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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-10
A NEW PLAN FOR HARVARD.
Tentative Scheme for Providing
Freshman Dormitory for 700.

(NeW YORK Evening SUM-
Cambridge, Mass PLANS for the
grouping OF all Harvard freshmen in
one big dormitory, according to the
ideas advanced by President Lowell
in his inaugural address. are stlll in
tentative condition The officers Of
the university have in mind the con
siruclion OF very large building or
group OF buildings. which will be com
plete In themselves with sleeping
rooms. study and dining rooms. ac
cpmmOdating from GOO TO zoo stu
dents. For such d building about !
million dollars will be required
AT present the university is pos
sessed Of a fund for the construction
Of an ordinary sized dormitory, but
II Is moi thought that any will be
built .until sufficient money has ac-
cumulated to allow the full plan to
be carried into effect.
The Smith fund, left to Harvard a
few yea ago. provided for the con.
struetion OF three dOrmitories 10 cost
sl50,00O each. but as this fund IS still
subject to annuities the amount
named will moi be available for three
or four years. University Objects
say thai there is no prospect that
plans will be in shape to start work
on the new building before three
years. No site has been selected
though location between Massachu.
sets avenue and the ver Is thought
TO be most favorable Most OF this
property between De Wolf and Boyls-
ton streets belongs 70 a group Of Har-
ward graduates known as the Riger-
side associates. and II Is understood
that they are holding II until the uni
yersity shall be able to use It.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-10
TOM JENKINS

largest ever mounted on a battle ship
anywhere In the world, but they have
g eater protection than any gun on
a ship possibly could have
Aside from these there Is battery
cf fourteen guns each on each OF the
other Islands al the entrance, Core
gidor and Cayalho. as well as several
batteries OF IL and 10 inch guns and
several mortar batteries All Che ap-
proaches are mined.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-10

A spraIned ankle will usually dis.
able the injured person for three or
four weeks This Is due to lack Of
proper treatment. When Chamber
lains Liniment is applied a cure may
be effected in three or four days
This liniment Is one Of the best and
most remarkable preparations in use
Sold by all dealers.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-10
ANOTHER Dc iRM0ND TRAGEDY

San Besnafdlno. Cal. Dec. ~
+ A De Almond. cousin Of The late
Congressman DE- Almond OF Missouri.
was electroouted in his place Of bus
mess last night when tuning on an
incandeseent light
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-10

A man often thinks Il am no an.
gel but am a pretty good sort of q
fellow after all
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-19
Mother Sees One Son Stay An
other.

St. Joseph, Mo-, Aug.-Fighting
with her own sons, Jasper and Clar-
ence, in an effort to prevent them
from wounding each other following
a heated quarrel, Mrs. Albert Lindsay
and her daughter, exhausted by their
efforts, saw Jasper seize a butcher
knife and chase his brother up a fight
OF steps, where, Selling a shotgun,
Clarence fired.
The charge entered Jasper's eye
and caused almost instant death. A
coroner's jury acquitted the younger
boy.
Jasper Lindsay is said to have start
ed an argument which rapidly devel-
oped into a bitter quarrel. After a
set-to with fists, in which the elder
brother was bested, he swore that he
would kill his brother.
Mrs. Lindsay struggled to stop him
as he reached for the knife. Her
daughter threw her arms around
Jasper's neck and pleaded with him
to think of what he was trying to do.
The struggle lasted for several min
utes, during which Clarence Lindsay
looked on.
Then as he saw his brother free
himself and seize the knife he fled.
Unaware of the fact that his shot had
laid Jasper low, Clarence leaped from
a two-story widow, and, dragging the
shotgun with him, ran two miles to
police headquarters and gave himself
up, saying that he had wounded Jas
per.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-19
FABULOUS RICHES
FOR THE FARMER.
Cereals This Year Will Be Worth
More Than Three Billion
Dollars.

