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The Washington herald., 1917-09-16
old GENERAL ROAD BUILDER GETS BUSY
Blazing new AUTO trail To RICHMOND
Army of Men with Picks, Shovels and Steam
Rollers Starts Work of Converting Chop
awamsic Swamp Into a Memory

Chopawamsic swamp, insofar as 1t
relates to motor travel between the
National Capital and Richmond. Is no
more. What probably was Americas
most infamous barrier to automooiie
touring surrendered to Gen. Road
Builder and an army of picks shoVeis
and steam rollers last Monday.
This news comes authentically from
officials of the A. A. A.. District OIL
Columbia club, Washington's energetic
motoring organization, which tor near
ly three years had worked ceaselessiy
TO provide motorists with a travelable
road between this city and the Nir-
ginia metropolis.
Today the trip to the Southern city
NAV be made minus many OF the dan
gers and much of the discomfort whlch
formerly made 1t one of friGhtfulness'
thereby depriving Washington motor
lists of n good nearby Virginia tour
and annually robbing washington
merchants of many dollars In trace
Many Chuck Holes Yet.
However. according to A. A. A. Of
| ficials who made an inspection TRIP
| over the route last Wednesday 'ne
ride is not entirely without its trials
! these being in the shape Of numerous
chuck-holes and some very uneven
highway between Occoquan villasr
and Dumfries. There Is about two
| miles of this bad road, the club mer
| report, which. however. calls only
for slow driving in dry weather ano
careful driving in wet weather.
| A new road through this section Il
now in course of construction, and tc
this work will be applied the A. A. A
road funds not used in the swami
work. The new road should be COM
pleted in about four months.
| Last Wednesdays tour of the roa(
was made for the double purpose o
inspecting the completed work ant
signmarking the route. which was ac
complished under the personal sup
ervision of Manager A. G. Seller. o
the touring bureau at the A. A. A. I
Washington headquarters.
| According to Mr.. Seller. the road 4
The Washington herald., 1917-09-16

now thoroughly posted with the in
destructible yellow and black road
signs Of the American Automobile
Association, and the driver Is hopeless
indeed who loses his way. Says Mr..
Seller:
Care Needed at Occoquan.
Motorists desiring to make the
motor trip between Washington
and Fredericksburg or Richmond
may now do SO fairly confident that
they will arrive at their destina-
tion with their cars intact and
their nerves unshattered, provided
they will drive with due caution
before entering and after leaving
Occoquan village.
Before entering this village, and
after leaving the District penal in
stitute. the road winds for a cou-
pie of miles along the side OF a
huge bluff, with a deep ravine be-
low. Here there are many sharp
dangerous curves and the driver
should proceed slowly and frequent
ly sound his horn. especially IL
driving at night. as a quick turn
to avoid a collision may end in a
death-dealing fall into the yawn-
ing depths below. The surface oi
this road. however, Is splendid: only
caution is needed.
About three miles out of Oc'
coQuan village the motorist meet:
some very rough road. which might
cause serious trouble after a very
heavy rainfall. but which ought
| with due care. to be negotiated
safely at any time.
signs Point Best Way.
LAS there are many optional route
into Dumfries, 1 consider IL extreme
ly important that tourists follow tn
| A. A. A. signs. as these were erected
only after several careful surveys o
all the roads under varying condi
tions.
From Dumfries on. formerly tn
worst part of the trip. if not tn
worst trip In the United States. tn
way is clear and the road is good
and the half-starved old Dobbin
formerly used to haul luckless motor
lists from the mire are now out o
The Washington herald., 1917-09-16

are now located in Washington Civ
ing active assistance and advice TO
the government in the design Of the
military trucks. In connection with
the aircraft program the standard L.
s A. aviation engine has been de-
signed by two well-known S. A. +.
engineers.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-16

Los Angeles County Is TO have the
second largest county hospital in the
country. surprising New York's big
Bellevue in size and being second 10
Cook County Hospital. Chicago. Nine
structures are to be erected at a cost
Of 500 900. making a total of twenty
nine buildings. with I,55o beds.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-16

The black iguana of California. OF
which the scientific name is ctenosaur
acanthur in allusion of the comblike
crest of spines along the back, acan-
thur meaning "spring-tailed." is al
lied to the ring-tailed iguana. but un-
like the Jamaican iguana its flesh il
highly esteemed.
The Era-leader., 1917-01-18
Mob In Kentucky Quieted By
Governor.

