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The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14
BOY CONFESSES
HE BURNED HOME
Roof Leaked. and After "Blackhand'
Letters Did Not Get Stepfather 10
Move He Took Drastic Measures.

Little Rock, March 8.-George
Worthley, the i3-year-old white
boy who charged he had been gag
ged and bound by three masked ne
groes who burned his fathers home,
today confessed that he burned the
home himself, and afterwards gag
ged and bound himself.
He said "the old house leaked ev-
cry time it rained,' and he thought
it better to burn it while his adopt
ed father, Dan Worthley, was away.
He had written his father Black
hand letters warning him to move.
Comparison of this writing with the
boys own writing led to clearing up
the case.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14
SEATTLE ELECTS
S|NCLE-TAXER
Henry George Theory Wins in
Mayors Race-Voters Also Want
to Own Telephone System,
but Not the Newspapers.

Seattle, Wash, March So
cialists elected George +. Cotterill
mayor of Seattle in the election
Tuesday, Cotterill's majority over
Hiram C. Gill being 66. The So
cialist candidate was eliminated
from the contest in the primaries,
and Socialist strongholds on Tues
day gave their support to Cotterill,
who is single-tax advocate. His
election is, therefore, regarded as a
Socialist and single-tax victory.
A proposition authorizing the
municipal telephone system carried,
but municipal newspaper project
was defeated, as were Socialist can
didates for minor Offices.
Cotterill. the mayor-elect, is
widely known as the national head
|of the Independent Order of Good
Templars. He also has a national
prominence as prohibition speak
|er.
When the campaign following the
primaries of February 20 was be-
gun, no practical politician here
thought that Cotterill had chance
TO win, owing TO his views in favor
of single tax, municipal ownership
and prohibition. In the last week,
however, the fight became a repe-
tition Of that of last year, when
Gill was recalled from the office of
mayor by the votes of the newly
enfranchised women.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14
Repels Attack Of Death.

rive years ago two doctors told
me | had only two years to live"
This startling statement was made
by Stillman Green, Malachite, Col.
They told me | would die with
consumption. Ii was up to me then
to try the best lung medicine, and |
began to use DR.. Kings New Dis
covery. 1t was well | did, for to-
day | am working, and believe
owe my life to this great throat
and lung cure that has cheated the
grave of another victim" It's fol-
ly to suffer with coughs, colds or
other throat and lung troubles now.
Take the cure that's safest. Price
so cents and Si.Q0. Trial bottle
free at all druggists.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14
Glorious News

comes from DR.. I. I. Curtiss,
Dwight, Kas. He writes: Il not
only have cured bad cases of ec-
zema in my patients with Electric
Bitters, but also cured myself by
them of the same disease. | feel
sure they will benefit any case of
eczema" This shows what thous-
ands have proved-that Electric
Bitters is a most effective blood
purifier. 1t is an excellent remedy
for eczema, letter salt rheum, I'LL
GERS, boils and running sores. 1t
stimulates liver, kidneys and bowel,
.expels poisons, helps digestion,
builds up the strength. Price SOC.
Satisfaction guaranteed by all
druggists.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14
7. R. CLEARS Up
THE STATEMENT
IF the People Feel Am the
One Man TO DO Job, Id
BE Sinking If ! Failed
20 DO IT,"

