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The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-10-12
issue OF BONDS
SUGGESTED FOR
CHANNEL BRIDGE
Commercial Club Committee
To Work Out Plans For
Campaign
KOCHTITZKY OFFERED
TO ADVANCE MONEY
Attorneys Say,Drainage COmpa.
ny Must Construct Bridge For
DriStict

A bond issue in the Cape GirarGeau
Special Road District for the purpose
of raising the funds for the constrGc-
ton of a bridge across the drainage
channel cutting the Rock Levee Road,
was virtually decided upon at the
meeting Of the Commercial Club, when
the drainage proposition was discuss
ed and viewed from all angles.
The meeting was brought to an end
wit adoption of the motion that the
special bridge committee of the Com
mercial Club, ascertain whether a spe-
cial election for the approval of the
bonds be advisable, or whether the of
fer of Otto Kochtitzky that the money
be guaranteed by number of citizens
be preferable.
Judge Edward D. Hays and City
Counselor Oscar A. Knehans. legal ad-
Users of the special road commission
took the stand that the Little Rive,
Drainage District must build the bridge
and then collect the money from the
road district. while Burett Oliver at
torney for the Little River Draina;:c
District maintained that this could no.
be done.
f. J. Deal, chairman of the SPECIAL
bridge committee, gave detailed re-
port of the efforts made by the c0rl-
mittee to solve this important and dis-
ficult problem. He said the commit
tee had suggested to the drainage cO;,'-
pany that it loan half of the sum to
the road district together with a do
nation from the citizens, but the dri-
image district opposed this suggestion.
d. A. Glenn, chairman of the 70:
commission explained that this body
could not contract for any future debts,
and therefore could not guarantee the
building of the bridge, as the commits
sion was not authorized by law to
spend more than the sum available for
each year.
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CITY news In BRIEF

Weather Forecast: Cooler todas
and partly cloudy.
Mrs. Arthur c. Bowman retuinc"
from Ava last night where she spent
an extended visit with home folks.
Attorney Harry Z. Alexander spent
the day in Pcrryvi}lc attending Circuit
court.
Fred Kraft Of Oklahoma Gil"
Okla. WAS in the Cape for several
DAYS visiting friends and relatives. \ .
is brother Of Fire Chief Kraft.
Joe Quota, former owner of inc
Crescent Cafe. wen. to st. Louis yes
ter,lav morning to visit friends before
leaving for the training camp. He
will be among those who will leave
with I'll" next contingent.
A farewell party will be given thj-
evening to Percy OstcrIoh by his man?
friends. "Percy" has been draftad
and viii be ordered to the trainrns
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-10-12
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.


State Of Missouri, County of Cape
G;rardeau, SIS:
In the Cape Girardeau Court of Com
mon Pleas, Cape Girardeau Coun-
ty, November Term, 1917.
Moody Mofield, plaintiff,
VS..
Rosa Mofield, defendant.
The State of Missouri, to above
named defendant, Greeting.
Now, on this 10th day of October.
1917, in vacation of Cape Girardeau
Court of Common Pleas, Cape Cir
ardeau County, Missouri, comes
plaintiff herein by attorney of record
herein before the clerk of said Court
and on behalf of plaintiff files pc
tition and affidavit in suit herein.
among other matters of action alleg5-
ing:
That said defendant Rosa Mofie;'l
is a nonresident of the state OF Mis-
souri,, and that the ordinary process
of law cannot be served upon hcf
within this state, and it appearing T.
the satisfaction of this Court that the
defendant cannot be summoned in
this action:
Whereupon it is ordered by the
Clerk Of the Court in vacation thai
said defendant be notified by publ
cation that plaintiff has commenced
a suit against her in this Court, the
immediate object ard general natulc
of which is to obtain 4 decree of d :
vorce and that the bonds of matr:
mony heretofore contracted and now
existing by and between plaintiff and
defendant, be dissolved.
And it is further ordered that sad
defendant be and appear in this
Court on the first day of the next
term thereof to be holden at the Gil;
Of Cape Girardeau, Cape GUardeau
County, Missouri, on Monday, the
2Gth day Of November, 1917, AMI
thcn and there answer or plead t.
said petition, or in default therein
said petition will be taken and adj
Judged as confessed, and Judgment
by default will be rendered against
said defendant
1t is further ordered that copy
hereof be duly published at least for
1 consecutive weeks in the Weekly
Tribune, weekly newspaper duly
printed, published and circulated in
said county and duly designated b.
plaintiffs attorney. and duly az
proved by said Clerk as most likely
TO give notice to defendant. the lasr
insertion to be at least fifteen DAYS
before said next term of said cour+.
State of Missouri. County of Cape
Girardeau, SIS:
|, D. A. Nichols. Clerk of the Care
Girardeau Court of Common Ple:.s,
Cape Girardeau County, Missouri,
hereby certify that the foregoing
writing is q full, true and complete
copy Of the original Order of Pub
LEGATION in said cause, as fully as the
same remains and appears of reco:l
in my office.
In witness whereof, | hereto sun
scribe my name and official sigma
ture and hereto affix the seal of sd ii
court at m yoffice in the city of CAPE
Girardeau county, Missouri. this 10Th
day of October, 1917.
D. A. Nichols,
Clerk.
IL, Cl,:1o-. L. LIZ, ,.lc
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self.
"Well, by gum, remarked Doc Rey-
nolds, 81 thought you was dead"
"How's that snapped Dyer.
"Why. we got a report up here thai
you died with cholera"
81 heard that, too, but knew it was
a damn lie as soon as | heard it,
retorted Dyer.
Whenever any one IN Bowling
Green wants to relate a "good one"
on Judge Dyer these days, they spring
that cholera story, which still creates
a laugh and Judge Dyer always joins
in.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-11-10
LEWIS PARTY VISITS windy CITY
ANDSEESFORD PLANT DETROIT

