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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-05
WIN 455-MILE ROAD RACE.
Verbeck and Ham, in Fiat, Success
full in California Event.

SACRAMENTO. Cal, July 5-Frank
verbeck and Harry Ham, in a Fiat won
the California road race from Los An
geles to Sacramento yesterday sending
the car over the course OF 4JJ.3 miles
in II hours minute and Is seconds
E. s. Waterman and Clifford Perry.
In a Buick, were close behind. their
time being IL :21:25. Barney Oldfield
was third. with his Fiat in II :22.53
The average time OF the winning car
was 39l2 miles an hour. It's fastest
time was 1n3 miles an hour
There were numerous accident dur
ing the races but none resulted i'm
serious injury to drivers or mechani-
clans. Much of the course lay over
mountain roads
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THOUSANDS TRY TOLyNCH
COL0RED SLAYER OF BOY
Hunted Man Saved at New
port Beach by Being Taken
Into Surf.

NEWPORT. R l., July 5.-Then thou
sand people. men and women, witnessed
a riot on Newport Beach last night
when a negro. fleeing from a sailor
he had stabbed in the back. shot and
killed fourteen-year-o boy.
For nearly an hour police reserves
battled desperately with the mob which
was determined to get possession of
the negro. Only by carrying him into
the surf and holding him in the water
up to his neck, beyond the reach of
the crowd. did the police succeed in
retaining him.
Trouble Follows Jos.ling.
The trouble started when Ernest
Rabu and Lloyd Maloney. ordinary
seamen from the naval training sta
ton, were jostled in the crowd on the
beach. Mabney says he had turned
to expostulate when Bradley Smith.
twenty years of age, colored. struck
him. In the fight that followed, Smith
is alleged to have stabbed Rabu.
With the two sailors in pursuit Smith
started down the beach. The police say
he drew a revolver and began to shoot
at his pXsuers William Egan, fourteen
years of age. dropped with bullet In
his right eye.
Cries of Lynch Him.,
The boy was hurried to the Newport
hospital. but died on the way. Smith was
knocked down and captured, but before
the patrol wagon could reach the scene
he was surrounded by mob. and cries OF
Lynch him." arose.
The officers got their prisoner into the
surf, and after holding off the mob there
for a time rushed him into a small Office
building In an instant the mob had
started to pull the building to pieces
Windows were beaten in. blinds ripped OF
and some of the crowd forced their way
into the room where the prisoner was
held
\ midshipnlan from one of the battle
ships trying to hold back a crowd OF
sailors was knocked down and trampled
! The patrol wagon arrived. and while
some of the police held off the crowd the
prisoner was placed in the vehicle and
taken to the police station.
kabu's wound is not serious.
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HENRY RELEASED ON BAIL.
Virginians Intercede for Mar Who
Used Knife at Gettysburg.

GETTYSBURG, Pa, July 5.-W. b.
Henry, accused of stabbing eight persons
in a local hotel Wednesday night, was
released yesterday on $500 bail, fur
nished by his father. Maj. r. r. Henry of
Tazewell, Va.
The bail was fixed after Gov. Mann.
members of his staff, the lieutenant gov
ernor and the attorney general of Vir-
GINA had appeared before the judge to
intercede for him.
The Virginians hold the Henry family
in high esteem and the defendant has
always borne an excellent reputation.
He is lawyer in Camden, n. j.
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Dr.. Mulle- to Visit Grand Canyon

LOS ANGELES. Cal. July 5.-With
the arrival here yesterday of DR. Lauro
Muller, the Brazilian foreign minister.
who is ma king a state tour of the
United States. a change in his itinerary
WAS announced. DR.. Muller and party
had intended TO pass the day and mig hit
in Los Angeles. but the change in plans
called for their departure in the after
noon for Riverside. whence they in
tended TO go direct to the Grand Can
Won in Arizona.
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Mrs Julia F. Webster Buried

Funeral services for Mrs. Julia F. Web
ster mother-in-law of James A Finch.
nardon attorney of the Department of
I,etice who died Thursday at the latter
residence on Grant road. west of Chevy
Chase. were held at 2 o'clock this after
noon The body was later taken to Alex
andria. Va, for interment
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Sets Date for Bribery Trial.

