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Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
CABBAGE SHIPPED BY THE TRAINLOaDS
One Hundred and Fifty-Six Cars Have
Been Forwarded, and Two Hundred
Cars Remain to Be Shipped.

San BenitO, Tex.-Cabbage ship
ments from San Benito reached a new
record during the past week, 139 cars
having been forwarded. This is more
by several cars than ever before left
San Benito m a similar period. To
gether with previous shipments, a
total of 756 carloads of cabbage has
been sent out of San Benito. this sea-
son, which is more than double last
seasons output for the corresponding
period.
However, this is the last big ship
ping week. There are not more than
200 cars on the San Benito tract and
they will be scattered throughout the
rest of this month and the early part
of May
Due to the rapidly increasing de-
mand for citrus fruit trees. the local
branch of the San Benito Nursery
Company has increased its acreage
twenty acres, on which it will propa-
gate 5000 citrus trees for this years
business. The proportions of this in
dustry are expanding so rapidly in
the lower Rio Grande Valley that it is
a question as to whether this number
will be sufficient to supply the de
mand from this yield.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
| BIG Winter WHEAT CROP YIELD PREDICTED
Record Breaking Harvest Seems Like
Iy This Year, According to Pres
pects-ApriI Acreage Good.

Washington. - A record-breaking
winter wheat crop is in prospect this
year, the department of agriculture
estimating on a conservative basis
that cereal may yield 551,00O,OO0
bushels, The condition of the crop
April l was $50 per cent normal, or
11.5 per cent better than the average
April l condition for the past ten
years.
In a statement Tuesday concerning
the crop. the department said:
THE condition of winter wheat on
April l. viz, $50 per cent of normal,
is 11.5 per cent higher than the aver,
age of the past ten years.
The yield per acre in the same ten
years averaged fifteen bushels; an
increase of lis per cent to this aver.
age would be 1871 bushels.
The acreage planted last fall was
estimated at 36,506,000 acres; 16.7
bushels applied to this acreage gives
COG, 100000. But there always is some
of the planted area abandoned before
harvest; the average of this abandon,
ment in the past ten years has been
about SO per cent of the area planted.
If this average of abandonment be de-
Quoted from the estimated planted
area and 1871 be applied to the re,
manning amount, a production OF about
551 100000 bushels would be indi-
Gated
The wheat plant wintered unusual
ly well, and it is not to be expected
that the ten-year average of abandon
ment has occurred this year On the
other hand, crop that is in very high
condition on April l, as is the case
this year, is more susceptible to de-
probation later in the season than a
crop having a lower condition on
April l.
THE final estimate of production Of
winter wheat in 1913 was 523, SCI 900
bushels (the largest ever recorded)
and in 1912 it was 399,919,0 200 bushels -
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Rebels Defeat FederaIs Again.

Juarez, Mex.-A nine days battle,
possibly more desperate than that at
Gomez Palacio and Torreon, has re-
suited in victory for the rebels I'M
der General Villa, according to an Of
fetal report made public Tuesday.
The rebel wounded during the battle
is placed at 500 in an official report
of General Villa to General CarranZa,
in which the combined forces of the
federals, said to have numbered 10000
to $4,000, were defeated by ten or
twelve thousand rebels.
The combined rebel force came
upon the reunited federals at San
Pedro de las Colonias, state of Goa
hula, forty miles east of TorreOn.
The rebels claimed to have taken
700 prisoners. The federal army is
said to have included the men of the
Torreon garrison led out of that city
in retreat by General Velasco, those of
General Mas, General Hidalgo and
General de Moure and two others.
Mas, Hidalgo and De Moure were
on their way to Torreon with rein
forcements, but Velasco retired before
their arrival. Since then, until the
federal concentration at San Pedro
and environs, the federals have been
maneuvering in an endeavor to mobi-
lie in force, while rebel detachments
have scurried hither and thither be-
tween Viesca, Parras and San Pedro
to prevent their concentration. When
the general engagement was brought
on it is reported that the battle line
measured twenty miles in a semi-cir-
Gle about the city.
A telegram from General Villa ask
ed for two million cartridges. There
were no other details.
While the battle of Torreon was in
progress there were persistent reports
that federal reinforcements were
drawing near. General Velasco feared
they would be cut to pieces and with
drew in excellent order from the city,
although his loss in killed and wound
ed was considerably less than that of
the rebels.
He headed east and south and for a
time the rebel pursuers, over whom he
had a start of ten or twelve hours,
were unable to locate him.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
PLAN UNIT MARKETING SYSTEM
FOR HANDLING OF CABBAGE IN
THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY.
Bankers and Farmers Hold Meeting
System of Marketing Will Likely
Be Salvation of Truckers.

