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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-19
MIDWINTER WEATHER
Snow Storms and Freezing Temperature
in the North and Northwest.

The Sunny South" unlike the North
and Northwest, is free from blizzar1 is
and snow storms, as have been expert
enced in the genial days of April While
The temperature has been cool. no dis
comfort has been felt nor has there
been damage to fruit or growing crops.
On Sunday, April y, nlidwinter
weather, with a fall of snow, prevailed
iii many parts of the middle western
States. At Grand Forks, S. Oak, a
snow and sleet storm, which had ragged
since Friday. developed into blizzard,
and street car traffic was abandoned
Reports indicated the storm was gen
eral throughout the State The temper
ature was several degrees below freez-
ing. St. Joseph, Mo-, reported fall Of
snow, with freezing temperature. Fruit
growers resorted to the use of smudge
pots to protect their orchards, and it was
believed that little damage was done te
the crops. Snow had fallen continuously
for twenty four hours over southeastern
Iowa, and it was unseasonably cold
Springfield H., experienced a heav,
sIiow storm. In Chicago, where it wa.
cold and rainy, few fakes of snow
were seen.
In Shreveport and throughout Louis
lana on Sunday April ", the tempera
ture was genial and bracing TIL,
weather was ideal and rejuvenating
Such is the. contrast.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-19
RFcEIyERsHIp NOTICE.

No. 1sos6-First District Court. Parish
Of Caddo, State Of Louisiana: Re
ceivership of Williams Hardware
Company, Limited.
Notice is hereby given that H. B. Viii
lians, receiver, has this day fled his
final account in said receivership, and
unless opposition be made thereto with
in the time specified by law the same
will be duly homologated as prayed for
Witness the Honorables T. F. Bel
and A. ]. Murff. judges of said court
This the 18th day of March 1910.
a. LEONARD,
March 40 Clerk
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-19
LOCAL RECEIPTS.
This Week
ESTRAY NOTICE.

Taken up by the undersigned on or
about March II. 1910, one solid red COW,
smooth crop in the right ear; has calf.
Also one solid red I-year-old heifer, no
marks or brand. The owner is invited
10 call. prove property and pay expenses.
J.R SAUNDERS.
March 20. 1910 Rsisor, La
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-19
L. ROY FOR COMMISSIONER
OF AGRICULTURE.

Baton Rouge, April Commission
er if Agriculture Schuler. who is in fee
bic health, has told his friends that he
will not again be a candidate Gossip
here has it that V. L. Roy, at present
corn club organizer, may become can
didate for the place. Mr. Roy is widely
known over. the State. and thoroughly
familiar with its agricultural needs.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-19
MoNKHOUsE REsIGNEDe.

Having been indicted by the Grand
Jury for cattle theft, w. E. Monkhouse,
game warden of Caddo parish, has re
signed Mr. Monkhouse pleads not
guilty to the charge and asserts that he
can disprove the indictment.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-19
MRS. LENA BENJAMIN.

The death of Mrs Lena Benjamin
which occurred yesterday morning at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. NJ
Bluestein COS Travis street, has been
recorded. She was aged 68 years, dur
ing thirty-fve years of which she re-
sided in Shreveport. This most estim-
able lady is mourned by all who knew
her. About twenty years ago her hus-
band departed this life. The deceased
is survived by two daughters, Mrs. M.
Bluestein of this city and Mrs. Sara
Marks of Selma, Ala, and two sons,
Louis and Joe Benjamin of this city.
Her grandchildren are Isidore Bluestein
of Pine Bluff, Mrs. H, L. Heilperin OF
Shreveport and Mrs. A. NJ Kaufman OF
Beaumont. also two great grandchildren
The funeral will take place this after
noon at q 80 o'clock from her daugh-
ter's home, COS Travis street. Burial
in Hebrew Rest on Texas avenue Rabbi
Moses Jacobson will officiate.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-19
COTTON MARKET

Office of The Caucasian.
Shreveport, La, April 10, 1910.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-19
SHREVEPORT MARKET.

