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Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-12-02
CAUGHT IN 0UlcKSAND.

Fearful Experience of Gilbert Ste
phens Near New York.
Gilbert Stephens is under the care
Of physicians in his home in Silver
Lake Park, New York, and may be
weeks in recovering from the shock
Of a long battle with death in quick
sand.
Stephens had taken a short cut
homeward and stumbled into a de-
preston which was formerly the bed
of a small lake. The place Is widely
known as spotted with dangerous
Quicksands and Stephens found him.
self In the grip of one of them. The
more he struggled to get out tho
deeper he went in. For two hours he
shouted for help until finally his
voice was silenced by the mud which
rose above his shoulders and press'd
on his lungs so that he could hardly
breathe.
The quickssnd had reached his chin
and was pulling him slowly, hut sure
ly, to death by suffocation, when VIII
liam Piscule, q town constable, who
was out duck shooting, saw him and
came running to bis rescue. Piscule
hurriedly picked up an armfui OF
brush and sticks which he threw out
on top of the quicksand. This gave
him a fair fOothold and he reached
down to Stephens, tying the straps Of
his gunbag beneath the helpless man.
shoulders. After a long struggle he
dragged the prisoner out and laid hin
down exhausted on the shore o. the
lake.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-12-02

Bobby North, one Of the stars Of the Fob
lies Of 1910. says: 81 don't believe ever
had such good whiskey rs your Private
Stock. How can you sell 1t for the
pricey'
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-12-02
BATTLE IN A CAVE.

Trapped in Mountain Recess, One Of
Gang Is Shot 70 Death.
Trapped in a mountain cave In
which they had sought concealment
after breaking Jail at West Union.
Ohio, three fugitives had a sharp re-
volver battle with Sheriff C. W. Glib
bony, Of Adams county, KY. One Of
the fugitives was willed and the other
two surrendered.
The men broke jail, ied to the Ohio
river and crossed to the Kentucky
side. The sheriff, with one deputy,
followed, and when he caught up with
the men in the mountains called upon
thsm 10 surrender. The answer was
q bullet from the revolver Of enc az
the men, James Smith- sheytR oihho-
ny's arst shot killed Smith. and tAen
John Gaskins and William Burke esMe
out Of the cave with banda eEtsaded
above their heads. They egFoed %
return 70 Ohio without reSuisitioR-
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-12-02
WAR AGAINST THE
ENEMY OF COTTON
Boil WeeVl Conference Held
In Atlanta.
DECISIVE ACTION IS TAKEN

Approach Of the Boil WeeViI on Geor-
gia Cotton Lands Has Caused the
Planters and Those Interested In
Cotton Growing to 6estIr Them
selves.
The boil weevil conference came to
an end In Atlanta on Wednesday.
For two days representative farEl-
bankers and fertilizer men from all
sections Of the state listened to talks
by experts as to what Georgia may
expect from the invasion OF the boil
veevil In 1912, and at the close these
men turned homeward fully realizing
the gravity of the situation and
equally determined to do all in their
power to prepare for the coming Of
cotton's worst enemy:
The congress, II is believed by many.
will mark the beginning of a new era
in Georgia, an era of better, more In
tensiied and more intelligent farm
ing than the state has ever before
known.
Throughout the entire two days the
fact was stressed that intensified farm
ing Is the only way to successfully
fight the boil weevil.
Heretofore better crops have been
the only incentive offered, but now
while he reward Is the same, a PEN
atty Of total loss OF the cotton crop Is
threatened unless this intensincation
In farming methods Is adhered to.
This the farmers present at the con.
ference heard from the HIPS Of almos.
every speaker that mounted the plat
form, and II Is believed that the truth
was driven home as Il has never been
before.
II this is the case, say the pre-
motors Of the conference, the gather
ing has been glogiously worth while,
were the boil weevil not to be con
sidered at all
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-12-02
GREAT PROPERTY Loss.

