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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
GEN. VILLA K|LLSFOE
BRYAN DEMANDS INVESTIGATION
OF WEALTHY BRITISH RANCH
ER'S DEATH.
U. S. CABINET MEETING HELD
Secretary of State Orders Immediate
investigation of Murder of w. S.
Benton at Juarez-PoIice Stop
Meeting at EI Haso-Fear Rlotina.

Washington, Feb 23.-Following a
cabinet conference on Friday night
Secretary Bryan ordered an immedi-
ate investigation of the killing of w.
s. Benton, English ranch owner, at
Juarez.
Secretary of State Bryan was ad
vised of the death Of w. S. Benton, an
English ranch owner, in Mexico, re-
Gently reported in the hands of the
rebels. No details were given. Ben
ton defied the rebel general and re-
ferred to his former career as bandit.
The Englishman was held in the same
prison as an American who was ac-
cused of being federal spy.
Secretary Bryan announced the
news Of Bentons death as he went
into a cabinet meeting at the White
House. He declared he had no de-
tails. An official dispatch from Con-
sui Edwards merely announced the
death of the Englishman. Sir Cecil
Spring-Rice, the British ambassador,
who called upon Secretary Bryan to
ask for information of Benton, also
was told of the news.
Benton was arrested in JuareZ last
Tuesday. His wife and friends feared
he had been executed by General
Villa, the constitutionalist leader.
Villa at first denied knowledge Of
Bentons whereabouts, but in conver-
sation with inquirers intimated that
he knew something about the Eng
lishman and added that Benton had
threatened him with revolver. Villa
was quoted as expressing profane in
difference toward an appeal to the
British ambassador at Washington.
Ell Paso, Tex, Feb, 23.-William
S. Benton, a millionaire ranch owner
In Chihuahua and a British subject,
who has been missing since Tuesday,
was executed by constitutionalists.
General Francisco Villa, before leav-
ing for Chihuahua City, admitted that
on Wednesday night he signed an
order for Benton's execution.
Villa charged that the Englishman
was implicated in the plot to assas-
sinate him.
There is great deal of excitement
over the Benton affair. There was to
have been a public meeting on Friday
night in Cleveland Square for protest
against the killing of Benton by Villa.
The police got word of the contem-
plated meeting and refused to grant
permission to hold it. Hundreds of
special deputy sheriffs have been
sworn in to prevent any gatherings
which might foment riot At
meeting held in a local theater,
speakers denounced Gen. Villas
act
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
WESTERN CANADA
CAME INTO EVIDENCE
AT THE CRUCIAL PERIOD FOR
SUPPLY OF WORLDS FOOD
STUFFS.

The present demand for foodstufs
in all parts of the world, and the ex-
pense of producing it on high-priced
lands, would make it seem that west
ern Canada came into evidence at the
crucial period. There is to be found
the opportunity that will be a large
factor in meeting this demand. With
its millions of acres of land, easily
cultivatable, highly productive, acces-
sible to railways, and with unexcelled
climatic conditions, the opportunities
that are offered and afforded are too
great to be overlooked.
There have been booms in almost
every civilized country and they were
looked upon as such, and in the course
of time the bubble was pricked and
was burst. But in no country has the
development been as great nor as
rapid, whether in city or in country,
as in western Canada.
The provinces of Manitoba, Sas'
katchewan and Alberta have the larg-
est area of desirable lands on the
North American continent, and their
cultivation has just begun.
Even with a two hundred million
bushel wheat crop, less than eight
per cent. of the land is under the
ploughs, four per cent. being in wheat.
Less than five years ago the wheat
crop was only 100000 bushels. 1t
is a simple calculation to estimate
that if four per cent. Of the available
cultivatable area produces something
over 200,000,000 bushels, what will A
per cent. produce? And then look at
the immigration that is coming into
the country. In 1901 it was 1919,
10000 being from the United States;
in 1906 it was 139, ,064, of which $1,000
were Americans, and in 1918 it was
about 100000, of which about 100000
were Americans. But why have they
gone to Canada? The American farm
er is a man Of shrewd business in
stincts, just like his Canadian brother,
and when he finds that he can sell his
own farm at from $100 to 5000 per
acre and move into Canada and home
stead and pre-empt half section for
himself, and similarly for all his sons
who are adult and of age upon lands
as rich and fertile as those he left,
and producing indeed several bushels
to the acre in excess of anything he
has ever known, it will take more
than an ordinary effort to prevent him
from making the change.
And then, too, there is the American
capital following the capital of Drawn,
muscle and sinew, following it SO as
10 keep in touch with the Industrious
farmer with which 1t has had dealings
for years back. This capital and the
capital of farming experience is no
small matter in the building up Of a
country.
Nothing is said of the great mineral
and forest wealth, Of which but little
has been touched.
No country in the worlds history
has attracted to it's borders larger
number of settlers in so short time,
or has attracted so much wealth in a
period Of equal length, as have the
Canadian prairies. Never before has
pioneering been accomplished under
conditions so favorable as those that
exist in western Canada today.-Ad.
vertisement
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
FLASHES
OFF THE WIRE

