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The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14
TEDDY DON'T LIKE TAFT'SPEACETREATY
Explains His Views in Lengthy Article in The Outlook Says Treaty Is Unwisely
 Drawn.

New York, Sept. 7.-Sharply crit icising the arbitration treaty with Great Britain and France recently presented to the eenate as defective and insincere. Theodore Roosevelt, in an editorial appearing in the Out look today, predicts that the eoun- try, if it shoud be "so unwise" as to adopt the treaties, would in cer- tain exlgCncies be unwilling to abide by it.
 The editorial says: "The proposed treaty is defective because it is not straightforward. It is so loose, it so lacks explicitness as to allow one set of advocates to announce it binds 1t to arbitrate everything and am other set to say that under it we do not have to arbitrate anything we do not wish to. Now, no moral movement is permanently helped by hypocrisy.
 T for one would rather cut off my right hand than see the United States adopt all attitude of cring- ing before great nations who wish to wrong us, or of bullying weak na tions who have done us no wrong"
 Urging that the prime duty of the nation is to seek peace, Roosevelt sums up the arraignment by the statement that the treaty in several particulars is totally inadequate and of the nation.
 Must Seek Righteousness.
 "It is one of the prime duties of the nation to seek peace, It is even a higher duty to seek righteousness. It is also our duty not to indulge in shams," the editorial continues. Not to make believe we are getting peace by some patent contrivance which sensible men should know know cannot work out in practice, and which, if we sought to make it work, might cause irretrivable harm. We should put righteous ness above peace" Roosevelt cites the revolutionary war, the civil war and the Spanish-American war as instances where we put righteous ness above peace"
 One instance in which the treaty is defective, he says, is that it sets forth that all "justiflabie matters shall be arbitrated." Even among our own people" the editorial says, and before cause for applying the treaty has arisen, there is a hope less confusion as to what 'justiflable' means.
 This country would not keep an agreement to arbitrate all questions of honor and interest, even though it were so unwise as to make it. It is a wicked thing to put us in po- sition of promising what will not and cannot be performed.
 Outsiders Not Our Mentors.
 "A fatally objectionable feature of the treaty is the clause providing that a joint high commission, which may be composed exclusively of the nationals of the two countries, but which may also be composed ex- elusively of foreigners, may by unanimous vote determine that a given question may be arbitrated. We, the people of the United States cannot and will not surrender to outsiders the power to determine whether or not we are fit to decide for ourselves what are our vital needs"
The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14
MILD, GENTLE LAXATIVE
 FOR WOMEN GIVEN FREE

So many of the ills of women are due 10 habituai constipation. probably be- cause of their false modesty on the sub- ject, that their attention cannot be foo strongly called 10 the importance of keen ing the bowels open. It is always inpor- tant to do that, regardless of the sex. but 1t is especially important in women.
 From the time the girl begins to men, struate until ulenstruation ceases she has aIHass vastly better prospects of coming through healthy if she watches her hos.,ai movements If you find yossrssif eaneti- pzted. with bad breath. pimply oomnlex. ion. headaches. beiching gas and other symptoms of indigestion and constIpatIor take small dose of Dr. caidwelt.s es,r,,,, repain. II is voman's favorife faxa- t.se You will find that you can do away
The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14
AMERICAN VESSEL SEIZED.
Canada Takes Possession of GIOu.
 cester, Fish Laden.

Ottawa, Sept. 6.-The Canadian government has seized the Glouces- ter schooner Arbutus at Louisburg.
 The Arbutus put into Louisburg on her way to Gloucester, Mass. and there took on a consignment of fish destined for her owners in Glou- cester. This constituted a violation of the treaty of 1918, under which United States fish vessels may put m at Canadian ports only for sun plies, water or shelter.
 The Canadian authorities prompt ly seized the vessel and will con iiscate her with her cargo. It is the first seizure ever made under this part of the treaty.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14

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The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14
WAS MURDER
 BRED IN A BOY?
Alienists in Indiana Are Interested in Life History of William Lee, Who Killed His Father, Mother
 and Brother With An Axe.

