The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 18, 1907 Page: 3 of 8
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HARRY ORCHARD'S NERVE
Plainly Nervous at First, but Soon Re-
gains Control of Himself—Tense-
Nerved Spectators.
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Boise, Idaho, June G.—Alfred Hors-
4ey, alias Harry Orchard, the actual
assassin of Frank Satunenberg, went
on the stand yesterday, a witness
against William D. Haywood, and
made public confession of a long chain
of brutal, revolting crimes done, he
*;iid, at the inspiration and for the
pay of the leaders of the Western
Fedenv*jon of Miners.
The promise by the special prose-
cutors for the State that they would
later by proof and connection legiti-
matize his testimony opened the way
i ke a floodgate to the whole diaboli-
cal story, and throughout the entire
ljy Orchard went on from crime re
cital to crime recital, each succeed-
ing one seemingly more revolting than
thosc^ that come before.
Tells of Dark and Brutal Deeds.
Orchard confessed that, as a mem-
ber of the mob that wrecked the Bun-
ker Hill and Sullivan mill in the Couer
d'Alenes, he lighted one of the fuses
that carried fire to the giant explo-
sives; confessed that he set the death
•trap in the Vindicator Mine at Cripple
Creek, Colorado, that blew out the
livee of Superintendent McCormick
and Foreman Beck; confessed that be-
'Cause he had not been paid for bis
first attempt at violence in the Vindi-
cator Mine, he had been treacherous
to his associates by warning the man-
agers of the Florence and Cripple
Creek Railway that there was a plot
-to blow up their trains; confessed that
he had cruelly fired three charges of
-buckshot into the body of Detective
X>yie Gregory of Denver, killing him
Instantly; confessed that for da^s he
-stalked Governor Peabody about Den-
ver waiting for a chance to kill him;
confessed that he and Steve Adams
-set and discharged the mine under the
<depot at Independence that instantly
killed fourteen men and confessed
that, falling to poison Fred Bradley of
:San Francisco, he blew him and his
house up with a bomb.
And he has more brutal crimes to
tgll that will bring his bloody career
•down to its end at Caldwell, where
with a great bomb he killed ex-Gover-
snor Frank Steunenberg. These will
■come today, for he is to resume the
stand when the District Court sits
'igain.
Governor Hughes Signs the New and
Drasti
Albany, N. Y.. June 7. — The so-
nailed public utilities bill was signed
yesterday by Governor Hughes. This
bill is probably one of the most far-
reaching reform measures ever passed
by an American Legislature. It place-
under direct state control every pub-
lic service corporation, great or sman,
In the State of New York, with thi-
exceptlon of the telegraph and tele-
phone companies. It applies not only
to the railroads, street railways and
subway lines, express companies and
gas and electric companies doing bus-
iness exclusively In the State, but to
the business within the State of all
railroads or other common carriers
which enter the State at any point.
The two commissions appointed by
the act will have most sweeping pow-
er in regulating the corporations af-
fected. ■
The bill, which was urged zy Gov-
ernor Hughes, reached Its final pass-
age In the face of the most bitter and
determined opposition. !l was fottght
from first to last by the representa-
tives or the tremendously strong and
wealthy corporations, which will feel
the weight of the regulations it Im-
poses. '<■«'• 1 • .
Under the new law four of the most
important State commissions will pass
out of existence, and in their place
will be two boards of five members
each, all of whom are to be appointed
by the Governor. These boards are to
have complete control of regulations
governing the transportation and light
ing facilities of the State. These two
bodies will have complete and free-
handed control and will be held to
enforce regulations provided for In
the measure. It will be for them to
compel all corporations to give safe
and adequate service at Just and rea-
sonable rates; to prevent rebates and
discriminations in rates between
classes of shippers or passengers or
kinds of traffic and to compel all com-
mon carriers to have sufficient cars
and motive power to meet all re-
quirements for the transportation of
passengers and property which may be
reasonably anticipated.
