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The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1910-05-12

grew weary and lonesome and
ready to go.
Don't take this so much to
heart the dying humorist said
to his grieving daughter, the day
before his death, adding whim-
sically. "The doctors won't let
me smoke; | can't travel; | can't
even write. And / am getting so
very old that there is hardly
anybody left to play with me
any more"
He is gone, and the world
hopes he has found all his old
playfellows.
"He had no need to cast his
pride or slough the dross ofearth;
Fen as he trod that day to
God, so walked he from his birth
In simpleness, and gentleness,
and honor and clean mirth. -
Unionist.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1910-05-12

We are of the same opinion as
the Weiser American. Put a
man like Judge Bryan, Judge
Forney, M. Alexander, or John
Nugent in the governors Office
and graft in the land board will
be no more.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1910-05-12

"There are no negroes who are
not persons of color, but there
are persons of color who are not
negroes"
This a salient sentence in de-
cision that has thrown the race
laws of Louisiana into a state If
chaos. All statutes made and
proved to keep separate and ,s.di-
stinct whites and negroes practi-
cally are affected by the ruling of
the acknowledgements that
octoroons, quadroons and mulat-
toes are not negroes.
The court holds that where
the text of the law merely says
Negroes" it cannot be applied
to octoroons or other persons of
mixed blood. 1t defines the ne
gro as a member of the black or
African race, having in his veins
no trace of Caucasian blood.
Persons of lighter or darkers skins
than mulattoes can evade the
laws by demanding that the
state prove they are negroes.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1910-05-12
Notice of Stockholders Meeting Of
the Wennersten Mining Co., Ltd.

Notice is hereby given that special
meeting of the stockholders of the Wen
nersten Mining Co Ltd, will be held at
the office of the company at Silver City,
Idaho, Saturday, May l4th, 1910, for the
purpose Of submitting the drafts of con-
tracts with the English capitalists, who
are about to finance the company.
j. M. MORGAN, Manager.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1910-05-12

Cut glass, jewelry of all kinds and pat
terms, clocks, watches silver-ware and
umbrellas at the Silver City Jewelry Store.
The OwYHEE NUGGET 81 a year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26
DEMOCRATS OF NEBRASKA ARE
GATHERING FOR CONVENTION

didate of the Bryan following for gov
ernor, was the speaker.
In his speech, in which he attacked
the record and candidacy of Governor
Shallenberger, the speaker indicated that
the minority would carry its. fight to
the convention, no matter whether 1t was
a. winning or losing one, and 1t would
not cease until the close of the primary
on August 16, he said.
The speaker declared the present coun-
ty option fight had been brought about
by the evasive policies of Governor Shall
1enberger, who had refused to permit a
direct submission of the initiative and
referendum of the saloon question to
the voters themselves.
Leaders sin the anti-county option fight
tonight claim that more than 450 of the
$50 delegates to the convention are in
structed against county option and add
that almost 200 OF the uninstructed dele
gates viii take the same stand
The speech of Mr.. Bryan from the
convention platform Is awaited with
much interest. His opponents insist that
any effort to sway the convention will
be futile.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26
TODAY'S AGE-HERALD
Russo Chinese bank hunts missing
cashier.

Russo Chinese bank hunts missing
cashier.
Outline of Ohio platform.
Taft visits on shores Of Maine.
Former mayor in Virginia town mur.
dered.
Serious charge made bp Bristow.
Plan presented to raise the Maine.
Democrats of Nebraska in conven-
ton.
2-Arbitration plan takes back seat
Cedar fencerails are In demand
3-Desire to get at values of land.
Republicans to have big fight.
4-Editorial comment.
Wv. D. Nesbitt submits answer to
Bowie's recent statement
Miss Myrtle Solly fatally injured by
fall at Hillman hospital.
West Lake club formally incorporated.
Man arrested for crime committed IA
years ago.
Good progress made on hotel project.
Business Mems League will send COM
mttee to see Roosevelt.
Chamber of Commerce expects to pass
$4,000 mark today.
6-General sporting news.
Birmingham social events.
Dolly Dalrymple's department
sLStiu hunting for DR.. Hawley Crippen.
9-Sharp decline in the stock market.
Cotton market Is again irregular.
Radical advance made In corn.
lo-Tax returns from Georgia counties.
Forces of Estrada recapture forts.
Republicans of Nebraska to meet,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26
BANKERS DISCUSS
BILLS OF LADING

