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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-22
$1,000, 900 TOBACCO
STOCK CONFISCATED
Federal Agents Gather in 80 Dealers
on a Charge of Fraud-Millions
Lost to u S

NEW YORK, March 22-Internai
revenue agents working under the
direction of Assistant United States
Attorney Yeseili, Monday gathered in
between IS and so cigar and cigarette
manufacturers and tobacco dealers. At
the same time similar raids were madt
in Brooklyn and Long Island City and
the contents of the shops or factories
run by the defendants were seized
The tobacco, cigarettes and cigars, con
fiscated by the agents are valued at
bout $1,000,o00.
William H. Osborn, commissioner of
internal revenue, issued a statement in
which he said that the revenue stamp
tax frauds disclosed through the ar
rests extend over a period of 10 years
and represent a loss to the government
of millions of dollars in internal rev
Commissioner Osborn regards the al
legged activities of the defendants as
part of a gigantic conspiracy to de-
fraud the government through the re-
filling of cigar boxes without the re
quired cancellation of the stamp tax
band. After filing boxes with cheap
cigars It is alleged also that the lie.
PENDANTS would paste on counterfeit
stamp tax bands, which were manu-
featured by the wholesale and sold tc
the defendants, who for the most part
dealt among Italians and other foreign
shopkeepers and consumers.
The internal revenue department has
been working on the case for about si2
months. Monday it was thought tha
sufficient evidence had been obtaine,
to make the arrests. but there wer,
not enough agents in this district t,
carry out the program, so a number o
Iagents had to be brought over from tn
New Jersey district.
The agents worked until late a
might making arrests. Those who wer
taken in custody after CLOCK in tn
Eafternoon had to 90 to a station hous
. lover night, as United States Commits
sioner Houghton had gone home afte
fixing bail at $500 for the first t
arrive.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-22

- SIS eai
soldiers crossing the Rio Grande near
FL Paso in the hunt for greaser ban
dts. The lower photograph is that Of
Paneho Villa. believed to have been
the leader in the attack.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26
RUNAWAY TEAM HITS AUTO.

One of the rear tenders of the auto
mobile of Bern Savers, who lives at
Jackson, was badly damaged last night
when a runaway team and wagon
of the Blue Ribbon Transfer Co. col
lided with it at the corner of Sprigg
street and Broadway. The wagon was
unoccupied and none was injured in
the automobile.
The horses were stopped a short
distance further east on Broadway by
witnesses of the collision. Savers had
stopped his machine in front of the
grocery store on the southwest corner
of Sprigg and Broadway. The team
started to run away some distance
behind him and crashed into the rear
end of his car as they attempted to
pass.
Patrclman George Talley arrived at
the scene of the accident shortly after
it happened and Savers turned in his
name to him. The wagon was in
charge of Driver Rogers OF the trans
fer company.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26
NOTICE OF LETTERS OF
ADMINISTRATION.

Notice is hereby given that letters
of administration with the will an
ncxcd, upon the estate Of
NICHOLAS S. WELLER,
deceased, have been granted to the
by the Cape Girardeau
Court Of Common Pleas Of Cape Cir
ardeau County Missouri, bearing date
the 18th day Of April, 1916. All per-
sons having claims against said estate
are required to exhibit them to the
for allowance, within six
months after date of said letters, or
they may be precIuded from any
benefit of said estate; and if such
claims be not exhibited within one
year from the date of the publication
of this notice, they will be forever
barred.
Dated May I, 1916.
NANCY O. WELLER,
Administrators,
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26

an alley 10 feet off the north end of
said real estate, running east ard
west, and all in the County of Cape
Girardcau, State Of Missouri.
And [ will on
Saturday. the 9th day of May, 1916,
between the hours Of Q o'clock 4. NJ.
and o'clock p. m. of that day, at the
east front door of the courthouse in
the city Of Cape Girardeau, in said
Cape Girardcau County, Missouri, and
during the session of said Cape Girar-
dcau Court of Common Pleas of Cape
Girarde&u County, Missouri, sell at
public vcnduc to the highest bidder
for cash, all the right, title, claim, in
tercst and estate of the said John c..
Groscclose and Mamie A. Groscclose,
of, in and to the above described real
estate, to satisfy said execution and
costs. W. A. SUMMERS,
Sheriff
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26

