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The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1911-07-20
AT PLAINS
Yoakum County Seat Was Visited
BY The Avalanche Represen-
tatiye-What We foud

Last week we made mention
of a delegation of our business
men visiting Plains and other
parts of the country west of
Lubbock, but we did not have
space sufficient to devote to the
towns as we saw them.
We stayed all night at Plains
and that is the newest town in
that part Of the country hav-
ing been organized in 1907. 1t
is well located on a plat Of land
that has just enough drainage to
make il nice for streets, and
keep it from getting muddy
when il rains. They have a
nicely laid out town with the
court house in the center Of an
oblong plat, and that planted in
trees. which are doing nicely.
They have this ground also plant
ed this year in different varie.
ties Of farm and garden produce,
and il was all looking well, and
will furnish good yield.
In the town there are three
grocery and dry good stores. one
Of which handles a complete
assortment Of hardware. one
drug store. one blacksmith shop.
one hotel one bank. phone system
with long distance connections.
one newspaper. the Yoakum
County News, town land Offices.
two wagon yards. one feed store.
one abstract Office. cold drink
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1911-07-20
FRISCO TO GULF COAST
Believe il Will Build to Kerr
vile And Secure Entrance
Into San Antonio

W. n. Drake. vice president
and general superintendent of
the Frisco, upon his return from
Brentwood Tuesday confirmed
the report from there to the eff
feet that the Yoakum interests
had bought the Brownwood,
North & South. Mr.. Drake said
that the deal was closed by Mr..
Yoakum and Mr.. Winchell Mon
day.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1911-07-20

stand. school building, employ
ing two teachers, in an eight
months school term. Three
church organizations, Methodist.
Baptist and Presbyterian. They
have no church buildings at this
time, but will build in the near
future. Aside from these bust
ness houses, they have a happy
and contented population. and
every one seemed to be getting
along nicely.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1911-07-20

banks that may be located in q
town of given population, one
bank for each 1000 inhabitants
being a fair bases in the opinion
of the legislator.
II think" said the gentleman
in question, that many of the
bank failures could be prevented
if the number Of banks was limit
ed. Their deposits would be
greater and they would not have
TO to take such chances. for COM
petitiye reasons, nor would they
be compelled to offer such fiat
tering inducements as are now
sometimes offered.
II know it is true that the gen.
eral public is under the impress
sion that the average banker IS
too cautious. | think that bank
men generally will bear me out
in the statement that in MANY
instances. where greater caution
should be exerted. owing TO GER
tain conditions greater chances
are taken than would be the case
if competition was not so keen"
Investigation of conditions in
Oklahoma. Kansas and other
states, US well as in Texas have
convinced me that bank failures
are more likely TO occur in towns
where banks are numerous than
in towns where the number is
limited and conditions not so
crowded. " Wichita Daily News.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1911-07-20

tonic. Mr.. Yoakum's plan, it is
declared, is to 90 to the coast
from San Antonio.
Mr.. Yoakum and his party
with the exception Of Mr.. Drake
left Brentwood Monday night
for Brady. Besides Mr.. Yoakum
and Mr.. Winchell. there were:
W. T. Tyler, vice president; w.
G. Nixon, general manager;
and T. G. Jonah. chief engineer.
Star Telegram.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1911-07-20

Judge Henry. of Floydada.
was in the city the first Of the
week shaking hands with
friends.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1911-07-20

CIR. McBroom left accom-
panied by his family. last Friday
for Corpus Christi, where he will
spend several months. His par
ents are now residing in that
city.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1911-07-20

Ink Pads, three sizes at this
Office. "a #
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lessons will be perfectly pre- pared; their recitations well given, and they will attain to that round on the Jade of fame and learning called success. I hey will master all knotty problems, not only in school but in life. They will not re- quire punishing in order to teach them the necessity ot getting their lessons. They study because they love to, are industrious and energeric from principle; their life will be a success.
 Following comes another group of boys whose tagging steps and sullen faces show that the sound of the bell grates harshly upon their ears These boys will prove unruly, unkind and, unlike the other class named will take but lit tie interest in their work, and at the end of the year, in spite of teachers earnest efforts in their behalf, will be but lit tie farther advanced than in the beginning.
 We need not say what the re- suit will be in the latter case, but to these boys parents we wish to say, try to cultivate in their minds a love for the school and school work. See to it that they are in school every day; that their report cards show good grade ol know why such is not the case. In other words see if you cant control your boys anc not depend upon the teacher to do 1t.
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The post department has been having its difficulties, compiling statistics relating to the expense of handling sec ond-class mail matter, in or der that the postage rate of magazines, newspapers, etc., may be re-adjusted. The great postofice building on Pennsylvania Avenue has been lighted several nights while crews of clerks worked over the figures, and every Sunday, usually set apart for rest, has been a full work day at the Department. Every postofice i'll the country has been called upon to furnish information that Is required.
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The Postmaster Genel