New York, March $50 clear up
conilicting statements as to what
he had said in the past in regard to
the presidential nomination, Col.
Roosevelt today made public let
ter which he wrote last January TO
Frank A. Munsey. the publisher.
Colonel Roosevelt's object in giving
out the communication, he said,
was to refute the charge that he
was breaking q promise in agreeing
TO accept the nomination if it were
offered him. He called particular
attention TO passage in the letter,
in which, while stating that he
would not be a candidate, he de-
clared that he would not go on rec
ord as being unwilling to accept the
nomination. The portion of the
Munsey letter to which Col. Roose-
welt called particular attention fol-
lows:
What | have said TO you and am
about to say TO you, have, for in
stance, said not only to other
friends who think | ought to be
nominated, but TO friends land even
foes who think | ought not to be
nominated. provided | could only
trust their sincerity, intelligence
and truthfulness. For instance, |
have said the same thing to Secre-
tary Stimson, Secretary Meyer and
Longworth, who are
Taft; to Pinchot and
Lenroot and Kent,
who are supporting LaFollette.
am not and shall not be a candidate.
/ shall not seek the nomination, nor
would | accept it if it came to me
as the result of an intrigue. But |
will not tie my hands by a state
ment which would make it difficult
or impossible for me to serve the
public by undertaking a great task
If the people as whole seemed
to come to the conclusion
that ! ought to do that task as far
as in me lies, endeavoring to look
at this matter purely from the
of public interest, Of the
of the people as a whole
and not in the least from my own
standpoint.
IF | should consult only my own
pleasure and interests | should
most emphatically and Immediately
that | would under no
run. | have had all
the honor that any man can have
from holding the Office of presi-
dent. From every personal stand
point there is nothing for me to
gain, either in running for the of
flee or in holding the Office once
more, and there is very much to
lose"
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14
four KILLED IN A
WRECK IN GEORGIA
Operator Overlooked Order and Dis
covered Mistake When Too Late
Ordered Out Wreeking Train
Before Collision Took Place

Augusta. Ga. March S.-Remind-
Ing one Of an executioner who or
ders the coffin before the gallows
or guilloiine has done its work, was
the wreck of two Central Geor-
gia railroad trains at Social Circle,
Ca, this morning, in which four
persons were killed and a dozen in
jured. Forgotten orders and a con-
ductor who discovered the mistake
too late to prevent the head-on coll
lision, and a wreck train started out
actually before the wreck occurred.
is the story.
Three men. in the stiffness Of the
night, knew that the wreck was go
ing to occur and waited for the inn
pact of two giant locomotives run
ming at high speed.
There was a freight train run
ming in two sections and both were
to meet the passenger train at Rut-
ledge, Ga. Some one forgot this. AS
the first section was moving out OF
Rutledge the second section came
up and Conductor Allen, OF the Sec
ond section, remembered that both
were to meet the passenger train
there. He could see the lights of the
first section in the dim distance, and
he could not stop it. He secured
his train telephone and called up
Social Circle, the next station, and
asked if mo. q" meaning the pass
enger train, had left.
The reply was yes"
My God they are going togeth-
err said Allen.
Eyes, that's true" said the Social
Circle operator.
The latter called the dispatcher at
Augusta and told him to get his
wrecking train ready.
two trains are going together,
and | cannot prevent them, he
said.
And, in the stiffness Of the night,
when the sound of a crash or an ex-
plosion is magniiled by the stiffness
the trains met.
The Social Circle operator said to
Augusta:
They have come together, |
heard the crash
And the wreeking train, ready to
leave, went out
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14
Details Of the Wreck.

Social Circle, Ga, March S.-Four
persons We're killed and nine in
jured, six of them seriously, when
passenger train No. I of the Geor-
gia railroad, which left Atlanta at
midnight, collided head-on with a
freight train three miles from here
at 2:i5 o'clock this morning.
The dead:
Three negro men and one negro
woman, not known,
The injured
H. r. Nelson, mail clerk, Atlanta,
seriously hurt.
Engineer w. G. Baugham Of the
passenger locomotive, whose home
is in Augusta, head and body badly
crushed; thought he cannot recover.
Fred Baily, baggagemaster, Har-
len, Ga, injured in hip and back,
very seriously.
S. A. Poole, mail clerk. Atlanta,
leg broken in three place, serious.
Joe Brown, fireman on the pass
enger locomotive, seriously injured
George Reid, porter. head and
knee hurt, wounds not serious.
W. S. Clark OF Thompson, Ga,
passenger, face cut, not serious.
Negro fireman of freight train,
seriously hurt.
The locomotives, telescoped by
the impact ofsthe collision, praeti-
cally We're demolished. The first
class passenger coach and the Pull
man cars remained on the track,
and while some Of the sleeping pass
engers were considerably shaken
up, none of them were injured.
Social Circle is So miles from At
lanta and lbs miles from Augusta.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14

Children are much more likely
to contract the contagious diseases
when they have a cold. Whooping
cough, diphtheria, scarlet fever and
consumption are diseases that are
often contracted when the child has
a cold. That is why all medical
authorities say beware of colds. For
the quick cure of colds you will
find nothing better than Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy. II can al
ways be depended upon, and is
pleasant and safe TO take. For sale
by all dealers.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14
SLEW FOR DAUGHTERS NAME
Fort Worth PatroIman Acquitted of
Murder Charqe.

