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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 $i<JO,(K)l) corruption fund as a powerful incentive to con viction. The law is clear , that Mr. Franklin or any ofilu r officer has no power to promise immunity. "i!nt inasmuch as Mr. Franklin abounds iu propositions and premises and seems enamored of the idea that lie can do things, l will say this: •if he will in some way provide u absolute guaranty—not merely a promise—a guaranty that will inspire confidence among sensible, level-head cd, horicsf JWSfiur-*!. gnarly the spirit <:!• which'may not,, be, vilat the letter he observed, that 1 will be ’fF;\Sn<MAi* aad-luiimcUMu trail J will UT •Kentucky and. sub*. J : * "*• '‘••in ofner'Vords if Mr. ’Franklin will <*uf£ of 1 the. ffc huh-, drad thttn4, dollar. fllfDOftiyi ..ftifo to-te*fctnened ti^iykij^^Kon 4uuif ifertM* 1 }4 , Hffjßrautwe -U>t , aif t ' con\j>p3C(f SFiftx.;; and* a like ’ number :>?!?$ licaus;cWilU ,guai ant i e.. i vttir be grattted me within -AhjU UflthUi pf $1 jO.uOO* will dismis*.:the* :iu iiUw,fno‘dr 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. *••-* - - *V, INSULT fa: DAUGHTER OF DAVIS.’ . i.f* <’t ' - ■• , 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. ~~ -- 1 ~ 1 -f CORRECT. “Johnny,” said Johnny's little broth er, .“a fly Is a fly because he flies, isn’t 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.—* Seattle Times. It’s a Good >• i\ ‘ • • 't. . Timenow to see what a good “staying" breakfast can be made without high-priced , Meat TRY A Little Fruit, A Disb of Grape-Nuts and Cream, A Soft-Boiled Egg, Some Nice, Crisp Toast, Cup of Postum Food Coffee. That’s all, and all very easy of di gestion and full to the brim with nourishment and strength. REPEAT FOR LUNCHEON OR SUP PER, and have a meat and vegetable dinner either at noon or evening, as you prefer. We predict for you an increase in physical and mental power. “There’s a Reason.” Bead the “little health classic,” “The Road to WellviUe,’’ in pkgs.