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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-26
KILLED BY ENEMY
Col. Petit, Prominent Physi-
clan, RiddIed With Bullets.
ON THE GOVERNORS STAFF
Town of Lovington, Va, Scene of
Deliberate Murder-Benjamin
Hubbard the Assassin.

CHARLOTTESVILLE Va, September
26.-Col. James Petit OF Massies Mill,
one of the most prominent physicians of
Nelson county. was shot and instantly
killed yesterday afternoon by Benjamin
! Hubbard, of near COLLEEN, Nelson county.
Colonel Petit was a member of Gov.
Manns staff.
The murder. which was one Of the most
cold blooded in the history of Nelson
county. took place on the principal street
Of Lovingston the county seat, directly
in front of Hotel Dawson, and was wit
messed by a number of bystanders. who
were In attendance upon court. Hubbard
had just finished dinner in the hostelry
and was coming down the hotel steps
when he caught sight Of DR.. Petit, who
was walking leisurely down the street.
Fires Three Times.
Reaching in his pocket after revolver
Hubbard said to Petit: Il have been in
tending to kill you for some time" With
that he leveled the weapon at the physi-
clan and fired three times. Two of the
three shots struck Petit in the head. the
third causing instant death. The doctor
fell to the ground in heap, and as he
lay PROSTATE on the walk his assailant
coolly stood over him and fred two other
bullets into the dead mans chest.
A half dozen bystanders made a rush
for Hubbard. who offered no resistance
Without waiting for a warrant, the muir
derer was rushed up the hill and placed
in a cell in the county Jail. Intense feel
ing prevails over the affair, and the pris-
oner. in order to avoid q possible lynch
ing was last night removed to Shipman,
i frQf m hrYr
Jail.
. Hubbard is the son of Col. ]. c.. Hub
bard of Collen Nelson county, wealthy
land owner. 1t is said that he was not
altogether of sound mind, and that he
was known by the nickname of Crazy
Ben. The cause of the tragedy, it is said
a year ago by Dr. Petit Hubbard. 1t
is stated was not satisfied with the phy-
sician'S examination, and so expressed
himself to friends afterward, and. it is
rumored, had gone SO far to threat
en- the doctors life on more than one
occasion.
Held in High Esteem.
No man stod higher in the community
than DR.. Petit. A native of Nelson. he
enjoyed a wide and lucrative practice
throughout the county. He married a
Miss Fitzpatrick daughter of Tellus
Fitzpatrick, a leading merchant at Ar
rington. She survives him with three
or four children. He was forty-seven
years OF age. His home was twelve
miles from Lovington.
Hubbard Ia young man about thirty
five years of age. and has a wife and
two sons. He resides near the farm
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At a meeting of the directors of the
Woman's College OF Frederick. Nd. an
nouncement was made that pledges
.mountin. to $1,000 had been received
for the new college building fund.
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Miss Viola Lowman, seventeen years
old. of Mount Airy, pupil of the Girls
High School. Frederick, Md, died of
infantle paralysis.
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understand that one of the flour mills
at the Lake of the Woods is the larg-
est in the world. but / cannot speak
with authority on that subject.
Winnipeg ought to be as important
milling center as Minneapolis. At
least one-hah of the wheat harvested
on the prairies behind. us ought to be
converted into flour before it is ship
ped from this place. but the difficulty
is that there is no market here for
the byproducts. This country is new;
1t is in the same situation as the
western United States were City years
ago. 1t is necessary for our people
to get cattle and hogs to consume the
by-prOducts of the -four mills and pro-
vide packing houses to handle the beef
and the pork. We have very few of
them yet. but they are on the way.
This year the census enumerators
$1,000 sheep-which is an encourage
ing increase.
Need Agricultural Machinery.
Our next greatest need is factories
for producing agricultural machinery
and implements. More than 100000
worth of that class of merchandise was
sold this year by Winnipeg firms and
agencies, and of that total 5000 900
represented farms traction engines,
horseless. manless, sowing. cultivat-
ing and harvesting machinery. equiya-
lent to $4,000 horsepower. and that
means the labor of 315.GD men. as they
count seven men to a horsepower in
this country.
AT least 30 per cent il not more.
of the farming in western Canada is
done with steam and gasoline That
Is not entirely a matter of choice. In
the first place farm hands cannot he
obtained. They do not exist in this
part of the world: in the second place
the size of the farms is too great
TO permit them to be cultivated by
hand labor. and finally the economy in
the use of machinery represents the
larger part of the profits of the farm
er. The difference in the cost of plant
ing, cultivating and harvesting by
steam or gasoline and by the old fash
lOned processes is at least ten to one
The time is coming soon when every
farm will be run by steam or electricity
as we'll as every factory.
Sixty per cent of the farm machinery
and 40 per cent of the traction engines
come from the United States. One day
In the latter part of August two trains
arrived at Winnipeg one of thirty-six
cars from La Porte, Ind. and another of
forty-two ears from Chicago. filed with
agricultural machinery. Those were
everyday incidents before the har-
vesting season A firm i'm Iowa. which
makes Kerosene engine-not gasoline
mas doubled its business twice every year
since II came into this market four wears
ago. At the annual industrial exposition
in Winnipeg last month sixty-seyen diff
ferent types of traction engines from the
United States We're exhibited and thirty
five or them engaged in blowing contest
on the raw prairie just outside of the
city.
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Island of Iron Ore.

