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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-05-26


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y. (of Navarro County,
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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-05-26

Drive the natural away; II returns
at gallop.-Destouch
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-05-26
LOW CUT SHOES FOR
MEN

Nettleton Oxfords in Gun Metal, Black
and Tan Kid and Tan Russia. $1,000
Walkover Oxfords in all Black and Tan
feathers and White Duck $3.50 to $500
We are showing large stock Of Trunks
and Travelling Bags, that were bought
before the recent advance in prices.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
EToL0 Or NlGHTRlDER PLANS
New Madrid Band intended % Burn
Towns and KIN Citizens, W.T.
Uesses Declare on Stand.

How plans of night riders OF South
east Missouri to burn several ,entir,
towns and to kill the leading mel
chants, manufacturers and land own
ers In those towns were frustrated b,
the arrest Of sixty-seven members O
the secret band several months AZ,
was told on the witness stand in thu
circuit court at New Madrid recent,
by confessed night riders who are b
ing tried on charges of assault with
intent to kill" and "conspiring will
intent to kill"
Their testimony revealed the opera
tons Of band modelled after the Ku
Klux Khan, which operated in sec
tons of the South after the Civil
war.
Jerusalem" was the password Of
the night riders. ITO do the bidding
Of the majority was their vow. and
death was the penalty for failure to
obey, according to the testimony OF
Hobart Shipman. Walter WILDLY and
George Perry.
Al the time OF the arrests, Wlll0oy
and Shipman testified. the night riders
were planning to attack Gideon. kill
three designated prominent citizens
and then burn the town. Next they
were to attack Clarkton, Mo-. kill five
marked men and burn the city. The
discovery that detectives were among
their number caused them to defer.
they said, and the arrests prevented
execution of the plans.
Six men pleaded guilty to charges
OF participation in the recent night
rider outrages and two others were
tried and found guilty ON similar
charges there. All were sentenced to
the penitentiary for terms Of from two
TO five years..
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
Munitions Plant Fired.

Ottawa, Feb. 5.-A fire today in
the Jardine munitions factory at
Hespeleri, Waterloo county, On
tario, so alarmed the management
and the village authorities that
they applied to- Ottawa to have or
dered out regiment stationed in
the neighborhood. The blaze,
however, was got under control af-
ter it had destroyed the shell man.
ufacturing building and damaged
several structures.
Two Austrians and one German
were arrested on suspicion. But
for quick response Of the fire de-
partment, the authorities said to-
night the entire plant would prob
ably have been destroyed.
The fire, which broke out in the
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
Turk Royal Heir Slain; Not
Suicide.

Paris, Feb. 3.-Yussef IzzeSlden.
heir to the Turkish throne, Who
was said to have committed sni-
eide in Constantinople, was mur<
dered because Of his opposition
to q Turkish German alliance.
This statement was made today
by Cherif Pahsa, exiled leader sc
the Young Turks.
"Yussef Izzedden was a friend
Of France and a bitter enemy Of
the Young Turks, particularly
Enver Pasha, I" he said. He paSd
the same price Tor his loyalty a
did his father, Sultan Abdul Az1ix
who was slain. in . bathtub -four
days after his accession Of The
throne in 1885,
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
A Daring Feat.

One of the most daring anc
unique incidents of the European
war eliminated in the bringing in
to Newport News, Va, of the
British South African liner Ap.
pam by a German prize crew OF
twenty-five men under Lieutenant
Berg.
The Appam, which was given up
for lost and was supposed to have
been torpedoed off the african
coast, was captured at sea by Il
German submarine on January Is,
four days after she left Dakar in
the French colony of Senegal,
West Africa. .
Besides her passenger list of 166
and her crew of 1874 she had 400
prisoners taken from other ships
ION board.
Among the passengers who were
booked to sail on the Appam were
Sir Edward and Lady Merewether
and their suite; Frederick Seton
James, former acting colonial Sec
rotary and closely identified with
colonial administration affairs in
Africa; Francis Charles Fuller,
who was appointed chief commits
sioner of Ashanti in 1905, and Mrs.
Fuller.
The Appam is 425 feet long, S.
foot beam of 1871 tons gross. She
was built in 1913 at Belfast and is
owned by the British and African
Steam Navigation Company,
which is under the management of
the Elder Dempster line. a
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
Missouri Drop Rsl,o

