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gif R per Tells Ho?/ Game
cd in Colton “Leak."
WAS A CINCH
Information One Single Deal
Conspirators $167,000 —Holmes
Jot One-third of Ptofits.
3 Ashing ton specia: says; in Lou
fif* Van Riper, a New York broker,
Q p veriiment Monday Introduced
tbe.cet witness in the trial of Ed
eric- Holmes, Jr., who has directly
in ttod Holmes with the premature
the . (l ce of the information in which
wo /iton crops of the agricultural
Ens meut are base! Mr. Van Riper
a *St the stand all day and the di
acqf . . .
„ .examination uai no. been con
a H
tow* w hen the court adjourned,
con) said that he had met Holmes
youM, through F. A. Peckham, and
puzae had agreed to give them two-
A> of any profits that might be
k°*}3d from stock deals made on
supplied by Holmes. He then
j how Holmes iiad kept hit; part
lctt ie agreement by giving out infor
repon a day in advance of the ap
aniitice of the official report; quot
n>'figures to show the degree cf ac
dt-acy of the information supplied and
s,( t!ed instances in which Holmes
been paid money through Moses
sun
inf.”
said $lf)7,000 ha<l been cleaned
cx on the information secured in ad
of .the report for November,
1004.
y lie also testified that Hoi nut had
.ffiixed to keep him informed of the
Mans of other cotton broker;: and
I CdJ how in the end a regular part-
Iwahlp had been forufed, in which
jJolmea was one of five members.
■j Mr. Van Hiper said that at lei first
uesting Haas and Peckham in Wash*
fogtoii he had seeu theta in Chicago
<4 cpmpany with Holmes and after
wards in St. Louis. They had consid
!rahle conversations at both places
eon crnlng operations in cotton, with
the result that they began selling col
to i in November and continued the
(process until the December report was
Issued. He had generally operated on
the strungtli of the representations of
Haas, who was supposed to be in fre
fluent conference with Holmes, and
"had iudicaied a veiy bearish condi
tion.
He had dealt, through a number of
brokers in the November transactions,
and hid been successful to the extent
•f $;li7,000. Of this amount $f.7,000
wag divided with Haas and Peckham,
Mans taking half and Peckham a
fourth of the amount. Part ot Haas’
shares was paid iu cash.
"What did Haas do wi ll the cash?”
“He paid it to Holmes.”
‘When, and where?”
‘ln the office ut that time.’*
Mr. Beach, for the prosecution,
brought out from the witness the facts
concerning the organization of the
brokerage firm of L. 11. Mercer & Cos.
He said that while the names oi only
Mercer and Peckhatu appeared in the
articles of agreement. Holmes, Haas
•ml himself were pari uers with the
cther two. As the working capital of
thl* firm, $1’3,000 secured in the No
vember deal was used. Part of the
money made in that ilea! was reinvest
ed in December ou the strength of
Haas’ forecast of the cotton ginnera’
report, and $40,000 had been realized
*s profits. Oue-fourth of this amount
was paid to Haas iu currency, and by
him turned over to Holmes.
11l December, 1904, the firm was
dissolved, aud Vau Hiper testified that
#3B ,232 had been paid to Haas in
cheques aud the same amount to
Holmes in currency.
Mr. Vau Riper was still under ex
n, A&iation when court adjourned for
\G TO JAP NEWSPAPERS,
not
ban*ment Calls Off Agitation
exiraLfican Question,
had fe\ UUJU „f Tokic, Japan,
i place ai ,pear before the
mldd Thursday, and were
was advised to abstain from
vr—ou of any matter oi an in
ingor agitating nature
le<sk question.
en&ers Thursday morning
JRographs of the " reckagf
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MORGAN ENTOMBED.
Remains of Distinguished Alabama Senator
Tenderly Laid to Rest at Old Home
in Selma.
The funeral of the late Senator John
T. Morgan took place in Selma at
noon Saturday from the Church Street
Methodist Church, where the dead sen
ator for many years worshiped, and
his body was laid to rest in Live Oak
cemetery iri a lot adjoining the tomb
of William R. King, who died more
than half a century ago, while he
was vice presiden: of the United
States. Thousands were present at the
funeral, including delegations from
every city in the state.
Many distinguished men were also
on hand. Besides the congressional
party who accompanied the body from
Washington, there were present Vice
President C. W. Fairbanks, Governor
Comer and the various state officials,
together with every member of the
Alabama congressional delegation.
