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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-10-31

No political party has declared in
favor Of the Single Tax
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-10-31

Our Republican friends have Civ
en- the country laws which enable
the few to prosper at the expense
the many.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-10-31

Do not have your vote recorded
in favor of trust and mOnopol,
rule.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-10-31

The nation expects every citizen
to do his duty next Tuesday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-10-31

See the Queen of Criminals, the
big four reel feature, Gem Saturday,
Nov. 2.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-10-31

Democracy stands Tor the pros
pPrity of the masses.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-10-31

Mrs. Hunter Anderson and Miss
Mildred Buell. speat Tuesday in
Quincy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-10-31
Vote for home.

Voc t. OIo,perlty Of the masses.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15

to meet the demand of all the south
west. The opening of the railroad
from San Diego eastward, tapping the
interior and affording a cut of 100
miles in the length of haul, must OF
very necessity give to San Diego har
Dor that priority so long held by San
Pedro. And because of the immensely
OF the country under development, the
lumber trade of San Diego with the in
terror must soon vastly exceed that
which San Pedro has enjoyed
Thus much is said by way of intro
GuctiOn regarding the transportation
problem, and closely related to this
is the question of passenger traffic.
The automobile has already done
much to bring Imperial valley and San
Diego together, and with the compile
ton of the good highway transporta-
ton by automobile will be effected
cheaply, rapidly and with greatest reg
ularity of service, and scores of peo-
pie daily will make the trip. At pres
ent the average time between Ell Cen
tro and San Diego is nine hours, but
this will be brought down to five hours
and the trip will be made with COM
fort.
Thousands of residents of Imperial
valley each year pass considerable
period at the coast and mountain re-
sorts, this year probably spending a
million dollars for vacations. With
a good automobile road all the way,
vast portion of that would go to
San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15
GOVERNMENT LIGHTHOUSE

On Point Iona is the government
lighthouse, known as the Point Iona
light to marines, one of the most mod
ern lights on the Pacific coast, in
which new lamp was recently in
stalled at enormous cost. This light,
flashing out over the Pacific through
the night, points the way to San Diego
bay and warns ships as well as guides
them.
On Point Iona is. the government
wireless station, whose unseen fingers
dart through the air to pick up or de-
liver messages to ships and to other
stations 1t is situated where it will
do the most good commercially, and
where it would do the most good in
time of international trouble.
Here, too, is the military and naval
cemetery, always kept in perfect con-
dition, and in which is the imposing
monument erected in honor of the
memory of the sailors who lost their
lives when the gunboat Bennington
met disaster in the bay of San Diego
an internal explosion.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15

OF Imperial valley commerce with and
through San Diego depends on the two
factors-railroad and highway.
Let US see what the demand is to
be and what has been done and what
is being done.
Railroad communication into I'M
perial valley now depends on the
Southern Pacific system, and trade
from the valley goes to Los Angeles,
something more than 200 miles away,
and directly to the east. The trade
with Los Angeles this year probably
amounts to five million dollars
This distance from the valley to SaE
Diego is about half as great as to Los
Angeles, or 100 miles less.
There are certain lines of that trade
which could be at once taken up by
auto trucks, this including the hauling
out from the valley of dairy products,
poultry, eggs etc, for which there is
big demand at San Diego, and the
shipping in to the valley of certain
perishable products in daily demand
there.
In the building up of commerce,
when the railroad is finished, it can
be taken for granted that in grocery
and retail lines the valley will have, as
it already has, its own jobbing houses,
and coast cities will only share in this
business as handlers of freight in
transit through the ports
But there are many other lines in
which San Diego jobbing houses will
be called on to participate, in competi-
tion with Los Angeles houses now
sharing the business, and with the
growth of the interior this will bring
millions to San Diego
But there are two lines of trade
which seem especially adapted to run
high into the millions and to go to
the making of great commercial CITY
One of these is the shipment inland
Of lumber and the other the outward
shipment of cotton
In the matter of cotton, if San Diego
had mills for handling it today, the
raw material could be sent over the
by auto truck economically,
for the price in Imperial valley is
based on the cost of transportation to
New Orleans and to Japan. Put into
such an industrial channel, the mills
would add greatly to the population
and prosperity of San Diego and of
Imperial valley, and would prove a
bond between the communities of most
nature.
San Pedro, as is generally known,
has for years been the chief lumber
port of the Pacific coast, because, az
the railroads run, it was best situated
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15
BUCKMAN SPRINGS IS
NATURES LABORATORY

