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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-24

There's at beast one editor who
dOsen't think his journalistic work
has made him a capable politician.
His names Caldwell, he's editor of
little Georgia weekly, and he refuses
to run for the Legislature.
Two news items of interest were
noted recently: the Louisville and
Nashville Road was fined $4,000 for
rebatlng, and on the same day raised
the wages of its conductors. Perhaps
the road feels it may make money by
the raise
A bankrupt in New York replied
don't remember to so many of the
judges questions, the judge gave him
six mouths in Jail to regain his mem
ory-and likewise to think seriously
on the benefits, and otherwise, of
bankruptcy.
A High Brow doctor declares wo-
men will become bald unless they
stop automobiling and give up false
hair. Too late, most of those who
are addicted to the habits have money
enough to defy the badness so as
you could notice it.
The United States Senate boasts
one member rated at fifty millions
of dollars, eight rated at from ten to
twenty-five millions, and twelve
rated at from three to twelve mil
limos. No argument as to their be-
ing there need begin.
Lillian Russell, the actress, was
born in Iowa, and it's hard to say
which feels the worst about it, But,
then, any State should feel proud of
a woman who could gather the col
lection of husbands Lillian has, and
keep so perennially youthful
In a recent will contest in Boston,
the set of witnesses ears and
the appearance Of the eyes of two
more witnesses took up a great deal
the courts time; naturally one
would expect the location of such
high-browed contesting to be in Bos-
ton.
Awful brand of booze they sell in
Louisiana. Man with wife and seven
children got drunk, forgot he had
them and married another woman.
AS per usual, wife number one for
gave him while he was in jail, and he
has promised to cut out booze in
future
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-24
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE OTHERWISE,
AND A FEW LACONICS
By L.A.L.

Mr.. Fairbanks is coming home, but
all the brass bands are saving their
efforts for when the Big Noise comes
out of Africa.
TEI -
Besides being Governor of Ala
bama, Governor Conner sells cattle
for a living, and is making money
out of both jobs.
They may be eating strawberry
shortcake in Florida now, but just
think of the other things they have
to stand in that State.
Secretary Knox gave his son the
same frosty reception that he tender
ed to Zelaya's representative, but it
started the son to work.
All the flaring head lines of the
Big Noise who has just come out
from Africa, point to the fact that
t. RS press agent can't be beat
The cowboy and the farmer have
both killed traditions; each uses au-
tOmObiles now to get about in It's a
good thing Remington died when he
did.
Too bad old Jawn D. Rockefeller
hasn't the youth and the aspirations
necessary for a stage career. His
free ads would gladden. the heart of
his agent.
You never can tell what a mans
affection will drive him to- a young
husband in Ohio shot his seventeen
year-old wife because she wouldn't
let him kiss their baby.
Massachusetts will not have to
worry for a while at least about the
prohibition law, as the Legislature
of the State refused to consider the
proposed prohibition amendment.
Watch the Georgia farmer plant
more cotton when he learns that Bra
zil is planting less this year. AS the
duty on raw cotton is over IA
cents pound in Brazil, it looks like
a short-sighted policy.
AS long as EAST Lynne" contin-
ues to play to a crowded theater, as
was recently reported from Boston,
we need have no fear of the scarcity
of "WOmanly women" The play is
almost a solid weep of two hours
duration.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-24

In New York city recently a young
orphan girl was found starving to
death, and had attempted to commit
suicide by burning herself to death.
Let's see-about how much money
do Americans donate to the young
widows of India to keep them from
this sort of thing?
* -
After reading of those three-year-
old eggs, two-year-old turkeys and
eighteen months old beef, sounds
funny to hear the cold storage people
aver there is mo evil in the system"
And the undertakers point with pride
to the record of mortality from pto-
maine poisoning, SO far.
s.
An officer of the United States
army stationed at Manila committed
suicide because his wife gave his
champagne cooler away, and the poor
woman may have done it through
motives of economy. Oh, we'll, she
could have used it for a flower pot,
and all might have been we'll.
Even the hens are trying to help
matters in some sections; in her de-
sire to provide her owner with plenty
of eggs, an Alabama hen is laying
eggs like dumb bells If some of the
hens would emulate this one, or try
the base ball pattern, we could snap
our fingers at cold storage eggs.
x
Chicago has had another spasm of
virtue and the tax collector says his
collections have been bigger and
more nearly what they should be
for years past. Chicago is beginning
to fight shy of any more ''inyestiga-
tons, and the corporations of Cook
county led the van in taX-paying.
= *"
It's cheaper to live on the Chinese
coast, declare United States marines
who have sailed round the world.
But the Cinnamon who come to the
United States can live on six cents
day and get fat, besides sending
money home for investment in Chi
nese real estate. It's all in the know.
s. * x
The value of New York policemen
as targets comes high. Three bur
glars shot at one of the guardians of
the peace and a judge sentenced
them to fifteen years each in the pen,
with a little ten-year sentence tack
ed on the side for burglary. Police
mems lives will soon be as safe as
plumbers, if other judges follow suit.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-24
THE COST AND RESULTS OF
JURY TRIALS.


