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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
ALL TO FAVOR ARBITRATION
President Taft Makes Plea to Nation
for Moral Influence.

Mountain Lake Park, Md.-President
Taft Travelled 400 miles through Mary
land and West Virginia Monday by
special train to appeal to the people
of the United States to use their moral
influence to have the senate ratify the
British and French arbitration treaties
and the treaties with Nicaragua and
Honduras. His appeal was made to the
Mountain Lake Park Chautauqua to the
Methodist Episcopal Church, but in it
the president included the rest of the
nation as well.
81 observe said the president, chat
there is some suggestion hat by ratify-
ing this treaty the senate may in some
way abdicate its function of treaty-mak-
ing. ! confess myself unable to perceive
the treaty in any such point.
$40 have these treaties not ratified
by the senate of the United States or
to have any hesitation and discussion of
a serious character in respect to them
would halt the movement toward general
peace, which has made substantial adj
vance in the last ten years. To secure
the ratification of the treaties, there
fore, appeal must be made to the moral
sense of the nation, and while that is
not entirely in the keeping of the
churches, certainly they may exert a
powerful influence in the promotion of
any effective instrumentality to secure
permanent peace"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
SCORES LEGAL KIDNAPPING.
Limit Should Be placed on Extradition
of Prisoners.

Washington.-The process of legal
kidnapping" as in the labor cases of
Meyer, Haywood and Mcnamara were
condemned by the senate committee APP
pointed to investigate the third degree
methods Of tile police authorities of the
United States, which was presented to
the senate Friday by Senator Borah on
behalf of the committee.
The committee said the practice of
hurrying accused men from one state to
another without giving them an oppor-
tunity to be heard, should be prevented
by prohibiting eXtradition until after
the lapse OF a certain number of DAYS or
by some other effective plan. The only
other recommendation was the correc-
ton of Jury shadowing" by the secret
service men. The inquiry did not ex-
tend to the police methods of the states
or cities, the committee believing thai
its jurisdiction did not include them.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
SCHWABFATHEROFU U.S. STEEL
Tells Committee He Suggested Plan
Adopted by Morgan.

New York.-Charles NJ. Schwab Fri
day proclaimed himself as the father of
the United States Steel Corporation. 1t
was in his fertile brain that the giant
combine had birth and it was the inan-
cial genius of J. Pierpont Morgan that
gave it s~ustenance.
This was told by Mr.. Schwab to the
congressional committee that is %inyesti-
eating the trust. He declared at the be-
ginning of his Accordingly interesting
narrative that what he would say would
be the first time he had ever told the
story of the genesis of the corporation.
That it was not a trust he protested
with an earnestness bordering on elo-
quence. Although now at the head of
the combines most powerful rival, the
Bethlehem Steel Company, he had not
one word of criticism or complaint to
make against it.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
UNDERWOOD RAPS
WILLIAM ], BRYAN
DEMOCRATIC LEADER DENIES
BLOCKING STEEL REVISION.
Kitchen Supports Him Underwood
Wanted Iron and Steel Schedule
Changed First.

misunderstanding upon chairs,
waving handkerchiefs and yelling at the
tops of their voices, Democratic represen-
tatives Wednesday acclaimed Representa-
tive Oscar w. Underwood, of Alabama,
Democratic leader of the house, when
he fired a verbal broadside at William
Jennings Bryan for criticizing his posi-
tim on extension of the tariff revision
program. 1t was the most remarkable
scene in the house since the beginning
of the extra session of congress.
Excoriating the three-times candidate
for presidential honors, Leader Under
wood denounced Mr., Bryan's stateemnts
as false, defended his (Underwood'sl at
titude as to revision of the iron and steel
tariff schedules and said Bryan had
placed upon every Democratic member
implications unfounded in fact. He
called on his Democratic colleagues OF
the ways and means committee for cor
roboration of his attitude in committee
and in caucus.
Mr.. Underwood was backed up in a
similarly striking speech by Representa-
tive Kitchin, of North Carolina, long a
devoted friend of Mr.. Bryan
"The action of Chairman Underwood
in opposing an immediate effort to re-
duce the iron and steel schedule reveals
the real Underwood" said the Bryan in
terview. Speaker Clark and other tariff
reformers tried to secure the passage of
a resolution instructing the ways and
means committee to take up other sched-
ules, including the iron and steel sched-
ule, but Underwood and Fitzgerald, the
Fitzgerald who saved Cannon in the last
congress, succeeded in defeating the reso'
luton.
"The unmasking of Chairman Under.
wood will serve a useful purpose" adds
the interview, "if it arouses the Demo
Gratis to an understanding of the mistake
made in putting Mr.. Underwood at the
head of the committee, if he solidifes his
policy of delay"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
OPPOSE ORGANIZED LABOR
Sawmill Operators Offset Labor Organ.
izers' Efforts.

