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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-10-22
MASHED To DEATH
BY BIC ELEVATOR
Robert Campbell Instantly Kill
ed When Pinned to Ceiling
BY Rising Hoist at lnterna-
tionaI Harvester Works.

Caught between the elevator gate
and the ceiling between the second
and third floors at the International
Harvester company building on >. La
fayette St, Robert Campbell, aged %.
of 216 +. Ohio St, was instantly kill
ed Wednesday morning at o'clock.
That the mans death was the re-
suit of mis- own carelessneSS and not
the fault of any of the Harvester
management is the opinion of the
coroner and witnesses Of the tragedy
Campbell was working on the sec
Ond floor and went to the elevator
shaft to bring the elevator up from
the floor below. He pulled the cable
and the elevator started up toward
him. When il reached the floor on
which he was working he reached
through a small protecting gate 10
pull the cable and stop the mech
anism.
The man had been warned. accord
ing TO the international Harvester
MANAGEMENT, not to operate the ele-
vator in this manner. and when his
head and shoulders caught in the gate
which was forced up by the rising ell
evator he was unable TO free himself
anC was ground against the edge OF
the elevator and ceiling. His body
brought the elevator 10 a stop and as
an emplOye released il il fell TO the
floor below. Two deep gaSheS in the
back of the head caused instant death.
His head was mashed until il was
hardly recognizable. his brains oOz-
ing from his skull.
Mother Is Frantic.
Frantic with grief his mother who
lives near the building in which
Campbell met his death. came run
ming 10 the scene when the news was
taken TO her. She was unable to
bear the sight Of her son lying in a
pool of blood on the floor before her
and she was carried TO her home.
Besides his mother, sisters and
brothers. the man is survived by a
wife and two small children. His
body was taken to the Jones under
taking mOrgue where it vii be pre-
pared for burial
The man had not been in the en-
ploy Of the Harvester company for
more than a month. However, il was
said that he had been warned about
operating the elevator. The coroner
is conducting an inquest.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-10-22
KELLER NOMINATION
WON BY "PeLITICS"
All the Methods So Freely Con-
demned by SpeIlbinderS
Were Used by Keller Follow
erS in August Primary
What's the Answer?

While citizen party orators are
claiming throughout every ward that
their party Is the only one free from
politics, that no man can escape using
political methods if he il democrat.
republican or progressive. but that IL
he Is a citizen he Immediately be
comes purged OF the taint men who
have watched the game OF politics
here are wondering how soon they
VIII answer the challenge expressed
in "a simple little announcements. is
sued as paid advertisement by Dixon
W. Place and John a. SwyEart imme-
diately after the citizens primary
I'm all the citizen literature OF
tongue or pen or linotype the charge
has remained unanswered. The citi-
zens after that blast simply laid low
ill they thought people had forgot
ten the incident then went ahead
boldly claiming a monopoly OF mu-
niclpa, purity
The Piace-Swysart statement was
not sensational IN tone. IL ran as
follows:
To the citizens of south Bend:
We wish To publicly express
our thanks and gratitude Co the
voters VINO generously gave uleir
support To our candidacy for
mayor on the citizens ticker. The
ticket was supposed 10 stand for
ciean pOiitiCs and we declare that
we made a clean and honorable
tight for the nomination. We
did not StOOp To- any OF the usual
tricks pTacuced by ward hcclcIs
and crooks"
(Sisncd) DIXON ". PLACE
JOHN y SNNGAR1.
Beyond this simple statement both
( men refused 10 go. They simply
cleared their own skirts of the scan
dal that quickly surrounded that pri~
mary and left the party
Were Not sore Heads"
These men were not disappointed
Office seekers. They were not sore
because they were beaten. Both are
men OF nigh standing in the business
community Anyone VINO knows them
knows that had they been beaten
squarely. they would have taken de-
feat cheertully. taken off their coats
and worked with viii for the winner
and for the principles TO which they
had subscribed
But that they were not beaten
sQuarely. has come 10 be an accepted
fact in South Bend. keller's follow
ers admit IL with tongue in cheek
and shrug OF the shoulders The
men who supported Place and .Swy-
CART boldly assert that every change
made in the past against partisan and
gang politicians in past elections was
true against the Keller organization
in that primary Deals and trades
We're freely made Keller workers
CONTINUED OK PAGE TWO
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-10-22
THE WEATHER

Indiana: CLOUDY tonight
and Thursday. probably
rain in south and rain or
snow in north portion:
warmer in north and cen
tral portions tonight.
Michigan Cloudy to-
night and Thursday.
probably rain or snow.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29
INCREASED TRAFFIC
FOR NEW RAILROAD
Arrangements Made for Interurban to
Handle the Upper Brazos
Bottom Cotton.

