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The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
BELIEVES CONTROL OF
 ROADS BY STATE IS BEST
Director Page Advocates a Central Ized Administration With sep arate Building and Main
 tenance Funds.

Oklahoma City, Ok, Oct. 6.-"While construction is tho first requisite to road improvement, maintenance of the roads is of equal importance, Logan Waller Page, director of the Uniteu State office of public roads, said Tn an address to the National Good Roaos convention in session here. To have both good construction and good main tenance we must have a centralized administrative system. The one point of clearly demonstrated superiority which the European road system pos sesses over our own is in it's excep- tionally effective administration and maintenance
 All the roads of the state should be under the control of the state" Mr. Page continued. Tt is absolutely essential to good roads that the road administration should be taken out Of politics and this can be accomplished only through plan of appointing local highway engineers by state highway commission. For three hundred years the system of local roNd construction had resulted only in bad roads except in spots under peculiar conditions. With the advent of state construction and state aid in local construction and with state control over the whole in terrelated system, some of the states are getting a really fine road system" {"
 MT. Page urged that in all legisla- ton for good roads separate funds be provided for construction and main tenance. He advocated the patrol system of keeping the road in repair, under which, as in France, one man Is given short stretch of the road to keep under his constant supervision rms patrol system is now in operation In New York, where the state has re- gently voted s5O,OOO.0O0 in bonds for road work. The New York system provides for trunk lines to be built and maintained entirely at the cost of the state, for county roads to be built jointly by the state, county and owns and for town or township roads 10 which the state contributes only 'or maintenance.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
CLEANING UP THE TIMES WRECK
Fourteen Bodies Have Now Been Taken From Ruins of Los
 Angeles Newspaper Plant.

Los Angeles, Oct. 6.--After delving into the tangled mass of twisted iron beams, linotype machines and print. Ing presses, which later were hum ming busily early last Saturday morn. ing when the Los Angeles Times building was completely destroyed by an explosion. presumably of dynamite, searchers unearthed a pitiful mass of bodies of the 20-odd thought to have met death in the holocaust. Two bodies found yesterday are partially recognized as those of Eugene Caress. machinist, Ed John Howard, make IA thus far recovered Seven were disentagled from wreckage yesterday.
 The plot to wrick the Times build. ing as we'll as the homes of Gen. liar. rison Gray Otis. principal owner and E. J. Zeehandelaar, secretary to the Merchants and Manufacturers asso. ciation was matched outside the city and that the explosive was carried to this city, possibly in hand grips were developed during the day in the search of police officials and detec. tiyes for clews leading to the perpetra, tors of the crime.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
GEN. OTIS ARRESTED FOR LIBEL
Proprietor of the Los Angeles Tlmea Taken Into Custody on Com
 pIaint of Labor Leader.

Los Angeles, Oct. 6.-Police here confirmed a report that the trail of thu supposed dynamite conspirators wht 1t is believed wrecked the Times plant Saturday had been found in this city.
 An incident of the day was the ar. rest of eGn Harrison Gray Otis, pro. prietor of the Times, on the charge of having crimlnally libeled Andrew Gallagher, San Francisco labor leader. He was arrested while pre-. pairing to attend the funeral of Wesley Reavees, the young stenographer to whom he dictated the article on which the libel was based. The arresting officer accompanied the general to the funeral and then into justice court, where bond was arranged. The case will be heard to-day on habaes Corpus proceedings. Similar warrants were served recently on Harry Chandler, assistant general manager of the Times He was re- leased on habeas corpus writ be- cause of the insufficient cause for the warrant.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
The Whole Science of if,

