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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-05
Pine Tap Makers
on the Increase
in the South
Passage Of Prohibition Laws in that
Section Incentive to Illicit
Stills.

WASHINGTON April 4-officlals OF the
department are OF the opinion that the
temperance movement which has taken
such strong hold of certain sections OF
the country. particularly in the south. has
resulted in increasing the number OF viola
tions Of the internal revenue laws IN the
distillation of Illicit whisky. The records
up to the first of last year did not show
any marked increase In the number Of
Illicit distilleries destroyed OF in the num-
ber Of arrests made. but recent reports
clearly indicate that In many Of the south
ern states. especially IN Alabama, Georgia
and North Carolina. there has been greater
activity displayed on the part of the law
less mountain elements. who always have
been troublesome to the revenue agents,
than In many years.
This is accounted for by the fact that
the legislatures Of these three states have
enacted laws prohibiting distilleries from
operating within their borders. In Alabama
the law went into effect on July 1. 1903.
in Georgia on January 1. 1908, and in North
Carolina on January /, 1909. Many of the
legitimate distilleries have moved their
plants to Florida and other border states,
where the inhibition does not exist. Whisky
being more difficult to get in a legitimate
way. has greatly increased the profits of
Illicit distilling. with the result that the
activities of the internal revenue bureau
at this time are largely directed toward
the mountain sections of these three states.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-05
General Booth
Sends Message
Pursue Honor of God and Welfare
of the Poor if They Would
Enjoy Life.

NEW YORK. April 4-General william
Booth, whose eightieth birthday is to be
celebrated throughout the world next Sat
urday, has replied 20 the scores Of cDn-
gratulatory kilograms already received
from state governors. mayors of leading
American cities and other men OF prom
nenee, with message to the American
people The message given out at the
American headquarters of the Salvation
Army here today. reads as follows:
After spending eighty years in this world
with almost countless opportunities for OBJ
serving the purposes for which men gem
orally live, and the dlsappointments they
commonly suffer, II seems reasonable
that ! should have formed some opinion as
10 the course they ought to follow II they
are to have any real success.
So, on this. my eightieth birthday / tell
the American people this; IL they will
seek the honor Of God. the reign of right
eousness, the welfare of the friendless poor
the riches that endure forever, with the
same self-sacrificlng activity with which
they seek wealth and pleasures of this
world, they will have a good chance of
finding that life of satisfaction which now
so often eludes them, and OF building up a
pattern nation for the world to initiate.
WILLIAM BOOTH. General
Despite his old age, General Booth shows
no abatement of his activity as teacher
public speaker and organizer.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-05
WARRANTS ARE OUT FOR MANY
Charges of Illegal Registration for
Municipal Election In
ST. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, April 4-On Tuesday a new
set OF municipal officers will be elected
in st. Louis and tomorrow morning the
police department will receive from Circuit
Attorney Jones more than 500 informations
which have been issued against falsely
registered names now on the poll books.
The election board furnished the names
to the circuit attorney and arrests are 70
be made n the names are voted.
At each voting place there will be at
least one policeman on duty and at many,
where II is believed fraud will be at
tempted. from two to six patrolmen and a
sergeant win be ready to make arrests and
prevent riots.
The campaign closed last night with the
democrats and republicans holding big
meetings. Secretary of Commerce and
Labor Nagei presided at the republican
meeting and Governor Hadley was the
principal speaker. He urged his partisans
TO vote for Frederick II. Kreismann, the
republican mayoralty nominee.
William p. Woerner heads the demo-
cratic ticket, and an active campaign has
been made in his behalf.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-05
TWO STORIES DO NOT TALLY
One Says Amount Involved In Com
troverny Il sixty Thousand,
Another sin Hundred.

WASHINGTON, April 4-Charged with
obtaining seo,oOo under false pretenses. while
engaged in business At Boise, Idaho. Roy
M. Wright. aged S. a railway postal clerk,
said 10 be q member OF a prominent Ken
lucky family, was arrested in this city
today al the request of the Boise suthori-
ties.
Wright. who claims 20 be a first cousin
10 Representative Langley OF Kentucky.
says the amount involved Is only 5000 He
has not learned the exact nature of the
charges. but he asserts that II was brought
about by a man from whom he obtained
goods valued at 500 TO be shipped to an
other party and for which he refused 10
pay because the parties 10 whom he
shipped the goods would not give him the
money He says he Is willing TO return
and stand trial, saying he would have re-
turned Voluntarily n he had known an In
oietment was out against him.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-05
STRUCTURAL STEEL ACTIVE
Demand in the Line Most Prominent
Feature of the Trade.
RAILROADS HEAVY BUYERS
On the other Hand They Are Holding
Back Orders for steel Rails In
Anticipation of Lower
Prices.

