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The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-05-28

was thrust into the hand again, and
broken a second time, leaving three
fragments of the needle in the hand.
When the physician arrived he pre-
pared local anesthetic of cocaine
which he intended to use in reducing
. the pain during the operation which he
found necessary. The work was car
ried out, however, without having to
resort to the use Of the cocaine, and
when the doctor was leaving he adj
vised Mr.. Num- that as there would be
no need for the bottle of anesthetic,
he would take it along with him.
In handling the bottles, small phiaI
containing carbOlic acid, in which the
surgeon had steriIized his instruments,
was left sitting on the table.
In explaining the manner in which
the accident came about, Mr.. Num-
made the following statement:
Mrs. Taylor came to the house with
her child and the nurse. We each have
little negro nurses taking care of the
children, but the two nurses were so
busy playing together on the porch
that they lost sight of their charges.
my wife, my brother Roberts wife,
and Mrs. Taylor were upstairs talking.
A little later my wife went to the
bathroom and in the meantime little
Rosemary had slipped up stairs and
crept into my room across the hall.
"She picked up the bottle that the
doctor left, and after pulling the cork,
swallowed part of the contents. She
was burned from head to foot.
"No one had noticed the bottle and
we lid not know a thing about it be-
ing there.
"They all heard her scream and all
rushed to her at about the same time"
Mrs. Taylor is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. J. A. Cresap, and the Tay-
lors make their home with the Gre
saps.
While the little one was at the hos
pital last night, the anxious mother
stayed at the home of the physician,
so that she might be in more direct
communication with the hospital in
case of relapse or other cause for her
quick response.
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growing agricultural section. in 1871
Poplar Bluff had a population of
21S7. In 1910 the town passed the
1000 mark and the next census should
find it we'll past 10000.
l offer you Poplar Bluff just as a
comparison foil. When we get into
the zeal drainage area at Sikeston,
which looks to be in New Madrid but
is really over the line in Scott County,
we find a jump of 500 per cent in
twenty years In 1890 it was dispar
aging!y said that Sikeston consisted of
a few hundred frog hunters. Really
there were $50 forward looking Opti-
mists. In 1910 Sikeston was a robust
junction town of 1927 folks--farming
folks who have been deriving immense
benefits from what drainage work has
been accomplished in the past decade
or so. Bloomfield, now the county seat
of Stoddard County, was too small to
be Incorporated in 1890, but is now a
thriving town of 1000. Dexter, also in
Stoddard County, grew from 1872 to
2115; Hayti, in Pemiscot County, from
an unincorporated town of 1852; NAL
den, in Dunklin County, from 905 to
2115; and New Madrid from 1893 to
about 1000.
A complete digest of all the towns
in the district would tell the same
story. l could tell you that SikestOn
is alleged to be the wealthiest town Of
its size in the country, but if you set
this down as final dozen other drain
age towns would proclaim their super
iority to Sikeston. In individual pre-
cedence of counties, all being banner
counties in one way or another, there
would not be so much dispute.
Dunklin ranks first in the State in
cotton, cantaloupes, poles and piling;
second in watermelons, forest products
and lumber.
New Madrid ranks first in forest
products and in lumber; second in corn
surplus.
Pemiscot ranks first in alfalfa and
cooperage stock; second in poles and
piling; third in forest products. =
Scott ranks first in watermelons,
cowpeas and corn meal; second in can
taIoupes, mill products, flour and feed;
third in bran.
Cape Girardeau ranks second in
bran; third in mill products; fourth in
flour.
Mr.. Nolan's little budget of stats
ties contained no reference to B. F.
Marshall, the watermelon king of
(Tontinued m maze
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ing the ninety-food slope of the valley
in the course of ninety miles. Big
Lake, down in Mississippi County, Ar
kansas, tributary to the st. Francis
River, and a navigab!e waterway i'm
mediately south of the drainage dis
trict, can drain its share of the over
flow once the bitches and drainage
canals are dug.
