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The Harrison times., 1915-05-08
Fer Rent

Three nicely furnished rooms for
lilht housckcopjng pee Mrs. lcono
May Eagle Heights,
The Harrison times., 1915-05-08
Hymeneai.

Married, Tuesday evening at the
NJ, E. Parsonage, by Rev. Blizzard
Lester Jones to Miss Harriet
Dewey, Both young people have
been raised in Harrison and have
the esteem and good wishes Of a
large circle Of friends.
The Harrison times., 1915-05-08

Jack Jcrnigan and Miss Jessie
Shue, two well.known young people
Of Harrison, surprised their friends
by a quiet wedding on Friday Of last
week. They will continue to make
Harrison their home,
The Harrison times., 1915-05-08
Local and Personal

School election next Saturday.
-Harrison's Public Schools closed |
yesterday.
r. E. Ruble, of Bellefonte, was a
Harrison visitor the first of the
week.
Rex Worthington has gone for a
term in the Springfield Business
College.
Mrs, Alf Johnson, of Nevada,
Mo-, is visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs B, Frew.
Geo. w. O'Neal and family left
Tuesday for a months visit to
California and its two expositions
Prof. Robt, CASTOR, now princi-
pal of the Omaha schools, spent
several days in Harrison this week.
The ladies Of the NJ. E. S. Missi. |
onary Society enjoyed an all day !
meeting yesterday with Mrs, Fred
Casteel.
For consideration Of $4OO the !
City Council has purchased Of W. r, |
Gordon a lot 25x15O feet just north
Of Frew's Garage to be used for a
Jail.
Ruby Holbrook, of Hallett,
Oklahoma, whose mother died
recently, has come to make her
home with her aunt, Mrs W, T,
Ruble,
The Base Ball Flop at Terpsi.
chorean Hall last Saturday evening
was one Of the mos! enjoyable events
Of the year About twcnty.dvecoup.
les participated,
-Nurscryman Jno, G, Taylor is
able to be about again after two
months suffering with a broken col
lar bone. A vicious kick from a
mule was the basis of the trouble
Mrs. {, c, Johnson, who recent,
ly celebrated her 74th birthday, is
clearly among our Oldest settlers.
She was born some FIVE miles west
Of Harrison and has lived here all Of
her life,
Mrs. c, Block and little son and
Thos, Barnett and wife, Of Eureka,
visited at the home Of Wiley Welch
this week. Mr.. and Mrs, Barnett
have recently returned from South
America
Little Miss Ruth Green lelt Sun.
day for q two weeks visit 60 her |
uncle Ned Bowers at Morrllton |
She accompanied crIathcr, Licutcn.
ant Colonel Fred Greene as far as
Little Rock,
--"Cotching Clara at the Opera
House tonight, is said to- be a
splendid little drama, and the Grad. |
uating Class Of our High School |
hope 60 see a representative audience
ont 20 enjoy their final efforts,
Up 60 Wednesday next our
Harrison School Board will receive
bids on the new $4,000 school
building on Woodland Heights,
south Of the creek, The contract |
will likely be awarded Wednesday |
afternoon,
According TO the report Of
Weather Observer j. r. Massey April !
was a month olmodle Spring wealth,
er, with a total OF nearly seven in,
ehes rainfall and an average tenn
peraure of 60, The coolest was
'j. on the lst and the warmcst 50.
ON the Sth, II clear days 6 partly |
cloudy and 7 cloudy Prevailing |
Winds southeast
Harrison State Guards officers
left sunday for the annual officers
school ot Little Rock which b3q1u
Tucfday oad will continue until the
lltb The party included Lieut.
Col Fred Greene, Gopts Ghas
Greene, and Homer Freeing and
gud Lieut. Claude Alexander 1el|
Lieut. Harry Newman, o' llcndGy
College viii join them ot Little |
Roem
Harrison delegates from local
Womans Clubs left Monday for
Fayetteville where they attend thc
State Federation this week The
party included Mrs, j. i, Andrews.
vice president Of The Fcderation,
Mrs. Roy Milum, w. II, Lewis and
loo !, Davis, from the Book CInbj
Mrs. X, n Crowdus,L NJ, EWugu
The Harrison times., 1915-05-08