Chicago, Aug.-Riches almost be-
yond compare will be brought to the
farmers and business men of the
United States this year through the
bountiful crops which are forecasted
in the governments official report for
August, which was issued at O'Clock
Tuesday afternoon.
An indicated winter wheat yield OF
432, $50, 900 bushels finally compared
with 437, 908,00 bushels finally esti-
mated last year; an average condition
of winter wheat 90.3, against 90.l a
year ago; corn S4.4, against S2.5;
spring wheat GIG against SOL, and
oats S5.5 against 65.8, summarizes
Tuesdays crop report.
When the governments system of
points in translated into bushels, the
mind is better able to grasp the en-
ormity of the crop, other than winter
wheat, which is forecasted in Tues
days report.
Experts do not agree on the basis
from which to make this calculation,
but striking a mean from among the
tables offered, the report indicates a
yield of 2S3, 100000 bushels of spring
wheat, 1854, 600, 600 bushels of corn,
9S7, 100000 bushels of oats, 80, 600, :
600 bushels of rye and 100000
bushels of barley.
. Granting for the sake of the stat
iStician's peace of mind that all this
grain would rank up to contract stand
ards set by the Chicago board of trade
and that it will be marketed at Tues
days closing prices on the board
would be composed of the following
parts: $7l7,9O3,4 l9 worth of wheat,
81, 1874, 252, 500 worth of corn, $780,
245,0O0 worth of oats, 500, 800, 900
worth of rye and $l07, 100000 worth
of barley. The total crop yield would
be 4,875, 800, 600 bushels and its value,
SO, 1902, 100000.
The production of gold in the Un-
tied States in 1905, the last year for
which official figures are available,
was $94, 373,SOO and the silver $685.
256, 400 making total value Of $780,
630,3OO. The worlds products for
the same year was $500, 342, 100 of
gold and l4,3O9, 200 Of silver, a
total of 1914, 651, 800.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-19
a SHOT IN KY. ELECTION.
Rich Merchant killed and Three
Others Wounded.

Lexington, KY, Aug. 10.-During
a school election in the Flat Lick Pre-
cinct in Knox county, eight miles
from Barbourville last Saturday, Sam
Farley, wealty merchant, was kill,
ed and William Barge, William Smith
and John Henson perhaps fatally
wounded.
VIM. Baker and Henry Slusher
were candidates for school trustee.
Each headed large faction, and
Farley and Barge, officers of the
election, objected to Henson acting
as challenger for Baker. Smith and
Henson demanded a fair show for
their candidate and, it is said, threats
were made that unless Baker was
given an equal division of the offices
in the booth bloodshed would follow.
Hardly had the demand been made
when the shooting began and Farley
fell dead in the booth. The fight
continued outside, with the result
that the other three were wounded.
is not known who killed Farley,
but warrants have been issued for all
OF the wounded men and several 9TH
ers alleged to have participated in the
battle. Officers from BarbourviIle
fear to 60 to the scene Of the trouble,
because further bloodshed has been
threatened.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-19
Organize Now.

Unquestionably a majority of the
democratic and republican parties
favor the income tax. If proof on
this point were necessary it is found
in the fact that a republican congress
has been forced by public sentiment
to submit an income tax amendment.
It is no secret, however, that the re-
publican, leaders who reluctantly
yielded to this necessity expect that
the proposed amendment will fail by
reason of having sufficient num-
Der of states.
The clause in the federal constitu-
ton providing for the method OF
amendment is as follows:
"The congress, whenever two
thirds of both houses shall deem it
necessary, shall propose amendments
to this constitution or, on the applica-
ton Of the legislatures of two thirds
of the several states, shall call a con-
vention for proposing amendments,
which in either case, shall be valid to
all intents and purposes, as part OF
this constitution, when ratified by
the legislatures of three-fourths of the
several states, or by conventions of
three-fourths thereof, as the one or
the other mode of ratification may be
proposed by the congress; provided,
that no amendment which may be
made prior to the year one thousand
eight hundred and eight shall in any
manner affect the first article; and
that no state, without its consent,
shall be deprived of its equal suffrage
in the senate"
The fight for the income tax has
only begun. The subject should,
therefore, be studied by every citizen.
1t would be well if, in every precinct
in the United States, men and women
should congregate for the purpose of
informing themselves upon this i'm
portant topic. -Commoner.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-19
BLACK HELD FOUR CAPTIVE
Attacks and Stays White Girl
and Self.

