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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-10-11
Bill No. 1916.
State Of Tennessee, etc.
J. H. Hends, ct. al.

j. III. Hends, Ct d.
The following tracts or parcels OF
land described in the decree in ABOVE
STYLED cause In Minute Book No. AZ,
at page 321, to-wit:
No. 5, in said Bill 1916, situated In
Civil District No. 8. Maury County,
Tennessee, bounded on the north by
pike: south by Dobbins; east by
Lane and west by Burns, containing
80 acres, now owned and possessed
by Jno. NJ Burns.
No. 7, in said Bill No. 1916, situat-
ed in the 18th Civil District OF Maury
County. Tennessee, bounded on the
north by Ricketts,; south by Big.
Ave: east by alley and west by
Sharp. now owned and possessed by
Ben Gardner.
No. 16, in said Bill No. 1916, situat-
ed in the old 18th Civil, now End
District OF Maury County, Tennessee
(Hin Land) containing 8 acres, now
owned and possessed by WIN How
ard.
No. IA, in said Bill No. 1916, situat-
ed in the 18th now End district OF
Maury County, Tennessee, 2 acres OF
Hill Land. now owned and possessed
lby George and Bette Pointer.
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ANSWER IT
HONESTLY
Are the Statements Of Columbia cltI
rams Not More Reliable Than
These Of vttsr strangers!

This In a vital question.
1t is fraught with interest to Co
1umbia.
II permits Of only one answer.
II cannot be evaded or ignored.
A Columbia citizen speaks here,
Speaks for the welfare Of Colum-
bh
A citizens statement Ii reliable.
An utter strangers doubtful.
Home proof Ia the best proof.
". II. schuneman, barber, e. stn
81. Columbia, Tenn. says: 7 used
SDsan's Kidney Pills vhsa ] felt n
need of a kidney remedy and found
then very effective. ] rsconmsna
this remedy highly"
For sale BY all dsalsrs- Prics y
cents. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo,
rev York. sole agents Tor the United
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Remember re nsns-Dosa's-snd
take no other. 1s
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Bill No. 1871.
State Of Tennessee, etc.
Gilbert Conner, Ct

The following lot or parcels OF
land described in Bin No. i31i and
In the decree entered in above styled
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Bill No. 1923.
State of Tennessee, etc.

Bill NO. 1870.
State of Tennessee, etc.
vs..
J. B. Ashton, ct. ais.
The following pieces or parcels OF
land described in this bill filed and
in the decree entered in above styled
cause on Minute Book No. AZ, at page
326, to-wit:
No. 10, in said Bill No. 1928, situat-
ed In the 8th Civil District OF Maury
County, Tennessee, bounded north
by Notgrass; south by Craig; east
by NotgrassnaS west by Craig, con con-
possessed by w Shirley and J. 7.
Moore.
No. IA, in said Bi1iVSo. 1923, situat-
ed in the old nth, now 9th Civil
District Of Maury County, Te1nes-
see, bounded north BY West; south
by Morrow; east by Harlan and west
by Pilkleton, containing 80 acres,
now owned and possessed BY Joe
Armstrong.
No. IS, in said Bill No. 1923, situat-
ed in the 9Th Civil District Of Maury
County, Tennessee, bounded north
BY road; south by Estes; east by
Estes and west by Estes, containing
Is acres, now owned and possessed
by George Smith, col
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Bill No. 1895.
State of Tennessee, ETC.

r. s. Mcknight, ct. al.
The following described tract or
parcel of land being Lot No. Is In
Bill No. 1906, in Minute Book NO.
AZ, page 316, situated in the 10th
Civil District OF Maury County, Ten
nessee, bounded north by KITE;
south by Wetherly; east by Bing-
ham and west by smith, containing
21e acres, now owned and possessed
by W. p. Worley. y e
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Bill No. 1907.
State of Tennessee, etc.
Joe Dodson. ct. ais.


