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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
DROPPED 5000 FEET
BALLoONIsT FORGOT TO STRAP
HIMSELF TO TRAPEZE.
Descent So Terrific That He Broke a
Six-Inch Lit b as cleanIy as II 1t
Were Cut bI a Knife.

Asbury Park, N. Hurting out of
the evening sky over the aviation field
at Inter Laken, from the frightful al
titude of 5000 feet, Benjamin Prince,
a parachute jumper, was mangled so
horribly when his body struck the
ground that it could hardly be recog-
nized when it was taken to the
morgue.
The velocity of the unfortunate aer-
onaut's descent was so terrific that
when his head struck a bough of an
apple tree six inches thick the impact
broke the branch as if it had been
shorn of with a keen-edged knife.
The accident was due to the youths
own carelessness. Before swinging
off the ground under the huge hot air
ball in company with his team mate,
James Fleming, Prinz forgot to buckle
his safety belt to the trapeze bar of
the parachute. He was scheduled to
make what is known as a double para
chute drop. When the first parachute
opened, after fall Of 100 feet, the jar
of the sudden check was SO abrupt
that the boy was thrown from his
scant perch and came hurtling earth
ward simultaneously with the second
parachute, which he cut loose in his
agonized effort to grasp the bar.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
TEXAS NEEDING RAIN
COTTON OPENING PREMATURElY
IN VAST TERRITORY.
Little Cotton in Eastern Belt Ready to
Open-WeeviIs Active in Mississippi
and Louisiana.

Memphis. Tenn.-For three success
sive weeks cotton has improved in the
states east of the Mississippi river
and it's promise is now fair to good
The crop is late and would be seri
ously damaged by an early frost
while frost later than usual is needed
to allow the fullest promise to be ma
tured. The plant within the past two
weeks has grown very rapidly, and Il
attaining full size.
Such rains as fell during the past
were very beneficial. They were local
in many sections, however, and the
CarOlinas and parts of Georgia would
be benefited by general precipitation
Even in the earliest sections of this
eastern belt there is very little cotton
that is ready to open and the move
ment to market will be delayed well
into September.
Boil weevils are active in Louisiana
and Mississippi and are doing some
what more harm than was earlier an.
ticipated.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
TWO NEGROES SHOT TO DEATH
Accused . White Man Of Stealing
Their Corn.

Woodbury., Ga.-Because they ac-
cused a white man of stealing corn
from them, two negroes named Love.
land, father and son, were shot to
death late Monday afternoon by a
crowd Of infuriated whites.
The negroes were prosperous farm.
ers. and it is alleged they circulated
reports that corn had been stolen
from them by Oscar Parks, member
of prominent family. Young Parks,
with his four brothers and several
other white men, went to the home
OF the negross to punish them for cir
cnlating the reports. The negroes
were seized by the whites and asked
to retract the reports. This they re.
fused to do, and it Is said prepared
to defend themselves. The white men
at once opened fire and riddled the
negroes with bullets, the latter fall.
ing cead almost at their doorstep.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
LAND GRABBERS' CRAFT
INDIAN VICTIMS WERE HOPE.
LESSlY AT THEIR MERCY.
Minor Threatened With Suit by Guard
ian, Whose Costs Consumed
His Heritage.

Sulphur, Okla.-Details of a scheme
by which land grabbers organized sys-
tematically to enrich themselves at
the expense of minor Indians were re-
lated at the congressional investiga-
tion into Indian land affairs Monday.
In one instance, it was asserted, the
cost of disposing of the property of
an lS-yearold was $2,O75 more than
the property brought, and the condi-
lon which permitted this and similar
deals was declared to be a disgrace
to Oklahoma.
Fearing that the scheme prevailed
generally, Representative Philip H.
Campbell of Kansas, a member of
the investigating committee, had put
on the stand James Marlborough, a
Chickasaw Indian by intermarriage.
do you call this sort of thing graft.
ing" asked Mr.. Campbell; after the
witness had related the circum-
stances.
We'll. The people down our way
think 1t is a scandal that the laws
permit such a thing, and We think
II is time congress takes notice of
the matter.
The probate court at Durant
allowed the guardian to sell for $4,000
a tract OF 140 acres of what is known
as allotted land owned by an 1S-year-
old child. The guardian then put in
claim on the proceeds. The claim
included $3.50 for acting as guardian,
$3.50 for improving the land. $500 for
barn, $50 for posts, $3.50 for fences,
$6S for witness fees and more money
Tor other purposes. 1t was found when
the deed was closed that the child
owed his former guardian $2,O75, and
now the guardian is threatening to
have the property of the child sold in
order to get the $2,O75.
Il know of another case in which
325 acres were sold for an Indian
child. and when all the claims were
paid the child got $3.50 In another
instance $1,000 was obtained for 200
acres. but the child got only s12O. In
other words, the children of deceased
Indians in this state, where are To-
Gated One-third OF all the Indians in
the United States, are systematically
being robbed of the estates allotted
them by the government.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
WENDLING BEHIND IRON BARS
Detectives Covered 1900 Miles in the
Hunt for Alleged Murderer.