The crop report for TIE yea
1915 as published by the Stat,
Board Of Agriculture contain,
many facts of interest to Bate
county readers.
The 10 year average for corn il
the county was Zig bushels pei
acre. Average for 1915 was 20.
Wheat, 10 year average g
bushels per acre. Average 1915, 8
bushels per acre.
Oats, 10 year average 21.6. 1915
average 10.
The production of tame hay in
Bates county in 1915 almost
doubled the 10 year averages
As a corn county Lafayette is
first with an annual yield for 10
years of 1868 bushels per acre.
Saline county is second with 35.8.
In wheat Andrew and Atchison
are tied with an average yield for
10 years of POI bushels per acre.
Holt is close second with 20
bushels.
Average price for the whole
year, corn Sc cents per bushel /;
wheat 81 cents; oats 81 cents;
flax, $1.70; timothy hay, $3.50 PER
ton and clover hay $3.50 per ton.
1929 tons of prairie hay were
marketed.
Hogs should bring a good price
ON January l. There was only 81
per cent as many in the state as
in the year previous.
1883, 2O7 cars of wheat was
sown in the fall of 1915 which was
S2.7 per cent as much as was sown
in 1914.
The total value of crops pro-
duced in the state in 1915 was
$219,313,S45 which was about
greater than 1914.
These figures are fos farm crops
alone and do not include many
million dollars worth Of poultry
and eggs and different kinds of
fruits.-
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
CANADIAN PARLIAMENT
BUILDING BURNS
Five Lives Lost in Fire that De
stroys Canadian Government
Building.

Ottawa, Can, Feb. 1.-Two wo-
men and three men are known to
have persisted in the fire which
swept through the central por-
ton of Canada's magnificent par
lament building last night, de-
stroying the chambers of commo ns
and senate. Several others are re-
ported missing and it is feared
they are buried in the ruins.
All night long firemen, police
and soldiers fought to save the
$4,000, 900 structure, one of the
finest examples Of Gothic archi-
lecture Of this continent. They
saved the library building and the
east and west wings.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10

machine shop, spread rapidly 70
the rest Of the building. Company
officials said there was no dou6t
that it was Of incendiary origin.
Soon after the fire at Hespelcr.
Mayor Edwards of Gait requested
the military divisional headquar-
tiers at London to dispatch troops
there to guard the munitions
plants,
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
Three Brothers Of Slater :lave
MysteriousIy Disappeared
From Their Homes.
left 106ErHER TO DAYS AGO
Allen, John and Richard Dobbins Are
Alleged to Have Left Many Debts
Behind Them.

The Dobbins Brothers, Allen, Johr
and Richard, among the most exten
sive feeders and shippers of cattle IL
Saline county, left Slater together at
ter disposing of everything dispos
able, including mortgaged property
and have not been heard from since
They left behind an array of liabili
ties estimated on the street at from
$4,000 to $4,000. No one really
knows what their debts amount to,
unless 1t is the banks. as the heaviest
sufferers are not talking.
Among the heaviest losers are Kan
sas City and St. Louis live stock COM
mission houses, which held mortgages
On their cattle. Byers Brothers & Co.
did most of the Dobbinses' business in
Kansas City. and the Shippers Live
Stock Commission Company in St.
Louis. Various banks are also reputed
to hold cattle mortgages, but the
losses to the banks are we'll distrib-
uted.
The disappearance of the three
brothers has created all the stir that
the failure Of reputedly solid and sub
stantial citizens always does. The
soundness of the brothers was never
questioned. The Oldest, Allen, is
about IS; the youngest, Richard,
about %. They were reared in the
county. knew everyone and were
known by everyone. They were hard
workers and apparently keen judges
of cattle.
They are accused of having bought
on one market, incumbered the stock,
shipped 1t to their farms at Slater for |
few weeks and then sold it on the
other market, representing it to be
clear of ineumbrance.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10

conflagration. When the firemen
spurted the liquid in the extin-
guishers it merely added fresh
fuel for the flames.
Fire Chief Graham Stewart and
Dominion Policemen Moore and
Helmer agree the flames grew
furious the moment they used the
extinguishers. One of the contain
ers is being tested by chemists.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
Out tor Lieutenant Governor.

W. o. Atkes0n. editor Of the Bates
County Record, has announced his
candidacy for the Republican nomina-
ton for lieutenant governor. Four
years ago Mr.. Atkeson was the Repub-
lican nominee for congress in the
Sixth district against C. c. Dickinson.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10

Ottawa, Ontario, Feb. 5.-Gaso-
line, instead Of the usual fluid
filled the hand extinguishers fire
men used in the great fire at par
lament house. The extinguishers
had been tempered with during
the twenty-four hours before the
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
Miser starveS 10 Death.

Jacob Ropp, Is years old. died in
st. Louis of starvation and cold. Later
1t was discovered that he had $4,000
in the bank. In his room a key to
q safe deposit box was found and
when the box was opened by Ropp's
brother certificate Of deposit for
$4,000 was found and 800 in loose
cash.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
rhlrd pallx For Moherlx.

