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The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1912-07-26
TO THE PUBLIC:

~ l l l. | " DLlC.
We have recently come among you and
planted our Jacobs staff, with the view of
becoming one of your perma nent citizens. We
have in good faith invested our means hav.
ing purchased the stock of the Bragg. Mum
Hardware and Furniture Co.
For more than thirty years have been
IN the Mercantile business, and by experience
have realized the needs and trials that come
to the retail merchant-but no quality il
more necessary than that of the Square
Deal, to every one who comes to buy or sell.
Whether the buyer wishes package of Need.
les. a Parlor Suite. Reaper or Cooking
Stove, the buyer is entitled to that conrte.
Gus treatment. and price that is fair and
true to quality and brand.
Having had the experience and realizing
the Importance of Square Deal to the buyer.
we come to the community with the fullest
realization that this il essential to success,
and wishing success. and reasonable share of
Your trade, we wish to assure the people of
Oregon and vicinity, that are ready to-
fulfill to the very letter our highest obligation
to the buyer, both as to quality in Hardware
and Furniture goods, and at Prices that will
assure him a Bargain, well as an honest
margin for the seller.
The people will find carrying a full
and complete stock in these lines, and are of.
fered at Reasonable Prices. You will find us
ready to show you these goods, and false rep.
resentation as to brand or quality with the
view of selling, will in no way be feature
of our business
Honest Goods at Honest Prices. will he
Our motto.
We extend to yon all, a cordial invitation
to visit our store examine our stock. learn
our prices and pledge you. we will do our
part to please you-both in quality of goods
and prices. Respectfully,
THE ROBERT SMITH HARDWARE CO..
OREGON, Missouri.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-04

11C hllSW OIly, Out newly dIIlN-.
ed in Paris, was counting on be-
ing married the next week, for
the Italian had blushingly asked
for two days leave for wedding
trip to the country. Why not
tell Tony there would be no pay
and no leave until he had recov-
cred the stolen furniture, or at
least found out whittier it had
gone, when there would be re-
ward and longer leave.
The senior Devorney was sure,
it had been the work of thieves.
concealing themselves in the vast
catacomb of tunnels underlying
the city, criminals whom the po-
lice seemed powerless to combat.
Anything reported to the police
criminal spies soon knew.
Tony had accepted the PROPOSE
ton eagerly. It meant more
money to offer his beloved Marie.
But now almost a month had
passed with fruitless days of
searching secondhand shops,
stores in the Montmartre, and
auction rooms. At the madam's
house he had accompanied the
store detective in searching, even
looking for loose stones in the
cellar floor which might lead to
some old, forgotten tunnel enter
ing the subterreanean city.
Now walking dejectedly along
near the crowded Montmartre
quarter, he was idly watching a
woman, walking some distance
ahead Of him. Suddenly he was
surprised to see her drop from
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-04
THE ROBBERY


"A Mystery That Was Cleared
Up By a Cave-in.
Tony crossed himself, vowing
he had left the goods at Nine.
Schenard's on the particular
Thursday afternoon she had re-
quested it. Moreover he had
shown the slip signed by madam's
own butler. D.
The senior member of Devor-
ney &. Son winked his brow in
perplexity. Tony seemed to be
right, for he had even described
madam's hall and diningroom in
which he had left the furniture.
But madam, a woman even
above suspicion, had proven that
she had not been home the day
in question and kept no butler, in
fact no servants except a maid,
who had also been away on her
weekly half holiday that after
noon. Furthermore it had not
been madam who ordered the
furniture.
A woman's voice, claiming to
be Nine. Schenard's, had talked
over the phone, describing the
furniture in question, which was
then in the show window, in
quired the price and ordered it
delivered on Thursday afternoon,
saying her butler would receive
it, as she would not be in, but
would send them check.
The buzzing phone wires had
made it impossible to recognize
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
PLOT TO BLOW UP
NEW YORK JAIL
ALICE IDEA WAS TO KILL FoUE
~ROSENTHAL SUSPECTS,
KEEPER GETS LETTER
Mitchell, Who Cleaned Up Town Fol
lowing Attempt to AssassinAte
Mayor Gaynor, Starts Search
for "Gyp the Blood"

