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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-02-25

| Although lacking numerically,
/ those assembled In mass meeting at
the Court House last night gave evil
ldencn III enthusiasm, unanimity OF
sentiment, and perfect willingness
to listen to the speakers advocating
the casting of a strong vote In
flavor of the 100000 bond issue at
the polls today.
Approximately two hundred per-
sons assembled in response to the
call
Mayor Parsons. following his an
Inouncement relative to the calling
Iof the meeting, was unanimously
chairman.
AT the outset he said that mas
much as there were many speakers
present. who would address the
meeting. he would limit the time of
each to ten minutes and named
James II. Galligan as time keeper.
Seven speakers presented urgent
reasons why in their opinion the
bond issue should have the undi-
vided support of every loyal, pat
riotic citizen.
Metaphors, rhetoric. flights OF
|oratory, appeal to reason and quo
|tation from poets and eminent writ
ers of prose were cited in support
Of the bond issue and even stories
were told which helped to eniiven
the occasion.
One eminent local attorney, clos
ing the meeting, humorously depre-
Gated the injection of poetic quota
tions into the argument, asserting
that the writers were dead and that
the bond issue being an animated
subject. 1t required live men TO get
results in the matter where wraiths
of the past would fail,
The speakers of the evening were
Miles Frederick Gilbert. DR.. w. f.
ICrinstead, C. c. Wilson of the
Baptist Truth. Charles Anderson.
Walter Warder. Judge VIM NJ But
Ter and Angus Leek.
All were very heartily applauded
during the course of their addresses
and at the close. showing that the
sentiment of their auditors were
aligned with them In the cause
they advocated
Today the voters, who have tho
interests of Cairo at heart. Will ex-
lpress their loyalty to the city by
casting an affirmative vote In favor
of the issuance of 100000 in twen-
| tty-year installment bonds, the sum
so realized from the sale of such
bonds to be used in rebuilding and
Strengthening the levee system OF
/ Cairo.
The total sum to be devoted for
such purposes. including the Drain
age District, amounts to s64S,0o0 in
the aggregate
or this amount the Federal Gov
ernment has appropriated $3.50. 600
while the Drainage District viii
give s12s.000 and the railroads
another $220,oO0. Out of The
100000 bond issue which will be
voted today. Cairo is to add $50, 600
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-02-25
BOY KILLED BY
A DEATH LADEN
Wire LAST EVE
Tragedy Occurred When Youngstel
Caugh Hold of Grounded
Guy Wire.

Wickliffe, Feb. 24.-Archie Rol-
Inns, nineteen-year-od son of Webb
Rollins residing two miles out from
WickIiffe, was accidentally eectro-
cuted at 6:12 o'clock this evening
He was handling a guy wire which
happened to be grounded
Death was almost instantaneous.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-02-25
CASTRO OFF TO HAVANA:
RETURNS IN TWO WEEKS.

New York, Feb. 24.-Declaring
that there was no secret purpose in
his trip and that he intended to re-
turn within two weeks to New York
Cipriano Castro. former President OF
Venezuela, sailed today for Havana.
Cuba.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-02-25
CLASH AND CIVIL WAR MAY ENSUE
U. S. Troops Ofdred 10 Prevent Crossing Of
Boundary line While Tait Advises
Still Further Exhibition Of
Patience

AUSTIN TEXAS, FEB. 24-G0v. C0LQUTT AT MIDNIGHT OR
DERED FOUR COMPANIES TEXAS MILITIA TO BROWNSVILLE
WITH ALL POSSIBLE HASTE HE SENT THE FOLLOWING MES.
SAGE TO CAPT. sNEADING, CoENANDING THE BROWNSVILLE
MILITIA COMPANY TO NOTIFY THE MEXICAN COMMANDER AT
MATAM0RAS WHO is DEMANDING MONEY THAT IF "HE HARMS
SINGLE TEXAN HIS LIFE WILL BE DEMANDED AS FORFEIT"
coLQUITT HEARD THAT AMERICANS AT MATAMoRAs WOULD
BE UNTIL MIDNIGHT TO RAISE TWENTY THOUSAND DOL
LARS AND HE IMMEDIATELY TOOK ABOVE ACTION
TECT CITIZENS OF THE LONE STAR STATE. tA
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-02-25
CIVIL WAR MAY RESULT.

