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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-26

ing winning run for Cards. Phils
couldn't hold early lead, errors up
setting Demaree.
Brooklyn put through a deal that
may insure pennant for the Dodg-
ers, trading Catcher Lew McCarty to
the Giants for First Baseman Fred
Merkle. Robinson was badly in
need of a first baseman, as Daubert
may be out for the remainder of the
season. Merkle is in luck to go from
q second position team to a Shot at
the world series coin. McCarty is
the white slave in this case.
Terry Thomas, Jimmy KiIroy's
middleweight, knocked out Kid Ma
honey in the sixth round of a fast
bout Kilroy and his star are now on
their way to Fargo, S. D., where they
have a fight carded with Young
Tommy Burns.
frankie Callahan oUtfought Ad
Wolgast in ten rounds at New York.
The Brooklyn man took the advan-
tage in the last two rounds. WolgastI
made a game battle.
Mrs. Frank c. Let's, Cincinnati,
won the women's western. golf
championship, defeating Miss Laurie
Kaiser of Chicago, 3 and 1, at Grand
Rapids.
Jim Jeffries, former heavyweight
champ, may lose his right arm. It
has become infected following a cut
on the hand
John Pep and his brother, F. Pep,
mixed things on the st. Louis golf
links the other day. A lively two
come was had by all.
CANTWELL ADMITS 10y RIDE"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-26
ROBERTSON HALTED IN FIGHT
ON LAKE BOATS

The fight on filthy lake boats from
which slop is thrown into the water
near the shore where bathers paddle
and splash was stopped for a time
when DR.. John D. Robertson, health
com'r, was told by the corporation
'coUnsePs Office he couldn't intern
lake boats.
An opinion from Ettelson yester-
day warned Robertson that the city
could not interfere with the boats.
He can sue the owners, however.
This step is expected.
The boats named by Robertson as
violators Of the law requiring tanks
to carry the slop are the Mackinac,
United Shores, Mineral City, John
Dewar and the FaVorite.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-26
CANTWELL ADMITS Joy. RIDE"
BUT DENIES GIRLS CHARGE

A. S. Cantwell, insurance adjuster,
admitted yesterday he had taken
Florence Jacobsen for a Joy ride"
but denied the girls charge that he
had forced his attentions on her after
"stalling" his car on a lonely road
near the House That Jack Built. "
The girl repeated her charges in
Judge Rafferty's court yesterday, but
the case was continued until Aug. %
because Cantwen failed to appear in
court The latter said the girl firt-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-26
ed with him at Madison and Kedzie
and he invited her to take a ride.
WILSON SAVES COUPLE FROM
BEING DEPORTED

Mrs. Sarah Schimelson and her
daughter, Esther, 16, will not be sent
back to war-toTn Poland, the scene
of their greatest Unhappiness. The
two were to be sent back because
they had no money when they landed
in New York Aug. 5 and the govern
ment feared they would become
public charges" But an hour be-
fore the ship that was to take them
back sailed a telegram from Presi-
dent Wilson came and they will be
allowed to remain in the new world.
Chicago friends Of the family urged
Wilson to take such action. Mrs.
Schimelson's husband was shot to
death in Suwalk, Poland, shortly
after the war began, when Cossacks
discovered he had been selling bread
to Germans.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-07-27
OPERATION SAVED
FARM BOYS LIFE
Curtis Clippard Suffers Bad In.
ternal Injury While BaIing
Hay.

Six hours after he had been injured
internally while baling hay yesterday
afternoon, an operation in st. Fran
els Hospital last night, disclosed that
blood poisoning had started in the
stomach of Curtis Clippard, ID years
old, which would have resulted in the
boys death within but a few hours
had the injury been neglected.
The boy was hurt on his fathers
farm where he was driving mule to a
hay-baler about four miles northwest
Of Jackson. He was taken to his
fathers home nine miles from Jack
son and physician summoned.
The lad was driving the mule at
tached to tow line that puts the pres
sure upon the ram of the hay-baler.
He was walking close behind the ami
NAL when one of the traces snapped.
The mule was pulling hard and the
pressure against the singletree threw
it back with tremendous force as the
trace snapped in two. The end that
had been attached to the broken trace
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-07-27

strack the Clippard boy in the stom-
ach.
He was thrown ten feet by the force
OF the blow on his stomach. When q
doctor reached his side from Jackson,
it seemed impossible to relieve the
boys suffering. He was removed
from his home near Oak Ridge to the
Cape for an operation.
The lad was placed on an operating
table shortly before midnight and it
was more than an hour before the
work was completed. 1t was found
that the force of the blow he received
had made hole as large as half dol
lar il enc Of the organs of his stomach,
around which blood poisoning already
had started.
Had the hole been neglected, the boy
would have died by this morning, his
physicians declared Early this morn
ing, after the operation had been COM
pleted, it was said the boy was doing
well and he is expected to get we'll.
He is member Of a prominent fam
lily Of farmers living near Oak Ridge.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-07-27

