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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-05-17
Engineer Blamed
For Wreck in Which
Five Were Killed

Washington, May ls.-The rear-end col.
lislon between the North Coast Limited
apd tho Mississippi Valley Limited OF the
Northern Pacific railway at South
Cheney, Washington. February 20. in
which five were killed and twenty-five
injured. was caused, the Interstate Com
meroe commission reported today. by the
failure Of the engineer Of the North Coast
Limited to reduce his speed between Am
her and South Cheney TO thirty miles an
hour in accordance with orders.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-05-17
South Side Lad is
Killed in a Wreck

Peoria, H., May is.-E. W. swobota
Of Omaha was killed and John Maston,
residence unknown. was fatally injured
today when q Chicago. Cincinnati. Cleve-
land & st. Louis freight train was de-
rallied near Danyers, III.
Young Swobota IL the son Of Mrs.
kaderman Eighteenth and o streets.
South Side. I'D Morbeck. Nineteenth and
o streets South Side. accompanied swo-
bota when he left Omaha and ia be-
lioved TO have been with him in the
wreck lie apparently escaped unin-
iured
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-05-17
DEATH RECORD
Miss Ellen Schiller.

Miss Ellen Schiller. aged As years,
died Sunday at her home, 30 North
Fourteenth street after a short i'll
ness She had lived in Omaha TWEEN
~ SIX years Funeral services will
be held "Wednesday afternoon at ,
o'clock from Swanson's chapel, with
interment N Walnut Hin cemetery.
Council Bmffe
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-05-17
General Marchand of
Fashoda Fame Killed

London, May Brigadier Gen.
eral Marchand Of Fashoda fame has
been killed in action, according to a
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company from Paris today.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-05-17

George hrunneukrnt aeed Al years
died Monday uighl al rs residence
l4ol laird stfeFk We is survived hy
hiA widow apd one child Funeral
services will r. held Thursdav aitsf
noon AZ ! o'clock from the home eith
lnltrmeat ~ Forest lawn eemeteft
Rev Robert katt will conduct the
afrFife8
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-05-17
Mrs. Mary Armstrnnr

Mfs Mary Armstrong. aged 81
years, died this morning at local
hospital She Is survived by son
and daughter living III i426 North
sixteenth street
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-26
THIRD DISTRICT COLLEGE
TO HAVE A SUMMER SCHOOL
VIII Open April ID and Last Through
Two Weeks.

The Third District Agricultural
and Mechanical college is to have a
summer school for teachers, which
will open April %. A thorough
course in teaching will be afforded,
and will last through a period of two
weeks.
Prof Collum is vitality interested
in the work he is doing, and is put
ting forth every effort to the end
that great good may be accomplish
ed. He has taken especial pains to
prepare a course of instruction that
will fully meet the demands of the
occasion
1t is expected tlat students will
attend from all of the counties of the
Third congressional district. Ample
arrangements have been made to ac-
commodate those attending, both
dormitOries being utilized for this
purpose.
Notwithstanding his is the first
year a school of this kind has been
attempted indications are that sue
cess will crown the efforts of those
directly interested.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-26
A REAL DROUGHT
IS COMING MAY 1ST
DROUGHT OF OLD WILL BE LIKE
A RAINY SEASON COMPARED
WITH ONE EN- ROUTE.

Next Monday morning at one min
ute after II O'Clock the state of Geor-
gia goes dry.
People may have thought Georgia
was dry in the past, but the drought
they have experienced was like the
rainy season in the tropics compared
to the drought that is coming.
Georgia's new prohibition laws,
which go into effect May LIST. are real
prohibition laws, leaving no loop-hole
for evasion either by would-be VIC
lators or by indifferent officials charg-
ed with their enforcement.
Beer saloons in Atlanta that have
been selling the same kind of beer
for years that was sold before the
present prohibition law went in eff
feet are preparing to go out of bust
ness, and rent signs are up in front
of their doors.
Clubs of high and low degree are
making their plans to comply with
the prohibition laW-at least for the
present. The clubs that are saloons
in disguise will have no log to stand
on when the law goes in effect, and
will automatically be forced out of
bushes since their sole revenue is
derived from the promiscuOus sale Of
liquor. But the real social clubs
whose membership is composed of
men of standing in the community
and whose dues and cafe profits may
be stretched far enough to pay their
operating expenses will undoubtedly
be hit hard by the loss on profits from
the service of drinks to members, yet
they have rearranged their finances
in preparation for the adjustment of
bars and buffets.
Weekly and monthly magazines on
tn eneWs stands already show blank
spaces where whisky advertisements
would appear if it were not for the
law against the advertising Of intoXi-
cants and daily newspapers publish
ed outside of the state are also drop
ping out their liquor advertisements
in advance of the effective date of
the new Georgia laws.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-26
A 38O-YEAR-OLD
GATOR is TRAPPED
sNIan Eater" of the Mississippi Delta
Is Taken Alive BY CreOles in
State of louisiana.

