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The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-03-24
RESIDENT READS
ASSIGNMENT LIST
|HEAvY CALENDAR IS UP As THE
CONVENTION RESUMES
ITS WORK.
ASSIGN !, IMPORTANT POSTS
\ ety&S j Ordinances Have Been
introduced and Referred to the
Proper committees-WouId
Regulate Public Utilities.

Baton Rouge. - neaVy calehuel
fronts the Constitutional Convention
when 1t reconvenes. Ninety-four Or
dInances have been introduced and
yefeyred to proper committees. When
the standing committees were an
nounced, these subdivisions OF the
convention had their hands full. Pub
lie hearings will follow each other IN
rapid order when the committees get
into action.
Another food Of ordinances dealing
with taxation, retrenchment and re-
duction Of public expenditures, which
TOP the list of big issues before the
convention, is expected. Among the
ordinances looked for are those COW
ering the program Of the State Texa'
ton Commission.
y, Next in important ordinances due
tO be introduced are those relating to
reorganization Of the judiciary sys-
tenn. Embraced in this list is the
clan Of the State Bar Association tor
judicial reform.
Ordinances designed to revise the
suffrage clause Of the constitution no
doubt will make their appearance
within the next week or ten days.
Fnt. r. Governor Pleasant will offer
q su~a4Ate for the grandfather
clause, declared Invalid by the Fed
eral Supreme Court. Up to date but
one ordinance touching this phase OF
the suffrage question has been intro
duced. That was by Mr.. Hardin OF
Vernon, carrying what is known as
the Mississippi understanding
clause, the validity of which has
been sustained by the United States
Supreme Court.
p. M. Miner Of New Orleans and
Senator T. L. Bowling Of DeSoto,
both Of whom have plans for the con-
struction and maintenance OF sys'
am Of state highways, have been IN
yited to address the convention. IN
PRODUCTION Of highway ordinances no
doubt will follow.
incorporation In the new constltu'
ton Of the present system OF educa'
tfon, with a few changes, seems 10
be the program in dealing with the
ucational question.
No definite plan has been agreed
upon in regard to drafting ordinances
for safeguarding the states natural
resources. Conferences on this SUD
Oct are to be held.
Regulation Of public utilities, IN
eluding railroads and public service
torpartions generally, ID receiving the
attention Of many Of the delegates
Int nc concrete plan has been Work
"a out. Some Of the delegates favor
| two commissions,one to deal with
transportation lines, telegraph com
panies, and another commission te
regulate street railways, electric
1ing concerns, gas companies, etc
delegates favor one commits
luthed with constitutional au
regulate all utilities ant
r SSfvfce corporations.
Revision Of the recall provision II
mo present constitution to make i
more workable Is to be undertaken
a Ii understood that an entirely new
ordnance Is to be framed and IN
PRODUCED.
The announcement Of the commit
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-03-24

Gordon Calvary is located a short dis
lance from a gate and on the road
from Jerusalem to Jericho. Yet the
Gordon Calvary does not face the tenn
pie, which the old Calvary did.
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The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-03-24

Revision Of the recall provision IN
mo present constitution to make It
more workable Is to be undertaken.
& Il understood that an entirely new
ordnance Is to be framed and IN.
troduced.
The announcement Of the commit
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-05-24
SYNOPSIS.