LEAD HILL AREo May 1sJ 1915,
EDITOR TINES
Responding to your recent request
for information concerning the oldest
settlers Of Boone county would
say that ! have been citizen Of this
State for Gf years,
! was born in Weekly county,
Tennessee, luly Och, lSl0, and NOV.
ed to Arkansas in September 1851,
with my parents we settled on Black
river, in Lawrence county, the
richest part Of the state, where the
bottoms were full of bear and wild
hogs Wcwcrc there ls months and
all suffered so badly with the chills
that we were glad 70 leave for the
hills OF North Arkansas We crossed
the west line Of Marion county in
February 1854 and settled where |
now live aud have lived ever since
Section "a, Township II Range 10,
During this time | have lived in
but three houses, all on the same
place, and have not been absent
Save on visits,
When The war came up my father
Joined the Confederate army in
Capt, James Williams company,
He fought through the battle Of
Nicasburg, was parolcd, and never
heard Of ulterWurd
My mother and eight children
stayed on thc farm during the war;
Frequently the Federal forces iny0d,
ed this section and took whatever
they needed or wanted,
They told me several times that !
was getting "dam nigh big enough
to kill'
When q party ol soldiers would
ride up we children would huddle
together and our teeth chatter like
the gca.wbcd oI u moving ma.
chine.
In 1872 ] married Miss S. f.
Thurman; to this union was born
twelve ebiidfrni all born in Jhesamc
house, except the drl which was
born before we lclt my mothcfs
We have reared five boys 60 man.
hood and five girls who orcollmor
ried Two died seventeen years ago,
each having q liJtIe girl Our two
younger sons arcsull living with us,
one teaching school and one farm.
iua AlIorthobogH are MusouN and
four of the gids members Of the
Eastern Star Four of the boy and
one of the girls hold teachers
license. G. w. pAWFrL
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-05-20
THE JEFFERSONIAN

against Tic SOOQ Halle OF georgia anu U1l0
fair fame of our judiciary, no executive off,
GER can halt the due process of the law aOitA-
out Virtata1zy taking sides aoith the szanderers
Of the State, and 0ir5uazzy endorsing the
charges aOhlch haze been made against us.
In the manner prescribed by law, Franks
guilt has been determined.
In other words, his guilt has been jatdacsal1y
08certai7aed
The Prison Commission must accept that
issue, as res 0diudio0tG: IT HAS BEEN
ADJUDLCATED
No power on earth can legally question that
fact and reopen that issue.
When the greatest court on earth held that
Franks guilt had been judicially ascertained,
the zaao had spoken the last a0ord, As TO
HIS GUILT.
Ii the Commission usurps the authority to
virtually set aside the verdict and qive Frank
q neaO trial. the Commissioners will deserve
to be anopeached and the usurpatory Com
mission to be abolished
Neither can the Governor give Frank what
would amount to setting the courts aside, and
giving him another trial not contemplated
by our laws.
Executive clemency, to be properly exer-
cised, must be based, either on newly discov-
cred facts, which diligence could not previ-
ously have discovered, and which might have
altered the verdict; or, upon something in
the convlct's favor, which has happened since
his conviction.
Or the Executive may find some extenu-
ating circumstance in the record which APP
peals to him. and he may, upon this feature
of the case, shoe mercy to a guilty man.
The point [ make is, that the pardoning
power IS not q judicial function: it is not to
be used to set aside verdicts of iuries, or to
humlliate our Judges by practically nullify-
ing their decisions.
It would be administrative onarc7ly, to have
the Prison Commission and the Governor
usurping the powers of juries and judges.
There is not a lawyer In Georgia who will
dispute the soundness of this proposition, nor
fail to see the vital Importance of hozdiqaq the
rudder of State true, to Constitutional Law.
So extremely careful were General Toombs,
the Judges Reese, Ex-Governor Charles J.
Jenkins. General A. r. Lawton, Colonel Mel
son lift and the other trainers of our Con-
stitution of 1877, that they made it the duty
of the Governor to come before the Legisla-
ture each session, and to tell the legislative
branch. why he changed the sentences i'm
posed by the judicial branch.
The unfortunate fact that this constitr-
tOnal provision has become dead letter. of
late years, does not diminish the significance
Of the requirement
The great lawyers and statesmen who made
the Constitution, meant to keep firm, steady
check on the Governor. and to make it his
duty to give his reasons for partially undoing
the work of the judiciary.
The only legal way that Frank can now
come before the Commission, and the Cover
nor, is by saying "My guilt has been adiudi-
Gated, and that question is closed; but de-
mand q lighter sentence, than has been i'm
posed"
The only legal way for the Commission
and the Governor to handle the case, as it
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-05-20

