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Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
NEGRO Lynched.

Melville. La.-While the Melville
town marshal was absent from the
jail, getting handouts for James
Grant, negro, mob of 20 men broke
in, removed the prisoner, and hanged
him to a trestle.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
LADS ACQUITTED OF MURDER
LoVeIace Brothers, II and IL, Found
Not Gullty-lncapabIe of
Judging Crime.

Twin Falls, Idaho.-Harold and
Lynn Lovelace, boys IL and II years
old, respectively, were acquitted of
a charge of murder for the killing of
Prof. F. T. Hamill, near here, last
August. The jury deliberated less
than two hours The verdict was
based upon the boys incapacity for
comprehending the extent Of the
crime.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
Ends Lite With Dynamite.

Oackle, N. Oscar Hoffman
placed a stick OF dynamite on his
chest when lying in bed, touched it
off and neighbors, seeing the roof
blown off, found Heitman's body scat
tered throughout the bedroom.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23

New York.-Because he is too short
to join the United States army, Willy
Pelech, Galician, who obtained his
naturalization papers recently, has re-
turned his papers, declaring mo ar
my, no citizenship"
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
plstoI EaIIa. KllIa Man.

Wsstyille, Ok.-Struck in the heart
By a bullet from his own revolver,
discharged by falling from his pocket,
Robert Williams, 3S years old, city
marshal OF Westville, was instantly
Killed.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
6.ooo,ooo Yards ,skeeter Nst.

London.-Nearly 100000 yards OF
mosquito nets for the use OF the
troops in Egypt, Mesopotamia and
Saloniki have been ordered by the
government from Nottingham and
Somersetshire lace manufacturers,
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
81 Killed BIZ one Bomb.

Paris.-A dispatch to the Havas
Agency from Padua, Italy, says the
total number of persons killed or
wounded by single bomb dropped
by an Austrian aviator totaled 32.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
Show Bio eaIns.

Prohlbitlonists Show Big Galns.
Including returns from st. Louis
and all except IA counties, most OF
which are known to be "Gry' but
which cannot change the result, the
total vote in favor of the prohibition
amendment tabulated 26S,354, ana
against 1t 379,899, a majority against
prohibition of 111,545. In the 1917
election the majority against prohibit
ton was 21S,125.
Thus nj six years the drys out in
state gained 106,495 votes.
BY far the greatest surprise to the
anti-prohlbition forces was that Jack
son county, in which is Kansas City,
the second city of the state, returned
a majority of 3,716 in favor Of prohi-
bition. On the other hand, Buchanan
county, in which st. Joseph, the third
city of the state, returned majority
of 1858 against prohibition.
1t is to be understood that the cleo
ton does not change the saloon sit
uation in any county. There are
only Is of the ia counties which
are call wet" In few others saloons
are permitted in few Of the larger
towns. These counties and towns
will remain unchanged in the matter
of permitting saloons until they vote
under the state local option law, eth
er for or against saloons.
The counties from which returns
have been received are as follows:
In favor of prohibition: Andrew
Barry, Benton, Bates, Camden, Car
roll, Cass, Charlton, Christian, Clay,
Clinton, Dade, Dallas Davies, Dunk
lin, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Henry,
Hickory Holt, Howard, Howell, Jack
son, Jasper, Johnson, Laclede, Law
renee, Lewis, Linn, Livingston, Nc
Donald, Macon, Mercer, Mississippi,
Monroe, New Madrid, Newton Noda'
way, Oregon, Pemiscot, Pettis Pike,
Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Ripley,
Schuyler, Scotland, Shannon, Shelby,
Stoddard, Stone, Texas, fancy, Web
sier, Worth and Adair.
Against prohibition: Audrain, Ben
ton, Bolinger, Boone, Buchanan, Call
away. Cape Girardeau, Carter, Clark,
Cooper, Crawford, De Kalb, Dent,
Franklin, Gasconade, Iron, Knox, La.
fayette, Lincoln, Madison Marion,
Miller, Moniteau, Montgomery. Usage,
Perry, Phelps, Platte, Rails, Reynolds,
Saline, Scott, st. Charles, St. Fran
els, st. Louis st. Louis (city), Yer
non, Warren, Washington, Wayne,
Butler, Ste. Genevieve.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
lam HIn Drink cure.

