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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

ID.
NJ N. Powell's sOrrel mare has
twin mules. They are doing fine.
Mrs. VIM. McMurtry spent Sat
urday and Sunday with her moth
err, near Concord.
Alb and Dan billiard hauled two
loads of furniture to Mexico Sat
urday that belonged to Mrs. AID.
ans, deceased, and it was sold on
the streets at auction.
j. o. Dowell had one sheep to
shear IL lbs. of wool. One Of the
men that was shearing killed one
sheep for him.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

Geo. Wisdom aud wife are home
from visit to Ceutralia.
Mrs. May Oonsidlns left Tues-
day for a visit to Jacksonville,
IN, relatives,
Misses Eta White aud Ethel
Biggers we're here from Mexico
Tuesday Miss White is teaching
music here.
Misses Besa and Mae Jackson 81
Mexico spent Monday with the
Misses Jesse
Ed Gooney Of Centralia was the
guest Of / Hampton, Wabash op,
orator here, sunday
/ Il 0tisi is spending a few
days at Maryville.
Mrs. Will MOrgenthaler of Halls
vile is the guest Of E. II Elliott,
Mr. AZ Davis is the guest Of
Columbia relatives.
] A. Shuck went to st. Lonii
with car Of cattle Monday
Cant s Considine shipped one
car of hogs and one car Of sheep d
st. Louis Monday
Beginning May rs the Wabash
win run stock special % tlhlca-
20 via Hannibal eaeb Tuesday.
reaching Chicago At 6.l5 Wednes.
day a. %. This win be very con
genient Tor Chioaec shippers
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17
POWELL FORD

High wind is making the ground
very dry Some have quit blowing
because the ground is SO hard.
Miss Ida Powell is spending a
few days this week with Miss Mary
Eller Of Mexico.
John and GINS billiard were p
this vicinity Saturday morning.
Several from this neighborhond
went to Mexico circus day
j.. ?. Powell sold IA fat hogs to
Chan Powell At S. 60 per eva. de-
liveted last Monday pc also sold
hia WOOL to S r Emmopa tor zoe
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17
A $50, 900 HIGH SCHOOL.
The Vote Monday Carried FavOring
Bonds for a New Building.

AT the special election last Mon
day the proposition to borrow
$50, 900 with which to erect a new
high school building in Mexico
carried by a vote of 1872 for to 181
against.
Bonds will be issued for the
amount, payable in 5, 10, Is aud
20 years, not to bear more than a
per cent interest.
The site for the new building
is being discussed but will not be
settled until later. Plans will be
drawn for the building aud the
contract let rs soon as all arrange.
ments can be made.
Mexico school district honored
herself in fuvoring this improve.
ment. The building will be al
ornament to the city aud a monu'
meDt TO the progressive spirit Of
our citizenship
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17
SAM COOKS PLAN.
Road Improvement Wanted for
Missouri.

Columbia, Mo-, May 15.-Reso-
lutions to be adopted tomorrow by
the State Good Roads Convention,
now in session here, will proba bly,
ask Gov. Folk to call a special ses.
sion Of the state Legislature to
consider the matter Of legislation
in the interest of building up the
road system of Missouri.
The legislation decided by the
convention is in the shape of a
constitutional amendment, to be
submitted at the fall election, pro-
yiding for a State road tax Of 10
cents on the 800 asse ssed valua-
ton.
The next Legislature probably
will be asked to appropriate $780,
600 for road Improvement, to be
apportioned among the various
counties according to their needs
and to create the Office of State
Highway Commissioner.
Thirty Missouri counties are
represented in the convention,
which is probably the first Of its
kind ever held in Missouri.
The morning session was adj
dressed by Sam B. Cook, former
Secretary of State, who advocated
State aid to road Improvement by
the issuing of low interest. bearing
bonds.
In part Mr.. Cook said:
Good roads, like good streets
aud other modern necessities, can
not be had without the expendi-
ture Of money. We are now vast
ing on superficial road work mil
lions of dollars every decade. I'm
der existing conditions no general
system Of permanent road building
Gan he ponsummated. When the
present Constitution was adopted,
10 1875, conditions were mater,
tally different from what they are
today Missouri sinoe then has
made rapid strides in population
aud material wealth.
We have been progressive In ev-
erything except road building.
This State tax is SO light that
no citizen would consider It bnr-
den. A bank with capital Of
, 500, 600. assessed as it is at S5Q,-
900, would pay $50. A $1,000
} FARM, assessed as It IS at g. 600,
would pay 80. Missouri is now
paying l71 cents on the $l00 for
State PURPOSES With this TO
cents added, that would still
be scarcely more than half as
much as is paid 10 Illinois OF Iowa.
and hardly one third Of hat paid
III Kansas
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

