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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
CHAIRMAN BALL
ON THE STAND
Offers Nothing That Is Direct
In Character.
SUBMITS PRO EXPENSES.
In His Judgment 1t Is lmmeasur-
ably Worse For SaIoonists to
Contribute to Campaign Funds
Than Corporations.

In his statement before the house
election probe committee Chairman L.
Fl. Ball of the prohibition COMMITTEES
said there existed an immediate neces-
sity for further safeguards forthe bal
lot He deptored the large amounts
contributed to campaign expenses by
individuals and corporations, and ne
believed S. was large enough sum
for any individual or corporation to
be permitted to expend in the interest
of the election of any candidate or
candidates.
Replying to the question whether il
was worse for saloon keepers to con-
tribute to campaign funds than for
corporations to do so he said that il
was UNNECESSARILY worse, althoug cor
poration contributions were certainly
bad enough.
In the opinion of Chairman Ball
Texas is much in need of law pro-
vlding for publicity OF campaign ex-
penditures before elections are held.
He suggests Que publication month
before election and others from then
on at intervals of one week. String
ent laws seeking to punish bigger"
individuals and concerns who seek to
procure violations of the election laws
are needed, he said, and he would GO
after the men higher up aux give to
the voter minimum punishment who
becomes victim of the debaucher,
Chairman Ball submitted state
ment Of receipts and expenditures OF
the pros as obtained at Houston head
quarters, as follows:
Salary and Office help, So, 557. Is,
Rents, Office and furniture, $745 Is.
Postage, 1886, a.
Telephone, telegraph and express.
81, 144. 62.
Literature, printing and stationery,
IS, 7O6. 80.
Travelling expenses and speakers,
1886. 10.
Newspaper subscriptions, $50. 05.
Furniture and fixtures, 1904. 81.
Publication of official statements,
S151. %
The house and senate committees
decided to meet separately.
BY vote of so to 80 house passed
the committee substitute for the house
concurrent resolution and substitute
No. l asking Governor Colquitt to
submit recommendations for stricter
regulation of the liquor traffic.
Representative Hill of Denton tes-
titled before the senate committee. He
said he was prohibitionist, but cp.
posed the amendment because he dis
covered the anti Bailey men sought to
thus down the senator.
Representative Cox said he only re-
ceived expense money in the campaign.
w. H. Gray, Houston attorney,
clined to testify, claiming the commit
tee had no right to question him. Sen
ator Watson also refused to testify.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
CONE JOHNSON TEsTIflES
Thinks Ants Spent Over Halt a
Million Dollars.

Hon. Cone Johnsoa of Tyler was
before the senate investigation com
mittee. In his opinion the ants did
not spend less than $500, 900 to defeat
statewide prohibition. He told OF va
rious publications of the ants Tor
distribution. including Facts. " Hs
said he knew the amount spent coulo
not have been less than 81, 600, wv
when it cost him $16, 900 to make the
race for governor.
Mr.. Johnson read two lettees, dated
nine days apart, weitten upon letter
heads of the Casey Swasey company,
Wholesale liqnor and cigar dealers OF
Fort Worth, addressed to j. F, VOL
tiers, care Driskill hotel Austin. writ
ten in January, 1909, and signed Sam
Levy,
First says: II am just. in receipt OF
yours of the 18th acknowledging the
receipt of the 81, 900 sent YOU" Letter
stated 81, 500 was coming from anoth-
er source and said he would send $500
himself
Il note what you say abont the leg
islature, and hope all our friends
will stick together and be able to &C
complish what we want.
''In this connection permit me to
thank you for the efforts you are put
thug forth in behalf of our interests,
which we appreciate very much. "
Says the second letter: II am in re
ceipt of both your letters of the 9th,
apd in the same mail l have also re-
eeived letter from Mr.. Louis S.,
stating that he would forward J. W.
81, 500, and no doubt you have re-
ceived this remittance ere this.
Your letter is certainly very en-:
couraging. l feel myself that the
Baekin- Nc Gregor law should and
would be amended, and that the IL
cense would be 81, 600. and the brew
cries should stand their part of this
and he raised to $3.50.
'The felony law governing the local
option districts | am satisfied will
pass. While it may hurt our business
lIeblO, Gt tAlO S0lllO bkluS dtl Ill ldN VI
of it, as think it will finally get the
business on basis where it can re-
main unmolested. Kindly keep me
posted as to matters of Importance. -
Mr.. johnson stated he did not take
those letters voluntarily to the com.
mittee, but had been summoned to
hiring them.
Former Speaker Love testified Mr..
VOTERS had offered to employ him as
attorney for the ants; that he was
then an anti but now pro. He said
there was an inordinate number OF
poll tax receipts in Dallas county;
that woman at Dallas. phoned him a
negro told her who lived on her prem
Uses that two white saloonkeepers had
paid his poll tax and those of zoe
other negroes.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
Judicial Sale.


