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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-12-23

has been on earth it has made
merry at a midwinter feast. The lit
tie children in YOUR house or mine,
and the little children across the
street, are just like other little chill
dren in Russia, in Norway, in France
and in Italy, or the German Father
land who have made ready for their
Christmas trees when the winters sun
has set and the Christina stars are
shining over head
AT the time that the Holy Babe lay
in the manger in Bethlehem to be the
Christmas Babe for the Christian
world the Romans were celebrating
their Saturnalia and trimming willow
wands, as we trim Christmas trees, of
course with a difference. But Just the
same they were celebrating the mid
winter festival. They danced and
sang, gave gifts. and hung wreaths
while across the Alps to the north the
Wild Huntsman was chasing through
the woods to be the terror of all
naughty children.
The Christmas tree honored be-
cause it was evergreen gained fresh
honors when adorned with tapers.
The evergreen was eternal, and the
lights shed glory around. How Jolly
is the raising of the Christmas tree.
How the children love to talk about
it before hand and to trim it, or to get
the gifts from its overladen boughs.
In Germany the whole household
goes to church. In many villages the
church is left in darkness, and the
worshipers carry lighted candles, COM
ing in one by one, until it is a bril-
liant sight When the season is over
the old hymns are sung. "Es list der
Tag des Herrn,' and Christmas greet
ings are heard on every side.
The Julafred, or peare of Christmas,
is publicly proclaimed in Sweden and
Norway The churches are decorated,
and the children are the first to enter
in the gray of the early morning No
o1e is forgotten. The poor are re-
membered with food and clothing, and
best of all the little brothers of the
air, the birds. have a tree hung with
a sheaf of wheat for Christmas cheer
In Holland feasting prevails as it
does everywhere. But the children
set out their wooden shoes for gifts,
and not one is forgotten The prac-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-12-23
CLIMAX TO DARING ROBBERY.
Lone Man Loots Bank, Then Takes
His Life When Cornercd,

Ira Ward, 80 years Of age, who, it
Is said, this morning robbed the State
Bank Of Paradise, at Paradise, Kan,
securing $4,000, killed himself when
surrounded by posse of farmers IA
miles north of that place
Wards suicide came as climax to
a most sensational robbery. He had
made hard ride for liberty, but as
the farmers over the entire section had
been notified by telephone the posse
easily picked up his trail
For five ,ours he eluded the farm
e.s, but about sundown he was sur
rounded
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-12-23
ATHENS CHOSEN BY FARMERS.
As General Headquarters for the Ag-
ricuitural Federation.

80 >>'Si N' iOi tttC S-As5-
ricuitural Federation.
The general headquarters of the
Federated Agricultural Association OF
Georgia We're fixed at Athens in the
concluding session of the farmers
meeting held in Macon. State En-
tomologist w. l.. Worsham at the
morning session thoroughly discussed
the boil weevil, and he presented his
subject in splendid manner
Professor A. G. Soule presided DUR
ing the day until President Scott, OF
Forsyth, was introduced The latter
was enthusiastic in his talk
The educational train to be sent out
in charge of DR.. Soule was indorsed
by the body The next session will
be held in Athens January II and 1S,
when more will be accomplished to-
ward enlisting all agricultural organi-
cations in the movement for the good
of the farmer
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-12-23
RIVIERA RAVkeED BY FLOODS.
Valuable Cultivated Lands Devastated.
Residents Flee For Their Lives.

Valuable Cultivated Lands Devastated.
Residents Flee For Their Lives.
The Italian Riviera has suffered
greatly from the recent storms and
the weather threatens even more loss
Miles of cultivated farms have been
devastated. San Reno is flooded, and
many of the residents of that city
were compelled during the night to
escape from windows, their houses
being surrounded with water. Several
persons have been drowned.
The railway between Bordighera
and the french frontier has been in.
terrupted on account of washouts All
the rivers in the north are at the flood
point. The Tiber also is rising fast
A hill on it's banks on which the vii
lage of Pontenuovo stands iB being
rapidly undermined, and it's collapse
is threatened.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-12-23
Senate CONFIRMS
JOSEPH R. LAMAR
New Justice to Take Oath
Monday.
IS Sized UP BY REALTY MEN
Georgians First Case VIII Be One
Dealing With Cold Storage Eggs.
Up Shortly.