Dallas, Tex, March 5.-Pleading
as his defense that his i5-year-old
daughter had been improperly ap-
preached, Patrolman j. X. Yates Of
Fort Worth was today found not
guilty of the murder of Claud Sly
ers, a Dallas accountant. Yates last
March, after learning Of Styers'
conduct toward his daughter, bor-
rowed carfare to Dallas, where he
shot Styers "A times.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14

r. G. Collins, postmaster. Barne-
gat \. j.. was troubled with a se-
we're ia grippe cough. lie SAYS. II
would be completely exhausted az
Ter each ilt Of violent coughing. I
bought bottle 0i FOiey's Honey
ard Tar Compound and before ]
had taken i al the coughing spells
naa entirely ceased. 1t can't Be
beat For sale IS Jackson Drur
e. Furn. co.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14

You judge a man not by what he
promises to do, but by what he has
done. That is the only true test.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,
judged by this standard, has no SUI
perior. People everywhere speak
|of 1t in the highest terms of praise.
For sale by all dealers.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14
For saIe-One victc

For Sale-0ne Victor Graphaphone
and SO records: one new ground
pillow, disc harrow All in good or
der, Tor less than half cash. r. S.
Proctor. one mile south. east of Be-
ihesda road. 2SQ-6-29-t
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14

Charnberlain's Cough Remedy has
won its great reputation and ex-
tenslve sale by its remarkable
cures Of cougs, colds and Group.
II can be depended upon. Try T..
For sale by al dealers.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14

You can say goodbye TO constipa-
tlon with clear conscience if you
use Chamberlain's Tablets. Many
have been permanently cured by
their use. For sale by all dealers.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14
Fine Cotton seed. soc RuSbel

About &c bushels May Balm cotton (
seed, the variety that makes IS npr
cent lint--5oc per bushCi. II. ii. +
Fried BIG Fork a-ss-s !
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14

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The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14

Your that producing what they should be
to yield great deal Careful seed selection thorough cuva
ton and the best fertilizers will build up your farm compel bigger
yields, bring you bigger profits
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1912-03-14

Bring Your Butcher Stock TO the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-08-30
Liquor Men Organize to Fight
Suffrage

"Woman's suffrage is the latest oc-
casion for alarm to the liquor dealers
of Michigan's largest city," says the
Detroit News, In the hurry call sent
out for state convention of these
men, they say, Gas you are doubt
less aware, we are facing an election
on woman's suffrage this fall, and if it
results favorably, there will then be
every endeavor made toward having
the question of statewide prohibition
submitted to the people"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-08-30
League Workers to Meet

An important temperance gathering
will be held in Toronto, Canada, COM
mencing September 3. By invitation
of the Ontario branch of the Domin-
ion Alliance the superintendent and
workers of the Anti-Saloon League
of America will hold their biennial
session for the first time on Canadian
soil. On the program are Rev. P. A.
Baker, DID,, national superintendent;
Rev. DR.. Howard H. Russell, founder
of the League; E. H. Cherrington,
editor-in-chief of the League publica-
tions; Wayne B. Wheeler, superin-
tendent of the Ohio League; James A.
White, attorney for the Ohio League;
F. L. Dustman, Ohio editor of the
American Issue; S. E. Nicholson and
E. c. Dinwiddie, Washington; Ben
H. Spence and F. S. Spence, On
tario; Rev. G. w. Eichelberger, Mis-
sissippi superintendent; Rev. G. w.
Morrow, Michigan uperintendent;
P. w. Marsh, attorney for the Michi-
gan League; Rev. ]. H. Gambrell,
Texas, superintendent; Rev. DR.. H.
w. Tope, Pennsylvania superintend-
ent; F. E. Iglehart, of the New York
League; Wilbur F. Berry, of Maine;
Frank Barrett, of Arkansas; F. L.
Watkins, of North Dakota; Rev. DR..
Madison Swadener, associate general
superintendent; John G Woolley:
John B. Lennon, treasurer of the
American Federation of Labor; DR..
E. J. Moore, superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League of Missouri;
William H. Anderson, Maryland su-
perintendent; and. E. A. Scrogin,
Illinois superintendent.
All states will be represented by
delegations, and the conference will
continue in session three days.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-08-30