Detectives Covered $4,000 Miles in the
Hunt for Alleged Murderer.
Louisville.-Joseph Vending, who
was returned to Louisville Friday, af-
ter a remarkable chase, to stand trial
on the charge of killing little Alma
Kellner, is a prisoner of the common.
wealth of Kentucky.
The return OF Vending to Louis
vile marks the end of probably the
longest chase in detective history. The
return trip from San Francisco to LOU
isville stretches the real hunt Of about
1000 miles to a total of over $4,000
miles.
Four months previous to the discov-
cry of the body Vending had left
Louisville quietly, not even letting his
wife know that he was going away.
When bloody clothing was found in
Weddings room he was charged with
the murder, and the wheels of the
continuous search for Vending were
set in motion.
The evidence against Vending will
be purely circumstantial, according to
Edward Tierney, of the board of pub
lie safety.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
Quotation Marks,

Senator Beveridge, in an after
dinner speech in Cleveland, said of q
corrupt politician:
"The mans excuse is as absurd Al
the excuse that a certain minister Of
fered on being convicted of plagiar
ism.
Brethren said this minister, II
Is true that I occasionally borrow foI
my sermons, but l always acknowl
edge the fact in the pulpit by raising
two fingers at the beginning and two
at the end Of the borrowed matter
thus indicating that 1t is quoted"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
Hey5urn DisIikes "Dixie."

Seattle, Wash.-Senator w. B. Hey.
burn of Idaho created sensation at a
reception given to Congressman T. R.
Haper by stopping the orchestra
while the musicians were playing
Dixie" Col. Hamer had just finished
his address and the orchestra had
started a medley of we'll known airs
About the sixth number in the medley
was Dixie" The senator leaped to
his feet, strobe across to the musi
clans and cried out: This is Repub-
lican meeting. We want no such tunes
here"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
Autos Scatter Mob.

Atlanta-By the use of heavy auto
mobiles as battering rams. the Atlanta
police scattered a mob of several hun
dred men who had grown riotous
while discussing the relative merits
of Hoke Smith and Joe Brown, who
are candidates for the gubernatorial
nAmin lion
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
GRNERAL'S WIDOW IN WANT
Hero Of ChanceIIorsviIIe Did Not At.
tain Wealth..

New York.-Within a stones throw
OF the fashionable and luxuriously ap.
pointed apartment houses that skirt
Morningside Park, the aged widow of
Brig. Gen. George w. Won Schaick, a
hero of Charlottesville and Fred.
ericksburg, was found by reporters on
Monday living in furnished rooms and
in need of the ordinary comforts of
life
Eighteen months ago Gen. Won
Schaick died at the age of so. leav-
ing a brilliant record as a Civil War
soldier
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
UNCLE SAM LIKES LUXURIES
Imports Were Double Those Of 1900
According to Figures Issued.

According to Figures Issued.
Washington. - Two hundred AMI
fifty million dollars worth Of articles
classed as luxuries we're imported into
the United States during the fiscal
year 1910, that total exceeding by
more than twenty-five million dollars
the figures of 1907, the former high
record year, and being actually more
than double those of 1900, according
to statistics of the department of la
Dor and commerce.
The figures show the importation in
1910 of $4S,OOO,OOO worth of diamonds
and other precious stones, $46,000,O00
worth of laces and embroideries. $37,-
100000 in tobacco and cigars and $685.
100000 in wines and liquors.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19

MY friend" said the solemn man
on the railroad tran, do you drink
Intoxicating liquors?"
"Sure!" cried the convivial chap.
'Much obliged for the invitation. Got
. flask with you?
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
Gets Hejoht Record,

Lanark, Scotland. j. Armstrong
Drexel, the American aviator. attained
a worlds altitude record by rising
$3.50 feet. Drexel's flight was the SEN
sation of the aviation meeting.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
The Summer Girl,

How'd you like to be engaged to &
millionaire?"
T was engaged to one all last sum
mer, and he seldom spent a dime.
want to be engaged to a young man
who is down here for two weeks with
about $500 in his roll"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
Japan Suffers Heavily.