WEBSTER SPRINGS. w. Va. July s.
Judge w. s. o'Brlen. sitting in the trials
of the West Virginia legislators charged
With bribery In connection with the cleo
ton OF a United States senator. has set
Tuesday next for the beginning of the
trial OF Rath Dun, the second of the ac-
cused to go on trial
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Fourth Observed in London.

LONDON. July 3.-The American am
bassador. Walter II. Page, and the re-
Gently appointed Japanese ambassador.
Count Katsunosuke Inouye were among
the many distinguished guests at the din
ner of the American Society last evening
in celebration Of the Fourth
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Wins Grand Challenge Cup.

der boat club today won the grand chal-
Ienge cup for eight cared crews by beat
ing Jesus Conrpe. Cambridge. Leander's
time was minutes. IL seconds. This
was the last day OF the royal regatta.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-05
Base Ball League Loses by Fire.

LOS ANGELES. Cal. July 5.-All of
the equipment of the Venice and Oakland
Coast League teams stored in the club
houses at Washington base ball park
was destroyed by fire yesterday. The club.
houses of the ball park were destroyed
and the bleachers damaged.
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Augustus Fentress, SO, Dies.

Augustus Fentress, eighty-three years
old. died at o'clock last night at his
home. 629 Kenyon street northwest.
Funeral services will be held at his
late residence Monday morning at s $50
o'clock The body will be taken to
Baltimore for interment.
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perS
Bugle's Note More Joyous.

For five minutes the camp was quiet.
Then the bugie spoke again in notes
more joyous The silken flag leaped up
the staff to it's very pinnacle and the
noises that forty thousand men can make
resumed their sway-the regular army's
tribute to the dead and to the flag of a
reunited nation.
That five minutes silence was probably
the last formal mark Of the semi-cen-
tennial celebration. Only few minutes
before President Wilson spoke in the big
tent to the veterans in blue and gray
and only a short time afterward thou
sands of those who were left began their
preparations for departure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-05

Ralph Reamer. banker of Columbus.
Ohio and son Herndon. who are on a
walking trip to Washington. stopped in
Harerstown. Md. Friday to see relatives
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Claimant From Scotland.

A group Of men in dark riding uniforms
members of the Pennsylvania state con-
stahulary. are in the middle of High
street and a confederate. with a fine
little goatee. has the floor.
Yes sab! l come through here a-chas-
in the Yanks fifty years ago. and !
reckon if it hadn't o. been for me they
never would have been a battle. ] fired
the first shot. At least / nevah heard
no dispute about that fact, sab.
Lieut. Patton of the 18th United States
Calvary. was on guard yesterday with
some of his men. a veteran approached
him, saying:
You might like to know me, sir. I
fired the first shot in the battle OF Get
tysburg."
A veteran from Massachusetts,. who
has a fine New England accent, visited
the press camp:
YES" he said, II was twenty-one
months in AndersonVille. but don't think
Z. that at all. I am proud and happy to
come back here and see the old battle
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Tribute of Silence Is Paid
to the Dead at GETTYSBURG

GETTYSBURG. Pa. July 5-The regu-
lar army paid tribute yesterday to the
thousands who sleep under the hills of
Gettysburg. Somewhere down in the
heart OF the tented city bugle sang out
in silver sweet call that wandered over
the field where Lee and Meade made his
tory
The big nag before the headquarters of
Gen. Lggett. flashing sudden curves of
red and white and blue, glorious in the
sunshine Of perfect July day. came
slowly half way the STAFF In front of the
tent soldiers. square-fgured. trim in sum-
mer uniforms of white. faced toward
the flag. the general clicked heels RI.
gether and stood at attention.
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field. Gentlemen. I'll give you n good
story. I was the man who fired the first
shot At least. I haven't ever had any
one dispute that statement"
Every time a man of this generation
sees a veteran with a fixed CLEAN in his
eve making toward him with purpose.
the younger man lodges under a tent and
hides. He knows he is a first shotter
The camp Is willing TO admit all claims.
but IL doesn't want 10 hear any more
about II
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Sickles Denies Death Rumor.