The funeral train arrived promptly
at 9 o’clock a. m. and was met at
the union depot by a large escort, con
sisting of military, Confederate vet
erans, distinguished Alabamians and
the population generally. When the
train halted, Senator E. W. Pettus, the
venerable colleague of the dead sena
tor, was first to alight. After he had
assisted the Misses Morgan, daughters
of the dead senator, from the train,
they were escorted to carriages in
waiting.
The casket was then removed, and
it was placed in the waiting hearse. A
delegation of women literally covered
it with flowers picked from Alabama’s
native soil. The flowers were tossed
upon the casket until the doors of the
hearse were closed and the solemn
march to the church began.
Arriving at. the church, the casket
was placed in front of the altar. Then
came the masses, who for two long
hours took a last look at the distin
guished Alabamian. During those two
hours ten thousand persons wended
their way through the church and past
the casket.
Many beautiful designs sent by peo
ple in all parts of the world were
strewn around the casket. There was
a huge wreath of roses and lilies of
the valley from President and Mrs.
Roosevelt. Another beautiful wreath
was ordered from Honolulu by
“Hatch.” Another was ordered by ca
ble from friends in London, in addi
tion, there were hundreds of floral
offerings from Confederate Veterans
Daughters of the Confederacy, com
mercial organizations and private cit
izens generally from all over the
south.
The fune^v "services, which were
held at noon, fr/re conducted by Dr.
W. P. Dickinson, pastor of Church
Street Methodist church, and consist
ed of scriptural readigs, songs and
prayer. The church has a seating ca
pacity of 1,100 and every seat was
taken with many standing. A still
greater number were unable to gain
admission.
Sentinels were placed on duly at
every door to keep the crowd out. Rel
atives and national and state repre
sentatives occupied two hundred re
served seats directly in front of the
altar. The church exercises were
soon concluded, and while the casket
was being returned to the hearse the
band outside the church played ‘ Lead,
Kindly Light.” Many wept as the
strains of the favorite liymn of the
late President McKinley, a warm
friend of Senator Morgan, floated upon
the noonday air. The procession to
Live Oak cemetery was even larger
than that from the railroad station
to the church, various delegations and
distinguished visitors, among thun. be
ing Vice President Fairbanks and Sen
ator Foraker, having arrived mean
while.
All the business houses were closed
and emblems of mourning bedecked
every building on the route. Every
where the wheels of Industry had stop
ped for the time. The services were
simple, consisting of the reading of
the Methodist ritual and a prayer.
SUNKEN LAUNCH IS LOCATED.
Grapplers Find the Battleship Boat From
Which Middies Drowned.
Official notice of the finding of the
battleship Minnesota’s ill-fated launch,
which went to the bottom of Hampton
Roads, with its eleven occupants, was
received by the navy department in
a message from the commander oi the
Atlantic fleet Friday.
The dispatch says the launch was
grappled by the dragging party aud
that the launch was expected to be
SULPHUR BATHS AT HOME.
They Heal the Skin and Take Awajr
Its Impurities.
Sulphur baths heal Skin Diseases, and
give the body a wholesome glow. Now
you don’t have to go off to a high-priced re
port to get them. Put a few spoonfuls of
Hancock’s Liquid Sulphur in the hot water,
and you get a perfect Sulphur bath right
in your own home.
Apply Hancock’s Liquid Sulphur to the
affected parts, and Ezcema and other stub
born skin troubles are quickly cured. Dr.
R. H. Thomas, of Valdosta, Ga., was cured
of a painful skin trouble, and he praises
it in the highest terms. Your druggist
■ells it. v
Hancock’s Liquid Sulphur Ointment ia
the best cure for Sores, Pimples, Black
heads and all inflammation. Gives a soft,
velvety skin.
It’s useless to forgive an injury if
you can’t forget it.
Weak Eyes
Are made strong by Leonardi’s Eye Lotion
Inflammation is cured without pain in one
day. No other eye remedy so pure and heal
ing. Keeps the eyes in working trim. It
makes strong eyes. Guaranteed or money
refunded. Druggists sell it at 25 cts. or
forwarded prepaid on receipt of price by S.
B. Leonardi & C'o., Tampa, Fla.
There are many large tales connect
ed with small fish.
Argo Red Salmon took the grand
prize at the St. Louis Exposition, the
only one ever given at any fair on
Salmon.
Many a bare-foot boy has reached
the goal while his rival was trying on
shoes.
SUFFERED TORTURES.
Racked With Pain, Day and Night,
For Years.
Wm. H. Walter, engineer of Chats
worth, Ills., writes; “Kidney disease
twas lurking in my
system for years. I
had torturing pain
in the side and
back and the urine
was dark and full
of sediment. I was
racked with pain,
day and night,
'■ could not sleep or
eat well, and finally became crippled
and bent over with rheumatism.
