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The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-25
TWO iNERIC. MS ARE HELD
MEXICAN FEDERALs TAKE THEM
PRISONERS AS INSURREcTos.
Edward Blatt and Lawrence Converse
Kept incommunicado in Juarez
as Rebel Aids.

FL Paso. Tex, Feb. 25.-The crew
of work tram which reached Juarez
over the Mexican Central report that
Col. Rabaeo has arrived at Lucero. 60
miles south of Juarez. He found the
bridge over a shallow stream de-
stroyed at that point and a freight en-
gine in the stream. The track is bad
ly torn up.
Rabago is said to have detrained at
Lucero.
Madero is reported only Is miles
distant, and a fight seems imminent
some time soon.
Gen. Navarro is reported in Juarez
with the remainder of his command.
Lawrence Converse and Edward Nj.
Blatt, the two young American insur-
rectos captured by Navarro, are held
incommunicado in Juarez. The United
States consul says he can do nothing
for them, and they will have to stand
trial
Gen. Navarro says the young men
told him when captured that they had
left the insurrectos on account of cruel
treatment, and were returning to the
United States.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-25
AGO IN A LEGISLATURE
Largest Legislative sody in the World
to Add Six Members Under
New Census.

Concord, ~ H., Feb. 25.-The New
Hampshire legislature. already the
largest representative body of its kind
in the world, will be increased by
rs 2 result of the recent census, max
ms a total of more than 400.
Fiaures received from Washington
by the legislative committee on appor-
tionment shows that in the redistrict-
ing OF the state there will be gair
cf % Representatives from the larger
cities and towns and a loss of 16 rep
reseAtatiyes from the rural communi-
ties giving a net gain of seven mem
bers fer the lower house.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-25
Women Attack Women.

No violence had previously been Of
fered to the strike breakers by the
locked out hands At the closing hour,
while the non-union workers were pro
oeeding to the quarters in which the
company is sheltering them under
guard a mob of $50 men, women and
children formed and followed them.
ieering, hooting and throwing missiles
Just as they came in sight of their
uarters, the mob suddenly charged
the guards and attacked the workers.
The women in the mob singled out the
women strike breakers for their prey
and the men and boys attacked the
others. A fierce battle ensued before
the guards drove off the assailants.
Sheriff Smith, fearing another at
tack, the strikers being in an ugly
temper. decided to take no chances
and asked the governor for aid. \
No serious casualties We're reported.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-25
FIRE IN T0N0PAH SHAFT
Twelve Miners Are Dead and Several
Rescuers Are Overcome
by Smoke.

Tonopah New. Feb. 25.-Rescus par
ties under the leadership OF State
Mine Inspector Ryan have come from
Reno with safety fire helmets to assist
in the work Of rescuing a large num-
Der Of miners entombed in the Bel
mont mine here, which has been burn
ing q hours
While officials of the mine admit
that Il miners are dead. It is fcare !
that the total fatalities viii be consid-
erably larger than that figure.
The fire started i'm the lumber yard
Of the mine ard quickly spread until
The flames had penetrated the main
shaft In a short time all these com
partments Of the shaft were burning.
How many men were In the mine at
the time can not he accurately ascer-
talned but the mine authorities admit
that at least Il were at work. Res
cuers entered the mine at once, but
fought the fire under difficulties as
they had no fire helmets TO afford pro-
lection.
Scores Of resCuers we're overcome In
the lower levels and were quickly
hoisted to The surface.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-25
FOLLOWING RIOTS AT TAYLOR
WILLIE, ILL, THREE COMPA-
MES CALLED OUT.
ACTION BY GOV. DENEEN
Non-unlon Workers at Bag Factory
Set Upon by Mob as They Leave
lant-2epetition Of the
Trouble Is Feared.