NEW YORK. April 4-Phe most promi-
nent features in the iron and steel industry
continue to be the activity in structural
Steel contracts for which have been placed
during the last week calling for 5000 tons
OF steel shapes, and orders pending for
10000 tons additional. 1900 tons being for
railroad bridges and tunnels The largest
railroad orders booked were II. 900 tons for
the Florida & East Coast railroad, 5000
tons for the Louisville g. Nashville, 2aOO
tons fcf the Chesapeake & Ohio and 2.5OO
tons for the Carolina. CIinehfield & Gulf
railroad. The principal building contract to
be closed is 1900 tons for the Curtis Pub
fishing company at Philadelphia. The most
important new inquiry is for 1880 tons for
the New York Edison Power company.
Record low prices are still being made for
fabricated steel shapes under continued ac-
tive and keen competition among fabricat-
ing shops and structural mills but Il Is
more difficult for manufacturers to obtain
concessions on plain material.
Orders and specifications for sheets and
tin plates have increased, permitting sheet
mills to operate about 90 per cent and tin
plate mills about 30 per cent of their ca
pacity. The steel wire season is waning
and active mill capacity is reduced from
7bh per cent to M per cent, but specifica-
tions received by the American Steel and
Wire company during March averaged 5000
tons.
Rails remained quiet. railroads withhold
ing large contracts in anticipation of lower
prices. bat mill orders during March ag-
gregated 10000 tons. The total operations
OF the steel corporations have been in
creased to "a per cent and independent
steel companies have slowly gained.
On the other hand. merchant iron fur
naces are preparing to bank or blow out
because active capacity is far beyond con-
sumptive requirements. More pressure TO
sell by producers north and south has
caused decline of 80 cents per ton. Ala
bama foundry iron has cropped to s1O5O
for No. at Birmingham, and northern
forge has sold at sH to pipe works. The
general situation is still unsettled and
trade spasmodic
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-05
Fire Destroys
Historic House
Washington Stopped There with
Braddock on the Expedition to
Fort Duquesne.

WINCHESTER. Va. April 4-Miss Vir-
ginia Carter, young daughter Of Reese b.
Carter, was burned to death in the fire
which destroyed their home today, yellow
House." at Rest. this county. Mr.. and
Mrs. Carter were badly burned in an effort
to save their daughter
yellow House" was more than 200 years
old and was the scene Of many notable
events during the revolutionary and civil
war times. General George washington
stopped there while on his way with Brad
dock to Fort Duquesne, and during the
conflict between the, states It was the home
of Mrs. Rachel Wright, whose information
to General Sheridan was Of such value to
the federal army during his valley cam
paign that congress voted her gold medal
in appreciation of her services. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-05

Is expressed in bulletin issued today by
the bureau Of labor which says mortality
from consumption among workers in dusty
trades is from . to times as great as the
general death rate from disease.
OF deaths from all causes among males
over IS years Of age in the United sta,e.
lAs per cent are from consumption. while
according to reliable figures the death rats
from the disease among men engaged IN
dusty occupations ranges from PAS ner
cent, from those eNt0sed to vegetahIo
fiber dust to $50 per cent, for those ex.
posed to metallic dust
The occupation showing the highest CON
sumption mortally was grinders, amone
whom ls.2 per cent OF all deaths were
from that disease.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-05
vERMILION ELEVATOR BURNS
Fire that Destroys 10000 Bushels of
Grain Was Evidently of In
cendiary Origin.

