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The hotel management declares ~

that MT. Morton was no stranger at the hotel He had called there sev- era1 times they said. They said they thought he came to see MT. Kiernan, although they would not be sure about that. When they were asked where Kiernan might be found, the hotel attaches said he had gono to a theater, and might not be back.
 MT. Morton attended meeting of the Equitable directors at noon, his brother, who is a stockholder in the society going with him. They lunch ed together and after they departed Paul Morton spoke to his brother about talk ng dinner at the Fifth ave- nue home,
 .'I'll be there promptly at o'clock said Paul Morton.
 Joy Merton left his brother in the latters office in the Equitable He had business engagement during the afternoon and when it was over went to his brothers home Paul Morton did not speak to his brother of any engagement with Lawyer Kiernan nor did he say he~intended go ng to the Seymour Hotel.
 According to the information given to Coroner Feinberg, it was about 30 o'clock when a hall boy passing through the hall on the fifth floor of the hotel, saw MT. Morton lying on the floor in front of room b. The boy hurried downstairs and told of his discovery. Clerks rushed up and MT. Morton, accord ng to the word given out by the Coroner and the ho- tel attaches, was carried into the room. He was unconscious and breathing heavily.
 Hurried telephone calls were sent for a physician. An effort was made to get the house physician and when that failed Dr. Charles c. ,Barrows was summoned Word was also sent to Mr. Morton's family physician, Dp Isaac Adler. Drs. Adler and Bar rows reached the hotel with n fifteen minutes after being called. MT. Mor ton was then lying upon the bed in room 55. The physicians administer ed restoratives, but he failed to re- spond He died at 6:45 o'clock with out having regained consciousness.
 It was eght o'clock before word reached the outside world of MT. Mor- tons death In the meantime the coroner had been notified by the doc tors. He reached the hotel at 8:30 and had a secret talk with Joy Mor- ton who had been summoned from the Fifth avenue home. Closely up- On Joy Morton's heels had come B J. Berwind a personal friend of Paul Morton. This was shortly after o'clock. After MT. Berwind came Theodore shonts. president of the Interborough Metropolitan, and later Thomas Fortune Ryan. They all went up to the room on the fifth floor and| participated n confidential talk the coroner had with Joy Morton and the hotel attaches.
 While this was going on, newspa- per reporters waited in the hotel lob by. They were unable to get any in- formation as to how MT. Morton had come to his death. One Zlerk thought Che had Tainted in the corridor and had been carried up stairs" Anoth- CT was sure MT. Morton had hired the room. None of the versions agree.
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FOR UMBRELLA FIXING.

I. Glicksberg. the umbrella man. Second and Walnut, opposlte tele phone oflice. III IT.
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City Attorney w. B. Sorrells has returned from short visit in l. tile Rock, where he attended the meeting of a number of city attorneys of the state, who were in conference We'd nesday on preparing a bill to be pre- sented to the Legislature on commis- sion form of government for cities of Arkansas.
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(Continued on Page Four.)

Our rental department will give you the best possible serv ce. We take entire charge of property. all de- tails given. careful supervision by an experienced man Cotton Belt Saw ings & Trust Co. l 2O 6t.
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SENATOR'S BY A
 DIRECT VOTE Senator Borah Calls Up Res olution Submitting Amend ..
 ment to States.
ATTACK CANAL FORTS
Keller in the House Objects to For. tifications-Texas Mans Liq.
 uOr Measure.
International News Special

International News Special
 Washington. D. G., Jan. 19.-In the Senate today Senator Fletcher, of Colorado, called up the resolution de- claring Ballinger not a faithful public officer and spoke in condemnation of the secretary's record declaring that
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"A dwelling close in for rent. LO- cated on E. 9th ave. Modern conven- iences.-Cotton Belt Savings & Trust Co. 1s1S At.
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Farm loans wanted On bottom plantation property. Long time and liberal terms. Cotton Belt Savings & Trust Go. 1-15-5t z
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"A cottage on K. 9th. ave. for rent. A good location and modern convent ences.-Cotton Belt Savings &a Trust Co. 117 4t
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en members of the county board, members hesdies the assessor
 May Appeal to Commission.