The market closed steady.
Receipts none.
Sales to factors none.
The river press., 1910-08-24

commission, Martins duties as enum.
orator ended when the district as.
signed to him had been completed and
that therefore he was really not an
enumerator while doing work for
Daley.
Forty'eight hours in the county jail
and fine of 1900 was the sentence
imposed by Judge Rasch in the federal
court this morning upon Jos. Thomp.
son, the Great Falls enumerator con.
victed yesterday Of having made false,
fraudulent and fictitious returns in the
population returns of Great Falls.
In passing sentence Judge Rasch
remarked that he believed Thompson
was more sinned against than SHINING,
but that under the evidence presented
no other verdict could possibly have
been returned by the jury.
The river press., 1910-08-24
Census Enumerator Acquitted.

HELENA, Aug. l9.-The case against
Waldo E. Martin of Great Falls, who
was charged with making false returns
on the census, was dismissed by Judge
Rasch In the federal court here yester.
day. The only Witnesses heard in the
case we're Census Supervisor Leon
Shaw and A. T. Kyle of Great Falls.
Mr.. Kyle was the fret witness for the
defense, but had been asked but . few
questions when Attorney McGiuley,
representing Martin, moved the court
that the case be dismissed. It was
brought out that Martin had been q
regular enumer ator but that he had
finished the district assigned to him
and had then aided Enumerator J.
H. DALEY In his district.
His work in his own district-Little
Chicago-was accepted by the super
visor. The court granted the motion
to dismiss, holding that under his
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local bank for S6 800 and received in
return several smaller drafts on east.
ern banks. he cashed one for $500
and paid some OF his bills, when it
was discovered that the name signed
to the check, Margaret P. O'Brien.
was a forgery and the bank officials
caused his arrest.
LEw1sTowN, Aug. 20.-Early this
morning W. F. Boyer, who had been
in town week conducting q street
photograph outfit, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head.
The man left a saloon, walked up
Main street and stepping back from
the crossing fred the shot. A crowd
instantly gathered but the man was
dead. Nothing is known of Boyer
except that he came here from Butte.
He was 30 years of age and without
money.
GREAT FALLS, Aug. 22.-The board
OF army engineers to examine recls.
nation projects to determine upon the
expenditure of the 500, ,OOO, 900 special
fund has started over the Sun river
project. The board will spend three
days in a physi examination of the
project. Senators Carter, Dixon and
Representative Pray accompanied the
engineers on their visit of inspection.
MIssOULA, Aug. pa report re.
ceived by Manager Pavey of the
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone COM
pany at 3:l5 p. m. from Wallace,
Idaho, says that ten fire fighters are
said to have been trapped and burned
to death at Avery, Montana, on the
line of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
Puget Sound railroad.
GREAT FALLS, Aug. 22.-Thomas
Callahan, rancher residing near
Conrad, was killed Saturday evening
by Jerry Haggerty, q neighboring
rancher. The men had formerly been
partners and bad blood existed be.
tween them. When they met Sstur-
day evening they renewed their quar-.
rel and Haggerty struck Callah an
with his clenched fist. The blow rem.
dered the latter unconscious and be
fell to the ground, dying within a few
minutes. Haggerty was placed in Jail
shortly afterward.
HELENA, Aug. 22.-The attorney
generals Office rendered two opinions
today in response to interrog ations
from different state officials. In the
first, addressed to the county attorney
OF Teton county, it is held that where
property has escaped taxation 1t may
be assessed at any time, II such prop.
erty is in the ownership or under the
control of the same person who owned
and controlled it at the time it should
have been assessed. It is also held
that taxes may not be collected If they
have become barred by the statute of
limitations which would be two years
from the date they become delinquent.
The river press., 1910-08-24
MONTANA BR|EFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days.

