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The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
JOS. VENDING FOUND
SAID TO BE LOCATED IN SAN
FRANCISCO.
Seen on Streets There, Now Hiding
in CeIlar-PoIice Slowly Draw.
ing Net About Him.

San Francisco, Cal.-Trailed through
a half dozen states of the Union, and
through Mexico and a portion of Cen.
trail America, Joseph Vending, &C
cused of the murder of 3-year-old Alma
Kellner, daughter of a millionaire
brewer in Louisville, KY, in the eel
lar of st. Johns Parochial School in
that city, has finally been trailed to
San Francisco, where local detectives
are slowly but surely drawing the net
about him.
That Vending has been hiding for
the past three weeks in a house in
San Francisco is said to be known to
the local police. They declare that
they have spotted the place and that
detectives are guarding the house in
the hope that Vending will put in
an appearance.
Following the murder of the Kell.
ner girl, her parents and Fred Fehr,
a millionaire uncle, offered a reward
of $4,000 for the capture of the muir
derer. At the request Of the Kellner
family, Capt. Carney consented to
abandon his dutis as head of the Louis.
vile detective department and devote
his entire time to tracking down Wen.
ding, who fed Immediately after the
urder was discovered.
Through a half dozen states Carney
tracked Vending. He followed him
into Mexico and into the heart of Cen
trail America. Here he learned that
the fugitive had come to San Fran
cisco. Carney came here and again
lost the trail, finally to pick it up
again a month ago at Rio Vista, where
he discovered that Vending had been
working as a laborer on a ranch.
When Carney finally located the
ranch he learned that Vending had
anticipated him and had gone to Val
leo.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
BRYAN BREAKS WITH PARTY
Smarting With Rebuke, Will Espouse
Local Option on Own Hook

Lincoln, Neb.-Smarting from his
defeat at Grand Island, where the
Democrat state convention turned his
county option plank down by a vote
of 8 to 1, William j. Bryan does moi
intend to be governed by the platform
of his party. The thrice defeated
presidential candidate returned to Lin
coin from the convention and at once
and announced he would take an act
i've part in the coming legislative cam
paign. Bryan charges that the con-
vention did not represent the wishes
of the rank and file and that 1t was
packed by agents OF the brewery and
liquor interests. The Bryan plan is to
take the stump during September and
October, speaking in every legislative
district.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
BANK LOST s6OO,OOO
RUsso-cHINEsE BANK DEFALcA.
TON GROWS SENSATIONAL.
Believed Wider H~ypothocated stock
He Is Alleged to Have Stolen
With Wall Street Brokers.

New ERWIN Wider, about
80 years old, 5 feet 5 inches In height;
weight about 1856 pounds; swarthy OF
complexion, with a small black mus
tache curled at the ends. Wears rim
less nose glasses, talks with a Ger
man accent and is timid in address.
Such is the general alarm sent out
by the police for the missing cashier
of the Russo-Chinese Bank, although
oddly enough, the district attorneys
office said no aid had been asked OF
it by the bank and no application for
a warrant had been filed. But this
contradiction is only one in a series
that have kept step with every deyel-
opment Of what is now admitted to be
at once the most puzzling and the
most serious defalcation in the his
tory of Wall street since Cornelius AL
word stole $780, 900 from the First Ma
tional Bank, served a term in Sing
Sing and then retired to the secluslon
of a princely country place.
When the Russo-Chinese Bank first
maze pubic tuo TACT thai I'D oliohS
box was short, the amount was given
at $50, 900, all in negotiable bonds, a
list of which was furnished. This
afternoon the amount suddenly jumped
to 5000, 900, of which the additional
$500, 900 is said to be in stocks partly
owned by the bank and partly by Its
customers.
No positive statement has been
made yet as to where these stock Ger
tifcates now are. or with what intent
Wider's intention to hypothecate them
they we're stolen-whether it was
with brokers as collateral for stock
speculation or to realize on them and
plant" the proceeds.
The Russo-Chinese Bank is credited
in Wall street with a capital OF $1o,
4O0, 900, but it could not be learned
what assets or capital are credited
to the branch in this city. They New
York branch is not under the jurisdic
ton of the state banking department
as it does not attempt regular bust
ness in deposits, but makes loans
with foreign funds.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
BRYAN LOSES FIGHT
PUT GAG ON COMMONER-TEST
VOTE RESULTS IN HIS ROUT.
CorroIIary Of County Option Fight Re
veaIed in Struggle for United
States Senatorship.

