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The Meschacebe P.rBIsMED WEEKLY. RESERVE. : t LOUISIANA. NEWS OF THE WEEK LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD TERSELY TOLD. -1OATH. EAST, SOUTH AND WEST Notes From Foreign, Lands Through out the Nation, and Particularly The Great Southwest. The Aftonbladet asserts that many strikers in Stockholm are actually starving and that others are subsist ing on bread and water and fish caught in the archipelago, or tramping the country robbing the potato fields. When the body of Jack Starman, a Rock Springs, Wyo., man, who died at Hudson, Wyo., was received.at Rock Springs, it was found that in order that it might be shipped in a casket six inches shorter than the corpse, both legs had to be cut off at the knees. The Great Northern liner Minneso ta, bringing Baron Shibusawa, the foremost financier of Japan, mer chants, members of parliament and bankers, representing six great cities, arrived at Seattle one day ahead of her schedule. Mayor Sweeney, of Elpaso, Texas, was received by President Diaz at the palace at Chapultepec. The presi dent, through Ambassador Thompson, was tendered a formal invitation by the people of Elpaso to visit that city to meet President Taft in October, and he warmly accepted the invita tion. John C. Nicolai, a private detective employed by the Lake Carriers' asso ciation at Buffalo, shot two marine strikers dead on the West Shore ore docks and was only saved from lynch ing by the quick arrival of the police. The dead men are George Houghton, a . fireman, and Matthew Dwyer, an oiler. Prince Nicholas, third son of King George of Greece, in view of tfhe mil itary agitation, has asked to be Bl i.,` et at resign from the' post of In 4petdr of artillery. Ag fdls goverw nt has fol e.Pres.lent Roioevelt's susg Vy? appointing a wmimissalon n of natural re w at appareoit connection, -causes -assletj. Ninety persaons are now un er observation and the health boards asi taking the strictest precautions. A cablegram received from San Jose by enor Caivo, the Costa Rican minister, -tsted that the returns from the election held in Costa Rica indi cated the election of Ricardo Jiminez s:r president. il a panic in the Kelly Canning company, at Waverly, Ia., to escape from the second Soor, where a gaso ie teak exploded and threw fire over the room, George McRoberts was killed, three periaons were probably fatally injured and a score of others weri severiely huirt. The eotten manusacturing plant of the York Manufacturing company, at .aep, ye., was shat down indefinitely. Twe thousand operators were thrown out of work. eaor Nodarase,-director of posts, t Havana f-uor the United states. It is believed thiat he goes in response to a summona .o tonfer with the ant eariaesVi; J-aWasuhgtoa in relation to aieames to be taken for the ex dl e.em.t e nalls of tickets It the new lotters, the sales at whlch Captalm h aL p known to othe td. eaeratlom ofgorod alvers from coast to coast as ,e Original bboy," died at his hame in East Orange, ,as at the age 'et s. Par muse tha M yee'ears lat down town oyster inness tI Waln street and then -a Mi iv street, was famous. )* iis'~Jii~iRIP at 4of lott county, ~r e ne dead ina highway be aehe i at f s as __ -. e .a s. i -e 'a. ... . -r - - thSe e mylUk ai mu9 ithea e ourj slens alas imflm at Slve r see easil si te mi In - f t. John W. Gates, allied with New Orleans capitalists in Texas, is en volved in a contest with Charles M. Schwab for possession of tremendous ly rich iron ore fields recently dis covered in the Lone Star State. Eight were killed when the wooden staging at the head of the Camp Hausen mine at Saarbruecken, Ger many., collapsed and crashed down the shaft among a body of miners. Workers wer injured by the flying timbers. Workers were injured b ythe flying ly injured by a powerful racing auto mobile, driven by Joe Matson at Lowell, Mass., who was making a practice run for the races which start on Monday. In a statement issued by M. B. Slater, general agent of the Adams Express company in Pittsburg, stated the loss to the company through the robbery of their express car on the Pittsburg & Northern express will not exceed $300. Earl Grey, governor-general of Canada, who was lost in the wilder ness Sunday night, will be made de fendant according to provincial authorities on the charge of shooting der out of season. The Duke of the Abruzzi, on resum ing naval service in October, will