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The San Francisco call., 1910-11-20
letter Tells Of
CHARTER CHANGES
A. M. de Vail Writes of Person
mel of Convention and Who
Called Meeting

Following the adoption of the char
ter amendments which revolutionized
San Francisco administrative affairs,
the question has been asked by many
who framed these radical changes?
Direct legislation, election by ma
5ority rule and the elimination of party
lines in municipal affairs are features
of the new civic garb.
A NJ de VAIL assistant secretary Of
of the convention. in an open letter
tells how the changes We're brought
about. The following is brief resume
of his letter:
The convention was called by Isidor
and the first meeting was held in the
! assembly room of the Mills building
February a. Invitations were extend
| ed to civic, commercial and other or
ganizations to send delegates
Temporary officers named were e. A.
Walcott of the Comm onwealth club.
chairman; e. r. Zion of the Iroquois
club. vice chairman, and A. M. de Vail
of the good government league, secre-
tary.
A committee OF nine on organization
consisted of: Colonel Harris Vein
stock. Charles H. Bentley Charles w.
Eastin. Andrew J. Gallagher, Charles L.
Field, Charles Wesley Reed, Frank w.
Marvin, Byron Mauzy and Walter Mac
arthur.
March 80 Harris Weinstock was
elected president. E. A. Walcott, secre-
tary; A NJ. de Vail, assistant secretary.
The expense Of getting signatures to
xIyoc n1n tn
welfare fund.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-20
HORSES REACH PENSACOLA

PENSACOLA, Fla, Nov. ia train
load Of horses arrived here today from
I.atonia. swelling the list of entries for
the. Pensacola race meeting next Thurs
day. Nineteen carloads of horses came
in yesterday.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-20
CLUB HOLDS ITS
ANNIVERSARY

The first Thanksgiving anniversary
of the Yerba Buena parent-teachers'
club of Yerba Buena school was held
Thursday afternoon at the school audi
torium. School Director Payot and Su-
perintendent Alfred Roncovieri were in
attendance. A number of selections
were rendered by the pupils of the first
grade and the fifth and sixth grades.
Instrumental and vocal selections were
rendered
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-20

when woman begins TO tell man how
nice looking she thinks he is he Immediately
develops unlimited faith in her judgment.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-20
ADJUSTMENTS

Sensible and sentimental people have
but little in common
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-20

man isn't necessarily a dead one when
he gets of the earth. He may be an aeroplane
chauffeur.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-20

The undertaken may be slow, but
sooner or later he will overtake you.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-20

It's the easiest thing in the world to
apologize when you are in the right.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
ATTACKS WCkERSHAM
NORTH CAROLINA SENATOR CRIT
ICISES COTTON POLL SUIT.
Says the Department of Justice is I'm
dertaing Only Partial Prosecution.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Simmons OF
North Carolina, in the senate Wednes-
day attacked the methods of the de-
partment of justice in the matter of its
prosecution of the cotton pool. He did
nOt complain because of the suits, but
because the cotton producers and spin
ners had been involved in the matter.
Complaining Of Partially in the en-
forcement of the Sherman antitrust
law, Mr.. Simmons declared that, in
planning to prosecute the bulls and not
the bears, the department had under
taken only a partial prosecution. He
said the proceeding amounted to a
lsurpation of authority.
Mr.. Simomns made bitter complaint
against a course which he said had
had the effect of placing the real cot
ton men in the light of spectators
when their efforts mad been in exactly
the opposite direction.
"If the cotton spinners of the coun-
try will cooperate in the same line
which the cotton s%pinners of the South
are pursuing, all the exchanges of the
country will be on a Spot basis instead
of a paper basis" he said. He contend
ed that contracts for future sales of
cotton should be for a real and not a
sham delivery.
The attorney generals attitude to-
ward the price of cotton was sharply
criticised. He said that official had
attacked prices not because of the
pool, but because he considered them
a national evil.
HE had the whole matter wrong;
prices are not abnormally high" said
Mr.. Simmons. They certainly are not
above the level Of prices fixed by the
tariff and in the interest of monopoly"
He declared there had been no protest
from the attorney general when the
bears had squeezed SIS out of the price
~ onttnp
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
TO SUPPRESS BUCKET SHOPS
Department of Justice Says There Will
Be No Stop.