The Governor can pardon, as an act of
gracious executive clemency but the Cover
nor can not make his office judicial branch
of the Government.
The Governor has the power to say. II par
don. you, as Christ pardoned the guilty
woman;" but the Governor has no legal au-
thority to say, II am not satisfied of your
guilt, and will assume a judicial character,
and retry your case"
Governor Slaton is lawyer. and a good
one: when he carefully refreshes his memory
by a study of our governmental plan of sep
0rate p0aOers. and considers how jealousy the
highest law forbids the union of these powers
In the person of one man. [ am sure he will
realize that neither his Prison Commission
nor himself constitutes court of review
The Supreme Court of Georgia must not
be subordinated to the Prison Commission.
The highest tribunal of the Law, must not
be made an object of derision and contempt
The splendid system of government which
results from a separation of powers, and the
check of one upon the other. must be pre-
served
We must not revolutionize the work Of our
fathers and reduce our system to chaotic con-
fusion, merely to save the life of an execrable
degenerate
The Constitution commands that executive
and judicial functions be forever kept sep
arate.
"Forever'' is a word that must not be
blotted out from our highest law, at the behest
of Big Money.
The Constitution commands that no person
exercising the powers Of the one department
shall exercise the powers of another
This command ac0s meant to be obeved.
AND IT MUST BE OBEYEDI
We can not allow the Governors of other
States, the millionaire bankers. the preiudiced
newspapers, and the clamor of the Burns
Connolly dupes, to trample upon the organic
law of Georgia.
The same clamor was raised by Abe Hum
mel and his rich hackers, to save the life of
Carlton Harris, who pursued. ruined and
murdered poor girl in New York but the
Governor qoas 4 MAN, and the guilty Har-
IT'S paid the extreme penalty exacted by out
ragged law.
The same clamor was raised for Beattie,
who betrayed his young wife and then bru-
tally murdered her; but. although the evil
dence against Beattie was not SO strong as that
against Frank, the Governor of Virginia
acted the man, and the cruel slayer of trust
ing wife, paid.
When Perry killed Lanier, few miles east
of Atlanta. in 1894, great clamor was
brought to bear upon Governor Atkinson;
but although the wife Of Perry went to the
Governor and said that Lanier had given the
provocation which no husband can bear; and
although a crowd of petitioners marched
upon the capitol to implore mercy, William
7. Atkinson acted the man, virtually drove
those people away, and bravely declared that
Perry must pay the penalty of the law
In what respect is Leo Frank entitled to
special privilege?
In what respect is he better than were
Harris, Beattie. and Perry?
If Mary Phagan had been the daughter of
one of the millionaire Jews of Atlanta, would
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-05-20
PAGE EIGHT
How Many More Trials I'm SUI
preme Courts is Leo Frank
to Have?
PAGE EIGHT
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

