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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-04-19
Domestic

By command of President Taft these
orders were sent to the officers in COM
mand of the American troops on the
Mexican border: Inform officers Of
the Mexican federals and revolution
lists that there must not be a recur-
renee Of what happened at Douglas,
Ariz. If there is the United States
will do everything to protect it's citi-
zens and interests, even to the ex-
tent Of using force" A note of the
same purport was sent to President
Diaz of Mexico and to Francisco I. Ma
dero, Jr., leader of the revolutionists
David Jayne Hill of Rochester, N.
Y, has resigned his place as ambas-
sador of the United States to Ger
many. The resignation was accepted
promptly by President Taft, but in
the formal letters given out there is
no intimation Of the reasons for Mr..
Hills withdrawal.
Three men were pinned into a pool
of mud and drowned when the auto
mobile in which they were racing
through Melrose Park, ILL.,, skidded
and pitched into a ditch.
The Polo grounds, the New York
Nationals magnificent home-the big
gest baseball arena in the country
was swept by fire. Everything inside
the fences was ruined, except the left
field bleachers' and the club house.
Adrian G. Joss, better known in the
baseball world as "Addie," well-known
pitcher Of the Cleveland American
baseball team, died at his home in
Toledo, o., Of tubercular meningitis.
Three persons in st. Louis and 9TH
ers in adjacent towns lost their lives
In a storm. More than one million
bushels of grain stored in the Burling-
ton elevator was blown into the
river.
Eshon R. Van Valkenberg, member
of the 1879 rowing crew Of Hillsdale,
Mich, then four-oared champions of
the world, shot himself on the steps
Of a Cleveland church while his wife
was inside praying.
Rangers in the national forests will
be supplied with portable telephone
sets with special flexible wire which
can be easily and quickly run along
the ground to isolated places in the
forests.
President Taft made a fruitless at
tempt to save the lives Of a small ne
gro boy and his mother, who threw
the child into the tidal basin of the
Potomac and jumped in after him.
Mother and boy were drowned.
An itinerant window cleaner whose
thieving operations in the last few
weeks have cost score Of we'll to do
New Workers many thousands of dol
lars is being sought by the police as
one of the most successful and danger.
Gus house robbers in that city.
Panic-stricken when their ship. the
Ottawa, struck a reef near Algoma,
Wis, in heavy fog, Capt. Claus We
berg and five members Of his crew
took to their gasoline launch and
were drowned when the boat capsized
in the heavy sea.
The United States boundary com
mission which is to re-establish the
boundary line between Texas and New
Mexico. will leave Monahan, Tex, on
April Is, for the southeast corner Of
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-04-19
Personal

Denman Thompson, 1.-THE actor who
made "The Old Homestead" famous,
died at his country estate in West
Swanzey, N. H. Mr.. Thompson had
been Ill with heart disease and
uraemia for several weeks.
Washington society is stirred over
an assignment filed by Mrs. Albert
Clifford Barney, a wealthy Washing
ton widow, whose engagement to
Christian Hemmick, son of Ronald
Hemm1ck, former consul at Geneva,
recently was announced In the assign
ment Mrs. Barney transfers all her
property to her two daughters.
The National Association of Cotton
Manufacturers held a notable conven-
ton in Boston.
More high life is said to be in store
for Hetty Green. The little fat IN
Hoboken will be closed May 1 and
Mrs. Green, it is understood, will re-
side with her son, Col Edward H.
Green, at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel
in New York city.
DR.. Svente Arrhentus, president Of
the famous Nobel institute of Stock
holm, Sweden, and one Of the best
known European scientists, is in New
York city for a series Of public ad-
dresses at Columbia university.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-04-19

The United States boundary com
mission, which is to re-establish the
boundary line between Texas and New
Mexico, will leave Monahan, Tex, on
April Is, for the southeast corner Of
New Mexico, where IL will begin its
work
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-04-19

Panic-stricken when their ship, the
Ottawa, struck reef near Algoma,
Wis, in a heavy fog, Capt. Claus We
berg and five members of his crew
took to their gasoline launch and
were drowned when the boat capsfzed
in the heavy sea.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-04-19
Do You Get Up
With a Lame BacKY'

