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-• - v THE HATTIESBURG NEWS Complete Hears™ ..NEWS SERVICE.. Every Inch ..A NEWSPAPER.. ✓ HATTIESBURG. MISSISSIPPI. MONDAY AFTERNOON, IUNE 22, 1908 'VOL. II. NO 30 PRICE FIVE CENTS » ' GEORGIA FOR LEWIS Chatham County Delegation Will Launch Boom Before State Convention. LABOR LEADERS ARE FOR JOHN MITCHELL Said That the Great Labor Leader Has Strong Support—Natne of Tom Wat son May Be Presented to the Conven tion by His Friends. 1 Hearst News Service. _ Atlanta, June 22.—The Democratic state convention will meet here Tues day and nominate Joseph M. Brown for Governor and Stephen D. Clay - for United States senator, carrying out the will of the people as expressed in the recent primary election. It is announced that the delegation from Chatham County will Btart a boom for J. Hamilton Lewis, of Chi cago, for vice president. Lewis is a native Georgian and it is believed that the state convention can be stampeded tn his behalf. Labor leaders In Fulton County-will present the name of John Mitchell and a great many party leaders are said to be committed to his support. StfU another faction favors the nom ination of Thomas E. Watson for sec ond place on the Democratic ticket, but it is believed that Mr. Watson will discourage any movement to that end. I Washington, June 22.—For Missis gippl: ..Generally fair .tonight and' Tuesday. ' / ✓ IN NEW YORK Wisconsin Floods Drown Horses Hitched in the Village Streets. Property Damage. New York, June 22.—Not less than twelve men wefe drowned yesterday In the waters of swollen streams in the vicinity of New York. The rains were unprecedented In many places. HORSE8 DROWNED. Prairie Du Chien, Wls„ June 22.— 1 Rain, wind and hail yesterday did dam age estimated at not less than *200,000 .here and $300,000 at McGregor.' At the \atter place several horses hitched in thp streets were drowned. LOEB MAY GET PLACE. New York, June 22.—A conference was held at Oyster Bay this after noon to decide the chairmanship of the Republican National Coihmitttee. Pres ident Roosevelt is anxious that the place be given to Secretary Loeh and it is said that Loeh is willing to accept the responsibility. f j THE DAILY NEWS II PROGNOSTICATOR r % §0% Me BARBER EXCORIATES CONGRESSMAN BOWERS Gives Complete Inside History of the Con gressional Appropriation For the Gulfport Harbor . Daily News Staff Special. Gulfport, Miss., June 22—Hon. E. M. Barber, candidate for congress, ad dressed a large audience of Harrison County voters at the court house in this city at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Hon. E. J. Bowers, who was invited to Join in the discussion, declined to speak, but has announced to his friends that he will deliver an address tonight. During the course of his remarks this afternoon. Mr. Barber read the fol lowing carefully prepared and signed statement: Biloxi, Miss., Jime 22, '08. TO THE VOTERS OF TrfE SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF MIS SISSIPPI: As is well known through out the District, I am a candidate for Congress. There has been manifested -in the campaign, so far considerable Interest. My effort has been, and will be during the entire campaign, to show the influence of corporate interests upon Hhe politics of the Sixth District a? in contradistintion to the interest of the general public. To this end, I have addressed the greater part of my remarks. » I have taken as the basis of all cor porate interests, the Gulf & Ship Is land Railroad Company,' And to have a complete and through understanding of the workings of this Railroad Com pany in the politics of Mississippi, t will have to go back to its organization, which was effected under the chartet granted it by the Mississippi Legis lature in 1882. Immediately after the organization of the Company, 1884, the Legislature of the State oi Mississippi donated to the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad, every alternate Section of land from Guifport, Miss., to Jackson, Miss., averaging six sections to the mile. In ad Mtlon to this, the Legis lature donated $10,000.$) to pay for surveys, plats, and profiles of the route of the road. Harrison County voted to the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad. Company, $50,000.00 in bonds, to run twenty years. The total amount paid by Har rison County on these bonds is some I thing like $100,000.00 to 0110,000.00. Upon taking the' land donations as above stated, the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company issued first raort bonds to,the amount of $4,200,000.00; second mortage bopds, $280,000:00. The Legislature thereafter passed a law by wjiich the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company contracted with the State of Mississippi to work the State convicts on the grading of the road. It took the convicts and graded the* road to something like eighteen or