be promoted to be a rear admiral. Charles Mauget, a wealthy retired tailor, was arrested at Newport, Ky., on a warrant charging him with the murder of his wife Margaret, who was found strangled to death at their holne a week ago. He is 75 years old. Examination of the home in Evans ville, Ind., of James Garrett, who shot and wounded his wife and tried to shoot his 7-year-old son and then killed himself at Indianapolis, dis closed that the man had set the house in order for the funeral of the three before he took his boy to Indianapo lis. Hester Campbell, a famous Scotch cook who was employed for many years in the family of former Presi dent Roosevelt, died at Montclair, N. J., at the age of ninety-six. She was particularly noted for her recipe of "Johnny Cake" and always accompa nied the Roosevelt family on its trips. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Coppersmith, of Newton, Is., were killed instantly by a train while driving in their auto mobile to the state fair at Des Moines. They failed to see the train approach ing, as they attempted to cross the tracks. Arthur Griggs, of Big Springs, Tex., was burned to death in a boarding house fire at Fort Worth. John C. Sanders, 75 years old, who went to New Albany, Ind., from Day ton, Ohio, was arrested, charged with bigamy. It is alleged on information furnished by the pension department, that Sanders has four wives. He was accompanied to New Albany b. s. he was .In jealouss rage, Joe Bates, guard on the city chain gang at Spartaus burg, S. C.. shot and killed Mrs. Docia Bolter, 18 years of age, wife of a farmer, and seriously wounded with a stray bullet May Cox, 11 years old. The supreme court, Foresters of America,. adjourned after selecting Detroit as the place of meeting in 1911. E. M. McMurtry, retiring sec retary, was made national organizer. Cheering for a player who had just knocked a home run in a prairiegame on the West Side, Chicago, caused the death of Robert Myers, 65 years old. Myers, sympathies were with the team which profited by the home run, and he cheered so much and so long that heart disease caused his death. Laurent Crosse, driver of the Stearns car, who was injured in the twenty-four hour automobile race at the Brighton Beach motordrome Fri day night, is dead. Leonard Cole, his mechanician, was instantly killed in the accident. The mail boat Nord, running from Calais to Dover, went ashore at the me.th of the Calais harbor in a thick tog. About, 200 passengers, most of whom were on their way to Rheims, were landed in life boats. The forest fre which started in the Yesemite National park is completely beyond control and was sweeping up the canyon toward the famous Merced grove of big trees. The flames at the last report were within three miles of the grove. As the result of an automobile acci dent on a prominent downtown corner of Omaha, Miss Hopper lies in a hos pital fatally injured, and George Gil maer, the driver of the gar, barely escaped rough handling at the hands of an excited erowd of onlookers. John HoBle, of Milwaukee, a sailor on the United States revenue cutter' Tuscarora, is under arrest on suspi eon in connection with the death of anh aldeatifed mass who was beaten to death `Iid t'hrawn into the river at the fiiot sO'6cod street Detroit. 4a sight of 14 wife and baby, Erl wa wrestler, from Minneapo Toasnssweit-frot his feet in the uwf near th CTE H sse, San idragelseo, sad `dErewR. A mounted atrobman sod his hborse far out into ; f loio bt Iasso Uamer, Asl a.iea n has 1ee ianee to dsa gouetvernnit 1 Jacinto A oa Astainte atr tfor per a2ult 1r98 raise the battleship Maiu a As In Hasae m &sses:. His penio hi under m o cbderatiys br oe the metta:r gm aPesds been T~ beepsn~· Aghpg4 att LOUISIANA STATE NEWS IN GENERAL BULLETINS ISSUED TO HELP THE AGRICULTURIST. ENCOURAGE CORN CULTURE Woman Finds RattTesnake in Her Dresser Drawer--Sheriff Gives Bloodhounds Successful Test. Baton Rouge.