Kidney Trouble Makes You MISERABLE
Almost everyone know of Dr. Kilmer'si
Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-04-19

hold water and sca1ding pain in passingit,
or bad effects fo1lowinguse Of liquor, wine
or beer, and overcornes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to go often
through the day, and to get up many
times during the night.
Swamp-ROOt is not recommended for
everything but if you have kidney, liver
or bladder trouble, it will be found just
the remedy you need. It has been thor
oughly tested in private practice, and has.
proved so successful that special ar
rangement has been made by which all
readers Of this paper, who have not al
ready tried it, may have a sample bottle.
sent free by mail, also a book telling,
more about SWamp-Root, and how to-
find out if you have kid
ney or bladder trouble.
When writing .ssE8naa :
reading this generous
offer in this paper and
send your address to sz sssassssslsgl
DR.. Ki1mer & Co., Home d swamp-Root.
Binghamton, N. Y. The regular fifty-cent.
and one-do11ar size bottles are sold by
all druggists Don't make any mistake.
but remember the name, Swanp-Root,,
DR.. Ki1mer's Swamp-Root, and the adj
dress Binghamton, n. Y, on every bottle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-04-19

An itinerant window cleaner whose
thieving operations in the last few
weeks have cost a score Of well to do
New Workers many thousands Of dol
lars is being sought by the police as
one Of the most successful and danger,
Gus house robbers in that city.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-04-19

President Taft made fruitless at
tempt to save the lives Of a small ne
gro boy and his mother, who threw
the child into the tidal basin of the
Potomac and jumped in after him.
Mother and boy were drowned.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-04-19

HI1UOuI1I you HaVO hINL-
ney or bladder trouble.
When writing mention
reading this generous
offer in this paper and
send VOur address to
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-04-19

Rangers in the national forests will
be supplied with portable telephone
sets with special flexible wire which
can be easily and quickly run along
the ground to isolated places in the
forests.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-07-08
HOT FIGHT
EXPECTED
Between Franks and 0'Rear
Forces For This
County.
MASS CONVENTION / P. NJ.
Leaders Lining Up For a Strug-
gle For the Del
egatiOn.
MASS CONVENTION l P. NJ.

Our friends, the enemy, are in a
hot fight for the control of the dele
cation to the Republican convention
next week. Although Franks is
supposed to be entitled to his own
district, O'Rear is making a fight
for Christian county, his forces be-
ing led by c. R. Clark, Jno P. Prowse,
W. T. Fowler, o. Davis, w. R. Brum-
field and others. The Franks men
are led by Chairman V. M. William
son, John NJ. Renshaw, j. T. Walker.
most of the Law and Order Republi-
cans and such colored leaders as Peter
Postell, Ned Turner and others.
In fact the entire colored vote is said
to be for Franks on account of Judge
O'Rear's decision against Berea Col.
lege.
The Franks men are very conf.
dent. but admit that there will be a
hot fight. The convention is ex-
pected to be hummer. 1t will be
called to order at the court house by
Chairman Williamson, at o'clock.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-07-08
Few Brides.

Now that June is gone, the mar.
riage market is sluggish. There have
been no weddings in the last few
days in Christian county and few in
the country at large. June was a
record-breaker as a month of we'd
lock, and now the pendulum swings
back to the other extreme and we
have but few marriages. Every
month has some event associated
with it. Just as November and the
turkey, February and Washington,
j Ily and the Fourth are associated
together, so is June associated with
weddings
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-07-08
BAD BLAZE.
Bowling Green Visited By De-
y Structive Fire.

Bowling Green, KY, July 5.-Fire
broke oIt at an early hour here this
morning in the rear of Patterson's
livery stable and before it was dis
covered the Bowling Green Business
University was ablaze:: and beyond
the control of the fire department.
The Mccormack building was next
burned with everything on the block
Times Journal. Bowling Green Drug
Co.. Warren County Hardware Co.,
Patterson's livery stable and several
other buildings The Y. M. C. A.
was the only building on the block
that was not burned and it was saved
b. hard fire fighting.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-07-08

check system was kept up and while
the drys realized their defeat, the
fight was kept up till the close.
Some friction was caused when
band employed by the vets was
stationed near enough to the relig-
ious services to drown the music and
prayers with the noise Of drums and
comets. This, however, was not
kept up. Early in the day some
negroes asked to have their ballots
prepared for them. claiming they
did not know how to vote. This
was objected to as an effort to vote
a open ballot for obvious reasons
and was not allowed.
The challengers we're w. H. Ham
monds for the vets and Love Crop,
COL, for the drys.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-07-08

