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The Parker post., 1912-02-03
CASE Is NOT ENDED.

Using the power and the prestige
of the commonwealth of California
as a bludgeon, Los Angeles coterie
of land boomers and spectators has
striven for three years to club a com
munity of homesteaders of the rich
silt lands of the Palo Verde valley
Thrice foled at bearings before
u. S. government land officers. the
land grabbers are planning a las,
onslaughter on the settlers and will
force the state to press vague
discredited claim before the SUI
prame court.
According to a news dispatch from
Sacramento, California is an mwill-
ing and perfunctory harasser of the
Palo Verde valley homesteaders, but
for that the prosecution is none the
less bitter Moreover, the state will
go on, seemingly must go on, trying
to wrest away the settlers home
steads, if the land boomers and their
high priced attorneys. Flint, Barker
and Bowen insist.
'Tlhe state must go on with the
Palo Verde valley land suits, IF the
applicants under the swamp land
act see fit" Surveyor General Kings
bury said Saturday. 'The state has
long since committed itself to seeing
the suits through as far as the apph-
cants and their attorney care to go.
The interest OF the state is perfume
tory and the state pays nothing to-
ward the litigation. But it is hard
on the settlers
1t is a duel between the govern.
ment's survey of 1850 and the
swamp and overflow land act of 1866,
but it Is more a flight between the
big fellow with money and the little
fellow. who is trying to win himself
a home from the desert On the on
side the government and the home
steaders; on the other the land spec
ulators and the law firm of former
u. s. Senator Frank Flint.
The Parker post., 1912-02-03
PAY YOUR BILLS PROMPTLY.

Pay as you go is good rule, and
owe no man dollar is wise saying
and worthy of all acceptation The
man who is slow to pay, or finally
succeeds i'm beating his bills, not only
works harm to the individual deal
er, but he hurts all business.
Under this head the New York
Mail has the following wise sugges-
tiOns:
'The man who can pay his bills
and doesn't, is one of the public en-
emies who are responsible for the
slow recovery of business. He Grip
pies industry, Restraints trade and
creates long line of debtors who
cannot pay He is a brake upon
prosperity, drag upon humanity.
The Parker post., 1912-02-03
THE PRIMARY LAW.

The primary election law is a
beneficent enactment designed to has
ten the dawn of the millennium 1t
makes it a crime for a candidate to
flourish 50 bill or campaign cigar
in the face of an incorruptible cleo
torate and compels him to resort to
the certified check. Under the prim-
ary law the office seeks the man, not
the man the office. 1t usually seeks
him with hair-raising history of his
past life and a printing bill that
would stagger a circus A man may
continue to deceive his neighbour
by paying cash for his groceries
and meat and joining the Y. M. C..
A. but when he becomes a candidate
at primary election his family will
realize for the first time that they
have been harboring a crook in the
home circle This law is said to be
the poor mans friend-ft bankrupts
every candidate who fails to cop. The
only man who ever clawed his way
to congress through a primary cleo
ton without mortgaging the family
COW is one who was appointed to
fill vacancy and never tried to come
back Brains are seldom quoted at
1862 and accrued interest in prim-
The Parker post., 1912-02-03
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Not Coal Lands.
O1O966

Not Coal Lands.
010966
Department of the Interior, y. S.
Land Office at Los Angeles, Gail,
january II, 1912.
Notice Is hereby given that Edward
A Green, of Mesaville, CAL, who, ON
June 20, 1910, made homestead entry,
No.01O966, for E1sSEH, Sec. 2, WE
SWA, Section l, Township 6 S.,
Range % E., S. B. Meridian, has
filled notice of intention to make fin
al communication proof, to establish
claim to the land above described,
before the Register and Receiver,
United States Land Office, at Los
Angeles, California, ON the 29th day
of February, 1912 at 10 o'clock a. m.
Claimant names as Witnesses: !:
Frank U. Sherman, Lawrence F. Nal
one, John E. Pierson, Anna l. Sher-
man, all of Mesaville, Cal.
FRANK BUREN,,
(38-42) Register,
The Parker post., 1912-02-03
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.
("T. r." to the Reporters.)

