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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-04-05
Rev. M. +, Burton.

Rev. M. J. Burton,
the Iowa.Nebraska> State Missionary
of Keokuk, is spending this week in
our city he made pleasant call at
the Reynolds Mission in Gilbert
Town last Tuesday night and We'd
nesday night he preached for Rev.
s. Bates at the Maple Street Baptist
Church. Rev. Burton is the oldest
Baptist minister in point Of services
spent in Iowa and Rev. s. Bates next
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-04-05

Miss Mary Brooks, who was taken
to the Mercy Hospital and under
went an operation last Saturday,
March 23rd. is reported as doing
nicely as could be expected, III
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31
LODGE
Substitute For House Free Sugar
Bill. Passes The Senate
With Only Three Negative
Votes, One Republican And
Two Democrats

Washington, July 27.-By vote of So
to !, the senate this evening passed the
Lodge substitute for the house free sugar
bill. There were three negative votes
Hepburn, Republican, Idaho; Foster and
Thornton, Democrats, Louisiana. The
measure proposes a reduction of the pure
sugar duty from 81 80 to 81 90 the hun
dred In effect, there is a further cut Of
10 cents the hundred in the abolition of
the differental, and does away with the
dutch standard of classifying sugar.
Senator Bristow, Republican, Kansas,
said tonight that the Lodge bill would
reduce the government revenue $1,000
900, and the American sugar consumers
would save S27, 900, 900 year. After six
hours debate and voting the proposed
amendments were turned down.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31
Miss Rebecca Willis
Has Novel Experience.

Miss Rebecca Willis has arrived home
from Louisville. She had a novel ex-
perience of being held prisoner on the
late passenger train Sunday night, July
20, which was imprisoned on Otter
Creek trestle from ten o'clock to nine
thirty.the next morning. On both sides
of the trestle the track was covered by
an avalanche of mud from the hill-side'
as result of the heavy storm that
ragged for several hours.
Miss Willis said: II wasn't bit
scared and l had to laugh when read
in the paper that the passengers went
to farm houses and cooked breakfast.
This was not so. Some of the men
went to farm house and got break
fast, one brought me a piece of fried
chicken. There was basket of light
bread in the baggage car. We had lots
of fun and got to Louisville at four
o'clock Monday afternoon" Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter O'Neil, Mr.. Garvin Smith
aud Mr.. Kimbell, of this city, were on
the train also. Mr.. Richard Sites was
conductor.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31
FATHER CELEST|NE BREY
Held His Last Service. Rose
Catholic Church IlSunday.
Large Congregation To Bid
Him Farewell

Father Brey left yesterday morning
for Louisville where he will have charge
of the Holy Cross church pastorate. He
will be succeeded here by Father Henry
1t is needless to say how Cloverport
loathes the departure of Father Brey-
the non-Catholics as we'll as the mem
bers of his own flock are grieved to give
him up. Although, quite young man,
he has become an old and dear friend to
this town dnring his pastorate at St.Rose.
He said the best fifteen years of his life
has been spent in Cloverport. Father
Brey built up the church here wonder
fully. He stimulated the spiritual life
of the church, improved the social side,
and increased the membership. The
children, he took particular pains to in
struct and carefully train for thorough
religious life.
Father Brey also had charge of the
Hawesville Catholic church, and in that
mission there is the same source of re-
greet as exists here. One of the secrets of
the transfer is, that Holy Cross expects
to build a new church and the Bishop
thought Father Brey was the man es-
pecially suited for that task as well as
for the other duties of city pastorate.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31
Hay Ride To Tar Springs.

Ruther Pate, who was seventeen July
the twenty-seventn, and Fred Pierce,
who was eighteen July the twenty sixth
celebrated their birthday anniversaries
Friday afternoon by giving a hay ride
to Tar Springs. They were chaperon-
ed by Miss Lizzie Skillman and had a
merry time at the resort, skating and
dancing and singing. A fine luncheon
was served in picnic fashion on the
hotel lawn before the guests returned
home. Members of the happy party
were furnished the hay-wagon and
driven safely and on time by Messrs.
William Laslie and David Allen. They
were: Misses Virginia McGavock,
Leonora McGavock, Mary Gibson,
Jeanette Burn, Isabel Burn, Bertha
Walls, Bloise Nolte, Elizabeth Skill
man, Addie Fairleigh, Mildred Bah
bagge, Juanita Carr, Claudia Pate,
Martha Miller, Susette Sawyer, Fran
ces Sawyer, chaperope, Miss Lizzie
Skillman, Messrs. Fred Pierce. Ruther
Pate, Randall Weatherholt. Eldred
Babtage, Walter Hawkins, John Jar
Doe, Frank Norman, Dwight Randall
and Lilbon Smith.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31
BRECKENRIDGE COUNTY
FAIR ASSOCIATION
Plans A Good Show This Year.
Fair Grounds Prettier Than
Ever--Big Crowds Expected.
Three Big Days With Fine
Programs Clean Conces-
sions AND New Amusements.
SEVERAL TENT SHOWS ON.