Two women, walking along one of the business thoroughfares of New York heard great shouting of EEK try, extry," and looked about to see where all the noise was coming from
 Across the street they spied one very small newsboy shouting with all his might
 One of the women, attracting the boys attention, called him to her and bought a paper; then, as she dropped the pennies into the little fellows hand, she said:
 You mustn't make so much noise, my little man; you can sell your pa pers just as well without yelling so."
 For half second the boy looked up at her in surprise, then exclaimed:
 You don't understand, missus: you've got to yell like hell to make a living in New York"
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13

erected by the German Society of Pennsylvania, and is placed tempo rarily on the city hall plaza until a permanent site is selected on the park. way. The mayor accepted it on be. half of the city.
 On plain, seven foot granite bass rests the bronze statue of Major Gen ersl Muhlenberg, nine feet in height. The bust part of the pedestal show in bronze relief the scene in tho church at Woodstock, Va, whero standing in his pulpit, Rev. Peter Muh- lenberg pulled off his ecclesiastical gown and stood in the uniform of an American colonel before his aston. ished congregation, saying: There is time to preach, there Is also a time to fight, and that time has come. " All able bodied members of the con. gregation followed him into the war.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
TRUST FUR FARMERS
8. r. YoAkUM ADDRESSES GooH coADs CONVENTION AT
 OKLAHOMA CITY.
TALKED OF NEW lNDUSTRlALlSN
The Frisco President Said Develop.
 ment Is No Longer Bounded by State Lines--Good Roads Essential to Farmers-Agalnst New NatlonaIlsm.

Oklahoma City. Ok. Oct 7.--"New Industrialism" was set off against New Nationalism" by B. F. Yakum, presi- dent of the board of directors of the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad system in an address here before the convention of National Good Roads association. "The state and the peo- pie under the resistless warfare of de- velopment which is no longer bounded by state lines which have been welded into an industrial whole," said Yoakum, land a crusade against ono class Is crusade against all classes. This Is the new industriallsm which has been mistaken by some as preda. tory wealth, by others as revolution. ary plutocracy, and still by others as cause for new nationalism."
 As to the contract of the new indus trialism. MT. Yoakum said 1t must confine itself to the new laws of the country, but he protested that these laws should not proceed from the bot zeal of overwrought political eco nomists."
 If, in the course of time," said MT. Yoakum, "this new industrialism on account of it's widespread and far reaching growth should find itself un- der federal control, let it be so, but let that federal control be extended in such an orderly way and by such con stitutional methods as will insure the stability of our government as we'll ss promote the progress of our coun- try"
 This statement came as climax to Mir. Yoakum's admonition to farmers that: "The trust methods which are in effect to-day must be adopted by the farmers as their methods of get ting the most money for their prod ucts." And the speaker connected this prophecy of organization with the good roads movement by saying that good roads are essential to the proper development of country life and of rural prosperity.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
A WRECK KILLED 36
INTERURBAN CARS ON MCKINLEY SYSTEM COLLIDE HEAD-oN
 NEAR sTAUNToN, ILL.
BOTH THE CARS WERE CROWDED
In Addition to the Dead, 26 Perscns Were Injured, Among Them Three Officials of the System--New Men the Cause.

Springfield, H., Oct. 6.-Thirty-sil persons were instantly kiiIed and 2I others were injured in head on col lision between two interuTban cars of the Illinois (McKinley) Traction system.
 The accident, the worst in the his tory of electric railway traffic in Hi nois, occurred at Dickerson's curve two miles north of Staunton.
 Baggage is placed in the front end of the cars and this serves as smok ing compartment as well. In a smal compartment in the smoking room ii the motorman's cab. From the motorman's compartment there is { door to the outside.
 Both Motormen Jumped.
 The motormen of both trains, wher they saw that the two trains must meet head on, threw open the doors and jumped.
 But people were standing in the aisle, they were damned in the smok ing compartment When theey heard the cry of danger from the motormer they were so tightly wedged in that they could not escape. They caught the full force of the collision.
 The news was communicated to sur rounding towns and physicians were sent to the scene of the disaster Farmers and residents of Stauntor rendered what assistance they could The bodies of the dead were dragged from the wreck of the cars. The wousded were made as comfortable as 1t was possible to do.
 Werd of the disaster was sent tc Springfield and help was sent from here Bodies of some of the victims were removed to Carlinville, III.
 Three Traction Officers.
 Three of the victims of the traction horror were officials of the system They were: L. E. Berry, Springfield land commissioner; w. N. Street, as slstant train master at Staunton D v. Black assistant superintendent oi motive power Springfield.
 There are ugly rumors afloat ir Springfield. It is said that old em ployes of the traction system had ex pected a disaster to come as re suit of the extraordinary heavy traffic
 It is said that earlier in the day four train crews mutined and re fused to take their trains out. They gave as their reason according to the report that is in circulation that new men has been disobeying orders by running by switches at which they had been ordered to stop.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
MUST GIVE UP HIS COTTAGE
President Taft VIII Not be Allowed to Extend Ills Lease on the
 Summer Capitol.

