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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-12-28
Plain Dealing.

Plain Dealing.
Monday, Dec. 25.-Christmas day was
wet and slushy, rain continuing nearly
all day.
Miss Ethel Many came home for the
holidays. She is now teaching at Lis
bon, Claiborne Parish.
About 400 bales of cotton have been
shipped from here to date-the gin at
this place ginning 749 Of them.
Miss Inez Allen, who now teaches at
Montgomery, Grant Parish, is spending
the holidays with loved ones at home.
Messrs. w. H. Stroud & Company
have sold their hardware business to
Messrs. C. A. Heifner and ]. w. Walker.
Harry Wyche, now living at Belcher,
spent Christmas day here with his father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Wyche.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Gardner, now
living in Shreveport, are visiting MIR.
Gardner's father and mother, Mr.. and
Mrs. q. Gardner.
Misses Lucy Perry, Stella and Mozelle
Boggs, Hattie Kirtley and Alma Keoun,
students of the State Normal, are spend
the holidays at home.
Plain Dealing has been crowded all
during the holidays with visitors, nearly
every family having its quota OF guests,
and they were a jolly lot.
Mr.. Rob Curry, now chief clerk in the
Signal office of the New Orleans and
Northeastern Railroad at Houston,
Texas, is here on a visit to his mother,
Mrs. J. S. Gray.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jodie Wilcox of Shreve-
port came up on Saturday evenings
train on visit to Mrs. Wilcox's aunt,
Mrs. ]. F. Gladney. Mr.. Wilcox and
his brothers have charge of the famous
Harris Island farm of Andrew Queries
Two nice prizes were offered by Miss
Willie L. Cochran, teacher in the inter-
mediate grade of the Baptist Sunday
School for the best work done in that
grade during the year, and on Sunday
the prizes we're awarded. Miss Ruth
Nuckolls won first and Miss Blanco Gar.
5 rett second.
A celebrated pearl expert was here or
Friday with the view to purchase thu
: one found by Mr.. John Underwood OF
Phelps Lake, near here, mention o
:. which was made in last weeks Banner
Mr.. Underwood refused an offer of 500
made directly after the find, and still
e owns it. It is said to be fine one.-
THURSDAY.
Mr.. Rob Curry left this morning TO
Houston, Texas.
i Mrs. w. B. Boggs, jr., of Vivian
= visiting her mother, Mrs. J. S. Gray.
o Mrs. ]. H. Wheeler and the childre
# left for their home in Vivian Tuesday.
Mr.. Leon Sanders is quite sick wit
: pneumonia at the time of this writing.
Q Miss Hattie Kirtley entertained fe
= of her friends very pleasantly Tuesda
Z evening.
9 Mr.. w. H. King OF Memphis, Tenn
: is visiting his granddaughter, Mrs.
s H. Allen.
: Mr.. Monroe Crawford and family
: Ida are holiday visitors with Plain Dea
9 ing relatives.
9 While out hunting yesterday ate
: noon, John Doles, son Of Mr.. R.
: Doles of Collinsburg, was accidental
2 shot by friend of his brother Howar
) The young man raised his gun to sho
= at some birds when he was stopped
9 Johnnie, who told him not to shoe
: The young man neglected to let t
: hammer down, and when he hea
9 another covey of birds he took a Il
: steps nearer to them. The gun was tn
Is accidentally discharged, the char
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-12-28
The Date:
Monday, January LIST

When you have cold get bottle OF
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It will
soon fix you up all right and will ward
off any tendency toward pneumonia.
This remedy contains no opium or other
narcotic and may be given as confidently
to baby as to an adult. Sold by all
dealers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-12-28

81 had been troubled with constipation
for two years and tried all of the best
physicians in Bristol, Tenn, and they
could do nothing for me-" writes Thos.
E. Williams, Middleboro, KY. "Two
packages Of Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets cured me-" For sale by
all dealers.
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The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25
COLORADO STATE NEWS

No. 200 fiasco. Attorneys represent
ing State Auditor Leddy and the
county commissioners OF Prowers
county will appear before Judge Rid
die and another interesting chapter
may be added to the already enter
tanning history of the last General As
sembly's financial muddle. The Prov
ers county authorities seek to compel
by mandumus the payment Of $500
their portion of the recent $25O,0OO APP
preparation to the highway commits
sion for use in the construction of
good roads. The auditor has said that
the bill which authorized this money
to the commissions credit Is invalid,
since on the Senate journal no roll
call appears to record Its final pas
sage. Leddy has accordingly trans
ferred no money to the commissions
special fund, and he refuses to honor
the Prowers county voucher.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25
THE WEEKS NEWS EPITOMIZED