Washington, d. C.-The complete sup
preston of the bucket shop business
throughout the United States is sought
by the department of justice. Proseeu-
lions already started are to be continued
with unrelenting vigilance.
1--WE have a plan to put all the bucket
shops out of business, and that, too,
without additional legislation by con
gress, said an official of the department.
just what are the plans of the govern
ment to accomplish this end was not
stated, but officials declared the state
ment was not thoughtlessly made.
The cleaning up work in the East al
ready has been Systematically begun and
a number of indictments have been r..
turned. More are promised as a result
of the investigation by the local grand
jury the past few days.
After the department is through with
the East, operations will be begun at
Chicago, and, working from that center,
it expects to conduct proceedings in such
a manner as to break up any business
radiating from there.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
METHODISTS IN CONFERENCE
Indications Are That Bishop Hoss Will
Win Vanderbilt Contest.

Asheville, N. C.-Unless the unfore-
seen happens, Bishop Hoss will win
the Vanderbilt University controversy
with On the first test vote on
the general conference of the M. E.
Church, South, his strength was so ap-
parent that his opponents were non
plused. They were rudely shocked
later when their leader, Bishop E. R.
Hendrix of Kansas City, who was pres
episcopal address a statement which
the college of bishops directed Bishop
Hoss to prepare after having rejected
all that Bishop Hendrix had written
on the same question. 1t had been ru-
mored over the conference floor that
the college of bishops, by a vote of six
to one, had indorse6 Bishop Hoss' po-
sition and that he had prepared the
message of the bishops on that issue,
so when the unusual spectacle was
presented of a distinguished church
leader reading a deliverance that did
not chime in with his own well known
a%ttitue, the delegates were almost
knocked off their seats. Such a re-
markable affair was never before wit
messed in a Methodist general confer
ence.
Our Vanderbilt" read Bishop Hen
dirk, in rather tired voice. Instantly
everything silenced until one could al
most hear the delegates listen.
"We call it ours because it is ours in
-.
with the end of the sentence broke out
a round Of applause that was not to be
misunderstood.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
GOMPERS TALKS TO N
Denies Report He Would Try to Forns
New Party.

st. Louis, Mo.-Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, made a plea for union OF
farmers and organized labor in bring
ing about better industrial conditions
in an address before the joint conven-
ton of farmers unions Monday.
He denied the report that he came
here to organize a new political party,
but declared that when organized in
dustrial workers and organized farm
ers will stand shoulder-to-shoulder in
fighting for equality and justice, then
will come a new dispensation and a
new order of things"
Farmers do not get too much for
their products nor wage too
much for their labor and, if l read the
signs of the times rightly, the grind
ing of the masses for the profit Of the
few will not continue everlastingly.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
200 MINERS ENTOMBED
FORTY-FIvE OF MEN WERE WHITE
AND OTHERS NEGROES.
Wives and Children of Entombed Men
Create Pitiful Scene About
Mouth of Mine.

Pa1os, Ala.-All hope that any of the
forty-five white men and n hundred
and fifty negroc miners entombed in
mine No. 3 Of the Palos Coal & Coke Co.,
as the result of an explosion in the mine,
may be rescued has been abandoned. 1t
is thought if any of the men escaped
death from the explosion they were later
suffocated by black damp.
Estimates of the number of men ac-
tually in the mine at the time vary.
Those in position to know estimate the
number at ~forty-ive whites and about
one hundred negroes, while Others say
the number is much larger. Officials of
the mine say that, according to their
records, but one hundred and ten men
are in the mine, but as a humber of
miners were employed under the contract
system, the list of names on the pay
rolls does not include all in the mine.
The explosion was heard for miles and
soon crowds of weeping women and chill
dren surrounded the entrance waiting for
news from husbands and fathers below.
Many men begged the officials to let
them go below, in an attempt to rescue
the entombed men.
The. explosion is supposed to have been
caused by one of the miners going into
a gas pocket with a lighted lamp.
Several undertakers are on the scene
ready to handle bodies when they are
brought out Of the mines. The mines
-. --- - -I- e .,kv
Wednesday, when a number of men
moved to Palos from Mulga mines, where
on April 20 forty men were killed. Five
of these men are among the victims of
the explosion here.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
SOUTH GETS SLICE OF PIE
Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and
Arkansas Share in Appropriations.

