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VOL II. NO. 108
HATTIESBUR G. MISSISSIPPI. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 24. 1908
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Leland Hume Cannot Come Tomor
row and Mayor Donald Calls
Off Conference.
MEETING MAY BE HAD
THESDAY, SEPT. 29
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Citizens Are Indignant Over the De
lay as the Matter Should Have Been
Settled Many Weeks Ago—Hume
Has No Excuse to Make.
The City Council tomorrow night
will not go Into the merits or de
merits of the case of the Cumberland
Telephone Company versus the pa
trons of that company In this city.
Mr. Leland Hume, of the Cumber
land Telephone Company, has written
to Mayor Donald that he will not be
able to get here tomorrow night and
the conference which was scheduled
for this meeting of the council has
been postponed until next Tuesday
night, September 29.
The program was to have the matter
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meeting and two members, constitut- j
lng a majority of the state railroad
commission, had signified their Inten
tion of being present to hear the ar
guments and to take cognizance of
the discrimination in local rates
charged against the Cumberland Tele
phone Company.
Just why Mr. Leland Hume is un
able to be here tomorrow night is not
stated, neither does it appear why he
has to be present at the conference.
At any rate his inability to be on hand
has caused a delay in the investigation
and has given the Cumberland people
more time in which to weave a chain
of defense.
CITIZENS IMPATIENT.
The action of Mayor Donald in
again deferring the adjustment of the
present telephone controversy to suit
the convenience of Mr. Hume is gen
erally condemned by telephone sub
scribers.
Two members of the railroad com
mission had promised to be here to
morrow night, and they had made all
arrangements to that end. It is not
known whether or' not they can be
present on next Tuesday.
The Daily News was preparing to
Institute ouster proceedings against
the Cumberland Telephone Company
a month ago, when Mayor Donald In
sisted that no action be taken until af
ter September 1, when the local man
ager of the Cumberland promised to
have something definite to offer in
the way of a compromise. But Local
Manager Hay failed to put in his ap
pearance at thq council meeting and
the matter was postponed until Sep
tember 25.
The impression is that'Mayor Don
ald should have Ignored Mr. Hume's
request for further delay, inasmuch
as it is evident that he is only play
ing for time.
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ASK BRYAN
FOR LABEL
Hearst News Service.
Indianapolis, Ind., September 24.—
The Typographical Unions of Indiana
and other states are sending to Wil
liam Jennings Bryan requests that the
union label
moner, threatening to return all copies
in their original wrappers If this Is
not done.
appeal upon The Com
THE COMMONER IS UNION.
Hearst News Service.
Lincoln, Neb.,
September 24.—
Chas. W. Bryan, whose attention has
been called to the request of union
printers that the label appear on the
Commoner, says the matter rests
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j Union. The Commoner, he says,
I ploys only union labor and will gladly
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GOMPERS IS
AFTER TAFT
Hearst News Service.
Washington, September 24.—In tes
tifying before Judge Gould today in the
proceedings brought for the failure of
organized la.bor to observe the anti
boycott injupction obtained by the
Buck Stove and Range Company, of
St. Louis, Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of Labor,
today declared that the attitude of
Candidate Taft in regard to the in-j
junction Is responsible for the cpn
tempt proceedings. He declared that
the American Manufacturers' Associa
tion had spent vast sums in warrinl
against organized labor.
MONUMENT MUST
NOT BE DESECRATED
Hearst News Service.
September 24.—The
President today decided not to permit
the use of the top of the Washingt
monument for a wireless telegraph
station.
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PARKER WILL HOLD ON
DESPITE CHIEF POOL
Lady Essex, formerly Miss Adele Grant of New York City
opened a laundry, in the hope of
has recently
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reeuperlng the family fortune.
Plaln Clothes Officer Edgar Parker,
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his arrests are recognized by Chief Q f
Police Pool and Day Sergeant
liams, or not.
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Mr Parker heron .h e aPP " P 'F
Mr. Patktr because there was need
Such is in suusiauce tii
statement
of Mayor J. D. Donald made today.
D». Donald further said that his
tf°n in appointing Mr. Parker has been
ratified by a majority of the police
committee and it rests now with the
City Council to add its endorsement to
his action.
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The matter may come be
fore the council tomorrow night, or
for such an officer and that it
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will not i
arrests will be rec
ognlzed at the police station.
added that the refusal of Chief Pool to
recognize Parker
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, 24.—Presl
dpIlt PulMa,n ' of the National League,
t0,lay declared yesterday's game be-:first
twpen New York and Chicago a tie and
ordered It to be piayed over. !
was merely an ef
iort to embarrass the administration.
YESTERDAY'S GAME
DECLARED A TIE
Hearst News Service.
New York, September
Railroad Commission Grants
Reduced Rates On Cotton
For the Benefit of Gulfport
Daily News Special.
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Jackson, September 24.-In spite of ]
the antagonistic position of several of j
the railroads to the granting of rates
on cotton, cotton seed and their pro
ducts asked for by the Gulfport Com- j
mercial Union, In order to enable that I
city to compete for export business j
with New Orleans and Mobile, the !
Mississippi Railroad Commission yes-i
terday granted the Gulfport petition
by a unanimous vote, after spending
more than an entire day on the case
and the taking of testimony and hear-1
ing of arguments on both sides.
In view' of the fact that the Gulf &
Ship Island, over w r hose line most of
this traffic would have to
move ,s
willing to comply with the order, there
has been a good deal of curiosity
to the probable attitude of other roads
SENSATION
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Hearst Has Something Up His Sleeve
and Will Turn It Loose in
New York Tonight.
New York, September 24.—Dele
gates from every county in the state
are gathering today for the state con
vention of the Independence
which will begin tonight at Coopers'
Union.
