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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-11-28
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AFTER THE OREGON Ely.

In far johannesburg, Transyaal,
South Africa, is under way this fan
campaign similar to one that is TO
reach, If possible, every county in
Oregon next spring; the slogan OF
this campaign is: Death to the fly.
The man who taught the method
for the johannesburg campaign is
to conduct in person the campaign
In Oregon. He is Dr.. Clifton Fre-
mont Hodge, biological expert Of the
University Of Oregon.
In johannesburg, at the mines Of
one company where 10000 blacks
are working, the death rate is from
10 to IL per cent. per annum. That
means one funeral for each nine
workmen each year. It means that
this army of 10000 men, If unre-
cruited, would be wiped out in less
than ten years by death.
Samuel Evans, chairman of the
Crown mines, finally traced the
plaques to flies In summer, which
In South Africa corresponds roughly
to winter in Oregon, flies are as
black pail over each dinner table.
SO Chairman Evans proceeded last
December to this hemisphere and
first inspected the flyless and mos
quito-less Panama zone, where since
1906 the pneumonia death rate
among Europeans had been reduced
from 3.61 to "a, and among negroes
from 1916 to 3.41. Pneumonia, in
Cldentally, is the affliction that car
rles off the negroes at the Crown
mines.
From Panama Mr.. Evans went to
Washington, where he consulted L.
o. Howard, chief of the United States
chronological bureau. Mr.. Howard
said Go to Clark University, at
Worcester, Mass, and find man
named G. r. Hodge. He'll tell you
how to get rid OF flies"
Dr. Hodge sent Mr.. Evans home
with so intense horror of flies that
he will not eat or permit his family
to eat food upon which he sees
fly alight Thirty-one children of
Europeans employed at the Crown
mines at johannesburg died last year
and Mr. Evans believes more than
half of them would be alive had an
effective anti-ny campaign been con-
Quoted then instead OF now.
Fly conditions in Oregon are not
so bad as in the Transvaal, but are
bad enough, and before long the
plans of DR.. Hodge TO cooperate with
every town to make so far as pos
slble, a "Flyless Oregon" will be an
nounced Here is what DR.. Hodge has
to say Just now about the Oregon
campaign
II can be done.
II will cost next to nothing.
II will do more to make Oregon
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-11-28
THE NoN-PARTIsAN JUDICIARY.

THE NON-PARTIsAN JUDICIARY.
1t would seem that the state bar
association would be the least likely
place to meet opposition to the non
partisan judiciary plan. Yet at Port
land during the past week the law
yers Of the state were not at all
friendly to the taking of the judici-
airy out of politics, and It was only
after the resolution endorsing it had
been emasculated that It finally was
adopted by a scant majority
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-11-28

Entered AT the Grants Pass, Ore
gon. post office as seeond-class mail
matter.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
Vital Statistics of Texas for June.

Austin, Tex.-R. p Babcock, state
registrar of vital statistics. made his
report Saturday for June. The total
number of births during the month
was 3,529. and the deaths numbered
2,066. The largest number of deaths
occurred among children under l year
old, the number being 4S5. Second in
the list of deaths were children from
1 to years old, the number being 262.
Thirty-three sets of twins were born
in June.
Forty-nine cases of deaths from star
walton were reported. The leading
cause of deaths was diarrhea and
enterities under years, 226. Tuber-
culosis of the lungs, which generally
heads the list, was second in June
with 203 victims. Cancer caused the
death of sixty-three persons, and six
ty-six succumbed to apoplexy.
Three deaths from beriberi were re-
ported from the state lunatic asylum
and thirty-five deaths from pellagra
from over the state.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
Red River Improvement.

Washington.-The long agitation for
Improvement of the Red river from
Fulton, Ark, to its mouth, in the in
terest of which Senator Sheppard. 4
few years ago, organized the Congress
sional Red River improvement AssO-
citation, has borne fruit to the extent
of obtaining from General Bixby.
chief of engineers, favorable report
for the work
The details of this report are not
fully known, but it is understood that
the project contempiates a plan Of
improvement in the way of clearing
the river bed of distractions. also a
series of revetments and other i'm
provements costing approximately ST.
900, 900, provided that the ievee board
and committee will do specified
work in the way of constructing.
strengthening and standardizing the
levees along the stream, at cost of
approximately 100000. o
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
MUlHAlL BEFORE SENATE LOBBY COMMITTEE
Half Hundred Letters Already Put
Into Record - Witness Makes
Some Startling Statements.