The Postmaster Genera that in his forth coming report he will recom- mend that the Parcels Post system be given a trial, by adopting it between post offices at the starting point oi rural routes and extending along the routes themselves and also in respect to local de liveries in cities. Then, if all goes well MT. Hitchcock be lieves the system can be ex tended to gradually cover the entire country.
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 The first production of views of Washington in the great moving picture shows that are to be given the peo- pie of the country, a splendid idea of things as they exist in Washington. Many snap shots of prominent public men are given in the views, and 1t is the intention to display the pictures in every town and city in the country.
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In compliance with the re- cent decision of the Supreme Court, announcement has reached here from New York and New Jersey, that the Standard Oil Company, which was the corporation around which centered the storm of antitrust agitation throughout the country, has passed out of existence. The American Tobacco Company IS also car rying out it's plans of disolu- ton.
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 An exchange says they have invented a new kind of social amusement. It is called an "avoirdupois party" All the girls are weighed, and the weight of each written on piece of paper and put into a hat, and the young men must draw. The young man must go to supper with the girl whose weight he draws, and must pay for her supper at one halfcent per pound. It is very exciting, so lar as the young men are concerned.
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An exchange says that "one- third of the fools in the country think they can beat a lawyer in expounding the law. One half think they can beat the doctor in healing the sick. thirds of them think they can put the minister in a hole in preaching the gospel; and ali of them think they can beat the editor in runs ming d newspaper"
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fl N recent article, pub Ell lished in the Phoenix
 Gazette, the Hon. R. E.. Sloan, Governor of Arizona, gives his opinion of the in terpretation of the constitu- tion in regard to the coming state election. Quite a num- Der of citizens, electors and otherwise were expre S i Il g doubt as to whether the incom- ing electorates shall hold office for a period of one or three years. According to the ex- pression of Gov. R. E. Sloan so expressed, we will hold an other election on the first Tuesday ill November, 1912. So all officers elected in the coming campaign, be elected for a term of one year that is to say that their term will ex
 pire the first Monday in Jan
 uary 1913, unless the frs
 legislature which is supposed
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7 HE OBJECTION to V President Taft's recall

O President l ats recall
 veto was very aptly sta
 ted by an experienced states man, who pointed out that the judges in Massachusetts
 are appointed, and appointed
 for life, while those in Ohio are elected, and elected for only six years. He added: Would MT. Taft have ve- toed a provision like that ill Ohio?' Certainly the differ ence between Ohio and Mas sachuttes is infnitelty greater than that between Ohio and the vetoed Arizona arrange ment. Judges who are elect ted for short terms have to think not only of DO ul a f pleasure, but of machine satis- faction also, as the nomina- tions are usually made by boss es. A judge, who is appoint ed or elected for a long term, with a recall provision, is very much more independent than a judge who is elected for a short term without the recall provision.- Collier Weekly.
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Diarrhoea is always more or less pre4Aaent during September. Be prepared for it. Chamberlain's Collie. Cholera and Diarrboea Remedy is prompt and effectual. It can always be depended upon and is pleasant to take. For sale by all dealers.
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a TTORNEY GENER- "A AL Wright gives his
 ODiniOn that the Great