VERMILIoN, 8. D., April 4--(special
Teiesram)-rhe farmers elevator here.
filled with 10000 bushels of grain. burned
this morning The fire was evidently Of
an incendiary nature as large pile of
kindling had been placed under the ele-
vator and soaked with kerosene
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-05
OFFICIALS NIX IN POLITICS
Special Civil Service Commission
Reports on Investigation.
CLASSIFIED SERVICE IS CLEAR
Committee Cannot Say rs Much for
Others whose Position in Large
Measure Depend on PoIit-
ical Activity.

WASHINGTON, April A--The special
committee of the Civil Service commission
charged with investigating the political
activities of federal officials has made its
report, Following is summary of its
findings:
Reports of undue political activity on
the part of federal oiice-holders in the
press of the country were gathered to-
gether through the aid OF an efficient clip
ping bureau. Tbesk we're examined and
the persons meniio3ed IN them seers writ
ten to with requests for full information,
! correction or denial. The replies were care
fully inspected and the most important
of these cases were followed up by an
investigation by an assistant secretary OF
the league. on the spot, Final drafts of
our conclusions were submitted to all Of
fice-holders and political leaders who were
unfavorably involved.
Charges of coercion of office-holders by
the president to secure the nomination
of a particular candidate have been in
quired into, but evidence to sustain these
charges is wholly lacking. President Roose-
velt's appointment list for a considerable
period were, with his permission, examined
From these lists II would appear that
presidential appointments prior to the CON
vention were made in the usual manner
on the recommendation of senator's, con-
gressmen and others claiming the patron
age OF the offices involved
President Roosevelt took a decided sten
in advance toward checking the evils re-
sulting from the activity of office holders
by his order of June 3, 1907. amending the
civil service rules by forbidding employees
in the competitive service from taking
part in political management or n political
campaigns. This order was enforced in
the last campaign.
omcIaIs One I'm Ten.
The official roll OF delegates to the
republican national convention at Chicago
was compared with the latest government
blue book. It was found that of the dele
gates to the Chicago convention federal
office holders constituted one in ten and
of the delegations from the southern states
nearly one In three. and of some southern
states more than half.
These offioe- holders were political that
Is, outside OF the Jurisdiction of the civil
service act, and in most cases their APP
pointment was subject TO confirmation
by the United States senate.
The office-holders in the south practically
control the republican party organization
in their respective states and frequently
resort to unfair means in order to retain
their power.
Their support is a tremendous political
asset to any candidate for nomination. As
the southern democratic states have as
many votes in the republican national con-
vention as the republican states OF equal
population under ordinary circumstances
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-05
END OF SENSATIONAL TRIAL
Jerry johnson and wife Found Not
Guilty of RObbinE Safe at
DeadWOOd.

pEADWooD. 8. D., April L-After
sensational trial in the circuit court here
jury today acquitted Jerry johnson and
his wife of robbing . safe in a department
store here In broad daylight. johnson was
formerly politician In Denvs>
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-05
mexican attempts suicide.

CHICAGO, April 4.-lndalecio Alarcon, e.
years old, said TO be the son of well-to-
do plantation owner near Parral, Mexico
tried TO commit suicide today by stabbing
himself twelve times In his left side, cut
ting his throat, swallowing a mixture of
oarboiic acid and port wine and throwing
himself out of a third-story window. He
was found lying In an alley under his bed
room window. The physicians say he will
probably die from loss of blood.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-05

The little fellow
in business has to
sell on a close mar
gin of profit. He has
notthe capital to in
vest in big ads-so
he uses The Bee
want ads.
They are cheap-every body
reads thsm-lins for line and word
for word. The small merchant who
carries his want ad is the enter
prising fellow who has something
to sell and can sell at a small profit.
Watch the want ads II you want
your dollar to buy the most.
Have you read the want ads
yet, todayi
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-05

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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-05

Blr. koosevelt goes TO Africa.
SO does Buster Brown.
Go along with him in the Sun
day Bee.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-04-05
WEATHER FORECAST.

For Nebrasks-Rsin and cooler.
For lowa-Showers.
For weather report see page 3.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10
A FREE TRIP TO JACKSON FROM
BRANDON.

