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Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19
Methodist Ministers May Snake.

Danville, FAs Nov. 18.-ATethooist ministers iE the state may smoke as much as they please. for the confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, tonight, just befure ad- jouFnment, declined to put ptpa, cigar or cigarette under official ban.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19
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Madame Marchesi Dead.

London, Nov 1S.-Madame Mathilde de Castrone Marchesi, one of the most famous vocal teachers, died today at the age of ST.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19
. PREVENT GAMBLING
 IN COTTON FUTURES Senator McLaurin Would Impose Heavy Tax on Contracts.

TTGaNy aO on S0l1Lf aCESs
 New York, Nov. 1S.-Ex- Senator J. L. McLaurin, of South Carolina, pro- posed a plan for ending objectionable gambling in cotton futures, in an ad- dress today to @ committee from the New York cotton exchange which is considering changes in the rules to meet criticisms directed against the present methods. MT. McI1aurin said that the failure of congress 10 enact legislation at this session imposing Q tax on dealings in cotton options was due to the fact that no plan had been devised to destroy gambling in con tracts which does not also involve the destruction of legitimate business nee essary to keep open such channels of trade as could not be closed without disastrous effects.
 Mr. McLaurin suggested that the plan for 9 tax on cotton options which was considered recently by congress be amended so as to provide for a heavy tax on all contracts made through all exchanges in the United States, provided that cotton delivered in the state in which it is grown be exempt from the tax.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19
Wireless from Antarosao EspIorgr.

Sydney, N. S w., AOy. 1S.--A yire. less despatch from tne headquarters at Commonwealth bay of pr. Douelss Mawson, tue AnfmSutic expsoret. savs Lnat ens ne parry sndnreS Ene winter sUo Australia.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19
Women Want a Cleaner Paris.

Paris, Nov. 18.-The passage imme- diately of an act of parliament to limit the number of bars, saloons and other establishments for the sale of spirits in France was demanded in a petition signed by 222.072 French women pre- sented today to the chamber of depu- ties.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19
No Indians Workinq in Natal,

Durban, Union of South Africa, Nov. 1S-The strike of East Indians spread today right along to the south coast, and practically every workman of that race in Natal had laid down his tools this morning.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

Charles ThumeI was sentenced to two years in prison at Huntington, w. Va, for stealing two eggs while working in a market.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

Ethel Seaton, the militant suffra- gette, who on Saturday threw a, to- mato and a hammer at Justice Law renee in Old Bailey Court at London, has been sentenced to one month at hard labor.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

A Telegram Was Ssnt yesterday to Colonel George W. Goethals, builder of the Panama canal, offering the city management of Dayton under the new commission form of government.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

President Wileon received a letter from Wn. A. Booker of Lula, Mo, stating he had become the proud father of three and had named each after the president.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

An Extensive Collection of minerals, planTs, moths and butterflies, and the eggs and skins of birds, belonging to the late Professor Ora ". Knight, state assayer, are bequeathad to the Smithsonian institution at Washing ton,
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

Nathaniel Taft, Aged eS, cousin of former President William H. Taft died at the home of his daughter at West Sioux Falls, N. D.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19
HUERTA NOT WORRIED, SAY FRIENDS
Declare That His Attitude is That of Expectancy
 and Curiosity Rather Than Anxiety
BUT IS PREPARING TO RESIST INTERVIEW

Calls Upon State Governors Report Number of Troops They Can Furnish by Nov. 20-Army Now Has More Men Than Rhes-Rebel Victories Continue-Rebels Take Victoria After Boodiest Battle of the Revolution
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

Forty Thousand Employees of the Pennsylvania railroad east of Pitts bnrgh ,are to be merged into one la bor organization.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

Unable to Extinguieh Q small blaze caused by the dropping of 8 match on Q table cloth, Mrs. Honora Grant, aged 86 was burned to death in her home in South Boston yesterday.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

BrannweII Booth, commander in chief Of the Salvation Army and Ball ington Booth, head of tine Volunteers of America, will meet in New York.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

Edward Winbush, d negro desperado who Monday night ran amuck in the suburbs of Columbia, s. C., and fired at Sheriff Mccain, on board a crowd ed street car, was shot and killed yes erday by a sherif's posse.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

With 1C3 Passengers rescued last
 week from the burning steamer BaITnes at sea six hundred miles east of Bermuda last Thursday, the steam CT Pannonia arrived at New York last night and anchored at quarantine.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