opinion that the Great Register of the last election must remain a sealed book and that we will have no re- registeration for the coming election, an advice for all Dis trict Attorneys of the Terri tory. It seems to us that it is not quite the proper thing to deprive citizens of Arizona of their votes so to speak, who have been in the Territory, many as long as for two years and less on such an import ant election as will be the com ing one. Now, to assume that when the last registra ton was taken a voter was a resident for eleven months 1t made him illelegible as a voter, now add to that about eleven or twelve months more which will make him a resid- ent of the Territory of about two years don't you think that he would be and should be entitled to vote in the coming election? Then there are some who thru oversight or business, which might have taken them from home, but have been on great registers for years before and who have lived in the Territoryfor years who would very much like to vrte on the coming important issues be deprived of their vote? Then there IS another point to consider, namely the great register of last year. Even though the Board of Supervisors search the County over they could not find en- ough of the Great Registers to supply the clerks at the poles 10 the coming election, consequently they will have to have more Rigesters prin- ted. In the face of these facts and the necessary expense would it not be good policy to gave all citizens ot Arizona a chance to vote in the coming election and order a new registeration? As a mat ter of fact he holds that 8 man who was registered il 1908 and in 1910 Is entitled toa vote. Now to our way o thinking holding the people to a register of that kinc would seem to us as a sort o. a "dead" register as many o1 the voters who voted tha time have changed their resi- sence or have moved to othe States and others still,a dead and fully one third of thu names of the list would be void. Why not give tn lives ones a vote?
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Announcements.
For Justice of the Peace.

I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Justice of the Peace of Winsiow Precinct as an Independent Candidate subject to the voters of Winslow.
 THoS. F. DYE
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to meet the third Monday in
 January of 1912 sees fit to make it otherwise, but 1t is doubtful if they will change
Holbrook argus., 1911-09-19
MARKET, STOCK
 AND RANCE

but were still lar below the run same week a year ago. Cattle are doing well on pastures now, and owners are holding back Colorado and the West particu larly are running short ot a year ago at this tune. These condi- tions would seem to point to heavy runs late this month and in Oct. but there are those who | say the total supply for this fali IS short, and that 1t will come along gradually, and will not be felt in any excessive supply at any time. Owners have ben waiting also for an advance ill the market, or at least, for prices a little frmer than those prevail ing the last few weeks. Middle and upper grades of killing steers made q small advance last week, but quarantines sold a little low CT, and stOckers and feeders quit the week in bad shape. The run today is 26,OOO head, including 2,OOO calves, which Is more in line with usual September Mon day runs than heretofore: Prices are steady to 10 lower today, the best killers holding steady. Top natives brought $500 to- day, yearlings $7.75, short fed steers $5.75 to $7.25. Native pasture cattle are not nearly as good quality as in recent weeks, and the best rarely get abov, $7O.O. Quarintine supplies ar, running double of those of a year ago, but are decreasing each week, 90 cars in the southern division here today, steers steady to 10 lower, at $4 % to $5 25 Thirteen cars of Colorado steers, from Debeque, were here last week, 1124 pounds at $5.2O and S4.95. Steers of same brand and from same range sold at this time last year at $4 65, and weighed 1147 pounds. Butchers grades sell steady today, cows $500 to $5.25, including can ners, bulls $3 % to $4. 40, calves $4.5O to $7.75. Stockers and feeders declined 10 to 25 cents last week, slow and steady to-
 lay, stockers $3.5O to $5.25, feeders $4 25 to $5.s5.
 Hog supplies are increasing, which affords packers opportu nity to enforce declines. This low spot recently was touched the middle of last week, but as supplies have run smaller since then prices have recovered q lit tie. Run is 5000 here today market strong to 5 higher, top $7.35, bulk of sales $7IO to $7.3O. No very great increase in receipts IS expected before the early winter, and it looks like present values should hold good, particularly i'll view of the fact that they are two dollars lower than a year ago at this time.
 Sheep and lambs are running to market in extremely great numbers from the Northwest, and prices are tumbling. Chi cago and Omaha are overloaded every day, the former market
 having 1000 today and Omaha I 5O,OOO. These conditions make
 very mean market for sellers
 Run here today is 12.000, and
 while supplies at thls point are
 fairly heavy, they are nothing
 like the runs at Northern points, and the stuff can be moved here easily. Prices are steady here
 today, best lambs worth $o 50 yearlings $4 25, weathers $3 60 ewes $3.35, bre eading ewes $3. 75
 Feeding lambs bring up to $5 ,;
 and feeding sheep sell in line
 with killers.
 , A. RiCKART,
 Market Correspondent.
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7THE OLD SCHOOL Ok bell again chimes out

