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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-06
LISTEN TO FIVE.
Senate Committee Resumes HEARINGS
on Brownsville Matter.


Washington. June Give witness
es We're heard by the senate commit
tee on military affairs Tuesday. when
the investigation of the Brownsville
affray was resumed, after weeks re
cess. General A. E. Darlington, in
spector of the army. testified concern
ing his failure to get any positive ev
idence of the guilt of the negro sol
diers and of the investigation of other
officers which caused him to hold to
the belief THAT the negroes did the
shooting, but had agreed to protect
each other by remaining silent.
Ignaeio Cara. who lived across the
valley from the Cowan House, which
was riddled with bullets, said he heard
the shots fired, and afterward heard
men runIln back through the alley
toward the garrison.
Mrs. Moore, wife of the proprietor
of the Miller hotel and her daughter.
by former marriage. Miss Willie
Mayfield, testified that they saw the
Ilashes OF guns Jas men came up the
alley firing into houses: that they
heard voice say: There goes the
id; give him hell" They supposed
the remark referred to the lieutenant
OF police, who was shot near the no
tel
A. (. Baker, a customs inspector,
told OF the incident at the wharf when
ne pushed drunken soldier into the
river This occurrence has been
thought to be one of the causes of the
trouble at Brownsville.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-06
RED RIVER IMPROVEMENT AND
NAVIGATION,

In a letter to Henry Hawkins, score,
tary Of the Shreveport Board of Trade
Hon. Morris Sheppard, representative
in Congress from Texas, directs witt
logical force the attention Of the citl-
zens Of this city and the people of the
Red River Valley to the Importance OF
improving Red rs'er and its navigation
In his communication, which has been
given publicity, he emphasizes the fact
fiat no Improvement can be secured from
The government in the future unless
some practical demonstration be made
b. the people to improve Red river and
have steamboats, plying in the interest
of commerce.
This question OF navigation and the
Improvement of Red river has been
worn into frazzle4 and with the excep-
ton Of spasnlodick efforts, little of value
has been done in THE past years.
1t can not be said that a better river
filed with steamboats, would operate
against the railway interests. as it has
been demonstrated that the railroads
have not been able to meet the trade and
traffic demands naturally on the in
crease, but even if the railways were
opposed to river navigation the welfare
Of the people should enlist first the river
consideration.
s
Ii is not possible 10 over-estlmate the
advantages OF river- navigation to
Shreveport and TO the people of the Red
River Valley, and therefore the efforts
Of Captains Scevell, Boaznlan and
Drown 10 secure steamboats, for the up
per and lower river trade should be en-
eouraged literally.
III his communication Congressman
Sheppard declares that "a survey is not
nseessarx-.tr. determine the naVigability
III The upper river, but it is imperative
that II should Be demonstrated that Red
river is navigable and is being navigat-
ed By steamers in the interest Of COM
inerce Ii Is moi the policy of the gov
ernuent % appropriate money for the
improvement 81 streams which, in a
sense are dead by moi being navigated.
Congressman Sheppard has said
truly SC il up to the people, and the
natural query follows What are the
people. The citizens 81 Shreveport, go
ilsa "a do about Il
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-06
HARRY ORCHARD HEARD
Takes the Witness Stand In the
Haywood Case.
ADMITS LIGHTING A FUSE.
Attorney Hawley Examines the Ceief
Person For the Prosecution and He
Confesses to Having Committed Deed
That Was Diabolical


Boise, Ida, June CD. M. BrunzelI
Of Nampa a hotelkeeper, was the first
witness in the Haywood trial Wednes-
day. He testified to the presence of
Orchard and Simpkins at Nams,a in
the summer of 1905.
A Hinkey. another hotelkeeper of
Na1npa, also testified to the presence
of Orchard and Simpkins in October,
1905.
Harry Orchard was called to the
witness stand at 9:42 o'clock. He
with jailer Rasbaumer and a number
of ~i4ards. He was brought into the
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-06
CONDENSED NEWS

