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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-31
HUNGRY WOLVES
PROVE MENACE
ARE DRIVEN FROM THE HAUNTS
BY FOREST RESERVE EMPLOYEES
WHO ARE BLASTING ROCK.
BY Associated Press.

Big Fork, Ark, March 30.-Driven
from their forest haunts by the forest
reserve employees blasting rock, wolves
in large numbers are ravaging the
country about here.
The forest reserve men have been
building roads, and in the course of
their work exploded large quantities
of dynamite. People are becoming
alarmed at the audacity of the ami
mails. The blasting also has driven
out many snakes.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-31

|. FOLLOWS PRICE
HOME COUNTY OF CHAIRMAN OF
STATE COMMITTEE oMITS OF
FicE OF CIRCUIT JUDGE FROM
CALL FOR PRIMARY.

Mariana, March 30.-As was ex-
pected, the Democratic executive COM
mittee of Jackson, the home county
of Chairman Price, of the state COM
mittee, today omitted the offices of
circuit judge and state attorney from
the official call for the primaries.
Amajority of the committee favored
following the call of the state COM
mittee, though a number of members
were for putting the office of Judge in
the call and the names of candidates
on the ballot.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-31
Farmer UnmercifuHy Beaten i'm
Presence of Wife and Sick Child

herself. When she pleaded with the
raiders to spare Bennett, she said they
told her they would bring at least a
part of him back. She declared the
men knew her, as one Of those she.ad-
dressed called her by name.
Jones. who throughout the testi-
mony has been absolutely Indifferent
to thedestiRony describing the brutal
acts of the night riders, was also put
on the stand yesterday.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-31
Clears the Way to Investi-
gate the Charges of
Senator Bilbo.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY M'NEILL,
WHO AT FIRST REFUSED TO
SUBMIT TO SENATE EVIDENCE
ON WHICH pUIANEY WAS IN
DIcTED, AGREES TO FURNISH
BODY WITH THE NAMES OF
WITNESSES.
BY Associates Press.

Jackson, Miss, March 30.-The
state senate this afternoon complet-
ed the ground work for their probe
into the alleged bribery of Senator
Bilbo during the recent senatorial
caucus. District Attorney McNeilt
who earlier in the day refused TO
submit to the senate evidence in the
case taken by the grand jury, was the
only witness today. McNeill agreed
TO give the senate a list of wit
nesses whose testimony before the
grand jury caused the indictment OF
Dulaney charged with bribing Bilbo
Pursuant TO resolution adopted
yesterday, Senator Bilbo and Mr.. Du
ianey were allowed to have counsel
present and each is given the privi-
lege of summoning witnesses to sub
stantiate their allegations.
These takings of testimony are pre-
liminary to the formal Impeachment
proceedings that will follow after all
evidence has been submitted. Sena
tor Bilbo is represented by Judge
Powell and Mr.. Dulaney by William.
SON and Wells and Hon. George w
May.
WITNESSES SUMMONED.
Subpoenas have been issued for the
"AthOSoOc AdmCu III tLt llSlS
ed by the alleged bribe giver and
bribe taker. According to the opin.
ion OF leading members of the body
1T will take at least three DAYS to
finish this feature of the investiga-
tion.
There is considerable criticism
over the decision of the senate to
hear all the evidence In executive
session, which renders it impossible
q obtain quick and accurate informa.
p regarding the progress of the
AEHlng save what leaks out through
IL AArious members.
! Mr.. Dulaney states that the only oc.
casion on which Senator Bilbo ever
approached him in a firacial way was
with a request to borrow money tu
pay his railroad fare to New Or.
leans.
BIL5o WANTED A LOAN.
81 did not loan it to him because
had only ten dollars and needed thai
for my own railroad fare home" said
Mr.. Dulaney. ar,
There has been a decided relaxation
OF the tense feeling which has pre-
vailed here the last two days Many
citizens, while not expressing opin
lon on the truth or falsity of the
charges made by Senator Bilbo, free
ly state that the affair is fast drift
Ing into squabble between two po
litical factions.
District Attorney McNeill ,fatly re
fused at first to furnish the senate
fE~&kN evidence submitted by Sena
for Bilbo before the Kinds county
grand jury, but later agreed to dc
so.
"The senate be damned" was th'
terse comment of the district attorne,
when informed that the stenographit
report of Bilbo's testimony was want
ed.
IL started this investigation, and i
the senate wants to take it out of my
hands it can go ahead and do So" ht
continued. "My stenographer ha.
been summoned to bring his notes
bot ! have not instructed him to dC
so. The senate can investigate the
matter any way it sees fit and l viii
do the same"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-31
BY Associated Press,