Atlanta, Ga.-Because he wanted IN
DO cured Of the drink habit and make
a man of himself, A. l., Cox, 20 years
old, accepted term of one year on
the state prison farm rather than a
shorter term on the public works,
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
lea Held worth e1s. 500.

Chicsgo.-Taking the purchasing
power of dollar into consideration,
the appellate court holds a mans left
leg is worth s1s,5o0, according to a
decision In favor OF Fred De Fillipi.
rendered here, against coal com
Dany,
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
Reward In own consclence,

London.-A baker found a purse con-
tanning notes of the face value of
1915, some gold and check for $215,
and upon returning it to the owner,
was given rs cents as a reward.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
Watson for Speaker.

Drake Watson Of New London,
Rails county, probably will be elected
speaker of the Missouri house of rep
resentatives If the Democrats control
that body, as incomplete election re-
turns indicate.
Watson thinks it likely he would be
unopposed Harry w. Bridges Of Cape
Girardeau, who is candidate for
speaker If the Republicans control
the house. will be elected Republican
floor leader.
The Democrats claim 80 members,
/ moro than the opposition.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
Plan Prison Investigation.

The prison reforms league has be-
gun to make plans for an audience
with the governor-elect to the inves-
tigation of the state penitentiary at
Jefferson City. Mrs. G. Charles Clark,
secretary of the league, has been in
structed to write asking the delegates
from organizations interested in pris-
on reform in Missouri cities to join
in asking an audience of the COVER
norelect. Social workers viii be in
cluded in the invitation, which is to
include all the parties interested in
the uplift.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23

Corrections made in the notification
OF the vote on returns now coming in
by mail make only slight changes and
the counties yet to be verified cannot
change the result. However, the abb
sentee vote is expected to increase
Gardeners lead slightly. This estimate
Is made on the counties so far report
ing the absentee vote.
Information from jefferson City is
that there is little chance that the Of
fetal return of the election will be
cast up before Monday or Tuesday
of next week, as was forecast by Sec
rotary Roach some days ago. The
vote of st. Louis is not expected be.
fore next Saturday and there is al
ways a number of slow counties.
Some of the county returns reached
the office of the secretary of state
Sunday, but they cannot be opened
until all the counties have made their
returns.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
Davis May Be Named.

Gov. Major has accepted the resig-
nation of Judge A. D. Nortoni of the
st. Louis court of appeals, but did not
appoint anybody to fill out Nortoni's
term, which expires December 81.
Nortoni drew his salary up to Octo-
Der 1. Joseph T. Davis may be ap-
pointed to succeed Nortoni, who
aspires to succeed the late Judge
Adams on the federal bench.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
Two convIets ParoIed

Governor Major issued paroles to
two convicts, both victims of tuber
culosis. They are Robert Wells, con
victed in April, 1914, of robbery and
sentenced for five years, and A. Vim
cent, convicted in October, 1912, Of
robbery in the first degree and SEN
fenced for twelve years.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
EreezAa TO epath.

Peoria, Ill.-A man believed to be
Elmer Hickson of Laura, ILL.,, was
found frozen to death in shed here.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23

WIN neRdacneS, ner-
vousness, flashes Of
heat, and ] suffered
80 much 1 did not
know what / was
doing at times. ]
spent $500 on doc
tors and not one did
me any good. One
day q lady called at
lmy house and said
Ishe had been as sick
las / was atone time,
land Lydia e. Pink
IN -
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
Vote on Amendments.

No figures are yet ascertainable
as to how the various amendments
Jared in the recent election. Enough
is known to state that Amendment
No. i (known as the blind amend
ment) has passed; but the land bank
proposition was defeated as was also
statewide prohibition. The vote
against prohibition was not nearly
80 emphatic as was expected, while
the land bank was only narrowly
beaten. Federal legislation ON the
subject was blamed in some quarters
for the defeat,
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23

SOAP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE
and constant use will burn out the
scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampoo
ing with LA Creole" Hair Dressing,
and darken, in the natural way, those
ugly, grizzly hairs. Price. $1.00.-AdV.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
Important TO Mothers
Same Old World.

Mother-You were long time In the
conservatory with Mr.. Willing last
night, my child. What was going on7
Daughter-Did you ever sit in the
conservatory with father before you
married him?
Mother suppose did.
Daughter-Well, mother, it's the
same old world.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
A REMARKABLE
STATEMENT
Mrs. Sheldon Spent $1,000 for
Treatment Without Bene-
fit. Finally Made Well by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.