The bill prohibits the giving of free
passes except in a few limited issues.
It provides* also that no franchise
shall be capitalized In excess of the
amount actually paid to the State as
consideration of the grant of the fran-
chise.
ESCAPES FROM ASYLUM.
And Appears in Court Aski.ig for a
New Trial.
Houston, Tex., June 6.—Something
■of a sensation was created in the
•County Court yesterday morning when
T H. Llbby, of Alvin, who had been
-convicted of Lunacy in March in the
probate side of the County Court, and
.who had been duly forwarded'to the
insane asylum at Terrell, walked Into
the court room and asked the County
Judge to grant him a new trial on
the lunacy charge.
Llbby made his escape from the
State Asylum at Terrell, according to
the story told here, by letting himself
down from a second story window
■of the asylum building with the aid
•oi a rope made out of bedclothes.
With him In court yesterday morn-
ing were his attorney, C. C. Wren, and
liis pastor, Rev. W, I. Gales, who min-
isters to the Methodist Church at
Alvin.
Down an Embankment.
Nashville, Tenn.: Gorng at a speed
of between twenty and thirty miles
an hour, Southern Railway passenger
train No. 2 plunged dowrt a fifteen-
Joot embankment at Black Branch,
wear Lebanon, Tenn, thirty-three
miles east of Nashviite, snortly after
11 o'clock Wednesday morning, In-
juring some fifty-seven people out ot
a total of sixty aboard. The two pas-
senger coaches, the mall and baggage
care left the.track. No one seems
to know just what caused the wreck. -
Lou Walton, a negreis 50 years
age, was stricken Sunday night in
Fort Worth Sunday night while at
■church, during an interval of great
religious excitement. She was con*,
veyed to a neighboring house, where
she died a short time later.
Silte i.
FATAL WRECK ON SANTA FE.
Pat Wallace Killed, James Corrigan
Fatally Injured, Others Hurt.
Beaumont, Tex., Juno 7.—One man
was killed outright, another Is fatally
Injured and several were seriously in-
jured in a wreck on the Center branch
of the Santa Fe at Browndell Thurs-
day. Southbound freight No. 209 was
carrying three boarding cars filled
with workmen. About S00 feet from
the Browndell depot tho three board-
ing cars jumped the track and turned
over and landed upside down at the
bottom o$ the dump, it Is believed
the accident was caused by a hanging
brakebeam.
Pat Wallace was Instantly killed,
James Corrigan had both legs cut off
and died afterwards. William Farrell
had an ankle sprained. J. Connors was
hurt in the back. Jacob Hccp's an-
kle was broken and R. Robertson was
Injured in the shoulder.
James Williams, a brakeman on a
Texas and New Orleans freight train,
was instantly killed while switching
in the south end of the yards at Nac-
ogdoches Tuesday night.
New Oil Field in Navarro.
Corslcana: What promises to be a
new oil field for Navarro County is
now in the first stages of development.
Six weeks ago Bell White begin sink-
ing a well on the Pat Collins farm, six
miles south of Corslcana. He has fin-
ished the well at a little over 800
feet, and it is producing "a •good qual-
ity of oil. The capacity has not been
tested, but Mr. White says it is a
paying well. Considerable Interest is
being shown in the new Held.
Bayrouth for America.
New York; Mme. Lillian Nordlca,
It is announced, will establish on the
Hudson, near New York, a Bayrouth
in America. With part of her great
fortune the noted singer will erect a
Lillian Nordica festival house which
will be to this country what the fa-
mous operatic institution founded by
Richard Wagner, maintained by his
widow, Is to Europe. The site for
the institution was recently purchased
Xor 1100,000.
FARMERS' EDUCATIONAL
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CO-OPERATIVE .UNION
OF AMERICA J
The Farmers Journal is too little
to try to defend the interests of any
other class except the actual farmers.
They constitute a big enough claBS
to command all Its efforts, and they
are the one class of all classes most
in need of its efforts.—Abilene Farm-
ers Journal.* Well said, Bro. Hicks.
