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Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
SHORTAGE IN MEAT
DECREASE OF 100000 ~ TIE
MEAT ANIMALS ~ THE
UNITED STATES.
COMPARISONS ASE MADE
Amazing Drop Since 1910 Reported
by the Department Of
agriculture.

WashiBgton.-Sh Shortage Of meat ami
mails in the United States was stik-
ingly demonstrated by comparative
figures made public by the department
Of agriculture. The report showed
that there are nine less beef cattle,
seven less sheep and three less hogs
now for each 100 persons il the coun-
try than there we're In 1910. This
means that il would take 1S,259,O0O
moro cattle, sheep and swine 10 give
the present population the same sup
ply that the census of 1910 showed to
exist.
While the population OF the country
is estimated TO have increased from
! 91.972, 600 to 9S,64G,0GO in the past
/ three years, the number of beef cattle
has decreased 1928 per cent, and of
sheep 81 per cent. The humber Of
swine increased slightly, 10 per cent,
but it did not keep up with the proper
tional growth OF population.
This increase in value, however"
the department pointed out, does not
necessarily mean that farmers or stock
raisers are making more, if any, profit.
On the contrary, the cost Of prcduc-
ton has probably increased more rap
idly than the increase il the selling
! price of livestock. Producers Of farm
products are the last to receive any
benefit from higher prices paid by con.
sumers, yet they are among the first
to increase production if there IS a
prospect of realizing better returns.
THE very fact that there is press
ent shortage of nearly 100000 meat
animals in the United States since th3
census of 1910, indicates clearly III
the business is not profitable to +
duceTS.
THE scarcity of meat animals is NJ
tributed by department experts to ths
encroachment of farms upon range ter
ritcry, lack of proper range leasing
laws, shortage in the corn and forage
crop in Kansas, Nebraska and Okla.
homa, increase in the value Of land
and higher cost of labor and stock
feed: decline in stock raising on farms
in the East and South because Of poor
marketing facilities, the temptation to
sell livestock at prevailing high prices
and enormous losses from hog chol-
era"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05

ter affords amusement for every mem
Der of a family party The elders
skate and curl and play bridge in the
evenings, the smallets child can to-
boggan, while young people are eager
ly learning skiing or ice-hockey, or
negotiating the ice-run. Indeed, it is
estimated that this winter the Alpine
army of skiers will number close upon
100000 men in Central Europe. The
German and Austrian Federations of
the Ski have insured their members,
who now number 10000, against acct
dents with a German firm at nomi-
nal rates.
In Switzerland there are over 10000
persons who employ the ski for sport
and even work, while in France and
Italy the sport is becoming more popu-
lar every winter and the two countries
could now account for at least 10000
devotees of the wooden shoes. This
estimate does not include the number
of soldiers on skis who in winter
guard the mountain frontiers in Cen
trail Europe across the Alpine passes.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
BANQUET SHOT THE RULER
A Trophy From Macmillan Worn by
Glexican War Mlnister-Recalls
Tragic History.

City of Mexico-The $40 gold
piece that Gen. Aueriliano banquet,
Mexicos minister of war, always
wears on his watch charm, was ex-
planned by him recently. 1t was given
him by Macmillan, emperor OF Mexi-
CO, elder brother of Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria-Hungary, when the
ill-starred head of the Mexican EN-
pire was shot by a firing squad at
Queretaro in 1867. Banquet was ser
geant of the squad,
who gives the final shot?" Maxi
milan asked as he made ready for the
ordeal. Banquet modestly admitted
that it would fall to his lot to place a
revolver bullet through the back OF
Maximilian's neck, severing the spinal
cord, to make sure of the work of the
firing squads rifles.
very WE'LL" replied the emperor,
take this gold piece as a souvenir and
see that you do thorough job"
Banquet has worn the gold piece
ever since, but rarely tells where he
got it.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
RAISE QUARANTINE
IN MANY STATES
MORE TERRITORY is FREED FROM
CATTLE TICKS THROUGHOUT
THE SOUTH.
TENNESSEE ENTIRELY FREE
over 1900 Additional Square Miles
in Eight Southern States to Be
Released From Quarantine.