New York. July 25.-At meeting here
today of bankers who have been negotiat-
ing with railroad officials on the subject
of foreign and domestic bills of 1ading oi
cotton a definite plan covering the future
Issue of certificates guaranteeing bills OF
lading was adopted. 1t was decided to
send a committee of five bankers to Eu-
rope Immediately to lay the agreement
before the bankers of England in it's ten
tative form and have the continental
bankers equalize the responsibility.
American cotton bills of lading are re-
fused now abroad by English bankers.
The stand was taken in view of the losses
sustained abroad through fraudulent bills
of lading.
The conference of the bankers today,
it is said, ended in an expression of con-
fidence being extended the railroad Off
cials for their efforts made in the Missis-
sippi river valley The conference held at
White Sulphur Springs July 10 by persons
interested in the welfare of the cotton
market was commended for the set of
resolutions adopted.
In the case of through export bills of
lading, in which agents have control,
these actuaries will only sign them in the
future when they are certified by author
lied agents of warehouse or compress
companies, the bankers aver.
The practice of issuing duplicate and
t,iplicate manifests of lading will be dis
continued, and only one will be issued In
the future If the present plan is consum-
mated in a convention Of foreign and local
factors.
A copy of each bill of lading will be
forwarded to the agent of the carrier at
the port of expectation on direct ship
ments, or the port of trans-shipment, ac-
cording to the case. as it may appear on
indirect shipments said one of the bank
ers.
Shippers will be required to accept the
conditions printed on the bills of lading
bv attaching their own signatures ana
other technicalities will be observed to re-
form the present regulations as provide
safeguards against immoderate specula-
ton, said the bankers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26
MARYLAND G. 0. P.
is ALL BALLED UP

Washington. July 25.-(Special. )-The re-
publican machine in the state of Mary
land. Notwithstanding its compactness
and the completeness with which it is
bossed and managed by Collector of the
Port William F. Stone, is not in any
thing like encouraging shape at the pres
ent time, and it enters upon the coming
congressional campaign with far less
confidence and assurance of victory than
in any previous fight for number OF
years.
The best and most striking illustration
of this is the fact that in at least two
of the six congressional districts the re-
publican leaders are absolutely at loss
to secure candidates for the congression-
al nominations. and in everyone of the
districts with the single exception of the
Fifth, Congressman Mudd's old bailiwick,
they are in more or less trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26
DIVORCE EVIL IS
RAPIDLY GROWING

Washington, July @-(Special.) )-'Di-
out the social and family life of the
country. The evil is growing and the
question is how 1t can be overcome The
laws should be made more rigid against
divorce and then faithfully enforced.
There are no divorces among the sixteen
million of Catholics in this country and
they should be deducted from the proba-
BILE ninety-five millions of our popula-
ton. This makes the percentage of such
DEGREES all the more startling and is a
sad commentary on our boasted civiliza-
tion.'
The above statement was made today
by Cardinal Gibbons. The cardinal, in
giving his views on the subject of d.
vorces, condemned unsparingly those
states which permit DEGREES of divorce for
such trivial reasons as prevail in a large
portion of the country.
The laxity in this respect he attributed
to the misinterpretation of the gospel
inhibition of the subject which opened
the way to divorce and permitted the re-
marriage of Divorces. This, he said.
swings wide the floodgates of the evil,
which has rushed In and given to this
country the unenviable pre-eminence of
having larger number Of Divorces than
any other nation in the world
Continuing. the cardinal said: while
we boast that this country is pre-
eminent as a civilized nation, it lies be-
tween two countries in which divorces
are practically unknown-lower Canada
and Mexico"
The cardinal expressed qualification
that there is one state in the union which
does not grant divorces-South Carolina.
This he said, Is an "oasis in the great
desert of this evil which is a dark blot
upon the country generally"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26

