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The Caucasian., 1912-04-09
Mother Sees Her Child Killed by
Street Car at Dallas.

With her mother looking on with
dumb amazement, kressy Scott, aged
twelve years, was run over and killed
by Dallas street car. Her body was
badly mangled,
According to bystanders an ice wag-
on was passing along the street and
the child ran to it. AS soon as the
wagon passed she started across the
car tracks. The car was at her. She
started back, but it was too late. TIL
wheels passed over the little girls
body and her life's blood flowed On
the car being stopped wheels rested on
the body, which was wedged between
the trucks.
Conductor Carroll and Motorman
Nichols both say they did not see the
child until it was too late to stop the
car. "All l saw was the little blue
dress as it flashed under the car, :"
said Nichols. ''It was too late to
stop the car Perhaps | was going too
fast. | will never run another street
car"
Mrs. Scott, the chld's mother, was
witness to the accident She was
standing in the doorway when Kressy
was run over. With her face bathed
in tears and her hands upturned to
heaven the mother prayed to God to
bring back my baby" kressy was
Mrs. SCOTS only child
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09
NARRATED
I'M
NOTES.

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fendant being Frank
Andrewich, giant iron worker, and
he was held without bail His victim
was his son, John, three years old,
whose brains he dashed out against
the floor when his wife, whom he was
try ing to assault eluded him Drunk
the man went home and demanded his
supper. His wife tried to pacify him
and he started for her. She ran. He
grarbed the child. Tilt teach you to
look at me!'' he yelled, and neighbors
who were hurrying into the room saw
the child hit the floor and killed in
stantly. Andrewich. sobered insisted
he could not remember his crime, and
broke down in court and wept.
Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist,
will be prosecuted by the government
for smuggling uuless SO, 900 is paid as
pen atty, according 10 the treasury de.
yartment for secretly bringing dia,
mond necklace into this country from
Europe without paying duty. Treas
ury department values the necklace at
Sc, 600, and charges Johnson brought
1t back when he returned from wit
Messing the coronation of King George
In London.
Mrs. j. A. Fhalzgraph, wife of
business man of Coyle, Ok, gave birth
to four boys, each weighing about five
pounds. The births occurred within
ten minutes of each othe Father is
cousin of Governor Harmon of Ohio
and he has named his sons Judson.
Harmon, j. d. and Judson- Fl Harmon
William Kersting, an electrician,
was found dead in Los Angeles ho-
tel with pistol wound in the right
temple. Discharge of the pistol ignit
ed the bed covering and the upper
part of the body was nearly cremated
before the hotel people discovered that
there was anything amiss Kersting
was formerly connected with Dallas
electrical tablishment.
Four hundred men were rescued at
Cairo, ILL.,, from levee in peril caused
by the Mississippi river food They
were working on the levee and taken
on board steamboat Just before The
levee was swept away A couple OF
watchmen were swept away, but their
rescue effected
Carouy, one of the automobile ban.
dts who killed a chauffeur at Eillen-
euve st. GeoIges, France, robbed o
bank at Chantilly, killing couple of
employees and stealing IS, 600, tried to
uicide
George Smith and Minor Seay, farm
ers. we're drowned while en- route home
to near Clarksville. Tenn, from Hos
kinsville, KY. They we're in buggy
and leading two horses and drove into
backwater from Red river, the buggy
being overturned.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09
Second Husbend.. Lass Request.

Now that you have chance to get
a third husband, for Gods sake don't
talk him to death So read a note
which Hurry Juntunson, a farmer of
near Honghton. Mich wrot to his
wife just before tying noose about
his neck and sending a revolver bull
let into his brain The body was dis
covered hanging in she'd Seven
children are left. He was in good mir.
cumstances
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09
CRAZY SNAKE NO MORE.
Well Known Red Man Passes
Peacefully Away.

Crazy Snake, the Indian response
BILE for an uprisi in Oklahoma g.
few years ago and whose real name
was Chitto Harjo, died near Old Hick-
ory, the stamping ground of the Creek
Indians when they made the outbreaks
during 1908. 1t is reported the uged
chief died peacefully away.
The Indian always contended that
his tribe had been robbed of its land
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09
VIII BE Taken up.