Washington, ID. C.-The sundry civil
appropriation bill reported to the house
Friday afternoon contains the following
items of interest in the Memphis terri
tory:
Chickamauga National Park, $4,000;
present appropriation, $4,000.
Alabama-improving Black Warrior,
Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, $312,o0o;
improving the Tennessee river below
Chattanooga, S50,S75; Mobile larbor.
5000, 900; public building at Dothan, $685.
600: destruction of two iron staircases
at Marine Hospital, Mobile, $500.
Arkansas-Mammoth Spring fish Gull
ture station, $1,000; burial of INDECENT
dead in National Cemetery, Little Rock,
S35,0O0.
Observation-Disclosures, public build
ing, continuing contract, $4,000; Green
wood, $4,000; G~ulfport, 100000; Hat
tiesburg, $4,000; Vicksburg National
Park, $500
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
FIGHT RAILROAD BILL
ROADS PROHIBITED OWNING so
PER CENT. OF ANOTHER.
House Adopts Section Barring Higher
Charge for Short Haul Than Long
One.

Washington. - The dismantling OF
the administration railroad bill pro.
ceeded in both houses of congress
Tuesday.
Section 1.-THE traffic agreement pro.
vision-was eliminated by both senate
and house; the senate struck out also
section ~, which would have permit
ted any railroad owning so per cent
of another road to absorb it altogether.
The section prohibiting a railroad to
charge a higher rate for a short than
for a long haul was adopted by the
house in the form reported by the com.
mittee on interstate commerce.
There is no section corresponding
to this in the bill as it is pending in
the senate.
Strictly speaking, each house was
boring holes in a separate bill-tne
senate in the bill introduced by Sen
ator Elkins; the house in the bill in
troduced by Representative Townsend
but the bills at the outset were iden-
teal, though they were made dinerent
in various respects by the committees
which reported them.
Whether either will emerge from
the final stage of joint conference is a
thing nobody is prepared just now to
prophesy.
Immediately after the bill was taken
up in the senate, Mr.. Elkins, in charge
of the bill, proposed to lay on the
table the Cummins amendment re.
quiring the approval of all agreements
by the interstate commerce commits
sion in advance of their taking effect.
But Mr.. Cummins saved the trouble of
taking a vote by voluntary taking his
amendment out of the running. The
Democrats had agreed to vote against
the Cummins provision in c%onsidera-
ton of the adoption of the Clay amend
ment striking out the entire section.
Mr.. Elkins explained that the ma
jority of the interstate commerce com
mission was willing to permit the Sec
ond to go out because of the appre-
hension felt by some that it would
have the effect of repeating the anti
trust law SO far as it applied to rail-
roads. He expressed his purpose OF
supporting the Clay amendment
Mr.. Cummins then announced the
withdrawal of his amendment.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
HEARST WINS AGAINST CITY
Supreme Court Dismisses Test Case
for Damages.

New York.-William r. Hearst won
a legal victory over the city OF New
York in the supreme court Tuesday,
when Justice Greenbaum dismissed a
test case to compel Hearst to pay
damages obtained against the munich
pality for deaths and injuries OF per-
sons in the explosion of fireworks near
Madison Square Garden in 1902, when
Hearst was celebrating his election TO
congress.
A jury had been sworn in, when
counsel for Hearst made a motion to
dismiss, and Justice Greenbaum grant
ed it, holding in brief that Hearst had
the necessary permit and the city had
no right to take such a risk.
Judgments aggregating $1,717,260 al
ready have been obtained against the
city, and there are many suits yet TO
be tried. The total damages for
are nearly s3,OOO.OO0.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
ROCKEFELLER STORY DENIED
Starr J. Murphy Declares Standard Oil
President Has Not Abandoned
Foundation Plans.

