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The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
KILL OFF COMPETITION
PACKERS GET CONTROL OF NEW
YoRK RETAILERS.
Loan Of $16, 900, 900 by Kuhn Loeb
to Organize National Pack
ing Company.


Chicago.-Evidencing tending to prove
q deliberate attempt OF the part of the
Chicago meat packers, acting through the
jointly owned National Packing Com.
pany, to suppress competition in the sup
ply of fresh meats in New York city,
has been secured by the department OF
justice.
Agents of the government, it is de
clared have obtained positive proof that
the stock of the New York Butchers As.
sociation, which within the last two
years was organized by retail market
owners in that city as an Independent
packing enterprise, has been bought up
almost entirely by the National Packing
Company.
The fact that a company organized ex-
pressly to create competition and to
make the New York butchers i%ndepend-
ent of the big packers should be acquired
by the Chicago interests, is considered by
officials of the department OF justice as
a most important link in the evidence
now being collected to prove that the
National Packing Company is operating
in violation of the Sherman antitrust
law. 1t is important because the peculiar
circumstances have a noteworthy bearing
on the question of intent. I
A reported loan of ~$15,000,000 from
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of New York, to en-
able the Chicago packers to organize the
National Company, with its long list OF
subsidiary corporations, was also inves-
tigated by Mr.. Medaris.
Officials of the packing company today
refused to confirm or deny the reports of
its ownership of the New York associa-
tion
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
Solons Make Progress.

Notwithstanding the comment relative
to the progress of legislation being
checked by reason of the senatorial dead
lock, so far as the records show, the
status of affairs is not so bad after all
On the other hand, the volume OF legisla
ton so far enacted is about on a pan
with the record in former years, wher
in biennial appropriation and ways ane
means session, although it is stated thai
the number of bills presented is rattle,
in excess of the record.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget Of State News Items Gathered BY Ouf Spccasl
Correspondent At Jackson.
CLASH.
Senatorial Situation at jackson Has
Reached Volcanic Stage.

After days of ~innocuous desuetude the
senatorial contest boke forth in volcanic
fury Monday, and the town is SO uil
of excitement as it never was BEFORE
Hon. Leroy Percy of G~reenvIlle IS hurl'
ing thunderbolts in the direction OF Hon.
j. X. Vardaman, and the friends OF both
men are keyed up to a pitch OF intensity
that makes not a few await the outcome
with no little uneasiness.
Mr.. Percy replied to the editorial OF
Gov. Vardaman in his paper, the Issue,
in which the latter charged that every
trust doing business in the State was
opposing his candidacy and had its agents
at Jackson for the purpose OF debauch'
ing the legislators. The Vardaman FOL
lowers have repeatedly referred to NJ
Percy as the corporation candidate.
Mr.. Percy took notice of these assaults
in a long card in the jackson News, in
which he quoted some of the statements
made by Mr.. Vardaman about leading
divines and eminent men in the State and
nation in his several papers, and also
paid his respects to the candidate him
self. he challenges the tiuth VI MS
statement that trusts are in Jackson for
the purpose of aiding Percy or defeating
Vardaman, and calls for the proof.
Asked if he would make immediate
reply to the statement of MIR. Percy,
Gov. Vardaman stated that he would not
Il will have something to say later"
he stated, and will reply to the first
part of Mr.. Percy's statement, especially
that part where it is inferred that /
have charged either him OF Messrs. Kyle
Alexander or Byrd with using corrupting
influences in order to accomplish my de-
feat. As to the other parts, l shall have
nothing at all to say, they being incl
dents of eight or nine years ago, and
shall ignore that part entirely"
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
Print Paper Too High.

Columbus, O.-At the annual meeting
of the Associated Ohio Dailies, held in
this city, q statement upon ''the price
which publishers should pay for print
paper was made by John Norris, chair
man Of the committee on paper. Mr.. Nor
ris said that if free competition prevailed
in the paper trade, news print should be
delivered at $35 a ton, or $1.75 per 100
pounds. More than $2,0oo,00o a year is
paid by newspaper publishers for atmos-
pheric moisture in print paper, he de-
aared.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
Arrested for UNDERTAKING..