Washington.-The senate lobby COM
mittee are speeding ahead. and al
ready nearly five hundred letters of
Martin Mulhall, alleged political work
er and legislative detective for the
National Association OF Manufactur-
ers, have got into the record.
The committee will decide later
whether attorneys for the association
shall be permitted to cross-examine
the witness. From the way in which
Senators Reed and Walsh already
have referred to cross-examination ii
is probable that the only way the
lawyers will be able to get at Mulhall
will be by questions filtered to him
through the senators.
Mulhali's testimony Thursday cover
ed a slack period in the summer and
fall, of 1909 and the early party of
1910. when there was nothing to do
in his line except to work on strikes,
tinker at a few odd jobs in politics
and keep things generally moving in
Washington. In several letters Null
hall told of desire on his part to see
Charles +. Murphy, boss" of Tam
many hall, in the interest of the can
didacy of George Gordon Battle for
governor of New York.
Mulhall said he never saw Murphy
on this matter and testified that Mr.
Battle was man of the highest char
acter and clean politically.
A letter signed Battle and Mar
SHALL" acknowledging receipt OF let
ter from Mulhall, gave the only indi-
cation so far as the committee had
gone that Battle ever heard of the in
terest Mulhall took in him.
Mulhalls personal political aspira-
tons came into the proceedings We'd
nesday when several letters were read
in which he was spoken of by officers
of the association as being mentioned
for congress" in the Fourth district
(probably Maryland). James w. Van
Cleave, one-time president of the as
sociation, wished Muihaii we'll in this
matter, and John Kirby, Jr., wrote:
Il see that somebody has been buzz
ing congressional bee around your
carcass. suppose next will be hum
ming bird. representing the senate,
and then an eagle, representing the
presidential chair Of the United
States"
Many Of the letters spoke of an ef-
fort to land F. c. Schwedtman, secre-
tary to Van Cleave, on the tariff
board. Several others told of public
documents officers wished Mulhall to
get, including the report of the ma
tional monetary commission.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
AUTO RACE GRAkDSTAND FALLS
ABOUT 5000 PERSONS IN SECTION
THAT WENT DOWN.
Several Were Badly Hurt and Many
Received Minor Hurts-Caused
Great Excitement.

Galveston. TeX.-SiX persons are
known to have been injured and sew
eral others are reported to have re-
ceived minor hurts when the center
section of the grand stand erected on
the beach near the race course col
lapsed Monday afternoon. II is esti-
mated that approximately 5000 per-
sons were in the section that went
down. Many women tainted in the
excitement that ensued
Apparently the collapse was caused
by the crowd stamping in unison,
causing the boards which formed the
base for the superStructure to slide
on the sand. After the collapse fur
Their admissions were refused and the
officers had hundreds of arguments
with persons who insisted upon enter
ing. The known list OF injured fol-
lows:
Mrs. Durango, Galveston. ankle dis
located
George w. Evans of Houston, head
lacerated
Mrs. Victor II. Dawson, 1907 Thirty
fourth street, Galveston; thigh lace
rated by protruding nail
Miss Ethel Flournoy. Waco; ankle
sprained.
Miss Bioyd, Galveston, ankle sprain-
ed
George Wathen, San Antonio; pain
full cuts about head
Milo Fields, Houston, broken arm.
Others painfully injured were: Mir.
and Mrs. John G. Walker OF San An
tonic. George NJ. Lutrell of Galveston.
and Mrs. NJ. S. Lowe of LampasaS.
Two men. who left hospital without
giving names and without necessity
for surgical attention.
When the timbers began to crack
and rasp as they were snapped asun-
der. the attention of the other 1000 or
5000 spectators was directed to that
falling section. Men paied and groan-
ed in agony as the meaning of it dawn
ed upon them, with the certainty that
they were helpless to save a single
victim to avert what it seemed must
inevitably terminate in a tragedy.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
iCopyrighE.)
The BULGARIAN ARMY FORCED TO Retreat
Wing Of Bulgarian Army-Turks
Devastate Country.

