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The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-11-24
MANY CASES DECIDED
IN CIRCUIT COURT;
FELONY DOCKET UP
All Misdemeanor Cases Have
Been Disposed Of, AS
Have Civil Cases
COURT WILL LIKELY NOT
ADJOURN UNTIL NEXT WEEK
Felony Docket, Now Being
Heard, Is Heavier Than
Is Usual


and state misdemeanor dockets,
circuit court, presided over by
Judge Thos. E. Harwood, is now
devoting It's time to the hearing
of the felony docket, which is
heavier at this term than usual.
Several of the cases have been
heard and verdicts rendered, but
it is likely that the docket will
occupy the courts time until the
middle of next week.
A case that attracted much
attention was that of Chas. Ed
ridge and Linnie Claxton, charg-
ed with arson. The case grew
out of the burning of Eldridge's
residence near the Mineral Wells
last winter, after which Eldridge
collected insurance to the amount
of 81, 10000. Later a charge of
arson was obtained against him,
and the case set for hearing at
this term of the court. This case
occupied considerable of the
courts time, and the jury re-
turned a verdict of not guilty.
Four murder cases are up for
hearing at this term of the court,
the case of Spencer Cavitt, color
ed, charged with numbering his
wife last spring, near Cottage
Grove. has been given to the
jury, and as we go to press is
pending.
The misdemeanor cases were
disposed of as follows:
Buck Wright, tippling; retired.
Edgar Lamb, public drunken
ness: noIle pressed at defendants s
costs.
Joe Claxton, public drunken
ness; not guilty.
Bill Blackwood, tippling; con-
tlnued.
Norman Hall, tippling; nolle
pressed.
Jno Britton, wife desertion;
nolle pressed. .......
Obie Bingham, carrying pistol,
tippling, etc.; continued.
Hurley Greer, tipping; con-
tinued.
Chas Perkins, tippling; con.
tinued.
Hurley Grser, ct als., gaming
continued.
Lee Walker, public drunken.
ness; discharged.
Commodore Smith, tippling
continued.
Fonzo Greer, gaming; $40 and
costs.
Cecil Burton, public drunken
ness; $40 and costs.
Clint HAYNES, ct als., failing
to register dog; nolle pressed al
defendants costs.
Hafford Robins, furnishing
liquor to minor; not guilty.
W. A. Crockett. issuing worth
less check; indictment quashed
state appeals.
Rome Oakley. furnishing
liquor to minor; $50 fine and foul
months in the work house.
Will Jones, carrying pistol
$50 and costs.
Jim Brannon, tippling; dis
charged by the court.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-11-24
Justices Vote Nineteen To Six
teen For Acceptance Of
Proposition
$1,000 PAID In SETTLEMENT
OF ALLEGED INDEBTEDNESS
Court Was Called In Special
Session For Consideration
Of Matter

At the special session of the
county court last Monday, which
was called by Judge D. 7.
Spaulding for the purpose of
considering the proposition of
former Judge M. H. Collision,
offered in settlement of his al
legged account with the county
which it is said accrued during
his term of office, 1910 to 1916.
the offer was accepted by a vote
of 10 to 16.
At the time of Judge Collisions
retirement from the Office he was
indebted to the county something
more than 81, 900. according to
the auditors report, this amount
being the unaccounted for differ
ences shown in his office by the
audit of the county's books, and
arising during his administra-
ton as financial agent for the
county.
The case has been in Chancery
Court for a wear, and the sum in
settlement was offered by the
former Judge, he says, while
feeling that the audit showed
considerably more than was
really unaccounted for, he de-
sired a settlement rather than
going through the courts.
At the time the shortage was
reported, Judge Goldston and
his friends claimed that such was
not the case, and since that time
there has been considerable
doubt that the Office was short
the amount shown by the report.
Many of the items which were
checked as shortages, it is said,
were never collected and could
never have been collected they
were worthless.
It is claimed by some of Gold
ston's friends that there was no
shortage whatever, and that the
entire amount could be account
ed for by the worthless bonds
and other items that appeared
in the auditors report.
The Court, after due consider
alton and upon motion of Esq.
B. w. Rushing, accepted 81, 900
as settlement in full of the
amount, Collision to pay the
costs of the suit in Chancery
Court.
The justices voted on the
proposition as follows.
For-Cross, Snow, Pierce.
Erwin, Humphreys, Dowdy,
Rushing, Steele, Allen, McRee,
Veazey. Lyon, Edgar, Hansel.
Wynn, Thompson, French, Alex
ander, Tyson. --l9.
Against Hartsfeld, Rile y,
Brite, Atkins, Morris, Ligon,
Patterson, Mabry, Hodge, Boden,
Huddleston, Coleman, Ross, Cul-
pepper, Orr, Hooper, 10.
In the opinion of many, the
Court is to be commended for its
action in accepting settlement in
this manner, for, it is pointed
ut, the county can use this
money to much better advantage
than they could have done b,
entailing the expense of a Ions
legal tangle.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-11-24
WILL GIVE MUSICAL