The Lee boys foot slipped in be-
tween the iron braces of his improvis-
ed ladder as he fell as when his body
had passed down below that point, his
foot caught. He hung by the foot and
one leg.
1t is estimated that he had been in
that position for at least five minutes
before he could be taken down.
When his body was examined by a
doctor, it was found that he had sus-
tanned electrical burns along the spine
on his back and on the neck and back
of the head. One of his ears was so
badly burned that it was almost COM
pletely taken off.
He also sustained a badly wrenched
ankle and bruises over the body. Late
last night the physician in charge Of
the case declared that unless compli-
cations set in the life of the boy will
be saved.
The boy is a son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. 7. Lee, well-known transfer man in
Chaffss-
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-07-27
NEGRO THREATENED
Lift OF ALEXANDER
Must Face Attempted Assault
Charge in Circuit
Court.

The trial of Burette Rollins, the ne
gro who was fired upon By Mrs. Ever
EFT Alexander as he attempted to en-
ter her home Thursday afternoon,
three miles north of Jackson, yester-
day morning brought out the fact that
Rollins has threatened the lives of
both the husband of the woman who
drove him away, and Dean Ware, 4
neighboring farmer.
Testimony at the preliminary hear
ing before Justice of the Peace Char
les Jaeger disclosed that the negro had
said that even if he is sentenced to a
term of Is years in the penitentiary on
the charge which he now faces, he will
find the two men and "get even" at the
close of his sentence.
Rollins was bound over to the Cir
cult Court on a charge of attempting
to perform an assault. His bond was
fixed at $500 and in his failure to fur
nish bond, he was placed in the
County Jail at Jackson.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander took
the stand in the preliminary hearing
yesterday and testified to the blacks
actions and told the story of how Mrs.
Alexander drove the negro away from
her door with a shotgun and then
planned his arrest.
Linus Robbins, brother of Burette,
told how the man had asked him to
run to Jackson to get the latter's gun
after he had been driven away from
the Alexander home and had sought
ritfuge at the Hoffmeister place where
n formerly had been employed as a
thresherman.
Linus Robbins refused to act for his
brother and he was unable to make
resistance when Constable James How
ard came to arrest HIM.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-07-27
Will SCHWAB Will
MARRY HIS nurse
Former jackson Man to Wed in
st. Louis Today and
Visit Here.

A romance that had its beginning
last spring in the sickrOom when the
bride-elect nursed the bridegroom back
to health, will eliminate today in the
wedding in St. Louis Of Will Schwab.
formerly assistant postmaster at Jack
son, and Miss Wagner, of Indiana, 4
trained nurse:
The wedding will be held in St.
Louis today, relatives of Mr.. Schwab
have been informed, and following the
ceremony, the couple will come to the
Cape and Jackson where Mr.. Schwab
will introduce his wife to the members
of his family.
The Schwab family is one of the
most prominent in Jackson and Cape
County, and Young Schwab has large
circle of friends here.
He now is employed in the Office of
the Simmons Hardware Co, at st.
Louis. Last spring he became serious
ly i'll and was forced to go to the Bap-
fist Sanitarium where he was con-
fined to his bed for several weeks.
1t was while he was Il patient at
the hospital that he met Miss Eag-
ner. The couple fell in loYe and on
his recovery and discharge as pa
tient from the hospital, Mr.. Schwab
continued his visits to the institutiITl
to WOO the nurse who had brought
back. his health.
They became engaged but a short
time ago.
Mr.. Schwab is a brother Of Ben
Schwab of Jackson. He is u son Of
Mrs. B. F. Schwab. The members of
his family will hold small reunion
today to meet the bridal pair as they
arrive in the Cape.
He has three sisters-Miss Gertrude
Schwab, Mrs. Nellie Allen of Chafrec,
and Mrs. ]. LaCroix of the Cape.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-07-27
WILL COMMENCE OIL
DRILLING AT HAYTI
st. Louis Concern to Erect Shaft
on T. P. RussePs Land
Soon.

