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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-03
u. s. MARINES AND SAILORS AID
RESCUE WORK in CALL
FORNIA TOWN.
20 BODIES ARE RECOVERED
Estimate That Death List of Otay Val
ley Flood viii Reach 6o-New
Dam Is Reported To Have
Burst.

San Diego, Cal.-Looting by Mexi-
cans, described by Rear Admiral Full
lam, commanding the Pacific reserve
fleet. as "the worst | have ever seen,
broke out in the Otay Valley flood
swept by the breaking of the Otay
Dam. The lower valley was turned
into an armed camp patrolled by ma
rines and sailors from the Battleshlp
Oregon and the cruisers Milwaukee
and Sout Dakota in San Diego bay.
The men had orders to shoot the loot
ers on sight.
The sailors and marines toiled hard
to recover the bodies of those who
lost their lives in the disaster, and
20 bodies, some Of which were mutt
lated, have been gathered together.
The loss of life in the Otay Valley
Is estimated at so, while reports that
the cloudburst in San Luis Rey and
San Pasquel Valleys cost no more than
10 lives brought the probable death
list in this section to go.
A new flood poured down the Tia
Juana River, which rose four feet at
its mouth at the foot of San Diego
Bay. A telephone message from Tee
ate said it was reported there that
the Morena Dam, so miles back in the
hills, had burst Officials here, fear
that if the reports were correct, To-
O00000,000 gallons of water impound-
ed by the dam will tear new chan
mel for the river across Coronado
Strand into the sea, residents or I'M
perial Beach, hamlet on the strand
were ordered to flee.
Telephone reports were received
early from two sources that the Cuya-
maca dam, at the source of the San
Diego River, had broken, releasing
5000, 100000 gallons of water.
49, First news OF the reported collapse
OF the Morena dam came through An
drew Eryast, city engineer of Coro-
nado Ervast, trying to reach the
Mexican town of Tia Juana, met a
Japanese running along the bank OF
the Tia Juana River.
Get back" cried the Japanese in
broken English. "Tell the people lots
water coming!"
Reports that the Town of Tia Juana
Lower California, had suffered heavy
damage seemed to be confirmed. 1t
was said that little was left of the
new race track plant, which cost, it
is said 5000, 900. A large force of
workmen continued to re-enf0rce the
Sweetwater dam in the little valley
north of the Otay River.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-03
BIG FLOOD SEEMS CERTAIN
Hiohest Water In 25 Years Is Pre-
dicted For Arkansas-Mississippi
On a Rise Following Rains.

is.-Indications here based
upon reports from river stations in
the, Ohio Valley watershed, are that
there is grave danger of serious flood
in the Mississippi river.
The Ohio river is reported steadily
rising. and new rise is predicted,
due to water coming out Of smaller
tributaries, which have been put out
of banks by recent, heavy rains.
The river at st. Louis has broken all
January records, and reports showed
that the rivers from Hannibal to st.
Iouis will soon be out of the banks.
Flood warnings have been sent out to
residents along the Usage river.
Reports from Arkansas tell OF one
life lost and the section south Of the
Arkansas river 40 miles wide bor-
dering the Mississippi river being
threatened by the floods on the Ar
kansas and White rivers, which bid
fair to be the worst in % years.
F. II. Fuller, a travelling salesman OF
the Bowers Oil Company of Fort
Wayne, Ind, was drowned while driy-
ing across the Cadron river, IL miles
from Clinton. The driver escaped. A
stage of 29 feet is expected at Pine
Bluff, on the. Arkansas river. This
will send the river out over the levees
south Of Pine Bluff, covering large
sections of Lincoln, Desha, Chicot,
Thirty thousand sacks were rushed
to the state convict faNn at Cummins,
where 1 900. convicts were set to work
reinforcing the main levee ard the
new loop levee that was recently fin
ished by prisoners.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-03
PREPARED, SAYS WILSON
pe3 dent Vigorously Demands lnre.
ikto Action in Appeal to the Peo-
pIe-MarpIots Denounced.