New York Fires Cause Loss Of $780,
ooo-Peopie In Panic.
Fires In New York Sunday drove
hundreds OF persons panic-stricken
into the streets and caused property
damage approximating $3.50, 000. There
were no casualties.
Fire destroyed the Throop avenue
Presbyterian church. In Brooklyn, and
caused q panic In the aristocTatic
neighborhood, where apartment dwell.
ers rushed into the streets by hun
dreds- Upwards Of S125. 900 damage
resulted.
Eight twcstory frame dwellings In
q row In the Bronx were burned, the
blaze spreading 20 rapidly that hun
dreds Of psnicstricken people were
compelled 70 Zee In thefr night
eiothesI
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-12-02
"a GIRLS DEAD
IN FACTORY FIRE
Horror Occurs In Boz Factog
In New Jersey.
FIFTY SENT TO HOSPITALS
FIames Spread With Rush and the
Trapped Girls Began to Leap From
Windows Of FactoV-Some Were
Caught In Life Meta tfs

In ten minutes twenty-four girls
were burned. alive in Newark, N. j.,
OF crushed to death on the pavement
in Ieaping from the windows and fire
escapes OF the fourstory brick paper
box factory at Orange and High
streets. Sixteen of the twenty four
bodies recovered have been identified
and six girls are still missing. They
may be among the unidentified or
they may be in the ruins.
Fifty were taken TO hospitals, two
Of whom may die. Among the in
tured Is Joseph z. Sloane, deputy fire
chief, who was caught by the falling
wall and buried in bricks and rub
bish. He Is badly hurt, but may re-
cover.
The rush OF flames was so incred-
ibly swift and threw such unreason-
ing terror into the huddled working
girls on the top story, that the body
of one was found still seated on a
charred stool beside the machine at
which she had been busy when the
Arst CRY of Fire" petriied her with
fright
The building was extremely infiam-
mable and the first gush Of flames cut
OF all possible escape by the stair
ways The elevators made one trip.
but took down no passengers. The
only exit was by two narrow fire es-
capes, the lower platform OF which
was twenty-five feet from the street
Onto these overcrowded and steep
lanes, scorched with heat from lower
windows, pressed forward mob Of
women, blind with panic, driven by
the fire and the others behind them.
A net had been spread beneath the
windows and the girls began to Jump
like rats out Of burning bin was
the way a fireman described the pell
nell descent
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-12-02
PUBLIC SWINDLED I
out OF MILLIONS
Sale Of Bogus Stocks Lodged
Against Firms.
FRAUDULENT use OF MAILS

ter General Hitchcock Took Charge,
Postal inspectors Fell on Two Big
Y. Concerns and Made Arrests
In raids so important that Postmas-
ter General Hitchcock took charge In
person, his inspectors fell on two con-
Germs in New York city which they
charge with swindling the public out
of more than $40,00O,OO0 by fraudulent
use Of the mails.
Sheldon H. Burr, president Of Burr
Brothers; Eugene H. Burr, secretary
and treasurer Of the firm, and Frank
H. Toby, its vice president were AZ
rested in the fist raid and held IN
$4,000 bail each. The government
charged that the firm sold between
$4,000, 900 and S50,O00,O 900 of mining
oil stock worth little or nothing.
Charles L. Vaughn, a director Of
the Continental Wireless Telegraph
and Telephone ompany, incorporated
in Arizona, was taken in the second
raid and held In $4,000 bail. In
spectors say his company has sold
to the amount Of at least $1,000, 900,
which has brought in no return to
the investors. Vaughan Is treasurer
of the Columbia Finance Company,
which acts as fiscal agent for the
Continental Wireless Telegraph and
Telephone Company, and had charge
Of the Continental Office IN New York.
Both raids were further evidence
that the government. in its warfare
against alleged interstate swindlers
means business, and no longer will
be content with issuing fraud orders
denying them the use Of the mails
but will press for convictions on orig
inal charges. The present campaign
began some months ago, and has re
suited in the arrest Of Louis Coils
and his associates, charged with oper
ating a string Of bucket shops; the
officers Of the nited Wireless com
officers of the United Wireless com
pany, the United Exchange of Chicago
the Steel-Miller cotton firm of Cor
NTH, Miss, and more than sixty other
! firms in different parts Of the coun
| try.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-12-02

Al. Hswoods. one Of America's nd
mons 1heatrsal Managers. saga: IN
my stnS ling tr,ier for one gallon q,
kty atfdone o. 6weaish Punch eaca M
/ proFofe TO b. steady custcmer.-
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-12-02
VI { MUREERER.

