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TAYLOR BALKS
AT IMMUNITY
Outlawed Governor Demands Guar
antee of a Fair Trial.
STATES HIS POSITION
Efforts of Kentucky to Draw Him From
Safe Retreat in Indiana Are Consid
ered-Is Willing; to Stand Trial.
William S. Taylor, formerly govern
or of Kentucky, whose extradition has
b on sought by the authorities of that
state since the assassination of Gov
ernor William Goebel seven years
ago gave out a statement at Indian
apolis, Indiana, Friday night, which
he said is the first public statement
lie has made since leaving hi:; native
state.
He first dlsstcts the promises of
immunity, said to have been offered
hi n recently should he testify in the
Caleb Powers case aud then says to
(he Kentucky authorities that he is
willing to return to iris home state
and stand trial on the charge against
himself if granted certain guarantees.
'J lie statement says:
"For more than seven years I have
borne in silence the aland- r and per
secutions of those who robbed me of
what heaven knows was my own and
who, to conceal that crime against lib
erty and for no other reason, indict
ed and drove me into exile. I trust
n indulgent public wilt permit me
now to break that silence.
"Commonwealth's Attorney Franklin
of Kentucky knows that I have fully
testified in the Powers case by depo
sition. This testimony Is a part of
the record of the case, ami is accessi
ble to him. He knows, too, that he
had a right to cross-examine me at
the dime I gave It and td not do so.
He ‘knows that neither he nor any
other officer or combination of officers
In Kentucky has the legal right to
grant such immunity and that were
1 to return under such promises o
immunity 1 would he arrested denied
bail :\nd, like Mr. Powers, be subjected
to nothing less than a mock trial by
a partisan-court, before a packed par
ti an court with a $i<JO,(K)l) corruption
fund as a powerful incentive to con
viction. The law is clear , that Mr.
Franklin or any ofilu r officer has no
power to promise immunity.
"i!nt inasmuch as Mr. Franklin
abounds iu propositions and premises
and seems enamored of the idea that
lie can do things, l will say this:
•if he will in some way provide
u absolute guaranty—not merely a
promise—a guaranty that will inspire
confidence among sensible, level-head
cd, horicsf JWSfiur-*!. gnarly the spirit
<:!• which'may not,, be, vilat
the letter he observed, that 1 will be
’fF;\Sn<MAi* aad-luiimcUMu trail J will
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ngalflsrP all parties use<l"’.Wpivsf outing
witn ista except mySelf.”-and; lastly,
will, ip. advance, tty mutual agree
meat, select an impartial jury Judge
to try my case, I will’ without Any
iromis; of immunity, voluptar.lv je
turu to Kentucky not only m . testify
in the Powers case, but to■ subnet my
self to trial.”
.DIVIDEND CUT BY SOUTHERN.
Drastic Legislation and High Cost of Main
tenance the Reason.
The directors of the Southern Rail
way company, at them meeting, in
New York, Friday, cut the semi annual
dividend of the preferred stock of the
company from 2 1-2 to 1 1-2 per cent.
President Finley made the following
statement:
•The directors considered that un
der existing conditions of high prices
of supplies, material and labor, of in
ensa lug taxes and legislative roduc
tioa of revenues, it was the part of
conservative prudence to limit the dis
tribution of the profits of the company
at least until the permanent effects of
such conditions can be fairly meas
ured.”
STRIKE ON THE WANE.
Telegraphic Business is Slowly Assuming
Normal Conditions, Notwithstand
ing Reports tc the Contrary.
S. J. Small, president of the Com
mercial Union of Telegraphers, arrived
in New York from the west Sunday.
He was met at the station by a large
delegation of striking telegraphers.
in the afternoon he attended a meet
ing of the striking telegraphers and
made a brief address in which he de
tailed the general situation, refraining
from discussing local conditions.
Mr. Small gave out an optimistic
statement regarding general strike
conditions, in which he said:
"We have fully 80 per cent of all the
commercial telegraphers in the United
States on strike. This applies to small
aud large cities. Thousands of one-man
offices are clostd and the keys to the
doors are in the possession of city of
ficials to be turned over to the inspec
tors of the company when they arrive.
