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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
PEOPLE FLEEING
BEFORE WATERS
MAIN LINE OF MISSISSIPPI LEvEE
BREAKS AND LOUISIANA
is FLOODED.
WARNINGS SAVED PEOPLE
p~ectedly, Endaneering All Prop
erty and Many Lives-cre-
vasse is Growing.

Natchez.-A telephone report from
Newellton states that the break be-
tween Buck Ridge Landing and the
turn on Lake Palmyra is widening
rising at the rate of q foot an hour.
Large numbers of people have left
Newellton and the vicinity, but many
are staying to make q fight against
the onrushing waters. The attempt
to build a protection levee around the
town Of Newellton has been given up
as hopeless.
United States Engineer w. C. Bar
ton, President E. C. Rhodes of the
levee board, Ben Young and F. l..
Guthrie. members of the board, are on
the scene, but no attempt will be
made to stop the crevasse, as this is
impossible.
Relief trains are taking large num-
bers of people and stock out of the
danger zone and quantities Of stock
and household goods are gathered on
the levee at landings along Lake Pal
myria and the Mississippi.
The main line levee, 25 miles above
st. Joseph, has also gone out and the
Mississippi is now sending it's pent-up
waters through the crevasse. Newell
ton, st. Joseph and Waterproof, towns
of about 1000 Inhabitants each, are
in the track Of the flood. All Of Ten
sas and Concordia parishes will be
flooded and perhaps a much larger ter
ritory. The appeared just
opposite the town of Newellton.
Newellton, the nearest town to the
break came at an unexpected point.
The destruction will be ~incalculable,
because despite the record-breaking
stage, which the Mississippi has reach
ed very little Vn%easiness has been felt
and 1t has been generally believed that
the levees would hold.
When the break came the entire sur
rounding country vas warned by tele-
phone and courier. Residents of New
elton are fastening to leave and 9th
ers in the area Of the flood are making
every effort to get away.
- Calahoula, Madison and Franklin
parishes will be affected by the flood.
It is reported from St. Joseph that
there are two breaks.
The flooded district, 1t is estimated
will include $500 square miles. The
break in the levee near Neweilton has
reached a width OF 200 yards and is
growing hourly.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
ATTACK BRANDElS RECORD
Unprofessional Conduct Ie Alleged Be-
fore Senate Communicative Wit
nesses Say Not Trustworthy.

Washington.-Two witnesses have
charged Louis D. Brandeis with un-
professional conduct before the judi
ciary subcommittee of the senate,
which Is Investigating his fitness for
confirmation as a justice of the SUI
preme court Of tho United States. They
were Sidney w. Winslow, president of
the United Shoe Machinery Company,
and Hollis r. Bailey. a Boston law-
yer. The latter gave 1T as his opinion
that the bar of Massachusetts regarded
Mr.. Brandeis as an cable lawyer, but
not entirely trustworthy"
Mr.. Wiaslow told the committee that
Mr.. Brandeis was guilty of unprofes-
sional conduct and conduct not be-
coming an honorable man." because.
after s~evering his connection with the
United Shoe Machinery Company, he
at the instance of new clients attacked
as illegal and criminal the very acts
and system Of business which he assist.
ed to create and which he advised were
legal"
A mass Of data bearing on the charge
was submitted by the witness.
Mr.. Bailey charged Mr.. Brandeis
with unprofessional conduct in connec-
ton with the estate of Samuel D. War.
rem, ST., a paper manufacturer of Bos'
ton, alleging that he acted as counsel
| for members of the Warren family who
| were respectively lessees and lessons
It was brought out that litigation pre-
| cipitated over this matter eventually
was compromised and settled out Of
court.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
ROW OVER NJ SHIPS
Take Passage on Them-EngIand
Will File Protest.