Bodies Of Tive Boys Found IN Caro-
lima e,Samps.
Guy Rogers and Prentiss Moor,
aged Is and II, respectively, went
hunting Thanksgiving day IN the
svanps Of the Pee Dee river, near
Bennettsville. 8. C.. and later their
bodies were found in Q ditch near
their buggy. They had been muir
deFed-
Circuit court was adjourned and
practically the entire population Of
Bennettsville engaged in search for
the assailants Of the lads.
Rogers was the son OF the county
treasurer
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-12-02
wHptf FANNY poissafa.

oysters IN Turkey Dressing Thought
TO Have Been cause.
Five persons In the family OF =. W.
Gibson, residing In Mobile, Ala, 10
Guiding bis negro cook, were poisoned
from eating oysters and had a narrow
escape nom deeth-
They ate turkey stuffed with oys-
tsrs lsft over frcm tie Thanksgiving
Gin er and soon sfterwerd suffered
s1cruciatinG agony for several houra,
and it was only By Aeroic treatment
Shat their hyes wsre saved ~
Gibson II chief clerk q the United
RFEit CoRpany On eAfS city.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-12-02

Fatal Thanksgiving pInRsr In .
ereesiya Home.
Gertrude 0oldstein, q 10-year-old
BROOKLYN girl. 10 dead In her home
a. the result Of swallowing q turkey
hpDs, with her Thanksgiving day
dinner.
The bone lodged In her. aSsophagus
and could not Be extrseaked. Her
vioisHt coughing merely stirred the
bone and its sharp end finally pierced
the wall Of the sesephagus. causing
great pain fhe sfsi's mother, to
allay her suRsring. gave her some -
20 drink. but the beverage leaked
through the aperture in The guIles
and tFickled down into The luhs. The
child became unccupcioua almost a
saee ana lied vitAeut having 70
gained eoneesousnesA I
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-12-02

Cliff Gordon, tie German Senator" the
actor manager who has made the world
laugh. says: Have never had better Il
quOrs or at better prices. / carry them ev
errwhere with me-"
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Other Members Alarmed.


Rochester Herald: OF Jack Binns,
the Republics wireless hero" the
manager of New York theatrical
agency said:
Il tried my best to land him. went
as high as a thousand a week. But 1t
was no use. a2
'Binns said that on the boards he'd
be as out of place as Hawksleys' boss.
asked him what Hayksley's boss was
and he spun me yarn
He said a man by the name OF
Hawksley went to horse dealer and
said: fs.'.
Looka-here, want to buy a boss,
A useful, all-round. factotum kind o.
boss. You know what mean. A boss
! can ride in the Sons o'tTemperance
parade. A good, quiet, family horse
the wife and babies can trust them
selves to in the cart. A boss the boy
can ride in the spring races, and at the
same time the sorter boss whatll plow
double with an OK on pinch. A boss,
mean ter say
" 'Hawksley,' said the dealer, with a
sour laugh. we don't want the boss to
wait on the table, do YER"
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sight softened his heart. The other
night he hailed the old chap: Come
in and get a drink to warm you up
said the charitable man. You look
half frozen The old man thanked
him warmly, and swallowed the drink.
The following night it was pretty
chilly. The first storm of the year
was making its approaching presence
felt. The charitable man saw his aged
acquaintance, putting a pipe in front
you'll freeze to leath without an over
coat. Here, come back to my Office
with me and I'll get you an old one
shat no longer use. 1t has been
hanging in the Office all fall
$50 the old man thanked him warm
ly and returned with him to get the
overcoat. The next night 1t was freez-
ing and sleeting when my friend passed
on his way home. The old man, wrap
ped in his new coat, was standing in
front OF the skyscraper as usual. My
friend regarded him with pity. i can't
bear to see an old man like you ex-
posed to this storm he said. Here.
Take this so cents and get yourself
nights lodging So the old man took
the so cents and bought a nights
lodging. The next night the charitable
man wondered to see his old friend
standing in front OF the skyscraper in
spite OF the chill wind that swept
through the deep streets of the bank
ing district. Have you no homer he
asked. What do You do down here
everynight?'
!" You bet got home, said the
poor old man, proudly. AN i got a
bully good one, too I'm standing here,
because I'm night Waterman hi this
building and / like TO step outside to:
get nose full of fresh air,
"Now," said Mr.. Forbes, my friends
never looks at the poor old man as ne
hurries to his car"
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PIONEER LIFE co. IS AFTER
RECORD FOR NORTH DAKOTA
Another indication Of Splendid Financial Prosperity Of State
Remarkable Showing Made by This Organization
in Its First Two Years