Nsw York-A plot to blow up the
West Side prison and thus kill Jack
Rose, Bidgy Weber, Harry WALTON and
Sam SchcpPs, the principal witnesses
against Police Lieut.. Charles A. Becker,
accused Of the murder Of Herman Ro-
seminal, was revealed to the police by 4
letter received by Assistant Prison
Keeper Levy. The letter insists that
gamblers are behind the plot, and that
men are working on u tunnel to put
dynamite beneath the prison. Careful
search by the police failed to reveal any
such tunnel, but a special guard was
posted and patrols kept out all night
around the prison.
Deputy Police Commissioner Dough
rrty issued a call for every policeman
who knows "Gyp the Blood" Harry
Horowitz or Lefty Louie" Rosenzwcig,
wanted for the murder OF Rosenthal, to
come 10 the COMMISSIONER office. The
Official believes that the two men are in
the city and will not stray far from the
places where the drugs TO which they
are addicted can be obtained. He plans
TO put men who know the two criminals
on fixed posts near the most notorious
drug selling places Of New York and
thus capture Horowitz and ROscnzweig,
John +. Mcintyre, chief counsel Tor
Becker, has employed detectives to probe
every statement made to him by Becker
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
lEXOW PROSECUTOR
WILL TRY BECKER
GOV. DIX NAMES SUPREME COURT
JUSTICE GoFF.
HAS GREAT RECORD AS JUDGE
Alleged Paymaster May Be Taktn to
Vermont to Be Questioned-Whit.
man Is There for His Health.

New YOrk.-Fresh terror was thrown
into the ranks of the gunner accused of
shooting Herman Rosenthal when Coy.
Dix of the state of New York appointed
Supreme Court Justice Pohn w. Golf to
preside at the trials of Lieut.. Charles A.
Becker and whatever other men may be
indicted for the srime.
In the Lexow investigation of police
crookedness in 1894, John W. Goif, then
anattorney, took the leading part as
prosecutor. Next month he will sit in
judgment on what promises to be as
startling and revolving a revelation of
official laxity and vice as was the Uxow
probe. He was chosen supreme court
justice in 1908, and has a record Of
more convictions than any other judge
III the state for a equal period Of time.
The trials of the men accused of the
murder will begin September 8, and Po-
lice Lieut.. Becker will be the first man
tried, District Attorney Whitman, who
has been devoting night and day to the
PieP"lh1loH Vi inc e'Iuehee lof tHe Bl@iu
jury, tainted from exhaustion twice in
the past few days, and left for a short
rest at Manchester, Va. This gave rise
to the rumor that Sam Schepps, the
murder paymaster, arrested at Hot
Springs, Ark, would be taken to Man.
chester and there questioned by the dis
trict attorney.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
TURNED q " R
Cotton Buyers Cannot Organize in Ac-
cordance With Plan.

Governor Brewer has refused to APP
prove the charter Of the Mississippi Cot
Association, a corporation with no capital
formed in this city by the leading cotton
buyers Of the state, to be domiciIed at
Meridian. The governor sets forth the
reasons for his %disapproval as follows:
81 herewith return you the. charter of
incorporation Of the Mississippi Cotton
Association, a corporation with no capital
stock, without my approval for the fol-
lowing reasons, towit:
This charter authorizes an insolvent
corporation without capital to adopt
rules, regulations and standards Of clas-
sifcation which shall govern all transac-
tions connected with the cotton trade.
l think that the arbitrary selection Of
standards or fixing of standards of clas-
sifcatiOn by cotton exchanges is the
greatest menace to the producers Of cot
ton in this country that has afflicted us
within the past quarter of a century,
and | cannot lend my approval to the
further fixing of standards of classical
ton of cotton unless we know what
those standards are to be-"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
DAMAGE TO COTTON CROP.
Deterioration Has Resulted Chiefly From
Bad Weather.

Observation-Disclosures of cottonrcrop
prospects in Mississippi has been chiefly
due to showery weather, causing rapid
multiplication of boil weevls.
Reports vary as to the extent of dam.
age from this cause, and in some in
stances are in direct conflict. 1t is evil
dent, however, that the weevil is spread.
ing, and will cause considerable damage
to the crop Just at the period of @fruition.
The much dreaded army worm which
was the subject of several special bul
letins issued by the state entomologist
has not spread with the expected rapid
ity. On the contrary, in several coun-
ties where it practically destroyed the
crop during the middle of August last
year, the army worm has been found in
but a few fields, and in limited numbers
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
CORN Gil JBS FEATURE
OF STATE INSTITUTE
THRONES FIR bM MISSISSIPPI WILL
ATTEND A. g. M. MEETING.
WOMAN'S WORK PROMINENT
Industrial Institute and College VIII
Conduct an Institute, Showing Ideal
Home With All Features and
Surroundings.

