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The Marshall republican., 1910-04-01

RHODE ISLAND RED5-Thor-
oughbred Rhode Island Red chick
ems, fine laying strain, the bsst al
arouni'chickens. 75c per setting of
Is eggs. Mrs. A. j. Biebel, Mar
shall RID 2. Apr. 10
The Marshall republican., 1910-04-01
Local Items

Frank KNIT was up from Nap
ton Monday,
-
The new county farm buildings
are completed.
j. r. Napton, of Kansas City,
visited homefolks Sunday.
Don't forget the school, village
md city elections next Tuesday.
Vote for long school terms mex:
Tuesday.
Fine display of all new
Pianos in this our spring sale.
Opposite P. H. Rea's Imple
ment house. RIM .Sutherlin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Artie Morris, Of
Hardeman, spent Sunday here with
the formers parents.
Wheat looks very good com
paratively in the Sweet Spring;
vicinity, although it has also beer
badly damaged.
Tho edition FNaHn a trin IN Susnn
The Marshall republican., 1910-04-01

Get you plows sharpened on {
trip hammer at Lindsey & Jahn's
1915.
The Marshall republican., 1910-04-01

n. j. Rothrock, who was on
the jury from the McAlister Spring
vicinity remembered us with his
renewal last week.
The Marshall republican., 1910-04-01

Robt. Velten and son Chauncey
we're up from West Glasgow las
Thursday and made us an agree
able visit.
The Marshall republican., 1910-04-01

Mrs. Geo. Burnside, OF east Mar
shall, was visiting her daughter
Mrs. Will carp, near Waverly last
week.
The Marshall republican., 1910-04-01

The Metropolitan Insurance Co.
through its agent j. E. Roark paid
Mrs. w. G. Durrett $4,000 insurance
last week, carried by Mr.. Durrett.
The Marshall republican., 1910-04-01

Il. A. Hagedorn and son e. G..
were here from Slater Monday on
business and made u office a
pleasant visit.
The Marshall republican., 1910-04-01

The editor made a trip to Sweet
Springs Saturday and the list OF
new names and renewals show how
royalty we were treated.
The Marshall republican., 1910-04-01

The "Country Club" enjoyed ths
hospitality OF Mrs. A. c. Potter
north OF town last Thursday after
noon.
The Marshall republican., 1910-04-01

Among the guests at the Ruff
this week are the Counte and Coun-
tess Leschnisky, OF Kansas City,
who are said to be a genuine count
and countess of Russia. They are
alive, civilized and quite tame!
The Marshall republican., 1910-04-01

Col. and Mrs. Jas. Gordon and
Misses Mary and Ella Goodson were
called to Lexington Tuesday norm
ing by the illness of Mrs. Gordon's
brother Geo. M. Catron, who died
there that afternoon.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
RAILROADS ENJONTED.
Government Restraints Railroads from
Increasing Rates.

Washington, D. C.-The government
came to the aid of the manufacturers,
shippers and consumers in western
trunk line territory, which filed a me.
mortal with the department of justice
asking that the railroads be restrain.
ed, on the plea that they were unjust,
from putting into effect proposed
increase OF rates adopted by the Yves.
tern Traffic Association. 1t also was
commended that the increases were the
result OF an agreement between the
railroads contrary to law
The representations made by the
Omaha committee created a favorable
impression on Attorney General Wick.
ersham, and after comforting with cno
president he directed that United
states District Judge Dyer at Hanni.
bal, Mo, be asked TO issue q restrain
ing order, which was granted by him.
Hannibal, MO-. twenty-five western
railroads were temporarily restrained
by United States District Judge Da-
Vld r. Dyer from enforcing or making
a general advance in the Interstate
freight rates, scheduled for June n
The Injunction was granted on Pc
tition filed by the government on tho
allegations that the advances in tnJ
rates were agreed on by the defend.
ants without competition and in viola
ton of the Sherman act.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
DRY GOODS MERCHANTS
SHOW TARIFF INIQUITIES
Exhibit Shows How Increases
hit Common Materials.
PERCENTAGE OF INCREASE SHOWN
Dry Goods Mems Organization Prepare Cost q
Living Exhibit to Show Effect # Tariff
on Cotton Goods Prices

New York city.-A cost of living
exhibit aiming to show that the
Payne-Aldrich tariff law has worked
gross injustice and terrible advances
in cotton goods, has been prepared
by the general committee OF the
wholesale dry goods mems organiza-
ton here typical classes of popular
white goods NaFe taken as illustrations
OF the committee claims that tne
new Nso-called special rates on cotton
goods show increases that have hit
materials in common use by the peo-
sple Of the country
According to the committee these
articles, picked at random, expose per-
centages OF ADVANCE up to ~ per cent
increase in goods actually imported
since the law went into effect.
On the goods quoted, the Dingley
duties of from % to Az per cent are
replaced in the new law by speclnc
duties of from 6 cents to IL cents
per square yard. The percentage OF
increase as argued by the COMMITTEES
are as follows;
Percentage of Increase.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
NAVY COAL FROM ALASKA.