NEW ORLEANS.-"Man Eater,
the largest alligator ever taken alive
in Louisiana, was captured recently
by two creoles near Pointe la Hache,
on the Mississippi delta below here.
The gator, which has been brought
to New Orleans for exhibition, is
nearly 20 feet long. Scientists who
have examined him say he has attain
ed the mature age of $50 years.
MAN Eater" has been known to
inhabitants of the lower delta for at
least twenty years.
A dozen attempts to capture him
failed. Just how he came about MS
suggestive cognomen is not known.
There are stories, however, that sew
eral negro children playing about the
edge of the great swamp Whlch' was
his habitat have fallen his prey.
The great gator was surprised III
it's sleep by two expert 'gatormen,
trapped and subdued after desper-
ate struggle. He has sulked and re
fused to eat since his capture, and is
not given long to live.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-26
BELIEF THAI DORSEY
WILL BE CANDIDATE
Governor Harris am, DR.. Hartman
Wasting No Time the Guber-
Material CAMPAIGN.

ATLANTA.-Wi thdt much fuss
and noise the guberatoriaI candi
dates are proceeding 18th their cam
paigns as vigorously S possible, al
though it is yet a comfortable length
of time until the elecon.
Both Governor 'Hrris and DR.,
Hardman are mak,g occasional
speeches in various pat of the state.
Since Hugh Dorsey ade the state
ment, some weeks agOthat he would
announce his Intention in regard to
becoming a candidatefor governor
Immediately after tn, state demo-
cratic executive committee meets in
Macon May 3rd the horts that he
will throw his hat inhe ring have
become more persistenRnd emphatic,
and there is a widesprd belief that
he will be candidate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-26
WORLDS LARGEST FIG
ORCHARD IN MISSISSIPPI
WILL COVER $500 ACRES, AND
10000 TREES WILL SOON BE
UNDER CULTIVATION.

According to Uncle Sans depart
ment of agriculture just before the
war. or during the year 1913, we pur-
chased from foreign countries, prin-
cipaIIy Turkey, figs to the amount OF
80, 603,3327 pounds.
These figures very forcibly demon
strate the phenomenal normal de-
mand for figs in the United States
and also that our loss of the Turkish
crop. on account of the British block
ade, is really considerable.
BY the present big scarcity it mas
been plainly shown that there IS
plenty of room for a wide expansion
of the fig industry in America ana
that the present, when the foreign
figs are practically excluded from our
market, is the very best time for US
to get busy.
The biggest and most Interesting
result of this is the planting IN
George county. Mississippi, between
Tucedale and Eubank, and about ~
miles from Mobile, of the largest hg
orchard in the world, an orcharu
which, when fully planted, will cover
$500 acres.
Already about 10000 trees have
been set out and 900 more Will De
planted shortly.
Mississippi has been selected tor
this huge orchard experiment, Whlcn
is being operated by a NUMBER OF
farmers on the cooperative basis, pc
cause it has been proved that figs are
the most profitable crop that can De
produced in the southern fruit belt.
No known product of the Gulf coast
states nets the grower more money
for time and labor.
In the worlds largest lg orchard
the trees are planted $50 to the acre
II is believed that after five years
each tree will average 80 pounds OF
fruit. or $500 pounds to the acre.
The lowest wholesale price at Whlch
fresh figs have been sold for num-
her of years is three cents a p0unGo,
At this figure the receipts for 1'90o
pounds of figs would be $229 per
acre. But many fig growers claim
that a full bearing fig orchard can De
made to produce $500 per acre annu-
allv
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-26