Agricultural c ollege.-One OF the most
attractive featur res I the Farmers In
stitute to be h ed at the Agricultural
College during t he first week in Septem-
Der is that part OF the program devoted
to corn club work, and in which the boys
Of the corn club will take part. Every
boy in the corn club in the state is in
yited, and a large number is ex.
pected. Many interesting contests will
be held in which the boys viii take part,
and a very splendid list of premiums will
be Offered. Among the contests that
are to be held are the following;
Contests in Judging individual earl Of
corn, Judging individual stalks OF corn,
writing crop histories of corn, naming
plants OF common farm crops, naming
breeds of horses and their charaeteris-
tics, naming breeds of cattle and their
characteristics, naming breeds of hogs
and their characteristics, naming farm
implements and their uses, naming COM
mon fertilizers, n aiming home fertilizers.
The Illinois G. ntral, Yazoo and Mis-
sssippi Valley and Mobile and Ohio
railroads are offering the round trip for
one fare plus 25 cents. This, it is be-
lieved, is the gre test opportunity boys
have ever had to take a splendid trip
and learn very interesting facts.
During the institute there will be a
meeting of the State Horticultural As
ISOLATION. Matters of vast interest to
truckers, nut growers, florists, nursery
men. civic league clubs and to all lovers
of beautiful home surroundings will be
considered.
By invitation OF the authorities OF the
college the Industrial Institute and Col
lege will conduct with the women OF the
state an institute on the home and its
surroundings. The central idea will be
a Mississippi country home as it is pos
sible to be and ought to be. Every
feature on homemaking such as its
location, arrangements and structure, in
cluding labor-saving devices, sanitation,
decoration, care OF the sick, books, pic
lures, family relations, religious train
ing and the attitude of the home to the
school and church will be thoroughly
discussed.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
HONOR LATE DR.. M'CLlNnC
1t Ii Proposed to Remunerate the Widow
Of Martyr.

Washington.-In recognition of the
quiet heroism Of a physician, whose life
was q sacrifice TO the disease he had long
fought 10 eradicate, Senator Myers of
Montana has introduced a bill to pay
$3.50, al amount equal to two years
salary, TO the widow of DR.. T. b. McClin.
tic, who died here of Rocky mountain
spotted fever. DR.. McClintic was con.
nected with the public health and marine
and hospital service and so successful
had been his work in fighting the deadly
disease in the Bitter Root Valley in Sen,
ator Myers state that not a case of the
mslady developed there this year until
the one which caused the doctors death.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
FARMERS KICK ON DIPPING
HAVE DIPPED THEIR CATTLE rnx.
ENOUGH, THEY SAY.
Sent Up a Strong Petition to the q.
But We're Informed That n.
Had No Acknowledgements
ors Responsible.

Jaekson.-Represenatiyes of tive i.
dred stock owners in the Morter.s
neighborhood a few miles from F,raa..
in Rankin county appealed to Govern.
Brewer TO give them relief from n, !,
foreement OF the tick eradication M.
but were informed that the poysrno.
had no power to act in the case one ~
or another.
There has been strong feeling against
the dipping requirements in that nei,h
borhood since they went into effect abon.
june. One man has been tried foy :.
dipping his cattle according to law N,
his suit was not considered a test cas-
because he had dipped his cattle every
two weeks in a vat On his own place
Despite this fact great joy was man.
Tested by the spectators when he won
his case, many OF them throwing ths;r
hats into the air and cheering Iustilv
This demonstration was prompted II
the prejudice against the enforcement
OF the law.
This feeling resulted in a petitioo
against the enforcement of the law for !
longer period than 12O days, which time
was at first announced as the limit az
the dipping season in that county.
The petitioners were told at the gov.
%ernor's office that Gov. Brewer had M
power to act in the case, that the Law
made it possible for the board of super.
visors in each county to enforce the tick
eradication law at their discretion and
when the eradication was once begun il
the county it was under the Joint suDer.
vision of the board OIL supervisors and
of the federal inspector in charge.
"Iou will have to 60 back to your
board of supervisors" the petitioers
were told. The people Of that commu,
nifty are determined to fight the law and
the inspectors are equally determined to
enforce it.
The people assert that they bellows
in dipping, but they want to do it at
their own discretion. The main thing
that they are fighting is the purpose Of
the inspectors to contienue the dipping
until December /. Unless something Is
done soon it appears hat trouble will
result.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
REVOLUTION IS SPREADING
Chaos Reigns in Nicaragua, Says United
States Minister.