Washington.-The territory in the
South freed from cattle ticks and re-
leased from quarantine has been IN
creased by 17,106 square miles by an
order issued by the acting secretary
of agriculture, effective February 10,
1914, releasing additional portions of
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Okla
homa and Texas. This action has been
taken as a result of further progress
made in the determination of the ticks
which spread splenetic or Texas fe-
yer of cattle. The total area released
since the beginning of the work in
1906 now aggregates 215,908 square
miles, and amounts to about 30 per
cent. of the territory infected at the
time the work was undertaken.
Tennessee is the first of the states
extensively infested by the ticks to
be entirely freed from this pest ana
released from quarantine.
The portions of the several states
to be released from quarantine on
February 16 under the order mentioned
are as follows:
In Virginia: The county of Sussex
and the balance of the county OF
Greenesville.
In North Carolina: The counties OF
Moore, Hoke, Scotland, Robson and
New Hanover
In Georgia: The counties of Nor
gan and Franklin.
In Tennessee: The remainder OF
Marion county.
In Alabama: Portions of the coun-
ties of jackson and Sumter,
In Mississippi: The counties OF
Clay, Jasper, Smith, Scott and Lee
fore, the remainder of the counties
( of Lowndes, Holmes, Madison, Attala,
isRankin, Noxubee, Chickasaw, and por-
lions of the counties of Claiborne, War
rem, Yazoo, Sharkey, Bolivar Newton,
Grenada, Leake, Monroe, Jones and
Lafayette.
In Oklahoma: The county of Cot
ton and the remainder of the counties
of Tillman, Grady, Craig and Ottawa,
and portions of the counties OF Nc
CLAIM, Usage and Delaware.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
WHITE TEACHERS BARRED
BY Measure Passed by South Carolina
House of Representatives.

Columbia, S. C.-The lower house
of the South Carolina general assem-
bly, passed to third reading a bill pro-
hibiting white people from teaching
in negro schools or negroes in white
schools under penalty of fine of not
more than $500 or imprisonment for
not exceeding twelve months. The
passage of the measure was recon-
mended by Governor Blease
The bill was amended to include the
intimacy of the races in houses of
i'll repute."
Another amendment provides that
the bill shall not be regarded as pro-
hibiting the teaching of the Bible to
negroes.
Sensational speeches we're made,
and at times the discussion became
most bitter.
In urging the passage of the bill Mr..
FORMER of Spartanburg declared:
"The negroes have their Booker t.
Washington. Let the negroes run
their own business and their schools"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
FREE SILVER EDICT ISSUED
Rebel Leader DEGREES Free Coinage
of Silver.

Chihuahua, Mexico - Currency is
sued by the Bank of Sonora, the Bank
of Minero and other banks establish
ed under the Diaz regime VIII be
treated as counterfeit money after
February 10, under decree issued by
the rebel government The free and
unlimited coinage of silver will be
offered as a means of providing ample
money.
The embargo against the old bank
currency, which is frowned on as
survival of the cientifico days, when
the Creels and Terrazases were IN
power, will render worthless in the
rebel territory millions Of dollars in
paper money.
A mint has been established for the
coinage of silver bearing the consti-
tutiCnalist stamp.
The offer of free coinage will be eS-
tended to all bullion owners, but it has
not been indicated to what extent the
offer will be accepted The rebel gov
eminent already is in possession Of
much bullion which will be coined to
enrich the treasury. 1t also was an
nounced that a large American smelt-
ing interest which controls industries
in Colorado and other parts OF the
United States, has entered into an ar
rangement for the immediate opening
of a smelter in Chihuahua, which has
been closed for many weeks.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
Taft Warns Against Plutocracy.

Toronto, CANDIDA sincerely nope
our experience may give you warning
and cause you to take prompter meas
ures to prevent plutocracy reaching
the danger point said former Presi-
dent William H. Taft here in an adj
dress before the Literary and Scien-
ti6c Society of the University OF To
ropto. The former president had
dwelt on the industrial expansion OF
Canada and the probability that its
people would come face to face with
conditions of corporate control exist
ing in the United States.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
WON'T LEAVE PRISON HOME
A Pardon Fails to Drive Away a Mary
land Convict-Goee Away
But Returns.