Beverly. Oct 6.-The president is to be evicted from his summer white house on the north shore. Admission of this fact was made here.
 He will be permitted to finish his vacation in the Evans cottage at Burgess Point but when he closes the door October IT that will end his oc- cupancy.
 The president would like to return to Burgess Point but Mrs. Robert Dawson Evans, the owner of his cot tage, does not want him. Between the president of the United States and an Italian garden Mrs. Evans prefers the latter. Next summer the house which for two summers has been the official residence of the chief execu. tive will have been razed and an Italian garden will have taken its place.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
HIIl,s work h the World.

4 number of men were crossing Montana in the smoking car of train The mercury was above 100 and the windows of the car were closed to keep out the dust and sand. Thf country was barren and drear, with here and there along the railroad a cluster of newly built and unpainted houses where James J. Hill. the path finder of the northwest. was establish. ing new towns. One passenger, a stranger in that section. inquired;
 '"Ehat country Is this we are pass. Ing through?"
 This" replied another, 'is a sec ton of the universe which God over. looked and Jim Hiu Is trying to fin. Ish the iob"
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
PHoT0GRAPHING ON WAIVE
it is Reported That Amateurs Are Showing Decreased interest In So-
 cletles and at Exhibitions.

Complaints are rife of decreased in. terest in photographic societies and in photographic exhibitions. There are certainly fewer of the latter than there were six or eight years ago, and socie- ties. f not actually less numerous, are on the whole weaker both in numbers and in enthusiasm. In the United States their numbers have decreased 50 or 60 per cent at least. It is easy to deduce from this decay of interest In photography and lessening of the number of amateur photographers, and Indeed. this easy operation has been performed. Simple deductions on com plex questions should always be re- garded with suspicion, and in this case suspicion develops into increduli- ty when 1t is found that side by side with the degeneration of the photo graphic society an increased and ever. increasing business is being done in plates. films and papers.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
Divides Water. of Two Oceans.

Situated exactly at the highest point of the divide of the Rocky Mountains, on the Crows Nest division of the Canadian Pacific railway, in British Columbia, the Summit hotel, of which Andy" Goode, famous hunter and frontiersman, is proprietor, claims a unique distinction. When 1t rains in the mountains the water which falls on the eastern slope of the Summit ho. tel roof trickles away to join tiny riyulet, which in due process of time mingles it's waters with the broad At lantic. The water falling just beyond the ridgepole, on the other side of the roof, flows westerly, and ultimately Into the Pacific.--Wide World
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
Pardonable curlosItY,

That cats occasionally "suck the breath" of sleeping persons is a per sistent belief as recent news items in. dicate. Recently the story was told of cat nearly strangling an infant and the fact was explained on the sup. position that the childs milk-laden breath had attracted the animal But from New York comes the story of n man brought near to the point of death by cat that used his bosom as couch and his chin as a pillow. It Is not impossible that his breath was mllL-laden. but 1t is somewhat improb- able. Without making any insinua. tions, one may be pardoned for won. dering whether or not the cat had been raised in a saloon.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
SKIN DISEASES HUMDRs IN TIE BLOOD

