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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
AMERICAN KILLS
MEXICAN OFFICER
FEDERAL OFFICER HAD re.
MARKED THAT HE WAS GOING
TO KILL A oRINGo.
Opens Fire Upon Customs Inspector
on American Soil and Is Slain In
Duel.-Troops Ordered to Scene
Of Fatal Encounter.

81 Paso, Texas.-Before Lieutenant
F. Acosta, an officer in General sala-
Ear s federal command at Juarez,
crossed the Stanton street interna-
tionaI bridge Saturday afternoon, he
remarked that he was going to kill a
gringo." He was killed by United
States Customs Inspector T. r. Jonah
and immigration Inspector Thomas N.
Heifrin after he had opened fire on
them with a rifle on the American
side CT the international boundary. He
was shot through the mouth and arm,
and his horse, from which he had dis
mounted, was shot through the side.
The American officers were uninJured.
Heilrin was standing at the Ameri-
can end of the bridge when Acosta
first opened fire at him. He fired back,
using an automatic pictol. Jonah nasr.
ened to his assistance and began fir
ing at the Mexican. The Mexican OF.
ficer was within thirty feet Of the Am.
orleans before he was killed.
Two troops Of the Thirteenth cav
airy were ordered to the bridge follow.
in; the shooting in order to restrain
the 1000 Mexicans who had gathered
on the Mexican side of the bridge.
General Hugh L. Scott, commander OF
the United States troops, was notified
of the shooting, and he orderad all
troops to be prepared for movement
to 81 Paso from Fort Bliss in - se of
trouble.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Didn't Mind Relnn rarns.-

An incident that occurred in the ex.
perience of an English oficer illus.
trates the calmness and indifference
to death and bodily danger Character.
istic OF the Turkish soldier.
The officer. accompanied by a guard
OF Turkish soldiers. went to the edge
Of a cliff overlooking the sea to shoot
at a seal that he saw diaporting itself
in the water below. He fired a good
many times and the last shot had
gone very near the bobbing mark
when one of the soldiers came to him
and politely asked: do you mt
think, sir, that you have fired often
enough at Sergeant Yussuf?" The
supposed seal was indeed the ser.
geant
Presently the sergeant came ashore
put on his clothes and came I'M tbe
cliff smilingly. The officer apologized
handsomely and blamed himself tree.
Iy. But Yussuf. like his comnanions
did not think there was much to he
concerned about. After all. the mari
had been very small, it was natural
to FIRE at it; it was unlikely that the
ofacer would hit it, and he (Yussufl
had not minded 1t at all
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
REPUBLICANS ARE VICTORS
IN THE MAINE ELECTION
Candidate for Congress Receives =
Vote 1903 Per Cent Greater Than
the Vote Cast for Taft.

Portland, Me.-Speaker John A.
Peters, Republican, Of Ellsworth,
was on Monday chosen to fill the va
cancy in the Third congressional dis
trict caused by the death of Forrest
Goodwin, Republican. by a plurality
of $50 over Mayor William A. Pattan-
gall, Democrat, of WaterVille, with
Edward M. Lawrence, Progressive, of
Lubec, a poor third in the race.
The returns in this special election
from all but small island plantation
gave:
Peters, 1906; Pattangall. 1853;
Lawrence, 6,4S7.
The vote for president in Novem-
Der was:
Wilson, Democrat, 1852 Roose-
welt, Progressive, 1926; Taft. Repub-
lican, 1859.
The Progressive vote showed a
falling off of more than so per cent
from that given Colonel Roosevelt
last November. On the other hand,
the Peters vote was 10S per cent
greater than the Taft vote, while the
Pattangall and Wilson vote showed
very little variation
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
DRY EXCAVATION ON BIG
CANAL NOW C0...PLETED
Vessels VIII be Able to Pass
Through tho Great Waterway Early
In December of This Year.