PRULOGUE-<.c December. 1918. four
men gathered in a hotel in Berne ana
heard one of the quartet outline plan
to paralyze Great Britain and at the
same time seize world power. The other
three, Hooking. American, and Steineman
and Won Gratz, Germans, all millionalres,
agree to the scheme providing another
man, Hiram Potts, an American. IS taken
In. The lnstigator OF the plot gives his
name as Comte de Guy, but when he
leaves for England with his daughter he
decides to use the na1.s Carl Peterson.
CHAPTER I. - Cap~- Hugh (Bulldog)
Drummond, a retired officer, advertises
for work that will give him excitement,
signing ''X1O." AS result he meets
Phyllis Benton, a young woman who an
swered his ad She tells him of strange
murders and robberies of which she sus-
poets a band headed by Carl Peterson and
Henry Lexington OF being the leaderA
CHAPTER II.-Drummond decides to
60 to The Larches. Miss Benton's home.
An attempt is made on the road to wreck
his machine when another, occupied by
Peterson, Lexington and strange man,
blocks the road. While dining with Phyl-
lis Benton and her father Drummond
hears a terrible shrek at The Films. Dur
ing the night Drummond leaves The
Larches and explores The Films. He dis
covers darlington and Peterson using a
thumbscrew on an American who signs
q paper. Drummond rescues the Ameri-
can after a struggle and takes him to
his home. The man is Hiram c. Potts.
CHAPTER III.-PetersOn visits Drum
mond the next day, departing with
threat to return later and recover Potts
and also a torn paper which Drummono
seized the night of the fight. With the
aid of Peter Darrel, an old army friend
Drummond arranges to hide Potts, and
substitute in his place one Mullings, a de-
modified soldier, who is seized by Peter
son and his gang and taken to The Elms
along with Drummcnd.
CHAPTER w. When Peterson dis
covers the hoax Drummond is escorted
by Irma to a room where he is to stay
for the night. During the night Drum
mond is exploring the house when he gets
in q strange room In which Is coora
He escapes, but Or 49, stairs has a hgh'
in the dark.
CHAPTER v-D~ummond enlists the
Id Of Algv Lo9-"orth. Toby Sinclair.
"a7 Jc-- r+@~~" ars7 Ierrv Seymour, the
sa.t2r ri -: go - :. --15:-~, s.--er an
>rct,i.cst.r WIN tce pseudo Potts, meets
:r.e5a 80 = - ~ marquis Of Laidley
ma s.e3et..S the efrs IS noting for the
f,aiaa- Is ve,s d.: z>1.,,H2d aid his friends
re g ID IS t,.e>- ~ his apartment.
c.l,:.fes5s,s "sa.-,'as - Trntts 81
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-05-24

Larches with his semi-conscious bur
den, get to his car, and drive off. It
all seemed SO easy that he laughed.
But there were Ona or two factors
that he had forgotten, and the first
and most important one was the man
upstairs. The window was thrown I'D
suddenly, and the man leaned out wav-
ing his arms. He was still gasping
with the strength of the ammonia, but
Hugh saw him clearly in the light from
the room behind. And as he cursed
himself for fool in not having tied
MIN up, from the trees close by there
came the sharp clang of metal.
With quick catch in his breath he
began to run. The two men who had
rushed past him before he had entered
tile house, and whom. save for pass-
w. RI r--~-i-t l,.,.l
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-05-24
CHAPTER VII.
In Which He Spends an Hour or Two
on Roof.
ONE.

Drummond paused for moment at
the door of the sitting room, then with
slight shrug he stepped past Peter
son. During the last few days he had
grown to look on this particular room
as the private den of the principals Of
the gang. He associated it in his mind
with Peterson himself, suave, impas-
sive, ruthless; with the girl Irma, per.
fectly gowned, lying on the sofa, smolS-
ing innumerable cigarettes. and mani
curing her already fauItless nails; and
in lesser degree. With Henry Lakng
tons thin. cruel face, and blue, staring
eyes
But tonight different scene con
fronted him. The girl was not there;
A"f accustomed place on the sofa was
occupied by an unkempt-looking man
with q ragged beard. At the end Of
fFe t2f}'e was q vacant chair. on the
ri..ilt Of W!it-s, SAT- T4aI1ington regard
-; iiiH VITA :na!evofent fury. Along
he t9h!e on each side there were half
dozen men. and he glanced at their
races Some were obviously foreign
KS; &c;ap might have been anything
rom ilnrfierers to Sunday school
T"2r.:er$. There was one with spec
sartes; ana The general appearance Of
III inundated rabbit. while his neigh
fGr, h@!De'l by 4 large red scar ri~ht
af'''<f>;S lis cheek, aud two blrotlshot
&C., %'li:c'< Hugh as being the SORT
u lasin with whom one would nor
share ii luncheon basket.
Pefei'son's voice from just behind
ms shnlitscc reused him.
Permit me. gentlemen, to Introduce
% Eou Captain nrilnmond y. s. O.
II. G.. the originator of the little en-
Ito be a3ntinued tomorrow
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-05-24
CONTINUED from yesterday

Evers--n1ng ndu IuII1n out eHaCr7
as he had hoped, but had hardly dared
10 expect. He heard Peterson's Voice.
calm and suave as usual, answering
jerry. From the garden n from. came
the dreadful sound of duet by Algy
and Peter. Not soul was in sight !;
the back of the house was clear. All
that he had to do was to walk quietly
through the Wicket-gate to The
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-05-24
RJTS OF BYPLAY
BY Luke McLuke
Copyrighted, 1921, by
The Cincinnati Enquirer.
Luke McLuke Says