The Pioneer Life Insurance Co. of
North Dakota. with general offices in
this city, has just started on its third
year Of business 1t begins the third
year under the most favorable aus
pices and with every indication that il
VIII soon be doing the largest business
of any life insurance company operat-
ing within the state.
A statement of the condition of this
company at the close of the years bust
ness ending Dec. 81, 1909 shows that it
now has S1,300,000 worth of insurance
in force and that it stood fourth in the
volume of business done during the
year within the state. When consider
ing the fact that some of the companies
writing insurance in North Dakota
been organized for many years this is
indeed a most remarkable showing and
Is still made more remarkable when 1t
is known that In one year (from Jan.
1903 TO Jan. i 1910l. the company in
creased its insurance so per cent. Al
year ago there was $94O, 900 worth of
insurance In force.
The Pioneer Life ance Co.. was
organized In Septen 1907. being in
its infancy &C the time of the financial
stringency OF 1908 This fact can be
taken as a test Of the stability of the
institution for regardless of this handi-
cap ii seems to have obtained a stand
ing that is almost without parallel in
the early histories OF life insurance
companies.
The steady growth OF financial In
stitution of this kind is but an indica-
ton of the prosperous condition Of the
state and rejects much credit on the
able management under which ii has
been conducted. In looking at the
financial statement OF the company
which shows that 1t stands among the
leading companies writing life insur-
ance in the state, and taking into con-
sideration that IL is competing with
companies that have been perfecting
their organization for years, one Is
bound to concede that 1t is most cred
liable one.
The company has recently reorganiz-
ed its agency and is prepared to start
campaign for business that win make
1t a leader. The officers state that they
expect to stand at the top Of the list
in the amount of business done this
year in the state and they are working
to that end.
Taking the company's motto, Keep
North Dakota Money In North Dakota
and thinking of what 1t implies, there
is no doubt but that the prosperity Of
strictly home institution inn North
Dakota is of advantage in building up
the state financially. As the head on
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M'CUMBER BILL
HITS The TRUSTS
Continued from page One

issuance of additional stock for the
purpose of enlarging or extending the
business Of such corporation or for inn
provements Of betterments and when
stock shall be issued for such purposes
all moneys arising from the sale there
OF shall be used for the purposes for
which such stock was authorized" I'M
fagine the corporations falling around
the neck Of the senior senator Of North
Dakota with their congratulations at
the wording of that paragraph.
And again: "That whenever 1t shall
appear that the cash value of the as
sets of any corporation created here
under is less than the amount OF the
stock outstanding. the said secretary
of commerce and labor shall require
such corporation to call in all outstand-
ing stock and issue new stock in lien
thereof in a sum not In excess OF its as
sets and each holder of such stock
shall be required to surrender his stock
and receive in lieu thereof such new
issue of stock in an amount proportion
ate to his holding"
Under the provisions Of the McCum-
Der bill the secretary of the department
Of commerce and labor is enabled to re-
duce the stock of corporations to corr
respond with the cash value Of the cor
porations assets.
1t is claimed that stock jobbing and
watered stock would come to a sudden
end IL the McCumber bill should be en-
acted into law. The fight doubtless
will prove hard one but with the Taft
administration pledged to various re-
forms 1T is not improbable that the
country will also be afforded some re-
lief in the shape of the McCumber bill.
Would Raise Rural Carriers Pay.
why should a city letter carrier re-
ceive more pay than rural carrier" is
a question Senator McCumiber would
like to have congress answer. There
is no answer possible says SMcCum-
Der. and / propose TO do what can
TO have the salaries of the rural car
riers placed upon q more equitabies
basis
Pursuant to the above declaration
Mr.. McCumber has introduced bill
Tn the senate whereby every rural car
rier serving daily routes OF twenty four
miles or more shall receive $1,000 per
year payable monthly, those serving
less mileage to draw salary In proper
ton to their services. a further pro-
vision that no salary be fixed less than
$500 per year is also provided for. !,
In discussing his bill the sage or
Wahpeton said that rural carriers Ii
anything were being Disseminated
against In the matter OF salaries and
that this was apparent when one takes
into consideration the present salary
Of rural carriers, 1904 to 5000 and the
fact that every rural letter carrier ID
compelled to furnish and maintain
wagon and two horses.
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butterfly. Their breakfast sets were
decorated in this way and the tray
cloth and napkins embroidered to cor
respond. .r
'Tn another family where / some
times go no two people ever had the
same breakfast the same morning. 1t
was a frequent question on meeting
for the first time to inquire. We'll,
what did they give you this morning? p
And in that house know / was often
asked to suggest my favorite break
fast dishes, as it was expected that
each person should have just what she
wanted on her tray.
'In this family there was always one
dish of either eggs, fish or meat on
the tray, beside the usual fruit, cereal.
hot bread or toast and coffee, but
find that in the homes of many very
wealthy people this hearty breakfast
dish is omitted and fruit, cereal, rolls
and coffee are considered sufficient.
Where there are couple Of sisters in
the family their two trays are often
taken into one room and they sit up
in bed and eat their separate break
fasts, at the same time opening their
mail. It's really very pref
ty way Of commencing the day.
Even less luxurious people make use
Of the breakfast tray as an easy way
Of serving breakfast to a guest, and
I've been in homes where the break
fast set was an inexpensive afieir
picked up here and there from the
open patterns now shown in variety
in the big shops. BY studying the
dishes included in an expensive break
fast tray set and then picking out just
what is essential pretty set may be
bought for SO or 81, thought the ones
often see in use must cost anywhere
from $50 to $50"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-01-08
BREAKFAST TRAYS Buster.
More and More People Taking Morn.
I ing Meals in Their Rooms.

