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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-21

bullets, forbidden by the rules Of war.
are being used by both sides IN the
Mexican campaign. Colonel Cucllar.
who commanded tho Mexican troops
at the battle OF Casas Cirandes. reports
officially that nearly all tho wounded
men received their injuries from soft
nosed bullets. The report also comes
Tcdera so,dier wo ,ma Ii tbsro ey was
shot with a soft nosed bullet.
The Herald correspondent wires to.
day from Hermosillo. Sonora, that he
saw the Federals march out from there
Saturday with their belts full Of soft
noscd bullets He says there were no
hospital appliances and no doctors with
the Federals IH5 tts #
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-21
LOSSES ALREADY
REACH $500, 900
Several Business Houses De-
stroyed and Big Warehouses
in Flames, With c. & o. Sta
ton Apparently Doomed.
Department Unable to
Cope With Blaze.
Fire Under Control
Ispcc,nlto Thc r.mc,-DI.po,cb.

Especial to The T.mc,-Dispntch.l
Staunton, vn., March .l.-Shortly
before : o'clock this morning 81 IL
believed that fhc fire :. under con-
trnl. While several buildings arc
still burning ficrccl!, Il IL believed
thut there VIII he no further spread
0f the flames. and that the Chcsu-
pcnkc md Ohin stnti0n Will he
snrcd. Apparatus from the Char
lOttcsrilic and !iBrrIsonburg depart
mentn Inns arrived mud is aiding the
locnl fircmeD In lighting the fire.
Their MD and n fortunate shift Of
the wind VIII probably prevent any
further destruction.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-21
STRIKE BOUND TO FAIL
Gaynor Thinks District Attorney ShOnlt
THkc CharEc of SitlIntIOn

Ahhe SnHTEC Oh SITUATION.
New York March 20.--The district
attorney ought to take charge OF the
situation precipitated by the strike
and drivers employed by tho ADAMS
Wells Fargo and United States EN-
press Companies. in tho opinion OF
Mayor Gaynor expressed In Il letter
THIS afternoon to General Organizer
William II. Ashton Of the strikers,
commencing his opposition to the call
Ing of "A general strike.
1T may we'll be Il criminal onense
TO conspirc TO scare anybody in any
such way as this the Mayor writes
Tile present strike is only for tile
most frivolous reasons, and uniusti-
ned and bound to fail. after causing
commerce and the community great
loss and trouble, thereby inIuring the
cause or labor"
panies declared tonight that tile back
bone of tho strike had been broken
Tho Adams company claimed to have
applied for their jobs TO day
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-21
THREE DENOMINATIONS
There VIII Ne 80 $40 Bond In New

There VIII lie No $40 Bond In New
Canni Issue.
Washing ton, y. c., March 2o.--Bonda
OF the new Panama Canal loan, which
VIII be floated before June |, will ba
OF three OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES $500 and
$1,000. according to present plans OF
tho Urea sury. There Will he no $50
bond, denomination issued in some
Of tho previous so-caiied popular
loans
Designs for the new issue have been
approved. rho engravings on tho faces
OF tho bonds will show scenes OH the
canal and epoch making incidents IN
American history
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-21
Demands Ctty.s Surrender.

Nogales, Ari March 20.-Word was
received here to-day that Juan Cabral,
at the head Of 700 insurrectos. had
appeared at the gates OF the city %
Hermosillo, tho capital of the state
Of Sonora, Mexico, and demanded its
surrender. The railroad officials have
been notified to have ready two spe
from the border to Hermosillo. The
rebels are said to have wrecked a train
1t La Colorado 1t was Cabrals force
which eXterminated a Federal detach
ment at CumpaS recently.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-21
DrnEEed Acros. LINE,

Douglas, Arlz.. March a0.-A DESERT
er from the Mexican army at Aqua
by two Mexican officers and dragged
across the line. to Aqua Prieta. Amer
leans and ATeXtcans In Douglas became
greatly excited during the incident,
and crowds congregatcd.
81 Ten minutes later the captain OF tho
Mexican rurales was captured, armed.
on a. street on this sido OF the inter-
TALL ~ Z
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-21
WILL REORGANIZE OFFICE
Norfolk Postmaster Called to Washing
ton for C0Nierencc.-


Washing ton, ID. c.. March 2O.--rhe
postmaster at Norfolk, Va, has been
summoned to Washington by Post-
master General Hitchcock to >discuss
the reorganization OF his office. Mr..
Hitchcock plans to organize tho office
into two divisions. mails and finance,
under superintendent, to more effec-
lively utilize the working forces. The
system has been successfully tried at
Atlanta. Jacksonville, Fla. and New Or
leans
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-21
Ru1nor af NIur1Ier.

