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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-02

The first bale of cotton for the year
1909, marketed in Texas, was sold on
the floor of the Houston Cotton Ex-
change and Board of Trade, Monday
for $4,000, a fraction over Sl.l5 per
pound. This is the highest price ever
paid for cotton.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-02

We will teach you in three min
utes how to grain To-Walk-On
Floor Stain; the finest and best
floor finish known.
5tf Morse Hardware Co.
Arduce Fontenot returned the
latter part of last week from Lafay-
cite, where he had been attending
school during the past school year.
He will spend the summer at home
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Pauline Fontenot.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-02
POST CARDS.

If YOU want the Latest
in Post Cards, come to
the Journal Book Store.
New Shipments arriving
almost daily.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-02

Addie Mathews mabe business
trip to Lake Charles Thursday.
Don't let lice or mites eat up
your young chicks this hot weather.
Use plenty of Lees Lice Killer to
keep them off
5 Morse Hardware Co
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-02
Fireworks! Fireworks
Model Grocery.

Model UrOCery.
Charley Seneften, Il former Welsh
boy who has been in New Orleans
| for some time past, spent a few days
visiting friends here the latter part
of last week and the first of this.
The Jennings Rice Mill of this
city, is being treated to q new
coat of paint which aids materially
to its appearance. Richard Gardiol
and Julian Louvier ire doing the
work.
W. D. Bates was among the
excursion passengers to Galveston
Saturday. Before returning Mr..
Bates will visit his father at Austin
| Texas, whom he has not seen for
fifteen years
Chas. Carr and family started
Sunday night for Excelsior Springs
Mo. where they will spned the
summer They 60 hoping that the
change will prove beneficial to Mr..
Cars health.
n II Goldsmith spent Yesterday
in Welsh arr ming the decorations
for the First National Bank and
other business houses for that little
city's 3rd of July celebration Lake
Charles Press.
The Methodist people are having
a full set of screens put up on their
church. This will add to the comfort
of the congregation and to the Sc
curity of the fine windows in case
of hail storm.
Guilty Bros, the we'll known
veterinarians of Lake Charles, will
be in Welsh every Saturday. ANY,
one having stock needing attention
may consult them at Dauters Barn
Examination free.
Strayed or stolen; a six months
old jersey colored muly bull calf,
from pasture one mile east of
Welsh. Branded LA on hip. Re-
ward for recovery of same.
D. R. Read.
If one Of Welsh's charming young
ladies offers to pin tag on you
tomorrow, look pleasant, think
of what afavor she is bestowing
upon you, and help the piano fund
along with a generous contribution.
For >ALE;-Half or whole inte-
rest in a hotel and restaurant, do
ing a Furnishing business in one of
the i st towns of the state. Poor
healt'l of owner reason for selling
This will bear strict investigation.
inquire at this office
VIII Diedrich, who came here a
ye"" ago to work with the J. M.
=, rHotte Cement company. and
who has recently been identified
with the moving picture show here
left Monday morning for berwick
Bay where he will again work with
Mr.. Barnette.
R H. Sinderson is back from
Texas, where he was called a few
days ago on account Of the very
serious illness Of his father, He saws
that his father is old and ouice
feeble, and although a little better
when he left, he can hardly hope
to get up and about again
Bud Guzman, one of the prom
lnent planters of Woodlawn, was
transacting business in Welsh Mon
day. He says that much of the rice
in his locality is showing the effects
of the root maggot and that the
prospects are not nearly so en-
couraging as they were two or
three weeks ago.
Mrs. S. A. Covey was the guest
OF Mrs. LaRue of Lake Charles,
Friday. Miss Myrtle LaRue will
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-02

The young people Of Roanoke spent
pleasant evening at tn. home of Mr..
and Mrs. John Narans Friday evening
in honor Of his brother FLOYD s twenty
sixth and sister Mary's nineteenth
birthday. Those present were; Misses
Marguerite Gum, Nellie and Cora
Smith, Jessie Robinson, Mary Kelley,
Mabel McDavitt. Flora Compton,
Jennie Williams, Lucy Smith, Flor
ence Davis, Minnie Watkins, Sadie
Parsons, Florence Phelps, Noel Martin,
Mary and Nellie Thomas, Belle and
Mary Narans and Lorena McNabb.
MesserS Gilbert Gillet, James Thomas,
Jim Robinson, Harold Bussey, George
Roberts, AL HOke, Luther and Dave
Villa ms. Earl and Carl Mcmillan,
Chas. Hanley, Cecil Walton, Tom
Compton, Harry Phelps. Bud Law,
Floyd Narans, Lloyd Smith, Glen
Woodward and Floyd Davis.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-02

Mrs. Z. H. Walton entertai ned her
Sunday school class at her home Sun
day.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-02

Rev. Bussey took in the sights at
Galveston from Saturday to Monday.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-02

Sunday school class No. = spent a
pleasant day at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Al Mcmillan Sunday.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05
kASTLE KERN NOTES.