DeaIIn9 WIN Sold storage Eggs.
Oil and Tobacco Trust Cases Come
Up Shortly.
Judge Joseph R. Lamar and Judge
Willis Van de Vanter were confirmed
by the senate as justices of the su-
preme court of the United States, the
new chief justice will take the oath on
Monday next, and the associate jus
tees could be sworn in at the same
time if they are in Washington.
The supreme court adjourns on the
10Th for the Christmas holidays, and
will reconvene on January 8.
If Justice Lamar is not sworn in
on next Monday he will appear on the
latter date and take the oath.
The first case to be called is one
dealing with cold storage eggs.
The Standard Oil and tobacco trust
cases are numbers ana 6.
These will be reached for argument
during the week of January 3.
There was never any opposition to
the confirmation of Justice Lamar.
The judiciary committee of the SEN
ate met this morning and received the
report of the subcommittee, and i'm
mediately agreed to favorable report
to the senate.
Realty Dealers Size Up Lamar.
The real estate dealers of Washing
ton. being keen, alert men, are already
sizing up Justice Lamar with an eye
to business. After the new associate
Justice was confirmed this afternoon
a large fat envelope reached the clerk
of the supreme court addressed to JUS
tice Lamar and marked in large black
letters, please forward"
Real estate in Washington sells by
the square foot Many an aspiring
statesman has found the possession Of
a few square feet to be puzzle to a
suspicious constituency and bid to
ambitious rivals. But with a justice
of the supreme court it is different.
He is a fixture in Washington's social
and political armament. He looks
down from a serene height on the
ephemeral statesman. Others may
come and go, but he stays put.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-12-23
DIXON FILES SUIT.
Author Seeks Damages From the City
of Americus Ca

Author Seeks Damages From the City
of Americus, Ca.
Charging conspiracy on the part Of
two ministers of the gospel and FIVE
members of the city council of Ameri-
Gus, Ca, to prevent the presentation
OF his play, "The Sins of the Father"
in that city, Thomas Dixon has filed
suit in the United States circuit court
against them as defendants for $780,
OC0 damages, actual and punitive.
In the suit the Southern Amusement
Company, as owner and producer of
the play, joins Mr.. Dixon. the author
and the leading actor in the cast,
charging that Rev. l.. Burroughs en-
tered into conspiracy with Rev. r. L..
Bivins to prevent the presentation Of
"The Sins of the Father" in Ameri-
Gus, assigning as a reason for their
action, Immoral tendencies on the
part of the play"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-12-23
CONGRESSMAN COOK STRICKEN.
House Adjourns Out of Respect to
PennsyIvanian's Memory,

Congressman Joel Cook, of the sec
ond Pennsylvania district, comprising
part of this city, is dead. Mr. Cook
was stricken with apoplexy in Wash
ington last Saturday, and failing to
show any Improvement, he was re-
moved to his home in Philadelphia. He
was 6S years old.
After session lasting less than a
quarter of an hour the house ad.
journed out of respect to the memory
of Representative Cook.
The Ulster Unionist council decided,
in view of the Irish political crisis, to
invite tenders for the immediate deliv.
cry of arms and ammunition.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-12-23
GENERAL

GENERAL An emergency fund Of
NEWS several thousand dollars
NOTES. has been raised among
some of the leading Baptist educators
of Alabama as the beginning of a sum
of money which is to be regularly set
aside to aid in eliminating expenses
of the Baptist institutions of Alabama
The work is in charge of J. G. Carter,
of Roanoke, who is chairman of The
educational commission of the Baptist
church.
A. W. Link, a travelling salesman
for the Great Northern Manufacturing
Company, of Chicago, committed sui.
eide at Roanoke, Va, in hotel by
shooting himself in the head. DEAN
was instantaneous. Nothing is known
as to the mans home or family. He
was about 35 years of age.
JOHN Ferguson, farmer, living near
Autreville, S. c., was shot and killed
by his son, Jim. The alleged trouble
was over dividing boundary line be-
tween farms. Young Ferguson was
brought to Abbeville. He claims his
father was cutting him and that he
was forced to shoot.
Mack DoDson, a young white man.
was found dead near the track of the
Interstate Lumber Company's loggin,
road near Quitman, a. He was fear
fully mangled by the logging train.
No one witnessed the accident. Dop-
son was an employee Of the Interstate
company and very well connected.
The hunting season of 1910 cost 113
lives, according to statistics from 23
states collected ~ the Chicago TriD-
une. This is GO iderably more than
were killed during any previous season
of which there is a record. The loss
of life in 1909, was 81; in 1908, 81; In
1lQ- L..
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-12-23
HUGHES FOR PRESIDENCY.

