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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-03-19
CIRCUIT COURT
Damage Suits Growing Out Of
L. & N. Railroad Re-
construction.

Circuit courts time was taken up
Friday and Saturday with a jury
trial in the case Of Ed Moseley. COL,
vs.. L. & N. Railroad Co., involving
the loss of an old mare that cell into
an excavation while wandering near
the roadside, just outside Of town.
The mare subsequently died. Nose
ley sued for $500 and after a trial in
which much testimony was heard,
the jury gave him $50. The loss
falls on the Meacham Contracting
Co., sub contractors.
Several other similar suits against
the l.. & N. and the Mcdowell Con
struction Co. were settled out Of
court. Among these we're the suits
Of James Holeman, VIM. Rollins,
Geo. Lewis and Dave West. Com
mon law cases Of minor Importance
are still engrossing the time Of court.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-03-19
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-03-19


ward in the march of civilization and
the development of the race.
Being on the border, as we are,
with the sympathies and allegiance
of our people equally divided, we
have fallen heir to a breath of per-
spective not possible to any other
section. Therefore, we are able to
indulge in an equal pride in Lincoln
and in Davis as having the inesti-
mable honor of claiming them as our
own, and truly admire the military
genius of both Grant and Lee. And
it would be a very bad man who
would not plant a flower above the
resting place of each of them. no
matter whether he followed the
Stars and Stripes to victory or the
Stars and Bars to defeat. whether
he donned the blue amid the mad
huzzas of an exultant crowd of his
countrymen. or slowly pulled around
and about him amid the gloom of
defeat the tattered fragments of Lis
own beloved gray.
Away with the man who cannot
5 and forever beside the graves of
t lese men who died on either side
and feel and know. right or wrong.
they were heroes. and dying as they
did. wrote the history of their own
mortality.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-03-19
Cause For Which They Fought.

The cause for which they gave
their lives, their fortunes and their
most sacred honor does not matter
now. 1t belongs to the issues of the
dead and can have no part in the
difficulties and problems that con-
front us to-day. This we do know,
that each of them. in the light OF
his own environment, from the
throbbing impulses Of heredity that
courses through his veins, by the
might of his God-given judgment
and the power Of his knowledge of
right and wrong. choose for himself
whom he should serve. and then
bravely. like a knight without re-
proa:h, went forward unshirkingly
wheresoever bis cause might lead.
$50 proud Kentucky now brings
honor to her great sons. True, they
each wandered away from their ma
tive soil and each went into such an
alien environment. and thus the part
each played in the mighty upheaval
was inevitably determined.
Jefferson Davis. the statesman.
the oatrician. the scholar. put his
giant brain to the solution Of the
problem of the doomed and desper-
ate South. Though his chosen path
way led to Imprisonment. he did not
falter in following it. So it remains
for US to give him the highest honor
In our power, 70 remember only bis
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-03-19
The New South.

But enough about the war-the
South is building up rapidly, and
where the bugle blasts were heard
now only is heard the hum of indus
try and thrift. Where once starry
banners we're waved over proud
armies now waves field after field of
golden grain. and where once the
smoke Of camp fire went up and up
in lazy wreatns. until weary Of its
journey, it went to sleep on the
starry canopy above-noW is seer
the happy home, around which
flowers bloom, birds sing and bright
eyed children play
Nov. my fellow Republican col.
leagues. ! trust there will not be one
negative vote cast against this ap.
preparation. You have stood by me
whenever have called upon you,
and have never given me a crumt
when asked for loaf. but, on the
other hand. you have been as true
to me as the needle is to the pole
and as faithful as ever Ruth was to
Naomi And to some Of you who
wore the blue in that terrible conflict
permit me to become personal and
say that had a young uncle who
was a gallant officer in the Union
army. who shed his life blood upon
the battlefield Of Shiloh; and believe
as firmly as believe we exist under
the stars which God Almighty has
set that. If the dead could speak. he
would say:
Gentlemen. concur heartily In
this appropriation. for the strife is
over. yet the heroes will live on and
on"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-03-19
Pleased The Whole State As He
EuIOgized jefferson
Davis.
ROSE ABOVE PARTEANSHTP
And The Brainy Young Repub-
lican Carried His Colleagues
With Him.