Ironton, o., Aug.-After assaulting
Ella WEIGH, 10 years old, Sunday
morning, Charles Davis, negro, held
the entire family prisoners at the
muzzle of a shotgun until Tuesday
morning, when, confronted by the
police, he killed his victim and COM
mitted suicide. The assault and
murder both were unbelievably in
human.
The mother and two of her chill
dren were absent from home when
the assault occurred Sunday morn
ing.
The girl, Ella, was alone in the
house when Davis entered. The
mother, who had been absent, re-
turned and discovered what had hap
pened. Davis seized a shotgun and
told Mrs. WEIGH he would kill her.
The other children likewise, he over
awed with his threats of death.
Throughout Sunday, Sunday night,
Monday and until early Tuesday
morning he kept the entire family i'm
prisoned in their own home.
Tuesday morning Davis thought he
detected Mrs. WEIGH whispering
something to her son, who is 16years
old. The negro leveled the shotgun
at her. The son sprang between
them and knocked up the gun.
Mrs. WEIGH leaped through a rear
window and ran to the home of a
neighbor, asking him to call the
police.
Davis saw the policemen coming
and shot rang out. When the door
was opened the girls body lay before
the rescuers.
DAVIS, seeing that escape was i'm
possible, slashed himself across the
throat and sank to the ground dying.
Triplets Born Near Garden City.
The indefinite but authorized re.
port reached this office Of the birth
Of triplets at the home of a farmer
near Garden City. The parents are
Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley, residing three
miles west Of that place. All three
Of the babies were living when born,
but the weakest died an hour after
birth. The other two babies and the
mother are getting along nicely. The
triplets weighed four pounds each.--
| Cass County Dem.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-19
His Home Was on Fire.

H. E. Errett was surprised when
he reached home to learn that his
house had a narrow escape from be-
ing destroyed by fire. The roof
caught fire, and fortunately Mr.. Vose
who happened to be passing, discov-
cred the flames and without saying a
word jumped over the fence, climb.
ed up on the house and put out the
flames Had the flames been left
alone Z serious fire would have oc-
CURED. Nevada Mall.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-19
STATE RECEIVES $12s.O25.
Missouri Pacific Pays Large Fee
for Recognizing.

Jefferson City, NO., Aug. 9-Ar-
ticles of consolidation and increase of
capital stock on the part Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific and all of its lines in
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska were
filed with the Secretary of State to-
day. The total capitalization is $24O,-
100000, which really represents the
capital stock of all the companies
combined.
The papers were filed with the
Secretary of State this morning and
before noon charter had been issued
covering the consolidated lines. The
corporation tax on this consolidation
was $3.50, OBS, the heaviest single item
of the kind ever paid into the State
Treasury.
The Missouri Pacific was originally
incorporated in this state, and has al
ways been known as a domestic cor
pOration.
The consolidation papers were filed
by Henry c. Herbel, of the legal de-
partment of the Missouri Pacific in
st. Louis. The tax the company paid
into the State Treasury will prove a
boon to the revenue fund, which last
Saturday was down to little more
than $64, 400. All the railroad tax
goes into the revenue fund and will
tend to raise the situation with the
Treasurer until other taxes COM
mence coming in.
The Butler Times has recently add
ed a Babcock Standard" press, an
Eclipse newspaper folder and a lot Of
new type and other material. 1t has
also moved its newspaper factory to
the ground floor and now has a con-
yenient and up-to=date print-shop
throughout. Since becoming thus
equipped, the paper also shows it.
Its appearance Is much improved,
and Bro. Allen may well feel proud.
The Times, always good paper, like
wine Is said to do, improves with
age. Review.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-19