that Germany's interest is to see a
war between Japan and the United
States in which Japan shall be We
torious.
- am certain that the German
Americans who can consciously he
reachen by any suca suggestion form
IN utterly insignificant proportion OF
the Americans Of German ucsccut.
But some cf their genuinely patriotic
fellows may be Influenced unconscious
Iy by sJch arguments.
"Thercforc, / ask my fellow citizens
who are II whole or in part Of German
blood, to consider very carefully the
above letter and 10 ponder what is
meant COR their children and grand
children By the attitude thus set forth.
These descendants Of theirs are to live
here in this land, iuSt as my children
and childrcn's children will live. Their
interests and the interests OF ny chill
dgen's children will be Identical. In
the end, H. the generations g by, they
will all intermarry and become not
merely in interest. but by b.oot,
identical.
"Thc men eff German blood have
always played 4 high and honorable
part in this country. In the greet
,risis Of the Civil War they stood with
loyal devotion by the Union and
against slavery; and it Is probably
true Of them that at that time more
generally than those Of any other
blood theU uphcId the cause pcrsoni-
fed by Abraham Lincoln.
y believe that the great mass Of
them are a the present day undivided
in their loyal devotion to this country.
know that our entire national GOV
crnmcnt, from President dom, could
he manned with men Of German birth
or descent who would be Americans
and nothing else. who would stand for
the United States first and FOR 800
other nation second.
Il very earnestly wish that some
could he found for rcrudiatiug the
n-cn whose actions have made It pos
sibIc for foreigners like Profc=rpr
Rohrbach to write with the in,oIcnt
belief that they can use our fellow
citizens Of German birth ard descent
SWEAT their political influence may BE-
clertcd in such fashion as to maa"
this country helpless to defend itzcls
against foreign aggression, whether
from Japan, from Germany. Or From.
any other power"
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION.
AdnliniSt

Notice is hereby given that letters
of administration upon the estate of
JOSEPH BECKER,
deceased, have Seen granted to the
undersigned by the Probate Court of
Cape Girardcau County, Missouri,
bearing date the oath day of April,
1916.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to exhibit
them to the undersigned for allowance
within six months from the date of
said letters, or they may be precluded
from any benefit of such estate; and
if said claims be not exhibited within
one year from the date of the publ
cation of this notice, they will be for
ever barred. CORA f. BECKER,
Administrative
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26
LAFE CARUTHERS
IS FATALLY ILL
st. Louis Specialist, Who Says
He Has Paresis, Thinks
Lawyer Is Near Death.

LATE Caruthers, the Cape Girard2au
attorney, who was taken to I st. Louis
hospital following a physical collapse,
is suffering from paresis, it was said
yesterday. Parcsjs is tuberculosis of
the brain, well-known physician in
formed The Tribune yesterday.
A St. Louis specialist OH nervous
diseases, who vas summoned to take
charge Of Mr.. Caruthers, stated that
the lawyer could not live longer than
six months and that his demise might
be expected at 2ny time.
Mr.. Caruthcr5 has been in i'll health
for several years, and for more than
two years had virtually abandoned the
practice of Law. For several weeks
prior to his departure for ST. Louis,
re appeared to be irrational, and his
friends communicated with 4 brother
of the attorney, who is Il druggist in
Arkansas. This resulted in his remov-
al to a st. Louis sanitariUm, where he
will remain.
The brother returned to his home
Tuesday, passing through this city.
While here he notified friends Of Mr..
Caruthers that his brother could not
live but a short time, according to
the belief of the st. Louis specialist.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26
SHERIFF'S SALE
UNDER SPECIAL EXECUTION.

