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Evening journal., 1912-02-09
NAVAL ACTIVITY
IN TODAY'S NEWS

Winston Churchill. First Lord Of
the British Admiralty announces
that Great Britian will maintain
her naval supremacy at all costs.
Kaiser prepared 10 rush bill
through the Reichstag providing
for n tremendous increase In the
German Navy.
Japan's Minister OF Marine says
Japan must have eighteen more
batiIeships, eight Of them dread
nOughts, before 1920.
France orders three dread
nOughts.
Advocates of an increased navy
for the United States cite foreign
activity in an attack upon the
Democratic BODYBUILDING policies.
Evening journal., 1912-02-09

CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-When
cry of fresh eggs" caused
, Alexander Herboy to open his
back door, three "peddlers
} jumped in, bound and gagged
} Herboy and his wife and carried
away $500 in cash.
Evening journal., 1912-02-09
TEACHERS MEET TONIGHT.

The Sunday School Teachers As
sociation will meet in Bethany Bap-
tist Church this evening. and the
Rev. j. r. Stonesifer will make ar
address. his subject being Personal
Work of the Teacher"
Evening journal., 1912-02-09
OPPOSE MOTION
TO DISMISS SUIT

Christopher l.. Ward, master in the
American Bankers Assurance case,
has fled with Chancellor Curtis re-
port on the motion Of Attorney Gem
eral Gray 20 have the proceedings dis
missed. The master recommends that
the. motion TO dismiss be denied.
Chancellor Curtis ordered that the re-
port be filed In the Office OF the Regis
ter in Chancery for Kent county
The time for filing exceptions TO the
report has boon stv,sfc-, February ~.
Evening journal., 1912-02-09
DOGGIE's SHAKE
SOFTENS JUDGE.

MIDDLETOwN. N. Y, Feb. a.
Because his pet dog mounted the
bench and SHOOK hands" with
the judge. Karl Kempff. an aged
man. escaped a Jail sentence for
0eing intoxicated.
Evening journal., 1912-02-09
no REMOVE SCHOONER WRECK.

Bids wero opened today in the
United States Engineers Office, for
removing the wreck Of the Marie
Thomas. in the Broadkill river. They
were as follows William H. Book
hammer. Lewes, $500; John b.
Wheaton, Jr, Norfolk 1914: John
ston and Virden. Lewes. $50; John
W Marshall, Lewes, $3.50: Frank r.
Jones. Wilmington. $3.50; n. B. Reg
lister, Loves. $417: The Richards
Dredging Co., Philadelphia, $275;
John J. Williams, Chester. SS25. Tho
contract will go to The Richards
Dredging Company.
Evening journal., 1912-02-09
WEATHER.

By The United Press.
/ WASHINGTON, Feb. 9-GeneralIy
fair weather will prevail throughout
the eastern states tonight and Satur-
day.
For Delaware-Fair tonight. prob
ably increasing cloudiness Saturdays
moderately cold.
Evening journal., 1912-02-09
CHURCH DEBT ONLY s5.OOO.

Due to a typographical error. it was
stated yesterday in connection with
the semi-annusl congregational meet
Ing of East Lake Presbyterian Church.
that the church debt was $4,000.
whereas It should have read $4,000
Evening journal., 1912-02-09

The EVENING JOURNAL
has more Subscribers than
sny other paper in Delaware.
Thai means a home pspeL
Evening journal., 1912-02-09
TO-DAY'S TEMPERATURE
THE BELT DRuG STORE.

.1.9O NJ.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
|SHERIFF SHOT TO DEATH
G. ". TREADAWAY KILLS SHERIFF
OF DE SOTO COUNTY.
Father and Two Sens Fire on Deputies.
Resisted Officers When Attempt to
Attach Cotton Was Made.

