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GUILT OF RIOT
BEING PLACED
Government Witnesses Begin Tes
tifying in Brownsville Case.
STORIES ARE STRAIGHT
-Policeman, Who Was Shot in Arm, and
Citizens On the Stand—Foraker
.tails to Shake Testimony.
The examination of witnesses on be
half of the government began Wednes
day in the Brownsville investigation
before the senate committee on mili
tary ahairs at Washington.
George W. Kendall of Brownsville,
Texas, the first witness, testified that
on the night of August 13, when the
•affray occurred in Brownsville, he saw
men whom he declared to be negro
soldiers, climb over the brick wall
.from Fort Brown and enter the town.
He said that he also saw a grpup of
from three to five men inside the
.garrison gate and saw the flash of
two or three shots fired by men in
this group.
At Thursday’s session two other
witnesses testified that they saw ne
gro soldiers shoot up the Texas town
on the night of August 13.
One of these witnesses was Lieu
tenant Dominguez, of the Brownsville
police, who received a bullet through
the arm, and had hi3 horse shot from
under him while trying to warn citi
zens of the approach of the armed
men, whom he declared positively to
be negro soldiers from the garrison,
and another was Policeman Padron,
who described a busy quarter of an
itive that the men doing the shooting
hour dodging bullets. He also was pos
were uegro soldiers.
Dr. Charles H. Thorn, a dentist, tes
tified that he heard a group of men
firing at the rear of his house and
shouting commands to each other, tie
gave as his judgment that the voices
were those of negroes. F. A. H. San
born, manager of the Western Union
Telegraph company, who occupied a
room opposite the garrison, testified
to seeing the negro soldiers enter the
post at about the time the firing
ceased.
Policeman Senaro Padron testified
that he was at the corner of Washing
ton and Fourteenth streets shortly be
fore midnight and that he saw sol
diers in the alley half a block away,
-and that they were shooting. He said
die could distinguish their uniforms
when the guns flashed. He told of the
meeting with the lieutenant of police,
but contradicted the statement of
Dominguez that he had said the men
had just finished “shooting up” the
-Cowan house.
According to Padron’s story he ac
companied Dominguez back to Thir
teenth stret and part of the way to
an alley, near the Miller hotel. He
said he went no further because Dom
inguez would not heed his warning
not to cross the alley. He told of
seeing negro soldiers rush out and
fire at Dominguez and follow him
some distance down Fourteenth street.
He did not see Dominguez when his
horse was shot from under him, as
the men saw him (Phdron) and started
firing at him. Padron told of the run
ning from place to place to escape
danger and finally of taking refuge
in an obscure doorway.
The witness was cross-examined by
Senator Foraker at some length with
out affecting his story. Dominguez
also was cross-examined by Senator
Foraker, but his story was not chang
ed in the least.
MAY DEPOSE MAYOR SCHMITZ.
fiumor that People of ’Frisco Will Make
Change in Municipal Office.
It is rumored in San Francisco that
a movement is on foot to bring about
a change in the municipal administra
tion by forcing the resignation of
Mayor Schmitz and choosing in his
stead Frederick W. Dohrmann, a
prominent wholesale merchant, as
mayor. The report lacks official con
>teiation.
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Idly fight high in air.
"locks Foreman From Scafiold
fSeventy Feet High.
. aoove tne ground
|||£.eel beams of the new
ig in Macon, Ga., Tbom-
more than fifty years
V quarrel, assailed D.
fman 33 years of age,
fton, knocking the vic-
V scaffolding to the
3iini instantly.
mer'6 investigation a
r was made against
•was locked up at po-
TO PURGE EXCHANGE
Great Fight Will Ee Made When Suit of
Thecdore Price CGmes Up in
Court at New York.
Former United States Senator John
L. JlcLaurin, of South Carolina, who
is in New York to take part in the
progress of the injunction suit brought
by Theodore H. Price, the cotton
operator, against the New York cot
ton exchange, to restrain the ex
change from enforcing its system of
grading cotton, talked Sunday night
concerning the points at issue iu the
case. The suit follows a preliminary
injunction obtained by Price, but the
provisions of which he agreed to
waive, provided the exchange would
agree to an immediate trial upon the
principles at issue. To this the ex
change consented, and Justice Bis
choff, of the supreme court, flamed
Charles E. Rushmere, referee to take
testimony. Price’s counsel is William
M. Ivins, and Henry W. Taft repre
sents the cotton exchange. Senator
McLaurin said:
‘1 hope that I shall have the benefit
of the co-operation and advice of an
persons w T ho agree that the point of
suit is right, and particularly those
whose demands for a strict fulfillment
or. their outstanding contracts wiii
help to force tile exchange to adopt
tie reforms sought to be effected.