Lena Strauss, eight years old, onc of several children taken ill after eat ing ice cream sold by a street vender died in d hospital at Philadelphia from ptomaine poisoning.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19
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Women Were Denied lay rights by the Virginia conference of the Metho- dist Episcopal church, South, by a vote of 113 to Ill.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

Secretary Lane instructed employees the Interior department not to for ard package mail to Washington Iring the ten days preceding Christ las in order to relieve the Postofice apartment during the holiday rush.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

Protestant CIergymen of Washing ton have launched g, protest against the official atmosphere they contend is thrown about the annual Pan- Amer ican Thanksgiving mass there in St. Patrick's church, which generally is attended by the president members of the cabinet justices of the su preme court, the diplomatic corps and other digflitaries.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

The War Department Has Accepted a new design for the arrangement of he stars on the American flag.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

Three Destroyers, the Craven Wilkes and Stockton, which lateE have been with the Atlantic reservt fleet, have been placed out of com mission at Charleston, $. c.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

Albert 8. Schults, artist and illus trator, was found dead yesterday in a furnished room on the lower East Side, New York. He had committed suicide by inhaling gas.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

The Typhcfd Fever Epidemic among the Rhode Island delegation to Putin Bay last September claimed it's sixth victim yesterday when Frederick A. Greene, clerk of the senate committee on finance died at a private hospital in Providence
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

Chestnut and Stove Grades of coal are selling at Portland Maine, for $825 per ton, an advance of 20 and 50 cents, respectively.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-19

Frank Gerald, a Foreman in the state highway department, was shot in the shoulder by a stray bullet, probably fired by a deer hunter, while at work on the road between Green field, Mass, and Bernardston yester- day.
The Parker post., 1913-10-11
IMPERIAL FLUME BREAKS.

Seventy thousand acres of
land under irrigation on the American
side of the border in Imperial valley
are without water as result OF the
bursting of the big Encena flume.
The break came at the point where
the flow from the Colorado River is
carried across the New River Can
yon, in Mexican territory
The water te the damaged point is
carried i'll a flume over 1000 feet
long, and the woodwork gave way
through decay.
In addition to the II 900 acres of
land on this side of the border, there
is a large territory in Mexico that de-
pends on this flume for it's water.
Colonel Holabird is of the opinion
that the damage will not be great, as
the cotton in the section is harvest
ed and the water will be restored by
the time farmers are ready to plant
their grain crops.
The Parker post., 1913-10-11
WORLDS Sc RIES.

The titanic struggle between the
New York Giants and the Philadel-
phia Athletics for the baseball cham
pionship of the world has got every
other. attraction and event in this
country backed off the boards this
week. On Tuesday Philadelphia took
the first game of the series, and New
York evened matters up the following
day by defeating the Athletics On
Thursday Philadelphia led off with
one game to the good, having defeat
ed the Giants by score of to 2.
Considerable interest is being tax
en- locally in the series, in common
with all other places in the country.
Here it appears that most of the
fans are picking the Giants to win
the series, but the Athletics have
quite a few hackers here as we'll
The Parker post., 1913-10-11
REPORTS ARE
ENCOURAGING
OGOD CHANCE FOR PASSAGE OF
GOOD CHANCE FOR PASSAGE OF
PARKER BILL BY CONGRESS
AT THIS SESSION-lMPOR
DIFFERENCES SETTLED.

Several telegrams have been re-
ceived by the Board of Trade during
the past week from A. S. Prescott,
who is in Washington in the inter-
ests of securing legislation for the
opening of the Colorado River In
dian reservation.
Mr.. Prescott arrived at the cap
ital last Saturday evening, and on
Monday morning he started in to
work Several conferences were
held during the week with officials
of the interior department and Office
of Indian Affairs.
From the reports which have been
received it is evident that salts
factory adjustment of the differences
relating to the terms of the propos-
ed legislation will soon be accom-
pliShed.
An amended bill, satisfactory to the
interior department, is to be drawn
up, and there is no doubt of it's pass
age as soon as congressc an get to
1t. Mr.. Prescott expects to stay in
Washington until the bill is passed,
if there is a possible chance for it
to go through at this session Of con-
gress.
The progress which Mr.. Prescott
is making in Washington is told from
day to day in kilograms and letters
to the Board of Trade, andanyone in
terested may have access to these
by calling at the office OF The Post.
where they are kept on file.
The Parker post., 1913-10-11
SHIPPING IN SHEEP.