chimes are never bothered with them.
The day was cold and rainy, and as
we moved along past hundreds OF
large smoke stacks some on brewer
les, others on car building concerns,
lumber mills, etc. The Cudahy pack.
ing house is right along the street. The
Grasselty Chemical Works are Inn
mense, covering acres of ground.
We passed the Illinois-Indiana state
line at 1850 in the morning and saw
nothing much in the farming line but
truck gardening. After leaving the
manufacturing district, we came to
small farms of oats, corn and wheat,
and these conditions continued for
some 116 miles. And at the little town
Iof Valparaiso. where we had lunch,
Mr.. Lewis learned that some twenty
two miles ahead in a town named La
Porte, Indiana, country fair and
race-meet were going on that after
noon, so we hurried on and arrived
there about 2:30 p. M,
The sideshows and merry-go-round
were doing business, and there were
some wonderful freaks of nature.
There was an East Indian imam
thirty-seyen years old, weighing 26
pounds and only Is inches high, and
he was so deformed that he did not
attempt to walk. His head was of
normal size, and he could talk and sing
in three different languages to enter.
tain the people.
Saw A Tentfuf
This reminds us that Miss Iwalani
Dayton of Honolulu left the party at
Chicago to visit friends and relatives
in some other part of the state hoping
to meet us again in New York. Miss
Dayton had been very anxious to see
a snake at close hand, and although
we had run over several she did not
first day after she left the party she
had the opportunity Of seeing tent
full Of them at the Fair at LaPorte. A
young man was in a small tent with
fully fifty snakes, and several were
real rattlers, but Of course they had
been made harmless. r.. ..
We continued on our journey over
some fine concrete road, also some
very ordinary road, reaching the
Oliver hotel in South Bend, Indiana,
at $3.50 p. m, where we stopped for the
night. South Bend has population of
$4,000 people, and in the evening we
attended fine show.
We think we can truthfully say that
for the second time in our journey
since leaving San Francisco we
have found roads as good as our roads
around Oahu: When the travelling
public come to Honolulu and kick
about our roads, you can just bet they
have never travelled very far out of
any city All mainland streets around
park roads are fine, but outside of that
you can find no better road than the
one around the Island of Oahu.
Expensive City
South Bend is the most expensive
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lit is passing him, and so it goes on
until the finished machine reaches the
painters hands. There are II 900 men
employed. The pay roll is $250.000 a
day. Our party saw everything from
the flat sheet of iron to the finished
car. They have complete fire fight.
ing equipment in the building.
Big Plant
The plant is S54 feet long, six stories
high, and has a three building unit,
and there are fifty-five miles of belt.
ing, and every man working in the
plant is getting from $500 to $500
per day.
Back in the sightseeing bus again.
The megaphone told us: I'VE have
forty three automobile manufacturing
concerns in Detroit, and the census
that was taken some four years ago
gave the population as $4,000, and the
last census gives it as 100000. so
you can see Detroit is over the million
population mark
We have noted the fire fighting
equipments as we travelled along, and
we found none better than Honolulu's
Fire Department.
You will remember in one of our
former letters, we mentioned the fact
that the park keepers in Portland did
not care anything about the high cost
of living; feeding the bears whole
loaVes OF bread, etc. Well, since that
writing the people of Portland have
sold the bears and buffaloes, because
feed was too high, so it does not pay
TO be wasteful .--:-.--@f
Yours truly,
ONE OF THE LEWIS PARTY
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pieces played by the various bands.
IN the fheaters and elsewhere, are OF
q patriotic nature, SO as to keep the
public aroused to their duty, and Oh
course there is always the usual cheer
ing and clapping Of hands when such
pieces are finished.
Our Mr.. Carlos Sebastian was stay
ing at the same hotel where we were,
and giving exhibitions of fancy dane
ing during the afternoon and dinner
hour, and is represented as an Italian
nobleman.
Original Signs
Along the road we saw some original
signs, such as large stone weighing
several tons, with sign reading Run
in-to-me;;" another one Thank u
and another one giving the speed
limit at sixty miles per hour rather
liberal you would say, but when you
find the road SO bad that you can't
make ten miles per hour, you can be-
gin to see the joke.
Below are few real American
names that we ran across:
Rudolph Altrocche, Michael Altsoc-
huler, Ellis Altweir, Chas. Anagnost,
John w. Apcyynski, Anton Auehstet-
ter, Jr., G. 2. Aughhenbaugh, r h.
Bartholomew, etc.
We visited the Marshall Field
great dry goods store which is TWEEN
ty stories high from the street, and
five stories under ground. There are
over five thousand people employed
there, and of course you can get any
thing you want in the dry goods line.
Stockyards
In the afternoon we visited the won
derful Chicago stock yards-pens
where there we're thousands of cattle
awaiting the butcher, among them
some old cows that looked as though
they could not wait many more days,
and all kinds from two-day old calves
to old bulls.
Mr.. Lewis and the writer left the
machine and visited the auction rooms
where they sell horses, fine large ami.
