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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-09-03

booze. A valuation of about 35 cents
per capita. That is helping the far
mer some
3. 1t helps business.
Yes, it does but the principal part
of it goes to the dispensary. The dry
goods, groceries, and shoe stores
don't get much. If the dispensary
can take in $478 per day for thirty
days, SurEay included, what is there
left for the other stores? The dis
penSary sales represent one member
of the family, the others the needs of
the whole family. What a contrast
SECOND, WHY SHOULD THE
BOOZE BUSINESS BE VOTED
OUT?
l. Because of its destructive in
fluence.
Is per cent of the idiots of the coun-
try are from Incorporate parents.
80 per cent of our paupers are ma le
soby booze.
80 per cent of the crime in the coum
try committed by men upder influence
of booze.
90 per cent of adult criminals arr,
made SO by booze
70 per cent of social crimes are due
to booze.
2. Because it costs too much in dol
lars and cents
Twenty five dollars are paid out
for support of booze and its destruc-
tive influences for every dollar paid
In by booze for taxes. The state
ment is made that the nation drinks
up its entire wealth every twenty
five years.
5. 1T costs too much in human lives.
1t costs 100000 boys everv gener-
alton to maintain it. On Jan. lst each
year 100000 young men 90 into the
oooZe dens and the following Decem-
per 10000 of them come out con-
1lrmed drunkardS. Three hundred
men die drunk each day. A funera,
procession 5000 miles long composed
OF iIO,OOO nearSeS each containing the
DodY OF a drunkard passes through
the land each year. There are 10000
saloons IN the country and 100000
go in daily to drink. 1t costs too
much of human life. Will your boy
be one Of the number? Will you sell
! your boy or your neighbor's for taxes,
liberty, business, or anything else :?
4. It's effects for evil are so far
| reaching.
Farmer brings a bushel of corn
and sells it for one dollar. The dis
tlller gets from it 36 pints of booze.
EX-Gov. Hanley of Indiana has follow
ed three of these pints and shows
how they cause drunkenness and re-
suited in the death of seven people.
What about the other thirty three
pintS?
,. Because of its character.
J. 1t is a thief. 1t takes food and
raiment from hungry wives and chill
drcn. rObs the poor and undefiled
of virtue, it sacrifices honor for the
price of a drink, it steals coal from the
cellar and leaves the home cold and
deathly. it steals character and repu-
tation, it takes away ones position, and
turns him and his family into the
streets homeless and penniless 1t
is a thief and ought to go.
2. 1t is a liar. 1t promises good
and sends only sorrow. it promises
health and sends disease, it promises
prosperity and sends adversely, it
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-09-03
YOUR MOTHER

No one else may ever care if you have
q broken heart,
No one else may, if you err, be lncim-
ed to take your part;
Whom fair weather friends forget and
when fortune smiles no more,
She will think you worthy yet, and
be faithful as before.
No one else may know, but she will
perceive them every one;
Others may belittle you, but, with
gladness in her breast,
She will win her triumphs thru those
by which you may be blessed.
No one else may be inclined to for.
give you if you fall,
If your hopes must be resigned no one
else may weep at all:
But if all else trned away and your
soul with sin were black,
She would never fail to pray, every
day, to win you back.
S. f.. Kiser.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-09-03
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Abolished by Tennessee, According to
Ruling.

Under the construction of Chan
cellor Hal H. Haynes. of the gov
ernor's veto power, the bill passed by
the recent legislature abolishing cap
1tal punishment, except in certain
cases. is now a law in Tennessee.
This view is contrary to one recently
taken by Circuit Judge Ken Hicks.
The bill was passed just before a
thirty day recess. Subsequent to the
recess Governor Rye vetoed the bill.
Not counting the recess. the veto was
in time to be effective. Otherwise it
was not. The chancellor was not
passing directly on the capital pun
1shment bill. but on another vetoed
under the same circumstances.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-09-03
THE WHY AND WHY NOT OF
THE BOOZE BUSINESS