Nothing to say" says Teddy, mo
thing at all to say. just keep THAI
answer standing and print it every
day. I have not a line to give you.
reporters may save their steps, my
lips are sealed and my thoughts con-
gealed, except in the Outlook, where
they're revealed in an editorial way.
Nothing to say says Teddy, mo
thing at all to say. LaFollette may
quit running and Cummins be in to
stay No matter what is doing
no matter what breaks loose, you
needn't come here for a front page
steer, simply won't talk-do / make
that clear?-so it isn't a bit of use.
Nothing to say" says Teddy, mo
thing at all to say. Put that in your
pipe and smoke h-meerschaum or
briar or clay. I'm as dry as dry
martini, as mum as quart OF fizz;
| hate to be rude to the newspaper
brood, but | reckon I know my biz.
Nothing to say says Teddy, mo
thing at all ito say. The grave as a
yielder of copy for you Is a likelier
lay. A sermon in stones is in reason
like those in babbling brook-but
this Is my tbone-dry' season, there's
nothing for you to freeze-on-vamos
absquat! get the hook
Nothing to say says Teddy, mo
thing at ali to say. I'm leaving my OBJ
servations for countrywide O.. K.
Me for the darkest jungle, me for the
sylvan shade; until, there's call
that's heard over all, bungalow mod
est and sky-scraper tall, humblest
hamlet and marts of trade.
Nothing to say" says Teddy, mo
thing at all to say. A fresh water
clam Is loquaci0us compared with my
labial play The Sphinx is sociable
creature; the oyster garrulous bird,
go interview these, not me, if you
please, l haven't blessed word.
Nothing to say" !" says Teddy mo
thing at all to say. Tongue-tied, per
haps you'll dub me, each in your
playful way. Talk to me not of vii
son, of Cummins never a peep; La
Toilette and Taft for men of your
craft are the headliners you should
keep. Leave me alone in my cot
tage, leave me to wonder and pray.
You have the whole world to choose
from-I have nothing to say. Los
Angeles Graphic
The Parker post., 1912-02-03

He has been a deterrant factor
in business the past five years, rank
ing i'm Oppressive effect next to the
financial furry of 1907. The habit
of deferring payment, contracted a
new i'm 1907, has become chronic
with individuals, firms and corpora
tions. and has served to harass bus
mess to an extent appreciable only
to the bankers who carry the &C
counts of the retailers and smaller
manufacturers.
'fBy withholding payment OF one
bill a procession of difficulties As
formed. A boards his cash and EN-
harnesses B, who has to put off C.,
and o lis pressed to the wall. Then
Through the ranks of industry, com
merce and labor, cramping enterprise,
confirming trade and CALLING most OF
ain the men att the bottom of the bus
mess structure.
"This survival of panic times has
become engrafted upon our business
system to such an extent that IN
some circles the pride in being con-
sidered prompt pay is now regard
ed as old fashioned, and skill In putt
ting off ones obligations has come
to be reckoned desirable acquisi-
tion.
but the business situation today
seriously demands the classing OF the
deliberate slow payer with the cheat.
His reformation would free the i'm
voluntary solw payer from a plight
that is none Of his choosing, and
would make the wheels of business
hum with prosperity.
You who can pay, pay UP. Then
those who now can't pay will be able
to do so. Money will flow faster
through the arteries Of the country S
life, and all the people will be bene-
fitted
The Parker post., 1912-02-03
HOW MEN ARE BORN.

A great many kinds of men are
born into this world Some are born
in happy homes where their coming
is welcomed. They always make
good men.
Some are born hypocrites. That
happens when one or both parents
have been playing part all their
lives and have never been what they
seemed to be.
Some are born rogues and dissem-
blers. They are people whose births
were accidents.
Some are born natural sneaks and
liars They cannot help it, either the
father or mother, or both OF them,
all through life poses as something
while all the time knowing it is lie
Some men are born natural scrubs
These generally take after their par
ents. Some are born with hate fol
all the world, and a desire to get
even for some unexplained wrong
They are but the product of prenatal
hates, their coming was unwelco1ne
their hands have been against the
world from the beginning.
Some are born high and trut
because they were prayed for, and tn
prayer was that they might be higl
and true and noble from before the
germs OF their lives had any life.
Some are born in rebellion agains;
God and the world and their Thoughts
from the first have been darl
thoughts. They came by them nat
urally. Their mothers before the,
were born knew that their father;
were not fit to be fathers. God pity
theMI
Some are born to be self fOrgetfu
and patient under worry, and theil
whole lives are lives of sef-abnega
tion. These are the children OF moth
ers who repressed their real nature
and gave their lives, without bitter
ness, for what they held to be duty
There is nothing that a person
should be so careful about as to how
he is to be bOrn.-Goodw wins Week
The Parker post., 1912-02-03
IDLE MINING PROPERTY.