Harold Bodine, of New York City made the ascent to Kastle Kern in one hour flat. What makes this time of interest is the fact that Mir. Bodine tips the scale beam at exactly 2S0 pounds.
 The following out of town people visited the Kastle during the past week:-O. R. Fisher, Bantry, N. D. Samuel Baxter, Victoria, B. C., H. H. Bullen, Pilot of S. S. Santa Clara, John P. Boone, (7O years old), Clin- ton, la, II. A. Harkins and wife, Chief Engineer of s. S. Jefferson, Frotone, III.
 A jolly party of Skagway young pc pie made the trip up the hill, Wednes. cay evening and after taking the Kastle by storm, indulged in all kinds O pranks. One of the features of the evening was the masQuerading of sev- eral of the men folks, when they got into MT. Svabotsky's property room. and logged themselves out in the "old Sourdough attire which is feature c: the Kastle's curio display. While the factors were performing, the lad ies popped corn and made fine coffee, and the entire party without q dis senting ballot, voted Kastle Kern the "Only place to have q real old fashion cd jolly time."
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05
MINERS JUBILAAT OVER
 PROSPECT OF NEW ROAD

NOME, Alaska, July 12-Miners are jubilant over the prospects of new wagon road being built by the Alaska roads commissioner. The c. L. Nor ris Company has the work of grading and construction already staked out The route follows the right or west limit of Nome river from the mouth cI Dexter creek and will tap all of thG claims being worked on the tribut' aries up Nome river, affording an outlet to the mines and a good road over which to haul provisions and supplies.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05
ARE FIGHTING
 FOR RAILROAD

CORDOVA, Alaska, July 2S-Receiv- CT Laberee, of the Alaska Central rail- road, and John E. Ballaine, a stock holder of the road, are engaged in a contest over the road. MT. Ballaine ob- tained an order of court permitting him to examine the railroads books. Mir. Laberee is now in Valdez seeking to have the order rescinded. The steam yacht Yucatan, with George w. Perkins. is due at Seward, the Coast terminus of the Alaska Central today. It is reported that MT. Perkins will buy the road to protect J. P. Morgan and his associates, who hold $l,OOO, 900 of the bonds of the company.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05
MINERS FALL
 DOWN SHAFT

NOME, Alaska. July 12-Three min CTS, George Marsh, Tom Curtain and James Pappas, were dropped seventy five feet down the shaft of the Northern Mining Company on Flat creek, near Nome, on the 9th. The hoist gave way and the cage dropped into the watery stump at the bottom. Strange as it may seem, the men are alive and but little injured, the stump acting as a cusion to break the ter rife fall of the descent.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05

The famous Olympia Beer on tap at the Board of Trade, Limerick alley. Also fine line of whiskey and wine. IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA, Div ision No. 1, at Juneau. In the Matter of Setting Certain Special Terms of Court at Ketchikan and Skagway and the Regular Term of Court at Juneau, Alaska.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to an order of the Judge of the above entitled Court, made and entered this Sd day of August, 1909, Special Term of Court will be held at the following named places in the First Division of the District of AL aska and at the following times, to- wit:
 At Ketchikan, Alaska, commencing Monday, October II, 1909; At Skagway, Alaska, commencing Monday, November 15, 1899. NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that a Regular Term of the above entitled Court will be held at Juneau, Alaska, commencing on Monday, December 9th, 1909.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal os this Court, this 3rd day of August, 1909.
 H. Shattuck
 Clerk.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05
APPEARING OLD
Acts as Il Bar to Profitable Employ.
 ment.

Acts as Il Bar to Profitable Employ
 ment.
 You cannot afford to grow old. In these days of strenuous competition 1t Is necessary to maintain. as long as possible ones youthful appearance. It is impossible to do this without re- tainIng a luxurious growth of hair. The presence of Dandrufr indicates tho presence of a borrowing germ which lives and thrlves on the roots of tho hair until 1t causes total badness. Newbro's Herpicde is the only known destroyer of this pest. and 1t is as erec- tive as 1t is delightful to use
 Herpicide makes an elegant hair dress- Ing as we'll as Dandruff cure.
 Accept no substltute-there is none. Sold by leading druggists. Send 1oc. in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co.,. Detroit. Mich.
 One Dollar bottles guaranteed.
 Wm. Britt. Special agent, Skagway
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05
TOWN TALK
D. H. Jones and wife of Whitehorse will go south on the Princess May.