ST. Petersburg, March 20.-It is ru-
mored here that NJ Korostovctz. tho
Russian minister TO China, has been
murdered in Picking Neither the For
eign Office nor tile War Office has been
able to confirm the report up to late
hour tonight.
Advices received by the Associated
Press direct from Picking late this nf-
iternoon mentioned the Russian legation
In connection with the Russo Chinese
negotiations, but make no reference to
any untoward event which might have
furnished tho basis Of tho rumors at
CONTINUED on Second lPaRe,)
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-03-23

Concerning the claim that the
financial honor of the country was
recently saved by Morgan" the
New York World says: To be
saved by J. Pierpont Morgan is one
of the most expensive luxuries that
a financial institution can indulge
ill., In the long run it is probably
more expensive even than honest
banking. Mr.. Morgan is a dashing
and melodramatic rescuer, but he
always collects his Carnegie hero
medal in advance. Yesterday Mr..
Morgan saved the Twelfth Ward
and Nineteenth Ward banks, which
are allied with the Carnegie Trust
company, by the benevolent expedi-
ent of taking over another allied
concern, the Madison Trust COM
pany, and annexing it to his Equit-
able Trust company. During the
panic of 1907 Mr. Morgan did con-
siderable financial rescuing, as a re-
suit of which he added the Tonnes.
see Coal and Iron company to his
steel trust, turned the Metropolitan
steamship line over to the New
York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad company, and gathered in
the Port Chester road by way of
good measurement. AS for yester-
days transaction, the superintend-
ent of banks says that every one is
to be congratulated at the turn of
events, and doubtless he is right
Surely the wight that has just been
snatched from a watery grave
ought not to complain because the
daring rescueI took his clothes by
way of reward Commoner.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-03-23

plain business proposition: That
ample funds should be made avail
BILE to make the cholera serum in
large enough quantities to prompt
ly vaCcinate every cholera herd as
soon as it reported Anything short
of this will be a direct loss to the
state. The Legislature should ap-
propriate not a cent less than $780,
600 for this purpose, and if cholera
should notebe so wide spread next
year as to use all the money it can
be used for the investigation of
other live stock diseases and the
discovery and development of rem
edies that will control them. Mis-
souri, farmers have more than three
hundred millions Of dollars invested
in live stock and the expenditure
of $4,000 to protect so great an in
dustry is a mere pittance as COM
pared to the good it will do. Farm
er and Breeder.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-03-23

Not content with its unhappy ex-
perience in the proceeding against
the editor of the Appeal to Reason,
the Taft administration has gone
after another editor. The Denver
News says: Urban Walter, editor
of a Denver publication, the Har-
pooh, was arrested yesterday by a
United States deputy marshall on
complaint of Postoffice Inspector
Waters. He is charged with violat
ing the postal laws in sending
scurrilous' matter through the mails
Postoffice Inspector-in-Charee Coch-
ran ordered the arrest on advices
from Washington. Walter is a
former mail clerk. He is charged
with having mailed $4,000 envelopes
on the outside of which was printed
an attack on Postmaster General
Hitchcock and criticism on Presi-
dent Taft. In red letters appeared
the following: Join the HarpOon's
anti-gag crusade Do you know
there are $4,000 dissatisfied men in
the railway mail service? Presi-
dent of the clerks organization to
Washington officials. Very well,
we can get $4,000 men the reply
Then there were statements affect
ing Hitchcock and the administra-
ton. Conviction. on the charge
against Walters provides a maxi
mum fine of $4,000 or imprison,
ment for five years, or both. Walter
gave bond before United States
commissioner to appear March
; for a hearing CommOner.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-03-23
MOI many years ago a corncot