New York, Feb 10. - Edward
Charles Spitzka, the noted peurol-
ogist, anatomist and alienist, who died
January 13, left an estate of $4,000,
consisting of medical books, accord.
ing to a petition filed with his will.
Cape Town, Union Of South Africa,
Feb. ia bill for the enfranchise-
ment Of women in the Union of South
Africa, which was introduced into the
house Of assembly, was defeated on
the first reading by the narrow ma
jority Of 43 to AZ.
Chicago, Feb. 20.-Charles M. Turn.
er, aged sixty-four, vice president of
the Federal Life Insurance company.
is dead here.
Washington. Feb. 19.-Representa.
tive George ]. Kindel of Denver an.
nounced his candidacy to succeed Sen
ator Thomas. He will make his cam.
paign in the Colorado primaries next
summer upon transportation rates and
commercial equality for Denver and
Colorado.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
FOUR MEN FREEZE TO SHIP
Others Are Rescued by LIfe-savers-
Captain Washes Overheard and
Dies In Icy Waters.

Provincetown, Mass, Feb. 10. -
Eight men were rescued in the
breeches buoy and four remain frozen
in the rigging of the bark, Castagna
of Savona, Italy, bound for Wey-
mouth, Mass, with LOO tons of
guano fertilizer, which the hurricane
drove ashore on the rocks between
the life-saving stations at Cahoon's
Hollow and Palmer's river on the
south side of Cape Cod Tuesday.
Owing to the high tide and the heavy
seas that thundered across the beach
and are sweeping mountain high over
the bark, the life-savers are unable
to reach the vessel. Captain Guiseppi
of the bark was drowned.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
SECRET NEGOTIATION ON.

Washington. - Secret negotiations
for the settlement of the Japanese ex-
clusion and alien land questions are
being carried on by the State Depart
ment with Japan, and a definite settle
ment of a final disagreement with the
Japanese government is expected
within the next two weeks. The me-
gotiations are being guarded with the
utmost secrecy, partly because of the
delicate political situation in Japan
and partly because of the secretive
policy followed by the State Depart
ment in al its international dealings.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
CHICAGO BANK IN TROUBLE
Receiver Asked for American Banking
Association by Joseph Stout, a
StockhoIder.

Chicago, Feb. 21.-A receiver is ask.
ed for the American Banking Asso-
citation, and charges of fraud are made
in a bill filed here by Joseph Stout,
a stockholder in the association Stout
charges that he was induced to pur-
chase fifty shares of stock under the
incorrect representations that the
bank was incorporated for $5O0,0OO
and that 100000 of the stock had
been paid for in cash John w. Worth
ington, president Of the bank, is named
as the chief defendant in the charges
of fraud.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
FOREIGN SOLDIERS DEPoRTED.

Chihuahua.-Gen Villa ordered all
foreign soldiers in his army especial
ly those of American or British ante
cedents, and all foreigners in the state
of Chihuahua, except those who are in
business or are vouched for by busi-
ness men, to be Immediately deported.
He gives as his reason for this order
that SO many foreigners are coming
into this country and being reported
missing or having been executed that
the constitutionalist cause is being
greatly injured.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
ALMSHoUSE IN RUINS.