D. H. Jones and wife of Whitehorse will go south on the Princess May. Mrs. Ahlert and children Of White horse will sail south on the Princess. Co to the Harvest Moon Dance, at w. P. A. Club August 6.
 All members of the Skagway band are requested to be at Firemen's hall in uniform at 8 o'clock Friday night. The Princess May will sail for Van touver as o'clock this evening with 155 passengers, including 55 round trippers.
 w. J. Studwell, a contractor from New York city, was round tripper o the Queen and a visitor at the Alas kan office.
 Miss Scharschmdt, sister of Doc" Scharschmidt of Whitehorse, arrived iE town yesterday and will go south on the Princess May.
 William Pattullo the well known Dawson attorney, arrived on yester- days train and will leave for Van couver on the May.
 D. II. Wilson and wife of Vinata, Okla, were round trip eXcursionists on the May. MT. Wilson is a promi- nent attorney of Vinata.
 Mir. and Mrs. Close-Brooks of Cher foot, England, did not go to Dawson as expected, but will sail for Vancou- yer tonight on the Princess.
 The w. c. T. U. will hold it's reg ular monthly meeting tomorrow after noon at 2:3O o'clock at the rest rooms All members are requested to be present.
 
 E. T. Davis, a Chicago real estate man, Miss Sybyl Davis, his daughter, and Courtnay and Richard Davis, his sons, are round trip tourists on the Princess May.
 
 An association football game be-
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05
SkAGWAY LAUNDRY. L

In addition to doing the best Laun- dry work in Skagway we are now pre- pared to do rough dry work, all starch ed, ready for ironing for 50 cents per dozen. Phone 80. u.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05
DOLPHIN ARRIVES IN PORT

The Dolphin arrived in port at 3 o'clock this afternoon with Sj pas sengers and 90 tons of freight. She will sail for Seattle at 10 o'clock to- Light.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05

LOST-Brown leather note book with strap and hook attached. Also white elastic waist belt with buckle Finder please notify The Alaskan and receive $1.25 reward. St
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05
FULL QUART MEASURE

old Famous Cedar Brook Bourbon Bottled in Bond, well Aged in wood, from the Renowned McBrayer Dis tlllery. Full Quart S1.50, at the Pack Train. U
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05

Guests are given every attention at the Caribou hotel at Carcross. Clean comfortable rooms, good service, fine fishing and hunting close to Car cross. E. w. Gideon, prop.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05

FOR SALE-A 4 room furnished house. Also a new upright piano. h. quire of Mrs. Cliff Hayward, 2nd-Ape.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05

Stop at the Dominion Hotel when | Whitehorse and get home cooking and clean comfortable beds.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05

Go to the Harvest Moon Dance b! Skagway Band, August 6.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05

European plan, Sl per day ant up. White Pass Hotel, Whitehorse Y. T.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05

Call Bells and Best Service at White Pass Hotel, Whitehorse, Y. T.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05

LOST:-A Nugget Crescent Pin Finder please return to this office. If.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05

Keep August 9th open, so you can take her to the Harvest Moon Dance.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05
FULL QUART MEASURE

Old Famous Cedar Brook Bourbon
 Bottled In Bond, well Aged In wood, from the Renowned McBrayer Dis. tlllery. Full Quart $l.5O. at the Pack Train. If
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05

An association football game be- tween the stewards and engineers on the Princess May was played at the ball park last night. The stewards won by score of to 1.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05

E. T. Davis, a Chicago real estate man, Miss Sybyl Davis, his daughter, and Courtnay and Richard Davis, his sons, are round trip tourists on the Princess May.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-05

One Dollar bottles guaranteed. Wm. Britt. Special agent, Skagway
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-17

In selecting James u. Sammis OF Le-
mars Ia, as the grand exalted ruler
OF the Benevolent Protective Order OF
Eiks, a man well known in his home
state is brought onto the national
platform.
The fight for the office was confined
practically to two candidates, Sam
mis- and Garry Hermann, the Cincin-
natl baseball magnate. Samnis' cam
didacy was indorsed by Retiring
Grand Exalted Ruler Lush L. Holland
9f Colorado Springs, who issued a
statement just before the election rela-
tive to letter he wrote the Iowa man,
This letter was circulated by the
Samnlis supporters and Holland
acknowledged having written it.
Mr.. Sammis is 46 years old and has
been prominent In Iowa state politics
for some years, having been chosen a.
member of the Iowa state senate. He
is man of action, an acknowledged
leader and has earned by hard work
the honor thus conferred upon him.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-17
Dress Goods Cut 5 Per Cent by
Conferees
YARNS ALSO GET SLASHED
ENTIRE WOOL SCHEDULE DIS
POSED OF TODAY BY CONFER
ENcE COMMITTEE - COTTON
PARAGRAPHS LAID OVER PEND
ING DISPOSAL or WOOL RATES.