Olive Branch.-After inviting Sheriff
W. P. Harris of DeSoto county into his
house, G. w. Treadaway, an aged and
well-to-do farmer of this community,
placed his shotgun to the officers breast
and fred. Harris fell back, dead, and
as he did 20 Treadaway and his two sons
opened a murderous fire on the Ave dep
uties who were standing outside. A few
minutes later T~readaway was lying on
his doorstep, mortally wounded; n of
his sons, Earl, was in the hands of the
officers, and the other, Murel, was being
pursued into Tate county by al angry
mob, while other deputies, themselves
slightly wounded, were taking the dead
sheriff to his home.
While the woods are being secured for
young Treadaway, a double force of Of
fcers and citizens is guarding the wound
ed man and his son from an angry mob,
which is threatening to lynch both pris-
oners.
The tragedy is the climax of an era
Of bad feeling which has existed between
the Treadaways and all officers of the
law for the past four years. The direct
cause is . judgment for $500 against
G. W. Trsadawy, on which the sheriff
attempted to take possession of his cot
ton. The officers were driven away with
shotguns.
According to witnesses, Sheriff Harris
and five deputies went to Treadaway's
home with warrants for the arrest of
~Treadaway and his sons, charging they
resisted the officers. T~readaway N
pounced his willingness to be arrested,
and asked the sheriff to come inside.
With his pistol returned to his belt, the
sheriff entered, and fell back Immediately
dead. T~readaway, standing in the open
door, opened fire on the waiting deputies,
who returned it. With his arm shielding
his face, Treadaway received a dozen
shots in his arm and shoulder. The
bullet which finally brought him to the
ground was fired by W. M. King, a dep
uty, and entered the old mans left
breast near the heart. He was removed
to the county Jail, where physicians am
putated the injured arm.
While the elder Treadaway was stand
ing on the steps and firing at the officers,
his sons were shooting through the win
dows. When the old man fell they es-
capped through the rear door of the house.
Only one deputy was stationed there.
S~ingle-handed, he disarmed and captured
Earl Treadaway. Murel escaped into
the woods.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
Why He Wept.

AT a reception one night, says tn,
Woman's Home Companion, q lout
voiced young man was invited to sing
Desultory applause followed, and hi
responded with a vociferous rendering
of MY Old Kentucky Home" The
hostess was passing among her guests
beaming at the success of her enter
tainment and sure that everybody was
having a good time, when suddenly, tc
her surprise, she came upon a middle
aged mar but slightly known to her
who was weeping silently but bitterly
In a secluded corner. Thinking that
his heart had been touched by the old
song, she asked alphabetically:
why do you weep? Are you a Ken.
tuckian?"
mo, madam" he replied. II am q
musician"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
WILL GET HOSPITAL LOAN.
Majority Of Legislators, It Is Believed,
Favor Proposition.

Jackson.-Gov. Brewer il informed
that members of the legislature are re-
spending favorably to the letter of ad.
vice and instruction sent them recently
by DR.. S. H. Mclean, surgeon in charge
of the Jackson state charity hospital,
calling attention to the great amount
Of work and expense %devolving upon that
institution, which has swamped the sup
port funds to such extent as to threaten
to seriously impair its usefulness for the
balance of this year.
The letter to the legislators stated
clearly and without equivocation the ac-
tual conditions prevailing, how the hos
pital has been swamped with applica-
lions for admission, from the very day
of its opening; how the number of pa
tients received had exceeded by 20 per
cent or more the number estimated by
the legislature, and upon which the sup
port basis was figured out. Under the
circumstances it wa imperative that
some steps must be taken to augment
the support fund, and the only way to d.
this legally and constitutionally was Ia
90 direct to the members of the legis
latme and seek authority to effect a loan
of $1,000 to run the hospital until the
appropriations for 1913 are available.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
COLLECTS $4,000
N BACK TAXES
STATE REVENUE AGENT MAKES A
BIGHAUL IN CLAIBORNE.
AGENT GETS 20 PER GENT
Caught the Estate of the Late ]. Bern
heimeE for = Good Sum on Solvent
Credits That Had Not Been
Oh the Tax Books.

Jackson.-State Revenue Agent Writ
adams has negotiated a back tax settle.
ment with the executors of the estate 81
Jacob Bernheimer, a millionaire merchant
Of Port Gibson, who died about two
years ago, whereby the state and the
eounty of Claiborne receive q payment
Aggregating $22O, 600, less the revenue
agents commission of 20 per cent.
The assessment is on solvent credits
OF the Bernheimer estate, which escaped
taxation from 1906 to 1911, inclusive,
and settlement was made by compro.
mise, on the basis of $36,666.6 g. per year,
corning the total of $4,000.
Negotiations were conducted with the
executors Of the Bernheimer estate
through Messrs. j. McC. Martin and R.
B. Anderson, attorneys for the state reve-
niue agent.
The delinquency was not discovered
until the celebrated contested will case
was recently given an airing in chan.
Gerry, and the solvent credits held BY
che estate came to light.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
AID FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN.
Honorary Chairman of Children's Home
Society Issues Appeal.