Can you realize its time for the
county fair again-that a whole year
has slipped by since you had those
jolly days. The Breckenridge County
Fair is going to be far better than ex-
pected. On account of the heavy
rains and other happenings to
discommode plans, many have thought
the Fair would tall short this season,
but the Association has given out in
formation that their show will be of the
same class-with more amusements and
cleaner concessions than were had last
year.
To prove that the fair will be unusual
can be learned through the advertise
ments which announce bull race, the
only tournament of this kind ever held
in Kentucky. The premium list is
large and liberal. A. T. Beard, presi-
dent, and John M. Skillman, secretary,
are confident of great fair. Tent
shows galore and worth seeing amuse-
ments will be on. Finest stables ever
shown in the fairs history and other
attractions no to the notch of perfec-
ton.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31
THOU SHALT
NOT STEAL
Commandment Handed Down At
Sinai Confronts Taftites Every.
where In Kentucky.
TELEGRAPHED TO ROOSEVELT

Louisville, Ky, July 2z-"Thou
shalt not steal" the commandment
handed down at Sinai, confronted the
Taft Republicans in every section of
Kentucky today when life was breathed
into the National Progressive party in
1lo counties. Gu every hand the great
est enthusiasm was manifested and last
night the Louisville leaders and Leslie
Combs and other state leaders were jub-
liant. The result of the DAYS work
which meant the establishment in
Kentucky of another big political party
was telegraphed to Oyster Bay.
The most surprising part of the coun-
ty conventions was the attendance of
men who were thought to be SO closely
identified with the old Republican par
ty that they would be unable, even if
they wanted TO- to break away from the
old traditions and the old associations.
Indeed, the new party leaders expected
hundreds of men who believe in the
commandment, Thou Shalt Not Steal, -
to still identify themselves with the
TAFT wing of the Republican party.
The reports show, however, that hun
dreds Of oldtime Republican leaders and
many former Democrats participated in
the county conventions.
At Owensboro George w. Jolly, for.
mer United States district attorney, was
one of the leaders in the mass conven-
ton, while at Frankfort Prentice
O'Rear, son of Former Chief Justice Ed
ward c. O'Rear, was temporary chair
man of the franklin county conventions
The delegates elected were directed 10
attend the various district convention s
70 be held on August |. AT the district
conventions two delegates to the Chi.
cag) convention will be elected
Comb. Will be a State Delegate.
Of the district delegates to the Chi
cago convention from the state at large,
Leslie Combs Of Lexington, the state
leader, is practically certain to be one
OF the two elected, as his services to
the new party merit the high honor.
When the district conventions are
held it will then be decided whether
nominations shall be made ia the vari-
Gus congressional districts.
The Eleventh district convention,
which will be held at Corbin, is almost
certain to nominate candidate TO OBJ
pose Caleb Powers, and the Tenth dis
trict convention, which is to be held at
Pain,sville, may select an opponent
for John Langley.
The district conventions will be held
as follows: The First district will meet
at Paducab, the Second at Henderson
the Third at Bowling Green, the Fourth
at Elizabethtown, the Sixth at Coving-
ton, the Seventh at Lexington, the
Eighth at Danville, the Ninth at Ash
land, the Tenth at Paintsville, the Elev
enth at Corbin.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31
Mr.. Murray Pierce Dead.

