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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
To Pay for steamer.a carno.

London.-The British government
aas announced it's intention to pay
100000 as the first instailment in set.
clement Of the claims of the owners
Of the American steamship Wilhel.
nina, seized while carrying foodstuffs
rom New York to Germany.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Headquarters viii Be Moved

Houston, Tex -Headquarters of the
Farmers Union of Texas, an organ.
lsation with membership of about
$4,000, will be moved to Houston from
Fort Worth about July Is. The or.
ganizatlon has had its headquarters at
Fort Worth for the past twelve years,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Texas MInks Sold to ENGLAND

Orange, Tex.-Cyrus McFarlane has
just made shipment of thirty.one
pairs of native minks to Boston for
the British government. The minks
will be used for experimental bur.
poses by the British government.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Newspaper Quits Mornino Field.

Austin, Textile Austin States.
man, established in 1871, Thursday
announced its withdrawal from the
morning field aid it's consolidation
with the Austin Tribune to be pub
lished in the afternoon.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
First Melons Loaded.

Hampstead, Textile first water
melons OF this season were laadel
Tuesday by John Norwood and los,
Crawtord-two carloads The: Wi
average, the best car, about 81 or 80
ar the o,hsr 20 or "a pounds.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Alabama Is Dry State Nav

Montgomery, Ala.-Statewlde prohi
bitlon legislation enacted in January
went into effect Wednesday and every
saloon and dispensary n the state
wa2 closed,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Admits Killing Thirteen Men

Topeka, Kan.-Kansas winter wheat
probably will yield 1873, 100000 bushels
this year, or an average acre yield OF
1863 bushels, according to the month
~ crop report issued Saturday by the
state department of agriculture.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Kansas Wheat yie,djno Wal,

Birmingham, Ala.-Syd Jones, a ne.
gro, hanged in the Jail yard Friday,
left note In his cell In which he
confessed responsibility for thirteen
homicides. Two of his victims were
white men.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
To Improve L!aht.wster System

Seguin, Tex.-Improvement Of the
dam and plants of the municipal cleo.
trio light and water systems of Sc
gum has begun. The sum of $1,000
derived from bond issue recently
voted by property owners will be used
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Thirty Big Mines Made Idle

joplin, Me.-Tsirty big mines of
the Webb City-Carterville district
nave shut down as result of a strike
by miners. More than $500 men are
out OF employment
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
MIdsummer Good Roads M,e,t,o

"'Vs0'''''7sF H0ou Hoaus MeetIng.
College Station, Tex.-Good road
experts OF national fame will assis
in making the annual meeting at tn
A. and NJ. College, Aug, 5, 6 and :,
the most instructive in the history {
the Texas Good Roads Association
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
County Treasurer PIeaded euIltv

Wichita, Kan.-O. w. Jones, former
county treasurer, pleaded guilty Tues
Cay to three charges of classification
OF records and one charge of embes
element. He was charged with EN-
beSzling $4,000 of county funds.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Mountain Roaes Are comp!eted.

New Braunfels, Tex Several mor
tain roads leading into the city fro
The west and north have recently be
completed distance of aho.t TWEEN
tvs miles at cost of oye, $4,000
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Girl Loses LIE In the Rav

Rockport, Tex-Miss Ruth Drom.
goole, Ii years old. daughter of Lewis
Dromgoole of San Antonio, was acct.
dentally drowned Sunday while bath.
ing in Arkansas bay.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
To Construct spl!!wax on Laon River

Temple, Tex.-Work has begun on
the construction of a concrete dam
and spillway over Leon river at the
pumping station Of the city water
works plant, six miles west of Tenn
pie.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Police Chiefs to Ecrt Worth.

Fort Worth, Textile Police Chiefs
Ind City Marohals' Association q Tex
IS will hold its convention at For.
Worth July 81.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Willis Shipped First Melons.

