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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-21

trip. His vast size and his vast
good nature make him a natural
victim of many joke. But he's a
baseball player, and that night the
wires hum with his prases-a nat
ural hitter and no bad fielder, they
say.
Hell do" is the verdict.
But Will he?
It HE Southern league sent 80
players to the big leagues last
fall In this number there were
some cover ups." For instance.
Washington protected" Agler for
Atlanta; Cleveland covered up
Hendryx for New Orleans.
Then a number OF players were
taken over by major league clubs
for one reason or another and then
passed on to other minor leagues,
some after a trial, others without
any.
For one, Roy Moran was given a
brief trial by Washington and sent
on to Sacramento.
Cleveland took Nagelson off
Charley Franks hands and turned
him over to New Haven.
Wants was secured by Chicago
from Birmingham and turned over
to New Orleans.
Long was returned by Mobile to
Washington and handed back by
the Senators to Atlanta.
Williams. the Montgomery out
fielder, was turned back again, even
if he was tremendous hitter
James, the outfielder turned over
by Nashville to Brooklyn. viii be
back with Nashville this year.
Weaver. who was farmed out at
New Orleans last year, has been
turned over by the Boston Nation
ais to Atlanta,
Aitchison a really promising
pitcher, who led the Southern
league hurlers despite the fact that
he was hooked up with a sixth
place club has been turned over by
Brooklyn to NeWark-subiect to
immediate recall, no doubt. II he
begins showing signs OF big league
greatness
Summers, turned over by Nash
vile to Brooklyn and by Dahlen's
team to the Cubs, will doubtless go
to some minor league.
Gardella, the Mobile third base
man, was turned back on the
Giants and by that club sent to
New Haven
So It will he observed that the
big league fate of many of the men
who went up" last fall is already
sealed But what of the rest-the
men who are good enough for
trial?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-21

7 SUBMITTED the whole list of
Southern leaguers who had gone
higher to Bin Smith, one man at
q time, With a request for verdict.
He was inclined to be optimistic
He ought to stick.
That guy Is a good one. He'll
stick
u don't see how they can send
him back"
These We're his verdicts as the
names OF McAluster. the John
stons and the Johnsons, Demaree
Smith, clancy, Ameids, Wagner
and Balenu were reeIed or.
But, Of course, they will not
There isn't chance. If half OF the
recent Southern league products
who are nov on the big league
rosters stick this year, and if half
the remainder are good enough for
the big leagues next year. a mira
Gle will have come TO pass.
one man out of five is a pretty
fair average-and it wasn't the
best lot in the world that was sent
up last year
IN three articles which will fol-
low the chances the players sent
up last fan have of sticking in the
big show Will be discussed.
The success Of Southern leaguers
in the big leagues has been fun OF
contradictions, Sid Smith. who
looked the best catcher in the
Southern league, couldn't make a
20 OF il in the big leagues Zack
Wheat who appeared but q medic
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-18

OF the Is games played with the
Western teams on this clash the
have won II, dropping one to St
Louis and one to Cleveland. And
there does not seem much chance
of the team slipping. If anything, it
will improve The young pitchers
are becoming seasoned and are be-
ginning to help Plank and Bender in
their two-man battle. Another month
VIII see Jack Coombs back in har-
ness. The iron man. will probably
be used just enough to get him in
shape for the worlds series should
the Mackmen win the American pen
nant.
Eddie Collins is playing the top
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-18

terday's game. The men behind him
got but three hits, and few ball
games are won on smuggling of this
character.
Ping Bodie dynamited his third
hoVe-run blow in four games. There
was no one on base at the time, SO
Ping scored the only Sox run of the
afternoon. John Collins and Rath
got the other hits, Morris being
dinky infield roller.
Somebody has got to stop these
Athletics, or the American League
race will be over in another month.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-18