But so that too much of burden
will not be laid on Big Lake the dip
per dredges will scoop out broad di-
version canals to carry the waters of
Castor, River, Little River and the
divers assorted creeks and feeders that
flow down from the northern Ozark
Hills. to the Mississippi River at the
extreme northern edge of the district
just above Gray's Point and not a
great way from the famous Thebes
Bridge. The plan for drainage calls
for 625 miles of bitches and 40 miles
of levees. The system of bitches and
levees will extend throughout the dis
trict, artieulating with all the drained
territory in the higher bottoms and
adding to the security of all the drain
age districts in the valley.
To finance an undertaking of this
magnitude it was necessary to incor-
porate the entire drainage district I'M
der the existing State drainage laws,
which create of it public enterprise
supervised by the State. These drain
age districts are organized by petit
tioning landowners. Of the 48S,000
acres of land included in the district
310,440 acres were represented in the
petition for the organization of the
district, as presented to the Circuit
Court of Butler County.
After this step it was necessary to
elect a local board of supervisors to
manage the financing of the project.
This board was elected in December,
1907, and after receiving reports from
the drainage engineers who had sur
veyed the district a bond issue of
S4,500,000 was proposed. Every de-
tail of progress must be approved by
the court. To support the bond issue
the Butler County court has assessed
benefits to the amount of S13,302 ,285
on the lands in the district. The bonds
bear five and half per cent interest,
payable semi-annually, and are dated
from April 1, 1913.
No part of the principal of the
bonds will be paid during the first five
years, as the gradual assessments will
be used to pay cost of the drainage
work and interest. Beginning April l.,
1919, additional assessments will be
made to take up and cancel the bonds.
This cancellation period extends
through fifteen years.
Tie bond issue will average approx
imately ten dollars an acre for each
acre of land in the district. Estimated
benefits from drainage scale as high
as one hundred dollars an acre, and
since the drainage work began in the
seven southeast counties of Missouri
not an acre of land has been sold for
taxes. When the 1913 report for the
drainage district was issued contracts
for the digging of witches and the
building of levees were let to the
amount of 1906 ,949.SS. This inelud-
ed all proposed contracts save one for
Sic, 900.
These dry details are essential to a
knowledge of how conservatively these
great drainage enterprises are carried
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The Public Service Commission has
notified the officials of the Cape Cir
ardeau Bell Telephone Company that
its proposed increase was not only
Just, but essential and therefore APP
proved the advance in price.
The finding of the State Commits
sion was made upon the evidence ia
ken at a public hearing in this city
few weeks ago, conducted by Commits
siOner Edwin J. Bean. At the hear
ing a number of residents Of this city
voluntarily Endorsed the proposed
raise.
The telephone company asked the
Commission to permit it to make
slight incfease to prevent a discrim
ination against its patrons. Under the
old schedule the company charged
S2.75 per month for a business phone
and $50 for private telephone.
Those who paid for business phone
and also had one in their residences
were given what was known as a COM
bination rate of $3.50 and $1.4O. This
necessitated a discrimination against
those who used but one phone.
The Commissions report, which
reached this city yesterday, was as
follows:
at appearing that the Cape Girar-
deau Bell Telephone Company filed
with this Commission its ?. S. c. Mo.
No. z, first revised copy, effective
Feb. 1, 1915, containing rates and
terms of service for the local telephone
exchange at Cape Girardeau, Mo, the
same being a discontinuance of the
combination rates for both business
and residence phones, amounting to a
reduction of twenty-five cents from
the sum of the separate standard
rates of each such service, and the
elimination of said rates constituting
corresponding increase of subseri-
bers for the combination service.
"The Commission, by order made on
the goth day of January, 1915, sus-
pended the effective date of said rates
for a period of 100 days, TO and in
Guiding May 81, 1915, unless other
wise, ordered by the Commission, pend
ing an investigation of the reasOna-
blesaess of the proposed rates; and
hearing having been held by a mem
Der of this Commission in said matter
at the City of Cape Girardeau, Mo-, on
the 2Sth day of April, 1915, and it APP
pearing from the evidence that said
Cape Girardeau Bell Telephone Com
pany charged at the said city for each
business telephone s2.75 per month,
and for each residence telephone $1.50
per month; that where one individual
was Il subscriber to both the business
and residence telephones the rate
charged for the residence telephone
was $1.40 per month, making re-
duction of twenty-five cents; and it
appearing that said reduction in
charges to persons using both resi-
dence and business telephones is an
unlawful discrimination. And it fur
Their appearing that the proposal to
remove said discrimination by increas-
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What Reclamation Project Has
Done For Southeast Missouri
BY BARTON w. CURRIE
In the Country Gentleman

the richest and most productive in the
State
If you voyage up the river to Han
nibal, Marion County, and get over in
to the famous South River Levee Dis
trict, you will meet few boomers who
believe their II 900 acres of reclaimed
bottoms are supreme in fertility. 1t
is certainly a picture land of produc-
tivity up there, and there are 10000
acres more in the West Quincy Bot
toms on the way to security from over
flow. The South River District COM
pleted its levee in 1905. Before then
less than one per cent of the area was
cultivated. Now niHety-five per cent
of the land is in farms and the value
of one years crops equals twice the
cost of the levees and all improve
mentS.
