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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-04-07
"a CHAPTER V 8.sS$
A Fire of Little Sticks

Two days after the arrival OF the
letter from Washington announcing
the approaching invasion Of private
capital, Brouillard, returning from a
horseback trip to the Buckskin, where
Arson and Griffith were setting grade
stakes for the canal diggers, found a
visitor awaiting him in the camp mead
quarters Office.
One glance at the thick-Dodied,
heavy-faced man chewing an extinct
cigar while he made himself comfort
able in the only approach to a loung-
ing chair that the Office afforded was
sufficient to awaken an alert antago-
nism. The big man introduced him
self without taking the trouble to get
out of his chair.
My name is Hosford, and I repre-
sent the Niquoia Improvement COM
pany as its manager and resident en-
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-04-07
No Filth No Flies!

Flies and filth go together. No filth
no flies! About the only good thing
you can say about the fly is that bis
presence should stimulate you to hunt
up the place where he was born and
destroy it so that it may breed no
more of his kind
Fly swatting may be a popular pas
time. 1t has been talked about much.
So far, 1t has proved ineffective. The
well-meaning person, applying the
swatter at every opportunity. kills one
fly at time. The removal of the con-
tents of single manure box will swat
millions of them at a blow.
Screens and swatters are a good
thing, but clean neighborhood is the
best, Get busy!
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-04-07
Cover Manure Box
and Garbage Can

A proper system of manure disposal
is more important than all other meas.
ures combined as a method of SON
trolling the fly nuisance. q proper
method of garbage collection and dis
posal is next in importance The gar
bage should be drained, wrapped in
paper and collected in a fly-proof metal
bucket The bucket should be washed
at intervals with lye soap and water
and then sponged with kerosene in
water.
The foregoing advice is from the ia
nous sanitary authority, DR.. w. A.
Evans of Chicago. In our local cam
paign we should utilize this informa-
tion to the utmost 1t has long been
recognized that swatting the fly would
never rid the community of his whole
tribe forever more. We have learned
that we must make war on him early
in the season by getting rid of his
breeding places and his natural
sources OF food supply-fllth,
Some Of us are inclined to grumble
that campaigning against flies is
mighty troublesome. Well, the grum-
blers will find it less troublesome to
campaign effectually against flies than
to nurse a member of the family
through spell of typhoid feyer-and
much less expensive.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-04-07

mapping pen on his thumb nail. ecu
rious that this particular fy should
drop into your pot of ointment on
your birthday. wasn't it?" he re.
marked.
20 suffering Jehu!" gritted Brouil.
lard PEACEFULLY. Are you never going
to forget that senseless bit of twad-
dle?"
You're not giving me a chance to
forget it," said the mapmaker soberly.
You told me that night that the
seven-year Characteristic was change;
and you're changed man, Victor, If
ever there was one. Moreover. it be-
gan that very night-or the next morn
ing"
Brouillard laughed.
"All Of which is bad enough, you'd
say, Murray; but it isn't the worst of
it. I've just run up against another
thing that is threatening to raise
merry hell in this valley"
Il know" said the photographer
slowly. you've been having seance
with Steve Massingale. Leshington
told me about it"
what did he tell you?" Brouillard
demanded half angrily.
"Oh, nothing much; nothing to make
you hot at him. He said he gathered
the notion that the young sorehead
was trying to bully you"
"He was" was the brittle admission
See here, Grizzly"
The thing to be seen was small
buckskin bag which, when opened
gave up paper packet folded like a
medicine powder The paper contained
spoonful of dust and pellets of metal
of a dull yellow luster.
The photographer drew a long
breath and fingered the nuggets
"Gold-placer gold!" he exclaimed,
and Brouillard nodded and went on to
tell how he had come by the bag and
its contents.
"Massingale had an ak to grind, of
course. You may remember that
Harding talked loosely about the Mas
singale opposition to the building of
the dam. There was nothing in it.
The opposition was purely personal,
and it was directed against Harding
himself, with Amy Massingale for the
exciting cause"
"That girl?-the elemental brute!'
Grislow broke in warmly. He knew
the miners daughter fairly well by
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-04-07

