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GET RID OF THE FLIES! Stop Their Breeding on Ycur Premises THEY CARRY DISEASE Official Weather Forecast LOCAL SHOWERS THURSDAY; FRIDAY, SHOWERS EXCEPT FAIR IN NORTHWEST PORTION, LIGHT VARIABLE WINDS. VOL. XIII. NO. 144. PENS AC OLA, FLORIDA; THURSDAY MORNING , JUNE 16 1910. PRICE, 5 CENTS. JEFFRIES-JOHNSON FIGHT IS STOPPED BY GOV. GILLETTE TO PROCEED AGAINST f WHOLESALE GROCERS PENSACOLA'S BOOST FUND, ; rlmOi MEN AT $100 EACH Calls Upon the Attorney General and Latter : Will Act. SAYS IT WILL NOT BE ALLOWED AT ANY POINT IN CALIFORNIA IT WILL BE HELD, HOWEVER, AT SOME OTHER POINT, PROBA BLY AT SALT LAKE ( CITY, BUT NO MOVE WILL BE MADE UNTIL MATTER IS TESTED IN THE SU PREME COURT. By Associated Press. San Francisco, June 15. Following a nation-wide fight, Governor Gillette this afternoon Instructed Attorney General Webb to prevent the Jeffrlea- Johnson fight on the Fourth of July. Webb says he will not allow it at any point in California. Governor Gillette declarea-lhere is a distinction between eparring and a brutal prizefight, which the law prohibits. The order follow Gillette'a recent declaration that the fight is a frame up, which has sever been denied. Rickard, the fight promoter, savs he will not attempt to buck the governor ana mmtia, although be has spent a fortune, thousands of seats have been reserved and excursion parties are Bow en route. He will hold, the fight at Salt Lake, Reno or Ely, Nevada. There will be no action until Webb's legal opinion is given. Jeffries Is crestfallen, but says he will continue training: until officially Informed the fight is off. He is sur prised at the governor's change of atti tude. The president of the Chamber of Commerce is in receipt of a telegram from Representative Bennett, of New (Continued on Second Page) UP-IN BALLOON IT BROKE FROM ITS MOORINGS AND THOUSANDS OF HORRIFIED SPECTATORS SAW YOUTH CAR RIED HALF A MILE UP. By Associated Press. Chllllcothe, Ohio, June 14. A big dirigible balloon broke from its moor ings this afternoon, carrying a ten year-old boy to a height of half a mile. It descended several miles away, landing the boy unhurt. Thousands of borrified spectators looked on. The boy crawled to the end of the framework and dropped to the ground, ten feet The balloon then rose again end was last seen miles west. BAGGAGE AGENTS MEET. Detroit, Mich., June 15. The annu al meeting of the Association of Bag gage Agents was held here today. All the principal railroads m the United States are represented. G. H. Bow ers, of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, at Parsons, Kas.. presided. TAFTlcIVES HE WILL GREET ONE HUNDRED " OF THEM AT THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY MEN ARE GOING TO NEW YORK. By Associated Press. Parkersburr. W. Va.. Jimp is.. President Taft and a hundred rough riders en route to New York tn par ticipate in Roosevelt's reception pass- ea nere tonight, lne president mass d having his car attached to the ro'ierh rider snecial. Hn will roreivn ' the troopers at the White House to- He snent most of the dav at Ma Hetta. Ohio, delivering an address at the seventy-fifth anniversary of Ala rietta College. BOY CARRIED RIDERS Assistant Cashier is Missing, So is $18,000 of Bank's Money By Associated Press. Mount Holly, N. J., June 15. After lefylng the efforts of six lock experts Who since Monday morning had been endeavoring to open the vault of the Mount Holly National Bank of this jlace, the door at last had to be drilled through and the safe was opened las: night Assistant Cashier CJiCord S. 