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Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-04-08
300 GO AGAINST 1000
ARTILLERY FIRE PLAYS IMPORT
ANT PART IN FIGHT NEAR
NAco, SONORA.
AMERICANS IN THE FRAY
DEsERTERs FROM THE NINTH
UNITED STATES CAVALRY
HELP THE LOYAL ARMY.

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: Naco, Ariz., April Sat 1
: O'Clock the heavy cannonading
Z was resumed, with the state
= troops pressing forward The I
= advance was met with a terri Z
= fc fire from the federal artil- :
4 lery.
\ Possible destruction of the !
= Mexican town of Naco. Sonora, :
= and the American town op- :
= posite was prevented this af- :
\ ternoon when a carload OF :
= dynamite wrecked itself and I
y exploded some distance out of I
+ Naco, Sonora. The dynamite I
= loaded car had been started :
= down a grade by rebels, the I
= purpose being to explode and 4
= wreck the town held by Ole I
: da's federal force. A broken I
: rail is supposed to hare caused 4
: the car to aage the track be- I
= fore reaching the town. The
: explosion was felt for miles. I
Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-04-08
TODAY IN CONGRESS.
. +%%%4 @&@%s 49,

washington, April s-senate: Met
at noon.
Proceeded 70 house chamber for
joint session.
Senator Shafroth introduced reso-
luton to change time for beginning Of
congress to first Monday in january
after national elections and Inaugural
tion OF president to second Monday in
January.
Adjourned at 1:2o p. m. until We'd
nesday noon.
House: Net at 1880 p. n.
Received members Of senate and in
joint session listened 10 president de-
liver his frat message to congress
Republican Leader Mann submitted
to the ways and means committee bis
recommendation for republican mem
befs of important committees.
Representative Sins feinifodueed
Is biH q abolish eonne1es eosFt sad
bl 10 repeal Amaen ecsTse
siipgipE toli eo qg ~ o lhe
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Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-04-08

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Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-04-08

Mr. wilson's address
was short-he read
it himself.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-11

Henry C. Payne are dead. Hale
is dying. Aldrich, Spooner,
Foraker and Burrows are in re-
tirement. Grosvenor is for
gotten,
Of the men who were con-
spicuous in the Republican
ranks when William Mckinley
was inaugurated President,
Senator Lodge is the one re-
naming figure. AS Uncle Joe
Cannon hikes back to Danville
the country forgets that he was
a member of the original Old
Guard under Mckinley and that
he came into the speakership as
reformer.
Nothing emphasizes the poll
tical changes of the last sixteen
years more than the names of
the Republican leaders who
have died or abdicated.-New
York Weekly.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-11
Get Rid of the Stumps

Although the Southern far
mers, as a general rule, or on an
average, produce smaller yields
per acre than farmers in other
sections, they receive as much
per acre for the products of
their land. Their profits or
yearly earnings are less because
they cultivate fewer acres at a
larger expense per acre. This is
chiefly due to their failure
to use sufficient work-stock and
labor-saving implements. The
reasons for this failure to use
more labor-saving implements
are many, but perhaps the most
important one is that the con-
dition of our fields is such as to
make their use less profitable
or at least more difficult. Small
fields of Irregular shape. with
stumps, gullies and open bitches
are serious obstacles to the sat
isfactory use of the larger and
better labor-saving implements.
1t takes time and costs money
to remove these obstacles to
cheap cultivation of the land,
but the time has come when the
stumps should be removed from
all cultivated fields. It costs
less to remove them than to al
low them to remain on the land.
The crops that may be grown
on the land they occupy and the
extra cost of cultivation which
they cause will pay for their re-
mOval in a year or two. The
stump puller should be on every
Iarm where there are stumps
on the land. If there are not
enough stumps to Justify the
purchase of a stump puller, or
if the farmer is not financially
able to buy one alone, he should
set to work to get his neighOrS
to join with him in the Joint
purchase of a machine.
Too often when we feel that
we are not able to do all of a
certain piece of work, we allow
that to serve as a reason for
doing none of it. Stumps should
be removed as fast as possible
and good stump puller is
great help in clearing the land
of stumps wherever and when
ever ued. Why not Join with
your neighbor and buy stump
puller or buy one alone, if you
can, and clear a few extra acres
this year? 1t will pay.-Pro-
greSSiVe Farmer.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-11