' come and as we look forth and see the groups of boys and girls on their way
 to. school, we note some whose elastic step and cheerful faces are highly indicative of the soul and mind, and all such will prove a blessing to them selves, their teachers and their school. Their actions show their anxiety for work; their
Milford chronicle., 1911-01-06

ton Of the cases. The commission
has nevertheless been obliged to
refuse to take a doxen or more New
Castle County cases for lack OF
funds, and has asked the City
Council and the Levy Court to pro-
vide for them at Hope Farm. The
City Council appropriated $500 and
the Levy Court has the matter under
advisement. But, in any case. the
full funds of the Commission are
imperatively needed before such
extra help begins for New Castle
County.
The car exhibit of the dispensary
work has been taken from end to
end Of Delaware with highly educa-
tional results, and school tubercu-
losis exhibits also have been used.
Twenty-Five thousand people have
attended the car exhibit altogether.
The cost Of the exhibit was, 81 400.
o5; the transportation, $558.oo ;
the salary of the demOnstrator.
S37o.53; miscellaneous expenses,
$3.50; total, $2,73S.5S.
The Commission is not salaried,
nor are the doctors who conduct the
dispensary work. Every cent of
the appropriation is therefore spent
directly each year for the care and
cure of consumptives, and for the
protection of the public from con-
tagion
Is it enongh? Mott needs more
to do the work adequately. Two |
things must be done by the 1911
to make the Commits
sion S work adequate for Delaware.
First sufficient funds to provide |
for the sanitarium care of all desti-
tute advanced consumptives. At
present the Wilmington cases can
not all be removed from the families
and neighbOrhoods, which are en-
dangered by their presence. This
Milford chronicle., 1911-01-06

need is imperative, if contagion j.
to be stopped and the homes and
families Of Delaware protected
Other states are doing this as a
matter of course for their people,
WIN not Delaware
Second the provision for more
housing capacity at Hope Farm.
This can be legally done through
the Commission, for the benefit OF
State patients. Other states have
set a liberal example in this way.
Delaware is in sight of adequate
dealing with the tuberculosis prob
lem. A little more will do it. But
without that little more, the right
results can not be attained. The
citizens Of Delaware should con-
slider this full statement of the re-
sources and the work Of the COM
mission, which labors for their
health and protection and should
support the further legislation nee
essary to make the control of tuber-
culosis in Delaware fact instead
of hope.
Milford chronicle., 1911-01-06
Eewsr Lvnohlnns In 1o1n-

LynchiGgs in the United States, ex
cluding murders or killings in armed
race conflicts, numbered only AZ in
1910, against 81 in 1909, 65 in 1908, 81
in 1907, and 6S in 1906.
There are no official records of these
occurrences, and newspaper dispatches
sometimes record as lynchings what
fuller information proves to be mur-
ders. or killings in armed conflicts.
EOf. the AZ lynchings in the year just
de,d all but five were of negroes,
25 of the AZ we're for attacks on
te woman or girls.
ne of the most notable lynchings OF
year was that of Mexican burned
he stake for assaulting and muir
ng white woman at Rock
ngs, Tex, Nov 3.
Milford chronicle., 1911-01-06
THE STATE TUBERCULOSIS
Commission NEED FUNDS