w. n Cuddeback has $500 head of
stock sheep at his ranch at Monolith
which will be shipped to the Palo
Verde valley within few days. The
sheep were driven to Tehachapi from
near Bakersfield and it is necessary
that they should have a few days
in which to recuperate their strength
before being loaded on the cars.
This is the first of series of ship
ments which Mr. Cuddeback expects
to make to the bottom lands along
the Colorado river He expects to
have 10000 sheep grazing there be-
fore the winter is we'll started-Te-
hachapi Tomohawk.
The Parker post., 1913-10-11
LAKE OF 1000
SQUARE MILES
GIGANTIC SCHEME is ADVOCAT-
ED BY COL. ROBERT PERRIN,
NOTED IRRIGATIONIST FOR IR-
IRRIGATION OF ENTIRE SOUTH
WEST.

Robert Perrin, one of the men who
in Fresno county, California, pio-
neered the movement for the riparian
rights of the people of the whole
southwest, the man who built the
first Of the splendid canal systems
which now cover an immense area of
the fertile San Joaquin of the Golden
State, advocates the creation of
lake, 1000 square miles in area in
the gorge of the Colorado which, he de-
clares would furnish water for the
arid area of the southwest, and still
leave an abundance for the irrigation
Of the Imperial and Yuma valleys,
and the Colorado Indian reservation
when it shall be thrown open at Par
ker.
Colonel Robert Perrin with his
brother, e. B. Perrin, are large land
owners in Northern Arizona They
have a beautiful summer home on
the outskirts of Williams, which the
Perrin family occupies four or five
months every year.
In an interview with a newspaper
reporter at Williams last Saturday
Colonel Perrin is quoted as follows:
''The daming of the Colorado is
feasible, easily SOFT would not in any
way interfere with the scenic beauty
and value of the Grand Canyon, as
the dam could be built far enough a
bove to do away with that objec-
ton. Such a dam would create a
lake of three to five thousand square
miles in area, holding water enough
from the floods to irrigate an i'm
mense area in Arizona and Utah and
still allow the usual flow down to the
mouth for the irrigation projects at
Parker, Imperial and Yuma.
The scheme is SO practical the
wonder is the government has not
taken hold of it long before this
Think Of the electrical power to be
developed, literally millions of horse
power, enough to run the industrial
wheels of most of the United States.
Whatever the cost might he, it would
be nothing in comparison with the
creation of realty and industrial
values
Il understand a gentleman by the
name Of z. NJ. King has been lectur-
ing on this very idea at the county
fair at Elk City, Oklahoma, and will
also take the matter up at the Tulsa
dry farming congress, and later at
the Panama Pacific exposition. He
has large oil painting with which
to illustrate his points. The idea is
worthy of the greatest creative minds
in America. | wish King, God speed
in his work. 1t is bound to win in
the end because it is really so prac
ticable,"
The Parker post., 1913-10-11
BOUSE GOLD STRIKE.

The recent strike of rich gold ore
on the Bouse & McMahon property
six miles west of Bouse, is said to
be proving to be a bonanza. Twenty
sacks of high-grade ore have been
taken out of a twenty-foot shaft,
which, it is reported, will run 81 per
pound The pay streak is eighteen
inches wide, and on both sides of the
pay the ore is of shipping grade. At
several points along the surface the
ore has been traced by open cuts
Preparations are being made to ship
the best grade of ore.
The Parker post., 1913-10-11
TO SURVEY FOR RAILROAD.

The survey for the proposed rail
road to be constructed from Vidal or
Calzona to Blythe will start Monday
morning. A crew of surveyors will
arrive at Vidal today with a COM
plete outfit. 1t is probable that two
or three different routes will be gone
over, but it is generally conceded
that the river route will be the one
selected. 1t appears to be a fore
gone conclusion that the road will
be built, and that work will start
sometime this winter.
The Parker post., 1913-10-11
CHANGE IN BANK OFFICERS.