Hiram E. Brown. the brainy young
Republican representative fro m
Christian county, is one of the most
talked of young men in the state.
On every hand his praises are being
sounded for the way he rose above
party and pleaded for the $500 ap-
preparation to erect a memorial to
jefferson Davis, at the Davis Home.
He worked unselfshly for the ap-
preparation and his speech before
the House on that bill has been voted
as one Of the ablest addresses deliv-
cred during the recent session.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-03-19

strength of character and tenacity
of purpose. To teach the coming
generations that a great deed can
never die; that an immolation of self
on the altar of principle is the high
est achievement possible to mortal
mar. and in order to perpetuate this
ideal for the race we should contri-
butte our time. talents and money to
securing firm place in the minds
Of future generations for our valiant
heroes, and among them all, set a
lofty niche for the lordly figure of
Jefferson Davis, of Kentucky, the
President of the Confederacy. for
getting the failures of his hopes and
the sadness Of the fate Of his loved,
lost cause.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-03-19
BASEBALL DOPE
A Meeting Was Held Sunday And $50 Guaranty Abolished

At a meeting held at Paducah
Sunday, arrangements for the ap-
preaching season of the Kentucky
Illinois Tennessee Baseball League
were completed by the directors, the
meeting being harmonious through
out. The league will open May %
and close Labor day. The Schedule
Committee is j: A. Murray, Of
GAINESVILLE; Alfred Levy, of Paducah;
Jake Zimbro. of Henderson. The
committee will report at the next
meeting of the league directors at
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-03-19

Henderson on March 81, when each
club will post forfeit of $500 to
pay out the season. President Bas-
sett will rigidly enforce the salary
limit of $3.50 per year. No guaran-
tee was allowed; the directors decid.
ing that all home teams shall have
the entire gate receipts. All holiday
games will be pooled. Cities which
will be represented in the Kitty are:
Paducah, Cairo, Henderson, Hopkins
vile. GAINESVILLE and Fulton. Hop
kinsville and GAINESVILLE were not
represented
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-03-19

Just ask your neighbors and
see how many are using
Sunflour. You will be
surprised,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-05-09
BIG MUSICAL EVENT
OCCURS MAY 28-29
MAY MUSICALE FESTIVAL THREE.
WEEKS AWAY. AND III is TO
BE y GREAT EVENT
THIS YEAR.

The coming of the Minneapolis
symphony orchestra is being await
ed with a great deal of interest on
the part of the music loving people
of the city. The great orchestra has
again been engaged to appear in con-
nection with the May Musical Festival
which is to be held May 2S and 20.
The first night will be the usual con-
cert, and in the following afternoon
the orchestra will present Il magni-
ficent program.
In the evening the orchestra and
the Choral Club will appear jointly
in some fine music. Hiawatha's We'd
ding Feast and Gallia are both to be
presented this season, and these Sc
lections will no doubt meet with pop
ular approval. Prof. Hobson has Sc
Icured a large and excellent chorus
for these productions, and Director
O~berhoffer comes again from great
fields OF triumph, when he and his
| orchestra this spring invaded, the
most exclusive precincts of music in
the east, and played to audinces that
showed the highest appreciation of
his music.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-05-09
LLOYD ALLEN MADE
THREAT OF MURDER
HIS REMARK BEFORE ATTACK in
VIRGINIA COURT BROUGHT
OUT In HIS TRIAL.

Wyethville, Na.-"Ill kill Bill Eos
ter before the sun goes down tomor-
row night, if I'm convicted
Floyde Tllen, the first OF the Hills
willie courthouse assasins, on trial
here for his life, was charged with
making this remark, before the
shooting on March IA, according to
the testimony today of |. b. Weedell
of Montgomery, n of the first days
witnesses for the prosecution.
ID. ID. Bowen. a lawyer who was
defending Allen in the court when
the murders occurred, testified that
he saw Floyd Allen fire the first shot
and tina it struck Judge Massey.
Court officials returned the fire, he
said. Tw oof the iurymen who we're
then trying Allen testified one of
them that Allen had fired in the
direction where he last saw Fos-
ter, the commemorative attorney,
was killed. Other witnesses told of
conversations with Allen in which he
threatened Foster.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-05-09
CITY RECEIVED MORE
MONEY FROM COMPANY
DAKOTA CENTRAL TELEPHONE
COMPANY PAID THE CITY AN
OTHER INSTALLNLENT ON
THEIR FRAN CHlSE