Willis, Textile first carload of
Watermelons from Willis were ship.
ped Tuesday.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
RIOTS IN M;:xg') \
FOREIGNERS IN DAM
FAC f D WITH uNpA,,
CONDITIONS, WAsHrHo"EAll
FIcIALS CONSIDER er rUA |
zAPATA IN CONTROL o. /
ExtraditIon Of Huerta, Now ,,,,.
rest in Texas, Asked BY e s''s
OF Chihuahua, Mexico.'''f '
Throughout the REM, .,0''i

leled conditions of famine ~
chy in the City Of Mexico ts.
ing the safety of FOREIGNER, 4 a,s
OF the United States are non W
serious consideration to mo..
relief. 'aSQ'
Long dispatches sent BY co,.
vera cruz by the Brazilian N.Y.
at the City of Mexico are bo, ~
rotary Lansing and President =,
who may authorize an effort :
tain the consent of General o..
to send supplies into the old
through neutral agencies. n. 4
ence Of the diplomatic corn, !
City Of Mexico is being countai |
provide for the removal Of T.,
ers from danger zones Of tho ss,, MI
only the opening of the nj
from the City of Mexico IA i
Cruz" said one of the Brazi,i,,
listers messages, can brine ,sa'
the situation"
The dispatches, the first a.
partment had received in pea,h 4
weeks from the Mexican c,Da. s
vealed that while the cable f,on b
city was not cut, Carranza aub,,
refused to permit messages IA &
Formal request for the eyt,,s
of General Victoriano Huerta On
Gus criminal charges has hoe,
sented to Governor Ferguson Of !,
by the Villa governor of chib,I
state.
This latest complication IN
status of the former Mexican as,
now facing prosecution at Fl PAS
alleged violation of American nor,
ity laws was brought to the sttaI
Of the federal government Tins
by Governor Ferguson, who tUr
ed the Villa governments reopAe
the state department. Lansing i
red the matter to Solicitor jain,
for consideration.
So long as Huerta is wanted ~.
department of justice, the cEil
preferred by federal agents win
and until they axe
posed of it is not expected thai
extradition question will be dst
Both the Villa and Carrana
tons charge that Euerta was hss
Gated in the killing of President
Zero and Vice President suarez, II
followed the overthrow Of the Nas
administration and Huertas ass.
ion Of power.
III paco Tow -Hhor0ae NJ nnnssi
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09

Ell Paso, Tex.-Charges Of cnEl
ing to incite a revolution agails
friendly country were filed Sui
against General Victoriano Hw'
former president of Mexico, who 1
placed under arrest at Newman. NJ
by federal officers.
Similar charges were filed sga
General Pascual Oruzc9, who saI
rested at the same time,
Huerta was released on sl5GQa
Orozco on $500 bond.
General Huerta arrived In b u
cheered by hundreds Of Mexican n
gees and sympathizers on the ls
side of the border. Sunday be 4
detained at Fort Bliss, prisola
the department of justice OF the
eminent whose flag he, as prdTsHI
al president of Mexico, refused % /
lutte.
Detailed with him was Gels|
Orozco, who, with Major Luis "
ties, a son-in-law Of Huerta, hae
to Newman, N. NJ, by autonlo0ls
meet General Huerta- Fuentes !
gether with General Hlerta, j
and A. X. Rather, confidential lli1
cial associate and interpreter
were travelling with the genera Y
not detained.
Formal charges were flied ~
Huerta and Orozco on inslENy
from the United States attolus'
San Antonio. n
The accused were taken vi
George Oliver, United States CON-
sioner, and their bond approves
their hearing fixed for Inul''
July /.
"l am on my way to Los ADsoI
and San Francisco" said the gss
ITO visit the Pacific coast ana y
Panama. Pacific Exposition. W.
Oakland twenty years ago and NJ
visited the west coast OF inc y
States since
r. E. Thomson, Clifford BssS
and S. L Pinkney, represenuDS
government, asked that me W. 4
each defendant be fixed at WI
Thomas Lee, mayor of 81 raw M
attorney for the defendants, as
bond of $4,000 for Huerta ans Il.
that amount for Or0zco. ana Wv
can leaders personally pledged q
selves to appear at the heafins h
The United States goyernmen.
frustrated for the present an az
IN the part OF General V'
Iuerta and his ass ociates U
rom American territory q nss
utionary movement in McKee,
Detention of the former h
dictator with General oro1
,thers at FL Paso Sunday lV
Yearly three months OF esplona "a,
government AGENTS. The depaa Ia
f justice has instructed Unitsu
Attorney Camp Of the western Z
f Texas to take into cuslou'
Zen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-10

