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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-11
Dragnet
Spread to Catch
Murder Suspects
By ASSOCIATED PRESS.


New York, Sept. 10.-The police to-
day finished their arrangements for
a widespread dragnet for the men re-
sponsible for. the death of Mrs. Eliza
beth Nichols, the wealthy widow
whose home was robbed late Wednes-
day night through the confessed col
fusion of Owney TaIas, the hall boy.
The names so far as known, of the
three men wanted together with their
descriptions, were made known. This
information has been sent broad
cast.
The descriptions follow: Arthur
Walton, % years old, IT'S pounds, five
feet, ten or eleven inches tall; has
blond hair, blue eyes and light com
plexion, has one gold tooth and 8
scar on book of one Of his hands.
Eddie, last name unknown, % years
old, 100 pounds, five feet, six inches
tall; has blue eyes and light hair.
Italian, % years old, 100 pounds
FIVE feet, eight inches tall, dark eyes
hair and complexion.
Their value of the stolen jewels i:
placed at SIT 200.
Talas was taken to police head
quart today where he was photo
graphed, finger prints made and givel
over to the scrutiny of $50 detectives
Talas is held on the general charge o.
homicide.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-11
NORTH CAROLINA
TO EXPERIMENT
AT PENSACOLA
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

By ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Washington, Sept. 10.-Experi-
ments with devices to launch
aeroplanes from warships are to
be carried out, it was announced
today, on the Battleship North
Carolina at Pensacola.
The practicability Of equipping
the Atlantic feet with air craft
Is one feature to be determined
by the experiments
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-11
Legislature In
Alabama Passes
Loan Shark Bill
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Montgomery, Ala, Sept. 10.-After
hearing afidavits from long list of
loan shark victims, the lower house
of the Alabama legislature today vot-
ed overwhelmingly for a bill which
destroys the business of collectors of
usurious interest. The bill was in
troduced by Representative Shapiro,
of Birmingham and is the first of its
kind for Alabama. It povides for
the collection of two per cent. inter
est monthly on loans made by licensed
money lenders.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-11
WILL IMPROVE BREED
OF KENTUCKY HORSES

Louisville, KY, Sept. 1o.-The
Kentucky racing commission at a
meeting in Lexington yesterday
adopted a resolution that the COM
mission accept the offer Of $1,000
from the various racing associations
to improve the breed of horses IN
Kentucky. The fund viii be expend-
ed in the purchase Of thoroughbred
stations to b. giye1 to the state.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-11
BALkS
ALT. FORD DEAD;
SAYS HE DID NOT
SHOOT HIMSELF
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Atlanta, Sept. 10.-A statement.
attributed to Aft. F. Ford, an adj
vertising man, just before he died
today that he did not shoot him
self accidentally, as had been sup
posed, set the police actively in
vestigating the case. He did not
accuse any one. He was found
early Wednesday in a bedroom at,
his home with a pistol wound in
his lungs. His wife said Ford told
her he shot himself while twirling
the pistol in his hand.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-11
DUTCH FRONTIER GUARDS
HALTED A ZEPPELIN

Amsterdam, Sept. 10.-I'he Mas
bode says it has been informed by
its Roosendaal correspondent that n
Zeppelin coming from Belgium and
flying at great height, was shot
at by Dutch frontier guards last
night, whereupcn it immediately
turned in southerly direction.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-11

Yesterdays Temperatures:
Highest, 90 degrees; low
est, 70 degrees.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-11

tcontinned On Pase Three.l
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-11

lContinned on Pags Three.l
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-11

FAIR Saturday ard prob
ably sunday; light, 'varl-
able winds.
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-06-23
THE ENFORCEMENT oFLAW