’With regard to the attitude of the
south on the entire question, 1 think
I may safely -ay that nothing iu re
cent years has created so much in
terest.”
NEW USE FOR COTTON SEED OIL
Medical Profession Plan to Substitute It
for Cod Liver Product.
Dr. George Brown, president of the
Anti-Tuberculosis League of America,
and who is a recognized authority on
consumption and the treatment of the
' Great White Plague,” has just made
public a remedy which is bound to
revolutionize the treatment of this
dread disease.
It is the substitution of cotton
seed oil for cod liver oil in the emul
sions.
Dr. Browm lias been experimenting
with these oils for years and has
made a particular study of the U 36
of cottou seed oil during the past
year and it is on the splendid results
which have followed the substitution
of cotton seed oil for cod liver oil
that he has made public the state
ment.
The two oils have been chemically
analyzed and it has been found that
the fat giving properties preponder
ate in the cotton seed oil. The fact
that the nauseous taste and smell is
to be eliminated by this substitution
and at the same time none or the
health giving elements are eliminat
ed add greatly to the favor of the
change.
In his treatment of tuberculosis
where the emulsion was used, Dr.
Brown has found that where twenty
five cut of one hundred persons
could take the cod liver oil emulsion
that seventy-five out of one hundred
could take the emulsion where cotton
seed oil has been substituted.
Being more easily digested and hav
ing greater heat-giving properties and
absolutely devoid of any disagreeable
odor or taste another field for this
southern product has been found and
will soon be on the market.
COURT UPHOLDS “JIM CROW” LAW.
Case of Negro Woman is Adjudicated by
District of Columbia Jury.
The “Jim Crow” law was involved
in a suit before Justice Wright at
Washington of Clementine N. Bart
lett, colored, for S3U,UOo damages
against the Pennsylvania railroad and
others for alleged illegal arrest. The
jury rendered a verdict for the de
fendants.
The defendant introduced testi
mony to show' that when the trains
crossed the Maryland line the con
ductor urged the plaiutiff to move
into the coach for negro passengers.
A scene followed and the autnori
ties were called aboard. The defense
said the woman was not arrested, but
she voluntarily left the train in the
custody of the sheriff.
MAYOR SCHMITZ ABDICATES.
Municipal Reins of ’Frisco Turned Over to
a Special Committee.
Charged by Abe Kuef before the
grand jury with receiving a bribe of
$50,000 from the United Railways
company and facing the penitentiary.
Mayor Schmitz has relinquished the
reins of San Francisco government
to a committee of seven, representing
the five great commercial organiza
toins of the city.
The capitulation of the mayor is
complete. He ha3 transferred in writ
ing his authority, tantamount to a
power of attorney.
UP IN THE AIR
IS NEW STATE
Oklahoma to Have Difficulty in
Securing Admission to Union.
REPUBLICANS OPPOSING
Democratic Tendencies Responsible for
Move Being Made to Knock Out
Newly Adopted Constitution.
A Washington special says: The
pious unctioa w'itli which the republi
cau leaders are proceeding in the at
tempt to withhold statehood Imm
Oklahoma and the high moral
grounds on which they nest their ob
jections are really impressive.
In the enabling act, passed by con
gress and approved by President
Roosevelt on June 16, 1906, it was
set forth that there should De five
congressional districts iu tfle terri
tory of Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory, when they were admitted to
the union as one state. This would
give Oklahoma five representatives in
congress and two senators, thus eu
titling her to cast seven votes iu ine
electoral college.
Of course the advocates of admis
sion were reasonably sure that these
were going to he good republican
votes. The first election, however,
completely disabused the minds of
all.
Such au overwhelming evidence of
the democratic tendencies of the peo
ple was abundant proof , to republicans
that Oklahoma was ‘‘undesirable.”
'they were trying to convince Presi
dent Roosevelt aiso that it would nut
be w'ise to permit these seven dem
ocratic electoral votes to unfavorably
complicate the situation when a re
publican president is to be elected
next year. The men who were groom
ing themselves to be republican sen
ators and representatives are sure it
would not be wise; it might be dis
astrous.
The constitution of tile new state,
framed by democrats who were duly
and regularly elected by the people
to draft their fundamental law, is be
ing carefully and painfully scrutinized
in the search for flaws. If a teonui
cality can bo discovered whicli will
furnish grounds for exclusion there
will be no need to resort to the leg
islative club, which is held by the
republican majority in both houses.
