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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-01-29
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PETITION FOR THE ORGANIZA.
TION OF AN IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT WITHIN CAMERON
COUNTY. TEXAS.

To the Honorable Commissioners
Court OF the County OF Gamer
on. State OF Texas.
We. the undersigned holders Of
title and evidences OF little to lands
within The proposed irrigation dis
trict, hereiuAfter described. desiring
10 provide for the irrigation OF said
lands. hereby petition for the organ
izetion Of an irrigation district OF
the area and with the boundaries
hereinafter described, do most res
%pectfully represent and show:
Il.
That Il Is the purpose OF the under
signed petitioners to organize an IT.
riEation district under the provisions
Of an Act OF the Legislature Of the
State Of Texas. enacted In 1905, en-
titled: IAN Act TO provide for the
organization and government OF irri-
cation districts. and to provide for
the acquisition or construction there
BY OF works for the irrigation OF the
lands embraced within such districts
and TO issue bonds In payment there
for as authorized under the Consti-
tuition: and also 10 provide for the
distribution OF water for Irrigation
purposes and 10 furnish water for
mechanical purposes granting to
such irrigation district the right OF
eminent domain" page 269 Supple
men 10 Saylcs' Texas Civil Statues,
1860
That the general description and
boundaries OF said proposed irriga-
tion district hereby petitioned to be
organized. Is as follows. to-wit:
$4,000 acres Of land. more or less.
situated In the County OF Cameron
In the state OF Texas. being all the
land contained within the following
limits and bounds:
beginning at a point at low water
mark OF the Rio Grande River. be-
ing the southeast corner OF share
No. I In the partition ofthe Espiritu
Santo Grant. J. 5. de Ia Cara ORR
ginal grantee. as effected by the De-
cree OF Partition entered by the Dis
trict Court OF Cameron County. Tex
as. on May q. 1889. in cause No.
1916, entitled. M. Kennedy. r. King,
e. a.. vs.. Thomas Carson. admins
traitor OF Maria Josefa Cavazos. ct
al. and being the point where the
dividing line between the first and
second sixths or the said Espiritu
Santo Grant intersects the said riv-
err; thence north \ degrees and 45
minutes east with the said dividing
line. being also the dividing line
between Share No. I and Share No.
M Of said partition. to the n. W. cor
ncr OF n tract OF 1900 acres conveyed
by Felipe II. Tiierina 70 George
Champion cut OF said Share ~;
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-01-29
Our Customers re
Our Friends

We are publishing the following testimonial because we are
naturally proud Of the regard in which our friends hold us and because
we are looking for new customers to become our ~fnends-for that Is
what it means-om customers for our Irrigated Farms. at Phan, on the
Rio Crande. are our friends. It'll do no harm to talk it over with us
write
WESTERN FARM LAND co.
lh Floor, Mccormick Bldg. Chicago
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-01-29

CONTINUED On fase 3D.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
ROADS MEET
LARGE ATTENDANCE OF DELE
GATEs-pAY DEVOTED TO
SPEECHES.
HAPP ENINGS OVER THE STATE
What Is Going On Here and There
That Is Of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout South d.
kots and Vicinity.