Mineral Wells is to be Illuminated
with natural gas
= Texas state board of education pre-
pared Tuesday $4,000 worth OF bonds
In future married ladies cannot
teach in the Oklahoma City public
schools.
A carload Of mules caught fire near
LaWton, Okla. Some of the animals
were terribly burned
The badly deeomposed body of an
unkonwn man was found at Chickasha.
|. r. in car Of lumber
BY over 1000 majority Miss Emma
=. Perry was elected school superin.
tendent OF Erath county Texas.
Henry Vaughan, negro, sentenced
to bang at San Antonio June 5 for
wife murder was respited two weeks.
A negro snatched a purse from Miss
Annie Briggs OF Dallas Several young
men chased the miscreant, but he es-
capped
Mrs. B. NJ. Worsham. wife of the
superintendeE. of the insane asylum at
Austin. is critically in In q San An
tonic sanitariuna.
SO many window panes In San An.
tonic residences were demolished by
hail that the glass supply is exhausted
Pillows are being temporarily used.
John e. Brooks. the first merchant.
fifty three years ago. to embark III bus
mess at Mount Pleasant Tex, Is dead.
aged ninety years
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-06
FESTIVAL HOUSE.
Noted Singer Is to Establish One on
the Hudson River.

the Hudson River
New York, June 6-Mme Lillian
Nordica, it is stated, will establish on
the Hudson, near New York. Bay
routh In America With part Of her
great fortune the noted singer will
erect the Lillian Nordica festival
house. which will be to this country
what the famous operate institution
founded by Richard Wagner and now
maintained by his widow. is to Europe.
The site for the Institution was pur-
chased for 100000. and Nine. Nordica
expects the opera house to be ready
for formal dedication one year from
next summer. American institute
music. for American Young men and
women who aspire to operate honors,
will be taught by the foremost teach.
ers in the world
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-06
JULES DREYFUSS,
President Pro Tenn.
A L. DURINGER, Clerk.
/. ESRIAY NOTICE.

Estrayed before the undersigned au-
thority, by NJ A. Wasson, one yearlins
one and half or two years DID, marked
with two splits in right ear and hole in
left. no brand White face, neck and
belly
The owner will come forward. prove
property and pay carges or the yearling
will be sold at Mack Wasson's farm on
Saturday, june ae, 1907, as the law d.
reefs.
w. E. MASON.
Nav e. Justice Of the Peace.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-06
SCHOOL LANDS SOLD.
Thirty Thousand Four Hundred Acres
Disposed of On Tuesday.


Disposed of On Tuesday.
Austin, June 6.-Thirty thousand
four hundred acres of school lands
were sold Tuesday This land is lecat.
ed In Crane and Ector counties. in
the Pecos district. The names of the
successful bidders have not yet bee
determined, as the preference rights
to buy have to be figured. The bids
We're opened Tuesday morning, there
being over 300 applications to pur-
chase the lands. These lands were APP
praised at from $3.50 to 81 an acre.
Some Of the lands sold for as high as
$50 an acre. the average being about
- Asa range of sand hills in this
territory make part OF the land sold
OF little value, the price Is consid-
cred good one. Those who have a
preference rights on the lands can buy
them for about $3.50 an acre.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-06
sHERIFFs SALE.

No. o734-In the First Judicial District
Court of Caddo Parish, Louisiana
5. Herold & Son VS.. Green Frazier
By virtue of writ of heri facias, to
me issued in the above entitled and
numbered suit, by the Honorable First
Judicial District Court of Caddo Parish
Louisiana, | have seized and will offer
for sale at public auction for cash ac-
cording to law, at the principal front
door of the court house of Caddo Par
ish, in the City Of Shreveport, La, dur
ing the legal hours for sales on
SATURDAY, JUNE ~, 1907,
Lot seven "a of the Foster & Long
subdivision of the City of Shreveport,
La, together with all buildings and inn
provements thereon.
Said property seized as belonging to
the defendant and to be sold to satisfy
the debt specified in the said writ in the
sum of thirty-six dollars and thirty four
cents with 8 per cent interest from DC
tober !, 1901, less credits of 81 50 paid
June IS, 1903, and $2oo paid June I,
1904; forty-two dollars and sixty seven
cents with 8 per cent interest from
March 8, 1903, and 10 per cent additional
on principal and interest as attorneys
fees. One hundred dollars with 8 per
cent per annum interest from March 8,
1903, and 10 per cent in addition on
principal and interest as attorneys fees,
and all cost of suit.
j r FLOURNoY,
Sheriff Of Caddo Parish.
Caucasian, May 70, 1907
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-06
Fatal Fracture

Fort Worth. June 6.-James Ken
nedy. thirteen year old boy. who was
injured By being struck by train,
died at local hospital Wednesday
With several other boys he was fish.
ing at Saginaw and at late hour they
lay down near the railroad track be.
fore returning home "A freight train
struck young Kennedy, fracturing his
skull.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-06
FOR SALE
Jersey Cattle, Berkshire Hogs
Plymouth Rocks, Wyan-
d0ttes and Leghorns.