Mas Appeal to Commission.
 he bill further provides that. i'll cases where the property owner ;s ,o- srleVed' appeal may be taken from the county board to the State Tax Con- mission or to the Circuit Court and where dissatisfied With the findings or the Commission, appeal may sill pe taken to the Circuit Court.
 Under the present system, tnar. is no provision for appeal to the State lax Commission, in indiv dual cases the commission having the right to equalize assessments only in cases Where whole districts or classes or property are affected.
 Assessing Dates Changed.
 Another important change proposed Tn the present system S that of tha dates for assessing property. Under the present law the assessor begins his work the first Monday in June of each year Under the proposed law ne Will begin on the first Monday in March and close August 1, instead of september 1, as under the present law.
 Ihls change, ill the opinion of the authors of the bill, will greatly re- lieVe the assessors and various boards Ill making their final findings. It will give an opportunity to get through with the work of assessing earlier n the year and determine more accur ately the property valuations suffi- clently in advance of the meeting of the legislature to furnish better basis for fixing the levy itself.
 The bill also provides for curing any possible defects as to constitutional lty of certain provisions in the sta tute of 1909.
 Hurst Resolution Opposed.
 Just before adjournment Mr. Hurst of Washington also introduced a res- olution memorialzing Congress to yir- tually prohibit the carrying by ex- press companies Of any matter now chased as mail matter.
 The resolution was as follows.
 Whereas, one of the granted and enumerated powers of the general government is the plenary power. of congress over postoffices and post roads; and that,
 Whereas, Congress in the develop- ment of such power has established g, postal system and declared what is mail matter; and that,
 Whereas, Congress has passed laws respecting the transportation of mail matter and made it unlawful for private expresses and other to carry same for hire over postroads; and that
 Whereas, express companies daily carry much such mail matter to the detriment of the legitimate revenues of the postal service; and that,
 Whereas, the postal service $ yearly confronted with enormous de- ficits which the whole people pay; and that,
 Whereas, this situation is opposed to the best development of the postal service, and sincere reflection upon the dignity of the general government, therefore, be it
 Resolved, That the members of Congress from tn s State be urged to promptly take such action as will pre- vent a longer continuance of this sit uation, and that they be urged to pass more stringent laws if necessary; and, be it further
 Resolved, That certified copy of this resolution be transmitted to the vice pres: :dent and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-01-19
Your Success
and Ours

The of this balk depends the of the
people who deposit and borrow here. Only people
successful hope continue build up strong
business.
On the other hand people dependent the
bank for many services which they could get other
wise. The benefits of bank connection numerous.
and the service rendered by this bank
little bit better than they expect from any bank
We interested in the of patrons,
wish to them prosper, and they do for it is undeni
able fact that customers generally successful
than those people who have bank connection
1t are ransacng your business through this bank,
you have of personal your welfare
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-01-19
DO YOU KNOW

that possibly the title to your rea
estate is not good. Even a warranty
deed maybe a delusion and your law
yer will tell you so. There are
many poor titles in Valley County
and yours may be one of them.
Don't buy law suit-know that
your title is good before you pay
over your money. Our records are
complete in all respects, and we turn
out all work promptly, neatly and
accurately.
Insist on getting an abstract of
title with the property.
VALLEY County Abstracting Co.,
r. +. johnson, Prop,
Glasgow, Montana
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
First Good Road in Grant Parish 20 1-2
Miles Long.

+ The State engineers have finished
the survey of the good road which
Is To be built from Colfax to Rochelle.
and have suspended operations for
about fifteen days, when they will
take up another road. We learn
from MIR. Roy Williamson, who ac-
companied the surveying party, that
the line as marked out measures 29h
miles from Colfax to Rochelle. 1t
is understood that the next line to
be surveyed will be from Pollock to
intersect the Colfax and Rochelle
road. This latterroad will be about
13 miles in length, and it will inter
sect the Rochelle road Z miles east
OF Colfax, making the distance from
here to Pollock about twenty miles.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
Parish Fair Meeting at Dry Prong.

A number of citizens Interested in
periecting the organization of the
Grant Parish Fair Association have
agreed to hold u meeting at Dry
Prong on Saturday March 4th, to
further this end. 1t is suggested that
basket dinner be held, and that
some good speakers be provided for
the occasion. The main object, how
ever sthe securing OF subscriptions
in accordance with the provisions OF
the charter adopted. At this time,
We believe, only about one-haIf the
amount necessary has been SUBJ
scribed. With little extra endeav-
or along business lines it ought to
be an easy matter to get the required
amount in short time. and the As
ISOLATION got in shape to hold par
ish fair this coming fall.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
Items from New verda.

