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The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1913-06-19
ADVERSE DECISION.
Supreme Court Holds That Riparian
Owners Have No just Claim
for Damages

Washington, June I6.-The Su-
preme Court to. day decided that
the Federal Government was not
financially responsible for thefood-
ing of more than 100 plantations
on the Mississippi as a result Of
levee construction. Efforts were
made to bold the government re.
sponsible for the value of the lands
flooded, in all about $1,000, 900.
According to the decision the
only legal remedy plantation own
ers along the Mississippi have
now, and their only chance to re-
cover for damages to their lands
caused by Federal levee construc.
ton and river improvement, lies
in congressional action. Under
present laws and to-day's decision
of the Supreme Court owners are
powerless to recover damages from
the United States in these cases.
The court to-day handed down
decisions in the cases of Mary E.
Hughes and Matte w. Jackson ct
al, on appeals from the Court of
Claims in the suits of the claim
ants arising out of alleged dana
ges sustained to their properties
and plantations by the United
States as a result of work done IN
the Mississippi.
The Hughes case is almost iden.
tical with the Jackson case. Chief
Justice White handed down both
decisions.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1913-06-19
w. c. T. u.
[Edited by Local Union
A Manufacturers View on the
Saloons.


Those who, lacking definite In
formation. still claim to hold the
view that prosperity in commun-
ity is injured through prohibition,
may read with profit statement
made by w. g. Follansbee, Of the
Follanshee Bro'hers. a noted Amer
ican manufacturing concern, rated
as having a capital Of ST 900, 900
and payroll of S., ,ooo. 900 per
year. When searching for a loca-
tion for his great enterprise. Mr..
Follansbee was urged to locate In
the CITY Of Wheeling. W. Va,
which was hen under license, and
in late address in that city favor
Ing statewide local option. he
said:
While you have better trans
poration facilities than has our
town and while your fuel supplies
are as gond and while the same
Ohio river flows past both places,
we turned away from Wheeling be
cause of your saloons, and the pay
roll of 81. 900. 900 was kept ont of
your city by your grogshops."
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1913-06-19

sentenced to 90 days in jail; Dan
Perrino. another. fined $3.50 and
sentenced to 60 days, and George
Wong, the Chinaman, was fined
sIoo. which he promptly paid.
The other trials were postponed
because the main state witness was
called to Jacksonto appear in simI--
lar cases before the Kinds County
circuit court
Sheriff Bagnell employed a ne
gro detective to work up the cases.
He came highly recommended for
the job. and the convictions
which were had before good juries-
indicate that he did good work.
No one wants it see innocent
people punished. bnt if those. yet
to be tried are found guilty they
deserve punishment.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1913-06-19
HONORS REOUIsITION.
Gov. Brewer at Last Turns Walters
Over TO the Louisiana
Authorities.

Jackson. Miss June Gov.
Brewer at II:I5 tonight honored
the requisition of CIV. Hall. oi
Louisiana calling for the transfer to
Louisiana of w. c Walters. now
held in Jail at Columbia. Miss.
charged with the kidnapping of the
Dunbar boy.
The decision was rendered at a
conference with Messrs. Dale and
Rawls, counsel for the accused
man.
In honoring the requisition
Gov. Brewer said: I'm passing
upon this application for requisi
ton I nave done so with great
care and caution in view of the
fact that this case presents many
peculiar aspects In the first place
1t presents a case where a man IS
to be taken out of the jurisdiction
of this state and removed from
his witnesses and where their at
tendence to testify for him cannot
be compelled. I therefore refused
to grant the requisition hastily I'M
til i could give the Louisiana au-
thorities ample time to consider
the question well and as practical
man, knowing the excitement that
attends such matters all over the
country. and as there was some
time to elapse before the court was
to convene where he was to he
tried, could see no harm that
could come by a reasonable delay.
There is a sharp conflict In the
facts. Many good, reputable. dis
interested witnesses in this state
are willing TO swear positively that
this man was in Mississippi and
that the child is Bruce Anderson
and not Robert Dunbar. but this
is a question of fact that l think
should he decided by the court of
Louisiana and the courts of that
state may be presumed to give the
man fair and impartial trial.
IT have sufficiently delayed this
matter to give time for the passions
of the people to subside and for all
parties to be heard and believe that
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1913-06-19
HOs In Chicago.