The election held at Gracey July 6
on local option resulted in a decisive
majority of 81 votes for the wet
side.
There are two saloons in Gracey,
the only ones in the county outside
of Hopkinsville. They are the
Last chance" for Trigg and Cald-
we'll counties and for this reason
those counties took an active part in
the contest to close them. The dis
trict contains 280 voters. evenly d.
vided as to color and under normal
conditions about 40 Republican. AS
nearly as the secret vote can be
analysed it stood Prohibition 100
whites, % colored; Anti-prohibi
ton, 40 whites la colored. The
election was held in the school house
and both sides admit that it was
fairly conducted. Gipp Watkins
and Parish Meacham were Judges,
r. E. Cox Sheriff and L. w. Watkins
Clerk.
The dry side was supported by a
great crowd of ladies from Hopkins,
vile, Cadiz, Cerulean. Lafayette,
Newstead and other places. The
organization was headed by Revs.
Gregston, Petty, Hunter, Farland.
Lyon and Hyde. Prayers were made
in the streets, songs were sung and
little children carried banners ap-
pealing for votes. 1t is estimated
that 500 women and children were in
the fight in one way or another.
The vet side relied upon the solid
ity of the colored vote. A meeting
was held Wednesday night and the
organization was made so complete
that the colored vote was practical.
ly polled in a body by IL o'clock. A
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-07-08
CHARLES PETRE
Has Gone to Washington for a
Re-examinatiOn.

Some trouble has arisen in the
physical examination of Charles
Pstrie. who passed the mental ex.
animation for admission to the Naval
Academy June %. His father, DR..
w. S. Petrie. was advised July 6
that he had been ordered to Wash
ington for REORGANIZATION by the
surgeon general. The nature of the
trouble is not known. but it is evil
IDENTIFY of minor character, or there
would be no second examination.
The young mans friends are hoping
that he will come out all right.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-07-08
U. D. c.

Chapter will meet at Parish house
at 4:30 D. m. today.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-07-08

any OF the trouble.
Miss Edith Cravens, aged is, was
the principal witness. She said she
had gone to bed in the room over
the parlor. occupied by Mrs. Hale
also, and heard Miss Ella give an
awful scream. This was followed by
a shot and another scream. She
jumped out Of bed and started down
stairs, screaming as she went, and
before she got far, there we're three
more shots and then she heard the
door SIAM,
She ran into the parlor and found
her sister on her knees before large
rocking chair holding to the arm of
the chair. her head hanging down.
She ran to her and laid her down on
the floor, but she was never able to
speak. She did not see Cobb at all
after coming down stairs.
Malcolm Fears and Buck Marques
testified Of having heard Cobb make
threats to. kill his sweetheart"
Two negroes employed at Morris
stable said they heard him say when
he started that he was going out to
settle something" One Of the
negroes said he refused to go with
him. One had gotten him some
whiskey and he was under the influ.
ence of drink. This closed the evi.
dence for the Commonwealth.
In the afternoon Cobb went on
the stand for himself and told about
the same story he had told Mrs.
Hale. He entered a plea of not
guilty as charged. but admitted the
killing. Said he had called to say
goodbye, that Miss Cravens had told
him at Klein's store that it would
be all right for him to come out later
in the night and say goodbye. The
girl had told him that she had rather
die than be separated from him anC
CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE.]
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-07-08

The jury in the case of Herbert
Cobb, indicted for the murder of
Miss Ella Cravens, was completed
Thursday morning and the taking of
evidence was begun.
Mrs. Essie Hale, sister of the &c
ceased, was the first witness and told
how Cobb came to the house saying
he had had trouble with a young
man and was going away and had
come to say goodbye. She left Miss
Cravens and Cobb together and went
up stairs to her room, directly over
the parlor. She had been a;le,p and
twas awakened by her sister Edith
Screaming in her room. They rush
ed down stairs and found Miss Ella
lying on the floor. She never spoke.
Did not see Cobb until she visited
him in Jail the next day when he
told her Miss Cravens said: Herbert,
had just as soon be dead as living,
hadn't you" He said he answered
yes, and she asked if he had a
gun. He said he drew his gun and
shot her and had one shot left,
which he fired at himself. She said
Cobb frequently visited her sister
who had been engaged to him, but
they had broken off on account of
Cobb's drinking,
Mrs. Augusta Faulkner, mother
of Miss Cravens. testified briefly.
She did not hear the shooting or
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-07-08
TOM COLLIE
Well known Cripple Man Dies
Suddenly.