One way to control the fly is
to catch it in such trap as
is shown above. The trap may
be placed near the garbage can,
or any other place that the flies
are sure to come. A simple
and effective trap may be made
from a grocery box by substi7
tuting wire netting for the top
and two sides, cutting a round
hole in the bottom and inserting
in it a wire netting cone with
an eighth-inch opening at the
bottom and a hais-inch opening
at the top. Some article OF
food, preferably a fish head,
should be placed inside for bait.
The trap must be elevated sew
eral inches above the ground, so
as to give the flies a chance
to enter. When the trap is full.
it may be emptied by shaking
AS NOAANChta Iii OQEn Suid1A
opening, ordinarily closed by a
sliding door. The trap described
and shown in the illustration is
particularly effective one, as
it was planned with a view to
the hy's habits. The odor of
food leads the fly to enter the
trap at the bottom. Once inside
It is attracted to the top by the
light. When it gets out of the
wire cone it cannot escape. The
trap has the additional virtue OF
being inexpensive. 1t may be
made at cost of about twenty
cents and about a half hours
time.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-04-07
"You're BriIlard, the Government
Man, Take TT"

this time, and in common with every
man on the staff, not excepting the
staff's chief, would have fought for
her in any cause.
Brouillard nodded. 81 don't know
what Harding did. but Smith, the Tri-
angle-Circle foreman, tells me that
Steve was on the warpath; he told
Harding when he left, last summer.
that if he ever came back to Niquoia,
he'd come to stay-and stay dead"
81 never did like Harding any too
WELL" was the photographers defini-
tive comment, and Brouillard went
back to the matter of the mornings
seance and its golden outcome.
"That is only a little side issue.
Steve Massingale came to me this
morning with a proposal that was
about as cold-blooded as a slap in the
face. Naturally, for good business rea-
sons of their own, the Massingales
want to see the railroad built over
War Arrow pass into the Niquoia. In
some way Steve has found out that
1 stand pretty well with President
Ford and the Pacific Southwestern
people. His first break was to offer
to incorporate the Little Susan and
to give me a block OF the stock If I'd
pull Fords leg on the extension prop
osition."
''WeT?" queried Grsslow.
Exactly. You can imagine what
told him. Then he began to bully and
pulled the club on me"
Again Grislow's smile was jocose.
We'll, when / turned him down,
young Massingale began to buster
and to say that I'd have to boost the
railroad deal, whether l wanted to or
not. I told him he couldn't prove it,
and he said he would show me, if I'd
take hale an hours walk up the valley
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-04-07
How to sterIIIze Milk.

Drs. R. Kraus and B. Barbara of the
city of Buenos Aires assert in the
Muenchener Medizinische Wochen-
schrift that water or milk can be rem.
dered sterile simply and rapidly by
shaking with animal charcoal and fl
tering. A three per cent addition of
charcoal sufices for milk if it be al
lowed to stand for Is minutes.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-04-07
SYNOPSIS.

Brouillard, chief engineer OF the Niquoia
Irrigation dam. goes out from camp to
automobile party camped at the canyon
portal He meets j. Wesley Cartwright
and his daughter Geneviege, of the auto
party and explains the reclamation work
to them. Cartwright sees in the project
q big chance to make money. Brouillard
IS impervious to hints from the fnancier
who tells Genevieva that the engineer
sWiIl come down and hook himself il the
bait is we'll covered"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-04-07

DO you believe there is as
much grating going on among
our government officials, in
Guiding congressman, as muck
raking critics have frequently
charged? Who's to blame in
this story?
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-04-07


otherwise after the Spanish-AmeriCan ~ g. y
war; it found that Havana was one of JN.Al~~
the worst yeloWfever pest holes in the
world
The army surgeons learned that the mosquito was to
blame. They declared war on the mosquito. The weapons
in this war were not swaters There but one weapon
sanitation.
The city was cleaned with absolute thoroughness. Mos
quto-breedng SWamps were drained Lakes and streams
were covered with OIL Now Havana is of the worlds
most heahfu cities. The lesson taught fifteen years ago
has been applied steadily by the CubanS.
In this country the house fly bears about the same
relation to typhoid fever and dyseney that the mosquito
bears TO yellow fever in the tropics Both insects are dam
gerouS germ carriers.
This community ought to rid itself of flies. The means
of doing are the those employed in Kidding Ha-
vana the Canal Zone Manila and New Orleans of the fever
mosquito. But the lob will not be nearly so big.
Our citizens should call a meeting
by the middle of next week and form an
~ organization TO conduct the spring fly
@-se%ss - war. There is no time to be lost. Once
warm weather arrives the flies will null
Azs5SSS tpy faster than we can kill them
Let US act noWl
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-04-07

How will BrouiIlard get rid Of
Hosford, who seems bent on
making troubIe2 or will he get
rid of him at all7
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-04-07
WE SHOULD ACT NOW!