mails weighing from 100 to 400
pounds at prices anywhere from $50,
to $125 and everything that was
brought out was sold-nothing was
turned back. s.
of Again
We left the Grand Pacific hotel in
Chicago on the morning of the 2Sth
day of August, continuing on our way
east to New York following the yell
lowstone trail. About twenty-five
miles out we came to a new boulevard
Just completed with notice posted,
signed by the Commissioners, and
reading, mo heavy wagons allowed
on this boulevard" showing that Chi
cago, with all its population, does not
build roads for heavy traffic every
where. On great many of the streets
there is division made, usually in the
center of the street, for -horse-drawn1
vehicles, and the fast moving ma
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the Franklin Automobiles are mann.
featured. one of the many makes Of
machines that are manufactured in ne.
roit. On our left the Buick Car Co.,
right across the street the Overland
Here on the right is one of the four
high schools of Detroit; Just next door
is one of the many public libraries.
right before you is the Henderson
Motor Cycle Co. On the next corner
to your right covering an entire blocl,
is the Cadillac Automobile Co. EN-.
ploying 5000 men, turning out 90 O0O
Detroit machines a year. Their plant
is one of the oldest in Detroit.
In The Millionaire Row
I'VE are now passing the Adding
Machine Co.'S plant. We are now en-.
tering Virginia park, one of. Detroit's
exclusive residential districts. Here
ladies and gentlemen, is where the
millionaires live. Every one living
on this street is a millionaire. They
use diamond tires on their automo.
biles, and clean their houses with gold
dust. Here on your left is one of the
largest hospitals, started by. the city,
II
but later taken over by Mr. Henry
Ford and completed at an expense of
So, 100000. 1t is run for the benefit
of the public but at the expense of Mr.,
Ford. We are now coming to the Ford
factory where we will stop, and YOU
are asked to sign the register and A
competent guide will show YOU around
the plant ....... ...- = '...: r
The guide took us first to the tool
manufacturing building, where 5000
men are constantly employed making
tools. They have three shifts of men
daily, so the plant is always going,
turning out two complete machines
every minute. Everything is done by
carrier; all parts of the auto are NOV.
|ing-bolts, nuts, engine-along to
where each and every workman does
his little bit-one man puts a bolt in
place and the egnine passes on to the
next man who screws the nut on while
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place we had yet reached. Room
and bath $50 per night, mutton chops
35 cents each, or two for go cents, veal
40 cents or two for 20 cents, hashed
brown potatoes rs cents, ham and
eggs 80 cents to SO cents.
Just before leaving South Bend
young man saw the machine and came
over and made himself known. He
said he was born at Waikiki, and his
name was Mr.. Kemp and that he was
agent for the Cadillac Car, and was
doing we'll He gave us the right d.
.rection to get out of the town.
If any Hawaiian ever stops at the
Olive hotel, South Bend, Indiana, he
should see that no one else's telephone
bill is on his bill. The country was
very low, just about one half of the
barn yards being under water.
We passed through the town of Cold
water where the Bob Roy" flour is
made. We came to large building
by the side of lake with dinner
sign out, SO we asked for lodging and
put UP there for the night. The place
is known as the H. Ridley hotel.
Pass Line
We passed into Michigan about II
o'clock today. The state line between
Indiana and Michigan is about twenty
miles east of South Bend, and a few
miles farther we came to the little
town of Elkhart. Our first days ride
in Michigan was about as rough riding
as any we had had on our journey with
the possible exception iof two days in
Nevada. No attention seems to have
been paid to the roads whatever and
while they are level and straight they
are very rough.
The farms are small in Michigan and
the land rolling. While the barns are
in good condition the houses were old
and unkempt and some of them have
never been painted. The standing
crops were very poor. The For Sale"
sign was out on several places; some
of these places had been Abandoned,
the people getting discouraged over
poor prospects and leaving for more
fertile pastures.
HiIIy, Country
About Is or 20 miles before arriving
at the Ridley" the country was very
billy, similar to the Hilo district. We
were still fortunate as regards wealth
er conditions, although there has been
lots of rain in this part Of Michigan,
it was two or three days ahead of US
all the time, and the roads were not
dusty as we went along. Fully half
of the towns we passed through had
fair grounds and race tracks,
On Thursday, August 80, we left the
hotel by the lake at 7:45 a. m, and
the first thirty-five miles we travelled
was over. a fair gravel road. The last
twenty-six miles before reaching De-
troit was fine concrete road, and the
only covering it had was the oil that
dropped from the passing machines.
We arrived at Detroit about HAS
o'clock a. m. After lunch we took a
ride around the city in one of the
sightseeing buses, and I will give
You an impression of the various
places we passed, and the things we
saw on our journey, and what we were
told by the man with the megaphone.
"The first thing, ladies and gentle.
men, we have 10000 public school
children; 143 public schools and 100
teachers. Now we are passing where
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PACKARD BUYS BONDS