= To be lost on the desert with five
small children to care for, the re-
mains of husband unburied and men
aced by bowling coyotes, was the
frightful experience of Mrs. George
McDermott, of Utah, who was found
by desert teamsters twenty miles from
Wild Rose canon, California.
A new use for the common cactus
plant OF the western country is sug-
gested by Theodore H. Adams of Den
yer. who is authority for the state
ment that durable paint may be
made from the cactus and that the
people of South American countries
have used this natural paint for years.
A total OF approximately 100000
young trout, yellow perch and bass
were planted in Colorado lakes and
streams from the United States fish
hatcheries in 1911, through the efforts
of Senator Guggenheim. The distribu-
ton, which was made during the sum-
mer, extended over the entire state,
and through the efforts of the senator
many isolated places were stocked
with young fish from the government
hatcheries.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25

| Armstrong, Mayor Speer of Denver is
sued an order that all cribs on Mar
ket street be vacated and the crib
system in Denver's red light district
go out of existence for good.
The Colorado Springs police while
surprised at the similarity of the Ellis
worth, Kan, murders with those in
that city recently. do not believe that
the murders have any connection.
They will take no steps to aid in the
hunt for the Ellsworth slayer unless
requested to do SO.
Interest is being awakened all over
the state by the sociabiiity and endur-
ance automobile run from Denver to
New York, being fostered by the land
show committee of the Denver Cham
Der of Commerce. Reports from many
cities of the state indicate that there
! will be many entries from outside OF
Denver.
The contention raised by railroad
attorneys that the State Board OF
Equalization has no power to change
tax assessments after October 1st is
not a good one according to an opin-
ion rendered by Deputy Attorney Cen
eral A. A. Lee. He holds that the
board still has power to change as
sessments.
The Longmont sugar factory has
been running about two weeks and
has never made such record before.
1t has averaged 1000 tons of beets per
day, the best days run being 1900
tons. The largest output of sugar for
one day was 5,420, the average sugar
content has been 1917 per cent and
the yield per acre will average IS to
IA tons.
That the statement of John Ar
buckle, New York refiner and coffee
magnate, that he will go before Con-
gress next winter to fight for free
sugar, is the first gun in battle be-
tween the beet sugar manufacturers
and the cane sugar refineries is the
declaration of Clarence G. Hamlin,
chairman of the executive committee
of the United States beet sugar in
dustry. in statement made public
in Colorado Springs.
Construction work has been begun
at Meeker on what will prove to be,
when completed. the finest church edi-
flee in western Colorado. ST. Mays
Roman Catholic church will be its
name, and 1t will prove the consum-
nation of years of hope and labor of
the Catholics of that section, and will
change Meeker from an insignificant
parish town, where mass is held only
once or twice a month, into the head
quarters of the Catholic diocese of
northwestern Colorado. The presid-
ing priest will be Father ]. v. Walsh,
now of Rifle.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25
SPORT.

Jack White of Chicago and Boyo
Driscoll of England fought eight fast
rounds to draw in Memphis. Tenn.
Both fought cleverly and both left the
ring practically unmarked.
Miss Margaret Curtis Of Boston de-
feated Miss Dorothy Campbell, the
American. British and Canadian cham
pion, up and to play in the semi.
final round OF the womens national
golf championship at Short Hills, N. J..
The Agricultural College of Utah
swamped Colorado Aggies by score
of 81 to 0. The game was one.sided
from the start, the visitors never be-
ing dangerous. They made their dis
lance only once during the contest.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25
FROM TEXAS
Some Coffee Facts From the Lone
Star State.