Boonville, Alienists through out the country are manifesting a great deal of interest in William Lee, the youth who killed his father, mother and brother with an axe and then set fire 10 the family home in a vain effort to destroy the evil dence of his crime.
 Those who have gone deeply in- to the history of the Lee family believe they have uncovered data enough on the life of the young murderer to prove he was bred for such an end.
 His father was a convicted thief and served a year in the Indiana Reformatory thirty years ago for larceny. The father came back from his imprisonment and lived in the vicinity where he was convict ed, bringing his boys up in the shadow of his crime. Through his childhood days William led life apart from other little boys of the neighborhood and when a new pupil appeared at the little school and began to learn who was who, someone always whispered that Willie Lees father had been in prison.'
 Living down the criminal career of his father might not have been so hard if the father himself had been kind, but he was nothing of the sort.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14
WHITE WOMAN KILLS NEGRO.
Female Farmer in Mississippi
 Shoots Quick and Straiaht.

Quitman, Miss. Sept. Mrs. Susie Medley, white woman, who has successfully conducted large farm near Langsdale, in this eonn- ty, for years, last night shot and killed q negro, Walter Lang. in the doarway of her plantation home.
 The negro was a tenant on her place, and they had a disagreement which resulted in her ordering him away. Instead. he became abusive in his talk and advanced on her with . knife. when she fired on him. s,...ns hIm instantly. at the first
The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14
BOYS CORN CLUBS
 BEFORE CONGRESS
IRA SMITH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY PRODUCED ff9 BUSH
 ELS PER ACRr AT COST OF Sc.
Willie Jerry II. Moore of South Carolina Made Immense Yield, It Was at High Ccst of f3
 Cents Per Rushel.

In refuiing an editorial in the Washington Post, which claimed that Jerry Moore, the champion corn raiser of South Carolina had expended si.50 per bu e'l in rais- ing his yield of 22S bushels per acre, Congressman Lever of South Carolina. on the floor of the House, said;
 "ro those of us who have follow cd and with our efforts helped to promote the Boys Corn Club work of the South. inaugurated by the Farmers Cooperative Demonstra- ton Work. under the late and la mented Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, this editorial is interesting because of it's statement of facts and it's mis- statement of facts. I feel it my duty both to the South, the great est agricultural section of the country, and to tho demonstration work that it's misstatements should be corrected.
 ''Jerry Moore is perhaps the most widely known and best advertised person in South Carolina, with the possible exception Of the dsting- uished senior senator from that state. He has become widely known because of his unusual accomplish menl in rGising upon one acre of land 22SM bushels of corn last year. This is the record yield, under the exclusive management of a boy, for the entire world, and has been beaten by only one other person, Capt. Drake of Marlboro county, s. C., who 20 years ago produced on acre 254 bushels. The work Of Jerry Moore; Archie Odom, of South Carolina; stephen Henry, of Louisiana, and other boys of the South, has directed the attention of the country to our section as noth- ing else has in many years. Jerry Moore is an invaluable asset to South Carolina, and his feat liv- ing advertisement of the produe- tiveness of her soil. l do not pro- pose that the correspondent of the New York Times, willingly or un- willingly, should rob this boy of any of the glory to which he is en- titled by misrepresentation of the facts. The statement that he pro- duced this yield at a cost of Si.50 a bushel is incorrect. Circular No. 64s. of the Bureau of Plant fn- dustry, an official document, gives the cost at 43 cents per bushel, and in statement made to the Commit tee on Agriculture, of which l am member, Jerry himself gives the cost at the same figure.
 The further statement that the Federal Government paid Jerry Si a hushel for his corn and gave him a trip to Washington is also in- correct in part. The Federal Gov ernment, as a matter of fact, has not bought b;fshei of corn from Jerry Moore, although il is a fact that he has sold his much of it-at that price, and even sold ears of corn, exhibited at the National Corn Show, at $i each. He was given, along with i2 other boys from the southern states, a prize trip to Washington. I desire to in sert here a table showing the name and state of each prize winner who came to Washington, the number of bushels per acre produced, the cost per bushel, and the market price per hushel for the three fall months of the season in which the contest was held.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14
Outsiders Not Our Mentors.
FIRST DRAW siO,OoO.