$40 bushel and cabbage at $4,000
a ton, when our own lands will pro-
duce corn in abundance, and will ,
with proper fertilization, produce ten
tons of cabbage to the acre. We
found that last year we bought $10,-
600 worth of imported butter. We
have a movement on foot to put a
stop to this, through canning clubs,
or local canning factory, local dali
ries and local truck farms"
Growing Cotton.
The speaker made some sugges-
lions as to the growing of cotton,
tut said our farmers needed very lit
instruction on this subject except
under boil weeyil conditions. He ad-
yised and strongly urged a consid-
cradle reduction in the acreage, the
planting of early maturing varieties
at as early date as possible, thorough
preparation of the soil before plant
ing, judicious fertilization, rapid Gull
tivation, and stressed the fact that
cotton must continue to grow during
late summer in order to produce food
for the weevil and prevent the pest
turning back on the bolls that form
ed before the weeYil became so num-
erOus. I'VE do not advise picking
the weevil or picking up squares,
said Mr.. White. We are growing
good cotton under boil weevil condi-
tons without it. Cotton in large
areas of cleared land produces better
under boil weeyil conditions than
that near hedgerows, forests and
bitches grown up in weeds, hence We
advise clearing up these places as
far as practical. One very essential
point is the early destruction of the
weeyils food supply. This can be
done by blowing under the stalks
early or preferably by grazing cattle
in the field a considerable time be-
fore frost. The longer the interview
ing period between the destruction
of the food supply and frost the
greater the number of the Weevils
that will perish before alternating
time. We believe cotton is our prin-
cipal money crop, and feel sure that
you will have a like experience
Impressed With This Section.
Mr.. White called at The News office
Wednesday afternoon, and in CONVEX
sation said that he was very much
impressed with the wonderful re-
sources of this section and the pro-
gressiyeness of our farmers. He did
not consider the outlook for this
county at all gloomy, as he felt sure
that the farmers and business men
would get together in fight for di-
versification and the abandonment OF
the all-cotton fallacy, which is pow
erty-breeding without boil WeeVll
conditions and disastrous with it. lie
said our farmers are already largely
practicing Investigation. While here
he visited the farm of Mr.. w. J..
Mathis, which he considered model,
and said he wished every farmer IN
Yazoo county could see it and adopt
Mr.. Mathis methods.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-26
COL. BENNETT MAY
BE THE CHAIRMAN
Harmonious Outlook For State Dem
ocratic Convention. Howell VIII
BE National Committeeman.

MACON, Ga-Interest is beginning
to develop in the state democratic
convention which is to be held in
Macon "Wednesday of next week, May
3rd. Reports seem to indicate that
the session will be harmonious and
the business before the body will be
transacted with promptness and dis
patch.
The reelection of Hon. Clark How
ell as committeeman from the state
at large meets with general APPROX
al. if one may judge from the general
talk in the capitol corridors and no.
tel Hobbies in Atlanta. Members OF
the various factions which have di-
vided the staet in the past have eX-
pressed themselves, and all seem
pleased that Mr.. Howell will again
be reelected without opposition.
The only name so far suggested as
chairman of the convention IS Hon.
John w. Bennett, Of WaycrOss.
Hon. James R. Gray of Fulton
county judge E. J. Reagan of Hen
rv Hon. Peter Cumming of Decatur,
Hon. w. f. jenkins Of Putnam, Judge
Chas. L. Bartlett of Bib, and others
have been mentioned in connection
with the position of delegates from
the state at large to the national
democratic convention.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-26
MRS. FRANCISCO VIA QUITS
CALIFORNIA TO JOY HUSBAND
Believes the Hunted Bdit to BE a
Brave and GOOdyIan.

LOS ANGELES. Qt-Slipping
quietly away from this y with her
infant and near relatiyelMrs. Juan
Torres Villa, 10 years /, wife of
the bandit chief, FranciS Villa, is
believed to be on her Wayb join her
husband in Mexico.
Mrs. Villa left here cause of
threats made against her bCarranza
agents" said the owner ohe house
in which she has been liR. She
will go to her parents dleted es-
tates in Chihuahua.
Shortly before her DISTURBANCE
Mrs. Villa said to reporf: My
husband is q good man ana brave
one; he fears nothing. Son day we
will meet again and then ! will be
happy together.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-26
WERE SERVED MORPHINE
WITH MASHED POTAT
Detectives Discover Cause of ~
larity of Mikes Place.

SAN FRANCISCO.-The unuF
popularity of Mike AIDES restaui
was accounted for when Detecl
Nelson Mathewson discovered I
Mike served morphine with mas
potatoes. Men and women were 5
sinking in, hands trembling,
quivering and eyes dull. When
rons emerged their step was buoyi
their lips wreathed in smiles
their eyes a-sparkle.
Detective Mathewson paid 10
meal and plunged fork into the
ter of the dish of mashed potat
and penetrated the secret. AIDE
arrested. charged with violating
state poison law.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-26
LEG BONE SET IN JAW;
ALSO HAS FALSTEETH
American Just From FranceeIIs of
Marvellous War Front SuAry.