The remedy for the existing evil
sought either in the adoption of lease
hold, under which the Government
cam enforce. operation, system
which fully attains the desired end of
promoting mining development i'm
Australia and New Zealand, accord
ing to the report made i'm 1907 by
Geologist A. c. Veatch, of the Geo
logical Survey, to the President or
in the thorough revision of the ex-
isting system. Radical amendmen
to the present Law would be neces-
sary i'm order to secure something
more nearly approaching equality OF
opportunity.
Some limitation should be put ON
the number of claims which an indi-
vidual can locate in each mining dis
trict, and the prevention of monopo-
hzation would be furthered by the
rigid enforcement of assessment de-
velopment The record of claims kept
by local official elected by the min
ers should be reported ito the nearest
land office In order to FURNISH the
Federal Government with a notice of
the intention OF the claimant, and
thus to iritiate. the operation of
effective inspection, the purpose of
which would be to enforce the use
and development of mineral land as
contemplated i'm the law.--FIrom Re
port OF Director, y. S. Geological Sur
YAY
The Parker post., 1912-02-03
APPRECIATION WITH AslDEs,

Charming dance-Pve been delighted
Thought the whole affair a bore! }
Very glad l was invited
(Catch me coming any more!)
All 80 genial and so hearty
(What a frightful set of snobsi)
Just the people for this panty
(Whatshisnames and Thingabobs.
Lovely girl your daughters growing
Very homely, very fast!)
Well, goodnight, l must be going
(Thank the fates, I'm off at last.
Town Talk
The Parker post., 1912-02-03
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Not Coal Lands.
011O21.

Department of the Interior, u. S.
Land Office at Los Angeles, CAL,
January II, 1912.
Notice is hereby given that James
O. Phillips, of Blythe, CAL, who, on
July 5, 1910, made homestead entry
No011021, for SEA, Section 26,Town-
ship 6 S., Range 22 E., S. B. Meri-
diam has filed notice of intention to
make final communication proof, to
establish claim to the land above de-
sscribed, before the Register and Re-
ceiver, United States Land Office, at
Los Angeles, California, on the 23rd
The Parker post., 1912-02-03

day of February, 1912, at 10 o'clock
a. m.
Claimant names as witnesses: John
R. butcher, Joseph Hopkins, Clar-
ence E. Vertrees, Ray Saxman, all
CT Blythe, Cal.
FRANK BUREN,,
(4D Register.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-11-20
NEWS OF THE OLD DOMINION.
MINISTER'S ASSIGNED.
Virginia Southern Methodist Appoint.
ments Announced.

Lynchburg, Va, Nov. 20.-The Vir-
pinia Methodist Conference, having
been in session at Court Street Church
here since last Wednesday, after hear
ing the appointments for the ensuing
year, adjourned to meet next Novem-
Der at Danville.
The major portion Of yesterday
mornings, session was taken up witt,
consideration of the Sunday school
boards report, the discussion being
largely over the appointment Of a
field secretary for Sunday school
work. The lack of funds and an avail
able man were the principal objections
to the departure, but the report was
finally adopted.
The report of the board of missions
showed unprecedented offerings dur
ing the past year, these being large
enough to cause the belief that no
other conference in the Southern
Methodist Church will make anything
like the showing. On an assessment
amounting to $4,000 for home and
foreign work, the report showed Of
ferings for these causes amounting To
$4,000. The reports from women's
and children's departments bring the
total for all missionary purposes up
to $4,000.
T. S. southgate, Of Norfolk, was
again selected as lay reader OF the
conference.
Bishop Wilson, who was presiding
was physically unable to announce
the appointments, and they were read
by B. NJ. Beckham, presiding elder OF
the Danville district.
The usual resolutions OF thanks
were voted and adjournment came at
4:l5 o'clock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-11-20
DEPRESSION CAUSES SUICIDE.
Young Newspaper Man of Staunt"n
Had Been Subject to Spells
of Melancholy.

