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The Tupelo journal., 1913-12-12

A. Montgomery Ward, head of
the great mail order house in
Chicago, died last Saturday at
his home there of pneumonia,
which followed two falls that
broke an arm, a shoulder blade
and hip. Mr.. Ward rose from a
day laborer to the presidency of
the greatest mail order house in
the country and died worth fiji
teen million dollars. The secret
of his success lay in the fact that
he knew how to advertise and
did it.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-12-12
COTTON

Columbus had received up to
last Friday night "a. 663 bales of
cotton this season and shipped
16, GIG. Aberdeen had received
up to the night of the 18th,
&c, 945 bales, and shipped Ia, 1896.
Aberdeen Examiner.
On the same date Tupelo had
received at the compress 0.301
bales and shipped out q, $50
bales.
At the close of business Deem
Der 9th, the compress had re-
ceived AZ, O65 bales and had ship
ped out 80, 922 bales. In adj
dition to the receipts of the COM
press should be added the stock
in private warehouses which is
between 5000 and 1000 bales of
cotton-making receipts to date
of 81, 900 bales.
Tupelo will receive rs, 600 bales
during the season and will be-
come the second cotton town in
the state. Greenwood ranking
first. Meridian was at one time
a 100, 900 bale market, has
dropped into the neighberhood
of 80, 900 bales. The compress
at jackson that had been hand
ling SO, 900 bales will handle be-
tween 5000 and 10000 bales.
One compress in Southern Mis-
sissippi that handled 80, 600 bales
has only handled 1000 bales dur
ing the season. These figures
tell the story Of the boil weevil.
Wherever he has located the
effects Of his work has been felt
and devastation his followed his
coming. He is in this latitude
but got here too late to do great
The Tupelo journal., 1913-12-12
TUPELO, MISS. DEC. IL, 1918
LET THE GOVERNMENT DO
THE WORK.

Representatives of the great
Mississippi delta section appear
ed before the Rivers and Harbors
committee of congress urging
that the government take charge
of the great delta and provide
means of protecting that rich
section from floods.
The contention was made that
that section has exhausted all
available means of protecting
themselves and that the govern
ment should come to their relief.
There should be no need for ar
gument to establish the fact that
the delta should be protected at
government expense. Here are
ten thousand square miles of the
finest soil in the world, where
frequently magnificent crops are
devastated by overfows. The
section must be relied upon to
furnish a great quantity of the
products necessary for the com
fort of the entire people of the
country.
This condition of affairs should
readily appeal to those who are
entrusted with the preservation
of the country's resources. The
government is frequently called
upon to aid the arid west where
vast deserts spread out and
show no form of vegetation of
commercial value. Only a use
less scrubby vegetation is found
there, and the only inhabitants
are the cayote and prairie dog.
By the magic touch of the in
ventiye genius &C 1nanf Backed
by government funds, these arid
wastes have been transformed
into perfect and luxurious gar
dens. Irrigation has transformed
them and their productiveness is
marvellous. If the westerner is
furnished irrigation to reclaim
his desert of sand, why could
not the man of the delta receive
the same consideration in having
his lands protected from the
floods that visit and destroy
not only his crops, but the lives
of the people?
The Tupelo journal., 1913-12-12
Why We DO Not Burn Witches.

When the old Puritan got so excited
over witches that he couldn't sleep
and was willing to burn the old women
to get rid of them, he showed that he
did not have the steady nerve of the
modern man, who sees things ten
times. more mysterious happening all
the time and never gets at all aX-
cited. The reason why they did not
have so many in the asylums at that
time was because there were no asy-
lums to which they could be sent
Omaha World Herald.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-12-12
Every Day Resolve.

! will this day try to live a simple,
sincere and serene life; repelling
promptly every thought of discomfort,
anxiety, encouragement, impurity and
self seeking, ~cultivating cheerfulness,
magnanimity, charity and the habit OF
holy silence; exercising economy in
expenditure, carefulness in converse.
ton, diligence in appointed service,
fidelity to every trust, and a childlike
trust in God.-Bishop Vincent.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-12-12
To Tighten q Cane Scat.