Tayl0ryille, H., Feb. 25.-Following
an attack by mob Of union workers
and sympathizers on a party of about
80 non-union workers employed at the
E-Z Bag Opener works, in which a
score OF the women attackd were Sc
yerely bruised by women in the at
tacking party, Gov. Deneen, in re-
sronse to an appeal from Sheriff j. II.
smith. ordered three companies of the
state militia TO proceed at once to the
scene from Springfield, Shelbyville and
Decatur.
Tayloryille is the county seat of
Christian county, and the bag works is
about three-quarters Of a mile north
OF the city The company employs
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-25
GUATEMALASEEKS CHANGE
Revolution said to be Brewing Against
President cabrera-Effort Made
to Buy Gunboat.

New Orleans, Feb. 25.-That a rev.
olution against President Estra Ca
brera Of Guatemala is brewing is told
in mail advices received here Clan
destine arrangements are under way,
it is said, for the purchase of the for
mer United States gunboat Winslow,
to be converted into a filibusterer
II IS said the Zelaya party in Mica
raeua is behind the rebel junta and
that Americans are concerned in it.
Part of the finances are said to have
come from Americans seeking conces-
sion In Guatemala
The LEGAL bureau Of the revolution-
ary "arty has started camr a'rn Of
pub 7' sending th usands Of letters
broadcast alleging misgovern mcnt on
the pant of President Cabrera
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-25
IIY DELAY L0HINER VJTE
-ov UNCERTAIN WHEN IT CAN
BE TAKEN.
.,,tors May Hold of for Week
severidge Continues His
strong Attack.

,.hiroton Feb. 25.-The final vote
tha npseaHng of William Lorimer
,ho senate may not come about now
soraral days. It is feared that the
aonents will try to hold out until a
laol, Of least has elapsed. Although
attempt has been made several
.nos 70 fix a date for vote, the move
T.. been successfully blocked.
/ senator Beverdge has been the sub
|.ct Of much criticism because of the
4 Ealov he has already occasioned. Bev-
[ridee asserted Lorimer's speech did
Iot touch the essential points at stake
nd said It was nothing more than in
teresting.
uo took I'D the various incidents re-
caed by Lorimer and warmly criti-
cisod each. He declared he would not
allow his Judgment to be warped by a
and fervid appeal.
During Beverldge's attack the crowd
Al galleries applauded him and showed
much sympathy. He got the better of
Senator Depew in an argument when
Mr. Depew objected to some of his as
,rtions and at no time was he lacking
IN a ready answer when a question
Vas asked,
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-25
MRS. NATION RECOVERING
Foe OF Saloons Expects to Get Out of
Hospital March life Was
Despaired of.

Leavenworth, Kas,, Feb. 25.--Woe
be to the jointists, Carrie Nation is
getting we'll Mrs. Nation, who has
been under treatment in a hospital
for a month, is greatly improved in
health, although physicians recently
gave up hope for her recovery.
Mrs. Nation is suffering from a ner-
yous breakdown, but her mental CON
dtion is now so satisfactory that she
is taking treatment for her eyes from
a specialist. She expects to leave the
hospital March l.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-25
DIE IN MINE EXPLOSION
solid Firing Causes Five Deaths in
Workings at Hymera,
Indiana.

Hymera, Ind, Feb. 25.-An explo.
SION OF dust, caused by solid firing. re.
suited in the fatal burning of Ave
miners IN the Hamilton coal mine,
owned by the Rock Island Railroad
company,
Inc explosion was in the mine en-.
=! ana nothing but the fact of its
peihg % at nieht kept the disaster from
badly damaeel
titled.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-25
WANT KETCHELL SLAYERS
llaheas Corpus Proceedings Begun to
Secure Freedom Of DlpIey and
Godie Smith.

Jefferson City, Mo. Feb. 25.-Ha-
beas corpus proceedings were insti-
tuted by George Clay, attorney of Jop-
lin. in behalf of Walter Dipley and
Gcldie Smith. slayers Of Stanley
Ketchen, the champion middleweight
pugilist An attempt is made to re-
lease them from the penitentIary en-
bail pending their appeal to the SUI
preme court
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-25
Indian Suspect Kills Himself.