twenty miles North of Hattiesburg, and laid the track for about half of •that distance. The cruel treatment in flicted upon the convicts'aroused such Indignation ip,the mind of the people against the Railroad Company, that the Legislature was forced to cancel the contract and. take the convicts from the Railload Company. The Railroad was completed to Jack son In the symmer of 1900. In 1894, 5, or 6, the Railroad Company was placed In the hands of a receiver. Judge H. C. Niles, the Republican Fefieral Judge for Mississippi appoint ed Hon. E. J. Bowery as attorney, for the receiver. Upon the wlnding-up of the receivership, and discharge of the receiver, Mr. Bowers w r as employed as General Counsel for the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company. Although Harrison County had do nated something like $100,000.00 ,to the' building of the Railroad, the Railroad officers, with Mr. E. J. Bowers, as general counsel, declined to pay Its equal burden of taxation for Harrison County, and George P. Hewes, Sheriff of said County had to levy on some property belonging to the Company to force payment of Its taxes. Mr. Bow ers, as Attorney for the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company, obtained an Injunction In the Chancery Court of Harrison County, against Mr. Hewes. T)>e motion was then made .by Hon. W. C. Evans, Attorney for the County" of Harrison, to dissolve this injunction and the motion was sustained by Chan cellor N. C. Hill. From that decree, the Railroad, with Mr. Bowers as its attorney, took an appeal to the Su preme Court of the State. The su preme Court of the State affirmed the lower court. The Rsrflroad then ap pealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Supreme Court affirmed the Supreme Court of Missis sippi. All of the courts thereby de creeing that the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company should bear its pro rata of the burdens of taxation for the County of Harrison, and the Slate of Mississippi. Thereafterwards, the Rail road Commission of Mississippi passed an order directing the Gulf & Ship Island .Railroad to reduce its freights 2 per cent, cm bricks, lumber, and other building materials, and the Rail road decrilned to do so. Mr. Bowers, as its general counsel, evidently hav ing come to the conclusion t£at the courts of Mississippi could not be de pended upon to uphold the Railroad in its attempt to violate the laws of Mississippi and evade taxation, ap plied to Hon. H. C. Niles, the Repub lican Federal Judge for Mississippi, for an Injunction against the Railroad Commission, restraining it from inter fering In any way with the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company, looking to its general supervision in the inter est of the people and the shippers along- the said lino. This injunction was, by the Federal Court, presided over by a Republican Judge, made per petual, thereby decreeing that the Rail road commission of the State of Miss issippi should desist from in any way supervising said Railroad on its main line, Mendenhall branch, Columbia and Lumberton branch, or any other branch that might thereafter be built. The final decree in this behalf was written by Mr. Bowers (I suppose it was written by him, for he was then general counsel for the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad, and managed the case for it.) after he was elected to Con gress, and while he was representing the 6th District at Washington. I have given you this much of the history of this Railroad in order that the people might be arivised as to the conditions prevailing. I now propose to show Mr. Bowers' connection with the said Railroad in his official ca (Continued on page two.) Big 4 and Big 10 For Ladies and Men. or of , of of ' & do the' as Its to an of T v> T i ii .) IK s m I v' m £Av IT fi I ISA mm ' \ 'Si'S m m . 5 Wm: KSSSr. awa UR M2 M -•sot -e— fir* m "IN* V* y K / \ i i a* ■A: JW % W1 » I SCENES IN THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, HENRY CABOT LODGE PRESIDING. SAW MILL Plant of Stevens & Company at to the Chattawa Extent of $30,000. Dally News Special. Chattawa, Miss., June 22.—The saw mill of the A. W. Stevens Company was destroyed by fire here at 5 o'clock yesterday morning. The planer, dry houses and lumber yards were not damaged, but the mill proper is a complete loss. There is no way at this ! Instant to ascertain the exact amount j of the loss. It Is, however, rumored that the mill was valued at $39,000, i with insurance on it of one-third this | amount. It is said the company will rebuild at once. This is the second fire that occurred here in the past week, the first being one of the old land marks, the Conway residence, owned until recently by A. LeBianc and bought lately and was owned at the time it wag burned by the Stevens Lumber Company. This was one of the few remaining beautiful homes for which Chattawa was noted before and directly after the civil war. It was built fifty years ago by General Smedes, and was owned for many years by Captain J. J. Conway, now a resident of New Orleans. COTTON MARKET OPENS STRONGER Hearst News Service. New York, June 22.