Attorney C. n. Mccain was here
on Tuesday. and took some sub
scriptions to the parish fair.
MIR. Harper is moving from Verda
to his farm in the New Hope com
munity.
1t is reported that MIR. Henry
Smith has a good case of the measles
In old Verda-
Mr.. J. Il. Freeman, our depot
agent. alter several days illness has
taken up his work at the depot
again, which we are all glad to see.
Nessrs. R. w. Wagner. and Obey
Bice and VIM. McIlwain all left here
Sunday morning for New Orleans to
attend the meeting OF the Grand
Lodge F. < A. Nj.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11

McNeely Store Moved to Plantation.
The big store of j. h. McNeely,
which has been so well known to the
citizens of Colfax for the past gener-
alton, has been removed to his plan
tation, about two miles south of
town, where he will continue to carry
"a full line of general merchandise.
Mr.. McNeely publishes notice to
the public among our advertisements
of his removal, and invites his friends
to call on him at his new stand. His
big brick store in Colfux will remain
closed for Il while, except that he ex-
poets to use it for a warehouse pur-
poses for the plantation, and he will
determine later on as to what other
use he may make of it.
This moveis made because he finds
it essential that himself aud his sons
and managers must be on the plan
tation to look after it's varied inter
ests of rice, alfalfa, corn, cotton, etc.
The addition of 12-foot shed room
has been made to the 3Ox7O foot
store at McNeely's Spur, and bis new
quarters are quite commodious.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
The Waterproof Enterprise Needs Cor.
recti0n.

The Waterproof Enterprise, in
commenting on the building of
good'roads in Grant parish, makes
the erroneous statement that the
State Engineer reports that 13
miles of roads Twill cost about
$18, 600, or something like $1385
per mile" That is a gross error.
The estimate of the State Engi-
neer is that a stretch Of nearly
thirty miles of road leading from
Colfax to Rochelle will cost about
$1S, 600, or an average of $500
per mile.
The engineers answer to an
inquiry as to the probable cost OF
a road from Pollock, leading into
the road above designated, is that
it could probably be built for
$40, 900 or $1,000. This latter
road will be about IL miles long,
and the Enterprise has evidently
mixed up the figures of the esti-
mated cost of the first road with
the length of the latter road.
The figures named for this latter
13 mile road are a safe approx
nation as to its maximum cost.
So, putting the cost at the high
est figure, that road can be built
for about $500 per mile. AS a
matter of fact, it is pretty safe
to say that an actual survey and
estimate of the cost of the 13
miles will reduce this figure fully
500 per mile.
After actual survey the figures
given for building one stretch of
nearly thirty miles of our roads is
about $500 per mile, and the ap-
Proclamation of the cost of an
other stretch of thirteen miles is
that it ought to be built within
$500 per mile. There has been
SO much ignorant and unfounded
criticism by kickers against the
building of good roads, that we
will ask that the Enterprise
please correct it's erroneous state
manipulating the estimated cost OF
good roads in Grant parish at
more than double the figures the
engineers have estimated.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
Public School Fund Greatly Increased.

A half a million dollars will be
the increased income of the public
schools of the State as result of
the act of the Legislature during
the last regular session, approved
by the people, providing for a
three mill tax for the public
schools.
In Calcasieu parish alone the
increase to the public schools as a
result of this tax will be $4,000,
and in the smallest parishes it will
be $4,000 and over. OF course, in
some of the parishes where the APP
preparation in the past has equal
ed, or been more, than 3 mills on
the assessed valuation of the par
ish, then there will be no increase,
but there were a great many par
ishes that did not give the public
schools, for their support and
maintenance, as much as 3 mills
on the assessment, and where this
was the condition there will be a
very decided increase in the rev.
enue of the public schools.
Several years ago a law
was passed requiring the police
juries to make an appropriation
equal to 8 mills on the parish as
sessment to the public schools, but
some of the police juries ignored
the law, others attacked it, and it
was finally declared practically
of no effect.
The last Legislature remedied
these defects, and not only passed
a law that would stick, but one
that would require every parish in
the State to pay the 3-mill tax for
the support of the public schools.
This law becomes operative for
the first time during 1911, and the
public school system, according to
theestimate ofState Superintendent
Harris, will feel the effects of this
operation to the tune of about a
half million dollars.--St. Landry
Clarion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
Big Creek Singing Convention.

u The next session of the Big Greek
Singing Convention will be held with
Friendship Baptist church. near Pol
lock, La, on the. 10Th and Goth of
February, 1911. Each class is earn
estly requested to be present, and il
they see that to be impossible send
delegates so that their representa-
ton will count. Let us make it the
best meeting we have yet enjoyed.
We see fair prospect of our con-
vention becoming one of the most
beneficial, of any in the State. We
have laid a great foundation, if We
will build to it. Let us go to the
convention with our hearts full oil
| Joy, and our minds crowded with the
happy thoughts of having good
normal this summer, and our mouths
full of sentences pertaining to the
perfecting of plans for same.
| This is the glad time OF the year
If all winter your ears have been
deaf to the songs of the birds, now
they have certainly for the past few
days been open to the rival singers
of man.
Let all go to Friendship, and lei
those people know by the twinkle o
our eyes and the broad grins on ouI
faces that we are in their midst tC
enjoy ourselves.
j. HUGH SMITH,
| d. C. FRANKLIN, President.
Secretary.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
Death of Clayton E. Oakes.