Few York rk--President Wilson has
be{un his personal appeal to the coun-
TIM for. preparedness for national de-
feube, III his first speech here he gave
Wa1n1ng that plans for the readjust-
me5t Of the army must be carried out
Will 4out delay, and solemnly declared
he fould not predict that the outlook
TOR the United States would be as
briaht tomorrow as today. Speaking
at lanquets of the Railway Business
Association and the Motion Picture
Board OF Trade, he sounded the key,
note OF addresses that he will deliver
durihg 6 the next 10 days in the middle
west
Nh Wilson was in fighting mood.
In the speech he declared he always
acceIted an invitation to fight. He
told The railroad men he was an ad.
vocate OF peace and had struggled to
keep the United States at peace, but
he considered the liberty and honor
OF the nation even more than peace.
Woe to any man who plays mar
PASk4&YAs ~ liz 0CCh0 w udhO Pal Iy pun,
tics or personal ambition take prece.
dence over candor, honor and unset.
fish, bipartisan service!" said the
president in speaking of his defense
plan before the railroad men. He
declared that the country expects ac-
ton, this is a year of accounting, and
the accounting must be definite on
the part of parties and on the part
Of every individual who wishes to en-
JOY the public confidence.
For my part, hope every man in
public life will get what's coming tc
him, said Mr.. Wilson amid laughter
and appliance
The president at both banquets and
all during his days visit to New York
was greeted with enthusiasm. On his
ride between the hotels where the BAN
quets were held in the evening he was
escorted by band and the Ninth com.
mand OF coast artillery of the New
York National Guard. Thousands OF
persons packed the streets and cheers
ed him as he went by.
During his speech before nearly
1900 business men at the railway ban.
ouet. Where he cast aside almost en-
stlrely the text of the address that he
had previously prepared for deliver
there, he was frequently interrupted
by applause.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-03

Clarksdale.-L. L. Brown, flagman
in the employ of the Yazoo &c Missis-
sippi Valley, was shot in the hip and
painfully injured at Swan Lake, Miss,
by an unknown party. He was placed
on special train Immediately after
the accident and hurried to Memphis,
where he received surgical attention.
Brown was about his work when he
received his wound.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-03
ENGLAND Calls More Troops.

London -Proclamations are being
posted throughout the country calling
to the colors eight more groups OF
men who attested for military service
under the Earl OF Derby's recruiting
plan. The men, whose ages range
from "a to 35, are summoned to join
on Feb. ~.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-03
X i Charlton Ia Back.

Nxtf The Italian steamer
IN With two guns mounted on her
III IL an6i carrying as passenger
Ror / lfon, the young American
col1ni H n Italy Of killing his wife q!
I4alE8 f10 in| 1910, has arrived here.
CharI N xss released frcm prison in
Noxe3n lls sentence having ex
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-03

Ellisville.-J. T. McKinnon, who
has owned sawmill near Ellisville
for many years, has gone to Pachuta.
Miss, near which place he will erect
another mill.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-03

nville.-Statements of the four
banks of Greenville snow combined
deposit of $2,3OO,0OO, an increase OF
100000 for three moaths.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-03
DEMoNsTRAT CLUBS CON
TRIBUTE LARGELY TO HOME
MAKING IN THE STATE.
NEW JUDGES ARE NAMED
Governor Brewer Selects Potter, Hoi.
den and Sykes For New Places
on the Supreme court-cap-
itol News.

With over 5000 Mississippi canning
club girls putting up N one year can
ned products worth more than $685..
900; with 1874 Mississippi women en-.
rolled in home economic demonstra.
tion clubs, who have made or installed
during the past year 115 fireless cook
ers, IS iceless refrigerators, 20 clean
ing devices and IL water works sys-
tens; with 35 counties having county
home demonstration agents, who held
in 1915, 1865 meetings, which were
attended by near 10000 people, the
state is rapidly coming to the front in
home-making.
These figures are taken from the an
nual report of Miss Susie V. Powell.
state agent of home economics exten-
sion work for the A e M. College
and United States department of agri-
culture, which report has recently
been submitted to E. r. Lloyd, direct
or of extension.
The report shows that for the past
year 35 counties were organized, with
agents in charge paid Jointly by county
boards of supervisors and the United
States department of agriculture. In
some of the counties the agents are
only employed for short time, but
with the additional funds given on
July / many of these terms have been
extended to IL months.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-03

ackson-Policeman McGee and
Hugh Washburn of Brandon were the
principals in pistol duel here on Cap
itol street, firing four shots each. Nc
Gee received a bullet in the fleshy part
OF the leg, but the officer compelled
surrender of the Brandon man, placing
him under arrest. Washburn, who is
said to have been intoxicated, had two
pistols on his person. McGee was lat
er taken to the hospital.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-03
TURKS FLEE ERzERuM.
Russians Advancing Down the Tiorts
Valley Surround the City.

