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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-07

Chicago, Jan. 6.-The local directory
gives Anthony Hunt as member of
the University Club and a resident of
a fashionable North Shore suburb.
Efforts, Sunday night, to communi-
cate with his family were unavailing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-07

Kansas crops for 1912 are valued at s7o-
1855, 666
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-07
A FEW CONCESSIONS
IN FAVOR OF BALKANS.

CONTINUED from Page one.)
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-28
BERWICK BACK AT OLD STAND
AFTER WILLIAMS RETRACTS

One month ago the Rev. Elmer L.
Williams, that fighting parson" on
the North Side, whose fighting" has
been conducted chiefly against wo-
men, complained to Mayor Harrison
that Police Sergeant Nick Berwick
was guilty of immoral conduct.
Berwick then was in command Of
Deputy Superintendent of Police
Schuettler's famous crime squad,
which did more real work during the
winter than any other body of po-
lice in the city. 1t worked only on,
the big cases. j
Mayor Harrison, possibly because
of certain conditions in his own ward
on the North Side, chose to fall for
Williams accusation of Berwick.
Berwick was called on the carpet,
bitterly scored, put back Gin harness"
and sent to the woods of the Town
Hall station.
This affair created a great deal of
talk. States Attorney Maclay Hoyne
had but recently sprung his "crime
trust allied with high police officers"
SIuu. Inc newspapers "CAO Auh VI
nasty insinuations about Berwick and
the reason for his reduction in rank
and transfer to the Town Hall sta
ton.
But Berwick's troubles did not end
with his going into harness and
transfer to the woods. Someone, it
is not definitely known who, was
good enough to telephone to Mrs.
Berwick and tell her that her hus-
band had been reduced in rank and
transferred because of his immoral
conduct with loose women. No news
paper had printed this, the actual
charge against Berwick.
The result of that telephone mes
sage was that a home was almost
broken up.
Berwick set out to find out who
had been traducing him. He soon
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-28
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS
GETALITTLE SETBACK

Several Of the Independent con-
tractors who refused to obey the
lockout order of the inner circle of
the bosses association, today got
their first taste of the screws.
A number of building material
firms, which are in league with the
inner circle of the building trades
bosses, are refusing to supply ma
terlals to the independent Contrac-
tors.
This extended the lockout today,
but not so seriously as to cause any
undue alarm.
One of the places affected by the
extension of the lockout was North
western University, where two new
dormitories and five fraternity build
ings are being built.
President Harris of the university
asked c. E. Carson, head of the c.
E. Carson Contracting Company of
Chicago to resume work, but found
Carson as helpless as himself,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-28

very fair, told Berwick that he would
make a personal investigation of the
charges. Within two weeks, ''the
fighting parson" very sheepishly
came to Berwick, admitted that the
charge he had preferred against Ber-
wick was false, that the police Off
GERS record was clean, and that he,
Williams, had been entirely in the
wrong.
Berwick demanded that Williams
retract his charges before the mayor.
Williams wrote to Harrison with
drawing the charges. Today Berwick
resumes his old place as head of the
crime squad.
That is all. Except that a great
injustice was done Berwick, and that
pig-headed persons who believe what
they read in the newspapers never
will believe he was not guilty of the
charges against him; and that the
Rev. Williams got little free adver-
Using and very likely some extra
contributions from his patrons who
want to see him "clean Chicago"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
Chief Of Moonshiners Arrested.

Springfield.-The breaking up of
about the only remaining moon
shine" gang Of the Ozarks has been
accomplished, federal revenue officers
believe, in the arrest of George Smith
OF Texas county, an old man, who is
thought to be the leading spirit Of a
ring of Illicit whiskymakers who have
evaded the law for the last decade.
With Smith was arrested Pete"
Barton, an Ozark mountaineer, who. 1t
is charged, acted as selling agent for
the moonshine stills.
The still had been located many
times by government detectives, but
in every instance it was moved before
arrests could be made. 1t was in a
deep canyon on Big creek, near Bee
Rock, in one of the widest sections OF
southwest Missouri.
Armed men guarded the still.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
Mines Closed and Wages Reduced.