now pending before the prison
board, fifty of which are murder
cases. 1t is a well-known fact that
every murder case is now appealed
to the prison commission before the
sentence of the law is executed"
says the Blackshear (Ga.) Times.
The Saturday, Evening Post said
editorially, referring to the great
need of judicial reform:
The great fault lies in unlimited
right of appeal upon trivial techni-
calities. A case is carried up and
reversed on some small and ,palpable
clerical error or because of a ruling
on a fine-spun point of legal Ell
quette which would in no wise affect
substantial justice. We find Justice
Brewer, of the United States Su-
preme Court, quoted as saying: The
seat of the whole trouble is that too
many appeals are granted where JUS
tice does not demand it. :.
Our courts trifie with justice by per-
hitting delay after delay upon mere
technicalities' -
The question of the delay of the
law" being in large measure re-
sponsible for many cases of mob vio-
lence. can not be argued from any
point not already touched upon.
The two items quoted show how
widespread the habit of hardening"
and the granting Of new trials has
become.
The taxpayers of every State real
ize that the expenses of maintaining
the law is the heaviest one the State
has to shoulder
The cost of the American jury sys-
tenn is enormous; the grounds on
which trials may be heightened are
many; with the army of lawyers,
witnesses and court officials, the
money needed to sustain the system
totals good part of the States reve-
nue..
This expenditure should mean that
the criminal has been given every
opportunity to clear himself of the
crime charged.
The stories told of the means by
which some juries decide on a YER
dict make excellent filters for
daily papers, but scarcely add peace
to the taxpayers mind when he real
ICES his money is paying for it,
Georgia is gaining an unenviable
reputation as a State in which the
pardoning power is being over
worked.
Criminals whose trials have been
lengthy, therefore expensive, are
shown ''clemency" which any one
who thinks must recognize as the
work of shrewd lawyer who is as
sured of fat fee.
If the oath which makes a man
eligible for jury duty is really bind
ing, and the verdict of the twelve
good men" is founded absolutely on
the facts; if the presiding judge is
honest in his sentence, isn't it hard
to realize on what grounds other
trials may be granted? Isn't it MAX
ing an absolute farce of the law
when we note that it is only the
criminal who can command money
for whom these grounds for new
trials may be discovered?
It's true one or two, possibly half
Dozen famous financiers are TAX
ing rest cures in institutions found
ed and supported by the Govern
ment, but they are the "sacrificial
offerings demanded by an outraged
public
We need a revision of our judi
ciary, and we need it badly.
The courts are helpless so long as
the law recognizes the pleas of I'M,
prinCipled lawyers, who have no
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-13
TO AVENGE
MASSACRE

Victoria, B. c., Feb. 12.-Special-
To average the massacre of Mr.. and
Mrs. Benskin and their family, traders
in the Solomon group, who were kill
ed by a native tribe several weeks
ago. a government patrol steamer
landed 200 native police on Villa-Vil-
Ia island. The sconstabulary, guided
by natives, of the island, soon came
UP with the murderous band, captur-
ed sixteen of them, including two of
the actual murderers, and killed sew.
eral others who offered resistance,
according to accounts brought by the
steamer Makura today. Before the
skirmish. Chief Sito, who led the raid
on the Benskin family, sent word that
he had started on campaign to kill
all white men who married native
women. During the fighting the
chief escaped and made his way to
a. neighboring island.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-13
WANNAMACHERS
moving EAST

