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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18
LAND OF LOST MEN

trunks or trunks loaded with bricks
and the like. II you will look you will
see that some OF these trunks are not
even locked. They are full of clothes
more or less good. Sometimes one
finds the relatives Of q person who
has disappeared by letters and some.
times by cards and other things left
In the trunks.
This trunk here" she said, point.
Ing out q rather new trunk, belongs
to . young man who left here only
about three weeks ago. The Lord
only knows where he IL. rye not had
. line from anybody about him. I'm
holding the trunk. but of course.
some one Is In the room he had |
used to bother about such things. but
It happens so often that have about
got used to It."
Some time later group Of men
were chatting together on this topic.
1t seemed to be q common enough oc-
currence all throughout the southwest
Many reasons were given for the mys-
terious disappearances. but none
seemed quite good enough to answer
satisfactorily the big query. What be-
comes Of the scores Of human beings
who. disappear each year in the great
southwest?"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

Chicago. Major Allen is also an ex-
pert horseman, and with his daugh-
tiers, the Misses Jeanette and Desha
Allen. takes an active part In the
Hunt club of this city. The secretary
of the navy. George Won L. Meyer, is
another of the promoters Of the
scheme to build" an ice pond. The
Meyer family is from Massachusetts,
where nature. unassisted. keeps win
ter sports going for months. The
daughters of the secretary and Mrs.
Meyer are adopts in skating. which
they learned In their native state. and
in which they had chance to exer-
else when they were living In st.
Petersburg, to which capital their
father formerly was accredited by the
state department.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18
CONVICT FOUR RUSS OFFICERS
Policemen Beat Z Peasant Almost to
Death and Are Sent to Jail for
Twenty-one Days.

st. Petersburg.-At the trial Of Po-
lice Inspector Maksronka and three
policemen at Wilma on the charge OF
inhuman brutality to an arrested peas
ant It was proven that they had bound
their victim hand and foot with
chains. laid him on the ground.
jumped on him. beat him about the
head and finally flung him. half dead.
into an Underground cell. They were
let on with sentences Of 81 days Inn
prisonment for the inspector and
seven days each for the policemen.
Radical papers are contrasting this
leniency with the punishment of 4
months imprisonment recently passed
upon M. Garbunoff, the publisher. and
his friend. M. Boulanger. for the crime
of burying Nine. Schmidt. follower
of Tolstoy. according to her wishes.
without church ceremonial
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18
Hunter Sends to New York spec'
nens He Captured In
Africa.

New York.-Two specimens of tn
giant forest pig. captured by Alfred
J. Klein near the Channa river in Az
RIGA. have been presented to the Mu.
scum of Natural History They have
been mounted by F Blaschke.
The forest pig is exceeded in size
only by some long extinct species
whose fossil remains are found in the
western states 1t Is comparatively
unknown. partly on account Of its
habits. which are nocturnal It-thrives
In the grass of the African Jungle.
High up on the slope of Mount Kenia
at ar elevation of about 5000 feet.
Carl E. Akeley. the elephant hunter.
found traces of these pigs. their tracks
following the elephant trails for long
distances
The head Of the forest pig is long
with ugly upturned tusks Its legs
are slender. supporting heavy
stocky body II is agile and power
full as 1t goes cavorting through the
brush of the Jungle
For about is years 1t was suspected
that the forests OF central Africa har-
bored some giant specimen Of the pig
family In 1904 one Of these curl
Gus animals was captured by a natu-
ralist, and thus II became known to
science.
AS a gift from D. G stapleton the
museum has received numbpr sc
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18
ELK LIKE HoMING PIGEONS
Branded and Shipped 500 MIIes Early
Last Spring, They Go Back to
National Park.

Boxeman. Mont-Sportsmen and
game wardens Of Montana are con-
WINGED that the elk from the herds
in the Yellowstone National park pos
sess a hosaing instinct equal to that Of
the carrier pigeon.
Early lpst spring Game Warden Fer
guson aud his rangers trapped two
carloads 81 elk In the mountains near
Gardiner and shipped rken to Ham
ilton, Mont. 800 miles away. They
were braided and t1rned loose In the
He'll Gate reserve. one Of the largest
national forests In thu west
DurinE the last few months ranch
men in the vicinity OF Hamilton have
noticed . dwindling OF the number OF
Elk In the He'll Gate forests. It has
since developed. according to the
state game wardens. that the animals
have been returning to their old
stamping ground in the Yellow
stone park
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18
BURNS WOODWORK IN GALES
German Steamer PennoII 10 Forced to
ExtremItIes To Provide. .,->.---..
Fuel.