this purpose, and provision was made
for the necessary local support, so
that the roads were to become a
charge upon the state at large, upon
the county as a unit, and upon the
local community all combined. To
insure the wise expenditure of these
vast sums of money, Mr.. Evans
plan provided for the creation of the
office of state highway engineer, and
of competent county engineer in
each county, which was adopted by
the Legislature and has been effective
for two years. The result is that
each county court has the advice and
counsel of state engineer in the loca-
ton of its roads, the establishment of
grades, in the designing and construc-
ton of its bridges and culverts, which
is saving the State thousands of dol
lars annually and has at the same
time competent county engineer to
supervise this work and carry into
effect the advice and suggestions of
the state department.
While it is too much to give Mr..
Ellis the whole credit for the drag
system of handling dirt roads, it is
true that he, as secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture, brought Mr..
King, the inventor of this system, be-
fore the public, by having him attend
farmers institutes all over the State,
and thus brought this method to the
attention of the people and was
largely instrumental in their adopting
il.
Mr.. Ellis is a man of broad vision
and looks far into the future, consid-
ers always the welfare of all the peo-
pie of the State. While himself
farmer and primarily interested in the
agricultural classes, and during his
whole career has been an ardent sup
porter of the College of Agriculture,
and has contributed in a large way to
securing appropriations for its better
ment and improvement, he has at the
same time been equally interested in
the University as a whole, with which
the College of Agriculture is connect
ed, as the cap sheaf of the States
educational system. Nothing could
better express Mr.. Ellis view in this
matter than a statement he made last
winter in an address to the Agricul-
tural students in discussing the out
look for appropriations from the leg
islature, when he said: 1T seems to
be an opportune time to secure large
appropriations for the Agricultural
College and the State Board Of Agri-
culture, but the funds of the State are
limited, and large increases to these
departments must inevitably mean
reduced support for other depart
ments af the University, and for my
part, while interested above all in the
agricultural side of this institution,
believe in a well-balanced Univer-
sity as a whole, and would not wish
to see one department thrive at the
expense of another"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-06
FRANK q. CARPENTER TELLS OF
THE WONDERFUL WORK OF
OUR MISSIONARIES
e

One Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Converts Native Congregation
ana Its Twelve Hundred LENDERS
How Money Talks-HIbse Study
Cla~ses-A Woman who Walks
Ftrt> Miles u Week to Church
Til =. NJ. G.. a. and Its New Dui:@-
ing Given by ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
c. MISSIONS and Their fi.ou5 IA
tiGit~.
(Co }.ht. 1909. by Frank q. Car
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-06
How Money Talks.

After this hymn was sung fifty men
ana women were baptized and taken
INTO the church They were all full
gnoWn ana the sexes were about equal
~ divided. They set on the floor dur
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-28
No Exru.r, Accented.

French officials are said To be par
Icularly strict in their discipline OF
tourists A lately returned traveller
tells several more or less apocryphal
stories 60 illustrate the state of affairs.
An American lost his footing. slipped
down an cmbankmeut and fen into "a
small. shallow pond. AS he scrambled.
dripping, mp the embaukmcnt to the
footpath he was confronted 10y an
arm of the law.
Your name? Your address," do
manded this mcompromising person
Notebook I'm hand.
but | fell" began the astonished
American. II only
The man waved his arm. at Is for,
5iddcn TO battle in this lake" he said
armly. 81 am not here TO listen to
sxtenuating circumstances"
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-28

.ee Stref Nocth t6 degrees Is
minutes West So feet to stake IN
the said Inc NJ the Southwest cor
uer ~ a 10. owned by J.H Thompson;
thence North g. degrees East (pass
mig nv the North side OF a black
-re. married. an lo Noru sid,
as a line trce) SO feet to stake
thence South l6 degrees 10 minutes
l. 81 - ieet e. stake NJ the North
cast cor. r Cf said lot conveyed to
y. Scan,end; thence with the Nort'
H0e % said lc, South s. degrees
West set et &. tre nlac, or WFGlN-
4 v.G #.u,d. f.r CAsUIN
'. '0 30 al.
n - TN- T1
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-28

A correspondent wrote 10 n ncwSp,
ocr 10 ask the author Of this couplct.
How mu.h mo fool who has been sent &c
l,omo
ENcols tha fool who has boon kept Ai
l.mo'
Tie had barely written wien he an.
'wcrcd his own query, ha ing found
the source Of the lines ard how ho had
them. They are from Cow
ocr's Progress Of Error and read:
How much % Ounce that hath. been sen,
to roam
Exccle a Ounce that hath hecn Kept az
homc'
We arc not sure but tNlt. ae la fro
lucntly Tive case with Interpretations
the popular version is better than thp
Doets-Ncw York Tr urc
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-28
MOVEMENT FOR
MORE SCHOOLS

