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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
Vivid Story of
Life on the Farm
Mississippi Negro farmers IN Fourth An
nual Conference Ten How They Con-
QUered the Soil. Built Homes and
Started Bank Accounts PrinCi-
pal fOltZCIaW'S Good Advice.
By HORACE D. SLATER.

Two thousand Negro farmers and
their wives and children attended the
fourth annual session OF the Negro
farmers conference. which was re-
Gently held at Utica. Miss. under the
auspices Of the Utica Normal and In
dustrial institute. OF which William II
Holtzclaw Is principal.
The establishment and maintenance
OF the Utica Normal and Industrial In
stitute are the direct outcome Of the
1uskegee institute idea. its principal
being a typical Tuskegee product.
The concrete examples OF successful
farm life Of these Negro farmers who
attended the conference show how
this institution. with all its work, has
become part Of the life OF the peo-
pie. Ten years ago they lived from
hand to mouth" Now. through the
influence Of this institution, some have
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
RIGID LIVING
COST INQUIRY
Congressional Committee VIII
Investigate.
TARIFF is UNDER FIRE
To Ascertain Whether New Measure
Is Responsible For High Cost Of
Food and other Necessaries Of Life
Hearings Will Be Public.

Washington. Feb. 2.-The house Of
representatives will make a rigid IN
vestigation into the cost of living.
Representative Payne. OF New York.
the chairman OF the ways and means
committee. and majority leader in the
house introduced his resolution pro
viding for an investigation along the
broadcast lines.
Prior TO introducing his measure.
MIR. Payne conferred with Represent
tive Champ Clark. the minority leader.
who had been designated with him
by the committee to draft the instru-
ment authorizing the investigation.
The committee is 70 inquire into
any alleged Increase in the cost Of
the necessaries Of life. some OF which.
such as clothing. fuel. furniture, meats
and foOdstuffs. are enumerated. The
wholesale and retail prices and rates
Of profit are TO be investigated.
The question OF whether the tariff
is responsible for the alleged high cost
of living is covered in a general pro
vision as to whether prices are az
fected. increased OF otherwise. by any
laws Of the United States"
The hearings OF the committee will
be open TO the public. II may sit any
where in the United States and sum
mon and swear witnesses.
a thorough and far-reaching investl-
cation OF the sO-called beef trust Is
provided for I'm resolution introduced
by Representative Godfrey. a Republl-
can member from Missouri The 80
luton is drawn In drastic terms and
appropriates $4,000 to be used I'm get
ting at the facts. Fines OF $4,000 and
Imprisonment for FIVE years is provid-
cd for witnesses who decline TO reveal
Information 20 the committee.
The bill provides for a thorough
and complete investigation OF the pres.
ent unreasonable and unnecessary ad
vancing prices made by meat packers
and OF the reported boarding OF 1--we
stock in western yards: of the refus-
ing Of large orders and the holding of
supplies in freezers 10 create the I'm.
preston Of a shortage"
The committee. which Is 20 consist
OF six senators and six members OF
the house. is empowered 10 call wit
nesses and administer oaths. 20 sit
anywhere and compel the attendance
OF those from whom they desire tes
timony. II is authorized 20 call upon
any court IN the United States TO en-.
force the orders OF the committee and
compel replies TO questions put to wit
nesses.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
PROMOTERS TO MEET
Gleason TO See Jefrries, Then TO Con
fer With Rickarti.

San Francisco. Jan. Slack
Gleason leaves today for a conference
In Seattle with James J. Jeffries.
which may settle the long drawn-out
controversy between the two pro
motors az TO where the hght is TO BE-
held. Gleason has no well-dehned idea
as to what Will actually be accom-
plished.
i don't know, as expect Jefriea
10 decide In favor OF San Francisco
after this conference" said Gleason
I don't know that I would care 10
force the matter TO that extent.
What / want TO do is TO have a
talk with Jeffries and Berger ana
ind out what they have learned from
Tex Richard. and what he pro
poses 20 90.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05