When the American army went down
to Cuba to clean things up politically and
otherwise after the Spanish American
war, it found that Havana was one of
the worst yeIIOW-fever pest holes in the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-15

Other scores in basketball games
were:
Wendell Phillips 35, Marshall 8.
Lewis IA, Tilden 9.
Mckinley 81, Schurz Is.
Loyola SO, Sem 25.
Loyola Qightweights) 26, Sem II
Calumet 20, De La Sale %.
Percy Haughton, Harvard football
coach, who has become part owner
of the Boston Braves and will be
president. will need to change some
of his ideas, also his manners, to get
along well as a baseball magnate.
Haughton ruled like a car in Har-
ward football affairs and was up
stage" in his treatment of outsiders.
In baseball he will find there are 9TH
ers who have something to say about
the conduct of affairs, also that he
will be largely dependent upon out
siders, especially newspaper men, for
the, success of his business.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-15

IloNSlLOi ICIuSSO IL tOllO" LILO
lead of college officials in placing
numbers on football players to give
spectators a chance to know who
was who on the field.
1t was said that when the Harvard
coach was told the public demanded
that players be numbered he re-
marked that he didn't give rap for
the public.
Haughton could get away with
that don't-give-a-rap business in col
lege football, but he will have to pay
little attention to the public if he
expects to make a go of it in base
ball.
Newspaper men have found
Haughton hard to approach. 1t is
even said of him that many times he
even refused to talk with Boston
sport writers, saying that if he talked
with one he would have to talk with
all of them and surely that would be
a bore.
Men who were in baseball long be-
fore Haughton have found that the
game wouldn't have chance in the
world to live without the free public
ity it gets and that it. is wise to be
at least civil in the treatment of
newspaper writers.
Haughton is in charge of a club
Jim Gaffney turned from a tail-end
financial failure into a pennant-win-
ming financial success. He will be a
big boost to the game if he can be
as successful in the diamond sport as
he was in football.
Abe AtteII, former fatherweight
champion, say the "califower'' or
''tin" ears carried by about nine out &.
of every ten boxers nowadays is a
sign of change in the style of fight
ing, or rather change in the style
of not fighting.
''In the old days men stood more
erect and picked off punches with
hands frO1,,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-21

uty at Brandon as a suicide. Sher-
If Long was notified and with Dep
uty Frank and Assistant County At
torney Ivy went to Brandon and with
the officers there conducted an ex-
animation. which they continued to-
day before Justice Wray.
The county health officer DR..
Hunt. with other physicians, held an
autopsy TO locate the range of tae
bullets and the arrest followed.
Mrs. Giltmeyer has three sons and
three daughters by a former hus-
band. The pistol was found between
the dead mans legs.
Mrs. Giltmeyer says that she was
away from the house when she heard
the shots and that her husband had
been drinking alcohol and killed him
self.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-21
BABY BOY IS BORN IN
GRIM REAPER'S CHARIOT

CHICAGO. August 21.--otto Rod
enburg. chauffeur for an undertake
ing firm, was on his way to deliver
a coffin when he drove alongside a
street car and was hailed by the con-
ductor.
There's sick woman in this car
the allies from showing DISPOSE
take her TO hospital"
= Rodenberg stopped and. aided by
the conductor and a policeman. trans
fersed the woman from the street
car To his hearse. She said she was
Mrs Mildred volensky and had left
her home hurriedly for hospital
The driver of the hearse sreaded
for hospital. but when he reached
there he had two passengers. Irs
volensky and baby boy were cai-
ried into the. hospital, at which i'm
stitution il was said today that moth
or and child were doing nicely.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-21
TRY TO RESTORE HARMONY
AMONG the FACTIONS

SAN DIEGO. Cal. August Elm
an effort TO restore harmony among
the factions in California a meeting
may be arranged between Judge
Hughes aud Governor Johnson be-
fore the republican candidate leaves
the state. II became known today
that Hughes WAS at Long Beach sun
day at the same time that Governor
johnson was there. Johnson. how
ever was not informed of Hughes
presence because the judge had a
busy program for the day. Ii is said
the meeting will be arranged for
Sacramento while Hughes is ON his
way 10 Ogden
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-21
G[RMAMrs PEACE TERMS
4 0IsPlEAs|MG TO ALLIES

