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CASE DISMISSED
: BY MUTUAL CONSENT

The suit recently brought IN the
county court by George w. Colum-
bia Of Florence. against ]. Victor Nc
candless. in which contest was In
stituted to secure judicial adjudi-
cation Of the matter Of the election
Of the county commissioner from the
Second commissioners district. was
today dismissed from the court docket
by mutual consent.
Mr.. Mccandless. as defendant. nled
his answer to the complaint some
ten days ago and today was the date
fixed for taking further steps IN the
proceeding by the pIaintin. Mr.. Nc
candless, who was Mr.. columbia.s op-
ponent for the commissionernhip.
Was declared by the canvassing board
to have been elected by q plurality
Of .hve votes. Judge Bradley Or
Florence and Judge schweigert Of
Canon City were attorneys for me
plaintiff. McLain q Pease OF Canon
City were counsel for Mr. Mccnndlees.
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How,s THisr


We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of catarrh that can.
lot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
FL. CHENEY = CO. Toledo. o.
we.the undersigned. have known r.
J. Cheney for the last 10 years. and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
BY the nrm.
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE
Toledo. o
Hall catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mncuos surfaces Of the system
Testimonials sent free. Price II
cents per bottle. Sold BY ali drug
sists.
Take Halls FAMILY pills for constl.
patton. adv
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VIII Lsavs on Friday Fer chicago.
Mr.. Fred Fell win leave Friday NOR
ming for Chicago on business trip
that win detain him from home about
ten days. Mr.. Feii IL travelling sales
man for the Wholesale dry goods nrm
Of J. v. FarweIi 4 Company OF
Chicago and his eastern journey a,
this time is for the purpose Of con
sulting his principals on matters ,i
mutual interest.
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York and his country home at Ruth
erford, N. j., which one was told
was tile show place Of the whole
countryside.
What manner of man had done
these things wonderd as looked at
him. What did he think of them and
himself now. when seemingly at the
end of his tether.
"Regyetss 90 he said in answer to a
question Yes. regret that some
of these things did not turn out bet
ter / have made some failures and
some successes. wish they had al
been successes"
Evidently there was not regret IT
the course but at some of its inci
dents
business is all right he said. 1T
is like everything else. You win or
you lose. II you win, all right. II
you lose there is bound to be trouble
for some. one. No one knows in the
beginning how things care going to
turn OUT
1t was evident that. he was think
ing more of his confinement and his
defense than of anything borderins
on philosophy. Was it possible the
righteousness of life of such con
stant and ceaseless effort as his had
never struck him, even when it termi-
mated with a cell in the Tombs?
His answer was an echo of what
he wrote of himself some years ago,
save that the former is more illumi-
mating. Here it is:
LET me say for myself that my
career has been full Of action-pyro-
technic, If you plesse-and though l
have made mistakes. have always
fought in the open"
Criminal history has many instan-
ces wherein widows have been the
special prey of dishonest promoter.
Some women are SO devoid OF judg-
ment of any kind in business mat
ters that they ,snsily fall victims to
the wlles OF smooth-tongued crooks
of seeming respectability and proba5-
ility. who point out how their money
may be made to draw large dividends
with safety.
Flowers record is studded with
cases showing that rich widows were
heavy stockholders IN his companies
This man had lost and won for
tunes and lost them again. He had
been tossed every way on the storms
OF nnance in the battle OF men making
dollars out of the bloodiest sources.
What did he want all this timer
What lured him? Why did he do it
at all?
Everyone wants to be rich and
have what money can buy"
This seemed the fullest and clear
est answer there could be. Perhaps
it is true.
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0. B. NOVELS ACTIVE
m IRRIGATION WORK