Minot, S. D., Sept. 7.-B. E.. Click of Foxholm, N. D., drew Homestead No. in the Berthold In- lian reservation government land lottery today. A thousand claims were drawn. It is estimated the first one Is worth $i0,000.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14

NAME s lHughey Harden. Alabama---3i si l Ira Smith, Arkansas--------- 62 Joseph Stone. Georgia % 70 stephen Henry. Louisiana i3.6 do Wm. Williams. Misslsslppi--lS il F. Starnes, North Car0ina---3s vl Floyd Gayer, Oklahoma 56 Jerry Moore, South Gar0lina-i3 y5 Maurice Olgers, Virginia-----40 " Archie 0dom, South CaroIina-32 93' John Williams, Alahama----49 Sl The average cost per bushel on their corn was 27.4 cents. It is a
 fact that hundreds of boys, and last year over 46,000 were engaged in
 this work. grew more than a hun- dred bushels per acre at an average cost of less than 20 cents per bush el and sold it for as much as $i per bushel. stephen Henry, of Louisiana, not only grew t39 bush els upon an acre, for which Ile re- ceived gold watch from his gov ernor and an automobile at the National Corn Show, but grew it at a cost of i3ia cents per bushel. A hundred boys from the corn clubs of the south made exhibits at the National Corn Show, whose average yield was i33.7 bushels, at an aver age cost of less than % cents per bushel. This in itself ought to be conclusive proof of two proposi- lions: First, that the South can grow corn at a splendid profit, and second, that the methods of the demonstration work look not only to largeness of yield, but to small ness in cost of production, the two prime factors in successful agri- culture. unhesitatingly say that the great work begun by Dr. Knapp and now being conducted by his son, both through the boys and the girls clubs and in carrying up-to- date methods of agriculture out in- to the country, is doing more than any other one factor to develop southern agriculture and make the southern farmer prosperous and happy in his occupation. The re- mainder of this editorial, which points out the good results that must come from this work, is writ ten by philosopher who sees deep ly into the future"
 From the above article it will be seen that but one boy produced corn at as low a cost per bushel as Ira Smith of Silver, Montgomery county, Ark, and the yield lacked 23A bushels of the yield made by Ira Smith, certainly fact interest," ing to the Corn Club boys of west ern Arkansas.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14
FutiIity.

Teaeher-Tommy what is the meaning of the word futiity?
 TommyI don't know exactly. but an example of it would be trying to tickle a turtles back with chicken feather.-Youngstow Tele- gram.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14

boys acre compared with the mar ket price of corn in the states named. as given in the Crop Re- porter, published by the authority of the Secretary Of Agriculture, for the month Of October.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14
Two Small Truek Farnc

Close in, for sale or trade. What have you to exehanga2 Call f,,h;t,,,,, Aa9, or see owner, 1912 Church avenue. teo q
The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14

Around his home town Lee was regarded as a morose and shiftless boy. During his school days he found that being a conyict's son barred him from having a place with other boys and girls of the community and this made him sul- len. condition probably contrib uted to by the shame of appearing at intervals bearing physical evil dence of parental brutality and having the other children whisper to each other that Willie Lees father had licked him again"
 The confession made by Lee is complete and leaves no room for Ia defense. He admits everything from the blows of the ax by which the skulls of his father, mother and brother were crushed to setting fire s0 t0 tic ifuust. iiuw iIe can iO other wise than plead guilty. after sign ling such a confession, is not easy to conjecture, and this will prob ably be his course when his ease IS called in October.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14