In this city it is the duty of the
Mayor to see that the laws of the city
are enforced. He has under his COM
mand the whole constabulary of the
CITY. He can order them to enforce
the law and point out their Delinquent
cies if any.
Laws, or ordinances, as they are
sometimes called, are for the better
ment of the conditions of the city. I'm
less they are enforced generally and
uniformly, they become dead letter
statutes and become snares for the I'M
suspecting.
There are ordinances in this city re-
quiring:
The sweeping of sidewalks.
Cutting overhanging limbs to the
heighth of 10 feet.
Draining ponds, marshes.
Requiring closets and cesspools to be
keIt in sanitary condition.
Laws against bawdy hous s, etc, etc.
These laws are nearly all of them
dead letter statutes. Why? Because
those who are delegated by the city to
enforce them are laying down on their
jobs. The mayor must up and doing.
He must make those officials do their
duty All filthy sidewalks should be
swept. The dangerous, foul ponds
should be drained. Malarial and ty-
phoid feyers come from them. Besides,
there comes from those pond that pest,
the mosquito that destroys all home
comforts
The City Health Board, the County
Health Board, the Mayor the Police
Judge and County and Circuit Judges
are invited to do something looking to
the relief of the city.
Before we finish, we wish to invite
these gentlemen to take walk down
lower Water street, Gf their olfactories
are strong enough) and see conditions
for themselves. There are other places.
We are not growler, kicker or a
crouch. $500 people pay us dollar a
year to look somewhat after their pub
lie affairs. We will do it, too-but'a AL
ways in genteel manner, remember
ing that public Office is a hornets
nest, called, in hi-fa-looting lan-gwidg e,
"a Pooblic Troost."
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-06-23
MR.. STANLEY IN 1911.

Mr.. A. o. Stanley continues to as
sert that he Islands upon the county
unit BILL" and that he only voted
against putting county unit plank in
the Democratic platform of 1911 be-
cause he was instructed to vote that
way by the delegates from Henderson
county.
The part Mr.. Stanley played in the
1911 convention is we'll known. Not
only did he vote against the county
unit bill, but he acted as one of the
floor leaders for the liquor politicians
fighting the measure.
This is only half the story. The
night before the State Convention met,
there was meeting of the nominees on
the Democratic ticket at the Louisville
hotel. Mr.. Stanley appeared before
those candidates and made heated
liquor speech urging the candidates to
use their influence to reject the county
unit bill and to adopt platform agree
able to his liquor allies.
Not content with one incendiary
speech of that character, Mr.. Stanley
later in the same evening forced him
self again before the candidates and re-
peated his arguments.
The truth of this incident can be as
certained from any candidate on the
Democratic ticket of 1911, from Gov
McCreary down. Mr.. Stanley was
leader of the liquor forces in 1911; he
is their choice now, distinction won
by services at Washington and in Ken
lucky. If he is made the Democratic
nominee for any Office he will injure
the Democratic ticket and strengthen
the prohibition movement.
The first duty of Democrats in Ken
lucky is to make impossible the nomi'
nation of Mr. Stanley.-Louisville Post
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-06-23

We, ]. A. Sullivan and R. E. Turley,
President and Cashierof the above led
bank, do solemnly swear that the above
statement is true TO the best of our
knowledge and belief.
j. A. Sullivan, President.
R. E. Turley, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
this 22nd day of June, 1915.
w @. Smith. Notary Public.
Ny Commission expires Feb. 3, 1918.
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-06-23
AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION

Elsewhere in this issue appears an
account of two boys being bitten by a
mad dog. Last year we had the same
experience. In number of parts of
the county dogs have gone mad, caus-
ing the death of several head of stock.
1t seems to us that the time is at hand
for the Chief of Police and his deputies
and the sheriff and his deputies to in
augurate a dog killing week here.
There are hundreds of stray dogs in
our city and county, no one claims to
own and upon which no tax has been
paid. The law provides that such dogs
shall be killed. There are entirely too
many useless dogs everywhere and their
destruction might be the means of saw
ing some child's life.-Mt. Sterling Adj
vocate.
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-06-23
The Leading Candidate in the Race

will get county unit. That is, they will
get full, united vote against this gen.
tleman who pretends that he favors
the county unit bill when the truth is
that he and his cohorts hate it worse
than the devil hates holy water.
But there is one thing that these
gentlemen have overlooked and that is
this. If the people can not frame To-
cal option laws which will allow them
to regulate their communities, then the
only safe plan is to vote out the whole
liquor traffic. Tear it up root and
branch. Kill every vestige of it. The
safest way to regulate at rattle snake
is to kill it outright. No use of clip
ping off part of its tail with the hope
of pulling its fangs. No use putting it
in cage for safe keeping. Kill the
thing.
The course that the liquor men are
pursuing, is putting the people in the
notion of killing this liquor traffic out
right. There is no use of dallying any
longer. VOTE TO KILL THE LIQ-
UOR SERPENT.
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-06-23
Open Air Services Sunday
Evening.