President Taft promised Represent
ative Garner of Texas to take up with
the war department the question of
protection for citizens of Del Rio,
Tex. on the Mexican morder. Mr..
Garner presented to the president let
ters and kilograms from officials OF the
town showing their alarm over condi.
tions sonth of Del Rio and asking for
assistance
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09
Pioneer Passes Away.

Mrs. Dorothea Boil Nussbaumer, a
resident of Dallas fifty six years, died
at that city aged seventy-nine years
She was native of Switzerland and
a member OF the old French colony,
which landed at Galveston, whose male
members walked to Dallas, and which
settled the old French colony west of
that city. Her husband died in 1880.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09
Immense women Deed.

Mollie Jones, fifty five years Of age,
negress, died at Dallas. She tipped
the scales at $40 pounds and in order
to get the body out of the house the
door frames had to be removed A
special coffin had to be made. 1t was
thirty seven inches wide, twenty seven
inches deep and six feet three inches
in length.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09
TWO MEN KILLED.
Another Wounded, All Resulting
FROM a Feud.

AS the result of shootings in Hood
county, Tex, at Hill City and Paluxy,
DR.. J. B. Philley and Luther Gar:
trell are dead and T. Nj. Wilson, a
druggist, was shot in shoulder.
Mack Packer surrendered and was
taken to Granbury. Weapon used
was rife and bloody affairs due to
a feud of two years duration.
I..guiries made relative to particu-
lars from several parties ELECTED no
in for. alton.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09
Kills Fifty-Slx Snakes

Will Robbins, who runs the Brase-
field ferry over the South Canadian
river near Eufaula, Okla killed in a
den along the river bank fifty six
snakes. Fifty were copperheads, four
racers and two chicken snakes. He
has the entire fifty six hanging upon
fence near the ferry.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09
Thr.e Burn to Death.

Residence near Opelika, Ala, OF
Milton Nj. Dunn. the treasurer of Lee
county, was destroyed by fire Mrs.
Amanda Dunn. Cleveland Dunn, her
son, and Mildred Dunn. two years OF
age. the latter's child. were burned to
death. Ashes we're found. The son
was trying TO save his mother and
little one.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09
THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD.

The disasters occurring from the
flood Of the Mississippi and being
reported daily, are as the record of
the past, the exception being that
the breaks in the leyees, for in
stance, insteadof being in Louisiana
are in Arkansas, but the flood
sweeps over thousands of square
miles of country, thousands OF cat
tie, horses and mules are drowned.
as well as human beings. 1t is Cstl
mated that the territory covered by
the present flood of the Mississippi
is over two thousand square miles,
that thirty thousand persons are
homeless and more than thirty have
drowned and thousands of people
are menaeed. Everywhere along the
levee there is being kept a steady
watch day and night ready to give
the alarm and to strengthen what
ever weakness may develop in a
leyee.
4 leyee is as a chain whose
strength is no stronger than its
weakest link.
It was Mr.. Gowden who declared
that the only safeguard from disas
ter from the flood of rivers was
through outlets. His contention was
that the natural outlets should be
utilized in carrying away by degrees
the accumulation of the water in
the rivers. He declared that levees
must be made higher, at each reeur-
ring flood, but he has been ridiculed
for such expressions by engineers
and others who do not share his
views.
As levees have been strengthened
and made higher, the floods have
come and have reached the highest
points, which must be raised higher
to meet. the rise in the river.
The theory Of engineers has been
that by COMPRISING the flow into
the narrowest limit possible, the
channel would be secured and deep
ened, which would minimize the.
constant apprehensions of flood
whenever the season of floods has
come Against tine theory of the en-
gineers it were senseless to offer OBJ
jections or criticisms, but it seems
singular. at least to the individual
of average intellect, that the levees
should be made higher at each re-
curing flood.
In the construction and the main
tenance of Ievees millions have been
spent and millions more will be re-
quired TO mafe safeif ever the levees
that should Withstand the press
-ure of the flowing streams, such as
the Mississippi, the Red and the
Atchafalaya rivers.
AT any rate now is The time when
the construction and the mainten-
anee OF The ievees should be as
sumed by the Federal Government.
The Mississippi River for instancel
is the national highway TO the
ocean. It is beyond the jurisdiction
or control of any State, but each
State whose boundary is on thel
river must expend millions of money!
for the uncertainty Of protection
from floods.
The control of fhe river. that is
the safeguard and the protection of
the property and the lives of thei
people whose homes are along or
adjacent 20 the rivers which threat |
en- disaster and ruin, should be un-
der The control of the government. |
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09
THIRTY DROWN.
Thirty Thousand Homeless In
Mississippi Valley.