-In view of the in creasing importance of corn culture in Louisiana, and the rapid increase in the corn acreage, a bulletin on "Corn," recently issued by Dr. W. R. Dodson, director of the state experi ment station, and V. L. Roy, who has had charge of the establishment of corn clubs, is of greatest importance. The bulletin deals with the selec tion of seed, and says, in part: "Good seed corn is as important as good soil or proper cultivation and fertilization. It is quite reasonable to hope that the average yield of corn in Louisiana can be greatly increased if the proper interest can be awak ened in seed breeding and selection. Such interest is being manifested by our best farmers and planters al ready, and the time is opportune for the development of enterprises along these lines. It is not expected that every farmer will become a corn breeder, but there should be enough .good seed produced in each commu nity to supply every field with well bred seed." CROP PEST REPORT. Bulletin Shows Insects Injurious to Trucking Crops. Baton Rouge.-That the truck growers of Louisiana pay a larger toll to injurious insects than the growers of any other state in the Union is the opinion of Wilmon Newell, secretary of the state crop pezt commission, which he expresses in a bulletin that has just been issued by the commis sion on the "Insects Injurious to the Trucking Crops." The bulletin deals at length with the various insects that attack the state crops, about 20 different insects being treated, and suggestions made for controlling them. The bulletin was made neces sary by the great demand for data on this subject. In presenting this new publication Mr. Newell says: "The rapid rate atlwhich the truck ing interests of Louisiana have devel oped during the past few years has been extremely gratifying. Not only have a number of sections, favored ing upon a large and successful scale, but throughout the state increased at tention has been paid to the growing of vegetables for the local market and for home consumption. Doubtless the invasion by the boll weevil has been largely responsible for more atten tion being paid by farmers to the production on their own farms of food stuffs which they require." Setter Railroad Service Sought. Denham Springs.-The Progressive Union at a largely attended meeting considered several matters of import ance to the community. Furthbr sub scriptions were received for the pto motion of the plans of the union, and there is now about $3,000 subscribed. The officers of the union expect to interest some industrial enterprises to locate here in the near future. Resolutions were also adopted ask ing the state railroad commission for an improvement in the service on the Baton Rouge, Hammond & Eastern railroad, and asking the co-operation of the Progressive Unions of Coving ton, Hammond and Baton Rouge in securing this service. Testing Bloodhounds. Mansfield.-Sheriff Smith recently gave his bloodhounds the first prac tical test in pursuit of a criminal. Caesar Owens, colored, shot and dan gerously wounded Bailey Hatton, an other negro, while they were at work at the Frost-Johnson log camp, about 12 miles from town. The sheriff was notified Ind he arrived on the ground five hours after Owens had fled to the swamp, but the hounds readily took the trail and followed it until they caught the culprit. As the weather was very dry and the condi tions unfavorable, this was a fine test of the value of the dogs. Rattlesnake in Dresser Drawer. Boyce.-Mrs. E. B. Levee, wife of Mr. E. B. Levee, the Texas & Pacific yard foreman for bridge and building department, who resides in South Boyce, went to open her bureau drawer and when she got it o e he foeud a large rattlesnake all fled mp in the drawer. She for IBbut 'when help arrived the scene the monster had NlearBeer Servers Are Shreveport.'-For the secon time mince the prohibition law t into efect the police made a genr raid em near-beer establishments, arrest i lin ae barteaders on the of mep Igatnluts. -Ever tMoe the disimt eurt d arned, a fe weeks Sthis cityr has been p id open, nape of the as re. ' ."airP i tot to break e pro l a1 hWie Dmnealu ha Lb oeare tas a CAress HEAVY FIRE LOSS. D) Big Lumber Plant Worth $100,000 Totally Destroyed. Monroe.-The worst fire that has visited this section for several years occurred in West Monroe when the sawmill plant operated by the Oua Te chita Lumber Company, Limited, was completely destroyed by fire, togeth er with the dry kilns, platforms and a large amount of lumber, estimated at about 500,000 feet. The fire origi nated from sparks blown under the 21 mill from the slab pit. Fanned by a heavy wind from the northeast, the whole plant and the three cottages north of it were soon a mass of flames. for Bears Destroying Crops. Baton Rouge.