'Heller had been absent since last Saturday. After the safe was openeo. Cashier Frederick H. Lee discovered that there was a shortage in the United Wireless Co. is Raided by Officeds By Associated Press. ' New York, June 15. Charging that although the company was operated at a continual loss, that the price of shares had been advanced by fictitious manipulation and officers have dis posed of stock to the public at a profit at one instance for between five and ten millions, and with other instances in proportion, postofflce inspectors raided the Broadway office of the United Wireless Telegraph Company today, arresting Christopher Wilson, president; Samuel Bogart, vice-president, and William Tompkins, president OFHIS WOUNDS PRIVATE QUIGLEY, SHOT BY NE GROES, SUCCUMBS, SMALL SHOT ENTERING LUNGS CAUSING A HEMORRHAGE. By Associated Press. Beaufort, S. C, June 15. Private Quigley, of the coast artillery of Ft. Fremont, who was shot a month ago by the Potter brothers, negroes, and following an ambush attack on sol diers, died last night of hemorrhage of the lungs, caused by the entrance or small snot. The shooting of the soldiers was the result of alleged intermingling of the races and "iblind tiger" whiskey. CONTESTS ARE NOnitOWED i HOUSE ELECTIONS COMMITTEE CONFIRMS THE ELECTIONS OF REPRESENTATIVES PATTERSON, LEGARE AND LEVER, DEMO CRATS. By Associated Press. Washington, June 15. The elections of Representatives Legare, Patterson and Lever, of South Carolina, were confirmed by the house elections com mittee today. The contests of A. P. Prioleau, a ne gro, and two other Republicans were thrown out. TO EXTEND ROAD. By Associated Press. Muskogee, Okla., June 15. Work will be begun in a short time on an extension f the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Rrailroad from here to Kansas City, according to Arville and M Brazon, of Paris, France, representing the bondholders who recently financed the extension from here to the Red river. NOT INTERESTED DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS RECEIVED NO COMMUNICATION RELATIVE TO REMOVAL OF CAPITOL OF OKLAHOMAN. By Associated Press. Washington, June 15. Department of justice officials said today that no communication regarding the removal of the capitol of Oklahoma had passed between the state officials and the de partment; also that the federaj gov ernment was not interested in the matter. bank's funds of over $18,000 and he im mediately issued a warrant for Hel ler's arrest. Cashier Lee stated that all the bank's negotiable paper appeared to be in tact, but a hurried count of the funds indicates a shortage of about SlS.000. The bank holds Heller's bond for $15,000 issued by a Philadel phia surety company. Heller came to Mount Holly highly recommended by the officials of a Philadelphia trust company where he was formerly em-sloped, SOLDIER DIES GOV 1 IS of the selling agency, formerly fiscal agents of the wireless company. There are twenty-eight thousand stockholders throughout the country, and the inspectors believe the officers are preparing to abandon the com pany, leaving a heavy loss to stock holders. One officer alone is believed to have cleaned up five or ten million when the stock price increased from ten to fifty. Officers of lesser degree profited in proportion. C Galbraith, general manager, says the action of the Inspectors will in no wise affect the commercial operations of the com pany, y MISSING MAN IS IN LONDON LONDON EXPRESS DECLARES THAT PORTER CHARLTON, FOR WHOM THE AUTHORITIES ARE SEARCHING, IS IN LONDON. By Associated Press. - London, June 15. The Express as serts that Porter Charlton, whose wife's body was found in a trunk in Lake Como, Italy, and for whom the Italian authorities are searching, is rn London. The newspaper does not lo cate Charlton. WHITE STILL A MAN WHO CONFESSED TO RE CEIVING A BRIBE OF $1,000 TO VOTE FOR SENATOR LOR1MER ON THE STAND. By Associated Press. Chicago, June 15. Charles A. White, chief witness of the prosecution, was the center of Interest when the trial of Lee O'Neil Browne, on charges of bribery, was resumed before Judge McSurely today. Attorneys for the de fence continued their questioning of the state representative whose con fession that he had paid $1,000 to vote for William Lorimer for United States senator was the principal cause of Browne's indictment. HAT PIN MAY CAUSE OEATH DEPUTY SHERIFF IS WOUNDED BY WOMAN WHOM HE AT TEMPTED TO ARREST, THE PIN PENETRATING THE ABDOMEN. By Associated Press. Globe, Ariz., June 15. Although Deputy Marshal Morris was dangerous ly wounded by a hat pin which pene trated his abdomen Monday, while at tempting to arrest a woman, he did not realize the fact until today. - The woman fought desperately, beat" lng