Washington.-Rcyoluti is spreading
in Nicaragua and sanitary conditions
about Managua, the capital, are dis.
tressing, according to state department
reports from American Minister Weitzel.
No effort has been made to dispose
Of the dead from the bombardment Of
the city. The minister reports that 1000
bodies are in the field,
Chinandega has been attacked by the
rebels and an attack upon Corinto, the
principal seaport on the Pacific, is
feared.
Mena, the rebel leader, has received
large quantities of supplies and shows
indications Of having financial backing.
The presence OF bluejackets from the
gunboat Annapolis, reinforced by ma
rines from Panama, has restored con.
fdencc among the foreigners in the city,
the minister reports.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
Sell Lumber Too Cheapley.

Jackson.--It is authoritatively stated
that there are numbers of landowners
throughout the section of the state lying
between Newton and Carthage selling
their timber holding practically indis-
criminately. Parties who want the tim
Der, it is stated, are buying it in at from
a dollar and a half to three dollars a
thousand, and are paying from IS to $40
o thousand in order TO get it hauled to
market. The argumen nj is advanced that
this is poor policy, az in order to induce
capital to build a railroad line, the tim
Der, as the principal revenue asset,
should be conserved as a far as possible.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
AGREEMENT ON
CANAL BILL REACHED
FREE TRADE TO o. S. SHIPS In
FOREIGN TRADE KILLED.
RAILROAD SHIPS ARE BARRED
American Cosstwtss Ships Win Be EE'
smPtsd From Tolls Ban Upon
Trust Ships-One Man Gov
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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
FROM CHICAGO TO THE GULF
River Navigation Company Launched at
Windy City.

Chicagp.-From Chicago and the Great
Lakes to New Orleans and the Gulf of
Mexico by steamer, via the Mississippi
and Illinois rivers and the lllinois-Mich'
igan canal. was the purpose of the in.
corporation at Springfield of the Chicago,
Peoria and New Orleans Navigation Com
pany OF Peoria, III.
That the Illinois, Michigan canal will
within a year become a highway of com
merce for river steamers has just been
announced, following a recent survey OF
the canal. At present the canal is only
navigable for light craft boats, River
steamers can navigate the Illinois river
only as far as Peru, four miles below
the mouth Of the canal at LaSalle,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
CAN NOT EMPLOY CHILDREN.
Child Labor Law Applies to Canning
Factories.

Jacksonville attorney generals Of
flee has rendered an opinion to the sheriff
of harrison county, who wants to know
whether the child labor law applies to
canning factories and whether such can
ming factories can work children under
l6 years of age.
The attorney general holds that the
child labor law is applicable to the see
ond query and the department OF justice
holds that no boy under the age Of Z,
and no girl under the age of Il, shall
under any circumstances, be employed IL
a mill or factory, and no child under the
age of 16, male or female, employed
without the written consent of parent OF
guardian, accompanied by affidavit as y
app-
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23

Washington.-LTho bill introduced by
Representative Shirley of Kentucky,
which would make more drastic the pure
food and drug laws Ms applied TO patent
and proprietary medicines, was passed
by the house. The bill would prohibit
under a heavy penalty the publishing of
clains OF "eure alls" that cannot be
substantinted or which have no founda.
ton in fact, The legislation is Of i'm.
p~ortanoe to medicine manufacturers, and
would give the government a much great
or authority over the trade in nostrums.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
COTTON CROP MADE
FAVORABLE PROGRESS
PLANT GROWING VERY FAST AND
SETTING FRUIT WELL.
LATE FROST, FAIR YIELD
Rainfall in North Carolina and Portions
Of Texas Insuffcient-Caterpillar
Appearing-Boll Weevils
Numerous.