Midway between San Diego and Ell
Centro, in the mountains, is one of
natures laboratories, a series of seven
springs, producing naturally carbon
ated water of great medicinal value,
and this water, now bottled and sold
throughout the coast, is taking first
place in the market
For twenty-five years the value OF
this water has been recognized in San
Diego, though it is only in late years
that it has been regularly on the mar
ket, and only now that it is entering
into use in Imperial valley.
A strong company has been formed,
with George w. Walker as president
and manager, and this company is
putting on an auto truck line which
is hauling the water in great quanti
ties to San Diego, and will also bring
the water to this valley.
So popular has this pure medicinal
water become that it is said now to
have almost the exclusive sale in San
Diego and to equal the sale of any
other water in Los Angeles and other
southern California towns
That it will become a very popular
drink in Imperial valley now that it
has been introduced is assured.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15
WORK ALREADY DONE
ON AUTOMOBILE ROAD

A vast amount of work already has
been done by San Diego county in
preparation for the close relationship
between San Diego and Imperial val
ley. The county, as one of its mag
nificent series of highways, has built
to Mountain Springs, on the San Diego
and Imperial county line, and San
Diego has raised fund to extend this
highway to Coyote Springs, in In
perial county, where Imperial county
has agreed to meet San Diego, thus
providing for the early completion Of
q good road direct from valley points
to San Diego.
By the first of January it ought to
be possible to cover the ground be
tween Ell Centro and San Diego by
automobile in five hours on the aver
age run, and auto trucks by that time
should be doing a large business.
Imperial county has made careful
surveys for the projected road, and it
is proposed to cut out of the route
Devils canyon, the only bad stretch
in the present road, providing in lieu
OF that an easy route, though a more
expensive one for first cost of con
struction.
Along this route there is ample ma
terial we'll adapted for road construc-
ton, and the short stretch of sandy
desert road on this route will soon be
eliminated
That this route will be adopted by
the state highway commission as the
route to be followed in getting to Ell
Centre now seems certain. The com
missioners have investigated the mer-
its OF this route carefully, and while
no decision has been announced bv
them, it is taken as established that
they and their chief engineer. Mr..
Fletcher, know that this route alone
can be made to give Imperial county
that communication with the outside
world which is desired.
AS is generally known, the state is
sued bonds to the amount of $4,000.
600 to provide a series of finely paved
roads, which will be equal to the best
city streets, and when Imperial and
San Diego counties shall have com,
pleted their work of building the
highways, it is expected that the state
will adopt that stretch between this
city and San Diego and pave it in such
way as to make it an ideal roadway
built to endure for all time.
When this paving shall have been
done, it will be entirely practic able
to make the run from Ell Centro to
San Diego in four hours by automo
bile.
Moreover, it is probable the state
will extend this road to the Colorado
river, with view to making of it g
national highway, and the automobile
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15

Every great nation has learned early
in its career that the first requisite of
commerce is means for transportation.
Centuries before the Christian era
China had solved the problem by
means of a marvellous system of ca
nails Later Rome constructed her
matchless highways that bound all
Europe into unity.
This is called the Link edition of the
Press, and the Link is the highway
and the railway, each now well ad-
yanced, and each essential to play its
part in uniting San Diego with the pro-
life interior. There are times when
it is we'll enough to repaint the lily and
daub few new colors on the rainbow,
but the matter of highways is one OF
economics, and as such it must be
treated in business way.
AS every disciple Of Smith, Ricardo
and Mill knows, one of the great ele-
ments of value is place. That which
millions of consumers want is of great
value when it is so situated that they
can get it. Permanently separated
rom the consumer, the commodity is
without value.
Speaking economically, that which
is a thousand miles away may be near
er to the consumer than that which
is ten miles away, for the standard of
measure is cost of transportation be
tween producer and consumer.
Given a great valley now producing
values of ten millions a year and soon
10 reach seventy millions, the next es-
sential is means for bringing the COM
modities and the consumers into close
relationship.
A century ago the land and the pro-
ducts Of Imperial valley would have
been alike without value, for the cost
Of transportation would then have
more than over balanced the value Of
the commodities.
The railroads then came in and
served two great purposes. They gave
us something new to abuse and thus
relieve pent-up human nature. They
also gave US transportation at a low
enough figure to bring together widely
separated producers and consumers.
Now comes a new factor, not on the
whole to compete with the railroads,
but to supplement their work. This is
the auto truck, probably destined to be
the greatest economic factor since the
invention of the locomotive
But the auto truck required, as did
the locomotive, that there be a track
adapted to the new transportation
system.
L therefore happens that the su-
preme necessity for the development
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15

time required to finish construction,
and to have the road finished by the
time of the opening OF the canal, lively
construction should begin during the
coming fall.
With three great railroad systems
all bending their energies to prepara-
tion for the opening of the canal, and
with Mr.. SpreckeIs himself able to
build the road, it can be taken as set
tied that it will be built on time.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15