BY virtue of special execution
issued from the office Of the Clerk of
the Cape Girardcau Court of Common
Pleas of Cape Girardcau County, Mis-
souri,, dated the oath day of April,
1916, made returnable to the May term
of said court for 1916 to the Sheriff
of Cape Girardcau County, directed
and to me delivered, in favor of Ed
Sutton and T. d. Hines, and against
John c. Groseclose and Mamie A.
Groseclose, | have seized and levied
upon all the right, title, claim, inter
est and estate of the said John C..
GrosecloSc and Mamie a. GTOSeclOSc,
of, in and to the following described
real estate, situate, lying and being in
the County of Cape Girardeau and
State of Missouri, to-wit:
All house and lot in the city of Cape
Girardeau on Good Hone street; all
the east half of the east half of lots
numbers nineteen and twenty in range
G, in the said city, described as fol-
lows: Begin at the southeast corner
of said lot nineteen, thence running
north along the western line of an
alley $50 feet, thence west along the
line between lots 20 and q in range
G.. As feet; thence south $50 feet to
Good Hope street; thence east along
the north line of Good Hope street d
feet to the beginning corner; subject
however, to the right of easement OF
the city of Cape Guardian to use as
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26
COUNTY CLERKS NOTICE OF
PRIMARY ELECTION.

State of Missouri, County Of Cape
Girardeau.-ss:
County Clerks Office.
Notice is hereby given that a Pri-
mary Election will be held at the
regular polling places in each precinct
of said County of Cape Girardeau, on
the first tuesday, Of August, 1916,
being the first day of August, 1916,
for the purpose Of nominating candi-
dates for the following offices to be
voted for at the general election to be
held on Tuesday, the seventh day Of
November, 1916:
Senator in Congress for Missouri;
Governor;
Governor;
Secretary of State;
State Auditor;
State Treasurer;
Acknowledgement;
Judge Supreme Court, Division No.
One;
Judge Supreme Court, Division No.
Two (unexpired term):
Judge St. Louis Court of Appeals;
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26

Representative in Congress for
Fourteenth District;
State Senator for Twenty-first Dis
trict;
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The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26

applause Of every peace-at-any-p price
man at home and abroad. And unwit-
tingly they would have utterly ruined
this nation. They would have pre-
vented It's being a nation.
"They would have rendered it GER
tain in each ease, that, for the one
var they avcrtcd at the moments ten
we're ensured for the years to come.
This is what the pacifists Of our
day, the noo-Torias, the reo-Coppcr-
heads, viii do if they achieve their
purpose"
The politicians Of today are initial
ing the example of their predecessors
in the l6-to-1 fight, trying to please
both parties, those who are for and
those who are against preparedness.
There is no use in saying that VIC
viii fit ourselves to defend ourselves
4 little, but not much said Mr. Roosc-
welt. "Such a position is equivalent
TO Announcing that, if necessary, we
shall hit, but that We shall only hit
soft. To go to war little, but not
much, is the one absolutely certain
.:ay to ensure Disaster
1t is the people who are to blame
for not forcing their representatives
to take action, said Mr.. Roosevelt.
1--WE. through our representatives,
at Washington. have absolutely refus-
cd in the Smallest degree to prepare
during these twenty-five months of
world cataclysm.
1--WE have cndcavorcd to deceive
ourselves by announcing that in this
policy of supine inaction and of fail
urc to perform duty, VIC are actuated
by the Hottest motives.
There IS not a nation in the world
which believes that our course Of con-
duet has been dictated by anything
save timidity, unworthy shrinking
from effort and responsibility, and cold
and selfish love Of money making and
soft ease"
The Administration is giving Us a
false preparedness, Mr.. Roosevelt as
serted, "but the racifats object to
even masc-belicve preparedness"
lIr. Roosevelt declared there arc
only two great Observation-Disclosures
and Preparedness, and i,c seemed to
challenge the Republican party when
he added:
"Why should the people change
their government if they arc merely
TO change slightly the degree Of an
preparedness ?"
Mr.. Ford's supporters, said Mr..
Roosevelt, seemed to come from three
classes wOrkingmen, pacifsts, and
Gcrman-Amcricans.
To the workingman he would point
out Belgium and Korea. In Korea the
conqueror had done we'll; in Belgium
he had done IL. In either case the
workingmen were now powerless to
helm themselves and in Belgium they
were in misery.
To the pacifsts he pointed the les
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26
KOEHRER BECOMES FOREMAN.
Cape Man Wins Place After Ten
Years Work in Frisco Shops.

Arthur Koehrer, who for the "a
ten years has been employed in the
Frisco shops at the Cape and worked
hi, way M from an apprenticeship,
yesterday began working as general
foreman Of the shops to succeed Jifl
Henshaw, who last week was trans
fcrred to Sapulpa, OKLA, to assume
charge of shops there.
Mr.. Koehrer, who is but rs year
old, is the only man in the shop, it is
said, who has remained with the
Frisco in this city after having gone
through his apprenticeship. He at
one time was in the tir shop and then
became apprentice machinist. From
this position he worried his way to the
position Of assistant foreman and yes
terday was made foreman.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26
Decree and Order of Sale.