Newspaper men had a relay race - the
Rogers House yesterday when they heard
the rurnor az Gen. Dan Sickles' death.
The rumor sprang out Of the ground
everywhere: The general sat on the porch
denying that he had died. Its a lie"
he said. a blank lie. a blank. blank lie.
like all the other blank. blank. blank
dirty stories they tell about me"
Later Gen. Sickles got into n taNicab
and rode over 10 camp and was photo
graphed TO refute the rumor.
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Battery Booms a Salute.

Somewhere the guns of the Sd Battery
burst into staccato salute. Every officer
over the length and breadth of that wide
field. every enlisted man turned awav
from the duties OF the moment and faced
the nag. heels together. heads up and
eyes alight with the sentiment of the
hour.
AS the last gun Of forty-eight sent the
echoes Gathering about Seminary Ridge
and Round Top there was solemn al
lence. the hush Of peace Old veterans
who did not realize. perhaps. exactly what
was going on stood silent under the
spell Of the universal feeling that seemed
70 sweep the field. Even the clatter of
pots and pans in the mess tents was
hushed and the yells Of cooks about to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26
.15 COUNTIES WANT
1918 ROAD MONEY
Applications for State Aid
Work Coming in Steadily
Since January 13

Montgomery, January 25-(Special.)-
Fifteen counties of the state have made
for the 1913 appropriation for
the construction of public roads. The ap-
pications for state aid work have been
coming in steadily since January 10, the
time at which the highway commission
authorized the payment of appropriations
for the present year and all of the coun-
ties applying have signified their in
tention of beginning road improvement
work Immediately.
Five of the counties that aplied for the
1918 appropriation will use the state aid
money in the construction of bridges,
while the other 10 counties will apply
the state funds in road construction.
The counties that have applied for the
1913 appropriation for road construction
are Coffee. Bib. Gilmore, Macon. Cal
houn, Franklin, Talladega, st. Clair, Nor
gan, Dallas. Those counties that VIII
use their funds for the construction of
bridges are Pike, Barbour, Washington,
Sumter and Montgomery.
State Highway Engineer w. s. Keller
and the members of the highway commits
sion are pleased that the counties are
showing a disposition to make early ap-
plication for the 1913 appropriation mas
much as 1t gives the highway depart
ment more time in which to attend to the
reeds of the various counties during the
year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26
NORMAL STUDENTS
GOING TO COLUMBIA
Jacksonville and Calhoun
Will Have Representa-
tives at Corn Show

Jacksonville. January 25.-fSpecial.) y
The party from this section of the state
en- route to Columbia. s. G. to attend
the pational corn exposition, will he
Joined at Admission by Miss Eula d. At
kinson. supervisor of rural schools of
Calhoun county; Miss Mabel Alexander
and Ira Ezekiel. students of the state
normal school. Miss Atkinson will assist
in the exhibit of the country community
center at the exposition This exhibit in
cludes a school. church and grange hall.
its purpose being to emphasize the school
as a social center. and to bring the school
and community in closer touch.
Miss Alexander is one of the six girls
chosen to represent the Alabama Tomato
clubs at the exposition, her selection be-
Ing due to the fact that she as a MEM
ber of the Calhoun County Tomato club.
made the greatest profit on her one-tenth
acre yield. At the recent Calhoun County
School fair. held in Jacksonville, she
took first prize as to profits and second
in point of yield. She will take an ex.
hiblt of her own products to the Colum-
bia exposition.
Mr.. Ezekiel is a Coosa County Corn
club boy and was awarded first prize
at the Coosa County fair and wau also
awarded other prizes in his county He
produced over 14S bushels of corn on an
acre of land. His county also raised a
considerable sum toward defraying his
expenses, while attending the corn club
school and exposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26
TWO ARE RUN OVER BY
TRAIN IN TALLADEGA
Victims Who Lay Down on Track Are
Frightfully Mangled-Negro
Suspect Cleared