Englewood, Ill. -"While going
through the Change of Life l suffered
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
Applicants for Court Place.


There is a rush of applicants for
the appointment of commissioner of
the Missouri supreme court. There
will he vacancy when Judge Fred
l.. Williams, elected judge of division
No. 3 of the court, takes his place on
the bench Jan. /. The place pays the
same salary as that Of judge Of the
court, $500 year. A commissioner
exercises all the functions of a SUI
preme court judge, save in voting up.
on the adoption of opinions.
Among applicants are Judge Will
lard P. Hall of Kansas City, Judge A.
O. Whitsett of Harrisonville, James
w. Sudduth of Warrensburg, r. M.
Reynolds of Marshall, Judge w. L.
Ragland of Paris, Ollie Craven Of Neo.
sho, Judge H. B. Smith of Sedalia and
Judge Glendy B. Arnold Of st. Louis.
Members of the commission are ap.
pointed by the court.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
Loses Libel Case.

Thomas Furlong, head OF the Thorn
as Furlong Detective Agency, by a
decision of the supreme court lost a
libel suit against the German-Ameri-
can Press Association, publishers of
the st. Louis Times. Furlong com,
planned that he had been injured by
the publication of an item in that pa
per to the effect that he was involved
in plot laid in st. Louis TO start a
revolution in Mexico. He lost in the
circuit court, and appealed the case
to the higher court with no better
success.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27
By ADA PATTERSON

LAS surely as the handsome
man is judged to be hrainless,
he is ranked as conceited. This
prevents his making friends. l
who believe myself anything
but handsome and who hate to
see my mug reflected in the
looking-glass, yet have had the
trademark of good looks brand
ed upon me-have missed many
friendships that l would other
wise have enjoyed. People, at
mention of my name, have said:
Hamilton Revelle? l don't
want to meet him. He is prob
ably the usual senseless, con-
ceited ass that all pretty men
are
Miss Russell has told me
that it is hard work to be a
beauty, and she is right. Mind
you, l don't admit that l am
good-looklng. God bless LEIGH
ner! He is the man who in
vented grease-paint, you know.
He is the actors friend. By his
magic, one transforms a plain
man or woman into a semblance
of beauty. What Miss Russell
meant by saying, 1T is hard
work to be a beauty l put in
different form: 1T is hard to
live up to ones retouched photo
graph; or, as / heard a star say,
1T is hard to live up to your
Autograph
at is hard work to be rated
as handsome, in the popular
opinion, because one must never
appear in public looking any
thing but ones best. My valet,
Henry, is my master. He is a
funny fellow and reeks with
candor. He will say to me in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27

the company itched to get hold of him. In
the beginning the Cook gang had operated
only against banks and stores; it finally
decided to tackle Wells Fargo.
Dolf Chapman was the man who rode
the express car down the Santa Fe the
night chosen by the gang Dolf was on a
sharp lookout, partly because that was
his nature, but more particularly because
he had an envelop with $1,000 in currency
consigned to the new bank at Guthrie.
But it was while he was getting his freight
ready to 20 off at Red Rock that the Cook
gang got" him. He threw up his hands,
dropping his way-bill book to the floor
quietly as he did so. Tremblngly he I'M
locked his safe. The bandits took out six
teen dollars and eighty cents, kicked
Chapman down as an evidence of their
hearty feeling in the matter, and left the
car cursing. But when Chapman came
to his feet it was with grin For there in
the pages of his book was the envelop con-
tanning the $4,000 in nice new bills which
he had contrived to save for his company.
OF course $16.8O was no kings ran
som, but the principle involved was
large. The company traced down Cook
ana sent MIN to the penltentlary. And
then it turned it's attention to Chero-
kee Bill. 1t enlisted, as we have just said,
the services of Ike Rogers. Only, of
course, no one knew that. likes friends
thought that good man was going bad.
1t was rumored that he was beginning to
drink and to steal cattle, and then it was
said that they had taken his United
States marshal's badge away from him.
Nor did the Federal authorities stop
there. They showed few indictments
against him for the contemplate crime of
cattle-stealing, and Ike was relegated to
the companionship of thieves and outlaws.
In the course of short time he came to
know Cherokee Bill.
Ike Rogers came to know Cherokee
Bill well. He slept alone with him in
an abandoned ranch-house. That is, Ike
pretended to sleep. He used to lie there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27
MAGAZINE SECTION for February 81, 1915