The scripture pronounceS Woe
upon the man who puts bottle to
his neighbor's lips, or gives him a
drink. (See Hab. 2:15.) This law
will not only apply to the Individual
but to the Nation, State, or County,
Who is it that is putting the bottle to
the lips of Union county, Newberry,
Fairfield, Chester, Cherokee, Spartan
burg, Hendersonville, Asheville an,
many other places? The answer is
short but pointed: The voters of
Union county who voted for the dis.
pensary. Hence the ''woe" of the
scripture is upon each voter who voted
for the iiS:,.'l say. % say th;.t
liquor would be sold anyway does 40:
remove the ,D),siEiity. If it had
been sold anyhow it would Rave been
an illegal sale.
But the quQestion is: Ought the
dispensary be retained or voted out ?"
FIRST, WHY SHOULD IT BE
RETAINED? Let its advocates an
Swer:
|. On account of personal liberty.
A man has a right to drink if he wants
to. What about rights of wife and
children at home? Have they no
right to the bread and meat that ought
to be bought with the same money
spent for liquor. Have sober people
no right to be shielded from the drunk
ards Who stagger along the streets
with ever ready pistol? What the
booze advocates wants is not LIBER-
TY but LICENSE to do as he pleases.
The speed fiend, the man who carries
concealed weapons, the man with
smallpox must be restcicted for the
sake of others and for the safety of
the public; so with the man who tax IS
booze. He has LIBERTY to do right
He cannot have LICENSE to L9
wrong.
2. 1t helps to reduce taxes.
In 1913 the income from booze was
100000. The same year it costs
the working men $1,000, ,0DO, 900; the
cost of maintaing the courts the same
year was 81 $1,000.000,000. There went
out for booze $3.50 100000 more than
came in. Add 10 this $4,000, 500. .0OG
for maintaing paupers, orphans, idiots
and criminals caused by booze AID you
have the immense sum of So $3.50, ,0U0,-
600 more paid out than came n IN
one county the cry was made that it
helped to maintain the public schools
80 1T did. You had 60 spend Si2 fol
booze to get one dollar for he schools.
That is drinking lot to get little
The figures is not at hand nut we
feel sure that if the ten thousand dol
lars spent each month by the people Of
Union for booze (this leaves odt -he
money spent from the outsideJ were
properly invested the taxes would be
much less than they are now with the
aid of the booze business.
3. So much money invested in
booze business-can' afford to lose it.
There about $771 900 900 invested
in this country. From the figures
above it will be seen that the Govern
ment could pay the amount invested
every year and then save to the peo-
pie over eight billion dollars.
A. In 1913 2per cent of the corn
crop of the country was made up into
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-09-03
u. S. COTTON CROP.
Government Estimate, Placing Total
at 1I,8OO,OOO Bales.

The department of agriculture pre-
dicted that the next cotton crop would
be approximately 11,SOO,000 bales of
sec pounds gross weight. This pre-
diction was made after the condition
of cotton OH August 20 was estimated
by the bureau of crop estimates to be
G9.2 and is based on 131 ,15O,OOO
acres.
The 1914 cotton crop was 10, 1884,
93O bales. or more than 100000
bales above the official estimate of
the present crop.
The report had marked bullish
effect on the market, but the rise was
followed by a slump at the close.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-09-03
Noted PLAYWRIGHT Dies.

Paul Armstrong, the playwright,
died suddenly at his home i'm New
York Of heart disease. He was 46
years old. Mr.. Armstrong had been
prominent figure Of the American
stage for the last ten years. He
wrote a number of popular plays and
collaborated in other productions. He
was born in Missouri and for FIVE
years before he began writing plays
he was a captain Of great lake
steamers.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-09-03
IRON-CLAD EMBARGO.
Dead Line" Established On Mexican
Border.

The United States plans to estab-
lish a dead line" along the Mex
lean border. Practically the entire
force that has been massed at Texas
City, with the exception of one regi-
ment. which is to go to the Philip
pines, will be distributed along the
Rio Grande.
They will be directed to put down
brigandage with an iron hand. Mex
lean bandits who try to cross with
arms in their hands will be killed on
sight. In addition, an iron clad en-
barge will be placed on all exporta-
tions to Mexico of munitions from
the United States
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-09-03
Thirty Fatalities July 4.
First Bale Brings $3.50.

b. w. ROsenthal has been advised
that the first bale Of Georgia cetton Of
the present season received at Sa-
vannah and shipped to Liverpool has
been sold there for $3.50 at auction.
The money went to England's war
relief fund. Mr.. Rosenthal donated
the cotton to be sold fer this fund.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-09-03
NOTICE OF ELECTION