RESOURCES.
 Loans ana Discounts s95,7g5 52 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 6Sl U. $. Bonds to secure circulation 6O,O00 co q. S. Bonds to secure U. s. Deposits 5,2S5 t4 Bonds, securities, etc 3Si SO Banking house, furniture and fix
 lures lH,I8000 Other real estate owned 36OOO Due rom National Banks (not re-
 serve agentsl s6,s5e O4 Due from approved reserve agents l0,5i8 ai Checks and other cash Items 1,845 G Notes ofother National Banks S,56J % and cents 2ss ss Lawful Money Reserve in Bank, viz Specie V,659 05 Le Sal-tender Notes 1000 % 10659 05 Redemption fund with U. $. Treas
 urer 0 per cent of circuation) 2500 % Total s29i,7i6@
 LIABILITIES.
 Capital stock paid in s50,000 co Surplus fund 10000 % Undivided profits, less ex peuses
 and taxes paid I7,Z3 H National Bank notes outstanding 6O,O00 co Due to other National Banks 543 98 Due to State and Private Ranks and
 Bankers Il.e93 92 individual deposits subject to
 check III ,252 67 Demand certificates Of deposit s9,6OO 09 Certified Checks 296 80 Cashiers cheeks outstanding S25 co Total s29l, ,7642
The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14

The lack of character in the young man is shown very fully in the plans he had completed for marrying Miss Nina Taylor, years old, with no occupation, no income of any sort on which to support her. The night of the murder he hired a horse and buggy from a local livery stable to take "his girl" out riding, without enough money to pay for the use of the rig, the account being charged to his mother.
 As he was to have been married two days later, the responsibility of the young man is evident.
 In one of his confessions, Lee says he and an older brother, since dead, agreed to kill their father. This was when William was i2 years old, and the compact was made as he lay moaning with pain and with blood running from stripes on his back inflicted by his father during one of the periodical beat ings by which the son was educated by the father up to the degree of brutality shown by the son when he killed his parents and younger brother with an axe.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14

As a boy, the present prisoner was cruelty whipped at frequent intervals by his father. Now that the history of the Lee family is under review, neighbors remember how Willie Lee often appeared with bleeding wounds, the result of brutal punishment by his father, who often whipped the boy until blood ran from cuts of the whip.
 Added to this, the father had a habit of cursing his son and using the most vile epithets in addressing him. Who the mother was is not stated in tho resume of the family history. Little seems to be known of her antecedents. She did not marry Lee until after he served his time for larceny and the fact of her linking her future with a confessed criminal is taken as evil dence that crime did not seem ap- palling to her.
 As the oldest boy grew up the mother took the usual course and defended her son against the vio- lent anger of his father. She also allowed her maternal love to be- come a menace to the boy by not insisting on his doing something to earn a living, or money for his per- sonal expenses. The boy was a loafer and the mother didn't seem to care. Neither did his father seeh to regard this as calamity, and, while he cursed his son, he did not seem to regard his chronic likeness as menace to the boys future.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14
No. 716S. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK

At Mena, In the State Of Arkansas, at the
 close Of business. Sept. 1. 1911.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14
RECAPlTULATiON
 RESOURCES

State of Arkansas, County Of Polk, Ss- l, l.. c. Acruman, cashier Of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best Of my Knowledge and belief
 l.. c. Acruman, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me- this the 9th day Of Sept 1911.
 w. A. Ftnks, Notary Public. My commission OK pires october 24, 1914. Correct-Attest:
 C. A. Smith,
 J. c. Jackson,
 c. M. Hopkins,
 Directors.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-09-14
DIR. w. f. BALSINGER,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON

Office Over First State Bank,
Richfield, Idaho
Local Surgeon for the Utah Con-
struction Company and the Oregon
Short Line Railroad Co.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-09-14

M. j. Byrnes has just returned from
Seattle where he went with a consign-
ment of cattle.
Mr. S. d. Boone and son, Frank, are
in Richfield from Haley, accompanied
by Michael M. Goldberg.
J. A. Youngkin shipped a carload of
wheat this week. This is the first car
load of Richfield grown grain ever
shipped, but will not be the last.
The regular services of the church
will be held Sunday. Sunday School at
1890. Preaching at 1870 a m. and
p. m. Everybody is not only invited
but urged to be present and have some
part in giving to our new and growing
community alias toward righteousness.
Public sentiment has a greater force
to moulding the lives of our young peo-
pie than is often recognized. Help to
create a proper, healthy trend toward
better things. The people have done
we'll and deserve better things. En-
courage them in every way you can.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-09-14
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