SSSASSy ~cSeCo <ARtNoAt
3ackson.-Gov. Earl Brewer, honorary
chairman of the Mississippi Children's
Home Society, gave out the following
which is self-explanatory:
"The Mississippi Children's Home So
ciety, an institution of which I have the
honor to be honorary chairman, has been
doing and is doing a great work for the
homeless children of this state, This
institution was organized only a few
months ago, and the object and purpose
being to find all the little helpless chill.
dren in the state who did not hsve q
home, and find a home for them.
"We have succeeded in finding one
hundred and n~inety-two children without
a home. We have succeeded in placing
sixty-two of these children in good, com-
Portable homes where they are being
well cared for. We have now one hun
dred and thirty-two children ready to
be placed in homes as soon as the homes
can be found. We have secured and
made investigation of several homes who
are willing to receive and adopt quite a
number of them, but the funds have
run short. We are about $3.50 behind
with the work. There is no greater char
liable work that can be engaged in, in
my judgment, than this, and | am going
to ask every person in the state who is
willing to contribute something in this
prosperous year to this good work to
send it to Hon. George B. Power, state
treasurer of this society"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
A FRIENDS ADVICE
Something Worth Listening To.

A young Nebr. man was advised by
. friend to eat Grape-Nuts because he
was all run down from q spell of
fever. He tells the story:
Last spring l had an attack of f.
yer that left me in a very weak con-
dition. | had to quit work; had no
appetite, was nervous and discour-
aged.
"A friend advised me to eat Grape
Nuts, but l paid no attention to him
and kept getting worse as time went
by.
Il took many kinds of medicine but
none OF them seemed to help me. My
system was completely run down, my
blood got out Of order from want of
proper food, and several very large
boils broke out on my neck. I vas
so weak l could hardly walk.
"One day mother ordered some
Grape-Nuts and induced me to eat
some. l felt better and that night
rested fine. AS I continued to use the
food every day, l grew stronger stead.
lily and now have regained my former
good health. ] would not be without
Grape-Nuts, as I believe 1t is the most
health-giving food in the world"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
Read the book, "The Road to Well
Ville," in pkgs. There's a reason"
Ever read the above letterf A new
are genuine, true, and full Of humsn
interest. Adv
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
WORK OF TOMATO CLUBS
MISS SUSIE v. POWELL COMPLIES
INTERESTING REPORT.
Miss POwel Will Attend Series of Edu.
catiOnal Meetings-WA Return
About First of December.

Miss Susie V. Powell, supervisor OF
school Improvement for Mississippi, left
for several points in the state to meet
pupils and teachers in Winston, Carroll
and Montgomery counties, and discuss
with them matters of vital interest in
education work.
While away Miss Powell will discuss
the work of the girls tomato clubs, and
read q report showing what the girls of
the state, who have 20 far reported to
her, have accomplished. It is of great
interest, this report that gives facts and
figures illustrating what the girls who
have been Industrious in spare hours
at home have been made to make in
the way of financial profits from can-
ming tomatoes.
The canning club report for 1912, as
compiled by Miss Powell, is extremely
interesting. The girls are not allowed
to cultivate and can tomatoes from more
than one-tenth of an acre, and some of
the results of their efforts show wonder
full accomplishments.
In Mississippi the girls put up their
tomatoes in t%wopounds cans, or No. 2
cans as they are designated, and they
are standard size in this state. The
following report of Miss Powell refers
to the standard size cans, and Is compiled
from reports sent direct to her. 1t is
understood that many girls engaged in
canning work did not send in data re-
garding what they had done.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13

Jackson.-Hinds county grand jury
broke all records when 116 indictments
were returned within "a hours after the
body had convened.
A majority of the true bills were for
illicit retailing, a form of law violation
that has been steadily increasing in
Jackson for the past year, despite the
belief of temperance workers that the
consumption of liquor has been on the
decrease. Many new names appear in
the list of persons charged with running
blind tigers, indicating that the business
must be at least sufficiently prosperous
to arouse lively competition
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
SAYS ROADS HAVE nERGED
ATTORNEY GENERAL FILES SUIT
AGAINST CORPORATIONS.
Suit Filed Alleging That Since 1898
Southern, in Collision With Other
Roads, Joined Interests Con-
tTary to Law.