A pubic celebration on the occa-
sion 81 the opening OF the big project
Of the Fort Lyon Canal company At
Lamar is being planned. 1t is pro
! EIiposed to commemorate the compile
ton Of the enterprise on The Fourth
Of July next year and the scene Of
the event will be on one of the reser-
voirs. or on one OF the canals con.
nected with the undertaking.
D. b. Novels OF this city. who is
president of the company. says -tha,
the completion of the Fort Lyon canal
and It's tributaries means more to the
people of Prowers county than the
opening of the Panama canal and that
agricultural development in that sec
lion of the state win be greatly stim-
ulated BY it.
Eer three aud a half years work on
the project has been going ON. Moss
of ;he time. day and night. dredge
has been kept in operation and 10
date s,27i.5s7 cubic yards of dirt have
been removed. 1t has been done. ac.
cording to Mi Novels. at an actual
cost for opearticn and maintenance
OF little less than three fifth cents
per cubic yard. Referring to some Of
the details Of the proposition few
days ago Mr. Novels said
~The canal has been enlarged from
former capacity of about 500 cubic
feet per second from the headgate
to Horse Creek to a capaicty Of 5000
cubic feet. and from a capacity OF 500
cubic feet from Horse Greek to Adobe
creek. TO capacity of $500 cubic
feet
eN%~ R-oN ~'uNrA i-Ab ItcAliy IfON~
ed that wisdom OF this enlargement.
Had the work been finished twelve
months ago SO that the company could
have availed itself OF the flood water
this year. ali the reservoirs OF the
company would now have been com
pIetely filled. There is no doubt that
when once filled. the reservoirs VIII
never again be empty. But. when the
floods come. the canals leading to the
reservoirs must have sufficient carry
ing capacity TO take the maximum
of water in the minimum Of time
The reservoirs. when flied. have a
capacity of $4,000 aree-feet and
this water. drawn on as needed in
connection with our direct now from
the river. will always be ample for
any needful demands made upon it.''
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osop that coraI-Now

When you catch Cold, or begin to
Cough. the tirnt thing to do Is 70 take
Ds. Bells Pine Tar-I5oney. Il pene
iratss The llninss of The Throat and
Lunss ana nshts ths Germs Of The
D'ssasa eivine euIct rsIisi snd nat
ut1l he1lIns. eoRs whsls tnlsily a.
11 - M llolSy - C1nGhs
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CARD OF THANKS

We iss.re 70 express our fha1lsflil.
ness to The friends ana nsil tefl
and oil who showed Us kindness i11
sympathy IN our berssvement ~
death q cus dasr husband an1
IN. =. b cAss +.
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..Yes, this is DR.. Fowler
A benevolent old man with shock
of silver hair and gray-blue eyes that
shown behind glasses came forward
in the Tombs prison and extended
his hand. He had poise and an air
of courtliness about him. He seemed
out of place with the back ground of
bars and prison walls. Yet his
career, as 1 knew it, had landed him
in jails often enough.
So this was the arch-buccaneer of
finance. This kindly. sauve old man
had exploited fraudulent companies
by the score, had lost millions for
his gulled investors, had jumped s25.-
900 in bail bonds. had euded the po-
lice for. eleven years and was now
TO be tried for selling woman few
fraudulent shares. 1t seemed almost
incredible.
There isn't much to say about my
case until / have consulted with my
attorneys DIR. Fowler assuerd me.
when told him that I had come to
have a talk about his arrests and
his exploits. Most of the things
they say about me are absurd exag-
gerations, but my defensive story can
not be told until the proper time"
The prisoner locked at me in a
benign reassuring way-in a way that
made clear to me his disarming of
myriad suspicious, his power in the
days of his ascendancy. From all
have been told the man in the
tombs prison looked little different
from the man who had been a finan-
ciai sensation in Wall street only a
dozen years before. He is sixty-five
according to his own statement, and
might easily pass for ten years young
er, save for his voice, which has the
strange labored quality incident to
accumulated years. i was inclined
to think this weakness of age assum-
ed, but perhaps it was genuine.
Consider the record of the man.
Flower was born. according to his
the son of a rural preacher, He was
first prepared for the ministry in a
little western school, but not until af-
ter he had worked his way through a
business college and had become
practically wizard at figures and
bookkeeping. He preached for few
years becoming an evangelistic ex-
horter before he was sixteen. He al
SO took a medical course in Indiana
when that state. was yet unexacting
as to the requirements OF PHYSICIANS.
and had diploma. Soon afterwards
he also took a law course. SO that he
has scholastic sesame to at least
three professions.
The early stages of Flowers life
were given to preaching. He man
aged to cause schism in his church,
and gave up the pulpit for medicine
When he set himself up in PhiIadei-
phia about 1880 as an advertising
doctor he raised storm Of protest
among the physicians Of the town by
the claim that he could read the Ian
guage Of disease. His medical life
was stormy one. but he did con-
trive through II to meet number Of
men ef means, and these taught him
eoins q ne tricks Of nuapce that be-
- a1rneaaiop q se'ns Of his
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Colds Are Often More Serious; stops
Possible Complications