Nature has made ample provision in the moisture and sunshine of the air for the outward protection and healthy condition of the skin. But the more important work of nourish- ing the cuticle has been left to an in- ward source--the blood. It is from
 the circulation that the pores and glands receive their stimulus, and the fbrous tissues are all preserved in healthful state because of con- stant nutriment supplied by the blood. It is only when the circulation be- comes infected with humors or acids that we are troubled with skin affec. tions. The humors producing these troubles are carried through the cir culation direct to the skin, and their irritating or infammatory effect re- mains until the blood is cleansed.
 5. s. $. cures Skin Diseases, because 1t is the greatest of all blood purifiers.
 It goes into the circulation and
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
Sfoo Reward. Sloo

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The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
Mild Justice.

On the bench Judge A. is very stern but at home his wife Is the disciplina rian of the family. One day, says Harper's Magazine, when the parlor was full of callers at the judges housa the door suddenly burst open, and with a whoop his two young sons burs. in. riding their pct goat.
 The judge was looked to by the par ty to give the official rebuke. He roao to the occasion.
 Boys" he said, sternly, take tha, goat out of here this instant Tako it." here his gathering frown made the guests quake inwardIy, take il back to the library. where it belongs.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
A STAND COLLAPSED
SERIOUS ACCIDENT MARS PRIESTS OF PALLAs PARADE AT
 KANSAS CITY.
MORE THAN 50 PEOPLE INJURED
Structure Fell Just as Head of Pro- cesslon Was Passing = Wounded Taken to Hospitals After Receiving Emergency Treatment.

Kansas City, Oct. 6.-At least 6O people were injured, many of them seriously when review stand for the Priests of Pallas parade, erected on the northeast corner of Eleventh street and Troost avenue collapsed. The stand, 50 feet long by l6 feet deep was crowded to it's utmost ca pacity and the list of Injured was largely increased by the fact that the rear end was build upon low ground, throwing everyone in the front seats back upon those who were sitting at the top
 The police patrol in four motor cars-the advance of the multicolored Priests of Pallas Athene-was just passing the stand, when the supports collapsed and 400 spectators were thrown into a screaming heap. The corner was dark, but with the search light on the police motor turned upon the wreckage, police officers jumped into the tangled pile, pulling out the victims.
 
 George Van Loon, a carpenter, 1224 Harrison street, who erected the grandstand and sold the seating priv ilege, was arrested and held at the police station.
 The lights had been turned out along the route on Tenth street, but in the darkness were massed thousands of spectators. Every seat in the grand stand had been sold An hour the crowd had waited for the parade. Then over the hill at Forest avenue the lights of the police motor cars were seen, followed by the gaily decorated car of the directors.
 He 1t comesl"
 The shout was taken up by the thou sands. Four hundred pairs of eyes In the grandstand turned to the adyanc- | ing cars. Four hundred spectators showed and pushed their way for a better view.
 The Stand Collapsed. The grandstand shivered. Then the supports under the middle section | cracked and the seats began to fall. First just the middle rows sank to the ground. But this took the support from the other sections and row after row of men, women and children were falling into the tangled heap of bodies and timbers. The spectators on the outer rows tried to jump, but the col lapse came so suddenly that few es- caped in that way A panic followed. Men and women fought in the dark to pull themselves out of the tangled mass. Children were knocked down and trampled on. Everybody forgot everything except to get out of the dark struggling hole.
 The searchlight of the police motor car was turned upon the wreckage. Il was only this that prevented a greater panic and more severe injuries. Sergt c. W. McQuaid and Lieut.. Charles Ed wards, leading a patrol of police of fiecers, plugged into the tangled pile pulling out woman here and man there. Other officers stood at the edge of the pile and took the in jured as they were handed out.
 Many of the persons pulled from the heap by the police were uninjured but had been buried in the mass Many with scratched faces and cut arms and legs ran into the crowd tc | get away.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
PEAKSYlVAiIIA GERMANS
 HONOR PETER NUHLESDERG
A Statue of the Famous Preacher and Officer in the Continental Army Unveiled on the City Hall
 Plaza In Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, Oct. G.--The celebra tion of German Day was made notable today by the unyelling of statue oi Peter Muhlenberg. the famous preach
 CT who left his pulpit to become an officer in the American army during the revolution. The monument was
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
Catarrh Entirely Relieved.