Washingtons 9he Uuited States will
adopt the suggestion of the German
government and warn Americans not
to take passage on armed merchant
men.
Definite Information that this is the
intention Of President Wilson and that
an announcement to this effect will
shortly be made by the state depart
ment was forthcoming from an au-
thocita&ive source.
In diplomatic circles discussion en-
tered on the probability of the presi-
dent taking this course, and it's in
evitable consequences. Even the most
conservative opinion holds that the
resultant situation will involve this
country in a controversy with Great
Britain which may easily prove to be
the most troublesome and embarrass-
ing of any the United States has yet
had to face.
Nc one ~conversant with the facts in
the case goes so far as to forecast
anything more serious growing out OF
the controversy than a loss Of foreign
| trade. But that the United States
must expect to suffer seriously in this
respect if the German contention as
to armed merchantmen is upheld by
this government is considered inevita-
BILE by best informed statesmen.
This loss, it is pointed out, can be
| inflicted on American commerce by re-
| taliatory measures, which it must be
expected the allies will probably take.
II the United States prohibits the
clearance from its ports of armed
merchantmen the allies may be count
ed upon to reply by disseminating the
entrance into American ports of all
kinds of their merchantmen. Denied
the use of allied merchantmen, which
now carry almost all the foreign trade
Of the United States. the seriousness
of the loss may easily be calculated
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
Food Prices Advance.

Misunderstanding to statistics pub
lished by the British board of trade,
the retail prices of food in the United
Kingdom advanced on the average of
about 1h per cent in January. Flour
The average increase in retail prices
OF food since the beginning of the war
has been 48 per cent. In Vienna, it
is declared. the general level of food
prices was 1879 per cent higher than
that OF. July, 1914.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
MILLION FOR RIVERS
Rivers and Harbors Committee AiIots
$7,sa2,ooo For the Mississippi-ls
Largest Single item.

Washington.-Details Of the annual
and harbors appropriation bill.
completed in committee, except for
administration project to deepen
river channel in New York har.
Dor, have become known. The meas.
ure, aggregating $4,000, 900 and pre-,
viding only for continuing projects
already under way, carries not only
cash appropriations for, every section,
but numerous authorizations for pre-.
liminary examinations and surveys at
other places.
The principal item in the bill is
'~$7,3S2,O00 for the Mississippi river.
This includes 100000 for dredging the
Southwest Pass in Louisiana. Five mil
lion dollars is provided for improving
the Mississippi from the head of the
passes to the mouth of the Ohio river.
including Mississippi river commission
expenses, to secure a permanent chan
mel depth of nine feet. The money is
to be expended under the commissions
recommendations for general improve.
ment, levee building and for surveys
to improve navigation at all stages OF
the river and on water courses on
nected with the Mississippi and its
harbors now under the commissions
control.
Vicksburg harbor would be transfer.
red by the bill and put under the com.
missions jurisdiction to receive allot-
ments for improvements under way or
hereafter to be undertaken.
The bill provides that any funds
now or hereafter appropriated by con-
gress for improving the Mississippi
between the head Of the passes and the
mouth Of the Ohio, and which may be
allotted to levees may be expended for
levees anywhere between the head of
passes and Rock Island, ILL.,, SO as
to promote commerce at all stages of
the river.
For the improvement of the Missis-
sippi from the mouth of the Ohio to the
mouth Of the Missouri $3.50, 900 is pro-
vided, while 81, 200, 900 is appropriated
for the river from the mouth of the
Missouri to Minneapolis, with small
sums for improvements at other points.
Other large items included in the
measure are $545,000 for Savannah
harbors, sos, 900 for the Cumberland
river below Nashville, and $944, 900 for
the Tennessee river in Tennessee, Ala.
bama and Kentucky. Provision also is
made for completing the 28-foot chan
mel from Charleston to the sea and
$155. 900 is set aside for improving Mo
bile harbor.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
Enaland Calls Single Men.

London.-An official proclamation
calling up the remaining single mel
under the Derby plan and the military
service act has been posted. The call
to the colors will have the effect Of
enxolling all single men of military age
men who did not attest under the earl
of Derby's plan are subject to the COM
pulsory military service. with certain
classes OF exemptions, under the terms
OF the act passed by parliament. which
lweut into effect Feb. 10.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
Fire In Muniticn Plant.

Schenectady, N. Y.-The munitions
plant OF the General Electric Company
has been wrecked by a fire. The blaze
was finally extinguished by the COM
pany's private fire department, and
no report was made to the city police
or fire authorities. Officials withheld
all information concerning the fire.
The employees Of the munitions plant
were sent home. Tho burned building
was = small, one-story structure Of con
crete. :
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
Niila To Take the Field.