New Ycrk.-Buneted at sea by what
her captain declared was the worst
weather he had encountered, the Ger
man steaper Pennoil, bound from
Rotterdam to Philadelphia. is coaling
here. She had only a few pounds of
coal in her bunkers when she anchor
ed on quarantine. The succession Of
gales which she encountered held her
back and depleted her coal supply to
such an extent that she ,yas forced
practically to strip f.ssses bod
work to keep the fires going.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18
Visitor Of Importance Spends Day in the House

after the scalps of several of the items
In that bill. While Representative
Fowler was being replied to by Rep
resentative Johnson, Little Ben was
playing tag around his fathers legs.
going in and out between them in
most marvellous fashion.
Young Ben interviewed pretty near
ly every member of the house. He
didn't wait for an introduction, but
clambered right into the laps of the
country's law makers. From the
Democratic side he would hop to the
Republican end of the chamber and
pull out the watches of his fathers
dearest political foes. lust to hear the
wheels tick" Uncle Joe Cannon CON
tributed to Ben's war chest to the ex-
tent of silver coin. and at the end
of the day Ben's fists were bullying
with nickels. dimes and quarters.
which had been pressed upon him by
admiring friends. He leaned against
Representative Mann Of Illinois while
that statesman was shooting sharply
pointed parliamentary arrows at
Ben's own father. The little boy
gazed calmly into the face of Repre-
sentative Serene Payne as the great
tariff expert appeared to be sleeping
peacefully at his desk. He rolled upon
the middle aisle and forced Repre-
sentative Ollie James to step over
him, while the child himself was I'M
mindful of the gigantic figure pass
ing over him.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18
Scores MysteriousIy Disappear
From Far Southwest.
In Country Of Swift Changes Customs
Are Opposed to Asking Strangers
Personal Questionable Trace
IL Left Behind.

Ell Paso. Texts there q port Of
missing men? That is a question to
be answered as your fancy dictates.
says writer. But that there is q
country from which men are con-
stantly missing allows of no con-
tradiction. A section of this great
United States Of America there is
which literally swallows up human be-
ings and leaves no inkling of their
fates or their whereabouts. Such
section and such places are found
throughout the great southwest from
western Texas to the Pacific coast.
Not one man or one woman. but
scores of men, and women. come. are
seen and vanish in this section of the
states each year. To disappear from
on the face of the earth as completely
as II one had never existed is not q
feat easy of accomplishment even In
the great centers of population in the
eastern states. And In this country OF
missing men 1t happens so frequently
that Only case of extraordinary in
terest commands the attention of the
natives. A grunt or q shrug of the
shoulders dismisses the matter az
soon as 1t is mentioned. One must be
rich or one must be influential II one
would have the arm of the law
stretched forth in succor. The pen
atty of obscurfty here, as elsewhere,
is Indifference. who cares ?"-who.
indeed?
But Indifference alone is not re-
sponsible for the lack Of interest in
SO small a matter as the mere disap-
pearance Of man. No, there Is that
in the attitude of the average native
Of the southwest which makes him
hesitate to show any interest or con- !
Germ In the affairs of another man.
In the east such questions as Where
are you FROM" or Are you in bust
ness here?" are common enough And
such questions are asked with no pur-
pose or intent of prying into another's |
affairs 1t Is part of the social GUS
toms Of the polite" east to show
some interest in another's well-being.
But such personal intimate questions |
never fall from the lips of the man
born or reared in the great southwest. |
Only few days ago the proprie- |
tress of one of the largest and finest
boarding houses in Ell Paso furnished |
mute but convincing evidence of the !
TACT that men disappear all too often /
In these parts. Taking the CORE
spondent up to spacious garnet. she
pointed to pile of trunks and other !!
effects and said:
You see all these trunks here? /
Well. they belong to men and women
who have come to my place, taken 1
looms and suddenly departed. Do I /
never hear from them? Not In a sin
gle instance have received one line !
rom one Of them. or from any one
them. All I know about
hem. as rule. is their last names.
don't ask them anything about them
'elves. know what you are think
n.y." she added. sYou are thinking
hese are the effects Of board Jump
srs.' But you are wrong. I make
hem all pay from the day they get
heir rooms-a week In advance. I'm
90 used to keeping a boarding house
o be taken In By men with empty
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18
GIANT PIGS GWEN MUSEUM

aluable prehistoric objects in gold
no platinum from the province of Es-
neraldas. Ecuador and Colombia. The
objection is on exhibition in the
south american gallery. The objects
n platinum are Of most interest. az It
was not known that this metal was
worked, except In this locality, BY =
prehistoric race Of people.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18
ANGRY BOY STARTS FIRE
Lad ionites Straw Under Mules and
Barn u 6urned-AnImais
Are cremated.