Republicans Have Eye on TIE JUS
tce.
Quiet talk of Charles e. Hughes,
associate justice Of the supreme court,
for the republican presidential nonli-
nation in 1912 has been heard among
prominent republican members of both
branches Of congress this week. The
President Taft does not care to stand
for denomination or that his renomina-
tion would seem inadvisable.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-12-23
FIGHT IN MEXICO.
Federal Troops Routed and Several
Hundred Killed.

Federal troops were completely over
thrown in an engagement lasting sew
eral hours at La Junta, a small town
near Mineca, on the Mexico Northeast
eTn and Orient railroad, according to-
authoritative information received by
the officials at Ell Paso, Texas.
The remnant Of the federal troops,
numbering 150, surrendered their
arms and ammunition and were el-
lowed to depart in the direction of
Chihuahua.
AS telegraph wires were cut in many
places, no details of the battle can be
obtained. A telephone wire running
north through the mountains brought
the news to the Juarez branch of tha
Mexico Northwestern that the federals
were overwhelmingly defeated ana
that the survivors had surrendered.
The federal forces were supposed to
number more than 1000 men and were
in command of Generals Nevarro
and Hernandez.
Prof. Cooper ID. Schmidt, professor
Of mathematics for 81 years in tho
University of Tennessee, and dean Of
the university, died at his home In
Knoxville, Tenn, aged 81.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-12-23
Bu Ullheae D~0pS6iat

"And thou Bethlehem Jud art not least among the
princes of Juda."--Matthew II, g.
%. little town Of Bethlerern, how still we
see thee lie
The song brings back the silent peace Of
Chr1st1nases gone by;
Brings back the oden mystery and sets
the heart a-thrii
With fancies Of the slovv-c-raped frs that
nodded CD the hill,
With memories of rudGy liollts that rlfgIt
would find agloW
Which from the cottage windows flung their
banners on the snow
"Aloove thy deep end cIrear1less sleep the
silent stars SO by
The stars above the little town were very
far and high;
They narched triurnphently from lands
whereof q boy might dream
To other lands that beChoned him with
clawr1's enchanting g1aarn
Bat uTa0sr all the silent stars that marched
from east to west
The little tOv7n-the little town-ContenteI
was at rest.
~Yet in thy Clark streets shineth the over
lasting light
The mellow Iolaze Of memory still leaps
A,@I through its wondrous necromance
the bare trees it illurneS
All pink and white are radiant with snowy
apple blooms
Whose petals, when the winter winds the
branches sway and lift,
Float orearnily away. away, to pile in drift
On drift
The hopes end fears Of all the years are
met in thee tonight"
Are met in every little town seen IN the
Christmas light
For none of US but muses. now when this
old song rs sung,
Of all the blessings that were his wIs,,
head and heart were young
A11c rnfS9r-liAo he counts his store Of
treasures for OF them
lie loulds anew at Christmas time his
tom Of Bethlehenn."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-12-23

James Tunney, a native of Balti-
more and for several years past a
wealthy resident of Gulfport, Miss,
dropped dead in the Harrison county
court. He was a spectator.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-12-23

HEN Christmas bells are
ringing merrily on Christ
mas eve it is pleasant to
think that the whole world
is celebrating, and that as
The oasis., 1910-12-31
Doctor Vsnneman Dangerously III.

Saturday evening information received at Nogales from Douglas conveyed the intelligence that Doctor A. w. Vanneman of that city, formerly at Hermosillo, had been prostrated with an attack of appendicitis and taken to the Cop per Queen hospital at Bisbee on Friday The Douglas newspapers of Saturday received at Nogales Monday conveyed the intelligence that the gentleman had submitted to an operation, which had been performed successfully, and that the patient was resting easily. The following account is from the Douglas International of last Satur- day:
 Doctor A. w. Vanneman was operated upon at the Copper Queen hospital at o'clock this morning for appendicitis and this noon is reported as resting easily. The operation was performed by Doc tors Shine and Miner
 "As stated in the International yesterday Dr. Vanneman was taken up to Bisbee yesterday morning, accompanied by Mrs. Vanneman. Mrs. Vanneman returned to Doug las last evening, but in response to telephone call returned to Bisbee last night, leaving at 10 o'clock. After her arrival the operation was performed"
The oasis., 1910-12-31

be razed to make place for the new building, which will be a very handsome structure. The site is on CalIe Don Luis, adjacent to the Hotel Arcadia.
 Mir. Manuel Y. Loaiza has fitted up as a shoe store the corner of the extensive building in which he opened couple of months ago his new agricultural implement house, and has installed therein an ele- gant stock of American made ladies' and gentlemen's shoes, in great variety and the latest styles. He has included also a fine stock of ready to wear garments for ladies which he finds meeting with. ready sale.
The oasis., 1910-12-31
HERMoSILLo HAPPENINGS.
A Running Account of Recent Occur rences In the Capital City of Sonora.