More than two mi11fon dollars has
been subscribed to the second Liberty
Loan by the Packard Motor Car Com.
pany, its branches and employees. The
company itself bought million dol
lars worth of the bonds. 1t authorized
its selling branches in New York,
Philadelphia and Chicago to devote
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Among the necessaries when touring
should be supply Of tire valves and
caps. A slight leak in a valve will
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the proceeds Of their sales one week
to the same cause.
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-04
AT THE AUDITORIUM.

1.-THE Stolen Triumph" with
Julius Steger as a star. will be seen
at the Auditorium today Several
scenes in the production were taken
at the Century theater in New York.
II deals with a poverty stricken
man of genius. who brought his
masterpiece to his supposed friend.
theatrical manager, who stole il
and presented il as his own work
At the premiere of this play within
a play. which is shown in several
unusual scenes, the real author of
the drama recognizes the production
as his own, denounces the imposter
and is thrown from the theater.
Earle Williams will also be seen to-
day in the last of his Scarlet Run
ner series TOmorrow's feature
is The Children Pay" with LILLIAN
Gish in the leading role. Mr.. and
Mrs. Sidney Drew will also be seen
in a comedy called " Free Speech, -
and a single reel travelogue will
also be shown.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-04

when Investigations revealed that
milton had come from him. One of
the counts in the indictments men
tons i'm this connection the advanc-
ing by Burns of $500. A consider
able quantity OF the ammunition
found here and at Galveston has
been seized by the federal officials
and is held as evidence against the
accused.
Burns was arrested Wednesday as
he was leaving his apartment to go
to his office. lie protested his in
nocence and when arraigned before
Federal Judge Hand. entered a plea
of not guilty. He was placed under
bond of $4,000. which he fur
nished i'm cash and was released
Later at his office Burns said that
the arrest was a complete surprise
TO him. am entirely innocent
of any wrong doing" he declared.
Il have not made any attempt TO
buy arms here 10 be shipped to
Mexico and l cannot see how l can
possibly be connected with any such
charge has been brought"
Asked if he knew the other men
arrested on the same charge and
with whom he is alleged to have
conspired. he replied:
Il have met them. but only in
an official way as consul. and have
had no dealings with them"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-04
MAN SAID TO BE 106
YEARS OLD FEARED DYING
Jonathan Sellers of Anderson So Old
He Has Lost Track of His
Years.