"udl V1oS I1dppStlSO III "OOtd0d OuTs
ing the Past Few Days.
HELENA, Aug. 17.-G. S. Tyner, the
former merch ant of Red Lodge, was
found guilty 10 the federal court to-
day of having used the mails to de.
fraud. He will be sentenced Monday.
1t is charged tha in two months Tyner
succeeded 10 getting goods to the am
cunt Of S22, 900 from eastern firms, and
when he went into bankruptcy there
was left only $4,000 worth.
BILLINGS, Aug. 18.-While remov.
ing sidewalk on Second avenue and
Twenty-sixth street north, workmen
picked up an old pocketbook which
was evidently cached under the walk
about one year ago. 1t was found to
contain mortgage deed, conveying
property in Mena. Ark, to John
Flinsbrough, an unused Northern
Pacific railroad ticket from Billings
to Spokane and deposit slip for $500
on the Bank OF Meua, Ark.
MIssoULA, Aug. 1.-THE threshing g
record of this section of the country
is claimed here today by David Hill,
we'll known ranchman, who is op.
Grating threshing outfit in the Mis-.
soula valley. The record was made
at the ranch of Michael Flynn, a few
miles west of town, when it is alleged
one machine and one crew threshed
$500 bushels of grain in eight hours.
BUTTE, August 18. - The Young
Mooney-Kid Forbes bout scheduled
for tonight at the Orpheum theater
has been called off. Under Sheriff
Mike Murray, acting for Sheriff
O'Rourke, who is out Of the city at
present, notified Jerry Mccarthy, the
promoter of the bout, that the aft air
would not be permitted for the reason
that it is supposed to be q prize fight,
which is in violat of the law.
HELENA, Aug. lS.-The city council
last night passed an ordinance which
is designed to prevent the practice of
some unscrupulous hotel and lodging
house keepers who would mulct visi.
tors during fair week or other occas-
ions when many outsiders are attra act
ed to the city, or raising their rates
to outsiders. The ordinance, which
is stringent in its provisions, was
finally whipped into shape and was
passed by the unanimous vote of the
council.
LEwIsTowN, Aug. l7.-Bill Hill,
for whom the officers have been on the
lookout for come time, was arrested
with threshing crew yesterday and
is now in the county jail charged with
grand larceny. In Htll's possession
were found three horses wearing mu.
tilated brands, two OF the animals be.
longing to Ole Vingar. the wool.
grower. Hill has served q term for
horse stealing and he is believed by
the officers to have been engaged in his
old occupation aud taking the stolen
animals across the border into Can.
ada.
LIBBY, Aug. l9.-The jury in the
case OF Vera Prosser, charged will
the murder OF her husband, r. T
Prosser, on q Great Northern train
returned . verdict of not guilty on tn,
grounds of self-detense. The jury wal
out l6 hours.
GLASGOW, Aug. 16.-A party of Ii
government surveyors has arrived ir
charge Of Engineer Van Antwerp ant
is forming two surveying crews t
stsrt work at once on the vast nortl
country between here and the Cana
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but ought TO next year h that " l.. MCtiee,
the former Princeton miller. VII enter
Pennsylvania next fall Mctiee ran tnile
In Z minutes - IS aecOnds " hen h. finished
neCond 20 PAUL In the inter- olieRinte meet
IN iun1 lle went 10 lrhigh and did some
rlnning there. bat has still year ui eligi-
bllty. aud probably Will stay long enough
~ fennsl iNania 90 make that good.
MefUer the freshman star of this year
ought 90 he heard from neat season. hr
Uan run = quarter mile iu IN ssCund-. broad
Jumps netteT than y feet Z inches and
vnult-,i Two years aFo slightly hAiter than
o. iert NerUer also ran 10 fasi over he
low hurdles and u not a had man Tor 10
wards MerUer u made athlete nov
mother good Que Out ~ his year ire=h-
man class j. Hall tho former Merrrr-hurr
hurulrr he b guod performer over
The high hurdles
rrnHsy lyauia B., even developing some
hnmWsr throWprs nov J.. hurdick gvl
fhs weight out isttsr than D 90 ie~t liirl
leiure the inter, oliegiate gaiue~ aud all
no lark- BE- you.i,tEu'I tie has another
year kurdiDk Lane aud Fafri"T, nigh
iumpsr= ALL return Hrnir ue't wear " y
son. who qualified but jid not ~core ~ ~"
broad Jump has another -ea-ou
Penn-ylyauia " ill make 70 stronger show
tng in The field events and hurdles next
year than this from the way thing look
nov The Red and liiue ~ 10 far from
weak Ice Inc track events aud 10 The pros.
perts hold up should make u greater tot NJ
Ut points than this year That i-nt 20 say
that some one else Won't make more than
Penn. however
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" Rouse aud l. 4 Goldsone arrhi-
feCts have ned substitute plans for the
San uno Twelve story store and loft building
a. N0 ~ 10 y East Twenty -second street
shich we're originally nled about last feb-
niary The flsmish Realty Company y
the owner
Plans have been aled for a si1 story apari /.
ment house n he erected IN the south side
% FOrtv--eventh street sg5 feet vest Of
twenty-five families The building win
have a frontage u ~ 9 fret and a depth ~
n feet tseoTge and Edward Blum are The
architects and estimate the cost az t5s n0
The Olympia Realty Construction Company
" The owner % record
lance & Green. architect has hled plans
for making over the lve story dwelling 81
h. northeast corner 81 Lexington avenue
ana Tw enty-eighih street into bachelor
apartH.rufa. with store and Offices ~ a
cost ~ $4,000 W Hearst y the owner
NJ record
The plans filed for new buildings IN the
Borough 81 The Bronx comprise three i've
story brick ienements a. the northwest
corner % Washington avenue and iTaih
street. for GOlde a Cohen. 70 cost u e. On.
= two story hrick dwelling on 7i3th street
Ueat ~ BronNwOod avenue. for MiChele
ARnElaro. ~ cost " 90. a ono story brick
Amusement hall on Westchester avenue
east 81 TAYLOR avenue. for George Devine
~ rost 81. 10. q two story frame dwelling
on college avenue. north 81 ienih street. for
frank J Bergen. 10 cost o. 90 I'VE story
brlck tenement AZ the southeast corner 81
S~ahury avenue and iT2d street for tho V
p CONSTRUCTION Company. 70 cost $50 ON
and two Eve story brick tenements on Vyse
avenue south Of Jennings street for wi lam
linnoft 10 cost So on
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DOrBT IBOTr ROWING COURSE.
star, ard FoIks Thlnk TheO we're Deluded
by TIme PrrSsrmaRrcs.