Ell Paso, Tex.-News that General
Francisco Villa was calling all Of his
followers together at Casas Grandes,
Western Chihuahua, to again take the
field against the Carranza government,
was brought here by 4 Villa messen-
ger.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
Mine Fire Kills Three.

Butte, Mont.-Fire that broke out
in the Pennsylvania mine of the Ana
conda Copper Mining Company killed
at least three men and % are believed
to be still under ground. The fire
started in an air shaft On the 1,2Qofooe
level.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
Zenpefjn

London.-A Rotterdam dispatch say
that during a storm a Zeppelin was
blown adrift, apparently from Bel
GUM, and wrecked at Blerik, lee Ven
10, where it was seized and interned by
the authorities.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
Air Raid On strumitsa.

AIT HSI0 OH 0NF05USGSAe
London-Thicteen French aeroplane1
have carried out a raid on the town
and camps Of Strumitsa. Bulgaria, ac-
cording to a dispatch from Saloniki.
The machines dropped 158 bombs.
causing several fires, it is added.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
Will Try 6attjeshin.

Newport News. Va.-The super.
dreadnaught Pennsylvania, now near
ing completion at the plant of the New
port News Shfpbuilding and Dry Dock
Company, will start on her trial trips
soon
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18

Think Consui's Body Found.
Washington.-The body of American
Consul McNeely of Monroe. N. c., lost
in the destruction Of the liner Persia,
is believed to have been washed ashore
near Alexandria
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
Transplansed Onions.

The Spanish and Italian varieties Of
onions can be sown early and trans
planted successfully from the hotbed
into the field. AS American varieties
do not transplant well. they may be
sown later In the open ground.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
Fell CARVING NjtrooIvcerin,

Charleston, W. Va.-W. s. Rokerts
of Marietta, O., slipped and fell while
carrying two cans of nirroglycerin at
St. Adams, - miles from here. He
has not been found.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
Money! In Asparagus.

Money In Asparagus.
Asparagus Is q most valuable crop
for commercial planting. It ships well
and usually brings good prices With
proper care and handling. large re-
turns may be expected from q planta-
ton.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
Drop Bombs On Milan

London.-A dispatch from Milan
says six persons were killed and sew
eral injured by bombs dropped from
aeroplanes which appeared over the
city.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18
Staiaer Allowed New Trial.

The supreme court has reversed the
case OF Joseph Staiger. an insurance
adjuster, convicted of shooting and
killing Bookkeeper Miller, In the OF
fees Of the Armbrecht Lumber Com
pany, at Hattiesburg, in 1914, when
he was sentenced to a life term in the
p~enitentiary. The reversal OF the YER
dict Of the jury in the Forrest county
circuit court was based on an instruc-
ton given to the jury, which Judge
Sykes says should not have been Al
lowed.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of the circuit court Of Clai-
borne county in sentencing Will Pell-
more, q negro, to death for killing a
& woman his cousin. and set Mar
1 as the date Of execution.
The senate committee on nance.
| after considering the bill carrying au-
thority to appropriate $125.ooo by way
| of a bond issue, to aid h Mississippi
! Centennial Exposition, has passed on
It and reported It fav6rabiy to the Aen'
ate. /.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18

Inmates of the state prison at
Charlestown, Mass, were allowed for
the first time to read the Sunday pa.
pers in their cells.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-02-18


The scarcity of rubber elastic has
factories in Austria-Hungary to close
down. as well as most of those in Ger
many.
The English board of trade is TAX
ing steps to mobilize a sufficient num-
Der Of women to work the land in or
der to meet the shortage of agricul-
tural labor.
The steamer Harvard, loaded with
passengers from Los Angeles, rammed
the steam schooner Excelsior in San
Francisco bay.
William Huss, q young farmer of
Danbury, Ia, is dead as the result of
being shot by his wife with a shotgun
she believed to be empty.
Lindley M. Garrison, former secre-
tary OF war. said that when his sue
cessor was appointed he would help
the new secretary become acquainted
with his duties.
A jury at Princeton, Ind, brought
In q verdict Of life sentence against
Bert Hope, charged with killing his
| aged mother, Is. Nov. 5.
Announcement is made that Nathan
| Strauss, the philanthropist, and Mrs
Strauss have contributed $3.50, 900 to
the relief OF the Jews in Poland
Anti-saloon league leaders asser,
that On Initiative co~nstituttonal
amendment proyidtnx Tor he ropeal
az statewide pxohtbltioa u Colorsao Z
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-03-30
BROKE SOME MUCK.
Round of Holes in Bullwhacker
Brought Record Results.
butte Miner)