Recent lynchings in the South
have once more attracted pub
lie attention to a most deplora-
BILE phase of Southern life.
There is probably no Southern
problem more generally misun-
derstood in the North and more
unduly exaggerated than the
occasional outbreaks of mob
violence chiefly against suspect
ed or confessed criminals of the
lowest possible type. No de-
fense can be made of lynchings
in a civilized community, nor
can this wrongful procedure be
explained or ional grounds.
1t is, theref, f considerable
Importance tt he facts of
lynchings she AZ not be mis-
understood, if but in simple JUS
tice to the overwhelming ma
jority of Southern people who
neither encourage nor condone
mob violence in any form. Un-
fortunately, there are no Fed
eral judicial statistics upon
which a thoroughly trustworthy
conclusion could be based but
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-11
MOTHER! is CHILD'S
STMACH SOUR, SICK?
If cross, feverish, constipated,
give california Syrup of

If cross, feverish, cOnstipated,
give California Syrup of
Figs"
Don't scold your fretful,
peevish child. See if tongue is
coated; this is a sure sign it's
little stomach, liver and bowels
are clogged with sour waste.
When listless, pale, feverish,
full of cold, breath bad, throat
sore, doesn't eat, sleep or act
naturally, has stomach-ache, in
digestion, diarrhoea, give tea
spoonful of California Syrup
of Figs, land in few hours all
the foul waste, the sour bile and
fermenting food passes out of
the bowels and you have a well
and playful child again. Chill
dren love this harmless fruit
laxative" and mothers can restI
easy after giving it, because it
never fails to make their little
"insides" clean and sweet. i,
Keep it handy, Mother! A lit
tie given today saves a sick
child tomorrow, but get the
genuine. Ask your druggist for
a 50-cent bottle of California
Syrup of Figs" which has di-
rection for babies, children of
all ages and for grown-ups
plainly on the bottle. Remem-
Der there are cOunterfeits sold
here, SO surely look and see that
yours is made by the "Califor-
MIA Fig Syrup Company" Hand
back with contempt any other
fig syrup.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-11
The Small Farmer Can be a
Good Farmer.

Good Farmer.
1t is not necessary for the
farmer to imagine, however,
that he must work out all of his
problems for himself. If he
waits to do that, most of them
will never be solved. The poor
man who wishes to be ahead
should be a reading man. He
should read about his work-in
farm papers, in experiment sta
tion and national department
bulletins, in books on agricul-
ture as he gets able to buy
them. Such reading, if done
with judgment, has a direct
cash value. 1t will bring in the
dollars.
For example, every man who
has read The Progressive
Farmer for a year knows that
it is not a safe plan to depend
on one crop alone; that it does
not pay to plant crops in a poor
ly prepared seed-bed; that he
tanget nitrogen for his corn and
cotton by the growing of clover
and cowpeas, much cheaper
than he can by buying it in a
fertilizer.
The man with little capital
has these facts at his command.
He wants to apply them. A man
does not have to have two
horses, or improved imple-
ments to enable him to rotate
his crops. They make it easier
for him, of course, just as it is
easier for him to make good
seed-bed or tend his crops prop
erly with two-horse imple-
ments. Yet he can take his
one-horse tools and do good
work.-The Progressive Far
mer.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-11
THE DECLINE IN LYNCHING.

which lynchings have occurred
during the five years ended with
1912. According to the table,
the largest actual number of
lynchings occurred in Georgia,
or "a, with an equivalent rate
of lynching of ST per million of
population. But the highest rate
of lynching ocurred in Florida,
1916 per million. That outbreaks
of mob violence of this kind
have not been limited entirely
to the South is made evident
by the fact that lynchings oc-
Cured in California, Idaho, H.
linois, Montana, Nebraska, New
Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wy
oming:
LYNCHINGS BY STATES
1908 -101D
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-11

the statistics of lynchings an
nually collected by The Chicago
Tribune are generally accepted
as approximately correct, and,
since they are compiled by a
Northern newspaper, they
probobly err rather on the side
of an overstatement of the
facts than to the contrary.
Mere numbers are, however, of
relatively small significance,
considering the large negro
population, which, approx
mately, amounts to about ten
millions. The most important
fact is not so much the actual
number of lynchings as the rel
ative tendency of lynchings to
increase or decrease, in pro-
portion to population.
LYNCHING STATISTICS OF
THE UNITED STATES,
l885-l9l2
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-11
FeWer Lynchings Actually
and Relatively to Population