The disregard OF a Cold has often
brought many . regret The fact Of
sneezine. Coughing. or a Fever should
'be warning enough that yonr system
needs immediste attention csrsainly
1.oss o. sissb is most serious. Itis 4
WaIzing tiysn ~ Mature 4 + sasS'1
NJ = hiesaslf = n.,ist ~ 1dins y.
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ree- with big New England leath-
er concern which finally collapsed
with liabilities of $4,000, 900. He built
the Hotel Flower in Boston at IN
expense of 100000 as sanitarium
in which to revive his medical pyro-
technics. This also was a failure.
Next DIR. Flower cured the late Gid
con F. T. Reed of New York of what
was diagnosed as paralysis. Mr..
Reed, interested in the man was soon
inveigled into the doctors schemes,
and entered with him into financing
the Illinois coal, and Coke Company
with headquarters at Peoria, Ill. Mr.
Reed even built city there called
Reed City and gave it $4,000 lib
rary. The city moved away leaving
the library and the ruins of the com
pany
The KEN Kom Company, which
made chemical invigorator of coal
SO strong that it burned out the
CRATES and boilers wherever used,
was another one of the Doctors pic
turesque failures. The Frenchman's .
Bay Land Company. the West End
Land Company, the Silver Cliff Min
ing Company Cout of which Flower
admitted having made s1,2oO,Ooo)
The Flower Medical Company. the
Arizona and Eastern Mining and Mil
ling Company. the Spenazuma mine,
the Arizona and Montana Company
all these we're children of the Doctors
light-moving inventive brain in the
days of his glory. The list does not
include the later clay brick schemes
nor the project for making telegraph
poles of clay.
Neither does it include the Blue
Ridge Iron Company, in which a
single woman friend of DR.. Fowler.
Mrs. Theadore Hagaman-D Delabarre
is said to have sunk 100000.
DIR. Flower was most willing to talk
OF his adventure IN eluding the police
for eleven years.
Il am hero made by the police
and newspapers" he said. ''The
newspapers have made me out fab
ulously rich promoter. They ascribe
millions of profits to me where !
made barely thousands. The police
have extended my wanderings to all
parts OF the world. AS a matter of
fact / have not been more than a
thousand miles from New York in
eluding them. The way to escape
the police is to let them do the chas-
ing. You just stay quiet and lay low. :
j looked at this strange man and
listened to him in wonderment. Was
1t possible that he was trying to de-
ny the very. coups Of which he had
once been proud? What manner of
man was he on the inside? What
mental attitude did his courtliness
and his twinkling eyes cover? Was
there humor behind his heavy benev.
olence? Or was this man eaten by
the guile of money-getting and un-
conscious Of the farce?
1t has been my observation. from
fairly intimate knowledge Of sue
cessfui business men. ranging from
rich merchants to few Of the tre-
mendous operators in American for
tunes. that the sense OF proportion is
generally lacking or dormant. Did
not some one recently inquire wheth-
er 1t was possible to accumulate a
fortune and yet have sense OF hu-
NOR? wonder about this man Flow
er II ever there was financial buc-
cancer pure and simple. he appeared
to wear the cutIass. Surely this arch
adventurer in money: this maker Of
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CLARENCE B. MERWIN
DIES At BLOOMINGTON, I'LL,