Chicago, June I6.-Records OF
the local weather bureau for hot
weather In June were equaled to-
day. when at p. NJ. the mercury
In the comparatively" cool oh
servatory tower registered 60 dr
grees. There was one day fnJups
1873. and two iu June. 1911, when
ths heat was as intense.
Five deaths today were atlritut d
to The weather. and there were ru'
merous pfostrations.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1913-06-19
A Bio RAID.
Nine Charges of Unlawful Retailing.
Three Trials, All Convicted.

Last Friday Sheriff Bagnell and
deputies, assisted by Marshal Mad
dox and Assistant Phillips. arrest
ed nine women and men on a
charge of unlawful retailing They
are P. H. TraxIer, ]. JaIenak,
Sidney Belt, Robert Page, Dan
Perrino, George Wong, Frances
Burrell. Cynthia McCray and Diuk
Brown. The last three are women
and Wong is Chinaman.
Only three of the accused have
been tried. and all convicted by
jury. The trials took place Mon
day and Tuesday before Justice E.
w. Davis Frances Burrell, one
of the three was fined 5000 and
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1913-06-19


In nine of the forty-eight states
of the American union the liquor
traffic is now under the ban BY the
state prohibition law The honor
roll includes: Georgia, Kansas,
Main. Mississippi, North Carolina,
North Dakota. Oklahoma, Tenn
.essee and West Virginia.
The last named was admitted TO
the fraternity Of prohibition states
on November S when the electors
Of the state by a majority of 70. 900
votes declared their determination
to permanently, disIegalize the evil,
producing business of making and
selling Intoxicating liquor.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1913-06-19
sUFFRA0ETTE NEWS.
The Tnsmore Club Dives Out the Fol-
lowing 10 the Public.


The cause Of equal suffrage is
progressing. The fact of its gram
in popular favor cannot be denied.
Recently the Congressional com
mitee on Woman's Suffrage un-
animously recommended the yas-
passage of the Chamberlain res
olution, which resolution provided
that the National constitution be
so amended as TO provide for suf-
trage. If Congress adopt this res
olution the amendment will have
to run the gamut of the various
state Legislatures as is the case
with all National constitutional
changes. But the question
would go to the individual atates
with the powerful backing of
Congressional approval.
Illinois has recently granted
partial suffrage to women. Ten
States now give women equal yot
ing rights as Wyoming, Col
orado, Utah. Idaho, Washington,
California, 0fegSa Michigan. Ari
zoua, Kansas. In many other
states women have limited suffrage
in school matters and bond issues.
In some places women taxpayers
are allowed 10 vote on property
and tax questions. The territory
of Alaska has enfranchised its wo-
men, so that il will enter the Un
ion with equal suffrage established
All of this goes to show that the
cause is gradually gaining ground
In the last presidential election T.
200, 600 women voted.
The suffragettes have fought
long fight and will win. With po-
lite and good tempered methods
the American women are steadily
gaining; unlike the English women
with their lawless outrages, who
are making no advance.
The American woman by peace
ful methods is drawing attention
to her stupendous movement as
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1913-06-19
TIMELY SUGGESTIONS
The Department OF Agriculture Urges
Farmers TO Destroy the
Boil WeevIIs.

A few of the farmers of Clai-
borne county are having the weev-
lis and squares picked and de-
stroyed, but the large majority are
doing absolutely nothing except to
cultivate as best they can. In this
connection, the following dispatch
from Washington is indeed inter
esrlng:
Washington, June I5.- The
United States Department of Agri
culture, Bureau of Plan. Industry,
Farmers Co operative Work, gives
the following suggestions for con
troll of the boil weevil:
The boil weeviI is beginning TO
appear on the young cotton, and
in some sections they are coming
out in large numbers. Many farm
ers become alarmed when the
weevil first appears in the spring.
There is no cause for alarm at the
appearance of the weevil at this
time. Any farmer can succeed in
growing a good crop of cotton in
1913 under worst weevil infesta
ton by observing the following
rules:
First-Go over the fields once
or twice each week and catch every
old, over wintered boil weevil pos
sible before the cotton begins to
set squares.
Second-As soon as the cotton
begins to set squares go over the
cotton once or twice each week
and carefully pick and burn all
squares that have been bunctured
by the boil weevil. Our former
instructions were to attach a pole
to the handles of the cultiyator SO
as to knock the brush and hasten
the falling Of the squares Later
experience in Louisiana has con
vinced US that it IS better to go
over the cotton twice each week
and, with short stick, bend the
cotton stalks about and pick the
squares from the stalks that have
been punctured by the weevil. A
careful hand will soon become very
expert in detecting squares that
have been punctured. The most
successful Cotton growers iu Louis
lana, working in cooperation with
the farm demonstration work, have
found that it pays to go over the
cotton twice each week and pick !
the squares both from the stalk
and from the ground. When this
work is done carefully and kept up
until the middle of August the boil
weevil will be practically extermi-
mated, and a good crop of cotton
can be made.
Third-Keep up rapid, shallow
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1913-06-19