The Young Peoples Missionary
Society of the First Methodist
Church will give a musical at
the church Tuesday evening,
November 27, at 7:30 o'clock.
Refreshments will be served and
a free-will offering taken. /,
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-11-24
BREAKS ARM WHILE
SKATING SATURDAY

Last Saturday night Curtis
Ridgeway, son of Lee Ridgeway
of Cottage Grove, sustained a
broken arm at the skating rink
here. One skate came off, it is
said, and he was thrown to the
floor with terrific force. His
arm was broken in two places,
once just below the elbow and
again just above the wrist. He
was attended by DR.. Geo. R.
McSwain, and at last reports
was improving rapidly.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-11-24
QUALITIES AS ADMINISTRATOR

James Tharpe, colored, has
qualified as administrator of the
estate of Martha Moody, colored.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-07-13
TROOP TRAINS
 PASS THRU MENA
Three Carried Former Nationa Guardsmen of Minnesota and Equipment-Soldiers From
 North Felt Heat.

Three trains passed over the Kan sas City Southern Wednesday carry ing soldiers to the Mexican border. The first section passed thru about 2:45 that afternoon, carrying Com panies A, B, c and D of the Third Minnesota Regiment of Infantry. and the two sections that followed car ried the remainder of the regiment. Each train, in addition to carrying baggage car, day coaches and sleep CTS for the men, carried freight trains and flat cars on which ammu- milton and equipment was loaded
 The members of the regiment were former National Guardsmen of Minnesota. who had been sworn into the Federal service and mobil- ized at Fort Smelling
 As the men passed thru Mena in the heat of the day, many of them remarked that they were getting a foretaste of the hot weather that was awaiting them on the Mexican border, the heating being particu- larly oppressive to them since they had left Fort Smelling only Monday morning, having as yet had little experience with summer
The Mena weekly star., 1916-07-13
ENTENTE ALLIES
 CONTINUE GAINS
British Monday Night Captured Con- talmais0n on French Front, in Addition to Many Trenches
 French Capture 1900

The British captured yontalmai- son on the French front Monday night the London war office de- cIared in an official statement issued Tuesday.
 Several lines of German trenches on the Mametz wood also were talk en by the British, it is claimed, and heavy fighting continues today in the Trones wood
 The Paris official statement this afternoon says tEie situation re- mained the same as yesterday on the Somme front last night. althO it had been ascertained that the French have taken more than 1900 German prisoners during the past two days fighting.
 With the capture by the French of Lamalsonnette hill, which dom mates the valley of the Somme and IS directly over perOnne, one of the primary objects of this great offen- slve has now been achieved. It is declared that the capture of this hill opens the way for an assault on the city proper whenever the French think the time is ripe for such an assault
 The Germans on their part are shelling the allied front from Lens to the Belgian coast
 The Russians continue their ad- advance toward Kovel and are now engaged in a pitched battle with the Germans on the banks of the Stok- bod river which they have crossed at some points
 The German attacks at Verdun continue, according to the latest re- Eports and Paris this afternoon ad- nus the temporary success of one German charge near Fuminwood, but declares that the Germans were immediately elected.
 Near Reillon, in Lorraine, the Ger man troops captured portions of the French first line trenches on a 200 metre front
The Mena weekly star., 1916-07-13
WILSON THINKS Il. :. SHOULD
 HELP MEXICO BUT AaT BY WAR
That Is the Wrong Why As We'll As the Long Way" Tells
 Worlds SaIesnsen.

Detroit. July i0.-pfesident Will son aroused great enthusiasm here today at the Worlds Salesmanship Congress by urging that the business men carry justice and fair dealing into the ports of the world, partic- ularly those of Mexico, and thereby establish confidence in American principles
 T hear some men say the pres ident declared, that they want to help Mexico, and the way they pro- pose to help her to 0verwhelm her by force. That is the wrong way as we'll as the long way. After fighting them, you would have q nation full of justified suspicion. You wouldn't help them, but you would shut ev- cry door against you yS
The Mena weekly star., 1916-07-13
FINANCIAL FABRIC
 IN IMMINENT PERIL
Francis w Hirst, Prominent Finan- ciaI Writer Says Western Europe Is on Verge of
 Bankruptcy.