London.-The Greeks refused Bull
garia's request Saturday for even a
three days truce. and after heavy
fighting have gotten through Krefna
Pass, defeating the Bulgarians at
Simekle, capturing three siege guns
and driving the Bulgarians back on
Djuma. The Greeks claim they ami
hilated the whole left of the Bull
garian army and that they have
forced the Bulgarians back along the
Struma Valley to Djama, on the Bull
garian frontier. Unless peace speedily
is negotiated, another great battle is
likely to occur at Djuma.
The concert OF the powers seems as
powerless as before to adopt any unit
ed action of its troops in penetrating
old Bulgaria and no further advance
of the Turkish troops has been re-
ported. The Turks claim their spoils
at Adrianople consisted of $50 guns,
$4,000 rifles and 100000 sacks of
corn.
There are frequent reports of afro
cities and massacres by Bulgarians
and Turks Izzet Pasha, the Turkish
commander in chief, reports that Bull
garians murdered 200 Ottoman SOL
diers who had been taken prisoners
near Kisehiky Edij. while an admis-
sion of Turkish massacre of Armen-
ians at Malcagar and Rodosto comes
from Constantinople in a report that
a number of MosIems have been SEN
fenced to death or to long imprison-
ment for implication in the massacres
Trustworthy reports of appalling
massacres and devastation by Turkish
irregular troops come from districts
in Thrace, which the Turks are reoc-
cupying. The country about Matgara,
northeast of Gallipoli, according to re-
PORTS, has been converted into a hui
man slaughter house, BuIgarians
pillaged and burned Moslem villages
and massacred their inhabitants. and
now the Turks are wreaking dreadful
vengeance on the Christian villages
which the Bulgarians spared.
The Turkish troops who first ad-
vanced committed only a few MUIR
ders. The irregular troops and the
Turkish regulars who followed, how
ever. worked their will on the Chris
tians of Matagara and eighteen vii
lagos in the neighborhood.
A report is current at Bucharest
that the Servians have captured the
fortress at Vidin. Bulgaria, on the
Danube, 100 miles south of Belgrade.
Vidin has a population of $4,000.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
Rebels Execute Printer.

Brownsville, Text was ascertain
ed positively Saturday that Jose
Landa, Mexican printer from
Brownsville, who was arrested in
Matamoros the early part of this
week, was executed by order of the
military authorities in Matamoros
Thursday. Landa was supposed to
have been interested in the publica-
ton of a small Mexican sheet called
the Dinamita, violent Huerta paper,
which has published many articles
which were insulting to General
Blanco and the copstitutionalist cause.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
Mcdonald and Bissei Freed.

Washington.-Charle Bissel and
Bernard Mcdonald, mine managers,
held by Mexican federals under SEN
tence of death at Chihuahua, have
been ordered released by the Huerta
government. Charge Algara of the
embassy here so informed Secretary
Bryan Tuesday.
1t was said Mr.. Bryan expressed
qualification at the prompt action the
Huerta government had given to
American representations in the cases
as well as that Of Dixon, the immi-
grafton inspector shot at Juarez.
Mcdonald is an Englishman. Bis
sells chauffeur, an American, has also
been ordered released. The three men
were captured by General Orozco
while attempting to take American
refugees out of Parral. ,
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
MEETING OF TEXAS FARMERS
ADOPT RESOLUTIONS DEALING
WITH UNIVERSITY AND A. &M.
Favor Establishment Of Federal b.
reau of Farm Marketing-oemands
Made on Legislators.

