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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
TRAIN BUMPED
OVER THE TIES
No One Killed and Fifteen Who Were
Injured Got OFF Mighty
Lucky.

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CLEVELAND, o., Dec 2S.--The bit
ing blizzard sweeping Ohio last night
and today narrowly missed claiming
scores OF lives last night when the
Big Four railroads twentieth century
train was wrecked at La Grange, 80
miles out Of Cleveland. Railroad men
consider 1t remarkable that only about
fifteen persons were injured when the
tender and ten cars of the train left
the rails and bumped over the ties
while going more than sixty miles an
hour. And those injured were only
bruised or cut by flying glass and re-
sumed their journey when relief
train brought them on to Cleveland
The wrecked train runs between
Cincinnati and Cleveland, where il
connects with the lChicago-New York
limited Owing to the storm the train
was behind its schedule and while
trying to make up time the front
trucks Of the tender left the track
carrying the rest of the train with it
The smoker turned over into the
ditch.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
is IN POWER
OF CLA|RvOYANT.
Missing High School Student of Den
yer is Thought to be Held by
Some Mysterious
Woman.
TELEPHoNED T12z POLICE
Bone Headed Policemen Failed to Ask
Central Who Had Called and
/ Let cIew Slip
BY.
TELEPHoNED T1H POLICE

DENVER, Colo. Dec 2S-That
Ralph Crabb, the II year old high
school boy who disappeared mysteri-
ously on Dec. 4, is hidden in Denver,
is the belief of the police.
They think the youth is being held
against his will by woman of ma
ture years who has become infatuated
with him. Her stronger will power
lis believed to have enabled her to
keep the boy away from his parents.
This belief is based on a telephone
message received by the police today
stating that the youth is still in this
city and has not been injured. The
message was delivered in woman's
voice. She said
Il merely wished to state that
Ralph Crabb is in safe keeping. He is
not held for ransom, has not been in
jured and is in good hands"
She declined to state her name OF
address and hung up the receiver
when the police captain persisted.
The detectives now think the mys
terious "veiled lady" who called a
the Crabb home several days ago ant
asked for the youths clothes, is hi
captor. This woman told Prof Crabb
the boys father, that she was ;
clairvoyant and professed TO hav,
psychic power which would enable he
to locate the missing lad Prof. Crab
now believes that, this was merely
ruse to explain the woman's reques
for Ralph's clothing. The police ar
J searching for her.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
DEATH HAS new
STRANGLE HOLD
Strange, Unknown Fatal Disease
Makes its Appearance In the
Asylums Of
Berlin.
AGONY TO THE VICTIM
is Similar 70 Ftomalne Poisoning and
Fifty People Have Already
Been Seized BY

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BERLIN, Dec. Is An epidemic Of
some strange, unknown disease, has
already claimed fifty lives in the
Municipal Night Shelter and other
asylums here. One hundred other
cases are reported today. There is
fear that the victims are suffering
from cholera or the plague.
Several paupers have been taken vi
olently i'll on the streets and died
within few hours after they were
stricken. The deaths were at first at
tributed to ptomaine poisoning, caus
ed by eating herring, but 1t became
known today that large portion O.
the victims had not eaten the herring
Physicians are unable to dignos'
the illness at this time.
Victims of the mysterious diseas'
are seized with violent fits of vomiting
and expire in the greatest agony.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
MORE HUSBANDS
FOR LILLIAN
Fair Actress 10 Going to Attach Mum
Dor Four When she Weds
Alexander P. Moore in
tho Spring.
EXPERIENCE AS A WIFE
Two Wers Divorced and tho othe.
Ono Had a Wife Already
When he Married
Her.