BY virtue and authority Of 4 decree
for partition and order of sale made
by the Cape Girardeau Court of Com
mon Pleas, in and for Cape Girardeau
County, Missouri, on Tuesday, the 9TH
day of March, 1916, the same being
the Sth day of the February term,
1916, of said court, in the above en-,
titled cause a certified copy of said
decree and order was issued from the
office of the clerk of said court, dated
the Dist day Of April, 1916, and deliv-
cred to me, the undersigned, Sheriff of
Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, and
l will, on
Friday, the Goth day of May, 1916,
between the hours of o'clock in the
forenoon and o'clock in the after
noon Of that day, and during the sCs-
sion OF the Cape Girardeau Court of
Common Pleas, at the east courthouse
door in the city of Cape Girardeau,
Missouri, sell at public auction to the
highest bidder on the following terms,
namely, for cash in hand, the follow
ing described real estate lying and
being in the County of Cape Girardcau
and State of Missouri, to-wit:
All of Lot No. Thirty-onc CD in
Range "R" of Garaghty's Addition to
the City of Cape Girardeau, in the
City Of Cape Girardeau, in the County
of Cape Girardcau and State Of Mis-
souri,. w. A. SUMMERS,
Sheriff of Cape Girardeau
County, Missouri.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26

sons Of Mexico and our negotiations
with Germany. In the first ease. he
said, We are worse Off than when the
policy Of helplessness began; in the
second he said he firmly believed that
IF our first uttimatUm sixteen months
ago was really an ultimatum, Ger
many would have yielded, the Lus;-
taria and the ether ships would MOI
have been sunk, and all The Iamcntable
loss of life would have been avoided, -"
Advocating universal peace. Mr.
Roosevelt said:
q believe that the dog tent would
prove a most effective agent for
dcmocratizing and Matchmaking Our
life; quite as much so as the public
school, and far more so than the
American factory and the American
city as they are today"
To the German-AmericanS he de
clared they would suffer as much by
= foreign invasion as persons of other
blood. He himself, he SAID, IS part
German. He added:
There has come into my possession
4 copy Of Il letter written by Professor
Rohrbach, of Berlin, to a German.
Professor Applcman, Of the Universe
y Of Vermont. | have made careful
inquiry and l find that the letter is
unqucst;onabIy genuine.
'Profcssor Rohrbach has been one
Of the most widely quoted Of the Ger
man professors who in the present
war have set forth German claims;
and. according to the 'Vorwarts.'
many Of his uttaranccs can be taken
as at least scmi-official.
This scmi-officiaI representative Of
,he German Government, writes from
Berlin under the date of anuary Il.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26

Detroit, Mich, May 19.-Thcodoro
Roosevelt invaded the stronghold o.
Henry Ford today and let the motor
car maker know in plain language Just
what he thought of him.
While processing great admiration
for Mr.. FOrd's character and his treat
ment Of his employees, Mr.. Roosevelt
declared Mr.. Ford would willingly
turn the whole country, including his
.workmcn, Over to a foreign invader.
Philanthropic Belgian employers be
fore the war likewise treated their
workers well and de2ricd prepared
ness for war, the Colonel said.
Todayt hcse workingmen are in pov-
crty; they cannot find work to do, eI-
cept al the bchest of the conqucror.
and their employers fine theories have
resulted only in disaster and Voc.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he was reluctant
10 sneak Just before the conventions,
because it is very difficult TO make
people understand that speeches at
such a time are not Of The ordinary
political type made in the interest Of
some particular Individual candidacy
But the success Of Mr.. Ford in the
primaries of Michigan. and his great
serength in Nebraska and Pennsyi-
vania had had such on effect on Con
grezsmen, he continued, that ne must
speak out.
Like Mr.. Ford, the Tories of the
Revolution and the Coppcrhcads Of the
Civil War were many of them "men
of fine character and upright pur-
pose"
Like Mr.. Ford, they proposed to get
the "boys" of Bunker Hill and Valley
Forge and the "boys" Of the Army Of
the Potomac "out Of the trenches by
Christmas. He continued:
of these pacifsts Of the Revolution
and the Civil War had had their way,
they would have put an immediate
stop to much suffering and much loss
! Of life. They would have secured the
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26
LEGAL NOTICES.
SHERIFF'S SALE
OF REAL ESTATE IN PARTITION.