College Station, Tex-Texas farm
ers to the number of 1900 gave theil
enthusiastic approval Tuesday tC
every plan advanced to build up and
strengthen A. and NJ. College oil
Brazos County. Unanimously they
adopted resolutions calling for the alb
solute divorce of A. and NJ. College
from the University of Texas. cheer
ing uproariously as the result of the
vote was announced. With equal
unanimity they passed resolutions
calling for the apportionment to A.
and NJ. College of one-half of the uni.
versity endowment funds and univer-
sity lands. Then after a heated de-
bate in which the leaders of the con
gress crossed swords through nearly
an hours battle on the floor, the con
gress adopted "A resolution requesting
the Texas legislature, now in session,
not to enact any law in any way af-
fecting the university endowment
until the respective interests of A.
and NJ. and the university in that en-
d0wmeHt had been satisfactorily de-
termined.
Summarized, the resolutions were:
Calling for the absolute divorce of
A. and NJ. College and the University
of Texas, with division of the uni
versity endowment, giving one-half of
the funds and lands to the Brazos
County institution.
Requesting the Texas legislature to
pass no law in any way assigning.
hypothecating, bonding or selling the
university endowment property pend
ing an adjustment of the interests of
the university and A. and NJ. in that
fund.
Favoring the establishment of fed
eral bureau of farm marketing.
Favoring the proposed federal tax
on speculation in futures" in cotton,
grain or other necessities of life.
Urging the Texas legislature to pro-
hibit the killing of all birds, except
certain birds of prey, for term of
five years.
Urging the Texas legislature to pass
laws making shorter the present open
season" on doves, reducing the daily
bag limit" on doves. and protecting
in all possible ways all beneficial
birds
Urging the Texas senators in the
United States senate to oppose any
amendment that may pass the lower
house of congress on the bill pro-
hibiting the importation of plumage
into the United States.
Favoring certain appropriations for
the benefit of the National Corn Ex-
position in Dallas in 1914.
Expressing the regret of the mem
bers of the congress at the resignation
of Colonel X. T. Miner from the
presidency of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College.
Thanking the Agricultural and Me
chanical College authorities and the
people of Bryan and College Station
for courtesies extended during the ses-
sions of the congress.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
Poe Cottage to Be Preserved.

New York-After many years of &C
tivity on the part of the members Of
the Westchester County Historical So
ciety, Poe cottage, the home Of Ed
gar Allan Poe, in the Bronx, has been
moved from its original site, in Kings
bridge road, near Valentine avenue. to
Poe Park across the street. The cot
tage will be turned over to the city
and maintained as a memorial to the
American author, who in his writings
made famous the wild scenery OF
Fordham Heights.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
New Orleans Sugar Market.

New Orleans.-Offerings Monday
were somewhat broader in the way of
sugar, but arrivals again lacked as
sortment, the bulk OF receipts being
quoted strong and without change.
Moiasses ruled nominal, with receipts
limited to 200 barrels of blackstrap,
which were sold. Refined sugars were
steady and firm with an active de-
mand for Withdrawals, and refiners
sold ahead The official list was un-
changed.
Receipts were S67 barrels and CAT
sacks of sugar and 200 barrels of mo-
lasses.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
Valley Truck Shipments.

Corpus Christi. Tex.-There has
been a decided falling off in truck
and melon shipments from the lower
Rio Grande Valley for the past ten
days. The total number of cars of
truck shipped for the week was Is.
The shipments over the Brownsville
road for the year are as follows: Cab
bage, 1894 cars; lettuce, 116 cars;
onions. SAP cars; potatoes. 80 cars;
melons, 1T cars; cantaloupes. 1 car;
mixed, 278 cars. Total, 1888 crsa.
Compared with the shipments of 1912
this shows an increase Of 100 cars.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
Riot at Farmers MEETING.

Ponchatoula. The Ponchat0ula
Farmers Association met Saturday to
nominate officers for 1914. During
the session disorderly scenes were en-
acted. Upon the threat of the chief
OF police, e. S, Tucker, to arrest the
entire assembly, order was restored.
Knives and weapons were drawn dur
ing the alteration, but none was
used. The trouble originated from old
charges brought against the present
officers, but later proved without
foundation.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
Stolen Money Recovered.

Shreveport.-Nine hours after 1t
was stolen from the Union Station of
flee of the Wells Fargo Express Com
pany, a package containing $1,000, and
consigned by bank in Mcneil, Ark,
to bank in Shreveport. was discover
ed Monday concealed in waste room
adjoining the negro lavatory in the
station basement. An arrest was
made. The package of money. about
half of it silver. reached Shreveport
over the Cotton Belt railroad last Sat
urday. Because the banks were
closed il was kept at the station ex-
DRESS office
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
1000 Bottles Beer Into Sewer.

Shreveport.-The contents of 1000
pint bottles of beer were poured into
a city sewer Saturday. The liquor
represented the accumulations of a
number of police raids. and as the
stock of evidence was increasing 30
rapidly as to incommode the central
police station employees. it was decided
to destroy 1t. Police Sergeant Solo
mon directed the work of destruction,
and several negro prisoners were EN-
ployed to pull the corks and empty the
stuff.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
FLOOD CONTROL PROBLEM.
Addresses Delivered at Mass Meeting
at DonaIdsonvilIe on Great Prob
manifestations Adopted.