There is an island in Lake Winnipeg
of pure iron ore that will run as high as
that of the Mesaba range. and within
easy distance to unlimited waterpower
and good water transportation to the city.
We want furnaces. rail mills, fOundries.
FORCES. car shops. car wheel factories and
manufactures of all kinds of railway
supplies, to utilize this great natural
wealth and furnish the railroads with
everything they need for maintenance,
construction and operation.
There were 1900 miles of railway in
Canada west of the great lakes in 1900:
in 1908 there were 1855. in 1910 there
were 12.l13. and today there are about
/ 1000 miles of track. which will continue
to increase at the rate Of 1900 miles a
year indefinitely. The Grand Trunk is
building across the continent: the Cana
dian Northern has contracts and conces-
sionS for about 1909 miles. the Hudson
Bay railroad. begun this year by the gov
ernment and the Canadian Pacific is ex-
pending $50, 0O,WU for branches and bet
terments. The president of that company
announced in public speech in Winni-
peg the other day that the sum of $40
$50 $50 would be expended during the next
few wears in extensions and improve
mcnts Everything those railroads will
use from rails to signal lights should
be made i'm Winnipeg. We have the raw
material ready hut we lack the capital
and the labor.
Another very profitable opportunity
that has thus far been overlooked Is the
conversion of our flax straw into cordaSe,
binding Irvine sacking and other coarse
cloth This year the farmers of western
Canada have 100000 acres in flax. and the
straw will he burned Instead of being
manufactured into cordage ana textiles.
That is a wicked waste of millions of dol
lars, because 1t Is an unknown industry.
No one has had time or money to take
advantage of the opportunity and develop
what might be one of the most profitable
enterprises in America. Samples of our
fay straw sent to the linen factories of
Belfast have been highly commended by
manufacturers for Irvine and coarse fab
~(a
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Railways Hire Many Men.

In this statement / have not include ed
the three railways, which are really the
most important features of Winnipeg.
Without them it could not exist. The
Canadian Pacific Railway Company en-
ploys 800 men in Winnipeg and has the
largest yards controlled by any individual
railroad in any part of the world. They
are in the very center of the city, where
land was taken up almost before Winni-
peg existed. and furnish room for 100
miles of tracks. with the most complete
warehouses and other terminal facilities
that can be imagined.
THE Canadian Northern Railway Com
pany employs about 1000 men, and the
Grand Trunk Pacific will employ at Ieas
::.DO men when its shops and terminal Is
are completed. The Northern Pacific
company has recently invested s2.JOo.O0)
in lands for freighthouses. side tracks
and other terminal facilities. and will
very soon begin construction work which
will require the labor of at least 1908
men. if not double that number.
The milling industry in Winnipeg
has an output of 5000 barrels of flour
a day. and the villages and towns in
our immediate neighborhood which
ship their flour from this point have
an output of $4,000 barrels a day /
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Millions in Manufactures.