B. Merwin at Bloomington. III. He
died of apopsexy sunday morning
December 9Th.
Mr.. Merwin had often visited in
Canon City. His mother, Mrs. W. j.
Mervfn, and sister. Mrs. sherbino
live at 1906 Rudd avenue
Speaking OF aIr. Merwin the Bloom
ington Paragraph has this to say OF
his life:
sketch of His Life.
Clarence b. Merwir was born at
Kinderhook. n. Y. March 2l. 1862. lie
came to this state as boy with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. w. l. Merwin,
who located on farm east of the city.
About the year 1885 he came TO
Bloomington and began his business
career as =owner of a small grocery
store. Soon afterward he entered
the employ of the wholesale grocery
house of J.. F. Humphreys & Co.. with
whom he continued his services for
twenty-five years. For time he
travelled on the road and then be
came their city salesman. In this ca
pacity he proved an exceptional man
for making friendships which brought
business to his house, and therefore
he became one OF the most successful
salesman OF his time.
In November. 1913. he resigned from
his position with Humphreys & Co.,
but retained his stock in the concern,
and then became the secretary ana
general manager OF the Model Laun-
dry Company. which position he held
70 the time of his death. He had
taken hold OF his new work with his
characteristic thoronshness and was
proving very successful
On December 20. 1892. Mr.. Merwin
was married to Miss Antoinrtte Stone
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John r..
Stone Mrs. Merwin and two chill.
dren. Margaret and Rachel. survive.
Ono other daughter died about swo
years ago. His aged mother. Mrs. ".
!. Merwin. Is stin living in Canon
City. Colorado. and the following
brothers and sisters are living: Mrs.
Merrill sherbino OF Canon City. Mrs.
C. NJ. Heller of Denver. Louis b.
Merwin of this city and Leonard Mer-
win, who lives in Oakland. Cal.
The death of Mr.. Nerwin removes
from the community man who can
III be spared. He was OF the type OF
citizens whose usefulness is recog-
nized most by those who kenw him
best. In business there are few men
In Bloomington with wider circle
of acquaintances and who will be
more genuinely mourned The very
soul OF honor in business transactions
he had generosity Of heart which
led him to give Of his life and means
to others wherever his sense OF
duty to his own family would permit.
His life in his own home was the cen
ter OF his best thought, and as Illus
tration of his conscientious consid-
Grafton Of his loved ones. he often
said he could not belong to the yari-
GUS fraternal orders because attend.
ance at their meetinga would take
him away from home. where he beu.
loved 70 be.
The one organization to which he
gave freely Of time. money and en-
deavor was the Centennial Christian
church. He was one Of Its organizers
and a generous supporter. and occupi'
I'd the position Of trustee. Cheerful
and happy Of disposition. he shed
good humor wherever he went.
The time for the funeral u vet for
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock al
the home on East Grove street.
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CHECKS ceoUP lNeTANrLv

You know Group u dangerous. And
you should also know ths sense Of
security that comes from always hsv-
ing FOiey's Honey and Tar compeaad
in the house. II cuts the thick mu-
Gus and clears away the phleem.
stops the strausling cough and gives
easy breathing and quiet sleep Taisd'
il for coughs. colds. tickling shrost:
hoarueness and for bronelslal ard u
sripps coughs. contains 10 opiStsd.
Every user Ii a frIsad. usrass nsl
stoses-adv
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GRAPHIC STORY OF
HIGH FINANCIER WHO
COMES TO BITTER END

Many Canon City people remember
the spectacular exploitation of the
Geyser Mine at Silver Gin about 80
years ago by DR.. R. c. Flower.
Mr.. Flower has been accused Of
many crimes OF high finance. He has
been hiding out from officers for elev-
en- years He recently was arrested
and taken back to New York City for
trial on an old charge.
An interesting story of the life of
DIR. Flower, written by Rudolph Won
Arnimin recently appeared in the
Worlds Magazine.
1t is interesting as story of a man
who tried to get rich by questionable
methods:
tBy Rudolph Won Arnimin Worlds
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sHERlFF's SALE.
State of Louisiana-Parish of Ascen.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Judicial
District Court.
Bank OF Baton Rouge
VS.. No. 1902
Emile IeRoeuf