Staunton, Va, Nov. 20.--E. L
Thomas, advertising manager Of the
Daily News, was found about
O'Clock Yesterday evening lying on his
bed in his home with .3Scal!ber bull
le: hole through his temple. Ee HAD
killed himself some hours carrier.
Thomas was 10 years of age, anG
was a native Of Washington, D. C.:
which was his home until about six
months ago, when he and his mother
moved to Stanton acquiring an inter
est in the News. His mother, Mis-.
Lille B. Thomas, is now visiting n
Washington and he occupied the house
alone in her absence. He was subject
to spells of melancholy, and had
talked of shooting himself. He lett
letter to his mother, one to Staun-
ton girl, and one to another friend
here. A slip of paper on the front
door held this met sage. Don't forget
to feed Pete" This is a canary which
was found in an adjoining room.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-11-20
BAPTISTS ADJOURN.
Encouraging Reports Read at Asso
citation in Petersburg.

Petersburg, Va, Nov. 20.-The Viz
GINA Baptist Association, at it's ses-
sion yesterday received number of
important reports. Rev. j. T. Watts
submitted reports Of the Baptist
Young Peoples Union and the sum-
mer encampment.
The report on the Young Peoples
Union says in part that the work of
the union in Virginia has never been
in a. more satisfactory condition.
The report on the encampment
states that the Baptists of Virginia
have demonstrated their progressive
spirit in the organization and develop
ment of the Virginia Baptist summer
encampment, which has been held for
five consecutive seasons at the sea-
shore.
The association adjourned sine die
last night.
The next annual session of the as
ISOLATION will be held in Lynchburg.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-11-20
RANDOLPH HOWARD INDICTED.
Former Fredericksburg Bank Cashier
Charged With Embezzlement.

Fredericksburg, Va, Nov. 20.-A
Randolph Howard, formerly cashier
IF the Conway, Gordon and Garnet
National Bank, of this city, was last
night indicted by the grand jury on
two charges of embezzlement, one
charging a defalcation of $4,000 from
the bank, which, it is understood, was
amply secured to the bank before Mr..
Howard was indicted; the other def
alcation of about $4,000 of a trust
fund in his hands, part Of which
has been secured.
In a few minutes after the indict-
ments were returned the accused ap-
peared in court and Judge Goolrick
fixed the amount of bond at $4,000.
This was furnished and the accused
directed to appear in court on Decem-
Der 5. While the shortage of Cashier
Howard was made good by relatives
as soon as discovered, yet the report
caused a severe run on the bank,
which forced it a few days ago to en-
ter into merger agreement, by which
the Farmer and Merchants State,
Bank, of this city, took over the bust
ness, and the Conway Gordon and
Garnett National Bank is now out OF
bukiness.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-11-20
Killed by Train.

Richmond, Va, Nov. 20.-The body
of a negro youth, said to be Willie
Harris, seventeen years old, Of Lii
lington, N. c., was brought to Rich
mond Monday afternoon aboard a
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Poto-
mac Railway passenger train, when
had killed him seven miles this side
of fredericksburg
The boy was walking the tracks,
it was learned, and he evidently heard
the approach of the train. But in
stead of stepping away from the
track upon which it was approaching,
he walked directly into it. He was
struck by the engines pilot and hurI-
cd in the air. The train was stoppe"
ard members of the crew ran back to
pick up the crushed body. Harris
died in few minutes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-11-20
Money Mailed at Elections.

Bristol, Va.Tenn., Nov. 20.-The
Pure Election Society, of the Ninth
Congressional district, of Virginia,
finding that money had been mailed
in blank envelopes to influence the
election of Congressman November 5,
Judge Skeen, of the Circuit Court, has
summoned a special grand jury to
meet today to inquire into the mat
ter.
The society has evidence that at
least four such cash contributions
were received. Each envelope con-
tanned $40, but only one contained any
thing else, and this included literature
in behalf of Slemp. The Republican
county chairman denies any know
ledge of where the money came from
or who mailed it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-11-20
ARGUMENT IN ALLEN CASE.
Will Probably be Conclued at Wythe-
vile Friday.