The carefully Matched cOnspir-
acy Of the Ohio Liquor League to
GUST Gov. Pattison from Office and
turn it over to Andrew Harris, the
Republican Lieutenant Governor,
came TO naught the other day,
when the Board of Penitentiary
Managers seated the Democrat re-
Gently appointed by Pattison. The
whisky folks are not having things
all their own way in Ohio this
year.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

THE Fulton Telegraph editor
celebrated his birthday recently
aud makes the announcement that
he was born on Sunday morning,
May 10, at IL o'clock, in the year
1919. We'd like to know how be
knOWs SO much.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17
ln hausas

The annual Children'a Day SER
vice win be held at Litsleby Meth.
odist church, northeast Of Mexico.
at 1880 O'Clock next Sunday
morning Az interesting program
has been prepared aud i profitable
hour win Be spent This Is one Of
the best Sunday schools ontaide
this towns ID ne county q Ri
3nook Is ne superintendent
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

The MESSAGE joins with all
Mexico citizens in welcoming Mr..
20. f. Williams, the new Alton d.
vision passenger agent, to our city.
We offer his introduction to you
by publishing his picture on an
other page.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

TAKE red liquor away from the
niggers" aud many emery white
men," and the business of the
courts of the county would be re-
duced more than half. This is no
mere sentiment; statistics will
nrOyg IL
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

Macon's city attorney has pre-.
pared "a city ordinance which pro-
vides for the confscation of poul-
try, when found off its owners
premises. The Mexico hens should
be good that such action is not in-
vited here.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

THE prosperity Of this country
should continue undated. Under
correct financial system we would
never have panic.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

IT is said that the best behaved
men in the country are in the pen
itentiary.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

A FIFTY thousand dollar new
High School building for Mexico!
Isn't that moving forwardi
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

THE Republican convention of
Kansas last week demanded a re-
vision of the tariff aud declared
that tariff schedules are not "sa-
cred" Well, now, that's a step.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

BY an act of the United States
Senate railroads are forbidden to
own or operate coal lands on their
lines after May, 1908. Too bad
that the personal liberty" of the
big corporations must be inter-
fered with in this way.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

LET the shoe factory come on
now, aud see Mexico go forward
with another leap and bound.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

The Plug" is on again, Flana-
gan. Another feather for the G..
& A. An early morning train
now from the east would suit the
Audrain county travel to a dot.
The "Only Way" will get to that
ere long, we predict.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

Love, laughter aud work, that's
the thing, but you can't make
some of Mexico's loafers believe
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

The G. & A. is fixing to do big
ger things yet for Mexico. 'Rah
for the G.. g. A.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

White mans whisky aud bad
niger make bad mixture.
Wasn't that just the trouble last
Saturday night
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

MExICo's bad niggers would
better be careful. If they had
killed an officer last Saturday
night there might have been very
serious trouble for a number of
them.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

MEXICO has taken another mighty
stride forward.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

IT. you have no faith in anyone
you may get fooled by everyone.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

YES, the country is now fairly
prosperous and should it continue
so the wealth will be found to
some extent among the farmers
and laborers. Do you know any
reason why it should not continued
Why should we feast ten years
aud then starve ten yesrs7
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

Dan Cauthorn is in Indian Ter
ritory. Texas aud New Mexico on
business.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

