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| for if it isn't TO kill people for prin
ciple. The Yankee soldiers tried to xii
every oic Of the Southern soldiers, an,
the soldiers from the South tried to xii
every Yank. and that's all there is TO il
I'VE we're just out there in the bush
mol molesiing anybody, when johnson
and his men came out after US. W,
never took prisoners. We couldn't d.
il. How could we carry them arount
with us? We either killed them O.
turned them loose. As for the Centra
liza fight, ii reminds me of Macbeth
Never shake thy CORY locks at me; Thot
cansi not say did it,
We didn't make war on women an,
children. They are the only peopl,
whom | sympaihize with during war
Men ought TO be in the fight on one sid.
or the other. Nor did we fight the cit
izcns, except when they played the in
former. understand one citizen was
killed in Centralia in drunken row,
That ought not TO have been done. The
Yankees killed many more noncombat,
ants than we did,"
When the old soldier spoke of the mis-
treatment Of the South there was grim,
Sc, look about his mouth and a cold gilt.
Ter in his eyes.
''Bushwhackers did some bad things,
but they never devastated and ruined
the country.
"There was order No. ll-Ewing's.
am glad General Bingham put that on
immortal canvas. That is picture that
talks. Thai order simply ruined hun.
dreds Of peaceful homes in Western
Missouri. know one man up in Jack
son County who made a fortune going
around picking up cattle that had been
abandoned, high-roned cattle thief.
Il think | know all the trees and
shrubs in Missouri and what they are
good for. | have had 10 use them for
food and medicine sometimes, you know.
Occasionally they fool me in Shaw's
Garden, in ST. Louis, with the trees and
plants from other countries, but with
nothing from Missouri"
MEETS GRANDSON OF ENEMY
A bright-loolsing boy, about u years
Of age, shook hands with Mr.. James.
MY name" he said, is Marquette
Richards My grandfather, John May.
quelie, was the last man killed in the
light"
James looked kindly at the little fel-
low, "Well. son, yyon may bo<proud of
your grandfather. He was about the
braycst Of : Johnsons commands He
Sought all the way. Arch Clements ske,
him near Sturgeon. He rode dun
horse."e No contrast of the day was more
striking >dian that of Frank James and
the grandson Of his old enemy; the griy
zied veteran and the mitcsof boy. :.
"Ihe stories about guerrillas riding
with the reins Of the horses between
The Columbia evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-11

