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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26
Witnessed by Daughter

The accident to the elderly Hrs. Do
zier was witnessed by several persons
and group of children playing near
the scene and also by Mrs. Joe Zin-
seer, a daughter of Mrs. Dozier. II
seems from all accounts that Mrs. Do
zier was on her way home and on
crossing the street at Avenue IL ana
Twenty second the unknown automo-
bile, coming north at very high speed
struck her sideways with the right
rear fender The driver apparently at
tempted to avoid Mrs. Dozier, but his
speed was so great that his machine
skidded and struck her. hurling her
several feet away, almost at the feet
of her daughter, Mrs. Zinszer, who was
on her way to pax an afternoon call
To her parent. The automobile, ac-
eording to eyewitnesses. continued skid
ding after striking Mrs. Dozier. and did
not stop for full half a block. This ac-
cording TO expert sutomobils men
could not have been done unless the
automobile was going at about so miles
an hour. 1t is said that the automobile
skidded completely around before il
was finally brought to a stop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26
Local Data

For the "A hours ending at p. m
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26

A special effort is being made by Mrs.
Gwylym Herbert president of the Help
ing Hand League of Bessemer. to gain
q large attendance at the meeting Of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26

Thirty converts were baptized at Glen.
coe yesterday afternoon, following a tive
weeks meeting, conducted by the Rev. w
B. Ernest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26

All arrangements for the "tacky party"
to be given at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
l. A. Lewis on Berkeley avenue Tuesday
evening at 8 o'clock have been completed.
The party is under the direction of Mrs.
Fills Brown. who has charge or one of
the divisions of the Pastors Helpers of
the First Methodist church at Bessemer.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-12-12
OFFICERS ENJ0|NED
SETTLERS IN WESTERN SoO'H
DAKOTA WIN OUT IN FEO
ERAL COURT.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capitol City, the Varioo'
State Institutions and From
Many Different Parts OF
the Sunshine State.

Sioux Falls.-At the conclusion OF
arguments in the case involving the
collection of sums due from water
users under the Belle FOurche lrrl-
CATION project of the government,
Judge Elliott of the United States
court in this city, held that motion
of the defendants that the action be
dismissed should be denied and that
the officers of the reclamation service
should be enjoined from shutting OIL
the water from the plaintiffs land dur
ing the tendency of further proceed
ings in the case. The defendants are
officers of the government reclama-
ton service and turned off the water
when water users refused to pay So
per year per acre and costs of main
tenance and operation. The officials
are ~enjoined from interfering with
the water supply of the settlers until
the case is tried on it's merits. Judge
Elliott fixed the DeadwOOd term OF
federal court in May as the time Tor
the trial. The case is one of the most
important of its kind eve Instituted
in the United States.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-12-12
SPARKS FROM
THE WIRE

Washington, Dec. 2.-That prepon-
derance of foreign born white people
in the United States speak the Eng
lish tongue is revealed in a report on
the native languages of the foreign
white stock in the United States,
about to be issued by Director w. j.
Harris of the bureau of census, de-
partment of commerce.
Los Angeles, Dec. AFTER shoot
ing and killing the cashier of the Palo
Verde Valley bank at Blythe, bandits
robbed the vaults Of the bank of So
600 and escaped. Detectives left hur-
riedly for the scene of the robbery.
Bingham, Utah, Dec. 5.-That Franz
Lopez, the Mexican outlaw whose
deadly aim has claimed six victims in
the last few days, has escaped from
the Apex mine, where he has been
thought a prisoner by more than a
score of sheriffs and deputies. is the
fear of the men who are standing
guard at the exits of the mine. This,
however, is not in accordance with the
belief of Sheriff Smith, who announced
that he expected to find the body OF
Lopez.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-12-12
Opinions Differ.