We are headquarters for the above
breeds We have choice lot of young
eockerels and can please the most fas-
tidious. Eggs for Matching s. 10 per IS,
$1,000 per hundred Address Caddo
Downs Poultry and Stock co, Ltd, 5.
Q. Holhngsworth, Manager, Shreve-
port, La
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-06
GREAT DAMAGE DONE

-Four Kentucky Counties Deluged BY
Terrific Waterspout
Lexington. KY June Specials
received here say waterspout in the
eastern part of Kentucky did great
damage. Rowan. Carter, Menifee and
Bath counties were deluged The
rain was accomplished by heavy
wind. Ploughed ground was washed.
fences and small bridges swept away
and crops ruined. Tripletts Salt Lick
and other small creeks are out of their
banks.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-06
DREADFUL DEATH.
Negro Caught In Machinery and Body
Terribly Mangiea.

Terribly MangIed
Beaumont. June freeman Mar.
tin. negro, aged twenty .one-years,
was caught on a shaft and whirled to
instant death at the Beaumont Iron
works. Martin was carpenter work.
Ing on the roof, and 1t is not known
what he was doing in the shop. Though
there We're half dozen workmen
about him, no one saw his get caught,
and boy discovered him whirling
about. His head was pounded against
the floor and his skull was crushed
and his leg and arm broken.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-06
MerciIessiy Beaten.

Hongkong, June 6.-At Chao Tung
Flu Methodist missionary named Pol.
lard was mercilessly beaten. A lung
was pierced.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-06

tary-treasurer. Two of the said board
shall constitute a quorum for the trans
action of business, and their decisions
shall be valid corporate acts. The fol-
lowing persons shall constitute the first
board of directors: S. B. Hicks, w. c.
Burt, and R. E. Comegys. No person
shall be eligible as a director or officer
who is not stakeholder of this COM
pany. During the absence of the presi-
dent, the vice president shall act and
preside The said board shall continue
in office until the first Tuesday in April
1908, on which date, and thereafter an
nualiy, the board of directors shall be
elected on the first Tuesday in April of
each year, unless same should be a holi-
day, when the election shall be held on
the next legal date thereafter. Notice
of the said election shall be given by
ten (To) days publication in newspa-
Der published in the City of Shreveport.
The board of directors shall appoint one
or more stockholders to preside at such
election as commissioners. Any failure
from any cause whatever to elect direc-.
tors on the date named for that purpose
shall not dissolve the corporation, but
the directors then ID Office, Il, well IS the
t46kers of the sid sonlpans shall hold
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-10
LOWELL GOBBlES [. ). PICNIC
 PRIZES
Jimmy ManIey Runs Like a
 Scared Deer, and the Pride of BiSbee Loses the. Hundred
 Yards Dash.
lowell. Ariz.. Sept. g.

Lowell, AriZ., Sept. g.
 Rah, rahI rah! who are we? We, are. We are the big three"
 Any one happening to be within nine miles of Lowell last night when the excursion train from Lewis Springs stopped at the local crossing would have thought that bunch of foot ball players from dear old Har- ward had just been unlOaded after a victory over Yale. The cause of all the disturbance, and justly there there was all kinds of cause, was due to the fact that Lowell got away with all the prizes at one of the most successful picnics this season. The employees of the Copper Queen branch store in Lowell have been Un the Qui viye for some time owing to the fact that the company was to give a picnic at Lewis Springs to all its employees in the stores at Douglas, Bisbee. Naco and Lowell. and further more, there was to be valuable prizes for all kinds of out door sports. Ali ter the arrival at the grounds yester- day morning the employees from each store segregated and began discussing the coming events, the principal one was the one-hundred yard dash in which each store had its favOrite entry. The Bisbee store entry being a 100 to 1 favorite on account of his limited amount of wearing apparel The pride of Lowell was Jimmy Han ley. who wasn't supposed to have a
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-10
MAY MAKE DOUGLAS
 THE WESTERN DIVISION.