jefferson City.-A report from Jop-
lin concerning the mining business in
that district says
The basis range for zinc sulphide
ores last week was $50 to $50, basis
of 60 per cent metallic zinc, with
premium lots selling up to SAP.
For the corresponding week Of 1912
zinc sulphide brought $54 to $57 n
ton, basis, with choicer lots selling up
to $50. Spelter was then quoted at
$7.15.
Many mines have cut wages, but
there has been no indication of labor
strikes. The workmen seem content
to accept lower pay, temporarily, rath.
err than be thrown out of employment
altogether.
At one large mine in the district the
operators had a great surplus reserve
tonnage at the time that zinc ore was
selling for s64, basis, about il months
ago. They held in the hope Of get
ting $40. The ore Is still in the bin.
Calamine prices, which respond to
sulphide offerings, are weaker at SIS
to $40, basis of 40 per cent metallic
zinc, while the choicest grades sell up
to $24
Low lead ore prices may be antici'
pated as long as metal remains at its
present weak quotation OF $685. to
$3.50.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25

the departing Of the old and the usher
ing In OF new year should be distin-
guished by some observance or cere-
mony appears but natural. and we &C
cordingly find various customs prevail
in different parts OF the country and
of the world. Some are of a sportivo
character. others serious, and In 9th,
ers both mirthful and pensive moods
are intermingled.
One of the best-known and most
general of these customs is that of re-
naming up till 10 o'clock on the night
of December 81, either In the home,
where little family party may be
gathered; in the church, where re-
ligious "watch-night" service Is held,
or on the street, where promenaders
make merry.
In no place in the world is the cele-
bration of New Years eve made of so
much account as in Philadelphia. In o
great measure this Is due to the fact
that 1t is the Cradle OF Liberty" Of the
country, and the bell on Independence
hall is used to announce the age of the
republic with the dawning of the new
year. Thousands of people congregate
about Independence hall, and when the
clock points to midnight and the bell
begins to toll of the years, pandemo-
mum Is let loose with the firing OF
small arms, the footing of horns and
noises of all characters, The celebra-
ton Is carried along all the thorough
fares in the heart of the city, and es-
pecially around the large public build
ings, which are deliberately illuminated.
New Years eve is a favorite occa-
sion for social gatherings in Scotland
and the north of England, and when
the eventful hour has struck the guests
all proceed to the house door and I'M
bar it with great formality to 'let out
the old and let in the new year"
The making of good resolutions with
the dawning Of the new year is a
very old custom, and one which has
no doubt been followed with much
profit. 1t affords a splendid oppor-
tunity to lay aside futile reflections on
past imprudenCe and mismanagement,
and to resolve for the future to do our
utmost in fulfilling our duty to God
and our fellowmen,
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic SANDER and the spite;
Ring In the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love Of good.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
WILL NOT SET ASIDE PER CENT
OF EARNINGS FOR PRISONERS
DEPENDENT RELATIVES.
THE LAW MAY BE IGNORED
The Governor Says Nothing Can Be
Done Without Legislative Author.
izatlon--Law Passed by Gen.
eral Assembly in 1907.

Jefferson City-Although attention
in 1907 requiring the warden Of the
penitentiary to set aside per cent Of
the earnings of convicts for the use Of
their dependent relatives, no money
will be set aside under the new con-
tracts soon to be awarded, Gov. Major
aid.
The statute has never been com
pi!ed with. The state already has
taken unlawfully from the convicts
over $125,000 belonging by virtue Of
law to the dependents of the inmates.
The new contracts will be awarded
at az cents a day per convict. The
amount to which each convict is en-
titled after Jan. 1 will be ga cents a
day. During the next two years, for
which the new contracts run, II the
statute is still ignored, the state will
have unlawfully deprived the depend
emf relatives of convicts of approx
mateiy $685. additional
Gov. Major says nothing can be
done without legislation, but admits
that Warden McClung could keep a
separate book account of the money
due the convicts under this statute
until the next legislature convenes.
The governor says the records of
the institution will show how many
days are worked annually by each
convict and this could be used by the
legislature as a basis for the payment
of back money due the convicts, II It
is decidtd to do so.
Acknowledgement Barker, member
of the board Of prison inspectors, said
recently that he would ask that this
statute be complied with, and that the
warden be directed to set aside the
earnings as the statute provides, even
though 1t cannot be paid until appro-
priated by the legislature. Barker is
now in New York and no new express
sion regarding his intentions could be
obtained.
The people of jefferson City
through the Provident association, are
now caring for % or 30 dependent
relatives of convicts.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
Her Nose Hurts His Eye.