In a letter from G. r.. Wanna
macher of Dickinson asking for the
change of address for his Tribune to
Columbus, Ohio, he states he will
move his family there and the last
| issue of the Dickinson Post contains
the following comment:
G.. R. Wannamacher, who sold his
residence property last week to W..
R. Veigel for a consideration Of $5,-
500, plans to leave the city with his
family next Tuesday for Columbus,
Ohio, where he will make his home
in the future.
Mr.. Wannamacher will return to
the city early in the spring to attend
to his business and other interests
and will probably spend the larger
portion of each year in this section.
He is moving his family to Columbus
for the purpose of providing educa-
tional opportunities such as he
wishes for his nine children.
During a residence of nine years
in this country, Mr. Wannemacher
has accumulated wide business inter
ests and is deeply interested in the
progress being made by the Slope.
He owns a fourth interest in the
Adams County State bank of Hettin-
ger and has two sheep ranches in
this locality.
The Wannemacher's will carry
with them to their new home the
best wishes of their many friends.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-13
illinois PASSES
COMMISSION ] BILL

Springfield, ILL.,, Feb. 12.-Special-
The commission form of government
bill, bearing the corporation regula.
ton amendments inserted by Sena-
tor Daley yesterday, was passed by
the senate by vote of "a to l. =
1t was the house bill amended in
the senate which went through the
upper branch, and it is now up ia
the house either to concur in the
senate amendment or to take action
which will send the bill to confer
ence. There iss every indication that
conference committee is the mex.
stopping place for the bill.
Faint rumblings from public service
corporation headquarters have grown
into an ominous growl within the
last twenty-four hours, and it is ap.
parent that strenuous efforts will be
made by capital interested in gas,
electric light, street, car, and heating
franchises in cities likely to adopt
the commission plan, to stop the nee
essary II votes for the senate amend
ments in the house next Tuesday.
There is considerable talk that the
commission form bill as ~assed by
the senate is unconstitutional and
that this condition is accountable for
the strong vote registered for the
measure.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-13
THE CORPORATION TAX.

The commissioner of internal rev.
enue has sent out warning to all
companies liable under the corpora
ton tax provision of the tariff act Of
1909 that they must file their reports
on or before March l. The reports
must cover the gross and net earn
ings for the calendar year 1909
Penalties for neglect of this precau-
ton range from $1,000 to 10000. As
scarcely tenth of the concerns COW
cred by this tax provision have yet
filed their reports. there is a chance
for trouble for many Of them. Of
course, one of the reasons why the
reports are so slow in getting to
headquarters is the possibility that
the tax will be set aside by the,courts
The tax will be contested vigorously,
and endeavors will be made to send
the case to the supreme court at the
earliest practicable day. The oppo-
nents of the tax. supported by the
opinions of some of the best lawyers
in the country. believe that it will be
declared unconstitutional. From ev-
cry trade center it is CHALLENGED.
Many of the congressional leaders
distrusted the proposition from the
start. In accepting It they knew that
its legal status would come before
the courts Immediately. and that all
doubts regarding its validity would
soon be removed, in one direction or
the other.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-13

west he Quoted and cured a sick in
+ FAINT on the train and acquired the
sobriquet @"Doc," by which he is
known in Wahpeton to this day "As
a MIXER" says the biograph sketch
doc Purcell has no superiors."
There is this account of his sue
cess at the bar. HE bears q good
reputation as a criminal lawyer and
for years defended most of the GRIM
inals who were brought to trial in
Richland county. When he couldn't
win the jury by roasting the other
fellow, he would try shedding tears
for his innocent and ill-treated client
and with sweat melting down his
collar and stream of perspiration
running of his bald head, would i'm.
plore them for mercy. He freed a
good many"
There seems lack of delicacy In
this eulogy from the home town,
but the sincerity of it is not to be
doubted. Subtlety in expression is
not common in Wahpeton. They
speak right out in hail-fellow-well-
met fashion. Senator Purcell is per-
A0Po oeAOOeSA VI "a oSIASeSA
than Porter J. McCumber.
occasionally the senator dons
overalls. takes run out to the farm
in an automobile and then always
shows up in town with his farmer
garb on" Stout, unyielding, If not
always infallible, democrat, Doc Pur.
cell has been, by mutual selection,
the leader of his party in North Da-
kota. Mr.. Cleveland made him a
United States District Attorney.
Purcell has been one of the rare dem
ocrats in the North Dakota. senate.
It is to be noted as bearing on his
career in the greater senate that be-
fore he had been in seat two days
he made a famous speech. He is
said to be more fluent than Mr.. Nc
Cumber, more picturesque in his
tropes, and he has fine turn of in
vective, when aroused. The senior
senator is really ponderous and pro-
found, and we should say that when
the junior senator gets into his
stride he will make up ground like
a quarter horse"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-13