De Ridder, La.-Sawmill operators art
nsing every available means to offset
the efforts of labor organizers to organ
ize the mills in this section, even re-
sorting to the use of brass bands to
break up meetings arranged by the Or
ganizers.
Several special trains hired by mill
owners brought operatives here from
surrounding parishes last week to hear
al address on "The Industrial Situa-
ton in the Timber Belt" by John
Henry Kirby, A. L. Emerson, a labor
leader, tried to address the crowd when
Kirby finished, but could not be heard
because of the noise made by the bands
hired by the mill owners.
The union men say they have ample
funds to Withstand a siege, and unless
some agreement is reached it is likely
that other large mills will close, throw
ing hundreds out of employment.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
DEADLOCK IN WOOL
Ah1 FREE LIST BILLS
Lar zTTE AND UNDERWOOD
CANNOT COME TO TERMS.
May Stop Both Measures-Adjournment
Feared Without Final Action
on Either.

WRshington.-Senator LaFollette and
Chairman Underwood of the mouse ways
and means committee, who have under
taken to reconcile the differences be-
tween the senate and house on the wool
and the farmers free list bills for the
full conference committee, are in an UNI
questioned deadlock with the possibility
OF remaining so and thus forcing an
adjournment of the session without final
action on either of these measures.
The tie-up is due to the u%ncompromis-
ing position of Mr.. LaFollette in oppo-
sition to the house bill. He has told
Mr.. Underwood that a reduction of the
rates below those fixed by the bill as it
passed the senate is an impossibility,
and in response the chairman of the
ways and means committee, who had
great difficulty in getting an agreement
by the house to the rates fixed in his
bill, has said that the house never will
consent to accept the senate figures.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
STRIKERS RETURN TO WORN
Court Holds Them Under Contract, and
Cannot Quit.

Des Moines, Ia.-Promptly at S
O'Clock Sunday afternoon street car traf.
tc was resumed in Des Moines, and the
forty-hour strike was terminated. For
the first time in the history of the coun-
try the order of a court has put an end
to what gave every indication of becom-
ing one OF the bitterest struggles ever
waged between organized labor and cap
ital.
The mandate issued by Judge Law
n DeGraf of the district court was
promptly obeyed by the Des MONIES City
Railway Company and the Garments
union, and while there is ample prospect
OF a figth later in the courts, an i in juno
ton has temporarily restored nearly 500
conductors and motormen to their orig
inal positions.
N. I. Guernsey, counsel for the COM
pany, on behalf of Manager J.. R. Harri-
gan, discussed the legal phase of settling
strikes in the following statement:
1--WE hope the city is right with re-
gard to this ORDER" he said. "If it
stands it means that a public service
corporation, having a contract with a
labor union, has a right to go into court
and secure a mandatory injunction pro-
hibiting the labor union from striking,
and requiring, in case a strike has
been called, to rescind the order calling
the strike.
at is obvious that ii this is a law a
way has been pointed out for handling
these labor difficulties, which will be
more economical and efficient than any
method that has yet been suggested"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
Southern Pacific Bars Women.