Washington; July 1.-THE tariff
conferees agreed TO reduction of 5
per cent. in the Dingley rate on wo-
mems and childrens dress goods made
of cotton warp. When the conference
adjourned for luncheon three changes
in the wooy schedule had been agreed
upon. All of these were reductions,
a lower duty on women's and chill
drens' dress goods being made on
woolen fabrics weighing four ounces
or over to the square yard and woven
into cotton warp.
A reduction of per cent was also
made in the duty on yarns valued at
80 cents per pound or less.
Other Reductions Made.
The duty on tops which was finally
decided upon was made in accordance
with the reduced duty on yarns and
is in accordance with the reduce uty.
on yarns an is in proportion to the
Inference in cost of manufacture be-
tween secured wool and spun yarns.
BY adopting these three changes the
conference committee has disposed of
the entire wool schedule. The other
duties agreed upon being the same as
those of the existing law. The cot
ton schedule was laid aside this morn
ing in order that the wool proposition
might be settled
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-17
HARRY THAW TO
UNDERGO QUIZ
WHITES SLAYER WILL TESTIFY
DURING HEARING AS TO HIS
OWN SANITY.

White Plains, N, Y, July 17.-Harry
K. Thaw, who will remain here in
the county jail until the hearing to
determine his sanity is resumed. July
&c. before Justice Mills, Is apparently
highly elated over the prospect of go
ing on the witness stand and telling
his story, Under fire of rigid ques-
tioning by the states attorneys and
alienists. Tnaw said today:
Il will demonstrate easily that I am
sane when go on the stand. / am
more than anxious for the ordeal. II
is the chance I have prayed and hop
ed for. Now / feel that Judge Mills
will be able to see that my contention
that am sane is valid"
Speaking Of his wife's testimony
against MIN, Thaw said he felt no
animosity toward his wife. and had
no idea of cutting off her allowance
OF $500 a month.
Evelyn took the witness chair yes-
terday afternoon and related. as il in
fear, what Thaw's lawyer has sought
most to keep back-his alleged threat
to take her life if ne were released
from the asylum.
Whether assumed or not, the trim
witness in blue expressed apprehen-
sion while testifying She was quot
ed afterwards as saying that she tes-
titled because of the treatment she re-
ceived at the hands Of the Thaw fam
fly.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-17
KILLS TWO SONS
and SUICIDES
CHICAGO WOMAN MURDERS AND
sglcIDEs s As SIZE FACES con.
FlNEMENT I'M AN
ASYL uM.

Chicago, July 17.--Suicide and muir
der rather than confinement in an
institution for the feeble minded was
the choice OF Mrs. Annie Schenlxle
whose body, with those of her two
sons, Harry and Carl, aged Z and Ii
respectively, was found in gas filled
room in her home at 2s2 North Fifty
first court today. Such. at least was
the opinion Oh JOS. Scnenkfe, the hus-
band Of the dead woman. in account
ing to the police for the death OF his
wife and two boys.
Schenl1le told the police that he had
contemplated putting his wife in an
asylum and he supposed she had
learned of the plan in some manner
and decided to thwart it.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-17
The Party'S Promises Must Be
Kept, Declares President
THREATENS TO VETO BILL
STATEMENT ISSUED LATE YES.
TERoAY FROM THE WHITE
HOUSE CAUSES EXCITEMENT
AT cAPITAL-REvIsloN MUST
BE DOWN. u Is EDIcT.