WASHINGTON FEB 24-A SERIOUS CLASH MAY RESULT BE.
TWEEN FEDERAL TROOPS AND THE TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD
AT BROWNSVILLE SHOULD THE LATTER ATTEMPT TO CROSS
THE RIO TO RELIEF AMERICANS ALLEGED TO
BE MPERILLED IN MATAM0RAS
WHEN THE WAR DEPARTMENT AT MIDNIGHT LEARNED
THAT C0LQUITT ORDERED MILITIA TO BROWNSVILLE
ORDERS WERE TELEGRAPHED TO BRIG GEN. .sTEEvER TO
SEND TO BROWNSVILLE MMED ATELY SUCH FORCE AS HE
DEEMED NECESSARY UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES TO PER.
NIT THE CROSSING OF THE RIVER BY SOLDIERS EXCEPT ON
SPECIAL ORDERS OF SECRETARY OF WAR STIMSON
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-02-25
AMERICANS ARE IMpERILLEp.

BROWNSVILLE TEXAS FEB. 24-THE AMERICAN RESI-
DENTS OF METAM0RAS, MEXICO WERE WARNED TONIGHT
BY AMERICAN CONSUL JOHNSON BOUNDARY LINE
INTO BROWNSVILLE HE INFORMED THEM THAT THEY WOULD
BE REQUIRED TO SUBSCRIBE TOWARDS MAINTAINING THE GOV
ERNMENT OF MATAM0RAS
DEMANDS WERE MADE FOR THE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO BE
FORTHCOMING TONIGHT 1T Is SAID 1T WAS REPORTED
JOHNsONS LIFE BEEN REATENED AND AN UNCONFIRM.
ED REPORT SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN ARRESTED
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-06-16
Democrats to Be Substituted.

Special to Independent.
Little Rock, June 12.-Ac-
cording to reports from what is
considered an authentic source,
Federal office holders in Arkan-
sas, who have yet a considerable
portion of an unexpired term
before them, will soon be retired
to private life and a Democrat
placed in Office instead. The re-
port is that the officials will be
requested to send in their resig-
nations, as has been done al
ready in several instances, and if
these are not forthcoming, an
order of dismissal will be issued.
In most instances those who
will be affected by the order
have been for a number of years
in the employ Of the govern
ment.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-06-16

select a state ballad is unfair to
the contestants who base their
efforts on merit, for some bit OF
humor is liable to catch the fan
cy of the commission and the ar
tistic creations are side tracked,
He asks the governor to consider
fis song, and have it played and
sung, and then give it to the peo-
people for their own. Finch says
this is the way to make a state
song popular among the people.
He asks for no money, but in a
diplomatic way intimates the
state might bestow a fitting to-
Ken as a mark of appreciation.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-06-16
Tucker To Raise Pheasants.

Captain F. W. Tucker was up
from Little Rock this week
looking after his Glover Bend
plantation. He says he never
in his life saw crops look SO uni
versally good at this time of the
year. Captain Tucker is always
doing things and looking out for
innovations. Hear him: Il am
going into the pheasant business,
John Ginnochio of Little Rock
gave me eleven Chinese pleas
ant eggs which I propose to
have Matched. What will | Go
with them? | have a thousand
acre timber pasture on my plan
tation, and | expect to turn
them into that pasture. They
are Of wild nature and increase
very rapidly. Their plumage is
beautiful, they have a red head
and a long green tail. In rails
ing these birds in captivity they
have to be fed two weeks on
boiled eggs and crackers, after
that time they make their own
living. The last legislature
made it a penitentiary offense
to kill pheasant under five
years from date. These birds
are fine eating, beautiful to look
at and l am looking forward to
the time when I will have the
woods full of them" walnut
Ridge Blade.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-06-16
Official Song For Arkansas.

Special to Independent.
Little Rock, June 12.-Arkan-
sas has a chance to get a song
dedicated to Arkansas alone.
Mont Finch, a St. Louis song
writer, has written to Governor
J. M. Futrell that he has COM
posed a ballad entitled "My Old
Arkansas Home which he
wishes made the official song OF
Arkansas. He declares that the
appointment Of a commission tc
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-06-16
HOW TO MAINTAIN
AN EARTH ROAD
Dirt Road Must BE Crowned and
Drained-Then Dragged After
Rains to be Good Road.