Pterre.--Representatives of q mum
Der Of towns in the state are attending
the good roads meeting here. The
western part of the state is better
represented than the eastern portion.
Judge Haney in his address of well
come recommended to the delegates
that they work to the end OF simpli-
and that they go slow in attempts to
remove constitutional limitations. E
c. Issenhuth, one of the pioneers In
road work of the past has been only
missionary, and that it will be several
years before they see the full effects
of their efforts.
The good roads convention selected
the following committees:
Permanent Organization-W. T. Put
nam, Rapid City; NJ. P. Beebe. Ips-
wich; Jake Tschetter, Bridgewater: A.
c. Allen, Aberdeen; e. X. Mather,
Mitchell.
Resolutions-G. d. Squires. Hum.
boldt: f. c. Issenhuth, Redfield; II. F.
Brownell, Sioux Falls; Harry Lovald,
Midland; G. II. Wright, Huron.
The resolutions committee reported
commencing the road work which has
been done in the state, both In regard
to organization and actual construc-
ton. 1t recommended the required &C
ton toward securing legislation to pro.
vide for taxation of automobiles for
road purposes, which will require a
constitutional amendment; that oun
ty organizations be perfected in coun-
ties where the road law OF the last
session has been referred.
The talks of the afternoon session
were by George V. Ayres of Deadwood,
on road building in the Black Hills
and it's attendant difficulties; by John
P. Dods. of the Blue Book, Chicago,
on the needs of the movement: by
d. NJ. Carr Of Omaha, on tourist roads,
maintaining, marking and advertis-
ing to make them successful; State
Engineer Lea, on trunk lines In the
state; J. L. White of Sioux Falls,
whose idea of financing roads is to
do the work with convicts; and a his
tory OF the good roads movement in
the state by Doane Robinson.
The evening program consisted of
speeches on state organization by
Ben NJ. Wood of Rapid City: The 9th.
er Half Of the Transportation Prob
lem, by j. L. Long, of Des Moines,
and Road Building" by George w
Cooley, state highway commissioner
for Minnesota.
The committee on permanent or.
ganization reported for president, ].
w. Parmley, Ipswich; first vice presi-
dent, f. C. Issenhuth, Redfield; Sec
ond vice president, J. w. White; sec
rotary, Ben NJ. Wood of Rapid City;
treasurer, J. NJ. Campbell, Huron.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29

lppe Egalite after having voted
for the death of Louis XVI. had to
stand for an hour before his own
head was cut off. 1t is much remem
bered for it's orgies during the Re.
gency.
But to mans credit, be it noted, that
this old palace is most wildly re
membered because here Camille Des
moulins harangued the people and dis
tributed green leaves and rallied
them to take the bastile the next day
Napoleon /. used the old palace as a
resting place for his heroes after each
campaign.
Almost all the characters of his "Hu
man Comedy" passed through It. j:
was the home of the worlds vices
where men came and went, grumbled,
shouted, jostled, blasphemed; 1t was
the haunt Of gamblers and libertines,
of officers on half-pay. rascals on full
pay, of millionaires who came to pos.
sess everything and Bohemians who
came to see everything.
But all are gone! Now one dimes
there with ghosts. The covers are
still correctly laid In the restaurants
bearing illustrious names, but few
diners darken their doors. Everything
speaks of a world that has passed and
OF a vanished society.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
Lad May Get Well.

Rapid City.-Laminectomy, a rare
operation, performed by local surgeons,
has partly removed the paralysis OF
16-year-old Wray Mcdowell, who a
month ago, was accidentally shot in
the mouth by a 7-year-old companion,
and it is now hoped that he will com
pletely coy The X-ray disclosed
the fact that the fourth and fifth dor.
sal ribs were shattered, and by the
operation d part Of the spine pressing
on the spinal column was removed,
four and one-half inches being taken
out. After the operation he declared
he could feel pain, although he has
been paralyzed from the heart down.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
ENDS PALA|S ROYAL
Famous Estate in France to Be
Transformed by Wreckers.
Noted Rendezvous for Many Well
Known Characters Centuries Ago
to Make Way for New Paris
Bourse or Board Of Trade.