Topeka, Kan, July 25.-In an address
here tonight, United States Senator Jo-
seph L. Bristow declared that United
States Senator Aldrich forced an increase
in the cotton tariff schedules when the
cotton manufacturers in this country were
not asking for it. Seantor Bristow
charged that the increases were made for
the purpose of booming the stock market
ut is interesting to know declared
Senator Bristow, why Mr.. Aldrich insist
ed upon increased cotton duties when the
mill owners and manufacturers testified
in the hearings before the ways and
means committee that they were not
needed. But an examination of the stock
issues In the United States for the year
1909 furnishes the reason.
"These increases were not made for the
protection of any legitimate enterprise in
the United States, but to boom the stock
market. Last year there were issued $780,
900, 900 additional cotton and woolen stocks
$64 900, 600 that had been previously author
lied but not issued, and s260O0,0O0 of new
stocks
How much of this stock represented
actual investment am not advised, but
under the impression that these increased
duties on cotton goods and the mainten-
ance iof the excessive duties on woolens
would give at least a temporary impetus
to the Industry, the stocks found market.
So these increases. therefore, driven
through by Mr.. Aldrich, were in the in
terest of the stock gamblers and specula-
tors and not in the interests of legitimate
manufacturing enterprises.
"The duty on cotton goods valued at
more than cents per square yard was
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26
SAFETY DEVICE
PROVES FAILURE

washington. July pa safety device
which had been tested and found true,
but failed on this particular instance, was
the cause of the explosion In Battery
DeRussy at Fortress Monroe on July 21,
when IL artillerymen were killed. That Is
the finding of the board of officers which
investigated the accident and made Its
report today premature explosion of
the powder charge did the damage. The
board in its report says it is forced to
its conclusion notwithstanding the fact
that long experience and previous tests
had given assurance that the firing
mechanism afforded protection against
the very disaster which came.
One result of the Fortress Monroe ac-
cident is that every piece of ordnance in
the army will bo tested and further safe
ty devices VIII be added
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26

Grand Island, Neb., July 2o.-Hundreds
of delegates to the democratic state con-
vention, driven into the few hotel lobbies
of the city by driving rainstorm, dis
cussed tonight the plans for the contest
expected to be waged in the convention
tomorrow.
Leaders of the fight against county op-
ton were here in force and apparently
were confident that nothing could de-
velop to alter their stand against the
insertion of a. county option plank in
the platform to be adopted by the con-
vention.
W. j. Bryan. leader in the battle for
county rule, on the question at issue, did
not appear during the night, although
he had been anxiously awaited by the
small band of delegates who are pledged
to the county option plan.
A large meeting which had been planned
for the evening with Mr. Bryan as the
principal speaker was lNbandoned ewhsu
it was learned he would not arrive un-
til tomorrow morning. A small gathering
was hastily arranged, at which w. r.
Patrick, former state senator, the can
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26
Serious Charge Made
By BristOW Against
Action OF Aldrich

increased on an average of 20 to Is per
cent In the face of the testimony of Fl. P.
Lippitt, representative of the Cotton Man
ufacturers' association of New England
before the ways and means committee.
that the cotton manufacturers did not
want any increase In the schedule. All
they asked was that the duties be not
reduced. but remain the same.
I'm his testimony Mr.. Lippitt said:
Well, l am not appearing here to ask for
an increase in the duties on the cloth
clauses of the cotton schedules. l think
that while there are importations going
on under them, it is reasonably regulative
to the cotton trade. The importations
are not so large that we feel justified In
asking that the duties be increased. but
we would not like to see them decreased
as we believe that any decrease would
certainly result in very much larger I'M
portations and a great deal more or our
cotton being manufactured abroad and
shipped back as finished goods.
Continuing, Mr.. Bristow said: ''This
method of tariff legislation Is almost as
reprehensble as the increase of duties on
lead and rubber.
''The wooden schedules. declared inde-
fensible by Mr.. Taft in his celebrated
winona speech, carried on the ordinary
wooden fabrics of ladies' dress goods
duties ranging from 115 to 145 per cent;
on wooden blankets from 118 to 16o per
cent, and on other woolen cloths and fab
RIGS used by every family duties usually
as extravagant. No attempt was made to
ascertain the difference in the cost Of pro-
duction on these fabrics at home and
abroad, but imperative demand was made
by Senator Aldrch that the woolen sc1ed-
ule be not touched, declaring 1t to be the
key to the protective arch
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26