A large platform is being built this
week on our premises in the beautiful
locust grove back of the church builc-
ing The floor space will give sealing
capacity for several hundred. All who
come will be made com 'ortab!e during
the service. A large chorus is being
planned and splendid music promised.
The Pastor will preach Sunday evening
on "Wayside Preaching and Wayside
Deliverance The sermon Sunday
morning is on developing the Chris
tian Life" Every body cordially invit-
ed.
]. R. Reynolds. Pastor Baptist Chuch
Administrative Notice.
All parties knowing themselves 10 be
indebted TO the estate of j. b. Stouffer
will please call at store and settle same
by July l. 1915.
24-3t Mrs. ]. B. Stouffer, Admx.
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-06-23
RICHMOND, KENTUCKY

constitutional and that it was fake
and that this decision fully sustains
him.
There is nothing to support the con-
tention that it is unconstitutional or
fake. The court implicitly sustained
the law and gave to it some interpreta-
ton. An unconstitutional federal law
would not give the Supreme Court jur-
| isdiction to try the validity of State
law Therefore, the Supreme Court
necessarily held the Webb-Kenyon law
valid 1t is not fake. The court SIM
ply held that it was not unlawful for
the company to deliver to any person
for his own personal use such prohibit
ed liquors. That is all that there was
in that case as is seen from the stipu-
lation above set out. There is no law
in Kentucky which prohibits the per-
sonal use of liquor.
AS a matter of current history, the
decision of the Supreme Court can be
traced back to one of Judge Benton's
decisions. Some years ago Nicholas
Vile passed an ordinance prohibiting
the bringing into the city Intoxicating
LIQUORS. This ordinance was assalled
by the liquor men as being unconstltu-
tional. This was the view which Judge
Benton took of it and the Kentucky
Court of Appeals took the same view
and affirmed the decision. Now, the
United States Supreme Court, taking
these decisions as basis, declares that
there is no law in Kentucky prohibiting
the shipment of liquors for personal
use. Of course, it means no constltu-
tional law, for there is such law on
the books. Thus you see that the law
of a whole state can be uprooted by a
small case to which the great body Of
the people gave no heed.
But to the point. Did the partisans
of Mr.. Stanley really intend to let the
cat out of the bag? Did they really
want the people to understand that
Mr.. Stanley fought this bill as he has
fought all other bills that looked to the
enlargement of the prohibitory laws?
And what about his pronunciamentoes
as to the unconstitutionality OF this
bill? And is this the same Stanley
that is the champion of the county
unit? The same gentleman who dreams
and breaches county unit? The same
gentleman who speaks, yells and thun-
ders county unit? County unit is now
his consuming passion. He and his CO.
horts must have county unit. They
are athirst for it.
If Madison county does its duty they
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-06-23
NO CLAIM.

No claim by the Kentucky Republi-
cans that they are entitled to credit for
passage of the county unit bill will
carry weight. The republicans pledged
themselves to the county unit bill in
1907 and elected their state ticket.
The Legislature was Democratic by a
narrow margin, and the Republicans
sidetracked the county unit bill and
elected Mr.. Bradley, Republican, Unit
ed States Senator with the aid of
whisky Democrats. Some Republicans
voted for the county unit bill in the
Legislature of 1912, but the measure
was introduced, engineered and adopt
ed by mocrats.-Louisville Post.
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-06-23
DON'T KNOCK YOUR PAPER

An exchange says that some of its
patrons use this formula:
1--WE give thanks that we are well
and able to kick. Especially do we
thank thee that we can kick our local
papers. None of them will ever do
any good if we keep them from it..
We owe them for FIVE years back sub
scriptions, but that is their own fault
had no business to credit us. Give us
strength enough to give them the solar
plexus knockout and we shall be salts
fed Consarn them they haven't men
toned me nor my family but ffty-two
times in the last year and faint enough
no how. Why don't they have git up
enough to run a FREE daily. "As for
me and my family, that's whar we stand.
Amen"
Gentle reader of course you don't
belong to that class. We believe that
you want to help us and we wish to
say the dollar you are owing us will be
greatly appreciated. Slip it in your
pocket, or if you are pocketless just
pin it somewhere and you will. find oul
Office at the same old place where fol
forty-two years we have chronicled the
news of great-grand-pa and ma, grand
pa and ma, yourselves, your daughter:
and sons and their little ones-and we
may write up some weddings most any
old time to start off other generations
yet to come.
Hand us those ssss, eff you please
| We thank Won sir"
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-06-23
THE WEBB-KENYON BILL.