MT. Ira Henney, Fairfield, Freestone Co., Texas, writes.
 'I am completely cured of all symp- toms of catarrh.
 '1 can truly say that Peruna is the best medicine ever saw. will always recommend Peruna to all my friends, for eatarrh,"
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
catarrss of Head.

Mr.C. Hallock, Antwerp, Ohio, writes
 "My daughter Allie, after taking three bottles of your Peruna, is entirely cured of catarrh of the head of two years standing. We recommend Pe- runa to anybody who has catarrh.n
 Peruna is manufactured by the Peruna Drug Mfg. Co.,, Columbus Ohio.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13

The best plaster. A piece of flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Lint ment and bound on over the affected parts IS superior to plaster and costs only one-tenth as much. For sale by all dealers.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13

Lame back is one of the most com mon forms of muscular rheumatism. A few applications of Chamberlain s Liniment will give relief. For sale by all dealers
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13
You are not experimenting on vour-

You are not experimenting on your self when you take Chamberlain s Cough Remedy for cold as that pre- paration has won it's great reputation and extensive sale by it's remarkable cures of colds, and can always be de- pended upon. It is equally valuable for adults and children and may be given to young children with implicit confidence as it contains no harmful drug Sold by all dealers.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13

pimples, rashes, aud all eruptious of the skin. When s. s. S. las driven out the humors every symptom passea away, the skin is again nourished with cooling, healthful blood, natural evaporation is renewed, and the skin becomes soft and smooth. Book on okIn Diseases aud medical advice free
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The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13

@AA VI REMOVES the acids and humors which are caus- ing the trouble, builds up the " c a k acrid blood, and com- pietely cures Ec- zena, Acne, let ter, Salt Rkeum.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-10-13

Suffered with Kidney Trouble Mr. Robert H. EasOa i've beenm married.
 suffered with kidney and bladder trouble with Peruna made and strong man.
 hfy wife ious but g lands "We both do ced fesfmons feeling refrn for haf Peruna rus'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-09-15
THE MAINE ELECTION.

According to the returns, Maine has
been carried by the Democrats. That
is, Maine has been locally lost. There
is nothing IN the election of the Demo-
cratic nominee to use as a sign of the
way the November elections the country
over will go. The old fetch of Vermont
and Maine being weather vanes means
nothing at all; it has been so many
times exploded. As The American had
occasion to remark in connection with
the victory Of the Republicans last
week in the former state, it did not
signify anything as to the outcome of
the elections throughout the country.
Very much less does the Maine cleo
ton result denote. 1t simply records
the fact that upon entirely local issues
the Republicans lost. The principal is
sue of the campaign related to prohibit
ton, and the aspect of this question
was peculiar to the state. The out
come Of the election, therefore, does
NV - '''e a'isil'79. ueS'ee reiiec' Ma
',o'i%i sentiment II means hothihg Tor
'lie hopes oi lh7 democrats felatlVe 10
'Iie 'le''1 oi 'ne country
NO one I'IeleN1S 10 say 'nat lne one
or the other element Of the Republican
l"i y " III 97 ooti'iiiail' IN 'he next Con
$3.50 Ia 0'iS dllc successes III
MAINE u' not lhulea-e tii"I Ihe Deiho-
o-"''0 Parry WIN oe 9Ireii2 thelieu mater
I"iiy. MI I ldi9Ieo' Inc DeihocraJc
calIulu&te' IS man OF warm perSohaIi-
~ ana HAS ilullltuueS OF iflero9- ills
eiecIloh over ms hepuphcah opponent
was looheo IoE' ana was CONCEDED IN
advance ny many hepuohcahs. Ioe
democrats o. Che state themselves 90
not IegaFd Ite FlcI"rJ as SymptomatIc.