confesses Murder to Spare Wife.
Michael Baab. who is charged with
numbering Philip Richards, an anna
seur hypnotist. who exercised an i'm
proper hypnotic power over Mrs. Baab.
pleaded guilty to murder In Wilkes
Barre. Pa. so as to save his wife the
humiliation Of having to publicly tell
about her relations with Richards
Later in order to determine the de-
gree of the murder. Judge Fuller
heard the testimony privately. Mrs.
Baab told how Richards had hypno-
tiled her and how his power over her
finally became so great that she told
her husband and asked for his protec-
ton
Baab's attorneys also showed there
Is faint Of insanity in his family and
that he has twice been severely in
jured in the head. and the injuries
are inclined TO produce mental weak.
ness.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
WON'T FIGHT IN UTAH.
Johnson's Manager Says Battle VIII
Take Place In California.

Chicago, January 31.-"Thera ia
absolutely no doubt that the fight
between Jeffries and Johnson viii
take place at Gleasons Ocean View
Club in California. 1t will certainly
not take place in Salt Lake CITY or
anywhere else in Utah"
This statement came TODAY from
George Little. manager of Jack
Johnson. now at the Hotel La Sale
nursing a cold, which threatened him
with pneumonia
The question will be settle
sometime this week" continued Lit.
tie. Before / left New York, I wired
both Richard and Gleason for AN
immediate answer to my question
as 10 where the battle would take
place. Johnson Is anxious TO get 10
training. He already has started and
Is doing some road work every dav
| received no answer from either OF
the promoters, but was informed
they would get together this week.
and settle the battle ground cues
ton.
Il do not believe Richard can
make good In Utah IN the face OF the
arguments made by Gov. Spry. to
the effect that under no conditions
should the battle take place in the
State over which he is chief execu-
tive Furthermore. California will
be far better drawing place. that
much Richard must admit. Gleason
has this Ocean View place, which IS
an ideal spot and the railroads can
accommodate everybody"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
Poison In swope,a Rodx.

Colonel Thomas II. Swope. multi
millionaire. and Chairman Swope. his
nephew. died at Kansas City. Mo. from
strychnine poisoning This informa
uon was contained In a telegram re.
ceived by John G. Paxton a private
attorney for the Swope heirs. Arrests
are expected.
The telegram from Chicago. which
announced that DIR. Walter Haines and
Dr. Ludwig Kekteon had found poison
In the stomachs of the two dead mem.
bers OF the Swope family, lencs con
nrmation TO the theory advanced some
weeks ago that a deliberate plot ex.
isted To exterminnte the entire swope
family.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
pier PraxInn In Fire

disastrous fire on South Market
street in Mount Carmel, Pa, result
ed in the death OF Mrs. Joseph Hin
kel, thirty years OF age. the moth.
er OF three children. A nine-year-old
boy carried out his four-yearold broth
err. and then hurried back through the
spoke and flames and hunted and car.
Red out to safety his year-old baby
sister
After the fire was extinguished and
the excitement had died down. a team.
ster examining the ruins fousd the
woman. kneeling and hands clasped
and upraised as II in prayer. Almost
all Of her clothing was burned from
the body.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05

Colonel Swope whose fortune Is
Variously estimated at from four 20
SIX million dollars. died In convul-
slons- His nephew died under similar
circumstances. Shortly afterwards
eight members of the Swope family
were stricken with typhoid fever Then
came the startling statement that a
person who would benefit by the death
OF the members of the Swope family
had purchased typhoid bacllli from a
Kansas City toxicologist. This bacilli
1t is alleged. was planted In the Swope
home.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
Town officials Attend Cock FJobt

Olyphant, Pa. Feb. Claiming he
has the names OF many prominent men
of this place who attended a cock fight
the other night Rev. d. j. Murphy
threatens To use them as witnesses
against the saloonkeeper in whose sa-
loon, he saws. the fight took place. He
says several of the borough officials
and a number of other prominent resi-
dents attended and bet on the battles.
Father Murphy intends TO take the
matter into court and ask that the H.
cense OF the saloonkeeper be revoked.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
New oleomarnarina Lay