When the cane seat Of q chair Says.
It may be frightened and made to look
as good as new by scrubbing 1t with
hot water and soap until the cane Is
wet thoroughly and then drying it In
the hot sun.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-12-12

damage in 1913. The counties
south of us have him in much
greater numbers and will no
doubt suffer a year ahead Of us,
but we believe that the crop Of
1914 will be materially affected.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-12-12

Don't fail to read our ad elsewhere.
Great reductions are offered. Asa w.
Allen Co.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-12-12
To Cure a Cold In One Day

Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. 1t stops the
Cough and Headache and works off the Cold.
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure
e. w. GROVES signature on each box. CSC.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-12-12
RATES OF

DISPLAY advertisements at rate of
$1.OO per running il ch per month OF
four weeks. Liberia discounts made
on yearly contracts. !.
Notice of meetings of strictly chart
table organizations will be inserted one
time free; all other notices must be
paid for.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-11
CHARGES ASSAULT
AND ALIENATION
Morris Gordon Files Second Suit
of This Sort in State Of
Utah.

For the alleged theft Of his wife's af-
fections and for sundry assaults said TO
have been committed upon him Morris
Gordon yesterday filed suit in the district
court against Phillip Fischer for $500
Gordon valued his wife at $1,000 the first
beating at the hands OF Fischer at $1,000,
and three other beatings at $500 each. He
asks for damages on I'VE counts.
According to the complaint, Gordon and
his wife, Ada, were living In utmost
domestic bliss when Fischer crossed
Maliciously and remeditately, Fischer
is alleged 10 have gone about the theft of
Mrs, Gordons affections EGe succeeded
In February. 1872, according to the COM
plaint, when Mrs. Gordon fled suit for
divorce and subsequently vent away with
Fischer
The beatings for which Gordon seeks
damages were administered, II is alleged
at sundry times after the divorce pro-
ceedings had begun. The first occasion
was in March, 1912. when Fischer Is said
to have attacked Gordon In the law Of
fees OF Sullivan & Sanford and beaten
him until his eyes were blackened and
his features almost permanently changed.
Gordon AYERS that he never has recovered
from the first beating and that his eye
other three beatinss We're not so severe
according TO the amount of damages
sought, but on each occasion Gordon de-
clares he lost tooth or two and was put
to the expense OF doctors attention.
This is the second alienation suit filed
in Utah courts. The first was tried sew
eral weeks ago and resulted in a verdict
for sSSI In favor OF John Reed against
Alfred Jensen.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-11
PLANS MADE FOR
CLEANING MAINS
Water Officials Will Ask for
Appropriation to Clean
Pipes.

plans for cleaning city water mains
and rcnloving the sediment OF many
wears, an undertaking recommended In
the annual report OF the water superln-
tendeul as imperative, have been pre-
pared by c. F. Barrett. superintendent
and " II Korns, commissioner of the
water department They will be submit
ted 10 the city commission with an
urrent recommendation that funds be
= appropriated at once for this work.
EStimates furnished by the National
Wsler Main Cleaning company OF NeM Ne,M
YORK. which has offered to ship its
eaaIpmcnt here and furnish a special
engineer for the work, show that the
mains could be cleaned for about Sl3o0 q
mile. While this figure would make pro
hjbltive any general clea ming OF the en-
tire system. the water officials nave
mapped out the principal mains that are
most I'm need Of overhaullng. and they
estimate that for S25,600 these could DE
placed In frst-class shape.
Inv estiga tions by the water department
have shown that the carrying capacity
of the pipes has. In many instances, been
reduced one-half by the formation oi
limestone and other matter deposited Dy
the water. This results In reduction oi
system. xo
The method of cleaning that the Off,
cIals are planning TO adopt calls for !
sort OF rotary machine which Is inserted
the obstruction from the inside, Water
following after the machine carries away
the looSened sediment.
It is proposed TO clean practically al
of the mains that carry City creek wa
ter including the principal mains In th'
business district provided the city com
mission will make the necessary appro'
prlation.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-11
HAWKES. TO HAVE
S. P. OFFICE HERE
Part of Plan to Unmerge the
Union Pacific From Harri-
man System.