The publication of Moberly's third
daily newspaper will begin on Febru-
airy /, It was announced recently. 1t
will be morning paper. A. L. Pres
ton, editor Of the Marshall Democrat
News, will be the editor. It is under
stood the anti-saloon forces are back
ing the paper.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
Bankers to Meet in St. La

Bankers to Meet In St. Louis.
The council of administration Of the
Missouri Bankers Association, in SEES
sion at Sedalia, decided to hold the
1916 convention in ST. Louis May "a
and %.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
Christian County Against Bonds.

Christian County Against Bonds.
At special election held in the
Billings special road district, Chris
tian county, the other day, proposed
bond issue of $4,000 was defeated.
The vote was 242 for the proposition
and 1872 against. A two-third vote
was required.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
NEW BELGIAN PEACE
REPORT.
Berlin Declares King Albert Will
Consider Proposals From
Germany.

The Hague, Feb. 5.-Germany 8
efforts to induce Belgium to sign
a separate peace have made i'm
portant progress in the past ten
days, advices from Berlin assert
ed tonight.
In spite of official denials from
Havre, King Albert has consented
to give his consideration to tenta-
tive peace proposals if they con-
tain guarantees for Belgium s
complete restoration and indie
pendence, Berlin reported. Ger
many, it is understood here is
willing to make these concessions
If negotiations can be concluded
before spring.
Diplomats have learned from
sources Of unquestioned reliability.
that Germany Il willing to restore
destroyed Belgian cities, and to-
pay : large sum a. money to the
Belgian governtaent, though in
sistin9 that the payment be not
ccuaidekcd an actual indemnity. s
Il W1srepdrted Two weeks ago.
that 0eeynany had offered separsI
ate teens Of peace 60 Bele ium,s
peeminine - reotpne oueupied spors
tions = ~ HI 3nls a. 0bndi fionS
'tAat ~ Woy 6SySo ~ - per-
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
Former Postmaster Dies.

Ira A. Day. formerly postmaster at
Warrensburg, died at the home of his
son, Frank Day, In Mount Washing.
ton the other day.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
Iown,s Founder Dead.

Col. II. M. Dake. for thirty years
a prominent citizen Of Brookfield and
founder Of Dake City. a suburb. il
dead.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
Girl Shot BY Sister.

Leona Coin. 10 years old. was prob
ably fatally injured at Springfield
when her 10-year-old sister. Mary.
aDh0t her with . rifle. The bullet
struck her above the right eye.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10
RIDERS THREATEN A COURT
Judge and Prosecutors In New MaArtd
Trials Receive Letters From Par
tisans Of Band.

New Madrid, filled with night rid
ers, night rider victims. witnesses in
the current trial of night riders and
defending and prosecuting attorneys
was teeming recently with excitement
that threatened to lead to disorders at
any moment, following the receipt of
six threatening letters signed "The
Night Riders"
Among those who received such let
tiers were Circuit Judge Sterling Nc
Carly, presiding at the trial Of sixty.
seven night riders; Sheriff Harms Of
New Madrid county; e. E. Smith and
T. E. Page, witnesses; the jailer in
New Madrid and the railroad agent
Libourn, six miles from there.
b the letters were mailed. The
ers were in a woman's handwrit.
D0g, apparently.
The letter to Judge McCarty warned
him that men who convicted night
riders will dance in hell" That to
the agent of the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco (Frisco) railroad and the st.
Louis Southwestern Cotton Belt)
railroad warned him that II night rid
ers were carried to prison over the
Frisco or Cotton Belt lines the bridges
and stations of those roads in South
east Missouri would be blown up"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10

Thomas Scott, laborer. IS, was found
frozen to death within a half block Of
his home at Springfield. He is be.
lieved to have become numb from
cold and fallen asleep in the street.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10

sprinefieid City Assessor Dies.
Jacob A. Long. city assessor Of
Springfield, is dead. aged II. For
many years he was engaged in the
general merchandise business at Fair
drove.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10

Saline county recently voted down
the proposal to issue $1.31O.000 in
bonds to be used in constructing q
countrywide system of 365-day-in-the.
year highways. With all but q few
scattering precincts heard from. It
was evident that the bond proposal
did not get even a majority Of the
votes. The defeat Of the road plan
does not mean that Saline county
will lag behind in the movement to
rock the Old Trails road across the
state within the year. Already plans
are being made to call a bond cleo
ton in the Marshall special road dis
trict.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-17
Not Alone on New Year.