There is not a paper in all this land
that is big; enough to "look after all
the farmers' interests," and there nev-
er will be. The cause of all the fail-
ures of all the farmers' organizations
has Iain along the lines of trying to
attend to a whole lot of things that
do not properly come In the purview
of a farmers' organization. This does
not mean that the farmer is a dolt
who must sit down and let the world,
the flesh and the devil use him as a
tool, but It does mean that as an or-
ganization, farmers make a great mis-
take when they allow their organiza-
tions to be used as stepping stones
to places of graft and places of noto-
riety by the leeches who from time
to time get into the best of organiza-
tions. It is the business of the farm-
er to farm, and when he undertakes
to tlo personally about all that the
government, commerce and manufac-
turing people are doing, he will fall
down good and hard, as he deserves
to do. The Union stands primarily
for farmers who farm, and when a
farmer becomes a half-breed mer-
chant, or a farmer-railroad lobbyist,
or a quasl-farmer merchant, he is no
longer a farmer, and will most nat-
urally let that part of his business
that pays him best be his monitor.
You all know this.
The splendid results arising from
the joint improvement of the public
roads and the consolidation of the
schools is marked in some of the Mid-
dle States. The thing is to feet good
roads, and then the consolidation of
the schools is an easy matter. It will
be a splendid day when the farmer's
boy may attend a home academy, that
is, an academy in fact. This is easily
possible by consolidating adjacent
schools. When the time comes that
■the pupils can get to the school, if it
does happen to be a little distance
away, then it will be possible to build
a few fine school houses in the place
of many common ones, and it will
be possible to hire the best teachers,
instead of novices who are teaching
simply to raise money to finish some
profession, wherein they may make
more money than the school room af-
fords, and It will be feasible to add
the higher branches and have them
taught by experts. Mr. Farmer, the
thing that •.you need worse than any-
thing else is the good road. The way
to get this is by building them, and
in the meantime'keep the split log
drag a-going.
There is no sense in having any
words about the ginning question. It
takes a very little to build a gin. If
you have a gin that is crushing you,
get busy and build you one. Original-
ly every plantation had a gin of its
own, with mules and negroes to rua
it. A gin will cost no more now than
then, and if the negroes are too lazy
to work, you have the cheap, simple
and economical gasoline engine that
will take care of the ordinary gin like
a dream.
Every individual farmer needs the
cooperation of his brothers in the
matter of planting, raising and mar-
keting the products of the farm. It
is the lack of union of efTort that has
made the farmer the victim of every
organized body that came along.
The outlook for the cotton crop,
taken as a whole, is rather gloomy.
It may prove that the increased acre-
age, and this is tremendous in the
West and in Oklahoma and the In-
dian Territory, will pile up the aggre-
gate to the "surplus" figures.
It is all stuff to pretend to be a
good Union man, or any other sort of
a good man, and still hang around
the saloon every time you go to town.
Tnls Is a day when gentlemen have
no part in helping to keep alive the,
greatest curse to humanity that the
earth has ever been oppressed with. !
"Pulverize the rum power."
The Farmers Union does not seek '
tj help any man evade any duty that |
the citizen owes his country, and It
does not undertake to help any man
to a soft job. Its sole purpose is to
help the farmer, and the farmer alone I
to a better life and a better living:
a full recompense for his exertions, I
and the maximum of happiness in '
his state, whatever that may be, with
an ambition to help himself and his j
fellow man to a higher and purer lire '
TH YOUR OWN HIM.
CHANGE WAS THERE
by sentiment, will prove a failure.
There Is one thing that Is.perfectly
plain to us, and that is that oil and
water will not mix. You may
them In the same v<
do not mix, and so it Is with the farm-
. pour
i, but still they
DELINQUENT
DOWN
DEBTOR PINNED
ON 8POT.
.-r anil tin* "busiiMKi® man," tho bank-
er, the merchant, and the manufactur-
er. AI! have their business organlza
tlons.
