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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
immigrants at Ellis Island Tell
Why They Came to U. S.
Polish Farm Hand Who Took Years
to Save Passage Money-MussuI-
man Is Barred Because Of Law
Against PoIygamy.

New York-Ellis island is the sieve
through which is sifted the yearning
aliens from the worlds four corners.
Some come to this land OF the free
with it's Constitution and public
schools, because of intolerable condi-
tons in the land that gave them birth.
Others, come from sentimental rea-
sons, drawn by the love borne for 9TH
ers gone before. Some-and a few
get by Uncle Sans keen eyed guar
dians-come here to escape the penal
ties for their misdeeds in other lands.
The others, the most by far, come
here to make money. And of this
latter class some come to stay and
others come resolved to gather wealth
and return from whence they came.
Choosing at random from men of a
half score lands, New York reporter
learned through the glib-tongued inter
prefers the story of why they come.
Many others who were asked why do
you conner" shook their heads and
smiled. Others scowled upon their
questioner with suspicious eyes, fear
ing harmful motive behind this in
terrogation.
Paulo Constantine OF Athens knows
exactly why he came to America.
There was no hesitancy in his answer.
Paulo came to America with his wife
land two children to engage in bust
ness and make money.
4 Josen Wapowski, the Polish immi-
|grant who has journeyed to America
with a wife and Eve children, is going
to Buffalo. where In the Polish col
ony he has many friends who have
preceded him to the land of golden op-
portunity.
I'm Poland was farm hand and
labored from daybreak until dark and
/ earned hardly enough to feed my
babies" said the sturdy Pole. For
years my friends in Buffalo have been
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09

writing to me to come to America.
where they told me | could make
more In a week than I made In almost
two months of labor back home. l
talked It over with my wife and we
began to save what little we could
We spent only what we were forced
to and now, after almost FIVE years
OF hardship, we had enough to pay
our passage and keep US awhile"
Seven strapping Irish sons preceded
Michael 0'Connor of Cork to America.
THE lads are all In Chicago and
they wrote to me that they are doing
well. After the wife died and my
girl married | thought I had better
join the lads in America. l had a
little trucking business in Cork and
/ sold out, and | think the boys and
me will try trucking in Chicago. It's
getting to be sad land is Ireland. All
the lads are coming to America, and
only the old men are staying behind
and trying to make up their minds to
make the crossing too.
Alexander Nickoloff, the Roumanian,
hardly knew why he came. He is a
man Of middle age, and was accom-
panied by his wife and a strapping
daughter, Now that he has turned his
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
MEN OF MANY LANDS

back on Roumania he has no desire to
see the country again.
Il will go to work. / can do any
labor with my hands," he said. I'm
Roumania l was a shepherd, but it is
bitter cold, and / could earn but little.
heard of the big farms of America,
and / would like to go to the sheen
country and buy flock of my own. l
do not want to go back. l want to
stay here"
Il served my country for fifteen
years." said the ex-soldier. 81 fought
against the Japanese, and have been
almost frozen to death many times.
After my brother began to write how
well he was doing on his Canadian
farm got to thinking, and SO l write
to my brother and said l would come
to America and we would farm to-
gether. have served the car and
my country, and now l will serve my
self"
And there are many in the course
of year who come to find the doors
bolted against them. There was the
gloriously robed Algerian who was
turned from the threshold. He con-
fessed to being a Mussulman. That
creed teaches polygamy. The Alge-
rian was net married, but the inspec-
tor asked him II he believed in polyg-
amy. He replied, Yes" The law says
no alien who is polygamist or who
breaches or believes in polygamy shall
enter.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
KIT CARSON'S FRIEND

pany of rangers in southeast Colo
RADIO. l was the first sheriff of south
east Colorado when It was a territory,
and May s, 1868, we pulled on the
first election ever held In Colorado.
I'VE were in the cattle business,
and one time we got word that Coe
and his band were coming to run of
our cattle. I called my company To-
gether and we rode out, and by trav-
cling at night we came to an aban-
doned dobe where the gang was rest
ing for the night. We tied our horses
a distance away, and with revolver
In one hand and rife In the other
we crept up to the cabin, burst In the
door and took the whole eleven and
hanged them to the cottonwood trees
along the river bank.
Zoe was not In the adobe hut. He
was at another place fifteen miles
away. and we rode there and captured
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
HAS A BRIDELEss HONEYMOON
Poisoned at Wedding Supper and
Wife Misses Ship.