cultivation of the crop until the
bolls begin to open.
If the above instructions are
closely followed any farmer 10
weeviI territory can make a crop
of cotton. Many farmers fail to
make cotton with the weevil be-
cause they have no confidence in
their ability to succeed and go
about their work in half hearted
manner.
Many farmers fail to make cot
ton because they refuse to careful
ly and regularly pick up and burn
the punctured squares.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1913-06-19

this question is one that should be
decided by the courts and not by
me and I therefore grant the requi-
siion. All the questions of his
guilt or innocence are matters of
facts for the court or Jury to de-
eide and which I do not undertake
to decide. =
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1913-06-19
Has Been Tried.

The police court magistrate Of a
southern town was talking to his
friend. distilIer. "Judge," " he
asked, have you ever tried my
No. I brand of old Markham?"
No. John, admitted the magis.
trate, 'but I tried three men In
court today who had tried it.p
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1913-06-19

In a recent article from a Cali
fornia paper woman's suffrage was
advocated as a means of lessening
crime. c. E. Sebastian, chief Of
police in Los Angeles, California,
declared that "through suffrage
crime had been materially lessened
in Los Angeles"
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1913-06-19

was seen by the recent "Hike" to
Washington, and by parades from
city to city.
Takes Little Time From Business.
The argument that women will
take time from home affairs and
neglect all home interests if al
lowed to vote is one that has been
advanced SO often against woman
suffrage as to have become thread
bare. Does it seriously interfere
with mems business TO vote? How
much time in the run Of year
does it take to vote? If voting
does not interfere with mems busi-
ness then why is it "supposed" to
interfere with women's business2
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1913-06-19

"Woman's Suffrage is no longer
a dream, but reality, and is a
movement which should command
respect,p says Senator Works.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-01-30
Cur Correspondents Department
Pick Ups.

Yves Davidson, the trapper, caught
a weasel last week. The first that
was ever known to be caught in this
neighdorhood. so of course it was
quite curiosity.
H. A. Busing and daughter, Miss
Anna were callers at Mr.. Gamble 3
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Borcher spent
Sunday at Henry Eckhof's.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. M. Pillsbury
came over Saturday and brought
Mother Barragree home. She had
been visiting them for the past week.
The party at Mr.. Mitchells JAM
uary 18th was well attended and all
present report an enjoyable evening.
Some of the neighbors helped
Walter Fisher move the house from
John Hopkins place to his claim
Friday.
Miss Jennie Paden spent the week
end with Miss Velma Gamble.
There is much talk of building a
Methodist church in this neighbour
hood. We hope they will succeed
In their cause.
Joe Paden has been visiting in
Pratt for the past week.
Some telephone talk going on in
our locality. We hope they will
carry out their plans.
The Paden young folks and Ora
Easton and sisters spent Friday eve
ming at the home of Mr., and Mrs, ,
Harry Gaddie,
Ns---- '
The party at voll Barragree's we
are told, was we'll attended Saturday
night and after delicious refresh
ments were served the guests de-
parted at late hour reporting a
lovely time,
Mrs. Magdaline Osborne spent
last week with Mrs. Voll Barragree.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-01-30
Sand Creek Valley.