Kansas City,-Innocent, big and
bashful is Charles Lend, a farmland
of Bethel, Kan. Twenty-seven years
of his life have gone by and up to
the other night he had never attempt
ed to kiss a girl. On this occasion he
broke down the barrier as he and his
sweetheart, Miss Lillian Sectain. were
in the shadow of a large tree on their
way home from party and seized her
in his arms to place a kiss. Handi-
capped by intense embarrassment, his
lips missed those OF his sweetheart
he denies Miss SeCtaln lodged to
avoid him-but, anyhow, his eye
struck the end of her nose in the
darkness, ripping open part of the lid
and badly scratching the eyeball.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
To Eliminate Middleman.

Kansas City.-A cooperative cen
trail depot for farm products which
will eliminate the "middleman" and
divide his profits between the pro-
Queer and the consumer is the aim OF
the Farmers Equity union. Fifty del
egates, representing 10 states, are at
tending a meeting of the union in this
city. The union was organized three
years ago. 1t has dealt thus far IN
grain only and its members are farm
ers.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
"Acid Bandits'" Auto Found.

Kansas City.-The finding of the au-
tomobile used by the man and woman
who held up the iewelry store of l..
Goldman and after squirting acid In
the face of George Goldman, son of
the proprietor, escaped with $4,000
worth of diamonds, furnished the po-
lice lone clew on which to carry for
ward their search for the robbers. The
car was left at the curb in an isolated
region of the West Side. Two Of the
bullets fired by Goldman at the escap-
ing robbers had pierced the back Of
the tOnneau.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25

ness, In the northern half Of the earth.
1t tells of another spring approaching,
and who knows but it will prove the
most perfect spring the world has ever
seen? And there is another summer
beyond which may be the ideal sea
son, neither too hot nor chilly, free
from drought and excess of rain-just
what summer ought to be-
And with natures new opportunity
to fulfill the hopes of men and women
comes one more chance for them, one
more great division of time, which is
the measure of life. They meet and
greet 1t in joy because 1t is unspoiled,
unmarried. altogether clean and open
for fairer and higher record than
they have ever lived into any twelve
month gone by.
What If the hope of such advance
ment fails of realization, in the larger
sense, and with few exceptions grows
feebler and DINNER until it dies when
the new year has grown old? There
are exceptions, and they are beacons
| lighted for the guidance of humanity
on its upward way. In the glow of
these triumphs of high endeavor which
enable us all to keep our dreams alive,
the world discovers foothold for it's
climbing steps.
All this reasonableness OF New
Years hopes and joys, this conscious
ness which Is felt rather than rea.
soned, of the infinite possibilities of
| life, is especially easy and natural in
America. Here the balance between
good fortune and i'll inclines most
often to the side of Joy. Here the OPP
portunities which minister TO hope are
! easiest to find and seize.
Always and everywhere, II mankind
is not to slip back into the mire of ut
ter ignorance and bestiality from
which the race emerged before history
began, there must be visions Of better
things in the future than the past has
given. Such pictures call to the saw
age in his hut and the barbarian in his
tent. Without hope the inner life of
the world would faint and die. Where
there is no vision the people perish"
But in America these STRINGS of the
vital force which urges man upward
! ilb OHWdIu, uSSpllt uuuulllueItu ldll-
ures and losses, leap in the heart with
new strength. The hope in the soul is
in harmony with the environment OF
the race. Optimism is native to the
soil. The continent spreads wide the
fields of opportunity.
Never was the uplift and JOY of the
new years coming more reasonable
than it is today. Never was the out.
look fairer for the progress Of the ma.
ton and the world, in thought, char.
acter and deed. The old earth begins
its wisest year, its richest, its best.
The close of the year brings with II
a mingled feeling of gladness and mel
ancholy-of gladness in the anticipa
ton of brighter days to come with the
advent OF the new year and of melan
choly in reflections on the fleeing ma
ture of time, and the gradual approach
of the inevitable goal in the race oil
life.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
That so interesting an occasion as
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25

MarshalI.-Ministers in Marshall
are being called out of bed by tele-
phone in the dead of night by persons
who have got religion" as an out
growth of one Of the greatest revival
meetings ever held in Saline county.
1t Is being carried on by the Presby-
terrain and Baptist denominations by
Rev. Mr.. Gates, a Baptist evangelist.
Meetings are going on day and night
and there have been 900 conversions.
Ministers virtually are sleeping with
one eye open" to be in read uess for
those who wish at late hours 20 come
into the fold.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
invitations for Governors Ball.