Mrs. Margarita Cranz of Nogales is visiting in Hermosillo.
 Doctor F. T. Hogeland from San Javier is visiting in Hermosillo.
 Mir. James Penman, from the Verde Grande camp, has been vis- iting Hermosillo this week.
 MT. German Bley, president of the Banco de Sonora, is building a palatial mansion on Calle Don Luis.
 Yesterday morning Capt. James Sheridan of Duluth, Minnesota, who winters at Hermosillo, and has done so dozen years or more,
The oasis., 1910-12-31

arrived from his northern home and is domicled once more at the Hotel Arcadia.
 Barney Cohen reports the Hotel Cohen doing fine business, and he says the house is full all the time.
 Mir. c. s. Roberts of Oakland, California, who is operating in lands in Sonora, returned to Herm. osillo this morning.
 Mr. c. R. Hart of the Sonora Ore Buying Company, went to Imuris this week to attend to an ore ship ment from that place, returning to Hermosillo this morning.
 Mr. Jose Aguilar who had been in the United States, several months at Boston, and later at the City of Mexico, returned home to Hermo- sillo last week.
 Yesterday morning Captain J Campbell Besley the we'll known mining engineer, returned from an extended visit in the East and in California.
 Cantina Central, Hermosillo opposite Banco de Sonora, A. 4 Monteverde, proprietor. Lunche: and Oyster Cocktails. Finest Mex jean cigars. x
 Doctor Carpenter and Doctor Hughitt from E Paso, throat, eye and ear specialists, are visiting Hermosillo professionally and arc at Doctor J. c. Burton's Sonora hospital on Juarez street.
 Mrs. Smith, who has had charge of the dining room at the Hote Cohen several months, has mel with popular approval in her man. agement of the service, and is re- cipient of many we'll deserved com, pliments for the quality of meals she serves.
 The federal government is ac cumulating material and will begir constructin shortly of the new federal huilding upon the site now occupied by the old structure tha served once as a mint. which vii
The oasis., 1910-12-31
SONORA SETTINGS
Shaken Out Here and There In the
 Great State lust Over the line.