Washington. 49, Completion OF dry
excavation on the Panama canal on
Saturday, just ten days ahead OF
schedule time advanced the work on
the great waterway almost to the
final stage. Much digging and clean
ing out remains to be done in Gu
Zebra cut and along the route, but
this will be accomplished by nam.
moth dredges
An army of men will be busy the
next four weeks moving equipment
and material, including thirty-six
miles of railroad track, from the nine
mile channel in Culebra cut between
Gamboa dixie and Pedro Miguel locks.
This Is preparatory to turning water
into the channel from Gatun lake on
the Atlantic side, october 5, FIVE days
In advance Of the date set for dyna-
hitting Gamboa dixie. Enough water
will be let in to act as a cushion
against the explosion when the dixie is
destroyed.
The destruction of Gamboa dixie
will leave only the dixie over which
the railroad crosses the Gatun locks
ana which can be removed at any
time. The last barrier on the Pacific
side, the Miraflores dixie, was dyna-
mited just week ago, turning Pacific
tidewater into channel 5000 feet
long and 500 feet wide and 81 feet
deep.
Small vessels probably win be able
to pass through the canal from end
to end by October 10, and the water.
way should be ready for shipping
proper early In December
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
POLICEMAN SAVES PRESIDENT

Chief Executive Has Close Call When
He Ignores Traffic Regulations.
Washington-Pres Wilson had
narrow escape from being killed by
a street car here Saturday night The
danger to the president was caused
by his forgetting traffic regulations
which forbid pedestrians from cross
ing the street except at corners.
The president was saved by a pc.
lieeman, who threw himself in front
of the car. The speeding electric
car stopped within ten feet of Mr..
Wilson. The policeman received
warm thanks for his promptness.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Reduoee cost Of LIvlna.

Washington.-How the parcel post
did something toward reducing the
cost of living in Gallup, N. NJ, was
related Saturday in a report to Post
master General Burleson, which said
the price of fruit on the Gallup mar
ket dropped from 1919 cents a pound
to 3 cents when a parcel post ship
ment came in from Colorado.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
The Homeless Are Housed.

Hot Springs, Ark.-With two com.
panies of militia policing the burned
district the citizens committee de.
voted itself on Sunday on systematic.
ing relief measures and planning for
the rehabilitation Of the fire-swept
eastern part of Hot Springs. The
checking up shows that all of those
made homeless by the fire of Friday
night have been housed temporarily
and their immediate needs provided
for.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Rooks Confirm MuIhaII STORY.

Washington.-D. L. Frawley, en-
ployed by the senate lobby commit
tee to audit the books of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers,
testified on Saturday that between
1903 and 1918, the association paid
$245.o00 to Martin M. Mulhall for
legislative and campaign work. The
audit confirmed in many particulars
Mulhall's testimony to the commits
sion
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Can save Bio nrxdook.

Washington.-The big drydock al
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which recently
collapsed after the government had
spent several million dollars in it's
construction, can be saved and finish.
ed, according to the original design,
IN the opinion of Alfred Noble, an en-.
glneering expert who was sent to in.
snect II
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Jury Disaarees In Spear Case.

Mount Ida, Arkansas Standing
nine for acquittal and three for con-
viction, jury which heard the testi-
mony In the case in which Ed Spear
of Hot Springs, charged with being
implicated in conspiracy through
which John Pumping, Montana
etoekman, lost $4,000 on a fake
horse race in an East st. Louis pool
.rooom last January, was discharged
Saturday
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
EXPECTS TO ESCAPE PENALTY.
comlnettI Hopes to Get Verdict Re
versed by Courts.

San Francisco.-F. Drew Caminett
believes he will escape the penalty o.
the Mann white slave law under
which he and Maury |. Diggs were
convicted in the United States district
court.
Il believe we shall have no trouble
in getting this verdict reversed by
the United States court of appeals,
he said, and this is the view taken by
William A. Hester a member of the
jury that convicted Caminetti, who
now says he regrets having voted tc
convict Caminetti
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Greed Caused strike.