-The bear hunters ad just returned from the Fordoche fici swamps report having seen plenty of fol tracks, but killed no bears. It was not because the bears were not there, ele but because the dogs played out. "It's Pol no exaggeration about those bears at destroying the crops," said one of the set nimrods. "They are coming out of off the swamps and tearing up the corn Cal crop by the acre. There must be Gtr fifteen or twenty bears in that sec- ma tion eating the corn, and fifteen sto bears, when a farmer has a bare crop, is a hard thing for a farmer to ten bear. There were plenty of tracks, 18t but the extra pack of dogs that we exl expected did not come, and we had the to give up the chase when the first pack gave out. We are going back next week with more dogs." Dr. Oil Company Organized. of Covington, La.-There was a meet- sta ing at the office of Dr. B. B. Warren noc of the subscribers to the stock of the Fri new oil well which is to be sunk in per the western part of this parish, for I the purpose of organizing the com- err pany and electing officers. Dr. War- tor ren explained the object of the meet- ha( ing, the oil indications found in that act section and arrangements that could the be made with well qualified local peo- the ple to put down the well. The offi- nec cers are: President, Dr. B. B. War- ord ren; vice president, A. H. Grimmer; treasurer, S. D. Bullock; secretary, by W. G. Evans. The committee on stock exl reported that every dollar necessary to finance the well had been pledged CF here. E4 Boll Weevil Takes Car Ride. Baton Rouge.-A strange method of travel of the boll weevil has been fel brought to light by a lumber com- lat pany buyer who received a carload ed of lumber from a Mississippi mill, and in the car was a vast army of da: boll weevils. The lumber and the in- elij side of the car were simply alive her with the weevils. It was generally tal supposed at first that the weevils only for tr v le'tta or some- het stories told by boat'meni and railroad men seem to indicate that the weevil will take a ride on anything, and al most anywhere. New Rice Field Opens. Slaughter, La.-R. R. Bento, a mer chant here, and also a progressive farmer, planted several acres in rice, which was the first planted in this section of the country. Several plant ers from the rice district who have seen the crop report that it is much better than any rice they have seen elsewhere. Mr. Bento has no mill, and it was his intention to ship it, but he could have easily disposed of several more acres to men for seed in this community who intend to plant another season. Marshal Made Good Capture. Boyce.-Town Marshal James P. Hickman of the city of Boyce made a very imlportant as well as clever ar rest in an old isolated house just east of Zimmerman, La., of Florida Walk er, a negro woman, and Lewis Red, who are both wanted at Winnafeld, La., for robbery. The sheriff from Winnfleld arrived in the city and left for Winnfield with his prisoners. It is rumored that Red is wanted for murder also. Mamou Flume Collapses. Crowley.-Word was received here that 400 feet of the flume of the pumping plant of the Mamou Irrigat ing Canal company has collapsed and that the flume is a total wreck. The catastrophe was due to the sand washing out from under the bank on which a part of the flume 'was built and allowing the earth to sink down about ten feet. Charged With Mail Box Robbery. Shreveport.-J. S. Keen, a farmer of Bieaville parish, was taken before Federal Commissioner Slattery on the charge of robbing a rural mail box near Arcadia, and was released on a $750. bond. Bond Buyers Make Inquiry. Alexandria, La.-Mayor J. P. Turre gano has received about twenty-five inquiries from bond buyers all over the. United States relative to the "4E,69® bond issue recently voted. Will Drain Rich District. Baton Rouge.-A survey is now De I.ag made in the Eighth ward of East Baton Roup parish for the purpose of working out the cost of building a drainage canal In that parish. The surney is being made by Cook & Rob erts or Opelousas, and as soon as the cost bas been ascertained the people -of the ward wil vote on the subject of imposing a special tax for the con ItMnction of the dramsge system. Leveral umonths ago a meeting was helI to agitate the plan. DISCOVERS NORTH POLE AN AMERICAN, DR. COOK, THE SUCCESSFUL EXPLORER. Telegram Announcing Discovery Comes From Greenland-Report Confirmed at Washington. Copenhageu.