the purpose of passing upon the suficiency
of the evidence?
Every intelligent Georgian knows, that
when criminal case goes to our Supreme
Court in the manner Franks went. it is the
sworn duty of the five Judges to "consider
the evidence in his case"
Those justices Of the Supreme Court of
Georgia did pass upon the evidence, and like
Judge Roam, they judicially declared, under
their oaths and consclences that the evidence
pras sufficient
What sort of judicial chaos would we have
in Georgia, if the Prison Commission
should resolve themselves into another court
OF review, and open up the case, as though
our Supreme Court had never decided it?
The Great Charter of our liberties declares
that man shall be tried by jury of his
equals (peers), and not in any other way.
He is not to be tried by the Judge, or by any
number of Judges he is to be tried by jury
unless he valves it by pleading guilty, or
by agreeing that a judge may try him with
out a jury
The right of trial By jury, is prescribed
in all of our Constitutions: Frank elected to
have that kind of trial, and he has had it.
He has not only had the fairest sort of
trial by jury. but the judges reviewing the
proceedings have so held. The Supreme
Court of Georgia has said it: the Supreme
Court of the United States has said it.
Therefore, the best lawyers IN the qoorzd,
hare said 1t.
WHO SAYS OTHERWISE?
Franks attorneys, have said otherwise;
hired Underwriters, have said otherwise; a
corrupt detective agency, has said otherwise;
blinded Hebrews who ignore the evidence,
have said otherwise; and honest people who
knew nothing about the case, except what they
have learned from these untrustworthy
sources have said otherwise.
In this tempest Of opinion, o0hat IS the
anchor?
rs THE LAW, as LAID DOWN BY
THE COURTS.
Is Commissioner Bob Dawson a court,
vested with judicial powers?
Is Governor Jack Slaton court robed in
the ermine of the judiciary?
Indeed, No!
The Constitution of the State not only COM
mands that the executive department shall
fOperer be kept separate from the judicial,
but expressly prohibits those officers who hold
executive positions from exercising judicial
functions.
Governor Slaton is the Chief of the Execu-
tive Department; the Prison Commissioners
are his subordinate officers in that depart
ment.
But if the Prison Commission should I'M
dertalle to go behind the decision of the SUI
preme Court, and to retry this case on it's
merits as disclosed by the official record, they
would usurp judicial power, and violate the
Constitution.
They have no more right to retry the case
on the record, than they have to retry it by
hearing witnesses.
If Governor Slaton should undertake to 90
behind the decision of the Supreme Court,
and to retry the issue of guilt or innocence,
he will usurp judicial functions, and violate
the laws he SMOrn 10 observe
The Detroit times., 1915-03-30