Washington.-Greed of coal opera
tors as we'll as the miners, Bishop R.
]. Donahue of Wheeling, w. Va. told
the senate investigating committee
on Monday was the fundamental
cause of the West Virginia strike.
Exorbitant prices in company stores
(from Is to rs per cent above the
market) he gave as an instance of the
attitude of the operators.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Enormous c.attIe Recelpts.

Kansas City.-The Kansas City
stock yards last week came within
R3s head of SCATTERING a worlds cat
Gle record for receipts, made twenty
TWO years ago. Continued dry wealth
or and lack of pasture sent 1926 cat
tie to the local market during the
week.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Willard Held on Murder charoe.

Los Angeles.-Jess Willard, as prin.
clpal; Thomas L. McCarey as pro-
moter, and ten others interested in
tne fatal Willard-Young fight at the
vernon arena on August % were held
Monday to the superior court charged
with murder in the second degree.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Patients Have Little Chance.

Chicago.-The Cook county hospital,
with a capacity of 1900, is kept SO
full of county and city officials, their
wives and their friends that there is
no room left for the INDECENT patients
for whom it was intended, according
to charges made by County Agent
Meyer, in charge of the hospital.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
RooseveIt's Servant Arrested,

Mineola. N. Y.-George A. Parker.
an employee of Col. Theodore Roose.
yelt at Sycamore Hill, Oyster Bay,
was placed in the jail here Wednes-
day, charged with having stolen 81 900
worth of jewelry from the Roosevelt
home Saturday. The jewelry was re-
covered.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
TheosophIsts Adjourn.

Chicago.-The American branch Of
the Theosophical society adjourned
its meeting here Saturday after elect
ing officers. The highest place, that
of general secretary, went to A. P.
Warrington of Los Angeles.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
iyde case Sci for Ian.,...

Kansas City.-The fourth trial -
Or. B. Clarke Hyde for the murder ~
colonel Thomas H. Swope has been
postponed at the states request nm
I'll January 5. 1914. The noatnons
ment was asked because of a iaer Of
funds to prosecute.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Body Found in River.

New York.-Offlcials Of two states
New York and New Jersey-aave
united to solve the mystery surround.
ing the murder Of the young woman.
part of whose dismembered body was
found in the Hudson river Friday near
Woodcliff. New Jersey, and to bring
her slayer to Justice.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
JEROME ACQUITTED.

Court Apologies to Thaw Prosecutor
After Hearing Evidence.
Coaticook, Quebec.-William TRAY.
ers Jerome was acquitted Monday
night of the charge of having gam.
bled on Thursday last on the station
property of the Crank Trunk railway
here while waiting for the immigra,
ton authorities to pass on the case
of Harry X. Thaw. In discharging
him the court apologized for the hu.
initiation to which he had been sub.
jected.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
sunday school Teacher In Bad.

Nation. Ill-U. T. C. Rice. u
years old, who has been a teacher in
the local Sunday school for forty
years, was unable Saturday to give
bail in the sum of $4,000 for his APP
pearance at the city court on a
charge of embezzlement.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Bel Flre to puIwIeh colleae.

London.-Duiwich college, famous
school in southern suburb of Lon.
don, whose present buildings were
erected in 1870 at cost of $500, 900,
was set on fire in two places Friday
Suffraget literature was found pinned
to trees In the vicinity with women's
hatDins.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
WORKING FOR BETTER ROADS.

Governors invited to Meet at Lincoln
and Plan for Good Roads.
Lincoln, Neb.-Governor Moorehead
has sent invitations to the governors
of Illinois, Iowa, Colorado and Utah to
come to Lincoln on September %,
when the delegates to the Lincoln Ma
aionai Highway congress will be in
session, and assist him in urging the
building of an automobile highway
&rom Chicago to salt Lake City, to
sonnet at the latter place with an
automobile roadway thence to San
Erancisco.
The governor desires to see the
highway complete in time for the
.Panam-Pacific exposition in 1915.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Eaoaned convlotn Caunht.

