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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-14
WOULD FRATERNIZE
WITH SOUTH AMERICA
President Wilson in Speech Before
Pan-American Congress Urges
Domestic Peace.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 1.-THE
United States Government Pan-Amer-
lean policy was revealed in detail by
President Wilson last night in an ad-
dress before the second Pan-American
Scientific Congress. He explained
the proposals submitted to South and
Central American diplomats here last
week by Secretary Lansing as basis
for an effective agreement between all
the republics of the Western Hemis-
phere, mot only for international
peace of America, but the domestic
peace of America"
This program, as outlined by the
President, proposes that all the Amer
lean nations SHALL
Unite in guaranteeing to each other
absolute political independence and
territorial integrity.
Agree to settle all pending bound
airy disputes as soon as possible by
amicable process.
Agree to handle all disputes aris-
ing among them by patient, impair
tial investigation and to settle them
by arbitration.
Agree that no revolutionary expe-
dition shall be QUILTED against or
supplies for revolutionists shipped to
neighboring States.
"These are very practical sugges-
tions," said the President, "and / for
my part believe that they are going
to lead the way to something that
America has prayed for for many a
generation"
He said the Monroe Doctrine al
ways had been and always would be
maintained by the United States on
it's own authority, but that the doc
trine did not disclose what attitude
the United States would assume to-
ward other nations of the hemisphere,
and consequently the other nations
had been distrustful of it.
Enthusiastic applause from the del
egates greeted the Presidents re-
marks.
"'The Monroe Doctrine was pro-
claimed by the United States on her
own authority" President Wilson
said. at always has been maintained
and always will be maintained upon
her own responsibility. But the Mon
roe Doctrine demanded merely that
European Governments should not
attempt to extend their political sys-
tens to this side of the Atlantic. 1T
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-14

There were no decisions in any of
these contests, Sharkey will meet
Knockout Richeson on January oath,
at the same place. In a former meet,
Richeson got Knockout of Sharkey
in the second round
Fatty Watson and Ed Greene left
Sunday for Joplin, where they have
secured positions on baseball teams
for the coming season.
Miss Catherine Dempsey is con-
fined to her bed with rheumatism and
grip.
DR.. G. B. Williams is suffering with
the grip and is unable to be about.
DR.. Rohrback is treating a son of
j. W. Rigsby for typhoid fever.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Parker are visiting
Mrs. Parker's aunt, Mrs. Dimes, at
Fredericktown.
Joe Jacobs visited his parents at
Ste. Genevieve over Saturday and
Sunday.
DR.. Keith is on a business trip to
st. Louis.
The funeral of Mrs. Former occur
red here Sunday afternoon. Her
death was caused from dropsy, and
occurred at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. jeff Kennedy. A son, G.
FORMER, of Monet, Ark, and daugh-
ters, Mrs. Tilda Lebhardt, of st.
Louis, and Mrs. Henry johnson, of
Monet, Ark, attended the funeral.
Miss Edna Fortner, who has been
taking care of her grandmother, Mrs.
FORMER, for the past six weeks, left
yesterday for her home in Monet,
Ark.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-14
home folks last week.

visited home folks last week.
Edward Powers is on the sick list.
"Billy" Baker is visiting his uncle,
G. P. Lucas.
Mrs. Clardy Mitchell entertained
relatives from Leadwood Sunday.
Miss Myra Belknap is on the sick
list.
Mrs. Bessie Light and little son
visited her sister, Mrs. Clyde Matkin,
several days last week.
Otto West visited in Fredericktown
last week.
Al Hinze of st. Louis is visiting
home folks.
The death angel entered the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Tumbleson on
Friday night and claimed for it's vic
tim their little daughter, Helen May,
aged two years and II months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gentry Goggin visit
ed the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs,
Sherman West, of Loughboro.
C. Buford is sick with la grippe.
Everett Hughes made a business
trip to lockwood last week.
Estelle Cooley is out of school on
account of sickness.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-14