Mex York, Feb. 12.-Formal an.
nouncement of the engagement OF
Miss Eleanor Robson to August Bel
mont was made tonight to a wide
circle Of friends. The engagement
has for a long time been expected,
and it's official confirmation cannot
be said to have created surprise. Miss
Robson closed her season tonight In
Brooklyn, passing with the fall of
the curtain from professional to pri-
vate life. She will return to her
home in this city, where she will re-
main until the marriage.
August Belmont is widower 81
years old His wife died in Paris in
September 1896. He has three sons
August, admitted this year into
the firm of August Belmont and
Company; Raymond, recently gradu-
ated from Harvard, and now clerk in
a banking house; and Morgan, still
in preparatory school.
The wedding will take place some.
time in March at Miss Robson's
home and only intimate friends will
be present.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-13

P. r. Trubshaw has been re.ap.
pinted postmaster at Cooperstown
for the 4th consecutive term. He
has the distinction of being one of
the Oldest presidential postmasters
in the state. He has a commission
signed by President NICK inley, two
commissions by President Roosevelt
and will now receive one signed by
President Taft.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-13
THE SUN RISES ON PURCELL

THE sun RISES ON PURCELL.
The New York Suns editorial
writer who gets humor out of things
as serious as senatorial appoint
ments, has this reference to the ar.
rival of Doc Purcell of Wahpeton:
William E. Purcell slipped into the
senate so unobtrusively the other
day, by appointment, of Governor
Burke. Fountain L. Thompson having
mysteriously effaced himself, that it
felt awkward to address the second
citizen of Wahpeton as senator and
men suffered in pronouncing the
title, as they took the new colleague
by the hand. The first citizen of
Wahpeton, as everybody knows, is
Porter James McCumber, whose trib-
ute to the poverty of the farm will
never be forgotten by those who
heard it in the senate last week
Wahpeton had population of e.
22s in 1900. 1t is the only town of
Its size in the United States that is
represented by two senators at
Washington. The senior senator. as
authority on steers, wheat and white
clover, has such a long lead over
the junior senator that PurcElls an.
tecedents and resources become of
interest If he is to make a bid for
equal distinction.
Wahpeton was so proud of having
a second senator at Washington that
1t Immediately furnished a full per-
sonal sketch of Purcell to the cur.
lous world. He was born at Flem-
1ngtoH. n. j.. famous above all other
places in the state for poultry, par
tlcularly it's yellow legged chickens
and specially bred turkey very thick
In the thighs and of tender texture
when picked at any age. Purcell
was the ninth of ten children. He
was of Irish stock, his father having
come over when a - young man.
Brought up on a farm, the ninth in
the family. entered at 20 the law Of
ice OF John w. Voorhees, and was ad-
mltted to the New Jersey bar after
four years Of study. In 1881 Purcell
borrowed 500, shook the dust of
Pennington from his feet and mi.
grated to Wahpeton. On the way
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-13
MINI. Wins IN
BASKET BALL