Leavenworth, Kan.-Richard os.
borne, who with Walter Layman made
o sensational escape from the federal
prison here, is under arrest at Seattle.
Wash, according to information re
eeived here.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
AIfonso Makes Donation.

Panama.-The Panama government
has been notified that King Alfonso of
Spain has made donation of $4,000
toward the monument of Balboa, TO be
erected near the Pacific entrance of
the canal
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
May Appeal to Priv co,,,.,l

ottawa, ont-Dominion officials
here foresee a delay of possibly two
years before final decision OF the
InaW case. The litigation, in their
opinion undoubtedly win be carried
through the dominion courts To me
privy council in England
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Another Victim of Motoro.ols.

Cologne.-Gus Lawson, an American
eyelist, and sheuermann, a German
rider, were killed, and Meinhold, the
Germans pacemaker, was fatally In.
Jufed here Monday in the course of
motor-paced race for the 10O-kilo.
meter championship. A bursting tire
caused the accident.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
operatIon FataI 70 Cardinal.

Rome.-Cardinal Joseph Calasano-
titus Wives Tuto, project Of the con-
sregation for religious affairs. died
Sunday. Recently he had undergone
An operation for appendicitis.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
cana Nearly Completed.

Panama. The dry excavation of the
canal has been completed, the steam
shovel working in the Culebra cut
having removed the last rock satur-
day. The future excavation OF the
canal viii be completed by dredging.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
THAw CASE DRAGGING.
May be Year or Two Before Final De-
cIsion is Given.

Ottawa, Ont.-The justice and i'm
migration departments OF the Canad.
ian government believe, it transpired
Saturday, that It may be a year or
two before the final decision is given
which viii determine whether Thaw
is TO be sent back or allowed to pro-
coed through Canada.
The departments both announce
that they would like TO have Thaw de-
ported at once.
If Thaw is sent back to the United
States 1t will be by the shortest
route, it is declared.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Date Of Wilson Wedding Set.

Cornish. N. H.-The marriage of
Hiss Jessie Wilson, second daughter of
President Wilson, 70 Francis B. Sayre
Of New York is to take place at the
White House in Washington on Tues
day. November 25.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Found Dead in Bed.

New York-William F, Havemeyer.
for many years prominent in financial
circles here, was found dead in bed
at his home Sunday. He complained
of feeling Ill Saturday night, and
when found Sunday morning had been
dead apparently about six hours.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Labor Leader Dies.

New York-John p. Archibald,
widely known as labor leader, died
Sunday at his, home in the Bronx. He
was SO years old and was formerly
president of the Brotherhood of Dec
orators and Painters of America.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
smoke ls Expensive.

Pittsburg.-Smoke costs the resi-
dents of Pittsburg $10,OO0,OOO year.
according to a bulletin issued by the
smoke investigation bureau OF the
Mellon institute, university of Pitts
atfr0
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12

Barber sIaNs Wife.

Ottumwa, Iowa.-In the presence of
two men whom he had invited to his
house to drink bottle of beer with
MIN, Samuel H. Eaton, barber, shot
and killed his wife here Sunday. Eat
on fed, but was captured a short time
later
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
open School il lain

San Francisco-with the co.opera.
tlon OF the board of education. school
mas been opened at the San Francisco
county Jail. Reading, writing. spelI.
ing arithmetic and geography win be
taught
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
PuERTA PLATA. sHELLED.
Dominican Navy in Action Against
Seaport Seized by Rebels.

Seaport Seized by Rebels.
Washington-News that Dominican
gunboats we're Smelling the rebel city
of Puerta Plata, endangering Ameri
can lives and property, caused hurry
orders to go from here Monday to the
cruiser Des Moines, which had been
preparing to sail from Guantanamo,
Cuba, for iSanto Domingo since re-
ports of the latest revolution there
were received several days ago. The
cruiser was coaling and was expected
to sail directly for Puerta Plata.
In the meantime communication
between Puerta Plata and the out
side world had been broken and no
word had come to the state depart.
ment since the brief message early
Monday announcing the lombard.
ment Monday
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Ice Famine in Kansas.