ing Meals in Their Rooms.
sits wonderful how the breakfast
in the room habit has spread during
the last year." said a trained nurse.
Five years ago can remember that
this was considered a luxurious thing
and a breakfast tray was sent only to
guest or to some member of the
family who had been out late the
night before.
about two years ago the breakfast
tray became a very usual thing to ex-
.pect and now I find it's almost uni
versal in the homes where go. Break
fast is served downstairs only for the
men of the family, eevry other n. m
Der, including myself. having a won
lerfully equipped little tray sent to
Ter room.
a Some of the breakfast sets are
costly in themselves, not to speak of
he different pieces OF silver that are
nut on the tray. In one home where
nursed recently two buffers were
sept busy from $3.50 in the morning
Until 10 carrying the various indi-
'idual trays to the rooms and the
.ook must have had a nice time of IL
remembering just which breakfast
vent on which tray.
"Often each member Of the family
Aas ner own monogrammed breakfast
ct and the breakfast that each one
likes must go on the special tray bear
ng the right monogram. Another dis
!, inction often made is the color, pink
sYnd white CHINA going to the person
laving pink room and the breakfast
act decorated in blue being taken to
Ihe member OF the family who has a
llue room.
y 'Tn another home remember the
hings belonging to one member of
she family were always marked with
Wowknot and another sister chose a
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list orators and organs are less conf
dent than wnen the campaign opened
though none the less aggressive. some
OF their newspapers practically con-
ceding a small Liberal majority, in
Guiding the Irish and labor contin-
gents-most of them however, pre-
dieting unionist majority though
not with seeming conviction.
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Meggendorfer Blaetter: 'Tf you only
knew how nervous was when / pro-
posed to you!"
"And if you only knew how ner-
vous was until you proposed to mel
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London, Jan. s.-As the election
day which means so much to England
draws near excitement is even higher
than it has been. From Jan. 10 to "a
tthe vote viii be taken and then the
fate of England's hopes and fears will
be known. Daily at the noon hour
the streets are crowded and again in
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the evening listening to stump"
speeches, as they are called in the
states. While public sentiment at
this time undoubtedly favors the bud
get, it is doubtful If 1t will carry.
1t is noticeable, however, that the
leading Liberal orators and newspa-
pers are more confident and increas-
ingly aggressive; whereas the Union
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-01-08
Are You Interested in Mexican
Government Lands?

Have three years option on $1,000
acres OF irrigated land under actual
cultivation and $4,000 acres Of non
irrigated land adjoining the irri-,
gated. A strictly Small Grain prop
osition. Title direct from the Next =
can government. Tract runs along
American border opposite Del Rio.
Texas. Have spent $4,000 adver-
tisdng-result hundreds OF inquiries
now ready for business Partner
wanted with $4,000; big returns.
About my colonization record see
Harpers Magazine. February 1898,
by Kirk Monroe. also Taylor Trott-
wood Magazine, December 1908.
page 22s. Don't write unless you
mean business.
BOX 1874, DEL RIO, TEXAS.