The result of tho Harvard Cornell varsity
boat race has inspired the Harvard Buii'fn
With = deep distrlst ~ the accuracy Of the
measurement 81 the course IN the Charles
River basin II Will be- remembered thai
Harvard before that race vas reported 20
have rowed me and seven ighths miles
In less than nine minutes. fine Performance
on any water. not 10 mention AXE con
ditiouz Jornel won easily in rough water
IN time considerably more than eleven
minutes. ~ me BvHshn gets me idea that
the course wasn't accurately measured
There j. only one way NJ telling Whsther
a crew - fast says he alumni publication.
and that il by timing it over = measured
course on still water n. for example. tho
points we're nov properly marked the coach
could send the university cAew IN ~ changed
order over the long course and de'ide
whether the eight a. nov maze ~ Il faster
than IL vas before the tornelI race As
thinEa are nov we merely guess and do not
always guess correctly
40 one knows whether The course mos
commonly used h n mile and seyen-eiGh h.
long or not We guess that it is not n n
wer- 40 eight CARED crew IN he world would
10 able 10 row over q iu les than nine
m inufes. a. ~ was said the Harvard crew
DID lust before The tornell rsce
70 the disfanres along he river had
been carefully measured and there had
been an opportunity for making oompaFi-
sons with the times made In earlier years.
ge should not have heard this spring -
much about 4 record breaking freshman
rev and subsequently banned that n
needAd very fadtral change " ~ vas ~
heat Vale. ~ H. predecessors have done
" hen n h IN easy 10 got farts. " j. e ptg
~ rely upon ANYTHING else
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Auction ANNOUNCEMENTS
some ME- Tracts % Ne PIT ~ IN me
NEXT Couule % weeks.