Toklo.-The devastation wrought
throughout many districts by the re-
cent floods is appalling. Whole vii
lagos and towns have been washed
away and many lives have been lost.
In the sections of Toxic alone 10000
houses are submerged.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
FOUR RIDE IN AEROPLANE
Flight Accomplished With Apparent
Ease.

Ease.
New YOrk.-A feat in aviation un.
paralleled in this or any other coun-
try was successfully performed on
Hampstead Plains near Mineola Sum-
day when Charles F. Willard took his
biplane into the air carrying three pas
sengers besides himself. Willard took
his three friends a distance of a quar-
ter of a mile at an average height of
twenty feet. Willard called for vol
unteers and R. G. Patterson. Archie
Albin and H. NJ. Willard signified their
willingness to take chance.
Willard tucked them away in all
sorts of positions and finally took his
seat He started the motor going full
power and after running about fifty
feet turned his forward planes up. The
machine shot into the air a distance
Of about twenty feet and then ahead
on an even keel for about a quarter
of a mile, when Willard came back to
earth. Apparently the feat was per-
formed without the slightest difficulty.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
Trespass Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that the
properties "DELTA" and "M'GEHEE
TRACT" "BRIARLAND" and "CLARA
NOOK" or "SHAIFER PLACE." are
posted against hunting or entering upon
ands. violators will Be prosecuted.
(Signed) JAS. P. HARRISON.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
Strong Fight on Cholera.

Washington. - Rigorous measures
have been taken by United States rep.
resentatives abroad to prevent the in
PRODUCTION of cholera into this coun-
try. At the instance Of the public
health service the United States con-
sular offices at Hamburg, Bremen,
Antwerp and Rotterdam and other
ports are working under cabled in.
structions, which require them to de.
tain steerage passengers from chol.
era infected districts in Russia and to
disinfect baggage prior to embarka-
ton
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19

to-day well woman Mrs. W1LLIAN
AHRENs. 9ss W. 21st St. Chicago, III.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harm-
tul drugs, and to-day holds the record
Tor the largest number Of actual cures
Of female diseases Of any similar medi-
cine In the country, and Thousands Of
voluntary testimonials are on Ale in
the Pinkham laboratory ct Lynn.
Mass, from women who have BEEN
cured from almost every form Of
female complaints, Inflammation. MI.
eeration, ,displacements, fibroid tumora.
Irregularities. periodic pains, ,backache.
Indigestion and nervous prostration.
Every such suffering woman owes It to
herself to give Lydia E. Pinkham'o
vegetable Compound q trial.
III you would like special advice
about your case write Q con1iden.
t1al letter to Mrs. Pinkham. at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
You Know Them,

'Is that a new hobby he is riding?"
mo; same old frayed hoss. It's
The new bit and bride that attract at
tention."
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
Trespass Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that all tres.
passing and hunting on BOTANY BAY
and BONDURANT plantations is pro.
hibited and all Violations will be prose-
suted without exception.
MRS. s. NJ. CURRY
JAMES CURRY.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
Cotton Exports GIut Shipments.

New Work-Judging from the scare
ity of freight space aboard outgoing
European steamships, the export trade
is remarkably large. This applies es.
pecially to cotton shipments, the con-
gestion of which in the ports of ship
ment and on every outgoing steamer
is causing much annoyance to export
ers of other freight. About 5000 bales
Of cotton belonging to James A. Pat
ten, the Chicago speculator, is await
ing shipment, and it has been found
impossible to get freight accommoda-
tions for this big shipment.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19
OWES
HER
LIFE TO
Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Chicago, Ill.-"I was troubled with
falling and Inflammation. and the doe
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19

tors said I could not
get well unless I
bad an operation.
/ knew I could not
stand the strain of
one, 30 I wrote to
you sometime ago
about my health
and you told mo
what to do. After
taking Lydia 3.
Pnkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound ard
Blood Purifier 7 am
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-19