George A. Ha wkcs has been chosen TO
In Salt Lake City and will open offices
here In few days. This Is in a line with
the general plan Of a complete divorce
from the Union Pacific system, and the
new offices will be entirely separated
from those of the Hartman lines now
In the city.
Mr. Hawkes. has been a resident OF Salt
Lake City for twenty-five years and
practically all OF that time has been EN-
ployed as a livestock agent for one OF
the railroads entering the city. He was
at first connected here In that capacity
later with the Oregon Short Line. For
several years he has occupied the same
position with the Southern Pacific. with
headquarters in the Reno office. but ne
has maintained his residence In this city
He Is still In Nevada,
rumor reached the Oregon Short
Line offices about month ago that a
Southern Pacific office would be estab-
lished here soon, but no definite an
nounoement was made, and in view OF
the fact that all the particulars Of the
unmcrglnE Of the Hartman system have
not been worked out: the report was not
given much credence, At that time. how
asked to help select suitable location
for such an office. The description OF
the offices desired was not definitely
given and II was said last night that the
location Of the offices had not been de-
clded upon.
although some attention may be given to
the passenger business. Mr.. Hawkes. Is
we'll known here and will be glady well
coined by local railroad men
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-11
DEPLETED CABMEN
AGAINST LICENSE
Salt Lakes Three Hack Drivers
Appear Before the City
Commission.

Three haired old cabmen, the last
in Salt Lake appeared before the city
commissioners last night TO ask that the
annual license tax against them be re-
duccd or abated altogether. Pressed 20
the wall by the bustling taxicabs and
automobiles Of a new age, they repre-
sented that II was quite impossible TO
keep up the losing fight and at the same
time pay s21 year into the city treas
ury.
This is all there is left OF u.s. said
Frank Davenport. the spokesman of the
trio, indicating with sweep of his hand
his two companions. who responded 10
the names OF Ell Webb and Emory Far
ley. There used TO be quite a bunch
of us In the old days-seYenty-fve or a
hundred of us--before the buzz wagons
came along and grabbed the business
right out from under our noses. We
ain't asking for something for nothing
but II you could reduce the tax a bit
we could get along little better"
Its hard plckings nowadays for such
as u.s." chimed In Webb eft amt like
1t used to be. Seems like nobody wants
to ride In an ordinary old cab these
days, They take the automobiles every
time almost
The commissioners told the cabmen to
put their petition in writing and as
sured them that 1t would be given due
consideration.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-11
COMMISSION BILL
KILLED IN SENATE
Measure Providing for Tnitia-
tive, Referendum and Re-
call Defeated, Al to 7.

After a sharp debate the senate yes
terday rejected the proposal to add TO
the commission form OF government the
so-calied ''frills," consisting of the In
itiative, the referendum and the recall.
Senators Smith. Funk and Ferry cham
pioned the bill. while Senators Cottrell
Eckersley and Iverson opposed It.
Senator Smith said that the bill was
introduced to make the law relative to
the commission form of government more
effective. He snid there had been con-
siderable criticism because the original
bill had not included these features He
said he believed the features OF the law
proposed by the bill were good ones and
would make the commission form OF gov
ernment more effective.
Senator 1verson said the bill was alto
gethcr repugnant TO him He said he was
strongly opposed to all of the provisions
of the bill, He believed them contrary
to the principles OF good government and
would take great deal of pleasure in
voting against the measure. Senator
Lunt said he was decidedly opposed TO
being a progressive measure, IL was a
he believed his initiative and referendum
measure superior TO this one and voted
against il.
The vote on the rollcall ON the bill
follows:
Ayes-Craig. EdCheiIl. Ferry. Funk.
Kelly, Rideout. Smith,
Noes-Booth. Cottrel Eckersley. Han
sen Iverson Lunt, Olson. Thornley,.
Wight, Williams. President Gardner-11.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-11
DETECTIVE MAY
BE PUT ON TRIAL,
Attorney for West Virginia
Mines Makes Grave Charge
in Court.


CHARLESTON, w. Va, March 10
when the trial by military court of the
labor leaders arrested In connection with
the recent Paint Creek mine strike riots
was resumed today, Frank A. Smith n
private. detective who had been gather
!hg evidence in the mining district for
me last five months. was charged by Al
Der or the defendants. with subornation
OF perjury. with having offered bribes 10
Witnesses. Witnesses. and with having promised i'm
nlunity to others. The Judge advocate
against the detective he would be prose-
cuted and tried by the military court
attorneys for the defendants filed TODAY
d statement OF agreed facts covering The
tiine since the militia first was called
INTO the troubled district. In this state
tneii,no men,, designed 70 obyiate repetition of
seslitiiony, testimony the defendants admit they
claim they Wore driven from their homes
ana mistreated by the mine qua rds
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-11
PENSION FUND
FOR TEACHERS
Retirement Association Will Con
tinue; Annual Payment Linn
tied by Bill Enacted.