San Francisco.-The Southern Pacific
railway, beginning this month, is putting
into effect a rule that hereafter no wo.
men are to be employed as clerks or
st~enographers in the company's passen-
ger department. Officials of the COM
pany assign as reasons for this action
the tendency of the girls to marry just
when they are becoming of great service
and the physical i~ncapacity which units
them for advancement.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
GROWTH OF COMMERCE.

The great manufacturing nations,
Che great producing nations, such as
Great Britain, Germany. France and
Che United States combined, have not
more than one-sixth the population Of
the globe, and It can be said with ap-
proximate accuracy that the other FIVE
sixths are to a very great degree
their customers, says the Cincinnati
Enquirer. Fully one-half Of the worlds
population are as yet only fractionally
supplied with articles necessary for
civilized existence. The 10000, 900 Of
people to the south Of us on the Amer,
lean continent when fully employed.
as some day they will be, in produc-
ing from their lands, their forests and
their mines, will make our manufac.
turers wealthy through their demands
for what our own industrial districts
can output. Commerce is pushing its
way up every great and small river of
South America, 1t is crossing the
Andes over a thousand trails, and
where but one railway across South
America from ocean to ocean now
runs, within a score Of years there
will be several other lines from the
Pacific to the n~ayigable waters of the
great rivers Of the north and the cen.
ter. The worlds commerce of today,
huge as 1t seems, is small compared
with that Of the future either in ton.
mage or in value.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
TRAIN LEAVES INCLINE.
Was Descending at Full Speed From
Elevated Tracks.

~Chicago.-One hundred and twenty
five passengers on the Pennsylvania
e%ighteen-hour train, which left here at
2:45 o'clock for New York, were fright.
ened, but uninjured, when the engine,
tender and baggage car jumped the track
while going at full speed between Indiana
Harbor and Burlington, Ind, Sunday.
The engine and tender broke from the
train when the engineer applied the
emergency brakes, plunged over the rails
and down an embankment. The train
stopped with a jerk that threw the pas
sengers from their seats, but remained
upright on the tracks. The baggage car,
Immediately behind the tender, left the
tracks and did not overturn.
The fireman jumped when the engine
left the rails and was hurt severely.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10

Discussion of women's manner in
public will not down. Sometimes 1t
Is women who complain of being jolt
In crowds or of being compelled to
stand in street cars while men occupy
the seats, says the Boston Globe.
sometimes 1t is men who murmur be-
cause some women In public often
seen to ignore the fundamental rules
OF good breeding. 1t is noticeable that
most of the criticisms of women's pub
lie manners are evoked by the con-
duct a well-dressed or stylish and ap-
parently well-to-do woman, seldom by
the bearing of working women or
girls. The Woman who puts down a
$40 or a $40 bill at the ticket office
window, holds up q lengthening line
while she counts her change and
glares furiously If a man puts down
his nickel before she has picked up
the last bit of change; the woman
who never moves along in a car to
make room for another woman; the
woman who deliberately takes up
as much time as possible at the store
counter while other customers are
waiting-these women commonly look
like persons Of refinement. No doubt
they are kind-hearted and gentleman
nered in their own homes and in their
own circles.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
Labor Fights Sawmills.

New Orleans, LATHE labor organi-
cation among sawmill employees, which
resulting in the operators forming an as.
ISOLATION and ordering several mills in
affected districts closed, is concentrating
its fight now on the mills Of John H..
Kirby, who is president of the operators
association. The headquarters have been
novel from Alexandria and Beaumont
to the towns where are located Kirby
mills, and every effort is being made to
organize the men in those mills.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
PLOT TO POISON CHILDREN.
Vengeance Against Parents the Cause
Of Alleged Crime.

Fulton, Mo.-What county authori-
ties believe to be a plot for the whole
sale poisoning of children has been UNI
earthed at Concord, in Galloway county,
and as a result two men and a woman
were arrested there Sunday by order of
the prosecuting attorney and brought
to Fulton to be arraigned. The persons
arrested are Lee Boyd, a farmer; his
wife, Mrs. Anna Boyd, and jefferson
Woods, a horse dealer.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
L A TO OFFSET CUT.