Now that the Webb-Kenyon bill has
been brought to the front again and is
being used in the Kentucky campaign,
it is well to make a brief review of the
same.
This bill became a law in February
1913. President Taft vetoed it Febru-
airy %, 1918. In two hours after this
veto, Congress passed the bill again.
The vote in the Senate was 60 for and
81 against the bill, Senators Paynter
and Bradley, of Kentucky voting
against the bill. In the House the vote
was PA for and 95 against the bill.
The Kentucky delegation voted on the
bill as follows: Johnson, Helm, Thomas
and Fields, Democrats, and Langley and
Powers, Republicans for, and James,
Stanley, Shirley, Rouse and Cantrill,
Democrats against it.
The object of the bill was to aid the
States in making more effective their
words of the bill read c Which
said spirituous, vinous, matted, fer
mented or other Intoxicating liquors is
intended by any person interested
therein to be received, possessed, sold OF
in any manner used in either original
packages or otherwise in violation OF
the law of any State etc.---is pro-
hibited"
The recent opinion of the United
States Supreme Court was rendered in
case which went directly from Whit
ley Circuit Court to that Court. II
was an agreed case and the stipulation
is as follows. ''That the liquors were
intended for their consignees for theiI
personal use and were so used by them
and were not intended to be sold con-
trary to the law and were not so sold
by them" On this statement of facts
the Whitley Circuit Court instructed
the jury to find the defendant, the
Adams Express Co., guilty which the
jury did and fine of fifty dollars was
entered against it and from this iudg-
ment it appealed directly to the Su'
preme Court.
1t is not our purpose to undertake {
review of this case from a legal stand
point. The facts are not before us
But when it is claimed by the Stanley
partisans that it is vindication Of
Stanley, we feel that we have the right
and ought to protest. 1t is claimed fol
Stanley that he fought the Webb-Ken.
yon bill on the ground that it was I'M
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-06-23
THE FOURTH.

The glorius fourth will soon be here.
Preventive measures should be taken
by the City Council in the matter of
the sale of explosives to children. An
nually the loss of life is appalling from
wounds received by children handling
dangerous explosives the nature of
which they do not understand and can
not comprehend. Let the council get
busy and stop this practice. Surely the
boys can get enough fun by using small
crackers, the kind that father used.
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-06-23
The Only Announced Dry Man in the Field
SIMPLY TRUTH.

If the average newspaper man or
private citizen, who is opposed to
Statewide Prohibition, will come to
Nicholasville for few weeks and see
how this town is the dumping ground
for the saloons of Lexington, they
would soon be convinced that the
Statewide proposition is the only cor
rect way to put the smaller towns on
the same level with the larger ones.
The county unit would never carry in
Fayette county.-Jessamine News.
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-06-23
SMELL GOES TO.

A Brooksville dealer advertises to
give a goat with each buggy he sells.
Everybody knows why goat should
go with an automobile-to kill the
scent of the gasoline, but why with a
buggy?-Cynthiana Democrat.
It's to tone down the cigarette scent,
probably.
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-06-23
IS NOW PRESIDENT.

Our neighbor Stears, of the Jessa-
News. was elected last week President
of the Kentucky Press Association.
Mr.. Stears will fill the place efficiently
and here's our congratulation.
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-06-23
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
State Bank & Crust On.

Doing business at the town of Richmond,
county of Madison. State of Kentucky,
at the close of business on 18th day oil
June, 1915.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1915-10-16
How Much Radium?