DOUGLAS. AriZ., Aug. 9.-(Spl.)-
 Definite word comes from El Paso newspapers and a vague confirmation of the rumor comes from the railroad men here that the western division of the E. P. and s. W. railroad will be moved to Douglas next month. For the last three years the western division headquarters have been in Fl Paso: before that in Douglas The plan of having headquarters located in the extreme end of a large divi- sion which extends from Benson to Fl Paso has not worked well with the railroad authorities. The move will undoubtedly be made to gain a cen tral location for the growing business of the western division.
 The policy of making Fl Paso the headuuarters for both the western and eastern divisions of the railroad was changed a few weeks ago when L. U. Morris, superintendent of the eastern division moved his office to Tucumcari, New Mexico. The remov- al of the western division to Douglas, its most centrally located town, was expected. The general direction of the road will still go on from the of fee of the general superintendent, G. F. Hawks, in the new E. P. and s. W. office building in Fl Paso. MT. Hawks, by the way, is due in Douglas in a few days to make arrangements for the removal of headquarters here. The change will add a considerable number of railroad employees to the population of Douglas.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-10
MARK TWAIN'S CHILDREN.
A Case Where Attempted Punishment
 Proved a Hopeless Failure.


 Ordinary punishments answered very well for Susy. She was a thinker and would reason out the purpose of them, apply the lesson and achieve the re form required. But it was much less easy to devise punishments that would reform Clara. This was because she was q philosopher who was always turning her attention to finding some thing good and satisfactory and enter taining in everything that came her way. Consequently it was sometimes pretty diScOuraging to the troubled mOthe" to find that after all her pains and thought in inventing what she meant to be q severe and reform com polling punishment the child had en- tirely missed the seventies through her native disposition to get interest and pleasure out of them as novelties. The mother. in her anxiety to find q pen alty that would take sharp hold and do it's work effectively. at last resortcd
 with a sore heart and with q reprOach- ful conscience, to that punishment which tl:c incorrigible criminal in the pauitentiary dreads above all the other punitive miserles which the warden in- ficts upon him for his good-solitary confinement in the dark chamber. The gricveI and worried mother shut Clara up in q very small clothes closet and went away and left her therefor if. teen minutes. IL was all that the moth CT heart could endure. Then she came softly back and listened listened for the sObS. but there weren't any: there were untitled and inarticulate sounds, but they could not be construed into sohs. Tie mother waited half an hour longer. By that time she was suffering so intensely with sorrow and compass sion for the little prisoner that she was not able to wait any longer fer the dis trcssed sounds which she had counted upon to inform her when there had been punishment enough and the re- form accomplished. She opened the closet to set the prisoner free and take her back into her loving favor and for giveneSs, but the result was not the one expected. The captive had manu- factured q fairy cavern out of the closet. and friendly fairies out of the clothes hanging from the hooks and was having 6 most sinful and unre- pentant good time and requested per mission to spend the rest of the day thereI-From Mark Twain's Autobiog. raphy in North American Review.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-10
4 BUSINESS PARABLE.
You Cannot Fail to Appreciate th,
 Point in This Story.

You Cannot Fail to Appreciate the
 Point ln This Story.
 Once a farmer had 1.S00 bushels of wheat, which he sold not to single grain merchant, but to 1,S00 different paid him in cash. but far the greater number said 1t was not convenient then; they would pay later. A few months passed and the mans bank account ran low. How is thisF' he said. Sfy f.S00 bushels of grain should have kept me in affluence until another crop is raised. but l have parted with the grain and have Instead Cnly q vast number of accounts. so small and scat tered that | cannot get around and col feet fast enough to pay expenses"
 So he posted up public notice and asked all those who owed him to pay quickly. RUt few came. The rest said, Mine is only a small matter. and [ will go ani pay one of these days" for getting thai though each account was very small, when all were put together they meant a large sum to the man. Things went CT thus. The Gl&G got tG feeling so bad that he fell out of bed and awoke and. running to his gran ary, found his 1,s0O bushels of wheat still safe there. lie had only been dreaming.
 MoraL-The next day the man went to the publisher of his paper and said: Here sir, Is the pay for your paper, and when next years subscription is due you can depend on me to pay lt promptly. I stood in the position of an editor last night, and I know how if feels to have ones honestly earned money scattered all over the country in small amounts. ."-EXchanGe
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-10
TELIS
 OF CHECK EPISODE