game Of his career, in the field, at
the bat and on the bases. Strunk
is clubbing strongly and so are Nc
Inniss and Oldring. Frank Baker is
considerably below the 800 mark,
but is beginning to climb. When the
home-run picker hits his real stride
there is no team>in the business that
will have a better array Of batters.
Marty o'TooIe hurled the best
game of his career yesterday, hold
ing Boston to three hits. Only one
Brave reached third base, but he
scored. An error by Carey in center
field lost the game for O'Toole. Pitts
burgh only made four hits off Per-
due. Mann, the Boston center field
er, snagged seven flies, four of the
catches being sensational. O'TOole
is unfortunate. He was too much
press-agented, and Dreyfuss gave up
SO much money for him that the fans
expected Marty to go in and win ev-
cry game. He did not stand high in
the averages last year, but an exam
nation of the table of hits and earn
ed runs made of him shows that he
ranked many of, the fingers who won
mess of games. The Lrishman is
young and before he gets through
will be a winner, RUDE Marquard
was another high-priced lemon who
developed into a peach.
Fromme and Ames pitched against
each other yesterday for the first
time since the Cincinnati-New York
trade which shifted these two pitch
ers.. Fromme had the best of it. The
Giants got IA hits and Cincinnati 4.
Snodgrass poled double and homer,
Bob Bescher cracked a triple and
single and Fletcher collected three
singles.
Brooklyn continued to cIout the
Cardinal pitchers, landing on Perritt
for IL hits in seven innings. Hug
gins used Marbet, a recruit, in the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-10

bins. HE sought large amounts of
water, his eyes dilated and he SEEM
ed dizzy. He met Shaw at the Wa
bash station at Philo and they start
ed for drive. Penman remembers
getting out of the automobile at a
grove, but does, not remember having
killed his victim in this grove where
the body was later found.
'The boy did not recover his senses
until midnight, when he buried
Shaw's body, and fed in terror of
remorse."
The state is expected to combat
this argument with the claim that
Penman said nothing. of the poison
tablets in his first confession.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-10

Mrs. Joe Asher of Little Rock,
Ark, who is the only accredited wo-
man delegate to sit in the councils
of the National Good Roads Associa-
ton at Detroit. Mrs. Asher has gain
ed her knowledge of road building by
accompanying her husband on his
rounds during the past six years, and
is now considered an expert on road
building.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-10

chimney on roof Says he was call
ing on friend when shooting began.
Discharged
Pioneer. Paper Co. warehouse, ABB
w. Ohio ST., slightly damaged by fire.
Samuel Herson, Stratford Hotel,
arrested. Confidence game. -Eman-
ual Matz, jeweler, complainant.
Miss Lillian Ritch, 293 Eckford aV.,
suffocated. Overlooked during ex-
element. Fire originated in her
rooms.
Frank RichoId, 653o S. Union aV.,
severely injured. Car struck wagon.
One horse killed.
Order secrecy at BrideweII. In
spectors told Whitman not to reveal
facts.
Rose Benestante, 10, 1888 S. Kost-
ner av., Mathilda Freblito, IA, 905
Miller ST., and Josephine Farrell, %,
632 Miller ST., missing.
Mrs. Elmer w. Fowkes, 4419 N.
Racine av., robbed of purse. $50.
Mrs. S. A. Dennison, 728 Waveland
av., lost large red plume.
Louis, Hanson wants $500 from
neighbor for board" Latter's hens
helped themselves.
Johnnie Gibbons, a, sought Santa
Claus. Mother frantic. Found in S.
Chicago.
Clerks at main postoffice protest
against conditions. Claim basement is
a menace to health of employees.
David Lyons and Joseph Prim, $40
S. Clark ST., arrested. Said to have
violated railroad pass evil.
David Shapiro, So, 1916 Campbell
av., peddler, was arrested, charged
with mistreating Viola Lowe, 5, 936
Irving PIX. blvd.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-10
THE GUST PENMAN cAsE

THE GUST PENMAN CASE
Champaign, ILL.,, Dec. 1o.-Tablets
given Gust Penman in Danville ho-
tel to excite sexual passion drove him
into an insane trance during which
he killed his boyhood .chum, Harold
Shaw according to the argument
presented today by Mayor o. w. Dob
bins, Penman's leading attorney.
"Penman Immediately began to
suffer physical changes" said Dob
The Caucasian., 1913-07-29
Municipal lee Plant.

The Carpenters Union at their
meeting he'd last night discussed
freely the advance IN the price o
ice and adopted resolutions reading
as follows
Whereas. The price Of ice was
raised in Shreveport on Monday,
July %, 2Oc. per 100 pounds, making
it cost US 4Oc per 100, this raise
coming on US without any notice
from the ice companies and without
their laising the wages of their EN-
ployes one cent.
Bel resolved, That Carpenters
JJnion No. 764 go on record as favor
il.y an tie plant to De owned and
operal, !, by the City Of s.hr ,seporl,
|ict. +, b.. furnished to tn ncor:e OF
shlev, pot at cost ard 'arrlage: and
Be ct Further Resolve1, hat a
c.,pv Ct fuse resoIa !: -, be sent t.
the Mayor and City Commissioners
of the City Of Shreveport, and that
their text be published in the press
of the city. (Signed)
JOHN 3. NORRIS,
Rec. Sec. Carpenters Union No. 76a
The Caucasian., 1913-07-29
Child Killed in New Orleans.