Oklahoma City, Okla.-Warrants were
issued for the arrest of Michael Swatck
and George Parker, contractors, who are
charged with underpaying laborers in
their employ. An investigation By State
Labor Commissioner Daugherty showed
that the men have been receiving $1.40,
whereas the prevailing wage is $1.75 per
day
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

If, at the initiative of the United
States, the world forms a general
peace court, at which it's differences
can be arbitrated and arranged. it will
be the greatest work a nation could
ever perform. But it's realization
sounds too much like the establish
ment of an international millennium.
1t will require SO many concessions
from human nature to international
politics.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

Enterprise does not tag In New
Jersey. A grave-digger there was re-
Gently fined for selling liquor in the
cemetery to mourners at funerals. This
unique method of offering consolation
to the grief-stricken, with profits to
the consider. was promptly nipped in
the bud.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

The old story of the pitcher that
goes too often to the well is told
again in the case of that New York
farmer killed a few days ago by an
explosion of dynamite. He had been
blowing out stumps, and left dynamite
caps in his pocket. While he was
pitching some hay into his barn, the
fork hit his pocket and he was blown
up. A correspondent says: HE was
an expert at blasting, and had become
careless from constant use of dyna-
mite"
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
Free Lunch Killed Him.

Louisville, Ky.-Henry V. Wolff, coun-
Gilman from the Eleventh ward, choked
TO death today on a piece of meat which
he was ~endeavoring to swallow at a free
lunch counter in a saloon at Tenth and
Market streets. Mr.. Wolff, who was a
clerk for the Southern railway, felt the
pangs of hunger a couple of hours after
breakfast, and going to the saloon to ap-
pease his appetite, attacked the free
lunch. He had taken but a few bites
when he was seen to grow black in the
face and fall to the floor.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

The police claim to have arrested
the Spanish prisoner" in New York.
But it will make little difference as
far as saving victims is concerned.
Fools in this world are sc eager to be
parted from their money that almost
any kind of easy trick will do it. The
length of time which the Spanish
prisoner" swindle has existed and
f%ourished, in spite of repeated ex.
posures, shows this. Other Spanish
prisoners will arise, and after all, it
makes no real difference to the dupes
who gets their money.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
RELIGION VS.. UNIoNIsM.
Clash of Views Causes Strike in Ohio
Potteries and Stave Mills.

East Liverpool, O.-All coopers in the
potteries and stave mills struck here be-
cause several men working at the trade
refused to join the union. This refusal
was on account of the religious views,
the non-union men being either members
of the Free Methodist Church or Holy
Rollers The international union ordered
that all union coopers walk out. Prob
ably $50 union coopers are idle.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
State Fair Date.

The board of directors of the Missis-
sippi State Fair held a meeting Wednes-
day afternoon and arranged for the next
annual event to be held in this city. BY
an unanimous vote it was decided that
the dates for the State Fair shall be
from October IS to November 3, inclu-
sive, the event coming to a close'Thurs-
day night, thus allowing exhibitors the
remainder Of the week for packing up
their displays and arranging for retur
shipments. The financial affairs OF the
organization are in first-class shape.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

A train wreck in the west revealed,
the fact that several carloads of pea
nut sheels we're on their way to break.
fast-food concerns. 1t has long been
accepted that we must have peanut
politics, ut it is rather hard to have
the shaiIs thereof in our food
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

The business of matching up broken
down foreign princes with American
heiresses is plainly extra hazardous In
the matter of collecting the commits
sions. But observe how juicy the com
mission is when you finally do collect
one!
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
WOULD HONOR D
Franking Privilege May Be Extended to
the Ex-President.

Washington.-The carriage free OF
postage of all mail matter sent by Theo-
dore Roosevelt is proposed by Represen-
tative Hamilton Fish, of New York, who
introduced a bill to that effect today.
The bill is very brief and reads as fol-
lows:
"That all mail matter sent by Theo-
dore Roosevelt, late president of the
United States, under his written auto
graph signature, be conveyed free of post
age during his natural life"
Franking privileges are now enjoyed
bv both Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Harri-
son, widows of ex-presidents.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
STOLE en- BARGAIN DAY.
Gets Workhouse Instead of Penitentiary
Sentence Thereby.

Fast Liverpool, O.-Because it happen
ed to be bargain day when he stole six
plumcs from a department store, George
Brown escaped a penitentiary sentence
and was sent to the workhouse. The
plumes, ordinarily valued at SAP, were
marked down to $24. The jury said that
the ofense was petit larceny on bargain
day, but would have been grand larceny
st any other time, when the value OF
the goods exceeded $35.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
Burkitt School Bill.