"We have started to raise a large
fund —two of thm, in fact. One of
these is for the benefit of the strikers
and the other to be expended in favor
of government control of the telegraph
lines. Although the call for funds has
only been out a few days, many remit
tances were received before 1 left Chi
cago.
“Nothing has been published about
arbitration but the cry from coast to
coast is ‘no arbitration.’ ’’
In the face of the statement by the
president of the striking union, both
the Western Union and the Postal tele
graph companies emphasize their dec
laration that, the situation is improving
daily and that, barring a few unimpor
tant towns, conditions are gradually
getting better and assuming a normal
condition. They announuced that they
are handling all the business offered
with dispatch.
Once more Belvidere Brooks, super
intendent of the eastern division of
the Western Union, asserts that the
strike is over as far as his company
is concerned.
"The strikers are whipped to a fin
ish,’’ Brooks said. "If they do not
know they are whipped they will know
it soon. We will run our own job
here, without dictation from any one
or any union.”
The telegraph companies are say
ing little aud improving their service.
The following contract of the Postal
Telegraph Company, just issued, is in
dicative of its policy, and means not
only that there will bp no. union re.;
cognition, even a committee
from the ranks of the strikers will
not be treated with.
“I hereby agree, if given employ
ment by the Postal Telegraph-Cable
company, to render full and faithfnl
service at all times refraining from
all agitation and interference with the
company’s business; and I further
agree that 1 will work carefully and.
well with every operator, be he uniqa
or non-union.”.
The. foregoing applies to every appli
cation for ouuhojWtit in every-'Postal
office iu ’the* country. While the Wes
tern nion has not adopted any form
of .coutrflfct, it Hi requiring each oper
ator tft mike’afptftfetlon--for work.
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INSULT fa: DAUGHTER OF DAVIS.’
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, 4 \ ; * r • '•' . “ •• !'• t
t)ld'Proclamation of. Lincoln Caused Pro
test and Was Removed- ' *
When Mrs. Marggret, Howell Jeffier
son Davis .Hayes, .daughter, of the
president Qf the Confederacy, learned
that a member of the fighting Fif
teenth Pennsylvania cavalry, attend
ing the reunion at-Colorado Springs
had hung on the walls of the Antlers
hotel a copy of the old proclamation
offeriug a reward of $300,000 for the
arrest of her father and other Confed
erate leaders for alleged complicity
in the assassination of President Liu
coin, she immediately raised a protest
io General Palau r. Before her protest
had beeu received, however, General
Palmer had heard of the proclamation
and ordered that it be taken down
CASH CINCHED FOR CANAL WORK.
Proposition of Colonel Goethals is Ap
proved by the President.
The president has aprpoved Colonel
Goethals request to continue expendi
tures in excess of the pro rata allowed
for the construction of the Panama ca
nal for the present fiscal year on ac
count of present necessities aud un
foreseen developments since the esti
mates were submitted.
Congress will be requested at the
next session to make an appropriation
to cover the deficiency, which is plac
id at eight millions.
SOUTH URGED
TO BREAK UP
Taft Bids for Votes in the States
of Dixie Land.
SOLIDITY IS DRAWBACK
Roosevelt's Candidate Opens Kentucky
State Republican Campaign in
Speech at Lexington.
With a discussion of the race prob
lem and of general political issues, and
with an appeal to Kentuckians and
other southern men to come to the aid
af the republican party in support
of those principles, which he believed
they favored, Secretary of War Taft,
Thursday, opened the republican state
campaign in Kentucky at Lexing
ton. Calling attention to what he call
ed the south's lack of representation,
In the councils of the nation, he de
clared that this was true "because one
single issue has made it the perpetual
tail of the democratic party, so that,
however small the northern head it
wags that tail.
"The south has permitted the shad
ows of an issue that circumstance
ought long ago to have removed from
political controversy to bind it solidly
to the democratic party, no matter
what principles or candidates that par
ty has adopted.”
He called attention to the prosperity
of Kentucky, its developing industries
and agricultural wealth, and express
ed the belief that Kentuckians who
favored a protective tariff had blindly
voted the democratic ticket because of
the feeling of the race issue.
Then, taking up the race question,
he said: '
“I am not a pessimist with respect
to the race question. I am convinced
that it is working itself out, and I am
convinced that nothing has so much
contributed to its gradual solution as
the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments.”