There will be an election in Back
Rock, Special School District No. 81,
Sept. IA, for the purpose of voting 8
mills levy for school purposes.
j. H. Hope.
M. r. Sans.
Davis Jefferies.
Co. Board Ed.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-09-03
REVOLT CHECKED.
mexicans Plotted For Trouble at San
Antonio.

mexicans Plotted For Trouble at San
Antonio.
With the arrest of twenty six Mex
leans, twenty-three of whom were de-
tanned, police and federal authorities
believe plan to incite the Mexican
population Of San Antonio to deeds of
violence has been nipped.
According to the police, the prison
ers are all adherents to the Plan of
San Diego, manifesto which pro-
claims Texas republic for Mexicans.
Since the disturbances in the
brownsville territory special agents
of the United States department. of
Justice and police here have kept a
watch 10 prevent possible uprising
in San Antonio. 1t was learned that
members of two organizations of in
fammatory nature are in San Anto-
MO in numbers.
Thirty Fatalities July 4.
According to figures compiled by
the American Medical association,
only thirty persons were killed in
Fourth of July celebrations this year.
The statistics show 1,130 were vic
TINS of accident. Chicago heads the
list Of cities for marked deduction In
the total number of injuries, contrib
uting only eight to the nations roll
of casualties.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-10
RELATIVE OF TULSA
WOMAN LANDS SAFE
Was on British ship Victoria When
That Vessel Was Sunk by the
Giant Emden.

A message received here last night
by Mrs. Tate Brady announced the
safe arrival on American soil of Mrs.
Stella Hodges, nee Tate. of Georgia
Mrs Hodges, who is a cousin Of Mrs.
Brady, left Rio De Janiero last Oc-
tober. aboard the British ship Vic
torla when only few days out the
ship was bombarded by the German
steamer Emden and sent to the bot
tom.
Most Of the Victoria's passengers.
including Mrs Hodges and her two
year-old son, were rescued. They were
put aboard the German collier and
after long delay, were landed I'm
Patagonia. There Mrs. Hodges got
in communication with her brother,
Congressman Tate Of Georgia. who
arranged through Secretary Bryan for
their safe passage to America.
Many Tulsans met Mrs. Hodges
when she visited Mrs Brady in Tulsa
I'm 1907. She has also visited Mrs.
Fred y. Clinton here.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-10
APPOINTMENTS MAY
BE OF NO EFFECT
Confirmation of Governors
List Not Made Yet.

Special 10 The World
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan, S.--Unless
the senate Of the present legislature
acts promptly a number of appoint
ments made by Governor Cruce may
become OF no effect beyond the pres
ent administration The governor
several days ago sent a list OF ap-
pointments TO the senate for confirm
alton by that body but no action has
been taken as yet, Two OF the ap-
pointments are on the board Of prison
control II is understood that this
board may be abolished, and, In fact,
bill has already been introduced in
the senate to do so. A bill has also
been introduced TO change the board
Of education. Two Of the appoint
ments are on that board, The sew
eral appointments are:
Board OF education--W, t.. RoNSey,
Muskogee, j. T. warren, oklahoma
CITY
Board Of prison control-Paul H.,
Johes McAlester; j, Is. Armstrong,
Oklahoma city
Board Of trustees Of the insane asy-
lum at Nintta-S. $. Cobb WAGNER
DR.. V. Berry, Okmulgee.
State board of pharmacy {.
Burton, Stroud; H. $, Schackeltord,
Wynnewood; c. A. Frazier, Red Rock.
1t is noted by the governor that
the terms of the members OF the
board OF prison control expire on Jan
uary IL. the day the new governor is
inaugurated.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-10
SUPREME COURT IS
IN LAST SESSION
Only Two Of the Original Members
VIII Remain on the Bench
During Next Turn.