The Little River District people like
to point to what has been done in the
South River District and smile be-
nignly and somewhat patronizingly
when they speak of the West Quincy
Bottoms-an infant, up-north cousin
to the Little River Basin with its de-
velopment possibilities greater than
all Of reclaimed Holland.
You cannot conceive of the magni
tude of reclamation in what is gener
ally known as Little River Overflow
unless you take a peep into your at
las and fix the boundaries in mind.
The northern and western ramparts
are formed by the Ozark Hills, which
extend over to Cape Girardeau in
Cape Girardeau County, where they
meet the Mississippi River and form
sort of apex to the district. The Mis-
sissippf; of course, forms the eastern
! boundary, and between the Ozark Hills
and the river levees there is an al
most uniform plane, having slope of
one foot to the mile in sOutherly di-
rection and extending to and beyond
the Arkansas line in Dunklin County.
| Along the river at Commerce, in
Scott County, there are lille, and in
Stoddard and Dunklin counties there
are ridges that break the monotony
of the plane. Also there is an elevat-
ed plane of high bottom land extend
ing south from the Commerce Hills to
the river at New Madrid and southeast
to the south line of New Madrid Coun-
ty. And Furthermore, there is high
sandy bottom lying east of Crowley's
Ridge and south of Dexter in Stod-
dard County, and extending south be-
tween st. Francis River and Little
River to the Arkansas line.
1t is between these two strips of
high bottom land, and extending north
to the foothills and eastward to the
Mississippi River, that the Little Riv-
err Drainage District stretches out its
ninety miles of flatness-an irregular
strip varying in width from three to
twenty miles. The average width is
ten miles and there are .4SS,050 acres
of land in the district.
These lands are subject to overflow
in times of high water in Castor and
Little Rivers, two small streams that
nnur their water down through the
Ozark foothills. When the heavy rains
come they are real rivers and the
floods they carry are reinforced by
foundations from innEmerabIe small
creeks, the majority of which flow in,
: to the valley from the north. Nature
has not provided an adequate outlet
, to drain off this water, notwithstand,
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In early times disputes would arise
concerning the relative wetness of st.
Francis Basin and Little River Basin.
This was before the organization of
lcvee districts along the Mississippi,
when farming in either of these rival
basins would have proved more at
tractive to mermen than to ordinary
bipcd mortals. Mark Twain has
graphically described the tremendous
achievement of the river in shortening
its route to the Gulf, how it would
scramble up counties and State boun-
diaries overnight, leaving Jones' river
plantation way back in the swamp and
bringing Smith; s, expansive bullfrog
preserves from the overlooked cypress
Jungle to the point of river contact
that Jones place had enjoyed.
Nor is the river yet to be denied of
its cravings for changing geopraghic-
al boundaries. Before | left the Ar
kansas reclaimed bottoms to journey
up to the Southeast Missouri section
rode over to the rivers edge at Bar
field to see the cave-in of mammoth
bluff banks, and incidentally to watch
the boats go by. AS | had only half
dav to spare | saw only one boat go
by. The river was at low stage and
the shelving banks at Barfield were
slicing off in small ten and twenty
ton chunks, but there were evidences
that hundred and thousand ton chunks
of China alluvial richness had
been carved away at the last high
stage. There was a whopping job for
Uncle Sam to check this slicing pro-
cess, or else in a few years the little
village of Barficld would have to hoist
itself on rollers and inch its way back
to safety behind REINFORCED and con-
crete buttresscd leveeS.