From beautiful farm down in Tex.\
as. where gushing springs unite to
form babbling brooks that wind their
sparkling way through fowery meads,
comes note Of gratitude for delivery
from the coffee habit.
when my baby boy came to mo
nve years ago, I began to drink
Postum, having feeling that 1t would
be better for him and me than the old
kind Of drug-laden coffee. l was not
disappointed in 1t. for 1t enabled me. a
small. delicate woman, to nurse a
bouncing. healthy baby IA months.
Il have since continued the use of
Postum for I have grown fond of 1t.
and have discovered to my Joy that It
has entirely relieved me of a bilious
habit which used to PROSTATE me two
or three times year. causing much
discomfort to my family and suffering
to myself.
my brother-in-law was cured Of
chronic constipation by leaving OF
coffee and using Postum. He has Va
was Of the old coffee.
I'm fact, the entire family. from the
latest arrival IA 2-year-old who always
calls for his 'potie' first thing in the
morning., up to the head OF the bsuse,
think there is no drink SO good or 80
wholesome as Postum" Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book. 1.-THE Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's reason"
Ever read the above letterf A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true and full NJ human
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25
FOREIGN.

Italy's fourth dreadnaught, the Giu-
Ito Cesare. has been successfully
launched.
The Belgians, encouraged by the
success of the British attempts to
grow cotton in Africa, are bent on ex-
tending similar enterprises in the Con-
go Free state.
1t is semi-officially asserted that
Italy has notified the powers that
she will send fleet to attack Smyrna
and Saloniki II other massacres Of
Italians like those reported by con-
suls to have taken place on the Hod-
jag railway on the boundary between
Egypt and Syria, occur.
News was brought to Victoria, B. c.,
by the Empress Of Japan that thou
sands were dying of starvation in
Klang Su. along the Yangtse, follow
ing the floods. and the situation was
expected to argument greatly the
spread OF the rebellion. Refugees
paint a black picture Of dire distress.
The Manchu dynasty is mcnaced
with destruction. In the most serious
rebellion Of recent years the revolu-
tionists, who include among their
numbers 5000 mutinous Imperial
troops. have captured the city OF WI
Chang. China, after battle with the
Loyal troops. Hankow, aci oss the riv-
er firm WI Chang, is in imminent
danger.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25
WESTERN.

President Taft spent one day In
southern California and received a
hearty welcome. The streets Of Los
Angeles were thronged.
w. D. Street, a pioneer plainsman
scout and Indian fighter, died at Ober
lin, Kan, of apoplexy. He was scout
and guide with Gen. Custer.
Tommy Ward, aged -. of Ardmore
Okla, leaving a note to his mother
that he was tired picking cotton. shot
himself with an old army revolver
dying instantly.
Philip Verrill Mighels. the well
known author and playwright. died at
Winnemucca, New, as the result Of an
accidental gunshot wound self-in
flicted.
The net earnings of the Colorado &
Southern lines during its fiscal year
ending June 80, 1911, were $5.4S9.9
according to the annual report filed
with the board of directors in New
York.
Seven people were killed and TWEEN
ty-two injured, four of them seriously
in a collision between Missouri Pa
cific passenger train No. los, north
bound, en- route for Omaha, Neb., and
fast freight train.
Woman suffrage in China, under a
republic established through q revolu
ton organized and financed in the
United States, is the plan announced
in San Francisco by Sun Fo, son Of DR.
Sun Vat Sen. the revolutionists
choice for president.
The Louisiana state and fire rating
board. at its regular monthly session
at Baton Rouge, adopted a resolution
reducing the conflagration hazard
charge in the congested district OF
New Orleans from 20 cents to Ii
cents.
There are many women holding
elective offices in Kansas. according
to the political census just com
pleted. The list totals seventy-four
and with the exception of Mrs. Ella
Wilson, the only woman mayor. all
were elected by the votes Of men
alone.
What is pronounced by Sheriff Nat
Stewart OF Santa Barbara county. Cali
fornia. and w. F. Wines Of San Fran
cisco. special agent for the Southern
Pacific. to have been deliberate at
tempt to dynamite an 800-foot bridge
twenty-five miles north OF Santa Bar
bara, over which President Taft's
special train passed. was frustrated By
the vigilance of Mexican bridge
Waterman.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25
GEN ERAL.