The Burkitt educational bill, with it.
amendment from the senate committee
on finance cutting the total amount by
$15o, 900, went through another day OF
Joint debate in the senate Saturday
The trend of the senatorial view of the
measure is that the amount as left after
deducting $4,000 a year from the allow
ance voted by the house, of $1,425,000
win be sufficient to run the schools foi
four months, other funds to be supple
mented from local sources if = longer
term is desired.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
yided for.
Many Messages.

Gov. Noel is still maintaining his rec
ord as dispatcher of special messages tc
the legislature, having transmitted tive
such documents under one cover Thurs
day, one in regard to legislation which
is deemed necessary to the administra-
tion of affairs of municipalities and for
amending the code chapter on munieipail-
ties, and another covering twenty-seven
different and distinct matters applicable
to all sorts of conditions, mostly local
and private.
Among other things, the executive sug-
gests legislation in the direction of Gre
ating a state game and fish commission
and providing for its compensation, and
the establishing of county game wardens.
and he would also have the lawmakers
consider the matter of creating a state
board of accountants and take steps tc
regulate upblic accountants in general.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
oppose Raise il Rate.

Representatives Collier, Bowers, Sis
son. Spight, Gambler and Dickson had an
extended conference with the postoffice
department officials at Washington with
reference to the transmission of the
United Advocate, published by the Farm
ers' Union Of Mississippi. The postal au-
thorities have ruled that subscriptions to
the Advocate are compulsory, being a
part Of the dues paid for membership in
the Farmers Union, and for that reason
they propose to make the publication
pay frst-class postage.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
Talk Cattle Tick.

The feature of Tuesdays session was
the gathering of senators and representa-
tives in representatives hall to hear ad.
dresses from men identified with cattle
and stock raising, with especial reference
to the efforts being made to eradicate the
Texas fever or cattle tick. Addresses
were delivered by Prof. Archibald Smith:
j. NJ. Taylor, of Port Gibson, and DIR. j.
A. Herman, government veterinary ex
pert, and were attentively heard.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

All criticisms of the weather man
for presenting the country with such
a mild winter have been recalled.
There was nothing the matter with his
style of winter weather; he had plenty
of it, but simply concentrated.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
MooNsHINE IN JERSEY.
Illicit Still Near Bayonne Raided; 5000
Gallons Seized.

New York.-That the moonshine in
dustry is not confined to the mountains
Of the South was indicated when Morris
Drucker was arraiged before a United
States commissioner in Jersey City on q
charge Of operating an Illicit still in a
stable back Of his house in Bayonne, N.
j., one Of the suburbs Of this city. The
federal officers seized 5000 gallons Of
whisky.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

Unprecedented things are happen
ing the world over. But do not get
alarmed. Some things are just as be-
fore. For instance, a revolution is
going on in Santo Domingo.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
Three Bills Passed.

In the senate a bill was passed appro
priating $4,000 per year for the support
of the penitentiary. A measure amending
the public road law was passed without
dissent, and a bill was passed for the
support of agricultural experiment sta
tions.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
/. c. IS ENJo1NED.
Southern Also Prevented From Hinder
ing Tennessee Central.

st. Louis-United States Circuit Judge
Hook issued a temporary injunction to
prevent the Illinois Central and South
ern railroads from interfering with the
business of the Tennnessseee Central
Company. Recently, it is alleged, the
two roads instituted q practical boycott
against the Tennessee Central, threat.
ening to cancel through traffic arrange
ments.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
IRON MOUNTAIN STOCK GROWS.
$50, 900, 900 Increase and Absorption Of
Other Lines Voted.

st. Louis.-Stockholders of the st.
Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern rail
way, at a meeting here, voted to increase
the capital stock to $4,000. 0O0. The in
crease is $50, 100000.
The absorption of % auxiliary lines
and an increase of $4,000, 900 in the
bonded indebtedness, out of which the
lines will be improved, were voted on
favorably.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

While it is all right for a farmer
to buy a motor car if he can afford it.,
he should not mortgage his farm in
order to do so. 1t takes a fast motor
to outrun a mortgage.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