The senate yesterday passed the bill
permitting the Tea chers Retirement asso-
cintion to continue The bill WAS killed
on the day previous but was reconsidered
Yesterday when several of the senators
learned that they had voted on the
measure under n misapprehension. Sena-
tor Charles Cottrel, Jr., OF Salt Lake
who led the fight against the measure on
Saturday, yesterday worked Tor the
passage OF the bill.
The bill was amended in the senate
yesterday TO reduce the percentage paid
by each teacher from TO j per cent
The differences between the proposed law
and the present law consist principally In
extending the provisions OF the plan now
operating In Salt Lake to the state at
large and In fixing the maximum COM
pensation for retired teachers at 5000 per
annum. Under the present law the
teachers receive so per cent of their sal
ary Several eligible for retirement
within the next few years are high sa J.
aried teachers: and 80 per cent OF their
annual income would prove too great a
tax on the retirement fund.- Under the
proposed law all teachers receiving less
than $1,000 per year are given pension
OF one-falf of their salary, while all those
receiving $1,000 or more receive a fiat
pension OF $500 per year.
The sitting committee OF the house is
now considering the measure and Will
probably recommend its passage by the
house.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-11
BANK COMMISSIONER
BILL IS BROUGHT Up
House Takes Another Whirl
al Measure, but Motion TO
Reconsider 1t Loses.

The senate bill creating the Office of
in the house yesterday, although the
bill itself has been with the senate
since Saturday, Attempts were made
in the house yesterday first to recon-
slider the vote by which the house
passed the bill Friday, and next to re-
call it from the senate for amendment.
In both cases the opponents Of the BILL
lost their fight.
When the bill was passed by the
house Friday Page of Piute, changing
his vote from emo to "aye' for
that purpose, gave notice Of n motion
for Reconsideration the following day,
which was Saturday. When the time ar
rived for moving to reconsider, Page
had barely time to make his motion be-
fore former Governor Hadley of Mis-
souri arrived for his speech. The mo-
tion was thereupon laid on the table.
The understanding which the friends
of the motion to reconsider professed
to have at the time was that the mo
tion to reconsider carried with II 10
the table the bill itself.
Then it developed that the bill Was
sent to the senate, and the senate yes
terday morning notified the house THAI
Il had concurred in the house amend
ments. 1t was said by some that this
was not the proper order, but deep
dclyinp into the rules of order con
yinced them that it was, although they
protested that il was a violation OF the
spirit of the house If it was not of the
letter 80.
Yesterday morning Page moved that
his motion to reconsider be taken from
the table. The motion was lost on the
following vote:
Ayes-Barnes, Benson, Carbon, COOK;
Durham, Elwood, Hammond, KimbRll,
Kricbel. Loveless. Marriott, Morris,
Openshaw, Page, REYNOLDS, Robinson
Southwict, Swenson. Welling-l9.
Noes-Anderson Bamberger, Barker,
Bennion, Mrs. Cannon, Christsnsen,
Crouch. Day. Henrie, Hooper, Jones,
Judd, Mrs. King, Mabey, Marchantt'
McRae, Monson, Van Wagner, Will
cox, Mr.. Speaker-0.
In the afternoon Barnes of salt
Lake made a motion that the bill be
recalled from the senate for amend
ment The motion was also lost by
the same vote.
The appearance Of this bill in the
house has given the Democrats an OPP
portunity, for the second time during
the session, to vote as a unit, or prac~
tically so. Thus the Democrats have
made the best Of the opportunity TO
put thorn in the side of the Kepub-
lican administration.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-11
CITY AND VICINITY