Doan’s Kidney Pills brought quick
relief, and,in time,cured me. Though
I lost 40 pounds, T now weigh 200,
more than ever before.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Cos., Buffalo, N. Y.
“Drunk" in French.
The French have some interesting
similes of their own corresponding to
our “drunk as a lord” or "drunk as a
wheelbarrow.” The most generally
recognize-d one is the case of “ivre,"
the less extreme and less vulgar word
for “drunk” Is “ivre comme une
soupe” —“soupe” meaning the piece of
ibread eaten with soup as well as the
soup itself, an>d a “bouillion” soaked
piece of bread offering a natural si
mile for saturation. When the less
delicate “soupe” is used instead of
“ivre” the Frenchman may speak of
being as drunk as an ass, a caw, a
Swiss or a thrush. The allusion in
the last case is to the fondness of
thrushes for grapes, which are said
at vintage time to make them un
steady in their flight.—London Chron
icle.
Most Wasteful of Cooks.
To live to waste seems an unwrit
ten maxim ,of English life. Our cook
ing, the cooking of our working and
agricultural classes, is about the most
wasteful cookery on earth. The
French peasants will live, and live
well, on what we discard.
It is said that one hundred millions
sterling a year are added to the na
tional wealth of France by the sav
ing habits of her people.—C. B. Fry’s
Magazine.
WENT TO TEA
And It Wound Her Bobbin.
Tea drinking frequently affects
people as badly as coffee. A lady in
Salisbury, Md., says that she was
compelled to abandon the use of cof
fee a good many years ago, because
It threatened to ruin her health and
that she went over to tea drinking,
but finally she had dyspepsia so bad
that she*had lost twenty-five pounds
and no food seemed to agree with
her.
She further says: “At this time I
was induced to take up the famous
food drink, Postum, and was so much
pleased with the results that I have
never been without it since. I com
menced to improve at once, regained
my twenty-five pounds of flesh and
went some beyond my usual weight.
“I know Postum to be good, pure
and healthful, and there never was
an article, and never will be, I be
lieve, that does so surely take the
place of coffee as Postum Food Cof
fee. The beauty of it all is that it Is
satisfying and wonderfully nourish
ing. I feel as if I could not sing its
praises too loud.” Read “The Road
to Wellville,” in pkgs. /*'There’s a
MAYOR SCHMITZ OUSTED
Supervisors at 'Frisco Elect Successor to
Convict Chief Executive Pending
Outcome of Case.
A San Francisco special says: May
or Schmitz was formally removed
from office by the supervisors at their
meeting Monday afternoon. Supervisor
James Gallagher was named as acting
mayor in his plaee.
This is the first step taken by the
graft prosecution in the execution of
their plan to restore gcod government
in the city. The ground on v.*iich May
or Schmitz was removed is that owing
to his incarceration in the county jail
following his conviction on a felony
charge he is no longer able to perform
his official duties.
Gallagher will not hold the position
of acting mayor for more than a few
days. The resignation of a certain
member of the board of supervisors
will make room for the appointment
of a responsible citizen, who will take
Gallagher's place as acting mayor.
The attorneys for Mayor Schmitz,
now in jail, awaiting sentence for ex
tortion of which he has been convict
ed, announce their determination to
take his case to the United States
supreme court if Judge Dunne over
rules their motion for anew trial on
June 27, and the apellate court makes
a similar denial.
J. C. Campbell of counsel for Mayor
Schmlzt said:
‘‘lt is hardly to be expected that
Judge Dunne will grant our motion
for anew trial, but his refusal will
not put an end to our activities. We
w r ill appeal to the supreme court of
the state, and to the highest tribunal
at Washington if necessary.”
CAUGHT IN FRAUD ATTEMPT.
Alleged Negro Soldier Suicides by Drink
ing Carbolic Acid.
Choosing to answer for his sius be
fore the judgment bar of Gcd in pref
erence to arrest and trial by a court
of justice, a negro who gave his name
as John Williams, ended his own life
at Atlanta early Monday afternoon
after being caught red-handed In an
attempt to defraud the United States
government through the paymaster of
the department of the gulf, in the
Candler building, by forging a sol
dier's final statement or bill for ser
vices.
The negro, who was sitting handcuff
ed in the paymaster s office while Ma
jor Dawes was explaining the charge
to the arresting officer, suddenly took
a bottle of carbolic acid from his
coat pocket and succeeded in swallow
ing a goodly portion of the deadly
poison before the officers and clerks
could get to him. His death occurred
in thirty minutes.
