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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-10-16
MURDERED BY
HOUSE BREAKERS.

MURDERED BY
HOUSE BREAKERS.
Aged Citizen Of Bates County STRAIN
gled to Death and Robbed.
L. w. Decker, an aged mine opera
tor was murdered in his bed at his
home three miles south of Amsterdam
presumably by robbers, some time
Saturday night, death being caused
by strangulation.
Minor Deal, an employ of the MUIR
dered man, found his body Monday
morning. When found Mr.. Decker
twas lying on his bed in his night
clothes, both hands and feet tied and
with large blue handkerchief stuffed
into his mouth, knotted in the center
and tied at the back of his neck.
Bruises were found upon his side,
but with the exception of these and
the decorations caused by the gag
cutting into his lips, NO other indica-
tons of violence were found upon
his body.
The opinion of the authorities and
the neighbors of the murdered man is
that the act was committed by house.
breakers, it being generally supposed
that he kept a substantial sum of
money in the house.
The county authorities were noti-
fled Immediately upon the body be-
ing found and Coroner r. E. Crab
tree and Sheriff Harve johnson went
to the scene of the murder and held
an inquest over the body, the verdict
of the jury being as follows: Eve,
the jury, find that the deceased came
to his death by strangulation by UNI
known parties" The jury was COM
posed Of the following gentlemen:
Paul Rogers, B. B. Badger, j. L.
Nickel, w. J. Jaffel and B. F. Bryan.
Mr.. Decker was last seen alive on
Saturday night when he visited
neighbor who lives about one-eight tn
of mile distant. The fact that he
was not seen on Sunday and the con-
dition of the body when found sub
stimulates the belief that he was kill
ed sometime Saturday night.
Small pools of blood found near
the pumping engine were at first
thought to have significant bearing
upon the case, but it is now believed
that this was the blood of some kind
of small game, MIR. Decker having
hunted great deal.
According to report suspicion is
directed at two men who were travel
ing through that part of the country
a few days ago and obtained a few
days employment in that neighbour
hood. Mr.. Decker was robbed of a
gold watch, some provisions and
household articles at about that time.
These men were last seen in the
neighborhood on Friday night. The
authorities are hard at work develop
ing clews at hand and it is hoped that
the guilty party or parties may be
found within the week.
Mr.. Decker who was - years of
age was coal operator and had re-
sided near Amoret for several years.
He was good citizen and 4 consist
ent worker in the church.
The remains were taken to pleasant
ton, Kansas, for interment.
nICASTROIIC EIQE
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-14
Moorhead Department

in the support of the committee on
transportation.
One Of the first acts of the new
mayor at Detroit, Mimi, was to issue
an order, which was not mistaken in
J It's terms, to all saloonmen, owners oil
pool halls, etc, that they must remove
all slot machines Of any character
whatever from the places of business
permanently.
Two Minnesota girls at Smith col
lege, near Boston, Elois Schmidt oil
Mortified and Dorothy Quincy Adams
of Fergus Falls, were today elected to
editorships on the college publications.
Miss Schmidt is to be editor of the
alumnae department of The Smith
College Monthly and Miss Adams will
be assistant news editor of The Smith
College Weekly. The editorships are
among the highest undergraduate
honors at Smith.
Halstad Journal: Norman county
went drier than the ~proverbial fish
last Tuesday. Ada, the only wet town,
went dry with a % plurality. George
town Is now h only place for miles
around where liquor will be handed
out on a licensed bar, as they defeated
the drys by a rs to Z vote.
Crookston Times: There is a move
ment for higher pay for teachers, in
spite of the fact that a teachers SAL
airy sometimes equals the price of or
binary board.
Prof. F. p. Leavenworth, of the
state university, calls attention that
on the morning of March 81 there will
be a total eclipse of the moor The
moon will enter the earth's shadow
about 3 a. m, and the total eclipse
will last forty-SeVen minutes.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-14
EAST ID NOTES.