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NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-That Alex
ander p Moore, publisher of the Pitts
burgh Leader, will shortly become the
fourth husband Of the fair Lillian Rus
sell, was coyly confirmed by the bride
groom-elect and some of his closest
friends here today. Moore, when
asked regarding Miss Russell's state
ment of last night that they were to
wed next May, at first said:
We'll, hope that 1t is true" Later,
however, he admitted the soft inn
parchment, but stated that all state
ments regarding their plans must be
made by Miss Russell. She is going
to retire from the stage and cease her
magazine writing, he said, in order to
take a prominent place in Pittsburgh
society.
Miss Russell's first husband was
Harry Braham, the musical director
who got divorce, while her second
was Edward Solomon, whom she final
ly got rid of by proving he was al
ready wed when she married him. Hel
| third was John Chatterton, the singer
better known by his professional
name of Signor Perugini She divorced
him in 1908, and several times since
! then rumors of her engagement tt
Moore have been circulated and de
MED
Alexander P. Moore is an Influential
republican politician of western Penn
3 sylvania, and stated today that hei-wi1
call on Colonel Roosevelt tomorrow t,
) urge him to accept the republican
presidential nomination.
II am afraid that Col. Roosevelt
does not want the nomination an,
whether he would accept if it wa
forced on him is hard to say" he dc
clared at breakfast this morning.
Miss Lillian Russell was as gushin
as a school girl when she received
reporter of the United Press at he
: apartments today She stated tha
she was very happy over her engage
ment From time to time she burs
out in song and seemed much younge
than the nearly fifty she admits.
According to the actress the que
ton of her marriage was defnitel
settled at dinner in Detroit o
Thanksgiving day. 1t was at ths
time they decided to we'd next Ma
but the exact date and place for III
ceremony are yet to be decided. Th
fair Lillian is also going back int
vaudeville
Il cannot say now when will reti1
from the stage, if at ALL" she sal
"It is possible may desire to continr
my stage work after the wedding
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
How Many Tickets?

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DBs MONIES, Dec. ga plan to
run special trains from half dozen
Iowa cities loaded with union labor
men to take part in a monster mass
meeting of union button workers at
Muscatine is being considered by the
officials of the state federation of la
Dor today. Union men have united in
aiding the union button workers who
have demanded the removal from
office of Police Chief Fred Hoffman,
of Muscatine, and take this means to
make their protest felt
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
NOT SUITABLE
FOR CANDIDATE
Mr.. Bryan Does Not Approve Of Cover
nor Harmon, Therefore Harmon
Should Not be
Mentioned.
$ FRIEND OF TRUSTS
Wall Street and Railroads Are For
Him., Unless They Have Shifted
Recently to Under
wood.

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LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 2S-Editor
VIM. ]. Bryan in his Commoner today
fiays Governor Harmon, declaring the
Ohio executive is playing dual role
in democratic politics by assuming to
be progressive when he is in reality,
reactionary and derives his strongest
support from Wall street. Bryan says
in part:
Governor Harmon is either stand
patter or progressive-he cannot pc
both. Would the Wall street element
be for him If they did not know where
he stood? And will progressives be
for him when they know that he is
satisfactory to Wall street? Ask those
who were out of harmony with the
policy of the party during the cam
paigns of 1896, 1900 and 1908, and
they will almost to man tell you
that Governor Harmon Is the man to
nominate-unless they have shifted to
Mr.. Underwood. Is this good rec
ommendation for democratic candi-
date? Ask the big railroad attorneys
those who call themselves demo
Gratis but vote the republican ticket
what democrat should be nominated
for the presidency and they will al
most without exception tell you that
Governor Harmon looks good to them
unless they have decided that Mr.
Underwood has better chance for
the nomination.
"Ask those democrats who are con,
nected with the trusts and you will
find that they are, as a rule, for Gov
ernor Harmon or Mr.. Underwood
There is no reason, Of course, why
Wall street should not make a fight
to control the democratic party but il
ought to be an open fight."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
Garbage Money Gone.

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DETROIT Mich Dec. Although
the entire police force of the city has
been working on the case and every
egress from Detroit is being watched,
no clue has yet been found of the two
men who in broad daylight yesterday
held up and robbed Tim Monyhan, a
city paymaster, of s1.376 Monyhan
was on his way to the city garbage
plant to pay off the employees
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
LEFT HER MONEY
TO THEOSOPHISTs
Mrs. Thurston's Son Does Not Like
to See $25oooo Slip From
Him.