Joe Dodson, ct. ais.
The following tract or parcels OF
land described in Bill No. 1906, in
Minute Book No. AZ at page S17,
to-wit:
No. 4 in said Bill No. 1907, at lot
situated In the 9Th Civil District OF
Maury County, Tennessee, bounded
on the north by street; south by
Stephens: east by Stephenson and
west by Stephenson, now owned and
possessed by Emma Gullett-
No. s In said bill No. 1907, situated
in the 7th Civil District of Maury
County, Tennessee, in Ward 2. Mt.
Pleasant, bounded north by Frler-
son: south by Estes; east by Frier-
SON: west by Yarmouth, now owned
and possessed by Mary Harris.
No. II In said Bill No. 1907, situat-
ed IN the It'll Civil District OF Maury
County, Tennessee, bounded north
By Frierson; south by G. st.; east by
Smith and west by Frierson. now
owned and possessed by Geo. Smith.
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south by Rountree; east by Nichols
and west by r. R.. now owned and
possessed by Geo. Fitzgerald.
No. 6, in said Bill No, 1912, situat-
ed in the 9Th Civil District. ward No.
q. Columbia, Maury County, Tennes-
see, bounded north by E. 7th St:
south by Mayes; east by Peyton and
west by w. Street, now owned and
possessed by Alice Graham.
No. 10, in said Bill No. 1872. sltuat-
ed in the 9th Civil District OF Maury
County, Tennessee, and bounded on
the north by F. Grounds; south by
street; east by Coughran, and west
by Van Buren,. now owned and pos
sessed by Berry Davis.
No. Is, in Bill No. 1872, situated IN
the 9th Civil District Of Maury Coun
/ y. Tennessee, bounded north Dy
road: south by Oden: east by Pau
| and west by Padgett, now owned sno
possessed by Frank Oden, col.
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Bill No. 1914.
State of Tennessee, etc.

Sidney Afford, ct. al.
The following described lots or
parcels of land described in Bill No.
1914, see decree in Minute Book NO.
AZ at page, 800. to-wit;
No. II, in Bill No. 1914, situated
in the 25th Civil District of Maury
County. Tennessee, bounded north
by Graham; south by Hinson; east
bv Glenn and west by Graham, con-
tanning 6 acres, now owned and POS
sessed by Charles Giles.
No. IL, IN Bill No. 1914, situated In
the 25th Civil District OF Maury
County, Tennessee, bounded on the
north by Rummage; south by Dy
Hume: east by Kinard; and west by
Brown, now owned and possessed by
Matte Brown.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
TAFT GOES NORTH.
Is Wheeled to His Auto From White
House Door.

Washington, Sept. 5.-President
Taft left for New York at 1890 a. m.
on his way to New London and Bev-
erly. His lame ankle was still trou-
bling him. He was wheeled to his au-
tornobiIe from the White House door,
He walked however, the few steps
from his motor car to his train at the
station. Mr.. Taft is due in New York
late today to go aboard the yacht
Mayflowef.
Every preparation had been made
by White House and railroad officials
to make the presidents trip as easy
as possible. He had breakfast ir his
own room in the White House, was
wheeled out to the elevator and from
the elevator to q waiting automobile
Officials at the Union station had
placed the presidents private car on
a level with an adjacent street and
he needed to make only few steps
to get aboard There was some talk
today that the president might not
stop at New London tomorrow to ad-
dress the Atlantic Deep Waterways
association. but he left with the inten-
ton of making the speech. II he is
persuaded not to get off the Afayflovv-
er In New London he probably viii
sail direct to Beverly from New
York.
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MADE A CLEAN SWEEP
Republicans Won a Complete Victory
in ermOnt.

White River Junction, W. Sept 5.
-The full report of the balloting n
the state election in Vermorr has been
compiled without altering to any ma
terial degree the general figures as IN
dicated by the early returns.
The unofficial total vote ior governor
reached 65,033, the largest in a state
election in a presidential year since
1904. There was no election by the
people but a sufficient numOer of Re-
publican members of the legislature,
63 in all, were chosen to insure the
seating of Allen M. Fletcher in Octo-
Der as well as the remainder of the
Republican state ticket. The total
vote of the state for all five candidates
was:
Allen NJ. Fletcher of Cavendish, Re
publican, 26,259.
H. B. Howe Of st. Johnsbury, Demo-
crat, 20,35O.
Rev. Frasier Meter of randolph,
Progressive, 1890.
c. F. Smith of Morrisville, Prohibi-
ton, LAB.
F. W. Suiter of Barre, Socialist. l.
1s1.
The Republicans re-elect both their
congressmen Frank L. Green of st.
Adams and Frank P. Lumley cf North
field. They carried eleven OF the four
teen counties and 1877 of the 246 cities
and towns. Their party ma jority of
two years ago, dwindled TO . plurality
of $500, the smallest margin ever Civ
en- a Republican candidate il a presi-
Dental year.
The Democrats carried two counties
and 3S towns and ran up the largest
total since 1880.
Progressives prevented a peoples
choice of a Republican candidate for
governor, carrying one county and p
towns
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Continued on Page TwoA
THREATEN WOMAN
Affidavit Reflecting on Her
Character Used as Bait.
Preacher and Congressional
Candidate Held for ExtOrtiOn.