Athens-The Russians are SURROUNDS
ing Erzerum, from which city the
Turkish authorities have fled, aecofd-
ing to reports here. A strong Rus
sian column is advancing to the 11gr1s
valley, the advices add.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-03
Gov. BiIbo Names Judges.


Clayton D. Potter Of Jackson, Judge
J. B. Holden of McComb City and e. O
Sykes of Aberdeen will be appointed
to places on the Mississippi supreme
court by Gov. Bilbo, to serve until
elections arc held ander tse ter7,as
OF the elective judiciary amendments
referring to the supreme court, are
held.
ments would be made by Gov. Bilbo
came Jan. 26, after the senate had
adopted the house concurrent resolu-
tions inserting into the constitution
the several amendments, voted on fa-
vorably by the people in 1914, which,
briefly, have the effect Of making SUI
preme court judges elective by the
people instead of appointive by the
governor, increasing the number OF
supreme court judges from three to
six, and allowing the higher tribunal to
sit in two divisions.
The supreme court judges will draw
salaries of $4,000 year. Those now
serving will continue in office until
the expiration of the terms which
they were appointed to fill. !
All three appointees are we'll known
in Mississippi, and have long been
prominent, some as attorneys, others
becoming widely known because OF
their help in passing constructive leg
isative measures in the senate in the
no
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-03
May XIII Liquor Tax.


The Mississippi senate may finally
block the bill previously passed pro-
viding for a fee of Is cents to circuit
clerks for recording each shipment OF
LIQUOR into their counties. The mat
ter came up on motion to reconsider
the vote by which the bill passed and
before the friends of the bill realized
it the measure was reconsidered and
was recommitted to the committees on
fees and salaries, where it is predicted
it will die.
The senate passed the two house
bills making appropriations to reim-
burse different banks for money bor-
rowed by Governor Brewer for the
penitentiary department
The house has re-enacted the code
chapter Of exemptions, with some I'M
portant changes, including the exemp-
tions. with soma important changes,
including the exemption of four cows
ana calves, and one bull to each head
Of 4 family, all libraries Of whatever
value ten head Of hogs and all pigs
nnder three months old. All farm
products were exempted from taxes
except levee taxes.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-03
Detailed To Governors Staff.

