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sected by a canal, although he recog- nized the possibility of the acceptance by the government of the proposed Nica-
 raguan canal plan. In any event, the At lantfc and the Pacific were surely to be
 united by an artificial waterway, in his view, and his forecast of the effects or
 constructing an interoceanic canal justl-
 fled him in the conviction that Key West
 would be a highly strategic point both from the commercial and the military point of view.
 The directors of the Flagler system have made choice of the successor of President Parrott. having recently chosen William H Beardsley, president of the | Flagler system. Like MT. Parrott MT. | Beardsley had intimate knowledge of the l plans of Mir Flagler. He knew. also. what his intellectual and temperamentaI l characteristics were, for he was asso- ciated with him for nearly 30 years In {, the organization which MT. Flagler cre- ated for his Florida railroad systems Mir. Beardsley was chiefly occupied with the | financial department. He was esteemed
 as thoroughly equipped for these responsi- ! bilities as even MT. Flagler himself
 MT. Beardsley, it is presumed, in this
 city by those who know him, will hasten
 the construction of the car ferry steam- | CTS. To initiate this service will make
 necessary the construction of terminals l
 CTS which are to be occupied in this car ferry service will adapt them for the | longest ocean ferry service anywhere In 1 the world-about 90 miles. There are some railroad managers and a few men of
 finance who still doubt the commercial | practicability of establishing ocean-ferry | service between Key West and Havana. l MT. Flaglef, however. was as confident | that service of this kind would greatly ex-
 pand trade between the United States and | Cuba as he was confident that the con struction of a railroad beside the Florida
 coast was commercially practicable and | would greatly increase the prosperity of Florida.
 The Kissimmee Valley line is supple ] mental to and in perfect sympathy with | the East Coast line. Tine completion nf
 this railroad Is to be a work which the
 new president, Mir. Beardsley, Is expected to take immediately in hand. The railroad
 when completed will bisect a very large section of Florida, a part of which Phil adelphia capital in association with Eng fish capital undertook to exploit little over 30 years ago. That attempt, how ever, proved to be premature. With the completion of this railroad to Lake Okee-
 chobee, which is one of the largest bodies | of fresh water exclusively within tho l boundaries of the United States, and witt the completion of the canals from Lake Okeechobee to the seacoast it Is prob able that a rapid growth in cultivation
 and development of the soil will speedily turn that hitherto swamplil1e district irtc
 one of the richest areas of the United States. Another work which President | Beardsley will find at hand is to be the
 double tracking of the east coast line The building of the double track is in.
 perative and of itself illustrates agricul tural development In Florida which i'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03
Underwood Rally in Chiffon

Mountain Creek, April 2.-(Special.) There is to be a big Underwood rally at Maplesvlle, Chiffon county, on Satur- day, April 4.
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LOCAL OPTION FIGHT
 IN MADISON COUNTY
Candidates for Lower House Will Make Subject
 an Issue

Huntsville, April pecial.)-Madison county voters will declare themselves on the local option or prohibition question on April in spite of the fact that there
 is no liquor question up for considera- tion. The candidates for the lower house of the legislature have made local option an issue. Capt. John w. Grayson and E. D. Johnston are running Together as local optiopists. while the prohibitionists are lining Tip pretty solidly behind Car ter Rice and Charles Williams.
 The issue is not so sharply drawn in the state senatorial race. Clarendon Davis has declared himself for local op- ton and James H. Pride has declared that he will be governed by the will of the people. There is a very warm race be- tween the two.
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to retire from the race. I desire to say to my friends and fellow citizens that at no time since l entered the race have I had the slightest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03
FARMERS MEET AT
 DOTHAN SATURDAY
Diversified Farming Is Ex- pected to Receive Big
 Boost in Houston

Dothan, April 2.--tSpecial)-Plans for the big farmers meeting to be held in Dothan Saturday, April 1. are now com plete. The programme as arranged in- eludes A. D. Whitehead United States district farm demonstration agent; John w. Greer. secretary of the Moultrie Chaiu- Der of Commerce ]. F. Jackson of Sa- vannah, agricultural agent of the Gen. tra1 of Georgia railroad; Wilbur Mccoy of Jacksonville, agricultural and immi- grafton agent of the Atlantic Coast Line: d. A. Winsiow, eXper. tobacco culturis. of the Central of Georgia, and E. w. Jenkins. farm demonstration agent.
 In addition to Mir Greer's part in the farmers programme Saturday he has been invited to address the Chamber of Commerce and other business men of Dothan on Moultrie's success in establish ing packing house This address will be delivered Friday evening at d meet ing to be held as the city hall
 Large numbGrs of farmers are ex- pected to receive big boost in this county
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03
COMPTON SPEAKS FOR
 KOLB AT FALKVILLE
B. M. Allen of Birmingham Will Ad- dress Voters Saturday in Inter-
 est of Underwood