-Dr. Cook, the Amer:can explorer, reached the North Pole April 21, 1908, according to a telegram re ceived at the colonial office here. The message was received from Ler wick, Shetland Islandts. Dr. Cook is on board the Danish gov ernment steamer Hans Egede, en route for Denmark. The telegram announcing Dr. Cook's achievement was sent by a Greenland of ficial on board the steamer, and read as follows: "We have on board the American trav eler, Dr. Cook, who reached the North Pole April 21, 1908. Dr. Cook arrived at Ipernivik (the northernmost Danish settlement in Greenland, on an island off the west coast), in May, 1909, from Cape York (in the northwest part of Greenland, on Baffin bay). The Esqui maux of Cape York confirm Dr. Cook's story of his journey." For years Dr. Cook has given his at tention to Arctic explorations and i, 1891-2 was surgeon of the Peary Arctic expedition and in 1897-99 surgeon of the Belgian Antarctic expedition. Report Confirmed. Washington.-Official confirmation of Dr. Frederick A. Cook's daring discovery of the North Pole was received at the state department late Thursday after noon in a cablegram from Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, American minister at Co penhagen. Dr. Egan wires that the Danish gov ernment has been advised by its inspec tor for North Greenland that Dr. Cook had returned from his long journey across the floes and ice mountains of the inner polar circle and had reported the discovery of the pole, presenting the necessary confirmatory data with rec ords of his observations. It was the first official word received by this government regarding Dr. Cook's exploit. CROSSED OCEAN IN 4 DAYS Record of Lusitania's Wonderful Feat. New York.-Three new ocean records fell to the Cunard liner Lusitania on her latest trip from Queenstown, which end ed Thursday night. The Lusitania made the passage in 4 days 11 hours and 42 minutes, thereby clipping 3 hours and 18 minutes from her fastest previous time; she main tained an average speed of 25.85 knots for the entire voyage, beating the Mau etsi' record of 25.84; a finay by pier shortly before 8 o'clodt ibe .be came the first liner to dock on the fourth day out from Queenstown. The Lusitania left Daunt's Rock last Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. Her day's runs, measured from noon to noon, were as follows: Sunday, 610; Monday, 650; Tuesday, 652; Wednesday, 651; Thurs day, 647, and from noon Thursday, 123. Total, 2,784. SWINDLED OUT OF $400,000 Eastern Investors Badly Used in Wyoming Mineral Lands. Cheyenne, Wyo.-Mineral land swin dies in Northern Wyoming in two years have taken $400,000 out of the pockets of residents of Eastern States, accord ing to State Geologist Edwin Hall, who says he will ask Gov. Brooks to take im mediate action in cases which he inves tigated after having received more than fifty letters of inquiry from people said to have been defrauded. Hall says that in the vicinity of Sun Dance alone a coterie of swindlers se cured $30,000 by getting from Eastern people $101.30 each for 300 iron claims, promising that the twenty-acre claims wuild later be purchased for $40 an acre. The $101.30, he stated, was rep resented to be the cost of doing location work and filing papers. . Woman Builds Airship. New York.-Miss F. L. Todd, a young woman living on Staten Island, has con structed an airship which she thinks will be superior to any which won prizes last week in France. She has equipped it with a 50-horsepower automobile en gine, and is seeking suitable grounds on which to test it. The apparatus is a bi plane with a spread of 43 feet, and meas ures 6} feet from back to front. Miss Todd says she will probably attempt her initial flight on Saturday. Declines His Propesition. Lincoln, Neb.-President Taft has de -dined to recommend that congress pave the way for the direct election of sen ators by providing for a constitutional amendment. Action to that effect was urged by William J. Bryan in a personal letter to the president, but the chief executive in reply says se does not consider it a party question. Value of Lad I.s Ined. Washington--In a report iled the commission appointed by the supreme court of the District of Columbia to fix the value of the land, and thus deter mine the price which the United States government will pay to the several own ers of the property in the five squares bounded by Pennsylvania avenue, the Mall, Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, agreed upon a total valuation of $2, 459,931. This amount is $40,068 below the appropriation allowed by seagress for the purchase- of the ground. THE