Mrs, George L. Walker is enjoying
q, visit from her father, n. C. Nelson
of Albert Lea. MINI.
Implement dealers report con-
siderable activity in seeding machin-
cry and a number of farmers are ad-
ding more engine power to their
equipment = several 6-horso power
gasoline engines were sold by one firm
yesterday and today.
A son of Commissioner and Mrs,
Frank Kimm is a patient at the Moor
head hospital where he is said to be
doing nicely.
The high wind which was blowing
great guns this morning began to
subside early this afternoon, the dark
clouds disappeared n the sun be-
gan 10 shine, but cold weather was
| PROMISED for tonight.
Among the guests at the Comstoci
were, F. d. Barr, general merchant al
Leonard. n. D., who was buying from
| a line of samples shown by c. J. Moo;
Aug. Krabbenhoft of Sabin, Henry
Narum of Perley, Ole Skrass Of Minot
| A. M. GressIie of st. Paul and George
H. Jones, the head of a large manu-
| featuring concern at Boston, Mass.
who is Investigating conditions in
northern Minnesota and North Dakota
and who expressed establishment al
the pronounced spirit of enterprise he
is finding wherever he goes.
At the election last Tuesday this
| people of GAINESVILLE elected A.
| Haagenson mayor of the city. He car
| ried every ward in the city. The fol-
| lowing aldermen were elected: First
ward, Andrew Felde and p, Solum;
| Second ward, John McGrath and T,
| Collins: Third ward, A. McCarten and
IA. Baker.
J. w. Malnnquist of Fergus Falls, a
prominent implement dealer, was
among the visitors in the city to at
| tend the experiments and tests oil
motor spirit" the new automobile
fuel in Fargo.
Herman is to be electric lighted and
will get the Juice" from the plant al
Fergus Falls.
John Hage of Halstad has opened &
meat market at NieIgville and Kalmai
Hage of the same town has bought
barber shop in Fargo.
Al bill in the Minnesota house o
representatives requiring railroad
companies to station fiagmen at cross
fngs when switching at night time Ii
villages and cities has been indefinite
lily postponed. The bill failed to oh,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-14
Mnnrhaad Auto Club.

The officials Of the Moorhead Auto
mobile club are all smiles over the
way the members are coming across
with crisp tens for their new member
ship cards and altogether things look
very encouraging for a continuance OF
Inc good work which was begun with
the Organization of the club last year;
The clubs run to breckenridge and
Wahpeton last fall was stimulating to
2 large extent and already enquiries
are being made as to what plans are
being considered for a more eXtenoeu
trim This wear. It is believed that with
in a very few days the board of gov
errors will be able to report practic-
ally all of the seventy members en-
rolled last year as being ready for the
receipt Of the 1918 cards Of member
or The annual meeting will be held
early in April when new officers Will
no elected.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-14
WEIGHTS FOR COMMODITIES.
Bill Would Establish Cord Standard
and Weights for Vegetables, Etc.

Fixing the dimensions of a cord OF
wood the method Of selling coal and
the bushel weights Of different gram
and commodities is provided FOR IN a
bill introduced in the Minnesota leg
islature yesterday: -
The bill provides that a cord OF
wood range from 10 cubic feet to ITS
cubic feet, depending upon the physic;
al dimensions of the stick, that a cord
of wood in four-foot lengths shall
measure 128 cubic feet in the pile
This is the standard cord fixed by the
state railroad and warehouse com
nilsson. A cord of sawed wood Would
measure 10 cubic feet in the pile and
160 cubic feet when thrown loosely IN
a dunn cart or other fuel wagon. A
cord of sawed and split wood Would
measure 100 feet in the pile n 1'0
feet in the wagon. Il.
The sale of coal otherwise than ny
a ton or fractional part of a ton is
prohibited. A barrel of -four would De
1875 pounds net weight.
Following are the weights provided
nv the bill for various commodities
sold by the bushel, but for which no
standard weight has been adopted:
Alfalfa, so pounds; fax seed, So; to
matoes, So: turnips, So; Walnuts, o.;
rhubarb, so; hickorynuts, so; chest
nuts, so: cucumbers, 48; peaches, Az;
pears, 45; spelt, 40; peanuts 2S'
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-14
Concert Next Sunday.