Women excel as animal trainers.
That is why most husbands are so
meek and obedient.
Every married man should behave
himself for the reason that it his SINS
do not find him out, his Wife will.
We do not know much. But we do
know that cheeks are seldom as red as
they are painted.
When Daughter gets to be Is years
old she doesn t think much of that
picture for which she posed in the AL
together 16 years before while seated
on a pillow.
When a man gets whipped he never
admits He claims that it was his
Day Off.
The reason why people can stand
Poverty better than Prosperity be-
ause they are useed to Poverty.
fAybe people would take more kind
~ to Reform if the doggone Reform
ers didn't charge so much for doing
the job.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11
DEPUTIES GUARD
.C0CH|sE BORDER
SO Mexican Troops Join in
Precautionary Move to
Prevent Raiding

Reported threats of violence to
ranchers on the border. in the vicini-
ty OF the Slaughter ranch, failed to
materialize Friday night or yesterday
and Sheriff Joe Hood reported that
there has been no disturbance of any
sort along the border. Hood and a
number of his deputies have been pa
trolling the border in the neighbor-
hood OF the Stephenson, Slaughter,
Hennessy and Johnson ranches,
which were threatened with being
raided, according to an anonymous
letter received by Sheriff Hood and
Percy Bowden, chief of police at Doug
las.
The sheriff left five deputies on the
scene who will continue to work with
a number OF armed cowboys, employ
es of the ranches, in keeping a look
out on the border. Mexican customs
officers at Aqua Prieta have an
nounced that a squad of so Mexican
troops has been sent out along the
border In the threatened vicinity.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10. - Ros-
coe C'Fatty") Arbuckle, motion pic
ture comedian, who started from Los
Angeles last night by automobile ~
clear up his part in an affair at his
suite in a hotel here last Monday,
following which the death OF Miss
Virginia Rape, film actress. occurr-
ed, was reported to be nearing San
Francisco late today.
Arbuckle will be taken into custo-
day by the police, it was announced,
pending an investigation into the wo-
mans death. No charge will be plac-
ed agaiist him, according to Michael
Griffin, acting chief of detectives, but
will be detained until after the in
quest, which has been set for next
Thursday.
Arbuckle was quoted as saying
when he passed through Fresno today
on his way here from Los Angeles,
that he had never met the girl until
Monday when she was brought into
his suite to join party of about 10
persons. She had a few drinks, Ar
buckle said. and then it became nes-
essary to call a physician and have
her removed. -1..
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11
HALT COLORADO
WAGE DISPUTE
Industrial Commission, After
Hearing, Issues Order Pay
Reduction be Held Up

WALSENBURG, Colo, Sept. 10. =
(By the Associated Press.) = The
Colorado state industrial commission
today set aside a wage reduction in
augurated in coal mines of the Colo
rado Suel and Iron company in Huer-
fano and Las Animas counties and
placed the old wage scale in effect
pending further investigation of the
controversy which has tied up many
mines for more than week.
Chairman ]. C. Bell, of the INDUS
trial commission, announced that the
commission would make a full inves-
tigation of the controversy that de-
veloped after September l. when the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company an
nounced wage reductions of from 25
to 33 1-3 per cent in all of its mines
in operation in Las Animas county
and in three mines in Huerfano coun-
ty. The present order. he declared,
contained no findings of fact and was
in no sense a final order.
II was learned that one of the mo-
tives that prompted the order fas the
fact that it was felt that the men
should be allowed to earn money AMI
the company should be permitted to
mine coal during the investigation
which is expected to consume several
weeks.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11
NASH IS GIVEN
LONG SENTENCE |
Judge Visibly Affected as He
Orders Wyoming Youth
To Prison 65 Years

FLAGSTAFF, AriZ., Sept. TO- Su-
perior Judge ]. E. Jones today SEN
fenced Harry H. Nash. son of bank
er of Hillsdale, Wyo., to serve not less
than 65 years nor more than rs years
in the state penitentiary for the MUIR
der of Martin F Schwab, a travelling
salesman of Payson, Utah.
Nash was charged by the state with
having killed Schwab near here in
April, 1920, and then to have stolen
Schwab's automobile and watch. The
jury. on August %, found Nash guilty
of second degree murder.
Attorneys for the defense today
asked for a new trial, charging that
the Judge had communicated with the
jury while the jurors were deliberat-
ing on the case, and that such com
munication had been without the
knowledge or consent of the defense.
They also alleged that several jury
men had declared that they thought
If they found Nash guilty of second
degree murder, he would be punished
only for stealing the automobile.
Judge Jones. after producing affida-
Wits from bailiffs stating that he had
not communicated with the jury while
1t was trying to reach a verdict, de.
MED the motion for the new trial.
The judge was visibly affected as
he sentenced the prisoner. Nash's
parents, wife and brother, were in
court with him today.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11
SECOND BODY IS
FOUND IN AUTO
MURDER PROBE
Packard Demonstration s Body
Located Under Garage in
Rear Suspects Home
YOUTH DENIES CRIME
Former Railroad Man, Held
For Brutal Murder, Says
Evidence is Frame-Up