Mr.. Clayton E. Cakes, who died at
the Alexandria sanitarium q. 4 a. m
ON Monday, Feb. 6, 1911, was a
graduate OF the Verda high school,
and was considered one OF the best
and one of the most promising young
men in Grant parish. He had charge
of the school at Liberty Chapel, and
on account of his dangerous condi.
ton on Thursday, Feb. 2, was taken
to Alexandria for treatment, and died
four days later He was taken to
Mars Hill on Tuesday for burial.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11

The State Engineers are now
busy in Grant parish, surveying
for the good roads on which con-
struction will begin within the
next sixty days. Perhaps when
Grant parish gets its good roads,
they will stand as an object lesson
to those parishes which are SO dill
atory In this regard. Anyway, ii
will show what can be done for a
given cost, and the benefits deriv-
ed, and if the rest desire to stay
back in the same old rut, there is
no help for it. Waterproof En-
terprise.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
Boosting the Cut Over Lands.

The press dispatches published in
the papers within the last few days
have been making a sensation over
the purchase of 10000 or $4,000
acres of cut over lands lately bought
by land development companies for
purposes of colonization in Louisi-
ana and Arkansas.
The lands in Louisiana are located
in two or three different parishes,
5000 or 10, 900 acres being in Grant
parish. We underspntd that the con-
Germ is known as the Georgetown
Development Co.. and that Rouse 4
Strauss, of Oklahoma City, real es-
tate agents, are managers OF the en-.
terprise. They have bought up the
holdings of Lee aud Beal and Others
at Georgetown, where they have
about 1000 acres. and measures are
being tax en- to locate colony Offset
tiers at aiE early day.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
Two Wolves Killed in Grant Parish.

A party of hunters from Winfield
killed u couple of wolves in Grant
parish, near Lotion, last Sunday
morning. The party consisted OF
Conductor l.. Z. DeLoach, Engineers
Walter Barber and Smith, and Jack
Wallace. The hunters had gone into
the woods near Lotion to shoot
squirrels, and their dogs jumped a
bunch OF FIVE wolves in less time than
ten minutes, and Jack Wallace being
at the right place at the right mo-
uninterrupted his automatic shotgun
into the bunch and killed two of the
live. a black male and a black, grey
streaked female. Conductor De-
Loach informs us that both wolves
we're much larger than the ordinary
hound dog, and from signs found in
the woods the pack have evidently
been in that section for some time.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11

The Sweetest Girl in Dixie" a
melodramain four acts, was present
ed at the court house last Friday
night by the Colfax Concert Band,
the proceeds derived amounting to
$62.75. The acting of the young
ladies and gentlemen was exception
ally good for amateurs, and the
large audience present greeted them
with frequent and vociferous APP
plause.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
Get His Remedy.

Mr.. Philip s. Smith, of WINFIELD
recently killed hog that weighed
800 pounds dressed. and yielded six
teen gallons OF lard and sixty-five
pounds Of sausage. besides the hams
shoulders, etc. The cost of feeding
was insignificant. Mr.. Smith having
hit upon plan to fatten hogs with
out much stuffing. Get his remedy,
Arcadia Argus.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11

You are PROBABLY aware that pueu-
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you never heard OF cold resulting IN
ia pneumonia when Chamberlain g
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the risk NEEDY when this remedy may be
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11

A meeting of the school board has
been called for Saturday, Feb. j1S, by
MIR. j. H. McNeely. president of the
board, and his notice to this effect
will be found among our advertise
ments.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11

Mr.. G. A. McKinnon has been ap-
pointed mail carrier on the Colfax
rural route. vice G. N. Givens, re-
signed. He will take charge as soon
as his bond is made aud accepted.
Mr.. e. H. Smith has been filling the
position since January lst.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11

Messrs. l.. NJ. Futrell and Richard
Newton, of Fairfield, we're business
visitors to Coliax last Saturday.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-02-11
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