This morning there was paid into
the city treasurer another INSTALL
lnent of the money owed by the Da-
kota Central Telephone Co., to the
city on the amount due for the per
cent of the gross receipts of the
company yer and above the sum OF
$4,000 per year. To June /, 1910, the
company owed the city $~2,70S.04 of
this tax. The company paid $2,126.56
in cash and presented the city with
a bill OF $5S1.4S for telephone SER
vice for the period of six years, and
which the city allowed, The comp
any had never presented the bill be-
fore but waited until the suits We're
started for the collection of the fran
chise tax.
This makes about 5000 the COM
pany paid the city on the franchise
tax.
The Indebtedness of the telephone
company at the present time on the
franchise tax, adue to May 81, 1911,
is $1,324.7S, which the company de-
clinesto pay o n the ground that the
legislature passed a law at the last
session which absolves the company
from paying what they claim is a
double;tax, and that they are relieved
from paying the same in the future.
City Attorney Miller stated that
the city today started suit against the
telephone company to recover the
amount due up to May 81, 1911.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-05-09
900 PEOPLE HEAR
gRANSON AT PARKER
NEW AUDITORIUM THERE is
CROWDED WITH AUDIENCE
TO HEAR HIS PROGRESS
I'VE SPEECH.

Parker, S. D.-Hon. O. l.. Bran
son, republican candidate for con-
gress, spoke here last night. His aud
fence numbered close to six hundred
people, the handsome new city audi
forum being we'll filled with farm
ers and business men. The Branson
male quartet, which has been heard
here before, pleased the audience
with a number of selections and was
repeatedly called back. This musical
organization is one of the finest on
the road.
Mr.. B%ranson's talk pleased the peo-
pie of this progressive community.
His attitude with reference to trusts,
his platform plank favoring the abo-
fishing of all express companies, his
attack on the harvester and steel
strusts-all were received by our peo-
pie with rounds of applause. Leading
progressive republicans here. those
who have been in the fight since its
inception, are among Mr.. Branson's
most ardent supporters.
Previous to Mr.. Branson's talk the
Parker band entertained a large out
of-door crowd. The speaker of the
evening vas introduced by Hon. C.
Il. Jones, one of the prominent young
attorneys of the county. While in
Turner county Branson will visit
Chancellor. Viborg, Hurlay, Monroe,
and Davis.
Next Wednesday evening he will
address the citizens of Centerville.
Several months ago the local G. A.
r. engaged Mr.. Branson and his sing
ers to appear here for Memorial day,
which day is always observed in Par
ker in a most appropriate manner.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-05-09
NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION
FOR LETTERS OF ADMIN
ISTRATION.

State of South Dakota, county OF
Dawson, SIS:
In County Court, April term, 1912.
In the matter of the estate of Bur-
zinah O'Mealy, deceased.
The state of South Dakota sends
greetings to Hiram L.. O'Mealy and
Burton A. O'Mealy heirs at law and
next of kin of Burzinah O,Mealy, de-
ceased. and to all to whom these
presents may come.
Notice is hereby given that Hiram
l.. O'Mealy has filed with The judge
of this court, a petition praying for
letters of administration of the estate
of Burzinah O'Mealy, deceased, and
that Friday the 10th day of May,
1912, at ten O'Clock a. m, of said
day, being a day of a regular term of
this court. to-wit: of the May term,
1912, at the court house in the city
of Mitchell, county of Dawson, has
been set for hearing said petition,
when and where any person interest
ed may appear and show cause why
the said petition should not be grant
ed.
Dated at Mitchell this 18th day of
April, 1912.
w. ABBEY,
sudge of the County Court,
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Deadwood, s. D.-Lawrence county
or its officials are not in any way in
volved in the scandal in wolf and
coyote bounties which is under in
vestigation by the state auditor. A
month ago Attorney General John
son and Deputy Auditor Murphy were
here and went over the books and
records of the bounties in County
Auditor Gustafson's office and found
the number of bounties paid not only
small but in perfectly good shape.
They at that time gave Auditor Gus
larson and Lawrence county a clear
bill in the investigation. The boun-
ties here average only a few every
month so that there would be no in.
centive to graft.
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EXHIBIT
FOR STATE FAIR