Then, too, the high moral grounds
can be maintained.
In the act of congress making pro
vision for the admission of the new
state it was provided that the fol
lowing features should be incorporated
in tiie new constitution:
“Perfect toleration of religious sen
timent.
“Prohibition of traffic in alcoholic
liquors for a period of twenty-0110
years in the parts of the state now
known as Indian Territory, the Osage
Indian reservation and in other parts
of the state wdiich existed-as Indian
reservations on January 1, ISWu.
“Prohibition of polygamous and
plural marriages.
"Release of the public lands within
the state to the United States.
“Payment of the debts of the ter
ritory of Oklahoma by the mate o£
Oklahoma.
“Establishment of public schools, al
lowing separate schools for while and
negro children.
"The right of franchise unrestricted
on’account of race, color or previous
condition of servitude.”
There is also a further injunction
that a republican form of government
must be secured.
The HO delegates to the conven
tion adopted a document w-hich they
believed encompassed all the instruc
tions given them by congress and la
ter by the president on the subject
of jim crow' cars and the control of
corporations. This done, the demo
crats made such disposition of the
legislative districts that the republi
cans claim it will be impossible for
them ever to elect a United States
senator.
MISSION FUND OF METHODISTS
Is Apportioned by the Church Board in
Session at Nashville.
The work of the mission board of
the M. E. Church, South, was con
cluded at Nashville, Tenn., Friday,
after the adoption of a plan tor tne
inauguration of home missions au*i
the apportionment of the fund to be
raised for the work in the foreign field
during the ensuing year.
The total amount appropriated to
the mission conferences for the en
suing year was $332,483, and the total
amount to be raised by. the home con
ference is $366,&31.50.
GOULDS NOW IN A MESS.
Wife of Howard Chases Him to Divorce
Court With Many Sensational
and Salacious Charges.
At New York Monday, Mrs. How
ard Gould filed against her husband,
the millionaire yachtsman, a suit for
separation, one of her most aston
ishing alegations being that because
of his personal habits he is an im
proper person to live with. The com
plaint is highly sensational, charging
Gould with consorting with nunur
ous women.
Almost as astounding as the actual
beginning of tne already famous di
vorce case are developments in the
investigation into the use of police
headquarters detectives by Howard
Gouid against Mrs. Gould. District
Attorney Jerome will consult with
Police Commissioner Bingham, going
over all of the evidence thus far ad
duced in the case with the possible
result that he may begin a grand jury
proceeding to see just what there is
to the conspiracy charged by. Mrs.
Gould.
Mrs. Gould’s complaint gainst hei*
husoand covers every one of the four
grounds on which it is possible to se
cure a separtion. Under the first
charge, that lie is not a proper per
son to live with, it is said that some
exceedingly distressing facts will be
presented iu ilie bill of particulars
or at the time of tne trial.
The second charge is that lie aban
doned her. Since last July Mrs. Gouid
has been living at the St. Regia, rec
ognized for some time as the city
home of the Goulds, and her husband
has not once visited hei.
Non-support is the third allegtalom
Iu September last Gould is said to
have discontinued providing Mrs.
Gould with funds, and until very re
cently she is said not to have re
ceived a single penny from him.
Under the fourth charge, that oil
cruel and inhuman treatment, many
specifications are made, one of whicli
is that Gould, at the tlnie of their
separation, sent notices to all or the
trades people with whom he has been
dealing instructing them not to give
her any credit if they had any idea
of collecting their accounts from him.
This was at a ti-vie when he was
trying to force her to accept his terms
in the financial feature of their sep
aration, and she charges that in this
way ha endeavored to compel her to
submit to his wishes.
Another of the specifications is that
he has humiliated her, constantly
surrounding her with detectives, caus
ing her mail to be opened and sub
jecting her lo many similar annoy
ances.
A friend of Mrs. Gould says that!
when details are presented to the
court, Mrs. Gould will state that one |
of the worst of the 'many indignities j
heaped upon her was the fact that ■
while she was living at the St. lie- j
gis hotel her husband was openly pay-
ing attentions to another woman liv
ing at the same hotelN
' ‘Mrs. Gould knows that her hus
band is worth at least $20,000,001),
said a friend of the lady, "and that i
he has an assured income of $1,000,-
000 a year, and she asks for alimony
at the rate of SIOO,OOO a year during
the time the case is in court. At the
time of the trial she will make a
demand for permanent alimony oil
$130,000 a year.”
Counsel for Mrs. Howard Gould
said that the suit will be tried in
open court, adding:
“Mrs. Gould desires that full pub
licity be given to It, and she refuses
to spare any one engaged in the plot
against her.”