Jamestown. N. DIG. w. Wilson's
hired man" would not let the i've
year-old son of his employer. who lives
west OF Montpelier, N D.. lead the
mules to water. SO the lad piled straw
under the animals and set fire to the
straw. The flames not only cremated
the mules but the barn The mules
belonged to the hired man." who had
left for Iowa
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

New York is making another cru
SADIE against church bells. The gen.
eral impression has been that the
average New Yorker steals into the
house ip his stocking feet. Saturday
nights. as early as 6 a. m.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

The man with the longest name has
been found in Texas. He is Papsous
Observation-Disclosures II you
cannot pronounce it at the first glance
set 1t to music. It sings better than
1t looks.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

In Lordsm not only hats are ordered
removed N theaters, but high hair
dressing g discouraged. also. Mere
downtre ddeu man is determined that
there are some rights he will still
fight for even II they are the little
ones overlooked in the sweeping away
OF big ones
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

But even II platinum wears longer
than gold in wedding rings 1t will not
necessarily become the universal
fashion in this era Of matrimonial
rapid transit.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

According to Punch. trousers are
about 100 years old now The man
who Invented them is entitled to cred
It. which perhaps is more than can
be said OF the person who inaugurated
the custom Of keeping them creased
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

A New York man punched hold-up
man so hard that the wouid-be robber
was identified by his nose It should
be a warning to other hold-up men to
keep their noses out of what doesn't
concern them
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

Fifteen miles Of motion pictures
have been exported from this country
during the last year. Judging from the
ones which remain. most of the is
miles must have depicted lively
chases.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

A Los Angeles maniac was arrest.
ed for carrying dynamite in a hand
organ. Probably he was prepared to
play a dead march.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

II It be true that synthetic rubber
for automobile tires can be made out
of grain and potatoes. the anxious
head OF houheshold will naturally
wish to know whether there is any &C
ceptable substitute for food
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

Aeroplanes are now to be catapult-
ed from battleships. Plainly. our
boasted strenuosity Is but state Of
primrose dalliance compared with
that which is to come.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

Some insane individual is circulat-
ing $4,000 bills. Watch out. one 10
easily induced to accept so small q
thing as counterfeit $4,000 bill.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

A divorce was granted to the wife
OF man who did not divide the bed
covering fairly on cold nights. d.
vorces may yet come to follow sea-
sonal causes.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

A scientist says he can keep head
less cats alive. Be fine breed for
the man who il troubled by midnight
felines on the back yard fence.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

The price of egg sandwiches has
gone up in Washington. Are they
getting ready for the inauguration this
earlyf
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

A Detroit man wants divorce be-
cause his wife talks too much. But
wouldn't this plea. IL allowed. clog the
courts?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

DR.. Charles Dana of New York says
love of animals Is the latest disease.
Now we understand why some women
marry some men.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

A man in st. Louis had his heart
taken out and sewed up. But many q
broken heart has been easier mended
than this.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

A club has been formed in Chicago
for the purpose of excluding cats from
grocery stores. And Chicago claims
to be q city!
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

A Columbia university professor
says that vacations are unnecessary.
Certainly. If salary stops during them.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

Bachelors are more apt to go insane
than married men. says an expert
They don't seem to go crazy to get
married.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

Mere man will be grateful II wom-
an will learn him how she keeps the
hobble skirt from bagging at the
knees
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

tuberculosis leads to crime accord
Ing to Binghamton Judge. Is there
anything that doesn't?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

A Montana man has been arrested
for robbing butcher. The meat sit
uation seems to be getting desperate.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

From Paris comes the announce
ment that skirts will not be narrower
this season. They couldn't be.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

A Kansas doctor asks a divorce be-
cause his wife constantly scolds him.
mighty thin excuse.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

: Trouser skirts are predicted as the
next thing. They have been coming
for. 10. these many moons.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

A !Chicagoan who wanted a good.
long sleep shot himself. No doubt
he's satisfied.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-18

A Chicago woman says American
girls are too artificial 1t is self-evi-
dent
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-05
THE BARRE MAYoRALTY.

Now that election is over in Barre
we feel sure that everyone in the city
or anyone at all interested in the well
being of the municipality, will wish foi
Mayor Ward a successful administration
for the success of an administration
measures the progress and prosperity OF
the municipality. If the administration
be unsuccessful or only partially sue
cessful, the city will be retarded just
so much; and, on the other hand, if the
conduct of the Office of mayor proves
successful, the city is likely to make
advance. Therefore, we all should feel a
personal interest in satisfactory ad-
ministration; and in order to secure
that administration, it is the duty of
all to cooperate in all good work. The
Times hopes that that cooperation will
be given, just as it would have hoped
had the other candidate been elected.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-05
CURRENT COMMENT
The Inaugural Address.