ABOUT 200 Missouri University
students engaged in a riot with
circus employees last Thursday.
The boys acted the role of regular
hoodlums. A Snowman aud a
student were shot and each serious
~ hurt, and a dozen other stu
dents aud showmen were more or
less Injured. The students began
the trouble aud the leaders deserve
d term IN the penitentiary and
those who followed the leaders
should not get oH with less than a
good witheing when the Upiyer-
sity authorities have marked them
guilty and sent them home 70
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

The American lieu pluming her.
self on the eulogy recently deliv-
cred upon her usefulness by a con-
gresham, has now entered the
list as a trust buster. Fourteen
million, two hundred thousand
eggs were recently shipped into
Chicago in one day, and the beef
trust is said to be taking notice.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

FALsTAFF wasn't IN it compared
with one published account of the
struggle OF the officers with that
gang of 'niggers" the other night.
Only Fnlstaff started in to whip
Two nen aud his story. we believe,
was that it was six which be
whipped The Mexico officers
started in against six and got
away from six-after one officer
was pulled by the leg from under
the bed. shot in the head and
pounded and cuffed and bruised.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

ritOry, Texas aud New Mexico on
business.
e. w. Morris. who has been Wis
ting his sister, Mrs. II E, Muudy.
near Benton City, and other rela-
tives in this portion of the county.
with his mother, Mrs Maxey Nor
is, returned to Fort Collins, Colo.
RADIO, today, Mrs. Morris goes
West on a visit.
There was the usual cram and
jam for tickets to the school enter.
tainment at the opera house Tues
day afternoon. No one was in
iured but there was some hair pull.
ing and many got wrathy aud forgot
to keep sweet We modestlg sug-
gest to the opera house manager
that be endeavor to remedy this
matter Put up a railing and
compel tue purchasers Of tickets 70
move 70 the window single Gle
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-17

ROOSEVELT recommended to
Congress recently that all coal and
oil lands should be owned by the
Government. aud that the Indian
lands should never be sold-should
remain under the control of the
Government. Teddy is treading
desperately near the teaching of
the Socialists in this matter, all of
which must be very pleasing to
old Farmer" .who has been
writing lately for the MESSAGE.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-20
like A SHIP On
A ST0RM-T0SSED
SEA"-J. R. HAND

Everywhere is the scene of destruc-
tion," says j. r. Hand of the Hand
Fruit company.
'I was in the Grand hotel. That huge
hostelry tossed like a ship riding on a
stormy sea. Just as 1 began to realize
in part what was occurring an upright
beam tore half way through the floor
of my room. All that 1 have left from
the awful scene is the key to my room,
No. 249.
when l arrived at the hotel I was
told that my room was the last vacant
room in the hotel. That was on the
third floor.
THE shock was accompanied by an
indescribable roar.
mo one in the strongly built hotel
was killed or severely injured to the
best of my knowledge. These hostelries
were destroyed by fire but were only
partly wrecked by the horrible shock.
''In a word, every building ON Market
street south of Sixteenth is destroyed.
"The burning Palace was beautiful
from the bay.
"The Palace, Grand and Occidental
hotels were gone when left at 4:30 on
Thursday afternoon. The st. Francis
and Fairmont were uninjured at that
time"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-20
RELIEF CAMPAIGN
ST|Rs ANCELENOS
ORGANIZATIONS HELP, AS DO
INDIVIDUALS
Chamber Of Commerce Gets Large Re-
turns In Response to Call for
Asslstanee-suppIy Train
Carries Food North