Efforts to determine the amount of
radium in the ocean have been few.
Prof. S. J. Lloyd OF the University
of Alabama finds that about thirty
samples of sea water have been test
ed, taken from the Irish and English
coasts, the North and South Atlantic,
the Mediterranean, the Black sea, the
Arabian sea, and in his own deter
mination from the Gulf Of Mexico 200
miles south of Mobile. Discarding ex-
IRENE results, with maximum so
times greater than the minimum, 1t Is
concluded that the total radium in
the sea somewhat exceeds 1,400 tons.
AS rivers contain little, it is assumed
that this supply comes from uranium
in the sea, which must reach total of
nearly 4,200,000,000 tons, making ura-
mum in sea-water comparable in guam
tity to gold.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1915-10-16

minded of primeval savagery. One
need only see the stevedores, at Port
au Prince, pounce upon the bones that
are thrown down to them by sailors.
They are naked to the waist, and
their black bodies glisten as they tum-
BILE over one another in their barges,
fighting and scratching, trying to get
at bone. Their screeching is hid
eous, and when one of them clutches
the prize and tears the flesh with his
teeth, until another snatches it away,
one thinks with disgust of unclean
beasts.
Perhaps one Haitian in twenty can
read and write. The educational sys-
tenn is farce. Yet, the inhabitants
are usually devout. If a village is on
fire Zone of the pleasing pastimes of
warning factions), the negroes will
leave their huts to burn and toll fran
tically to save the church.
The lack of public works is pitia-
BILE. Naked children, and grown ones,
too, loll like swine in the ditch water
of the public streets. The only cleo
trio lighting in the country is that in
the presidents palace. In all Haiti
there is not an illuminated street.
The explanation of all these wretch
ed conditions may be summed up in
one wcrd-politics. A boy of six is
brevetted a colonel in the army.
Wholesale smuggling, winked at by in
terested officials, cuts down the ex-
port tax. The children of the infiuen-
tial are immune from the conscript
system. but the under dog of the sys.
TEN must abandon his little clearing
to the women and serve his term as a
soldier, which in Haiti is worse than
being a tramp. The postmaster Of
village pays his bills in postage
stamps, giving double.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1915-10-16
SAILOR GAME BACK"
ROMANCE OF THE SEA AS RE.
LATED BY THE WRITER,
o. Did Triumphed in the End, Despite
Effort of Father to Separate His
Daughter From the Man
She Loved.

Some 80 years ago l sailed with a
.rigantine hailing from New Eng
land town. The skipper had an eight
een-year-old daughter, his only child,
on board, his wife being dead.
The girl became friendly with one
of our ordinary seamen about twenty
years old, a clean-cut chap, who al
ready had his masters papers. One
night, when the young fellow was at
the wheel, the skipper came on deck
and found his daughter standing
alongside of him, with her arm around
his neck. The skipper became angry,
hit the boy, and sent him forward, and
would not allow him to come aft
again, although the girl told him she
was engaged to the boy.
Now began trying time for the
boy. One day the young fellow, goad-
ed to desperation, defended himself
when the skipper struck him. This
was committing an objectionable act,
as a skipper has almost unlimited
power on his own vessel.
The boy was put into irons and
| "AOh VIC dIIlNSu at IllO JdACilO, Jul
destination, the harbor police took
him to shore. must state, to the
Shippers credit, that he did not prose-
cute the boy, but of course his berth
was taken by another man when we
left Rio.
Five years passed. l was still with
the same skipper and so was his
daughter, but she was not any more
the laughing, happy girl she was be-
fore.
We had loaded pitch pine in Bruins
wick, Ca, and were again bound for
Rio. Nearing our destination, we
were caught in a storm. The vessel
rolled awfully, the cargo chafed back
and forth and we soon knew that we
had fire in the hold We took off the
main hatch to try and put out the fire.
but as soon as we got it open the flames
burst out, and we had to take to the
boats
This happened at night. The YES
sci burned for two hours, when there
was no more left of her. We stood
by her, thinking the flames would
ance. At daylight we saw fore and
after" near by. In short time we
were alongside. The shippers daugh-
ter was the first up the ladder and
was close after her to prevent her
from falling backward into the boat.
The skipper of this vessel, young
fellow, stood at the rail and helped
us to the deck. The girl looked at him
and he at her; then they fell into each
others arms and the girl cried from
happiness.
The young skipper was the boy her
father had treated so shabbily.
Strange to say, the vessel was bound
for Rio. too, and he arrived there
once more securely bound, but not
with chains this time. The wedding
was celebrated in Rio and the bride
went with her husband on his vessel.
Chicago Tribune.