oasSssn. July 17.-President
10Y? emphatic declaration yesterday
-at he regarded the republican plat
form as meaning, and the sentiment
of the whole people as demanding a
revision downward" eclipsed in in
terest all minor and specific details of
the tariff struggle in all circles here
today.
The statement issued late in the
day after the delegation of congress
men had appealed to the president for
the maintenance of protection upon
raw materials, particularly iron ore.
wool, hides, oil and lumber, purported
to be an outline report Of the discus
sion which took place during the Wis
1t of the delegation and especially of
what the president said to the visitors.
But the very fact that such a state
ment was issued at all, and in partic-
ular, the emphatic conclusion of the
remarks or the president thus reiter
ated' made II clear to all who studied
pronouncement that the president in
tends it virtually as an ultimatum.
Contains Concealed Threat.
Many read into the statement the
barely concealed threat on the part
Of the president, that If the bill reach
ed him in the form which he regarded
as unfaithful to the promises of his
party and disobedient to the senti-
ment of the mass of the people ne
would veto 1t.
Few of the prominent members of
either house of congress would dis
cuss the statement for publication,
and most Of the utterances intended
for quotation were of a perfunctory
character, but in confidence many
talked freely, and some OF the con-
very bitterly Some went
SO far as to say that the presidents
Continued ON Prge Five
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-17
Violence Marks Struggle at
Steel Car Co.'s Plant
SEVERAL FOREIGNERS HURT
COUNTY SHERIFF APPEALS TO
STATE coNsTARuLARY FOR AS.
sIsTANcE - AMERICAN LABOR
ERs ARE AGAINST THE STRIKE
SUSPEND LARGE WORKS.

Butler. Pa, July 17.-vioIence oc-
Cured early today at the plant of the
Standard Steel Car Co., at Lyndorf.
Pa, near here. Several foreigners were
injured, one seriously. Sherifr Caldwall
directed an urgent message to Harris
burg, asking for the state constabu-
larry. 1t was feared that more rioting
would take place during the day. For
eign workmen at the plant struck for
higher wages yesterday morning. nec-
cessitating general suspension of the
large works and Affecting several thou
sand American workmen. who are on
posed to the strike. All the available
state police In this vicinity are on duty
at the steel strike at McKees Rocks and
the Butler county authorities were ask
ed to await further developments.
Office Employees Attack.
The disturbances occurred when the
office force of the car company attennp-
ted to cross the Ohio river in a ferry
boat and report for work. The strik-
ers' pickets stationed along the river
bank signalled to comrades near car
plant. A crowd OF half hundred per-
sons formed from seemingly nowhere.
The Office employees wer greeted with
hoots and cat calls, bricks and stones
were flying.
The office men beat hasty retreat
to the ferry boat while the officers ar
irving rushed the crowd and freely
used riot maces. Fourteen additionaI
alleged strike leaders are now under
arrest in box car jails.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-17
HETTY GREEN GERS JOB
UNDER UNCLE SAM AND
WILL EARN $50 "A DAY,

Washington, July ~. Consterna tior
reigned throughout the treasury de.
partment yesterday when it was no.
ticed that Mrs. Hetty Green had beer
placed on the pay roll as assistant
plate printer In the bureau of eng eav-
fng at $3.50 per day.
That the richest woman III Amerlca
had been obliged to seek and has OBJ
tanned q government job at first excit
ed sympathy, but on second considera-
tion II was surmised that she was moi
IN want but had taken civil service
examination and gone In for the money
there was In IT.
Excitement and speculation subsided
when II was found that Hetty Ross, d
bureau of engraving employe. had mar
ried Mr. Green Under the rules of
the government her name had be be
removed from the pay rolls and re-
stored In its amended form.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-17
.BRIGANDS ROB
FOR ENTIRE DAY

Berlin, July 17.r-Brigands held the
highway between Augustowo and
Lipsk on the Russo German frontier
all day Tuesday and captured fifty or
sixty travellers, ali OF whom were re-
lieved Of their cash. Most OF the vic
Tins were horse dealers on their way
to the annual horse market at Lipsk.
n IL estimated that a total Of $4,000
was taken BY the roadagents who were
believed by the authorities to be the
same men who have committed numer-
Gus oilfrages throughout d wide dis
trict on the frontier.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-17
TRAIN HITS AUTO;
| DEAD, 8 HURT
NEW YORKER WITH PARTY or
FRIENDS STRUCK BY Ex-
PRESS--INJURED
MAY DIE.

New York, July 17.-One man killed
and three others so badly hurt that
they may die is the result of a COLI,
sion by Long Island railway train
with an automobile three miles from
Long Island City today.
Archie ID. Tappan of New York was
taking three friends to his country
home in Glen Cove. Approaching the
railroad crossing Tappan did not notice
the approach Of an express train until
it was too late to stop his automobile.
Putting on the speed he crashed
through the gates and reached the
track where the locomotive struck the
motor car.
Z The dead
EDWARD HARLEY Of Glen Cove.
neck broken.