No. 15,f40-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La:
Mrs. Cecile Laenger and Hus-
band VS.. Minors of Gas Laenger.
By virtue of writ of fieri facias
to nae directed from the Honorable
First Judicial District Court of Cad
do Parish, La, in the above num-
bered and entitled cause, I have
seized and will offer for sale at pub
lie auction for cash and according
to law, at the principal front door of
the court house of Caddo Parish,
La, during legal hours for sales, on
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1911.
One lot hand tools, one cornice
brake, one set rollers, one lot rail-
road iron, one lot framing tools, one
lot rings, one lot patterns, and four
trunks. Said property seized as be-
longing to the above named defend
ants, and to be sold for cash and &C
cording to law to pay and satisfy the
debt as specified in said writ, say in
the sum of three hundred and sew
enty-three and 15-100 dollars, to-
Gether with five per cent per annum
interest thereon from the 9Th day of
July 1911 until paid, and all costs of
suit. J. P. FLOURNOY,
Sheriff, -Officio Auctioneer.
Caucasian, August 6, 1911.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
Sex No Excnse.

The sentiment that a. woman con-
victed of an offense of vicious ma
ture should not be compelled to put on
overalis and work out her fine in de-
fuult of payment is mistaken sense
of delicacy, according to Judge D. B..
ID. Shelter of the municipal court of
lola, Kan, who put his theory into
practice by sending woman to work
out an uncxpired fiue on the streets
If he can find no prohibiting statute
all women hereafter convicted of ag-
gravated offenses will, in default of
payment OF fine, be required to array
themselves in bloomcrs and take their
place in the chain gang with male
prisoners
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
WATER TANK FALLS.
One Man Killed and Others Are
Badly Injured.

Lee Hewett, an iron worker was SO
seriously injured otter being crushed
by water tank al st. PauPs sanitar-
INN, Dallas, falling seventy feet that
in few minutes. Four other men
were badly injuree, but not fatally. A
brother of the dead man,. A. Hewett,
was injured about the bead aod arms.
The men we're putting up new steel
braces to replace the old ones that
held ap a 10000 gallon tank at time
of the accident There was only about
two feet of water in the tank.
The noise caueed by the tank full.
ing was heard some distance.
Just before he died Mr.. Hewett re.
quested to be baptized and a sister
connected with the sanitarium per.
formed the sacrament.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15

No. i5,3Oi-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La:
Mrs. Sophia Hourregue VS.. J. F.
Fisher, ct ais.
By virtue of a writ Of seizure and
sale to me directed from the Homer
able First Judicial District Court of
Caddo Parish, La, in the above en-
titled and numbered suit, I have
seized and will offer for sale at pub
lie auction for cash, without the
benefit of appraisement. at the prin-
|cipal front door Of the courthouse OF
Caddo Parish, La, during the legal
hours for sales, on
SATURDAY, AUG. rs, 1911,
Ia certain tract. or parcel Of land
situated in the southeast quarter of
the northeast quarter Of section 3,
township II, range Il, and more par
lticularly described as follows: Be-
ginning at a stake at the northeast
Icorner of said southeast quarter of
northeast quarter Of section 3, for q
starting point, and running thence
west seventeen and eighty-six one
hundredths (i786) chains to a stake
ON the right Of way of the X. C. s.
Ry, thence along said right of way in
southeasterly direction nineteen and
two one-hundredths {19.O2) chains
to a stake on section line; thence
north six and five hundred and thir-
ty-five thousandths $685. chains to
the place of beginning; said tract OF
land containing 5.84 acres, in Caddo
Parish, La, with all the buildings
and improvements thereon. Said
property seized as belonging to the
above defendants, and to be sold foI
the debt as specified in said writ. saw
in the sum Of s276.5O, less s244As
paid on June 20, 1910, leaving a bal
lance due on principal and interest
LOT 1925, and all costs Of this suit
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
SheriR's Sale.