! Times-Democrat Alice Courtney,
a beautiful child Of II years, daugh--
ter. Of Benjamin Courtney, mem
ber Of the police force living at 1922
Gravier street, was run over and
killed by "a Dryades street car in
Canal street near Tchoupitoulas, on
Sunday afternoon at 6 o'clock. Her
little sister Enda was with her and
saw the accident. The children, with
little playmates about their age,
alighted from a Tulane belt car and
started across the tracks to catch q
ST. Charles belt car when the Dry
ades car bore down upon them. Lit
| tie Edna was leading, and saw the
car just III time to escape the fatt
of her sister, who was caught ant
dragged under the wheels. The elder
girl was killed instantly, and abou1
the only merciful feature Of the ae-
cident, according to witnesses, wa:
that the child was not mutilated.'
The death of this child coult
have been avoided if the Dryade
Istreet car had checked its speed ane 1
lbeen On the look kont when it reaehet
| the street crossing where the accf
dent eenrred ].
The Caucasian., 1913-07-29

sponsive to the crime. He should
consider himself fortunate in hav-
ing been convicted On only one
count instead of three. Possibly he
would have escaped if the evidence
of his embezzling $500 from Mrs.
Whitman had been less direct and
positive. There was wasted Oh Lam
ing some maudlin sentiment which
is unseeming, but there are always
those who misdifect their efforts
and their expression.
Why should sympathy be wasted
on Laning? The penalty of seven
years must have some effect on in
dividuals inclined to embezzle-
striving to get rich quick. It must
operate as a deterrent and a check
on the criminally inclined. When
term of seven years in the pen
confronts a would-be embezzler Or
swindler he must hesitate. A
milder penalty would be an incen-
i've to crime. A man plots dellber-
ately in swindling scheme through
which he expects to reap ten, tWen-
ty or more thousands of dollars. He
assumes that if apprehended he will
escape through the tender sympa-
thies of the jury, but should he be
accidentally convicted he will be
penalized to one, two, or at the ex-
trene, three years in the pen, with
the possibility Of a pardon. III the
meantime his sWindlings are safe
and when he is liberated he can be-
leone a gentleman wearing goot
/ clothes and feasting with the bes1
| to be had with money.
/ We should bear in mind that the
criminal or the criminally inclinee
is persuaded only through the ter
rors of the law.
1t is very true that Judge Lane
has meted out penalties which ma,
/ seem TO be extreme, but it were
waste of time and discredit Of Law
land a mockery of justice to temper
/ ize with criminals, who have beer
/ deliberate and unsentimental il
i their crimes. .-..---.
4 For his firmness and for his fear
less stand in favor of law and jus
i tice, Judge John R. Land deserve
1 the commendation OF every law
abiding citizen in Shreveport, Cadd
i Parish and the State of Louisiana.
The Caucasian., 1913-07-29
Tensae Delta Land Company
There was served on Monday Z

There was served on Monday on
Col. r g. Pleasant. Attorney Ge.,-
tral Of the state Of Louisiana, q
rub. or order is>t,td from The Fed
"a curt, Ju,l.ss II, -. .,.in. e
.s.tnW cause WiI1 the suit against he
Tensas Delta Land Company should
not be dismissed. Colonel Pleasant,
who was in Shreveport, will make
answer in conformity with this or
der at the next session Of the Fed
eral Court which convenes in Mon
roe.
This is one proceeding that i 9
very disturbing element, plaP'1lns
to q,1ita number Of citizens, VIII
would be inexpressibly delighted i
lit we're possible to suppress what
Iappears to be scandal.
The Caucasian., 1913-07-29
AN ICE COMBINE.
An Inquiry Suggested by John r.
Land to the Grand Jury.