G. G. Lelevier and his son. Ives c. LeleyieT, who were a few days ago taken to Phoenix charged with an ex- traditable offense. the extracting from the Mexican mails of two checks of S1O and $1O.5O each. were arraigned before United States Commissioner Johnstone and their hearing was set for Saturday. September IA. The United States government is repre- esnted by Captain Alexander, and Judge A. c. Baker has been retained to look after the interests of the Mexican government. The defendants have not yet announced who will be their counsel.
 A newspaper man called upon the prisoners at the county jail and G. G. Lelevier stated his story of the case. At the time of the loss of the checks from the mails he was a custom brOk- CT at Nogales. His son, he says. pur- chased one check from a Mexican and wanted him to order some baseball goods from Montgomery Ward and company. which the father did. How the check came into the possession of the Mexican he does not know. All that he knows, says Lelevier, is that
 
 country was the same as cash. It was a very common thing for checks to be handled in this way in his hrOk- craze business, so he thought nothing of 1t.
 Since that time he has been en- gagged in the printing and publishing business in Douglas where he issues paper In his paper at the time of 4I, l.; NF h. denounced the methods pursued in that famous case and ever since the Mexican government, he says, has been after him as revolutionist. This arrest and imprisonment is but one other evidence, he claims, of the pur- poses of the Mexican officials to get him across the line on a pretext and punish him for the stand he took ed itoTially on the Sarabia case.
 ne says TIEdU TdsJ T u5ETy can official came t0 him and said that he would be indicted for stealing the check if he did not pay over S1O to him. Rather than be bothered with the trouble and cost of a trial, he paid the S10 and got receipt for 1t which he still has in his possession. MT. Lelevier says that he is not a revolu- tionist but that he is running a news paper and that it is incident to that business that he expressed his opin- ion. For this opinion, he says, he is being peTsecuted.
 Lelevier Is a Frenchman by birth and has been living in Arizona since 1881. He is married and has fam fly of nine children. four of his boys being born in Arizona He was edu- cated in California and speaks Eng fish perfectly.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-10
Some Bulls.

Last year. in the north of Ireland. the following came under my observa- tion- In hotel the porter. for my in- formation and dutifully in furtherance of the interests of his employers, re marked, ''If you want drive, sir you needn't go out of the hotel" meaning. of course. that carriages formed part of the establishment
 Another bull was in q conversation overheard between two workmen. One put the question, Were you ac- quainted with So-and-so" to which the reply was. ''No; he was dead be- fore I knew him."
 An Irish friend of mine was de- scribing a dinner party he had been at It was a great success, as two noted takers were present, each of whom was talking so fast that neither could get Ia q wOrd.-London Spectator.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-10
HOP" JOINT RAIOED
 IN SHELTER CITY

DOUGLAS, Ariz., Aug. 9.-(SplD-
 A mop joint III the oid Jockey club building on Sixth street with pipes. ''hop" and all the other para phernalia of such dive, run, it is alleged, by Indian Charlie and a wo- man, was raided this morning by Deputy Sheriffs Frank Clark and Young Davis, and Indian Charlie" and two inmates of the house were ar rested and thrown into the county 'holdover. pending the coming of the days activities in the courtroom.
 These two officers conducted an all night vigil over the crime factories they later raided. The place has been under their, observation for some time hut they did not consider the time ripe for a raid until last night. Shad- owing the place during the night they
 -aited until about o'clock this morn 'nE. Then, stationing two friends about the exits of the joint to pre- vent tho escape of any inmates, they entered the house. Indian Charlie" |" the woman and two men were in the house. There was not much doing at the time but all the evidences were in sight and these were gathered up by the officers and the men of the group placed under arrest and taken to jail.
 The three men were arraigned later in the day before Justice Ben Rice and each pleaded not guilty. The true name Of Indian Charlie" is K. Me Caskill and the other two men gave their names as Robert WindeT and J. B Newton. Bond was fixed in the sum of $10O each. McCasldn fur nished bond at once but at noon the other two were still in the custody of the officers. The trial of Winder and Newton is set for 4 o'clock this afternoon and McCaskil's for 9 o'clock Monday morning.