Traffic Officials of the Transcontinental
Railroads in Session.
Chicago.-Traffic officials of the trans
continental railroads began a meeting
here Monday to consider means of off
setting the reduction of revenue result
ing from the recent Interstate Commerce
Commission ruling reducing intermoun-
tain rates. No action was taken and the
conference adjourned until tomorrow.
The officials are said to be considering
an appeal from the commission ruling
to the new commerce court.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
x U T
Interstate Commerce Commission Will
Make General Investigation.

Washington.-A general investigation
into freight rates on live stock, packing
house products and fresh meats in effect
throughout the portion of country west,
south and southwest of Chicago Friday
was ordered by the interstate commerce
commission. The proceeding will begin
at Oklahoma City on Segtembe' II.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
Unexpected,

Suddenly the umpire called time.
Jaw, what's the matter!" demand
ed the catcher.
Somebody in the grand stand ap-
plauded me-" he said, wiping the.
binding tears from his eyes, land /
wasn't prepared for that =.
Play ball!"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
Black Handlers Attack Girl.

Washington, Pa.-Following the re.
ceipt of b!ack-hand letters by Mrs. S.
D. Hickman, demanding $1,000, and
threatening to steal her daughter, Beat.
rice, aged l8, if the ransom was refused,
the girl was attacked in her home here
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
Gates Improves.

Paris.-Charles G. Gates said Sunday
that his father, John w. Gates, had had
a good day and the family felt more
hopeful for his recovery. The patient
continues to take nourishment, but his
general condition is weak and the action
of his heart still causes anxiety.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
WRECK ON SOUTHERN.
Engine and All Coaches Left the Track
Near Salisbury, N. C.

Washington. Five were seriously
hurt and twenty received lesser injuries
Friday when passenger train No. % of
the Southern railroad was derailed six
miles west of Salisbury, N. C. The en-
CINE and all of the coaches left the track
and a chair car went down a twenty-five
foot embankment.
The injured were removed to a hos
pital in Salisbury.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
IXTY HOUR WEEK.
Georgia Cotton Mill Employees Hours
of Labor Limited.

Atlanta, Cattle Georgia senate
Monday passed a bill setting sixty uaurs
a week for work in cotton =Es as a
maximum. The bill was not opposed.
This measure, introduced by Senator
w. L.. Robert, was recommended as sub
stitute for the Tarver bill, passed by
the house, which specified ten hours per
day. The substitute permits employees
to work overtime if they wish and thus
get half-holidays Saturdays.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
OLD GLORY WAS E
Stars and Stripes in Evidence at Old
Boys Celebration.

London, Ont.-Americans and Cana
dams marched side by side here Monday
in the parade, the biggest feature of the
Old Boys celebration. The United States
flag incident, due to the removal of
the American emblem from the street
decorations several days ago, did not
aust any unpleasantness. The Stars
and Stripes were in evidence on all sides.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10

A C%hicagoan eighty-three years of
age has taken out a license to marry
a lady seventy years old from whom
he was divorced 35 years ago. They
repented at leisure.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10

One of III clergymen proposes to
abolish the old method Of dancing,
He wants girls to dance with girls,
and boys to dance with boys. Pihle,
as Aristotle once said.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10

A New York mother failed to rec
ognize her boy with a clean face. With
all due allowance for the water fam.
inc In the metropolis we had hardly
thought 1t was as scarce as that.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10

Treasure seekers have found s15,-
100000 in Honduras, according to re-
port II this treasure is no lmpostor
It is made up of Spanish doubloons
and pieces OF eight.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10

A New York woman who has had
five divorces still fayors matrimony.
She probably finds that if one does not
take it too seriously there is a lot of
fun and excitement to be had from it,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10

A Philadelphia woman wants a d.
vorce because her husband threw a
clock at her. Gallant men everywhere
will agree that that is no way to bring
a lady to time.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
BOLT STRIKES MOURNERS.
Woman Killed, Four Unconscious, Kneel.
ing Before Coffin.