DIT. Putnam promises a very attract
i've programme for the third of the
series of Sunday afternoon concerts
to be given at the Masonic temple next
Sunday afternoon at ) O'Clock. Admis-
sion will be by the exhibit of mem
bership cards from any of the Mason
ic bodies for 1918. The programme
will be published in detGiI in tomor-
rows Forum and it is promised that
1t will be one of the best yet given.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-14
ORDERS FOR LIQUOR CENSORED.
Moorhead Dealers Exercising Great
Care With Shipments.

Wholesale liquor dealers in Moor
head are carefully %censoring all or
ders for wines and liquors received
from prohibition sections, thus OBJ
serving very carefully the provisions
OF the Webb bill recently passed in
congress-. 1t seems to be very gener-
ally conceded that the new law was
principally aimed at the bootleggers
and blindpiggers whom it was known
were doing a big business in remote
sections of prohibition states. Many
orders are received in Moorhead daily
from points in North Dakota, but they
are for quantities which indicate that
the goods are for personal use of the
parties ordering. The local trade be-
tween Moorhead and Fargo has not
been disturbed in the least and so FAR
no seizures whatever have been re-
ported from any source.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-14
woodmon at Breckenridge.

The 1914 annual convention or the
Il Woodmen of America will be
held at breckenridge, MINI. At the
convention. just concluded at Duluth
the committee favored st. Cloud, but
breckenridge won out in the battle on
the floor of the convention, despite the
strong plea of the presiding officer,
who urged the adoption of the COM
mittee report. 1t is pretty certain,
however, that st. Cloud will be chosen
for the convention of 1915.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-14
Cut Some Ice.

Detroit Record: Last Saturday
marked the formal closing of the 1872
1918 ice shipping season for the Fargo
Detroit Ice Co. In all some 1880 cars
were shipped from the lake, contain
ing approximately 10000 tons. In ad-
dition to this was the 5000 tons put
in the various icehouses of the COM
pany here. Detroit lake ice and Poke
CANA spring water are forever gain
ing in popularity and this means a
large annual increase in the shipment
of each Of these natural products"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-14
Holy Waek Services.

BEGINNING Tuesday evening next
and continuing until Friday evening"
Rev. H. A. Kernen Of the Congrega-
tional church announces services Tor
Holy Week. Among the special
PREACHERS will be Rev. Paul Albert or
Crookston, Rev, LaRoy Lippltt OF
Detroit, and Rev. r. A. Beard OF FAR
90 on Friday evening the Lenten
csntata. via Crucis, will be repeated
Lv The nuartette choir of the church.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-14
council
. MAY Defer
ELECTION
&w@E"

for a special election on March 81 for
the adoption of the commission form
of government may be rescinded at
the approaching meeting of that body
next Monday night.
1t is understood that on account of
the regular municipal election, set by
law, falling on April Z, the election for
the commission charter will be defer
red by the council until that date. This
will permit the election of aldermen
at the am time. Should the commits
sion plan be defeated the aldermen
will continue. Should it be adopted,
the newly elected aldermen will take
their places in the council until the
commissioners are chosen.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-14
Stat. PAYS st.o4 a Day.

Prof. Andrew Davis has compiled
fgures showing that it costs Minneso-
ia $1.O4 daily for persons in its char
table institutions. The figures VIII
he turned over to the committee on
appropriations. OF eleven states Mr..
Davis has investigated the cost In
Minnesota is greater than In seven.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-14
School Money to Loan.