If you look at the ordinary
country road after shower you
will see small puddles along the
wheel ruts and sometimes larger
nools.
This water stays on the road
surface because it cannot drain
away into the side bitches. If
you look closely you will see
side bitches which have grown
up with bushes and weeds in
many cases, and which are so
far from the travelled part Of
the road that the rain water
does not drain into them.
That part of the roadway
where the wagons travel is
ed the travelled way. To pre-
vent water from standing on
the travelled way the road
should be raised in the center
and should slope into broad, shall
low bitches. It is then said to
have a crown. If it is ten feet
from the center of the road to
the side ditch, the surface at
the side ditch should be at least
ten inches lower than it is at
the center where the horses
travel. The road then has ter
inch crown.
The rain that falls on a roaC
properly crowned will run quick
~ to the side and not soak into
the surface or form pools. The
side bitches for surface water
should run parallel to the right
of-way, and should be open al
every point so that the water
can run out of them into the
neighboring boroks or streams
If the bitches merely collect the
water from the road surface anC
it cannot run away, large pools
will be formed along the road
side, which will gradually soal
into the soil beneath the roac
and make it so soft that the
wheels of wagons will cut
through the road surface anc
soon destroy it.
Sometimes water runs from
land along the road into the
road and forms little stream
down the wheel tracks or in the
middle where the horses travel
When driveways into farm
yards are built across the side
bitches, they frequently form
channels for water from the
Farm yard to run into the road
The pipes under driveways be-
come filled with leaves or rub,
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-06-16

addition to the biggest slice of
the $1,000 in cash purses.
Jackson, Miss. will be repre-
scented by thirty horse power
Mitchell. Henry Thompson of
that place has sent in his entry
and will drive his own car.
A number of requests for re-
servations have been received at
Race headquarters Michigan
Motor Car Co. 4th and Monroe
Streets.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-06-16
Interest in 1000 Mile Auto Race

Interest in 1000 Mile Auto Race
Memphis, Tenn, June 15-In-
terest is spreading throughout
the South for the big 100 mile
Automobile race to be run on the
famous two minute course
North Memphis Driving Park on
July 4th is demonstrated by the
fact that we have Just received
two more entries from out of
town.
The Jonesboro Auto Co. will
enter Case racer in an effort to
annex the Tri-State trophy in
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-06-16
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

Daily-Singie copy, cents; per
week 10 cents; per month, 40 cents;
per year, $3.50 in advance, by carrier
In city, by mail In country.
Weekly-$1.00 per year, payable In
advance.
Entered at the postoffice, Newport,
Arkansas, as second-class mail mat
ter.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-06-16

hish and the water can no long
er run away. If the driveways
that stop the ditch water were
rebuilt so that TO pipes we're
necessary and the ditch could be
loft open, much trouble from
surface water would be stopped.
Sometimes d road runs across
low ground or through a swamp
where the road cannot be drain
ed by side bitches alone. If the
road were built higher like a
railroad embankment across
such low land and made with a
crown, it would be dry and hard.
Sometimes a road passes
through what is called a cut.
This is a place where the earth
has been dug out so that the
road can go over a hill without
being too steep. The water
which always flows quietly I'M
der the ground on hill sides is
known as ground water. In
road cuts such water sometimes
makes the road very muddy, and
the road then needs what road
builders call underdrainage. A
good kind of underdrainage is
3 trench to go along under the
side drain and about three feet
deep and a foot and a halW wide.
In this trench a pipe is laid
near the bottom and covered
with loose stones no bigger than
an egg. When the trench is
completely filled with loose
stones the ground water, instead
of soaking into the roadway, will
stop among the stones and flow
down the hill through the pipe.
To keep road smooth and
crowned the best method is to
drag it with a roa ddrag. A Grad
drag is made easily with two
halves of log which has been
split. The log should be about
six or eight inches in thickness
and about six or eight feet long.
The two halves of the log are set
three feet apart with the smooth
faces forward and upright. They
are then fastened together with
braces set in holes bored through
the log. A pair of horses may
be used to drag the road and
are hitched to chain fastened
to the front half of the log,
The road drag should move
forward so that it slants across
the road in such way that q
small amount of earth will slide
toward the center of the road.
past the smooth face of the log
thus forming the crown. The
edges of the logs will smooth
out the ruts. The best way to
drag is to begin at the side ditch
and go up one side of the road,
and then down the other. In
the next trip the drag should be
started a little nearer the GEN.
ter and the last trip over the
road the drag may work close to
1.-THE center itself. Small ridges
of earth will be thrown in the
horse track and smeared by
the round side of the log smooth
ly over the road.
The smearing of the earth by
the drag is called pudding
and it tends to make the surface
of the road smooth and water
tight after the sun comes out.
The road is always dragged af-
ter it has rained and not when
it is dry. A good, strong pair
of horses with a well-built drag
can drag three or four miles of
nnnA Ia q dow and il Is the hest
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-02-24
Death Nothing to
Mexico Cell, Says
Madero's Brother