Baltimore.-Pardone by Governor
Goldsborough December Fl, 1913, after
serving Is years, Matthew Jones, a
prisoner in the Maryland penitentiary,
refused to leave. Although he is given
absolute freedom about the institution
and permitted to go out when he
chooses, he always comes back.
He has visited every moving pic
ture show in the neighberhood OF the
penitentiary. With his own money,
about $40 turned over to him when his
pardon was granted, he is free to do
what he chooses. But the outside
world seems uninviting. He doesn't
know what to do nor where to go
'Tll be back" he always tells the
authorities as he strolls out.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
WRECKED FRISCO is LESSON
The Interstate Commerce Commission
Shows How System Was Obliterated.

ne INTERSTATE ~
Shows How System Was obliterated.
Observation-Disclosures operations,
which included the requirement Oh
lines through syndicates which prof
tied to the extent of more than $S,-
100000, some of which was pocketed
by the roads own officers, are cited
as among the underlying causes for
the insolvency of the st. Louis and
San Francisco Railroad company, in
a report to the senate by the inter
state commerce commission on the
Frisco lines receivership. No recon-
mendations are made by the commits
sion. e. e. Clark, the chairman, stating
in a letter of transmittals addressed to
the president, that they were not call
ed for in the resolution adopted by the
senate last summer, directing the in
vestigation.
The report shows that the funded
debit of the railroad May q, 1913, when
the receivership was ordered, amount
ed TO S263 per cent, of the total CAPT
tai liability, the total capital at that
time amounting to $295,633,939.72.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
OPPOSES FREE CANAL TOLLS
PRESIDENT HOLDS EXEMPTION
TO AMERICAN cOAsTWIsE YES
SELLS VIOLATES TREATY.
Question of Panama Canal Tolls is
Subject Discussed About Capt.
toll in Washington.

Washington.-How to dispose OF the
Panama canal tolls question was the
subject upEermost in discussion about
the capital when the attitude of Pres
ident Wilson, outlined to the senate
foreign relations committee, became
public. The presidents position was
asserted to be that the provision OF
the Panama canal act granting TOLL
exemption to American vessels is IN
violation of the Hay-Pauncefote trea-
ty. which proclaims that the canal
shall be free and open to all nations
ION terms Of entire equality" ana
that Charges of traffic should be just
and equitable"
Three courses are open to congress-
Great Britain, which persistently mas
opposed the toll exemption for Amerl-
can ships, has offered to arbltrate the
question as to it's being a violation OF
the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. 1he ma
iority in congress, it is believed, oppos-
as this. maintaining that the United
States should settle the issue for Itself
Another course is to carry into erect
resolution submitted by Representative
Adamson, which would suspend, tor
two years, the operation of the pro-
vision exempting American ships from
the payment of tolls. Should this be
adopted, diplomatic negotiations could
continue in the meantime. The third
proposal is that congress repeal the
free toll provision.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
10 Sailors Are Lost.

Falmouth, England.-Captain Lor-
enS. the first officer, and seventeen of
the crew Of the German bark Hera,
Risagua. Chile, to Falmouth, lost their
lives when the vessel struck rock
as she had almost concluded her voy-
age. The remaining five men were
saved. The Hera encountered a gale
at the entrance to the English chan
mel. She lost her course and struck
on the rocks near Port Halla Blight.
The vessel Immediately filled and the
men took to the boats, which eapsized.
Eight succeeded in getting back.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
Rnu Kills His Father.

Natchitoches, La.-Fearing for the
,;vee If his mother and other members
of the family, John c. Clark, Jr, aged
"a shot and killed his father in their
home at Natchitoches, according to tes-
timony before the coroner's jury
clark. Sr., it was testified, came home
under the influence of intoxicants and
threatened to kill members OF his
household. Mrs. Clark fled. When her
husband started to attack their 10
year old daughter, young Clark shot
his father down. A wife and nine chill
dren survive.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
FINE SPORT IN SWITZERLAND
Many Thousands Of Winter Tourists
Throng Alpine Resorts on Pleas
ure Bent

Geneva - The Eugadine express
now runs daily until March g.. drawing
it's loads OF duchesses who want fun
Americans who want health, rich peo-
pie who want notOriety, and all the
rest, halfway across Europe, to set
them down on the crisp SHOWS of St
Moritz or Davos In little more than
twenty-four hours after their farewells
were waved in London.
One of the advantages OF January
in the Alps is that a winter sport cen
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05