Thos. Roberts of Burton, Kansa.
has been visiting at the home of hi.
daughter Mrs. G. N. Grubbs since
Friday. He returned to his home
Monday.
Truman Rhoades has been build.
ing fence for Percy Walden the pas,
week.
R. W. Grubbs and family, Miss
Gladys Walker and T. E. Chilcot,
spent Sunday with ]. E. Mckinney
and family. A pleasant time was
reported.
W. E. Page and ]. A. Reneau at
tended the Sale near Fowler We'd
nesday.
S. P. Currier is having the bal
ance of his corn shucked out this
week.
Farmers are beginning to get busy
in this neighborhood. J. A. Will
Jams has been disking this week and
says the ground is plenty moist
where the stubble held the snow.
Robert McGaffin of Meade spent
Saturday night and Sunday with 7.
f. Mckinney.
Roy Woods has moved the build
ing recently purchased at the Isaac
Sale and is converting it into a barn.
H. M. Coon and wife were Fow.
Ter visitors Tuesday.
julius Meyer has quit trapping
since loosing most all of his trans.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-01-30
Men
Are Creating a Furore
WITH CHICAGO FAIR SEX
The Newest Shaving Process

The menof Chicago have sud
denly required an attractive COM
plexion. The reason for this is,
they are now shaving their faces
with the newest process, called
1.-THE Velvet-Edge Safety Razor
Blade Sharpener," which gives
that velvety smooth skin to the
constant shaver.
You men who use safety rag
ors and want a velvety skin,
shaved with the delicate softness
so much desired, with a keen
cutting edge, send your old safe
ty razor blades at once to Chicago
and have them sharpened by the
newest electrical process, which
makes the old blade cut better
than the new, and your old
blades are returned to you a per-
feet new blade.
Don't throw away your old
safety razor blades, but send
them today, well wrapped, and
do not delay it until tomorrow.
Price, 30c per dozen for all
safety razor blades, which in
clude Gillettes, Ever-Ready,
Gem, Auto-Strop, Enders, Keen
Kutter, and all other makes.
Your blades will be returned to
you in few days, charges pre-
paid. Send coin or stamps. No
orders accepted under 3Oc.
d. H. GOLDIE & CO.,
Velvet-Edge Sharpeners,
Main Office, 1876 River ST..
Chicago, Ill.
N. B. Wrap blades securely
in card board box. Do not
send them in an ordinary en-
velape, the blades may cut
through and be lost. Include
your name and p. o. address ON
the package,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-01-30

Mr.. Dell Simmer returned to
his home in Kane Illinois to-day
after spending a week with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. D. Skin
ner. His sister, Mrs. Thurston
accompanied him and will spend
a few days at his home before
returning to her own home in
Bowling Green Ohio.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-01-30

G. f, Gallagher was in from
his home in Cimarron county
last week and while in the Her.
aid Office informed us that he is
now feeding his Russian thistles
which he put up for hay last sum-
mer. Gallagher says the this
ties are as fine as anything he
ever fed and hereafter he will
put up good supply of them.
He cut the crop when the thistle
was very tender and it is seem
ingly as good as hay or alfalfa,
by the way stock goes goes after
it. The western Kansas farm
ers have been putting up hay of
this kind for years and regard it
as exceptionally good. -Guym on
Herald.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-01-30

A Kansan is the inventor of a
successful machine for thresh-
ing wheat as it stands IN the
fields, delivering the threshed
and cleaned grain to a packer
and leaving the straw standing
in the field. The inventor of
this revolutionary thresher of
standing of gram isCharles c,
Baldwin of Nickerson, who has
built working model of his ma
chine, thoroughly tried it out and
has orders for as many as he can
manufacture for delivery next
season. The thresher weighs
about $500 pounds and is drawn
by four horses. The machinery
is driven with a 25-horse-power
gasoline engine. In place of a
sickle 9-inch cylinder with 4.
inch teeth is used. The grain
is held against this cylinder by a
strong blast of air, and the cyl
inder turning away from the
grain, threshes it and throws It
into a cavity behine the cylinder,
The current OF air causes a sue
ton which draws it down into
the cylinder. A lifting finger
can also be used where most of
the wheat is down is necessary.
The thresher, it is claimed, can
be run with the aid of four horses
and one man, taking the place of
the entire harvesting and thresh
ing crew, thus reducing the cost
to about one-seventh. The straw
is left standing on the ground
Colman's Rural World.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-01-30

Easter comes on March %,
this year. 1t will not come that
early in the season again until
after the year 1000. Well, we
don't care in particular. By that
time we expect to be spending
our casters in a land where edi-
tors cease from trouble and the
weary are at reSt.-Ex.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-01-30

The first passenger train
steamed into Hugoton late Mon
day evening bringing with it
eleven passengers. The train
stayed over night here and left
at $50 Friday morning for Dodge
City. Quite a number of pas
sengers went out, among them
being, A. B. Lynch, J. A. Mccoy
and George Baldum.-Hugoton
Hermes.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-01-30