liam Anderson was killed near Albany,
Mo. Jim Anderson was killed in Texas
after the war. Captain William II.
Stuart was killed in Howard County. OF
Shepherd was killed near Lees Summit
after the war. George Todd was killed
near Independence on Prices last raid.
Dick Burns was killed in Jackson Coun-
ty after the war. William Hulse Of
Jackson County died after the war. Bud
and Daniel Pent died in Kentucky.
THE greatest raid made by the guer-
rillas was the one in September. 1854.
We were north Of the Missouri river
only about two weeks. We had with US
never 10 exceed $50 men. We averaged
battle a day and We killed over LOCO
Federal soldiers, besides destroying
much Yankee property. The only bat
lies in the worlds history to surpass
Ccntralia are Thermopylac and the Ala.
mo. Next to the Centralia fight IS tho
skirmish at Baxter Springs, Kan, where
We killed l3O of General Biun,'s body
guard.
We never met many Federal soldiers
who would fight US on equal terms. They
would either want to outnumbcr US or
would run away.
Il believe the saddcsi thing | know
connected with the war" said Mr.. James.
and the man of blood and iron showed
much feeling, as he told the story. 'oc-
CURED at the battle of Franklin, Tenn.
Young Theodore Carter was fighting
there. But few yards away was his
old home, with his mother standing at
the window watching The battle and
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cfosseo ,ie i,'ei n'a ela'sO" '"0
"enl souinHafd.
i, IL mas Deen iep'i'eu .i'a, ny p,o'i'r' :.
Jesse James was no, al ,"e Iennnis
iishi' tiial ne vas SICK IN ea,i'ii I0uh
~ al Inc tine. inns IS iiis,ake' Jess'
was mere ne was VIM A'iieu .ns
commander OF the reaera, troops MaJoi
Johnson. ine iouhger p0ss were mol
al Ientraiia.
JAMES GETS RELIC
Inc piowshare mao taken .re pace ol
the sword on Inc ninside. FRANK James
!, LOOK an ear Oh corn from 'ne pa,''eheio'
i want some sort OF rehc' ne sad
and tins Is the most peaceiui'ioosing
see. Later IN the day Adam node
myre oil The Centraiia Guard gave him
bullet found on the held.
Alter two hours on the battlefield a
visit was made 10 the fleasant Grove
nurying ground on Inc ohVer larm.
where Frank shepherd ana Hank
Williams are buried. Inc buryins
ground rs typicai country cemetery
iyinG IN secluded spoil away from tl'e
maln-iraveied road some Tour miles
from leniraiia.
Inc liVing suerriiia $1,000 win ms
black siouch nat IN ms hand al The SIDE
oil the sunken graves oil ms dead COM
rades.
10 ihls complexion we must come
d. last ne saio, looking down al the
",'hereu grass U'F boys are sca,ter-
ed everywhere. lou VIII ind Their
graves IN the hoiiows and on The nils
py the euii and on ,hcse pralrics. MANY
nave no no monument lhey doh neeu
any ihey made men monument wnlie
.hey hVed. ihey ,ei' a record ior dar-
ing courage .nal Tue "ofid mas mol yei
su' pa'seu. ines ooh neeu an! rnphu-
.n'.'' aitei '''es are ueau' J heit sieep
Is Ius' as SWEEP :, mere as IN 'he peautiiui
'''s cemetery
'a"N 'a'"e: pn,oueu 'M'S t.n y"
s.T, TT So So li"o "se anu Ma.A'i AWAY ..
H., , ma. w. ~ in., ne saiu 70 n'e' s
,h;a WI, m 'i - e'p,"I u. .. pla91 iiNc
,sh., :" "a, a., nav ee peen spdle' @ io'
bcen ,.tcna Two na., sba,l ho ,.n,, nae
;na - f;.,a. ~, 7i'a" ye WIN,
The o,bar lsf,sa Ysr III. a" So. ~ ,aA.' ai'u m
Inow INV f.,h.- ,;,sssa n.s,;s, ss'aemiou ,.a,S
"a rood man ana = GOOD [ n,.,cber br ;'s
Scrip,nro anJ's;,,s nso So Pr
p ur,prn p,,rx ,r.n
A br;ef s,ay ,,,s n,,J" 80 =; -. g.
bouse Of W;ll;,m r Ienn;nns Ar
Jennings belncJ burv tho FsJo-,,, Jo.i
fbe day after tho h,,,l,ss--t,se eoon,a ~ ~,
the numbsr b,, 80 -
several wagonloads 4 fell sorry for
pne poor bow. hardly more ,,,,,n u ye,,s
old. who had almost reached Tho wooas
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waiting for him. He fought bravcly that
day. Almost within stones throw Of
his mothers door. within sight OF the
yard where he had played as boy, he
was shot down and died
James Clark. engineer of the Wabash
branch railroad, is the same man who
took the Il-faied Wabash train into Cen
tralia on the fatal September morning,
lSeL As with Frank James. the snow
has drifted on his head and he is an
Did man now.
The Columbia evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-11

