Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Mount Vernon National Bank at
Mount vernon y. Y. suspended business
Friday by decision of its board of directors.
The institution has capital stock Of S2p".-
600 and deposits OF more than $loo,oou.
Is president. Herbert i. leEnings,
vice president Of the First National Bank
81 Oueonta. which suspended business sim
ilarly Thursday. The Mount Vernon Ma
ticna Bank is entirely solvent ana able 10
pay depositors dollar for dollar accord
ing to a declaration ny Samuel W Ray
mond. cashier and director The insiiIu-
ton was closed Is pre- autionary meas
urc. Mr.. Raymond said. Ia insure deposifors
and creditors that their interests woul be
protected in The face Of The suspension OF
the 0neonta bank with which The NJ Yer
non institution is closely allied.
Misbranding Of coffee, Geneva gin
and vanilla ana lemon daVoring ex-
traC IS constitute the most common
Violation of the pure food laws. ac
cordins to the department Of agricul-
ture. Upon analysis it has been found
that many vanilla and lemon extracts
are limitation products culorcd with
coal tar dyes. As result of several
decisions which have been rendered
recently the department is making ef-
forts to see that the pure food LAWS
are not violated. Government SlruthS
have seized many eonsiSnmcnts If
food products recently which on being
analyZcd have been found to be either
limitations or to contain ingredients in
furious to any person eating them.
Wild, uncivlized Indians. who live
nd ,j,
casional bit of meat from Livestock.
which they steal. and who still use
bows ana arrows. inhabit the canyon
in Deer Creek, about i miles north
east OF Nina, Calf This information
was received at the bureau of Indian
affairs Friday from y. l.. kroeb"r,
curator of the Museum of Anthropol-
ogy. University OF California. Al
though an investigating party sent out
by tn" university last winter spent
about month in the section occupied
by these Indians. they were unable to
find the band. They did. however, dis
cover ample evidence of the existence
of a tribe. The writer suggests that
the Indian bureau start an inVestiga-
ton with a view to putting these peo-
pie under government supervision.
plot for the escape of three or
more patients of the government hos
pital for the insane at Washington was
unearthed by the authorities Thurs
day night when Arthur Barnes told of
the plans of a band of the patients.
The plan, as told by Barnes, one of
the patients, contempla ted that while
a play was going Friday night in
Hitchcock hall. an outbuilding of the
institution where a majority of the
guards would be concentrated, the pa
tients should make their break. At the
time nine guards would be on duty to
watch over the 300 criminal insane
patients and the guards We're to be
attacked in the same manner as a
guard was handled Monday night
when five patients escaped. Barnes
told his story to an official of the in
stitution and extra guards were placed
on watch. One of the ringleaders was
overheard to say We'll make short
work of them" Files. iron and lead
pipes, and sticks which had been hid
den by the patients to be used in their
attack, were found. Nine patients
have been put in irons and placed UNI
der close confinement.