New York-Bad luck has followed
julius WorZ, a Dutch tobacco mer-
chant ever since he courted Henriette
Erhardt. Even marriage did not kill
the hoodoo. and recently julius ar
rived here on the steamship Rotter.
dam on his honeymoon trip without
bride.
What is II, you say, that I am In
Dutch Well, l guess 1t must be so.
When | first called on Miss Erhardt
in Harlem a black cat crossed my
path. and everything has gone wrong
since.
The day l proposed / slipped and
sprained my ankle. was carried into
the house and asked Miss Erhardt to
be my wife. She accepted and then
was Ill for a month. We were mar
ried and l got ptomaine poisoning at
the wedding supper.
Just before sailing from Rotterdam
by wife missed something from her
handbag. She went back to get 1t
and then missed the ship"
He will await her arrival on another
vessel
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09

him, and as there was a big reward
for him we strapped him to a horse
and rode with him 100 miles to Pueblo
and surrendered him to the sheriff.
who put him In jail.
Il lived with Kit Carson in Taos.
N. M, when l was a boy. and sup
pose that / was the closest friend he
had. His wife died at my ranch.
They had seven children. the young
est being a baby Of two weeks. Mrs.
Carson was very sick. and two Mex.
ican women were nursing her.
Carson was suffering with heart
trouble, and he and were lying to-
gether on a bed in another room ana
he was telling me Of some adventure
Of his. We did not expect Mrs. Car.
son to die. and when suddenly the
Mexican woman ran In crying, She lie
deadi' and then the six children ran
in and all of them piled on the bed on
top Of Kit. and he wept with them.
buried his wife in our garden. Two
weeks later he died and buried him.
too"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
Cattleman Tells How "No Mans
Land Was Created.
Strip Now Part Of Texas and Kan.
sas Was Rendezvous for
RustIers, Bandits and
Murderers.

Kansas City, MOI. A. Allen, a
cattleman. who has an Office at the
Kansas City stockyards. says that the
encyclopedias are all wrong about
how No Mans land came to be Gre
ated.
Mr.. Allen was a cattleman on the
plains and mountains for fifty years.
He was a boy when he went from
Kansas City with the first herd Of
cattle ever driven over the plains.
For the following fifty years he was
in the cattle business in all parts Of
the west He was the intimate friend
Of Kit Carson and he was with the
he buried her in his own garden. He
was with Carson when he died. His
brother married the only daughter Of
Kit Carson and they are living now In
Trinidad. Colo.
No Mans land used to be the strip
Of land 167 miles long and 35 miles
wide between Texas on the south and
Kansas on the north. Later it was
known as Beaver county. Now II is
made up OF Cimarron, Texas and
Beaver counties. Oklahoma.
None of the books tells the true
story Of how that came to be known
as No Mans land" said Mr. Allen to
a reporter 1.-The truth about 1t is
this: In the war between Mexico and
the United States this country took
all Of the country south of the Arkan-
sas river In what is now Colorado
and all Of New Mexico, Aroma, Cali
fornia and Texas. In the treaty that
coded this vast territory - the Uni
ted States II was stipulated that for
the benefit Of the Mexicans living in
New Mexico. who we're accustomed 20
trading with the Indians Of the In
dian territory, they should be given
a free roadway from New Mexico into
the Indian country and a neutral strip
was laid out 1877 miles long and about
35 miles wide that was since known
as the Neutral strip. and No Mans
land.
THE Mexicans were still using
that strip as a trading route when
went out there fifty years ago. And
then 1t was gradually abandoned as a
trading route, and as there was no
government with jurisdiction over it
and courts could not be established
there. It became a rendezvous for the
worst outlaws Of the southwest, who
would run out of there and commit
depredations ard then drop back to
the shelter Of the neutral strip.
"One of the worst bands that found
refuge there was the Coe outfit. It's
headquarters we're on the Cimarron
river in the southwest corner Of the
strip, and 1t had a stone fort there
a hundred miles from a settlement.
I was at that time captain Of COM
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
Convict lmpersonates Accused Man
and Is Acqultted-comrade
Remains In jail.