Paris.-At last 1t is settled that the
old Palais Royal is to disappear. The
bourse, or Paris board of trade, OF
Wall street, or Fourth avenue, OF
Paris, Is about to take the place OF
the old palace. which vas the adorn'
ment of the Paris Of our great-grand
fathers. This center of frivolous and
corrupted Paris of the distant past is
doomed to disappear beyond redemp
ton. The Society of the Friends OF
Old Paris are powerless to save it
Indeed, 1t has been dead this many
a day. 1t has become a cemetery
without mourning, a metropolis with
out poetry. There is hardly a dream
OF its past that has not been de
stroyed.
The great square is given over to
children and their nurses. No gild
ed successors of the bedizened beau
ties of the past now promenade the
Galerie de Montpensier. A few be
dragged creatures, nurtured by pow
erty. rather than by vice, occasionally
traverse this ruined Palace of Pleas
ure. Even the jewelry shops have
long since moved away.
In the beginning of the eighteenth
century the Palais Royal was a sort
Of open-air club where people dis
cussed the happenings of Europe and
Of Paris from world politics to pri
vate intrigues, big things and little:
the Versailles and the opera: the side
lights Of history and the history OF
s%idelights.
When the Duke d'Orleans OF that
day-crushed with debts-suppressed
a part Of the famous garden to estab
lish shops, the shopkeepers made q
fortune. The Orleans family opened
the garden to the bourgeoisie, and
the latter opened access for the Or
leans family to the throne from which
Louis Philippe fell for having trusted
the bourgeoisie too much.
The Palais Royal is remembered as
the place where Richelieu died, where
Anne Of Austria saw the throne OF
young Louis XIV. threatened, where
the bogus financier. the Scotchman
Law, sought an asylum, where Phil.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
Modern Structure Planned.

Lead.-An amusement half fitted
with a gymnasium, shower baths, read
ing rooms, billiard, card and ~lounging
room and every other modern con
venience for the healthful amusement
of their employees is the latest move
on the part of the Homestake Mining
company of this city. The excavation
for this huge structure has already
begun, and it is predicted that it will
be one of the finest buildings of it's
kind in the state.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
Crushed by a Bowlder.

Rapid City.-Crushed to death by a
large bowlder which fell upon him as
he worked in a quarry near here, was
the fate of Gus Johnson, of this city.
Johnson and a companion were work
ing in the quarry, the latter leaving
with a load, when he returned and
found johnson pinned beneath a
heavy rock which had evidently rolled
him down the hill and then settled on
ais chest. ne gasped his last as his
friend found him. Johnson leaves a
wife and several small children here.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
HANDS CRACKED AND BLED

st. Clair, Monty trouble began
about fifteen years ago. 1t was what
some claimed eczema. The form the
disease worked under was a breaking
out with watery blisters on my hands
which would then dry and scale. and
then would follow the trouble OF,
cracking and bleeding. also itching
and hurting. My hands we're disfg-
ured at the time, and sore. The trou-
Bile was very annoying. and disturbed
my sleep. This last February 1t was
ever Sc much worse than before. /
did not do all my work on account OF
the condition OF my hands. I could
not put them in water without max
ing them worse. ! tried a lot of homo
remedies, also salves and liniments
that claimed to be a cure for the
trouble, but I did not obtain a cure.
AT last I saw the advertisement for
Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I sent
for a sample. I thought they would
cure. so / sent for a f~fty-cent box OF
Cuticura Ointment and some Cutl-
cura Soap. A doctor advised me to
keep ahead with the Cuticura Soap
and Ointment and they cured me com
pletely. No trace of the trouble re-
mains" (Signed) Mrs. Mary Taylor.
Mar. 80, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample OF each
free. with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura. Dept. L. Boston"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
Hills Apple Crop.

Rapid City.-What is thought to be
the largest crop of apples ever gath
cred in this vicinity since 1882 is now
being picked and shipped. A large
part of the c. Thomson crop is find.
ing a ready market in the eastern
part of the state. Mr.. Thomson has
60 acres in his apple orchard, and
states that he estimates i. will pro-
duce approximately 5000 bushels this
year. The Duchess and Red Astra-
kan seem to have thrived better than
any of the other varieties OF a gen.
eral utility apple
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
FREAK YIELD ar OATS.
Second Crop Maturing on = Gregory
County Farm.


Sioux Falls.-An unusual case in the
crop production line is reported from
the farm Of Charles T%heilfoldt, In
Gregory county, where an oats field,
after presumably being ruined by hail,
and from which a large yield of hay
afterwards was cut, grew a second
crop of oats which promises a large
yield. The original crop of oats was
badly cut up by a severe hail storm
on July Z. Such of the oats as could
be cut was cut with a mower, and lat
er a hay crop was cut from the field.
Then a second crop of oats over three
feet high. 1t is wetl headed and is
filling very good. The new crop has
grown about a foot q week and II Is
estimated hat it will thresh out an
average of not less than 50 bushels
per acre.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
suo DESTROYER of Potato euos.