The bank at that point was so high
that when the big river steamer came
along and slung up its landing stage
against the parcd-off perpendicular
bank could almost look down into the
two smokeStacks that rose high above
the decks. The freight rustlers had
to hang on by their toes as they as
cended the stage; going down they
Just tobOgganed. They made up 81
lent, songlesS crew of roustab0utS,
working swiftly as the uniformedmate
assigned them to their various tasks.
That mate was wholly out of the pic
ture YOU get from old-time legend. If
there was any profanity in his system
s. he kept it bottled up. Not an oath es-
capped his lips. The entire operation
was kumdrdm mechanics and very dis
appointing.
That is Just the way things are go
ing, up in the Southeast Missouri, with
forty dipper dredges dipping away mo-
notonously in the Little River Drain
age District. At Cape Girardeau
Sikeston, Jackson, Bloomfield and Ca.
ruthersville they say it is quite the
biggest reclamation project in Amer
lea, comprising half a million acres
A considerable portion of this area
has already been drained by small dis
trict projects. The major project area
and weld together the scattered units
creating one vast floor of safe and de-
pendable farming land.
This lowland expanse is included il
the sevent southeast counties OF Mis-
souri-Butler, Dunklin, Mississippi
New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott ant
Stoddard. Even with the greater
drainage project incomplete these sew
en- counties are conceded today to 81
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$1,000, 900 BRIDGE POR KANSAS

Kansas City, Mo-, May 26-The old
Hannibal Bridge, which has spanned
the Missouri River here for 46 years,
is to be replaced at once with new
doubIe-decked structure to cost ST.
100000, the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Co. announced today.
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John Stranger Of Advance was a
business visitor in this city yesterday.
W. W. Eastwood of Poplar Bluff is
a Business visitor in this city.
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BABY GIRL DRINKS ACID
WHILE MOTHER SEEKS HER

Rosemary Taylor Taken to Hos
pitaf in Critical Condition, But
Life is Spared-Drug Used to
Cauterize Wound Made by Knee
die That Pierces Hand of Mrs.
Joe 7. Mum Jr.
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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-07-22

rates-and ven the Brooklyn Dodgers
can give the Giants a mighty bat.
tie. n. cam other than the Reds
will stack up az "A pie counter PROPOSE.
ton for the 1915 Giants. because even
the Cardinals are dangerous. Tho
Giants in ali attempt TO climb from
the bottom to the top OF the Ma
tional league heap would find the
climbing ut least 30 per cent harder
than the Braves did last year. And,
furthermore, the Giants haven't the
power that the Braves had. The
Brave we're aided and abetted In their
achievement by the most remarkable
pitching feats the baseball world has
ever known. Three twirlers-James,
Rudolph and Tyler-pitched in rota.
ton week after week and pitched as
no trio OF men has ever pitched be.
fore.
McGraw hasn't any trio to work as
Stallinss had. lie hasn't got u Maran.
vile nor an Evers. Ills men aren't
imbued with the same fighting spirit
as were Stallings' men and. most i'm.
portant of all, he hasn't got the Stall.
ings' luck.
Good playing and marvellous pitch.
ing were mighty factors, but the might.
lest OF all was luck. a dozen times
the breaks saved the Braves from
defeat and gave them victory
A pennant-contending team must
be we'll rounded-and the Giants OF
1915 are not. Their pitching depart.
ment Is the main weakness but the
catching department Is not anything
that should be envied. The team as
n whole Is prone TO bobbing In pinches.
Bone plays are frequent, and. worst
or all. a hard luck ink has been pur.
suing the McGraw outfit since the sea.
son began. And it's still pursuing.
Hut the Giants won't finish in the Gel.
lar. They probably will climb out
OF the rut soon and leap over frames
OF the Reds. Cardinals and Dodgers.
They may 20 n notch or two further.
depending very largely Upon what the
Cubs. Phillies. Braves and Pirates do
from now on. But they won't finish
first unless all the players on tho
other clubs become afflicted with beri.
beri. SPAWN. se~a.sickness and hokus.
pokus.
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TAME HENS LAY MOST EGGS
Poultry Keeper Must BE on Good
Terms with Members Of His Flock
Make Friends With Chicks.