One of the mosl terrible conflicts Of
the Civil War occurred near Cenirslia
Boone County, Mo-, in the afternoon Of
Tuesday, September q, 1864. Nearly
zoo Federal soldiers. commanded by
Major A. V. L. Johnson. of the Thirty.
ninth Missouri Infantry, riding out after
guenillas, met there Captains Bill
Anderson and George Todd. with 225
men. Scarcely dozen OF the Federal
soldiers escaped with their lives while
OF me Guerrilias TWO only were killed
ano one MORALLY wounded. There is
nowhere IN The history oi the world
record oil a charge more destructive
lnan mat made on ihe lar September
ai'eincon' E'ery man IN Inc federal
ii'e oi Da''ie petished' ana only haif
score oi those ieit 10 mold the horses got
away
Inc con,iict mas been described by
surviving chioh soiuicfs ana Dy persons
""o "1ie hrar a' Tue 'iine Oh or aiter
'ie shi, nu' moi nn'ii now mas one
VI 'ne ciiei ACTORS Oh Tue Coniederate
siue gwen nus version oh a recent
,'a''uey , ,.y 'n1,n'ng' ,of Tue seCohu time IN
ms ne, FRANK James RODE over Inc
'dt,i'''' anu iot u'e inst unie Ut
soiipeu ti'e iieht'
..Tt LihNN' h,'iS'is pni :, iLhGnouSp
i"oie Is 'l'e spot sain rrahh
James Two 'h,ies aoa more from een'
nana' snor'F nciofc me man ROAD was
ieit ior d prodd lane winch ied 10 D l.
'aiidia nome. iohucr on tne fise
near 'Ie nay TICK was inc Inc oil the
rcueiai troops. Just inns SIDE toward
Ieh'faiia' $1,000 the detachment winch
ieiu their horses. on ire edge oil The
wood beyond our men formed.
fiis memory served hlm well. lie had
not been to the held before nor since
me day oil The hight. No word had been
spoken 10 indicate the locality. But he
remembered accurately the entire sur
roundIngs. i can 20. he said, TO any
battlefield where | was engaged and
pick out almost instantly the locations.
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thirty of his company and went int
Centralia. ] was not with him, nor wa.
any of Todd's company. In Centralis
Anderson captured a train. carried of
lot Of stuff, shot down some soldier,
who were on the train and did othei
things about which | know nothing save
from hearsay and which Todd condemn
ed when the boys returned. In the aft
ernoon Captain Todd detailed a deiach
ment of ten men under Dave Pool TO 90
out and reconnoiicr. We had heard
there were some Yankee troops in the
neighborhood.
This squad was composed of Dave
Pool, Wood and Tuck Hill. Jeff Emery,
Bill Stuart, John Pool, Payton Long,
Zach Sutherland and two others whose
names l don't remember. They we're TO
find out if there were any Federals
around, how many and, if possible, toll
them down toward our camp. Pool did
his duty well. He found out the loca.
lion of the Fcderals, rode close to them
and then ealloped rapidly away. as if
surprised TO see them. The Federals
followed. | have never found anybody
who could tell how many there were Of
them. Pool reported 10 us there were
$50 and he was usually very accurate.
On they came out from Centralia. Pool
and his men came on and reported.
Todd called out, Mount mp, mount
up!
CARRIED BLACK FLAG
The sb,rr r;.rc;rr ,,.s If I,,.s
flashed
Il don't care vb,, vour histories ca,
they carried I, blacl fI,g I, WAS on
nsrrn,lv b1,cl ,p,o, ,;.d n s,;oI
We can,ured !, in The h.,,Ie ,b,, foI
lowed
..ua hal 80 H.. w
... u o log W. "au no .''i,e 10
IA @ "n. T IT, ~ w. .e - .as 4" u Nc
ss a. In p~I. ePpeH "a' sm .us
-. IS - - 1t - 81 -, ~ - ,u, hif
nil H., IT, VI. J;a.s,.SJ
go - -. l. 3 -,
- 80 al - 80 a;rL, ~
.Iohn - -, Ill.
r,nks watched tho y.nLoos ro, H..
from their horses and s.;J. .wh,. a.
fools are co;rr 10 f;rh, ne ON e.a,p Al
hon ,dJed !, sor;orsross .caJ IL
'em,
.u r, -,
- u II 'l'ea " 'h"'.l, ''0 io
:" ''e i,''s.S a'iu men AZ ,"e WI" ~ VI
rrornJ yo, ,s;Il no,;o. 80 sh.,,Is
and we had 10 charge uphill. For a |
We moved slowly. Our line
was nearly quarter of mile long I
theirs much closer together. We were |
still some 600 yards away. our speed
and our ranks closing up.
when they fired their first and only
lime. They nearly all fired over our
heads. We were lying low on our horses,
1 trick that Comanche Indians practice,
and which saved our lives many time.
Only two of our men we're killed. Frank
Shepherd and Hank Williams. A
ihird, Richard Kinney. was shot and
lied three or four days afterward from
Iockjaw. Shepherd and Kinney rode
next TO me on either side. Kinney was
my closest friend. We had ridden TO.
geiher from Texas, fought side by side.
slept together, and it hurt me when
heard him say, Frank, / am shot, He
kept on riding for a time and thought
his wound wasn't serious.
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WHICH" is ii going TO cost YOU
One dollar and costs then, or $l.50 now?
This is our price for DINNER lens which
are required BY the city ordinance.
JOHN N. TAYLOR GARAGE, 6O5-7 "on
Broadway.
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CENTRALIA HAD
ONE OF WORST
FIGHTS KNOWN
Story of Battle of Sept. 81,
1864, Was Given ST.
Louis Republic Re-
porter in 1900.
TOLD BY FRANK JAMES
Confederate Veteran Said the
Conflict Was Only Sur
passed by Thermop-
ylae and Alamo.