the officer over the head with a bottle, and he did not notice the tiny wound in which the steel had broken off until examined yesterday. He probably will die. strefjcarmen OUTONASTRIKE YONKERS, N. Y, AWAKES TO FIND ITSELF TIGHTEN THE GRIP OF A TROLLEY CAR STRIKE, THE MEN DEMANDING MORE WAGES By Associated Press. Yonkers, N. Y., June 15. This city awoke this morning to find itself tight in the grip of a trolley strike, affect- 'ing, it is said, practically the entire force of the Yonkers Railway Com ;pany, numbering between 200 and 225 motormen and conductors. The men demand an advance in i wages to thirty cents an hour from a l&raded xs.t ox from 21 to 26 oeuU. WTN ESS Southern Association is Be ing Operated in Re straint of Trade. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE . Dl RECTS DISTRICT ATTORNEY TO FILE PETITION IN BIRMINGHAM AND HAVE THE ASSOCIATION DISSOLVED CLAIMS COMBINA TION WAS ORGANIZED FOR THE PURPOSE OF COERCING AND PREVENTING MANUFACTURERS FROM SELLING TO CONSUMERS. - By Associated Press. Washington, June 1. The-jflepart- ment of justice has instructed Oliver Street, United States attorney for the Northern district of Alabama, to file in Birmingham, a petition against the officers of the Southern Wholesale Grocers' Association alleging, that the association constitutes a combination in restraint of trade and asking that it De dissolved, r , The petition alleges the combination was organized for the purpose of co ercing ana preventing manufacturers from selling the necessaries of life to dealers, consumers or wholesale gro cers not listed in tne-t ' green book published by the. association. It is further charged that 1 manufacturers are induced to bill .goods at enhanced prices, turning the percentage over to tne president of the association. The department has received manv complaints from southern people al leging they are suffering on account of the operations of the association. The petition containing sensational allega tions sneers various firms in Alabama Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indian Ter ritory. Louisiana, Maryland, Mississip pi, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia ana Jjistno or Columbia. INJUNCTION PETITION IS FILED IN BIRMINGHAM - - By Associate Press. Birmingham. June 16. The Detition '..for an injunction against the Southern Wholesale Grocers' Association was fiWd this afternoon by Assistant Dis trK.tAttoreyMontgomery. pursuant Amon-those Brtmmoneatttfffteear on the first Monday In August are James H. McLaurln, president, and C. W. Bartleson, of Jacksonville, C. C. Guest, of Tifton, and W. T. Reeves, of Tupelo. SENATE PASSES THE LAND BILL PROVIDES FOR ISSUANCE OF THIRTY MILLION WORTH OF CERTIFICATES TO COMPLETE IRRIGATION PROJECTS AL READY STARTED. By Associated Press. Washington, June 15. The senate passed the land withdrawal bill, pro viding for the dssuance of thirty mil lion worth of certificates of indebted ness to complete irrigation projects In course of construction. Before adjournment the statehood bill was brought up under unfinished business, practically insuring its con sideration and passage before adjourn ment. The house passed a bill providing for a new civil government for Porto Rico. Plans for a more representative government than under the present law are Included. BLEACHED FLOUR CASES. By Associated Press. Kansas City, June 15. Indications point to an early end of the bleached flour case being tried here in the United States court. The government today brought out several new points said to be important in proving tne deletrious effect of the bleaching pro cess on flour. PRESIDENT LOVETT CONFIRMS REPORT OF TRAFFIC ARRANGE- MENT BETWEEN UNION PACIFIC AND ST. L. AND SAN FRANCISCO By Associated Press. New York, June 15. President Lovett, of the Union Pacific and South ern Pacific, today officially confirmed the reports of a traffic agreement be tween the Southern Pacific and the St. Louis -and San Froncisco railroad, stating that the agreement went into effect today and would continue for tea xeara, ROADS REACH AN AGREEMENT Contract." AivarW&Xa Drain: the Everglades Special to the Journal. " V . " Tallahassee, Fla., June ; 15. The trustees -of the Internal Improvement Fund today awarded the contract for draining the Everglades to the Furst Clark Construction Co., , of. Baltimore. A certified check was given' by this ER BURGLARS BEAT OUT BRAINS OF BUSINESS MAN, BLOW HIS SAFE AND SET BUILDING ON FIRE. By Associated Press. Houston. Texas.. .Tuna IK. Riinrlam last night at Pleger, Texas, beat out the brains of Winfleld McCauley, . a well-known business man, with an axe as ne lay asleep in ted. e. The robbers dynamited and robbed the safe and set the building on fire, escaping with their plunder. CONSTRUCTOR JOHN CALVIN SWEENY, JR., LEAVES BREMER TON YARD AND CANNOT BE TRACED. Washington Jun'e'&yatrfy. structor John Calvin Sweeny, Jr., has disappeared from Bremerton navy yard, Washington, and the navy de partment is making every effort to find some trace of him. There Is no ques tion a3 to his accounts. Constructor Sweeny is a native of Paris, Tenn. IRRIGATION MEN MEET. By Associated Press. Pueblo Col., June 15. With a four fold object to save the forests, store the floods, reclaim the deserts and make homes on the land, the 18th na tional irrigation congress will convene in Pueblo September 26 and continue its sessions until HeptemDer w. PROVIDES TAGS EOR 1 DOGS PHOENIX, ARIZ., HAS A PRYSICIAN WHO WILL BUY A TAG FOR EVERY DOG IMPOUNDED BY THE DOG CATCHERS. By Associated Press. Phoenix, Ariz., June 15. Dr. O. L. Mahoney, of Arizona,' has undertaken to provide collars and license tags for every canine impounded by Phoenix dog catchers. He paid into the city treasury this morning $100 for fifty tags and purchased as many collars, which were adjusted to the dog catcn ers' first day's round-up. It is estimated by, Chief of Police John Moore that the physician's love of dogs will cost him $2,000. REAL ESTATE AGENTS MEET NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EX ! CHANGES OPENS ITS SESSION IN INDIANAPOLIS, VISITORS I j BEING WELCOMED BY MAYOR. j By Associated Press. Minneapolis, Minn., June 15. Begin ning with addresses of welcome by Gov. Eberhart. Mayor Haynes and others, the National Association or iReal Estate Exchanges opened its an jnual convention in the auditorium 'here today. Members are here from 'Denver, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Ixuis, 'Louisville, Omaha, Trenton, i J., Des IMolns, la., and Philadelphia, 10 AND THEN ROBBERY DISAPPEARANCE OF NAVAL MAN m m ii Mini, .imii nn- nruiAnn company which means that they obli gate themselves to begin work, within fifteen days and to complete it an es timated price of eleven- .cents . per cubic yard. The length of the canals to be cut Is one hundred and eighty-tour- miles. There were fourothr bids submitted. MERCHANT8 RACING 'COMMITTEE GIVES UP THE FIGHT IN THE LEGISLATURE, THUS BriN1!NG BITTER FIGHT TO -END. V By Associated Press. '-' New Orleans, June ISj Horse rac ing Is dead for the present, so far as the legislature is concerned, the merchants racing committee giving tip the fight to repeal the betting law. This endf a bitter fight. . The oppo sition was led by Archbishop Blenk, of tne Roman catnoiic cnurch, who was threatened with death because of his attacks on gambling. ESTIMATED THAT MAN WHO TURNED UP THE SUGAR UNDER WEIGHING FRAUDS WILL RE- By Associated Press. Washington, June 15. Secretary MacVeagh promised Richard Parr, who furnished information regarding the sugar underweighing frauds, whereby the government recovered more than $2,000,000 customs 'duties, that he would take up the question as to the amount of Parr's reward soon. The attorney general decided that Parr was entitled only to a reward and the latter placed his case in the hands of the treasury department. Parr has not submitted any particu lar amount to which he thinks he should be entitled. Conservative esti mates place it at $100,000. ATTEMFPT TO KILL VARENAS. By Associated Press. Sarajevo, Bosnia, June 15. Gen- Varesanian de Varenas. military gov ernor of Bosina and Herzegovina, nar rowly escaped assassination today. He was returning to the palace after having opened the diet, when a so cialist named Karajic fired five shots at hdm from a