CHICAGO, Septic. Harvey II.
Church, 20-year-old youth, arrested in
Arams, Wis, last night in connection
with the murder of Bernard ]. Daugh-
erty and Carl Ausmus, was brought
back here tonight in the automobile
declared by the police to have been
the motive OF the crime.
Sollowing the finding of the mutt
lated body of Daugherty yesterday in
the Desplaines river, the police today
dug up the body of Ausmus in a ga
rage in the rear of the aprtment in
which Church lived.
Ausmus had been buried face down.
ward beneath an old automobile own
ed by church. The hands and feet
were bound with rope and steel a1o
cloth had been thrust into the mouth
until it penetrated the chest cavity.
The head was beaten into an almost
understandable pulp. Death had been
caused by strangulation.
The treory was advanced that the
victim had been lured to the base
II ent of the apartment under the pre-
text of having a drink and had been
given drugged liquor.
Daugherty, whose home was in ST.
Paul. was 3S years old. Ausmus was
several years younger than Daugh.
erty.
The two men were employed by the
Packard Motor company, Daugherty
as salesman and Ausmus as a dem
onstrator According to officials of
the concern, Church began negotia-
tiOnc 90 which ha Snid
his father, farmer living in Adams,
Wis, week ago. Thursday, he Sc.
lected a $5,400 machine and asked
that salesman be sent with him II
a bank. Daugherty and Ausmus went
with Church to complete the deal.
NeiShbors at the Church home told
of seeing Church drive up in the new
car with two men and they all enter
ed the house. Later Church was said
to have driven away alone.
A neighbOr reported to the police
today that she saw lights in the ga
rage between and a. m. Shortly
after o'clock, Church and his moth
er drove away after telling friends
they were going to visit at Adams
Wis. Church was arrested as he en-
tereQ Une TOWN. ldSt night.
Srom the first, Church protested
his innocence. He said he had pait
Daugherty in cash for the automobile
and had a receipt.
Church intimated that the findin:
of evidence in his apartment was par
| of plot of. enemies. IT'S a frame
/ up" he was quoted as telling the de
/ tectiyes and said that he had mad
| enemies by acting as strike breaker
in the railroad yardmen's strike.
After examining Ausmus' body tC
night. Coroner Hoffman expressed tn
| opinion that he had been buried anve
when the murderers threw the bod.
| into the make-shift grave face down
ward, they doubled his head under hi
chest and stamped on his neck, break
ing it, he declared. But there wa
still life in the body. Respiration ha
| probably ceased but the heart contiT
ued to function for five or ten mir
utes. In that time, the body was COZ
cred over with refuse"
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11
AMERICAN COMPANIES
TO RESUME OPERATION

GREENWICH. Conn, Sept. 1O. -
All American oil companies expect to
resume expectation of oil from Mexi-
co Immediately said Walter c. Teagle,
president of the Standard Oil COM
pany of New Jersey, at his home to-
day. He arrived from Mexico yester-
day, where he attended the oil confer
ences.
President Obregon and Secretary
de la Huerta received us cordially"
he said. The companies represent
ed at the conferences expect to re-
sumo Immediately the expectation of
oil from Mexico and it is hoped they
may be able to continue the develop
ment of the industry in Mexico to the
advantage OF all concerned. We see
no reason to doubt that the personal
contact now established with Mexi-
can officials will result in better un-
derstanding and mutual benefit"
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11
RAILROADS SLASH
RATES
Freight Reduction of Twenty
Per Cent Will be Effective
On Western Roads Soon

OMAHA, Nebr., Sept. 10. = West
ern railroads will reduce freight rates
on livestock, except horses and mules
20 per cent, effective from Septem-
ber 20 to December 81, 1921, it was
announced at the Union Pacific Sail
road company offices today
The reduction will affect anly the
producers ON the western range and
those outside of an approximate 500
mile radius from Omaha who ship TO
this market, it was explained by live
stock men. Those producers inside
the 500-mile territory will derive no
benefit fro mthe reduction, it was ar.
gued. because they pay the minimum
of so cents per 100 pounds or less on
their stock.
The announcement came from. the
office of F. W.. Robinson, freight traf-
flee manager OF the Union Pacific.
and was, based on adyices from E. b,
Boyd of Chicago, chairman of the
Western trunk line committee.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11
MANY Of DEAD
ARE WOMEN; 20
BODIES FOUND
Foot Path Bridge Falls as
Crowd Watches Attempts
To Recover Body
VICTIMS ARE CRUSHED
First Persons to Fall Are
Doomed as Scores Pile
Into Water on Them