Meridian.-A suit was filed by Hon
Ross A. Collins, attorney geenral of Mis-
sissippi, in the chancery court of Lau
derdale county against the SOuths r1
Railway Company of Virginia, the
Southern Railway Company in Missis
sippi, and the Alabama Great Southern
Railroad Company, and the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad Company, praying for a
forfeiture of the charter and right to
do business in this state of all of said
companies, and also praying for fines to
be imposed aggregating from $1,000, oOO
to 4 1000, 900, according to whether the
maximum or minimum penalties provided
by the laws of the state of from $50 to
$4,000 per day should be imposed.
The bill alleges that in the year 1895
the Southern Railway Company, being
the owner of a line of railway from
Meridian to Birmingham, which was par.
allel to and competing with the line OF
the Alabama Gre t Southern Railway
Company, which also ran from Meridian
to Birmingham, purchased the controlling
interest in the stock of the Alabama
Great Southern Railroad Company, and
has since that time owned the controlling
interest in it, and managed, regulated
and controlled the affairs of that com.
pany, which is in violation of the Missis.
sippi code of 1892 and 1906.
The bill further states that in August,
1894, the Southern Railway Company &C.
quired the control of the Southern Rail-
way in Mississippi through the owner.
ship of the stock of the National In.
vestment Company, which company owns
the entire capital stock of the Southern
Railway in Mississippi; that in March,
1901, the Southern Railway Company,
being a competing line with the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad Company, purchased
in violation of the law, rs per cent Of
the capital stock of the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad Company; that at the date Of
the purchase, and for many years prior
thereto, that the Mobile AND Ohio Rail.
road was in direct and active competi.
ton with the Southern Railway in Mis-.
sissippi, and the Southern Railway Com.
pany at the points of Meridian, Corinth,
West Point and Columbus, and at many
other points in the state of Mississippi.
The bill is also based on and asks for
fines of SIS 5000 per day OF account Of the
violation of a section of the Mississippi
code which provides that no corporation
shall purchase or W the capital stock
or any part thereof OF any other cor
poration, if such other corporation be
engaged in the same kind of business and
be a competitor therein.
In conclusion the bill prays for a for.
feiture of the charter and the rights Of
all the defendants to do business, and for
fines ~aggregating from 100000 to $4O,,
600, 900. according to whether the court
shall see fit to impose the maximum or
minimum penalties.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
WHITEcAPPER PARDONED.
Mississippi Governor Says He Must Pro.
vide for His Family.

Jackson.-J. c. Mccoy, who was serv-
ing a sentence in the penitentiary for
whitecapping, has been pardoned by the
governor.
In issuing the pardon Gov. Brewer in
%corporated a rather new and unique
condition. The substance of this condi-
ton was that Mccoy must in future
live with and provide for his. wife and
children, that he must, within five days,
leave Pearl River county with them, and
shall not return to that portion of Mis-
sissippi lying south of the Alabama and
Vicksburg railroad line, on pain of hav.
ing the unserved portion of his sentenc,
60 in effect automatically.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
pAaDoNs BOY OF u YEARS.
Lloyd Hallam Must Be Sent to a Re.
fOrmatory.

Jackson.-Lloyd Hallam, a boy of four
teen years, was ~pardoned by Gov. Brewer
upon the recommendation Of the trial
fudge and a number of citizens of Gre.
NADIA county.
The lad was convicted at Grenada
last August on a charge of burglary,
and Immediately began to serve a SEN
tence of one year. He was put at work
on the county roads.
The petition for the lads pardon
stated that the youth was not beyond
redemption, that bad company had con-
tributed greatly to his misdeeds, and
that If properly cared for in the future
he should make a good citizen.
Gov. Brewer granted the pardon upon
the condition that the lad be sent to a
reformatory school at once. As Missis-
sippi has no such institutions the boy
will be sent to the reformatory in Nash
willie, Tenn.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
Curious Russian Law.

Russia has a law which to outside
observers seems almost to put d
premium on theft by which stolen
goods become the property of the
thief If he al prove that he has had
possession Of them for over five years.
In the thieves market-which is, Of
course, licensed by the police-goods
that admittedly have been -stsisn
more than five years before) are
openly offered for sale, and the place
is a veritable mecca for the light,
fingered gentry and their enterprisinR
friends, as also for the more honest
members of society, who secure mani
a tempting bargain.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
Want Forestry Reesrve.