Not many years ago a corncob
with three ST bills wound around it
was called "a Missouri roll" But
the other day, in a Los Angeles
hotel, Adolphus Busch, in paying
the bill for luncheon party, stripp-
ed what he thought to be a 500
bill off hugh roll without a corn
cob in the middle. and which when
the waiter gasped and said he could
not make change, was seen to be a
$1,000 bill. And Mr.. Busche is from
Missouri. Thus another Islander of
this sovereign and imperial state
goes whistling down the wind
Globe Democrat.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-03-23
Feared The Screech Owl.

I'm not a bit superstitious. not
in the least bit, but | don't ever
want to hear another Screech owl
in the night" said a woman who
remained in the country until the
holidays. Positively, l believe l
should 60 mad if / ever heard that
blood-curdling sound again.
You know they say in the coun-
try that if a sereech owl comes cry
ing around the house its a sure
sign of death. Of course, I've ITO
faith in that sort of nonsense, but
all the Same the coachman's mother
died after the owls first appear
ance.
The owl came back and one of
the employees died. 1t came back
again and l decided that, after all,
/ didn't want to spend Christmas in
the country and lighted back to
town. The coachman said some
thing about the old rule and l just
naturally packed up my buds and
bought a ticket foo New York.
"Ugh-h-h! | SILVER now when
ever | think of that owl in the
apple tree. Elk.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-03-23
Beware of Empty Guns.

The other day two little children
at Fayette were playing with what
the mother supposed was an empty
revolver. One little fellow found
just one cartridge and slipped it in
to the gun and then in some way
discharged the gun the ball going
through the heart of the other little
fellow, killing him instantly.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-03-23

AS old Robinson was walking
along the principal street of his
native town something new struck
his eye in the window of the
watchmakerS shop. 1t was a large
handsome clock, and from it was
suspended a card bearing the words
Goes three hundred days without
winding" Suddenly idea struck
him, and he went into the shop.
That's an interesting clock of
yours" he said; but there's one
thing would like to know" How
long would it 60 if it was wound
up?" Elk.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-03-23
The first water mill in Missouri

The first water mill in Missouri
was built by Jonathan Bryan in
1901. 1t was on a small spring
branch that empties into Femme
Usage Creek in St. Charles county.
The mill had a capacity of from six
to ten bushels of grain in "a hours.
For several years it supplied the
settlers in Eastern Missouri with
meal and -four. -Ex.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-03-23

If Monroe is to sit down and let
the procession pass by, it is time
we were knowing it. Other towns
are forging to the front with the
determination to keep up with the
times and why not Monroe? The
time is passed for inactivity and il
we wish to avoid the consequences
we must do something.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-03-23
For Economy.

"oohluBlOH, mdACu ~ lduo
for long series of investigations
as q part of a Democratic cam
Daign for economy and retrench-
ment" were tentatively determined
upon today by party leaders as the
program for the extra session, in
addition to Canadian reciprocity
and schedule-by-schecule revision
of the tariff.
The inquiries will be incident,
Democrats say, to a drastic pruning
of the Government pay roll. They
hope also to make campaign materi-
al for the Democratic party for
1912.
AS a starter, it is stated that the
following investigations have al
ready been decided upon;
To determine the real reason for
the Texas army "maneuvers.
To discover why the Steel Trus t
escaped prosecution under the Sher-
man antitrust law.
To fix responsibility for the sale
of the Philippine friar lands to the
Sugar Trust.
TO find out how much the pro-
motors of the deal got when the
Government purchased the Panama
Canal from the old French Company
To determine whether the activi-
ties of the various congressional
commissions which have furnish
ed soft berths for a number of
lame ducks"-warrant their con-
tinuance.
To determine the truth of the
charge of minmanagement and in
efficiency in the Postoffice Depart
ment.
To reveal the actual conduct of
the Interior Department under
former Secretary Ballinger.
To inquire into the methods of
the Department of Justice in its
alleged pro-Diaz activity in connec-
ton with the Mexican revolution
Times.
Muskogee, Ok. March 16. If Ok
lahoma can prevail on Frank Scott
to purchase farm in this State the
population will be increased is the
day the deal is closed. Scott is
looking for a farm, his family hav-
ing outgrown the one he owns in
Kansas. His wife is the mother of
10 children. Of that number IS
boys are living and all of them are
under 5 years of age. The SCOTS
went to Canada in search of land
but found none there to suit them.
Mrs. Scott, who took the entire fam
lily with her Travelled on one entire
ticket. She proved to the satisfac-
ton of the railroad that she was
entitled to carry all her children
free, as the rule is that all children
under S years of age, accompanied
by their parents, can ride free. The
names and ages of the children are
Ashbell, Archer and Austin, trip
lets, a 1-2 years old; Arthur and
Arnold, twins, 8 1-2; Allan, Almon
and Albin, triplets, 2 1-2; Albert,
Albion and Adolph, triplets. 10
months; Abel and Abner, twins, 6
months. Mrs. Scott is 80 years old
and her husband is only a year her
senior. The mother and children
are now in Highland, Kan, while
the father is in Oklahom seeking a
location.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-03-23
The Control of Hog Cholera,