Yreka, Cal, Feb. 25.--George II.
Nichols, the half-breed Indian who
was reported to have killed his mining
partner, John Dobbins, near Gilta,
killed himself later by shooting him.
self in the head. The body was found
on the mine trail.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-25

about $50 hands, men, women and
children who have been out on a
strike for four months, demanding
shorter hours and higher wages. The
places of most of them have been
supplied by hands from Chicago, and
the plant has been running On half
time.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-25
90 Years for K,IIiag srother-in-Law,

Marion, Ill, Teb 25.-Henry White
house was convicted Of the murder OF
his brother-in-law. William Gresham.
near here last November. He was
sentenced to 40 years in the Southern
Illinois penitentiary. After the killing
Whitehouse fed to WLlburton, Okla.
where he was captured.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-25

W.T.. Poaee aaatored in Haytl.
nav, Y ssiln .op FEB. 25.-Tne govern
CT 'sor, Oh Hayii has advised the stats
Con-. ola, llisAt taat the revolution in that
,hs. 1'.ly practically is at an end. and
-. sne A'es q foreigners are secure
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-25
psrlshss In Alaskan Blizzard.

Nome, Alaska, Feb. 25.-Lieut. s. d.
West, United States army, of Fort
Davis, was frozen to death five miles
from Tishou, while out III one of the
seyerest blizZards ever known here.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-10-05
LO G A l. S &.

Use Curlin's Skeeter Skare.

Use Curlin's Skeeter Skare. II
Garden hose at f. s. Cronk Co. tt
F. S. Cronk Co. sell galvanized
roofing cheap. tt
Fred Lawrence has returned from
the Electra oil fields,
John Spalding has returned from
a trip TO Wichita Falls.
Miss Bette Orr of Red Oak visit
ed Mrs. Levina Andrews last week.
Try dish of Smiths ice cream.
the best in the city At Pete's foun
tain. 159
The only place you can get
Smiths ice cream is at Pete's foun-
tain. l59
The Waxahachie Grain Co. has a
full line of feed and fuel at attract
i've prices. If
A fine girl was born yesterday TO
County Superintendent and Mrs. F..
G. Grafton.
We sell from TO to 80 gallons Of
| Smiths ice cream every day. Try IT,,
| 1t is fine At Pete's fountain 159
! We have those japanese and Chin
ese Mating Art Squares. now for
$3.50 and $3.50 r. f. Moore Furni-
ture Co. If
| Bath room ware sucn as glass
towel bar, glass shelf, soap dish,
| tumbler holder, etc, on display at
IF. s. Cronk Co.'S. f
There's something doing down our
way. We are selling bargains in all
kinds furniture and stoves, Come get
| our prices r e. Moore Furniture
| Co. II
Mrs P F. Davenport is having her
studio remodeled which will not be
excelled by any in the state. That is
the place to go when you want your
! photos made, n
We are selling some OF the pref
tiest 9x12 Administer art squares.
worth $500 now for only $4,000.
other sizes In proportion r r.
Moore Furniture Co. n
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-10-05
FLORIDA
The Land of Fruit. Flowers
and Fortune.