ADOPTED a. follows.
Ayes-Ald. Allan. Barnett. Bell.
Burton. cEanshaw. Dill. Frsiwsa.
Lodge. howe. owen, Robinson. Rolio.
T Tih v.rnor, Wartoii. WenIsi.
Wilson and the President.-iS.
NRys--None.
by Na Burton:
Whereas This Council has made an
appropriation OF $4,000 In the Cen
'raI fund for ' esm ,SllsS1ns
is Field house, TO
construct building.
Including assembly
room and shower, "a o.a AZ.
-RecreatIon Commission
is New Fairgrounds
TO be purchased. 10000 ~
Resolved That. by and with the
approval OF tn. BOARD OF Estimates.
bonds OF the City OF Detroit In the
sum OF SIS. 600. TO be known as "Boyds
for recreation system; be is.psd an,
Act to provide a charter for the City
of Detroit. and to repeal All acts ana
parts Of acts In conflict therewitn
S,s of The Local Acts OF Michigan OF
SIS. as amended, and under author
tty OF a bill submitted 10 and ap-
proved by the electors OF the city %
a Blii 10 amend an Act entitled .An
act to provide n charter for the City
OF Detroit and TO repeal all acts and
parts OF acts IN conflict thcr.with.
adains Thereto new chapter for the
purpose Of providing for commits
sion TO be known ss The RecreatioI
commls.,on' OF nh. The c CITY Of I'D. pss'S
Hes in eject November IL. iNt;
which said bonds are TO bear such
rate Of interest. not TO exceed nve
az such iims from date OF issue. not
exceeding thirty years. and be issued
In such amount az IL or may De pro
vided BY law and the Common coun-
after determine; interest 10 be pay
able semi annually at the official BANK
OF the city OF Detroit In the City OF
New York or z, n, of ~ . o. H., p ely
cipaI and Interest 60 be payabie IN
lawful money OF the United states ~
Provided. however. That 10 *.
Board OF Estimates shall not approve
the issue OF said bonds In the sum
herein before set forth. then so much
thereof as shall be approved by said
Board OF Estimates shall be issued ~
Adopted a. follows:
Ayes--Ald. Allan, Barnett. Bi.r-
Burton. crnn.haw. Diii: Frslwaf.
Lodge. Nowc. owen. Robinson. Rollo.
Thompson. Vernon, wartsiI. wensei.
wilson and the President-2S.
Says--Nons.
SCHOOLS.
By Aid. wartell
Resolved. That by and with the con-
sent OF the Board of Estimates, bonds
Of the City OF Detroit In the amount
OF 81 1903, Zoe (which shall be denomi-
mated Public School Bonds"D be Is 4
sued under authority OF Act. NO. 2fs
OF tn. laws OF Michigan OF 1889: ap-
titled An Act relative to free schools
In the City OF Detroit" as amendSt.
and OF the relevant provisions of ne
Charter OF the city Of Detroit: which
bonds are 10 bear such rate OF In
tercst. TO be payable At such time
from date Of issue and be issued IN
such amount as II or may be provided
by law and the Common Council OF
the city OF Detroit may hereafter de-
termIne. Interest 10 be payable semi
annually at the official bank OF the
City OF Detroit In the CITY OF New
York or at the office OF the City ,
Treasurer In the City OF Detroit:
principal and interest TO be payable
In lawful money OF the United states
The proceeds Of said bonds shalibe
placed TO the credit OF The Board OF
Education OF the city OF Detroit and
by u used on account Of the follow
m
The Detroit times., 1915-03-30

Amount TO be raised by taxation,
nothing. *
Adopted as follows: ~
Ayes-Ald. Allan.l Barnett BtSr
Burton. cranshaw. Din. Fretwald.
Guthard Hindle. Healing. kronk'
Lodge. Nowc. owen, Robinson. Rollo'
Thompson. Vernon, wartsli, wenIel.
Wilson ard the president-:S.
Nsys--None.
BY Aid. Burton:
funds hereinafter named to be raised
by taxation for the ensuing fiscal
year. be and they are hereby nxed
and adopted by the Common councu
as follows, and the said estimates be
and are hereby ordered submitted TO
the Board OF Estimates 70! approval
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-08-17
One Tonopah Property Working
In Slope Twelve Feet Wide

the incline below where any ore bas
heretofore been mined.
Midway leasers are developing
more ore daily and the workings from
the old shaft is one of the busiest
places in camp.
Mixpah Extension drift on vein on
ll55-foot level is still showing three
feet of ore of average grade.
Montana leaser made shipment OF
seventy-five tons during the week.
4 ourteen other leasers are getting
more or less ore.
Cash Boy getting stringers OF good
ore in cutting out for station at l4oG.
foot level. Shaft has reached depth
Of l40) feet.
Monarch Pittsburg has resumed
work on the lO00-foot level, putting
up raise and drifting to the west
along the contact.-Tonopah Miner.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-08-17
Body Is Found
(Bv United Press)