DELAFlELD, WIS, Feb 24.-"Death
is as nothing 10 the terrors of a Mex
lean prison. Marble walled cells bring
only rheumatism of an incurable nature.
My brother would rather have died than
spent his life in such hell hole. 1
would rather have him dead than suf-
fer such living death"
This was the declaration of Don Car
los Madero, cadet at st. Johns Military
academy whereshe is being educated
for Mexican generalship
Maybe some day l viii try what my
brother failed to do" added the boy,
"but not until am older. My brothers
have died in an effort to bring Mexico
to a firm footing among the nations.
l had hoped General Huerta would
prove a magnanimous president and
save my brother"
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-02-24
Intervention Not
w Warranted as Yet,
Says Wickersham

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 24.-"Not even this
latest development in the deplorable
situation in Mexico warrants interven-
ton on the part of this government"
said Attorney General Wickersham
when told of the killing of Francisco l.
Madero.
THE administration thus far has pro-
ceeded with commendable wisdom in
handling the situation, and the United
States has not lost prestige because of
the attitude she has assumed.
Neither las the potency of the Mon
roe doctrine suffered. Our government
would not be justified in intervening
there until there was wanton killing
of Americans. No such thing has yet
occurred.
The present administration also
would be loath to take hand in affairs
there. and leave the incoming admins
tration to face such a critical state Of
affairs"
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-02-24
Commanders of Guard
Summoned for Probe.

General Mondragon, provisional min
ister OF war, summoned Commaudant
Francisco Cardenas and Colonel Rafael
Pimiento, who were in command of the
rurales guarding Francisco Madero and
Suarez, TO the national palace for all
examination. These officers declared
that there were at least so men in the
attacking party
A reign Of assassina tion has followed
'n the wake Of the revolution ana no
one knows who the next victim Will be.
Provisional President Nictoriauo
Hue.ta and Provisional COMMANDMENTS
Chief FeliN Diaz have not only appar-
entity adopted tho harsh blood ana iron
methods of Po'hrio piaz. but they arc
.n"Nu .o b, u constant ,ommuuiga-
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-02-24
Wholesale Arrests
Being Made.

Since the days of Porfrio Diaz's re-
gime there has not been such a cam
paign Of wholesale arrests as is going
on now. Petty officers are sent out with
detachmeuts Of half dozen soldiers,
with their pockets filed with blank
warrants, charging conspiracy against
the peace and dignity OF the republic"
More than twenty arrests were made
in a night raid early today. Belem
penitentiary is rapidly filing up with
prisoners.
Emissaries representing both Pascual
Orozco, Jr., and Emilio zapata have
arrived in this city and today laid their
terms before the dictators
While reports were coming In that
the killing of Madero and Suarez was
tanning to a higher pitch the flame of
rebellion throughout the republic, Cen
eral Diaz was giving promise to the
people that the end of the revolts
against the provisional government was
near, Diaz is emaciated and pale. but
indomitable, and there is no lessening
in the ardOr OF his spirit
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-02-24
Strong Undercurrent
Of Feeling Apparent.

on the surface the city was norma
today, but underneath the exterior
there were strong currents of feeling.
The people seem contented. ana seem
already TO have forgotten SATURDAYS
bloody work, but there was strong
suspicion. all circumstances considered.
that the severity Of Huerta's methods
has had the effect of overawing the
populace.
The people are looking forward with
apprehension to see what the end is
going to be. While all are hopeful for
the best. it can not be ascertained what
the real effect of the killing OF Ma
dero and Suarez will be.
AS a sidelight upon the temper of
the people, play called lie Grande
Mort was given last night in the Ma
tonal theater The theater was crowd
ed to standing room and the specta-
tors gaily chatted and laughed
throughout.
Il was learned that the remains Of
Senior Suarez will be quietly Inferred
here. The body of Madero will b.
taken TO the state OF Sinaloa. the ma
tive state OF the former president tor
burial
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-02-24
Guards Fired Upon,
Says Government.