Natchez.-The Riparian Land Owners
Association, whose lands lie on the east
bank of the Mississippi, from Brunswick,
Miss, to Bayou Sara, La, sent a peti.
ton to the river commission praying
that they recommend to congress the
purchase of other Lara for a forestry
reserve. There are S6,286 acres, the
average value being 1920, or a total
of $1,s5o,442. The lands will grow mer-
charitable cottonwood timber in twenty
years, Welding 500 worth OF timber an
ahra.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
WILL DRAIN THE DELTA.
More Than a Half Million Will Be Re-
claimed.

The most notable plan of development
now under way in Mississippi is the
drainage of swamp overflowed lands in
Washington county. Twelve drainage
districts, or subdivisions, have been Or
gained, the work of digging drainage
canals is actively under way, and when
the work is completed it will mean the
reclamation of more than a half million
acres of the most fertile cotton lands
in the world.
Plans for the drainage system were
approved by government engineers, fur
nished by the department of agriculture,
all necessary financial arrangements
have been perfected and land owners in
the territory to be drained are mani
Testing a very enthusiastic interest.
IL is expected that the example set by
Washington county will be quickly fol-
lowed in other sections of the delta.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
Buys Stock Farm.

Jackson.-Daniel S. Combs, of Lexing-
ton, KY, a stockman of note, has just
purchased the Barton place, in Rankin
county, and will establish there a large
model stock farm, making a speciality
of pure bred horn cattle.
Mr.. Combs purchase includes 1900
acres of more or less improved lands.
While the consideration has not been
made public, it is understood to be in
the ~neighborhood of $4,000.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
Cannot Locate the Tiger.

Natchez.-Despite sensational reports
about violations of prohibition laws in
Natchez, the Adams county grand jury
adjourned without having returned a true
bill for this offense. In its report the
grand jury says much liquor has been
shipped into Natchez to fictitious names"
and "after an examination of more than
100 reputable witnesses, we failed to find
the guilty parties" Sheriff Mulvihill
and the police force were commended
for their work in suppressing crime.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
Large Land Deal.

Mayersville.-One of the largest real
\ estate transfers in this section wal con-
summated a few days ago in this county.
The Issaquena Land and Lumber Com
pany of Terre Haute, Ind, sold to the
Fl. B. Blanks Lumber Company, for $685.
900, quite a number of plants and has
had charters of incorporation filed and
'ecorded in the chancery clerks office,
before the law of 1919 went into effect
prohibiting corporations from owning
lands for agricultural purposes.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
SmelIed q CRATER.

A Boston clubman recently returned
from a visit to New York city. In
discussing his trip n of his friends
asked him whether he had a police.
mar IN his pocket. The clubman hest.
tated for a moment, seriously ques.
tioning his friends sanity, when the
latter added:
Il didn't know whether you could be
there a week without some CRATER or
other getting into your pocket"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
Cotton Picking at End.

misunderstanding in some portions
of the delta, where a bumper crop was
raised, cotton picking in Mississippi is
practically at an end. The northern
delta counties, however, will hardly fin
ish picking cotton before Christmas, aud
labor is very much in demand, fancy
wages being offered for pickers.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
CONSOLIDATE O
Campaign in Favor of Having Fewer
Rural Schools.

Consolidation of rural schools in Lee
county, similar to that which has been
done in Covington county, is now con
templated by w. H. Shith, rural school
supervisor for Mississippi.
In fact, plans to begin a campaign to
arouse public sentiment in favor of the
project have already been adopted, and
It is believed that the consolidation of
che schools will take place next year.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
Jackson School Exhibit.

Jackson.-A permanent exhibit of the
art and drawing department of Jackson's
public schools will be sent to Washington
to be placed in the building occupied by
exhibits under the auspices of the South
ern Commercial Congress. This exhibit
has been requested by the Commercial
Congress.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-12-13
]. B. Humphreys Dies.

Greenwood.-Circuit Clerk J. B. Hum
phreys died suddenly at his home here.
Mr.. Humphreys was a son of ex-Gov. B.
G. Humphreys, a brother of Congress-
man Humphreys. He was one of the
most popular men in Leflore county, hav-
ing served one term as sheriff and WA
vt the time of his death serving biz
fourth term as circuit clerk.