Murray Pierce died after several
weeks illness of diabetes at his home in
Muskogee, Okla, Saturday afternoon.
He leaves wife and cne son. He was
a brother of Robert Pierce, of this city,
and Mrs. Robert White and Mrs. Nat
Wilson, of Fort Worth, Texas.
Mr., Pierce WAS forty-eight years of
age and was member of one OF the
oldest and most prominent families of
Cloverport. He went west in 1897 and
had been succeeding in newspaper adj
vertising business six years. The
funeral and burial was held at Mus
kogee.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31
ROOSEVELT THE MAN
At HARDINSBURG.
Progressive Party Has a Meet
ing Saturday Delegates Are
Named to EIizabethtown.-A
CIoverport Man Was Chair
man Men Are Determined to
Have a Square Deal.
RESOLUTIONS WERE ADOPTED

The Progressive Party movement III
Breckenridge county took real tangible
shape in a meeting of the followers OF
Teddy Roosevelt at Hardinsburg last
Saturday. While the meeting was not
largely attended on account of irregular
train service and busy times with farm
ers, there were'present few determined
ernest men, batting for their rights and
the cause of good government, to organ
ize and put in shape the machinery
necessary to carry on great fight for
civic righteousness in politics. -
The leaders of the movement said
they were not sore-heads, nor politicians
out of Job, nor did they want job, but
what they wanted was clean politics,
honest politics, square deal and ma
iority rule. They condemned crooked
leaders and one-man-boss rule.
The convention was called to order
promptly at one O'Clock. Jesse R. Esk-
ridge stated the object of the meeting,
and Judge VIM. Ali put in nomination
r. T. Polk for Chairman Candor
Black was chosen Secretary.
The Convention then got down to
business, adopted the following resolu-
tons and named delegates to Elizabeth
town Convention.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31
Only 0na Bill Claycomb.

Bill Claycomb, who was injured in
the wreck on the L., H. & 81. L.
branch fortnight ago, is getting along
fine. He said Il was good thing 1t was
the engin. ruined instead Of him, be.
cause a new locomotive could be made,
but there could not be another Bill
Claycomb.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31
Bull MoOsers In ClOverport.

To the National Progressive Party
Convention which was held in Hardins-
burg, Kentucky, July 27th greeting;
We the undersigned are in favor of
the above party and will support 1t at
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31

At a convention of the Progressives
in Breckenridge county held at Har~
dinsburg, last Saturday, Mr.. X. L.
Polk of Cloverport was elected chair
man, and Mr.. Oscar Black OF Addison
. secretary. Upon motion and second
the chair appointed the following as a
committee on resolutions: ]. r. Esk-
ridge, w. B. Phelps. John Ranklns,
McHenry Dowell, Boyd 'MoKaughn,
and Charley Chamberlain.
This committee retired and brought
in the following resolutions: Resolved
by the Progressives of Breckenridge
county in convention assembled:
ID We approve Of the call for
National Convention to be held at
Chicago on August S, l9l2 to nominate
a candidate for president and vice.
president, and we approve the call OF
the Hon. Leslie Combs for the county
mass conventions to be held in each
county in the State to select delegates
to attend congressional district conven
tions to be held August l, 1912, for the
purpose of selecting. delegates to attend
Continued on pages
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31

evening in compliment to Misses Emmy
Lou Norman and Louise Moorman,the
popular visitors OF Miss Kathrine Moor
man.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31

paper regular,and certainly enjoy and
read every ad. Mrs. Simons is improv-
ing slowly She can walk fourteen
blocks and stands il very we'll am
work king every day for the Colorado *
Southern railroad. We all like fine and
the children enjoy Denver, May the
Lord bless eacn Of yours. Love 10
friends aud all. Alvin N. Simons,
Denver, Col. s477 Dunkeld Place.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31
Dinner Party.

Mrs. Sallie Norman gave a beauti-
full dinner Sunday in honor of Misses
Emmy Lou Moormau and Louise Moor
man, who have had great deal of So
cial attention here. The guests were:
Miss Norman, Misses Norman, Miss
Heyser, Messrs Frank Norman and
Robert Norman, DIR. Mcdonald and
DR.. Boone.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31
Thinking OF Home.

Dear Mr.. Babbagei We get our
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31
Mr.. lake MiIburn Dead.

Jake Milburn. of Custer, died July 30
and was buried by the Masonic lodge at
Custer Sunday. He was an old aud we'll
known citizen of that community. He
leaves a wife aud ten children, all liy-
ing and all present at the funeral.
Brother Jim Mitcham conducted the
funeral.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31

Invitations have been received by
friends here to attend the marriage of
Miss Villa Jeannelta Drury TO Mr..
James Skillman Younger at the Baptist
church in Iryington Thursday evening,
August the eighth. at $50 O'Clock.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31
At The Castle.