American Just From FranCeeIIs of
Marvellous War Front SulTy.
NEW Stanley Hut. rep
resentative of an artificial Ii firm,
is back from France for r after
supplying wooden legs for thGench
soldiers at the rate of fifty TX.
He said that of the surgicapera-
lions he saw in the French bitaIs
the most remarkable was thof
man who had his jaw shOIway.
A section of bone was taken pm a
shattered leg and a Jaw maOf it
that was an improvement on tDrig-
inaI. 1t was fitted with falseeth.
Robert Kirton, Pittsburgauf-
feur who went to England " ago
and became a motorcycle datch
bearer in the army of France, wed
here from Liverpool wearing teel
corset and with seven ribs mig.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-26
SAME TASTE AND SMELL
BUT LACKS THE HEADHE
London Liquor Control BOartis-
covers New Non-AIcOhOlic DIR

LONDON.-The Liquor Col
Board has discovered a new MI
coholic beer, the sale of whicfll
be pushed as far as possible he
English public houses
It smells like beer it locke
beer; it tastes like beer; they
difference is in the headache, Is
the statement issued by the boa
In test case a workman Ok
twenty pint bottles without becog
intoxicated. The new drink VIE
placed at the disposal OF oarliat
in the house of commons bar.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-26
GERMANS SHOOT WOMAN
AS SPY. 1T IS REPORTED
Holland Newspaper Tells of Death OF
Miss Gabrielle Petit.

AMSTERDAM, Holland.-The as
sertion is made by the Echo Beige
that Miss Gabrielle Petit of Molen-
back. Belgium, has been put to
death by Germans after trial by court
martial on a charge of treason. The
newspaper also states that Louise de
Bettignies of Lilo and Marie van
Houtte have been sentenced to prison
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-26
BOYS WANTED TO SEE
THE FIRE HORSES KUN
Set Fire to Old POstofiice Building
i'm COrdeIe.

CORDELE.-Cordele's first post
office was destroyed by fire last night
1t was a small wooden building
which had been unoccupied for sew
eral years, and the cause of the hre
was probably the prank of mischleV-
Gus boys intent in their desire Of see
ing the fire truck speeding on the
run.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-26
tRSIFICATION A
| Curl. FOR WEEVIL
H.
6lCAL Ab. w. hNroi'"
NkERs' coNVS On bA
PROF. f. H. VIII
kfD PLANTING OF COLI

,.ced Greatly Reduced Acreage.
,ddress Of the Nlississippian
1, out Much Hope and Encour-
To Georgia Farmers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-06-15
Forests Of Crater
Lake National Park

The heavy mantle of the beautiful
coniferous forests in Crater Lake ma
tional park is second only to Crater
Lake itself in attractiveness, accord
ing to publication by J. F. Pernot,
entitled Forests of Crater Lake Ma
tional Park just issued by the de-
partment of the interior. within
the confines of the park" says Mr..
Pernot, ARE more than dozen cone
bearing species-pines, firs, hem
lock, and others-growing in pure
bodies or mingled together forming
a confused broken cover. The vari-
Gus trees of the southern Cascades
are not generally scattered through
out the mountains, but are distribut-
ed in fairly we'll defined zones at
different attitudes"
In this publication, which may be
purchased from the superintendent
of documents, Government Printing
Office, Washington, D. c., for 20
cents, are descriptions of the princi-
pal species and illustrations show
ing characteristic types of each tree.
Over all of the region excepting the
SUBMITS Of the highest peaks, is
spread a wonderful array of ever
green trees, clothing the slopes with
dense solemn forests or dotted
around mountain meadows, canyons
and crater rim.
The traveller who makes only a
fleeting trip to the park, sees the
lake but once, and then passes on
will overlook much of the best that
the region can show. 1t is better
to remain longer within the borders,
to camp beneath its hemlocks and
frs, to explore its peaks and forests,
and look often and long upon its
lake whose blue waters and wonder
full tree and cliff setting leave mem
ories that can never be lost.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-06-15
Permits Required
For Brush Burning