New York.-A press dispatch from
Washington announced that John d.
Rockefeller had abandoned the idea of
securing a national charter for his pro-
posed foundation. Starr j. Murphy,
personal counsel for Mr.. Rockefeller,
and speaking for the Standard Oil
president, said the statement was en-
tirely without foundation. Mr.. Muir
ply also said that Mr.. Rockefeller had
nothing to do with the Economic and
General Foundation" for which a char
ter is being sought from the New York
legislature for IAN aged man of
wealth." said to have $2,500,000 to
spend on charity.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
LAST RITES IN MID-AIR.
Louisville Priest Endangers Life Attend
ing Dying Man.

Louisville, Ky.-While more than 1000
people looked on, some cheering and 9th
ers devoutly kneeling in prayer, Father
Charles Ratio was lifted eighty feet
through the air to the fifth floor of the
incompleted elevator to administer the
last rite of the church to Martin Wiggen-
ton, who lay dying on the concrete toor.
W~iggenton, a young iron worker, while
engaged on the eighth floor of the ele-
vator, lost his balance and fell to the
fifth floor, where he landed on. the con-
crete, sustaining fatal injuries.
The alarm was given, and a hook and
ladder company responded and immedi-
ately commenced preparations to rescue
him. There were many difficulties to
overcome, and Wiggenton, realizing that
he was dying, called piteously for a
priest. Father Ratio was found nearby
and rushed to the scene.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
EDWARD UNIQUE CHARACTER.
Was Typical Englishman Withal and
Much Loved King.

London.-When Edward VII. breathed
his last there came to a close the life
of a unique personality. He was loved
almost universally, first of all as a man
whose natural attributes made him dear
to the hearts of his subjects, and next
as a monarch whose ability to fulfill the
role which he was called On to assume
was demonstrated conspicuously. ED
ward VII, by the grace of God, king of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, of the British dominions beyond
the seas, king, defender of the faith, EN-
peror OF Irdia," was his title.
Dissipated in Youth.
Subject to fierce criticism in his youth
because of his nam of life, he lived
down a rather u~nenviable reputation
through long years Of more careful con-
duct, and succeeded in winning the conf
dence of all the people as almost nc other
sovereign Of Great Britain, except his
mother. Queen Victoria, had done.
As a statesman he was active and sue
cessful. particularly in the field Of foreign
affairs. The fact that he was the idol
lE
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
ROOSEvELTINDENMAR
ONE OF THE PALACES AT coPEN.
HAGEN RENDERED HIM.
At Reception rendered by American
Minister He Meets All the Promi.
rent People Of Denmark.

Sopenhagen.-The Stars and Stripes
foated above the royal palace Monday
for the first time in the history OF
Denmark, and former President Roose.
yelt, in the absence of King Frederick
In Southern France, is the guest of
Grown Prince Christian, n of the pal
being placed at the disposition of Mr..
Roosevelt and his family.
The prince, presiding at a dinner
this evening, as the kings representa-
tive, thanked Mr.. Roosevelt for coming
10 this court, and proposed his health,
which was heartily responded to by
those around the table, who included
the leading personages in the kingdom,
in court. parliamentary and scholarly
life.
The colonel, in reply, said that he
had received a cordial message from
the king, and thanked the prince for
his hospitality. He then proposed a
toast to the king and the royal family
Of Denmark.
At the reception given by Maurice
+. Egan, the American minister, at the
legation, the former president met the
diplomatic representatives. the cabinet
members and many persons prominent
in the various departments.
The crown prince met the party on
arrival from the Netherlands by way
Of Kiel. He drove with Mr.. Roosevelt
o the palace and showed him to his
apartments. Half an hour later the
colonel visited the prince and had tea,
proceeding from there to pay a visit to
Prince Waldenmar and Prince Hans,
the latter being the uncle Of the
Queen of England.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
KING EDWARD DEAD
Dying Monarch Realized the End Was Near and
Declared He Thought He Had Done His Duty.
Son Succeeds to England's Throne.

London.-King Edward VII. died at
HAS o'clock Friday night. The prince
of Wales is king, assuming the title of
George v.
Coming so suddenly, the death of the
king cannot but bring the greatest grief
to the nation, in whose hearts Edward,
first as prince of NWales, and afterwards
as sovereign, held first place. His short
reign of nine years has been a history OF
stirring times. 1t opened with the con-
clusion of peace after a long and trying
campaign in South Africa and concluded
at the critical moment of one of the mo-
mentous political struggles of modern
times, the fight between the peers and
the
In a day the political outlook OF Great
Britain has been revolutionized. Gathered
around the bedside of the dying king
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
RUTH BRYAN LEAWTT WEEDS
Daughter Of the commoner Bride Of q
Britisher.