Thirty thousand people are home
less, 2,0c0 square miles dated,
financial loss of $40, 900. 600 sustained
and thirty drowned were Mississippi
valley food results up to noon Mon
day. Great suffering among refugees
prevailed
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09
NEGRO WOMAN
ADMITS GRIMES
Asserts That She Took the Livee
of Several.
FOUR FAMILIES ALL TOLD
Cootesses to Having Participated
In Bloody Deeds That Resulted
In the Deaths Of Some Twenty of
Her Race.

Although only partial redence is
given her story, Clementine Barnabet,
a negress, has confessed at Lafayette,
La, to participation in twenty OF the
wholesale "axe" murders which have
terrified negroes in southwestern Lou
isiana for the past several months.
She is under arrest charged with the
killing of the Randell family of five
persons at Lafayette last November.
In confessing to the officers Clemen-
tine says that after procuring con
juring outfts' to protect herself from
detection she murdered family OF
four at Rayne, one of five at Crowley
and two families of five and six per-
sons each at Lafayette, total OF
twenty victims.
Officers say the girls description OF
her acts was abhorrent and repuls-
i've. They assert that while portion
OF her confession has been confirmed,
little credenee is given to her story of
having murdered four families. She
Is believed demented.
Her father, Raymond Barnabet, was
convicted last October on charge OF
killing the Andrews fanny of FIVE, but
was given new hearing when it was
discovered that he was drunk during
his trial
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09
Big Booty.

Burglars stole 81. 600 worth OF dry
goods from the establishment of Bass
Bros. at Whitesboro, Tex.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09
Official journal of Caddo Parish.

Published three times a week, Sum-
day morning, Tuesday and Thurs
day afternoon, at SIT Edwards ST.,
by The Caucasian & Carney Print
ing Co. Ltd, Proprietors.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09

by the whites and on several occa-
sions went to Washington, where he
appeared before the senate. Failing
to get what he believed justice he in.
stigated an uprising in Mcintosh and
adjoining counties that at one period
threatened the lives of many settlers.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09
fHE CAUCASIAN

Entered as second class matter Feb
ruary 1, 1904, at the postoffice at
Shreveport, La, under Act Of Con-
gress of March 81, 1879.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09

A formal charge Of
first degree murder
was fled at Perth
a Amboy, N. j., de-
fnnannt heinm Erank
The Caucasian., 1912-04-09

MoOrirgopost: w. A. Elicit, w. w
elder J. M. Fly, commissioners; J.
F room, clerk.
Blanchard: J. S. Kent, w. w. Will
hanson, E. L. Mccain, commission,
trs; J. C.. Powell, clerk.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-01-12
EARLY USE Of ICE SKATES
Holland Conceded to Be 6irthpisae
OF Skating and Undoubtedly First
PractIced There.

To "necessity's sharp pluck" rot to
a desire for amusement, says tao
New York Evening Post, we owa the
invention Of skates and their early
use. Holland is conceded to be tho
home and birthplace Of skating, and
it was undoubtedly first practiced
there and in the far north.
In a country Of lakes and canals tho
necessity Of walking and running on
the ice must have been felt from the
earliest days, and, indeed, they were
found in one Of the mounds or which
a Friesland village was built. The
skates were fastened to the feet BY
straps passed, through holes made in
the bones. A Danish historian men
tons the sport In 1884.
The bone skates were also the kind
first used in England. F1tzstephen.
in his account Of the anusements of
the young people on the Ice in Lon
don during the latter part of the
twelfth century, notes that 1t was usu.
al for them to fasten the leg bones OF
animals under the soles of their
feet, by tying them around their
ankles. and then taking a pole. the1
pushed themselves forward by strik.
ing against the Ice. and moved with
great rapidity.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-01-12
DOG WINS A FOOTBALL GAME:
Members Of Columbia Squad Are T.:
spired by Sight Of Canine Attack =
Ing Red Hot Poker