Kansas City.-Added to the troubles
of Kansas and western Missouri that
have come with the drouth and pro-
longed season of heat, is a threatening
ice famine. Stored stocks are ex-
hAusfed
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savad Twenty-eIaht Live

Paris-Edmond Rousset, a river n
nceman, was decorated with tba -
glon OF Honor on Monday. During
ms service on the water front he has
saved twenty-eight lives. -
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12

Stoneham. Mass.-Miss Ada Fem
gold. aged 20, of Worchester, patient
at sanitarium, and her nurse, Miss
Hazel Crummell, aged Fl, of Akron,
Ohio. were drowned in Quarter Mile
pond Sunday.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12

Butte, Mont-The Montana wool
output for this season is at least Is
per cent behind last year, In the
opinion OF e. A. Gray Of the Chicago
Great Western railroad, with head
quarters in Helena.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Japanese Newspaper suppressed.

Ioklo.-An anarchistic expression
IN connection with the agitation over
the killing of Japanese at Marking led
10 the suppression ON Monday of the
Nlrokau Shibun. an independent
newspaper.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
sailor atahhad hY Panaman.

Panama-Arthur Rahlin, sailor Of
khe United States cruiser Denver
wtaieh arrived here from Oorinto for
coal, was stabbed Saturday by no
forious Panaman character named En-
1rinue Almangor.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12

Mexico city-The rebels have
piocKed the railroad between Tam
pico and San Luis Potosi by wraetln9
a locomotive in tunnel and sattIne
hre to the oil. me
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
May Ship Explosives to Mines.

Washington.-Th state department
announced Sunday night that ship
ments of dynamite and other explo-
sives needed for working the great
mines in Mexico would be authorized
as heretofore.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Season Ends soon.

The 1918 Park season win close at
Yellowstone park September is, with
all former records for attendance
eelipsed by thousands.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Five Workmen Blown. 20 Pieces.

Paris.-Ffve workmen were blown
to pieces Saturday by an explosion at
q fireworks factory in Aubervilliers, a
suburb of Paris, Fragments OF bodies
were carried an eighth of mile.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12
Stabbed to Death.

Tokio.-Mortiaro Abe, director OF
the political bureau of the Japanese
foreign office, who was stabbed, died
here Friday.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-12

Manuel Perez Romero, who IL ae-
cused of lobbying for the constitution
allst party Of Mexico, lie the unaecred-
tied diplomatic agent Of that party In
Washington.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-16
THINKS FRIEDMANN
SERUM CURED HIM
Attorney David s. McCann Returning
From Europe Well Man; Con-
demns the Doctor.
By International News Service.

By International News Service.
PITTSBURG, June 15.-Attorney David
S. McCann, Friedmanns first American
patient. is returning from Europe. after
having undergone treatment, and is eX
pected to arrive in New York the latter
part OF the week. McCann believes he
has been absolutely cured, but denounces
DR.. Fiendmann for keeping secret his
discovery while humanity suffers Nc
Cam In letter dated May 81, from Sor-
rento, says;
while / believe his remedy is cura-
tive. l also believe that it is only the
pioneer TO the perfected remedy that Will
surely result as soon as the medical
world at large thoroughly understands
what this remedy is Frankly, I don't
believe that Dr. Friedman has 1.-THE
of the scientific and medical knowledge
that hundreds of other physicians of to-
day possess. And when this remedy is
known TO the profession It large and
they have experimental with 1t and
tested 1t and improved II. then we Will
have a remedy that Will not only cure
but will cure quickly and in no uncertain
way.
This being true nothing that can be
said against Dr. Friedman Is too strong
when we consided that he holds back his
secret for private gain