Marion. KY. March 30.-1he chief
witness yesterday against Tom Jones,
who is the defendant in the first of
the night rider cases, was Ms. Ben
nett, wife of one of the men who were
whipped and whose tobacco factories
were burned. Her husband, she testi-
fed, was numerically beaten, in the
glare e his blazing factory and be-
fore the eyes Of her sick child and
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-31
OPERATORS IN SESSION.

Louisville, KY, March 30-Twenty-
six mine operators, members of the
Western Kentucky Coal Operators AS.
sociation, met here to discuss the
question Of a wage scale 1t is
thought copmittee representing the
miners in district % of the United
Mine Workers OF America will appear
before the body and demand an in.
crease of cents ton on screen lump
coal and an increase of 55 per cent on
day work.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-31
FIFTY SOLDIERS KILLED

Berlin, March 30.-A private dis
patch from Mulheim-Am-Rhein states
that fifty soldiers were killed outright
or wounded in a collision of a special
passenger train with a military train
today. No details or official confirma-
tion of the accident had been received
this afternoon,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-31
THINKS FINE HEAVY,
BUT WILL PAY 1T

Kansas City; Mo, March so;-Klins
the commissions dictum. although he
considers the fine too high and
doesn't like to play for a. salary of
$4,000.
= 81 love baseball and am willing
to meet the conditions in order to
get back into the game" he said. 81
would rather play in Chicago than
any place on earth"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-31
.SUPREMEC0URT
MEETS MONDAY
ANNOUNCEMENT is MADE THAT
COURT WILL NOTSoNlY MEET
BUT WILL CONSIDER MANY
CASES OF IMPORTANCE.
BY Associated Press.

Washington, March 30.-The su.
preme court of the United States will
not only convene Monday, but in all
probability will remain in session
throughout the day announcing de
cisions and hearing arguments in the
Hertz inheritance tax case. AT later
day memorial services will be held in
honor of the late Justice Brewer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-31
TWO MURDERERs MAKE
ESCAPE FROM JAIL
BY Associated Press,

Portsmouth, Vas March 30.-STwo
condemned negro murderers and a
white man charged with highway rob-
berry escaped from the Norfolk county
Jail last night by cutting their way
through the roof of the prison and
lowering themselves by a rope made
Of bed clothing.
One of the fugitives is Thomas
Noel, the negro murderer of Deputy
Sykes, of South Norfolk
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-31
QUAKE SHOCKS RECORDED.

st. Louis, March 3U.-The SeIsmo-
graph of the st. Louis University
registered earthquake shocks for forty
minutes today. They began at 11:350.5
O'Clock this morning with a north to
south vibration and three minutes
later the movement was from the east
to the west.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-31
BY Associated Press.

Washington, March 30.-"Unless
some one can find way to repeal the
law of supply and demand, there is no
kemedy for increasing prices" assert
Ia Samuel c. Cowan. of Fort Worth,
Texas, counsel for the Cattle Raisers'
Association Spf Texas, before the SEN
ate food investigating committee.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-31
CHARGES ARE sAsELEss.

Washington, March 30.-President
Taft today sent word to the senate
that he had investigated the objec-
tions made to the confirmation of Will
liam F. Stone as collector of customs
1t Baltimore and had found the
charges baseless.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-31
G. A. r. PROTESTS.

Washington, March 30.-Protests by
G. A. r. posts against the acceptance
by congress of the statue of Robert
E. Lee for place in statuary hall
were presented to the senate today by
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-31
JEWELRY is RECOVERED.