Or. Mcdonald gave an informal din
ner at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Mattingly at The Castle Wednesday
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-26
From Six to Ten Million Tons
Found in Mojave Desert.
Located in Old Lake Bed-Many Have
Lost Lives in Traversine Waste
Which Will Now Yield Prod
uct of Much Value.

hington.-Following the an
nouncement by the geological survey
that survey party in connection with
a party from the department of agri-
culture had located potash deposit
in the Mojave desert, the agricultural
department tells more about the de-
post and the circumstances under
which 1t exists.
The department states that pocket
has been found down in the Mojave
desert in southern California contain
ing from 100000 to 100000 tons,
so far as can be ascertained now. The
prospect is that it will last twenty or
thirty years and tide the country over
till a more thorough search can be
made.
The deposit was struck simultane-
ously by the two searching parties in
the Borax lake region of the Moiave.
This section, like most of this south
western country, is an old lake bed.
The behring's for potash were made in
a section Of plya or hard desert sand.
The region that has been investigat-
ed is underlaid by big body of nat
nral brine that comes to the surface
In the form Of wells when borings are
made.
BoraX lake, or Searle lake, is one of
the many playas or intermittently wet
and dry lakes common throughout
the arid regions of the west 1t lies
between the Argus and Slate ranges
n the Mojave desert. Bolax lake was
the original scene Of famous boraS
mines, The lake or fat is about ten
miles long and five miles wide and
mas received the drainage from the
surrounding mills for many thousands
Of years, vast quantities of dissolved
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-26
Preacher In Prison Three Years as
Murderer, His Supposed Vic
tim Appears.

Suffolk, Va.-The fallibility of
courts, the unreliability of circumstan-
tial evidence and the depravity Of per
jured witnesses all figure with pc
culiar force in a court drama which
had its denouement here recently.
A man for whose murder another
man already has served three years
in prison on an eighteen year sentence
suddenly appeared and had his ident-
ity clearly established by dozens of
reliable witnesses. Both principals
are preachers and both are negroes.
Rev. Ernest Lyons confessed to the
murder of Rev. James Larry Smith
the man who apparently sprang from
the tomb to face those who had sent
Rev. Mr.. Lyons to prison. The rea
son for the confession was disclosed
by the county clerk, George E. Bunt
ing, who was neighbor of Lyons al
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-26
Steer and the Other Saved
Her Husband.

Topeka, Kan.-Because of heroism
displayed by Mary Boughton, aged
fourteen, of Hamilton county, and
Mrs. Nora Munday of Gray county, in
saving lives in western Kansas dur
ing recent snowstorms, friends OF the
two have started a movement to OBJ
tain for them Carnegie hero medals.
While rounding up cattle before a
blizzard, Mary Boughton's father was
attacked by a vicious steer. He was
thrown from his horse and the animal
was about to gore him when the girl,
mounted upon a COW pony, drove the
steer away. A few days later a rural
mail carrier became lost in storm.
Mary Boughton found him, dug him
out Of drift and saved him from
freezing.
Mrs. Nora Munday, wife of S. P.
Munday, who lives near Cimarron,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-26
BIG POTASH DEPOSIT

minerals being thus concentrated in 1t.
The water has been evaporated under
the intense heat of the long. hot sea
sons, but the salts have remained, so
that for most of the year, in fact often
throughout the year, the bed is glis-
tening plain of white salts, in attempt
ing to cross which under a brazen sun
men have lost their lives.
The mirage plays it's strange tricks
here, and at the driest places the
traveller can generally see what ap-
pears to be broad expanse Of water
covering the bed little way ahead
always a little distance off, until he
approaches the shore of Borax lake.
Then when he looks behind him he
sees the water apparently covering
the ground over which he has just
come. The lake occupies a valley
made by faults-breaks and slips in
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-26
Change Made in Rules Governing
Military Records.
Regulation lnaugurated by General
Ainsworth Prevented Profitable In
vestgation of Valuable Papers
in Files at Washington.