The greatest interest centers in the
speech of William Randolph Hearst,
who it is believed will spring other
sensations even more startling than
his charges against Senator Foraker
and Governor Haskell.
It is intimated that Mr. Hearst will
show that Abner McKinley, brother of
I he late President McKinley, was
mixed up in the Standard Oil deal in I
an alleged attempt to bribe Monnett, I
of Ohio.
party,
TRYAN READ
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Hearst News Service.
Springfield, O., September 24.—The
thing after arising this morning,
William Jennings Bryan carefully per
used Mr. Roosevelt's statement, but
ROOSEVELT'S
LONG REPLY
announced that he had no comment
to make at this time. He was evi
dently pleased, however, and chatted ;
with friends while eating breakfast.
He left on a special train for Clncin
nati, and will make several speeches j
en route.
KANSAS TOWN IS
WIPEDOFF MAP
Hearst News Service.
Eureka, Kan., September 24.—Forest
fires now sweeping the mountains in
this vicinity have destroyed the town
of Luffenholtz, which contained sev
eral hundred inhabitants,
lieved that everybody escaped, but
some of them had to run for their
lives.
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The Cotton Market.
New Orleans, 1:30 p. m., October
8.71; December 8.70.
Liverpool, Sept-Oct. 4.88; Nov.-Dee.
4.74%.
I interested. The local attorneys, as a
] rule, refrain from discussing the mat
j ter at all, and with the exception of
the declared intention
Mississippi Valley and certain branch
j es of the Illinois Central which claim
I certain charter exemptions, that thev
j will resist the authority of the corn
! mission to fix their rates, the position
of the other roads
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questioned the rate-making power of
the commission
of the Yazoo &
is unknown.
In the arguments yesterday Capt.
D. Mclnnis of the Mobile & Ohio
in any case, and de
fined its power as being that of merely
passing on the reasonableness of a
rate after it had been established, and
this may be the line on which those
roads which have no charter exemp
tions may make their fight, if a fight
is to be made at all.
MAN YLIVES
WERE LOST
24.—Reports ]
Disastrous Typhoon Swept Over
Philippine islands Destroying
Much Property
Hearst News Service.
Manila, September
coming from the central portion of the |
Philippines, swept by a typhoon earlier
in the week, are that great damage
was done and that the loss of life is
heavy, although its extent is not
yet definitely known. Many of the
villages have been completely de
stroyed. The complete destruction of
all means of communieation accounts
for the lack of details.
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Hearst News Service.
Carthage, Mo., September 24.—An
east bound passenger train on the
Frisco Railroad this morning left the
tracks at a curve near this city and
the locomotive and tender were pre
cipitated into the river fifty feet be
low. The engineer and fireman were
drowned.
The baggage car stopped on the
brink and the entire train left the
rails and traveled some distance on
the ties. About fifty people occupied
the dav coaches and many of them re
reived painful injuries. It is said at
the hosiptal where the injured were
carried that several of them will prob
ably die.
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Mr. K. W. Bradshaw will address
the fa:mere and business men of For
rest County and the city of Hatties
burg at the court house tonight a*. 8
o'clock. It 1» hoped there will be a
large attendance out to hear \T..
Bradshaw. His talk will be in the In
terest of the farmers and the. Farm
'*rs' Union v art house movement.
Mr. Bradshaw delivered a talk hvi
a short time ago and made a good im
pression. He will have something of
interest and importance to say to iho
farmers end others who are lnter
eVeil in the success of agriculture ,'n
tld« section.
POND HAS
BIG PLANS
Will Build a Bran New Railroad
From Hattiesburg to New Or
leans at An Early Date.
WELL KNOWN PROMOTER
HAS PLANS WELL LAID
It Is Believed That the New Orleans,
Mobile and Chicago System Is Be
hind Him and That There is Some
thing in the Project.
Daily News Special.
Jackson, Miss., September 24.—
Chester H. Pond, of Morehead, the
man who built the "Yellow Dog" Rail
road and who is known to fame as the
most successful promoter in Missis
sippi, was registered at the Lawrence
Hotel last night.
To the correspondent of the Hatties
burg News, Mr. Pond confided the in
formation that he was about to build a
trunk line of railroad from Hatties
burg to New Orleans, but he refused
to say what system was behind the
project further than to assert that
it would connect with the New Or
leans, Mobile and Chicago at Ovette.
"We have ample capital behind us,"
said Mr. Pond, "and we are conse
fluently asking for few favors as yet.
We will have little trouble in getting
the rights of way, as the preliminary
survey lias already been made and
property owners along the line will
cheerfully co-operate with us."
It Is believed here that Mr. Pond
is interested in the extension of the
Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Rail
road, recently reorganized under the
name of the New Orleans, Mobile and
Chicago, and which already has a
trunk line from Mobile to the Tennes
see line and a branch from Beaumont
to Hattiesburg,
few days for the East in the interest
of his project.
He will leave in a
HASKELL
HAS NOT
24.—When
New Y'ork, September
his attention was called to the reports
that the resignation of Treasurer Has
kell is in the hands of the national
committee, Chairman Norman E.
Mack said that the reports were en
tirely untrue and that it Haskell con
templated resigning he knew noth
ing of it.
BIG FIRE
Denver, Colo., September 24.—Den
ver's historic fighting pavilion, known
as the Colliseum, is on fire and will
prove a total loss. The building and
grounds were recently purchased for
$82,000 from "Reddy" Gallagher for a
new postolfice site.
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BROWN AND YOUNG '
PROPMTLY EXPELLED
New York, September 24.—The an
nouncement was made from the ros
trum of the stock exchange this morn
ing of the expulsion of A. C. Brown
and Lewis O. Young, members of the
failed firm of A. O. Brown & Co., and
their seats were ordered sold.