rorized, the constables and the local police
badly scared. Even some of the United
States marshals were hoping that the final
showdown would come in some other
fellows district.
1t wa2 Wells Fargo that was finally
given the job Of cleaning up this gang. 1t
was big job. Train robberies in the in
fected territory were averaging one a
month, and the men who committed them
were almost invariably getting away. One
Santa Fe train was robbed three times at
a single station within eighteen months.
But before the special officers were done
with their work the score told the story.
There had been eighty-three men con-
cerned in this carnival of train robbery.
OF these thirty-nine were sent to the peni-
Tertiary, forty-four to their graves. Not
one escaped.
ished in an attempt to rob the two banks
of Coffeyville, in the broad daylight of a
September morning. 1t was bloody rout
twenty minutes of fighting in the streets
of the Kansas town and eleven dead men
lying on the pavements, four of them
members of the five original Daltons who
had ridden in at ten o'clock in the morning
to make clean haul of two fat banks.
The Daltons had their imitators and
their successors. For instance, there was
the Doolin gang, and the Bill Cook gang,
made up among others of the aforesaid
Bill Cook, bandit known as "Skeeter,"
and one Cherokee Bill, whose ancestry
was divided into four quarters-Creek,
negro, Chickasaw, and white-and of
whom it was said that he combined in
singular degree all the vices of the four
peoples and none of their virtues. That
is, unless you call sheer bravery virtue;
for Cherokee Bill knew not fear.
Ike Rogers will tell you that. Ike
Rogers threw up his peaceful job of tend
ing cattle ordinary days and acting as
United States marshal on Fourth of July
and circus days to help the express
company get hold of Cherokee Bill. For
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27

closer to the messenger, causing him to
brush up against crate of oysters that
was lying opened near the side door of
the car. On the top of the crate rested
mallet used for breaking ice. Trousdale
saw his chance. He asked the robber to
reach for a package that rested on the
floor-remarking that it was valuable
The robber bent for the package. He
never Strengthened again. For the ex-
press messenger brought the heavy ice
mallet down upon the top of his skull.
Trousdale still had another antagonist.
He caught up his rife and his revolver,
extinguished the lights in the car-and
waited. 1t was two hours before the robber
came climbing into the darkened car, and
began calling for his partner. The answer
was a rifle-shot. Trousdale's aim with the
rifle was as good as it had been with the
mallet, and train robbery in the South
west was made unhealthy for number
of years to come.
1t was one of these cool-headed, IRON
nerved express messengers who invented
little mechanical device some years ago
which he at once called the "train-robber
eradicator. 1t consisted of short az
shaped gas-pipe extending through the
floor of the car and down under it. When
the messenger was suspicious of trouble,
all he had to do was to extinguish the
lamps in his car and drop lighted signal
fuse down into the pipe. 1t flared with
brilliant white flame which illuminated the
space under the car and around it, while
the messenger in the open door was left in
darkness. The "eradicator" helped wipe
out the train robbers profession.
There have been other contributing
causes, of course-not the least of them
the telephone and the automobile. But
these things, after all, are only mechanical
The great factors in the all but entire
elimination of the train robber west of the
Mississippi have been the unending cour-
age, the strength, and the ready wit of the
men who guard the treasure-cars of the
mail and the express.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27

told me this. MIR. Revelle is
ranked by authorities as "the
handsomest actor in the world"
Instead of enjoying his reputa-
ton as a twentieth-century
Apollo, he resents it; quarrels
with it; even-far from petit
coated presence, of course
swears about it. He told me
the mournful story of the man
who is accounted a professional
beauty. Great are the woes
thereof.
First and foremost, accord
ing to MIR. Revelle, is that to
the popular mind beauty is in
variably accompanied by brain
lessncss.
IL don't blame people for
thinking so" complains hand
some Mr.. Revelle. II do my
self. When l happen to be sit
ting with the audience in a
theater, or when l see an
exceptionally stunning expert
tangoist at a ball or a cabaret,
/ always settle back doggedly
with a show me- feeling and
manner. Like all the rest of
the world, l assume that be-
cause he has straight features,
a clear complexion, a figure
conforming to the inverted
wedge model, and a wave
(more or less naturaD in his
hair, nature has endowed him
with no other gifts. l suspect
that his head is a resounding
vacuum. Prejudice against
the handsome man is deep.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27