State Senator and a member of one
of the oldest of the Juniata Valley
families. which has given to the State
a number of distinguished men, a de-
scendant of John Witherspoon, one
of the signers OF the Declaration of In
dependence, and a man of high char
acter. 1t is not conceivable that the
voters of the district in question will
displace Judge Woods simply because,
in harmony with public sentiment of
the Juniata Valley he has hewn to the
line in a strict Interpretation of the
license laws.
If the liquor interests in that district
and elsewhere throughout the State
insist upon a showdown of the people,
they must expect the no-license and
anti-booze forces to accept the chal-
lenge and give battle at the polls.
Judge Woods should be reelected
and unless we greatly misunderstood
the attitude of the voters in Hunting
don and Miff1in counties he is certain
to receive the approval of the people
this year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-10
DUNfBA TO GO

TINE request of the American Gov
ernment that Austria withdraw
Ambassador Dumba is the best
news that has come out of Washington
in a long time. The only regret is
that it did not come sooner.
Dumba has been a disturbing fac
tor for months. The only difference
between him and the German repre-
sentative is that he was caught red
handed, while the Kaiser's agent has
been able to preserve at least a
semblance of confining himself to
the duties of his Office. The most
practical result of the Dumba ex-
posure will be the moral 1t will point
to other INSCRIPTIONS diplomats It
is very likely that agents of belliger-
ent countries, those of the allies as
we'll as of Germany and Austria, will
be in the future little less precipl-
tate in their indiscretions.
Dumba is being politely kicked out
of the country. Others who care to
investigate the propelling qualities Of
Uncle Sans good right foot have only
to continue the practices of which
they are suspected long enough to be
caught in the act
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-10
FAITHFUL CITY OFFICIALS

A NY reference to the glorious
~ awakening of Harrisburg in
1901 and the splendid record
of municipal achievement covering the
last fourteen years must necessarily
be incomplete without full and gen.
erous recognition of the faithful and
efficient services of a long line of de-
voted public officials. These embrace
councilmen, administrative heads,
legal advisers, engineers boards, com
missions and advisory bodies, all of
whom have been responsive to public
sentiment and the impulse toward the
betterment of the community and the
welfare of the people.
Frequently visitors have asked how
so much was accomplished in so brief
a period and invariably those who un-
derstand and appreciate the under
lying forces that have conspired to
bring about the changed conditions
and ungrudging cooperation of the
official with the unofficial elements of
the community.
Millions of dollars have been ex-
pended under four public loans cover
ing many important items and two
millions more through assessment of
property owners for street paving ac-
cording to the foot-front rule, and
not even a whisper of graft has sui
lied the brilliant story of the city's
achievement. A dollar of practical
benefit has come with every dollar ex-
pended.
The Telegraph feels that the people
sometimes forget the services of their
chosen servants and it was because
of this thought that there was print
ed in this newspaper a few days ago
a list of the officials who stood shoul-
der to shoulder in the remarkable
forward movement of 1901 to 1915.
There is an ever-ready disposition
to criticise, but we should not be so
chary of praise where commentator
is deserved Now is the time and the
occasion is near at hand for the CIV
ing of public recognition for faithful
service. 1t is pleasing to note that
the comprehensive Chamber of Com
merce program embraces a reception
to those who have served their COM
munity so we'll.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-10