BRAVE DEED OF NEGRO CONVICT
Takes Fleeing Guard’s Gun and Captures
Ten Escaping Fellow Prisoners.
Fourteen additional misdemeanor
convicts have escaped from the Sum
ter coumy, Georgia, ehaingang, mak
ing a round total of about thirty es
caping recently, and costing the couu
ty thousands of dollars. The fourteen
escaping disarmed two ot the three
guards, while the third guard is re
ported to have lied the scene, the con
victs deriding him, as he sprinted
after the fourteen escapes, who had
been gone some hours.
Another convict, Brady Reddick,
found the gun of the decamping
guard, and thus armed pursueu the
fugitives. He captured ten of his fel
low prisoners, and returned them to
camp at the point of his gun, after
wards chaining them.
This brilliant feat of a negro con
vict is applauded by the citizens of
Americus.
The four convicts who finally got
away had all escaped previously, and
were recaptured within the past
month at a cost of SSOO to the county
in rewards and expenses.
GUANO TRUST
AGAIN TARGE'
Unde Sam Will Make Anoti
Try at Alleged Combine.
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NEW PLAN IS ADCPTE
Further Indictments Ordered and l|
Time Individuals Will Be Tried in |
States Where They Reside.
A Washington special says: %
government has decided to renew
cases against the so-called fertiii:
trust before the United States I
trlct court at Richmond, Va. Ab|
a year ago the government secuf
the indictment and arrest of a la
number of persons residing in dii*;
ent parts of the country on a chaji
of evading the Sherman anti-trust j
and sought to secure the removal
Nashville, where suit wa3 being
gun, of such defendants as resi
outside of Hie slate of j.enm.s|
Tne Virginia detendants, howej
contended tuat, before they couidj
removed from tne state, uiey sml
lie given preliminary hearings to|
termine the sufficiency oi uio j
deuce on which their removal 1
asked. The court sustained the ,|
eminent on this point, but on ah I,
peal taken beiore the United Bt
supreme court about two mouth's g
found against the government,
without prejudice to its case, a ml?
tiered that the defendants be
charged.
The department of justice ha3 1
decided lo try the inuividual delf
auls in the states in which they!
side, and will almost immediately |
ceed to secure the Indictment anJ
arrest of the Virginia parties tol
alleged combination. Olner cases I
arrests will, it is said, be rnadl
Tennessee and other states. It is ft
there are tbirty-one fertilizer coj
nies in the alleged combination, 1
that originally twenty-tour indi
uuls were indicted ana arrested I
FURNITURE TRUST HARD Hl’f
A Chicago Judge Assesses Heavy If
Against eleven companies. |
lu court at Chicago Monday, J|
Landis fined F. A. Holbrook, off
American Seating company andl
A. H. Andrews company $5,000
and nine other furniture
amounts ranging from SSOO to sl|
for vilolation of the anti-trust la\J
forming a conspiracy in restraii
trade. The defendants pleaded g
Judge 1-andia proceeded the <
cry of sentence by scathing
(i.t.ion of mo methods adopted
tin: cxxurch and school furniture
utclaring that the puuishureiu
by law is inadequate iu lit the c
-When 1 reflect upon the me
resorted to, said Judge Land)
wonder wyy men engage in
business to get money. Almost
man, I should think, would yret
work in a ditch at $1.50 u day.
is unquestionably a more digs
method.”
Judge Landis said that Hoi
acted as a sort of clearing hou-J
the combine, which called itself
prudential Club. Holbrook apyo ■
ed the contracts and by mtai ;
“dummy” bids, members of the *
bine avoided competition.
Judge .Landis said the compa
poverty of the smaller firms o
combine made it his duty not
fiiet the maximum puuishmeu;
they might be forced into ,
ruptcy.
“To keep them in independei,
eratton,” said Judge .uanuis, MS
only hope consumers have a {
the big concerns, if we were tS
them out of business the Ahi
and American Seating coni,;
would have no difficulty in t:
full control.”
MANY PASSENGERS SHAKEN
Wreck Occurs on Central of Georg
No One Was Killed.
The southbound Central pas;
train from Athens, Ga., due to
in Macon at 11 o’clock Monday, j
ing, was wrecked three miles 1
of ’ Hillsboro, and twenty-threc|
sons were Injured and three
were badly torn up. No one was
and the engine did ljot leav
track. Among the passengers
many delegates to the state c
lion of Odd Fellows in Columbi
several of these were severe
jured. . -Jgl