Senator Penrose introduced a bin TO
amend the oleomargarine law in ac-
cordance with recommendations made
by associations of dairymen and gran
gers.
The measure imposes upon manu-
facturers OF oleomargarine q special
tax of 5000 a year. The tax to be paid
by wholesale dealers in uncolored
oleomargarine is fixed at 5000, and the
tax assessed against retailers In stint
lar product is fixed at Sc.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
READING Enolneers Get = RaI,,

Orders affecting every engineer OF
the Philadelphia & Reading railroad
system were issued at ReRading Pa.
by General Manager A T. Dice. This
was 20 the effect that. beginning Feb.
1. there would be an increase OF wages
FOR all the engineers. bringing the
scale OF wages up 20 par with the
wages paid on all systems In this
country
The increase will average about Is
per cent more than the present scale
OF wages
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
Live Stock Markets

PITTSBURG Union Stock Yards)-
CATTLE higher: choice. S6.50TG IS.
prime, $6.25M6.45.
SHEEP firm; prime wethers, S6.1OT
6.25; culls and common. 1904; lambs
$50 $50; veal calves. S9.5OmI0.
HOGS steady. prime heavfes and
mediums. SS.75; heavy Workers.. So 60
$3.50 $3.50; roughs. $75O6S.25
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
WILL SEE RICHARD.

Ihen l want to make an appoint
ment for Richard TO meet ne some
where and talk Il over. Probably
Reno would be a good meeting place
and very likely next Friday would
he the time. Then. IL Richard insists
on Salt Lake City, I will make him
a proposition 70 take over the fight
myself
will be prepared Immediately
70 post the $4,000 forfeit. so that
hlckard can have his money hack
ana l will make arrangements to
hold the bout In or near San Fran
cisco. II 1 can't get a permit IN
San Francisco, there is no question
that the bout can be held in Alamed.
county"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
To Enter Suit to Dissolve mea, rrus,

To Enter Suit TO Dissolve Meat Trust
Chicago. Feb. 2-Civil suit to dis.
solve the National Packing company
on the charge that Il is n trust Is Ell.
pected 10 be filed by United States
District Attorney Sims within a few
days as n result OF disclosures made
before the federal grand jury invests.
eating the alleged beef trust. The suit
will be fled possibly this week. This
report was given weight by the init.
nation Saturday that in the books and
documents Of the National Packing
company now being examined by the
grand jury there had been found evil.
dences which convinced Mr.. Sims that
indictments could be secured for Ave
Packingtown officials. the heads OF the
chief meat packers there
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
Escape Death as ~ by Miracle.

a bobsIed carrying twenty school
children was struck by a fast LAX
Shore & Michigan Southern passenear
train on North Main street at An.
dover. Ohio. and carried upwards OF
200 feet upon the pilot OF the Iocomo-
tive until brushed on by an engine
standing upon a side track.
Not one child was killed and none
is thought TO be seriously hurt. Pen.
dleton. the driver. was uninjured. ono
or the horses was hurt and had 10 be
shot
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
Turkey ScIIz Ear Ssnn

AT the Northern Illinois Poultry
Show at Belvidere. Ill. It has been an.
nounced that the famous Porter tur.
key was sold 20 f. II. Burns. Of Or.
lent. s. D., for $500
This gobbler has taken first prize
and sweepstakes at New York. Balti.
more and Hagerstown. Nd, and other
cities where national poultry shows
have been held. His weight is fifty two
pounds. and he is said TO be the larg.
est turkey in the United States.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
Gets Six Months For KILLING Child.