No. t5,347-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La:
J. M. Robertson vs.. Mrs. Ella. v
Tomkies.
By virtue of a writ of seizure and
sale directed to me from the Honor
able First Judicial District Court OF
Caddo Parish, La, in the above en-
titled and numbered suit, / have
seized and will offer for sale at pub
lie auction for. cash without the ben
eft of appraisement, at the principal
front door Of the court house of
Caddo Parish. Louisiana. during the
legal hours for sales, on
SATURDAY, SEPT. 2, 1911,
Lots 70, 70, 80, 81 and 81 of the Moses
Greenwood Subdivision of the City
of Shreveport, Caddo Parish, La,
with all the buildings and improve
ments thereon. Said property seized
as belonging to the, above defendants
and to be soldito satisfy the debt as
specified in said writ say in the sum
OF nine thousand (S9,00OOO) dollars
with eight per cent per annum in
terest thereon from May, 8, 1910, un-
ii; paid, and all costs of the suit, as
we'll as ten per cent on said sum and
interest as attorneys fees.
J. P. FLOURNOY,
Sheriff, ex-Officio Anctioneer
Caucasian, July 80, 1914.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
Houston Bank Closed.

The Harris County Bank and Trust
company of Houston has been placed
In the hands of the commissioner Of
insurance and banking of the state Of
Texas by State Bank Examiner J. K.
Woods, temporarily tn charge. This
action was deemeed necessary because
of the existence of some large loans,
which, in the opinion OF the depart,
ment, were considered of such nat
ure that they could mol be realized or
readily. and, therefore. impaired the
capital stock.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
Succession Sale.
No. 1902 the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La;

No. i5,302 In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La.
Succession of P. e. Thenard.
By virtue of a commission to sell,
directed to me by the Honorable
First Judicial District Court Of Cad
do Parish, Louisiana, in the above
numbered and entitled cause, l will
offer for sale for cash, according to
law, at No. Ais Spring street in the
City Of Shreveport. Caddo Parish,
La, during the legal hours of sale on
SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1911,
The following described personal
property, to-wit:: Two violins, two
trunks and contents, and contents of
room over No. 4i5 Spring street, and
one brass trombone. The said prop
erly I'd be sold for the purpose of
paying debts
REV. Il. BERrELs,
August Is. Administrator
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
Loaeph Parrv nIea.

Joseph Parry, known as 'the father
of irrigation" and founder of the as
phaltum bed in the interior mountain
regions, died at his home in Ogden,
Utah. aged seventy six years. With
one of the Mormon wagon trains he
crossed the plains. Mr.. Parry was
the father of twenty three children and
fourteen, together with one of his
wives, survive him He had forty ,.nipe
grandchildren and twenty one great
grandchildren.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
Given Full Power,

Senator Cofer offered in the senate
q resolution. which prevailed by viva
voce vote, giving the senate invesii-
eating committee full power to swear
Witnesses, administer oaths and take
before the bar of the senate, to be
dealt with as the senate may direct,
any person refusing to anpear before
the committee. Right is also given to
send for documents, letters and tele-
grams desired Poll tax investigation
will be also had.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
AUDITING Plan pefes+ed.

The Texas senate passed the general
appropriation bill after Jumping the
appropriations for the attorney gen
erals department, rs did the house,
and after striking out the item OF
$40, 600 with which the governor might
employ auditors to investigate books
and records of the various depart
ments and institutions. Both changes
we're made b. the prohibitionists. The
senate added about $500, 900 to the
printed bill. For the department Of
agriculture s11, soc. was allowed and 9
like amount for the farmers institute
work
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
Fetal Auto Accident.

An automobile rolled down en- en-
bankment two miles from Waxahachie
and as result w. d. Boon of Tyler
had his neck broken and was killed
instantly. A. v. Cockrell of Dallas
had his collarbone and two ribs brok-
81 and r. l. Knrth Of I4ufkin had O
rib broken. All we're college mates at
the Southwestern university, George
Town, und en- route Ia Mr. Cockreli's
sar from Dallas to AUSTIN
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
TEXAS
AND
TEXANS.