The annual hog crop of Missouri
is approximately five million head.
Four million head reach the mar
kets and about one million are con-
sume1 on the farms Valued upon
the basis of market prices prevail
ing the last year this one item of
our live stock products has brought
to the state seventy-fVe millions of
dollars of added wealth. The great
est risk in the growing of hogs is
from thewell known contagious dis
ease hog cholera. Everyoneacquaint-
ed with the facts know that ire
quently whole herds are wiped out
in a few days and sometimes an en-
tire neighbOrhood will lose practi-
cally every hog in it. Because of
this hazard farmers are afraid to 60
into the raising of hogs any more
extensively and the result is search
ty of hogs and abnormally high
prices. 1t is the interest of every
man, woman and child who eat
meat to have the state control and
to the greatest possible extent pre-
vent loss from hog cholera and in
fact every other preventable dis
ea5r Of live stock.
FOR years the United States De.
partment of Agriculture and vari-
Gus Experiment Stations have been
endeaVoring to discover something
that would stop the millions of loss
from hog cholera. Working along
this line Dr. j. W. Connaway, of the
Missouri Experiment Station, has
developed a method Oftreating hogs
with cholera serum that has saved |
IS per cent Of all the hogs in the
infected herds treated. During the
past two years the Experiment
Station has vaccinated seventy-two
thousand hogs and from reports re-
ceiVed IS per cent, or a total of co. !
200 have been saved. These hogs
have a market value of nearly one
million dollars. Then we should
consider that if these seventy-two
thousand hogs had not been treated
the disease would have spread to
other herds and hence the indirect
benefits are probably greater than
the direct saving of the herds treat /
ed Two years ago the legislature
gave d small appropriation of $10,-
00U for the manufacture of the
serum and treatment of the diseas-
ed hogs, but this amount was found
to be entirely inadequate to produce
enough of the serum to treat all the
cholera hogs and those left untreat-
ed continued to spread the contag-
ion and cholera has been reported
in one hundred and two counties
in the state.
The making of the serum is quite
difficult and expensive process.
Hogs are purchased, then treated
until they become highly immune
to cholera. The blood is then taken
two or three quarts at a time from
each hog at intervals of about ten
days until finally the hogs are
slaughtered and all the blood is
saved. From the blood the serum
is prepared.
The appropriation committee of
the present Legislature has recon-
mended an appropriation for the
control of hog cholera for the next
two years of twenty-five thousand
dollars, and while this may look
like liberal sum we believe it to be
a penny wise and pound foolish pol
icy not to appropriate enough mon,
ey to provide both trained men and
serum sufficient to take care Of
every call promptly on the day it is
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-03-23
Not Superstitious.