A man in New Jersey came near
drowning in a tank in midair. It's cit
liens cannot eve shuttle off this NOR
tai coil in a conventional and usual
way in that spectacular state.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

China now wants railroads. The
great wall between that empire and
the civilized world is down at last. On
the new railroads occidental ideas and
institutions will be the principal part
of the freight they will carry.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

The fact that eggs refused to coun.
probably is due to the fact that age
has lent them at least some mod
esty.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

When an aviator has his aeroplane
why he should not keep on going. 1t
would not be much worse to fall a
mile than to fall half that distance.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

The latest cure for tuberculosis is
rattlesnake enom. There does not
seem to the average individual much
choice between the remedy and the
disease.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
SCANDAL OF ILLITERACY."
Woman's Suffrage Advocate Makes At
tack on Kentucky.

Louisville, Ky.-At a woman's suffrage
meeting DR.. E. L. Powell declared that
had women been given a part in the man.
agement of tie educational system of the
state IS years ago Kentucky would not
be the scandal of illiteracy she is today"
There is a bill before the present legis-
lature which gives women a ballot in
school elections.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
aclean Sheets" Bill.

The senate passed the bill known as
the "Drummers, or clean sheets" bill, be-
ing entitled "A bill to better enforce san
itary cleanliness in inns, hotels and in
boarding houses without an opposition
vote. s
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
l5O MINERS ENTOMBED
EXPLOSION IN PRIMERo MINK
PROVES TO BE COSTLY.
Explosion Heard Ten Miles Away,
and Was Thought Earthquake
Had Occurred.

occurred at the Primero coal mine short
" after 4 o'clock Monday afternoon.
Three miners were killed outright and
$50 others ale believed to be dead in the
mine. These $50 men were entombed
by the explosion while at work, and
there seems hardly a chance that any
of them escaped.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company,
which owns and operates the property,
refuses to give out any information re-
garding the explosion, claiming that both
its telephone and telegraph wires to
Primero are down. 1t is claimed the
company purposely removed the tele.
phone apparatus at Primero SO that no
news of the accident might leak out
without being censored.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
ordered a special train made up ano
rushed to the coal camp. Doctors and
nurses left On this train with a large
supply of medical supplies.
The three men who were killed were
near the mouth OF the mine when the
exp)r~ion ..ook place.
TO explosion was heard ten miles and
many thought an earthquake had oc-
Cured. IPrimero is located tewnty-four
miles northwest of Trinidad.
Three years ago a disastrous explosion
took place in the property, in which
twenty-one miners were killed and many
injured.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

1t has just been discovered that
the earth has existed only 60,00C,0 900
years. And this country is just be-
ginning to realize it's full possibilities.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

A whole village in Italy is sliding
down the hill on which 1t was built.
The coasting must be unusually fine In
that locality.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

Pay as you enter and pay as you
go are good rules to follow whether
applied to street cars of any other
service or want in the way of liv-
ing.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

From the way that war between
Chinese Tongs in New York and else
where is raging it looks like a case
of hammer and tongs. Cannot some
one take a poker to the ~combatants?
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

If Halley's comet must strike the
earth somewhere, we hope it will show
a sense of discrimination and land in
Nicaragua.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

The best proof of high or low prices
is found by the average mar In his
cash balance at the months end.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

The man who invented that phan-
tom airship is a genius either for in
venting or for weaving fairy tales.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

Aeroplanes never get stalled In
snowdrifts. anyway.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

Is there really such a thing us slip
perry weather."
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

Uncle Sans warships do no honor
to the navy when they spend all night
on shoals or mud banks.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11
$15o,ooo OFFERED JEFF
For Ten Months Show-Provided He
Licks the Negro.

Chicago-Guaranteed the lump sum OF
$150,00O for his share, or a salary of
81, 900 per week. with so per cent. Of the
profits above that amount, James J. JEFF
fries will start on q ten months tour
of the world at the head of an athletic
show on July $, provided he gains the
title of worlds heavyweight champion
in his meeting with Jack johnson on
July 4.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

That January thaw did not bring
the mems to a melting mood. Eggs
continue just as high as ever.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

Thuggery has become a hazardous
occupation in Chicago.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

Primero, Colo.-Seventy-nine bodies OF
the victims of the explosion in the Pri-
nero mine were found piled in a mass
at the foot of the air shaft shortly after
MIDNIGHT.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