Admiral Dewey Makes a Report to
the Secretary of Navy.
Washington, .. C.-Admlral Geo.
Dewey, president Of the general board
of the United States Navy, has for.
warded a report to the secretary OF
the navy as to the possibility OF pro
curing and the economy of using
Alaskan coal in the United States
navy. The report is in the form OF
answers to questions concerning tie
matter.
In answer to the question as to
whether the Alaska coal field would
in case of war with Japan, be of use
to the governments Asiatic fleet, the
report states that should this Alas
kan coal be OF the grade required by
the navy the cost of mining and Of
transportation not greatly exceeding
that for coal in the eastern states,
and it be laid down in an accessible
and safe Alaskan harbor with proper
facilities and in quantities necessary
for the fleet, it would be of advantage
to the government"
Other interesting figures and data
are given. The West Virginia fields
supply the greater part Of the coal
used on the Pacific, the rest being
Imported from Australia. The cost Of
transportation Of the West Virginia
coal to the Pacific coast averages
$3.50 per ton to Manila and Yoke
hama lalt)ut S2,75 per ton.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
MOONSHINING INCREASES.
Illicit Liquor Stills Are Plentiful in ProhihatiOu
Territnru

Washington, p, C.-Royal r. Cabell.
commission OF internal revenue when
he appeared before the CONGRATULATIONS
committee of the house recently ash.
ed for an increase OF so ner cent IN
line allowance heretofore made for
ms once, saying it was necessary be.
cause moonshining and blockading III
prohibition territory had vastly in
| creased.
Whereas congress had formerly
been allowing his department $780,.
600 annually, he asked for $40 00o
for the reason, above given, The in.
crease In dry territory in the south
and the change from license ia. nj.
license had, he said, increased the
number of illicit stills. In 1909 130
stlll were captured and in 1909 the
number captured had reached 1.743.
He said the greater number of these
stills were located in Georgia and
North Carolina and other dry terrific
ny. NThe number Of arrests increased
from 32S to 1888. He said further:
There were pending on July /, of
last year 1850 criminal cases, prac.
tically all reported by our field force.
and during the year ending June 80,
1909, we disposed Of 1886 criminal
cases.
The chairman Of the committee
asked: How do the number of Grim
inal cases arising now in the states
where prohibition laws have been en-
acted compare with tde number OF
cases in those states prior to the en-,
actment of such prohibition legisla-
tion?''
"A very great increasea notable
increase was the reply.
Give us the concrete increase
I'm Georgia last year there was
224 distilleries seized and destroyed.
For the year ending June 80, 1909,
there were 623.
I'm North Carolina, which has re-
Gently gone dry, the proportion is
just about the same In Oklahoma
there were approximately three times
as many arrests and reports of VIC
Iations since the state went, dry. And
the experiences in these states are
only indicative of the conditions ex-
listing elsewhere in the so-called dry
country
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
Newsy Paragraphs.

The latest meanest man has been
discovered in New YORK he kept stlI
his money in his shoes and slept with
his shoes on, to prevent his wife get-
ting any of it when she went through
his pockets
Recent cold and rainy weather evil
IDENTIFY encouraged the boil weeYil in
Louisiana, for reports are reaching
Shreveport of the discovery of the
troublesome pest on farms. AS yet
no great alarm has been occaslOne1
So far the Teeyl is not in as large
numbers as last year.
Nearly one hundred young ScotcD
women. betrothed to men WAC have
been in America from six months TO
several years arrived in New York
city in the first and second cabin and
steerage of the Caledonia from Cha.
gov. Some OF the hrst cabin voy-
ayers were met at the pier by men,
VINO took them away to marry them.
The steerage passengers, who were
taken TO Ems island, may be released
and married
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
TAFT THANKS AUGUSTA.
President Appreciates Kind Offer te
Pay Travelling Expenses.