Paris.-A year ago one Bretche, who
was serving sentence of 13 months
at the Sante prison, made the acquaint-
ance of Marcel Faitide, who was await
Ing trial on a charge of assaulting a
constable. Bretche, whom a long and
varied acquaintance with the law had
made something of legal expert, as
sured Faitide that his case would be
quashed.
How would 1t be now" he suggest
ed to his fellow prisoner, whose inno-
cent measure he had taken, "if you
were to behave like a real brick and
let me take your placer"
What would you give?" asked Fai-
tide.
All that / possess" was the an
swer, and with a fine gesture Bretche
produced an old nickel watch, a pack
ct of cheap tobacco, and a cigarette
lighter.
"Done!" said Faitide.
A few days later Bretche-Faitide
was tried and acquitted, while Faitide-
Bretche found the sentence Of Is
months confirmed. For ten months he
stood 1t, but at last his patience gave
out. Perhaps the packet of tobacco
was exhausted, or the watch may have
stopped. In any case. Faitide went to
the governor of the prison and told his
extraordinary tale.
On the same day Bretche. as luck
would have it, was arrested for rob.
berry with violence. His thumb marks
were taken, and found, of course, to
correspond exactly with those of the
pseudo-Bretche, already safely under
lock and key. The murder, or rather
the evasion. was out. Recently the
tribunal condemned the real Bretche
to the original Is months imprison-
ment, and sent him back to prison to
await trial on the second charge. The
ingenious Faitide was acquitted
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
LIVE ON "GR|NGOS'
Matamoras, Mex, Preserved by
the American Manufacturer.
Mas Once City Of AetIVIty-Rlo
Grande, an ImpregnabIe Wall Be-
tween Old and New, Has
Stopped Progress.

FL Paso, Textile Rio Grande
flows in its purplish-ocre stream but
few miles away, writes a CORE
spondent from Matamoras. North Of
this meandering, slit laden water
course is the country Of achievement
and advancement-so close that bull
lets fired by Constitutionalists or Fed
eralists frequently find Judgment
therein. Yet on this side of the river
the sweeping is done with broom
made Of twigs.
The river is more than a boundary
line. 1t is a great, seemingly impreg-
nable wall between the old and the
new, the then and the now. 1t is the
end Of the one and the beginning of
the other. A few hundred feet at its
widest, yet it apparently has stopped
the march of centuries.
Over yonder they say woman must
not work more than so many hours
week. They talk Of equal wages for
equal work" Commissions are study
Ing ways and means to elevate the
condition of their sisters, seeking to
find avenues that will lead to cosier
and happier times. Here, the women
peer furtively through bars of iron.
shield their faces with the mantilla
as they pass along the street and they
pass as shadows. silently, furtively
stealing glances in their journeys.
And they pound the beans to make
the cakes or grind the meal because
woman Is cheaper than machine and
does not wear out so fast.
The faces Of these brown women
are sad aslthey converse in their low
tones, the liquids of their language
flowing along in a sort of a melody
yet melody Of which sorrow is the
theme.
And so 1t is in Matamoras. Once
$4,000 people had their homes there.
In the past 1t was the scene Of much
activity. The cotton ships called there
and took away great burdens of Aeecy
white. Men bought and sold and the
women were bedecked in finery. But
those who saw the ships come, now
sleep in the little cemetery over near
the bull ring and the glory Of Mata-
moras has fed with them since 1t is
no longer a seaport. Only boats of
the very ightest draft could call at
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
Me- MaIaproo,s Car.

ct have" said Mrs. Malaprop. =
beautiful car, with cymbelire BODY
dispatchible and denounceable rims
epileptic springs. electric starter, 10
fernal expanding brakes, autocraue
wind shield, black untrammeled head
lights, interval power plant nasn
jubilation, there-point indention. three
speeds horrid and one perverse.
amateur on the dashboard, aggravated
ebony rim on the steering Wheel
copellerator, throttle peddler, SANITARY
transition, jumpspark intuition. imp
son bearings, a set o. lean gas primers
and all other accessories. "-Judgs-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09

plaza to the cemetery. There the
dead rest in vaults on top of the
ground These vaults-built of burn
ed brick If the family can afford it, or
adobe, IL 1t is poor-are equipped with
hooks so that the mourning signs may
be hung without difficulty. The Mex
lean is apt to be economical of time in
his mourning. Fresh flowers are plen-
tiful and cheap, they can be had in
the fields for the picking, but they
have to be renewed.
But the permanent occupancy even
Of the last abode Is not guaranteed.
On the authority of the little old
man who sits at the gate and accepts
coppers that are rendered him-by re-
quest-if a half dollar a year, in gold,
is not paid by those who survive those
ct rest, or there is not some provision
through legacy, then the tomb is open
ed, the coffin removed and the bones
thrown into a corner to be covered
by naught else save by the merciful
weeds.
There were quite Q number of the
brothers and sisters who failed to
pay their dues. as the heap testi-
fees.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
BILL" HAD LIVED TOO LONG
Halter Becomes Indignant When Cue
toner Enters Complaint About
His Purchase.