Norfolk, Va.-The story of how AZ
souls went down to death in the chill
waters of the Atlantic when the liner
Nantucket rammed and sank the
steamer Monroe, was brought to port
by 81 survivors of the sunken snip
passengers, rescued and brought to
shore by the Nantucket.
1t was a story of awful and sud
den death, sweeping out of the dark
and fog, and taking unawares the
doomed half hundred with the heavi-
ness of sleep still upon them. 1t told
how the stricken Monroe, with her side
gored deep by the knife-like steel PROV
of the Nantucket, filled rapidly, rolled
over on her side, and in a few MIN
utes turned completely over and then
plunged to the bottom, carrying with
her the Inflated passengers and mem
bers of the crew who had failed TO get
clear of the wreck.
Thrilling are the stories told by
those rescued from the jaws Of death
when the Old Dominion Steamship
company's steamer Monroe, bound
from Norfolk to New York, turned
turtle at sea within ten minutes after
she had been in collision with the
Merchants and Miners transportation
company's steamer Nantucket IN
dense fog off the Virginia coast. Re
yised lists put the loss of life at forty
three. of which number nieteen were
passengers and twenty-four members
of the Monroe's crew. 1t was as II
they had come from the dead when
eight of the Monroe's passengers,
whom wireless reports had put in the
list of the lost, walked or were borne
from the steamer Nantucket when the
latter landed the rescued at Norfolk.
There were notable deeds of heroism
by Assisting Engineer Oscar Perkins
and First Wireless Operator Ferdinand
7. Kuehn. Perkins when the thrush
of water put on the main dynamo and
left the Monroe in complete darkness,
rushed below and put to work an
emergency dynamo. He is among the
rescued.
Wireless Operator Kuehn gave the
first s. O. S. call and after adjusting
a life preserver which would doubt
less have saved his own life, removed
this from his body and put it on
girl Kuehn was lost. His assistant,
r. L. Etheridge, was saved, and walk
ed into the arms of his wife, who STOOD
to greet him as the Nantucket docked
with the rescued.
c. w. Poole, en- route from Gray Va
with his wife and two and halt-year-
old bow to visit in Massachusetts, had
his wife and child washed from his
arms over the rail of the sinking Mon
roe. Poole, completely crushed, told
the story of his great loss and sor-
row He will return to his Virginia
home.
Ed German of New York told of
narrowing scenes of women's scream
ing for help in the cabin of the Monroe.
Walking upon the side of the careen-
ed sinking ship, German met a girl
whom he begged to jump with him into
the sea. The girl refused and perish
ed. German was at the place picked
up by passing lifeboat.
J. Galley, second officer of the
Monroe, gave his life preserver up to
a lady who had none, and after being
washed into the water saved himself
by grabbing floating ladder.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
$4,000 in Bills Left on Car Seat.

Macon, Ga.-Conductor Walter Lit
tie picked up a package in a seat of
a Central of Georgia railway car at
Columbia, Ala, which later was found
to contain $4,000 in bills. The name
of ]. C. Kountz appeared on the pack
age and it was found that the money
belonged to a Dothan bank with which
Mr.. Kountz is connected. The money
was in possession of a messenger, who
left the train at Columbia. 1t was re-
turned to the bank. The money. along
with several other packages, had been
placed in hand grip.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
Artist eoebm puts Bullet in Head.

Ossining. N Y.-Just after confer
ring with his wife and veterinary sur
geon over the most humane way OF
destroying his pet cats, which had
been models for his widely-known mag
azine illustrations, Henry Richard
Boehm, an artist, went upstairs in his
home at Briarcliffe, near here, and
shot himself in the head, dying in
stantly. It is believed he had be-
come temporarily insane. Boehm was
anxious to dispose of his cats because
of the difficulty OF caring for them
properly In New York City
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
SENATOR CVLLQN is DEAD
Indefinitely bY v~rsKMM NJ S2EENE
ernpent @%@ke S9Assaasois in Con.
sin Il M.*S8$&#
l@Spubncs as III " S{6ate0 ~ %enator Shell
aEsuAs9IEnl ff ' 80 80 t died here Tee al,


during which he lowered between life
and death. His last words were a
wish that he might live to see the
completion of the national memorial
to Abraham Lincoln, who was his
personal friend.
Since his retirement from the SEN
ate last March, Mr.. Cullom had been
resident commissioner of the commits
sion created by congress to build the
$4,000, 900 Lincoln memorial.
Shelby Moore Culloms death ended
fifty years of continuous public serv-
ice that had made him a figure in
American national life and brought
him into official relations with every
president from Abraham Lincoln to
Woodrow Wilson.
AS "A plowboy driving mis- fathers
oxen over the fresh prairie of Illinois
he had known and talked with sur
yivors of the revolution and on the
rugged foundations of life begun in
pioneer hardships of family of twelve
children had built a career that took
him to the Illinois Legislature as
member; speaker of the assembly, two
terms in the governors chair, service
in the national house of representa-
tiyes and thirty consecutive years in
the United States senate.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
comber Leaned aao Feet.