There can be no more cOnclu-
sive evidence that lynchings,
however regrettable, as spas
modic outbreaks of mob vio-
lence, are diminishing in actual
numbers, as well as relatively
to population.
This most unfortunate as
pect of American life is pre-
cisely shown in the diagram,
which exhibits the rate by
quinquennial periods from 1885
to 1909, and by single years
thereafter. The diagram is self
explanatory and requires no
further discussion.
The reports of lynchings by
states are not available in full
detail for a long period of years,
but the information has been
compiled with reasonable ac-
curacy for the period 1908-1912.
For the purpose Of emphasiz-
ing precisely the local intensity
of lynchings, the following ia
BILE has been prepared, to show
the rate of lynchings per million
of population for the states in
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-11
The Quick and the Dead.

When the Republican party
went out of power yesterday it
had none of the leaders under
whom it came into power six
teen years ago.
Mckinley is dead. Reed is
dead. Hobart is dead. Hanna is
dead. Dingley is dead. Sherman
and Allison and Frye and Nc
MILAN and Cushman K. Davis
are dead. Platt and Quay and
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-11
AT GETTYSBURG IN JULY

Who are these Grand Army
veterans that object to the
presence of the Confederate
uniform at the Gettysburg Gel
ebration in July which will
mark the fiftieth anniversary of
the decisive battle of the civil
war?
They may be good men, but
they are sadly misguided.
Surely none of them could
have been with Reynolds and
Buford and Wadsworth in that
desperate first days fighting
which made this peaceful little
Pennsylvania town the turning
point of the war.
They cannot have fought in
Birney's division on that disas
trous second day when Long
street crumbled up Sickles'
corps and left the fate of the
nation hanging by a thread.
They cannot have been with
Warren and with Vincent in
that death grapple which end
ed only when Hoods men were
finally driven from Little Round
Top. 1t was there that O'Rorke,
the pride of his class at West
Point, was killed at the head of
the One Hundred and Fortieth
New York. No survivor of that
regiment would make such pro-
test.
They cannot have belonged
to the First Minnesota, which
earned a place all its own that
day in the Valhalla of heroes,
or to the Fifth New Hamp-
shire, which lost more in killed
than in wounded, among it's
dead being Colonel Cros, who
used to boast that his reg
iment dared not go back with
out orders.
They canot have been with
George Stannard's Vermont
brigade, or have seen the NOR
tally wounded Cushing, who
commanded a battery of artil-
lery, fire a last shot from his
guns as he gayly saluted his
general and then passed into
eternal peace.
They cannot have been with
Hancock's Second Corps, which
beat back Pickett's heroic
charge in the afternoon of the
third day, before Armistead
had planted his Confederate
flags in the midst of the Union
guns on Cemetery Ridge. The
men of that corps would want
to see those flags again, and to
see the men in gray who car
ried them up to the Union bat
teries. They still remember
how the dying Confederate
ArmiStead sent his watch and
spurs to the wounded Hancock
to be forwarded to his relatives
in the South. Before the war
Hancock and Armistead had
been chumS and, in spite of
war, the old friendship was
vanquished only by death it
self.
Perhaps these obiectors to
the Confederate uniforms were
not at Gettysburg at all; but
in any event they have missed
the meaning of the semi-cen-
tennial celebration. This is not
to be a gatheing of Northern
ers or of SoutheImers, but of
American citizens, with one
flag, one nation and one history,
and common memories of the
most momentouS struggle in
the annals of human liberty.
If Meade and Hancock and
Reynolds and Howard and Slo-
cum were alive they would be
the first to insist that Lees
veterans should wear the gray
again. They would want to see
the men who fought with Long
street and Jubal Early and Jeb
Stuart and Hood and Pickett
and EWell i'm the uniform that
belonged to them and they
would want to see the shatter-
ed Stars and Bars at the head
Of the regiments that carried
them fifty years ago.
That is what Gettysburg
means in 1913. That is the only
kind of celebration worth
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-11
DIR. Kings New Discovery.