Murray, KY, Jan. 11.-Re-es-
tablishment Of law and order
through the personal efforts Of
Governor Stanley Of Kentucky
continues here tonight after a
period Of excitement that at one
time threatened the destruction
of Circuit Judge Chas. Bush and
Commonwealth Attorney Denny
Smith at the hands of a mob which
had become angered because the
trial of Lobe Martin, a negro
charged with murder Of Guthrie
Duiguid, white man, had been
deferred.
After a turbulent night, during
which the mob threatened to dy-
Mantle a hotel, the refuge Of the
Judge, Gov. Stanley, accompan .
led by three friends, came to Muir
ray to plead with the crowd for
the preservation of order. In an
address to a throng in Judge
Bush's courtroom he asserted hs
had come to Murray to uphold
the law and protect the court
with my body if necessary"
His words moved a brother OF
the man the negro was charged
with killing to openly indorse his
appeal. Later the governor NOV
ed from group to group on the
streets reproving those who ex
hibited a tendency to nout the
law, and before noon he dominat.
ed the situation and shortly there
after left the city on a specla
train with the judge and the
prosecutor.
The Era-leader., 1917-01-18
NUuIBER 43.
General News items IN Brief

him with assaulting a boy, eat
his throat and wrists in a West
Philadelphia home.
Exports for December from
New Orleans exceeded those OF
the previous December more than
S10,OO0,O00.
Attorney General Coco devoted
himself to considering laws af-
tecting parole, to meet the sltua-
ton created when twenty mur-
derers were listed for freedom,
The Italian battleship Regina
Margherita was destroyed with a
loss of 675 lives.
President wilson decided def.
initely to wi, ldraw the Pershing
force and send an ambassador to
Mexico.
The German embassy relieved
| from duty Franz Bopp, consul
| general at San Francisco, convict
ed Of conspiracy to violate the
| neutrality laws.
A young woman was found
shot and cut to death in "a hotel
bedroom in Columbus, Ohio.
| Suggestions for an excise tax
on sugar were not received favor
ably by members Of the ways and
means committee. O
| The House rules committee took
steps TO compel Thomas W. Law
son to give details regarding the
peace note leak or punish him for
contempt.
W. W. Adams, La Sale, par
ish assessor, died after drinking
poison by mistake.
Oscar E. Tut was sentenced to
> life imprisonment at GreanvlIle,
Miss, for the murder OF his wife.
R. P. Gibson, young planter
l near Natchez, Miss, was found
v murdered and robbed.
John Frederick Hellmer5, for
4 more than fifty years proprietor
u Fred's House, on st Charles ST.,
> died at the age Of Sc years.
Il A mistrial was entered in the
case of Mrs. Augustine Miguez,
" charged with the murder OF An
3 tony Franco, a barber.
The Era-leader., 1917-01-18

The Russian political crisis was
interpreted as indicating the de-
termination of the country to
stake everything upon victory in
the war.
A contract for building $780,
900 bridge across the bay at Bay
St. Louis, Miss, was let to an
Indiana concern.
Franz Bopp, German consul
general at San Francisco, and
four Of his employees were con-
victed Of conspiring to violate
this country's neutrality.
Directors of the Business Mems
Racing Association formally de-
cided to take over the Fail
Grounds race track and property
for 100000.
The st. George plantation was
sold to A. II. Johness and Others
for 100000.
G. P. Moss, a sauce manufac
turer atsNew Iberia, La, COM
mitted suicide in New Orleans
hotel.
The famous old British prison
ship Success arrived at New Or
leans for stay till Mardi Gras
British Military operations il
MesQpotamia appeared to be at
tended with much success.
Premier Lloyd-George asserte,
that all wanted peace but that
must be a real one.
Demanding the reorganizatio
of Europe upon basis of securit
| and peace and stating in deta
what they hope to gain by contir
uing the war, the Entente allie
5 sent their reply to President vii
} sons peace note.
| Damage estimated at millior
was done by fire which destroye
a big munitions plant in Ne
1 Jersey.
Senator Vardaman opposed a
J extra session of the Mississip
Legislature to consider the pas
sage Of more dramatic prohibitic
. laws
e larry K. Thaw, wanted inlNe
Y York on an indictment chargin
The Era-leader., 1917-01-18
German Casualties Above
Four Million.