IN ORDER TO appear before the United
States supreme court In the arguments
Of the case of the Western Wyoming
Land & Livestock company against the
Stewart. OF the law firm OF Stewart.
Stewart & Alexander, left for Washing
ton yesterday
SALT LAKE as an earthquake region
ture delivered at the University OF Utah
by Frederick j. Pack. professor of
geology at the university. last night. The
lecture was Illustrated with stereopticon
Views and made more lucid with the use
Of a seismograDh.
I. e. WILEY, county attorney, will
leave tomorrow for Washington and New
York. where he goes TO transact legal
business. During his absence Nephi
be in charge Of the legal department of
the county, Mr.. Wiley expects TO be
gone two weeks.
THE STOCKHOLDERS of the Utah
Light & Railway company will meet at
session TO choose a board OF nine direc-
tors, The directors chosen tomorrow
win meet thirty days later and select
officers for the company FOR the ensuing
year.
ZIoN'S SAVINGS Bank & Trust COM
psny yesterday entered suit In the dis
tIict court against Howard w. Throck-
morton To fOrecloSe mortgages given on
respectively.
A COMPLAINT charging Isaac Martin
with burglary was issued by the county
attorney yesterday. Martin Is alleged to
have entered the chicken coop OF w II.
ShowcI 81 East Fifth South street, and
stolen number Of chickens.
JOHN T. HARVEY, formerly con-
nected with the Central Savannah lines
in Denver, during which time Salt Lake
City was Included in the territory that
he covered. was visiting old railroad
friends yesterday.
e. r. LEfS, general agent for the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. and j. e.
Gosling. general agent for the Chesa-
peake g. Ohio, left yesterday for San
Francisco.
DINA ELiASoN yesterday filed suit In
the district court against the Utah
Light & Railway company for $3.50 dam
ages for personal injuries suffered by
falling from street car.
OSCAR GRoSHElL OF this city spoke
on salesmanship In the lobby Of the
Young Mems Christian association build
ing last evening.
THE TRIAL OF w. Halliday on q stat
utory charge was begun before a jury In
the criminal division OF the district court
yesterday.
THERE WILL be a meeting of the
Utah state Poultry association at the
Commercial club Thursday. March IL.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-11
OFFER UTAH MARBLE
FOR STATE CAPITOL
Representatives of Company
Appear Before Commission
ers; Will Investigate.
PRICES KEPT SECRET
Historical Society Requests
That Ii Be Given Official
Recognition.
PRICES KEPT SECRET

At Yesterdays meeting of the capi-
tol commission DR.. Fred ]. Pack and
A. +. Judd, representing the utah
Marble G. Construction company, ap-
peared before the commission and
submitted an offer to furnish pure
white marble for the exterior Of the
capitol building. The commission de-
clined to announce what the material
would cost.
The company owns deposits OF
marble in Beaver county, and it is
claimed for the product that 1T Is as
good as can be obtained anywhere IN
the country Many beautiful samples
Of the marble were submitted. The
commission decided TO send two e1
perts 10 Beaver county at once to In
spcct the auarries as TO extent and
quality, and members of the commits
sion will make similar tour March Il.
One of the experts is S. II, Belmont oil
Provo, and the other Will he selected
by James Stewart & Co, the capitol
bulIdinp contractors.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-11
PROPOSE TO INCREASE
D. u. P. MEMBERSHIP

At yesterdays meeting of the Daugh-
ters OF the Utah Pioneers in the Bishops
building, there was discussed a proposed
amendment to the constitution provid-
ing for the admission TO the society OF
descendants of pioneers who came to
Utah prior 10 1863 1t Is proposed, how
ever. to divide these descendants into
four groups as follows; Those who came
between lS47 and 1853; those who came
between 1853 and 1853: those who came
camc between 1863 and 1862
A vote upon the proposed amendment
will be taken on April II, at which time
the annual election OF officers also will
take place.
The programme to be carried out at
the meeting OF March "a was discussed
and agreed upon In part, but the entire
programme Will be announced later
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-11
ALLEGES WIFE
THREATENS LIFE
John i. Reynolds, in Divorce
Suit, Ayers His Helpmate Is
Jealous and Sharp Tongued.

Declaring that his wife is a sharp
tongued, ili-tempered, jealous scold, who
has made his thirtythre years Of matri-
mony a constant nightmare, John F. Rey-
nolds filed suit In the district court yes
terday for divorce from Florence Rey-
nods.
Reynolds AYERS that his wife. in addi-
tion TO the characteristics enumerated,
suffered occasional lapses into insanity
during which she threatened and attempt
ed to kill him. Finally he left her and
took TO living at hotels, but, according to
the complaint, she always sought him out
and drove him to other quarters. Once
she entered his room at a hotel In Chey-
enne armed with a butcher knife and
forced him to flee in the middle OF the
night for his life, it Is set out