Chicago, March 36.-All but $4,000
worth of jewels valued at $4,000
stolen from Mrs. John w. Jenkins in
New York have been recovered, ac-
cording to a statement given out by a
private detective agency here today.
The thief, it is said, has not been
found
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-31
SIXTEEN MORE
. GRAFTERS ARE
UNDER ARREST
Total Now Under Indict-
ment at Pittsburg Has
Reached Ninety One.

DR.. E. r. WALTERS, A FORMER
COUNCILMAN, AMONG THE
NUMBER TO BE INDICTED
THIRTY OFFICIALS OF BANKS
ALLEGED TO HAVE PAID
MONEY TO BE NAMED AS CITY
REPOSITORIES TESTIFY Be
FORE THE GRAND JURY.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
RAIL RATES ISSUE SETTLED.
All Increases in Rates Will Be I'M
mediately Suspended.

Washington, d. C.-An amicable
settlement of the railroad rate ques-
ton which has been agitating vari-
Gus sections of the country, is be-
lieved to he near. 1t was stated at
the Interstate Commerce Commission
that the Western traffic managers
will hold a conference with repres-
entatives of the commission for the
purpose of reaching some agreement
as to the advisability of withdraw
ing temporarily the increased rates
recently decided by the railroads
west of the Mississippi River.
Following the action of the East
ern traffic managers in voluntarily
Withdrawing their increased rates un-
til the 1st of next November, the
announcement is regarded as of
countrywide Importance, not only
to railroad men, but also to shippers.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28

Birmingham, Ala.-The arrests
made by the Federal authorities in
connection with the failure of the
cotton firm of Steele, Miller & Co.,
of Corinth, Miss, have served, by
way of contrast, to accentuate the il
activity and apparent Indifference
displayed by the state and Federal
authorities of Alabama in the mat
ter of inaugurating criminal prose-
cution of the persons alleged TO have
been guilty of fraudulent practices
on a wholesale scale in the opera
lions of the bankrupt firm OF
knight, Yancey & Co., OF Decatur,
Ala. The fact that Steele, Miller &
Co., who were closely allied in a
commercial way with knight, Yancey
& Co., and who are believed to have
been merely a branch OF the latter
firm went into bankruptcy subse-
quent to similar action ON the part
of the Decatur concern, emphasizes
the delay of which the authorities
charged with the enforcement of the
criminal statutes of the state and
Federal laws in the state have been
guilty.
This Indifferent attitude is partly
the result of dormant public opin-
ion not yet awakened to the inju-
rious commercial and financial con-
sequences that will flow from the
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28

Kosciusko, Nissan angry mob
filled the town of Louisville, in Win
ston county, threatening to lynch
Swinton Permenter, young white
man, who was placed in jail there
charged with criminally assaulting
and numbering Miss Jennie Sharp,
the beautiful young daughter of Will
liam Sharpe, planter residing near
Rural Hill. He was arrested on cir
cumstantial evidence.
Miss Sharpe left home in the >af-
ternoon at o'clock to go to Rural
Hill for the mail That was the last
her family saw Of her alive. At 2
O'Clock, by the light OF full moon,
her frenzied father and half hun
dred of his neighbors came upon her
dead body, lying 200 yards from the
road, her throat cut from ear to ear.
She had been horribly maltreated.
Mr.. Sharpe carried the body OF
his child home and his neighbors con
tinued the hunt for those who had
assaulted and murdered her
AS SOOH dS Jay lISuI CdmS OiuCO4
were on the scene and they began to
follow the tracks. One Of the trails
led from the scene to the home OF
Permenter, and as the tracks seemed
to fit his shoes, and his conduct, I'M
der examination, was so strange, he
was arrested by Sheriff Hull and
taken to Louisville.
Swinton Permenter, Charley Horn
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
WASHINGTON AROUSED.
Is Worked up Over the appointment
of a Negro.