This 2ory. Of the Centraiid conflict is
repubhshed from the ST. Louis Republic
Of august 5, 1900.
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their teeth and firing with pistols in botl
hands is simply dimc.novel stuff. TIER
was meyer any such thing. We always
held our horses with one hand and the
pistol with the other. 1t was as i'm
portant to hold the horse as ii vas tc
hold the pistol.
Andersen always made US keep our
horses in good condition. If man did
not keep good horse and good pistol:
he sent him 10 the infantry. rode a
horse named Little George at Cenlra.
liza.
AT night and when we were in camp
we played like schoolboys. Some of our
play was as rough as football. The truth
was We were nothing bu, great big BOYS
anyhow.
III ever you want 10 pick a company
10 do desperate work or TO lead for.
lorn hope, select young men from II to
2l years old. They will go anywhere in
the world You will lead them. As men
grow older they grow more cautious. bu,
at that age they are regular daredeyils
Take our company, and there has never
been a more reckless lot of men. Only
one or two were over 25. Most of them
were under q. Scarcely a dozen boast.
ed mustache. Wasn't ii Bacon who
said when man had wife and children
he had given hostages TO for,une2
Arch Clements, who was the rea
brains of Anderson's command, was ONLY
20. He, Payton Long and myself fol.
lowed the Federals nearly to Sturgeon.
lie was first lieutenant. Clemss.s came
from kingsvillc, Johnson County He
was killed at Lexington.
There were only Two of the gusrril.
fas who would fight in battle jus, ike
in personal difficulty, George Todd
and Dick Kinney. They would get mad
in battle just like in a fist fight.
Very few of our men went through
the war without wounds of some kind.
Quite number of the guerrillas are
still living" Mr.. James mentioned a
number Q. men spho were at the Cen,ra.
liza fight. lE
SOME wHo WERE THERE
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SOME wfio .WERE. InERE

Henry Nolmt, William Noland. Firs,
Lieuienan, James Little, Second Lieu
tenant Clark Rcnick, Orderly Sergeant
John Baker. Pay,on Long, Foss Key,
lins--Gibson. Clark Hockensnfilh, Dick
Glasscotk, and William Bassham were
killed in Kentucky. Jim Evans and
George Robinson were captured and
hanged al Lexington. ny. Captain vii.
The Little River news., 1921-08-24
HOTEL MAN ARRESTED
Texarkana Man Is Held on Warrant
 Charging Pandering.