London, July t0.-F. w. Hirst prominent financial writer, in his valedictory upon resigning the edi- torshiD of the London Economist after a tenure of nine years, says:
 Tn my view the financial fabric of western Europe is in imminent peril and in q few more months 1t will no longer be possible to disguise the bankrupt condition of several of the great nations. Civilization as we have known it and representative institutions are doomed unless thru the exertions of individuals the rights without which an Englishman at any rate. will hardly care to live, are speedily restored. To this end freedom and independence must somehow be won back from Parlia- ment and the press.
 Mir. Hirst has been an opponent of the restriction enforced by the de- fense of the realm act and secret diplomacy" Replying to the Times, which stated that he imparted to the Economist distressing pacitist pol icy, he says
 'I plead guilty to the charge. It has been my principal object dur ing the past year to prepare the public mind for peace by separating passion and fiction from reason and fact, and if 1 would believe l had hastened it's advent one day and saved the precious lives and limbs lost in q hours. should feel my self to have won a prize worth all the titles that emperors shower on their favorites.'
 Hartley Withers. financial adviser to the treasury. succeeds Mir. Hirst. It is understood the proprietOrs of the paper disagreed with Mir Hirst's editorial policy:
The Mena weekly star., 1916-07-13
BIGGEST GAS WE'LL STRUCK
 IN KELLER FIELD MONDAY
With Total Depth of 2,26S Feet the Big Gasser Has Initial Flow
 of 23,OO0,G00 Feet per Day.

Fort Smith. July i0-The biggest gas well so far struck in the Kibler field was brought in Monday by J. A. Burke. driller for the Clear Creek Oil & Gas Co. The test is located on the E. Il, Harden farm in Crawford county The gasser had an initial flow of 23,000000 feet-2, 100000 feet more than that of the former Wild cat No 1 now also belonging to the Clear Creek Company, and up to this time the biggest producer in the field.
 The total depth of the well IS 2,268 feet, and the drill penetrated only i5 feet into the Kibler sand and the big flow was produced
The Mena weekly star., 1916-07-13
VILLA HEADS ARMY
 OF 5000 MEN
After Defeating Carranza Forces on Fourth of July, Bandit Chief Now Is Attacking Jimine1-Asks Gen.
 Reyes to Return.

Fl Paso, July 6.-The small army of Villistaas. pursuing their victory over the Carrancistas at Corral Ranch on July Fourth, have attackt Jlminez, according to reports re- ceived here this morning by prom inent mining men who have large interests in that section of Mexico
 The Villlstas are reported to num- Der some three thousand men. and it is added that new recruits are Joining the ranks from day to day
 Another report received here this morning was to the effect that pan- chO Villa recently sent a eommuni- cation to Canuto Reyes, formerly q Lieutenant under the bandit chief asking him to reconsider his &C., ceptanee of Capranza amnesty and again join the Villa forces.
 Villa at that time was at San Juan Bautisto, which IS thirty miles south of Parral. and had with him one thousand men. according to reports
 Hasten New Wagon Road
 Columbus, lJy 6.--General persh- ing, in command of the American punitive expedition in Mexico, ha, issued orders that every effort be made to expedite the construction |of d new wagon road between Col umbus and CoIoria DHhlan, ths field base, 'acc0rdihs to fel5orts re- ceived here frone the field this morning
 Many extra laborers and much ad- ditional machinery will at once be employed to that end that delay in transportation of supplies and for age to the forces in Mexico will be reduced to the minimum during the coming rainy season.
 The military authorities here are keeping the exact routing of this new road a secret and every pre- caution possible is being taken to prevent the news of it's location leaking out.
 Reports received here this morn- ing also indicate there is consider able activity at the field base in the construction of permanent buildings for supplies and stores, and cOrrals for the horses.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-07-13
PEOPLE WILL VOTE ON
 PROHIBITION REPEAL
Initiative Petitions Bearing 17,0i0 Signatures Have Been Filed With Secretary H0dges-Expense All
 Borne in Arkansas. the Claim.
From The Arkansas Gazette