Fall<ville, April 2.-0Special)-M Compton spoke to a good sized crowd here yesterday in the interest of R. F. Kolb. Many expressions of good impressions were heard on the streets after the speak ing.
 B. M Allen of Birmingham will address the voters here next Saturday at 10 O clock in the interest of o. w. Under wood. The Underwood club here is mak- ing ample arrangements toward having a large and enthusiastic audience to meet Mir Allen.
 With all the hay that this country Is able to raise, there is a demand just now for outside shipments. Already the merchants are being forced to ship hay in large quantities to meet the demand. Most of it is being sold to the farmers.
 Falkville can boast the ownership among her citizens of three automobiles. More contemplate purchasing as soon as fine weather arrives.
 County Commissioner B. F. Davis, ac- compa nied by a notary public. has been actively engaged recently getting deeds to the state highway right of way through the town and south of here. He now reports that all have been obtained, and in a short time active operations will commence on the state road
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Shipments of cedar out of this locality have been steadily increasing during the last few months, and now it is said that Huntsville Is one of the principal cedar shipping points in the south. Years ago it was stated that the cedar forests of this locality had been practically exhausted, but lately new supplies that grew on hitherto inaccessible mountains have become available.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-03
UNDERWOOD RALLY
 IN SELMA SATURDAY

Selma, April 2.-(Special.)-The Dallas County Underwood club is making prep arations for a monster Underwood rally to be held here Saturday night and when at the Academy of Music Captain Samuel Blackwell. of New Decatur, will deliver an address in favor of the candidacy of Oscar w. Underwood.
The Arvada enterprise., 1914-03-12
COLORADO STATE NEWS

! State Treasurer Michael A. Leddy
returned to Denver after a six weeks
rest. He is much improved in health.
The treasurer spent his time in the
southern Gulf states and was in New
Orleans during Mardi Gras week.
Mrs. Mary Ann Bryley, one of the
first four white women to settle in
Grand Junction, died She was sew
enty.six years old. She and her hus-
band we're among the first people in
Leadyile when the boom started.
Two more detachments of the Ma
tional Guard Company A OF the First
infantry and Company c of the Sec
Ond infantry, were discharged from
duty in the strike zone and will return
to their homes, according to General
Chase
Roy Conrey, seven years old, son OF
Charles NJ Conrey, of Denver. pois
oned by eating wild parsnip roots with
Harold Anderson, four years old, who
died at the county hospital, is out of
danger according to physicians attend
ing him.
Sixteen strikers are under military
arrest in connection with the alleged
murder of Neil Smith, Forbes miner
whose mutilated body was found on
the Colorado & Southern tracks at
Suffied Siding, eight miles north of
Trinidad
After undergoing the radium treat.
ment for cancer at DR.. Kellys private
sanatorium in Baltimore for week,
Mrs. Katherine Rofinot. a teacher in
the public schools of Colorado Springs,
has returned and believes that IA com,
pIete cure will be effected in six
weeks
Revenue and postage stamps for use
by civil government to be estab-
lished in northern Mexico are being
manufactured in Denver. General Vic
toriano CarranZa leader of the constl-
tutionalists, is now proceeding from
Nogales, Ariz., to Juarez, Mexico, for
the purpose of organizing the civil gov
eminent.
Unwilling TO swear 20 a lie in his own
defense, Antoine Ginter, aged seventy
eight, withdrew a plea of not guilty in
the bootlegging case against him at
Grand Junction and admitted his guilt
A fine of slOO and costs were assessed
against him by Judge Black, which he
promptly paid. The other indictment
against him was dismissed.
Daniel d. Ferguson, one of the best
known and wealthiest pioneer cattle
men of the White River valley, died in
Los Angeles. Cal, of heart trouble.
Ferguson came TO Meeker about TWEEN
ty-eight years ago and located at what
is now known as Thornburg The
body will be brought to Craig for in
terment.
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Premier Asquith laid before the
House of Commons his proposed con.
cessions to Ulster in regard to its po-
siticn under the Irish home rule bill.
As the result OF her participation
in battle between militant suffra-
gettes and police, Miss Zelie Emerson,
the American girl, is in jail in Lon.
don and faces deportation as an "un-
desirable alien"
BallotinG in the general elections for
members of the chamber of deputies
began throughout the kingdom Seri.
GUS rioting occurred at various places.
Four men We're killed and many in
jured, according to Madrid dispatch.
\ sentence of three months impris-
onment has been pronounced on Err
nest Meyer jail editor of the So
Cialist newspaper "Vorwaerts.' who
was tried in Berlin on charges of trea-
son for libelling Crown Prince Fred
erick william.
Acting under instructions from the
attorney general OF the United States.
District Attorney Grossly ordered all
saloons in Fairbanks, Alaska. to close
from Saturday midnight to Sunday
midnight Similar action has been
taken at Nome, Valdez and Juneau
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Minor Mention.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