mostly going one way; to the ferry.
About $3.50 o'clock l left for Oakland
and at that time the whole water front
was afire as well as the business dis
trict.
SOLDIERS from the Presidio were hav-
ing a great deal of difficulty with the
throngs. Their work has saved thou
sands of lives. No praise can be too
high for the work of the regulars.
chinatown had escaped, the last ]
actually knew, at $3.50 o'clock Wednes-
day night. l do not know what may
have happened later to that section of
the city.
zone hundred would be very near the
correct estimate of the people killed by
the earthquake, but what mortality has
| cen caused by the fire I have no idea.
1t Is certain that a greater number
perished through the flames than by
the earthquake.
"Scenes of human beings? Don't.
Don't! Don't ask that. 1 saw them
but can't tell you. No one could. 1t
was too awful, too heartrending. Rea-
son would leave one who concentrated
the mind on that feature Of the horrible
scene.
Oakland practically escaped. drove
over a part of the city and only two
buildings of any consequence were
badly damaged. Five persons were
killed there, but they were, not Los
Angeles people, 50 far as u could learn.
That city Is doing a great dealsfor the
sufferers and homeless, perhaps more
than we realize.
.Racing has been called off for the
year. My string is up there and have
not decided what 1 will do with them
yet.
"The fire at the doomed city sur
passes the horror of the Boston, the
Chicago, the Baltimore, or any other
fire.
"Specific incidents have been OBJ
liberated from my mind. No wealth
could induce me to go through it all.
IT offered q small fortune to the tele-
graph company to get a message
through to The Herald here but it
could not be done.
Poor old Frisco, dear old Frisco!
All is gone, but memories will ever re-
main."
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-20
FLEE IN PANIC
FROM PALACE,
SAYS WITNESS

Egbert III. Gould, president of the
Chicago Car Heating company of Chi
cago, reached Los Angeles yesterday
morning at II o'clock. He was present
in San Francisco during all the hor-
rors of the first shocks
THE first shock threw me from my
bed halfway across the floor of my
room in the sixth story of the Palace
hotel. Realizing what was occurring and
fearing a collapse Of the building l
rushed down to the main corridor on
the ground floor of the hotel.
Il was the first person to reach the
office of the hostelry. The employees
and clerks were running about like
madmen. Quickly men, women and
children filled the office. There they
stood with faces blanched, held by a
spell of ave-.
Hastily 1 rushed back to my room
where I secured my clothing. Attired
in my pajamas 1 made my way to the
Western Union telegraph office to wire
my wife in Los Angeles. The telegraph
erS were at their stations and seemed
to be the only cool persons in the whole
city. &
Amid the shower of falling bricks
and stones and rain of shattered glass
I sat Son the cufbing and picked from
the soles OF my feet pieces of broken
grass. 1HeH ureSSeu lIleTe III Tie SITSSI,
but in the short time the buildings
within three blocks below the Palace
had broken out into flames. Billows of
flames were sweeping up the business
district.
"As I passed the Call building at
Third and Market streets L noticed that
it was more than foot out of plumb,
and was hanging over the street like
the tower of Pisa. l remained in San
Francisco until o'clock and then took
the ferry to Oakland. However, I re-
turned about two hours later.
when I attempted to get passage
on the Oakland ferry about IL o'clock
people were fighting like madmen to
get aboard the boat. Many were nearly
transfixed in their efforts to climb
over the iron gates. Everyone seemed de-
void of reason and their only thought
was to get away.
Like a tidal wave the people flooded
on the ferry boat and had L not been
a strong man would have been severe
ly injured-perhaps killed. 1 got to
Oakland safely and left at o'clock for
Los Angeles"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-20
PULLMAN CAR
CONDUCTOR SEES
TERRIBLE THINGS

work of rescue was going on with
out interruption during the time that
was in San Francisco Wednesday," said
George F. Williams, a Pullman car
conductor who lives at 316 Maple ave-
nue., Fruitdale. Bodies of the dead
were being carried into the street by
hordes in every manner of conveyance.
II did not reach the doomed city until
S o'clock. From the time I landed
until 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon,
when 1 left, there was one continuous
mass of humanity surging towards the
ferry.
I'm many places the streets We're i'm
passable. AS the day progressed the
reports of the blowing up of buildings
continued to grow more frequent De-
tails Of searchers worked hard to break
the firm lines of soldiers, but of no
avail.
zone of the peculiar incidents of the
fire was that the flames broke out in
the upper stories of most of the build
ings firstn -ss .,-.-.ls
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-20
FIRE STARTS IN
UPPER STORIES
SAYS EDITOR