Talladega, January 25.-fSpecial)-
''aT was at first reported as the murder
O. prank Ledoettsr has been investigated
by Coroner Heine. who finds that 1t was
a railroad accident. Frank Dedbetter,
prominent young white man of this coun-
~. returned from Birmingham Thursday
night over the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic railroad, getting off at st. Ives.
a station eight EIiles west of this city.
The mangled hodies of Frank Ledbetter
and Joe Gooden were found on the rail-
read track shortly after the train had
ms ssed. and suspicion rested on Henry
jackson. a negro. who was missing. as
the rockets Of LeCbetter apparently had
been rifed and ii was supposed that MUIR
der and robbery had been committed and
the bodies placed on the track TO divert
suspicion.
Coroner Heine went to the scene ana
held an inquest While engaged in the
Investigation Henry Jackson. the sus-
nected negro, came up and the matter was
cleared.
when Jackson heard OF the death OF
7 edbetter and Goodwin, and that he was
under suspicion he Immediately came up
to the coroners inquest.
The first published statements OF ,Ae
affair was to the effect that a murder
had been committed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26
FOUND ON STREET
WITH MENINGITIS
Quarantine Declared at the
Montgomery Jail, Where
Sufferer Was Taken

Montgomery, January 25.-(Special.)-
Quarantine has been declared at tho city
prison here owing to the confinement
of an unidentified negro, who was found
to be suffering from an attack of eerebro-
spinal meningitis. The negro was dis
covered lying on a street in North Mont
gomery Friday afternoon. and thinking
he was drunk, officers took him to the
city prison.
When 1t was seen that the man was no
better, the city physician was called and
he pronounced the case cerebro-spinal
meningitis. Police Commissioner c. p.
Mcintyre at once secured permission from
Sheriff Horace Hood to use the jail for
the confinement of all city prisoners I'M
Ill 1t is determined that there will be
70 epidemic among those already con-
fined.
The impression obtains that the negro,
who is in serious condition and is not
expected to recover was sent to Mont
gomery from some place In the state. No
place can be found in which the aegro
can be isolated. The emergency hospital
Is being used for smallpox patients, and
physicians declare that meningitis cannot
be treated there. owing to the weakened
condition of the smallpox patients.
Following the announcement that the
city prison had been quarantined the
committee of public health at once met
and made number of recommendations
that will aid in stopping any spread of
the disease. The recommendations were
signed by the entire. committee, and In
clude every precaution that should be
taken against an epidemic of the dis
ease.
The case at the city prison Is about
the fourth case of cerebro-spinal menini-
It's that has been discovered in Mont
gomery. The school board has had un-
der consideration the question of closing
the public schools, but 1t is not believed
that this action will be taken unless
there is any further spread of meningitis
The city commission has announced that
it will spend whatever amount Is neces-
sary to prevent the spread of the disease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26

A study of the above figures will show
that in the 5s counties above represented
the boys won Al prizes with total yield
of 5137Ss bushels; the men won Il prizes
with a total yield of 2O5s75 bushels.
'The average yield of the Al boys was
125.79 bushels; the average yield of the
men was 121.19 bushels. In other words
the boys made average of $50 bushels
more than the men.
"Of the total prize money, $3.50, Of
fered in these IS counties the boys won
si025 or IRA per cent of the total. The
men won s425 or 27.6 per cent.
"Of the three general state prizes Of
fered for the best acres of corn in the
a young man. Benny Owen of Ware, who
has been a members of the Boys Corn
club for the past four years. and the
third prize was won by Willie Atchson,
a corn club boy.
These figures and conclusions show a
number of interesting facts. In the
first place they show that the large
amount of instruction, which the ex-
tension department at Auburn gives the
poys lnTouSu tne tedcuefS anu ths Soho'i
by personal talks and meetings and by
letters and pamphlets, counts. We send
to these boys from Auburn each year
more than half million letters and
pamphlets. The men in the contest, so
far as we know. received no such in
struction or help.
'Tn the second place they show that
the boys and young men on the farm
are more progreSSiVe and more willing to
accept and put into practice new and i'm
proved methods OF better farming.
I'm the third place they speak won
ders for the corn club work and fully
answer the question as to whether the
Boys Corn club work is worth while or
not.
Sincerely yours,
IL. y. DUNCAN,
-. b. HOBBY, Special Agent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26
BULLOCK BOYS co TO.
CORN EXPOSITION