Pittsheld, In the Berkshire hills,
had in the old days, like many an
other New England town. number
of men and women who were called
characters" One Of these was "BiIl"
Brown, a man unfortunately addicted
to drink, and frequently intoxicated
for days at time.
On one occasion he went into the
shop of the local halter, Mr.. Smith.
and asked for the best beaver he had.
Mr.. Smith produced the desired artt
Gle. saying, as he took the money:
THAT beaver win last a man q life
time"
Bill went proudly down the main
street with his fine beaver on bic
head, and Immediately celebrated the
event with a protracted debauch
When he recovered he returned to
the shop with a most disreputabls
hat.
Look here, I thought you said this
here beaver would lost me a life
time" "a
$50 1t would" growNd Mr.. Smith.
IF you had died when you ought TO-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
NEW STELLAR DISCOVERY
Lowell Observatory Scientists Declare
That the Light Of Nebulae
10 Reflected.

Flagstaff. Ariz.-It has been discov-
cred at the Lowell observatory
through spectroscopic observations
that the nebulae In the pleiades were
illuminated by the reflected light Of
neighboring stars.
1t is regarded as discovery OF
great Importance to the astronomical
world because of its direct bearing on
the nature of thousands OF other nebu-
lac and on evolution of the stellar
system.
The supposition has always been
that the nebulae were self-ligheipg;
that is, that they were composed Of
fiery substance. The discovery would
indicate that they are cold bodies.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09

Watch your STEP" varying 1t once in
while with Mind your STEP" just
to shock wandering purists
The building management has found
a better plaza veritable Maxim ST.
lencer for raucous-toned operators.
When a car is brought to a full
stop an attachment on the lever or
controller automatically lights a
strong incandescent with a reflector
upon 1t, and this is focused on the
threshold of the elevator. The poor
est-sighted passenger could not fail
to discover any difference in the lev
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
MOVIES" FOR THE FAM !,
Time Not Far on When p,..
VIII Be Made in Home for ''''
Picture Shows.

A prediction may safely ba
tnat In the very near future prcvss.s us
VIII be made for moving uicturs ~ =
the home. When man decias. =
build house to cost, say. s25 oao =
more, the architect will plan the ~
ture room In which the family 80
their guests can enjoy select ~ ~
gram OF latest productions. II NJ.
be in connection with a dancing 49,
or It can be accommodated in murs
less space. A projecting machine m,s
able for the home will not be We.
costly, and the films will doubtles.
delivered each week by Companies :,
ganized for that special purpose Ira,
elers returning from abroad will A.
pictures of cities and scenes thew h.v-
visited a wonderful relp in recitInv !.
friends and relatives incidents OF the
places they have visited.
Another new industry which v,n
soon come into existence in all he
larger cities will be film photogranbV
Children's birthdays, garden parties
weddings and other functions which
will in later days or years recall pleas.
ant memories will be thus perpetu.
ated by the film photographer. Hs
will eventually be considered as much
a necessity as the orchestra. On.
doubtedly one of the most acceptable
wedding presents in days 70 come from
parents to bride and bridegroom win
be a set of progressive films showing
the children as they advanced nom
infancy to high school days. As
feature of the wedding festivities these
pictures would afford both amusement
and observation-disclosures Mechan-
les.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
Marine telescope.

Make an oblong narrow box out o.
four pieces OF quarter-inch board about
two feet long by sixteen inches wide
and At a piece OF clear. clean glass
across one end. held in place by brass
headed tacks, driven into the wood
and overlapping the glass. FIJI all the
cracks with sealing wax to keep out
the light. Then plunge the glass end
two or three inches into the water and
look through the open end. This sim
pie marine telescope is made on the
principle Of the more elaborate glasses
through which to look at the famous
gardens under the sea near the Cate
lima NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Herald.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
BACK TO PURITANlCAL DAYS
Mayor BIankenburg Of Philadelphia
Calls Town Meeting to Tell
His Troubles.