LONDON. August 2I.--Premier
Asquith told the house OF commons
today that Germany had shown no
disposition toward peace except up
ON terms dishonofable and humiliat-
ing to some OF the allies.
The premier's statement was made
In answer TO a statement by Under
Secretary Zimmerman OF the German
foreign office, who told Hungar,a an
newspapers recently that England
was blocking peace. Zimmerman g
statement that England prevented
thethe allies from showing disposi-
ton toward peace was untrue. the
premier said. He said the German
foreign office had never sutlnitred
any official peace terms.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-21
PRODUCTION
GREATEST IN HISTORY

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-The
worlds greatest production of crude
petroleum in 1916 - 426,S92,6l3
barrels--was the greatest in the his
tory of the industry. Figures OF
the geological survey today shows
that the output was greater by 2S.-
194,3o7 barrels than the previous
record in 1914.
The bulk of the increase in out
rut in 1915 came from the United
States and Mexico, though Argen-
tina and Japan recorded significant
gains.
The United States led in produc-
tion with PSI, 104.104, barrels. Rus
STA came second with 68,54S, 062
barrels and Mexico third with 49,
910,50S barrels
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-21
SIXTY FOOT WHALE
TAKEN AT GALVESTON

GALVESTON, Texas, August 81.
What is probably the largest Whale
ever seen here was towed into port
Sunday afternoon and later viewed
by thousands OF people. II was a
whale OF either the Finback or At
lantic Right species. weighing over
30 tons and measuring nearly 50
feet from fluke TO snout. The mon
ster was captured Saturday after
noon by two negro fishermen, who
had gone out to cast a net for small
fish and who discovered the mon
ster floundering helpless in barely
eight feet of water.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-21
VILLA CHIEF CUT EARS
FROM 70 PRISONERS

FL. rASo. Texas, August s1,-A
story of Villa chief who. with his
own hands. cut eff the ears OF TWEEN
y prisoners who later were shot. is
told bysa rescued prisoner in I'll DC
mocrata. OF Chihuahua City. copies
Or whiesh arrived here YESTERDAY.
The chief who committed the strc-
city WAS Raudeho trihe. commander
DUNG villas recent raid on linli-
Eex.
{ urine captured a small body Of
de tacto government troops, az
cordinx 10 the statement and called
On them 10 Join his band. Iwenty
OF them failed to resp md, Finding
them stubborn, uribe trimmed their
ears and then ordered a certain
captain 10 shoot them This order
~aa carried out JUS. as rescuiug
party came NJ
Tho bodies were recovered By the
goyegameat ,rcopS.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-21
RECRUIT GUARDS
TO FULL STRENGTH
RADICAL CHANGES TO BE MADE
IN RECRUITING OFFICE
AT DALLAS.
Orders Issued for the Militia of the
State to BE Recruited Up
To Its Full
Strength.

DALLAS. Texas, August I'll
Col John Hoover, in charge of the
southern division of National Guards
recruiting service, is in Dallas to-
day accompanied by members of his
staff. Col Hoover declared he would
make several radical changes in the
federal recruiting station here.
He also said he had just received
orders from the department to re-
crui; the Texas National Guards TO
full strength. There are now 6,59o
men in the Texas federal guards and
1000 more men are needed to III
once recruit the unit to full war
strength. Col. Hoover declared they
were going after these.
In regard to The Wild tales cir
cu.ated about discomfort in the
camps along the border. he express
Cd the belief that they were entire
~ without foundation He shared
Gen. Funston's belief that Texas
National Guards are the only ma
tional guards on the border. He
cited the fact that Governor Fergu-
son and General Funston had reach
ed this conclusion in talk at San
Antonio recently
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-21
HEAVY F|CHTIMG GOING
ON IN the BALKANS
BtIGARs AND SERBS ENGAGED
~ FIGHTING 20 MILES
NuBTHwEsT sAioNlKA.
Right FIaak OF the French and Brit
ish Observation-Disclosures Occur
iisna the Whole
Front.
sALoNIKA. August 21.-ABulga

SAI.ONIKA. August 21.-ABuIga-
fIan troops ere engaged in sharp
lighting With ne Serbs on fifteen
milc front seventy miles northwest
of salonika. rho Bulgafs emerged
from the village OF Florina and adj
vause9 southwark. At the same time
other strong Bulgarian detachments
attempted an offensive along the
Monastir- salonika railway. The Bull
gars drove in the right flank of the
French and British and at the same
time made a vigorous attack west ~
Ostrovo. where fighting Is still 60
Ing on
fnoessant skirmishes between pa
Itrols and French infantry in which
whole regiments are taking part are
reported from the British, and French
front along the whole Greek from
tier west of Lake Dorian
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-21
Loss TO CROPS WOULD
Run INTO THE MILLIONS