Little, 8habby Old Pop Furnished 8ur>
prise for "Sport" Who Had Noth-
ing but His Thousand-
Dollar Bill. ,3* & W
among the farmers, they do not need I
him In their business organization, fj There Is a story current in those
and they are not to be blamed for circles wherein betting on horse races
this mongrel organization using every 18 spoken of freely and admitted wtth-
■PIPHPPPPI KK|
They do not seek membershlr
effort to discourage the farmers in
their efforts to organize a purely
farmers organization.
We have no disposlt'on whatever to
be quarrelsome, but we can not afford
to remain mum while these servants
of Wall Street fill the press and the
country with their deceptive Ideas of
what the farmers should do to protect
their own interests, and from time to
time we expect to expose their petty
schemes.—Farmers' Union News.
The farmers of the South have nev-
er, as a rule, set enough store by
the rearing of the mule. There Is
nothing on the place that will begin
to pay like the mule, except the old
hen. Wji have put her up on the ped-
estal of fame, and there she is likely
to stick till the crar k r f doom. But
the patient fellow "without, pride of
ancestry and hope of posterity" comes
In for a close second. The brood mare
can do a full amount of light farm
work through (he whole year, except
maybe a half a dozen days, and every
good mule yearling nowadays Is good
for a >100 bill. It's just like finding
money.
In this day of daily free rural de-
livery there is no excuse for the farm-
er being one whft behind the business
man in knowing what, is going on in
the world. Take a good daily paper
and have a family that is up to the
twentieth century They will all de-
velop into better citizens, they will
make better neighbors and they will
stand a better chance to succeed iu
life in any sphere they may be thrown
into.
Don't ^link that the i'nion can and
will take care of itself. The whole
fabric is a man created institution,
and it must have that same sort of
support as that which created it. Stay
behind the Union, and it will prove a
blessing; desert it, and those who
have ridden the farmer through all
the ages of the world will have an-
other stone in the way of the son of
the soil ever "coming into his own."
Don't get ^onfused on the meaning
of diversification Diversification does
not mean the mere changing from
one crop to another, as some seem
to think, but it means the changing
from unprofitable exclusive crops to a
diversity of crops, which both insures
a return for the investment and the
removes the farmer
class of men who
■ggs in one basket."
labor, and which
from the foolish
"Carry all their •
Just can't help urging on the fight
against the implement trust. The way
-to do this Is to take carf
tools and implements you have, and
cut down the buying till the factories
and the dealers howl for trade. Then
you will be in a position to say, "I
will give you so much for that wag-
on," and not, "What will you take for
that wagon?"
out a blush, that concerns an old sport,
a young sport and $1,000 bill, says the
New York Sun.
It seems that some months ago the
horses were not running well, or it
took an ax to get Into a poolroom or
or something of that kind, and Young
Sport was hard up. There was among
his acquaintances a little old man.
commonly called Pop, who was always
shabby and insignificant in appear-
ance, but who, somehow, usually had
the faculty of having a 20 in his
pocket.
He had one on the day when Young
Sport touched him with hiB hard-luck
story, and the 20 changed hands. On
several occasions thereafter Pop got
unobtrusively in the way of fou&g
Sport, but there was nothing doing.
Thus ends the prologue, and the
first act opens of a recent evening in
a dispensary of liquid recuperators on
the Great White Way. Enter Young
Sport, who approaches the chief dis-
spenser, an acquaintance, with a
sheepish and yet highly contented
smile.
« "Say Is my face good for a ball?
You see, it's this way," he hastens to
add before the chief dispenser can
commit the break of turning him down,
"I hit the races lucky to-day—simply
couldn't lose, and when I cashed In I
took the bulk of my winnings in this
form, see?" and he displays a $1,000
bill.