Union Springs. January 25.-(Special)
The six corn club boys of this county
who raised from 102 to 161 bushels of
corn to the acre were sent this morning
to the Columbia exposition in charge
of Demonstration Guy Rltch of this
place. Arrangements are now being
made to banquet the 80 corn club boys
of this county who made high aver
age.
A delegation of corn club boys will be
sent to the Chicago Corn exposition.
The boys who went to Columbia this
morning are Stanley Boswell, Inverness
e. w Roughton, Almeria; Sammie Hix-
on, Perote; Elon G. Moore, Mt. Hllliard
Asa Powell, Postoka; Joseph Mcmillan,
Bethel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26
!. CRAIG SMITH FOR
STATE TREASURER
SOn-in-Law of Ex-Governor
Mentioned to Succeed
PurifOy

Montgomery. January 25.-(Special) -
The name of J. Craig Smith, former pres
ident of the state convict board. has been
mentioned in connection with the contest
for state treasurer TO succeed Judge
John Purifoy.
Mr.. Smith was treasurer for ten years
lie is son-in-law of former Governor b.
3. Conner
Expenses of transporting Alabama nil
itary companies to Washington to attend
the Inauguration cannot be paid by the
state Governor O'Neal today stated thai
Alabama will be represented, but that the
expense will not be borne by the state.
Governor O'Neal hopes that members of
his staff will accompany him 10 the m
auguration, but il they do they will have
to pay their )wn expenses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26
YOUTHFUL MURDERER
GRANTED NEW TRIAL
Supreme Courts Decision Favorable
to DeKalb County Resident Under
Seven Years Sentence

Fort Payne, January 25.-(speclaI) }
John Reef, who has been in the coun-
ty Jail at this place since last Feb
ruary under sentence of seven years
in the penitentiary for the killing of
a 14-year-o boy by the name of
Dennis several years ago. was granted
new trial by the supreme court and
has made bond TO await his new trial
at the next term of circuit court in
February.
The killing was the result of an old
family feud and occurred when sew
eral members of both families met at a
dividing line between the farms and
entered into general fight in which
both sides took active part
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26

Admission, January 25.-(SpeciaL)-
officials of the Alabama Interstate
Power company In Admission and the
Anniston district, where the company
has over a million dollars invested in
franchises, electric light. gas. street
railway and water power properties,
are entertaining great hopes from the
efforts of Capt. w. p. Lay, the Prophet
of the Coosa." who has just gone to
Washington to join in the effort to
get Congress to pass the Coosa river
dam bill over the veto of President
Taft.
At least, it is believed this Is the
shape the measure will assume, as 1t
is not generally believed that Presi-
dent Taft can be persuaded to with
draw his veto OF the measure, which
authorizes the construction of a great
power dam on lock Is, a few miles
from this city.
Appreciating the benefit the opera
tions of the company will be to the
entire state of Alabama, the people of
the state are not very strongly in fa-
yor of the Persidsnt's attitude and a
considerable delegation will go to
Washington to Join in the fight.
Captain Lay has been working for
the development of the Coosa for over
20 years. and he contends that mas
much as the government has done lit
tie for the development of the stream,
and that as governmental officials sug-
gested that he and others interested
private capital in its development of
the Coosa, thus saving the govern
ment the expense of development, 1t is
now inconsistent to undertake to levy
a tax on a work which has come as
the result of the governments inac-
tivity and as the result of govern
mental suggestion through high fed
eral officials.
The fight. however does not give
promise of being an easy one Cover
nor O'Nea1 recently declined to lend
his official influence to those who are
working to avoid the proposed tax, and
a large number of influential maga-
zines and newspapers have Joined in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26
BOYS ARE AHEAD
IN CORN CONTESTS
Interesting Figures on Work
Done in Alabama
CONCLUSIONS DRAWN
Figures Show that Boys Are More
Willing Than the Grown Men to
Adopt New Methods
in Farming

The following summary of the corn
raising contests in Alabama during the
past year show some interesting sacts
In observing the figures given out
by the state department of agriculture in
reference to the corn contest for 1912 it
is very interesting TO notice the COM
parison of the results OF the boys in the
corn clubs and the men. All of the boys
in the corn club in Alabama were en-
tered by us in the contest conducted by
the state In this contest the boys COM
peted directly with the grown men.
Below are given by counties the yields
of the boys and the yields of the men:
Counties Boys Men.