Little Rock, July 7.--Initiative pe- titions seeking the repeal of the statewide prohibition law were filed yesterday with Secretary of State Hodges by Ben L. Griffin of Little Rock, president of the Local Self Government League. The petitions bore t70f0 signatures. approximate ly 5000 more than the number re- quired MT. Griffin said additional petitions bearing several thousand names will be filed today
 The petitions seek to initiate d bill repealing the statewide law. which went into effect January i. and to substitute a county and township local option law similar to that in force in Ohio Circulation of peti- tiOns started two weeks ago The bill will be voted upon at the general election November '. Today is the last day such petitions may be filed, as the law requires them to be iiltd four months before the election
 Mr Griffin said that no liquor in terests outside the state are paying for the campaign for the repeal of the statewide law. The expense of initiating the bill has been borne, !" he said. by residents of Little Rock and other cities who desire 70 see the law repealed Much of the work Of elrcusatIng petitions was y9'iuLi- teered"
 Prohibition forces in the state will 0i ganize to fight the bill in the gen. eral election. according to leaders.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-07-13
.JIhlNEz Is GIVEN
 UP BY VlLISTAS
Carranza Cavalry Said to Be in Pur- suit of Bandits-Railway Com municati0n Restored to Mexico
 City-Warn American Patrol.

Fl Paso, July 7.-The Villa forces have evacuated Jiminez and rail- way communication has been re- stored with Mexico City, according to message received Friday by General Gonzales at Juarez, and from General Treyino at Chihua- hua City General Treyino reported that Carranza cavalry NOW is in pur- suit of the bandits.
 During the raid on Jiminez, the Villa troops captured the Carranza pay train which was An its way north from Mexico City. carrying paper money for the army and civil government of northern Mexico, said a mining man arriving from Chihuahua. While the Villa men now have plenty of the new "un- eounterfeitable paper the military and civil employees must go without their June pay. he said
The Mena weekly star., 1916-07-13
MILLIONS STARV-
 INC IN MEXICO
Gaunt Women Riot for Bread and Cry May God Send the Gringoes" In Their Dispair-The Armies
 Take 1t All.

Field Headquarters. near CoIonia Dublan, via wireless to Columbus, July 6.--Starving women of San Luis Potosi. in rioting when refused food, cried, May God send the grim goes, stated reports which reached General Pershing at his headuuar- ters here today Several women were severely beaten by soldiers who quelled the outbreak.
 Reports that American gold was being paid peOns for work and sup piles for the punitive expedition m contrast to the virtual conhsea- ton of foodstuffs by the forces ol the de facto government, has in- creased the dissatisfaction among the Mexieans, according to the re- port. The Carranza troops are saio to be OVerrunning the country, talk ing everything of value for their own use, or forcing in return, the acceptance of depreciated Carranza currency at a fifth of the value of the goods they take.
 Lines Of gaunt women and chil- dren are being dOled out corn ir all of the principal Mexican cities 1t is reported. The supply has giver out at San Luis PotOsi
 Traveller Confirms 1t.
 Eagle Pass, July 6.-At least 2.00O,- 000 men, women and children 1T Mexico are on the vnroe of starva- ton, according to jose F. Martinez who arrived here this afternoon aft CT travelling for two months in the southern republic to praDare to re- port on conditions for New York in- terests
 Conditions in nearly every par of Mexico are deGperate,' said Mar tineZ The army has plenty oi food while the civilian population IS destitute and there is no relief in sight Many thousands of hungry men have enlisted in the army, rath- CT than starve to death
 While in Monterey, Martinez hac 9 narrow escape from death H. was given an hour to leave the city He was lucky in catching a freigh train for Saltillo, from where h( made his way to Eagle Pass
The Mena weekly star., 1916-07-13
ATTENTION TO PROVISIONS
 OF THE PURE FOOD LAW
State Pure Food Commissioner HofT man Is Mailing Out 25000 Circu-
 arS to Egg Dealers

Austin, Tex, July ii.-In line with his campaign against the sale of bad eggs, State Pure Food Commissioner R H. Hoffman has mailed 25,00O cir culars to egg dealers and health of ticers in Texas, calling their atten- ton to the provisions of the pure food law against the sale of eggs classified as "adulterated.'
 It IS the opinion of Commissioner Hoffman that eggs which contain yolks stuck to the shell moudS eggs. black spots, mixed rots, addlec eggs. black rot and any other egg: which consist wholly or in part fll- thy are "adulteratedn within the meaning of the law Shipments con- taining more than 5 per cent of baC eggs should be rejected, the law provides, as it is violation of the pure food statute.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-07-13
NINE DIE IN THE ! TROPICAL STORM
Uneonnrned Reports Say Score of Others Were Killed in Isolated Villages and Forty still Are
 MiSsing-News Is Slow.