Donaldsonvile.-Th mass meeting
called Saturday to urge national leg
islation for control of the floods on
the lower Mississippi river, was not
largely attended, but representative
citizens were in attendance from AS
cension, Assumption, Lafourche, fber-
Vile and st. James parishes.
The meeting was called to order by
Mayor Lemann. who introduced Sena-
tor John Marks of Assumption, as
chairman: Frank X. Sims of Ascen-
sion was secretary.
w b. Thompson, ex-president of the
Cotton Exchange, and commissioner
o. public utilities of New Orleans,
y no was the first speaker, said the
protection OF the country from over
flow is the paramount issue. All are
united on the point that the Missis-
sippi river. draining a large portion
of the United States, is a national as
set, and its care and protection from
overflow should also make it a ma
tional liability. I'VE may differ" he
said, las TO the most feasible and best
means of getting this concrete sup
port, but the people of this valley
should unite. Congress will not settle
our disputes and decide on method
of protection to submit to congress"
The following set of resolutions
were adopted, after which the meet
ing adjourned:
Whereas. The floods of 1912 and
1913, following the floods of many
other years, have finally awakened
the sentiment of the nation to real
ization that the flood menace and the
flood problem is a national menace
and national problem. and,
Whereas, All the great political par
ties in their 1912 platforms, declared
the control of the floods of the lower
duty: and,
Whereas, Assurances received from
Washington indicate that the federal
congress at the next regular session
will undertake to enact these pledges
INTO legislation and provide adequate
funds for solving this problem; there
fore, be it
Resolved, That we, residents of the
i1luviai basin of Louisiana, in mass
meeting assembled at Donaldsonville.
his 10Th day of July, 1913, do hereby
petition congress, in whatever nation
II legislation may be framed, to pro-
vide for the lower Mississippi not less
han $50, 100000 of government funds
md that in the policy of the govern
nent toward the lower Mississippi.
he Atchafalaya river be treated as an
equal portion of the lower Mississippi.
equally entitled to whatever safe
guards engineering skill may indicate
Is essential to control the current,
prevent floods and maintain naviga-
ion. and. be it further.
Resolved. That we do hereby me-
norialiZe our own representatives and
senator's to direct their labors in con-
,ress to the end that this may be
,ained for us, who have suffered much
rom the ravages of an inadequately
controlled and guarded outlet for the
'ainfall of thirty-one States of the
Union.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
Civil Service Test Conducted.

Thibodaux.-Stanley w. Boudreanx,
first assistant postmaster under his
father, Arthur A. Boudreaux, who is
postmaster, was deputized to act in
the capacity of local secretary to the
civil service commission for the ex-
animation of applicants for positions
as postal clerks. He accordingly con-
Quoted the examinations of all the ap-
plicants Saturday. There were not
many applications.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
Cars With Fresh mea, Into River.

tMonroe.--Four refrigerator cars
loaded with fresh meat, consigned to
Eastern markets from Fort Smith
packing houses. got away from the
", S. and p. switching crew at Delta
Point Saturday night and ran through
the transfer boat and into the Missis-
sippi river. Night Yardmaster Per-
kins and a switchman were on top of
the cars when they. went into the
river. Both men were injured. but
were not drowned. They were re-
moved to hospital in Vicksburg
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
Earth Made a Sieve

Guthrie, Okla.-Four thousand and
one wells were completed in the Okla
homa division of the midcontinent oil
field during the six months of the
year, according to figures just com-
pleted Four hundred and eighty-five
of these were. dry holes and 268 were
gas wells, leaving 3.24S new oil wells.
producing 142,4lS barrels of oil.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
Map Of Model Roads.

Abbeville. - Secretary r. p. lie
Blanc of the police jury has received
a map made by the State highway
engineer. w. E. Atkinson, showing all
the proposed model roads throughout
the State. The most southerly Sec
ton of the system as planned passes
through Vermilion parish and runs to
the Texas line.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-02
"scalp Bounty Until Next Year"

Austin, Tex.-Senator Hudspeth has
asked the attorney general to recon
slider the opinion issued recently by
his department to the effect that the
scalp bounty law become imperative
after August 81. The bill was enact
ed at the thirty-second legislature for
period of two years, but the appro-
priation did not become effective until
September 1, 1912, so that Senator
Hudspeth holds the bill itself was not
effective until that date and conse-
quently has one year more to run.