Antonio. died suddenly, He was ex-
president of the Texas division OF the
Travellers Protective association
August Pulte, prosperous German
of Cooke county, expired Of herrt
trouble on his farm, ten miles east oil
Gainesville
Professor Alexander Rogg, for a
number of years Identified with edu-
cattonal work in Texas and elsewhere
and long a resident of Fort Worth, led
in Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore,
where, with his daughter, Miss Lula
Hogg, two months before wept for
medical treatment. He was eighty one
years old. Burial was at Fort Worth.
He was a Virginian by birth
Seven residences i'd the Oak Gle
section of Dallas wele fire consumed.
Fire at Whitesboro destroyed one
business hause, several others were
damaged by smoke and water and loss
of Sl4, 900 sustained.
Mrs, Beulah Garrett poured gaso-
line in her wood stove at Dallas. An
explosion resulted and the lady was
frightfully Eurned, In a few hours
death euded ner sufferings. In trying
to save his roung wife Mr., Garrett
was badly blistered.
jain C, Jenny, twenty years con-
nected with the Boren &, Stewart Gro.
Gerry company of Dallas, but the past
seven years a member of the Ditto
Grocery company of Arlington, dieo
in Fort Worth sanitarium. He was
sixty one years of age and leaves q
widow.
Near Ferns, Harrison county, wifi
of Ward Cooper, negro. has given
birth to quadruplets.-two girls and a
couple of boys. All are doing we'll.
Cecil Naylor of San Antonio was
shot in the head and died. w. e,
Miller was arrested. He claims sclf
defense.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
Awful charpes.

J. M. Adkins called at the county
attorneys Office in Dallas and filed
two charges of criminal assault with
that official against G. w. Bowers OF
Eagle Ford. According to the state
ment made by Mr.. Adkins to Assist
ant County Attorney Charlton the al
lened offenses we're committed on his
two daughters, Myrtle and Matte,
aged eleven and fourteen years re-
spectively. According to Mr.. Adkins
Bowers is postmaster at Eagle Ford
and also runs general store at that
place. Adkins rents residence from
Bowers.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
sal paolInes.

Hon. Thomas Il Ball has made the
ann ouncement that he will not be- q
candidate next year In Democratic pri-
maries for the nomination for the GU
bernatorial Office. He reiterates the
statement he made at'Waco to this ef-
feet He says further use OF his name
in this connection would prevent unan-
imous agreement on q candidate who
would receive the solid support OF the
Texas Democratic prohibitionisss,
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
NEGRO HANGED
ON TELEPHONE POLE
Commodore Jones Executed at
FarmersvilIe, Tex.
TWICE INSULTS A LADY
This Accusation Made Against .
Negro, Who 10 Compelled to As
cend the Pole and Rope Around
Neck Leap to eternity.

Commodore Jones, negro, was by
q mob taken from the lookup at Far
mersville, Bex., and hanged to tele-
phone pole.
The negro was jailed on complaint
of young lady, who stated he had
used insulting language to her over
the telephone.
Similar complaint was made about
year ago against the negro, but as
there were no Witnesses to the alleged
remarks no action was taken. The
conversation upon which the recent
complaint was based was overheard
by others.
The negro was forced by the mob to
climb a telephone pole. A rope was
pull around his neck and fastened ia
the cable. He was then made to jump
and he soon strangled to death.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
EStray Notice.

Taken up by Nathan Bell and es-
trayed before me, the undersigned
animal, one sorrel mare, years old,
star on forehead, white scratch on
nose. The owner will please come
forward, prove property and pay
charges, or the animal viii be sold
at Mooringsport, La, oI0 Saturday.
August 26, 1911, as provided by law.
). w. A. Elicit.
July 81. Justice of the peaca
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
THE LAND SHOW AT CHICAGO.