we already have in Winnipeg 24J
manufacturing plants representing a
capital of 100000, 600 with an annual out
put valued at s36.50OOOO. employing A.
500 hands regularly and paying them
wages of $4,000 month.
This will no doubt be a surprise to
American readers who regard Winnipeg
more or less as mushroom town with
very little behind it except wheat fields
But the same changes that occurred in
Chicago and made that city one of the
great manufacturing centers of the world
are now going on here and have already
accomplished much more in that direction
than had been accomplished in Chicago
when that city was Of the same age as
Winnipeg.
The largest employers of la Dor in
Winnipeg are the iron mills-rolling mills.
foundries. mills for the manufacture of
structural steel and other forms OF iron
hands Next in order are the brickSards.
auarries, cement mills and other estab-
lishments producing building material,
which. the last day of last month. had
/ 80 men on their pay rolls. Then come
the printing and publishing trades and
pa per and stationery. which employ 400:
the lumber mills and the factories pro-
ducing sashes. doors. blinds and other
building material employ 1.tUD men: the
shops for making shirts. undergarments.
overalls and other cotton garments. $40
men: the brewing and mailing establish
| ments. 600 men. and the abattoirs and
packing houses. 800 men. No other in
dividual industry has more than 800 men
on its pay rolls but every one of them
Is growing, and we are compelled to
revise our figures every month.
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Flies Big British Flag.

The biggest British flag in Canada
floats over the agency of the American
Farm Machinery Company.
About 11.313,oOO acres were harvested
this year in the three prairie provinces,
which was 1,315.9CO acres more than last
year: II .Sti',os7 acres more than in 1850:
a,j46,OO0 more than in 1908. and 3.4HS, 600
acres more than in 1909
Manitoba had 5S73,446 acres under
crop. Saskatchewan had 559S 81, acres
and Alberta had 1.49s.375 acres an in
crease of more than 20 per cent over last
year.
During the present season more new
land mas been broken up to be planted
next spring than ever before in the his
tory of Canada. An official bulletin Of
the Agriculture Department states that
The marked increases are almost
wholly attributable to the work of the new
settlers. The American settlers who came
III during the year have left the imprint
OF their toll upon the prairies.'
In the western provinces of Canada are
no less than 100000 farmers who were
born and raised and learned the science
OF farming in the United States and, &C.
cording to official returns. this number
IS increasing at the rate of 10000 a
year.
Land values have increased accord
ingly. and are fully - per cent greater
than four years ago. The price of i'm
proved land now runs from $40 to $40 an
acre. and unimproyed land from So to
So an acre.
In Manitoba alone 44.116 new home
| steads have been taken up thus far dur
ing the current year. each representing
lGO acres, which cost the settler only
SO in fees
The total area of soil under cultiva-
ton in the province of Manitoba this
| year is 6.Gi2.G:7 acres. and only % 45S
| farm hands are employed which is more
than 200 acres per hand. This illustrates
better than anything else l can say the
extent of farming by machinery
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John {. Medinser of Baltimore. book
maker was found guilty at Frederick.
Md on - charge of betting at the last
Frederick fair and fined 500.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-13
WORKING FOR
DEEP WATER At
APALACHICOLA
FLoRIDIANs NOT IMPRESSED
WITH ENGINEERS TARoo-AP-
PEAR BEFORE AUTHORITIES IN
WASHINGTON AND PRESS APA-
LAcHIcoLA'S DEMANDS FOR
CHANNEL.
Special TO The journal.

Washington, July r. Senators
Bryan and Fletcher and Congressman
Sparkman and Mays, with a big dele
cation of business men from Apalachi-
cola, yesterday appeared before the
board of engineers Of the war depart
ment, to have reversed a report re-
Gently made by the government dis
trict engineer at Apalachicola to the
effect that the bay at that place was
not worthy of being deepened to thirty
feet at this time. In the delegation
were Mayor Marks and representatives
of the various business concerns of
Apalachicola. The proposition is to
have the government dredge the bay
to a depth Of thirty feet, with the un-
derstanding that the city will there
after maintain 1t clear of obstruc-
ton.
Senator Fletcher said today that he
did not know what the board would
do. but that he would use every effort
to have a favorable report finally
made.
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If the plans now being considered by
Secretary G. A. Waterman, of the Com
mercial Association, are carried out,
the Commercial Association and the
merchants will get out an issue OF
about 100000 art Autographed envel-
opes advertising the city.
Mr.. Waterman was discussing the
matter yesterday afternoon with the
representative Of a large lithographing
company, formulating plans to devise
ways and means of making up the or
der. AS a result OF their discussion a
list will be circulated among the local
merchants in order to see how many
can be induced to place orders for a
part OF this amount. Mr.. Waterman
stated that he thought the plan Of ad-
vertising provided by the envelopes re-
ferred to a splendid one, but thought
the association could not afford to
spend as much for them as would be
necessary unless the large order can
be made up Jointly as suggested
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-13
DEATH OF MRS.
JAMES HANSON
ESTIMABLE LADY PASSED AWAY
LAST NIGHT AFTER AN ILL.
NESS COVERING A LONG Pc.
Rod - REMAINS WILL BE
TAKEN TO FORMER HOME.