According 20 a decision IN the
Nansemond circuit court at Suffolk,
Va, parents cannot be given more
than jail sentence for beating their
children TO death. William and Venie
Pugh were tried for numbering their
young daughteT. Mary. three years OF
age, whose skull was crushed and
whose body bore many evidences OF
torture. The father was fined $50 and
given six months. The woman went
free
The crime was peculiarly atrocious.
and the jurors favored a severe pen.
atty for the man. but could not innict
II under instructions.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
o, L. & w. KiIIs a Paasenc.r

The Delaware. Lackawanna & West
ern's proud record of not having had
a passenger killed in ten years was
broken by the killing of Edward Hill.
OF Gibson, Pa. as he left the passenger
train at New Milford. Hill did not no
tice coal train approaching upon the
opposite track. and as he alighted from
the train he stepped in front OF IL. was
struck and killed.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
OLD MEN BREAK STRIKE
Took the Place Of Breaker Boys a
Coal coliIery.

Took the Place Of Breaker Boys a
Coal colilery.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, Feb. odd men
many of them grandfathers. broke the
strike of the 200 small breaker bows
at the White Oak breaker at Archi
bald and compelled the boys to re
turn TO work without getting the in
creased pay they demanded. When the
new child labor law. effective Jan. 1
drove a number of boys out OF the
breaker. old men were put in their
places and were paid $L10 a day,
whereas the boys got only ~ cents.
They demanded an increase. saying
they worked as quickly as the men.
and on being refused they went on a
strike. The company began filing their
places with old men, and the boys
gave up and went back to work at the
old rate
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
$1,000, 900 Breakfast Food Meroer

Minneapolis. Mimi. Feb. 1.-The re
ported consolidation of all cereal man
ufacturing concerns of Minneapolis
one in Battle Creek. Mich: two /.
Chicago and some ia Iowa. in a new
100000 corporation to handle IN
output OF these breakfast food cor
Germs was confirmed By Thomas
Hicks. who has been promoting n
deal here
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
PRODUCE QUOTATIONS.
The Latest Closing Prices For Produce
and Live Stock.

nc latest CLOSING FFicc8 FOR Pnoduce
and Live Stock.
PHILADELPHIA - FLOUR steady.
winter low grades. $4.40046O: winter
clear, $5g5.25; city mills, fancy, 500
@6.40.
RYE FLOUR quiet; per barrel. $4.25
GAO.
WHEAT firm; No. 2 red. SI.259L27
CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow. local.
7112 are
OATS steady; No. 2 white. 5sH@
SIC lower grades. SIC
POULTRY; Live firm; hens. I6m
17c.;. old ROSTERS. l1411Hc. Dressed
steady; choice fowls. 1Sc.; old roost.
ers. 13c.
EGGS weak selected. 37H3qc !.
nearby. Sic; western. Bic.
POTATOES firm; per bush. 52655
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
Gave Birth 10 Ennr

Mrs Margaret Brooks. negro W.
man who lives in the ChapolI Mill
community at Austin. Tex. has lust
given birth 20 her second quartet OF
children She is also the mother OF
three sets Of triplets and one set OF
twins
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
Spain Eapeets Another anual 3d..

A birth in the royal family of snsin
Is expected in the latter part OF MAY.
queen Victoria already is the mother
OF three children-Prince Alphonse.
Prince jaime and Princess Beatrice
the latter having been born on June
%, 1909.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
Tramp Inherits $3.50 600

Boston. Feb. 2.-After having tramp
ed In poverty throughout the country
for nearly a dozen years, James J.
Corbett was declared heir to $3.50. 900.
Judge George decided that Corbets
was the missing brother and heir of
William j. Corbett. junk dealer
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05
CH0KED TO DEATH ON MEAT
Louisville Councilman Dies While
Eating Lunch In Saloon.

Louisville. Ky, Feb. 2.-Henry V.
Wolff, a city councilman and clerk IN
the Southern railway Office here.
choked to death on a piece of meat
which he was eating at the lunch
counter in a saloon. Mr.. Wolff had
taken but few bites when he grew
black in the face and fell to the floor.
A physician was called. but Mr.. Wolf
was dead before the doctor arrived.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05

Honolulu. Feb. 2.--The Pacific crufs-
sr feet has arrived here from Yoke
hama A coal passer on the Washing.
ton died OF smalipo<
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-05

The Richmond PLANET Depot is
z16 South Regent street. Portches-
ter, N z. ISAAC PARHAM. Agent.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-28
Answers to Queries