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SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec. 2S.-The TAX.
ing of testimony in the suit by George
L. Patterson, Of New Castle, Pa. to
break the will of his mother, Mrs
Harriet P. Thurston, who died year
ago, was begun today.
In the will Mrs. Thurston left $3.50,
900 to Mrs. Katherine Tingley, the
purple mother of the Theosophist
colony Of Point Iona, where Mrs
Thurston lived during the last veal
of her life. Patterson alleges that hii
mother was insane and under the in
fiuence of Mrs. Tingley when the vii
was signed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
.BLAME { WOMAN
FOR BIG LOCKOUT
One Hundred and Sixty Thousand
Cotton Mill Workers Are Out Of
Work and Getting no
Wages.
ARE UNION MEMBERS
Mr.. and Mrs. Riley Would Not Joir
the Union and Miss Bury Says
That She VIII
Not.
ARE UNION MEMBERS
Mr.. and Mrs. Riley Would Not Join
the Union and Miss Bury Says

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MANCHESTER, England, Dec. 2S--
MSS Margaret Bury, wno refused %
rejoin the union, is blamed today for
the lockout in the colt ou mills of this
district which has thrown 100000
people out of work. rh : weekly wage
loss to the employees was 100000
Miss Bury announced oday she in
tended to stand her ground regardless
of the attacks that were being made
on her. "The charges that AMI re-
sponsible for the lockout are alb
surd." she said today. The union
lists are the real Offenders My fe!-
low-workers at the Heieao mills went
on strike because our employers re-
fused to discharge Thnmas Riley and
his wife, who had retrsed to join the
iii ion. | do not believe il the closed
shop idea, and left the organization
Riley and his wife have since Joined
the union, am told, and because i re
fuse to take a simila course, the
union workingmen alI women are
blaming me. No amouat of perseca
tion will induce me to rsjrn the ranks
of organized labor. The fault is clear
ly with the union and the members
of the organization have no one t,
blame but their own leaders"
The strike at the Helene mills il
Accrington, where Miss Bury is EN-
ployed, resulted in the decision of tn
other cotton master spinners in thi
district to enforce the open shop rule
1 In addition to the 100000 who hav
been locked out. a similar number wi
be placed on half time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
BIG AdIence Tramps Through Snow.
Storm to See and Hear the Man
Who Wants the
Presidency.
HAS FIVE PRINCIPLES
Blizzard and LaFoilette Reach Ohio at
the Same Time But He Cannot
SEQ The Con-
nection.

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CLEVELAND, o.. Dec. Ex-senator
1Bob'' LaFollette today is literally
taking Ohio by storm. Ushered into
his stumpfng tour Of the presidents
home state by baby blizzard, which
reached full grown proportions, the
Wisconsin senator left early this morn
ing for Norwalk and Toledo, the sec
ond day of his campaign.
Enthusiastic applause and large
crowds SO far make LaFollette's bid
for Buckeye support impressive. To-
day Cleveland, and, in fact all Ohio
politicians are seriously considering
the ovations given him SO far upon his
trip.
Cleveland's testimonial whether
personal tribute of interest, curiosity,
support or sympathy ~ to LaFollette,
was to have more than 5000 persons
trudge through binding, biting
snowstorm to fill every seat in Gray's
Armory. About 500 more spectators
stood in the aisles and roasted on
stairs for more than two hours, fre
quently and loudly applauding the
progressive republican leader.
On the platform with LaFollette
were James r. Garfield. former sec
retary Of the interior and a hundred
leading Cleveland citizens, amons
them being Frank G. Rockefeller
brother Of John d. Rockefeller, al
wearing red badges OF the progressive
republican league.
70 all HIS Ohio audiences LaFol
1ette is outlining the platform of the
progressives as follows:
: Make this government in ever.
y Municipality, state and this natior
represent the people, and not the spec
! interests"
The initiative. referendum and re
call, the latter to include the judi
ciary: direct primaries and direc
election Of United States senators arr
the five cardinal principles of PRO
gressivism" LaFollette special,
\ urges.
At noon today I1aFollette viii
speak to railway employees and resi-
dents of the rural community nea
Norwalk, and tonight at Toledo.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
James Grant Killed His Wife and Six
Children, Then Hanged Himself
to the Rafters Of the
Barn.
ONE SON ESCAPED
Left Note Stating That He Was In
able to Provide for His Fam
lily and Would slay
Them.

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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. Dec. 2s.--The
body of James Grant, suicide and
seven-time murderer, will be buried
here tomorrow alongside the bodies of
his wife and six children, whom he
beat to death with a POKER Tuesday
night, afterward hanging himself to
the rafters in his barn. The crimes
were not discovered until last night,
when Hugh Grant, 20, returned home
to find his mother and six brothers and
sisters murdered and his father hang.
ed
| Grant left note in which he said
his inability to provide for his family
was the cause of his deeds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
READ THIS AND
Then SH|VE!l
Last Nights Cold Wave struck 3 ne
Places Much Harder rh
It Did keo-
kuk.
ELEVEN BELOW ZERO
Up at Lacrosse the Mercury Fell
Down and sprawIed All
Over Itself This
Morning.