Pierre.-The attorney general holdS
differently from the state game de-
partment in regard to shipment of deer
killed in the Black Hills. The game
warden held under the law that ship
ments could not De made, even or
deer killed in the open season which
resulted in the railway and eX-
press companies in the Black
Hills section of the state refusing to
accent deer for shipment. This meant
that hunters in the Hills section could
haul their deer home in private con-
veyances, but to the outside hunter in
the Hills it meant if he secured a deer
he had no way Of getting it home,
neither had he the right to sell the
deer after he had killed it. The at
tornev general holds that while the
state game law does not make my pro-
visions for shipping deer killed in the
open season, neither does it make n
snecifc provision preventing such
SHIPMENTS. The law does provide for
carving game birds and fish as bag
a q where the shipment is accom-
panied by the hunter, and the state law
denartment holds that a reasonable
rule should apply, and any game Sc
cured in the open 81 is subject to
the general provision of the law,
which allows the handling of game
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-12-12
KILL IN STRIKE RIOT
NEGRO SLAIN AND FOUR WOUND.
ED IN INDIANAPOLIS FIGHT.
Men EMPLOYED to Guard Ice Com
pany's Wagon Shoot When At
tempt Is Made to Block Way.

indianapolis, Ind, Dec. A negro
was killed, another was probably fatal
ly wounded and two were shot but not
seriously wounded in a strike riot at
Indiana and Capitol avenues on Tues
day. The dead man is Claude Lewis.
J. NJ. Mason, a negro barber, was
shot in the abdomen and is not ex-
pected to live. John Ashley, a white
man, was shot through the foot.
Archie Smith, a negro saloon porter,
was shot through the shoulder.
The shooting was done by three ne
groes and two white men-employes
of the Citizens Ice company, who had
been dcputiacd with special police
power.
The men on the ice wagon drove up
to a saloon or Indiana avenue and
started to unload some Ice. A crowd
gathered around and some rocks were
thrown. Suddenly some man IN the
melee pulled a gun and shot and then
four or five shots rang out in rapid
succession.
Bicycle policemen rushed to the
scene and other emergency police soon
got there. They found one negro
dead, W. others and n white man
shot. They took the five ice company
deputies in charge.
The special police on the ice wagon
claim that some one in the crowd hrec
first, but witnesses to the accident de-
clared that no one in the crowd fired
at all-that all the shooting was done
by the men on the ice wagon.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-12-12
LABOR LAW Is VALID
ILLINOIS CHILD STATUTE up
HELD BY SUPREME COURT.
Indiana State Court Upheld in Ruling
Regarding New Constitution
Forced by Legislature.

Washington, Dec. 3.-The Illinois
child labor law, which prohibits the
employment Of boys under sixteen
years OF age, at dangerous occupa-
tons, was declared valid in a decision
of the Supreme court Monday.
Justice Hughes, who delivered the
opinion, said that manufacturers OF
Illinois could be compelled by the
state Eat their peril to ascertain the
ages of children employed by them
and declared there could be no pos
sible constitutional objection to the
law.
That the state courts Of Indiana
had the right to prevent the gov
eminent and state officials from sub
uniting to the people for adoption a
new constitution framed by the legis-
Iature in 1911, was the decision OF the
Supreme court.
That the government is entitled,
under the federal corporation tax act,
to collect income sums Of revenu
from mining corporations operating
n the United States was the sub
stance of an opinion by the court.
The fight of the so-called book trust
to maintain arbitrary sale prices on
copyrighted books eliminated In a de-
cision in the Supreme court in whlch
the court held against the trust. The
main question at issue was as to
whether the trust should have a
copyright monopoly" in the sale OF
such books.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-12-12
HOTEL FIRE KILLS q
SEVERAL OTHERS MISSING AND
MANY ARE IN HOSPITALS
AT BOSTON.
VICTIMS DIE WHILE ASLEEP
Men Trapped in Burning Building Leap
to Street and Are Seriously Hurt
Some Are Rescued by Firemen-
Disaster to Be Probed.