Port Huron, Mich.-Seventy-three
inmates of the st. Clair County Poor
house at Goodell's were rendered tenn
pOrarily homeless by fire which de.
stroyed the structure. Some of the
inmates, old and feeble, had to be car.
ried from the building, but none of
them was injured. They We're given
shelter in Maccabee Hall and nearby
homes.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
To Keep Bacon From curIinq.

But bacon curls up so when it is
sliced very thin" protested young
cook when the family objected to
thick slices of bacon. The way to
avoid that annoying curling is to have
the frying pan very hot and turn the
slices before the meat sears on the
under side and begins to curl. BY con-
stant attention and turning the thin
nest slices can be broiled brown, crisp
and straight.-Nebrask Farmer
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Liners pamaued In crash.

Naples, Italy, Feb. 20-The White
Star liner Celtic collided with the
Fabre liner Madonna here and both
vessels were severely damaged. The
Madonna was unable to leave for New
York with 1,400 immigrants.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
BELL BLOWN FROM sTEEPLE.

Paris.-At Diion a hurricane blew
the bell out of the tower of the Church
of Notre Dame, 13th-century struc-
ture, and sent it crashing through the
roof of the chancel. The edifice was
so shaken that the tall steeple threat
ems to fall at any moment, and the
police have roped off the adjoining
streets.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Referee Stnns Bout

La Crosse, Wis, Feb. 23.--In the
fifth round Of fight here Joe yelling,
Chicago lightweight, backed Charles
Lawson, Milwaukee, to the ropes and
hammered him until Referee George
Duffy stopped the mill.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Miss Wilson Issues Denial.

Washington, Feb. 20.-Miss Mar
garet Wilson authorized Secretary
Tumulty on Wednesday to deny the
published report that she is engaged
to be married to Boyd Fisher of New
York, formerly of Kansas City.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Five Hurt In Train Wreck.

Albert Lea, MINI. Feb 21.--Fivo
persons were hurt, two Of them seri-
ously, when the engine and all the
coaches of a fast train on the Burling-
ton branch Of the Rock Island lines
left the track at West Hope, near here.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Mrs. LOGAN lakes Poison.

Washington, Feb. 20-Mrs. John A.
Logan, widow of the Civil war hero,
took a poisonous medicine, thinking it
was a cold remedy. Physicians gave
Antidotes and later she was reported!
out of danger.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Noted Scientist Ia Dead.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Feb. 20.-Dr. Rob-
ert K. Duncan, aged forty-five, director
of Mellon Institute of Industrial Re-
search, University of Pittsburgh, and
one of the foremost scientists of the
country, died here.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
"katy's" Rates Held Unreasonable.

Washington, Feb. 23.-Rates over
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe on
hides and pelts from Oklahoma points
to st. Louis, East st. Louis and Chi
cago, ILL.,, were held unreasonable BY
the interstate commerce commission.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Miss Gladys Mcmillan weds.

Paris, Feb. 21.-Miss Gladys Mac
MILAN, daughter Of the late Senator
Macmillan Of Michigan and heiress to
vast fortune, was married on Thurs
day to Count Paul Cornet of Brussels
in Madeleine church.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Wreck Victims Are Robbed,

Springfield, Mo-, Feb. 20.-Money
and diamonds we're stolen from pas.
sengers on the st. Louis & San Fran.
cisco train to Kansas City that was
struck by st. Louis train, it was
reported to the Springfield police.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Bank Failure caus.s Death.

Memphis, Tenn, Feb. Worried
over the loss of all his savings in the
failure of the Mercantile bank, Ed
ward Norton, aged ifty, committed sui.
eide by asphyxianon. His body was
found in the gas filled bathroom.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Ex-Governor Succeeds G. w. T,

SNS~~So ~ We uT0eT'
Washington, Feb. 23.-The resigna-
tion of George w. Turner, member
Of the Canadian boundary commits.
sion, was received at the state depart.
ment. Governor Glenn of North Caro-
lima will take the post.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Widow of Author Is Dead.

Santa Barbara, Cal, Feb. 21.-A sud
den attack of apoplexy caused the
death of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
wife of the famous author. Mrs. Isabel
Strong daughter, is in mid-ocean on
her way to Honolulu.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Adrian IseIIn at 67 Weds.