L. T. Collie, Of near cambridge,
died Wednesday. He was a very
large feshy man, with both legs
above the knees. He
lost one Is years ago and the other
some years late from blood poison.
He was in good health. but begun
splitting blood while in the field and
after going to the house hadl a
hemorrhageland died in a little'while.
He is survived by a wife and sew
en- children, Sam. Arch. Fate,
Lucian, Annie, Manthis and Sesty.
A cubic mile of average rock
weighs u, 800, 900, 900 tons.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-07-08
In CANADA
Brother of Mr.. H. |. Minty
Died Monday.

George Minty, a brother of Mr..
Harry I. Minty, died at his home in
Winnipeg, Canada. last Monday.
His death was sudden and the par
ticuiars have not been learned. Mr..
Minty was a lawyer and visited his
brother here a year or two ago.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-07-08
Another Stroke.

Mr.. Sam P. Elgin. who lives east
Of town, sustained another stroke Of
paralysis few days ago and his con-
dition is critical. He is constantly
growing weaker.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-07-08
CARD OF THANKS.

Hopkinsville, KY. July 5. 1911.
We take this method of thanking
all who assisted US in the care and
comfort of our son and brother,
Frank, through his last illness and
death. E. A. ROPER AND FAMILY.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-11-21
MERELY OBEYED THE RULES
Ho" tho Late Tom johnson, In Early
Life, squIrmed Out Of Very
Tight Place.

When the late Tom Johnson started
In life he drove horse car I'm In.
dianapolIs.
One night there wai big storm
OF sleet and snow and the tracks we're
almost hidden, Johnson was on the
night shift. and I'm the storm he drove
his car two blocks beypn' Il curve be.
lore he realized the car go" off the
tracks and slipping along on the ice
He tried to pull the car back and
failed. Thercupon he unhitchcd the
horses. drove them back To the barn
and left the car where II vac.
Next day the superintendent allied
him. Here, Johnson" he said. what
do you mean by driving n car of the
track and then leaving II In the
street,"
why" Johnson replied suaycIy.
that's In the rules for drivers and
conductors"
I'm the rules for drivers and con.
ductors?" rOarcd the superintendent.
where, I'd like to know"
"Certainly." replied johnson. 1T
says always to be polite to pagq?ngcrs
DO you remember the kind Of night
last night was? Well. there was n
lady on my car who didn't have an
umbrella and she lived two blocks
from that curve so I drove her
nome. Saturday Evening Post
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-11-21
THE DOG PRISONER

A fiend or fiends in human
form has begun campaign of
dog poisoning in town, and as
usual pet dogs that harm nobody
are the cruel victims of the
devilish work of some inhuman
wretch. The pet dog belonging TO
Mr.. George Russell was given a
dos of poisoned meat Saturday,
and yesterday afternoon the little
shaggy French poodle, so often
seen on the streets with Mrs. E..
Gutridge, and Mrs. Frank Robin
sons pet dog were given poisoned
meat. Mrs. Gutridge's dog died
in few minutes, but the other
was saved by DR.. Knowles, WHO
reached it in time to counteract
the effects of the poison. Both of
these little dogs were playing in
Mr.. Gutridge's yard when given
the poison.
Mr.. Russell's little dog is the
pet of his granddaughter. After
getting the poison Saturday, the
dog ran around and whined as if
in terrible agony and resisted all
efforts to capture it. 1t finlly ran
way in the sagebrush and did not
return until Monday afternoon.
A man or womn, who is so desti-
tute Of all feelings of hi mainly as
to give poison to innocent dumb
animals that never molestcd him
or her, is a dangerous person in
any community. Such persons
would not hesitate to poison human
beings if it we're not for the fear
of the hanGman's moose.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-11-21
DISTRICT COURT