According TO this information, the
troops were fired upon from buildings
on both sides of the street, lust as they
were about to turn Off from Cintura
street to the pouitentiary. As the auto
mobile containing the prisoners was in
the center of the party. it naturally
afforded the most conspicuous target,
The firing lasted only few minutes, as
the assailauts had evidently underes-
timated the strength of the force guard
ing Madero and Suarez.
"AIadero and Suarez were being taken
from the national palace to the peni-
tentiary 10 stand trial in the criminal
courts. 1t was because we feared for
their safety in the national palace THAI
the transfer was being made. The pris-
oners did not object to the change and
the hour OF midnight was selected in
order to Illustrate any possible attempt
to liherate the captives.
"The government disclaims any re-
sponsibility for the deaths Of the two
men. and il it is found that they were
Wantonly killed every effort will be
made to find and punish the assail-
ants
II had been on the governments rco-
gram TO try to restore civil law in place
of martial law today. but as a result of
the double assassination this was i'm
possible. on account Of the great num-
Der Of political arrests. the government
also found il convenient to continue a
state Of martial law to expedite hear
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-02-24
FORMER DICTATOR
HOLDING HIMSELF IN
READINESS FOR CALL

KENEH, EGYPT, Feb. 2A--"I am
holding myself in readiness 10 respond
10 the call OF my country in case for
eign complication should arise out Of
the revolution"
Thus Poitlrio Diaa, former dictator Of
Mexico, made known his position in
the present Mexican crisis.
If this complication should not occur
he said he would not return TO Mexico
until settled government had been re-
established there and his temperance
on the scene whore he had held such
long sway could be made without risk
OF being wrongly interpreted.
The aged x-presidcut expressed the
hope that hands Off Mexico" would
continue to be the policy of the United
States.
General Diaz was greatly elated at
the success Of his nephew, Felix Diaz,
and Of General Huerta, provisional
president. whom ne considers quite ca
pable OF working out the salvation of
the republic.
The eX-presidents dahabeah Is tenn
porarly moored at this ancient gather
ing place of pilgrims, whence he has
made several trips TO Denderah and
other noted temples.
The eN-president. after pleading that
his entire aloofness from the politics
of his country precuded any criticism
by him OF the late President Francisco
Madero's administration. made the fol-
lowing statement:
II prefer to say nothing regarding the
faults Of Francisco Madero's rule or the
causes Of the revolution. As political
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-02-24
Sister Calls New
Rulers Cowards.

President HuerJa and General Diaz
are towards and liars" she repeatedly
cried out. "Fhey murdered my broth
er in cold blood. His death is on their
heads. shall never rest until his
death is avenged. They are traitors
and cowardly assassins to murder de-
fenseless men. They had to hide their
crime under darkness. for it was too
cruel and wicked to stand the light of
day"
The defiant girl. young and beauti-
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-02-24

ton with the former president and it IS
believed Portirio Diaz is advising the
new government
The reiteration by President Taft
that the United States will not inter
fere so long as the slaughter is confined
to MeXicans has emboldened the officers
Of the new government and the refusal
of the foreign diplomats. among them
United States Ambassador Henry Lane
Wilson, to attend a luncheon given to-
day by Senor De La Barra, secretary OF
state for foreign affairs, to hear an
official explanation of the assassina-
ton of Francisco 7. Madero and Pine
Suarez near the penitentiary Saturday
night was not looked upon by the pro-
vis1onal cabinet with apprehension.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-02-24
Autopsy Shows
Both AsSassinated.

The result of the official autopsy on
the bodies of Francisco Madero and
Suarez bears out the charge Of Seno-
rita Mercedes Madero. q sistor Of the
slain ex president, that he was shot
down in cold blood. She charged that
they were assassiuated upon orders
given by the government. Two rife
bullets had entered the back of Ma
dero's head, one going through and
coming out in front The weapons
from which the bullets were discharged
apparently had been held close to the
back Of the head. Suarez had eight
ali having been fired from the front
The men We're in an automobile. which
was exhibited later. SCARED and rid
died as if with bullets.
After the autopsy, the bodies were
turned over to the relatives of the
dead men, but relatives would give no
information as to the place nor time
OF burial, for fear Of ehouls,
Sonora Saufusconce Madero. widow
OF the eN-president, is prostrated. She
was at her home today. under the care
Of a physician. At times she was hys-
telical. and in moments of delirium
imagined she could see the midnight
assassin in the gloom Of Cintura street,
where the tragedy occurred.
Although her grief was Just as deep,
Senorita Mercedes showed her sorrow
in another way She gave way to an
sry threats and accusations against the
as.a. 4.