ANDERSON, Ind, Jan. iona
than Sellers, whose age is claimed
by relatives TO be Zoe years. is crit
ically i'll at his home in this city
and he is scarcely expected 10 sur
vive. Sellers has lived in Anderson
since 1850 and at that time he was
past middle age. In recent years he
has lost exact count of his age due
to inability TO read and write. but
his relatives assert that he was As
years old in 1855 wheE he helped
a gang of construction workers
build the present Pennsylvania rail-
road line through Madison county.
He was born in Ohio.
All of his children reside here
with the exception of a daughter.
Mrs Edward BOckenbaugh OF
Paducah, Ky.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-04
FIRING SQUAD MAKES
SAM WONG CHANGE MIND
Chinese Merchant Refuses to Pay
Fine for Conducting Gambling
House i'm Arizona.

DOUGLAS. Ariz.. Jan. when
sam Wong. a Chinese merchant Of
Cananea. Sonora. refused 20 pay d
fine OF $1,000 on the charge Of
conducting a gambling house. he
was marched 10 a nearby wall and
faced with a firing squad. according
TO an announcement published there
Then Wong paid the fine. The
money together with fines collected
from other Chinese. the account
adds. was turned over by the mu-
nicipaI authorities 10 the schools
with the stipulation that it was TO
be used 10 purchase sewing ma
chimes for the domestic science de-
partment
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MEXICAN CONSUL
IS HELD IN PLOT
Five Are Charged With Vio-
Iating PreS't Wilson's En-
barge Violation.

NEW YORK. Jan. 4.-The arrest
here wednesday by Federal officers
OF Juan T. Burns. consul general at
ment OF Mexico. disclosed an al
leged conspiracy In which FIVE Mex
leans. including Burns. are charged
IN three indictments with shipping
arms into Mexico i'm violation OF
Prest Wilson's embargo prOclama-
ton or October. 1916. and with
evasion Of customs regulations.
According 20 assistant United
States District Attorney John c.
Knox. federal agents first became
acquainted with the alleged plot in
NOvembe OF last year when a pack
ing case shipped from New York on
board the Ward line steamship Es-
Peranza. and manifested as contain
ing " building material" fell on the
dock AT Vera Cruz and broke open
revealing cartridges as its contents
Investigations by federal agents dis
closed that the box, shipped pre-
sumably by a Pittsburgh hardware
company. had been forwarded from
this part by a firm known as the
Adic company. composed Of Louis
Getting and Wenceslao Mont. The
manifest i'm which the box was en-
tered in customs records was signed
by John Geipi. who. investigation
proved 10 be Jose De La Pase, an
employe OF the firm.
shipped as Machinery.
according to Mr.. Knox, that other
shipments Of cartridges had been
made from New York under the
suise of various kinds of machinery.
Some OF these shipments. ne said.
did not go 10 Mexico direct. but
were sent TO Galveston. Texas. on
board the steamship Neches. Of the
Mallory line. the Galveston ship
ments being manifested and marked
in care Of r. Mier.
Three weeks ago Getting. Mont
and De la Pase were placed under
arrest here by federal agents. and
Mier. identified as Reuben NIier.
was located at Houston, Tex.
placed under arrest there and sent
in charge of a federal officer to
New York.
A development Of the case. based
in part on statement said TO have
been made TO the officers by De La
Pase, disclosed. Mr. Knox said. that
purchases Of small ammunition TO
the probable value of $4,000 had
been made. principally in East
Alton, III. This ammunition, shipped
10 New York. was received by Got
ting and Mont. taken to a store
house controlled by them at 60 Ann
St. and there prepared for delivery
into Mexico via Ward and Mallory
line steamers
Money Came From Consul
The implication of Consul Gen
eral Burns came, Mr.. Knox said.