Miller.-Robert Wilson tells an in
teresting experience he had with po-
toto bugs. He was about to apply
paris green to the vines to kill the
pests when he saw very large bugs
with horns devouring the beetles and
carrying off large numbers of them on
their horns. They kept at the work
so persistently that the vines were
o free Of bugs and the paris green
was not used. Mr.. Wilson thinks that
the large bugs with horns may become
umerou enough next year to de-
stroy the potato bugs generally.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
Barber Shops In China.

Since the Chinese revolution a great
many Chinese have had their cues cut
off, and this has led to the opening OF
a large number OF barber shops
throughout the far east wherever Chl-
nese are located, says an exchange.
Several progressive business men OF
Singapore, anticipating this, imported
a large number of American barber
chairs, and they are now unable to
get supplies quickly enough. It has
nese are located, says an exchange
sist on having American hair clippers.
and refuse all other makes offered
them.
1t would seem that American manu-
facturers Of BARRIERS supplies should
experience a large increase in their
Oriental trade.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
Has Oldest Drayman.

Aberdeen Cheyenne Junction, one
of the new reservation towns west of
the Missouri river. boasts of the old
est drayman in the United States.
Henry Ducheneaux is the drayman
father, Napoleon Du~cheneaux, who is
50 years old, assists his son, and fire.
quently, during his sons absence from
the town on business errands, takes
entire charge of the business.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
Electors Names Sent In.

Pierre.-The list of electors select.
ed at the Huron convention has been
sent to the secretary of state for fl
ing as the regular Republican electors
to go upon that ticket for the Novem'
Der election, the list being: Oscar
Olsen, Lennon; Fl. c. Preston, Mitch
ell; l.. T. Van Slyke, Aberdeen: l.. III
Rugg, Rapid City; ]. S. Thomson
Ce%nterville.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29

movement Is its
laudable effort to
prevent b u m a n
misery. 1t has
m a t t e r d not
whether such suf-
fering was caused
by accident, dis
ease, greed or
poverty, the men
Of labor have
been equal to the
occasion by devils
ing practical rem
edies for indus
trial, social and
political evils.
Unkindly critics
when piuued. or
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
Yankton County Grain Yields.

Yankton.-A very conservative es.
innate of grain yields in Yankton
county, as given by a competent au-
thority, places the average for the win.
ter wheat yield at % bushels per acre;
spring wheat at Is bushels per acre,
and oats at SO bushels per acre. In
many instances individual yields will
exceed these. figures, but the averages
are for the entire county and are very
gratifying 70 the farmers of the COM
uunity.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
A Word 10 the Wise.

The proverbial advice. "Cobbler.
stick to your last" had an Apostle
exemplification In the following anec-
dote, for which lions Advocate Is re.
sponsible:
A colored a vas brought before
a police Judge, charged with stealing
chickens. He pleaded guilty, and re-
ceived sentence, when the judge asked
how 1t al managed to lift those
chickens right under the window OF
their owners house when there was q
dog In the yard.
Hit wouldn't be no use. judge"
said the culprit, ito try to 'splain dis
thing to you at all. Er you was to try
1t, like as not you would git yer hide
full O. shot, an git no chickens, neil
Their. Ell you want to engage In any
~rascality. Judge, yo' bettah stick to
de bench, whar yo' am familiar"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
CHINESE WEEDS U. S. WOMAN
Fan Shin Chen, Son Of Mandarin, anc
a College Man, Makes Helen NJ.
Court His Bride.

Boston, Mass.-The marriage o
Fan Shin Chen, Harvard 1910, son o
q mandarin Of Tientsin, and Miss Hell
en- May Court of Peabody, Mass, Jul.
13, has just become known through
q return filed at Cambridge. TIL,
bridegroom took his degree from th'
Harvard school of business admins
tration and the pair left for China
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
ChiId's Sudden Death.