Mercedes, Tex. An enthusiastic
meeting of the Rio Grande Valley
Bankers Association and representa-
tives of the Progressive League of
Southwest Texas was held Wednes-
day
The meeting was called for the pur-
pose of considering the proposition OF
a unit marketing system for the prod
ucts of the farmers, as advocated by
Colonel Alba Haywood Of San Benito,
who was pleased with the results of a
mass meeting held several weeks ago,
which was attended by farmers, bank
ers and business men from all parts
of the valley and at which the princi-
pal shippers of cabbage and other
truck agreed to work together TO the
end that the farmer would get better
prices for his truck.
He is not only convinced that the
unit marketing system means the sal
walton of the truck growers of the val
ley, but also that such a system can be
established at this time.
The valley bankers were instrument
al in getting the three principal sell
ing agencies together on the cabbage
proposition and realize the necessity
of unit marketing system which will
take care of the principal selling agen-
cies now operated in the valley. and
at the same time give the farmers an
organization through which their
products can be marketed to much bet
ter advantage.
At the meeting resolutions were
passed unanimously indorsing the unit
marketing system, and circulars will
be sent to every farmer, merchant and
business man in the valley within the
next few days preparatory to calling
a mass meeting, at which the matter
will be discussed and preparations for
the organization made.
Those attending the meeting were:
o. w. Haywood, San Benito; Scott
Cathorn, Mission; w. \. Mcneil, San
Antonio; S. A. Pipes, Mission; George
A. Toolan, San Benito; J. T. LomaX,
San Benito; McMurry Richie, San Be
nito; d. H. Barr, Donna; f. Owen
Scott, Mission; w. Ferguson, Mission /;
Colonel Alba Haywood, San Benito;
F. c. Plat, San Juan; r. p. Boeye,
Donna; |. V. Horner, G. o. Barnes,
w. H. Lastinger and N. p Barton,
Mercedes.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Two Safe-Blowers Arrested.

Lake Charles-Fifteen minutes after
the safe in the Duhon grocery had
been blown open and robbed Friday
morning, two men claiming to be j. a.
Ford and James Dillon, who were
hurrying toward the Southern Pacific
station to catch a westbOund train,
were in the hands of two policemen
and charged with the crime. A WON
an who lived in the second story OF
the adjoining building heard the rob
bers at their work and notified the
policemen by telephone. The officers
got an auto and intercepted the men
a few blocks away.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Four Lecturers Routes Made.

Austin, Textile department of ag-
riculture Saturday announced the fol
lowing itineraries of lecturers of farm
ers' institutes:
Paul Wipprecht: Victoria, April 90;
Edna, April 81; Canada, April %; Pa
lacios, April 25.
Joe E. Edmondson: Crandall, April
81; Kemp, April %; Blossom, April
"a; GAINESVILLE, April %.
B. L. Nance: Cross Plains. April p
Rising Star, April %; Shiloh School
House, April "a.
R. H. Taylor will hold a series OF
institutes in rural communities OF
Wise County during the week begin
ming April 20.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
ATLANTIC FLEET GOES
TO MEXICAN WATERS
ELEVEN GREAT 6ATTLESHIPS
AND $4,000 MEN TO CALL ON
MEXICO FOR SALUTE.
BIG BATTLE FOUGHT At TORREON
Villa Reports Victory After Nine Days
Battle-NearIy $4,000 Men in
Fight, and Battle Line Elk
tended Twenty Miles.