Augusta, Ga.-Through his military
aide, Captain A. w. Butt, who is a
citizen of Augusta, President Taft
most cordially thanks the trades bod
les and citizens Of Augusta for tno
action taken at the joint meeting of
the commercial organizations when
the people of this city rendered
the nation $4,000 to meet the deficit
in the presidents travelling expenses.
In his letter to Secretary w. e.
Boykin, of the joint meeting, Captain
Butt says that President Taft de
sfres me to express to you the deep
appreciation for the thoughtful ane
generous offer He is accustomed to
kindness and courtesy from the peo-
pie of Augusta, but he was hardly pre-
pared for such a generous and such a
thoughtful act and at such an oppor-
tune moment.
"Of course, he has sincere friend
ship for the people of the south, and
many of his most intimate friends
represent the warm, chivalric bloo (,
of that section. 1t was, therefore, es-
pecially distasteful to him that any
thing could have arisen in congress
which might appear to be a reflection
upon the people Of the south or their
hospitality. His letter to Mr., Taw-
ney was prompted by desire to i'm
mediately reach the hearts of til
people OF that section. The spontane-
Gus response which came back from
Augusta cheered him as nothing else
could.
"He wants all those interested to
know how much he cherisnes this act
and has, therefore, asked me to ex-
press to my fellow citizens, even in
This poor way, his appreciation.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
COTTON CROP REPORT.
The First Report Of Season Shows a Small
Increase III Acreage.

Memphis, Tenn The Commercial
Appeal publishes its first cotton crop
report OF the season.
/ 1t follows;
reports from correspondents Of the
commercial Appeal under date of
MAY rs, shows that the acreage plant
led to cotton this spring exceeds that
planted in 1909 about 3.S per cent. Ii
Eas estimated that SS per cent Of the
/ total area had come up to stand on
TINS date, planting except in isolated
instances being completed.
Between May Ia and May % rains
fell in all cotton producing territory,
and were highly beneficial, although
accompanied by abnormal low temper
atpres. What Is needed now is warm,
dry weather.
The land was prepared Well, and
cores pondents are of the opinion that
the crop will grow very rapidly with
warm weather, the moisture supply
for the present being abundant, l4l a..
districts the crop improved material.
ly during the week preceding May 20.
The cold weather oil late april nee.
essitated considerable replanting in
the Atlantic states, Alabama and Lou
isiana, but this has been completed.
and most of the cotton is up, although
in those states there are a few com
plants of irregular stands.
Although lacking few days Of be-
ing as far advanced the crop and field
conditions compare favorably with
last year and with..an average.
In states east Of the Mississippi river
there has been an Increase IN area
planted to corn and a larger use OF
commercial fertilizers.
The acreage report by states, with
tie percentage of the cotton that has
come up, is as follows:
North Carolina Increase, 2 per
cent; cotton up, 81 per cent.
South Carolina-lncrease per
cent; cotton up, 95 per cens
Georgia-Inerease per cent; cot
ton up, 80 per cent.
Alabama Average, unchanged;
cotton up, SO per cent.
ppi-Decrease 3 liz per
cent; cotton up, "a per cent.
| nessee-Increase, 4 per cent !;
cotton up, 80 per cent.
Arkansas--Increase, per cent; cot.
ton up, 85 per cent.
observation-disclosures, 2 per cent !;
cotton up, "a per cent.
Oklahoma Increase, 15 per cent J;
cotton up, rs per cent.
| Texas-Increase, per cent; cotton
up, 80 per cent.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
Washingtoll NeWs.