Is there an ice combine, and it
there is, can it be unraveled by the
Grand Jury?
1t has been intimated that the new
company known as the Independent
has been absorbed by the old COM
pany. If this be true, then there
can be no inquiry as to combine,
and whatever was the opposition in
effect until yesterday it is no more
today.
It is not possible to obtain the in
formation desired, nor would it
avail, since the price of ice fixed al
4Oc per 100 pounds instead OF ~
per 100.
Competition is the life of trade,
and when it existed was beneficial
to the people, especially the classes
of limited means, but it has been
suggested that the Independent
failed to receive the support ex-
pected from the people clamorlns
for ice at low price, and therefore
through the very force of necessity
conditions have developed the stu
| alton of today.
The advance in the price Of ice
from 20c to 40c per 100 pounds was
shocking to consumers, who, not
knowing what had happened, de-
clined emphatically to take ice from
| the first wagon reaching their
homes. why forty cents? No sir
I'm wait for the next wagon was
the remonstrance of heads of fami=
| lies. Undismayed, the drivers re-
torted: "All right, wait for the next
wagon, it's all the same price today
forty cents a. hundred
i This ice situation is somewhat or
1 the order of the banana peddler al
a time when there was scarcity OF
bananas and he had practically 9
1 monopoly of the fruit in the town II
i which he peddled: Madam, you no
/ lika the banan, you no TAXA.
t There is being agitated a munich,
], pal ice plant, but if it were possible
j such plant would not be operatlv,
i until next summer.
II What is going to be done about tt
Il Who is going to bell the cat? It
Il forty cents a hundred for ice, an
Ithere you are.
The Caucasian., 1913-07-29
PAY LARGE SUM FOR BIG FARM.
Louisiana Land and immigration
Company Buys McDade Plantation
i'm Bossier for $4,000

NglThere was put on record Friday
in Bossier Parish deeds transferring
the Skannels Bluff plantation, con-
tanning some 1900 acres from w. E.
and j. G. McDade to the Louisiana
Land and immigration Company, OF
Shreveport, the consideration being
| $4,000.
This is one of the most fertile and
noted plantations in this section and
| lies about six miles southeast of
Shreveport. The price paid is ap-
proximately S28 per acre for the
river land and SIS per acre for the
improved uplands.
This is the tLrd plantation this
company has recently purchased
| contiguous to Shreveport, and it is
understood to be their intention to
cut them up into SO and t60-acre
| farms for their Northern and West
ern customers.
This company is owned and con-
trolled by local men in Louisiana,
East Texas and South Arkansas, and
with their working arrangements
with the TexaS & Pacific, st. Louis
Southwestern and Kansas City Sou
thern they believe they will be able
to bring a great many families into
this section this fall.
/ When interviewed, Mr.. W. A.
Jones, general manager of the COM
pany, stated that they had no trou-
BILE in finding good substantial farm
ers who would move into this sec
tion, but that the great difficulty
was in finding suitable small tracts,
improved and ready for them, and
that his company had found II
necessary to make preparations in
advance and that the only way this
could be done was to buy the larger
tracts outright. @
That this undertaking will be tre-
mendously profitable to the stock
holders goes without saying: but to
> see local concern actually doing
: that which every one recognized as
, necessity and which development
means so much to this section is in
deed gratifying.
The Caucasian., 1913-07-29
Williamson Convicted.

In the District Court Monday,
Judge John R. Land, Bob Williams
son was tried and convicted in two
cases of having violated the prohl-
bition law. Bond was fixed at 81 ,OO0
in each case. Williamson is to be
sentenced Friday. There will be an
appeal to the Supreme Court.
The Caucasian., 1913-07-29
River. STAGE.

Denison t.9, a fall of 0.5; Arthur
City ~, rise of 0.6; White Cliffs e.,
rise of O.8; Fulton 4.6, fall OF O.6;
Ringo Crossing SO, fall of 20; Finley
so, fall of 10; Spring Bank 3.2, rise
of Oh; Jefferson Ia, fall Of Oh;
Shreveport AZ. 49, -.
The Caucasian., 1913-07-29
Sunday Law Vioiator.

Henry Spencer, negro, was con-
victed today of violating the Sun
day law. He was fined by Judge
Land to pay S25 and spend 50 days
at the Parish Farm.
The Caucasian., 1913-07-29
Weather Forecast.