Realizing that the value of any rail
road to a community depends largely
upon the amount of money it is ca
pable of putting into circulation
among the people. L. NJ. Hewitt, traffic
manager of the Bryan and Central
Texas Interurban Railroad, some time
ago placed before C. X. Dunlap, traffic
manager of the Sunset-Central lines,
the many advantages offered by his
road for the handling of the cotton
from the upper Brazos bottom which
has formerly been hauled by the
Hearne and Brazos Valley Railroad.
Preliminary to taking any action in
the matter Col. E. B. Cushing, chief
engineer of the Houston and Texas
Central, in company with Mr.. Hewitt.
made a tour of inspection over the
roadbed of the Bryan and Central
Texas Interurban Railroad several
days ago, and upon the strength of
the favorable report rendered by Col
onel Gushing the arrangement for the
handling of the upper Brazos bottom
cotton by the new road has been con-
firmed by Traffic Manager Dunlap,
effective this morning.
This means the turning into Bryan of
twenty thousand or more bales of cot
ton, that has formerly been hauled to
other places, and for every bale Of
cotton that is turned to Bryan so
cents extra for compress charges will
be put into circulation, besides the
wages of the many extra laborers re-
quired in the handling Of this cotton.
This will total to a considerable
amount of money through the year.
This arrangement will also be a
great advantage to the shippers for
the reason that it places their cotton
twenty-four hours nearer the export
markets. besides offering many minor
advantages for their convenience.
Traffic Manager Hewitt is to be con-
graduated for striking while the iron
was hot in this matter and thus Sc
curing this cotton traffic for the new
road, which will mean so much, not
only to the shippers, but to the mer.
chants and business people of this
city.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29

If the Democratic currency bill,
now in process of formation, succeeds
in establishing a more elastic cur.
rency, such as will prevent money
stringencies and panics, and system
of rural credits, it will be long step
forward and great blessing to the
country. This thing of few finan.
ciers being able to precipitate a
panic at their pleasure is disgrace
to this government. Likewise the an.
nual spring money stringencies that
compel the farmers to go to the
money changers and mortgage their
immortal souls for money to make
their crops, and pay rate of interest
that would shame Judas Iscariot. We
are supposed to have government
of, for and by the people, but at the
present writing we are nine million
miles off the track.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29
FIRST PASSENGER
"TRIP ON NEW ROAD

At sos o'clock yesterday morning
the first passenger car service of the
Bryan and Central Texas Interurban
Railroad was COMMENCED, and the trip
was completed without bobble. The
trip was made to Stone City and re-
turn on schedule time, reaching
Bryan on the return trip at 1920
a. m.
The passenger cars loaned by the
Houston and Texas Central came in
Wednesday night and were put into
service yesterday. pending the arrival
Of the new gas-electric coaches which
have been ordered. The new baggage
coach is expected today or tomorrow
The trip was quite surprise to
the management. as the number of
passengers and cash fares for the day
far exceeded their expectations.
The trip was made to Stone City
and return, and as the track on the
west side of the river is being laid
as rapidly as possible. the manage
ment expects to be able to run to
Parker's upper gin by Monday at the
very latest.
There was so much freight to load
this morning that the train started
about an hour late. About car Of
groceries, soda water, ice, dry goods,
hardware, etc., were loaded for the
local trade along the line. This is
new business which has been devel-
oped by the new road, and helps to
add to the money put in circulation
in Bryan that otherwise would go to
some other place.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29

The Houston Chronicle is calling on
Acting Governor Will H. Mayes to be
Governor sure enough and not merely
Ia seat warmer in Colquitt's absence.
The Chronicle wants Acting Governor
Mayes to pardon the four hundred
convicts recommended for pardon by
the commission appointed for that
purpose. 1t would no doubt be money
i'm the States pocket If he would par
don the whole bunch.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29

The sound of the saw and hammer
lis sweet music, but did you ever try
to write burning and brilliant edi
torials with them laundering right
lover your head, and with every blow
of the hammer raining down dust on
your head, your desk and your paper?
If you never did, you should try it. II
is certainly inspiring, soothing and
conducive to great concentration OF
thought.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29
HAPPY TEXAS.