CHESTER, Pa, Sept. 10-Between
20 and 80 persons were drowned or
crushed to death and more than a
score of others injured tonight when
the foot path of the Third street
bridge over Chester river collapsed.
The dead and injured were part Of
crowd OF approximately 75 persons
that had gathered to watch police in
graphing for the body of a five-year-
old boy who was drowned but half
hour before. Many of the dead are
women and children
The bridge was an old fashioned
structure 80 feet long and cleared the
water bv about 20 feet 1t carried two
trolley tracks and had one foot path.
The river is about Is feet deep where
the accident occurred.
An hour and half after the coll
lapse, more than 90 bodies had been
removed.
The boy who was drowned had been
playing near the stream and slipped
into the water. Police quickly threw
out graphing irons from a row boat.
In the meantime, the news spread and
women and men rushed to the bridge
in fear the child. whose identity was
not known. was their own. AS the
police grappled in the murky water
around coal and ice barges, the crowd
grew. Suddenly a cracking sound
was heard and one end of the foot
path gave way Those who fell into
the water first had no chance to es-
cape, as others came tumbling upon
them.
Police believe some bodies are i'm
bedded in the mud.
At o'clock, more than & score of
bodies had been recovered. AS the
dead were carried into the morgue.
men, women and children surged
about the place. Mothers sought chill
dren and husbands were looking for
their wives or children. The situa-
tion became such that police we-.
summoned.
The accident occurred just as the
tide was at ebb. Fire department lad
ders were stuck into the water TO
form a screen and prevent bodies
from going out with the tide. Fishing
nets also were used.
Only the footway on the bridge col
lapsed. On the river, thirty launches
and row boats worked under search
lights as the tide flowed out. The
scene of the accident is near the busi-
ness section.
James Emerbe was standing near
the bridge when the accident occurr.
ed He dragged % men, women and
children from the water. Nine of
them were found to be dead.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11
PERSH|NG SAILS
FOR PARIS SOON
General Will Award Medal
of Honor to Unidentified
Soldier of France

WASHINGTON. Sept 10.-General
Pershing. acting at the direction of
President Harding. will sail Wednes-
day for Paris, where, on October 2. he
will laward the medal of honor voted
by congress to the unknown soldier of
France whose body was placed in the
Arch of Triumph.
The general, who left France just
about years ago. after having led
the A. f. F. to victory. probably will
be accompanied by a high naval of
ficer who will also participate in the
ceremonies.
Secretary Weeks, in announcing
General Pershing's mission, said:
"The French government has an
nounced its intention OF Signalling
by appropriate military ceremonies
the action of congress as but another
evidence of the historic relations
which have always prevailed betweer
the two republics"
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11
Bridge Collapses; Twenty Are Drowned
Fatty" Arbuckle Is Charged With
Murder As Result Of Death Of
Movie Actress Following Party

According to signed statement to
the police by Miss Alice Blake, one
of the party, she and another woman,
Miss Zey Prevon, missed Miss Rappe
from the room and found her in an
adjoining room in great distress, The
hotel physician was summoned, Miss
Blake stated.
Miss Rape later was removed TO
a hospital, where she died yesterday.
Physicians who performed an autopsy
said.death was caused by peritonitis
and that bruises were found on her
body. The stomach was removed for
examination and statements were OBJ
tanned today by the coroner from the
various physicians regarding the post
mortem.
Miss Rappe's body was taken from
the morgue today to a funeral estab-
lishment pending removal to Los An
geles.
Arbuckle and all members of the
party will be subpoenaed to testify at
the inquest, according to the coroner.
Harry Kelly, secretary of the grand
jury, said the county grand jury
would investigate the case at Its
meeting Monday night.
Miss Rappe was born in Chicago.
She was % years old. She went to
Los Angeles about five years ago and
obtained employment with motion pic
ture companies. In the last season or
two, she had appeared with well
known male stars She made home i'll
male stars. She made her home in
Los Angeles with an aunt who was
said to have acted as chaperon, even
when Miss Rappe wentNto her work
before the camera