Local forecast for Shreveport and
N vicinity Generally fair tonight and
"wednesday not much change n
temperature.
The daily sentinel., 1913-12-31

process by which new mUmb.r IS adj
mitted TO his responsibilities may take
such course, in general way. as each
particular lodge pleases. But the pTin-
cipal object Of the ceremonies is TO
make him understand. once for all
what the Elks expect OF cuP another
For the Elks exact nothing -eXCep.
the candidate shall be citizen OF tho
United States. white. over tweuty-uue
and ClCan-and. of course. be able TO
pay the very moderate taxes which are
necessary for the upkeep OF the order.
The individual lodges may require
more. they may reject a candidate for
any reason which seems coed u7 any
considerable fraction of their member
ship because he has made himself dis
agreeable. No lodge wants a man who
does not think II consistent with his
sense Of the fitness OF things to own
as q friend and equal man who works
with his hands: no lodge wants the
anarchist who hates another man sim
ply because the other man dresses with
the aid of a valet.
The absence Of rough and tumble
and burlesQue and physical humor I'm
the initiation is a profound surprise to
many initiates For instance. there is
a recent initiate of New York Lodge
No. 1; Millionaire. OF ancient lineage.
a young man who has devoted himself
successfully 10 municipal service, whl
was Just about overcome by IT, Though
thoroughly free from suubbishncss. he
was impreguatcd with certain feeling
of personal dignity which made him
shrink from an Initiation which in
yOlvCI his being sOused I'm a tank of
water or whHCkcd with slap-stiCks be
I1re a large company. Nevertheless.
the Elks. whom he numbered among
his friends, seemed to him to be nor
NAL. sane people and he reasoned that
he could stand it as well as they could
When his initiation was over and he
was called on to speak he fairly eX-
haustod his powers Of Oratory in ex-
pressing his pleasure i'm finding that
throughout the whole ilitiatf-n. the
appeal of his instructors had been
made to his reason and his sympathy
and not to the seat Of his trousers.
If the benevolent and Protective Or
der of Elks needed any justification
for its existence, it. Is manifest I'm the
growth Of the fraternity from its un-
proteutious beginning.
just after the Civil War there was
in New York a certain crowd of young
men, for the most part connected In
one way or another with the dramatic
profession, who met in a room every
Sunday night and called themselves
the Jolly CJrks. One gathers from the
existing data regarding this group
that performers in the variety thea
ters OF that day prcdomiuatcd in its
membership. In a pamphlet issued
over the name OF Uue OF the charter
members of the Elks. the late George
W. Thompson. the origin of the order
is described. Having attended meet
ing OF the Jolly Corks at the invita-
The daily sentinel., 1913-12-31

Il street-car conductor. or Il building
contractor or the keeper of dry
goods store, or a small-part vaudc-
vile actor possesses the same sort of
heart and soul and general American
ism as themselves, the Elks can't help
you. You don't belong. There isn't
that in YOU which makes a good Elk;
You couldn't learn TO speak their lam
guage And wntil a mighty change
comes over you you will not be urged
to try
Do not misunderstood There is no
Inherent prejudice among the Ilks
against blue blood and "culchaw" or
cWiuencc in the arts and sciences. or
I'M the land. OF pink teas zif' 'tlieyA be
haze. The Elks have ,their milliGu-
aires. their. colleget professors, their
painters. their theatrical stars, their
preachers of the gospel, their bankers
but the order is no more proud ur
them than IL is of its lowest salaricd
bartender. If he is a good Elk ANY
man Of whom Abraham Lincoln would
lot be ashamed Us al American has IL
The daily sentinel., 1913-12-31

ton of one Of the regular attendants.
he writes:
81 remember we passed a very en-
joyable evening and dispersed with an
agreement to meet uu the following
Sunday Brothers Riggs and MCDou-
aid left with me and the latter said:
This thing is better than "a mere jolly
crowd and will some day amount to
something Evidently he had thought
deeply upon the subject for at the next
meeting he offered a motion that it
organize as a lodge Of benevolent
order and that q committee be ap-
pointed to draft rules and q ritual,
and to select a name This evoked
much discussion, and Brother Vivian,
though at first opposed to the idea,
suggested that it be made branch OF
the BuffaluGs, an English benevolent
order. Of which he had been member
on the other side Of the Atlantic.
Brother McDOuald's motion prevailed
and Vivian. as chairman -f the Curks.
appointed the following as a commit
tee. George W. Thompson. chairman:
W. L. Bowron, George F. Mcdonald,
William Sheppard. Thomas c.. Riggs,
James W. Glenn, IL. Vandermark.
During the month of January. 1865.
Brother George +. Mcdonald and my
self were engaged in trying to find
some animal beside the buffalo t. use
as a title for the new organization.