Garretson.-While engaged in play
ing with a number of her little play
mates, Ulga Johanna Songstad, the g.
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Songstad, of Garretson, was suddenly
stricken with acute meningitis, prob
ably caused by al abscess in the
head, and died within a few hours.
The right side Of her head was az
fected and the left side of the body
was p~aralyzed.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
Postoffice d.

Aberdeen.-Yeggs blew the safe of
the postofhce at Warner, S. d., Sc
cured $500 worth of stamps, but failed
to get SIS in cash in the steel chest
in the safe. The robbers made their
getaway on a gasoline car stolen from
the Northwestern section foreman.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
Veteran Banker Dead.

Spearfish.-T. NJ. Matthews, veteran
banker and cattleman of this place,
died at his home here of an old all.
ment. Mr.. Matthews, who was about
So years old, had resided in Spearfish
since 1893, and was one of the heav-
lest owners of real estate.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
Hunt Yeqamen Without Arms.

Aurora.-Hunting yeggmen without
being armed resulted in two citizens
of Aurora being compelled to stand
motionless in the darkness while two
of the yeggmen passed within a few
feet Of them and made their escape
after robbing the safe IN the office OF
an elevator company.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
Will Answer for Crimes.

Rapid City.-Sheriff Hewett re-
turned from Alcester, Mont, Thursday
evening with Fred Berry and Pryce
Ryther, sons of well to do Rapid City
parents; both young men having been
apprehended and held as horse thieves
in the Montana town.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
PeskY QoQs.

Aberdeen.-Dogs have wrought de-
v~astation among a number of flocks OF
sheep in Campbell and Mcpherson
counties recently and several farmers
have served notice on dog wners
that they will shoot every dog seen on
their premises hereafter.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
Mrs. Mcmahon Seeks Liberty.

Yankton.-Mrs. Nellie Mcmahon,
who was committed to the state in
a n hospital al Yankton, following
her trial at Hot Springs for murder,
is seeking liberation and the case is
being heard before Judge Trip, of the
First judicial circuit. Habeas corpus
proceedings were instituted to bring
Mrs. McMahon's case before the court.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
Saw bio school Of whales.

New York.-Captain Collins of tn,
Wilson liner Galilee, which arrived
here, says he passed through a schoo
OF fifteen big whales of Rockaway
He threw coal at them to scare then
away from the propeller.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
Striking accomplishments That
Have Resulted in Public
Good.
WORK REVIEWED BY G0MPERS
Head Of the American Federation
Points to the Things Organized
Effort for the Prevention Of
Human Misery Have Made
Possible.
BY SAMUEL GOMPERS.

President American Federation OF Labor,
in Kansas City Star.
The grandest achievement and the
greatest glory of the American labor
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
The Natural Inference.

While out motoring the other day.
I ran across an old friend OF mine"
Was he much hurt?"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
lLaundered Bills Are out.

Washington.-Uncle Sans frs
batch OF Numbered bills. amounting Il
100000, was put in circulation.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29

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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29
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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-29

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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1912-09-19
HYDE TO BE ELECTRoCUTED.
Insanity Commissions Report
Declares Him Sane.

Samuel B Hyde. the Anderson
county murderer, will be electrocut-
ed on October !, the date last named,
when his execution was stayed pend.
ing report by the insanity commits
sion. The report on the case was
completed several days ago. and has
been filed with the Governor. The
commission found, after studying
the case in many phases, that Hyde
was sane when he killed hislwife and
her aged father, and is sane now.
The conclusion means that Hyde will
be sent to the death chair on Octo-
ber /. Hyde has been Informed of
the turn the inquiry has taken. He
has given his body to an Atlanta
medical college in accordance with
his announced intention weeks be-
fore he was brought to the death
house at the penitentiary. The con-
demned man has repeatedly stated
that he welcomed death, as 1t would
unite him with his wife in another
world.