Lead, S. DIT is probable that the
Homestake Mining company and
other prominent mines in the Black
Hills will be we'll represented at the
1912 state fair which is held at Hur-
on text fall. Negotiations are now
pending to have exhibits from the big
companies of all the minerals found
and mined in the Black Hills as a
further means of advertising the
Hills, each different feature of the
treatment of the ores being shown.
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MAY A PARTY.

Tuesday evening occurred the an
nual May-day dinner given by the
Twentieth Century club to their hus-
bands. The home OF the hostess. Mrs.
b. A. Bobb, looked unusually attrac-
tive with the prettily laid tables, ar
%tistic May basket place cards, and
center pieces of margue"ites-the
club flower. AT seven O'Clock the
guests were seated and a our course
dinner was served by the Misses kib-
bee, Bacon, Young, Carter, Bobb and
Lucille Bobb. During this time some
choice selections were played on the
Victrola-one being a song Sweet
Genevieve', by Merle Tillotson, for
merly of this city. AS this was also
the tenth anniversary of the organi-
cation of the club, the president, Mrs.
kibbee, announced that fact, and aft
er a piano solo by Mrs. j. l.. Seaton,
whose playing always brings delight
to the hearers, the club history was
given by Mrs. G. e. Vermilyea. A
clever Interviewing of anecdotes and
verse with the work of the club for
the past ten years. made this an es-
pecially interesting feature. The
guests then INDUCED in a genuine
May-day frolio, enc of the most anus
ing features being the making of
May baskets by the gentlemen, and
paper flowers to fill them, by the
ladies. The judges found it most diff
ficult to decide as to the most arts
tic. The May pole, the GROWING of
the queen, deciding on the gentleman
displaying the most grace and chara-
DIES of cities of our own state proved
SO entertaining that the evening pass
ed all too quickly.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-05-09
WEEK OF CAMPAIGN
MAKES A FINE END
o. h. BRANsON HAD 4. WEEK OF
FINE CAMPAIGNING WITH
BIG CROWDS ALL ALONG
THE LINE.

Canton, S. D.-Closing up IL weeks
campaign, o. L.. Branson had Il mag
nificent crowd of people to listen to
one OF the hes. presentations of the
political issues from a progressive
standpoint that has been presented
here in years. Between 500 and 600
people We're present in the opera
house, which was quite a compare
son between the audience which
greeted his opponent in tie;'irst con
g~ressional district for the nomination,
c. III. Dillon, who had an audience of
fifteen. Mr.. Branson's attitude on the
handling of the trust problems met
sion was freely heard after the add
dress it was the best solution they
had yet heard presented. His refer
|ence TO the peace problem of the
country was received with much ap-
probation, and his fine peroration
brought rounds of applause. Mr..
Branson does not side step on the
issues of the day and meets them fair
ly and squarely. He does not mincc
matters in the least when he replies
to the charge made by Mr.. Dillon
concerning his alleged connection
with the building of the Milwaukee
railroad extension west of the Mis-
souri, river. His statement and the
records distinctly show that this as
ISOLATION with the road was merely
~perfunctory, n only for the pur-
pose of having an official in the state.
The people here regard his connec-
ton in that way more in the nature
OF doing something for the state rath-
er than that it should show any dis
credit on his public life.
During the week closed Mr.. Bran
son spoke every night and he was
greeted with good audiences. This
week he will be at Hudson, Beres-
ford, Centerville, Elk Point and Wa
konda. The sentiment for Mr.. Bran
son in this section of the state in
d'cates that he is quite popular and
Will carry it at the June primar-
les.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-05-09
MULLER ON WARPA7H
FOR SIMMONS MOVE
PARkSTON MAN TAKES VIGOROUS
EXCEPTION TO TAFT COM
MITTEE'S DECLARA-
TION FOR IeCOEQ.