Nature, assisted by few drill holes
that were dynamited, brought down
into crumbled mass, ready for ship
ment, what is estimated to be 5000
tons of oxidized copper ore averaging
close to per cent copper, it was de-
clared, in the glory hole of the Bull
whacker property recently, much to
the delight of the East Side Mining
company, which is working the prep
erty under lease from the Bullwhacker
company.
were obtained than were shown in the
efforts of the former leasers covering
a period of about two years.
The crumbled wall is known as the
west wall of the glory hole" and it
stood out like perpendicular cliff.
Manager Patrick WALL of the East
Side Leasing company, had a number
of deep holes put into this wall toward
the bottom. These were blasted with
good results, but 1t was not until 10
hours later that the big results were
shown. Then without warning a slab
Of this wall almost as big as the Hen
messy building came crashing down,
half filing the glory hole and partly
covering the ore chute, through which
the ore has been carried to the rail-
road. But little damage was done by
the crash and as no one was in the
excavation at the time there were no
accidents.
"The most pleasing feature Of the
big Slide" said Mr.. Wall in describing
the work at the property, "is that II
exposed a much better body of ore
than we knew existed there. The ore
exposed is from IL to Is feet in width
running from to per cent copper
and easily averaging per cent"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-03-30
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

Office Of the Echo Mining Company,
Wallace, Idaho, March IA, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that at the
regular meeting of the board of direct
ors Of Echo Mining company, held on
the 14th day of March, 1916 an as
sessment Of two Cd mills per share
was levied upon the capital stock of
the Echo Mining company, payable on
or before the 14th day of April, A. d.
1916, to H. G. McAllister, secretary
treasurer, at his office, Wallace, Idaho.
Any stock upon which this assess
ment remains unpaid on the 14th day
Of April, A. d. 1916, will be delinquent
and advertised for sale at public auc-
ton, and unless payment is made be-
fore will be sold on the 18th day of
May, A. D. 1915, at the office of the
secretary treasurer, 800 Sixth street,
Wallace, Idaho, at 200 o'clock p. m.
to pay the delinquent assessment
thereon, together with the costs of adj
vertising and expenses of sale.
H. G. McALLISTER,
Secretary Treasurer Echo Mining
Company, Wallace, Idaho.
Mr16-Ap13-5t
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-03-30

National Copper Mining co.-Levied
February 2S, l cent, payable March rs
to Charles MeKinnis, secretary treas
urer, Wallace. Delinquent sale April
%.
Nevada Stewart Mining Co.--Levied
February rs, 2 mills, payable March
rs to H. M. Huemann, secretary treas
urer, Wallace. Delinquent sale April
IA.
Old Veteran Mining Co.-Levied on
February Z, 2 mills, payable March Q
! to L. L. Brainard. secretary treasurer,
Wallace. Delinquent sale April l.
Rhode Island Mining co.--Levied
February 20, mills. payable March
80 to C. e. Clarke, secretary treasurer,
Wallace Delinquent sale May Is.
Rockford Mining co.-Levied Febru-
airy IL, l mill, payable March Is to
Walter II. Hanson, secretary, Wallace
Delinquent sale April Is. Postponed to
April 20.
Silver Mountain Mining Co.-Levied
January 10, mills, payable February
II to W. e, Horstkotte, secretary, Pot
latch, Idaho. Delinquent sale March
II. Postponed to May 10.
Tiberus Mining Co.-Levied March
IA, l mill, payable April Is to assist
ant secretary COS Cedar street, Wal
lace or to M. L, Lewis, secretary, 709
Peyton block, Spokane. Delinquent
sale May Is.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-03-30
THE CONSTITUTION.
Shaft Is Being Sunk Another Hundred
Feet-Drifting Continues.