CHICAGO. Dec 2S-The cold wave
which settled over Chicago during
the night shattered low records for
this winter when the mercury dropped
to five above zero. The cold wave
caused intense suffering among the
poor and today the county agent is
swamped with application for fuel and
provisions, The municipal lodging
house sheltered 4SS men, record
number for this season. Two deaths
are credited Ito the cold wave. The
weather bureau promises warmer
weather tonight.
Down to Zero.
MILWAUKEE,, Dec. 2S-While Mil
Maukee and this section of Wisconsin
shivcre1 with the mercury at zero at
z a. m. today, relief came in the an
nouncement from the government
weather bureau that slowly rising
temperature was the forecast The
citys poor have suffered intensely
from the cold wave.
Elevec Below.
| LACROSSE, Wis, Dec. 2S.-La
Crosse experienced the coldest wealth
er this winter when at a. m. the me1
curry dropped to eleven degrees be
low zero.
CoIeest Of Winter.
MINNEAPOLIS. MINI, Dec. 2S-Tc
day is the coldest day of this winter
the mercury registering below a
/ Z a. NJ. ..---.---.-.....--,..-......
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
Arkansas teachers.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Dec. Is
Nearly 1000 teachers are here in prep
aration for the Arkansas Teachers
convention which opened yesterday af-
ternoon. Among the feature address
es will be one by Prof. H. G. Holdon
the Iowa Corn Wizard" from Ames
Iowal agricultural school.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
PACKERS TOOK
ENGLISH IDEA
Swift Heard About How TO Form a
Real Trust From Lord Gordon
and Tried It
Here.
THE PACKERS
TRIAL.
Before the Combine Was Formed
Much Discussion Was Held Re-
sardlns Watered
Stock.

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CHICAGO, Dec. 28.-Having shown
by documentary proof that the ten
packers on trial before Judge Carpen-
ter in the federal court for criminal |
conspiracy to restrain trade had made |
repeated efforts to organize syndi-
cate which should combine all the |
packing interests of the country and
that they finally organized for such an
end the National Packing Co., Attor-
ney Pierce Butler for the government
today resumed the examination of Al
fred H. Veeder in an effort to show
in detail the discussion and plans of
the packers at their informal confer
ences when they were trying to in
duce Wall street to help them float
billion dollar concern in 1902.
Veeder says there was much discus
sion among Armour, Swift and Nor
ris as to how they could pour plenty
of water into their proposed organiza-
ton without having it become too ap-
parent.
They discussed many schemes
said Veeder, and finally the plan of
turning over their properties to the
new concern at two for one was Of
fered. The packers saw the humor
in that time-honored plan and decided
to devise some other means. Then 1t
was decided to use twenty-five times
their individual net earnings for the
year as a basis for capitalization.
Il .. 3
7t' 1t was by this means that the pack
ers added nearly s650,000000 of wa
ter to their proposed billion dollar
capitalization.
1t was also brought out when the at
torney began seeking for details sur
l rounding the written agreements thai
! Veeder admitted that besides borrow
ing $90,000,O0O from the Standard Oil
Harriman-Gary interests, the packers
proposed to give the Wall street inter
ests, $10,000,00O of the stock of theil
Besides this they were to repay thu
loan with interest in three years. !,
When this scheme fell through
Veeder testified the packers immedi
ately planned their second propose
which also went for naught.
The witness was then taken by AT
torney Butler back over many of tn
L documents to explain the methods II
which the conferees arrived at tn
signed agreements.
During discussion regarding som
early agreements, Butler suddenl
turned on the witness with the que'
ton: Who conceived the idea of
syndicate anyway"
= None of the packers" answere
Veeder. "Tanmure Gordon of Londo
gave Gustavus Swift the idea Will
Swift was visiting in Europe. Lor
Gordon told Swift the packers shoul
: organize for economic reasons, as tn
steel companies, in which Gordon wa
interested, were doing at that tim
Swift came home with the idea and 8
long as he lived matters went fo
ward rapidly
Copies Of contracts leading up
the formation of the National Pac
at ing Company were then read TheE
III provided for the merging of the Fo'
i Ter interests with those of the Armol
r, Cudahy, Swift and Morris group
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
Town is on Fire.