LAKE ST. JOSEPH HUNTING CLUB.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-26
EVERYTHING WILL BE READY FOR
GREAT AVIATION MEET HERE
Henry B. Gray Has Narrow
Escape In Auto Accident

Mr.. Gray at the time his friend, A. M.
Lynn. and Chauffeur Brady.
Mr.. Gray, in telling of the accident last
night, said: I'VE were running out Twen-
tieth street at a fair rate of speed. Just
as was the case In the Thompson acct
dent d few days ago, when our car
started to cross Avenue H, buggy came
down the avenue and got directly in front
OF the machine. The only way to prevent
an accident was to run the car into the
curb. But we were going too fast to stop
on the instant and before the car could
be stopped IL hit the porch of the corner
house at Avenue H and Twentieth.
1.-The machine did not upset, and no
one was hurt. although we were pretty
badly frightened. The car was slightly
damaged and is now at the Southern gar
age 20 be repaired. The accident hap
pened about $50 o'clock
II was stated at the garage that the car
was damaged but slightly, and that the
repairs would probably cost 800 or a
little more.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-26
NEED FUND.- FOR
GIRLS SCHOOL

Now that work is actually under way
on the buildings for the Mercy Home In
dustrial school for girls, the board of
managers of the institution has issued
the following:
I'VE do not come to the people with
a fad, nor a chimerical proposition. we
do not ask for luxuries. The crying
need Of this community and the state
is an Industrial school where the way
ward, dependent girl may be taught to
earn an honest living. These girls must
be provided for. Many of them are
honest in purpose-innocent of wrong.
They are even ambitious to learn, but
not a door is open; not a place is pro-
vided where they can be taught, and
efficiency is the only open sesame to
service. Industrial education is the
only solution to the problem.
What will you do about it? The call
is now, and the money must be in hand
to continue the work. The boys are
for by the State Industrial
school at East Lake, and one or two
private schools. The State school at
Montevallo cares for the girls who are
able to pay something, and this insti-
tuition will reach a long neglected class.
The work is auxiliary and under the
care of the board of managers and COM
mittees of the Mercy Home, and from
a long experience they deeply realize the
Importance of it, and ask that the con-
fidence given them the past 10 years in
the work for homeless children will be
extended to them in this undertaking.
The advisory board who will assist Is
as follows:
7. o. Smith, chairman; G. III. Estes,
r. M. Jackson, r. M. Goodall, Job Co.
ing, j. III. Phillips, Robert Jemison, D.
M. Marbury, Culpepper Exum, Walker
Percy, NJ. v. Joseph, w. P. G. Hard
ing, Otto Marx.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-26
Real Estate Transfers

Deeds of conveyance in the following
transactions in real estate in which
amounts of $1,000 or more were involved
were filed yesterday in the office of the
probate court:
$5500-P. B. Watkins to E. E. May ct
al, lot in block ISL, Elyton Land COM
panys survey of Birmingham, fronting
50 feet on the north side of Avenue X
and extending back 14o feet along the
east side of Seventeenth street.
$6000-Mrs. L NJ. Huffman to NJ G.
semer Land and Improvement companys
survey of Bessemer.
s4500-A. B. Ratliff to C. B. McGeever,
part of lots and 8, block $50, Elyton
Land company's survey of Birmingham
fronting 60 feet on the west side of
Twenty-eighth street and extending back
100 feet along the north line of North
Eleventh avenue.
$780,. F. Douglas to r. C. Redus, lot
in block e., Avondale Land company's
survey of Forest Park, fronting 100 feet
on the north side of Summit or South
Fourteenth avenue and extending back
140 feet along the west line of Portland
street.
$410O-Robert c. Redus to Avondale
Land company, same.
$4500-M. L. Cole to Avondale Land
company, lot IL and the west 50 feet of
lot Il, block 60, Avondale Land COM
panys survey of Forest Park
s5OOo-C. w. Smith to Avondale Land
company. lot II and part of the west
half of lot II. block co. Avondale Land
company's survey of Forest Park
$1710-A. +. Sims to William B. Moore,
lot 6, block 10, Woodlawn Realty COM
panys first addition to Woodlawn.
$1130-W NJ. Howell to +. n. PerlSin-
son, lot 5, block 20. survey of owenton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-26
NOT MUCH DOING
IN CITY POLITICS