Attend the great annual Clearance
Sale of the S. ]. Johnson Co., which
is now going on. With each purchase
of $500 or more the S. ]. Johnson
Co will refund you round trip fare
from Brandon to Jackson and back,
In view of the fact that this firm is
offering High-Grade Merchandise a.
sacrifice prices, this is most lib
eral offer and every economical shop
per should take advantage of same.
Read their ad on another page of
this issue and remember the reliabil-
ity and motto of this firm, which is
square deal to all and nothing mis-
represented The S. ]. Johnson Co.
claims a saving Of from % to 50 per
cent ON all merchandise during this
great Clearance Sale.
Everything in every department
has been reduced.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10
Chauffeur Sent to Prison.

New York, June 8.--A sentence of
not less than seven years and not
more than twenty years in Sing
Sing Prison was imposed today upon
William Darra-sh7 chauffeur, whose
automobile ran down nd killed
Ingvaard Trimble of this city ON
March 81. Motions for a new trial
and arrests of Judgment were over
ruled. Ingvaard Trimble was 13
years of age and the son of r. j.
Trimble, formerly of Covington, KY.
Darrah was trying out" a car and
moving at fast rate of speed when
his machine struck the boy Leav
irg the boy lying in the street,
Darragh kept the car going, and on
the following day he fled from the
city, being afterwards arrested at
Port Arthur, Tex.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10
Patrick's Applications Denied.

New York, June 8.-Albert T
Patrick's application for writ CT
habeas corpus, releasing him from
Sing Sing Prison, where he is undo
life sentence for the murder OF VIII
liam Marsh Rice, was denied by the
appellate division of the Supreme
Court in Brooklyn today. Patrick
had appealed for hearing on a
writ which he had obtained from an
individual justice of the Supreme
Court ordering the prosecuting Off
GERS to show cause why he should
not be released from prison or put
to death for the murder of William
Marsh Rice. In support of the writ
Patrick several weeks ago made a
sensational personal appeal to the
appellate division in which he de
clared that the committing of his
death sentence to that of life i'm
prisonment by Governor Higgin
constituted the imposition of a
sentence worse than death. Patrick
also attacked the legality of his con
viction OF the ground OF conspiracy
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10
PIG KILLER RUNS AMuck.
Carnival and Blood Turns His Brain
in SIaughter-House. Five Men Kill
ed and Three Wounded Before He
Could be Beaten Down.

Somerville, Mass, June 8.-Five
men are reported dead and three
others injured by the local police as
the result of an attack by a work
man who became suddenly insane
this afternoon at the North Packing
Company's plant here
The workman, whose name is said
to be Thomas Murphy, was seized
with the mania while at work in
the slaughter-hOuse. Armed with
the big knife which he used in his
work, the police say, he ran through
the factory laughing at every one
within reach. Five of the eight men
attacked are said to have been al
most instantly killed.
Murphy is pig killer. The knife
which he used is as keen as a razor
and has a blade about sixteen inches
long.
The first man attackedwas DR..
Hayes, a government meat inspector.
who was probably fatally injured by
a terrible cut in the neck and groin.
Next John Cheever, a Poland er, was
stabbed over the heart. There was
no chance to oppose the crazy man,
and in the next five minutes five mne
fell to the floor with stab wounds
through the heart or in other vital
parts. Another escaped with a bad
cut
Workmen ouE of Murphy's path
seized clubs and barrel slaves and
rushed upon him, but ne ran down
stairs to the yard. There he was
surrounded, beaten down and captur
ed. He was powerful man, weighing
about 200 pounds.
Two of the dead men were negroes.
Murphy is so years old and lived
with his family in this city.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10
234-236 E. CapitolSt. Jackson

more than 800 State Banks as of June
End, the call being mailed out on the
3rd. The first bank out of town to
respond was the Brandon Bank, show
$202,016.44. Three Jackson Banks
were also in the first mail, viz: The
Mississippi Bank and Trust Company,
with $3.50, 670.12; the Union Savings
and Deposit Bank with 1853, 495.80,a nd
the Merchants Bank and Trust Com
pany with $1,241, -ClarioneLed
ger of June 5.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10
Lottery Operations in st. Louis.

ST. Louis, June S.-Information
about the operations in st. Louis o
the Mexican National Lottery, un
covered by arrests in New York last
night, was obtained today from
Jack Lintner. Under the nam
John Smith," Lintner received mai
at 1919 Reutger street, the home o
his sister. A newspaper reporte
who asked for Smith at the Reut
ger Street address was directed
a South Twelfth Street number
There he was met by Lintner, who
agreed to furnish the reporter mum
bers for the next drawing, althoug
he said that he had quit handlin
tickets about six months ago. Tn
local postal authorities say that the
had not been notified OF the case.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10
Won College Honors.