There is, perhaps, no assef-
ton truer than the above. Fruits
grown in Florida are noted the
world over for their lusciousness
and flavor and flowers grown in
Florida of the rarest hue and sweet
est scent and odor The fortunes al
luded to in this announcement are
being acquired by the holders of the
acres of perpetual production in the
east coast of this "Flowery King
dom, where soil and climate COM
bine to make life worth living. No
malaria, no rheumatism, no tubercu-
losis to destroy your loved ones;
but health and sunshine every day
throughout the year, where YOU can
plant and pillow and seed will germi-
nate and grow every hour of every
day, of every week, every month of
the entire year. With the markets
of the world at your door, with the
swiftest trains on the continent to
carry the products of your fields 70
the American markets in the north
and the markets of foreign coun-
swift sailing grayhounds of the sea,
over production can never occur IN
this favored district. In January and
February, when our great cities OF
the north are wrapped in mantle
of ice and snow, with freezing tenn
perature in New York, Philadelphia,
Boston, Baltimore and Chicago, and
even st. louis, the Florida farmer
and truck grower is placing on the
market of the northern cities straw
berries, roasting ears. green beans,
peas, Irish potatoes, tomatoes
squash, cantaloupe and all the green
vegetables that mortal pallets crave,
besides oranges, figs, grape fruit,
cocoa nuts, bananas, pine apples,
and in fact every high priced fruit
and vegetable known in the tropics.
And for the benefit of those who buy
| | will say 1t is here you will find the
| fruits of the tropics grow side by
| side and babies bloom like roses
| Five acres of this land is enough.
This amount will support family
and then allow the head of the fam
lily to place a snug amount in the
bank each year People of this dis
trict don't understand, don't realize
that small, we'll titled farms are fai
more productive than the large
farms titled by ordinary method.
for forty centuries. Egypt was th'
| granary of the nations, Warriors
historians, scholars, statesmen, ar
fists and poets and men and womeI
of the highest types of intellectual
ty flourished on the shores of tn
Nile. For forty centuries the pyra
mids looked down on agriculture
Egypt and on people who had new
err hungered nor been PROSTATE
} by toll, and still small holdings, wei
TILED, though by the crudest meth
DDS, supported the people whose &c
+ MUS emblazoned an empire, the lu'
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-10-05

tire OF which even time can not ef-
face. The large farm must go. We
are doubling our population every
20 years, or thereabout. There Is no
more productive land. Our holdings
must be reduced to small tracts.
Then the important point is to have
your small tract located In elm
ate that will admit of your small
tract producing continuously thru
out the year Common sense tells
you that for five acres to support
family and earn amounts like our
lands earn annually. that five acres
must be located in climate that
rupted production. No one crop land
can do this. Here you are feeding
your work stock through a long Pc
riod of enforced idleness and your
land is not producing through this
period of each year, and to the peo-
pie of moderate means | will say,
fortunate indeed are you to have an
opportunity to purchase these Flort-
da lands at the nominal figure we
sell them to you for, and under the
terms there is no one with their
health but can avail themselves of
this opportunity. We have sworn af-
fidavits of as high as $4,000 in on
year from five acres of land in our
district Our company is one OF the
largest and solidest financial con-
Germs in the United States. They will
do what they say they will do. If the
your Honey is refunded and 81, 600
for examining the proposition. IF 1t
is like they represent it, then you
have made your fortune and gained
your independence. Come to the
Rogers hotel and talk to Mr.. Carroll.
Mr., Reid and Mr.. Cox. Go over the
proposition, see for yourself. Any
thing pertaining to this land is open
and above board These gentlemen
will furnish you with facts and fig
ures and then you can refer to state
or national authorities and find out
the truth or falsity of facts and fig
ures furnished by this company. You
people have never had an oppor
tunity to buy land backed up as this |
land is. by high government author
tiles. Call at the hotel and be con- |
vinced This is a colonization propo
sition If you had all the money |
n town you could only get limited (
amount of this land, so many people
IN so many acres is the object of !
his company. Fine rock roads. good
schools, good churches, high type
# modernized civilization Ten dol
ars cash, $40 per month, no taxes.
10 interest. We have about 800 of
hese contracts left. They are selling
zee Carroll, Reid and Cox.
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II. f. Plumhoff of Nashville,
III, arrived in the city last night
and will spend the winter with his
sons in Billiard Heights.
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See that Fuller & Johnson pump
ing engine at F. S. Cronk Co.'S. It's
cheaper and more reliable than
wind mill No trouble to show you
how it works II
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X. OF 2. Notice.

Regular meeting of Stonewall
lodge No. 13, X. of p, tonight, and
every member is urged to be pres
ent Work will begin at 1880, sharp.
TOM P. WHIPPLE, G. c.
V. TRIPPET, X. r. S.
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One of the cleverest college plays
now presented on the stage-good
dialogue, plenty of comic situations
lis the comedy at the opera house
Friday night See cast of characters
sc
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NOTICE. want a home for
bright boy ! Y years of age. For ia
formation write P. O. Box 294, Wax
ahachie, Texas. 151p
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Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Williams have
returned from their bridal trip and
are spending the day with DR.. and
Mrs. c. w simpson
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Tickets for the entertainment, AT
the End of the Rainbow Friday
night at the opera house, are now
on sale at Curlin's Drug store. $50
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Notice.