New York, Sept. 5.-Percy L. Davis
an alderman and Republican primary
candidate for congress, and Eben J.
Owens, an evangelist, are under arrest
here today charged with extortion.
They were trapped by the police late
last night in the alleged act of extorting
a check for $1,000 from Mrs. Eva B.
Carroll, for the purchase of an affidavit
in their possession declared to reflect
upon her name. The arrest was made
i'll Mrs. CarrolPs apartments where de-
tectives were hidden while the alleged
bartering of Davis and Owens with
Mrs. Carroll was going on.
1t is alleged that Davis told Mrs Car
roll that as he was to be an active can
didate for congress, he needed funds
and would turn the affidavit over to her
for consideration. It is alleged that
the affidavit was obtained by Owens
from former companion of Mrs Car
roll.
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CALLSIT MENINGITIS.
Horse Disease Not Caused by Food
Nebraskan Says.

Holdrege. Neb.. Sept. 5--Recent
deaths of hundreds of horses in this
section Of Nebraska and western Kan
sas have been caused by cerebro spin
al meningitis in epidemic form ac-
cording to DR.. A Boostrom. state
veterinary, who yesterday conferred
with many persons who have lost an
imals and held a postmortem on a
horse killed in the last stages of the
disease.
About $50 farmers with DR.. Boost
rom and veterinarians from various
points in the infected area were pres
ent. Testimony of numerous farmers
who have lost horses showed that the
epidemic is not due to any particular
food the horses have been getting.
Animals that have been on green val
ley pastures, on dry upland pastures,
work horses fed on grain and hay,
alfalfa or straw, and those that have
been fed exactly the same foods all
summer have become victims of the
disease.
Before the close of the meeting DR..
BoosTom stated his belief that the
disease is meningitis
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Are 26 Counties in Zone and
May Cover State.
LOSS REACHES HALF MILLION
Government Experts Come at
Last to Try to Help.
Commissioner Is Doing Best,
but Fight Is Hopeless.

With the puzzling disease among
horses covering an infected district of
26 counties from the Colorado line east
to Manhattan, ii is but a question of
days until every county in Kansas may
be affected, according to State Live
Stock Commissioner Joe Mercer. AL
ready more than 1000 horses have died,
the property loss to farmers has reach
ed half million dollars and all efforts
to check the spread of The disease have
failed.
At present Mercer has nearly 40 ex-
Perts working in the district where the
loss or horses has been the heaviest.
Today DR.. j. S. Buckley, of the govern
n,ent bureau of animal husbandry, ar
rived in Topeka. DR.. A. Sophian from
the Research Laboratory, of New York.
Is mere a. the personal request of Gov
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CRAFT IS CHARGED
County Attorney Arrested for
Stealing Evidence.
Had Been Paying for PrOtec-
tiOn of Pool Room.

Salt Lake City, Sept. 5-Willard
Hansen, former county attorney was
arrested early this morning in com
pany with ten others on the charge of
bribery and swfndling. Hansen and
the gang have been watched by the
police for five weeks and his arrest
followed an attempt last night to take
a suit of clothes from the police sta
ton, which was being held as evil
dence in a murder case.
The police say that for the last five
weeks, Hansen has been paying two
police detectives $50 a week for pro-
lection of a gang of fake pool room
operators The detectives have been
taking the money and turning it over
to the chief of police.
Several days ago Hansen asked the
officers to leave the closet door open
in which the suit of clothes was
stored. They agreed and tonight
when the attorney was leaving the po-
lice station with the clothing he was
arrested. Following his arrest the
pool room wss raided and the "op
eratorS'' arrested.
Hansen conducted the prosecution
against former Chief of Police George
Sheets, who was charged with graft
ing in connection with the McWhitier
brothers swindle here several years
ago.
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THE DAILY DEATH LIST

Rochester, N. Y, Sept. 5.-Charles l..
Yates, of this city, publisher of the
National Nurseryman and treasurer OF
the American Association of Nursery
men, is dead at his home here of heart
failure, aged 55 years.
New York, Sept. 5-William Mailly.
who in 1903 and 1904 was national sec
retary of the Socialist party and for
several months past associate editor of
the metropolitan Magazine, is dead at
his home here of diabetes, aged Al
years.
Crissfield, Md, Sept. captain
William H. Chelton, SO years old one
of the best known steamship COM
manders on the Chesapeake bay and
who during the last fifty years had
saved S3 persons from drowning, is
dead at his home at Lawsonia. He
served in the United States navy with
distinction during the Civil war. In
1902 congressional medal was
awarded to him for life saving
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HELD Up A Train
Bandit LOOtS Mail Car and Five
Pullman Coaches.
Then Is Knocked Down by En-.
gineer and Captured.