Grand Island, Neb.-Nebraska Dem.
ocrats Wednesday wrested the leader
ship of their state organization from
William j. Bryan on the issue Of coun-
ty option. By decisive votes they reg
istered their unbelief in his present
policies after listening to an impas-
stoned appeal from Mr.. Bryan, who
declared the liquor interests were or
ganized in an attempt to secure p3llt'
ical control Of the state. The minor
ity plank submitted by Mr.. Bryan was
brief and his opponent declared it was
an effort to recede from his former
radical attitude. But the workers
against the county option plank were
unappeased and stood firmly against
it's adoption.
The vote by which his county OPP
ton plank was rejected was decisively
against the measure. Mr.. Bryan made
no comment after the vote, and in
answer to questions, referred to his
speech in which he proclaimed his
fealty to the Democratic party and
us pldllOIlu.
Amid a tumult of cheers from the
former followers of William Jennings
Bryan, Permanent Chairman Smith Of
the Democratic platform convention
read the result of a test vote of the
gathering, which practically took from
Mr.. Bryan the Democratic leadership
of Nebraska, which he has maintained
for four years.
The vote came on the motion made
by Congressman G. M. Hitchcock, a
candidate for the senatorial nomina-
ton, which, in effect, was to eliminate
the Introduction of platform planks
with accompanying speeches unless
submitted as a section of the majority
or minority report of the committee
on resolutions. Mr.. Bryan, seated as
a member of the Lancaster county
delegation, was upon his feet with a
protest and proffered an amendment
that would modify that intent to the
original motion. The Bryan adher.
ents denounced the Hitchcock motion
as gag rule" and their opponents de-
clared that individual rule" must not
prevail in the convention.
A c~orrollary Of the county option
fight was seen in the contest of Con.
gresham Hitchcock and r. L. Met
calf for the Democratic nomination
for United States senator.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
d 9 Wigs.

The wig is only worn by English
barristers to give them a stern, judi
cial appearance, and no one can say
that it fails in this respect. The GUS
tom was originated by a French
Judge in the seventeenth century
when, happening to don a marquis
wig one day, he found it gave him
such a stern and dignified appearance
that he decided to get one for himself
and wear 1t at all times in court.
This he did, and the result was so
satisfactory from a legal point of
view, that not only judges, but bar
r~isters, also took up the custom
throughout Europe.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
Little Relief From Heat.

Kansas City, Mo.-There was no re-
lief Wednesday from the heat wave
which has held the Southwest within
its grasp for more than a week. Tenn
peratures were reported from Kansas,
Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. At
Kansas City the government theromm-
eter registered 101 at 4 o'clock. Tulsa
and Guthrie, Okla, reported log; To
peka and Wichita, Kan, log, and Jop-
lin, Mo-. 81. Reports from the country
said the prevailing hot winds were
causing great damage to crops, espe-
cially to corn.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
The Return of Eeruuson.

A night clerk in a hotel sat doing
at his desk at about l a. M, when a
man in evening clothes came in as if
laboriously trying to walk a crack,
and said:
I'm Ferguson; key to room A."
The guest disappeared in the direc-
ton of his room, n flight up. In a
few minutes a man in his shirt sleeves
with a f1attened silk hat On the side of
his head, and with n shoe on a foot
and the other in his hand, came in and
said to the clerk;
I'm Fershon, key to for-for."
"Mr. Ferguson just took his key and
went up"
Mr.. Ferguson just fell out window
n left key inside. Kindly lemme
have NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
GEORGIA COTTON CROP SHORT
Discrepancy According to Agriculture
Department

Atlanta, Ga.-Georgia's cotton crop
will this year fall short of the yield
last year by $4,000 bales, according
to an estimate issued by the state
department of agriculture Wednesday.
Commissioner Hudson states that re-
ports from all sections of the state
show that s per cent. of the acreage
has been abandoned and the unfavor-
able weather conditions prevailing for
the past month has resulted in deteri-
Grafton in every pat Of tn, cotton bel,
of Georgia. His estimate Of the pres
ent crop is 62 per cent. of that OF
1909, which approximately 1900, 900
bales.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
HAYNIE CLEANS UP $500, 900
New Orleans Bull Clique Has Made
Profit Of 100000

New York.-Cleaning up $500, 900
in the cotton market Wednesday was
the work of but comparatively a few
minutes by the bull element. headed
by Frank P. Hayne of New Orleans,
long a close business associate OF
James R. Patten, whose series of ire
mendous deals a couple of months
ago startled the whole world inter.
ested in cotton.
Brokers said that the Hayne crowd
had made a clear $1,000, 900 profit in
July cotton. The market went wild
Wednesday when Mr.. Hayne, without
the slightest intimation of what was
coming, suddenly bid for $4,000 bales
of July at 1884 cents. On top Of this
order he flung a second for $4,000
additional bales at 1885 cents.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
Kentucky storm Ridden.