Philadelphia. - Rudolph Blanken-
burg, the reform mayor, harked back
to the old puritanical days recently
when he called town meeting for the
purpose of telling the populace how
the politicians-knaves he calls them
blocked his every move.
The town meeting was held in the
Academy of Music. The academy was
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
Ten-center.

A man with a thirst for informs
ton as well as his other thirst which
was equally habitual. entered the b:
Of q downtown hotel and started q
conversation with the prescription
clerk.
when a man orders a drink" said
the customer. ordering a drink and
pouring II high. do you ask hin
whether he wants 10 or is cent
goods?"
Never" replied the pharmacist
why don't your"
We'll, we size customer up. We
give him the sort that he appears 70
be used to having. And we seldom
miss a guess"
That's very interesting Well. ]
must be going. What do ! owe you
Ten cents" - Cleveland PLAIN
Dealer.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09

IS to Claude Medium, assistant gen.
eral passenger agent of the Great
Northern railway, as compensation for
ride he says he stole on a Great
Northern train between Seattle and
Wenatchee in 1906.
The writer says he doesn't remem-
Der the exact fare between the points
Of the ride, but he sends sufficient
money to be certain of covering the
expense.
Il request that you give me credit
for this amount" he wrote. and my
mind VIII be easier"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
To the sitter End.

Old Bill Titcomb had taken SACK
of grain to an old-fashioned mill %
have it ground into meal He watches
the ponderous wheels revolving SLOW.
/, while a tiny stream OF meal
trickled out Finally his patience Do
came exhausted.
DO yer know" he said, Il cud ca.
that there meal faster than yer darnea
nall can grind itl"
"Yes? remarked the miller, Dus
how long could you keep on eating u
Mr.. Titcomb?"
wall" replied old Bill. concius
lively, Il reckon cud keep on at tnas
rate tin I starved."-Short Stories.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
AIDS THE LIFT PATRONS
lneandeseent Light Shows Passengers
Whether the Elevator Has Stopped
at the Floor Level.

New York.-Elevator operators in
the United States Express company's
building at 2 Rector street no longer
emulate elevated or subway guards
when they fail to stop their cars on
an immediate level with the floor.
No longer do they warn passen-
gers entering and leaving their cars to
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
MAN GAVE HIS BLOOD IN VAIN
Yonkers Manufacturer Whose Friend
Tried to Save Him Dies from
Anaemla.

Yonkers.-Thomas Morris, Jr.. to
save whose life James ]. Lynch. an
old friend. gave up a quart of his
blood. died at his home, 70 Buena
Vista avenue.
Mr.. Morris, who was an iron manu-
facturer, had been suffering from
anaemia for several months. Last
week his physicians decided the only
chance OF saving his life would be the
injection of blood. When Lynch
heard this, although he had been es-
tranged from Morris for some time be-
cause of business differences. he Of
fered to supply the blood required
Mr.. Morris leaves a widow and two
children.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09

instance in particular" said. the min
lister, that of film showing the bat
tie of Bunker Hill. where there was
flashed on the canvas a Yankee farm
er bayoneting a British redcoat
I'm such cases as that would sug-
gest warning the proprietor of its un-
desirability, and. that failing, there is
always a way of getting it stopped"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09

method by which she can tell what
one is saying by placing her fingers
on the lips, nose and chin.
The Spanish minister at Washing
ton has been directed to see Miss
Keller and learn as much as possible
OF her methods from her and from
her teacher and companion. Mrs.
Macy.
Back of the visit to this country a
few weeks ago Of the Spanish royal
court physician. DR.. vincente Lorente.
were closely guarded secret instruc-
tons to learn all he could about the
methods Of teaching Helen Keller and
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-09
BALKS AT BUNKER HILL FILM
Canadian Militia Minister Protests
Yankee Patriotic Scenes in
Theaters.

Ottawa, Ont.-The undue promi-
hence given American scenes in Can
adam moving picture theaters was OBJ
jected to at a military gathering here.
Minister of Militia Hughes touched on
the plenitude of American flags wav-
ing in many of the reels exhibited.
My attention was directed to one