A Iull in interest in city politics
has developed during the past few days
on account of the fierceness which has
developed in the campaign for county,
state and congressional campaigns. But
while the people generally have appar-
emily lost interest a few seekers after
local offices have been quietly at work
laying their lines.
Much depends upon the city demo-
cratic executive committee. Things al
most reached the point where large
number of the members of the COM
mittee felt a meeting should be held
Immediately but the sudden dying
down of interest has put it off again.
It Is rumored now that the committee
will probably meet about March 20 and
set the date for the primary, which
must be at least &c days after the meet
ing.
1t is almost impossible to start a dis
cussion regarding the mayors race and
matters stand in it just about as they
did six weeks ago. Mayor Frank p.
O'Brien, for reelection, with Repre-
sentative Jere C. King and Police Com
missioner Carl II. Seals casting long
ing eyes at the place form the trio of
candidates. Even these three men are
SO interested in the other elections that
they have apparently almost forgotten
that they were in a political race
themselves.
The Third ward is presenting the
livest thing in municipal circles, where
Atticus H. Mullin Is stirring up things
as an opponent to A. A. Gambill, who
Is out for reelection as alderman from
that ward. The Hoyt- Gambill con-
troversy is still rather fresh in the
minds of the voters of that ward and
the fight between Mr.. Mullin and Mr.
Gambill promises to be one Of the most
Interesting features of the city CAM
paign. Friends of both men are busily
at work and voters in the Third ward
are being buttonholed In great fash
ion. Mr.. Hoyt has removed from the
Third ward, but he Is out making an
active fight for Mr.. Mullin.
There Is lethargy existing in the
other races for aldermen and the vari-
Gus candidates like those for the
mayors place have also apparently for
gotten their announcements.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-26

Henry B. Gray, lieutenant governor of
Alabama and president of the Peoples
Savings Bank and Trust company, had a
narrow escape from death in an automo-
bile accident yesterday evening at $50
o'clock. He was in the handsome Amer
lean car OF his son, II. B. Gray, Jr. The
accident occurred at Avenue H and Twen-
tieth street when a buggy got in the path
of the car and it was necessary for the
chauffeur to run the machine into the
curb in order to prevent a collision.
II is claimed that the machine was run
ming at high speed to take the hill, and 1t
hit the curb with such force that in ran
on across the sidewalk and struck the
porch of the corner house, Sol South
Twentieth street, in which Mrs. e. l..
Little lives. Two wheels on one side of
the cur were wrecked, the fender broken
and the corner of the porch foundation
knocked off. No one was injured par
ticle. Thcre were in the machine besides
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-26

Joseph o. Thompson. the popular chair
man of the republican organization in
Alabama, who was injured Wednesday
in an automobile accident, is still i'm
proving ana his recovery now seems as
sured. During the few days when his lie
has been in danger Mr.. Thompson's ram
ily have been cheered by the expressions
of confidence from his many friends.
More tnan 20 kilograms expressing re-
greet were received, and among the first
was from his chief, President William II.
Taft. Here it is:
"The White House,
washington. D. c.
~. o. Thompson. Birmingham:
IT regret to learn that you were serious
ly injured on Wednesday and sincerely
hope that you are on the way TO compete
recovery. WILLIAM H. TAFT"
Postmaster General Frank II. Hitch
cock wired $50 sorry to learn of your
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-26
SNATCH THIEVES ARE
BUSYING THEMSELVES

Snatch thieves are evidently busying
themselves in tho city. Two bold cases
were reported to the police yesterday.
and the police are somewhat inclined to
the belief that an organized band is work.
Ing here.
A pocietbook was snatched from Mrs.
Mulboarne last night on Second avenue
between Twentieth and Twenty-flrst
streets Mrs. Mulbourne lives at 1920 Third
avenue.
A pooketbook containing SIS was
sna.ched from Mrs. Butler last evening
about o'clock at Twentieth street and
Fifth alley. The thief ran down the alley
and made his escape. Mrs. Butler did
not Kni'w whether he was a negro or q
white man, and could give no description
Of the fellow.
Detoetivcs Wren and Burge are working
On the case but have no clew yet.