the wage earners' two and a half
cents amount to the very neat sum of
$50 millions a year. The ten billion
mugs of beer could do no good, but the
ten billion loaves of bread would give
one loaf day to each for a year to
more than twenty-seven million peo-
pie, besides giving the farmer and
wage Garner $50 millions year.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-08-30
Benefits Dispensed.

In the same way tracing the manu-
facture of bread through the Touring
mill and the bakers back to the farmer,
it is found that thirty-6ve per cent of
the nickel goes to the farmer for grain,
and to the miller and baker in all sixty
eight per cent, or more than two
thirds of the nickel benefits the miller
and the wage Garner.
Every time a man spends a nickel
for bread instead of for beer he pays
difference between sixty-eight per
cent and seventeen per cent, which
means about two cents and half more
to the farmers and the wage earners
than if he had spent his nickel for
beer
Now to be sure two and one-half
cents alone are not much, but when
two billion nicke1s go for beer instead
of bread, as was the case last year.
and for each nickel the farmers and
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-08-30
I ernperance Economy
A. S. Fair, in Michigan Christian Advocate

wife, the widow or the children of
the drunkard.'
1t has been shown that out of every
eight hundred in Our asylums, four
hundred owe their loss of reason to in
toxicating drink.
That seventeen hundred out of nine
teen hundred paupers in our poor
houses and thirteen hundred out of
seventeen hundred criminals in our
prisons owe their pauperism and their
crime to the same cause
Three working men leave the shop
Saturday night each with ten dollar
bill in his pocket to show for his
weeks labor. One spends his money
to supply his family with boots and
shoes. One buys suit of clothes,
And a third spends his money in the
saloon.
Besides this important difference
the two men go home sober with their
arms full of valuable goods, while one
goes home a brute, empty-handed.
There is the further difference in
the spending of the money. Every
time ten dollar bill goes to the saloon
instead of for bread and clothing, the
farmer and the wage Garner are losing
about four dollars There are one
hundred million of these ten dollar
bills spent in the saloons, which mean
a very great loss to the farmer and
working men of millions of dollars,
and which is swallowed in profits by
liquor men.
A single nickel spent for farm pro-
ducts return to the farmer thirtyfive
per cent; spent for mug of beer, to
the farmer twelve per cent to the
workman who made the beer five per
cent. The nickel spent for bread re-
turns the farmer thirty-6ve per cent,
the wage Garner thirty-three per cent,
in liquor above five per cent is called
for in wages. The farmer receives
twelve per cent, or about one-sixth of
the nickel spent for liquor benefits in
its manufacture the farmer or the
working man.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-08-30