July l3-14.-Grand Lodge Session. b
! i. o Elks at Denver.
April e.-Gencral Irrigation Conference
Sept, 7.-Coiorado State Fair at Pu-
eblo
lsI5-.ast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The Pennsylvania Society of Denver
VIII hold its annual dinner March l3.
George Rupert, twenty years old,
was accidentally shot and killed at
Monument
Mrs. Eliza A. Kirkendale died at the
age of eighty-one years at her home
in Plateau valley.
Mr.. and Mrs Samuel +. Harris of
Denver celebrated the fifty-fourth ami
versary of their wedding.
The work on the new concrete
bridge across the Arkansas river at
La Junta is about completed and it is
now in use.
The southern end of the San Luis
valley will have a larger acreage this
year, with every prospect of an ex-
cellent crop.
Judge n. L. Graham has issued an
order calling for the selection OF
twelve men as special grand jury
for Weld county.
David Epstein, Denver jewelry
salesman charged with embezzlement,
committed suicide in Pueblo by tax
ing carbolic acid.
Fouryear-old Harold Anderson of
Denver died after eating wild parsnips
found growing near a spring in the
rear Of his home
George McLagan of Pueblo has
been elected treasurer Of the Colorado
State Fair Association for the ensuing
year by the board of directors.
Irving Aker ten-year-old son of |.
G. Aker, Weldona farmer, was acciden-
tally shot and died almost instantly
from bullet wound in the breast.
David w. Meyer, 81, Denver pioneer
and clerk in the office OF the auditor
of the Denver & Rio Grande since
1899, is dead from heart failure.
Two pioneers, residents of Fort Col
Inns, died; John McMullin, eighty-five,
succumbing to pneumonia, and Harry
j. Widdows dying of heart trouble.
The new quarters of the Denver
Press club, consisting of a suite of ten
rooms in the Denham Theater bur 1.
ing Formally were opened with a
house warming.
The oldest man in the West and one
of the Oldest men in the world is dead
in Denver William Taylor, los years
old, veteran of both the Mexican and
Civil wars, died at his home, ll65
Downing street.
The Arvada enterprise., 1914-03-12
WE ERN.

Maud Ballington Booth. of the Vol.
unters OF America spoke to Loo con.
victs In the open prison ward at Fol
som, Cal, pcnitentiary.
Pass them along Is the plan on
which California communities are
dealing with General" Kelly's army
of unemployed, now on its way to
Washington.
\ suit b. which the government
seeks TO regain possession of oil land
in Kern county, California, valued at
slO,OO0.00O was filed In the United
States District Court in Los Angeles.
Three men are believed to have
been killed and three fatally injured
in fire which destroyed the Lowe
building and seriously damaged the
ten.story building cf the Union Nation
al bank OF CLARK sburE w Va.
-Four automobile bandits. believed to
bc wanted In several parts Of the coun.
try, were uabbed in Davenport, Ilo
twenty minutes after a daring daylight
holdup Of an outotthcway grocery
store and cleaning the till of s.
Moody church founded in 1858 by
Dwight /. Moody. and the Oldest
house Of worship in Chicago, was de.
stroyod by fire The fire was confined
to the rear portion Of the building and
damage was estimated at 10000
The fifteenth aspirant FOR the uomi.
nation for governor OF Oregon an.
nomcod his candidacy lie rs Charles
A. Johns Republican or the others.
eight are Republicans four Democrats,
one a Progressive and one an ndc.
pendent
\ score OF witnesses az HuuEhton,
Mich, told the congressional commit
tee investigating the Michigan copper
strike of assaults on nonuuiou men
aud other acts OF violence. said to-
have been committed by strikers aud
sympathiZers
Arlington Simpson seycuty.two
years old, was buried at Callao, Mo,
In coffin made OF walnut lumber,
cut and prepared by him Simpson
made preparations Tor his funeral
months ago. getting ready the mate.
rails Tor his caskct and arranging for
it's manufacture, in order. he said,
"to defeat the coffin trust"
The Arvada enterprise., 1914-03-12
WEEKS NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS

1t is rumored at Washington that
envoy to Mexico. viii succeed John
Bassett Moore as counselor to the
State Department
Charges against Associate Justice
United States for the District of Co
lumbia. on which impeachment was
demanded will be referred to a sub
committee to Investigate.
Leaves of absence to attend the CON
vention of the National Association of
Postmasters OF first and second.class
offices, to be held at st Paul, Mimi,
Aug 1920, have been granted by Post
master General Burleson.
Funeral services for George w.
Vanderbilt were held at Washington
and his body was taken to New Dorp.
Staten Island. n. v for burial at the
old Vanderbilt home. The services
were simple and brief and only close
friends and relatives attended.
Development Of American foreign
policy as an influence for commercial
expansion and the cause of universal
peace is a vital concern OF the Wash
ingtou administration in It's efforts to
have repealed the tolls exemption
clause in the Panama canal act
Former President TAFT has been
suggested to President Wilson ny Sen
NJ oh .,F . Ia.
board OF trustees which the New York,
New Haven 4 Hartford railroad and
the Department of Justice expect to
put in control OF the New Havens
Boston y Maine stock. The same suE.
gcstion has been made to Attorney
General McReynolds.
The final chapter in the ironwork
crs campaign to destroy open shops"
with dynamite and uitroElyCrriuc was
written by the supreme Court in re-.
msinE TO review the penitcuuury sen
touCCs imposed upon Frank NJ RYAN.
president OF the International Associa-
tion Of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers, and twcnty.thrrr OF the as.
soCiatiuus members.
Early action on the administration
bin Tor the development OF Alaska's
vast coal resources was forecast when
the House public lands committee sub
mittod the measure with favorable
report \ committee amendment would
/ limit rights under proposed leases to
mining only, reseryinE all surface
rights TO the government.
The Arvada enterprise., 1914-03-12

Denial that strikebTeakers had been
imported against their Will and held
as poems, or that they were kept in ig-
norance that there was a strike in the
district was made at Houghton to the
congressional committee investigating
the Michigan copper strike by Ocha
Potter. superintendent of the Superior
mine.
Seven persons are known to be
dead, twenty-four are unaccounted for
and at least twenty-nine injured in a
fire that destroyed the seven-story
building of the Missouri Athletic
Club in st. Louis. OF the twenty-four
MISSING, hope practically has been
abandoned. The property loss is esti-
mated at more than s35O,OOO
The funeral OF Bishop Thomas Bow
man, former president of De Paw
university and patriarch of Methodism
in America. was held from Meharry
hall Of De Pauw university at Green.
castle. Ind. Burial was in Forest Hill
cemetery where the bishops wife and
other members Of his family are
buried. Bishop John H. Vincent of
Chicago, retired, delivered the funeral
address.
The Arvada enterprise., 1914-03-12
SPORT

At San Francisco, Cal, the San
Francisco Pacific Coast league team
shut out the Chicago American team
No. l, by q score Of to 0.
Lieutenant Esner, a military aviator
and a non commissioned officer, who
accompanied him As a passenger. were
killed at the Asperu aerodrome in
Vienna when their aeroplane fell. The
accident was due to the breakdown Of
the motor.
The announcement of the Tavern
stakes for amateur drivers. valued at
$500. to be held at Overland park In
Denver during the nineteen-day har
ness and running meeting. June l& to
July 4, is creating great interest
among Denver horsemcn.
Third Baoeman Artir Shafcr Of the
New York Giants tor whom the Fed
erals were angling, announced that he
was through with baseball for good
and would not report to the Giants or
any other team. Shater said he was
going into business in Los Angeles
with his father
Transatlantic aeroplane flights with
flying machines are possibility Of the
near future In the opinion OF Dr.
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor OF
the telephone \ system OF gears for
increasing the speed Of propellers in
higher attitudes, he said at Washing
ton probably would solve the problem
The Arvada enterprise., 1914-03-12
GENERAL.