The following officers have been
designated by the adjutant-general as
members of the governors military
staff, detailed from the national guard:
Mai. j. w. D. Dicks, Maj. Geo. F..
Hogaboom, Maj. w R. Grady, Maj.
Chas. r. Dalbey, Capt. G. Frank Car
roll.
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| the smaller peaks of the Maritimes,
of the graceful Cottians, or Of recon-
dite Dauphine. To each region there
is charm all its own. And as with
the peaks, SO with the valleys. The.
| better we come to know them the more
varied do we find them. We soon
learn to divide them into two main
contrasting groups: Those that in
cline northward, mainly into German
lands, and those that bend south down
to the rich Italian plain, and these lat
ter are far more charming than the
others.
Are Essentially Different.
In ancient days the region north of
the Alps was mainly a dense forest
South of them has always been the
open fertile. Italian plain. The winds
from the north were dry and cold;
those from the south warm and laden
with fertilizing moisture. Thus nature
herself imposed a different atmos-
phere upon these two sundered re-
gions; and though now, on both sides,
the forests have been driven aloft and
the lands suitable for it have been
tanned beneath the pillow, the essential
difference abides. Fertile Italy climbs
aloft from one side; strenuous Ger
many from the other. The very do
nestle architecture proclaims the diff
ference. The Italian valleys of the
Alps are old friends of the sun and of
the vine. Bacchus and Pan are there
at home. They seem to open to the
visitor warm heart. Even where the
lemon cannot bloom the scent OF it
seems to penetrate. The southern val
leys always seem to draw one from the
Alpine heights as those to the north
never can. You may not be able to
see the Mediterranean far to the south,
but you know and seem to feel that it
is there, and thither you are impelled
by the strange force that has drawn
the men of the north southwark since
the days when the Dorians swept down
upon the Aegean and long before.
This southwark tendency it was that
brought the Germans over into Italy
the Franks under Charlemagne, the
Ottonians and the Hohenstaufen later
and it is the remnant of their con-
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"Thar's Sojers Out Thar Now" Whis.
pered the Man Next to the Win
dow.
there couldn't a rat get out and not
be SEEN"
who are your" / asked. "Is Cap
tain Fox there?"
"Yes-here, Fox; the fellow wants
to talk with you"
There was sound of movement
without, the murmur of a word or
two spoken In subdued tones; then
Fox's voice raised to carry through
the intervening wood.
Sorry this hapens to be my job.
Wyatt" he said. For Miss Har-
woods sake / hope you will not at
tempt to fight; we've got total force
out here of over two hundred men"
$50 I see," l answered coolly, lin
GLIDING Cowan and my old friend, the
lieutenant. Quite a compliment to
send half regiment after one man."
Our having such force is largely
accident" he responded somewhat
stiff1y. But that is neither here nor
there; your escape is impossible"
am not considering escape" and
spoke loud enough to be heard clear
ly. This is going to be fight, Cap
tain Fox-a real fight"
"A fight! What. you alone?"
"Oh, no; there are men enough in
this church to make it quite interest
ing. That is why warn you've are
soldiers. not murderers."
What, you think that BLUM will
work."
Captain Fox" broke in Harwood
bluntly, his voice nervously sharp. 81
command Troop c. Third Kentucky
cavalry. This is no bluff, sir. | give
you fifteen minutes to withdraw your
men; at the expiration of that time
we open fire."
The surprise, the shock of this unex.
oected development and threat was
plainly evident. heard Fox step back
rom the door and speak earnestly to
someone; Moran swore savagely. i
What force have your" he roared, |
he insane question causing Harwood
o laugh outright
Come and find out" he answered |
nockingly. Better go back to the
'ther end now, sergeant" he added In
over voice, and grfpped my hand.
The ball is about to open. Where IL
ny lady cousin?''
4 put her on guard over the prie
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appearance they have as often con
nected as sundered the peoples on
either side of them. They form today
no racial boundary. From the earliest
ages the people in the north have
pressed down over them and even the
loftiest Italian valleys on the south
slope of Monte Rosa itself are colon
lied by a Teutonic stock. Thus it hap
pens that the Italian Ticino and Ital-
ian Tyrol both remain under Teutonic
government and the frontier of the
Alps has never, in fact, been the po-
Htical frontier Of Italy.
The Alpine playground of Europe
takes great deal Of knowing. In a
visitors first season the great snow
mountains impose their eminence upon
him, and if he is likewise climber he
will have little attention to spare for
valleys, but will spend his wonder up
on the glaciers and the high crags and
the great phenomena of the central
mountains. But when the first flush
of novelty has passed from them the
maturer lover of the Alps finds de-
lights no less keen at lower levels. The
valleys have each character of their
own and the mountains themselves are
not all alike. There are mountains
built of crystalline rock and others of
limestones of different qualities and
colors. 1t is not necessarily the high
est and hardest that take the frmest
hold upon our affections.
The great Matterhorns and Schreck-
horns are always glorious, but 20 are |
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Q i. ( |: MIST
A IALF OF CIVIL STRIFE r.
&1RANDALL PARRISH II
L zl!S'!:E 6&cppHoDf5