—Cotton futures opened as follows: June, 10.50@10.54e; August, 10.47@ 10.48c; September, 10.13@G0.14c: Oc tober, 9.47@9.49c; December, 9.27@ 9.28c; January, 9.24@9.25; February, 9.23c; March 9.23c bid; April, 9.25c of fered; May 9.23@9.25c. ■ JOHN MITCHELL ffw 1 ':- . i1. ■r X -A >* i m m ■ A* A / i lii ■/• : 1 1! ns ■ HI si «. i» s; J ,i > i 5'/ US si;.. Jf&S Wi RUB i •Tj m ■-V-. H 1 i|-1 ••• > if figs; m SK ■ ■ i :j(V m f •;V" i $ Ah mm \ •V m ■ iy mi .7 sspj i ) i 1 *0 El ■ M ■ V i y-o y, ■it; ..... m p mm w y yy : » ■>;. m i t \ms* . j | j j '. V I X. iff* L & i • :-v : ;V iy-'- >■ 2 1 • ■h: % Hi I a* : BOILER EXPLODES ON FAST FREIGHT TRAIN ENGINEER LOST LIFE Imlay City, Mich., June 22.—The en gine of a fast train on the Grand Trunk line, was wrecked this morning The boiler just outside this city, blew up while the (rain was running at a speed of thirty miles an hour. En gineer Thomas Gibbs was killed in stantly and Fireman William Brown is probably fatally injured. The train was a fast freight carry ing forty-nine cars. The accident oc curred while the train was going down a slight grade on a straight stretch of track. The force of the explosion wrecked the boiler and almost com pletely demolished the cab and ten der. These were piled up in a mass of debris which immediately took fire. Slack between the cars and the prompt use of brakes saved the train and the lives of the rest of the crew. LOYD SAYS WE'LL FIGHT Washington , June 22.—Congress man Lloyd, of Missouri, chairman of the Democratic National Congressional campaign committee says that the Democrats are prepared to fight all summer. The campaign book will be issued about July 1. Then will begin the effort to carry the next house for the Democrats. TAFT ELECTED 22.—Secretary Taft today received letters from the widows of Presidents Garfield and Har rlson wishing him success. Taft will condnct his campaign for the present from Hot Springs, Va. Washington, June LEGISLATORS KILLED . IN. LOUISANIA WRECK Baton Rouge, La., June 22.—A rumor reached the city this afternoon that a Berious wreck occurred on the Cotton Belt Railroad this morning and that MITCHELL Illinois Labor Party Wants Him Named As the Running Mate For Bryan. REPUBLICAN PARTY BITTERLY ASSAILED Anti-Injunction Plank Is Not Satisfac tory—Taft Is Criticised for Having Sustained Injunction Against Organ ized Labor. Hearst News Service. Springfield, III., June 22.—The first political convention of the Labor party in Illinois took place here today. Sev eral hundred'delegates were in attend ance and the meeting was epthusiastic and Harmonious. It was decided to place no presiden tial ticket in the field, but to Urge the Democratic national convention at Denver to nominate John Mitchell for vice president. Strong resolutions Were adopted con idemning the Republican convention for its failure to insert the anti-injunction plank Written by Samuel Gompers in its platform and condemning Mr. Taft for having sustained an injunction against organized labor while on the supreme bench. The resolutions conclude by pledging tlj^ labor vote of the country to the Democratic ticket provided the Gom pers anti-injunction plank is adopted and John Mitchell named as the run ning mate of Bryan. Machinery Supply Man Says That His Business Has Increased Fifty Per Cent. New Orleans, June 22.—J. G. Mc Donough. of the McDonough Manufac turing Company, of Eau Claire, Wis„ widely known in this section and t,o the lumber industry generally, is in the city in connection with the equipment of the new plant of the Long-Bell Lum ber Company at Longville, for which his firm has the contract, as well as for four smaller mills in Louisiana and The new plant at Long vilie will be completed in about six months, and it will be the largest lum ber manufacturing plant in the south, with the exception of the Great South ern mill, at Bogalusa. "Our business is a sort of barome ter of the lumber situation,'' said Mr. McDonough yesterday at the Grune wald Annex. "The prosperity of the lumberman means prosperity for us, and hard times for them means that we wll get our full share, too. Ttut in the last thirty days our business has shown an Increase of 50 pen cent, over that of the thirty days preceding. This is a very hopeful outlook. It Mississippi. i shows that while the lumlternien may not he doing much no» th y are | fldent of the early re- "ation of a brisk demand, and are *aktng advnn I tage of the present lull to erect . w mills and improve the old ones Representative Jones and a number of other members of the Louisiana legts lature were killed. The rumors ha» not been verified. i 'V