Mrs James Hansen, an estimable
lady, passed away last night at
o'clock at her home, No. 406 East Ger
vantes street, after a long and pain
full illness. The deceased had reached
the age of so years and is survived by
a husband and a number of other rela-
tives, most of whom reside in Wiscon-
sin.
Mrs. Hansen had been resident of
Pensacola for about twelve years, and
was liked by all with whom she was
acquainted.
The remains will be taken to her
former home in Oshkosh, Wis, tonight
for interment, but funeral services
will be conducted at the family home
this afternoon at o'clock.
The pall-bearers will be Charles J.
Levy, o. E. Spane. w. H. Crawford,
Ed. NJ. Pooley, Robert Grant, W. P.
Brewton, H. J. Bennett and Joe Hamn.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-13
IT'S EASIER TO
SAVE THE HAIR
You Have Than to Grow
New.

The tendency to put of until tomor-
row what we should do today accounts
for most of the bald heads we see in
the front row,
Newbro's Herpicide stops falling hair
and prevents badness. The dandruff
germ is destroyed by its use and a
condition of health maintained in the
hair and scalp.
Nearly everyone has hair troubles OF
some description which Herpicide will
always correct. Don't wait until il is
too late.
It is conceded TO be the standard
hair remedy and is recommended and
applied by all the best hair dresSers
and BARRIERS.
One dollar size bottles sold by all
druggists under an absolute guarantee
Send l0c. in postage for sample and
book about the hair to The Herpicide
Company, Dept. r, Detroit, Mich,
D'Alemberte Pharmacy, special agent
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TERSELY TOLD.
$500 REWARD.

NThe Journal viii pay $500 reward for
evidence sufficient TO convict any boy or
person found stealing subscribers papers
'fto" delivery 1T same by carrier.
DR.. w. J. Mcleod, Of Apopka, ar
rived in the city yesterday and in the
future will make Pensacola his home.
br. Mcleod is young man of pleas
mg address and was among those
taking the state dental examination
here several weeks ago. He will take
up his chosen profession here.
D. H. Kirkland, H. D. Lipford and C.
2. Murphy. Of Atlanta, well-known
business men of the Georgia city, are
5ojourning in Pensacola for a few
days. stopping at the San Carlos,
w. G. Salter Of Milton, was in Pen
sacola yesterday transacting business.
He was a guest at the San Carlos
and returned home in the afternoon.
William F. C. Fellers, of Jackson
vile, is in the city for few days, a
guest at the San Carlos.
Charles c. Aud, of New York, ar
rived in Pensacola yesterday on a COM
bined business and pleasure trip. He
will be here for several days, a guest
at the San Carlos.
Mrs. L. Jackson and Mrs ]. Den
ming and Winton Derring, of Ever
green, Ala, spent yesterday in Pensa-
cola. They were guests at the San
Carlos.
Montgomery was represented in the
Deep Water City yesterday by c. E..
Wessenbergh, C. E. Shannon and w.
p. Cobb. They all stopped at the San
Carlos. ...
A joint meeting of the I. o. o. F.
lodges Of the city is to be held tonight
in Rafford hall, when the newly elected
officers will be installed. All members
are requested to be present.
H. M Miller, of the Evening News,
who has been i'll for few days, is
expected to be out today.
E. w. Forcheimer leaves today for
New York and Boston to purchase
stock for the Boston Shoe Store. Mr..
Forcheimer will be gone probably three
weeks.
Consult the Journal Want Columns
in getting in touch with business
chances. Possibly there are opportuni-
ties presented today that may be of
interest to you; or send Want AID.
of your own, stating what kind of bust
ness appeals to you most, and inviting
communications from those who have
established businesses, and who wish
to sell or increase their scope by taking
in partners who are prepared to make
an investment.
George Apostle, who recently had a
fight with Officer Charles Clark. and
who was referred to yesterday morn
ing as a Greek, desires 1t to be known
thatFhe is not a Greek neither is he
of age, being a boy of Is years.
DR.. F. G. Renshaw made a flying
trip to Mobile yesterday, returning on
the $50 train yesterday afternoon.
John L. Jernigan, Of Pollard, was
among the visitors in the city yester-
day He was here looking after his
business interests.
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$5,77O.15
$5,77O.15
Balance due on plant. s217o.,