The department OF free schools
OF West Virginia ha. inapgura;,d a
movement for mor, Au1 better Ii.
SCHOOLS Bdleun No. on the ques-
.ou II whether or ao' h.e4 schoo.
education paws. tus issued contains
iny following.
IL THESE lays every hing les I.s.-
ad br '-. g"e- ON Does 8. Yay
re help ausWe- .lis one. zion with
.fereur. 70 81, n-. -ch,o e.,
IalioWig fa..s are submitted
The average earning VI aa u,l.
ucated man are estimated 10 b..
$3.50 per day for 500 day- IN ...
year. In 40 years this vii. amo mt
10 $4,000 The 2yey-- .ltaIngs
Of an educated man p~e u.,.
20 be $1,000 n. D. lr SD r.u,
this will amount ta Sla0.u MOI.
makes din re.o. or ;s..u.0 m o..
vor Of the educated uar. % $40 q.
each day spent in sch .m
primary grade through t.c hir.
school
An eminent authority after .r.
fu, study OF the latest United State
census returns, gives his conclus. oas
as follows
irst, that an uneducatr d chna la.
one cha C ont o. $50 600 Of attain
ing distinction as factor in ;ho pro-.
gress of the age.
Second, that common school cd
cation will increase his chances near
ly four times.
Third, that a high school 'ra'n'na
VIII increase the chances o. The com
mon schoo bo twcnty-threo time
giving him eighty-seven times the
.chance of the uneducated.
That a high school education pays
financially can easily be seen from
the above but there are more i'm
portant considerations which canno.
be measured in dollars and cents
1t pays in happiness. Wealth and
standing in society cannot be com
pared 10 it. a high school educa
uon enables man to be more use
full to himself and to his fellow men
lie can do more things and do them
better. He is therefore a more val
liable member of society The more
genuinely useful man is. the hap
pier he is.
1t pays in character. The real
cHar'cter-forminG period is between
The ages OF ofurteen and eighteen
Years. The habits and ideals which
shape and mould character are ac-
CURED in this period and few men
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-28
Nc-'cr OF TRUSTEES SALE.

p, r'r'Io or tho authority vested
m * ay iced oil must bearing
da' on ire 26,h day of september.
1907, executed b. j. II. ShuIlebar-
ger &" b undcrs gued -. NJ. Easley
1a N .o o cure TO w r Glib
u ID. a'u.lr uf s., u.. 30
t. .H q. NIyo1 t.d ,u.I.d .u ,.,
c ERIK Office Of the County Court OF
Mercer County. West Virginia. IA
Trust Deed Book No. 16. page 1879
and deia1it having been made in IN,
payment OF said notes. 63 OF them
for $25.90 each now being due and
unpaid with their interest from IN,
date Of said deed, and being re-
puirod 30 to do by the said w. r.
Gibson, the holder and owner OF said
notes the undersigned will offer for
sale at public auction to the high
est bidd ar. in front OF the Office Of
d NJ. Easley, in the said City OF
Rluefeld. I'm said County on the 4th
iay OF January, 1910, at 10 O'Clock
q. m the following described real
estate in said City
BEGINNING IT a stake i'm tho
East line o. Reese street AT the
Northwest corner Of lot convey d to
\. Scanllna by T t. Brown md
others; thence with said lin of
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-28
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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-28
sUccrseFJL ENreRrA,Nn sn-

The entertainment at the y rs-
DcTf's- church loet hight was Wen
attended and a success in every way.
There was a liberal fee will Offering
The entertainment was prompted
Mrs. Akers and its success is largely
due "a her efforts.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-28

Xmas Goods for every BODY q
THE HAWLEY MDSW r.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-07-16

Mr., +. w. Vincent was called.
home Monday on account of the i'll
ness OF his baby Mr.. Vincent Il
working on street work in Dallas,
having his team there. He says the
man he is working for has three
crews and in the bunch he ts with
there are fifty men from around
Midlothian and that the other two
have possibly as many more from
this place. Wyatt and Venus. You
can go into the valley west of Mid
lothian and it is like war times, the
women and children are at home
looking after the place and the men
are all gone, trying to make a living
Midlothian Argus.