Lincoln, Neb.-In a wedding so quiet
as to excite comment, Mrs. Ruth Bryan
Leavitt, eldest daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William j. Bryan, was married to
Lieut.. Reginald A. Owen of the Royal
Engineer Corps of the British army,
stationed in Jamaica. Only members
of the family witnessed the ceremony.
Rev. Harry F. Huntington of Crete Of
ficiated.
Mrs. Owen was married nearly seven
years ago when a school girl, Is years
of age, to William Homer Leavitt, an
artist, nearly twice her age. She Sc
cured a divorce from Leavitt in March,
1909, and was awarded the custody OF
their two children. The children are
in Germany.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
schooIboys Go EIGHT Rounds.

San Maeto, Cal.-Stripped to the
waist and using bare fists, David Cald-
well and Otto George, two freshmen
of the local high sechool. fought an s.
round battle in the basement of the
school, Caldwell finally winning by a
knockout. The boys are said to be
rivals in love, and a bitter feud be-
tween them resulted in the encounter.
The blow that lost George the fight
rendered him unconscious, and it is re-
ported it was long after the referee
counted the fatal ten before he re-
covered.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
Cause Of PeiIagra.

New Orelans.-Dr. John N. Thomas,
superintendent Of the state asylum
for the insane at Pineville, declares
his unequivocal conviction that the
sole cause of pellagra is bad cornmeal.
AS a result he has abolished the use
Of cornmeal among the patients and
substituted rice, which was not only
cheaper, but produced better physical
effects. He did not recommend any
medication for pellagra, but did strong
ly urge elimination of cornmeal as
diet, unless the very best quality
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
Grand opera for convicts.

Atlanta, Ga.-For the first time IN
the lives of many OF the hundreds OF
prisoners in the federal penitentiary
here they will have an opportunity to
hear real grand opera next Thursday
morning, when Miss Geraldine Farrar
fulflls a promise to sing at that insti-
tuition. This, of course, does not apply
10 Charles w. Morse and others occu.
pying bankers row. According to
Miss Farrar, the visit will be as unique
for her as for the prison inmates, for
IT will mark her first appearance inside
Southern prison walls.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
PEOPLES PARTY QUITS.
Will Be United With New Political
Organization.

st. Louis, Mo.-After eighteen years
of fighting the national committee Of the
Peoples party announced Friday it was
ready to be united with a new political
party, to the end that rights and equal
justice shall by law be the Inheritance
Of all citizens. A call was issued by the
committee to all citizens, regardless OF
party allegiance, to join in a national
conference here February %, 1911.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
NEW KING As YEARS OLD.
Has Six Children; Not as Democratic as
Was Father.

London.-George Frederick Ernest Al
bert, prince of Wales, who now becomes
king, is the second son of King Edward
and Queen Alexandra, and was born at
Marlborough House on June 3, 1865, sew
enteen months after the birth Of his
elder brother, the late duke Of Clarence.
He and his brother entered the navy to-
gether as cadets, and he spent two years
on the Brittania. Then he started on a
three-year voyage around the world, sail
ing On the B~acchante.
The prince became duke Of Cornwall
when his father took the throne, and
soon thereafter started Q n a tour Of the
colonies. He opened the first parliament
Of the commonwealth Of Australia.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
Yellow Negroes Pass.

Augusta, Ga.-The leaders Of the
@black' faction in the general confer
ence Of the colored Methodist Episcopal
Church, who are opposing the elevation
to the episcopacy Of any member not OF
pure negro blood, were decisively defeat
ed when, by a vote Of 10 to %, the con-
ference refused to seat DR.. c. H. Phil
lips.
Dr.. Phillips is q son Of Bishop Phillips,
81 Nashville, Tenn, and was the leader
in the fight for the election of Dr.. r. +.
Brown, editor Of The Christian Index, =
one Of the bishops.