No part of the inaugural address OF
Woodrow Wilson will command more in
slant approval than that sentence which
declares 1--WE shall restore not destroy.
Architects and artists must instantly
and naturally reflect that some restora.
tons have proved more fatal to ancient
and noble monuments than actual de-
struction. but there is nothing in the
spirit or the tone of this address to sug-
gest that the new president contemplates
any such restoration"
The address is manifestly scholarly
and literary rather than a clinical ex-
animation of the social, moral and polit-
zeal conditions of the nation. But to
say this is not to criticise it, and its
appropriateness to the occasion is Who'll
ly patent.
As document the address has much
to attract and nothing to repulse the
reader 1t has brevity which will in
vite,-a charm of style which will procure
for it complete perusal. 1t bears, too,
unmistakable evidence that it is the ex-
preston of the thoughts of man al
ready sobered by the sense of grave re-
sponsibilities assumed and profoundly
stirred by the recognition of the posi-.
bilties now his.-New York Evening
Sun
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-05

the more casual consideration by the
other and more distant readers of the
paper. 1t is a habit with him, just as
it got to be habit of Managing Editor
Lord of the New York Sun, who has
laid down his work after Al years serv-
ice. And, during all that time, he has
seen marked changes come into the little
village to the northward, some of which
changes he enumerates in the current
issue of his journal A mighty interest
ing retrospect it must be for Mr.. Blake
And doubly so since it was his privilege
to have been the chronicler of most
of it!
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-05

They say Wilson is not witty man,
yet his inaugural address was very
brief, thus disproving the former decla-
ration. Now, if President Wilson will
continue the same policy and say what
he has to say as briefly and as simply
as possible, his messages to Congress
will have the wider influence because
Of the greater pleasure in reading them.
A president ought to be able to speak
his mind in as few words as a person in
some other walk of life.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-05
GODDARD OVERWHELMED.
Montpelier High School Scored 100 Points
Against Z.

Without exception, the most disastrous
defeat ever administered TO basket.
ball team representing Goddard seminary
came last evening at the armory in
Montpelier, where the high school team
of Montpelier toyed with Goddard,
amassing a grand total Of 100 points
while the Barre aggregation was pressed
hard to get 7 scores. Jim Laird played
a whirwind game for the winning team
and established record for basket
throwing at Montpelier high school,
scoring "a baskets from the floor. Smith,
j. Laird's running mate, fell not far
behind him in his ability to score, get
ting no less than is goals. Tierney
and Bishop were the most conspicuous
players in the Goddard lineup. The
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-05

The Sutton correspondent of the St
Johnsbury Caledonian sends forth a chal-
lenge for anyone to match his record of
"a years service as town correspondent
for that esteemed journal; but we guess
there is no one in Vermont who will be
able to mention a record of equal length
with H. A. Blake. For nearly half a
century Mr. Blake has been chroncling
the happenings Of his little town from
week to week, telling, perhaps, who is
sick, whose barn has been painted and
who has turned out the biggets crops
with now and then an item OF greater
import, such as the arrival OF son
or daughter in someone's household. For
nearly half acentury he has been the
historian Of the community. II must
have come TO be second nature with Mr..
Blake to take his pen in hand and
scratch of the news gleanings Of the
week. afterwards dispatching his budget
Of much-sought information to the print
shop in st. Johnsbury. where the news
was to be embalmei in printers ink
and spread upon clean white paper for
the keen Psrusal Of his neighbors and
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-05
Economy,

George had been away from school for
a week, owing to the death and funeral
of his father. When he returned to
school. he was wearing an old-fashioned
pair of spectaeles.
'What is the matter with your eyes,
George?" asked the teacher. "Why are
you wearing glasses ?"
"They belonged to father" replied
George. "and mother thought it was a
shame to let them go to waste. "-Cin-
einnati Enquirer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-05

New England is cold place so far
as cabinet positions are concerned, not
even Brandeis being included in the list.
Inasmuch as New England did rather
well by Wilson, this is rather inexplica-
Bile, although the statement that Bran
deis withdrew his name from considera-
ton from one post serves to soften
whatever disappointment may be felt
from Maine to Connecticut.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-05

The trust busting policy of the federal
government was carried right up to the
moment of the change in administers
ton, the retiring attorney general be-
ginning suit at St. Louis but few
hours before his successor was scheduled
to assume the duties of the office. II
will be interesting to note whether the
Democratic administration will continue
along similar line. Expectations are
that the federal policy in that respect
will not be changed to any considerable
degree.