Louisville, Ky.-One of the worst
electrical storms which has, visited
this portion of Kentucky In many
years did much damage Wednesday.
Crops were heavily damaged in every
county in Southwestern Kentucky.
The Louisville & Nashville accommo-
dation passenger train to Frankfort
was derailed at Pewee Valley by ?
large tree being blown across the
track. Had the train been going at
a high rate of speed 1t would have
probably cost many lives. No loss of
life, however, is reported.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

The unsuitable ship may be a long
way off, but she will appear some day,
and then such items as that which
chronicled the drowning of a captain
and eight men by the sinking Of the
steamer La Rochelle in the English
channel as a result of collision by
which she was almost cut In two.
The modern passenger steamer can be
cut in two and foated as two pieces,
and 1t ought to be possible to SO con-
struct ships that they will stay afloat
even when severed in twain by the
surgery of accident.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
Golden West Is Prosperous.

New York.-That conditions In the
West are better than they have been
in years, that the crops in spite of the
drouths are going to show excellent
returns for the farmers, and that there
is absolutely nothing to warrant the
pessimism over the country's welfare
that has developed of late in the East
are some of the conclusions reached
by President w. G. Brown Of the New
York Central Railroad, after ten days
Of personal observation in Iowa, Min
nesota, the two Dakotas, Nebraska
and Kansas.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
HOLD C0TToNIN WAREHOUSES;
Planned to Save Fifty Million DOL
lars Annually.

Boston, Mass.-Having for its pur-
pose revolutionizing the cotton indus
try of the United States, a conference
was held at Gloucester, at which were
present, besides Mr.. Hammond, DAN
iel Sully, the New York cotton opera
tor, and Scott Dalgleish Of Cairo,
Egypt, the representative Of the
Hirsch syndicate of London.
Briefly, the idea is to establish ware
houses in all parts of the cotton pro-
ducing districts of this country, as
we'll as in the manufacturing centers,
for storing the cotton crop, so that,
instead of selling it from hand to
mouth, as has been the practice here
tofore, it will be marketed through
the entire year when desirable. 1t is
believed that reforms will be effected
in the marketing Of cotton which will
result in a saving Of not less than
$4,000, 900 annually.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
Japs' Yankee Admiral WEEDS.

Boston, Mass.-Japan's Yankee ad-
miral, Henry Walton Grinnell, was
married Monday to Miss Florence Mary
Roche, daughter of the late James
Jeffrey Roche, the well-known author.
Admiral Grinnell is "A years old and
was an intimate friend of the father
Of the bride, who is rs years old. AID.
miral Grinnell served with Farragut
at Mobile Bay and later was in the
naval service of one of the South
American republics. Still later he was
adviser in the Japanese naval estab.
lishment, previous to the War.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
Beaten, Escapes, Killed.

New Orleans,-After being taken
to the Charity Hospital in a delirium
which is said to have resulted from a
beating administered to him by fellow
prisoners in the house Of detention,
John D. Miller, A years old, made his
escape only to receive a pistol shot
wound which brought about his death.
Vincent Lamis. the Waterman who
shot Miller. said he thought the man
was a burglar when he saw him PROV
ling around the gas plant where he
was employed. Miller was serving a
term for q minor offense.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
To Develop the New South.

Atlanta, Ga.-A new plan for ad.
vancing the development Of the South's
was originated by the exec.
utive officers of the Southern CONNER.
cial Congress, who met here Friday
On October 7, next, over $50 of the
representative business men of six
teen Southern states will meet here
to devise means Of advertising teh
natural wealth of the South and OF
disseminating among business men,
farmers and merchants of this section
data on the best methods Of develop
ing their resources.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
Died Attemptina Rescue.