all reasonable men agreed, even men
of the old world had long since agreed,
that the liquor traffic is one of the
greatest, if not the very greatest, of
all evils among mankind.
Lincoln, after speaking of the revo-
luton of 1875, said, Turn now to the
temperance revolution. In it we shall
find stronger bondage broken, a
viler slavery manumitted, a greater
tyrant deposed, in it more of want
supplied, more disease healed, more
sorrow assuaged. By it no orphans
starving, no widows weeping. By it
none wounded in feeling, none injured
in interests, even the dram maker and
dram seller will have glided into other
occupations SO gradually as to never
feel the change, and will stand ready
to join all others in the universal song
of gladness, happy day when all pois
ons are subdued."
The brewers and their followers tell
us of the number of men they employ
and the amount of money they pay for
material, etc.
The government census for 1000 in
forms us of the following facts, and
basing computations upon all the in
dustries of the United States it has to
deal with, number of wage earners
reaching 6,I52,453.
With this as basis we discover that
if the brewing business were out of
existence today, and allowing no COM
pensating advantages, one man or wo-
man out of every 100 now employed
for wages would lose his or her pres
ent employment.
By a close examination of the CLASH
fed industries of this country, you can
discover that one dollar is paid for
labor for every $500 of product pro-
duced While in the brewing business
labor gets only one dollar for every
$500 of product.
The farmers and business men can
see by these figures that even in ma
terial points of view, the brewing bust
ness is an enormous thief, the results
of whose stealing Cypress every honest
business and every industrious man.
Charity Not Needed.
None needed public charity be-
cause none were idle" says the cele-
brated Burke who says again: THAT
religion is the support of political
patience, labor, frugality, sobriety and
economy, true benevolence and real
charity, and all the rest is downright
= fraud"
Il have shown" says that indefatig-
able agent, Samuel Shipman, Esq,
who visited all of the prisons and poor
houses in the state of New York, 81
have shown beyond the power of con-
tradiction that more than three-fourths
Imperial Valley press., 1912-02-08
|Gnunty Nenna Antes
SAN PASQuALE VALLEY

H A Bergman is completing a
house on his farm unit.
C. O. Cartlish is erecting q commO-
dious house on his farm unit.
J. H. Morse, principal of the Bard
schools. is now occupying his new
residence.
Nj. and Mrs. Frank Livefmore have
had as their guest Mrs. Thomas Pol
lcck OF Flagstaff, Ariz.
Dr.. r. H. DeLap is setting out q
lot of fig trees on his farm unit. They
were shipped here from Fresno.
Mrs. c. H. Hall has been suffering
from an attack o. appendicitis and
will be taken to Los Angeles for treat
ment.
H. j. Green has returned from a
visit to Portland, Or. Mrs. Green
went to Los Angeles TO meet him OH
his return.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-02-08
Skyrcckets Used on Ducks

Exasperated by the flocks of ducks
which nightly devastated his fields,
S. Lyons, one of the pioneers of the
valley and a prosperous rancher of
No s, hit upon the eXpedient of using
skyrockets and Roman candles on the
marauders, says the Brawley News.
Mr.. Lyons entreated the Brawley nim-
rods to help him save his crops and
they gladly responded, but the respite
proved only temporary, for the feath-
cred flocks returned in greater num-
bers than ever, until Mr.. Lyons turned
his fireworks display loose. Now the
ducks avoid that particular ranch in
No s. and Mr.. Lyons sleeps in peace.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-02-08
Will Bore Pa!o Verde Wells

The Parker Post reports that l.. b.
Todd has just purchased new deep
we'll boring outfit and it is expected
to be in Glamis the last of this week
The power will be furnished by a gas
oline engine and Mr.. Todd says that
he can put a we'll down 1000 feet if
necessary. The outfit will be used in
putting down wells on the mesa and
in the Chuckawalla district in the
Palo Verde valley. He has several
contracts already. Mr.. Todd has had
a great deal of experience in we'll bor
ing in this district. having been one
of the first well drillers in the valley,
and his uniform success has won him
practically all the work in the valley
He viii no doubt become an impor
tant factor in the deep well drilling
on the mesa.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-02-08
"The Battle" Will Be Reproduced

One of the most remarkable picture
films ever shown in Imperial valley is
that OF The Battle" presented at the
Opera House the first Of this week.
Hundreds of soldiers were required to
produce this film, which is full of ac-
ton and presents a rare sight of a
battle when the fight is at it's thick
est. So much interest has been eX-
pressed in this that Manager Sawyer
has arranged for its reproduction on
Saturday night before the curtain
rises for the production Of The Bar
rier" The play will not begin until
$50, in order to give the merchants
and employees opportunity to attend,
but the pictures will be shown before
the play begins.