El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-28

! ~ BCAUSE his two mules, attached
( II to a hay wagon, didn't like the
/ - company of automobiles, John
/ Taylor. an Indiana farmer, has been
| sued for $500 damages by his farm
1 hand, Jesse Hobson- Hobson says that
/ he was employed by Taylor and was
! hauling hay to ElizabethtoWn, having
! two mules ahitched to his hay wagon.
I He says Taylor was driving a load of
! hay directly in front OF him Hobson
! alleges that the mules he was driving
| were afraid of automobiles, but that
| Taylor had given him instructions how
I to drive them They encountered D.
NJ. Branham, of Elizabethtown in the
latter's machine, the plaintiff says, and
I that while he ssignaled Branham to
stop Taylor insisted that the driver OF
the machine go ahead. This Branham
did. the COMPLAINT alleges, with the
result that the mules took fright, over
turned the load of hay and threw Hob
son to the ground. He was injured
by the fall, and by being partially COW
Under the present arrangements ex-
listing with the dealers, there were no
changes due in tire prices during Sep
TENDER, but October brings the like
lihood, of considerable readjustment.
The tire companies are not wholly sat
isfied with the present margin of
profit, and with the gradual increase
IN the price OF TuDDef II Is not uullhC1I
that there viii be stiffening in the
price when the present guaranteed
price period has expired.
According to Wilbur Volivia, head of
the Zion church, at Zion, near Chicago,
the wrath of God" is to fall on many
cities. However, he is going to do what
he can about it, and he and his band
of eYangelists are planning to fall in
motor cars on the sinners of the eoun-
t-rr A 11aoT- s0F 1a17f r1nd IVA m he
purchased which the party will use in
visiting the doomed towns, to tell them
of their danger. 49,
A recent refinement in bulb-horn
construction that has been introduced
abroad is the substitution of a metallic
cup for the lower half OF the ordinary
bulb, the flexible part of the bulb thus
being confined to the upper and hemi-
spherical part The device is intended
not only to economic rubber, but TO
improve the action of the bulb, since
the horn may be blown to its full ca
pacity merely by pressing down on the
top of the upper part. 1t is said 10
outwear two ordinary bulbs.
According to the office of public
roads in Washington, D. c.. the state
of Rhode Island leads in good roads
percentage, having 1914 percent of its
highways improved Massachusetts is
second, with an even 40 percent Next
in order come Ohio, Connecticut New
Jersey, Kentucky, Vermont and Cali
fornia, the latter having 1887 percent.
The states of Wisconsin, New York,
Maryland, Utah, Tennessee, South Caro-
lima, Maine and Michigan range from
16 to 10 percent Between 10 and
percent stand the states of Alabama,
Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
Minnesota, New Hampshire and Ore
gon. The other states with less than
5 percent Of their roads improved end
with North Dakota, which has only %
percent
The Russian government has bought
five of the American made cars which
went through a test arranged by the
cars officials to determine the adapt
ability of-motor vehicles, for army ser
vice in all of its branches. A reliabfl-
ity run of 1860 miles over very hard
roads was held
According to a decision Of the su-
preme court of Massachusetts, blowing