Every citizen in the State of Del
aware ought to know how state
money IS spent. The last legis-
lature, in 1909, appointed a state
tuberculosis Commission, with an
annual appropriation of SIS 900, to
care for INDECENT consumptives and
provide one or more dispensaries in
each county.
How has this money been spent?
and is it adequate for the state
work to be done amang consum-
ptives ? These are question that
ought to be asked and answered:
Nine dispensaries have been es-
tablished, in Wilmington, Smyrna,
Dover, Lewes Georgetown, Mil
ford, Harrington, Seaford, Gieen-
wood. A visiting nurse, in each
county, visits all dispensary pa
tients and keeps records of their
cases. Wilmington has two dis
pensary nurses. The amount of
money required to equip these dis
pensaries has been large, the, equip
ment being standard and complete.
The cost, for all nine dispensaries.
has been SO, .345. 81 in the two years
since the law was passed creating
the commission. The salaries of
the nurses haveamounted to S3,353.
90. The rentals of the dispensarv
rooms to S6SS %. The milk and
eggs and medicines given to desti-
tute patients to, milk, $I,439. 90;
eggs, S33.47; medicines, SI,o73 ST;
total, 2,9o4.o4.
There have been, during this
time, 757 patients treated, visited
and recorded in the dispensaries
This means that al a cost of only
5000 per patient, per year, the
State tuberculosis Commission
now has recorded and largely con-
trolled all those cases of cousump-
tion, in destitute homes, which be
fore this have been left unknown
and uncared for, to spread contag-
ion to their neighborhoods and
communities. No other agency in
Delaware does this preventive work,
which is a priceless work for public
health.
Those destitute cases which could
not be cared for at home, but re-
quire sanitarium care, have been
sent either to Hope Farm, the only
Delaware Sanitarium. or to White
Haven in Pennsylvania.
Cases sent from Sussex County. II
Cases sent from Kent County,. 81
Cases sent from New Castle
County.......................... 63
ColOred cases sent to White
Haven......... ..................... 4 |
Total......... ....................... SO I
The total cost has been S., 2o4.25
an average of sos 40 per
patient. These patients are usually
in the last stages of the disease,
nevertheless a number have been /
with the disease arrested ]
and able to care for themselves at /
home without danger to others.
1t will be seen that New Castle /
County claims very large proper ,
Milford chronicle., 1911-01-06
Rhode lsland Is Crowded.

I node Island has 50S5 people to the
! are mile, thus, according to census
eau figures. leading the list OF he
les in the matter of density of pop
ton.
Jevada, with only seven-tenths of a
.son to the mile, finds a place at
lower end of the table giving these
It's.
Second in the density list Massachu-
it's supports 41S.8 people to the
mare mile; New Jersey, 1917; Con
cticut, 2313, and New York. 1912.
he other states possessing more than
10 to the square mile are: Pennsylva-
a, III; Maryland, 1903; Ohio, III;
alaware, 103, and Illinois, 1907.
Milford chronicle., 1911-01-06
GENERAL MARKETS

PHIL ADELrfflA ~ - oGH
winter clear $500 500 city
fancy, 5Q6.
RYE sLOUR auie- at s46415 per
barrel
VIII tealy Au. geo rev
951R@s644c.
CORN quiet 80. 2 QUIZ e BIC.
OATe ead No white. ESQ
3S15c.; lower eraaea
POULTRY live stead hens laa
16c.: ia r0ostefs lln Dressed
firm; ItfeNs no.De, c eAcIte
fowls, 16c.; old ROSTERS, I1zC.
BUTTER steady; extra creamery,
81c. per Id.
EGGS firm; selected, 42@44c.; near
by, 37c.; western, 3lc.
POTATOES steady, at 5Sq60c. per
bushel.
Milford chronicle., 1911-01-06
Iated MovIna PIeture RandIts.

uOIAA NNNN'tiA 'NNNf~ 4NatN'~ee
PM I~ttef sttanding a moving picture
IStef in Elizabeth, N. j., where they
laid tiat had witnessed a wild west
@rn hCd-up. three young men. who
ave the names Of William Fitzpatrick,
'aul Sven and Adolph Sven, decided
10 emulate the picture bandits.
They lay in wait at Bayway and the
1lng Branch railroad. a lonely spot,
. William Robbie and, pouncing on
finn, they took his wallet, containing
wo 500 bills They then stole his
: watch and left him battered and bleed
, ing on the road.
They wore handkerchiefs as masks,
fbut Robbie recognized one of them
( and described him to the police. Later
: they were arrested in a saloon where
they were spending their loot.
When arraigned before Judge Ma
hon the three declared they had been
attending moving picture place and
thought they could do the hold-up
stunt successfully.
Milford chronicle., 1911-01-06
steer Ropino Winner.

BY roping two steers in one minute
nine and four-fifths seconds, Joe Gard
ner, of Midland, Tex, won the contest
at the National Cowboys second an
nual reunion. o. K. Lawrence, of Sui
phur Okla, was second, and ]. E
Weir, champion of New Mexico, was
third.
Milford chronicle., 1911-01-06
Altoona Boy Killed coastinq.

Stanley Carmaney, the seven-year-
old son of Abraham L. Carmaney. the
head of a department in an Altoona,
Pa, department store was instantly
killed by coming in collision and be-
ing run over by a street car at Fourth
avenue and Fourth street while coast
ing