revolver. None of the bullets found its mark. The would-be assassin, following the attempt on the life of the governor, shot and killed himself. THREE OPERATORS KEPT BUSY THROUGHOUT DAY TAKING WIRELESS MESSAGES OF CON GRATULATION FOR EX-PRESIDENT. By Associated Press. On board the Kaiserin Auguete Vic toria, Cape Race, N. F., June 15. Col. Roosevelt received a deluge of wire less messages of congratulation and invitations on reaching the American wireless zone. Three operators were busy through out the day. IU UEI ncvuflnu Mil MESSAGES FOR ROOSEVELT Fearing Violence Doctor Will . Not be Taken to Swainsboro By Associated Press. Augusta, June 15. Fearing lynching in case he was taken to Swainsboro :Dr. W. J. McNaughton, charged with poisoning Fred Flanders, aided by Flanders's wife, who is In jail in j Swainsboro, was taken to Savannah to 'day for safe keeping until the people quiet down in Emanuel county. McNaughton declares his innocence, saying Flanders died of gastritis. His I attorney, .has requested that FJanders's Ten Thousand Dollars Wanted for Proper Cam. paign of Publicity. CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH SUB J. SCRIPTlONS ARE "MADE AND FOR WHAT PURPOSES IT WILL BE EXPENDED WHEN ALL IS SUBSCRIBED MEETING WILL BE HELD AND REGULATIONS - ADOPTED ASVT0. HOW SUM 6HALL BE EXPENDED.' .' One hundred men at stflft tiIi la what Is wanted for a nronnr mm. paign of publicity . that- the utsida world may know of Pensacola and what ehe has. The 'Boosting Fund" is what it la called and nvprr rlM.aB is wanted to contribute $100. A ma jority of these members will say when the $10,000 Is subscribed how, and un der what resiilatinnn th be' expended. This can be decided upon, later, dut. now. ngnt now. 100 men. at $100 each are wanted. Some . hare already com forward with thai- subscriptions. How many will volun- Anyone desiring to become, one of the 100 boosters can rlo su fov nntlfv. - lng any newspaper office In the 0ty. ? ' THE CONDITIONS. Th conditions and ih already subscribed are as follows:. For the purpose of properly placing 4 Pensacola and KACtlnn their iwunnw. advantages and opportunities, before the attention of outairia nnt9i an4 the traveling public ; generally, by kw w i systematic r.na compre- hensivo campaign of publicity, -we, the nnderelfirriAri hcrehr cnhonkL ,.. 1 v. lug DUiU , of $100 (one hundred dollars, each A . (Continued on Second Paga) TION REACH CINCINNATI ON THEIR WAY TO GREET THE EX PRESIDENT. " By Associated Press. Cincinnati, June 15. Fifty members of the Roosevelt Rough Riders Asso ciation, who reside west of the Mis sissippi river, arrived here today en route to New York. They breakfast-, ed with Charles Benner, a Cincinnati member of the organization, and were scheduled to leave later in the day for Washington, D. C. Charles El. Hunter, of Oklahoma City, president of the association, is In charge of the company. . COMMISSIONS FOR CADETS. ' West Point, N. Y., June 15. At com- , mencement day at the United States military academy, Secretary of War.; Dickinson presented second 1 lieuten ants commissions to eighty-two gradu ates. WHITES SENT TO JAIL BY NEGRO PLEADED GUILTV BEFORE NEGRO MAYOR FOR SELLING LIQUOR AND WILL SERVE TIMEFIRST INSTANCE IN ALABAMA IN MANY YEARS. By Associated Press. Anniston, Ala., June 15. For the first time since the reconstruction, white men. Bunk Odell and Eugene Wade, were convicted in Alabama be fore a negro magistrate. The men were arrested in Hobson city, a negro settlement, for selling wlskey and pleaded guilty before Addison Snow, a negro mayor. Unable to pay a fine, they were sent to jaiL It Is feared the mountain friends of the prisoners will storm the jail and attack the negroes. remains be again disinterred, physi cians sending the heart, lungs and liver to Atlanta for a second chemical examination. This will be done in an effort to show that arsenic poisoning was not the cause of .death. Flanders died in a spasm, exhibiting agony be fore death. It developed that members of the Masonic order who went to sit with Flanders the night before his death were dissuaded by McNaughton and Mrs, Flanders. ROUGH RIDERS TOfilEET TEDDY i