Soothes irritated throat and lungs,
stops chronic and hacking cough, re-
lieves tickling threat. tastes nice.
Take no other; once used, always
used. Buy it at Lancaster Phar-
macy and Standard Drug Co.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-11

vnchings North or South will
be practically thing of the
past.-Frederick l.. Hoffman,
in New York Times.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
WALTERS ALL QUIT.
Hotel Full of Non-Tipping Ministers
Too Much for Them.

A mysterious walkuut of walters &C.
Cured recently in Brooklyn at the
hotel where 800 Methodist ministers
met in an annual conference. The
walters, paid at the usual rate, asked
for extra money, and, not getting It,
departed in body.
A second force was engaged, and
very shortly they, too, quit, leaving the
clergy in imminent peril of famine.
Did the walters happen to be Pres
byterians? Was a physical plague or
a spiritual contamination feared by
the garcons, who hesitated not to
serve saloon keepers and tainted
money kings? The ministers felt
hurt Neither theology nor experience
seemed able to indicate the cause OF
this unjust discrimination.
A waiter, however. made every
thing clear and simple by saying:
"The preachers never give us tips;
see? That's the trouble. IN. Y. Trib'
une.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
John poxIe,s Generosity.

The late William P1ummer, of New.
buryport, who was a contractor and
mason, had in his employ as q ten.
der an Irishman named John Doyle
One day John went to Mr.. Plummer
and said he was in trouble, as he had
lost his account book.
why" said Mr.. Plummer, you can.
not read or write, and how could you
keep ali account book?"
We'll" said John, Il had a nail
key in the cellar, and when I worked
a whole day | put a potato in the
key, and half potato for halliday.
My pig got into the cellar and ate the
potatoes"
Very we'll" said Mr.. Plummer, 81
have your account, and will look it
over" On doing so, he found that
John had overdrawn so cents. He told
John that he had drawn so cents more
than was due him, when John said:
well, Mr. Plummer, it's a small
amount, and you are welcome to It."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
AGAINST Hard Propo.ItIon.

Herbert Knox Smith. the brilliant
deputy Of the bureau of corporations.
said in Washington apropos of certain
illegal acts: Those acts are illegal,
but the question is: Can the law get
at the perpetrators? l am afraid 1t
can't. For these men are poor, and
monetary punishment is me only one
the law can take. The law, | am
afraid, is in the position Of certain
housewife | heard of Il g other day.
This housewife, strict woman,
said to new maid: forgot to tell
you, Maude, that if you break any.
thing, I'll have to take 1t out of your
wages
But Maude, wlnm two days had
heartily sickened CT her berth. replied
with merry laugh: Do 1t, ma'am, do
it. I've just broke the lundred-dollar
vase in the parlor, and if you can take
that out of four dollars-for I'm leavin'
at the end of the week-why. you'll
be mighty clever"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
August rs, 1918.

NiNS ~ IL ~
A call for special meeting of the
county board of supervisors of Villas
county, Wisconsin to:
C.. II. Kamke, chairman of the town
of Arbor Vitae; Peter Sandbeck, chair
man Of the town of COnover; n. NJ.
Emmons, chairman of the town of
Earle River; John II. Hunter, chair
man Of the town of Pennington; j.
". Pinch, chaiI man of the town of
Flambeau; j. l.. Metz, chairman of
the town of Hackley; Fred Meloy,
chairman of the town of Plum Lake
C. BackstrOm, chairman Of the town
of Presque Isle; and TO G. A. Bent,
chairman of the town of State Line.
To YOU and each of you, notice is
hereby given that pursuant to a
request, signed by majority of the
members Of the county board of Villas
county. There will be a special
meeting Of the county board of sup
eryisors of Villas county, the 4th
dav OF Sept, A. d. 1913 at o'clock
p. H.. at the county clerks Office in
the court house at Eagle River, for
the purpose of making an appropria-
ton 10 comply with the requirements
Of the state highway law, so that
Villas county will get its share of state
highway aid for 1914, and for any
other business that may come before
said board
Dated this 25th day of Aug, 1913.
w. A. BRADFORD, Co., Clerk.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08