Parkston. S. D.-The interest in
sioner in this state by j. c. Simmons
chairman OF the state Taft commit
tee. is creating no little connection in
South Dakota.
One phase of the perculiar interest
of Mr.. Simmons in this particular
was shown by his action in forward
ing u small plate of the Taft dele
gates and electors to all the papers
friendly to the presidents cause.
Tackled to the plate, and forming a
part of it, was he addendum: Far
railroad commissioner: Frank Lee
Coco" No candidate for any of the
other state offices were included.
This distribution was practically SIM
ultaneous with a campaign of readers
and news stories in behalf of Mr..
LeCocq, as instituted by the Sioux
Falls correspondent, Alfred Burk-
holder.
The first protest to reach Mr.. Sim
mons on this unauthorized addition
to the Taft ticket came from the
Rosebud Country. In no uncertain
terms did the owner of a string of
newspapers in that region make
known his objections to such a pro-
ceeding. A number of other publish
ers, among the Taft adherents, have
also observed the colored gentleman
in the wood pile. John S. Mueller of
this city, one of the republican can
didates for the office of railroad COM
missioner, has a large personal fol-
lowing in the Rosebud country and it
was in his behalf that the protest was
registered. ID. ID. Wipf, of Parkston,
also a member of the state Taft COM
mittee, was among those who joined
in a strenuous protest against the
manipulation methods used to pro-
mote the LeCocq candidacy.
On the question of absolute party
regularity it is contended that Mr..
Mueller needs to yield to no other
candidate. He has always been a
staunch stalwart and in many of the
fiery campaigns in the past he was
in active charge of the stalwart cam
paign in Hutchinson county.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-05-09

minister shall remain in a given pull
pit also is expected to develop op-
position. Opinion appeared to be
equally divided today as to whether
the proposal would pass the confer-
ence when it comes to Il vote.
An emphatic demand hat the
Methodist Episcopal church abandon
its reimbursement rules was made IN
Ia resolution offered at the general
conference today by Benjamin f. Eds
AN, of Newark, n. j.. The resolution
was referred TO a committee. 1t de-
clared the compulsory good be-
havior is not the essence of religion,
and that the present rule is inetfect-
i've.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-05-09
IS SENT TO PRISON
FOR |NCEND|hR|SM
EDMUNDS COUNTY FARMER IN.
DUCES FATHER TO SET FIRE
AND FATHER COMMITTEE.
SUICIDE

Ipswich, S. paul l.. 6otz OF
Edmunds county has been sentenced
to six months in the state peniten-
tiary at Sioux Falls, on a confession
of incendiarism. On March IL, at
midnight, fire broke out in the Botz
home on a farm near this city. BotZ
and his wife Were away from home
at the time, and the only occupant
of the house was Botz' aged father,
who committed suicide Il few days
after the fire. The house was insured
for $1,000, and the Aberdeen agent
tor the company was about to pay
over the money when States Attor-
ney n. Pin Beebe of this city, his
suspicious aroused by some peculiar
by the suicide of the elder Botz, start
ed an investigation. This stopped
payment on the policy, and soon Botz
was placed under arrest, charged
with having plotted the destruction
of the house In order TO secure the
insurance. 1T was shown that Bot
was in serious financial straits, ant
that he had placed a pile or rubbish
and kindling, saturated with kero.
sene, in the house and then had lef,
with his wife, after having induced
his father to agree to set fire to the
material. A~fterward, the old man
overcome by remorse, killed himself
The evidence against Botz was 81
strong that after he was confronted
with it he saw the game was up ant
entered a plea of guilty.
Quite a few people are driving GU
a short distance south OF the univer
siey to watch the operations OF tn,
digging of an imemnse drainage ditcl
which is being done by Ewing &
Brochenbauch, OF Lafayette. Ind. Tn,
ditch will cover a distance of five o
six miles, starting southwest of tn,
city and running east to empty int
Enemy reek..The ditch is from ~ t,
16 feet wide at the top and is fron
& to 10 deep, and will drain an i'm
mense acreage of land. The company
outfit has been lying on dry groun,
for nearly two years, waiting 70
Ipnniph yyntns with yrnich tn f1not i
while digging the ditch. Fine progress
is being made and the work is carried
on day and night. The approximate,
cost of the ditch will be $1,000.