
be built and constructed as aforesaid,
shall be constructed of concrete and
cement not less than four inches
thick as follows: 3 u inches of con-
crete mixed parts clean wash gravel
to one part of good cement of any
good brand with covering or top
coat n inch thick of two parts clean
sharp sand to one part Of good ce-
ment, said sidewalks to have a fall
of VI inch from property line side
to street, and shall be five feet wide.
A curb shall be marked on each side
four inches wide and the same shall
be blocked off in a manner to con-
form to the width of the same, and
shall be put down In sections OF not
more than twelve running feet of
said walk.
Sec. A. That the estimated cost Of
the construction of said sidewalks
to be built upon and along the above
QfnrAC1ld
seventy-five cents per running foot
of said sidewalk after the same is
graded ready for the laying of said
sidewalks, and the cost of the con-
struction of said sidewalks to be built
as aforesaid shall be assessed against
the property abutting on said streets
and adjoining said proposed side
walks on said streets.
Sec. s. That all parties interested
or effected by this ordinance shall
have until the 27th day of September
1909, to file protests against the con-
struction of the sidewalks herein pro-
vided for said protests to be filed
in the Office of, and with the City
Clerk.
Sec. 6. The City Clerk is hereby
directed to have this ordinance pub
lished in the Idaho Republican the
official newspaper Of said City, in
two consecutive issues thereof.
Passed, approved and adopted this
Sth day Of September, 1909.
R. N. WEST,
Mayor.
Attest: r. ]. johnson. Clerk. 1879
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Final Proof.)

/, A. E. Hall Of Blackfoot, Idaho,
who made entry No. 374. under the
provisions of an act of the legisla-
ture of the State of Idaho, common
ly known as the Carey Act" APP
proved March 2nd, 1899, which en-
braces 8 w n of section "a, Of town.
ship s., of range 33 e. B. M, do
hereby give notice Of my intention to
make final proof to establish my claim
to the land above described, and that
expect to prove that have resided
on, reclaimed and cultivated said land
as required by law, before Fred w.
Crockett, representative of State Land
Board at Blackfoot. Idaho on 28th
OF September, 1909, by two of the fol-
lowing witnesses.
A. z. HALL,
Entryman.
p. w. Powers cf Blackfoot. Idaho;
T. r. Jones of Blackf0ot, Idaho; John
c. Walter OF Blackfoot. Idaho; r. p.
Cope Of Blackfoot. Idaho. 10-5