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TORONTO. Ont. Dec. 2s.-Word has
arrived that Golden City, in the porcu-
pine camp, which was destroyed last
July during a series of disastrous
forest fires, is again aflame. Half of
the business section has been burned
and the fire is still raging.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
No Strike Now.

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MADISON, Wis. Dec. 2S.-The
threatened strike of the local street
railway men was averted today when
the men accepted an Is percent wage
increase. The settlement is a com
promise.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
CoIoest of Winter,
Was a Poor shor.

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ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2S.-It cost Mrs.
Lizzie Carberry $3.50 to attract the
attention of the police when a man
tried to enter her house. She fired a
revolver and hit costly plate glass
window across the street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
Maxo Soon out Of Danger.

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NEW YORK, Dec. est was stat
ed at the Presbyterian hospital today
that the condition OF DR.. Chas. H.
Mayo, the noted Minnesota surgeon,
recently operated on twice for ap-
pendicitis and gall stones, was "emi-
nently satisfactory and that he would
soon be out Of danger.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
Not Guilty.

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NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-The jury in
thc case of Isaac Harris and Max
Blanck, charged with manslaughter as
the result of the death of one hundred
and forty-six employees Of their plant,
the Triangle Shirtwaist Co., last sum-
mer, returned verdict Of not guilts
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
Abolish CAPITA, Punishment.

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BOSTON, Mass Dec. Ex-Governor
Foss, it was announced on highest au-
thority; in his annual message will
urge abolition of capital punishment
in this state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
petectiu, Dropped Dead

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PEORIA, H.. Dec. 2s.-Dayid Kerr,
for nineteen years detective and the
dean of the local police department,
dropped dead today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
THE WEATHER.
Weather Forecast.

For Keokuk and vicinity
ing cloudiness with probably snow
late tonight or Friday. Warmer to-
night. Colder Friday night.
For Illinois increasing cloudiness
tonight, probably followed by snow
Friday Rising temperature.
FOR Iowa Increasing cloudiness,
with probably snow tonight or Fri
day. Warmer tonight and in the east
portion Friday. Colder in the west
portion Friday.
Weather Conditions.
Generally fair, colder weather at
tends the field of high pressure in the
central valleys, with temperatures be-
low zero from the Missouri river TO
the northern portion of the Mississippi
valley and there has been rain or
snow in the lower lake region and
northeastern states, as the storm cen.
ter moved eastward in that section.
Daily River Bulletin.
Tt ,.Ix+ II, -,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
Local observations.

Dec. q, Z p. M. 10 degrees, clear.
Dec. 2S, Z a. M, degrees, clear.
Mean temperature for Dec. 81. Id de-
grees; highest temperature 81; low
est s; lowest last night g.
FRED 2. GOsEWISCH,
Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28
stage. Height. Change. wea'h'r

River Forecast.
The river will change but slightly
at Keokuk during the next forty eight
hours
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-28

-Read The DAILY cate city
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-06-25
A Judament.

No. i4,537-Tn First District Court
Caddo Parish, Louisiana: Mrs
Ophelia Sargent VS.. Fl. R. Sar-
gent.
On motion Of J. NJ. Wise, attorney
for plaintiff, and on producing due
proof of plaintiffs demands, the law
and the evidence being in favor
thereof, it is ordered, adjudged and
decreed that the default entered
herein on the 3rd day of May 1911
be now confirmed and made final
and accordingly there be judgment
in favor of Mrs. Ophelia Sargent
wife of II. R. Sargent, and against
her said husband, H. R. Sargent, foI
the full sum of fifteen hundred dol
lars ($i5OO.OO) with legal interest
thereon from date Of this judgment
until paid.
It is further ordered, adjudged
and dCcreed that there be judgment
in favor of said plaintiff and against
the said defendant deCrGelng ulS-
solution of the community Of &C
quets and gains heretofore existing
between them and a separation OF
property between the said plaintiff
and the said defendant; cost to be
paid by defendant.
Thus done, read, rendered and
signed on this the 18th day of May
1911. E. w. SUTHERLIN,
Judge First judicial District Court
of Louisiana.
Filed May II, 1911.
A. S. HARDIN, Deputy Clerk.
A true copy.
F. A. LEONARD, Clerk.
June %, 1914.