The dispenser rs so Impressed that
he forgets the all-night bank where
change might be had, asks the victim -
of too much prosperity to indicate his
prescription and sets forth the vials
accordingly. Young Sport helps him
self with many a grateful compliment
to the dispenser's discriminating judg
ment, promises to pay to-morrow and
departs to be discovered shortly after-
ward the central figure In a group of
horse lovers at the Hoffman house.
Thither hurries shabby Pop after
happening to overhear the aforemen-
tioned chief dispenser telling of the
man and naming him who flashed a
$1,000 bill before his dazzling eyes.
Pop insinuates himself into the group
of horse lovers and looks hopefully up
at the central figure. He doesn't say
a word. Pop doesn't, but just looks
right appealing like.
"It comes right down to this." Young
Sport is saying oracularly, "If you
want to beat the races you must have
a good, all-'round knowledged of horse-
flesh-
Just then he catches sight of shabby
old Pop and remembers that there Is a
man he wants to see farther uptown.
The horse lovers have lots of ques-
tions to ask, but none so much to the
point as that of shabby Pop. who
thmws reserve to the winds and says:
"Say, how about that 20 I lent you
of all the i last November?"
"That's all right." replies Young
Sport, trying to mask his embarrass-
ment under a guise of easy confidence.
"Pay you to-morrow."
"But to-morrow may not come," says
Pop. "I don't know; something might
happen. I'd rather have that 20 now.
I I hear you hit It lucky to-day."
.u p "So I did, but I've nothing with ma
K Pel tilt Tells ! but a $1-000 b1"'" Young Sport an'
' ' '' swers, and to relieve the old man's
anxiety he displays the bill. *
Then, "I can change It," pipes up
Pop, and he produces a huge wad ot
fifties, twenties, tens and fives from
trousers pocket. and proceeds to
count out $980.
They say that Young Sport had the
grace to invite Pop to the bar as he
ruefully admitted that $980 In small
bills was as good as blown In.
There is not a iinn
Union doctrine an
you to "tear down anything." The
whole plan is to uphold. It may be
that In some measure there is an ar-
raignment. of class against class, but
if so, it is but ii child of necessity i £j~
that the big class should stop the Im-
positions of the smaller number
against the larger number of people.
This Is the age of men,
force.
not brute
If there is any confusion about the
objects of the Farmers Lnion, it is
owing to a confusion of the ambitions
of the would be leaders' tantrums with
the things that are practicable to do
for the real helping of the farmer to
a more prosperous, more happy and a
more righteous life Turn down the
ambitious leader who wants to ride
Into a "soft snap" or Into notoriety
Oft the strength of Ins being a lead-
Ing spirt" in the Farmers Union.
Planting trees, making good roads
and Improving the country schools
ought to receive a large part of the
Union's attention for the next twelve
months. By that time the ball will
be started to rolling that will end in
the farmers having as good schools as
anybody. Plant trees! Huild roads.
Consolidate schools!
It is not the business of the Farm-
ers Union to "vote the gang," and it
never will be, but there is much need
for education along the lines of com-
mon sense in voting, and the Union
can do some of this teaching.
Preparing for It.
Prqf. M. I. Pupln, the famous elec-
trical expert, told at the dedicatory
banquet of the new woman's club the
Colony, in New York, an appropriate
Btory.
"The excellence of this repast," he
said, "brings to my mind a story about
a man whose repasts were by no
means excellent.
"This man lived in my native town
of Idvor, and he was noted for his par-
j simony. Let us call him Mr. Smith.
"There was an old major In Idvor
who said to his valet one evening;
"•Go and tell the cook to get me
i ready a chop and a poached egg.'
| " 'Pardon me, major,' said the valet,
'but have you forgotten that you are
dining with Mr. Smith to-night?"
! "The major frowned.
| "'Yes.' he said, 'I had forgotten It.
: Tell the cook to make It two chop3
and two poached eggs.'"
His Usual Acrobatic Stunt.
Tompkins—Do you take any exer>
else after your bath?
Simpson—Yes. I usually treat o*
the s-jap as I get out.
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