Williams’ plan was to draw the pay
of a discharged soldier, and in order
to do so lie presented a forged order
to Chief Clerk Eckels. Mr. Eckels
knew that the statement, which pur
ported to be signed by Lieutenant Al
fred Branch of company A, 25th in
fantry, Fort Reno, Okla., was forged,
as it called for the pay of a soldier
discharged from that command on the
23rd of May, and the chief paymas
ter had issued instructions that no
member of that regiment was dis
charged in May.
However, Mr. Eckels cooly made
out a receipt for the negro, so that
Major Dawes would have time to call
a policeman. Before the receipt was
drawn up, the officer arrived and hand
cuffed Williams, and it iwas while
Major Dawes was explaining the sit
ution to the officer that the negro
preferring death to arrest, suicided.
UNTIL MEETING OF LEGISLATURE
Alabama Governor Appoints Bankhead to
Fill Senatorial Vacancy.
Governor Comer, of Alabama, Mon
day morning, appointed former Con
gressman Bankhead to the vacancy in
United States senate caused by the
death of Senator Morgan, the appoint
ment to hold until the legislature
meets July 19.
Colonel Bankhead ran first in the
democratic primary for alternate sen
ator last August.
IN HONOR OF SENATOR MORGAN.
Daughters of the Confederacy Plan a Fit
ting Monument at Selma.
The Selma, Ala., chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy have
undertaken a movement for the erec
tion of a monument to the memory
of the late Senator Morgan in that
city.
Subscriptions will be called for from
Ate batmans everywhere. It is said that
a targe fund will be raised. *
[ That our American forests abound In'
plants which pbsscss the most valuable
medicinal virtues is abundantly attested
by scores of the most eminent medical
writers and teachers. Even the untu
tored Indians had discovered the useful
ness of many native plants before tba
advent of the white race. This informa
tion. imparted freely to the whites, led
the latter to continue investigations until
to-day we have a rich assortment of most
valuable American medicinal roots.
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Dr. Pierce believes that oar American for*-
jests in most valuable medicinal root*
fo* thecuft*q}f most obstinate and fttal dis
eases. if wtewobid properly Investigate them;
ana of this conviction, he
poitWwUb pridNafe the almost,
fffertefl-bv |)jf "Gnlflpn Mpfli-n 1 Dis
covery. ’’ which hps nroven-Jtsclf to he
mo6t efficient. ‘l’Timarh tonic, liver Invigor
ator. heart tonic and regulator, and blood
cleanser known to medleaLscjence. Dyspep
sia. or indigestion. torpidliverTiuDCtionatf
and even valvular and other affections of,
• the heart yield to its curative action. The
reason to/iv K cures these and many other
affections, is clearly shown in a little book
of extracts front the standard medical work*,
which Is mailed free to any address by Dr. R.
V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y.. to all sending
request for the same
O
Not less marvelous. In the unparalleled'
cures it is constantly making of woman’s
many peculiar affections, weaknesses and
‘distressing derifniements, is Dr. Pierce’s
FaVorlteNPrescripUOThsAS is amply attested
by thousands con
, tributed biNsfetcful patTprrtfe who have been
cured by it'oLcatarrhai-Pidvlc ffijtKsjjlnftirr
periods,. Irregularities, prolapsus jtnd other
d’lsTiTaccmciitsr'ciiusSr by weakness ulcer;
ationof uterus ana kindred afreetlonsTmfen
: after many other "advertised medicine's, and
'physicians had failed.
Both the above mentioned’ medicines are
wholly made up from the glyceric extracts of
native, medicinal roots. The processes em-.
pldyed in their manufacture were original!
with Dr. Pierce, and they are carried on by
skilled chemists and pharmacists with the
aid of apparatus and appliances specially
designed and built for this purpose. Both
medicines are entirely free from alcohol and
‘all other harmful, habit-forming drugs. A
full list of their ingredients is printed on
each bottle-wrapper.
Love is apt to make a fool of a man,
but most men are willing to take the
chances.
The fisheries in Alaska have paid
the Government more in revenue than
Alaska cost the United States. This is
where the Argo Red Salmon is caught
and canned.
One saving grace about people who
talk a lot is that they do not try to
sing.
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Best lubricant for axles in the I
world —long wearing and very ad-
Makes a heavy load draw like an
light one. Saves half the wear on
wagon end team, and increases the
earning capacity of your outfit
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the tin placed in boiling hot water for a few
minutes, or removed from the tin and
browned in the oven lor a few minutes,
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or dinner. . r
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