Washington. - President Wilson
Tuesday ordered virtually the entire
Atlantic fleet to Mexican waters to
force public salute to the stars and
stripes from the Huerta government
as an apology for the arrest of Ameri-
can marines at Tampico last Thurs
day.
No ultimatum has been issued, that
is, no specified time has been set with
in which the Huerta government must
comply, but the naval demonstration
mas been ordered as a concrete evil
dence of the fixed determination of
the United States to back up Rear
Admiral Mayo's demand for a salute.
Future developments depend on
Huerta himself" was the way high
administration official close to the
president summarized the situation.
The decision to send the fleet was
rotary Bryan had conferred for an
hour with John Lind, personal repre-
sentative of the president in Mexico,
and after a two-hOur cabinet meet
ing, during which dispatches from
Charge 'Shaughnessy revealed that
the Huerta government disputed the
right of American marines to be
ashore at Tampico and contended that
its recent public statement of apology
was ample.
Immediately after the cabinet meet
ing adjourned Secretary Daniels is
sued his order to the Atlantic fleet,
and wireless messages flashed up and
down the Atlantic coast to put the
fleet under steam for Tampico.
1t will be the largest fighting force
the American government has assem-
bled for possible action since the
Spanish-American war. Eleven great
battleships with auxiliaries, carrying
in all about fifteen thousand men, will
comprise the force off Tampico.
Everywhere at the White House, the
state department and the navy de-
partment, the hope was expressed that
the dispatch of the fleet would not
lead to serious consequences and there
was confident prediction among adj
ministration officials that General
Huerti would satisfy the American de-
mand and close the incident. Officials
were careful to point out that nego-
tiations with the Huerta government
had not ended and that the way was
still open to General Huerta to make
amends.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Suffragists Tass Up Ballot.

Dallas, Tex-T$ lie annual convention
of the Texas ECU p Suffragist Associa-
ton, which assembled in Dallas
Thursday, adjourned at night The
association decided not to ask for a
place on the ballot in the primaries
this year, but to carry on a vigorous
campaign of education, and if the time
appears to be ripe, to make a trial of
the strength of the movement in 1916.
Officers were elected as follows: Miss
Eleanor Breckenridge, San Antonio,
honorary president for life; Miss An
nette Finnegan, Houston, president.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
FOUR n. Y. GUNNER PAY PENALTY
cHIROFIcl REVEALS TO WARDEN
THOSE WHO SLEW GAMBLER.
It Took Just Thirty-Nine Minutes TO
Transfer the Four Gunmen Across
the Great Divide.

Sing Sing Prison, n. Y.-The four
men convicted of Staying Herman
Rosenthal forfeited their lives Monday
morning in the Sing Sing electric
chair
Three died game" The fourth was
terrorstricken and on the verge of a
collapse as he was led through the
little green door" to eternity.
"Dago Frank" CirOfici was the first
man executed and Lefty Louie" Ros-
enberg was the last
None confessed, and Whitley" Lewis
was the only one to make a statement
of any kind. Lewis declared the Wit.
uesses against him had committed per
jury and sWore he was not guilty. He
was the second executed
II was just thrty-nine minutes after
the fatal voltage coursed through the
body of "Daso Frank" Cirofici. the
first to die that Lefty Louie Rosen-
berg, the last, was pronounced dead
Shortly before DagO Frank Ciroficj
went to the death chair in Sing sing
prison early Monday he told Warden
Clancy that Gyp the Blood HorCWitz,
Lefty Louie Rosenberg and Harry Val
Ion, an informer, fired the shots which
killed Herman Rosenthal, for which
crime the four gunner paid the pen
atty
so far as l know, Becker had moth
ing to do with this case the gunman
also declared 1T was a gamblers
fight
Cirofici averred he was five miles
away at the time the crime was com
mitted and that Whitley Lewis Seiden-
sinner, although present at the scene
of the shooting, did not fire any of the
shots Cirofici made no attempt, how
ever, TO deny that he was included in
the original plot to Stay ROsenthal,
even admitting that two nights before
the gambler was slain he and other
gangsters had sought Rosenthal.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Strike Of Copper Miners at End.

Houghton, Mich.-The strike of the
copper miners in Upper Michigan
came to an end Monday as a result OF
referendum vote taken among the
members of the Western Federation OF
Miners. The strike had been in effect
since last July. when 1900 men, ac.
cording to the figures of the fedora
ton, demanded better wages and
working conditions and recognition of
the federation. Managers of the mines
have announced that they will re-em-
ploy all men who have not been guilty
of violence as soon as they give up
their membership in the Western Fed.
Grafton of Miners and places can be
found for them The present working
forces are nearly equal numerically,
mine managers say, to what they were
before the strike.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Bryan's View on Canal Tolls.