Drilling for oil on land at Hayti
owned by T. R. Russell of 121 North
Boulevard, will be commenced this
week it was learned yesterday, and
the results from the one well, if favor
able, may start an oil boom in South
east Missouri that will make million
aires overnight of persons who own
the proper land.
The drilling will be conducted by the
International Oil Association, Mis-
souri, corporation having its headquar-
tiers at st. Louis, and for which Mar
eel Temple, of the Cape, is the district
manager in charge Of the work around
Hayti.
The st. Louis corporation already
has leases on $500 acres of land where
oil men declare the prospect of a
"strike" are good and negotiations
now are under way to obtain several
additional tracts of land there.
Oil men who have gone over the
situation at Hayti declare that the
prospects on the surface are better
than at Bomont, Tex, where gushers
were found. Across the Mississippi
from Hayti, at Reelfoot Lake, oil has
been found in paying quantities. and
those who have studied the topography
maps have found that the ridge that
passes through the Hsyti district fol-
lows q Decline to the Bomont, Tex,
locality.
The St. Louis oil concern, Temple
declared yesterday, has been in Hayti
since January and the work has been
conducted actively for the last two
months. The well-digging was delay
ed for weeks on account Of the slow
ness in getting derrick and drills.
Temple says his company now is
pushing work in six other states, and
in many of the localities already has
found oil. The company is operating
in Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, Mis-
souri,, Illinois and Arkansas.
Prospecting is being done around
Kennett and at Jonesboro. Ark.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-07-27
HENRY S. WILSON
''SADDLED" CAPE
With DEBTS
Voted in Legislature Against
Making Drainage District
Liable for Bridges.
HOUSE JOURNAL SHOWS
RECORD OF HIS VOTE
Herman Rabich Put Issue Up To
Him Squarely and He
Passed Buck.

That Henry S. Wilson, hardware
merchant Of Ava, who Is a candidate
for the Republican nomination for
Congress, heIred with his vote, while
a member of the Legislature in 1911,
to lit a debt of 100000 from the Lit
tie River Drainage District and saddle
it upon the taxpayers of Cape County,
became known yesterday.
When the Legislature was work
ing upon the bills providing for the
special drainage districts, Mr.. Wilson
voted against a proposition to make
the drainage districts pay for bridges
that cross the bitches, rather than the
county.
Cape County now is confronted with
a bill for approximately 100000 for
bridges that will have to be built over
the main diversion channel of the Lit
tie River Drainage District. Although
but ) per cent of Cape County farms
will be benefited by the drainage ditch
ing Improvement which causes the out
lay for bridges, the citizens of all
parts of the county will have to bear
their share of the tax.
Mr.. Wilson, according to the Jour
nal of the House for the fifty-sixth day
of the session, March IS, 1911, was
given an opportunity to vote for an
amendment to, the drainage district
bill which would place the expense Of
bridge-making unequivocally upon the
drainage district. He voted against it
and voted for the present bill as it
now stands.
The amendments to the drainage
district bill which would have lifted
the cost of bridges from the taxpayers
Of the county, were presented by Her
man Rabich of the Cape, who was the
Cape County Representative in the
General Assembly.
The first amendment that Mr.. Ra-
bich offered, according to the record
in the House Journal, provided: "All
bridges contemplated by this section
shall be built according TO and in COM
pliance with the plans, specific lions
and orders made or approved ~. the
State Highway Ea4ineer."
The amendment Vas read and failed
of adoption by vote of 115 to 10.
Mr.. Rabich then offered his second
amendment: 1.-THE supervisors shall, at
the expense of the entire drainage dis
trict, build all bridges and approaches
thereto over every drain, ditch, canal
or excavation wherever said drain,
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-07-27
'CHAFFEE BOY Is,
HANGS SELF And
SAVES own life
Knocked Senseless by Wire,
His Foot Catches on
Brace in Fall.
HEADHUNG DOWNWARD
MINUTES IN FALL
Loyd Lee Climbed Pole Over
Companions Protest
Will Recover.