Minneapolis. Feb. 12.-Minnesota
defeated Chicago in a basket ball
game tonight by a score Of Is to 10.
1t was the first defeat Of the season
for the Maroons and put the Goph-
ers on par with them for the honor
of leading the Conference basket ball
Quints. The game was close through
out, Chicago maintaining the lead
until near the finish, when Minnesota
forged to the front.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-13
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Morning service at 1O:45. Subject
of sermon, Our Country" Gen.
Robt. n. Adams of Minneapolis. will
speak.
Sunday School at ~ nj.
Business Mems Bible class at r.
Christian Endeavor at Gas ,. m.
Evening Praise at 1880 p. m.
Subject Of sermon, Leaves From
the Book of Life"
There will be special music at the
morning and evening services.
All are made welcome. Strangers
in the city are especially invited to
attend.
ChaS. w. Harris, Pastor.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-13
THE DEMOCRATIC RESOLUTIONS

lhE DNmOVnA1lC fhEkOOAO11ON6
Our friends, the democrats, have
viewed with pride" and pointed
with alarm" So long and SO regularly,
that no democratic meeting is COM
plete without resolutions Of this ma
ture. And the. proceedings of the
democratic state committee at Fargo
were rounded out with resolutions,
which we produce here, in the inter
est of correct history, and that the
dem ocratic> attitude may be noted:~
eve. the democrats of the sover-
eign state of North Dakota, in con.
ference assembled, unwaiveringly re-
affirm our undying allegiance to
those immutable principles of the
democratic party, namely, low tar
III, freedom of the state from en-
croachment by the federal executive
judiciary or legislature upon it's SOW
ereign rights; and freedom of the in.
dividual in his life, liberty and the
pursuit Of happiness, untrammeled
by corporate greed. These princi-
pies were defined by Thomas Jeffer-
SOP, Andrew Jackson. Grover Cleve.
land and William Jennings Bryan,
and are valiantly fought for by that
noble standard bearer of the democ-
racy of North Dakota. Governor John
Burke. whose unanimous re-nomina-
ton and subsequent reelection we
confidently seek.
1.-THE Aldrich-Payne tar1ff bill and
Law We absolutely denounce as
treachery to the American bread
Garner and consumer who confidently
expected of the present administra-
ton the fulfillment of the republican
campaign pledges and substantial
downward revision of the tariff. We
pledge ourselves to the principle OF
low tariff as enunciated by the dem
Ocratic national platform Of 1908 and
absolute downward revision of the
tariff to meet the economic situation
and present-day suffering of the
masses of the American people.
"The spectacle of national legisla
ton throttled, gagged and inflexibly
by the plutocratic inter
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-13
For County Commissioner.

hereby announce myself as can
didate on the republican ticket for the
office Of county commissioner in the
Third district, subject to the republi-
can voters at the general primary
election, to be held in June.
am a resident of Garfield, farm
err and also tax payer. If elected
to the Office, l will. to the best of my
ability, look after the interests of
the county, faithfully, impartially
and in compliance with the laws of
our statutes.
L. H. ONG
Garfield, n. D.. February II. 1910
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-13
GERMAN EVANGELICAL ,CHURcI

GERMAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH.
Corner Kosser and Seventh streets
Sunday Services as follows:
Sunday school at 10 a. m.
Preaching service at 10:45 in the
morning.
Chapel service at our hospital this
afternoon at 800 O'Clock.
Young Peoples meeting at Ills
p. m. Topic. bible Texts that Help
ed Me- Miss E. Wild. leader.
Evening Gospel service at s o'clock.
Special music by the choir.
We extend a cordial invitation to
all to attend.
H. e. Lehner, Pastor.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-13
The Other Way With Him.

"Relnember. sir. that you owe some
thing to your constituents" said one
member Of astown council to another.
"Humph" said the other. IF yor
owe anything to your constituents all
I've got to say Is that you're lucky.
Why. there are not half a dozen voters
in my ward that have not borrowed
money from me-" -Stray Stories.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-13
M'cABE M. z. CHURCH.

Services today:
10:45 a. M, Morning Worship. Ser.
mon topic, "Thtt Other Grace" Spec
ial music.
IL M, Sunday School; Adult Bible
class for men and women.
6:45 p. M, Epworth League Devo-
tional meeting, J. S. Wright, leader.
7:45 p. m., Evening Gospel service.
Sermon topict, Anchors
Special music.
Everyone is invited and strangers
are invited to make our church their
Sunday home
Louis Magin, Pastor.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-13
COUNTY,.
Announcement.

hereby announce myself as a candidate
urer, subject to the decision Of the repub
lican voters at the primary election to be
held in June.
If elected, will, as a servant Of the
people, attend to the duties of my office
faithfully, impartialy and to the best inter-
ests of the taxpayers of Burleigh county.
Respectfully yours,
CARL r. KOSITZKY