The war department had already
placed Fort Rosecrans on Point Iona,
to protect the harbor and the city. The
navy department made the next move.
She made San Diego the headquarters,
in reality, of the Pacific fleet, and es-
pecially of the torpedo boat division
of that feet. San Diego's importance
to the navy department was shown at
the great mobilization on the last day
of last October, when every vessel Of
the Pacific fleet was in San Diego bay,
strung out comfortably-forty million
dollars worth of warships. San Diego
bay was the only place this great MOD
ilization could take place south of San
Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15

niles with excellent hoiel accommoda-
tons and service. And ;berc are hun
dreds of points of interest in the coun-
ty where cottage or camp life may be
enjoyed by those who SO desire.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15

Throughout San Diego county there
is rapid growth and development
that will serve to advance San Diego's
population the next ten years as rap
idly as it has been advanced in the.
past decade.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15

San Diego has a water system that
could supply abundantly city of half
million people and still store up
enough to keep the people supplied for
years if not another drop of rain fell
in the county.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-15

traffic along this route will reach
great proportions.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-06-15
ENROLMENT IS GOOD
Summer School Attendance Surpasses
Expectations Of All.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Baton ROuge.-Three hundred and
thirty-six students have enrolled at
the Louisiana State University for
the summer session, larger number
than it was thought would be here for
the entire summer term. The floods
in the various sections Of the state
and the fact that the railroads were
running irregularly, it was feared,
would reduce the attendance pretty
storongly, but the continual stream of
students indicates that the total num-
Der will not fall far behind former
years.
All the departments of the school
are now in running order. The regu-
lar collegiate work is being continued
as in the regular session, while the
work of organizing the model school
and the Kindergarten is almost COM
plete.
The department of domestic science
is one of the most popular in the
school. Four courses In cooking and
sewing are being offered.
More higher courses are being Of
fered than in any pervious session
to permit the teachers to continue
work leading to degree. Several will
graduate from the university this sum.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-06-15
ATTENTION TO AGRICULTURE
Legislature Is Asked to Give Fair
Treatment to Iubject.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Baton Rouge.-An earnest appeal
to the legislature for the fair treat
ment of the agricultural interests Of
the state in the matter of increased
appropriations for the dissemination
Of knowledge of practical agriculture
for the advancement or the experiment
station work, the agricultural high
schools, the live stock sanitatary
board. the demonstration trains and
the short agricultural courses, was
made by the Louisiana Agricultural
Society in person and through resolu-
tions.
The association also prepared a reso-
luton to be presented to the legis-
lature asking that an appropriation of
$4,000 be made for the purchase OF
seeds for the farmers In the flooded
area.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-06-15
Say Pool 10 Maintained.


Baton Rouge-That the railroads
Of the state made pool to maintain
lobby at Baton Rouge was the in
formation which Leon Smith, of Cad.
do. author of the antflobby bill. put
before the joint judiciary committee
Of the house and senate at q rearing
Of these measures. The hearing was
enlivened with a frank. free and full
discussion Of the lobby at Baton
Rouge during the session Of the gen.
eral assembly, which mas been under
discussion by general assemblies and
governors more than once. The rail-
road lobby was especially put on the
griddle and roasted. The Smith anti
lobby bills were ordered reported IA
vorably, with a slight amendment.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-06-15
Dr.. Gibson AGAIN Disappears.

Alexandria.-Dr D. w. Gibson, who
disappeared mysteriously from Alex
andria Sunday night, and who was
seen Monday night by Rev. H. B. Mer-
Ger, an old friend, on board a train
between Cheneyville and Lecompte.
has again disappeared. He has not
been seen since he left the train at
Lecompte Rev. Mercer believes the
mans mind is unbalanced, judging
from the conversation he had with
him and his general appearance. His
wife is still waiting for news. The
couple and their two children came
from Mission, Texas. The mysterious
disappearance and connecting circum-
stances has been a matter of conjec'
ture.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-06-15
LOUISIANA. CASE UNIQUE.
Negroes Sues Railroad Company Carry.
ing Mob on Special Train.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-Wheth a railroad
that carries a mob to town to lynch
a man is liable for damages to the
victims widow and children is a uni
que point to be brought before the su-
preme court of the United States.
Annie May Rogers, the widow, and
three children sued the Vicksburg,
Shreveport and Pacific Railroad Com
pany on charges of having carried, by
special train, mob from Monroe, La,
to Tallulah, La, where Rogers was
lynched. He had been charged with
numbering a man and was about to be
released ON the ground that he had
been tried once before on the charge
The lower federal court held that as
a matter OF law the railroad might be
liable.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-06-15
Youth Kills Boarder.