Chicago, nl.-Frank Biegler. Jr.. was
burned to death in attempting to res
cue F. M. Kemp, a laborer, from a
fire in the factory Of the Biegler Tar
& Roofing Company. The dead youth
was a son Of the president Of the
company, and was working in the Of
fees at the plant. Kemp was prob
ably fatally burned. Mrs. Anton Arm
buster and Mrs. Annie Bitter were
severely burned while trying to aid
young Biegler. Capt. Charles Potteos
Of the fire department was also In.
jured.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

Mulone, notorious Sicilian brigand-
that name sounds queer-has been
sentenced in Perugia to 144 years Inn
prisonment. 1t may be mentioned that
Signor Mulone was tried in his alb
sence, not having been seen since he
escaped from his captors in 1906. Thus
the exemplary sentence, while proba-
bly, pleasing the authorities, does not
hurt the signor.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
He Knew the Kind.

Little Edward, aged four, was an
only child. He was anxious for a
baby sister, and was talking of it one
day with a friend of the family. In
the friends family was a baby girl OF
one year. The lady said: Edward,
you may have my baby; she is pretty
and sweet"
"Oh," said Edward, Il don't want an
old baby. l want a bran new one wifi
nofin on but tacum powder."-Red
Hen.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
WADE ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI

Burlington, lathe Northwestern
drouth has disgraced the great Father
of Waters. The Mississippi river has
fallen to a shallow creeks proportions
~hereabouts. Boys can wade across 1t
at many points in this vicinity. Ly-
man Roth and Frank Dewfn, young
men living just out of Burlington,
waded across 1t from bank to bank,
without swimming a stroke, losing
their footing or sinking beyond their
shoulders.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

Germany is to have indestructible
aerial w%arships. From earth modern
progress moved the locality of battles
to the sea and now 1t is to be moved
thence to the air. 1t is characteristic
Of the perversity of human nature that
the first thought of the practical adap-
tation of mans victory over the re-
sources of nature should be to use this
victory for the destruction of man.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
Shot Woman As Burglar.

New Orleans, La.-Believing his en-
ployer's s~ister-in-law, Miss Alma Ba.
rere, to be a burglar, Simon Keifer.
a dairyman's helper, shot and killed
her while she was walking in her
sleep. Keifer was sleeping In the
kitchen of his employers home when
he heard some one outside the door,
and he called, who's there?" several
times, and then fired with a double
barreled shotgun. Miss Barere fell
MORALLY wounded. She had been 9
somnambulist for several years
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
|. C. CRAFT SCANDAL
ATTORNEY BIGGs BRINGS OUT
"FAkE" CAR REPAIRS.
r. w. Belmont, Former Chief Clerk
Memphis Car Company, Ex-
plains System.

Chicago, Ill.-The Illinois Central
Railroad Company was dubbed the
Santa Claus Of the car repair
Christmas" tree in Fridays session
of the graft investigation before Mas
ter in Chancery Roosevelt B. Mason.
Christmas" was every day in the
year for the stockholders OF the car
repair companies and certain high Of
ficials of the railroad who were par
Elephants in the graft.
More than $1,500,0 900 of the rail-
roads cash is said to have gone into
the pockets of the plotters in the
years of 1907 and 1908. Details OF
the methods used are now being
spread upon the court records for the
first time. 1t was, as one of the plot
ters who has reformed put it today,
"easier than taking candy money from
a 3-year-old kiddie."
Frank w. Belmont, who as chief
clerk of the Memphis Car Company
made out most of the padded bills by
which the Illinois Central claims to
have been defrauded out of at least
$500, 900, told Of standing orders to
raise all bills ito the limit" regard
less of the amount of work done on
a car. He told Of billing cars that
were never even inside the shops and
Of collecting full rates for mistakes
in bill making.
He testified that he worked directly
under the orders of E. H. Ward. Sec
rotary of the Memphis Car Company,
and that his billing instructions were
"to come, either fully or as near as
possible, to the limit that was set on
car repairs, irrespective Of the repairs
that actually went into the cars"
81 have taken a car on which $16
worth of work was actually done and
rendered a bill for 1926 or $780," he
said.
THAT was getting it up to the linn
It," suggested Attorney A. w. Btggs.
who was examining for the Illinois
Central.
at sure was, sir" answered the wit
ness. Instead of putting on all the
traffic would bear, we put on all the
car would bear"
"Was this adding to the bills the
exception" asked the railroad attor-
neg.
1.-The exception? Bless you, no; 1t
was the rule. The only exception was
when I let a car go through light so
as not to attract too much attention
to the big bills"
"And did they often go through
Light"
When 1 had, say, forty bills, Id
put thirty-eight Of them to the limit
and let two go through light" said
Mr.. Belmont. The inspectors paid by
the Illinois Central and sent to Men,
phis to watch the repair work signed
the bills in blank, or when they were
but partially made up. If they didn't,
they were transferred.
What happened to an inspector
named Crabtree?" was asked.
"Crabtree refused to sign some bills
before I completed them: another mar
took his place." was the prompt an
swer.
The witness said that he frequently
made out bills for cars that had not
yet been repaired. If the company
needed money he would look over cars
that needed slight fixing and make out
bills "to the limit"
"Who told you to do this?"
"Mr. Ward, the secretary Of the
Memphis Car Company"
"Why did you do it,"
wasn't 1 working for the COM
pany?" Belmont demanded, with a
anfcker
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
OKLAHOMA CITY HAS RECORD
New Capital Of the New State Shows
Most Thrifty Development.