James CorriEio, also known as Jim.
my Curley," leader OF a gang bearing
his name was shot and killed on the
East side in New York by two men
who escaped without being identified.
Resolutions advising men and wom,
en- who are out Of work to steal food
and clothing to maintain themselves
were adopted at "A mass meeting OF
the unemployed at Boston
An cightpouud baby boy was born
to DR. and Mrs Richard Derby OF New
York, who was Miss Ethel Roosevelt,
youngest daughter OF Col, Theodore
Roosevelt The Derbys were married
In April, 1918.
Gov Oswald West, Secretary OF
State Ben W. Olcott and State Treas.
urer Thomas h. Kay, constituting the
Oregon State Board OF Control who
were arrested by Labor Commissioner
O. z. Hoft on charge OF violating the
eighthour law werc ordered dis.
charged by the state Supreme Court.
George W. Wickorsham, former at
torney general OF the United States.
in an address before the Nassau
County Bar Association OF New York.
said that the division OF the Standard
OIL and Tobacco companies under the
sherman law had been effective de.
spite the belief OF many TO the con.
trHry
The Arvada enterprise., 1914-03-12

lice Surgeon McKelvey. Itch Gebib.
ble!" laughed the young.ter as he
raised on his arm and caned to his
mother. The child fell into an ash pit
in the rear of his parents home. He
is in serious condition, and it is
feared that the shock and burns may
prove fatal When rescued from the
pit by J. o. Gorsuch a neighbor the
child was a human torch. His clothes
were a mass of flames. 1t was neces-
sary to cut his shoes and stockings in
strips before they could be removed.
The Arvada enterprise., 1914-03-12
WIDOW PAID
S400 FOR RAID
BRYAN SATISFIED INVASION WAS
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE AND
NO LAW VIOLATED.
TO GET VERCARA'S BODY
STORY OF TORTURE DlSPROVED
AND WOUNDS DESTROY
FEOERALS' DEFENSE.
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western Newspaper Union News Service.
shington.-According to reports
from Laredo, Tex, a Mexican who led
the party to the grave at Hidalgo,
Mex, from which the body of Glenn
ente Nergara was recovered, has told
the state investigators a circumstan-
tial story OF witnessing the execution.
The identity and whereabouts of this
man, as well as others of the party
which eXhumed the body have not
been disclosed.
Neither federal nor state investiga-
tions had been completed but it had
been shown that reports that Vergara
was tortured by fire were untrue and
that Mrs. Vcrgara arranged for the eX-
pedition of the ten men into Mexico,
and that J. S. Hill, Vcrgara's S brother
in-law, organized the party for the
widow.
An examination OF the body was
made by State General Henry Hutch
ings in the presence of American Con
sui A. B. Garrett, Captain Sanders and
others.
Mrs. Vergara paid the S40O for re-
covery of her husbands body.
Secretary Bryan asserted he would
not undertake to prosecute the per-
sons who obtained the body even if
he knew their identity, which he did
not, beyond the fact established by
General Bliss report that they were
civilians and probably MeXicans.
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WOMAN PLANS FUNERAL
BOUGHT $500 COFFIN AND DIES
AS SHE PREDICTED.
Mrs. Clara 8. Carter Tells Nurses She
viii Return in Spirit to See
Her Wishes Fulfilled.
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western Newspaper Union News Service.
Grand Junction. Colo.-Mrs. Clara b.
Carter died two weeks to the hour
after the date she had predicted her
death A post-mortem examination
will be made to determine the cause
Of her death, although physicians at
tribute It to starvation, condition
the woman brought on herself.
Mrs Carter spent her last hours
making paper flowers to be used In
decorating her coffin. She left an ex-
tended obituary notice of her life, with
the request that 1t be published in the
newspapers. According to this, she
was born in 1876, in Belleplain, Kan,
and was converted at Burlingame,
Kan, at the age of sixteen. She was
educated in the schools of Kansas and
came to Grand Junction eight years
ago since which time she had been
prominent in the upbuilding Of the
city, using every opportunity to ad-
vance its interests. according to her
own statements.
+'A' ~ 'thi A'A ilhh' 'N'A y ~ l'ptil hAA''
for her burial even to the extent Of
arranging with the Rcy. j. j. Gibllu a
few days ago to preach her funeral
sermon on Wednesday. She told him
at the time that she was certain she
would die in plenty of time for the fu.
neral services She also told the
nurses that she intended to return to
earth in spirit form end see how her
instructions had been carried out. She
was especially cheerful in arranging
for her burial and funeral and took
genuine delight in 1t, according to the
nurses. She purchased a $500 coffin,
had her grave dug and cemented, and
picked out the gravestone to be placed
at her grave. The body of her six
year.od daughter. who had been bur
led in Kansas, was brought here at her
request some time ago. to be Inferred
In the grave with her. Mrs. Carter Is
survived by two brothers, one residing
in Montana and the other in Canada,