- VIRTUE OF and in obedience
TO an order of seizure and sale, is
sued by the above named court in
the above entitled and numbered
cause, and to me directed, I have
seized and taken into my possession
and will offer for sale at public auc-
ton to the last and highest bidder.
according to law. at the principal
front door of the courthouse of the
parish of Ascension, In the town of
Donaldsonville, on
SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1914.
at IL O'Clock a. M, the following de.
scribed property, to-wit:
A certain sugar plantation situated
In the parish Of Ascension, in this
state. known as Point Houmas plan
eatIon, being about five miles below
the town of DonaldsonVille on the
same side OF the Mississippi river.
containing twelve hundred arpents.
more or less, and running to the rear
between closing lines, measuring
about six1y-seven arpents front on
he Mississippi river, and bounded
above or on the west by lands now
or lately owned by the heirs of En-.
gene Lacroix, and on the east Or be-
low by lands now Or lately owned
By the aelrs Of Mrs. Pedestrians: to-
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gether with all the buildings and
Improvements thereon, consisting of
a sugarhouse and machinery, dwell
ing house, store building, cabins,
stables, barns and outhouses, carts,
blows and other agricultural inn
plements, mules and other live
stock, and other things thereto
appertaining and used for the cult
walton of said plantation, except:
First, a certain tract Of land meas
uring one arpent front by fourteen
arpents in depth, bounded in front
by the Mississippi river, above, below
and in the rear by the said Point
1Ioumas Plantation. being the same
tract sold by the late John Cofield
20 William Gordon, by act passed
before w w. Buford, recorder, on
July 6, 1878; and, second, a strip
forming the upper part of said Point
Houmas plantation, measuring two
arpents front, more or less, on the
Mississippi river, by a depth thereto
belonging of five arpents, more or
less, being the same property dona-
ted by the late John Cofield to Will
liam Davis by act before G. A. Con
dram, notary public, on April 80, 1888.
Terms and conditions-Cash in
United States currency.
E. C. HANSON,
Sheriff, Parish of Ascension.
DonaldsOnville, La, May 9, 1914.
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according to law, at the PRINCIPAL
front door of the courthouse OF the
parish of Ascension, il. the town 81
Donaldsonville, on
SATURDAY, MAY 80, 1914.
at IL o'clock a. M, the following De.
scribed property, to-Wit:
A certain small tract of land sit
uated in the parish of Ascension and
Immediately in the rear of the town
OF DarroWvi1Ie, in this state, being
designated on a plan Of said Town
and adjoining tracts of land drawn
by R. II. Bloomfield, parish surveyor.
as tract No. 5, which said plan d
deposited in the recorders office ofs
the parish of Ascension. Said tract
IS bounded in front by Fifth street oI
said town of barrow, and has e front
Of one hundred and twenty-one feet
with all the depth thereto belong
Ing, and is bounded on one side Dy
tract No. and on the other slae5
by tract No. z; together with alltae
buildings and Improvements tReTsVhS
and thereunto belonging.
Terms and condftions--Cash Y
United States currency.
E. C. HANSON,
Sheriff, Parish of Ascension,
Donaldsonyille, La, April 70, lsIzss
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Death Of MORGAN Williams.

The sympathy of host of friends
is extended to Warren Williams, the
popular young travelling representa-
tive of the Lafourche Mercantile Com
pany, in his grief over the loss of
his brother, Morgan Whitney Will
liams,t who died Tuesday morning of
heart disease at the residence of
his sister, Mrs. Harry Bush, in New
Orleans. Mr.. Williams was son Of
the late Capt. G. C. Williams, a
prominent citizen of Lafourche Cross
ing, and was well-known and high
ly esteemed young sugar planter, re-
siding at Sunnyside plantation, in La
fourche parish. He leaves a wife,
who was Miss Judith Mills, of Zach
airy, and son, five years old.
Others to mourn his loss are his
mother, five sisters-Mrs. Harry
Bush, of New Orleans; Mrs. Presley
Ewing, of Houston, Texas; Mrs.
Beverly Smith, of Franklin, and
Misses Minnie and Ruby Williams
and three brothers, Messrs. Joseph,
William and Warren Williams. The
remains of the lamented young man
were conveyed to Thjbodaux Wed
nesday forenoon and inferred in the
Episcopal cemetery after services at
st. Johns church, at which Rev.
DR.. Mackenzie, assisted by Revs.
Ewing and Tucker, of Napoleonville
and Houma, presided. The Chief ten
ders it's condolences to the bereaved
family.