Texarkana, Aug. 22.-R. k. Rose night clerk at the Huckins hotel, was arrested early this morning on state warrant issued out of the Arkansas side Municipal court, charging him with pandoring. He made bond of S4O0 pending a hearing which has been set for tomorrow at 10 o'clock. MT. Huckins, manager of the hotel, has been out of the city for some time
 A misdemeanor charge also has been filed against Rose on the city crim- inal docket of the same court and a warrant issued charging him with 'lascivious conduct" He also made bond in this case, the hearing of which is set for tomorrow. Jack Wilson, a guest at the hotel, was arrested on a similar charge, and made bond. His case is sat for trial also tomorrow.
The Little River news., 1921-08-24
TO PUT TAGS ON ALL FEED
JObbers Must Put Analysis on All
 Feed Sold in the State.

Little Rock, Aug. 23.-(SpeciaD - Commissioner Jim G. Ferguson has issued a letter to the feed manufactur- CTS and jobbers advising them that ef- fective October 1 all persons or firms responsible for the sale of commercial concentrated feed in Arkansas will be required to state the percentage of each of the ingredients of the feeds registered by them for sale. There will be no exception whatever to this rule. Feeds already registered will net be required to re-register until January 1, 1922 All feeds offered for sale in the state must bear an analysis tag upon which shall be specified the brand of feed, the number of pounds in lag or package, name and address and manufacturer, guaranteed alalysis and statement of ingredients.
The Little River news., 1921-08-24

In the old days when we drove a horse and buggy or an OK wagon we usually got where we were going and then back home again in due time. Today almost any minute we can see cars dashing madly up and down the road as if it were a matter of life and death that they reached where they were going on time and were, 30 minutes late and trying to make it up. AS a matter of fact in most instances there is nothing to hurry about at all, lots of it just aimless driving. We are becoming speed mad. Is it any won der that the papers are full of deaths and accidents? An engineer writing on the subject in a leading magazine says that it looks to him like people want to get killed.
The Little River news., 1921-08-24
FIGHT OVER POSTOFFICE
Arkansas and Texas Republicans
 Seek Texas Plum.

Texarkana, Aug. 21-The race for the Telxarkana postmastership, now practically on it's last lap, is being watched by local politicians and others with keen interest. Arkansas has a candidate in Col. E. E. Huds- peth and Texas has one in Thomas Daley. The Republican organizations of the two states are fighting hard, each for it's candidate, and it is said the result just now is very doubtful.
 The chief issue now discussed is that of geography-each state in sisting that it is it's turn to name the postmaster. A Texas man had been filling the place for 16 years, and Arkansas is now making heroic eff forts to show that now it should fur nish the man for the job.
The Little River news., 1921-08-24
SIX DEATHS RESULT OF WRECK
Car is Driven Upon Track in Path of
 Train Near Little Rock.

Little Rock, Aug. 19.-Four persons were killed outright, and two fatally injured when the fast Memphis-Little Rock passenger train on the Missouri Pacific struck their automobile at Austin, Lonoke county, at 1855 o'clock this afternoon
 The railroad track and the automo- bile road parallel for some distance north of where the crash occurred. The wagon road crosses the railroad at Austin. but the view is unobstruct- cd. The car. going south, was driven upon the track directly in the path of the onrushing train, which was also going south and which was running AO miles an hour.
 The automobile was struck by the pilot of the engine and it and the oc- cupants were hurled to one side. Emergency brakes brought the train to A stop within 300 feet of the acci- dent <,
The Little River news., 1921-08-24
THE SOUTH AND STARVATION.