When his foot caught in an iron
brace on an electric light wire pole in
Chaffee yesterday afternoon, 13-year
old Lloyd Lee hung head downward,
suspended Is feet from the ground,
and his life was saved after he had
been badly burned and knocked uncon-
scious by a live wire carrying $4,000
volts of electricity which he touched.
The boy had clambered to the top
of the pole over the protest of COM
Epanion and playmate, Cecil Finley, Is
years old, who ran for aid after the
Lee boy had been shocked by the cleo
trici.y and was hanging from the top
of the pole.
John Carder, foreman of section
gang working on the Frisco tracks
nearby, came to the boys rescue with
some of his men and they managed
to extricate his foot from the place
in which it was caught and lowered
his unconscious form from the top cf
the pole.
The story of the accident as the Fin
ley boy told it is as follows:
The two boys had gone down to the
southern edge of the town to hunt rsb-
bits wit h their dog. They had been
chasing a rabbit and as they approach
ed the high line of the Public Utilities
Company running from the Cape to
Orar, they lost track of their prey.
The Lee boy suggested that he would
Chamber up the steel pole which is
equipped with a lattice work that
forms ladder 1T the side, and try
to relocate the rabbit from the top of
the role.
The Finley boy warned the Lee lad
from the climb and told him of the
danger of the wires. He admonished
the boy that the bare wires were live
and if touched could result in his
death.
The Lee boy started to climb any,
way end the Finley boy sat down at
the bottom. The Lee lad had proceed
ed well toward the top of the pole and
was sitting astride one of the cross
arms with one foot stidll resting or
step of his improvised ladder below,
when he touched the high line.
A physician was, summoned and aft
er working over the lad long time,
he was revived and taken to his home.
He was knocked unconscious instant
ly and he tumbled from his position on
the cross-arm and started to fall to the
ground. The Finley lad watched him
and sprang away from the base Of the
pole.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-07-27

canal or excavation may cross any
public road or highway"
This likewise failed of adoption by
the same vote, and Mr.. Rabich ant
the record bear out the fact that Mr.
Wilson voted against it. When the
bill was put on a roll call for fna
passage, Mr.. Wilson voted for the bill
as it stood without Mr.. Rabich's
amendments. Mr.. Rabich voted against
it with nine other men.
The argument over this issue at that
time brought about a storm of debate
on the floor Of the House. Mr.. Rabicf
spoke vigorously for his contention
that the county should be absolved OF
responsibility for the bridge debt anC
he vas supported on the floor by two
Of the men who voted for his amend
ments.
In spite of the argument, however
Mr.. Wilson, who lives in a county that
does not have any contemplated drain
age bitches to span, voted to put the
bill of costs on the counties.
M. Wilson is being boosted in Cape
County and this end of the Congress
sional district by Edward F. Regen-
hardt and E. W. Flentge, who are en-
deavoring to ride him into power.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-07-27
Or. WILLIS is IMPROVING
Has New X-ray Photo Taken of
Broken Leg-NOw Sits Up.

Another x-ray photograph yesterday
afternoon was taken of the fracture of
the left leg which DR.. B. w. Willis
suffered several weeks ago in a col
hsion between his motorcycle and an
automobile. DIR. Willis is doing well,
according to his physician, at st. Fran
els Hospital.
Photographs of the break have been
taken at intervals since DR.. Willis has
been in the hospital in order to watch
the manner in which the broken bones
are knitting together.
DIR. Willis suffered a compound frac-3
ture and for many days he was forced
to lie on his back without moving in
his bed. He now is able to sit up in
bed.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-07-27

Arthur Koeppel, express messenger
on the Poplar Bluff line, is reported to
be critically i'll at his home on North
Henderson avenue. His condition has
become worse within the last few
days and it is believed he may be suf-
fering with tuberculosis of the spine.
His place now is being filed by Axel
Kjar.
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-01-16
TWO HGiD.UPS
 TAKE PLACE AT MIAMI

| MIAMI. Jan. G-Two dispatches of
 Jessie James last night held up.three | citizens aud relieved them of sums ranging from S2i So downward The first ho!dup occurred at aoout s o'clock on the railway tracks below the Halsread Lumber Company. George Cooper. the victim. informed Deputy Sh rif Jessie Henderson that he had been going down the track when t~o m- T stepped out in front of him. One had a flash light ard both had guns; which he described as brand new auto m2ticS. They fla shed the light in his face. and wh:le one of the kept his gun under he victims npse the other went through his clothes. and came out ahead to the amount of S2iS0 T. is stated that later in the even ing. at about the same spot. another man was held up by the same pair, and robbed ol eli he had
 Harry kierene. an employe of the Miami Copper cmpauy. who resides on Miami Hill. was on his way home last night. and had just reached the cunceGtrator. when a couple of men -;"ppPd out and told him to throw up hie hands This he did with ceieniy. vided with guns When the highway men were through with him. Kierene was out fifteen dollars.
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-01-16
Captures Bootlegqers