Washington.-Within a few days
the military archives housed in the
war department in Washington will
be made accessible to students and in
vestigators-a step which students
and investigators for years have been
endeavoring to have the government
take.
Pending the issuance Of the new reg
ulations, the authorities in charge
have let it be known that those desr-
Ing to consult the archives may obtain
permission at the office of Secretary
of War Stimson.
The significance of this revolution
airy change can best be appreciated by
reference to a report made to the
president in 1908 on the historical
documents of the United States and
signed by Messrs. Worthington G.
Ford, Charles Francis Adams, Charles
M. Andrews, William A. Dunning, Al
bert Bushnell Hart, Andrew G. Nc
Laughlin, Alfred T. Mahan, Frederick
]. Turner and ]. Franklin Jameson.
They said, speaking particularly OF
the acts of congress of July 27, 1892
and August Is, 1894, which provided
that all military records of the revo
luton and the war of 1872 should bt
transferred to the war department ant
there properly indexed and arranged
for use, that under existing condi
tons at the war department their eff
feet has been to make these materials
entirely inaccessible to historians, az
may be seen by perusal of the regu
lations of 1897 and still in force.
Those regulations provide TO
proper supply of information to per
sons seeking pensions or admission
to patriotic-hereditary societies. Blu
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-26
Efforts for Bigger Pay-What Has
Been Effected in the Struggles
Which Have Taken Place
Since 1900.

Philadelphia, Pa.-The suspension
gions Of Pennsylvania is the fourth
general labor disturbance in The indus
try in IL years. In 1900, the miners
struck six weeks; in 1902 they were
out five and half months and in 1906
they again suspended work for six
weeks In the 1900 and 1902 strikes
the coal dggers. through the United
Mine Workers of America, won an
increase in wages and readjustment
of working conditions. In neither
struggle, however, did the organiza-
ton obtain what it has in some of the
bituminous fields-straightout recog-
milton Of the union,
In the following year there was no
general movement, but 1902 separate
strikes were recorded during the year.
The 1902 strike was the greatest in
the history OF the country. The union
asked for a 20 per cent. increase In
wages, a reduction in hours from ten
10 eight day and recognition of the
union. The strike lasted from May
IL 20 October 3d. Nearly 141O0O
workers were idle and thousands OF
railroad and other workers we're
thrown out Of employment. The en-
| tire national guard of Pennsylvania
| about 10000 men, were called into
service before the struggle came &c
an end.
Loss Was Over $1oo,ooo,ooo.
President Roosevelt was instrumen
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-26

the earth's crust-where a great area
has been dropped down.
The salts are not evenly distributed
over the surface of the lake. Borax
was found plentifully over about three
square miles, common salt is every.
where, and sodium carbonate and So
dunn sulphate are widely distributed.
One boring is said to have passed
through 20 feet of solid trona (hydrous
carbonate of soda) Of great purity. At
other places there is rs feet of solid
mixed sulphate and carbonate Of soda,
with smaller quantities of other salts.
Several years ago an English com.
pany attempted to work the soda de.
posits on an extensive scale, but for
some reasons the project has not been
pushed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-26

of coal companies, $46,1O0,000. Wages
lost by men, $25,000,O00. Miners re
lief fund.- $1,SO0,000. Decrease in coal
freight, $2S,00O0OO
The award of the strike commission
remained in force three years until
1906, when it was renewed for anoth
er period of three years after the min
ers had suspended work for about six
weeks. When this agreement expired
on March 81, 1909, the miners did not
stop, but agreed to continue operations
pending the negotiations of working
arrangement, After comforting until
20 days after the agreeI~ent of 1909
had expired, the commission award
was again put into effect for another
three years.
The anthracite miners began to pre-
pare for the present trouble last fall,
when they held convention at Potts.
vile, Pa, and formulated demands.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-04-26
Big Loss By Country's Strikes

tai in bringing the two sides together
and to agreeing to the appointing of
the anthracite coal strike commission
to arbitrate the differences. The COM
mission visited many mines and ex-
amined 558 witnesses between Octo-
Der, 1902, and February, 1903. 1t
awarded 10 per cent. increase in
wages to miners and reduced the hours
of the men from ten to nine day.
1t also created the board of concilia-
ton, to which has been referred most
of the grievances that have arisen
since the commissions awards were
made. The commission estimated the
losses occasioned by that strike as fol
lows: Decrease in coal production,
24,604,4S2 tons. Decrease in receipts