Bids are solicited for $4,000, sinking
fund OF Dist. No. z. until Sept. i,
1914.
Same to be loaned in compliance
with school laws requiring bonds for
twice the amount Of the loan,
Bids to be opened Thursday, March
q, 1913, at 2 p. m at the school
house, Mapieton, N. D.
The board reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids.
w. w. Bishop.
Clerk.
Fer. II. B.. -Advt.
(March 14-17-20-26.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-29

slide with a dye, which colors the
germs and makes 1t possible for him
to see them by the aid of a high
power microscope Immediately, If the
bacillus has attained SUFFICIENT size In
the throat of the patient to be seen.
Sometimes such is the case and the
bactertoIogist can furnish a positive
report at once: but when he falls to
find tnem on the slide, he must wait
for a number Of hours for the germs
to grow on the blood serum-which
they will usually do IN about twelve
hours.
He then takes a tiny speck Of this
growth, mixes it with distilled water.
places it on another glass slide. stains
1t, and is then able to say positively
whether or not the germ Of diphtheria
is present. All this and much more
work like 1t is done by the board Of
health in the interest of public
health.
AS soon as the physician receives
mis- report. which is sent him as soon
as the baCteriologist locates the germ,
he proceeds, If the case is one of diph-
iberia, to give his first dose Of anti
toxin to the patient and a preventive
dose to the other members of the fam
ity.
In this way what might otherwise
have been the starting point of an cpl
demic, is nipped in the bud, and the
people are protected against the raw
ages of a disease which might rob the
state of valuable citizens to say moth
ing of the loss to business interests.
In short, if the first case developing in
community could be quickly recog-
nized and the antitoxin administered
to the patient and all those having
come in contact with the patient, the
disease would stop right there. pro-
wided no new cases were imported. So
much for this prexentable disease.
Smallpox PreventabIe.
Like the poor, smallpox is with US
always, and when 1 say US, I do not
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-29

lot of strong material will be supplied
by the freshman team Of last year and
unless there is a greater shower of
probation notices than usual the star
men of the cub team of last fall will
help nightly in building up this
years varsity. The freshman ends,
Sheldon and McCutcheon, will no
doubt figure in the selection of the
varsity lineup, as they played fast
games last fall. McCutcheon in par
tfcular showed lots Of pep and he may
solve the problem of the varsity's left
wing Cornell has an unusually hard
schedule this fall. The big games will
be Harvard, Pennsylvania Michigan
The Michigan game will be played at
Ithaca and the Thanksgiving day game
will take place at Philadelphia with
Pennsylvania.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-29
GRAhOCRETE IS
BEING USED To
PAVE STREETS
FIRST BLOCK OF TWo-MiLE CON-
TRACT BEING COMPLETED AND
WORK WILL START TODAY ON
NORTH PALAFox STREET.

Work of laying the first block Of
granocrete paving under a contract
which was awarded some time ago for
a little over two miles of this class OF
paving is just being completed, the
stretch being on Gonzales street, east
from Baylen to Palafox. The con-
tractors, the Kennedy Construction
Company viii commence this morning
the work of paving North Palafox
street to the city limits, beginning at
the point of the present terminus Of
the paving on that street.
w. P. Kennedy, a member of the
construction company, said last night
that all Of the paving to be laid under
the present contract would be com
pleted about the latter part of De-
cember.
Wants s4,40o Royalty.
Mr.. Kennedy said last night that
the r. s. Blome Company, OF Chicago,
which laid a large amount of granotoid
paving in Pensacola, and who are the
patentees of that kind of paving, had
sent his company a bill for $4,000 as a
royalty on the present contract for al
lowing his company to lay that class
OF having. Mr.. Kennedy said his COM
2any will not pay the bill presented by
the Blome company, as he said that
his company is laying granocrete
paving
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-29
OLD COLOREO
NANNY IA
YEARS OF AGE
OLD, AUNTIE MARIE WASHING
TON, OVER A CENTURY OLD,
DOES WEEKS WASHING.