London, Jan. 11.-The totaI
German casualties since the be.
ginning Of the war were placed
at 4.01O.16l in an official summa-
ry issued by the British govern.
ment today which reads:
"a summery of the German
casualties reported in officia
German casualty lists published
during December gives a total OF
1891, which, added to those
previously reported brings the
total German casualties to 4,O10,
100. The naval and colonial cas-
ualties are excluded
The Era-leader., 1917-01-18
Sheriff Sale. No 1858.
Union Bank, in Liquidation
r.. J. Simmons.

L. y. Dill lDUllS.
Notice is hereby given thatby virtue
of an order of seizure and sale issued
out of the rs Judicial District Court OF
Louisiana, in and for Washington Par
ish, in the above entitled cause. and
to me directed, will proceed to sell
at public auction to the last and high
est bidder, on
Saturday. January p, 1917
at the principaffron door of the court
house at Franklinton, La, between
the legal sale hours for judicial sales,
the following described property be-
ing and situated in Washington Par
ish, La, to-Wlt:
A certain lot of ground in the town
of Franklinton, La. together with all
improvements thereon situated, de-
scribed as follows: Beginniog at the
north corner of square No. 43 at the
intersection of Main and Liberty
streets, and run south 44o east along
west line of Main street 100 feet
thence run at right angles south 460
west 1o7 feet, thence north 447 wes
100 feet to Liberty street, thence al
easterly course along Liberty stree
to point of beginning.
Terms of sale: Cash without ap
praisement.
This the 21st day of December, A
sD. 1916.
| J, E. Bateman, Sheriff.
The Era-leader., 1917-01-18
Considers Calling An Extra
Session to Keep Out Ruin.

Jackson, Miss, Jan. 10.-An
extraordinary session Of the Leg
islature in a few weeks is highly
probable.
Governor Bilbo announced this
morning that he is receiving tele-
grams and letters from all over
the state urging him to call the
session, and that he is seriously
considering the NATTER
The idea is to make more bind
ing and more effective the pres
ent liquor laws Of The state. Any
person may now bring in one
quart every fifteen days, and a
great many citizens Of Mississippi
are of the opinion that the one
quart is not needed. Since the
decision of the Supreme Court of
the United States holding that the
West Virginia law is good and
binding, many prohibitionlsts OF
Mississippi are anxious to follow
in the footsteps of that state, and
are willing to stand the expense
OF the extraordinary session to
put the West Virginia law on the
books here.
Governor Bilbo leans to the ex.
traordinary session idea, and the
chances are that he will call it
within the next few weeks. He
SAYS he is convinced that the ben
efts will more than overbalance
the cost of the session: as Miss
issippians probably have spent a
half.million dollars during the
past year paying express charges
on quarts of booze. Under the
old gallon law the shippers paid
the express charges, but when
they ship a quart the consignee
pays the freight.
The Mississippi Legislature is
largely prohibition" If West
Virginia can bar whiskey entire
ly, Mississippi can do the same,
and will, ii the lawmakers are
called together, it is said.
Governor Bilbo mentioned this
as one way of putting the alleged
Vicksburg or De Soto Island H.
quor men out of business in the
state OF Mississippi.
Governor Bilbo was asked this
morning if he had determined tc
break up the "blind.tigor,' bust.
ness, alleged to be carried on at
vicksburg, and said he had. Just
how he would 60 aboutit was mo-
explained, but he appeared to be
in dead earnest about his "third
siege of Vicksburg," and the off
GERS of the law no doubt will bt
called on to cooperate.
The Era-leader., 1917-01-18
A New Crop Possibility.