V. V. Bower, of Richfeld, Idaho,
assignee of Clarence H. Poteet,
assignee of Jacob Brock, entry No. 16
assignee of Clarence H. Poteet,
and assignee of Perry +. Foley,
entry No 25, who made entry I'M
der the provisions of an act Of the
legislature of the State Of Idaho
commonly known as the Carey Act
approved March 2, 1899, which en-
braces the SEA SW-4 and the SW-4
SEA sec ID tip a S R 10 E. B. M. do
hereby give notice Of my
intention to make final proof
to establish my claim to the
land above described and that l ex-
pect to prove that have resided on,
reclaimed and cultivated said land
as required by law, before Chas j.
Land Board, at Richfield, Idaho, on
October 9Th, 1911, by two of the
following witnesses
H. 3. Jones, 3. w w. Reeves, A. 4
Wright, M. P. Ward, all Of Rich
field, Idaho.
V. V. BOWER,
Entryman
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-09-14
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

I, James Goss, of Richfeld, Idaho,
who made entry Number 1857, I'M
der the provisions of an act of the
legislature of the state of Idaho
commonly known as the Carey
Act" approved March End, 1893,
which embraces the NW-4 SEA
Sec IS Twp South, range 70 East B.
meridian do hereby give notice OF
my intention to make final proof to
establish my claim to the land above
described, and that l have resided
on reclaimed and cultivated said
land as required by law, before
Chas. J. Lisle, representative Of
the state land board, at Richfield,
Idaho, October the 4th, 1911, by two
of the following witnesses:
J. J. Mulvaney, A. H. Wright F. c.
and H. B. Jones, all of
Richfield, Idaho
JAMES GOSS,
EntrymaE.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-09-14
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

|, j. G. Pearson, assignee of H. H.
Wachstetter, who made entry No. 1045
under the provisions of an act of
the legislatureof the State Of Idaho
commonly known as the Carey Act,
approved March 2nd. 1899, which
embraces the NW-4 of the SEA Sec 10
twp range 10 E. 3. M. hereby give
notice of my intention to make final
proof to establish my claim to the
land above described, and that l ex-
pect to prove that | have resided on
reclaimed and cultivated said land
as required by law, before Chas. j
Lisle, representative OF the state
land board, at Richfield, Idaho. on
Saturday, October 7th 1911 by two
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-09-14
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

l, R. A. Brooks, assignee of Gideon
L. Powell, who made entry No. 1896,
under the provisions of an act of tn
legislature of the State OF Idaho
commonly known as the Carey Act"
approved March End, 1899, which
embraces the VIZ NE-4 section 81
township south range 10 East, Boise
Meridian do hereby give not
ice OF my intention tc make final
PROOF & establish my claim to the
land above described, and that /
expect to prove that l have resided
On reclaimed and cultivated said
and as required by law. before
Chas. J. Lisle, representative of the
state land board at Richfield Ida
no, on the 9Th day of October, 1911, by
two of the following witnesses:
Earl Waffle, F. S. Stewart, John
Scheffers and J. A. Green, all of Rich
field, Idaho.
R. A. BROOKS,
Entryman.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-09-14
LOUISE III. LITTLE
Pianiste and Teacher
Richfield, Idaho
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

l, Charles A. Brown, assignee of
John Henry Donnelly, assignee of
Willard F Greene, assignee of Daniel
Closz, who made entry number ia
under the provisions of an act
Of the legislature of the state
of IDAHO known as the "Carey
Act" approved March End, 1889,
which embraces the NE-4 SW-4
section % township a S range 10 E. B.
NJ, do hereby givenotice of my in
tention to make final proof to es-
tablish my claim to the land above
described, andthat l expect to prove
that l have resided on, reclaimed
and cultivated said land as required
by law, before Charles ]. Lisle,
representative of the state board
Of land commissioners at Rich-field
Idaho, on the 18th of October, 1911,
by two of the following witnesses:
V. V. Bower, A. M. Richardson, B.
w. Reeves and Roy Parker all of
Richfield. Idaho.
CHARLES A. BROWN
Entryman.