The result of drifting from the shaft
at a depth of 100 feet has proved so
satisfactory that the company has de-
cided to explore the ground at further
depth. Sinking has been resumed and
the shaft will be extended another 100
feet as rapidly as possible. In the
meantime drifting continues on the 100
level and also in the main tunnel, in
both of which there is reported a
splendid showing of ore. The Consti-
tuition seems to be rapidly developing
into a mine, and 1t is expected that
before the summer is over mill will
be erected and that there will be an
abundance of ore in sight to keep it in
steady operation. The ground owned
by the company has large amount of
commercial timber and a sawmill will
soon be installed to cut the lumber for
the mill.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-03-30
ECONOMY IN LOADING ORE.
Belt Conveyors Used Successfully by
Copper Queen in Arizona.

Belt conveyors are used at the Sac
ramento shaft of the Copper Queen
mine to transport the ore to railroad
cars. At the shaft the ore is dumped
into a 12-ton bin, the bottom Of which
is pan -conveyor that transports the
opening at the bottom of the PAN
conveyor allows the fine material to
form a bed on the belt for the coarse
material; the sides of the V are mOv-
able and can be spread to widen the
opening when sticky ore is hoisted.
Other belts parallel with the railroad
tracks load the cars by the help of a
mechanical moving tripper. The trip
per travels back and forth 36 to 40
times in filling seven cars of string,
serving the purpose also of taking
samples which are automatically de-
posted in an eighth car. The average
sample results for a months run
checked the smelter returns to OIL per
cent. The whole operation is electric
platform between the loading belts.
The speed of the belts is increased
when hosting is from the upper lev
els and the belts are stopped when the
skips are delayed. A man stationed
where he can see all the belts, regu-
lates this. In addition there are two
Mexicans to oil and help load, and
mechanic on day shift to repair parts.
The ore is rough, uncrushed, and hard
on belts, yet the system gives salts
faction. The total cost Of conveying
and screening was 2.74 cents per ton
of ore in 1914. The above notes are
from a paper by G. F. G. Sherman at
the San Francisco meeting of the A. !.
M e.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-03-30
TO PREVENT SPREAD OF CANCER
CDR. Edward Reynolds in The Youths
Companion)

Companion)
The great importance to mankind OF
the disease known as cancer is shown
by the degree of it's mortality, to say
nothing of the dreadful suffering that
it causes. Cancer is today the cause
of more deaths than any other dis
ease except tuberculosis and those
that affect infants only. 1t is dis
ease of mature life. Among persons
who have taken their full place of use
fulness in the world, cancer causes to-
day more deaths than any other dis
ease known. OF those who have reach
ed the age of 40, in every II dies of
cancer woman in every 8, man In
ever IA. In the United States alone
during the last year for which the fig
ures are now complete, there were
more than $4,000 deaths from cancer.
II is important that the public
should know about the proper care of
cancer; high authorities believe that,
If every member of the medical pro-
fession knew all that it Is now posi-
BILE to know about the early recogni-
ton and treatment of cancer, and II
every member of the community knew
all that every layman should know
about its symptoms, probably $4,000 of
those $4,000 deaths could be prevented
It will, of course, be long before we
attain so ideal a position as that, but
the hope that we may in time accom-
nlish It is what makes the campaign
of education that is now under way
worth going on with.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-03-30
OPTION ON SHERMAN.
Will Begin Work on Groups on West
Fork of Pine Creek.

WIN 5e9in work on Groups on West
Fork of Pine Creek.
The Pine Creek Investment com
pany has taken an option on 232. zoe
shares of the treasury stock of the
Sherman Mining n Milling company
which with the option on 400, 600
shares of the issued stock which has
also been secured gives the invest
ment company control. The property
of the Sherman company consists of c
claims on the west fork of Pine creek.
The vein has been drifted upon for
about 80 feet. from which a Wine has
also been sunk about 20 feet, and in
both the drift and Wine there is re-
ported to be about Is inches of ore
that averages 10 per cent lead, 16 per
cent zine and ounces silver The
officers and directors of the Sherman
are ID. r. Harlan, president; ]. w.
Taylor, vice president; John Rock,
secretary; d. w. Price, treasurer f.
B. Taylor and II. A. Mayhem The
officers of the Pine Creek Investment
company. which has taken over con-
troll Of the Sherman, are George Nc
Kinnis, president; w. w. Papesh, vice
president: John Rock, secretary treas
urer; B. o. Braham and ]. e. Jones.