A bumper corn crop-more acreage
and more bushels per acre, promising
when gathered total exceeding 220,-
100000 bushels-is made" in the
fields.
Plus a record-making oats crop,
gathered and binned.
Plus lavish and profitable yields of
garden truck and fruits.
Plus green grass a-plenty and hay
crop unsurpassed.
Plus a rice crop that promises to
thresh out large and sell high.
Crowned by cotton crop that few
believe will fall below 100000 bales.
That's why Texas is incredulous
when travellers down that way talk
about dull times in 'other sections.
IF hard times come" they say,
"we'll never know anything about it
in Texas, except by hearsay."
But the Texas banker, boarding
money to move the huge crops, adds:
I'VE won't feel any pinch If Con-
gress passes the currency bill before
the crop movement begins. Frank
Putnam, in st. Louis Post-Dispatch
Just such rot as the above Is one
of the hardest problems the farmers
Of Texas have to contend with.
There's always some ajckass going
around the country braying about the
big crops, and every time it is. pub
lished or repeated it gets bigger, and
the result is the price goes down like
cat squirrel down a dead limb.
These crop boosters are great
menace, as are also the "big rain" re-
porters. Every time it thunders some
fellow fires in report about a
ground soaker" and the cotton crop
is assured"
There should be law on our stat
ute books protecting the farmers from
just such reports as the above taken
from the Post-Dispatch.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29

Old Billy Sulzer may have let some
Iof his campaign contributions get
mixed up with his own money; he
may have gambled in Wall Street, but
the people of New York should be
thankful that he did not slash the
eternal lights and livers out of the
appropriation bills for the States ed
Itions.
EDUCATIONAL and eleemosynary insti-
buttons.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29
BARBECUE LABOR DAY.

On September l the Carpenters
Union of Bryan will give barbecue
and members OF the union are cir
culating petitions for donations to
help defray expenses on that occasion.
Beef, pork, mutton. and basket din
ner will be served at Royals Lake,
two miles south of the city. Those
who so desire will be welcome to at
tend this occasion and enjoy the
pleasures of the day. Dinenr will be
served at / o'clock.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29
TO PREACH AT FIRST
BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY

The Eagle has been requested to
announce to the public that Rev.
Isaiah Watson of Houston will preach
at the First Baptist Church Sunday,
both morning and evening. The morn
ing services will be held at IL o'clock
and the evening services at S:15
O'Clock. All are cordially invited to
come and a special invitation is ex-
tended to visitors and strangers.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29

"Misapplication of public funds,
nepotism, dope-using, violation of
bankruptcy laws, using his office to
favor relatives, disobedience of Su.
preme Court mandates, judicial tyr.
amy, neglect of duty, and attempted
bribery" are few of the charges
laid at the door of a certain Georgia
judge. Not being familiar with the
conduct of Georgia jurists we are not
prepared to say whether the above is
up to the standard or not.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29
BIDS WANTED.

Sealed bids will be received by the
undersigned for the erection of resi-
dence in the Oak Grove addition to
the city of Bryan by the Brazos Coun
Ity Development Company up to Sep
TENDER 10, 1913. Plans and specifica
tons may be seen at the office OF
Fountain Bros. Right is reserved to
reject any and all bids.
FOUNTAIN BROS.
August 30, 1913.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29

The Houston Post boasts Of the 20.
cent individual chicken pies to be had
in that town. No doubt they are fine.
We tried Chicken stew family
style" at a swell cafe while there re.
Gently, and got plate filled with q
mixture which resembled a cross be.
tween roller composition and Le-
Pages liquid glue, with a chicken
neck embedded in the center. No
doubt these individual pies contain
the neck, and maybe also foot or
the flying end of the wing. Houston
is great on chicken.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29
STOCKHOLDERS NOTICE.