Boston,, Dec. 5.-Fire which de
stToyed the Arcadia lodging hoGsc at
1902 Washington street caused the
death Of 27 persons on Wednesday.
This is the heaviest death toll ever re-
corded in a fire in Boston.
Two persons we're fatally injured
while more than a score were slightly
or overcome by smoke. There
were 179 men asleep in the lodging
house when the fire broke out.
The flames spread swiftly through
the fimsy building and a number or
men, caught on the upper hoors,
leaped from windows.
All Of the victims were poverty
stricken men, the lodging house being
& 15-cent-a-night affair, catering TO
the poor. Many OF them were home
less wanderers and for this reason the
authorities believe hal the names Of
all the victims will I've be known.
The confagration was attended by
many thrilling escapes. Firemen
spread nets and into these many Of
the panic-stricken dodgers leaped.
One man wrapped a mattress
around his body and jumped from the
fifth floor, the mattress saving his life.
The great rapidity with which fire
leaped from floor to floor caught the
dodgers and scores awoke to find their
beds hemmed in by flames.
There they chung as the names
belched from windows beneath them
and crept across the beds they had
vacated to the stills of the windows.
Several narrowly escaped being
hurled from the coping into the street
in the rush for the ladders, which
fell Just short of the coping on which
they were clinging. The firemen as
cended as far as they could and
caught the dodgers as they jumped to
the TOPS Of the ladders four stories
in the air.
Medical Examiner Leary, after an
examination at the scene of the fire,
declared:
Il am going at this matter with an
ak. This is one of the greatest crimes
ever committed in this city. An in
quest will be started at once. l think
we have taken all the bodies from the
ruins. Boston has nearly a dozen such
fire traps. 1t is a crime to allow them
to exist. This building looked like
a slaughter house. There is no good
excuse for such a condition of al
fairs"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-12-12
PASSENGERS SAVED
WIRELESS BRINGS HELP FOR
STEAMER RIO GRANDE-
BURNING IN MID OCEAN.
ALL GIVEN A SAFE TRANSFER
%Subduing Of Flames on Burning Ship
Follows and It's Occupants Are Then
Returned-captain and Wireless
Operator Display Bravery.

Norfolk, Va.-Wireless reports re-
ceived here told of the transfer at sea
of 1877 passengers from the came
Rio Grande. which had caught fire
while bound from New YORK Tor
Brunswick, Ga, to the British steam
er Swanmore, the subduing OF the
flames and safe return of the passen-
gers to their vessel. The Rio Grande
Is now on her way to Brunswick.
The wireless operator here received
the name of the fireship "~Ringrande,
but no such vessel is registered and
marine men say the vessel undoubted-
ly is the American coasting steamer
Rio Grande. The transfer took place
205 miles northwest of Diamond
shoals.
The meager reports reaching here
said that fire was discovered in the
Rio Grande's hold and wireless calls
for assistance were sen out immedi-
ately. The Swanmore, outward bound
from Baltimore, responded and soon
had The American vessels passengers
on her decks. Then attention was
turned to the fire and when it had
beer subdued the passengers were Ia
ken back to the Rio Grande.
The following message came by
wireless from the Cuban steamer An
tilla: Second operator at noon re-
eaived relay from steamer SwanIioTe
to send nearest Marconi station that
she went to help the Rio Grande, in
answer to her appeals for assistance.
Also states took off 1877 passengers UNI
til fire was put out, then put them
back again. Rio Grande proceeding
under own steam. All we'll"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-12-12
3O-FOOT WAVE FATAL TO 10
Water Coming Down Nolan Creek
Floods Bolton, Tex, and
Causes Death.

Bolton, Tex, Dec. 4.-Ten persons
were reported to have p%erished In a
30-foot wave which came without
warning down Nolan creek before day
break. The creek runs through the
center of this city. Fifty houses along
the creeks banks in Bolton were
swept away. In the heart Of the town
Mrs. w. c.. Polk and her four children
drowned. Polk, carrying the fifth
child, an infant, escaped to high
ground. Five fatalities-a man, his
wife and three children-were report
ed in another family, that of a camp
er. His name was not known here.
When the Main street bridge in Tenn
pie, Tex, was demolished by the
wave an unidentified man was on the
structure. He was seen to go n
the water. 1t Is believed he persisted.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-12-12
Will e Law.

Pierre.-A test OF the provisions OF
chapter 35S of the laws of the last
session is promised in a suit which
has been commenced against the state
in an original action in the supreme
court. brought by A. Z. Hitchcock,
president of the state board of regents
OF education. While the suit is begun
for the recovery of $1O.72, claimed as
travelling and hotel expenses of Hitch
cock, at a meeting of the state board
of regents of education held at HUI
ron, September 10 and IL, dates or
the state fair, he contends in his COM
plant that the petty amount involved
has practically nothing to do with
the case, but that it is the principle
involved which he desires the court to
settle. The statute in question pro-
hibits the state auditor from allowing
warrants for expenses of state officers
and boards at meetings called at the
same time and place as a state polltl-
cal convention or any general state
gathering. This act was passed on
the claim that state officers and
boards made it a practice to set bust
ness meetings at the place where such
gatherings were being held, and by
this method secured free fare and
hotel expenses while attending such
meetings.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-12-12
DEATHS TOLL IN TEXAS GROWS
Drowning of Fifty Reported at Sunny
Side,