ability strong that no resistance would
be attempted.
The silence, the long wait, got upon
my nerves. l could see little, and the
few sounds reaching my ears con
veyed no information of value What
were those fellows doing? What could
cause their delay? The soldier behind
me was humming softly; a foot
scraped on the floor to the right; ]
caught the soft swish of Noreen's
skirt as she changed position; the
moonbeams glimmered on a lifted rife
barrel, there was all about a sup
pressed sound of breathing. Good
Lord! would they never move! What
could they possibly be doing out there
A half dozen blows rang sharp on
the wood of the outer door. Not a
sound answered from within, although
l could feel the men straighten up and
sense the sharp intake of breath.
Again the blows crashed, as if struck
by the butt of musket
open up in there!" roared voice,
so muffied as to have no familiar
sound, 'or we'll break down the door.
Come, Mr.. Spy, Yves got you trapped"
Sergeant Wyatt, the lieutenant
wants yer" the whispered words
swept down the line of waiting men,
and l hurried forward. HARDWOOD was
in the dark vestibule close beside the
big door.
.sThat vou WYATT 2n ha asked ,1ncer
tain as to my identity. They are
after you, and have no idea anyone
else is here. You answer, and warn
them what they're up against. l don't
mind a fight, but am hardly ready to
commit murder"
do you hear me in there, Wyatt?"
the gruff voice without called. This
is your last chance; come, don't be a
fool. We know you are there. and
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Blow for tuberculosis.

Within ten years medical science
will probably have succeeded in all
but eliminating tuberculosis from VT
tai statistics. This is the prediction
of DR.. Jefferson d. Gibson, president
of the American Association on Clin-
zeal Research in an address in Phila-
delphia. He said that recent discov
cries by which the presence of tuber
culosis tendencies can be detected
even before the germs appear in the
sputum, together with a later and
higher development of the X-ray. will
in short time remove Tuberculosis
from the list of ordinarily fatal dis
easeA.
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quests of Italian soil that Italy is now
seeking to rend from the grasp of the
Hapsburgs.
A glance at the map shows that
tongue of hill country, by nature Ital-
ian, which Austria holds-the west
side of it stretching down due south
from near the Stelvio to the head of
Lake Garda, whence its eastern boun-
dairy slopes northeastward up to the
ridge of the Carnic Alps. Within this
triangle is contained one of the love-
Hest hill countries in the world. The
great snowy groups of Ortler, Oetzthal,
Zfllerthal and the Tauern do not be-
long to it. They are essentially Ger
man, these severe crystalline ranges
But all that is below-the smiling val
leys, the crimsoned limestone peaks
and walls of the Dolomites, the rich
valleys that drain into the Adige or in
to Garda-these are Italian, Italian in
atmosphere, in color, in vegetation, in
architecture, IN language and senti-
ment. and whatever else gives char
acter to a land.
To the traveller it is the Dolornite
mountains rather than the folk or any
other feature that distinguish this re-
gion. They are in their way good to
climb, but they ore far more wonderful
to look at Half century ago their
peaks we're mostly untrodden; now
guns have been mounted upon points
whose irst ascent may have been
proudly chroniclsd within the memory
II living men.
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6HE rising generation will know
more of geography than any
of its predecessors. Moth.
ing teaches geography like
war, more than any other, this war.
South Africa, the Cameroons. East
Africa, the Sinaitic peninsula, the Per-
sian gulf, Armenia, the Dardanelles
and all central Europe have been the
scenes of dramatic events in which
everyone has been forced to take inter
est. And those events have in every
case been conditioned by the forma-
ton and climate of the countries in
which they have occurred. The world
scene of warfare has become real to
us through the many detailed accounts
printed by the newspapers and the
memory of what has thus been i'm
pressed upon US will not soon pass
away.
Nothing was further removed from
the minds of most peace-time tourists
in their wanderings than to look at the
countries through which they passed
as likely in their own day to be devas.
tated by war. Occasionally one be-
comes conscious of the existence of
forts in reconcile lofty positions, but
these he was not permitted to ap-
proach and seldom wanted to. If he
crossed the Bremen by railway from
Innsbruck to Italy he could scarcely
avoid noticing the Notifications OF
Franzensfeste, but why they should be
there and what they were expected to
attain-as to all that the mere tourist
thought little and cared less. For no
landscape in the world is less sugges-
tive of war than mountain landscape.
Nature seems to have built up noun
tains to keep hostile people apart. She
might have done the work great deal
better. Why did she leave here and
there such notable gaps in their
ranges? Why did she spread those |
ranges out so widely from side to side, |
and dip into them such attractive val |
ley approaches?
Form No Racial Boundary.
There is hardly a mountain range in |
the world that does not invite men
to traverse it somewhere. The Alps |
are particularly thus preached, with |
the result that for all their formidable