Ridgeway, Va, July 25.-The assassin
alton last night of former Mayor A. H.
Bousman, aged IS, who was killed by the
explosion of dynamite bomb hurled un-
der the hammock in which he was sleep
Ing In his front yard, has aroused and
mystified the inhabitants of this vii
lage and the surrounding country.
The crime, unprecedented in this sec
tion Of the country had apparently been
carefully planed by its perpertator whose
identity the authorities or members of
the victims family have been unable
even to guess at. The dynamite bomb,
which tore the body of former Mayor
Bousman to peices, was thrown from
the street in front of his home about 10
O'Clock at night. The charge Of dyna-
mite in the bomb must have been heavy
one because the body of Mr.. Bousman
was badly torn.
A part of the fuse of the bomb was
today found on the roof of the Bousman
residence where 1t had been blown by
the force of the explosion. On the sides
of houses 80 feet away blood had been
spattered and bits of flesh adhered to
the walls. Bits of the body also were
found on the roof of an adjoining house.
The assassinated man Is survived by
a widow and son of Il years, both of
whom are Frustrated by the murder. Mr.
Bousman only recently retired from the
office of mayor. He declined renom-
nation He was extensively engaged in
farming and was large grower of cab
bage.
Mayor Bousman had been spending the
hot evenings sleeping in hammock
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26
THREE DEATHS DUE TO
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS

Central City, KY, July 25-There
were three deaths due to thre sepa-
rate railroad accidents here today.
Joseph Dougherty of Birmingham. a
car Inspector for the Illinois Central
railway, was under a car with his head
on the rail- when string of cars was
kicked back, completely severing his
head from his body.
Kennedy Mains, nineteen years old,
son of John T. Mains, of Render, for
mer president Of the United Mine Work.
ers of America, was ground to death
when he attempted to board a fast
moving freight train.
Charles Martin. a negro barber, re-
ceived injuries when he alighted from
q moving train that later caused his
death.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26

Washington, July 25.-John f.
O'Rourke, the engineer who bridged
the Hudson at Poughkeepsie and drove
the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel un-
der the North river, today laid before
Acting Secretary of War oliver his
plan for raising the Maine from the
mud of Havana harbor.
Briefly, the newest plan is based
upon a system of pneumatic caissons.
such as have made possible the build
ing of extremely deep foundations un-
der water and which contributes large
ly to the success of building of tun-
nels like that of the Hudson. No divers
are used and the pontoon system is
put completely aside.
The method proposed is to swing the
Maine In a cradle of powerful cables
and lift her completely out of the wa
ter where complete inspection of her
hull will be possible.
While the ship is suspended above
water Mr.. O'Rourke declares she can
be repaired as readily as If she were
in dry dock and after being re-
launched from the cable cradle can
leave Havana harbor under her own
steam. This is said to be the first
plan yet proposed which would pre-
sent the ship to a naval board in pre-
cisely the same condition as she was
when sunk on the night of, February
Is, 1898. To raise her with pontoons
construction, experts say, would mean
to work upon her hull under water
and to float her with compressed air
would disturb conditions between decks.
First wharf of piles would be built
on either side of the submerged wreck.
Then between the wharves and the hull
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26
MAKING PLANS FOR
ATLANTA MEETING

Washington, July 25-G. Grosvenor
Dave, managing director, and Charles
H. Davis, chairman of the executive
committee. of the Southern Commercial
congress, left here tonight for New York
to confer with former President Theo-
dore Roosevelt concerning details of the
next general meeting of the congress,
to be held at Atlanta, the date to be
selected later. The executive commit.
tee will meet in Atlanta next Friday to
confer with a committee from the At.
lanta chamber of commerce. 1t is planned
to make the Atlanta meeting the greatest
in the history of the congress. Colonel
Roosevelt, as president, took an active
part in the organization of the move,
ment
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26
PLAN is PRESENTED TO RAISE
MAINE FROM HAVANA HARBOR