Jefferson City.-Gov. and Mrs. Ma
tor sent out invitations for the annual
military ball at the executive mansion
Jan. 8. The officers of the national
guard and the governors personal
staff OF colonies will be out in full
regalia. The governors colonels have
only this one chance year to show
off their uniforms, gold braid and
highly polished swords.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25

retired for the night when the hus-
band felt peculiar scratching on his
arm as If some one were Juggling ut
him.
A lamp was lighted and the room
examined for a possible intruder. The
Kemmerers retired again, satisfied
that there was no burglar in the room;
but a vicious bite on his arm caused
the husband to jump out Of bed a sec
Ond time
Investigation disclosed n rat In the
bed While Mrs. Kemm arer, nearly
dead from fright, huidled Ia a corner
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
Conditions Bad In Missouri Jails.

Fulton.-James B. Bollman, assist
ant division superintendent of the
Society for the Friendless, who is
making his annual trip throughout
Missouri, declares he found Jail con-
ditions deplorable in north central
Missouri.
His criticism is not the first raised
against the jails. A. grand jury con-
demned the Galloway county Jail in
this city. Several grand juries have
made similar reports on the Jail at
Mexico, Audrain county. The Jail at
Columbus, Boone county, is said to be
in poor condition.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
Convict, rwIc. Insane, Gets Pardon.

Jefferson City-Gov. Major par
doned Henry ]. Haynes, who was sent
TO the penitentiary from Johnson
county in October, 1904, under SEN
tence of four years for grand larceny.
Haynes has been sent twice from
prison to the state hospital for the in
sane at Fulton for treatment, remain
ing IN that institution some time.
Counting the time passed in the hos
pital at Fulton, he served his sentence
more than twice.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
Big Crop All over Missouri.

eig Crop All over missouri.
Jefferson City--Despite last sum.
mer's drouth, the value Of Missouri
field crops and vegetables this year is
estimated at only $4,000 900 less than
in 1912. The total value this year is
$175,7S7,126, according to the annual
crop report issued by the state board
Of agriculture. The loss in value
would be greater except for the higher
prices now prevailing.
The figures for the various crops
are as follows:
Corn, 7,537,270 acres, 132,745,641
bushels, $97169,769; wheat, 2,02o,s3o
acres. 35,390,S33 bushels, s2s,505,846;
oats. 656,1S2 acres, 14,949,532 bushels,
$6,2S0,179; prairie hay, 1898 acres,
1O0,955 tons, s1,163,236; tame hay and
forage, 2142,762 acres, 2,175,735 tons.
s29 ,063,473; fax, 9,431 acres, 4s,673
bushels, s55,s59; rye, 1910 acres,
1O6,642 bushels. sss,513 buckwheat,
1883 acres, 11,155 bushels, .s10,932;
barley, 620 acres, 11,160 bushels,
sS,92S; broom corn, 1919 acres, 649,-
1888 pounds, s35,662 cotton, Slap
acres, 15,429,6O0 pounds, s1,s51,552;
potatoes, 31,252 acres, 1,156,324 bush
els, s1,193,19S; tobacco, S,51S acres,
1861, 022 pounds, s26O,543; sorghum
seed, 12,461 acres, 1928 bushels,
1896, 1873; sorghum syrup, 12,461 acres,
760,121 gallons, $44S,471; clover seed,
1926 acres, 1865 bushels, $15S,342;
timothy seed, $3.50 acres, 1913 bush
els, $47,490; kafir, millet, cow peas,
blue grass and soy beans, etc, $780,
900; miscellaneous vegetables, s4,-
5000.
The 1918 corn crop was 1O0,000,000
bushels short Of 1912 production; per
acre it decreased from 31.9 to PIG.
The wheat crop shows a gain of 49,
800, 900 bushels over the previous year
The yield per acre of oats was 227
bushels in 1913, as against 31.3 in
1912.
The hay crop shows a decrease OF
about 35 per cent.
Rye acreage was 1 per cent larger
than in 1912; yield, 14.2 bushels price
SO cents.
Buckwheat acreage was 10 per capt
less than last year; yield, 1913 bush
els; price, SO cents.
Barley acreage shows loss OF Is per
cent; yield, IS bushels; price, 80
cents.
Broomcorn acreage is but little
more than half, SO per cent, that OF
1912. The yield is but 357 pounds. as
compared with $40 pounds last year.
Price, $40 per ton, as compared with
$40 last year.
Cotton acreage shows loss of IL
per cent; yield, 900 pounds, as COM
pared with 424 last year; price, IL
cents per pound.
Irish potato acreage was 50 per cent
less than 1912; yield, 81 bushels, as
against 81 last year; price, SO cents.
Tobacco acreage is decreased 32 per
cent, as compared with 1912; yield,
529 pounds, as against GAG one yeeS
ago; price, IA cents.
Sorghum syrup and seed show .
decrease in acreage of Sc per cent;
yield of syrup, 81 gallons per acre
price, SO cents; yield of seed, 13.s
bushels: price, $1.16.
| Glover seed acreage was but is pc;
cent short of that of 1912; yield, 14S
bushels; price, 0S.77.
The value of kahr, millet, cowpeas
soy beans, bluegrass seed and other
similar crops is estimated at $500,
900, as compared with $4,400,000 in
1912. Miscellaneous vegetables are
valued at $6,210,0OO, Last year the
estimated value was $7,325,OOO.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
To Sell 100000 Seals.