San Francisco. Cal.-The highest
seas knowh on the Pacific coast since
it was charted by the United States
government were recorded. The light
ON Trinidad Head, near Eureka. CAL,
was nut out last week by surf that
smashed the thick protecting panes
of glass surrounding 1t. Trinidad
Head rises $50 feet above the sea level
The light is perched on a shelf OF
rock about half way up, and the lens
is 200 feet above the margin of the
surf.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
Probe of Strikes Ordered.

Westinghouse sweeping investiga
ton of strike conditions in the coal
fields of Colorado and the copper dis
trict of Michigan was authorized by
the house. BY a vote of ISL to IL
the house adopted the resolution OF
Representative Heating of Colorado
empowering the mines and mining
committee to make inquiry as to con
ditions in Colorado and Michigan in
which the federal government might
be concerned. Hearings will be con
Quoted in the strike regions by sub
committee, or subcommittee.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
ps,st Terrorized Whole Section.

Lyerly, Ga.-The weird walls of a
wild beast roaming the forests OF
northwest Georgia, resembling the
screams of terrific woman, has caus'
ed many an unpleasant hour for per
sons travelling during the night hours
along the lonely roads through the
country. The animals, which no one
seems to recognize, has been seen sew
eral times, but still, after seeing 1t, nc
one can give much of description Of
II. other than Y is like dog. raw
and lanky, and does not have any
particular place Of abode.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
contempt Of Court Laid to Ministers

Pretoria, Union of South Africa
Court proceedings against the minis
ters of Justice, defense and Interior
because Of their action in deporting
the south African strike leaders. be-
gan promptly here. The supreme
court Judge, Sir John w. Vessels,
granted an application for leave to
amply to attach the three ministers
for contempt of court. The judge de-
clared that II he had possessed infor-
nation he would have granted an in
junction restraining the government
from deporting the men.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
n 6 20 Exhlbit Model Of Canal.

Washington.-A model of the Pana-
ma canal which probably will be more
than five hundred feet long Will be
the governments largest and most
elaborate individual exhibit at the
Panama. Pacific exposition at San
Francisco in 1915. From this model,
n is said, the visitor will be able TO
get a clearer and more comprehensive
idea of the canal and of its workings
than by an actual visit to the canal
itself. Almost at glance one will get
from the huge model bird's-eye view
Of the canal in all its details.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05

New York.-A detailed apprisal OF
the estate of the late Henry II. Rog-
ers. Standard Oil magnate, who died
nearly four years ago, shows that the
estate is worth about $4O,0OO,OOO net,
or some $6,0OO,000 more than the value
originally estimated, it was learned.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
BABIES Fed on Doc MIX.

Paris.-Prof. armand Gautier, mem
Der of the Institute of France, vouches
for the assertion that babies can be
fed on dog milk. He says a baby now
being fed on dog milk is thriving and
healthy.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
Earthquake Shocks Cause Panic.

Buenos Aires, Argentina. - Earth
quake shocks at Mendoza caused a
manic. Mendoza is the capital OF the
province of Mendoza, lying about SIX
" miles distant from the volcano OF
Aconcagua. In 1861 Mendoza was
overthrow by an earthquake.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05
nahhits Like Car Ride.

Tarrytown, N. Y.-Rabbits are fond
OF trolley JOY rides, according to Pat
rick Powers, a motorman. A number
squat on the fender of his car daily.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-05

An official census just completed by
Col. Frederick Perkins, shows there
are now 1926 soldiers and refugees
to be provided for by this government.
Besides the six generals there are thir-
teen field officers of the regular MeXl-
can army and fifteen volunteer field
officers. Other officers total 204. the
women number 1927 and the children
552.