Constable J, D. Prewitt. of Bowie. was visitor in the county seat today. having brought i'll a bootleggcr by the name of Q $. Stroud. whom he appre- hendsd while tr;ing to make a sn-ak into Arizona with a quantity ol "bo ot- leggers delight" Consta ble Prewitr has been quite busy of late capturing would. be introducers of liquor into diy Arizona, and the bootlegferS from Bowie may have swelled the ranks of the bootlegger gang on the county roads of late, Sheriff Wheeler recently captured several large consignments in that section.
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-01-16
TUESDAY

Ross mill iu the Ch.-icahua noun taius hes closed down. This action be- came necessary on account or heavy now in the mountains and extreme cold weather which iurerfered with the work The mill will mmo nee opera tions again in March Nearly all the teamsters with their outfits came in this morning
 James Reilly returned today from Benson where hg haG been an attorney or II 4 Holland. accrs rd of larccn,
 Tho people c. the PsciEc coast sent east last year over S3.OO0,OU in cash for eggs and poultry. II Il Was no, for the profli= =ate manner in winch the western people live. half ,he people in the east would be in the poor house.
 The jury for the coming term of court VII be drawn tonight at7 o'clock. There will be 5G grand and lU0 trial jurors drawn. This ls one ol the lot ter.es where blanks are prizes.
 The frs, gun 70 open the ball of th e Iolit;cal cam pai .n this fall w,l be shot oi June, when the supervisors of the different counties meet and appoint judges and inspectors Of election.
 The enormous number Of 36. .nUO quail were shipped through the Phoe nix express office during the year 1891.
 The Ci.y Council will meet tonight.
 Nat Hawke has notified the clerk Of ,he council that i7e las thrown up his lease 10 the city water works.
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-01-16

ground about two blocks above the school hou>a. with a back stop which 'Sls erected al a cost of $36. Frank Ryan took he matter m hand and bought the lumber on his own responsi- hi.iJy. trusting to he lberality of the citiz ns to makS up the amount, which they are doing with their usual gener osity.
 United Verde of northern Arizona and declared dividend of $ 3O.OOO.
 The court house lawn is being treated ed 10 a coat Of dressing that will cause two blades of grass to grow where one grew before.
 The Chinese wash houses have raised he price of washing as they pay an in creased rate for water since the city water works closed down.
 Robbers Secured s220O worth of bull lion from the Florence and Globe stage last week. They had no' been captured when last the pursu-rs were heard from put Indian trailers are s:ill after tine robberS
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-01-16
CIDER AND hEhR.bEER
 CASES NOW N C0yRT

PHOENIX. Arizona. lar. II. 19l'-
 Cider and near-beer formed the pgin cipal topics oi argument in the state supreme court today.
 The I. r.. Troutcr cider case of Phoe nix and tn" James Hamilton near-beer of ouglas were argued before the court. Attorneys kibbey and Bennett appeared for Hamilton. aud Attorneys J. E. Nelson aud ]. ]. Cox for Troute,
 Both Trouter and HImlitou have ap . pealed from the the judgment oi the lower court finding them guilty of vio- lating the state wide prohibition law
 Trouter is an employe Of the Walter Hill company of this city who was found guilty of selling cider. He maintains that he did not know it was intoxicating
 Hamilton is aIlged to have sold two bottles of Golden Ribbon. a n-ar-be,-. to Harry Wheeler of Cochisc ,unty Golden Ribbon is alleged Co ne intoXi- eating. Hamilton was convicted oi violating the prohibition law.
 Both the Hamilton and TToutcr cases were taken under adviecmCut The court will hear the personal uSe" cass Saturday These cases are attract. ing much attenti on. as they will decide whether the importation of liquor into of the prohibition law
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-01-16
OLD CITIZEN ANSWERS
 THE FINAL SUMMONS

PHOENIX, Jan. Il.-John T. Dun lap, an old citizen of Phoenix, one of it's best known real estate dealers and n man prominent in the social. political and religious life of the city, died yes- terday at his home on West Jeffesson street in the sixtieth year of hIs age The immediate cause of his death was anemia.
 A life long Democrat. he was prom inent in the political life of Pho~nix. He was also a member of the commis- sion appointed by the state to arrange for the transfer of the State Industrial School from Benson to Ft. Grant.
 The body will be taken To Kansas City for burial.