= : - - =
msIonx and rsnsaloupes BY the mi.
Iisas wouiss sns IN the fields or ~
tetnxpkl> shoaid the crop movement
1eDn Yer, fcw cities. according to
white. have sufficient supply Of these
cpensnoditses On hand ~ .a>t in'., .
dian . lev wnsks ii A,xt. pitts.
hasa." he yrid. IN Typical case.
me tcsrstsiy within one hiindrc |
Malice u The smoky 6isy docs not
produce tho per cent Of the amount
uSesl. and wifhln two " three day.
ire preseai supply ~ such cpinmod'-
~ Nh IL 81 d~4d np. and n wnuii
BE- 0nt ~ the question 20 undertake.
% relieve fise situation with horse.
drawn Or meter vehicles. Hundreds
u clth& would he reduced 10 bread
md meat diets and ffsis could not
In>t hong IN some localities.
White declared that industrial
plants wuuld close down because of
tic ahsepee ~ raw materials with
which to work. Millions Of worker.
IT. ,ach plants would b. forced out
~ esnplos uasnt. and With their sal
as3e< rnt of wo~ld be unable - pnr-
chnAr the necessities II life II same
sfesr IL he had.
The movement ~ the grain ctop
uisteh bcxAn early In June and Will
enmkIniae thr0ngh September MnMld lie
s1Drpetl. Millions of bushels III
eheMt are IN elevators ready 10 hs
naosesl or A. the mis.r. ~ the sHsne
ttn,e my million bushels have just
started n,eving from the Pacific
northwc~t to the PWiftc terminals for
sehilMstnt b, WAY ~ the canal to En.
ft,fc. Il u eaxy 10 see what would
keppen to tlse~e crops II the rail-
spadx stop oss<ration.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-21
CHARGES MADE AGAINST
PRESIDENT Of PANAMA
Accused 90 GETTING tALtEa-
MT LAND coNCEssIos ~
PANAMA FOR sPa>fARD
An Investigation of the Charges Ia
he Made b, the state Depart
ment-Fraud and Coer-
cion Alleged.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2i.--secre-
tary Lansing admitted to-day that
an investigation j. being made into
charges that Rsymon vaIde-, newly
elected president of Panama. was
Instrumental In getting valuable
land concessions estimated AT 60
900 acres for "a spsniard named
FERNANDEZ. II has been reported
that the United states may not rec
ognixe yaIsies because OF alleged
fraud and coercion.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-21

Finkham' : Vegetable Compound NV
mother bought it ana the next month /
"a :" well that worked all the month
viseols stsying At home day. am
= focd health BOW and have tod lots 81
s'sssf about II. Mixes CLARleY MoRrr,
= fassRl' Street. Tsunton. Mass.
1ac;ssnls Of girls suffer 10 silence
esery month rather then consult rhy-
Actnn II girls who are troubled with
psiu.ra r irregular periods. bscksche.
nsreaeH", dragging down sensations.
fssntsng celis Or Indigestion would take
tySa Z Pinkhsm's Vegetable Com
vsl'd safe and pure remedy made
from roots and herbs, much suffering
might q avoiaed.
VIE 70 LYDIA E p,nkhs,n Mediein.
90, lynn. Msss teonAdentisn for free
sa'ite waieh viii prove helpful.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-21
WOMAN JAILED ON CHARGE
WITH kILL|AG HUSBAND

HILLsBoRo. Texas. August ST
Mrs. Jonah Giitneyer age sixty
three, was brought here Yesterday
Afternoon from Brandon BY Sheriff
Fred Loug aud Deputy Prank and
lodged in Jail, charged With killing
her husband. Henry Giltmeyer, near
Malone Giltmeyer WAS found or .
col al his home saturday afternoon
with pistol wound IN the head and
one throush The heart. With an hts
clothes burned off aud his bodv
scorched
TIE ease N=s reported t. the dep
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-21
ITALIAN TROOPS lAh0 1t
SAl0n|kE TO JOIN ALLIES

PARIS. August 2l--ltalian troops
began TO disembark AZ Salonifa yes
terday. says the Havas dispatch from
that point.
On leaving their ships. tae dis
patch says. the Italians passed
Through Saionika 10 camp. preceded
by military bands of the allies and
checred by the populace.