Special TO The World
OKLAHOMA CITY. Jan. S.-The
final session of the state supreme
court as now constituted will be held
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, when
IL is expected that a number of inn
portant opinions will be handed down.
Before the next regular day for hand
ing down opinions, which is Tuesday,
January IL, three Of the present jus
tices of the supreme court will have
retired and the new members have
taken their places. For this reason
the present court will probably clean
up some matters that have been
pending before IL for some time. when
il meets tomorrow.
Justices Il. n. LOofourrow, +. T..
Riddle and W X. Bleakmore will re-
tire from office on next Monday and
Justices-elect G. A. Brown OF Man
gum, J. +. Sharp OF Purcell and Sum-
mers Hardy OF Hugo will go on the
court. only two OF the old members
of the court-Chief Justice NJ. ).
Kane and Justice John B. Turner.
who have been on the supreme bench
since statehood, will remain on the
court
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-10
25 PCT. CHARGES
AGAINST PIONEER co.
Independcnt Telephone Men Decided
on Division of Toll to BE EX-
acted Hereafter.
Snecinl TO The World.

Special to The World
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan, S,-As a
result OF the meeting Of independent
telephone men held here, they de-
cided they would require a 25 per
cent division OF toll charges from the
Pioneer Telephone company here
after Some time ago complaint was
made to the corporation commission
that the Pioneer was only allowing 10
per cent OF the toll charges to the in
dependents The commission made an
order allowing the Independents 20
per cent. The latter complained that
the Pioneer would not pay the 25 per
cent and, in fact. were only allowing
about 10 per cent.
After discussing the matter, how
ever, 1t was determined to charge and
collect the 20 per cent charges against
the Pioneer. During the meeting at
the Lee Huckins hotel several of those
present suspected Of being employed
by the Pioneer were elected from the
room.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-10
BATTLE STILL RACES

LAREDO, Tex, Jan. S.-The battle
between villa and Carranza forces for
the possession of Saltillo ragged with
undated fury early tonight, accord
ing to meagre information reaching
here.
Carranza officials at NuevO Laredo,
across the border from here, imposed
a strict censorship on Saltillo news,
but it was reported losses had been
heavy on both sides, and that neither
side had gained any decisive ad-
vantage by nightfall
The Villa troops got into SaltillO
while Carranza troops went to Hipo-
Ito to meet another Villa force, and
Carranza troops now are pouring a
cannon fire into the city, that early
reports today said was damaging
mnay buildings. The villa troops are
said to be partly in the city and partly
in the suburbs.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-10
DAVIS NOT TO BE
TAKEN TO KANSAS
Governor Has Refused to Honor Two
acquisitions for His Return on
Robbery Charge.

Special to The World
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. S.-Gov-
ernor Cruce today refused to honor a
requisition from the Kansas author
tiles for Joe Davis for return to Cher
ollce county of that state on a charge
of bank robbery The showing was
made to the governor that Davis was
not in the county at the time the rob-
berry occurred, therefore he could not
be fugitive from justice from KAN
sas on that charge.
Davis was charged with having rob-
bed the tank at Baxter Springs Of
$500 on September 22 last. A for
mer application OF the Kansas au-
thorities to the governor for a requis-
iuon was turned down on the ground
that he was charged in this state
with robbing the bank at Keystone.
Shortly after that, however, officers
of the keystone bank took look at
Davis and declared he wac not the
man wanted. Davis was then re-
leased
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-10
Nose Blowing Causes Trouble.

Late tonight Sheriff Hutton gave
out what purports to be a written con
fession by Coggins, In substance it is
as follows:
Tuesday Coggins and q boy friend
went to his stepmother's home on her
invitation. While at dinner COSsins
blew his nose and was reprimanded
by Mrs. Coggins. A quarrel followed
and the woman started toward him
with a knife. The other boy seized
her and asked Coggins for handker-
chief to stifle her cries. Coggins gave
the boy his handkerchief and went
outside to see if any one had been at
tratced by the cries. Returning, he
found the other boy had strangled the
woman to death.
Then they ransacked the house. At
the other boys dictation he wrote on
on envelope the following message;
Thanks very much Meet me in
Chicago. A number | comet bound" ."
He says the other boy explained that
this was ''yeggmen's lingo" and would
make the police believe that yegg
had committed the murder and rob-
berry They placed the envelope in the
dead woman's hand.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-10

TERRE HAUTE. Ind, Jan. 5.-If
Information in the hands of the fed
eral authorities here is proved true,
Uncle Joe Cannon will be obliged to
face a contest for the congressional
seat. to which he was elected in No
vember by a plurality of 2,344, after
legislative rest of two years A
grand jury inquiry at Danville, ILL.,,
which includes Cannon's congress
slona district, is being contemplated,
1t is said, to ascertain the truth of
alleged election corruptions. A SIM
liar investigation here has led to the
arrest OF ninety-one persons con-
nected with the municipal govern
ment.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-10
TO INCREASE THE COMMISSION