9O,t wi
Balance due on plant, s2,170.S5.
Number of students enrolled since
the beginning, 638.
Number that have entered higher
schools of learning, %.
OF these graduated from Shaw
University and 35 have entered out Of
town boarding schools.
What the School Teaches.
Students are taught the industries or
trades. Special stress has been laid
on agriculture. Honesty, sobriety, re-
liability, thrift and economy is the goal
students have been taught to strive for.
Interesting Figures.
DR.. G. w. Lewis, principal of the
school, has compiled the following fig
ures, showing the monev that PenSa-
cola negroes sent away for education:
Forty-three young negroes go out of
Pensacola annually to schools of this
kind. They pay on an average of SO
per month for board. making $430 each
month. The cost of clothing is about
$1,000 annually. This shows $3.50 per
month for board, for the eight months
they are away per year. They pay So
440 plus $1,000 for clothing, making a
total of $4,440 per year. They usually
stay away on an average of five years,
making a grand total of $22.200.00.
1t is DR.. Lewis's idea that If these
students can be induced to remain in
Pensacola and get their schooling here
by providing adequate accommodations
for them, Pensacola will be saved all
of this money which is now spent at
other schools.
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is manufactured thus by those who
would destroy II.
ITO say that, along with Pensacola
and New Orleans should be abolished
New London and Sacketts Harbor, is
trifiing. New London has not been a
navy yard since the civil war, and
Sackett's Harbor is only an unimport-
ant sailors home.
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CAPTAIN TO BLAME FOR
WRECK OF THE SANTA ROSA
Nv Associated Preaa

San Francisco, July 12-The entire
blame for the danger in which the
passengers on the steamer Santa Rosa
which foundered last Friday off the
California coast, was placed last night
upon Captain ]. D. Faria, of the
wrecked vessel In an interview Cap
tain Faria declared that he would
make no attempt to shift the blame.
He maintained that he was in COM
.plete control and that messages re-
ceived from the San Francisco office
of the Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany with regard to the removal of the
Santa Rosa's passengers was merely
in the nature of suggestions.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-13
REAL TRAGEDY RECORDED BY
MOVING PICTURE FILM
BY Associated Press.

New York, July ia real tragedy
was recorded on the film of a moving
picture machine here late yesterday.
AS Albert Breiten, actor and expert
swimmer and diver, leaped from a boat
on a Staten Island pond, the machine
was set in motion, it's lens focused on
the bubbling surface of the pond where
he had disappeared to picture his
Aquatic feats as he came to the sur
face. The moments passed and the
widening circles from the impact of
his dive touched the shores
The divers last feat was caught on
the film. He did not appear, being
held fast by the soft mud at the bot
tom. His body was grappled for and
recovered.
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The Secret Of Health
DIGESTIT Relieves Promptly Every Form of Indiges-
ton and Dyspepsia. Sold Under Guarantee

It's important that you digest what
you eat. For from your food comes
nearly all the nourishment that renews
and builds blood and tissue, and sus-
tains life.
Don't let dyspepsia get strangIe
hold on you.
If you have stomach troubles, acute,
or mild, correct the trouble at once.
Get DIGESTIT from your druggist
get 1t today. DIGESTIT is sold with
your druggists guarantee that ii will
help you, or he will refund your
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money. So successful has DIGESTIT
been in relieving all stomach troubles,
that it is absolutely guaranteed to
cure. Try it, and Judge for your
self
Or II you do not care to try II on
your druggists guarantee, send a re-
quest on a postal to the Digestit Co,
Jackson, Miss for a trial package.
They will send you an order on any
druggist for a full size soc. package
without cost.
that indigestion. SOC. at all druggists.