either had left the country before it's
arrival or could not be located A
considerable sum is yet to be ac-
counted for by the different foreign
onices through which it passed, but
turther reports are coming in daily so
expected that each transaction
soon will be closed up.
Dept OF State Distributes Coin
rms money was distributed under
the direction of the Department of
state, chiefly through the American
Ambassador in London and the differ
ent consular offices in the various
cities of Europe. With each deposit
made was given a minutely detailed
description of the person for whom
1t was. intended, that identification
might be easy. For instance, Matilda
stout, buyer, sent by a Chicago firm
10 Vienna to purchase a certain kind
Of feather millinery. was described
by her employers as "a tall attractive
blonde, speaking with a slight lisp"
Another Matilda Stout was found to
be short brunette who also pos
sessed the lisp.
The two Matildas did not get mixed
up in the transfer of funds as did
many other individuals having the
same name. young music student
from New York State was paid 1000
German marks in Berlin while an
other man of the same name was paid
$50 in London instead of the $1,000
he was expecting. When the music
student reached home, he wrote to the
United States Treasurer telling him
that he had received an equivalent in
German money of ten times the mod
est sum his parents had been able to
send him. When the mistake was ex-
planned he promptly refunded the
1000 marks which had been kept in
tact.
Another man, who received from
the American Ambassador, in Lon
CONTINUED on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-10
The Searchlight
SUBSTITUTES FOR HORSES

OOSAAA - AASo II Oh IIOItSES
The European war has so crippled
the agricultural resources of the diff
ferent countries by taking away the
horses used for farm work that each
government is considering means of
supplying the lack. A number of diff
ferent species of animals have been
imported from Africa and India to be
domesticated and utilized as draught
animals.
One of these is the buffalo of Kath-
awar. The male animals of this fam
lily are said to be readily trained and
of remarkable strength. The female
yields milk superior in richness and
flavor to that of most of the cattle now
in use. The English government has
already imported a large number of
these animals for it's experiment farms
and also several of the short oxen from
Mysore.
The French are experimenting with
the Zebu or bumped OK which is util-
lied by the African and Indian natives
as beast of burden and is said to pos
sess almost double the strength of the
domestic OK now used by the French
peasant.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-10
POOR CHAP
by Wing Dinger

by Wing Dinger
Gee, I'm sorry for one fellow
In this burg of ours to-day, .
He's been planning for some weeks
back
With our crowd to go away
On a trip to ole Virginny
For two weeks of wholesome fun.
Where we hunt and fish-no matter
Whether it be rain or sun.
Why. it's all for weeks we've talked OF,
When we have all together met,
And we've all been looking forward
To some real fun, you can bet.
But this one chap whom speak Of
Got letter just to-day
Saying, Sorry, but we'll need you,
And you mustn't go away
Wonder why 1t is that letters
Such as this ne'er go astray
So they will not be delivered
Till a fellows gone away.
Hope II his house it's mind changes
And decides to let him go
They will phone him. for letter
i Such as that astray WOULD go. :
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-10

If you are a citizen of Harrisburg
and have not registered you must do so
tomorrow or miss your vote. The law
requires this. The fact that you reg
istered some other year will not count.
You must do so tomorrow. On an
other page the Telegraph publishes a
complete list of the polling places of
the city. Registrars will sit there from
to 1, from to 6 and from to 10
o'clock
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-10
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Murdoch kendrick, prominent
Philadelphian, has returned from
California.
A. L. Pearse is head of a COM
pany which will establish a big dye
plant in Pittsburgh.
Mayor George Lysle, of McKeess
port, favors taxing jitneys in cities.
Walter Long. the retiring presi-
dent of the State electrical men, is a
Philadelphian.
"A. H. Swope, of Johnstown, adj
dressing State millers. said that taxa
ton was what was affecting most in
dustries nowadays.
Rabbi r. 1. Coffee, one of the
prominent Hebrews of Western Penn
sylvania, will take up a new line Of
work in another state
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-10
COLLECTING TOURIST LOANS
BY Frederic ]. Haskin