All members of the Woodmen Cir
Gle and their families are expected
to be at the w. 0, w. hall Thursday
at 8 p. m. lof
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Mrs. Mullins of Mayfield. Ky,
tnee Miss Susie Fristoe) is visiting
her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Fristoe,
on College street
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Our ice cream comes from Smiths
Ice Cream factory at Dallas every
day, nice and fresh. At Pete's foun-
tain. 1853
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We have an immense stock of fur
niture and stoves Come get our pri-
ces before you buy. R. e. Moore Fur
niture Co. n
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Remember Friday night AT the
End of the Rainbow. Opera house,
Sis. Admission 25 and Csc. rs
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Winesap apples at $1.00 per BUSH
ell are cheaper than Irish potato
for food Roswell Apple Merchant
1872
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$40 ACRES-For Sale, or will trade
for Ellis county land, one section of
land IN Moore County, Texas If in
terested see j. R. Mayhem. If
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FOR SALE-Five passenger 1850
automobile, in good running order.
Will sell at bargain for cash. w. c.
Dalton. East Side Square, Waxaha-
chic. If
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FOR TRADE,-House and lot near
high school in Waxahachie TO,
teams, tools and crop for next year.
Information, Daily Light. 16i
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FOR SALE--A No. ) Oliver type
writer, good as new. If sold at once,
a bargain See w d Fletcher at
Durham's. %
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Help the monument fund b., com
ing to see the Kappi Chi pa, Frida,
night. 81
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VERHEYDEN'S TAILOR SHOP for
up to date cleaning, pressing and
repairing. Latest styles of tailor
made suits. All work guaranteed.
Phone H. If
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JOHN DAVENPORT, up-to-date liv-
cry and boarding stable, agent for
the celebrated Columbus buggies
Cash or installments. Both phones
No. 2 Gap
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Get your winter blooming bulbs
now Bird Forrest. If
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licensed to We'd.
Fred l.. Newton and Lena Banner.
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LOOK OUT for bargains in Maya
zines | have the lowest, f F Owen,
Curlin's Two Drug Stores. II
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WANTED--Man and wife without
children or two girls TO board and
room Phone $40. p. NJ. P1rks -
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FOR RENT-One four room house
on Dunn street Apply to McDuffie
Grocery Co. tt
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FOR SALE-Desirable residence
property. Commission to party eff
fecting sale See DR. W. T. West. tt
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WANTED-Plain sewing. Mrs. R. l..
Timmins, 307 North Rogers street. #
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WANTED-Two furnished rooms for
light housekeeping, close in on
Franklin or jefferson streets Phone
1879 II
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FOR SALE-First class white rock
farm Good improvements. Land
.,,.,,e~. ADvery cent owner asks. IL
sold within ten days will give pos
session and turn over crop. Bargain.
See j. D. Hood & Co. over Matthews
Cannon Co. 90
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CLEANING, PRESSING and repair
ing All work guaranteed Phone
17S. Matthews-Ga Co II
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FOR SALE-A first class Grayson
county farm, about 400 yards from
city limits of Van Alstyne on Dallas
beautiful one. The farm is a genu
inc black waXy one on public road.
Two sets of good improvements, No
Johnson grass This is one of the
very best farms in Grayson county.
Van Alstyne is good up-to-date
town with good schools and chur-
ches. t89 acres. Price $125 per
acre. j. B. Moore, Van Alstyne, Tex
as. 1852
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FOR SALE-My home on Kaufman
street See W. R. Bratcher. tt
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FOR SALE-My home in West End.
w B. Howell. II
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r. d. McCOMBS. all kinds of insur
ance and bonds. tt
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WEATHER-Tonig and Friday
generally fair. Max. 80, Min. 10.