Columbia.-Advance estimates on
the sale of Red Cross seals in Mis-
souri, for 1913 are placed at 100000
seals by DR.. Walter MacNab Miller,
secretary of the Missouri Association
for Relief and Control of Tubercu-
losis. Three tons of circulars, post
ers, statistics and facts about the
prevalence of tuberculosis in Missouri
and the work of the society have been
distributed this week.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
Won't Act, But Aids Wedding.

Sedalia.-Judge Hopkins B. Shaln
of the Pettis county circuit court de-
clined to marry Victor II. Barry and
Miss Alma L. Potter, both Of Green
Ridge The court said he was willing
to aid in the wedding, but did not be
lieve in marriage ceremonies by civil
magistrates, and so he adjourned
court and sent for a Baptist minister,
who performed the ceremony.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
FROM ALL OVER THE STATE
"Father Of Joplin" Dead.

Joplin.-William S. Shoemaker, Sc
years old, the father of Joplin" is
dead. Shoemaker had lived in Joplin
since 1866 He was veteran Of the
civil war, settling here at the close OF
the war, when there were but two
houses here. Three sons, four daugh-
tiers, one stepson, two stepdaughters,
3S grandchildren and 10 great-grand
children survive. He left fortune OF
800, 900.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
Millions Of Mohammedans.

Only 10 centuries have passed since
the death of Mohammed and today
there are 225,OOO,0OO Mohammedans,
one-seventh of the population of the
globe There are 50,OO0,OOO in Africa,
81, 900, 900 In India, 30,OOO,OO0 in China,
100000 in the Malay Archipelago
and 100000 in the Philippines, not to
speak of the lands that are almost
wholly Mohammedan in western Asia.
A recent writer said; What fires OF
faith and devotion must have burned
In the hearts Of the early champions Of
Islam to make them grid on the sword
and fight and die for the new religion.
II swept across Syria and all north
Africa like the desert simOon-swift,
fierce. impetuous. irresistible destruc-
tiye-only to be curbed and cooled by
the waves of the Atlantic"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
joplin Wants Courthouse.

Carthage.--The Jasper county court
has been petitioned to call a special
election to vote on a proposition to
issue 100000 bonds for the erection
of a new courthouse at Joplin, a new
almshouse and jail at Carthage and a
detention home at Webb City.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
Rates Cut 1889 Per Cent.

Jefferson City-A reduction on ex-
press rates aggregating 1859 per cent
will be made in Missouri as the result
of the recent conference at Chicago
between a committee representing the
National Association of Railway Com
missioners and representatives OF the
express companies.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-12-25
Mckinley Company Doubles STOCK.

jefferson City.-The Jefferson City
Light, Heat and Power company, q
Mckinley corporation, which recently
purchased the Jefferson City Bridge
and Transit company, filed notice with
the public service commission Of an
increase OF stock from 100000 to
$400, 900.