Washington.-Secretary Bryan, in a
statement made public Sunday on the
Panama tolls question, declares that
the repeal of the tolls exemption in
the Panama canal act can not be con-
strued to be a construction of the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty" but is Sim
ply refusal on the part of the United
States to raise that question in that
way"
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
NEW ORLEANS BANKER KICKS.
Sol Wexler Wires Statement That ti9-
ures of Dallas, Atlanta and Rich
mond Are Erroneous.

New Orleans.-Sol Wexler, presl-
dent of the Whitney-Central National
hank. has wired Senator Ransden a
statement attacking the figures pre-
scented by Dallas, Atlanta and Rich
mond as to why those cities should
he given a regional bank over New
Orleans.
Mr.. Wexler's statement bristles with
figures It is as follows.
Statement of Senator Hoke Smith
that New Orleans was second to At
lanta in banking resources, capital
and surplus is an error based on false
statement contained in brief for At
lanta. The facts are: Total banking
resources, Atlanta $50,0OO00O, New Or
leans sos, 900, all as OF March 4,
I1914. Mr.. Glass statement in the
house that Richmond, with $4,000
population, has double the loans of
New Orleans in the South is a delib-
crate misstatement of facts. Loans
ard discounts. New Orleans, all in the
South. $6G, $50, 900, Richmond (nO
doubt including some Eastern com
mscial paper, $4S,323.000, all as OF
date Jan. l, 1914 For further com
parison, Atlanta loans and discounts,
same date, $34,221, 900; Dallas, $26,-
| 29S, 900. so that New Orleans exceeds
| Richmond by $4,000 900 and exceeds
| Atlanta and Dallas combined by &c.
OOO,0 600. All of these figures are Of
fetal. and can be verified by Rand 4
McNally's blue book, the standard and
universally accepted authority. We
appreciate the good work you are do
ing. Sol WeXler, Chairman.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
PROSECUTOR MAURY KILLED IN AUTO WRECK
Car CoIIides With Cow and Auto is
Thrown Thirty Feet-Accident
Happened Near Dickinson.

Houston, Tex-Richard G. Maury
County, was killed Sunday afternoon
while en- route to Galveston when the
automobile he was driving struck
COW that strayed into the road in
front of his machine.
With terrific impact. a COW that
strolled onto the right of way just
as Mr.. Maury's car reached that part
of the road was struck broadside.
The COW was killed. The car shot
sideways, jumped TO the railroad right
of way, capsizcd and in a moment
was mass of flames, being totally
destroyed.
The accident occurred between
Dickinson and La Narquc, near the
Galveston, Houston and Henderson
right of way. ". H. Ilamblcn of
Houston, who was directly behind Mr..
Maury in an automobile. was first al
the scene of the accident and hur-
riedly called Dr. W A. Hadley of Dick
insOn.
The injured man was lifted from
the road, where he had been thrown,
placed in the physicians car and hur-
ried to the Woods drug store at Dick
inson. Death occurred before the drug
store was reached and without the
injured man having regained con-
seriousness. DR. Hadley said that the
injuries consisted of a fracture of the
left hip, a fracture of the left arm and
an injury at the base of the brain, the
latter having caused death.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Find Needle Worked in Thigh.

New Orleans.-Internes at the Char
ity hospital have extracted a needle
from the left thigh of Miss Bonnie
Desbue, a resident of Slidell, La,
which had remained in her body four
years. The needle had worked its way
from her left foot. Four years ago,
according to Miss Desbue, she ran the
needle in her left foot while walking
about her home. She paid no atten-
ton to it until a few days ago, when
she began feeling a pain in her left
thigh
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Active Campaign Planned.

Fort Worth, Tex.-That the repub-
lican party is very much alive in
Texas and that it means to have a
very active year was the declaration
made Tuesday upon adjournment of
the meeting of the republican state
executive committee. National Com
mitteeman H. F. MacGregor of Hous-
ton was present and made a financial
report showing more than $1,000 in
the hands of the treasurer after the
campaign of 1912.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Whites Released; Negroes Held.

Winnfield.-Sheriff Payne of VIM
parish has returned from Calvin,
where he had spent some time investi-
eating a clue that seemed to point to
two white men as slayers of Sam
Chandler and wife, the aged couple,
whose bodies were found on their
farm about a mile from Calvin Tues
day. The sheriff said the innocence
of the suspected men was established
and he returned to Winfield conf
dent that two of the five negroes held
in Jail on suspicion are the murderers
of the Chambers.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Two Killed in HoIdup.