The cucumber as a good paying
crop has possibly been thought Of
by our farmerO here but that it IS
worth considering is evident from
the following letter addressed to
Mr.. J. X. Johnson a former
townsman Of ours.
Mr.. ?. H. Roberts whose name
is subscribed to the letter is one
Of the most successful pickle men
in the South. He has been oper-
ating large plant at Virgins,
Miss, for a number of years.
Everybody in this country
knows that cucumbers are very
prolific and easily grown. If the
farmers in any munity will
get together at once and agree to
grow enough acreage in cucum-
bers to justify, Mr.. Roberts will
have an expert stay on the grounds
to show how they should be
planted and harvested, and you
can get themoney for them next
June.
New Orleans, La, Dec. d.
Mr.. }, K. Johnson,
Rogalusa, La,
Dear Mr.. johnson:
We would put
in sailing vats and sheds ant
take the pickles in your place
and pay the growers for them ir
Dash and cure them at the station
most convenient to the most 0.
the growers (where we locate tht
tanks these pickles will wher
cured be shipped to the factory ii
New Orleans aud packed, anc
the dill pickles will be made ant
packed, and shipped out over tn
country, Chicago, st. Louis, Mem
ghis, New York and Boston.
We pay 80 cents per bushel o
81. 20 per hundred pounds for tn
green pickles from the farme
taking all merchantable stock
and also take the culls al 25 cent
per bushel.
The land after the cucumber
are off about June 25th to Jul
lst, can then be planted to sw9e
potatoes or other crops.
Our growers along the G. & S
Il. Road have daring the past fiv
years made an average yield c
100 bushels to the acre planted
some as high as 318 bushels an
some as low 80 bushels depend
, ing upon the season, the grove
and the land.
1t does not require very muc
fertilizer on the land that 70
, have in your section, our fell
man Mr.. B. H. Sloane can Civ
the growers all of the informatio
The Era-leader., 1917-01-18

diOllS tlldl lllIt tHdt lI"r NC hO'
cessary after seeing the land or
getting line on its fertility.
We have grown for US speci-
al seed for planting the BurrelI
seed Company of Rocky Ford
Colorado growing it, they we find
produce a clean seed flee from
blight or other disease. We have
contracted for two thousand
pounds of seed and we furnish
seed to the growers and take the
cost out to the crop returns, If
they plant early and frost gets
them, we furnish the second
planting free, in this way VIC en-
courage them to take some chance
in planting early as a larger
yield can be had on early plant
ings as we have found. @
1t does not pay US to put in
sailing stations and keep an ex
pert on the ground for less than
200 acres or more, it requires
quite an outlay in money to get
the stations or branches estab-
lished and naturally we expect
the growers to succeed and max e
money out Of the deal or it would
not pay us to undertake it just
for one year, so we give a great
deal of attention to the first years
work, instructing the growers and
helping them all that We can, and
in retuIn we ask that the local
merchants or those interested
give us a suitable site location
and furnish US with water con
connections or a we'll and assis
us in getting the growers together
and the acreage contracted.
| AS to our financial standing
and ability to carry out any con
ract that we may undertake, W.
refer to the Whitney Centra
Bank or the Metropolitan Banl
of New Orleans. {
If you think that your grower
at any point where you are inter
ested will take hold of the dea
and will write us or come to Ney
| Orleans and meet with the write
at any time next week, we Wi
have our field man or the write
will also visit YOUR place and VIZ
can have the acreage arrange
and the growers enthused.
The writer remembers your viS
it here some years ago and ais
my visit to your city, if there al
more growers located at your cit
, than there were when | was ther
some years ago you have goo
location, but at that time | thin
most Of the growers around you
city were giving their attention
, other things, not trucking.
, think you have good pickle Ian
east of Bogalusa.
The writer will open our Ne
Orleans Office after January Is
and will be glad to hear from yc
addressing me at 51S Natcbez 81
With regards, beg to remain,
Yours truly,
P. H. Robert
The Era-leader., 1917-01-18

Two Black Hand slayers of the
Lamana boy withdrew their pa
role petitions.
The Era-leader., 1917-01-18

BUB-MY.TISM- Antiseptic
Relieves Rheumatism, spralns,
Neuralgia, etc.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-04
Lecture Special for
TOmOrrow's Camp Meeting

Sunday will be a full day at the
campmeting at Fourteenth and Marion.
An old fashioned Glove Feast" will
be conducted Sunday morning at 900
o clock. At eleven O'Clock the evange-
list will preach from the text, "Works
of the Devil.'' in the afternoon Rev.
Jackson will give missionary lecture
of personal experience in Central Am
erica. He has made two trips to that
country travelling extensively in Qua
tamala and Salvador His first trip was
made with D. James M. Taylor, of the
Methodist church. Come and hear about
conditions. Long pilgrimages will be
made to shrines, drunken dances before
so-called miracle working images, ba-
bies traded for hogs, rotten social con
ditions of the masses. Church people
should not miss it. 1t is a revelation to
many The day viii close with rousing
song service beginning at 1880 followed
with message by the evangelist.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-04
Instructions Fixing
Standard for Products