VTTHEN the European war broke
wv the unusual conditions that
were developed placed many
American citizens who were travel
ing abroad in positions of financial
embarrassment. 1t was necessary
that those citizens be brought home
for their presence in war zones Of
fered all sorts of complications. So
Uncle Sam loaned them the money.
Now he is asking for its return.
In fact he has been asking somewhat
urgently for a good while. He has
six extra clerks officiating as collec-
tors of the tourist fund, jogging de-
linquents, giving receipts for sums
paid. While the old gentleman is in
clined to be lenient with his nieces
and nephews under the present cir
cumstances, while he is philosophical
and an optimist, insisting upon a be-
lief that the general public Is hon.
est, the facts in this case are worry
ing him a bit for not half the loans
have been returned and collections
are slowing up all the time.
The government acted with great
promptness in aid of its citizens a
year ago. AS soon as the need was
known the United States Treasurer
was authorized by act of Congress to
provided $2.500,000 to meet it. He
was also authorized to serve as agent
for private individuals who wanted
to deposit money upon which friends
or relatives abroad might draw. Soon
there were over 5000 such deposits,
aggregating $2,593, 900. and the State
Department was cabling abroad in
formation as to whom it should be
paid.
Not all this money was called for
Up to the first of August about ST.
100000 of the funds received from
private individuals had been paid to
those for whom they were deposited.
A part of the balance has been re-
turned to the depositors because the
persons for whom it was intended
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-10
EDITORIAL COr11ENT

Erie's special" fiend got in his
regular work Monday night when the
story went out over the wires to the
effect that fourteen families had al
ready left Erie to escape the infantile
paralysis plague. Erie people are be-
ginning to suspect that imported"
have no scruples over
giving Erie a black eye providing
they can get few nickles out of the
game-Erie Daily Times.
A middle western wife seeks divorce
from her husband because he took her
TO the theater, went out between acts
and did not return. But her real
grievance is that she had to walk three
miles to her home, while he was
brought home, regal, in a taxlcab, at 5
next morning.-Erie Dispatch
All mention of the hundreds of in
nocent Americans slain in Mexico be-
cause of the weakness of the admins
tration policy is omitted from the NOV
ing picture films used by the Demo-
cratic national committee representing
Woodrow Wilson as the hero who would
not recognize the murderer Huerta.-
York DISPATCH
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-10
YOUR CITY IN NYOUR HEART

II
- delegate of the Harrisburg Ro-
tary Club to the international
convention of Rotary clubs at San
Francisco, an important part of which
was a recommendation that the local
organization make a new hotel for
this city a part of the 1916 program.
William S. Essick used this quotation
from the ancient Greek:
The man who does not carry his
city within his heart is a spiritual
starving.
City pride and municipal patriotism
are not new. They are as old as cities
themselves. They prompted the con-
struction of the gardens of Babylon,
the temples and the walls of Troy.
They led the Aztecs and the Peruvians
of the western world to the building
of those massive structures the ruins
of which scientists ponder over to-
day. Theirs was the spirit that lifted
the towers and the minarets of that
cradle of civilization where east meets
west and west meets east, and theirs
was the urge that lifted the marble
marvels of Greece and Rome and
which raised from the earth those
wonderful examples of architecture
and building which the savagery of
modern artillery is reducing to dust
on the plains of Flanders and in the
valleys and on the hills of Northern
France. Theirs, too, will be the
promptings that will rear cities again
when the tiger strife is over on the
ruins that now lie in the wake of the
blood-frenzied hosts.
All down through the ages city pride
and municipal patriotism nave made
for better living, for the uplift of hu-
manity. Art. science, philosophy and
religion may be born in novels, but
they do not thrive there. The "pur-
suit of happiness" has led men to think
of the happiness of others and every
where this desire for the betterment
of mankind has led directly to the
building of better cities has gone out
in an effort to surround the people
of the community with those things
that make for a broader, better out
look on life and tend toward good
health and contentment for the
masses.
1t follows logically, therefore, that
the progressive city is a good city
that civic development is followed by
spiritual and moral uplift. Every
step taken to improve living conditions
raises the ideals of the whole popula-
ton proportionately. This is what
the philosopher meant when he said
that the man who does not carry his
city within his heart is spiritual
starving" To carry ones city within
ones heart is to carry there also love
for all its people and sincere desire
for their betterment, which in the
ultimate is another manifestation of
the divine Injunction to love thy
neighbor as thyself"