The United states supreme court
upheld the Jim Crow law III the case
of J. Alexander Chiles, negro VINO
bought ticket over the chesapeake
and ono railroad from Washington to
Lexington, NY, AT Ashland, KY, he
was obliged TO change cars wnen 4
brakeman comyeuea am TO sit in the
jim Crow car. He sued the ran
road for $10,UU0 damages, but the
lower courts round against him. The
supreme court upheld these uecisions.
AnttCigarette Crusader Lucy Page
CASTOR OF Chicago has begun a fignI
10 nave tne cigarette excIuded iron,
the navy. She interviewed several
naval of1icers and will see Secretary
Meyer. len states have already enact.
ed the laws prohibiting the sale and
manufacture OF cigareICes, SAID Miss
CASTOR. The movement is one for
the protection OF the boys OF the couu-
try
Announcement was made at the
white house OF the appointment OF
Charles ID. Norton of Chicago private
secretary to the president. Mr.. Nor
ton is at present assistant secretary
OF the treasury. He succeeds Fred w.
Carpenter OF California.
Information received in Washing
ton in letters from friends of Asso-
ciate Justice w. H. Moody OF the
United States Supreme court now st
Hayerhill, Mass indicates that it Is
possible his condition may necessi.
tate his retirement frc..4 the supreme
court bench next October. Several
names have been mentioned as his
probable successor, among the most
prominent being that OF Secretary of
War Dickinson There is also talk
that Chief Justice Melville j. Fuller
may retire after the October term
OF the court begins. Justice Fuller
will be seventy-eight years of age
next February. He is so feeble that
his voice is barely audible when an
nouncing decisions from the bench.
Senator Root of New York has been
mentioned as his probable successor.
Ex-President Roosevelt has written
a letter from London to a prominent
repuDncan "insurgent2 member OF
the house of representatives request
ing the latter to meet him in a con
ference as soon as the eDpresident
arrives in New York on June l8, il
possible, Mr.. Roosevelt, this letter
indicates, is DESTROYS OF learning the
"insurgent" situation in the mouse
from hrst hands. The member recey-
ing the letter declined to allow the
use OF his name The text Of tne letter
WAS not made public.
This government, it is understood,
is 4naki1g arrangements to secure I'M
demnB rom the gnnase government
for tAose United States missionaries
whoj have suffered financial loss in
the recent rice riots.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02

Hetty Green, generally credited
with being the richest woman in
America, will be assisted hereafter
IN the management Of her financial
affairs by her son, 3. fl r. Green.
The authorities at the Bronx ZOO
logical garuens regretfully admitted
that Alice, the biggest elephant az
the ZOO, is thief. Sac stole a dia-
mond ring from lM.sss Elizapeth Esor-
rell OF Chappaqua, M Y, who was
FEEDING crackers to her The ring.
which was on Miss Morrell finger,
was loose, and Alice apparently
snatched it under the impression rnat
It was good to eat. Alice is esteemed
to be worth more than the ring and
SO there will be no interesting surgi-
cal operation
Examination Of the United States
dry dock Dewey has strengthened the
belief OF those of the navy who have
held that the damage was done de-
nberately by c0nspirators against the
government. The dock SANK more
rapidly tnan would nave been the
case had all the valves been opened
and no other opening made. Accord
ingly, the experts bemeye that q large
hole Will be found In the port side
OF bottom Of the dock
A new type Of sleeping car has been
adopted recently by an interurban
trolley system in Illinois. The object
is to compete with the ordinary sleep
ers OF the steam railroads. The up.
per berths are provided with windows
the same as the lower for light and
ventilation, and another novel feature
IS an arrangement which permits tnd
lower berth To be folded up in the
morning independently Of the upper.
Each berth nas a plush-l1ned steel
locker with locks. The beds are
detachable, so as to be taken out for
airing and cleansing.
After all the pros and cons Oh
when and where and how l5alIey's
comet passed the earth comes a re-
port from Paris saying that French
astronomers believe that the comet
now in the western sky, is not HAL.
ley's comet, and that Halley's comet
VIII arrive some time IN August or
September. Still the leaulng astrono,s
ners are not taking that report very
seriously as yet, and they appear to
nave little doubt that Halleys comet
did pass about on schedule time. al.
though something had happened ia
conceal or delay or dispense its tail.
"A department store firm in Phila.
delphia has added one more to the
list OF welfare benefits for their five
nundred employees. They have pur.
chased an athletic field, which win he
equipped with facilities for all kinds
Of outdoor sports, including tennis,
baseball, basket ball, running track,
shower baths, etc, and eventually.
modern club house, for the use OF
women and gymnasium for men.
The ground is one-time baseball
park, conveniently situated, and Is al
ready laid out as a diamond with
grand stand accommodations for two
thousand five hundred people. a phy-
stefan will be in attendance and the
various activities will be in caarge OF
officers Of the company.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
Plan Aviation Treaty.

Washington, .. c.-Aerlal naviga-
ton mas MADE such rapid progress
that Secretary of State Knox and the
government Of Mexico are negotiatlns
an aviation treaty governing the pass.
age OF air snlps across the border
line between these two countries. II
will be the first treaty governing avia
ton between nations, and is already
on the road to completion. The plan
is to make compulsory the registra.
ton Of air ships which cross the in.
ternational border and to enact thai
operators of these machines be sup
piled with copies Of the regulation.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
Church Built in 10 Hours.