The recent floods In the Black river
in Wisconsin wiped out the business
section of the town of Black River
Falls.
Hearings in the Lorimer investiga
ton before the United States Senate
committee, have been resumed in Chi
cago.
A negro, who 1t was charged, at
tackled Mrs. Thomas Cox at her home
near Forest City, Ark, was taken from
prison by mob and lynched.
John R. Walsh. ex-banker and
former head of railroad enterprises
has been paroled from the fedora
prison at Leavenworth.
Charged with the murder of his
brother and rival for the love OF a
girl, Elmer Ferris, aged 81. of Ava
Mo-, has been placed in Jail in Kansas
City. Kans.
Bertha Westbrook OF New York
wants $4,000 damages because DR.
Albert Plant "blundered" when he
mended her face, causing one eye to
be larger than the other. so she cant
be a good actress.
Henry Hona, pedestrian, has com
pleted coast to coast walk, having
journeyed from Jersey City to San
Francisco in seventy-one days. Hona
did not steal, solicit nor work during
his trip. He used his savings of sew.
eral months work as laborer to de-
fray his expenses.
By the sweeping decree entered In
the United States Circuit Court al
Toledo. the backbone OF the so-called
Electrical Trust was broken and, IN
the judgment of Attorney General
Wickersham. the government was
equipped with presidents of genuine
value in Its prosecutions Of CONNER
cial combinations forbidden by the
Sherman law.
Disastrous weather conditions
which prevailed throughout the coun
try earlier In the growing season
abated in September and the condi
ton OF most OF the important unhar
vested crops on October LIST showed
improvement. Corn was one-tenth OF
one per cent. higher than 1t was on
September LIST; potatoes improved 81
per cent; tobacco, "a Pc cent; flax
IL per cent; apples, 3.6 per cent,
rice declined 1.8 per cent. The effect
OF hot weather and drought through
out the growing season was shown in
the official preliminary estimates oil
the production of spring wheat, oats
and barley. These showed a loss in
production over last years harvest OF
an aggregate OF 301, 100000 bushels.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25
Colorado Crop Shows decrease.

Denver.-The United States Depart
ment of Agriculture has reviewed the
condition of the Colorado crop in the
October number of the Crop Reporter
and finds that the yield of cereals and
vegetables on the first Of October
was less than the yield year ago.
Only in the case of Colorado fruits is
there a more promising production
than in 1910.
The spring wheat crop in October OF
this year, for instance, is only IS per
cent of normal, whereas in October
of last year it was 70 per cent. Oats
this year is 35 as against 80 per cent,
and barley is 20 as against 80 per
cent for last year. These figures re-
fer to production per acre. The
quality of these crops is slightly bet
ter than last October.
The Colorado potato crop is less
than half as good as year ago. 1t
is only 20 per cent Of normal while
last year at this time it was 60 per
cent. Apples in this state are better
than in october 1910; the crop is now
20 per cent of normal as against SO
per cent a year ago.
The reporter shows that COW peas
are IS per cent Of normal; sorghum,
SIS; sugar beets, "a; tomatoes. So:
cabbage, 49, onions. 80; beans, SO,
and broom corn, 70 per cent of normal.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25

A discrepancy of over $3.2SS.271 be-
tween the material on hand and tina.
called for by the books of the Wash
ington navy yard was shown by the
inventory just completed.
The practice at almost all Roman
Catholic churches of asking a contri-
button at the door or of charging fee
for seat In church, is ordered discon-
tinued in a circular letter addressed
to all archbishops and bishops of the
church in the United States that has
been sent out by Monsignor D. Fall
COMO, apostolic delegate at Washing
ton.
Denver is believed to have the great
est number of automobile trucks in
use Of any city in the country in pro-
portion to its population. Statistics
that have been gathered by the trade
show that Denver has one truck to
every 1900 people, Philadelphia one to
5000. Cleveland one to 5000, Seattle
one to 5000, Los Angeles one to 4,40O.
San Francisco one to $500 and Oak
land one to $500.
In the cathedral in Baltimore. where
fifty years ago he was ordained a
priest, then successfully consecrated
bishop, invested with the pallium Of
an archbishop and twenty years after
his ordination received the red beretta
Of cardinal, Cardinal James Gibbons,
archbishop of Baltimore. received
homage from illustrous prelates and
laymen from both this country and
foreign lands. The ecclesiastical cele-
bration OF the cardinals dual jubilee
began with pontifical high mass. cele-
brated by the cardinal. Archbishop
John ]. Glennon of st. Louis delivered
the sermon.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25
Minor Mention.