After mentioning the various means
of disfranchising voters, declaring that
such laws were proper if applied with
equal fairness to both white and black,
he expressed the hope that the colored
citizens, under the leadership of such
men as Booker T. Washington, would
become respected business men of
communities in which they live. The
secretary continued:
“And when they exercise independ
ence of judgment in respect to politi
cal issues we may be sure that grad
ually the right to vote will be accorded
them, and they will exercise a far
more useful influence as intelligent and
•oltd members of the community for
the benefit of their race than the ig
norant members of their race would
have exorcised had they, been allowed
to vote. In this way through devious
ways, . which cannot be justified or
approved. -we may still reach a result
that will square with the requirement
of the federal constitution, and will
give to the negro every political* and
economic -right, and- will confer great
’•benefit upon the colored, raeq, , .
“The negro is necessary to the south
as a laborer, skilled’ and* unskilled.
Were the negro to be withdrawn from
the south, the difficulties agriculture
would labor under can nardly be over
stated.’ The negro American, he
has no other country than this and
can have no other country than this,
and wffien called upon to defend It
lays down his life with the same free
dom that the white man sacrifices his.
It is our duty to see to it that his
path is made as easy as we can and
that his progress is as incessant as
proper encourgtment can make it. His
best friends —the one that can do most
for him and the one tn many respeci*
who sympathizes wtih him most—is
who sympathizes with him most—is
the southern white man.’*
ENGINE CREW LOSE LIFE.
Engineer, Fireman and Brakeman Meet
Death in Boiler Explosion.
An engine on the Central railway
blew up about 4 o'clock Sunday morn
ing. near Raccoon, Ga., killing three
men.
Engineer Will B. Hutchings, Fire
man John Borders and Brakeman Ar
thur Welcher colored, who were on
the engine, were killed.
The causa of the explosion is not
known.
ALABAMA HOLDS ALOOF
State Refuses to Have Anything to Do
With Proceedings Before Judge
Jones in Federal Court.
In a sensational statement made Sat
urday to the United States court for
the middle district of Alabama, In
Montgomery, Judge Thomas G. Jones
Presiding, Attorney General A. M.
Garber said that he did not appear
in ai-swer to the application for a
blanket injunction by the Louisville
and Nashville for the reason that the
court, in an elaborate opinion, had
already given its views of the case,
and to make any effort at all would,
he felt, be futile.
He said that this opinion had been
sent in pamphlet form all over the
state, one of them having reached him
at his office.
The incident arose over the effort
of the Louisville and Nashville to have
a blanket injunction issued restrain
ing the solicitors and sheriffs of the
state from indicting or prosecuting for
violation of laws now restrained by
the federal court. Saturday had been
set down by Judge Thomas G. Jones
of the federal court for sheriffs and
solicitors to reply, also for the attorney
general to make answer, the state, in
a sense, having been made a party to
the proceedings.
Attorney General Garber said that,
in exercising the discretion granted to
the attorney general and railroad com
mission in the summons served upon
them, that the attorney general and
the counsel for the state had decided
not to appear, and that -they had
reached the conclusion because the
court had within a day or two after
granting the restraining order, issued
an elaborate opinion on the case be
fore counsel for the state had been
given an opportunity to argue the
questions involved in the case.
The attorney general declared that,
so far as he knew, this action 1
Judge Jones was unprecedented.
Having made his statement, Colonef
Garber asktd to be excused from fur
ther attendance upon the court, which
request was grauted by Judge Jones,
and the attorney general immediately
left the court room.
More time being asked by some of
the solicitors, Judge Jones held up
the hearing for some days, during
which time he extended the order
made several days ago, which is in
itself a restraint.
Later in the day Judge Jones as
sured a delegation of railroad men
who called on him at his office that
they would be protected from indig
nities on the part of state officers and
if arrested by any of them for failure
to observe state railroad laws under
restraint by the federal court parties
making arrests will be at once arrest
ed and . severely punished.
EXCURSION TRAINS IN COLLISION.
Four People Killed Outright and Thirty
More or Less Hurt in Crash.
Four persons were killed and thirty
more or less injured when a westbound
St. Louis and Sail Francisco passen
ger train Saturday and easlbound pas
senger, both loaded heavily with ex
cursionists, collided head-on 'near 6g
pulpa, Indian Teritorj. **
The wreck is said to have’been due
to the failure of the dispatcher at Sa
pulpa to issue an order to the east
bound train tqjtake the siding at Red
Fork.