Shreveport, La. July a.--Nine per- sons are known to have been killed and at least 10 are reported missing as a result of Wednesdays tropical hurricane on the gllf coast and a series of storms. tornadoes and floods that occurred in the interior of Alabama and Georgia. In addi- tion uncontlrmed reports say that nearly score of other persons were killed in isolated villages near Mo- bile Several days will be required to determine the correctness of these reports, owning to the prostra- ton of wire and rail communication to points in the center of the storm, The damage, it is estimated, will reach 5 million dollars, crops and timber suffering seriously,
 The Dead.
 Farmer killed near Cairo Ga. when his home was demolished by tornado.
 White engineer and white fireman killed Friday at Bond, Miss, in a wreck due 10 washout.
 Three negroes drowned in flood near Birmingham.
 Two negroes drowned in gale on Warrior river near Tuscaloosa.
 Negro drowned in flood at Haw- kinsviile, Ga.
 White man and white woman and negro killed near Fort Morgan, Ala. in Wednesdays hurricane.
 Forty men. the crews of seven sehOoners, are reported missing from Biloxi, Miss. These vessels are known to have been in the gulf when the hurricane broke Wednesday, and marine men fear they were swamp ed.
 A travelling salesman brought to Jackson, Tenn. today u story that i3 bodies were found at COden, Ala, near Mobile, after the storm Thurs day.
 Late reports from all along the gulf coast from New Orleans to Pensacola tell of scores of small craft Washed ashore
The Mena weekly star., 1916-07-13
VILLA BANDITS ATTACK THE
 LITTLE TOWN OF PARRAL
They Were Defeated by the Carran- ga Garrison There. However-De-
 ciding Battle Is Expeced Soon.

Chihuahua City, uJly 1.-The main body of the Villa bandits. the number not given in reports re- ceived here, attacked the town ot Parral, which is southwest of Jim- inez. but were defeated by he Car ranza garrison, according to an otfi- cial report received here this morn ing by General Trevino.
 It is declared the bandits retreat ed to Sinbrerotillo The report adds that if the bandits made a stand there, the deciding battle of the Vil- la campaign hould be fought today or tomorrow, as the Carranza eayal- ry is nearing that place.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-07-13
SECOND WARNING OF AP-
 PROACH OF BANDITS

Washington, July i0.-A second warning that bandits are headed for the Texas Big Bend country was given to the state department today by Ambassador Arred0ndo.
 He told Acting Secretary of State Polk that his government had given him the definite information that the bandits are headed toward Bo- qiulIas, and promised the co-opera- ti0n of the Carranza forces in nhneking them.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-07-13
LAND GRANTS TO RAILROADS.
Iu Thind of Century More Than f58
 Million Acres We're Given.

From the San Francesca Bulletin.
 Between 1850 and 1871, according to statistics submitted by Congress- Pman Quin of Mississippi. Congress Igrautedfo the railroads of the Unit ed States more than fs8 inhlion acres of land. This is an area more. than one and one-half times that of California, it is equal Co the area of the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee, and it is larger than the German Empire. Some of this land was stolen; most of 1t was as much alienated from the common people of the United States as though it had been con- quered by an invading army. A real tribute, often proportionately far heavier than any that has been in- posed by any conquering nation in modern times, had to be paid to the railroads before any lands could be recovered. Some of it has never been recovered. The existence of these large holdings, past and pres ent has been a cause of unwhole- some social conditions: 1t has kept people off the land and it has seri- ously altered the complexion of American society.
 But a new generation has grown up since the days of the land grants. anu the railroads are now claiming, on the one hand, a right to charge rates based on valuation which in- cludes enormous increments in land values, and on the other fighting vlciously againsta more reasonable mail rates and better pay for their employees. The advantage of be- ing corporations instead of persons is, in this case and others, that noth- ing but time is needed to make the worst gotton gains perfectly re- sDectable
The Mena weekly star., 1916-07-13

EAtRARGO Is LIFTED ON
 FOODSTUFFS TO MEXICO
Food Being Rushed to Starving Pe0- pie in Interior of Country-Buy-
 ing in Large Quantities.

Nogales. July ii.-Shipment of food from the United States into the Mexican state of sonora. which has been interrupted by an official en- bargo for the past three weeks, this morning was resumed.
 Reports from the interior of Mex leo indicate that numbers of peons are on the verge of starvation.
 Purchases on Large Scale.
 Laredo, July 1.-The embargo on toodstutfs to Mexico was lifted here today and the people of Neuva La redo Hooked in a continuous stream across the international bridge here today, where hey made purchases on a large scale.
 The inspectors are exercising viz llance to prevent the smuggling of arms.