District court convened at 10
o'clock this morning with Judge
Taber presiding. The roll of grand
jurors was called and the follow
ing answered present:
Mel. S. Badt, foreman; A. w.
Goble, S. A. Merkeley, R. E. Key
ser, John McFarlane, C. E. Noble,
+. c. Riddell, Erastus Hawkins,
Frank Fernald, Sr., G. w. Hanna,
George Mcknight, John T. Wright,
Clark f. Drown, George Allen, j.
w. Johnson.
George w. Hardesty and Henry
Bolts, members of the jury, failed
TO answer. The former is in San
Francisco sick, and he latter
moved to California last spring.
Judge Taber charged the jury
briefly. He read the law in re.
gard to drunkenness in office, and
spoke particularly of the gambling
and 500 ward limit law. In regard
to gambling. he said the deplorable
situation in Lincoln county was
not caused by percentage games,
hut was the result of playing
other card games for money. He
referred he whole matter to the
g:and jury with the instruction
that the jIry investigate it and
act in the hest interests of the
people of the county. He also
submitted the report of K. W..
Hesson, who audited the books of
the county in jury, and instructed
the jury to give careful exami-
nation.
The court then took recess
and the jury went to work in the
court room. AS there are in the
neighborhood of dozen criminal
cases to he investigated, the jury
will probably be in session tn G
rest Of the week.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-11-21
FINISHING TOUCHES
ON THE HIGH LINE

W. II. Bancroft, first vice-presi-
dent Of the Salt Lake, San Pedro
and Los Angeles Road, and his
assistant, F. H. Knickerbocker.
have returned to Salt Lake City
from AN inspection trip over the
new high line of the company in
Meadow Valley Wash. Mr..
Knickerbocker states that with
the exception of a few short
stretches of rapping the line is
completed.
The line, which has been built in
less than year at cost of an
proximately $4,000, 900, is eighty
five miles long, has twenty-five
steel bridges, the longesi of which
IL $50 feet, and eleven tunnels.
the longest of which is little over
100 feet.
mo work will be done towards
starting the Phoebe branch line
around various mines in Nevad a
until we have secured further
information regarding the mat
ter" declared First Vice President
w. H. Bancroft of the Salt Lake
Route TO the Salt Lake Herald
recently.
Asked if the work would be
commenced this year or early
next year, Mr.. Bancroft declared
himself unahlo to name a date.
Apparently the railroad men are
DESTROYS of securing definite
information regrding the amount
OF ore to be shipped reg ularly
The cost Of maintaining the line
will not be great hut if the
quantity of ore handled is small
the road cannot be run at a profit.
The branch lire from Caliente to
Phoebe was looked upon as a
remedy for the mine operators
problem when it was laid two
years ago. Unfortunately the
traffic has not been sufficiently
heavy to pay expenses. Wher
that road was lit it was thought
to answer the purpose of the
opera tors. 1t was ultimately dis.
covered that the cost of hauling
the low-grade ore from the shafts
to the branch line was prohibitive
In view of the loss sustained by
the Calicnte branch line, the Salt
Lake Route officials are proceed,
ing with the erection of the new
road with great caution. The
operators declare that they have
sufficient ore contracted for with
the smclters to make the line q
paying investment.
1t lis coEdently anticipated that
the spring will see the line running
and Phoebe on the road to q
repetition of the good fortune
which made the camp one of the
foremost producers in the country
-Searchlight Bulletin.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-11-21
IN GOOD SHAPE

Foreman Miller of Hose Com
pany No. l informs US that all the
fire hose has been thoroughly
examinedand. tested and put on the
carts. Each of carts l, 2, and 3
have $50. feet of hose and each
two nozzl"s. The cart at the
lumber yard has 4CO feet and 24O
feet have been placed at the
county hospital. Cart No. 3 is on
the hill near the residence of
Robert Hunter. Charley Gar6ner
began the construction of build
ing this morning to house the
cart and hose.
All the old couplings have been
taken from the hose and new
screw couplings put on and
everything is now in first-class
shape in case fire should break
out. For this condition, the
property holders are indebted to
Foreman Miller and the members
of Hose Company No. l. The boys
bclon4,iG; to this company have
stuck to their organization and
never fail to answer the call of
the fire-hell. In fact, they are the
only drilled tire-ighters' the town
has.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-11-21
Inherent Richns.

There are thousands Of people who
have lost everything they valued in
the word, nj the material results OF
their lives cndeavor. and yet, because
thcr rnsscss stout hearts. unconpucr.
able spirits. n determination TO push
ahead which knows no retreat. they
are just as far from real failure as be-.
fore their loss: and with such wealth
they can never be poor.-Orison SWEET
Marden, In Success Magazine. b..