The Ocean Ilonse az Par ROckaway. noted
In the old days for H. sumner gatherings OF
New YOrk = politicians. will BE- sold by Joseph
p Day on June Is by order Of the supreme
Court. The hnstelry contains seyenty-siH
rooms. q II on the corner % Central ave
me and John street The sale will include
an al dining cottage containing eighteen
rooms. Par hockaway Ia increasing In i'm
poTtance AZ q seaside resort due % the I'M
nense sums " money invested there by
larSe really interests. IN addition 70 i4s'
electric service 10 New \ ORR over the ia
maica Bay route and also BY way % valley
Stream. tho ROokauGy section h served by a
high speec ir1lssy On the tracks OF the Long
Island kailroad The area Is provided with
al city improvements and has the police
and nre protection % New Nork city
Dor the estate % Sophia ZNeighaft Bryan
J.. Kennedy will sell at auction on Nednes-
day neat q gentlemanis estate Known
choicest part of Catskill Mountains. The
property consists Of loO acres laid out a. =
park with a large residence and outhuildinrH
The housr contains all modern improve
ments. The furniture IN the dwelling. tarin;
ING implements, carriages and harness will
BE- Included In the sale.
Residents Of the Washington Heights
section are interested IN the plan before the
Board Of kstimate for laying out an under
ground street from fairview avenue near
broadway 20 the subway station az West
lsist stree, and 81. Nicholas avenue. The
tunnel a TO have q width q N feet and
length Of a little over 100 feet and y % be
used BY pedestrians only. Provision has
been made % far for acquiring title "a
little over One-half the length. and Il seems
possible that an easement IN the remaining
distance viii Be secured. u y understood
that the peterborough will give free pas.
saGe on lta elevators when the underground
street Il completed. This Ia Of interest In
connection with the sale BY Joseph 2, Day
this section. Mr.. Day will Offer thirty
three lots on Riverside Drive. Broadway
and Fort Washington avenue. The River
SIDE Drive plots are opposite the G. X. q.
Rulings mansion, the Fort Washington
avenue property h on the highest ground
IN Manhattan. nearly opposite West ia2d
street the Broadway lots are 81 iotth street.
near the Intersection Of Fort Washington
Park
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SEVE NTH AVENUE The tWO three story
and basement dwellings 40 Nos, iei aud
lSl seventh avenue have been sold. They
Occupy plot Ssx50 between Nineteenth
and Twentieth streets
SEVENTY-SIXTH STREET -Pease \ Elli-
man have sold for VI \ Guernsey No. sos
West Saventy-siHth street. q four story
and basement dwelling, on lot 2ix56. "a
q client for occupancy.
SEvENTY-EIGnTH STREET s OagOod
Pell 4 Co. have sold for Paul kaakel 10
client for occupancy No. iSS We4t Sew
enty-ei9hth street, q three story and base
ment dwelling. on lot eOxiO2.7.
FIFTN- SIXTH STREET --Pease &eElliman
have sold No. i2s East Fifty-sixth street
four story and basement dwelling. on
ot 10xlO0. =. to a client for occupancy
Mary " Harper h the owner % record
itsTu STREET John A Clarke has sold
for Marx COhan No aig East ilSth street
q three family house on lot 2axiO0 "a
Clara l.. MAYER. aud has reaold the prop
erty 70 Edward kates who gives IN en-
change two houses af Arverne, l.. I. Mr.
Clarke has also reaold the itSth street
property for Mr.. Hates 20 the i.iedermau
Realty Company
PROSPECT AVENUE. c J -Carew hes
bought the biloxi front on the west side
Of Prospect avenue between iaDth and
Freeman streets, plot 2tSxsix Irregular
GLEASON AVENl THE Mink Constric-
ton Ouipany has sold q two family house
on LOT 25Nt00. one of row lately com.
nleted on the north side % Gleason ave
uue Ans fee, east Of Olmstead avenue
utnnnorf
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10 RiCE To tLBINI.
Eighteen Meteor Beats ENTERED for I.oRE
Distance Event.