Fluckers.-An attempted daylight
hOldup of passengers in negro coach
of Illinois Central train No. "a near
Fuckers Friday resulted in the death
of one negro and the serious injury
of another. When Lude Anderson saw
two masked men enter the car and
demand hands up" he went through
a window of the car and was ground
to death by the rapidly moving train.
Ison Allen, porter. was shot in the
stomach by one of the robbers.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Four Hundred FederaIs Killed.

Chihuahua.-Four hundred federals
of the garrison at COlOtlan, Jalisco,
were killed two days ago when con-
stitutionalists commanded by General
Cervantes attacked and captured the
town. according to an official message
received Monday by General Venu-
stiano Carranza from General Banuel-
los. He said that the triumph over
the federals at Colotlan was complete.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
CAUGHT With Concealed Weapons.

Schriever-Deputy Sheriff Olivier
arrested two white men who alighted
from a freight train Friday night
Each carried a new % Winchester
rifle, one IA Smith & WessOn pistol
and one searchlight. These men give
their names as Z. M. and J. NJ. Mact
noon and claim to be brothers. They
say that each owns grocery business
at Rayville. They were taken to
Houma Saturday and jailed as sus
picious characters and must pay the
usual penalty for carrying concealed
weapons.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18

st. Martinville.-The mayors proc
lamation of a city election May 10 was
issued this week. The business mems
ticket, composed of the men in power,
is: For mayor, Albert Bienvenu; for
councilmen, Willie Bienvenu, Jos. H.
Duchamp, F. F. Fournet, A. c.
Gauthier and R. ]. Guirard. The regu-
lar democratic ticket is: For mayor,
]. c. Bienvenu; for councilmen, p. j.
Fleming, l.. J. Duchamp, Henry
Olivier, L. c. Guidry and A. G. Brous-
Sard
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Train Hits Auto; Three Men Hurt.

Harrington, TeX.-Three men were
badly hurt, one of them probably NOR
tally, when a switch engine struck the
automobile in which they were riding
at La Feria Saturday. The injured
are: c. B. Granbury. treasurer and
general manager of the South Texas
Lumber Company at Houston; Searcy
Baker, auditor Of that company; w
Q. Kuykendall, manager of the lumber
company's yard at Harlingen.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Nurse Appointed to Bulgaria.

Washing ton-Miss Mabel T. Board
man, head of the American Red Cross,
announced Sunday the selection of
Miss Helen Scott Hay, an American
Red Cross nurse now in charge of the
Western Suburban Hospital at Chi,
cago, as superintendent of the pro.
posed school for trained nurses at
Sofia, Bulgaria.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Arguments on Exceptions Heard.

New Orleans.-Arguments on eXcep-
tons to 1S6 suits in damages in the
aggregate of $16O,OOO,O0O, filed by va
rious Louisiana sugar interests against
the American Sugar Refining Com
pany, and Jackson Witherspoon, local
manager of the company, were heard
in the United States district court Fri
day and the case was taken under ad-
visement.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Health Board Closes Restaurant.

Monroe.-After two notices to rem
edy defects and to comply with the
state sanitary code, and failure to fol
low the requirements. DR.. Oscar BOWL
ing, president of the sate board of
health, issued an order closing the
Metropolitan restaurant on Desiard
street. The place will remain closed
until. thoroughly cleansed
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Bohemians to Form Colony.

Alexandria. - Twenty-eight Bohem-
ian farmers from Nebraska arrived
this week and will establish another
eight miles east of Pineville. This
new settlement will be called Kolon
and a townsite was laid off this week
on a tract of 1900 acres of land pur-
chased for that purpose.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Amazon Expedition Is Well.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Word has been
received that the members of the Anna,
zOn expedition of the University of
Pennsylvania museum sent out in
March, 1912, are all well after nine
weeks of exploring in unknown terri,
tory in Southern British Guiana. Ad-
vices state that many valuable ethnoIo,
gical specimens and anthropological
data were secured
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-04-18
Rebels Meet With Defeat.

Ell Paso, Tex.-News of an impor-
tant rebel defeat at San Pedro, about
forty miles northeast of Torreon, was
brought to Ell Paso Thursday by news
paper men who were not allowed to
send the news from the rebel camp.
Before the correspondents left Tor.
reon, the defeated rebel column re.
turned to Torreon.