Drowning of Fifty Reported at Sunny
Side.
Houston, Tex.-Dispatches increased
the number of known dead In the
Texas floods to %sixty-one, aside from
the heavy death toll by drowning re-
ported at Sunny Side. The additional
known deaths in reports included four
at Hungerford and a like number near
Wellborn.
The crest of the Brazos river flood
was nearing Brazoria county, which
borders on the gulf, and the crest or
the Colorado flood a approaching
Matagorda county, also on the gulf.
Reports from Wellborn that twelve
twelve negroes and a Mexican had
met death on the Allen plantation,
at the junction of the Navasota and
Brazos rivers, and that twenty-five ne
groes had been drowned on the Par
ker plantation nearby were not con
firmed. Gov. O.. B. Conquitt issued an
appeal to the people of Texas, asking
aid for the flood sufferers.
Fifty persons, mostly negroes, are
reported to have beer drowned at
Sunny Side, a small, town on the lower
Brazos river, according to a long dis
lance telephone message received
here. The message said between 400
Ind 500 persons were marooned on
a small mound at San Felipe and were
in great danger. A special train load
ed with motor boats was dispatched
from Houston to the rescue.
j. r. Garrett, a planter. who tele-
phoned to Houston for assistance, re-
ported that the entire Brazos bottom
in Waller county was flooded; that a
number of houses had ioated away,
and that refugees were clinging to
trees and house tops. Boats are be-
ing constructed as rapidly as possible
to rescue those imperiled.
Sunny Side is eight miles north of
B%rookshire. Mr.. Garrett said resi-
dents Of the lowlands were warned
Of the approaching flood, but many
refused to leave their homes.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-12-12
REGULATIONS FOR KEROSENE.
DEPARTMENT Announce New Rules
for Sale of the Oil.

Observation-Disclosures in the office
Of the state food and drug department
here at the university are busy mail
ing to all retail dealers in kerosene
and gasoline copies Of the placard
which the commissioner h Is also
ex-officio inspector of petroleum prod
ucts, is required by law to prepare and
send to all dealers. This placard sets
forth the different standards recon-
mended by the inspector as to Beaume
gravity for the different purposes for
which petroleum products are gener-
ally used. Every retail dealer in these
products must post up and at all
times display" this placard, together
with the certificates received by him
from the wholesaler covering the
petroleum products offered for sale
in his place of business.
The purpose of this placard is pri-
marily educational. Much of the COM
plaint from users of gasoline finds its
source in the fact that the consumer
uses the cheaper grades of gasoline in
stoves, fatirons, etc, and this gaso-
line is not intended for such pur
poses. 1t is too heavy for use in these
appliances and its use soon results in
a clogging of valves and other incon-
v~eniences. The lighter gasoline, if
properly made, does not produce these
unsatisfactory results because it con-
tains none of the heavier oils which
in the cheaper gasolines are slow to
volatilize and burn. With kerosene,
much the same difficulty is met. The
cheaper, heavier oils give good and
satisfactory results when property
used, but lamps in which they are used
must be more frequently cleaned and
the wicks should be renewed before
they have to be discarded on account
of being too short. Burners must also
be frequently cleaned by boiling for
some time in water containing a small
amount of saleratus or cooking soda.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-12-12
CHICAGO STREET CAVES IN
Half Block of Pavement Sinks and
Buildings Are Periled-Bio
Mains Break.

Chicago, Dec. randolph street,
from North Wabash avenue half way
to State street, caved in on Tuesday
night when two water mains burst, e
d%angering two Of the largest buildings
within the loop, Marshall Fields retail
store and the Masonic temple.
The cave-in occurred a few seconds
after an Archer avenue car containing
more than a score of passengers had
traversed the track directly yer the
broken main. AT n point the pave.
ment sank to a depth Of IL feet below
the street level.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-12-12
PREDICTS WAR
LEADER BASES PREDICTION ON
HASTE WITH WHICH HOUSE
ACTS ON ARMY BILL.
BIG INCREASE IN FORCE
Women and Children Join Exodus on
Foot-One Man Carries $~2,5OO,Ooo
with Him, Which He Withdrew
From Bank.