WASHlNGTON. Jan. 9,-The rail-
way securities bill in amended form
and providing for nine instead OF
seven members on the interstate
commerce commission was reintro-
duced in the senate today by Senator
Pomerene, acting for Chairman New
lands on the interstate commerce
committee.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-10

Make up your mind before you take your eye off
of this advertisement that you are going to be one
of the hundreds joining our club
Save little every week and when Christmas comes
your money will all be paid back to you in lump
sum, plus the interest.
The first payment makes you member-no fees
no fneS-nO fOrfeitureS-nO trOubeS-nOne are
too old-none are too young to be enrolled
Act at Once Join Now
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-10
DENIES KILLING
HIS STEPM0TAER
Says He Robbed Her Of
Jewelry After She
Was Murdered.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Jan. 3
Calmly and without nervousness or
emotion, Jesse II. Coggins, IL, OF ST
Louis tonight sat in the office OF Sher-
lff w. @. Hutton and discussed WIN
the sheriff and hts deputies the prutal
killing OF his stepmother TUESDAY
The boy made a long statement
which was taken down by stenosra-
pheT. According to Sheriff huttoh'
he declares he did not Kill ms step
mother. although he admits being AT
her home on the morning she was
killed. The boy is said to have ad-
mitted, however, that he ransackeu
the home after the woman was killed.
He Is said to have told the officers
that he drank a bottle of wine, dressed
himself in his fathers clothes, took
two rings from the dead womans
fingers and secured all the money In
sight, together with other articles
which he later pawned.
Coggins was arrested by deputy
sheriffs in Argenta, just across the
river from Little Rock, this morning
while he was waiting for a negro
whom he had sent to pawn some OF
the articles he is alleged to have taken
from his fathers home.
According to Coggins' alleged state
ment, he rOamed ABOUT 81 LoulN
avoiding the main streets, until
Wednesday morning, when he left on
the Cotton Belt railroad for Pine
Bluff, Ark. There he visited an uncle
who, he says, Is a minister, and who
advised him to go farther south and
enlist in the army after burning every
thing that would connect him with the
crime.
Read of Murder.
Instead, he came to Little Rock
Thursday morning. He was staying
at a cheap rooming house.
He says he has purchased copies OF
every st. Louis newspaper published
since the crime was committed, 80 as
to read all the details Of the killing OF
his stepmother
81 knew the minute the officers
touched me | was caught" he said,
according to Sheriff Hutton. Il was
expecting 1t any time"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-10

of all materials susceptible of use in
making munitions CT war. The Brit
ish have discovered that the prod
ucts are essential to the manufacture
of some forms Of ammunition.
A partial remedy for the situation,
however, is being sought in arrange
ments for consignment of naval stores
from the United States to Holland,
italy and other neutral countries, so
that American ships can take their
rosin and turpentIne ballast for cot
ton cargoes i'm the trip across the
ocean, sell the contraband to neutral
countries where large trade has
been conducted in the past, and send
their cotton to the belligerent coun-
tries without further molestation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-10-25

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or to do anything to help fraproye.tle
condition.
And. the Argus tDem) has said even
more. Here is a specimen:
It was n sorry showing made by
Commissioner OF Agriculture Guptill
yesterday at the cortland Chamber OF
Commerce milk conference. In such
an unfavorable light did he appear
that the question Is raised il his re-
novel from office lis not only desir-
able but necessary.
The office Of Commissioners of Agri.
culture is closely Connected with mat
tiers affecting the public health. and
when the incumbent openly declines to
be q party to keeping filthy and i'm.
pure milk out Of the market. what as
surance Is there that he viii conscien-
tiously interest himself in enforcement
of laws and regulations generally?
1t is astounding to have Commits.
sioner Guptill take the stand that
farmers should enjoy the privilege OF
sending to this city milk of the foulest
sort, with the suggestion that it could
be sold to the poor. Not thought
has he Of the culpability Of those who
might furnish only clean and pure mill
but make no effort to do so.