Editor c. H. Prisk of the Pasadena
News was in the Occidental hotel when
the shock came, and had some diff
Guilty in getting to the ferry. THE
rolling motion of the bed and the falling
plaster woke me-" said Mr.. Prisk. II
ran into the hall and to the street |
was confronted with a scene of devas-
tation.
Walls Of buildings were split and
bulging; water mains upheaved by the
awful tremors of earth were spouting
their contents into the air, and all about
bricks, glass and bits of stone were
raining down into the streets.
after conducting my wife and
daughter to a place of safety I re-
turned in my bewilderment to the hotel.
After short time I made my way to
Third and Townsend streets, but there
the cables and wires formed a network
across the street
mot until $3.50 o'clock and after a
hard fight did we succeed in boarding
the ferry"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-20
MANY STREET CAR
TRACKS ARE RAISED
FROM THE GROUND

James schilling of 1912 West Eleventh
street arrived on the first train from
San Francisco. Mr.. Schilling was in
the Palace hotel when the shock oc-
cured.
II was lying in bed when the shock
came and great chunks of plaster fell
upon me. Outside 1 could hear the
screams of men and women as they ran
UP and down the halls in their night
clothes, crying for help and struggling
to escape from the building. / counted
fourteen big fires when | left the hotel
ten minutes later. and when ! left the
city the entire Wholesale district had
been wiped out. The car tracks on
Market street were suspended ten feet
in the air and great cracks, some Of
them no less than six feet wide, were
made in many of the streets"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-20

Vendome hotel, and was just in time
to see ten dead bodies brought from the
ruins. The east wing of the hotel was
entirely gone and when L left the
workers were still uncovering the in
jured in the ruins.
EVERY street was so blocked with
debris that it was almost ispassable.
II think there were about one hun
dred killed at the Agnews asylum and
the same number injured"
Loss. 1WiIl Be Ten Million Dollars
Albert Davies of New York another
Of those who arrived from San Jose,
gives a similar account.
Every window in San Jose was
broken, every chimney has toppled, and
every brick block is ruined" says he.
Mr.. Davies estimates the loss of prop
erty in San Jose at $10,0O0,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-20
NO HUMAN BEING
CAN DESCRIBE
HORROR OF SCENE

Words cannot describe the horror of
that scene" said George F. T. Will
liams, conductor of the Owl, yesterday
in Los Angeles.
"The cries of those human beings i'm
prisoned In the burning buildings, the
means of the dying and injured and the
dull roar of destruction can never be
pictured by the pen. No being can de-
scribe the scene.
"It was the sound of doom of the city
being destroyed that struck terror in
describable into the hearts of all.
"The Mission district suffered most.
Filled with tenement houses, and over
crowded lodgings, that section Of town
saw the worst horrors"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-20
HOTEL PLUNGED
LIKE A BIG SHIP
IN FIERCE GALE

G.. ]. c. McMullin tells a story of
horror. At the time of the shock he
was in the Mayfiower hotel. ...
"Plunging like ship in storm the
rolling of the hotel awakened me-" he
said. "In an instant L was into my
clothing and out into the street. Wild
shrieks of women and the hoarse cries
of men made the scene only the more
awful
For time I was bewildered. ]
don't know how long it was before
came to myself. Then I made my way
to the ferry. I did not hurry, for I was
too much overcome. All around me
buildings were falling. Men, women
and children ran past me in mad stam-
pede.
"How we escaped l do not know.
Some were crushed to death or MANNED
in front of my eyes, but I did not
realize the fact. 1t was all like hor-
rible dream"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-20
NATIVE SONS N 3 Nf4H
MAKE APPEAL
FOR FOODS

The Native Sons of this city, with
headquarters at 211h West Second
street, will receive food supplies, cloth
ing and any bandages that can be used
for medical purposes. The foods must
not be of the perishable kind.
All goods intended for the Native
Sons must be marked with the letter
"R" inside of diamond square, and
sent to the San Fernando depot. The
Southern Pacific company las agreed
to carry all goods to San Pedro for the
Native Sons. Should residents desire
to have the goods called for the Native
Sons will collect same if notice to that
effect is given them. Call Sunset phone
Main 3094.
Contributions will be received tonight
and tomorrow.