Washington, D. C.-Oklahoma City,
to which Governor Haskell moved the
capital of Oklahoma from Guthrie
without federal authority, has had the
remarkable growth Of almost $40 per
cent. in ten years, according to the
figures enumerated in the thirteenth
census, which were made public by
the director of the census Monday.
The present population is 64,205. an
increase of 54,16S since 1900 and an
increase of 31,753 or 97.S per cent.
since 1907, when a special census
showed 32,452.
Oklahoma county, in which Okla
homa City is located, increased from
25,915 in 1900 and $3.50 in 1907 to
g 1922 in 1910,
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
Cereals Need Rain.

Washington, D. C.-Sunshine In the
great corn and winter wheat grow
ing states during the past week was
very beneficial to the development of
growing vegetation and for harvest
ing purposes, according to the Ma
,tional Weekly Weather Bulletin is
sued by the department Of agricul-
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
Molasses WhIsky Ruling.

Washington, D. C.-Under al order
just issued by Commissioner of In.
ternal Revenue Cabell, for enforce
ment pending litigation, internal col
lectors are instructed not to brand
as whisky any distillation from mo-
lasses.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

A University of Chicago professor
Eow suggests that Venus is inhabi-
tated, arguing that habitable condi-
lions there are nearer this worlds
than on any other planet He might
have waited until the Marian puzzle
was solved before springing another.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

II American heiresses who marry
poor Englishmen Of title are to be
given the cold shoulder by the Court
of st. James, the circle Of mourners
In this country and Great Britain will
be very small.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

When the airship passenger routes
are in full operation it should be unnec.
essary to post signs warning passen-
gers not to get off while the machine
is in motion. But long acquaintance
with the travelling public may result
in keeping the sign up.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

English nobleman announces that he
Is willing to marry a beautiful and
wealthy American girl. For once. the
bis unmarried male American major
ity can sympathize with the British
peerage.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

Following recent experiments at
Hammondsport, N. Y, it is gravely an
nounced that the aeroplane is not very
good as a man killer in war. Who
cares?
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

Cities that are disappointed because
of the census returns should reflect
that Uncle Sam is as much interested
In making a good showing as any par
ticular community possibly a be.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

1t was not until the inventor of the
hoop skirt was eighty-three years old,
that he died. How long must we
wait for news from the inventor of
the hobble skirt?
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
In the Niuht School,

Teacher (of night schoo)-What do
you understand by the terms life
sentence?" Give an example of one
Shaggy-Haired Pupil pronounced
you husband and wife.-Chicago Trib-
une.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

The Cincinnati woman Who says
she will not rest until kissing a
been abandoned has a weary time be-
fore her.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

A 15-ton shark has been captured
near Seattle. The people are in luck
that II did not scramble ashore and
proceed 10 sun for office.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

It costs $50 to ride 800 miles in the
Zeppelin airship. It Is hoped. how
ever, that competition may eventually
bring about a lowering Of the rates.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

We've known amateur gardeners
who saved an unbelievable amount of
money by buying their truck at the
grocery store.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

A man has reached the limit of
boredom when he cease to laugh at
his own witty remarks.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

An airship that goes only 3S miles
an hour will not make much of an
appeal to the joy rider.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

Anyway, the aeroplano has put an
end to the plant of the mollycoddle
who was always signing for the wings
of a dove.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05
At Rehearsal,

Fan-What happens when the bases
are full?
Mana discord.-Stanford Univer-
sity Chaparral.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-08-05

Anyway, that baseball player who,
while eating, stabbed himself in the
arm with a table fork had a wretched
delivery.