A remarkable turning of q game
between the halves occurred at Ithaca
in 1905. Cornell led Columbia by six
to nothing when the teams returned
to the dressing rooms Columbia had
not recovered from a wearing game
with Princeton the week before.
Many Of the men were overturned
There was distinct feeling of the
hopelessness Of it all when the play
ers lay down upon the floor and,
benches. Only Bill. white bull ter
rier mascot, showed signs of livelin-
ess. 1t was cold in the dressing
room and trainer shook the ashes
In the stove. He used a poker. the
end OF which became red hot. When
finally he laid down the metal rod the
red whitened, but the heat remained.
Bill, deciding that the poker was to
be played with like stick, caught tho
heated end in his mouth. Instantly
his lips scared and turned black. Bill
only shook the poker harder. Two
men grabbed him and tried to force
him to open his mouth But Bill,
fought back and finally they had to
choke him before he would loosen his
grip. 1t was then that Coach Morley
nudged Captain Fisher and pointed to
the dog. Catching the idea, Fisher
sprang to his feet and built up 4
speech around Bill. He compared
Bills nerve to the teams and asked
the men If they were not ashamed:
OF themselves. His closing sentence
was: "Just play for Bill, Bill, Bill"
When Columbia returned to tho
field. Bill. yelping furiously,. led tho
way. All through the half the team
heard him barking from the side-lines.
Said Won Saltza, the big tackle, after
the game:
I'VE heard every yelp. and it sim
ply drove u.s."
Also, Bills yelping was SO good THAI
Columbia won out, twelve to six.--.
American Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-01-12
BEES PARTICIPATE IN WAR
Terrifying and Demoralizina Method
Of Repe'I'no 6esIeoers Employed
by Themiseyraeans.

In these days Of scientific warfare
there are more ways Of killing a
man than Of going to church, but you
would have to look far and wide be-
fore you would find a more terrifying
and demoralizing method OF repelliing
besiegers than that employee. by the
people Of Themiseyra, an ancient city
Of Asia Minor. A Roman historian
tells that when the city was besieged
there were great buildings put up to
be pushed toward the walls 80 that
the attackers might advance uninjur.
ed. But the Themiseyraens were q
capable people, and they chopped
holes In the tips Of the buildings and
cast down on the heads OF the advanc.
ing army whole swarms Of bees ant
all the wild and ferocious animals
that their municipal menagerie had
contained.
Likewise, in England. a few hun.
dred years later, the Danes and Nor.
wegians were attacking the ancient
Roman city of Chester, then held by
the saxons After all the ordinary
methods Of warfare had failed r to
drive away the Norsemen the be-
hives of Chester we're brought to the
city walls and overturned on the
heads Of the enemy, who retired In
haste, y-~@ 49,: 80. 81
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-01-12
MEi5S:7;S; e. THE MUSICIAN
Great Geniuses Have Had Different
Ways Of Learning Notes With
out System.

No system of association will help a
musician to learn his music. He may
practice an individual system. such as
visualfzing, memorizing harmonically
or any other way, but he cannot dodge
learning the music. Frank La Forge:
who occupies unique position as an
accompanist, will study a song away
from the instrument, lay it aside, and
then go to the piano and play it. In
hampered by notes, he follows the
slightest change made by the artist,
and Is so successful that his services
are sought by the best singers. There
are other musicians who memorize q
composition by merely playing it over,
and others have been known to men,
orize by hearing only. Think of that
brilliant circle which gathered in the
salon Of George Sand in the early part
of the nineteenth century List and
Chopin, seated at two pianos, would
play incidental music for the anna
teur plays, and both of them, without
notes, could play from any of the great
operas. Instance after instance can
be cited regarding the remarkable
memory Of musicians. To bundle them
into one class, and dismiss the prob.
lem by stating they were geniuses
amenable to no law, is to miss the i'm
portant lesson for us. La Fargo used
his memory, so did List and Chopin.
so do all musicians, therefor the fac.
ulty develeps.-Cedar Rapids Repub-
lican.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-01-12