Washington, d. C.-Another
Crum case is likely to come before
the Senate at the next session of Con
gress Residents of Georgetown
the port of Washington, are up in
arms over the recent appointment by
President Taft of Whitefeld Nc
Kinley, a negro, as collector of the
port He will succeed Collector
Nyman, a white man, who has held
the Office several years.
Plans will be made to fight Nc
Kinley's confirmation in the Senate,
and it is reported that Senator Ben
Tillman of South Carolina, will be
appealed to to hold up the confirma-
ton. Tillman successfully fought
the nomination of DR.. Crum to be
collector of the port of Charleston,
S. c., and is believed to be ready at
any time to take similar action
against negroes who are given rich
Federal plums.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
Banks TO INACCURATE
A Splendid Scheme
Railroads to Guarantee Cotton
Bills of Lading.
COTTON MUST Be Received FIRST
Then Railroad Will Issue Bill of
Lading. Issuing Duplicate and
Triplicate Bills to be Dis
continued.
COTTON MUST BE RECEIVED FIRST

New York.--At a meeting here OF
bankers who have been debating
with railroad officials on the subject
of foreign and domestic bills of lad
ing, a definite plan covering the
future issue of through order notify
bills of lading for cotton was adopt
ed. 1t was decided to send a COM
mite of five bankers to Europe i'm
mediately to lay the agreement be-
fore bankers of England and the
continent. Foreign bankers decided
at a conference in London lat last
week to refuse to negotiate American
cotton bills of lading after Novem-
Der l unless guaranteed by a bank
ing institution. This stand was TAX
en- in view of the losses sustained
abroad recently on fraudulent bills
of lading.
1t is hoped by the bankers in con-
ference here that the plan adopted
will satisfy foreign financial institu-
tons.
The plan carries out the scheme
reached at meeting of representa-
tives of the railroads east of the
Mississippi river held at White Sui
phur Springs, w. Va, on July 1. T.
provides for the issue by the railroads
of a bill of lading signature certi-
ficate which is to be attached to
each bill of lading whereby the rail
road certifies the signature of its
authorized agent to the bill of lad
ing covering the specified number
of bales.
In the case of thorough export
bills of lading agents will sign them
only when cotton is in the hands of
the railroad company by authorized
agents of warehouse companies The
practice of issuing duplicate and tri-
plicate bills of lading will be dis
continued. Only one will be issued,
but copies will be made subject to
endorsement copy not negotiable"
A copy of each bill of lading will
be forwarded to the agent of the wa
ter carrier at the port of export on
direct shipments or the port OF
transhipment on indirect shipments.
Shippers will be required to accept
the conditions of the bills OF lading
by attaching their signatures. Num-
erous other technical regulations to
check frauds are also provided.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
ALABAMA FEDERAL AUTHORITIES
INDIFFERENT AS TO PROSECUTIONS

alleged wholesale criminal opera
tions in connection with the opera
lions carried on under the name Of
knight, Yancey G Co. There are
signs, however, that public opinion
is at last becoming aroused over the
delay in inaugurating criminal pro-
ceedings against the principals in
volved in the Knight-Yancey affair.
The unexpected and salutary ac-
ton of the Federal authorities in
Mississippi has had moral effect in
Alabama, and it is believed that the
state and Federal authorities in this
city will now be compelled to take
action in response to an aroused
public opinion.
A leading member of the Birming-
ham bar said that every right think
ing person in the state thought that
somebody ought to go to the peni-
Tertiary for the alleged frauds per-
petuated through the operations OF
the new bankrupt firm of knight,
Yancey & Co.
1t was a case though of where no.
body in the state was personally con-
cerned, the victims of the frauds be-
ing foreigners or Northerners, who
have been more active in safeguard
ing their civil rights in connection
with the bankruptcy proceedings
than in causing criminal action to be
taken.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
SIXTY CONTRACT
AWARDED TO EASTERN COAL COMPANY

Company The contract VIII start
on the completion Of 800 ovens by
the Bethlehem company and 800
more ovens will be ordered. The min
imum amount to be delivered to the
steel company each year is 100000
tons, while the maximum tonnage is
100000, as required By the cor
poration To fill the contract the
Davis company has planned to ex-
pend $l,500O,O00 on it's property.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28

Baltimore-What is said to be the
largest single coking coal contract
ever let in the East has just been OBJ
tanned by the Davis Coal and Coke
Company from the Bethlehem Steel
Company. It runs for twenty years
and exceeds S60,000,000, in value.
The negotiations were conducted by
President Schwab, of the steel COM
pany, President Bush of the Western
Maryland Railroad, and the Davis
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
EXTENSION OF The
MONROE Doctrine e
Agitating Delegates to Pam
American Congress
BRAzILFAVORS FORCING MONROEISM
Monroe Doctrine Discussed. Argen-
tine Is Holding Back On Ac-
count of JeaIsy. Negro
Call for Help.