O. W. Ramsey WINS st. Louis Wis
itor Monday.
Miss Jane Muhger Of Piedmont
visited friends here this week.
Fred Tromey has opened grocery
store in the Leygett building.
Grant Evans Of Harrington was a
business visitor here Monday.
Mrs. Wilt Bailey is slowly i'm
proving from an attack of pneumonia.
VIM. F. West, Gus Steffin and Har-
ny Berthold are the petitjurors from
this township to serve at the Febru-
airy term of Circuit Court
Rev. Harrol of Dallas, Texas, has
been visiting his brother here, John
Harrol, for the past few days.
S. 7. Middleton of Irondale was
here Monday. He advises the road
bond issue of fifteen thousand dollars
carried by over two-thirds majority
at the election Saturday last. This,
of course, means substantial road i'm
provements for our sister town.
Thirty-nine births and twenty-five
deaths is the record for Iron Town
ship for the year 1915.
Frank Rickrnar left last week for
Texas, where he has secured employ
ment.
Chas. Sawyer is on the sick list
this week.
R. J. Finley and wife moved to De
Soto Monday.
HELEN, the little daughter of VIM.
Tumbleson, age two and one-half
years, died Friday evening last upon
the arrival Of her sister, Mrs. Mar
tina Steel, of Los Angeles, California.
The remains viii be inferred in the
Masonic cemetery.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-14
ELVINS

The opera house building was sold
at public auction a few days ago. j.
L. Bridgeman purchased the property
and will make quite a number of re-
pairs on the building.
Virgil and Raymond Carr of Flat
River spent Sunday at the home of
Frank Mcfarland and family.
Luther Degrant of near Sprott is
here on an extended visit with home
folks.
Miss Minnie Farris spent Satur-
day and Sunday at the home of Miss
Elsie Reichart.
Dewey Barker of Knob Lick is
spending a few days here with
friends.
1t is rumored on our streets that
moving picture show will be estab-
lished in the Dixon building soon.
A. H. Dace was a Flat River Wis
itor Monday.
Pete Propst is very i'll at this re-
port.
Rev. II. P, Grove, Presiding Elder
of the Pennington District of the
Methodist Church, preached at the NJ.
E. Church here Sunday, Jan. 8.
Mr.. SCHNEIDER is erecting q brick
building on the vacant lot adjoining
the Langdon Hotel lot east Of the
bridge.
School is progressing nicely.
Ernest AuBuchon of Flat River
spent few hours here with friends
Saturday.
VIM. Smith is suffering with a Sc
rious attack of asthma.
Joe Alexander is remodeling his
residence on Mill street.
j. l.. Scowden and wife of near
Cornwall spent Saturday and Sunday
at the home of the latter's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Wolfe.
Ira Black was the guest of VIM.
Smith and family Monday.
John Moran, wife and Miss Della
Blake of Flat River attended the fun
eral of Mrs. D. H. Sheriff. here Sat
urday.
Mrs. D. H. Sheriff, who has been
sick for the past fifteen months, died
at her home Thursday at $3.50 p. M,
January 6, 1916. She was born in
Alabama September Is, 1S49. Fun
eral services were conducted Satur-
day at 2:30 p. m. by Rev. Webb of
Bismarck, at the Baptist Church. In
terment was made at the Elvins Gem
etery. She leaves to mourn her I'M
timely death one sister and one bro
Their, also a husband and a number
of friends.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-14
WALES MINES

Misses Edith, Sadie and Helen
Rowe, Lille Polite and Mrs. Sarah
Rowe visited at the home of W. E.
Heaton Tuesday.
Geo. Whitzel visited at the home of
S. A. Sykes Sunday.
Miss Mary Stephens visited Mrs.
Lizzie Frazier Monday. Mrs. Fra
zier has been sick with la grippe, but
is better at this writing.
Miss Myrtle Heaton, who has been
sick with pneumonia, is better.
Mrs. Efie Turlay visited at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Turley
Saturday. sp.
Miss Gustina TurIay visited Miss
Edith and Kennett Turley Sunday.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-14
LIBERTYyILLE

W. A. Shaw shipped couple cars OF
hogs to the East st. Louis market the
first of this week.
Mr.. Oliver CrHmp received the sad
news of the death of his brother at
Bonnie Terre last week.
Robert and Marion Moran of Bonnie
Terre spent last Sunday here the
guests of their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Moran.
Miss Myrtle Simpson is spending
the week in Bonne Tefre the guest of
her aunt, Mrs. DAVID Moran.
Drs. Eugas, Watkins and Smith of
Pennington were REufessional callers
here last week,
f. L. Graham end f. O. Presnell
each are preparing to get out the tim
bers to build new barns just as soon
Is ~ Weather VIII permit.
j hurley was a st. Louis bus
Tres itor a couple days last week.
Ig NTH has Snst completed fine
nev rn, dimenstens SIS by 80 feet,
which adds much TO The appearance
of his firm.
ans sssg crew of men
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-14
FLAT RIVER NEWS