New York, Feb. 21.-Adrian Iselin,
a New York banker and yachtsman.
and Mrs. Frederick Bronson, mother
Of Mrs. Lloyd c. Griscom, were quiet
ly married here. Mr.. Iselin is sixty
seven years of age.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Haltlen Rebels Are Defeated.

Cape Haitien, Haiti, Feb. 21.-Gen.
Davilmar Theodores' rebel army has
been defeated at Grandet Rivere with
the loss of General Paul, commander
in-chief of the rebel forces. Theodores
is still here.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
AlIeaed He Took Unions Records

Chicago, Feb. 21.--Frank> A. Butter
field, accused by S. j. Konenkamp, in
ternational president of the CONNER
cial Telegraphers' union, of stealing a
suitcase of records of a convention,
was held to the grand jury.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Bomb Blast Hurst cbIIdren

Chicago, Feb. 23.-Eight Italian
children were slightly hurt and a
score of families were thrown from
their beds just before dawn by the ex.
piosion of Black Hand bomb in the
doorway Of three-story building.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
An Invitation.

Delighted Young Lady Ito young
man she has been dancing WITH
Oh, could dance to heaven with
you!
Young Man-And can you reverse?
Life.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26

Red Cross Bali Blue will wash double as
many clothes as any other. Don't put your
money into any other. ADV.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Diplomat.

PA, what is a diplomat?"
"A diplomat, my son, is q man who
remembers lady's birthday, but for
gets her age
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Great Expectations.

In certain family the wife never
could see things when they we're un-
der her very nose, while her husband
had a positive genius for finding not
only his own, but other peoples
things. This gift seemed to have i'm
pressed itself on the children, for one
day his three-year-old came rushing
downstairs to exclaim:
"Oh, daddy, mothers lost some
thing; where is it?"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach. liver and bowels.
Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take as
candy. Adv.
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LUCILLE LOVE. The Girl Of Musfer,
a Soul Thrilling Story Cove Devotion DANCER and 2ntique

could be so many in the house. More like a
warren it was than anything else Whispers
sounded from the halls. But she gave them all
no heed She was swaying gently to and fro,
her body lighting against the faintness that was
wide with delighted recognition and love and
DISBELIEF. And then she opened her lips trying
to cry out aloud the name of the man she loved.
the man she had worked hard for, the man
who stood in the street below. staring nm at the
very window at which she stood. But all that
came from her lips was the faintest sound,
tremulous, pitiful the whisper of his name
even realize that she really was seeing her
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ness OF her position. Loubeque seemed omnipo-
tent in the opinion of these men upon whom he
seemed to have stumbled. And vet she knew
there had been nothing accidental about it. 1t
was only another exhibition of the marveously
far reaching power of the man against whom she
had arrogantly aligned herself.
Still she would not permit hope to die. The
Justice of her cause, the growing humanity of
the international spy, her very youth and the
power of her love forbade this And Hope is a
mightier telescope lens than even man-created
science has been able to invent
Through the very eagerness and desperation
OF this feeling she slowly became aware of the
attitude toward his master of Thompson Per-
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CHAPTER XXXXI.
Loabeqae Loses HE TEMPER.

SLOWLY, cautiously, yet with not the SLIGHTEST
uncertainty the door pushed open Before the
visitor appeared on the threshold, Lucille knew
who it would be. Thompson's face was grave,
emotionless, lmpassive, that Of the perfect serv-
ant in every colorless detail as he entered the
room, standing before his master attentively.
with deferential bow to the girl.
For moment she was taken aback by his
perfect apiomb. She knew he had been the one
who robbed her Of her necklace. that he had
sprayed her with ether and taken it from about
her throat while she slept. And yet not so much
as by the culver of an eye lash did he show any
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CHAPTER xXxxIII.
When the O.ol Hooted T.oice.