West Bend, Wis.-Mourning for Philip
Brissel, whose body lay in a coffin before
the altar of st. Johns Evangelical
Church at Kohlville, Mrs. Henry Conrad
was struck dead and four other women
rendered unconscious when a bolt of
lightning pierced the house of worship
Monday. Rev. John Frank was just
opening his mouth to begin his sermon,
when a vivid flash of flame and a
deafening crash seemed to paralyze for
a second the entire congregation.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10

A Baltimore preacher claims that
Atlas, who held up the world, was a
woman. If he succeeds in proving it
we shall have to change the name to
Atlasetta or Atlasine.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10
Fifteen Hurt in Wreck.

Abilene, Tex.-Fifteen persons were
injured, none seriously, when all coaches
on a Wichita Valley passenger train
were blown from the tracks by a tor
nado near Penick. Over 100 passengers
were in the cars.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10

Gunners are facing a possible closed
seaso Of two years all wei the coun.
try. This ought to help materially in
lowering mortality statistics.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10

A school Of music has been in op-
GRAFTON for some time in Bangkok,
Siam. Now we know where some of
the vaudeville songs come from.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10

A Connecticut schoolmaiam is in
trouble with her constituency because
she wears too smart clothes" Hob
BILE or harem?
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10

A good many men are strong enough
to resist the temptation to steal an
umbrella-that is. on q sunny day
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10

Happiness, at least, is not solitary;
It Joys to communicate; 1t loves 9TH
ers, for 1t depends on them for its ex.
istence.-Stevenson.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-08-10

A German doctor reports his discov.
cry of a hay fever serum. He should
hurry and get it on the market for the
coming season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20
WEEKLY MARKET SUMMARY.
Most Active Trading of Year Follows
standard Oil Decision.

New York. May 2O.-The most ac-
tive trading of the year in the stock
market followed the rendition on
Monday of the supreme courts deci-
sion in the Standard Oil case, and
prices rose to the highest level of
several months. The decision was in
terpreted favorably in the financial
community and predictions of re-
vival in trade, together with the relief
which was felt at the ending of the
long period of uncertainty brought
about a period of heavy buying. The
apid advance was checked late in the
week by extensive realizing and the
lessening of the demand from the
short interest, which covered large
lines.
Increased demand for funds for
stock market purposes resulted in
hardening of rates in the money mar
ket Transactions in the bond market
continued on large scale and the
readiness with which a $12,000,000
bond issue was marketed indicated
that the investment demand was still
good Success of the forthcoming
issue of Panama bonds was foreshad
owed by quotation of the bonds when
issu ed" at we'll above par.
Reports of industrial conditions in
dicated q; slight improveT ent here and
there, although the general situation
is little changed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20
WIDE OPEN SUNDAY.
Presbyterian Committee Points Its
Finger at Washington, ID. C.

Atlantic City. May 2o.-The report of
the Sabbath observance committee of
the Presbyterian General assembly is
severe on the city of Washington.
1.-The capital of our country has no
Sunday law the report says, land be-
cause of the city's prominence in our
national life, should receive our first
attention. On Sunday retail stores are
open in many parts of the city, building
operations and street repairs going on
according to the will of the contractor.
Newspapers are published both morning
and afternoon and are cried out through
the streets as on other days, theaters
and five cent and ten cent shows and
saloons are in full blast.
Social Sunday dissertation has also
much increased in Washington within
the last eight years. Dinners, recep-
lions. teas, musicales, golf, ETC.,
abound, are deliberately announced in
the papers and among the guests MEL
toned are constantly seen the names
of the people active and even proml-
nent in church circles. Sunday is
popular dinner and luncheon day in
Washington society. Some Washing
tonians place the blame for it upon
the diplomatic corps. whose 'contin-
entail Sunday is gaining ground with
the smart set of Washington. Nearly
every Sunday sees half a dozen smart
breakfasts at the Chevy Chase club
and an equal number of big dinner
parties; also match golf games under
the supervision of the club"