Of course it Is customary to make New Years day the day of new reso- lutions. but there is no particular -ea- son why we should confine this work to this one day in the year. In fact, the very best resolution we can make on New Years day is to resolve that during the coming year we will use every endeavor to makes each day a day of self improvement; that not a single day shall pass upon which we have not attempted to speak good word or do kind deed for somebody: that not day shall pass upon which we will not try to weed out some of the tares and brambles of character that now offend others or some of the bad habits that offend even ourselves.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-17
Four Ancient Christmas
 Carols

"VHE ancient Christmas carol
 Holy Night is German in its
 origin and is considered by
 many persons to be the most beautiful of all Christmas carols. IL has sometimes been ascribed to Martin Luther, but the consensus of expert opinion is that 1t is much older than his time and is one of the oldest of German folk songs.
 The carol God Rest Ye Merry. Gen. tlemen," is English fin it's origin and dates back to about the beginning of the seventeenth century, although the author of the words and the composer of the music are unknown. The fine old melody sung to this poem pos seSses all the best qualifications of a sterling hymn tune and will probably last as long as the verses with which 1t is always associated.
 Originally the old carol was sung in polyphonic harmony with the melody placed in the tenor. as was the invari- able custom of the seventeenth cen tury. Modern transcriptions of it. however, have placed the melody in the upper voice part instead of the third voice part, as formerly This carol, too, is one of the most popular and most beautiful in the entire range of Christmas music.
 The carol "Draw Nigh, Immanuel," is one. of the oldest pieces of coherent music in existence, and both the words and music far antedate any of the others. The music is an old French melody. dated from the thirteenth cen tury. although, of course, it has been harmonized to conform with more mod ern standards.
 There is a most curious but beauti- ful musical effect at the close of this carol The words of Draw Nigh. Inn manuel" are about 100 years older than the music, being taken from the MoZarabic breviary Of the twelfth cen tury, and it is generally believed that they were taken from the liturgy of the early Christians at Toledo, Spain. where the MoZarabie breviary was for mulated
 Another carol, 'fThe First Noel" has traditional French melody and prob- ably originated in Breton, although the exact origin of this fine old song is somewhat in doubt
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-17
CHRISTMAS PLAYS IN THE
 HOME THEATER.

The dramatic instinct is strong in most children and should be enoourag. cd, says Mrs. Blanche Cole Rosedale in the New York Evening Sun. To the young child its exercise serves to while away many rainy hours; to the older child it can be made a source of inspi. ration to noble deeds and q means or gratifying the longing for romance and the desire for adventure.
 Where there are two or more young children Santa Claus plays of all sorts will occupy the pre-Christmas days.
 The most popular and simplest one Is that in which one child represents the beneficent saint and the rest of the family go to bed after hanging the stockings. The saint fills the stockings and makes what other preparations his imagination can compass. then usu- ally becomes a child again and goes to bed himself, not wishing to be left out of the Christmas morning fun so soon to follow.
 All Christmas stories may be drama .tized. The story of Gretchen, who set her shoe by the chimney and found a poor sparrow in the toe, will be acted out with as many embellishments as the story teller has been able to add.
 There is a story of two children who awoke to find Santa Claus in their room. They accompany him to toyland and back with many adventures on the way. This lends itself well to play also. Relieving the distress of a poor family on Christmas morning is pret- ty play. The generous Samaritans go laden with toys to the unhappy ones, and play ends in joyous dance.
 While the dramatizIng spirit is on the children will not stop with Christ mas tales, but will play Cinderella, Goldilocks, Squire Nutkin and any oth- CT simple story which is familiar to them.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-17
A Christmas Eve Ceoend.

An anecdote related by Mir Howison fin his Sketches of Upper Canada" is full of comparative interest He men, tions meeting an Indian at midnight, creeping cautiously along in the still ness of q beautiful moonlight Christ mas eve. The Indian made signals Co him to be silent and when questioned as to his reason replied: Me watch to see the deer kneel This Is Christmas night, and all the deer fall upon their knees to the Great Spirit and look up P In some parts of England bees are popularly said to express their venera- ton for the nativity by singing" as 1t is called, in their hives at midnight upon Christmas eve.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-17
Old Christmas
 Sayings
Chrlstmns comes Lent.

After Christmas comes Lent. A light chTiStmIs. a heavy sheaf Now's now. but Yule's iii winter A white Faster bringeth a green Christmas
 A Yule least may be quit at Pasch O2asterI
 A black Christmas maketh fat churchyard.
 He hath eaten many Christmas pie.
 They keep Christmas all the year. It smells of Muscadel like an Eng lish Christmas.
 Christmas long looked for. comes al last.
 St. Andrew. the king. three weeks and three days before Christmas comes in.
 The devil makes his Christmas pie of lawyers tongues and clerks fingers. Christmas comes but once year. And when 1t comes it brings good cheer. At Christmas tune or a little after A crab m the hedge and thanks to the
 grafter.
 Bounce, buckrarn, velvet's dear.
 Christmas comes but once year. If Christmas day on a Sunday fall A troublous winter we shall have as. If Christmas on a Monday be Then a great winter we shall See.
 Yule is come. and Yule is gone,
 And we have feasted well,
 So Jack must to his fail again
 And Jenny to her wheel.