Washington, Dec. 5. - Government
officials were more confident than
ever Wednesday that the patience
which he United States had shown in
It's treatment Of the Mexican problem
was 0 to be rewarded with a solu-
zion.
After a discussion into which the
Republican leader, Mr.. Mann, injected
the Mexican situation, the house
passed the Hay army volunteer bill
which went then to the senate. This
would put war volunteer lorces on an
equal footing with the regular army,
The men would enlist for the war
and the president would appoint all
officers.
Representative Mann said that
Chairman Hay Of the military commit
tee, the administration and all others
connected with the bin would deny the
easur was presented now, because
the government was preparing for a
war with Mexico; he recalled that just
before the Spanish-American war the
appropriations committee presented a
bill to put $50, 900, 900 into President
McKinley's hands.
q took a minute then TO say" added
Mr.. Mann, that at least there was
one man in the house who was not at
tempting to deceive himself while all
the others had said that this was not
in expectation of war, but to prevent
war.
a fear tbs same situation arises
now"
Jaurez, Dec. ST will have 10000
men surrounding the City of Mexico
about Christmas" was the statement
with which Gen. "Pancho" Villa met
the news from the federal capital that
President Huerta had recalled ex-
President Porfrio Dia2 to the active
list of the Mexican army.
While Villa did not know the where
abouts OF the seven generals who had
evacuated the City Of Chihuahua and
offered to surrender to him, he was
not alarmed by the prospective appear
ance on the battlefield of the exiled
ex-president. He did not believe that
the leadership of even the once loved
Diaz would avail to avert Huerta's
downfall.
City of Mexico, Dec. 81 have no
intention OF yielding" said President
Huerta. Should this fighting in Next
co continue for years | shall continue
to do my part in it ii l am still alive,
The presidents outburst came soon
after publicatich of President Wilson's
message to the American congress.
and news of the evacuation of the City
of Chihuahua by Huerta's forces.
Juarez, Mex, Dec. 4.-Seven gener-
ais of the Mexican federal army are
ready to surrender and the backbone
Of the Huerta dictatorship in the north
has been broken. A peace commits.
sion arrived in Juarez Tuesday bear,
ing terms of surrender.
Fleeing over the desert and pursued
by Villas rebels, several thousand
persons, including the rich Creel and
Terrazas families, who deserted Chi
huahua City in ear OF a rebel attack,
were reported TO be nearing the Unit
ed States border. Among the refu-
gees is Luis Terrazas, head of the
wealthy Terraaas estate, who is said
to carry 100000 pesos which he
withdrew from Chihuahua banks. The
caravan, composed of men, women
ard children. was described as being
more than a mile long.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-12-12
EXPLAIN NICHOLS TELEGRAM
Navy Back Received Message Intend
ed for a Mrs. Nichols, Whose
Father Was Ill.

New Haven, Conn.,, Dec. 4.-That
the telegram received by Quarterback
Nichols of the Navy football eleven
Just before the game with West Point
at New York last Saturday, which
seemingly told of the serious illness
of his father, was intended for the
wife of Lieutenant Nichols. who Is
stationed at Portsmouth, N. H., was
learned through friends here OF Mrs.
Nichols. The telegram was sent 10
apprise Mrs. Nichols of the serious
illness of her father in Baltimore. 1t
was believed that the telegram was
sent so as to weaken the navy's team.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-12-12
DEPOSITS Show Marked Gain.


Pierre.-The banking department, In
a comparative statement of business
of the state banks for the past year,
shows hat between the calls of No
vemher 26, last year. and October Il.
his year, there was an increase OF
over $1,000, 900 in deposits, with an
increase of over $4,000 in the loans
and discounts carried by that class OF
banks. The figures are on the same
number of banks those going out OF
business for the year just balancing
the new organizations, making the
figure 523 for both dates. The total
loans and discounts at the time of the
October call this year being s4S,1OS,-
sos, which is also an increase Of 81,
500, 900 over the same item at the call
in August of this year. The deposit &C
counts for the year show increases in
every item.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-12-12
Articles of Incorporation.

Pierre.-Articles of incorporation.
have been filed for the Ruby Canyon
Concentrating company at Minneapo-
lis, capital $685. 900; incorporates, l..
H. Blackman, Otto Boner, Minneapo-
lis. C. M. Lawrence, Huron.
Bank of Victor, capital $4,000;
president, w. N. Powell; vice presi-
dent, S. L.. Oscarsen; cashier, NOLAN
der.
National Gas Tractor Co.. Des
Moines, Ia, capital $4,000; incorpo-
rators, Henry Pyle, Arthur Hopkins.
Des Moines; H. G.. Q~uackenbush.
Pierre.