The commitSes ~ the New York. Motor
float club has announced the COnditiDus of
tho -econd annual motor boat rare from
New York ~ Albany and return This race
will be started on saturday. July p and up
n date eighteen entries have been fereiyed
Many more Wili be entered before the time
when the entries close on June No. Pour
teen boats started last year and the race
uas won by tho Martha Her actual time
VS. - hours e. minutes and IN corrected
me she hest the Elmo ~. winner Of the
Marblehead race. by fifteen minutes The
race H. FOR motor boats under W feet over
all length. having . wafer line beam Of not
lars than one-ifih of the water line length
and enrolled IN a recognized Yacht club
The start will be oh the clubhouse NJ the
New ! ork Motor Boat club at 9Th street and
Hudson River TO the railroad bridge N
The Albany Yacht Club house md return.
a distance ~ go statute miles The start
Nill b. made a. Z 0ciOgk and all yarht-
must finish before y " on July Al
starter are 20 report 10 The regatta com
mitte- ~ the clubhouse not later than
O'Clock on july. An entry Zee Of A." all
~ charged whi'h includes the measure
The 1000 rules ~ ,hs American Power
Boat Association will govern. No paid
pilots or nsyiRaiorz Will he allowed I'll
boats must be equipped 10 comply with ths
Federal regulations and carry one life
preseTyeT for each member ~ the rreN
Zach captain must keep log giving time
or passing prominent pOtniS. which must
~ handed ~ the committee within Twelve
hour after finishing The New York Motor
Boat club cup will ~ The first prize fhsrr
will be- -e~Ond and third priyes. q time
prize for the bcsf actual time made and o
shield suitably engraved Tor each boat that
finishes The COMMITTEES b. " y Lutte
Ui broadway Walter VI Birling, Julian
Chase. y r Keyser. :. = MoMinn and
"a B EoeFrz IT
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place also In the side streees IN the mid
town district. For example, the property
~ ite West Twenty-third street was
cold h January. lo1a. for t7t.00O, In
June house Of the same sine across ths
atfNet brought 81 .00O. In February. ie0o.
III West tWunty-flfth street was pur-
chased Tor ~. son. while in June The adj
joining house. Of equal sire. brought
sls 500.
A remarkabls illustration % rising
values u found In the Old Arrna property.
On Thirty-hrst street near Broadway.
This, IN Conjunction with two houses IN
the Enr on fhirty-sscOnd street, vas
purchased In July. l0no. by Thomas A.
Sparry for tt7O.00O. In December Mr..
Sperry refused an Offer u n7S.0oO. Tie
has since disposed % the property az a
price which, though not made public, y
NO doubt an advance upon the Oner which
he declined in Decemher
Broadway IN the Long Acre square
district also shows a handsome increase
IN realty values since the panic. The
increase there has been more apparent
IN rentals than In sales. ~ owners are
AZ a rule reflleing now 90 sell az any price
The Mary Fitzgerald holding at the
southeast corner % FOrty-third street
and Broadway was about three yesrs ago
offered az tTO.O0O a year. last year it
was leased % ~. Louis syndicats At
500 000 a year.