Get ready for a spring real estate
boom.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-02-11

The inventor of the pay-as-you-enter
car could not have been a smoker.
The Detroit times., 1910-02-15
PLEADS FOR QUIET
HALF HOUR At NOON
Business Bustle Should Give Way To
Communion With Christ, Says
Bishop Williams

4 plea for the cessation OF the
hustle and hustle OF material things
FOR brief half hour each noon. TO
spend a quiet 20 minutes OF commun-
ion with Christ. was made by Bishop
Charles ID Williams in the Detroit
Opera house. Monday. when the inter
denominations Lenten services com
menced
The lower floor OF the theater was
we'll filled with men and women and
ministers OF many faiths, and the ser
vices We're entered into with hearty
n reverential spirit. The notes of the
first hymn were sounded promptly al
II O'Clock and exactly 80 minutes
later Bishop Williams pronounced the
benediction.
1T is not an easy matter To hold
mp ones hand and still business life
for 80 minutes while quiet meditation
takes Its place. but 10 those who viii
come mere each day. body and spirit
Will find refreshment." said the speak
er. Personal religion is not a mat
ter OF hustling. busting activity, but
It's true essence Is an inward life or
faith and love and friendship. We are
SO taken up with worldly AFFAIRS that
even our Sundays are devoted 10 the
flesh. Is not this true picture OF the
average Sunday? Rising later than
usual 4 heartier breakfast than usual
is dawdled ever. then the Sunday pa
per, then hurried toilet for church.
then quick return 10 heavy dinner
followed by a nap, or a visit 10 a
neiChbor's. an automobile ride or a
walk. Sunday evening supper with
guests 10 talk over the doings OF the
past and the coming week. and on TO
bed with a sense OF even greater
WEAKNESS than on the other six days
Of the week. We seem 10 find II inn
possible 10 take time 20 observe those
things to which the Sabbath day was
originally dedicated
For the remainder OF the week the
MONDAY speaker Will be the Rev Dr.
Beverley Warner, rector OF Trinity
church. New Orleans. La, except on
Saturday. when the Rev S S Mar
quis will speak. as Dr. Warner is
obliged 70 leave Detroit Friday after.
noon TO reach his own pulpit IN time
for Sunday.
The Detroit times., 1910-02-15
BOILER INSPECTOR REMOVED.
Governor Of Colorado Probes Charge
Of Graft.

DENVER. Colo Feb. 14--GoY.
Shafroth announced today mat ne
would remove state boiler inspector
e.. T. j. Whitney from Office pending
am !nyestig5 ion o. charges that the
occupsnts OF har position Tor the pas.
fourteen Years have been guilty Of
sraft
state Auditor ke1ehan preferred the
charges against Whitney aGer the al.
,esed discovery OF q uipueate set 1:
BOOKS I'm his ofIiCe Kenehan charges
lha, while nearly $4,000 a year has
been collected hy the boiler inspectors
fOl many years past. oniy $4,000 a
year has heeu turned over TO the state.
\usitor Kenchan said today that The
worst has not yet come
kcnthan charges We're supported
10y Tho sworn statement OF Mrs Edna
Tehbets, stenographer OF he state
boiler inspectors office She swore
She had known for years that the
gsiting was going on. but did not con
slider IL her duty 20 reyeai the fac
The Detroit times., 1910-02-15
WANTS WIFE SENT HOME.
Buffalo Man Writes Of Awful Things
To Happen II She Doesn't Come.

Frank J. Smith. OF Buffalo. has
written a pathetic letter to Capt Ba-
ker Of the Central police precinct,
asking that his wife, who Is in De
troit be sent back 10 him.
Smith letter reads like a rarebit
dream. lie encioses a csrefully-drawn
diagram showing what is going 10 hap
pen 10 Frank J Smith if he doesn' get
his wife back. and has TO come to De
troit 10 find her In the diagram Frank
Is started Oh a devious route with a
large amount OF gold and few iuten-
lions The route leads through the
Red l.ight district. 10 the poor house
and the county morgue Frank has
been Ia Detroit He once committed
suicide here. ~ letter, and nearly
scared his wife TO death Franks dia-
grams show thar he knows the ropes"
around Detroit. They picture out The
red-hol time that Frank Will have be
fore he lands n the morgue. ir he
ever has 10 come here TO lind his
wife