A Land Congress is to be held in
Chicago, ILL.,, beginning in December
next, at which there will be varied
exhibits of products of the soil from
the States of the Union.
Its purpose is also to convey in
formation for the benefit of those
who are inclined to invest in land
upon which to build their homes.
In years past the tide was West
and Northwest, but the homeseekers
are now directing their attention to
the more desirable lands of the
South, whose climate is genial and
where the opportunity of obtaining
a share of this worlds goods is more
encouraging than at the North with
its billiards. and wintry storms.
Good lands at fair prices are the
strongest inducement which viii
lead the homeseekers to come South
and through this land show is giver
the opportunity for the exhibits Of
the varied products of the lands Of
the States Of the South.
For instance: Is there a State OF
the Union which can excel Louisiana
in its varied products of the soil?
Whatever is produced successfully
in any Of the States will yield boun-
tifully and profitably from the lane
of Louisiana when intelligently cul-
tivated.
At the land show Louisiana must
have one of the most creditable Of
exhibits, and those seeking a home
should be advised that Louisiana is
in sense the land Of plenty, of hap
piness and prosperity.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
Registration and Election Frauds

Registration and Election Frauds
New Orleans Times Democrat:
In reply to recent publication
from Registrar Ball that the Demo-
cratic Good Government League has,
as yet, presented no evidence of
fraudulent registration, Mr.. Joseph
Markey, employed by the league to
check up the rolls, says in an inter-
view:
IN short time / will be able to
show so much illegal and fraudulent
registration that it will make Mr..
Ball sick and the public disguised
with the methods that have been in
vogue since the beginning of the
present registration, in January
1909"
Without going into details, Mr..
Marley fixes the number of regis
trations Illegally made at over 5000,
and promises to produce the neces-
sary evidence at the proper time,
when his work of Investigation has
been completed. As we remember it,
Registrar Ball requested the Good
Government League, when it handed
in its first batch. of names for eras-
ure from the books, to present sep
arately those to be stricken off be-
cause Of removal or change of resi-
dence from those to be removed on
account of fraud and illegality; as
the election is still over five months
of, there seems to be ample time for
doing this.
As it is, several thousand names
have been removed from the regis
tration rolls, and the total of such
erasures is expected to run up to ten
blousand. This is good work, the
most thorough purging of the regis
tration that has ever been done in
New Orleans, and it will help to as
sure an honest election. It is only
by such vigorous methods that we
can do so. The best way, the only
way indeed, to restore throughout
Louisiana the good name of New Or
leans in the matter of elections is by
reforming the abuses that have ex-
listed and by Furnishing those guilty
Of them, for the people of the entire
State know that the registration,
primaries and elections held in this
city under the domination, control
and management ofsthe present ring
have been among the rottenest in
the Union.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
Hangs Self In Church.

The body # Andres Anderson, aged
sixty-three years, was found hanging
in the Mormon church at Logan. Utah,
of which he had been sexton twenty
years. Before going to the church for
the last time the old man read his ia
vorite hymn-~a remuneration OF earth
ly glory and wealth.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
oampaIgn seelne In oetober.

State executive committee of the
Prohibition party at meeting held
In Dallas decided to begin the fight in
October for the election of a Prohibit
ton ticket in Texas in 1912 Chairman
P. f. Paige was instructed to go to
Austin and appear before the invsetis
eating committees.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
Rogers Amendment carrIes.

The Rogers amendment, Jumping the
appropriation for the maintenance Of
the attorney generals department for
the next two years nd making it ap-
proximately SS2, 000 already passed
by the house, prevailed in the senate
likewise.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
Cd settler oIes.

w. M. Alternately one of the oldest
attorneys Of Collin county. Tex. died
suddenly at Mckinney aged sixty
eight years He was Confederate
veteran.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS eIu pessss,

The reapportion bill as passed by
both houses of congress provides for
an increase from 39l to 433 in mem
bership of the house of representa-
sives.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15

BY Pennsylvania railway train at
Fort Wayne, Ind, jumping the track
four persons were killed and thirty in
iured.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15

as we'll as ten per cent attorneys
fees on said principal and interest.
J. P. FLOURNOY,
Sheriff, ex-Officio Auctioneer.
Caucasian, July 20, 1911.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15

Seated in a chair in
front of a Galveston
hotel Harry L. Ben.
son, sixty years Of
age, resitient--of San
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-15
SheriR's Sale.

Caucasian, July 80, 1914.