as part of the county taxes in making the an
nual levy for said Villas County, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED. that the
Chairman of the County Board of Supervisors
and the County Clerk of said county issue and
deliver county order for the proportionate
cost of said bridge due from the county of Villas
to the said town of Phelps when the certificate
of the County Treasurer of Villas county is filed
with the county clerk stating that the money
herein levied, has come into his hands and upon
notice given to said chairman and clerk by said
Town Board of the town of Phelps and the COM
missioner, hereafter to be appointed, that the
said bridge has been completed and accepted.
Dated at Eagle River Villas county, Wis
consin, this 4th day of Sept, 1913
JOHN H. HUNTER, Supervisor
Adopted, all members voting aye.
AS provided by subdivision of Section 1919
of Wisconsin Statutes of 1911 I hereby appoint
chairman of the adjoining
IOWn or as commissioner
to act and cooperate with the town board of
the town of Phelps. and such board and the said
commissioner shall have full charge and auth
GRITTY to act in the letting, inspecting and ac-
ceptance of the work
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
RESOLUTION NO. Il.
PETITION NO. 2.


Application to the county Board of Super
visors of Villas county, Wisconsin, to lay out,
widen and alter county Highway.
We the undersigned, resident freeholders,
residing in the Town of Presque Isle, in said
county. hereby make application to you to lay
out, widen and alter highway through the
Town of Presque Isle, as follow
Commencing at the quarter post between
sections s and 8, thence SOUTH to section corner
of s, 9, Is and II, thence south on section line
between sections 16 and II to section corners of
49, II, 20 and q, all in Town 43 north. range o.
Five east.
Turtle Lake Lumber CO., Winchester Wis.
Henry Jones, C. A. Plser, Chas T. Thomas,
Geo. Ross, Villas co. Lbr. CO., per H, E, Daily,
Robt. Laundry, Vim. Desy, August Lake,
Thomas Dillon, Frank Brandes, VIM. Nagley,
Fred Foryth, Walter Kruger, Robt. Sigmund.
Gus Sigmund Fayette L. Buck, claude Oh
brant, Robt, McGlin, John Olbrant, A. III.
Moneor, Chas. Crause, Erna crotser W. j.
Noker G. H jackson. Daniel Grahrm, Geo.
E. O'connor, N NJ, Emmons, Frank A. Hall.
j, FL. Hunter
Dated this 9th day of August, 1913
Petition granted, all members voting aye.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
Knew His BUSINESS.

Shopper-It's a mistake to buy
things in a hurry.
Resourceful CIerk-Not at all, If
you're a quick thinker!
Needless to say. the shopper
bought.-Detroit Free Presa
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
PETER SANDBEcK,
Concluded on opposite page
Ink Singing In Parliament.


have no wish to make odious com
parsons between our legislators and
others, but having watched the pro-
ceedings of other pariiaments | feel
that we have no reason to fear COM
parison, says M. A. P. For instance.
I once looked on when the parliament
In Vienna was in full blast. There
was a party in the state there which
sought to advance its views by its
members banging the lid of the desk
which each member had before him.
and thus causing an intolarable din.
These gentlemen l venture to describe
as the nddites of the Austrian parlia.
ment. Another group attempted to
make its mark by throwing ink pots
across the chamber. 1 have done some
ink-slinging in my time, but the Prov
ess shown by these Legislative ink
singers filled me with admiring de-
spair, and l would have called them
the hittites had it not been for the
fact that they often missed. Now such
practices are unknown at Westminster
though it is only fair to acknowledge
that we do not give our members the
opportunity of banging lids or throw
Ing ink pots.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
County Board Proceedings.
zagle River, Wis, Aug. 21, 1918.

Eagle River, Wis, Aug. 81, 1913.
70 the County Clerk of Villas Co., Wis.
We the undersigned mem ers of
tbe county board of Supervisors of
Villas county, Wis, request that you
call a special meeting of said county
hoard. to meet at the County Clerks
ofice in the court house at the village
NJ Eagle River, on thursday, the 4th
5av Of Sept, 1913, at O'Clock, p. m. !,
for the purpose of making an appro-
nriation to comply with the require
ments of the state aid highway law,
90 that Villas county may receive it's
share of state aid for the year of 1914
and for any other business that may
nroperly come before said board.
Dated this 2lst day of Aug, A. D.