the morning, Il would sleep another hour
if l We're you. You are looking old
to-day He won't let me wear an old
coat to which am deeply attached outside
my studio.
ii may say to him, But, Henry, am
only going on Fourteenth Street
"He will answer sternly, But you don't
know whom you may meet"
"One must give time to handsome
ness?" suggested.
Zone must give time to keeping thin,"
he answered. Il have had-to lose twenty
one pounds recently. l did it by refrain
ing from all but two meals day, and those
light ones. Every morning l do absurd
exercises for ten minutes, so that no man
ager or matinee maid will say, He is get
ting fat
He Must Live Up to His Looks
A SO-CALLED handsome man has to
live up to his most picturesque mo-
ments. When played in The Rose of
the Rancho you remember, l wore the
colorful, picturesque costume of Span
lard. One afternoon l came out of the
theater with Miss Starr. A double line of
girls had formed outside the stage door,
most of them, suppose, to see Miss Starr.
When the stage door closed with bang,
got mental bang. For one of the girls,
wide-eyed and wide-mouthed, said on
seeing me: My Gawd, that's him!'
do you know what the aim and hope of
every so-called handsome man is? 1t is
that he may soon grow old, so that he
may wear ancient clothes and aged shoes
as much as he likes. You saw Years of
Discretion? You remember in the last
act how comfortably the hero settles
down in his old clothes? l found great
joyin that scene. For me, that is the life"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27

on his bunk in the half-light of dying fire
and sometimes rise to see if Cherokee
slept. But every time he arose he saw the
bandits opened eyes, the CLEAN of the fire
light along the barrel of his pointed rifle.
Yet Ike knew that his opportunity would
come. And when it did come it was in an
unexpected fashion. The two men had
breakfasted, as was their custom, in ST.
lence and with their guns pointed at each
other. But Cherokee Bill had an itching
for cigarette. Moreover, he was begin
ming to trust Ike Rogers.
For an instant he rested his gun, went
over to the fireplace, and knelt down to
pick up live coal to light his cigarette.
In that instant gust of March wind
blew the smoke of the fire into Cherokee's
eyes. The half-breed sneezed and coughed
in the binding smoke. Then he groaned.
His companion had dubbed him over the
head. Before he could get his senses back
Rogers had hog-tied him, had carted off
his guns, and was calling upon a farmer
driving by on distant road to help
Bravery of Some Express Messengers
A GOOD deal of credit goes to the indi-
vidual bravery of the express messen-
gers. -Four years ago messenger named
Trousdale was working in his car in the
still watches of the night, in the desolate
country between San Antonio and Ell
Paso, when he was ordered Hands up!7
by a man armed with a Winchester.
The mans companion had the entire
tyos lad n< 81, ~.
train, and at the point of a gun he was
forcing the engine crew to uncouple the
express-car from the rest of the train.
Trousdale submitted so meekly to the
bandits that he disarmed their suspicion.
He remarked to the man who stood guard
over him that he was not paid to fight
armed men bare-handed and he did not
care what was stolen. The robber laughed
and crossed toward the far end of the car
AS he did so he Internationally stepped
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27
The Troubles of a Handsome Man
By ADA PATTERSON

"DEPU TATION for
~ good looks is a curse
to a man."
Hamilton Reyelle
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-10-19
Synopsis of Weather and Crop
Conditions in Florida for the
Week ending October II, 1915

The week was too dry for cane,
truck and Strawberries, except To-
cally over small areas and on the
southern coast, where some heavy
rains fell. However, the work OF
setting out plants progresses. Git
rus fruits are coloring, and some
early grape fruit is being picked.
Owing to dry weather much OF the
orange crop will probably be un-
der size. Corn, peanuts, and
sweet potatoes are generally good.
Cane has suffered from dry wealth
er. Most of the cotton crop west
of the Suwannee River has been
picked. There is some to be pick
ed east of the river. Rain is need
ed over most of the sectional. j..
MITCHELL, Meteorologist.