The statutory forest fire season,
during which permits for slash burn
ing and other precautions are re-
quired, begins today with conditions
offering little immediate danger any
where in the Pacific Northwest, ac-
cording to reports from the Western
Forestry and Conservation associa-
tion. The wet weather has, how
ever, prevented the usual spring
cleaning up of loggers' and settlers
slashings, thus leaving a greater men
ace when dangerous weather arrives.
Except in rare cases, with unusual
care and under permit and super
vision, it will not be safe to burn
now before fall and the winters ac-
emulation will create serious hazard
all summer. For this reason prep
arations are being made for strict
enforcement of all fire laws, espe-
cially those dealing with clearing and
with spark-emitting engines.
Warning the public of approaching
weather conductive to forest fires
will this year be recognized by the
United States weather bureau as
necessary service comparable to storm
and frost warnings. In addition to
the telegraphic forecasts of hot and
windy weather usually furnished the
private and public patrol forces, pre-
dictions will also be mailed to post
offices in forest regions, for con-
spicuous posting where they may be
seen by people likely to use fire in
clearing and by campers and travel
ers. A special card has been devised
bearing fire precautions on the mar
gin.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-06-15
Jackson Co. Boy
Wins High Praise

State Superintendent of Public In
struction Churchill has announced
that he has completed arrangements
for sending the boys and girls who
will win the capital prize in the in
dustrial club work at the state fair
to the Oregon Agricultural College
for the boys and girls summer
school.
Twenty children were success
full in winning these prizes at the last
state fair The prizes consist of a
membership in the short course at
the Agricultural College with all ex-
penses paid.
"The boys and girls club work,
which is carried on comparatively by
the state department of education,
the extension service of the Oregon
Agricultural Collage and the United
States Bureau of Agriculture is in
creasing in interest to such an extent
that clubs are being formed in every
section of Oregon" said Superintend-
ent Churchill recently.
"Since the first of the year have
had two field workers, n. G. Maris
and L. P. Harrington, continuously
engaged in forming clubs in the state.
The work OF the Agricultural College
in sending to the members of these
clubs bulletins on how to select seeds
and care for the growing crops, and
also bulletins on canning and sew
ing, has made a wonderful advance
ment in the standard of the work
done by the school children. The
example of Claus Charley of Jackson
county shows what a wholesome in
fluence one boy may have in this
work. At the state fair in 1914 he
won the state prize on his corn. The
next year through the efforts of the
county school superintendent and one
of the Medford banks fifty boys of
Jackson county were supplied with
seed corn selected from Claus Char
ley's prize winning corn"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-06-15
Increase Amount
Postal Deposits

Larger postal savings deposits will
now be accepted at the postoffice.
This is made possible by an important
amendment to the postal savings act
just approved by President Wilson.
A postal savings depositor may now
have an account amounting to $1,000
upon which interest will be paid.
Formerly $500 WAS the maximum
amount he could have to his credit.
This enlargement of postal savings
facilities will be very gratifying to
thousands of depositors who have al.
ready reached the old $500 limit and
are anxious to entrust more Of their
savings to Uncle Sam. Another fea-
ture of the amendment that will avoid
further embarrassment to the public
and to postal officials is the doing
away with the limit on the amount
that could be accepted from a depos-
itor monthly Under the old law only
500 could be deposited in a calendar
month. The amendment abolishes
this restriction. While the postal saw
ings system has already proved a sig
nal success as is shown by the fact
that more than half a million deposit
ors have over eighty million dollars
standing to their credit, still 1t has
fallen short of meeting the full de-
mands of the public because of the
which have now been
Postmaster General
Burleson and Third Assistant Post
master General Dockery have been
tireless in their efforts to secure a
modification Of the limitations and
the new liberalizing legislation is par
ticularly gratifying to them.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-06-15

w. B. Permission has moved his
lapidary from the rooms at the rear
of the ground floor of the Elks tenn
pie to quarters in the room next to
Lamkin's real estate office on East
Main. He has a fine collection of
the beautiful polished agates which
are found in the rough state over
in the desert near Eagle Point and
other valley points.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-06-15

The beautiful silver oak, which was
the pride of the local postoffice force
and the most beautiful of many beau
tiful shrubs and plants in the post
office window garden, has been set
out in the City park. The oak was
grown from seed brought from Hon
olulu by D. P. Blue. Bert Freeman
acted as foster father to the tree
which has now gained a height Of
about feet. 1t is a strange variety
and will make a valuable addition to
the park If it can withstand the rigors
of the winters.