Annual meeting Of the stockholders
OF the Bryan and Central Texas In
teurban RI r. will be held in 1.-The Of.
fee of the Company, in the City Of
Bryan, Tuesday September 18th. at
IL o'clock noon, for the purpose Of
electing the Board OF Directors, and
for the transaction of such business
as may be necessary.
(Signed) l.. NJ. HEWITT,
Secretary Bryan and Central Tex.
as Interurban r. r.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29

Prof. and Mrs. &c. Maggie of Col
lege passed through Bryan today en-
route to Austin, where they will live
in future. and Mr.. Maggie will enter
on the duties of his new position as
chief of the Board of Water En-.
gineers of Texas, to which position he
has recently been appointed by Gov
ernor Colquitt.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29

The charge of challenging to fight
duel" against r. G. Maury, Hous-
toms fighting "deestrict" attorney,
was dismissed by the attorney ap-
pointed to prosecute him. Mr.. Maury
is fighter from way back and scraps
the court, the opposing counsel, the
jurors, the grand jurors, the complain
ant, the witnesses and would take on
a few bystanders. He has paid a
number of fines for fighting. and sew
eral fines and one jail sentence for
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29

We once heard a 72-year-old Brazos
County citizen say that he was al.
ways willing to serve the State,
when asked If he claimed his exemp.
tion from jury service. 1t is the same
way about postoffices. There is not
a single Democratic patriot in the
country that will claim any exemption
whatever.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29

The trouble with Mexico is, that
about the time President Wilson gets
the present trouble Strengthened out
and quiet restored, ruction will
break out in another place. Mexico is
very much on the order of the old
time negro political heeler-it won't
stay fixed.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29

Once and awhile the name Of an
"also ran" gets into the papers. Tom
Campbell's is sometimes mentioned,
likewise Cone Johnson's, and just this
week we saw Horace Chilton's and
NJ. NJ. Cranes. That of the grand old
trust buster however, seems to have
gone to the melting pot for good.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29

The dry weather, we are informed,
has also greatly interfered with the
''possum and later" crop, and that
hurts.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29

contempt of court. He wants law and
order and is going to have it If he
has to lick every man in Harris Coun-
ty to get it.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Prince Adams and Maude Washing
ton.
r. l.. Gibson and Lillian Jordan.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29

Jerome says New York does not
want Thaw. Then there's some sort
of lie out.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-08-29
NOTICE, -UsLlc!

would like to saw your mood,
NV, L/wYATTr
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-05-24
FRANKS VISIT 70 oT7uMwh

Dear Editor Courier Junior:-Thanl
you for the nice presents you sent uas
for writing about my Grandma Haw
baker In the alphabet contest.
The card you sent to me has a pic
ture OF the cannon that Is in one OF
the Ottumwa parks on it. Once waa
there and saw it.
A man was busy moving and sprink.
ling the grass.
There were people sitting on each OF
the seats I see in the picture. can.
not see the one where we sat. It was
farther up in the park. The dark spot
on the cannon Is where there is hois
made by shot fired by an American
gunner.
The trees are large and make y
pleasant shade. It was a nicer place
to wait between trains than at the de.
pot .-.,~
Another time when I was in Ottun.
wa papa took me to the Courier build.
ing and we were shown all over it. The
linotype machines pleased me most
We were not there when the paper was
being printed 50 did not see any
printing done. .&. -
FRANK Mckee, kge 13.
Birmingham, la.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-05-24

can tell you how many have. have
eight full cousins but one is dead and
I have six second cousins. There are
three uncles I have never seen. MY
papa's brother. And also two cousins
I have never seen.
MY mamma has about seventy.hve
little chickens and f1ve hens setting.
We have the Plymouth Rocks and
Rhode Island Reds.
My papa has taken the Ottumwa
Courier for q year now. He has tahen
it once before. He Is going to sign for
1t again I expect, and am glad be-
cause | would miss the Junior page
and Mutt and jeff If he didn't. I al
ways turn to Mutt and JET first and
then to the Junior page. don't ike
the pictures that are in place Of Mutt
and JET very we'll. like to read the
stories that are before the Junior let
ters.
How many Of the Juniors like to
milk. l for one don't like to but l do
anyway because we milk eight cows
and viii have about twelve. We have
no separator.
Well, I expect had better quit for
this time as have written quite q long
letter. I will write about what Is on
my card next time. l would like to
exchange cards with any OF the Jun
Tor friends that wish to do 80 and Will
answer all receive.
Fac Littleton, Age IL.
Charlton, Iowa, Route No. Z.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-05-24
LUELLA's COUSINS.