RIALTo,-.J H. J.. Concrete Where is the
Rialto building in San Francisco?
The ruins of a building of that name
stand at the southwest corner of Mis-
sion and New Montgomery streets.
There is an occupied building at Mar
ket and Fifth streets that bears the
same name.
GOOD Subscriber. City. Rob-
ert Birath. writing from Virginia City,
Nevs informs this department that the
song "Goodby. MY Lover. Goodby.''
is to be found in Banjo Folio" col
lection of songs and instrumental music
arranged for that instrument.
.FLAG-A. C.. city. What flag is displayed
when the president OF the United States visits
a man of war?
The United States ensign is hoisted
to the masthead a the main and re-
mains there until the president takes
his departure.
BASKET BALL-A. n. Martinez How many
girls are required on each side for the game
of basket ball? What are the rules for the game:
Five on a side. You can procure the
rules for small sum from any first
class book seller.
MAY FLINT. ~. city. What was the date
OF the sinking of the ship May Flint in the
bay Of San Francisco after collision with a L.
S. war vessel? Was Il day or night?
During the night of September s,
1900.
sINGER-w. ]. H.. Oakland. What singer
commanded the highest price for seats at a con-
cert in America
Jenny Lind in New York in 1851.
when $500 was paid for the choice of
first seat.
TIRE-H. c.. City What is the advantage
of pneumatic tire over old fashioned tire?
The advantage is that there is less
jar to the occupants of the vehicle
while travelling.
oRPHIO P0ET-Reader. city. To whom did
Ralph Waldo Emerson refer In his essay on
Mature" by the words 'orphic poet?
To Orpheus, the legendary poet and
musician of ancient Greece
THREE CITIES-J. F. NJ, city WHAT'S the
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-28

Californfans have been accustomed to
reckon their history from the coming
of the padres. Behind that has been
merely the hazy record of the daring
navigators who braued the inhospitable
coasts. The previous eras have melted
into impenetrable mists. All good Calf
fornians will agree, however, that only
the warping OF time has placed else
where the Garden of Eden To this the
laden branches of the Pajaro valley
bear rudy witness. To more specific
claims of an ancient lineage the native
son Is not so indisputably committed.
Any effort. therefore, to search out
some enduring mark OF a distant age
must bring grateful recognition. In
this worthy enterprise. science has not
been wholly sympathetic. Geology has
stoutly resisted. It was Prof Joseph
le Conte who startled his class at the
state university with the information
that California was the youngest piece
of geography on the hemisphere. the
tender offspring of a motherly glacier
But now comes one of our own his
torians with challenge to Egypt.
1t was George Ade who remarked. by
the way, that Egypt was very small
for its age. But the home of the
Pharaohs must now defend it's
cestral claims against the rising west.
In its refusal to be overtopped in
any form of human endeavor Cali
fornia presents a rival to the Sphinx.
1t is la Piedra Pintada" or Painted
Rock. on the broad Carrisa plains of
San Luis Obispo county. Myron Angel.
the venerable historian OF San Luis
Obispo, finds striking analogy be-
tween these two monuments. He has
gathered the facts and legends bear
ing upon this imposing and ancient
pile with its fresco of fantastic pic
lures. and has presented them in inter
esting and artistic book FORM
Most awe inspiring and mysterious,
and indubitably the work of the sun
worshipers," says he, ARE the Sphinx
of Egypt and the Painted Rock of San
Luis Obispo standing almost precisely
opposite each other on the globe. The
first has stood as a riddle TO all in
quirers during all the centuries OF
written history. Itsfame is worldwide
attracting tourists from all parts of the
civilized earth, while the latter is
known to but few, though its exist
ence as a temple may be OF equal age
and its purpose the same. both facing
the rising sun, and both great and mys-
terious works of an unknown people.
Through all the history Of California
the Painted Rock has remained a rnys-
terry, silent in the wilderness, never
visited or studied by the archaeologists,
and its maze of paintings unread
But the Painted Rock is not to re-
main much longer neglected treasure.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-28


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