Her age correctly substantiated by
officials, especially Lieutenant Of Po-
lfce Frank Wilde, old Auntie Marie
Washington, coiored. residing az Ne.
SIS East Romano street. boasts honest
ly OF an age Of "a years but she Is
as spyy as a woman half that age. IN
fact, NOT z, week passes out that she
does not. personally. take care of the
white fo'ss clos" and does a big
washing herself
She has often told people how old
she was. but on account of her "spry
ness and ae- daily ability to do so
much work, many doubted the cor
rectness OF her claim. Lieutenant Of
Police Wide however, has taken 1t
upon tems.sif 10 make an investigation
and bis inquiry has had the result of
substantsst:ng the old woman's claim.
He said yesterday that she ls at least
Ia years old.
The otG negro is an ex-slave, and
her name during her slavery days she
remembers as Marie Murphy, of course
taking the name Of her master dur
ing that period.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-29
STOLE S69fROM
CASH DRAWER IN
G.. F.& A. DEPOT
WHILE TICKET AGENT WAS AT
DINNER YESTERDAY THIEF EN-
TERED PASSENGER STATION
ON WEST GARDEN Street AND
ROBBED TILL.

While the ticket agent. r. Traube
Sublette, of the Gulf, Florida Il Ala
bama railroad was at dinner yesterday
afternoon a thief entered the COM
pany's passenger depot on West Gar
den street and stole $50 from the cash
drawer. The robbery was reported to
Motorcycle Officer Harper about 4 80
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. No arrests
have been made yet, but the police are
making a thorough search for the
thief
Entrance to the ticket office is said
to have been made by the thief through
a lattice door which cuts eff the Office
from the waiting room.
A partial descripti of two white
men who were seen in the depot a
short time previous to the discovery
Of the robbery has been furnished the
police.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-29
NOW
LEADING SPORT
THE PROSPECTS FOR STERLING
TEAMS AT BOTH HARVARD AND
YALE, LEADING NEW ENGLAND
UNIVERSITIES, ARE EXCEL
LENT.

New York, Sept. 2S.-Just at pres
the throes of football and the pros
poets for sterling teams at both Har-
ward and Yale, the leading universities
| of the section are excellent. The
Crimson clan that routed the Blue a
year ago is exceedingly optimistic and
not without cause. A larger or better
squad Of candidates has not assem-
bIed in the Cambridge stadium in
years. There is enough material for
two typical Harvard elevens and the
struggle for places on the varsity team
will be keener this fall than for many
seasons.
| A fast and powerful baclcheid, con-
| sisting OF Brickley, Hardwick and
! Bradlee of the 1912 team is available,
augmented by Eddie Mahan, last
years freshman captain, Freeley, LO-
gan and Cartmell, the latter trio all
candidates for the position OF quar-
terback, left vacant by the gradua-
ton of Harry Gardner. All told there
is material for FIVE backheld combina-
tons and judging by the way Coach
Haughton shifted the players about
during the early weeks Of practice he
proposes to have at least three quar-
tettes ready to enter the game at any
time Veteran and substitute material
for the line also is abundant and
when the problems Of filling the po-
sitions of quarterback and center are
solved Harvard is going to have
football team hard to defeat
This is the very task that Yale
football authorities have set for them
selves and despite the lack Of any
thing like the material that is at the
disposal OF the Crimson coaches,
there are those who believe that II is
not impossible Yale graduates and
classn1en are united in the plan TO
revive the famous bulldog spirit at
New Haven, and believe that they viii
succeed.
The early practice at the Rhode
Island seashore sent the leading can
didates back to New Haven in excel
lent condition. With Head Coach
Howard Jones in charge; Silent
Frank Hinkey and former players of
his type TO assist; with Walter Camp
as a general advisor and strategist. |
Yale has a really formidable array Of
field generals. Although it is conced- |
ed that Harvard has a big advantage
in her wealth Of stars and material
the belief is growing that when the
Crimson clashes against the Blue at
Cambridge on November p, the sta