:meinbers ,wl1rsngied and squarrsled Si1kS'
monkeys On the eligibility IS ID.
tary public to parliament; all the
while, the national feeling is that the
Turks are at the gate. The, need for
a Demosthenes is plain For all signs
are wrong, and all prophets misled.
IL Greece is not now at the crisis of
her modern history. .r.'~'
Greeks Abroad, Drill for Fight.
There are more Greeks outside of
Greece than within the country. .Tur
key has more than Greece. The per-
sistence of the Greek national spirit
is almost as marked as that which
makes the Jews in all lands q pecul-
lar people. No measures that Turkey
has ever been able to take have been
effective in Transforming her Grecian
subjects into true Ottomans. The
fundamental reason for this is relig-
ious.
Now, in her time of danger, Greece
looks to the dispersion for succor.
learned here, confirming MY informa-
IAOA AAOu IAO pAOpOA 11AAOAANoA O4uS1G1l
sources, that the Greeks in the United
States are diligently drilling for the
great issue. In Boston, Lowell, Man.
chester, N. H., Chicago and many 9th
er centers of Greek Immigration, the
men have formed military companies,
and in some cases even have uniforms
and arms. They are making ready
for the call which every Greek in the
world is confident will shortly sound,
in response to which there will be q
swift and simultaneous migration Of
Hellenes from Turkey, Egypt, Mace
donna, England and North America. to
the scene of what they fondly hope
will be a new Homeric struggle.
A level-headed official remarked
that it would be more to the point If
the rich Greeks who are equipping
military companies would install ex-
pertinent stations in dry-farming; to
help Greece develop her resources.
The national spirit is talking about
what will happen when Greece gets
back her lost territory; whereas the
AANAO 0NAoAUAO NVuAOV WVUAO w W
make the most Of what she now has.
It is very fine for men and women to
parade in the old national costume,
and to dress their children in it, and
to sit about the cafes talking patriot
ism and singing national songs; but
the present need of the nation is for
greater individual efficiency, subordi-
nation and loyalty.
The tragic phase of the present
crisis in Greece is that the whole ma.
ton is awake to the possible impend.
ing fate. A peculiarly sensitive PEG.
pie, Of most ardent and patriotic tenn.
permanent, they are yet so hampered
by conditions, including their own
mercurial and impractical tempera-
ment, that they must face the en-
croachments of the hated Turk with
flowing speeches rather than with
well-dril1ed rifles.
Copyright. 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles)
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-01-12
The Fixed Size of Bricks.

II bricks were made larger, it would
save great deal of time and labor
in building, said contractor, but the
standard has been set, and any change
would be attended by considerable in
convenience. In England when bricks
were first made and up to sixty or sew
enty years ago, there was tax on
bricks, and, in order to evade it, the
bricks were made Of larger and larger
sizes. These were used for cellars
and other concealed places. To stop
this fraud, an act was passed In the
reign of George III, fixing the legal
size of bricks. Early in Queen Vic
toria's reign the tax was taken of, and
bricks may now be legally made of any
size whatever. But any change from
the standard size would bring about
great Inconvenience. All calculations
are made for building on this stand
ard size, and the London and other
building acts have practically fixed 1t.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-01-12

II, with uine OF my braves. have
slain 1,400 white men,"
Thus Dragged a tall, sour-faced MI
ami chieftain-somewha inappropri-
ately named Little Turtle" (Mi-chi-
ki-mi-qua). There is much reason to
believe his wild boast was true. He
might have added with equal truth
that he was the only Indian who had
ever routed United States armies In
three fierce campaigns. HERE is his
adventurous life's story:
Little Turtle was born on the Miami
river, in Ohio. about 1747. He was not
of "chief rank" by birth. but was
forced to begin life as mere brave"
But by unusual wisdom. military
genius and power of ruling men. he
quickly rose to chieftatnsh1p.
Savage Warfare.
The revolution was just ended. In
1888, and few western trading posts
were still in British hands. Little
Turtles men are said to have received
food and weapons from some Of these
British traders and to have been Sc
cretly advised by them to reject the
governments offers of peace. At any
rate, the league would not obey the
authorities, and continued to make life
miserable for frontiersmen. So bit
terly did they oppose the white mans
westward emigration that the tide
of pioneer movement was for the time
utterly checked.
General Harmar was sent, In Sep
TENDER. 1890. with 1900 regular troops
and militiamen from Fort Washington
(where Cincinnati was later built) to
tear from Little Turtle this rulership
and to open the way for emigration.
Harmar found the Miami chiefs vii
lage deserted. He camped there; then
sent $50 soldiers ahead to follow up
a cunningly devised Indian trail. The
trail led into trap where Little Tur-
tie neatly ambushed the whole party.
A few days later Colonel Hardin,
with $50 men, was on march from
camp when he came upon party OF
Indians. The Indians fed. The troops
pursued them straight into another Of
Little Turtles ambushes. About $50
of the soldiers were killed before
they got back to their main body.
Harmar. his expedition having failed.