Great State Just Over the Line.
 From Verde Grande it is report ed that the churn drill which Is going down after the sulphide ores is bringing up fine indications of such an ore body close at hand.
 Thursday of last week bridge near Nacimiento on the railway up the Yaqui river from Corral was burned out, Catching fire from a locomotive), and trains were abandoned on account of the break.
 The Calumet & Sonora Mining Company which has fine copper property at the Alamo ranche, about twelve miles east from Llano station, on the line of the Sonora railway, has commenced operations, and Mir. Thos. Lake has been made superintendent.
 Information from the Yaqui river region received early in the week was to the effect that the Pima Indians in the village near Onavas, who were ordered eff tbe land they occupied, they being considered trespassers, had threat. ened resistance, and trouble was feared. Troops from Guaymas were sent to the scene.
 Extensive preparations are re- ported in hand at Minas Prietas and La Colorado for enlarging greatly and increasing the milling capacity of both the Colorado and the AmarilIas mills, for the pur- pose of treating a much larger tonnage of ore than heretofore, Mir. George Schroter, the consult ing engineer of the company, has heen visiting the camp recently in connection with the projected en- largements.
 The Santa Eduviges mine, in the Sahuaripa district, near Cieneguita, is packing to the railway at Toni chi, about forty tons of high grade ore which has been contracted by the Sonora Ore Buying Company at Hermosillo. When the ore has all come into Tonichi it will be loaded on the cars and sent to Hermosillo for sampling, and then forwarded to El Paso. It is said to average l0% copper and about 200 ounces in silver per ton.
 Last week THE OASIS made men ton of the sale by Mir. J. L. Burt of Guadalajara, formerly of Her. mOSillo, of a parcel of land out of his great tract of land on the Sonora river below Hermosillo. The sale which was of 25,000 acres, was made to Texas parties for col. onization purposes, and was nego- tiated through Mr. c. s. Roberts of Oakland California. Mir. Roberts is awaiting now another party of investors from Missouri to whom he is negotiating the sale of another 25,000 acre tract from the same party, and they will reach Hermo. sillo tomorrow morning.
The oasis., 1910-12-31
SHOULD BE PROHIBITED.
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 which go to enrich Eastern share holders, leaving nothing for! .!Ari' Eona and Arizonans.
 Reliable information comes to THE OASIS that the great depart ment stores of these companies, which ought to be prohibited, seem to have persistent policy of turn ing down everything Arizonan. Their course seems to be to buy nothing in Arizona, and to ignore systematically all Arizona indus tries. Men travelling for local industries report that they are not even "given a look in," at the department stores of the big min- ing companies. It is related on good authority that representatives of a prominent Arizona industry visiting Bisbee and other camps, were given a reception positively frigid at the company stores. In each instance, so it is said, there "was nothing doing" Eastern wares were preferred, apparently to those offered by Arizona indus tries.
 : In the light of the facts herein enumerated, THE OASIS maintains that the constitution of Arizona should prohibit the big mining companies conducting mercantile business; and in contemplation of the facts set forth in former articles 1t is maintained further that those companies should be subject to regulation and control by. the cor poration commission, which should be given full power to investigate their business and operation, to determine the value of their out put and see that the tax paid was in accordance therewith-and more than all the law should be amended to provide that the full value of the product shall be taxed, instead of but 2596, as now.
 In connection with the foregoing 1t is not amiss to state that in d recent number of tbe Tombstone PrOspecter the statement was made that during the year 1910 the Cop per Queen Company has declared regular quarterly dividends of s2.50 per share, and an extra divi- dend of $2, making total of SIP per share for the year. The par value of the shares is $10. So the dividends are 120%. The capital of the company is $2,0OO 900. The shares cannot be bought at S100 each; and the actual cash value of the property is at least $20,000.000. The total tax paid by the company for 1910, according to the Cochise county newspapers, was $167 ,206 50. So while the property pays taxes amounting to about 836 of it's capi- talization, the tax it pays is but little more than eight-tenths of one ,Nar oapF of fho aofuoI yo lua of ;to
The oasis., 1910-12-31

Gambrinus; Qua y mas: Beer, Lunches.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-03-26
eenefits o. Rapid MiIkIno.

Conclusive tests have shown that
rapidity Is one OF the great essentials
in milking a COW Massage by the
hand on the cows udder excites nerv-
Gus action. which In turn stimulates
action OF the milk glands The more
rapid the massage movements the
greater Is the nervous stimulation OF
gland action and the greater amount
OF milk that will be yielded. One can
learn 10 milk fast as wen as 70 milk
slowly. and when once rapidity Is ac-
quired II is easier than the slow proc
ess good mixer will sit down to
a COW and draw all OF her milk In n
very few minutes. and the faster the
milking Is done the better the COW
seems 70 like II and the fewer move
ments she makes. The COW that is
MIXED slowly Is slow about giving
down her milk. and repeated slow
milking will cause a COW to dry up
sooner than by rapid milking. Nor
West Farmer.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-03-26
.H|hiS FOR FARMERS
Alfalfa For Dairy Cows.

A number OF rations have been
worked our by the Kansas station
showing how the use OF alfalfa for
roughness lessons the need OF expen.
sive concentrates. In these the por-
tons are given In pounds. and each
ration Is sufficient for 1000 pound
cow twenty-four hours. 10 be- given In
two or three feeds: Alfalfa twenty
Eve pounds. corn three and half
pounds. or Katilr corn four pounds; al
falfa twenty pounds. corn six pounds
or Kaffir corn seven pounds. and oats
two pounds. A third representative
ration Is alfalfa fifteen pounds. corn
fodder ten pounds. corn i've pounds
and soy bean meal one and one-half
pounds. A fourth ration. I'm which just
one-half as much alfalfa Is given as
In the trst ration. or ten pounds. I'm.
cludes. In addition. corn fodder fifteen
pounds. corn four pounds and old proc
ess liDseed meal three pounds. IL Is
held by many that the ordinary COW
will eat alfalfa hay and corn or Kaffir
corn In just the proper proportions TO
make balanced ration. Agricultural
Southwest