In the Cape GirarHeau Court of Com
mon Pleas, within and for the
County Of Cape Girardeau and State
of Missouri.--Tucsday, the 9TH day
Of March, 1916, the 9Th dag Of the
February term, 1916:
George VI. Johnson and Iva }
+. Johnson, Plaintiffs, }
George H. Johnson, min }
or, Vera l.. Johnson, 4 } No. 1861
minor, Elizabeth Pauline }
Davis, George Miller and }
Lcona Barrow,
Defendants. }
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26
Especial dispatch to The Tribune

lh~I'~N-N>A
Detroit, Mich, May 70. - Henry
Ford, after making an appointment to
call upon Col. Roosevelt here tonight,
sent word to the Colonel that he would
not keep the appointment, but would
like to have Mr.. Roosevelt call upon
him at the Ford plant. The Colonel.
therefore, handed bacl, 10 Mr. Ford
what Mr.. Ford handed to him-a snub.
Roosevelt was greeted by at least
10000 people ard his address on rrc-
parcdncss met with tremendous
response from the crowd. The great
throng stood in q driving rain 10 shake
hands with the former President, The
Colonel left tonight for Oyster Bay
without commenting on The Ford Incl
dent, which caused sensation.
The address Of the Colonc! was .
dcnunciation of Henry Ford's peace
propaganda.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26
Ford Sng1bs Roosevelt, then
the Colonel Lambasts Him

Peace Apostle Makes Appointment to Call Oyster Bay
Candidate then Recalls and Asks the Colonel to Visit
Him, Which Roosevelt Refuses to Do-Ten Thousand
Cheer Preparedness Talk.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26

H, c. Blanton yesterday came I'D
from Slkeston on business.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26

NATIONAL BANK IN SOUTH
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-08
COAL BILLS FOR
FAIRFIELD'S new
SCHOOL AMAZING
Building Noted Throughout
Country Scene of Expert
Investigation.
Especial to The Farmer.)


Fairfield, Jan. 8-A corps of expert
sanitary engineers brought from New
York, Boston and other cities has
been at work in the newly completed
Sherman school, Fairfield, for the last
week, Investigating the ventilation
system in its relation with the heat
ing system of the school.
The Fairfield institution is noted
throughout the country for it's ventil-
ating and other sanitary features,
supervision of Samuel H. Wheeler,
much time in aiding the school board
in the work ~
Last winter. about 128 tons, of coal
and with the opening of two addi-
tional rooms this year the coal con-
sumption has become 50 large that
its very mention has become a verita-
bic banshee to the school directors.
When it was discovered that small
pieces Of paper thrown into the air
above the scholars heads, would oe
sucked directly about the room and
towards the venti1ator outlets, it be-
came the belief of local observers that
while superior ventilation was INSTALL
ed the heating expense was also. great
1y increased. pa
1T is in an effort to overcome this
expenditure of money for coal that
the experts were called to Fairfield
to suggest a possible remedy. 1t is un-,
derstood that the expense is borne
entirely by Mr.. Wheeler, who had
already done much for the school
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-08
Claims Committee
Hears Many Petitions

The claims committee meeting in
the common council chamber at city
hall last night considered the follow
ing claims against the city but took
no action:
Rogers Clothing company for
abatement of interest on expense on
list of 1914.
A. L. Nett1eton for adjustment of
assessment for Barnum avenue sani-
tary sewer. y
Dorr R. Whitney for abatement of
interest and expense on assessment
for wood block paving on Stratford
avenue in name of Ella De R1yter
and D. Campbell.
Gates Wagon Co. and w. A. Smith
& Son for reimbursement for, damage
done on account of running away of
horse attached to fire department.
supply wagon. 4
Charles A. Smith for reimburse
ment for damages done to" auto on ac-
count of defective street.
Herman Nelson for refund of $40
for pool room license
John Cassidy for abatement of per-
sonal taxes.