Buenos Aires, Argentine, via Cal
weston, Textile Pan-American
conference is rapidly magnifying in
political and international Importance
indications pointing to possible ex-
tension of the Monroe Doctrine to
all the Americans and its recogni-
ton by convention or resolution.
Brazil may take the lead in
bringing the doctrine to a formal
discussion, and, in league with Chile
attempt to get the necessary two
thirds vote of the delegations, there
by putting Monroeism officially on
the programme.
The wires are already hot with
cables of foreign diplomats to Eu.
rope, seeing possibly in the future
great menace to European trade.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
GIRL IS MURDERED;
WHITE MEN ACCUSED
Victim Was Assaulted and Then Killed; Mutilated
Body Thrown in Bushes

and two other young white men nam
ed Cumming and Burkfield, held on
suspicion Of having murdered and
mutilated Miss Jennie Sharpe were
rushed out of town on special
train. This city and the neighbor-
hood around Rural Hill, where the
crime was committed is in a frenzied
state of mind and the sheriff refused
to reveal the destination of his pris-
oners.
During a part of the all-night
search Pefmenter was a member OF
the searching party. When the posse
started to search the grove where
the body was finally found Permen-
ter objected, saying that he had al
ready searched that part of the coun-
try.
This aroused suspicion. Blood
hounds were obtained and they took
the tracks directly to the home of
Permenter. Leaving the house the
hounds circled back and stopped at
the very heels of Permenter, who
was placed under arrest.
Suspicion also attached to Cum
ming and Burkfield, one of whose at
tentions Miss Sharpe had spurned,
that she might marry another man to
whom she was engaged.
The mother of Miss Sharpe was so
shocked by the horrible fate of her
daughter that she is not expected to
live
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
MOSQUITOES IN ITALY.
discriminating Them Results in Fat
Rosy italian Children.

Westinghouse a result of war
On mosquitoes in certain parts of
Italy, q healthy, cheerful-looking
race and fat, rosy children have
succeeded a population which a few
gears ago consisted of a few miser-
able peasants, their skins yellow as
saffron and their bodies bent by
disease and suffering This is the
report made to the Department of
Agriculture by DR.. L. o. Howard,
chief of the Bureau of Entomology,
who has returned from recent visit
to the Italian campagna.
The country having been drained
by the government now is being ex-
tensiyely farmed and is beginning to
support what eventually will be a
large population.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
THREE MILLION FEET OF MAHOGANY
Is SHIPPED TO NEW ORLEANS

Belize, British Honduras, via New
Orleans.-Frank G. Otis, Of the Otis
Manufacturing Company, of New Or
leans, arrived here last week to COM
plete arrangements for the shipment
of about three million 1eet of ma
hogany to New Orleans.
Mr.. Otis has sailed for Punta Cor
da, to arrange for the first co1sign-
ment of about three hundred thou
sand feet, which will be shipped on
August /.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
MAN SHOT BY OLD SWEETHEART

Jealous Woman Had Made Two Pre-
vious Attempts on His Life.
New Orleans. Hugh A. Smith, a
we'll known saloon man and First
Ward politician, was shot and kill
ed by Mamie Mclaughlin nineteen
-year-old girl, who twice before had
made attempts on his life. Jealousy
was the cause and at the time Smith
was killed he was walking with Miss
Alice Blake, of whom the McLaugh-
lin girl was jealous. The McLaugh-
lin girl, who was in love with Smith
and with whom he had been intimate
for several years, fired five shots, all
at close range, four of them taking
effect.