When a man says his hens don't
lay or pay, or both, a little observa-
ton will usually disclose the fact that
his hens are too shy and nervous L
stay on the nest long enough to lay
an egg. Have yOl ever watched the
successful poultry keeper. the one who
Is making poultry keeping pay, how
his fowls run after him whenever he
has occasion TO enter the poultry
yard? Tho best results cannot be OBJ
tanned from hens that are wild and
shy. The poultry keeper must be on
good terms with his hens or his hens
o I lay as they should. A hen that
Is so Wild that she will fly of the nest
or roost whenever anyone enters the
poultry house cannot be a good layer.
She In In a continual nervous state for
fear someone will come within sight
OF her and hasn't time TO think OF
laying eggs.
But there Is another disadvantage
beside the one that directly Affects
your p~ocketbook In having wild"
fowls. II isn't conducive to good
teWpeT 10 nave your IONlS start cack'
ling and growing every time you hap.
pen to get near them, nor Is II very
convenient when you have to chase n
long.logged cockerel all over the
place every time wife wants n chicken
for dinner. Viewed from any angle
the tame hen is by far the more de.
slrable. II isn't hard TO tame chick.
ems. on the contrary, II Is the easiest
thing Imaginable. II Is simply n mat.
ter OF being friendly whenever you
are around the fowls, instead of throw.
ing stones al them every time they
get near you, hut the fowls are by
far the easiest 10 tame when young.
Start making friends with your chicks
this summer and your next hens will
be tames ones.
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DIAMOWNDD

Chief Bender appears to be In for
a hard year In the third league.
President Gilmore believes the New.
ark team Is the one to beat for the
pennant.
Rankin Johnson needs more regular
assignments to keep In condition. it
would seem.
Mays Is a real pitcher. lie has an
underhand delivery that resembles
Jack Warhop's.
Buck Herzog has suspended Phil
Douglass indefinitely and may neve
use him again.
Leonard Madden. a s%outhpaw once
with the Cubs. has been bounced by
the Terre Haute club.
Tom Corcoran. released az umpire,
will not retire. He has been assigned
to the Colonial League.
Dalton. the smuggling star Of the
Buffeds, Is slow In getting his batting
eyes trained on the ball.
Cy Falkenberg. the star pitcher OF
the Newark team, stands O feet 6
inches. lie has little advantage over
George Mcconnell.
Leslie Mann. formerly with the
worlds champion Boston Braves. holds
medals won IN track meets for run.
ming 100 yards In 10 flat
Fred Clarke has his Pirates going
at n rapid pace and the belief Is that
II he can keep his pitchers In shape
he will remain in the fight for the
leadership,
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STORY OF HAP HOGAN
Made Futile Attempt to Pick
Quarrel With Dummy"
When He Realized He Had Been Raw.
Ing at Deaf and Dumb Man He Be.
can Earnest Conversation In
Two-Hsnded Sign Language.

Roscoe Fawcett tells this story OF
Hap Hogan, and II is one OF the best
OF the food OF good ones In which the
mourned manager OF the Venice Tigers
figures. Hogan had Just been taken
on as a catcher by Los Angeles. Dunn.
my Price was catching for the Port.
land Beavers. Hogan had never seen
Price before and did not know he was
deaf and dumb.
These were the days when Hogan
was the fighting. clawing roughneck.
kidding the opposing batters into
swinging at the wide ones. When
Price came to bat. Hogan inquired In
his sweetest tones:
What's your name. pal?"
Price only swung his bat and faced
Wheeler. who was on the mound for
the Angels, with an expression OF
great determination stamped on his
face.
Say" yelled the now irate Hogan.
who do you think you are bushes.
Chief Meyers or somebody? Think
you're too good to talk to me? Watch
me and Ill show you n few things be.
fore this game is over"
Price, who OF course had o heard
a word that Happy had said. grounded
out to first, and returned to the Beaver
bench. He was the recipient OF many
baleful glares from Hogan before the
eide was retired.
As he waited for his turn to bat. Ho-
gan's anger grew. That a man he had
never seen before had the nerve to liz.
more him was more than Happy could
understand.
He stalked out 10 the plate when his
turn came with his Walls of wrath