Dear Courier Junior:
I am going to try in this contest,
because l like to read the Junior.
I have a cousin whose name is Zade
Hall. He has sister whose name is
Hazel. Zade lives in Kansas City. /
am not very we'll acquainted with
him and 80 I cannot tell much about
him. ...- --.
I have forty-one cousins. Three in
Moulton, one in Colchester, Ill. Her
name is Mymie Latta I have three
in Oklahoma. Their names are Harry,
Clarence and Edith Johnson. -Four IN
Florida. whose names are Ollie, Mary,
Cal, and Sadie PoyeH. Also four in
Chicago, whose names are Lillian,
Vivian, Stella and Helen Johnson.
Three in Kansas City, Mo-, Zade and
Hazel Hall, and Edith Ball. -Four In
Mexico. Their names are Rosamond
Geisler and ZENITH, Albert and Cecil
Mathews. Five in Kansas, Ferry,
Matty, Bessie, Clyde and Fred Ere
land. Nine in st. Joseph, Mo. Their
names are Gertie, George, Betty, Paul
and Charles Devore, Callie Marshall
and Verde and George Erwin. I do
not know the names of my other four
cousins, who live there. I have one IN
California whose name is William
Wood. Luella Wood.
MOulton, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-05-24
GLU'S COUSINS LIVE EVERY
WHERE.

Dear Editor:-I thought I would
write about my cousins.
Two of my cousins are twin boys,
their names are Willie and Dannie.
Hutton. They have light complexion,
light hair and blue eyes and awful cute.
My cousin Milt German lives in Can
ada. My cousins names are Ross, Sam,
Milt, Russell, Clarence, Mary, Glen and
Charley German.
Mabel, Myra, Fay, Ben, Brace, Rim
die, Ruby, Johnnie, Willie and Dannie
Hutton.
Claude, Floyd, Gladys, Dora, Nancy,
Elsie, Ray, Inez, Ransom, Opal and
Grace McCleary.
Mary, Charley, Jake, Harvey, Bur
dell, Clifford, Emma, Nora and Myrtle
Kali.
+ Walter, Elsie, Russell, Gale, and Yer
non Sutherlin.
Ella and Raisey Clodfelter, Estal and
Frances Wall, Eunice, Ralph, Naomi,
Daneth, Bertha, Lawrence, CARNEY,
Mary Sutherlin.
Charley German is my cousin Ross
Germans son. His mamma Is my
aunt. She is dead and he lives with
his grandparents, James and Malinda
German. H..
I have six sisters and two brothers
Their names are Leila, Ruth, Gladys
Vera, John Walker, Stella, Dulana and
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-05-24
GOLDIE'S AUNT9.

Dear JuniOrS: .-r.e. ..
I am a girl II years old. .
Ihave brown eyes and brown hair. I
am five feet and two inches tall and
weight Sc pounds.
have but one brother and no sisters.
My brothers name is Oswald Okely. He
is 9 years old. He has brown eyes and
black hair. ~
I have one cousin whose name begins
with M. Her name is Manila Colbert.
She lives in Vandalia, Mo-. She is Is
years old and in thN eighth grade.
One Of my school teachers names
commenced with M. Her name was
Mae Hartwick. She taught one term IN
Highland Center, la. liked her fine.
She lives in Bloomfield, Iowa. 4,
I have friend whose name begins
with M. Her name is Mae Arganbright.
She lives close to us. It is about two
miles.
I have two aunts whose names begin
with NJ. Their names are Mary Goudey
and Matte Tolbert. Aunt Mary lives in
South Dakota. She has got seven chill.
dren, one boy and six girls Aunt
Matte lived in Missouri She died i
short time ago. e..
I have lots Of relatives whose mama
begins with NJ but none whose name
begins with M.
Goldie e. Butler.
Ottumwa, Iowa, r. No. 3.