New Orleans, Sept. 5.-Suffering
from a fractured skull, the bandit,
who single handed robbed the New
York limited train on the Louisville &
Nashville railway, II miles east of
New Orleans last night. later to be
felled by the locomotive. driver, was
brought to New Orleans this morning
and placed in the charity hospital The
bandit said his name was Howard E.
Edwards, and that his family lived in
Jupiter. Fla
He gave the police information which
is expected to lead to the early cap
ture of three other members of a gang
that is believed to have been respon-
sible for a series of sensational train
robberies in this section
Edwards is in a precarious condition.
After Edwards had completed a round
of the coaches he went forward to the
engine. Caught off his guard for an
instant, he was struck by Engineer
Baer, who welded a heavy oil can.
The bandit dropped unconscious
Following SO closely upon the at
tempted robbery of the Cincinnati
southbound passenger train on the
same road at almost the same spot the
night previous the work of Edwards is
considered most daring.
Edwards first crawled aboard the en-
gine not far from New Orleans and
covered Engineer Baer and the fireman
with two revolvers. He carried small
valise in which he had dynamite and
nitroglycerine. The train was stopped
and with the engineer and fireman
preceding him at the point of a re-
volver, Edwards rif1ed the mail car of
all registered mail and then relieved
the men passengers in five sleepers and
a club car of their valuables, he did
not offer to molest women. He secured
almost $1,000 in cash, then marched the
engineer and fireman back to the en-
gine and ordered them to proceed.
Caught Him OF Guard.
After riding on the engine for about
25 miles, Engineer Bear caught Ed
wards off his guard and struck him a
terrific blow on the head with a brass
torch, fraeturing the base of the skull
Edwards fired one shot as he fell. 1t
went wild
Engineer Baer proceeded to rain
blows with the torch until he had
the bandit unconscious.
When the train reached Bay St
Louis, Miss, the robber was taken off
and placed in charge of a railroad
tectives from New Orleans arrived
there in a special train. Although Ed
wards was unconscious at intervals
throughout the night he gave the DO
lice valuable information concerning his
alleged partners.
Edwards is five feet six inches in
height and weighs 13O pounds He ap-
pears to be about 80 years old.
Superintendent Marshall, of the New
orleans division of the Louisville &
Nashville railroad, who was a passen-
ger aboard the train, stated that only
one man on the train had a revolver
but he could not use it because the rob-
Der kept the trainnen in front of him
when he passed through the cars
Many of the passengers knew of the
presence of robber and they hid
their valuables.
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HOW MEASLES SPREADS
Old Theory Regarding the Disease Has
Been Upset.

Washington. Sept. 5.-Two discoveries
about the common disease of measles
that promises to make that malady less
general have been made by DR.. John F.
Anderson and DR.. Joseph S. Goldberger
Of the hygienic laboratory in Washington.
They have found that the dried particles
of the skin of the child which rub off
in the period of convalescence have Moth
ing to do with the spread of the disease.
The second discovery is that animals low
er than man may contract and suffer from
the disease.
mouth sections convey the germs from
the sick to the we'll AS is well known.
child with the measles coughs and
sneezes a great deal This throws out a
fine spray which carries the germs. The
virus or germ has never been found but
it is hoped that 1t will soon be isolated
and a method to counteract it discovered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
Boards Missouri Pacific No. 1
at Usage City.
MAKES NEWS AGENT HELP
'sButch" Carries Sack Into
Which Booty Is Dropped.
Conductor Stops Train and
RObber Disappears.