ERRING YOUNG WOMAN DESERTED.
Miss Whaley Left in the Lurch by Parson
Who Eloped With Her.
Deserted and about to become a
mother is the terrible situation of Flo
retta Whaley, the 17-year-old heiress
who eloped last April from Hempstead,
L. 1., with the Rev. Jere Kencde
Cooke, then rector of the exclusive St.
George church, to which August Bel
mont and other rich New Yorkers be
long. The whereabouts of Cooke is
unknown.
QUARTET OF DAGOES TO SWING.
All Four Will Drop From the Same Gal
lows in Lancaster, Pa.
The death warrant for the hanging
of four Italians in Lancaster, Pa., on
October, is the first warrant for four
persons to be executed in the state
in many years. There have been num
erous double hangings, and one or two
triple legal executions have been
known in recent years, but the issu
ance of a warrant for four to be hang,
ed on a single scaffold is without pre
cedent in the memory of men serving
in state offices.
DAYS OF ’ALEXANDER.
Alexander has just named a city for
his horse.
“It was cheaper than naming the
horse,” he remarked sententiously..
It was plain he had played a sure
thing.—New York Sun.
TERRIBLE ITCHING.
Eczema Affected. Whole System—Un
able to Rest" Night or Day—Suf
fered 4 Years—Cuticura Cures.
"I suffered severely for four years from
poison oak and ivy. My condition was
serious, as 1 could not rest night or day
and be free from a terrible itching sensa
tion from scratching on ray hands between
the fingers, my feet add" face, and eczerv
followed. My eyesight was affected, and I
went to a hospital especially for the eves
and got relief, but eczema got a terrible
hold on my system. 1 was about to give up
all hope of ever being cured, yet I could
not be reconciled to such results, as ray
health had been good and free from any
disease all my life. My age is seventy-three
years. In my extremity I happened to
read of Cuticura Remedies for skin dis
eases. 1 bought five boxes Cuticura Oint
ment, also some Cuticura Soap and Cuti
cura Fills as i required them. In four
weeks’ treatment my face was smooth, and
the itching gradually left mv hands and
feet and 1 could rest comfortably, for
which 1 am grateful and happy. \V. Field
Cowen, Justice of the Peace and Notary
Public, Hartly, Del., May 15, 1906.”
The population of London, Eng., la
now approximated at a round 7,000,000.
The population one hundred years ago
was just one-fifth of what it is now.
Dixzy Eye*
Are always weak eyes andshouild be treated
at once withi,eonardi’s Golden Lye Lotion.
Cooling, healing, strengthening. Caros
sore eyes wituout pain in one day. Be cer
tain to get "Ceonardi’s”—it rnaKes strong
eyes. Guaranteed or money refunded,
Druggists sell it at 25 ets. or forwarded
prepaid on receipt of price by a, B. Leonard!
k Cos., Tampa, via.
Oil in Artificial Lakes.
In the Glenn pool, just south of
here, there are lakes of oil in which
millions of barrels are stored. These
lakes are really earthen tanks. They
are from 300 to 2,500 feet long, from
150 to 400 feet wide and from 12 to 18
feet deep. The capacities range from
20,000 barrels to 700,000 barrels.
Earthen tankage was a necessity
caused by the tremendous production
in the Glenn pool and the inability of
producers to secure steel tanks. The
oil is turned Into them right from
the wells. There was fear ef fire for
a long time, but the two severe storms
in June, which destroyed several steel
tanks and in which several wells were
struck by lightning, left the oil in
earthern tankage unharmed. There
was also the fear of rapid deteriora
tion through evaporation, but this has
been proved to be largely theoretical.
Four earthen walls are thrown up
and covered in some placees with ce
ment. The bottom of the tank usually
has three or four Inches of water to
prevent seepage of the oil. —Kelfer
(Ind. TANARUS.) dispatch to The Kansas City
Star.
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he?”
“Yes: that’s it.” > -j.
“And a flea is a flea because ha
flees, Isn’t it?”
“Shouldn’t wonder.”
“Then why dre bees bees?”
"Because they be,’’, said Johnny.—*
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