S. Goodman, of the mercantile firm
of Goodman & Dehovitz, was taken to
st. Louis hospital the first of the
week to undergo an operation for APP
pendicitis.
w. P. Hovis informs us that there
are quite a number of men working
here who would bring their families,
but are unable to- secure suitable
houses.
Curly Davis and Young Wolf had
a four-round boxing contest here Fri
day night. Curtis and Howard APP
peared in the semi-wind-up for eight
rounds, which went to the finish.
Young Sharkey, of the Future City
Athletic Club, and young Gerber, Of
he South Broadway Athletic Club,
vent eight rounds for a wind-up.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-14
BISMARCK R. F. D.

Mr.. and Mrs. S. P. Dent are enter
tanning their niece, Miss Mildred
Clark, of San Francisco, Cal.
The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Gentry Goggin is reported quite sick.
The Misses Katie and Nora Powers
are visiting home folks.
VIII and John Hinze are recover
ing from an attack of la grippe.
Miss Pearl Hull of Pennington Wis
tied Mrs. Gentry Goggin last week.
Mrs. Finis Sinclair is sick at the
home of her sister, Mrs. T. H. Coxey.
Otto West and Sister, Miss Lottie,
visited relatives in Pennington last
week.
Sterling Matkin of Madison, ILL.,,
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-14

The Sheahan Granite Company al
Graniteville last week secured a con-
tract for 100000 paving blocks for the
United Railways, st. Louis. This is
the biggest contract for blocks thai
has been secured at Graniteville ID
several years and will keep quite q
lot of men employed throughout tn
winter.-Iron County Register.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-14

1t is pretty generally rumored over
town that the Schultz Mining Co. land
south of town will be drilled right
away by Ameling. 1t is said that Mr..
Weber of Pennington, one of the
principal owners, has pushed the mat
ter of getting the drilling started.
This is said by many to be the best
mil-ng proposition In thu county. It
was thoroughly drilled by the late
Frank Schultz but all his cores and
records were destroyed - when the
Trust building burned. So before it
could be sold to mining company
other reliable records would have to
be obtainde.- Frederirktown Demo-
crat-News.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-14
= COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE ;:

at work fencing up lot of his hill
land which he intends to use for pas
ture purposes.
Mrs. s. E. Shamrock was called to
Allenville last week owing to the SER
ious illness of her mother, Mrs. Pres
nell.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-14
Missouri

The following tribute to Missouri
was written for the Commercial Club
of Jefferson City by Prof. E. w. JUS
tice, author of book of poems, en-
titled, "Life's Golden Dreams" Mr..
Justice was reared in Platte county,
Missouri, and taught in Platte and
Clay counties for a number of years,
but is now principal of Jefferson City
Business College.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-14