Peoria, Ill.-Initial services We're
held in the chapel built by 100 mem
bers of the Central Christian Church
during ten nourse. The church is per.
feet in it's completion, electrically
lighted and with an electric sign above
the entrance.
The tabernacle is Ga feet long, "A
feet wide and II feet high inside; 1870
men started work at o'clock in the,
morning, and at o'clock that even
ing it was completed Material for
the church was donated by various
concerns in this and other cities.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
CONVICT SYSTEM ARRAIGNED.
Brutal Guards Caused Horror at Ala
bama Mine.

CentreViIIe, Ala. = Charging that
wreckless shooting and inhumane
treatment on the part of some of the
prison guards did much to enhance
the terror Of the Lucille mine disas-
ter May 16, whereby twenty-seven me-
gro convicts met their death, the cor
oner's jury which has been inyestigat-
ing the disaster, returned its verdict.
The jury found that an insufficient
number of guards was maintained at
the stockade; that criminal negligence
was displayed, and that the fire was
started by three convicts, two. Of
whom-Ed Porter and Joseph Mccoy
ARE dead, and George Porter, living.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
No Liquor Wanted by Hawaii.

Honolulu, Hawaii.-The passage Of
a bill absolutely prohibiting the i'm
portation Of liquor to the Hawaiian
Islands will be asked OF congress
should the special election, July 26
called by congress to determine the
win Of the people as to whether the
islands shall become dry" declare
in favor of prohibition.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
BUTTER PRICES SOAR.
Gutter is Very Plentiful, But the Price
Goes Up.

New York although the mar
ket reports show that butter receipts
in May were larger than usual, the
prices of the best grade are higher
here than they have been before at
this time since the civil war. Whole
sale dealers in New York declare that
western spectators have been buying
up supplies and that this has kept the
prices up. The best grades are now
selling at % to 20 cents pound whole
sale "A year ago they were "a to
26 IL cents.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
Corporation AxREHEARNG
Supreme Court viii Hear the Tax
Cases Il October.

Washington, EaC-Just before adj
journing until he,t October the SUI
preme court of United States re-
stored the fifteen corporation tax
cases heard last String to the docket
for reargument beore full bench.
No date was st for the reargu-
ment. AS two cases touching the CON
stitutionality CT the aw and it's appli-
cability to certain EXAMINATIONS have
been set for the firstTuesday of the
October tenn, after along list of the
cases already assighd for hearing
on that date, it is beloved the court
will advance the fftep cases for a
hearing in the same nonth
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
LEGAL SYSTEM DISGRACEFUL
Singing Report by Committee Of New
York Bar Association. B

: u
New York city.-The system under
which t. law is administered in this
country boo years behind the age;
the pros aye in equity cases is a
scandal te loar jurisprudence; many
cases are decided, not on their merits,
but purely Oh technical questions. and
not only has something got to be done
about it, but something will be done
about it.
This is the sun" md substance of a
statement giYer by a joint com.
mittee on re- a legal procedure
of the Natiol9a Association and
the National civ Federation at the
conclusion of ANY Inference held in
Lawyers Club atfthe Invitation 81
former Judge Alth B. Parker.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
S30.000 PRTZE.
Prize Goes to First Man Who Flies
from st. Louis to New York.

from 81 LOUIS 70 NEW ToTk'
New York City.-Thirty thousand
dollars were offered by the New Yorh
World and the st. Louis Post-Dispatch
to the first aviator who flies in al
aeroplane from New York City to
st. Louis or from ST. Louis to New
York. Mayor Gaynor announced the
prize at dinner, where Glenn H
Curtiss, who, on Sunday, wrote a new
and wonderful chapter in the history
OF aviation by making a flight from
Albany to Governors Island, was the
guest of The New York World, whose
$1,000 award he won. Conditions o.
the contest have not yet been an
nounced.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
Eltzherbert Won RrookIyn Handlcap.

Gravesend, N. Y.-Fitzherbert was
an easy winner of the Brooklyn Han
dicap, one and quarter miles, de-
feating a good field. He was held at
3 to 5 in the betting. Fitzherbert
went to the front at the start, and
setting "a fast pace, led by three
lengths nearly all the way and woi,
by a length. Olambala closed fast and
finished a good second, with Prince
Imperial third. There was large
attendance.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-02
Cannot BE Forelan corporatlons.

Washington, D. C.--The statute OF
Missouri, passed March 10, 1907, pro
hfbiting foreign corporations from do
ing business within the state Of Mis-
souri,, if they 5eeek litigation in the
United States courts, was pronounc-
ed Unconstitutional by the United
States supSeme court