MARIETTA, Ga, Aug. 17-Leo
Franks body was found this morn
ing hanging to tree seventy-five
feet from the road between Freygin
and Roswell, two miles east of here.
The scene is but short distance
from Mary Phagan's birthplace. His
wrists were handcuffed i'll front or
the body, the rope choking about his
neck opened the wounds he recently
received, and blood streamed down
his clothes He was barefooted. SD
pcrintendent Burke of the prison farm
at Milledgevile said today: / was
called to the door OF my residence as
| was preparing to retire last night;
two men grabbed me and hndcuffed
ne Four armed men stood as
guards and said it would be useless
10 resist; they had come for Fran',
and were going to get him. They
marched me to the penitentiary fence,
ordered the gate opened and threat
ening to kill Night Guard Hester il
he made any resistance They then
walked upstairs, seized Frank by the
arms. legs and hair, and dragged him
humping down stfrs and disappeared.
They brought him here, over 100
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-08-17
Body Left Hanging Until Nearly
Noon, When 1t Is Taken Down
and Removed, But Not Until Men
Stamp Victims Face With Their
Nailed Heels--Apparent That Au-
thorities Raised Neither Voice
Nor Arm In Defense of the PriS-
oner--HiS BittereSt Enemies De-
mand Punishment of the Lynchers

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga, Aug. II.
A mob variously estimated at be-
tween twenty-five and seventy-five in
number overpowered warden, super
intendent and guards of the Georgia
state prison farm near here at Il
o'clock last night and quickly got Leo
NJ. Frank and rushed him away in an
automobile
Five men went to the house of J.
I. Smith, warden, covered him wiz
pistols and stood guard over him.
Other men went to the house Of ;.
Mr.. Burke, superintendent of the pris-
on, and held him under cover Of their
guns.
Practically every other member os
the mob then rushed to the stockade
gate nearest the dormitory where
Frank was being housed. Only yes
terday did the physicians discharge
him from the hospital. where he had
beer since being murderously assault
ed in the dormitory.
Only one member of that party OF
the mob that went to the dOrmitOry
talked. He gave the commands to
the guards which were backed up by
the arms OF the other members Of
the mob.
A prisoner who was sleeping in the
domitory is responsible for the state
mcnt that this spokesman said the
moo intended to take Frank to Ma
rietta and that his body would ,e
found on the grave Of Mary Phagan
for whose murder the prisoner was
serving a life sentence.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-08-17
Takes Him From Prison Farm at Mill
edge and Hangs Him Near the
Birthplace of Mary Phagan
QUICK ACTION MUST Be TAKEN
To GET CARSON ON THE ROUTE

The Lincoln Highway Moving Pic
ture caravan, which is taking a series
OF pictures over the highway and i'll
the towns abutting on the same, clear
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, is i,
FallCV today and tomorrow is sched-
uled to be in Reno. After a few hours
spent in Reno taking views and scenes
the party will proceed TO Lake Tahoe,
probably by way OF Truckee For some
reason Carson City was overlook ed
i'll the caravans itinerary, but of that
it is not necessary to speak. The
idea now is to get Carson in the pic
lures and with that end in view a
meeting will be held at the office of
Ed Walker, secretary of the Railroad
commission, at 4:30 this afternoon,
IN order to take steps to correct the
fault that has been made and get the
movies" to come this way and go 10
the lake by way of Kings canyon. If
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-08-17

The weeks output of the Tonopah
mines was lO,320 tons, OF the esti-
mated value Of $2ll,720.
Tonopah Belmont DevelopI,ent
company report for the mont;i OF July
shows net profits OF $72,459, as COM
pared with $S4,234 for the previous
month OF June. The tonnage treat
cd in July was 64l tons less than III
June.
Tonopah Mining company report
ior the month of July shows net pro-
tits oil %7,l65, as compared with
$S3,635 Tor previous month OF Iune
The average value of the ore treated
was $l4 per ton.
Tonopah Extension profits Tor JuEe
was $40, $40, as compared with St5,-
223 for previous month ot May. Vein
on l260-foot level proved Tor DIS
tance Of $50 feet in length and Is ali
in ore with exception OF few feet
Where opened, the slopes average L
feet in width.
Jim putier profits for the month
OF July were $30,75l. as compared
with S34,777 for the preceding month
o! June.
West End has just encourre cd
the vein in crosscut 200 feet o.