L
Should you want to know the reason
Am glad to tell you why.
love the thrilling stories,
Of her sturdy pioneers,
And never tire of reading
Of Boone and his compeers.
The Romance of her early days
Is like a pleasant dream,
Could do honor to her heroes,
'Twould be my chosen theme.
I love to recount her struggles
And the victory she won
In her fight for the Union,
In eighteen sixty-one.
As a Commonwealth, her record
Is glorious one, indeed,
In all our National Councils,
From Barton down to Reed.
She abounds in rich resources,
Has mineral wealth untold,
And her agricultural interests
Are great and manifold.
Through her center the majestic
Old Missouri flows,
And her sun-kissed hills and smiling
valleys
Blossom as the rose"
Her schools and colleges, too, IT'S said
Are fine and up to date,
And her Columbia University
Is the glory of the State.
To attain, to the highest culture,
And excel in works of art,
And lead her sons in paths of virtue,
Is the joy of her heart.
In all that goes to make State,
She is supremely blest,
And among her most illustrious sons,
Are Clark and Stone and Vest.
'Mong others, too, who've honored her
And our Dear Fatherland,
IT'S only meet to mention here,
Her Benton, Blair and Bland.
At the temple of the Nation,
And in the corridor of fame,
High upon the scroll Of honor,
She hath inscribed her name.
In the galaxy of States
There is no brighter star,
And other names she loves to honor
Are Hadley, Folk and Carr.
Missouri's blest in her location,
Blest in climate, blest in land,
Blest in all that makes an Empire,
Truly great and grand.
Yea, she's the Central Sun,
In constellation,
The grandest ever seen,
And others among her Summaries
Are Woodson, Schurz and Greene.
Oh would that we had time to mention
All her sons who've won renown,
But twill suffice to further schedule
Francis, Cockrell, Burns and Brown.
And her code Of Ethics, too, is high,
As can anywhere be found,
Here, "Peace on Earth, Good Will to
Man"
Doth everywhere abound.
Oh! l might sing and chant her praises
From early dawn to set of sun,
And then should bethink myself,
Could see I'd just begun.
Here man is priced for high ideals,
And his intrinsic worth,
More than for his sordid millions,
Or his royal birth.
Here the Dignity of Labor
Lends charm to honest toll:
Among our greatest gods and heroes
Are the tillers of the soil.
Here the Milk of Human Kindness
Bids the dropping heart to smile,
And mitigates life's cares and sor-
rows,
And the days grow brighter all the
while.
Here life is sweet and love is law
And the home is bright and sunny,
tbs the goodly land of which you read
That "Flows with milk and honey"
Here Nature hath poured out her
blessings
With a free and lavish hand,
And if man could but realize it,
He's in the promised Land"
Here, rights exalted and wrong de-
throned,
And justice rules, eternal,
And men see visions of that land,
Where joys are supernal.
1ara Homo cwaat on,dsn1 ,,f A. Co,,I
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-02-10
Congressman Miller Stands
By Chjppewas.
MAKES HARD FIGHT TO REDUCE
APPROPRIATIONS.

Congressman Miller, last week
when the Indian appropriation
bill was before the House, made a
hard fight against the appropria-
ton Of $185,O00 from the tribal
funds of the Chippewas of Mime
sofa, and offered an amendment to
reduce the amount to 500, 900.
He stated to the House that the
Chippewas we're opposed to the
large appropriations which were
being made annually from their
tribal funds to be squandered by
the Indian office, and gave some
illustrations of the manner in which
these funds have been squandered.
Congressman Ellsworth, the
new member from this state, who
is on the Indian commi tee, op-
posed Mr.. Miller in favor of the
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-02-10
SUBSCRIPTION: $3.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
SENATOR ROBERT M.
lAF0LLETTE.

Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin
needs no introduction as he is one
of the best known senators in the
country owing to his prominent
aggressiveness in matters Of legis
]ation. and also because of his can.
didacy for the republican presl
Dental nomination. He is good
fighter in politics, and in legisla-
ton also whenever he starts out,
and he does not do this unless he
feels he is in the right. He has
scores of admirers throughout the
country, and in the course OF
events it is possible that he may
become president of the United
States some day.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-02-10

eral belief that the factional fight
which was created between the
mixed-bloods and some full-bloods
on one side, and few full bloods
on the other, will now subside.
Assistant Commissioner of In
dian Affairs Merritt, and Judge
Pollock of the Interior Depart
ment, are quoted by the members
of the Chippewa delegation that
went to Washington last year as
saying that the suspension of the
respondents in the enrolment
cases was i'll advised, and that they
felt that the law would not sustain
the action. The decision of the
Secretary of the Interior in favor
of the respondents has justified
this belief.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-02-10
Removal Of Daniels,

The removal of G. G. Daniels
from the position of prosecutor-in-
chief of the land suits Of this res.
erva,ion will no doubt receive the
approval of the progressive In
dams of this reservation, because
he has, like NJ. G. Burch, Tenn
Harper and rSupt. Howard, been q
disturbing element among the al
lottees of this reservation since he
was assigned to Chippewa land
matters.
Mr.. Daniels had hardly got: the
official seat to which he was as
signed warm when he commenced
to interfere in tribal affairs Of the
Chippewas, which we're outside of
his duties as land prosecutor, and
in taking sides with one faction
upon this reservation as against
the other.
MIR. Kearful, successor of Mr..
Daniels, has the reputation at
Washington of beirg not only a
good lawyer but also OF being a
fair man, and he will undoubtedly
be satisfactory to all the Indians
as we'll as the whites concerned in
the White Earth land suits.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-02-10
Leech Lake Pi!|agGrs
May Sue.