Shreveport.-Bec of alleged
abuse of his 13-year-old sister, Clar-
ence Williams, aged 10, a well-known
young man, employed by an oil COM
pany in the Caddo field, shot and kill
ed C. s. Smith, alias "Box Car an
other oil field worker, at Caddo City.
and then surrendered
The killing occurred at the board
ing house of Williams widowed moth
er. shortly after young Williams, who
works at night, arrived in the dining
room, where he claims to have seen
Smith, a boarder, strike his sister.
who waited on the table, after cursing
her about the breakfast table.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-06-15
Centenary Closes.

Shreveport fourth session Of
CentenarXzc COLLEGE since ii Xas
came to close last week with the
presentation OF diplomas to the first
graduating class on record, as fol-
lows: Misses Ruth Hessinger OF
Litchfield, ILL.,, and Lucille Atkins Of
Shreveport; Messrs. L. P. Whiting
ton of Wilmington and ]. Clint Willis,
Jr., of Shreveport.
The board of trustees decided to
open next session September Is, and
selected the faculty members as fol-
lows: Dr. Felix R. Hill, ST., presi-
dent; ]. S. Johnston, mathematics; H.
T. Carley, English; P. E. Rouse,
Greek and Latin; J. Clint Willis, Jr..
adjunct to science chair. M. H. Har-
per resigned to go to Jefferson Mill
tary College, Natchez, Miss. Prof.
S. ]. Davies also resigned
The science medal was won by H.
T, Young. F. r. Pouer won the lit
erary debate medal. Rev. A. S. Lutz
of Homer was given the NJ. A. degree.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-06-15
LOUISIANA STATE NEWS
nApPEN,Noa OF INTEREST
rHRoue4cuT THE STATE.
ITEMS FROM EVERY QUARTER
o. Louisiana Wh4n 4 10 News Gath.
cred for Our aany Readers.
Pa, 30 City.
REPORT On Of sasen AsxLgA..
Institution in Great Need, and Should
Be Cared for Literally.


Baton Rouge.-A special report
from Thomas c.. Anderson of Or
leans and F. Amede Tete of Assump-
ton, as members of the joint COM
mittee which visited the Jackson asy-
lum on May %, was received in the
house Friday. The report, without
preamble, starts to the meat of the
situation at once. The first declara-
ton is that the asylum is in great
need, and should be taken care of lib
orally.
The committee finds the cost per
capita is 80 cents per day, and recon-
mends an appropriation be made to
increase the per capita expenditure to
33 1-3 cents per day. 1t is stated that
the 80 cents is from Is to so cents
less than that received at forty-five
institutions of the kind in the United
States.
The committee states that the small
increase asked for will relieve many
parishes of the state from caring for
the insane in the parish jails.
For maintenance, improvements and
repairs for the period ending March 1,
1914, the total appropriation recon-
mended is $47O.300. This takes into
consideration an increased population
of 40 patients.
with the above appropriation the
institution will be able to care prop
erly for all the wants needed, and will
place the institution in first class
working condition as it should be, in
stead of dragging and scratching to
make funds meet within reason" says
the report.
Attention is called to some seven
teen improvements which have been
made since September, 1905.
The records show that the institu-
ton, for maintenance. has received
$4,000 per annum since 1902, which
is approximately the amount it is re-
ceiving now, the actual appropriation
00. "A i;hst sis,se a.ssss -
am6linf Vas adde itos1ake the place Of
about $4,000 which was formerly re-
ceived from pay patients. The asylum
to the date Of the report has 1918
patients
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-06-15
Lower Court uoheld.

New Orleans.-Joseph H. Gomillia,
the wrecker of the Teutonia Bank and
Trust Company, will have to remain
in Jail until the day of his trial in the
early part of July. for the supreme
court, with Chief Justice Joseph A.
Breaux as the organ of the court re-
fused the writ of habeas corpus ap-
piled for by his attorney. 1t was al
legged on behalf of the prisoner that
his bond was excessive, being $50,0O0,
and that the refusal of the trial Judge
to reluce it to $4,000 constituted a
denial of justice and deprived him of
his right of liberty without due pro-
cess OF law.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-06-15
Uses Uncle Story.

Natalbany.-Friday man who
gave his name as Smith appeared at
the Mason hotel and told C. ]. Roc
kemp, a Hollander. employed at the
Natalbany Lumber Company's mill,
that there was a telegram for him at
Hammond from the North. Rockemp
has an uncle in the North. and be-
lieved it was a message from him,
so decided to go to Hammond. But,
being too late for the train, Smith pro-
posed they walk. About mile from
town Smith drew a gun and made
Rockemp throw up his hands, and
went through his pockets, taking $37.