liz pneumatic caissons would be sunk,
six on each side. Practical tunnel
building operations will be employed
thereafter and a hundred little tunnels
would be driven through the mud un-
der the keel of the Maine between
the opposite caissons. Through each
tunnel a six-inch steel cable would
be run and each end would be run
up the outside of the caisson to the
wharf above, so there would be steel
cable under the hull every four feet,
and the aggregate of all would be cal
culated to be capable of raising four
times the weight of the wreck, which
is about 1000 tons.
Each cable end would be attached
to a system of steel screw rods and
the back principle would be en-
ployed. In this plan the war depart
ment would be asked for a thousand
men to operate the hand screws and
by every man turning lever at given
lsienal it is planned to pull the hulk
up in the cradle of cables in practically
| the same way as the pyramids of
| Egypt are supposed to have been built
| by man power Once swung above the
water line the gap between the wharves
would be bridged and the engineers
would work under and around the hull.
When repaired she could be laid down
into the water by reversal of the
process by which she was raised.
Mr.. O'Rourke expressed the opinion
to Mr.. Oliver that the job could be
done in three months. Mr.. oliver and
General Bixby examined the plan in
minute detail. Mr.. O'Rourke was as
sured as to one condition, that, should
an army board pass fagorably on the
project his patents in the apparatus
would be protected.
Attorney General Wickersham ar
ranged for the presentation of the
plans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26
Former Mayor OF Small
Town In Virginia Blown
To Pieces With Dynamite

swung between two trees on the lawn In
front of his residence The dynamite
bomb was thrown about 10 o'clock by
some one passing along the street. 1t
landed on the hammock at his feet and in
another instant exploded. The mayor 8
feet were torn away by the bursting shell
and his legs frightfully mutilated. In
great agony he died an hour later.
| Although the town authorities when
notified Of the murder made every effort
to discover the assassin no clue could be
found.
| The surrounding country is worked up
over the murder and 1t is believed If
the assasson lis caught he will be sum-
marily dealt with.
AS mayor of Ridgeway Mr.. BousA' 8
presided over the police court 80
town trying petty cases. 1t Is ut
some person upon whom Bousr,y p his
court had passed sentence 80 dnish-
ment held a grudge agains -
While returning from m in the
country to the town p ago some
unknown person hurle> explosive at
Mr.. Bousman as he was riding past some
woods. He told his friends of the oc-
currence but they treated the matter as
Joke and 1t was not given serious
thought until today
At a special meeting of the town
council this afternoon reward of $500
was offered for the capture Of the muir
derer. The governor Of the state and
the authorities of Henry county will be
asked to duplicate the amount and frfenda
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velt today declined to comment upon the
merits Of the candidates for the guber-
material nomination there. He Is await
ing, with interest, however, the outcome
of the republican convention at Columbus
tomorrow Last week, he said, he ia
vored a progressive platform in Ohio, but
as to nominations he was silent.
When questioned tonight Colonel
Roosevelt did not desire to say what he
meant by progressive platform. He
said circumstances may alter cases In
such way as to make single defini-
tion impracticable.
Mr.. Roosevelt again reiterated today
his intention OF not taking part in fac
tional political fights, but of the state OF
New York. He made 1t clear to the
interviewers, however, that he is deter
mined to take an active part In the New
York state campaign.
When Colonel Roosevelt was informed
Of report that Wade H. Ellis. chair
man of the republican state committee
in Ohio, is coming to Sycamore Hill to
ask him to take the stump during the
campaign. he replied that he had not
heard of it. His reply to Mr.. Ellis. II
he does come will depend largely upon
the platform that the republicans adopt
and upon the qualifications Of the guber-
material candidate.
Charles H. Francis, former United
States ambassador to Austria; Regis III.
Post, former governor Of Porto Rica. and
Peter Jay. American consul at Cairo.
took luncheon with Colonel Roosevelt to-
2ay. Their visits wers social
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26
Abernathy Boy Is Ill

ottawa, Kan, July 25.-Louis Aber-
nathy, one of the Abernathy boys who
rode from Oklahoma to gret Mr.. Roose-
velt his return and who Is going
back in a motor car, was overcme by
heat here today and remained uncon-
scious for some time. He was able to
resume the homeward journey after
ward.