A bill has been introduced in
Congress which will give the Pill
lager Chjppewas the right to sue,
in the Court of Claims, the United
States for it's failure to keep the
treaty with those indians made in
1917.
Under the treaty of 1917 the
Leech Lake Pillage-s coded to the
United States approximately 7O0,-
900 acres of ,and in Todd and
Morrison counties, in order to
have placed there the Menominee
Indians to form a barrier between
the then warning Chippewa and
Sioux tribes of Indians.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-02-10

SEN. ROBT. NJ. LA TOILETTE
Senator LaFollette was born at
Primrose, Dane County, Wiscon-
sin, June IA, 1855, and he is there
fore past sixty years of age, but
in appearance he is remarkably
we'll preserved man. He is a
graduate of the University of
Wisconsin, and by profession a
lawyer. Within two years after
be graduated, and when he was
twenty-five years of age, he was
elected county attorney of Dane
County, and reelected in 1892;
two years later he was elected a
member of Congress, and re-elect-
ed in 1886 and 1888, but defeated
in 1890. In 1900 he was elected
governor of Wisconsin; reelected
in 1902, and again in 1904.
In 1905 Senator LaFoIlette was
elected to the United States Sen
ate. and took his seat on January
4, 1906. He was reelected to the
Senate in 1911. and his term will,
therefore, expire March 3, 1917.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-02-10

The war having been in pro-
gress for more than a century, the
government proposed placing the
Menominee Indians, who were
friendly to both tribes, at a portion
Of the state where the Indian bat
ties frequently took place, and to
this the Pillager Chippewas gave
their assent under the condition
that the lands coded by the treaty
Of 1S47 would continue to be In
dian lands. For this cession the
Pillagers received fifteen thousand
dollars.
Instead of placing the Menom
inee Indians upon the lands coded
for the purpose indicated, the
United States paid the latter about
two hundred thousand dollars to
not come there, and subsequently
the lands were opened to settle
ment without further compensa-
ton to the P,llagers, and now the
latter are demanding proper com
pensation for their rights of occu-
pancy to the land on the grounds
that the government had failed to
fill it's agreement with them.
The attorneys for the Indians
are Thos. +. Wallace of Mime
apolis, and Edward L. Rogers of
Walker.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-02-10
appropriation.

appropriation.
Both Congressman Miller and
Ellsworth supported the amend
ment to the Indian bill which pro-
vides that the Chippewas shall be
paid one-fourth of the amount now
in the Treasury of the United
States TO their credit, and this pro-
vision was passed, so that if it is
kept in the bill! in the senate, a big
payment may be looked for here
by those who are competent to
handle their own affairs, and It is
hoped this payment will be made
during the coming summer.
Congressman Miller also opposed
the appropriation of $4,000 from
Chippewa tribal funds to pay ex-
per.s of the Geological Survey to
examine the unsold lands Of the
Chippewas of Minnesota and learn
if they contained mineral deposits.
This was done at the request of
the Chippewa delegates now at
Washington, but Mr.. Miller's op-
position was voted down. His
desire was not to eXpend Chlppe-
wa funds for the examination OF
the lands, for, as he stated, the
only sure test of the presence of
iron on the lands was to drill
them. and that the bill should
simply reserve the mineral rights
for the benefit of the Chppewas;
that the amount of $4,000 was
insufficient for any benefit to the
Indians.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-02-10
B|aCkfeet Indians Still
In Trouble.

Notwithstanding the fact that
A. E. McFatridge was removed
from the position of superintend-
ent of the Blackfeet Agency q
couple of years ago, be still re,
mains upon the Blackfeet reserva-
ton in Montana, a thorn in the
sides Of the Blackfeet Indians.
After his removal from the In
dian service McFatridge remained
at the agency and started news
paper, where, the Blackfeet In
dams charge, be is the controlling
factor of the affairs of their agency
and for this reason they want the
Indian office to order him away
from the reservation.
The Blackfeet Indians also have
a claim against the United States
which they want referred to the
Court of Claims for adjudication.
This claim is for land, and Robt.
Hamilton, Curly Bear, Bird Rat
tier, Wolf Plume and Oliver Sand
erville have been sent to Washing
ton from the Blackfeet reservation
to urge the passage of a bill by
Congress giving the Court of
Claims jurisdiction to try the
claim.