BEST REMEDY For Women-Lydia E. Pink ham'sVegetable Compound Noah, Ky. - "I was passing through the Change of Life and suffered from headaches. nervous prostration, and emorrhages. "Lydia E. Pink. ham's Vegetable Compoundmademe well and strong, so that I can do all my housework, and at tend to the store and post-office, and Ifeel muchyounger than I really am. "Lydia E. Pink m's Vegetable Compoundis the most successful remcdy for all kinds of female troubles, and I feel that I can never praise it enough." -Mxs.LIZZra HoLLAND, Noah, Ky. TheChangeof Life isthemostcritical period of a woman's existence, and neglect of health at this time invites disease and pain. Womeneverytvhere shouldremember that there is no other remedy known to medicine that will so successfullycarry women through this trying period as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, made from native roots and herbs. For 80 years it has been curing women from the worst forms of female ills-inflammation, ulceration, dis placements, fibroid tumors, irregulari ties, periodic pains, backache, and nervous prostration. If you would like special advice about your case write aconfiden tial letter to Mrs. Pinkbam, at Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free, and always helpful All in Fight Against Tuberculosis. Prevention of tuberculosis versus dividends is the proposition which some of our largest insurance comn panies are now trying to establish. The Metropolitan Life recently ap plied for permission to erect a san&a torium for its policy holders and em ployes afflicted with tuberculosis, but the application was refused on grounds of illegality by New York State Super intendent of Insurance Hotchkiss. The r company is, however, conducting an active educational campaign by di tributing 3,500,000 pamphlets among t its policy holders. The Provident Savings Life Assurance society has also established a health bureas where its policy holders may receive free medical advice. Several fraternal orders, notably the Modern Woodm~R Knights of Pythias, Royal SRetal irea . r+saag , le, have already established or are contemplating the erection of sani toria for their tuberculous members. t Sit Up. s Much rot has recently been writ, and e wags have rent their brains asunder, in trying to make food for wit this -dreadnaught lid the girls hide under. What need have men to knock it sol They do not have to sweat beneath it. Is it because the fellows know the landscape has been robbed to wreathe it? We are no judge of ladies' lidsa, and care not what your choice or vote L is; it's not what's on but in girls' heads that makes us sit up and take notice.-Bard of Benzie. Weds Her Rich Stepfather. Social circles in Pasadena, Cal, learned with amazement the other day r that Miss Katherine Traphagen has become the bride of her stepfather. Cyrus M. Davis of Los Angeles. Miss Traphagen lived with her sisters in Altadena and was one of the promi nent members of the Young Women's Christian Association, being directos of its short story club. Equipped for Fast Travel. Sorrow is an evil with many feet Posidippus. IT WORKS The Laborer Eats Food That Would Wreck an Office Man. Men who are actively engaged at hard work can sometimes eat food that would wreck a man who is more closely confined. This is illustrated in the following story: "I was for 12 years clerk in a store working actively and drank coffee all the time without much trouble until after I entered the telegraph service. "There I got very little exercise and drinking strong coffee, my nerves were unsteady and my stomach got weak and I was soon a very sick man., I quit meat and tobacco and in fact i stopped eating everything which I thought might affect me except coffee. but still my condition grew worse, and I was all but a wreck. "I finally quit eoee and eom. menced to use Postom a few years ago, and I am speaking the truth when I say, my condition commenced to improve Immediately and today I am well and can eat anything I want without any bad effects, all due to shifting from cofftee to Postum. "I told my wife today I believed I could digest a brick if I had a c.p at postum to go with IL "We make it according to dlreetlma boiling it full s minutes and use good rich cream and it is certainly del dous." Look In pkgs. for a eapy of the fa mous little book, "The Road to Well. ville." "There's a Reasonm." wlav redi the abeve sate. A sew em apssem festm e Urea. 'ep saeme u sate u