Memphis.-The week was favorable
over much Of the larger part of Southern
cotton states, and in many sections the
Development at the present time is all
that seems possible. The plan ls grow
ing very fast and is setting fruit in .
very satisfactory manner. The earlier
bolls are nearing maturity, and if the
frost is somewhat delayed districts that
once looked poor will make a fair or n
large crop.
1t is worthy of notice, however, that
up to August 1 the plant was small over
very wide areas and had not set any
fruit to speak of, Since that date it has
done well. but naturally has not made
up for all early deficiencies. 1t is also
true that, owing to the delay in this pro-
cess, Il late season is needed to mature
the crop.
Exceptions to the general progress are
noted in North Carolina and South Cen
trail and Southern Texas, where the rain.
fall has been insufficient to carry the
plant forward. In North Carolina there
has been some shedding, In Southern
and Central Texas the bolls are opening
very fast and the crop is coming rapidly
into market. Without rain soon to ma
turc a fall crop the yield does not prom
Use to reach that OF last year. The cot
ton caterpillar has appeared in some
numbers throughout Central and East
ern Texas and in a small way in Lou
%isiano, Southern Alabama and South.
western Georgia. The damage is not ma
terial as yet.
There is very little open cotton save
in Texas. Boil weevils are more numer,
Gus in Mississippi and Louisiana.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
THREE KILLED IN WRECK
Interurban Car Crashes Into Work
Train Near South Bend,

South Bend, Ind.-Two men are
dead and two others are suffering from
serious injuries as the result of a head.
on collision between an interurban car
and a work train on the Chicago, South
Bend g. Northern Indiana railroad m
this city Wednesday. The accident oc-
CURED at a point where trees and
s~hrubbery on the river bank obscured
the view around a curve.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
Old, Welcomes GallOws.

Erie, Pa.-"Maybe they viii hang me.
But then it don't matter much. l am an
old man." This was the comment Of
Jos. Kozkowski, 62, farmer, after being
locked up here charged with killing Geo.
Roberts, a neighbor, whose body was
rddled with shot from a do~uble-barreled
gun today as the result Of a quarrel over
line fences and cattle. The shooting was
witnessed by Roberts son and a number
Of picknickers. He laughed when telling
OF the shooting to Police Chief Dietzel.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
Injured by Ball Bat.

Aayfeld, Ky,-Brown Galloway, \
young man of the city, was badly in,
jured while in the country playing base
ball. A bat in the lands of a young
man slipped while striking at a ball
and the bat struck young Galloway full
in the face,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
Army Aviator Escanes Death.

Stanford, Conn.-Licut. Fousois Of
the United States aviation corps prob
ably escaped serious injury or death as
II by miracle Wednesday wAsN his BIZ
plane, upon landing hit a stone wall.
The machine was smashed, but the army
aviator was unhurt. Foulois had gllded
down 1900 feet. The angle was so
abrupt that something went wrong
with the mechanism and the aviator
was unable to direct a safe landing.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
RAILROAD FATALITIES
1883 Persons Killed, 2o,499 Injured ia
Three Months.

Observation-Disclosures accidents ard
the casualties resulting were on the ia
crease during the three months which
ended March 81. The quarterly accident
bulletin issued by the interstate COM
merce commission shows 2,3s3 persons
killed and 20,490 were injured. In train
accidents, 267 persons were killed and
1875 injured, an increase of l21 killed
and 1856 injured, as compared with the
corresponding period of 1911. Of the
2,3S3 fatalities, 1,116 were suffered by
trespassers, persons using railroad tracks
as thoroughfares, or those stealing rides
on train.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
Pension for Widows.

Columbus, GA committee appointed
70 investigate state laws affecting chill
dren reported recommending the estab-
hshnent of a pension system for wild
owed mothers and compulsory medical
inspection of school children. Under the
pension system o widowed mother of one
child under the age of IL would receive
Sis a month and 81 a month for each
additional child under the age Of Z
years.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-08-23
s,oCo Corn Club Boys.

J~ackson.-It is understood that w
boys corn club Of Mississippi now ha'e
total membership Of nearly 5000. ! ness
boys will make all the way from MY !"
200 bushels Of corn per acre each, Iuus
ing by what they did last year. fu'.lns
the average at 100 bushels per boy M
a goodly increase in the number OF p"a
els of corn for the state. But tnt'
not all the boys do-they setan eNan
for their fathers, encouraging them
make more corn per acre. lne 1a.
crop Of Mississippi last year was
lions Of bushels more than ever