AT a meeting of the board Of direc-
tors of the Parker Bank & Trust com
pany, held last Friday, J. F. Raney
was elected president to. fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation OF
J. B. Ross, who, on account of his
health, will be absent from Parker
an indefinite period.
Two vacancies on the board Of di-
reetors were filled by adding Ed S.
Osborne and ], B. Flanagan to the
board j. B. Flanagan was elected
vice president to fill the vacancy
caused by Mr.. Raney's promotion to
the presidency
The Parker post., 1913-10-11
MEETING OF
COTTON MEN
GROWERS APPOINT COMMITTEE
TO ARRANGE FOR TRANSPOR-
TATION AND MARKETING OF
CROP.

BLYTHE. Calf, October 9.-The
transportation of the Palo Verde
valley cotton crop to the railroad is
the problem that the Farmers Cotton
Growers Association will attempt to
solve within the next few days. The
Importance Of this question was en-
phasized at the second monthly meet
ing of the organization held last
Saturday.
1t was reported that Floyd Brown
had declared his willingness to go
under bond to carry the cotton to
Blythe Junction as fast as it was gin
ned. Other parties have made a
similar offer.
The farmers organization will make
an effort to enter into some such con-
tract and settle this problem. Sever
crop when they desired do so
last year because it could not be de
livered at the airlorad. BY entering
into a contract for immediate trans
portation Of the baled cotton as sooh
as it is ginned this disadvantage will
be eliminated and the farmer can
take advantage of the best market
prices.
Other matters taken up at the
meeting Saturday related to inducing
cotton buyers to come into the val
ley and in regulating the labor stu
alton so that there would be no com
petition between tn contractors and
ranchers
A trade committee composed of B.
F. HOch, f. e. Schellingcr and j. S.
Rees was appointed to take the IN
itiative in these matters
The following committees were ap
Mulkey. president OF the organiza-
ton Finance-George Kelsey, w. S.
Wilkinson and David Darling Roads
C. c. Hobson, A. L. Gillespie and
Fred Stewart. Display and Amuse-
ments- Randall Henderson, J. O.
Philips and W. H. Root
A special meeting of the associa-
ton will be held tomorrow to act up
on the report Of the trade committee
regarding the transportation Of cot
ton to the railroad
The Parker post., 1913-10-11
COUNTY FAIR EXHIBIT.

SO far as the Riverside county
fair this week is concerned the Pale
Verde Valley is on the map in big
red letters. The Blythe cotton eX-
hibit including several thousand per
fectly formed bolls as souvenirs is
one OF the most striking displays on
the grounds according to dispatches
just received from the county seat.
Until this week the Palo Verde
majority of those who attended the
fair. Those visitors now know this
end of Riverside county as the home
of some Of the biggest sweet potato
es, finest corn and prettiest cotton
they have ever seen.
G. L. Suits, secretary of Blythe
Chamber of Commerce, and Palo Yer
de valleys representative at the fair,
has been on the job all week and for
the greater part of the time has been
surrounded by "a crowd of farmers,
listening with open eyes to his stor-
les Of Palo Vede productiveness.
Thousands of visitors at the fair
wore cotton bolls home and now have
them hanging on the wall where they
are pointed out as a product of Riv-
erside county.
The Blythe exhibit included bale
of cotton, cotton fibre, cotton seed,
plants and bolls in addition to a score
of other products of this valley. The
cotton bale and bolls were from the
Mebane field Of r. F. Thomas, south
east Of Blythe. Mr.. Thomas has som
OF the best short staple in the val
ley this year.
Amang other products on display
at the fair were: Sweet potatoes
by Joe DeFrain and George Ronald;
Corn grown by Geo Ronald and G. G.
Hobson; milo maize grown by Ell
wood E. Todd, J, G. Reed and De
Meyer brothers; peanuts and ramie
grown by Fred Springer; cotton grown
by B. E. Hoch, Dan Shea, and R. F.
Thomas.
A full freight wagon load of pro-
ducts were taken to Glamis by Bob
Clayton who made a record trip be-
tween Blythe and the railroad.
The best exhibit will be forwarded
to the Los Angeles Chamber of Com
The Parker post., 1913-10-11
NEXT VITAL QUESTION.