The News Office has several
times asked its readers to phone
us news items. We again make
the same request. We will al
so publish news items written
up and sent in. Such items are
to bear the writer's name and be
in our Office not later than We'd
nesday noon. Our phone num-
Der is 7. Don't hesitate to call
us when you have an item of
news.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-01-30

Farmers meeting February
II, 1913. Program in next
weeks paper. Select your ex.
hibits of kafr, milo, corn, wheat,
and cane and have it ready. We
want the best Farmers meeting
ever held in the county.
r. w. Campbell
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-01-30

Mrs. Pearl Wood Smith, coun-
ty Superintendent-elect spent
Saturday and Sunday with home
folks, Owing to an unusual lot
of school work, this is her first
visit home in several weeks.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-01-30

Meade county is to have new
industry. A mining district is
soon to be opened up in the
Crooked Creek country to con-
vert the silica deposits into wash
ing powder.-Santa Fe Monitor.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-01-30
Rock Island Time Card
WEST BOUND

No. Passenger nay A. NJ.
No Isl Passenger sos P NJ
Stops county Seats, Fowler, Mineola, Pla;as
No. 3 Limited e:s8 P. NJ.
mo Stopl
No. 80 Passenger 1857 p M.
No s. Local 3'cs P. NJ.
EAST BOUND
No. Passenger I2:43 P. M.
No. 7Sz Passenger 4:oS n
Stops county Seats, Fowler, Mineola, Plains
No. 80 Passenger 4:o3 A. NJ.
No. 4 Limited 8:a7 A. NJ.
mo Stop]
No. 81 Local gas A. M.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-01-30

Mr.. Bennett, the Meade tele-
phone man was here Monday on
business with Manager Sloan, of
our telephone company.-Pratt
Union.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-01-30

County Commissioner John
Cordes from the second district,
was transacting business in
Meade Monday.
The evening world., 1913-03-05
1.-THE Wings of the Morning 1a1 ts 11' s By Loui
By Louis Tracv

capitalist OF this island morgue was a
Lascar Jeinadar. who In a belt around
his waist boarded more than onS Gun
drcd pounds Ia gold.
The sailor tied in n handkerchief all
tho money he collected. and ranged
pocketboOks. letters and jewelry IN sep-
arate little heaps Then he stripped tho
men OF their boots aud outer clothing.
lie could not tell how long lhs sll
and he might Do detained on tho island
before hoIp came. ana fresh garments
were essential II would be foolish sen
tlmcntillty to trust TO stores thrown
..sAurc nom tho ship.
Neyertheicss, when II became rec~s'
sary to search aud dIsroba tho women
fo almost broke u1Nn. FOR an instant
he softcned. Guiping back mis- emotions
with savage impEecution he dosge1ly
persevered. At last he paused 10 cUn-
kIder what should he done with The
bodies. His first intent was 10 scoop
a large hole Ia the sand with ~ piece
OF timber: out when he took into con-
tiderdtion the magnitude OF the lacur
Involved. requiring many hours OF hard
work ana waste OF precious uuns
winch might be OF inhnlie value To mis-
helpless companion ami himself. no "as
forced TO abandon the project. u Sas
not only impTacticaDle but dangerous
NehD ne Hdi ~ htb wan
grim resolution. one by one the bod!ei
we're shot into the lagoon from the little
quay OF rock. He knew they would not
be seen again.
lie was quite unnerved now. He felt
as II he had committed = colossal crime.
In the smooth water of the cove nun
Der Of black ms were cutting arrow
shaped Tpples. The sharks were soon
busy. lie shuddered. Gods providence
had terried him and the girl across that
very place few hours ago. How won
derful that he and she should be
snatched from the sea while hundreds
persisted Why was ~ Ana those 9th
ers--Nhy were they denied rescuel For
An instant he was nearer TO prayer than
he had been for years..
Some lurking hend OF recoliectio
sprang from out tho vista OF bygone
years and choked back the impulse. II,
arose and shook himself like 4 dos,
There was much to be done. He gath.
cred the clothes and other articles into
heap and placed portions OF shattered
paeking-cases near-to mlsIead Iris.
While thus engaged he kicked UP out OF
the sand rusty kr!ss. or Malay sword.
The presence Of this implement startled