It has been definitely proven that a human being may eat like a gluttoI; and at the same time be starving to death. Sounds like an impossibility but it is a fact The doctor sharps have given the name "pellara" to that sort of starvation. This truth is bas- ed upon the fact that the human body demands and must have constant supply of a considerable variety o1 the things which when eaten IS food can be made by the body chemistry into every kind of body function which is necessary to the upkeep of the hu- man physical machine
 Everybody knows that it does not matter how much food people put into their stomachs, they must have air every minute and every second or the human machine collapses. It is just as true that each of the multiplied things needed to maintain life must be in the food or life will cease. Loss of some of those things is more quickly fatal than loss of others.
 The physicians have proven that the disease they have named "peila- gra" is solely due to lack of the food substances which are necessary to maintain life. The doctors give learn ed and unpronouncable names to tho missing substances, but they have proven that the thing so necessary to life and health are not found by the body chemical laboratory in corn pro- ducts, pork fats and syrup. They al- so say that while those three classes of eatables are splendid for providing much of the material which builds and maintains the human body, hun dred thousand people died Of starva- ton last year solely because the corn, sowbe1ly and 'long-sweetnin' " upon which they lived lacked some of the things people have to have or starve.
 And so the doctors tell everybody where they can get the things which the corn-po -pork-molassos diet lacks. Just raise a garden, eat the vegetab- les: keep a COW or two and eat her milk and the things which can be made from it. In short the govern ment health department warning on pellagra is a splendid warning against the one-crop cotton farming in which the home garden and family COW do not figure-Southwest American.
The Little River news., 1921-08-24
HAMPSTEAD HAS HOPES OF OIL
Three Test Wells Report Showings o1
 Oil and Gas.

Hope, Aug. 19.-With three test wells showing signs of both oil and gas, the interest of the oil well fans has wavered the last four weeks, but an announcement today that an oil hearing sand has been found at the Jones No. i test sent a large crowd there to get first hand news of devel- opments. It was learned that the drill had passed through about four feet of sand, which had signs of both oil and gas. Excitement ran high for several hours, but when the drill hit strata of brown gumbo it was decided to await further developments.
 The Jones No. 1 test, in which drilling was delayed for almost three months by lost drill stem, was for many weeks Hampstead county's most promising oil test. It is coming back into favor with the oil fans, now that the drill stem has been successfully sidetracked and the hole is down to an approximate depth oi 2,85O feet. It was necessary yester- day to keep very heavy mud cir culated in order to hold back the gas
 The other two wells attracting widespread attention in this vicinity are the Henry No. 1, four miles east of Hope, and the Mitchell No. 1, sev- en miles northeast.
The Little River news., 1921-08-24
TO PROBE UNIVERSITY LIFE
Complaints of Luxurious and Extrava-
 gant Living Are Received.

Little Rock, Aug. 21.--Acting upon complaints throughout the state of extravaganza in student life at the University of Arkansas, Governor Me- Rae will take the matter up at next meeting of the board of University trustees, asking that an investigation be made.
 According to letters which have been received by the governor for several weeks past a general luxuriOusness has grown up at the university and students without ample means are be- i ing seriously handicapped in student life through inability to compete with those who are more fortunate. No complaint is made of the regular tui- ton dormitory and other charges of the institution, but it is said that extravaganza is manifested to high degree in club and fraternity circles, and that dissatisfaction has grown up in the dormitories through the prac- tice of wealthier students in changing the simple furnishings and appoint ments of their rooms and purchasing from their own means expensive fit- tings.
 Many of the letters received by the , governor are from parents of stu dents who state that they are unable to pay the costs to maintain their children at the standard of luxury ap- parently demanded.
 The governor yesterday was unable to say whether a special meeting would be called, but stated that the question will bet taken up when the board meets next.
The Little River news., 1921-08-24

While school after school over the state is crashing against financial rocks we are still proud and thankful
 in Ashdown that we are still able to run a nine months free term as we have been doing for many years. There is more to this than would appear on no less than any other big business requires farsighted ability on the part of the board and the superintendent, Some boards never give the morrow a thought until one day there is no funds to operate the school and bare ly enough revenue to pay the interest on the, bonds sold to build a modern plant. It is possible to see such a condition approaching far enough in the future to take steps either to meet or to prevent it. The school is ab- solutely the biggest business in any community and should have the best thought of the community handling the business. During the past five years any business from bank on down would have gone to smash had they been managed in the same way that many of the schools have been managed, that is in an indifferent hit or miss way. We are glad to take this occasion to toss a few boquets in the way of Ashdown's school management