An order fixing standards for grain,
hay, and other agricultural products
and covering handling, weighing, in
specting, and storing, and management
of public and terminal warehouses was
issued yesterday afternoon by the pub
lie service commission, according to
the provisions of chapter 333, of the
laws of 1917 The order is dated July
81 and goes into effect on September
!, 1917, except relating to wheat and
corn, the standard for which is estab-
lished by the U. 8. Department of
Agriculture.
The basis for determining the stand
ard of wheat is its freedom from dock
age; percentages, except moisture, are
to be determined by weight. Dockage
includes sand, dirt, weed seeds, stems,
straws, and other foreign matter that
can be removed by sieves. These per-
centages are added to the grade desig-
nation of the grain.
Wheat is defined as any grain, when
free from dockage. that contains less
than six percent of other grains. The
Winchester bushel is the standard for
testing weight
Samples of all grains grown in the
state may be secured from the Chief
Grain Inspector by any person on the
payment of the cost of the samples. A
charge of 75 cents is made for samples
sent for inspection. If there is a
grievance and the person is not salts
fled with the grade given, a re-inspec-
tion can be had for the payment of
$100. If the original rating is not sus-
tanned this money will be refunded.
The ice for inspecting and weighing
hay and grain is as follows: sacked
grain, five cents tom; bulk grain,
three cents; moisture test, 25 cents.
The fees for weighing grain from a
public terminal in lots less than 500
tons is four cents a ton, in lots of SOC
tons or over three cents; for inspections
one cent a ton is added.
Unless it is specifically stated to the
contrary gross weight of sacked grain
rather than net weight shall govern.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-04
Baptist Assembly at
Fair Grounds Growing

The Baptist assembly at the fair
grounds has continued to grow in in
terest to date. g. r. Hall gave read
ing last evening, selections from Whit
comb Riley and Miss Tartar sang Riley
songs, Mr.. Pearson of Portland illus
trated some of them with chalk pie
lures, upon canvass.
This evening the program will be an
interesting one, consisting Of "stunts''
illustrating college life, with mus',
Prof. Carroll Wooddy Of Oxford univ
sity will speak. A large number of Nc
Minnville college college students will
be present and take part on the pro-
gram.
Sunday. the closing day Of the as
sembly, will be full day, DR.. G. i.
Manifold of Philippine islands will
speak at the First Baptist church in
the morning. DR.. G. A. Wooddy at the
fair grounds afternoon, upon the edu-
cation of the negro in the south.
/ w. G.. Pearson of Portland will give
IA chalk talk address, consisting of cam
vas pictures to the children and young
people at 2:30 p. m.
The closing session of the assembly
at the fair grounds at S;l5 p. m. DIR.
Maxfield will deliver the final address.
The young peoples meeting, consecra-
tion service, will be conducted by Miss
Crissman of Chicago, assisted by Miss
Trent Of McMinnyille, beginning at
Z ID. m,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-04
CLAIM LUMDERNEN
ARE HELPING |. WV.
Have S5OO,OOO "Jack Pot
Raised to Defeat the g.
Hour Day

Tacoma, Wash, Aug. 4.--Lumber-
men who are in on the $4,000 t'jack
POT" to fight the eight hour day, have
joined with the /. w. w. in blocking a
settlement of the union timber work
ers' strike and the establishment of
the eight hour day in camps and mills
in and around Tacoma, it was openly
charged today by Arne Jones, secre
tary Of the union.
While the big mill owners on the one
hand are refusing to confer with union
representatives or mediators, the /. W.
w. on the other are blocking attempts
of the tintberworkers to open up camps
for mill owners, who are ready to con
cede their demands.
Union officials here today declared
a number of employers are willing ~
concede the eight hour day and are
ready to agree to run on union basis,
if they can be assured of logging crews
and supply of logs.
The |. w. w. organization which has
majority membership among the log
gers, is refusing to go back to camps,
even if the eight hour day is granted.