A. L. Atherton. miner of Telluride
committed suicide.
Several new buildings are being
erected in Gunnison.
Earl West was fined 800 for sell
ing intoxicating liquors in Lamar.
| A light frost recently visited Rocky
Ford but no serious damage was done.
The fall tennis tournament at Den
yer closed with Russell B. Wells cham.
pion.
The Colorado Electrical Association
is holding it's second annual Electric
Show in Denver.
The Union Pacific's shopmens
strike in Denver continues to be noted
for the peacefulness of the strikers.
Active work has begun in Denver
to get one or both of the great party
national conventions to Denver.
The La Junta High School team was
defeated by the Centennial High
School eleven of Pueblo. by score of
II to 6. f1
The cornerstone of the new Park
Street Presbyterian church in Pueblo
was laid recently with appropriate
ceremony.
After twenty years residence in
Boulder county, Mrs. Theresa Benei-
tone, aged ninety. and her husband.
John, left for Italy.
A record yield of beets in the Gill
vicinity is reported by Howard Bris-
coe whose patch OF five acres is yield
ing thirty tons per acre.
Fred Edwards, aged twenty-eight,
was terribly mangled in fly-wheel at
the Golden Cycle mine at Cripple
Creek and died as result.
The annual revenue of Greeley for
the coming year will be $10s,OOO, of
which $4,000 will come from TWEEN
ty-mill levy and the remainder from
water rents.
Harry Riede, the Aspen Whirlwind,
has started active training in Denver
for his twenty-round bout with
Young" Shoskey of Trinidad which
will take place at Walsenburg, Octo-
Der &c.
A. c. Conlin, a prominent mine own
er of Salt Lake. was probably fatally
wounded when stabbed in the back by
w. M. Mcdonald, a porter on a Colo
RADIO Midland train, just as the train
arrived at Manitou.
George Morris, aged fifteen, gate
tender at the Minnequa steel works at
Pueblo. went to sleep on the track
just inside the plant yards, and was
run over by an ore car. Both legs
were severed at the knees and he died
two hours later.
After a conference with the Fire
and Police Board and Chief of Police
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25
East to Pacific Freight Traffic.

Puebio,-Through freight traffic
from st. Louis and the East to Pacif-
ic Coast points. via the Missouri Pa
cific to Pueblo and thence westward
over the Denver & Rio Grande and
the Western Pacific. was discussed at
a conference in Denver OF officials
representing the three roads involved.
1t has been definitely decided that
this through traffic will be inaugu-
rated, beginning sometime early In
November. the date to be definitely
determined upon at conference OF
the officials.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25
Student Kills His chum.

Fort Collins.-G. C. Stafford of Trini-
Aad, aged 20 years, was accidentally
shot and killed by his chum. James
Chishold. 1s years old. in Stafford's
room in the Y. M. C. A. building here.
Both men were students at the State
Agricultural college and had been
here only few days. They had
known each other for several years
and were the closest of friends.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25
State Board of Equalization.

Denver.-The State Board of Equal
fzation completed the consideration of
the railroad assessment problems
called to its attention by Assessor
Henry ]. Arnold. Every protest made
by Arnold was denied and he was in
formed that If he doubted the right
of the board to assess certain Denver
property as railroad property he
might take the matter into the courts.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25
To Mend IN Umbrella.

To mend an umbrella that tears
loose from the rib at the point, when
you are on the street and needle and
thread are not available. close the UNI
brella and bringing the cloth in po-
sition, insert small hairpin In tho
hole Of the rib, and wind securely
around cloth. This first aid to the in
jured" is SO efficient you will be
tempted to leave 1t permanently.-Na-
tional Magazine.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25
To Revive Old Camp Teller.

Greeley.-Old Camp Teller in North
Park, which was flourishing mining
camp in the early sos with 1000 peo-
pie, promises to become an active
mining center again. Development
work in the rich mineral deposits o.
the district is now being pushed.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25

Colorado's gold production in 1910
amounted to $2O,526.5OO. as against
$21. $4,000 in 1909. according to re-
port made by the bureau Of the mint
and geological survey. The silver pro-
duction for 1910 amounted to $685.
900, as against $S.S46.300 in 1909.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-25

Denver-cheyenne C. q s. Trains.
Wellington.-The Cheyenne-Welling
ton link of the Colorado & Southern
has been opened and passenger trains,
Denver to Cheyenne, via Fort Collins.
are now being run, and regular SER
vice will be maintained