w. H. Tharpe, sometime of Pres
colt but now of Parker andPhoeniX,
will bring his family here for several
months. He thinks that now the tar
iff is safely out OF the way and ad-
ministration will take up the next
most vital question, the opening of
the Colorado River Indian reserva-
tion.-Arizona Gazette.
The Parker post., 1913-10-11

dalgo, calamity might result from an
appeal to the Hague. l mention this
as possible contingency and as a
plea for a comprehensive solution of
the question
AS an American representative on
the Colorado River Commission" in
terIupted Hill, 81 was assured by the
MADEIRA administration of the desire
of that nation to peacefully settle the
matter of it's water rights. What the
attitude of present or future govern
ments may be l do not know. But in
International issues, hope for the best
and lcok for the worst"
We, below the line, will help in
any conservation plan which promises
peaceful solution of the difficulty" ="
said W. B. Raymond.
eve land owners want the water,
said \. J. Casebeer, representing the
Parker district of Arizona, 'but Los
Angeles needs more, for the Imperial
valley is It's bread basket and always
will be- Therefore, | ask, we all ask,
where is the reason in di7erting watee
from region of year-around crops
to the one-crop area of the Atlantic
slope, as this Henrylyn and other pre-.
jacts contemplated"
Though Hill was several times
pressed for an opinion Oh the legal
status of the matters from the
Departments viewpoint he diplomati-
cally replied that he is merely an in
strument Of that department. Pri
vately, he stated that the govern
ment's location of reservoirs on the
Green and Grand rivers, both of
which are tributaries of the Colorado,
might be urged as recognition by the
Interior Department of the Interstate
and international status of the
stream
The Parker post., 1913-10-11

merce, where it will be displayed will
the Riverside county products.
FIGHTING JOHNSON GRASS.
Coal Oil is being used successfully
as a destroyer of the pest Johnson
grass on the ranch of E. S. Near
brought to Macarthur ranch in alfal-
ia seed and various methods have
been tried in an attempt to kill it off
Mr.. Macarthur brought roots of the
plant to The Herald office last week
which had been killed with a small
amount of oil and stated that this
was by far the best and most success
full manner of fighting the pest.
The stalks were cut off close to the
to the roots The ground where the
Oil is poured is rendered useless tenn
porarily, but the fact that there is
only an occasional bunch of the grass
makes this loss small as compared
with the loss that will ultimately re-
suit from letting the grass grow and
gain headway.
James LightfOot, deputy hOrticul-
turalist in this district, states that
there are twenty-five ranches in the
valley in which Johnson grass has
made a start. He is urging the farm
ers to take immediate steps to eradi-
cate the weed.
Macarthur is experimenting with dis
tillate as destroyer of the grass
and if successful this will prove a
cheap means of getting rid of it.
BLYTHE CHAMPS DEFEATED.
The Palo Verde baseball world in
general and the Blythe fans in par
ticular awakened, with rude jolt,
to the fact that the national game
has been thoroughly revived for the
winter when Neighbours team hand
ed Blythe's best a 1 to 2 beating
last Sunday in the first scheduled
game this season.
This game was originally arranged
by Captain LeBarron Of Blythe as
practice workout for his future cham
pions. Before the end Of the first inn
ing said future champions had run
up the distress signal and We're earn
estly hoping that Blythe grammar
school team would not be put in to
finish the game in their places.
The Neighbours team, including
Brick Todd, Ben White and Barkefo@
worried through last seasons games,
and did not come within 8 scores of
winning single game. Judging
from Sundays exhibition the Sunny.
side and Blythe teams will have to
begin midweek practice, import
few real players, or fight it with each
other for last place on the percentage
List this season Neighbours looks
like winner
The Terrible Tehachepans, known
in their hauntS as Ellington and
Davis, also recent arrivals, were put
in as pitcher and catcher respectively
in the second inning. These boys,
who are said to have something of a
high school record, showed signs of
class. King, who halls from Bouse,
went in the box the last inning for
Blythe and proved that a desert-bred
pitcher has some advantages after all.
TO NOMINATE DIRECTORS.
An unofficial meeting of the stock
holders Of the Mutual Water COM
pany, to be held next Saturday after
noon, has been announced by notices
posted in Blythe and signed by share
The Parker post., 1913-10-11
THOMAS BRINGS FIRST BALE.

The first bale of cotton to be turn
ed out by the Blythe gin was hauled
in on Wednesday of last week by
r. f. Thomas. The bale weighed
4S3 pounds A second bale from the
same load weighed SOP pounds and
and this bale was sent to Riverside
to be exhibited at the fair.
The gross weight Of the seed cot
ton produced from the bales was 260O
pounds, or 1900 pounds each. This rec
ord shows on unusually high percent
age Of cotton fibre even for the early
season picking. The average gross
weight to the bale for last season
was nearly fifteen hundred pounds.