Usage City. Kan, Sept. 5.-Farmers
and officers are today seeking large
heavy set man who pulled off the mos
daring robbery in the history of Usage
county near here last night. The rop-
Der, seen by several Usage city PEI
pie but unknown to them, entered the
smoker of Missouri Pacific train NO
at 10 o'clock. robbed the conductor and
passengers in the smoker and leIt tnG
train a short distance west OF tHls
city. There is no descriT OF the
man available except that - was large
and heavy set.
Several persons noticed the stranger
who apparently waited with impauehCe
for the train to arrive When II came
he walked up the depot platform 10
meet it, and swung on to the steps
of the smoking car.
It wasn't very long until the con
ductor, hearing an exclamation, look
up and into the muzzle of a revolver
He was told to quickly and quietly
hand over his money. He contributed
81. The train auditor was next and
his share was $13.
Then taking the news agent ahead
of him the robber turned his atten-
ton to the passengers on the car and
relieved them of money and some jew
elry. This was dropped into a sack
carried by the news agent.
AS the robber started from the smok-
er to the chair car the conductor pull
ed the cord and the engineer stopped
the train. The robber left the train
as it slowed down and disappeared.
After a short delay the train contin-
ued on its way. A report of the rob-
berry was sent back to this city and
late this morning he had not been
sighted.
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To the Creation of Animate
From Inanimate Matter.
"HORMONES" ARE THE KEY
They Also Determine Sex and
Other Individual Peculiarities.
He Can Not Make People Live
Forever, He Says.

London, Sept. 5.-Life can be pro-
duced artif1cially.
This statement, short, yet so stag
gering in it's immensity. showing that
the world must remodel all it's idsaz
of life and death. was the theme of
a momentous address delivered before
the British Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science at Dundee by
the new president, Prof E. A Schaefer
of Edinburg university.
The address was the verdict of
judge who summed up the evidence
rather than a partisan advocacy of
new theory and came in a statement So
clearly reasoned and so dispassionat'
as to convince all who heard that sci
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
ADMITS IT AT LAST.
Flora Concludes No Such TIMING as a
Cold Wave.

"It begins to look as though that
much talked about cold wave had been
side-tracked,'' was the information
given out by Sunny Flora. the OBJ
server, today. 1T was two degrees
below freezing in Utah this morning
and the temperature at Phoenix. Ariz.
vas ten degrees cooler than in Topeka
1t seems that the cool weather is
travelling south instead of coming east.
There is nothing but warm weather in
prospect for Kansas"
At o'clock this afternoon the ther-
mometer registered SO degrees. At
Emporia Wednesday the mercury climb
ed up TO the century mark. No rain
fall is reported in Kansas with the ex
ception of shower at Concordia.
The wind is blowing is miles an ho,1r
the snlIfh The hn11r.I1- -.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
CHARLIE SESSIONS BACK
The Secretary of State Had Been in
Denver on Election Case.

Charles Session. secretary of state,
returned last night from Denver,
where he attended the presidential
electoral contest when it was argued
Monday before Judge Sanborn. John
S. Dawson, attorney general. and W.
z. Davis, state auditor, will not return
to Topeka until Saturday.
Mrs. Dawson, who ACCOMPANIED her
husband on the trip, was taken seri-
ously sick Tuesday night and Mr..
Dawson will not return to Topeka TN
til she is able to travel. Auditor
Davis will spend a few days in Mani
tou before returning to Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
MARSHALL is COMING
Democrat Candidate Will Speak in
Topeka september 16.

Laporte, Ind, Sept. 5.-Governor Mar
shall will tour Kansas and Missouri for
three days, beginning September 16. The
governor will open the Democratic cam
paign in Kansas with an address at To-
peka on the afternoon of September Is.
From there he will go to St. Joseph, Mo-,
where he speaks on the night of Septem-
Der 16. The next night he will give an
address at Hannibal Mo-, and afternoon
of September IS he will speak at Spring
field, Ill, returning to Indiana from that
place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
BUD MARS FALLS
Well Known Aviator in HOspi-
tai Dangerously Hurt.
BipIane Suddenly Dips, Crash
ing Into Fence.

Olean, N. Y, Sept. Bud Mars,
the aviator, is in the Olean general
hospital with dangerous injuries, the
result of q fall while he was making a
flight at the county fair yesterday.
His biplane, after rising from the
half mile track, suddenly dipped and
crashed into the fence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
HYDE'S THIRD TRIAL.
1t Is Set for the january Term of
Court.

Kansas City. Sept 5.-Attorneys for
Dr. B. c. Hyde and representative of
the county prosecutor filed q stipulation
in the criminal court today agreeing 10
the postponment of the third trial of
Dr. Hyde from the September to the
January term of court Judge Porter
field set the date for January s.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
BASEBALL PROGRAM.

St. Joe at Lincoln, clear, two gam es.
Des Moines at Topeka.
Sioux City at Denver.
Omaha at Wichita
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
He Refuses 30 Run.

Davenport, Sept. 5.-Herman J. |
Zeuck nominated as Progressive can
dfdate for congress from the Second
district, today declined the nomina-
ton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05

Weather Forecast for Kansas.
Generally fair tonight and Fridav-