When the 0tol Hooted Tsoice.
HOURS trod upon another's heels, so fast
they moved under the tension of her watt
ing. Vague forebodings which she could not ana
lyze oppressed her despite the fires of hope that
had been kindled within her dropping spirit
There had been something deadly about Thomp-
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CHAPTER XXXXII.
at the Third Hoot of the O,oE Leaper


at the Third Hoot of the O,ol Leapep
DAYS upon the desert-blistering days with
merciless sunlight pouring from the molten
Kettle overhead burning savagely at the i'm
pervous sand and cact that alone had resisted
the lire so many ages. Days where the frightful
monotony of scene, the british stupidity of the
humans who lived in the atmosphere of it but
made telescopio lens through which the world
was shut out that the memory-picture of home
80 ever-present with Lucille might be intensified.
Nights of cold, unwinlSing stars; stars pitt
less in their steady undertaking scrutiny as the
glover of sun. Nights where the desert breeze
searched out the marrow of the bones. Nights
surrounded by the minions of Loubeque, by
Loubeque himself Nights of seeplessness for
herself but nights filled with the sounds of the
slumbers of her captors.
save Hugo Loubeque. Loubeque slept.
llreiess, lndomitable, figure apart from
everything, intent upon object and that one
hidden from all save Lucille, she saw he had
steeled himself against her now, that never again
would she be able to penetrate his pitilessness
in the pursuit Of his previous revenge
Close at hand was the hour for him to
strike; ready at hand were the means What
was his object in seeking Mexico and the con-
stitutionalist leader she had no means of know
Ing. That there was great object, one which
she must defeat at any and all costs, she knew.
1t was the eighth day he ran into foraginr
party sent out by Villa in advance of his main
army. Much as she knew of the mysterious spy
Lucille was still surprised to mark the respect
and Difference paid him by the dark-skinned
reoels. consequently, several days later, days of
tireless travel, she was not surprised, ON coming
with the main body of the army, 10 find herself
being treated with the greatest respect, while
Loubeque was in constant consultation with the
rebel leader.
Day after day she felt the growing helpless
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By the ".MASTER PEN"

who
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sweetheart here, in flesh and blood the hand of
Loubeque was about her waist, drawing her gent
ly but firmly away from the window Instructive
ly her eyes flashed last look down. all the
frailty of her woman's nature reaching out in
that glance to the masculine sweetheart, beg
ging for his strong to aid and assist her
Gone from her was all the strength and intia-
tive and courage that had enabled her to brave
the dangers she had been through for his sake
gone was everything her desire for him to
save her. And, even as the easement shut out
her view of him, she caught the lightning flash
of recognition her appeal drew his own ewes
to that window. And she knew he had seen her
Loubeque restrained her firmly. He did not
speak but as she flashed triumphant glance at
him, laughing look that defed him to do his
worst, his face scanned with sorrowful
thought. The changing of the bells throughout
the house ceased instantly, just as loud ham,
mering on the door below rose Came flying
rush of men within the room, filling it complete
ly. Loubeque swiftly glanced about at the anx-
ious faces, then nodded.
"The tunnel" he cried sharply.
Lucille sprang once more to the window as
his grasp upon her was removed From below she
heard the hammering upon the door but could
not see the rescuing party. Suddenly she came
aware that the room shooting downward,
like giant elevator She glanced about her,
SICK with apprehension, upon the faces close
to her own in the narrow confines. breath of
rank. cool air famed her cheek from out the
darkness. Loubeque's hand was upon her wrist,
his voice softly advising her to follow him. Far
III 'iie uistaHce lltue sPeck OF lght reached
out toward them.
For what seemed an endless distance she
was led by the spy, with always that rush of
feet behind. The light was growing broader
brighter Loubeque released his hold upon her
She could see him reach and press harshly
against something, a door evidently, for the
light slowly heightened and broadened. Day
light and foreign street.
strange street from the one upon which
she had seen the man for whose sake she was
here; a strange street yet close to that man.
Close?
bitter sob broke from her lips as she
looked at Loubeque and realized how infinitely
far away she was from him.
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OR long time, Lucille did not
trust herself to speak. Her eyes
fearfully sought the room which
had started to press down upon
her and was still suspended mid.
way of ceiling and basement floor.
Then she looked at the outstretched
palm of the man who stood, so
coolly smoking there In the door
way. She clasped the packet of
papers to her breast, her eyes dart