We would conclude that Judge
Nat M Shelton, of Macon City, is
not superstitiOus about IS being an
unlucky number from the following
incident told a reporter for the
Kansas City Times:
Thirteen men served on a jury
on a case | tried at Unionville. Mo-,
some years ago" said Judge Shell
ton. 1T was the last case tried in
the term, and the balance of tie
panel had been discharged. When
the names of the jurors were called
the clerk stopped at twelve men
and they were sworn in. The trial
lasted day or two and the reason
the thirteenth man was not detect
ed was because up there court was
held in the opera house, and the
jurymen occupied the front seats.
1t was an everyday occurrence for
some man to be sitting on the same
row of seats with jury.
Instead of calling over the
twelve each morning and afternoon
when the session began, just look I
ed over on the front seats and j
counted out twelve men who l
knew was serving on the jury, and
finding them all there, would take.
up the case The thirteenth man.
served faithfully all through the;
trial and participated in the delib7.,
erations of the jury without his,
presence being discovered, and it
was not until the case was over and
the attorney who lost asked for. "a.
poll of the jury and the matter. was
brought to our attention that. thir-
teen men had served on the. jury
The superfiuous juryman,. when
questioned, said he had understood
the clerk to call his name. and had
arisen and held up his hand with
the others. Neither he nor. anybody
else suspected that thirteen men
were on the jury until the, poll was
called for. The verdict. in the case
was unanimous, and although an
objection was raised. to- the extra
man, didn't see any reason for
granting new trial, and on that
account let the verdict stand"
Ella Williams, III years old and
one of the best cooks in Louisville,
Ky. learned from her mother. in
slavery times, how to boil cabbaee
and Suppress the Odor so objections
able to most. people. Just set a Gun
of vinegar on the stove when YOU
bile cabbage" Ella says, and a
house full of company won't know
nOthin' about what you is bilin'. Il
is said to be true remedy for the
annoyance. Elk. ~
Only a few years ago the best
pulp from the beet factories was
counted waste material and it was
hired hauled away, now it is sold
for stock feeding. A few years ago.
the cotton seed was worth but very
little but last year the seed from
the cotton states sold for $4,000.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-03-23

White WyanadOtte eggs for sale,
SO cents per setting.
Mrs. F. H. Haean,
Monroe City. Mo.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-03-23

Don't fail to see our line of wall
paper. L. M. Wood.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-03-23

Chinamel for floer and furniture
L. M. Wood.
The Alaska sourdough., 1911-11-21
WILL WINTER NORTH

Port Townsend, Nov. 17.-Four wha-
lers will winter at Herschel island, in
the Arctic, says James 6. O'Rourk g,
who has just arrived from the North,
having come down on the steamer Ala
media. Herschel island is 1900 miels
north Of Nome, and is some little dis
lance northeast Of Point Barrow and
is inhabited by about 400 natives and
% white men. Mr.. O 'Rourke spent a
part of the present season on the isl
and trading and hunting
He says that as result Of the
scarcity Of fur bearing animals, the
prices of furs are the highest since the
island has been visited by traders. The
welfare Of the natives is looked after
by the Northwest mounted police, and
when supplies are scarce the natives
are fed by the Canadian government,
The Alaska sourdough., 1911-11-21
ALASKA HOMESTEADS

Any American citizen can go to Al
aska and take up 800 acres of agricul
tural land for a homestead, according
to John p Walker, United States land
surveyor, who has just returned to
Seattle, where he has been conduct
ing survey Of homestead lands.
"We established a base line and me-
ridian for surveys in the vicinity of
Seward" said Mr.. Walker, Gin the
valley north Of Seward we laid out APP
proximately three-quarters of a town
ship. We also laid out five townships
in the country around Knik, on the
north side of Cook Inlet.
"'We aimed to survey land in the
vicinity of places where few settlers
already have established small ranches,
and in places likely to be available
for agricultural purposes. Most Of
this land is good agricultural land,
good soil, although the tundra is heavy
in places.
"Although there are several ranches
established, they are all on small
scale. Their products are potatoes,
turnips, rutabagas, oats, barley, and
fine kind of hay.
ga homesteader can file on 800 acres
Of agricultural land in Alaska, as
against $50 acres in the States'
The Alaska sourdough., 1911-11-21
ARCTIC RACER IN SEATTLE

The Seattle Times of recent date in
reporting the arrival of young Arctic
racer, says:
Split-the Wind, the 15-year-old Eski