Wytheville, Va, Nov. 20.-Whcr
the trial of Sidna Allen for the n?nr-
der of Judge Thornton L. Massie was
"esumed yesterday morning j. E
ern was recalled for the deefnse to
ove the sale of piping and other art
IS sold to THE accused, which facts
re not brought out in the former
.mination. Alice Thomas was in
iuced to prove the dying declara-
of Bette Ayers as to who shot
to which the prosecution eXcep-
The court sustained the eXcep-
he defense then rested and the
lmonwealth introduced in rebuttal
c. B. NuckolE, who contradicted
evidence of Victor Allen.
v. F. Harris contradicted Sidna
ems statement as 10 loading his
tot on the court green and his cry
:: "kill the last d-n one of them"
lis closed the evidence and adjourn
ent was taken until noon in order to
Insider the instructions which were
cad when court reconvened at 2:3O
o'clock.
The instructions numbered about
p on each side and covered every
phase OF the case. After Judge Slap
les read the instructions Floyd Land
reth, commemorative attorney, ad-
dressed the jury for one hour and 20
minutes, arguing principally on the
establishment of a conspiracy FROM
the evidence. Senator r. P. Bruce
then spoke until adjournment, reply
ing to the argument of Mr.. Landreth
and reasoning from the evidence that
there was no conspiracy. BY agree
ment seven and half hours have
been allotted to each side for argu-
ment, which will bring it TO Friday
before the case is given to the jury.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-11-20
ALLEN CASE TO U. s. COURT.
United States Supreme Tribunal
Asked to Review Trial of
Claude.

Richmond, Va, Nov. 20.-Aftar
consultation with his clients in the
penitentiary and study in the library
OF the Supreme Court OF Appeals o.
Virginia, Judge N. H. Hairston, Of
Roanoke, announced last night that
he had determined to take an appeai
to the Supreme Court Of the United
States in the case Of Claude Swaneon
Allen. He will today procure a cer:lt-
icate from Clerk H. Stewart Jones, 81
the Supreme Court, stating that the
case has been disposed of in that
court by affirming the Judgment a
the trial tribunal.
As 10 Floyd Allen, his only hope
is in the efficacy Of various petitions
asking for communication Of sentence
to life Imprisonment, which will be
presented to Governor Mann this
ing by Judge Hairston, Rev. George
w. Mcdaniel, and others who have
in. orsted themselves in the cOndemnca
men.
The Governor respited the execution
of the sentence on both men to De
cernber 10, giving them three week
longer to live. This had been eE'
pccted in view Of The fact that tn
ecasal of the Supreme Court to gran
wi It's OF error came so late that bu
four DAYS were left in which the pris.
o,.ers could make their peace witt
tic Almighty.
Judge Hairston, senior member o!
th2 law firm of Hairston, Willis .
Hairston, which was the first retalne.
for the defense Of the Aliens, an
which acted as counsel for FIoyc
Claude and Victor Allen, will base Ill&
ar1cal to the supreme tribunal o.
the nation on what he claims to be {,
violation by the Circuit Court O.
W:the county of par Of Article
y. Of the Constitution of the Unite
States. This provide: as follows
".$or shall any person be subject foi
the same ofenses to be twice put Il.
ie pardv of life or limb It is hell
now by Judge Hairston, as it WAS ie!y
in his recent petition in the state 81
prone Court, that Claude Allen We
twice tried for the same offcnse-
conspiracy to murder the officials O
tie Circuit Court of Carol county. he
was tried for killing Judge MaSs'e
arl given fifteen years in the 'staie
pcNitnetiary; then tried for klllln-
Commonwealth Attorney Foster, anc
fond guilty of murder in the first dc.
gee, the punishment for which :.
de.lh by electricity. The same pom
ir its relation to the similar proVlSIo"
in the State Constitution w@s over
ruled in Mondays decision.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-11-20
STATE OF VIRGINIA

T..
Corporation Court for the City OF
Alexandria. towit:
FRS I Of November. 1872.
j. Il. Is. Davis.
Lewis Eendheim ana Samuel Bend
helm individually and as partners trad
ing as y. Ecndhcm Il Sons
The object OF this suit is to enforce
the mechanics lien Of the complainant .
for $4,000. with interest from JULY
90 1912. against the building OF the
said Louis Bcndhcnm and Samuel Bend
helm, ut 4i9-420 King St, Alexandria.
Va, and the LOT on which il stands of
which the said NJ =. Piper was general
contractor. and to obtain personal
decree against the said Louis Bendheim
and Samuel Bendhim for said sum ana
interest in favor of the complainant
Il sub contractor.
And it appearing by affidavit that
the said NJ. +. PEPPER is not a resident o.
this state il is therefore ordered that
the said NJ +. Piper is not a resident Of
fifteen days after due publication OF
thos order and do what is necessary
10 protect his interest and thit
this order shall he published once a
week for four successive weeks in the
Alexandria Gazette 4 newspaper
published in said city.
\ true copy-TeStG:
NEWELL. : GREEN-ANNN. Clerk
llsopert ~ Hutchinson. p. Il.
NOV. 4 w At