Miss Vivian Maxey, niece of Mrs.
T. B. Lamb, on the Highlands, has
returned from Sullins College, Vir-
ginia, where she graduated few
days ago with many honors. Miss
Maxey is a daughter of Mr. e. r.
Maxey, of Clarksdale, Miss, broth
er of Mrs. Lamb, but has made her
home for several years with her aunt
in this city, and is a graduate of the
Meridian high school. She was pres
ident of the Mississippi Club of her
college, vice-president of her literary
society, associate editor of the Col
lege Journal and Prophet of her
class on graduation. Meridian Dis
patch.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10
sTRAYED.

From my place at Pisgah, one
dark brown mule, aged about
years, about 13 IL hands, branded
81 u" on leeft hip-when last seeen
near Stump Bridge going towards
Brandon Reward for return or in
formation. j. M. BAKER,
Pisgah, Miss
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10
Look--Listen.

The Shooting Gallery is no more.
Having overhauled our engine and
stopped the explosions we are pre-
pared to do your work promptly.
Screen doors and windows made to
order. Wheel work and buggy tire
shrinking a speciality, at
WALROD'S SHOP,
Brandon, Miss
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10
Superintendent of Education of Ran
kin County Caught Lots Of Ice.

A citizen of Rankin county who was
i'm the city yesterday states that the
cloudburst of Tuesday, which was the
heaviest rain experienced in this Sec
ton of the country for years, was &C.
companied by terrific storm of wind
and hail, and that in some localities
the damage done by the hail was
heavier than from the wind or water.
AT the home of County Superintend
emit Myers, two or three miles south
of Brandon, there was wagon bed
standing in the barnyard, and which
after the worst of the storm was
over, was found to be full of hail
stones, some of them being the size
of hem eggs.
The rainfall is reported to have been
something enormous, all creeks and
branches being overflowed, corn and
cotton washed up, and incalculable
damage wrought on every farm.
Farmers who were in Jackson de-
clare they have been damag-
ed least fifty ger cent, by the floods,
and that the hot sun of yesterday has
finished the life of every cotton plant
that has been covered by water dur
ing the past week.-Jackson Clarion
Ledger, June 4, 1909
The hail was very destructive in
several localities, but was unusually
severe at Mr.. Myers The growing
fruit in his orchard was practically
all knocked off and his cotton crop
ruined to the extent that nearly all
of it had to be planted over. His
neighbors also suffered great dam
age. However, our county superinten-
dent is a good farmer and is already
ready for any emergency, and as he
has good herd of mich cows it
was not long until he had not frozen
two freezers or pure jersey cream
with portion of the hail in that
wagon body, which his own family
and his neighbors, blessed with
splendid capacity for ice cream con-
sumption satisfied their appetites.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10
LOST OR STOLEN.

One large sized bay mare about 8
years old, and about feet high-col-
lar rubbed on left fore shoulder near
the neck. Small sore about the mid
die of the back. Taken from pasture
Sunday night, June 9Th, 1909.
JOHN TAYLOR.
Langford, Mississippi.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10
NOTICE

All orders for ice must be in be-
fore 8 o'clock a. m, or no delivery
can be made. Parties who do not
phone in before 9 a. m. must send
after it. j. E. MARTIN
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Theo. Sweeny and lit
tie Miss Sweeney, of Jackson, were
here Tuesday Mr.. Sweeney will be
over again next Tuesday.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10

Mrs. H. A. Busick left yesterday
for Vicksburg to be with her daugh-
ter, Miss Mary, who is still at Dr.
Streets Sanitarium in that city.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10

We still have a few of the celebra-
ted Smith buggies,
GAYDEN & co.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10

This has been a splendid week for
field work and Judging from the scar
city of out-of- town customers farmers
have been in their fields.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10

Mrs. F. B. Walrod has lemon tree
which bore this season a perfectly
formed lemon which measured inch
es i'm circumference.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-10
DENTAL NOTICE

My office will be closed for one
week-beginning Monday, June IA.
T. A. CHAPMAN.