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4 THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE AND CAPE COUNTY HERALD, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28. 1916. COUNCIL VOTES TO OPEN MAIN STREET SOUTH THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT. Every president of a hank or trust company in St. Louis has signed a petition to the people, asking that the State-wide prohibition amendment be defeated at the general election on November 7. The bankers announce they :.ro in favor of local option, which gives every community the right to regu late the liquor business, but denies any city or county the right to interfere .vith some other city or county located in another section of the State. Thf tax on the liquor industry in Missouri aggregates more than $.1,000,000 or approximately one-half of the total revenue of the State. This money goes to the county, the city, the school district, the highways and for the general upkeep of the State. If Missouri were to adopt the State-wide prohibition amendment at the coming election, it would mean that some other method of obtaining revenue would have to be adopted by the State, and this, of course, would have to be obtained through an increase in taxation. The farmer would have to pay several times as much as he is taxed today; the merchant, the butcher and the candlestick maker would likewise be assessed, just as would the individual who toils for his daily wage. Aide from the fact that State-wide prohibition robs the individual of his personal liberty, it would be a calamity for Missouri. There are 200,000 people employed in the brewing industries of the State, according to the statistics. These men would be thrown out of work, and with the destruc tion of the $150,000,000 of brewery property, there would be nothing else for these 200.000 people to do. The people employed in Missouri breweries now receive an annual wage aggregating 1,000,000, or more than the total revenue of the State of Mis ouri. Imagine, if you will, what a disaster it would be to force 200.000 men into idleness; to wipe out $9,000,000 a year in salaries, and destroy SI. ".0,000.000 worth of property. And heaped upon this blow to the State would come an increase in taxation sufficient to meet one-half of the pres ent expenses of Missouri. Under State-wide prohibition, the taxes would bankrupt the average farm er; would close the doors of factories and stores and reduce the State to a condition almost as disastrous as pestilence or famine. Missouri is uniike some of the States that have adopted State-wide pro hibition. The capital invested in the liquor industries of Missouri, is greater, according to population, than any other State. The railroads in this State receive approximately -'1,000.000 from the liquor industries. This, too would be wiped out. If prohibition would not take the jobs of 200,000 people; destroy property worth $150,000,000, and cut the State revenue in half, it would still be a menace to the people. Prohibition has never removed liquor from any State. It has simply wiped out the licensed saloon and created the moonshiner, who is invited to break the law, protect criminals 'and install dives in every town. The bankers of St. Louis very properly call attention to- the fact that Missouri rejected State-wide prohibition six years ago by more than 200.000. This should be suflicient, and it woi'.ld be, if it were not for the fact that the professional prohibitionist cams an easy living by constantly agitating the question. Take, for instance, any prohibitionist whom you know, and make an analysis of him. Kind out what he contributes to the maintenance of the city: ascertain the number of people he employs, the amount of his taxes, anil then total the sum, and you will find an argument against prohibition. Nine prohibitionists out of every ten in the city of Cape Girardeau are THE CAPE WEEKLY TRIBUNE AND THE CAPE COUNTY HERALD Every Friday by THE CAPE GIRARDEAU PUBLISHING COMPANY. JAMES P. WHITESIDE, Editor. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR IN ADVANCE The City Council last night by unanimous vote, passed a resolution to extend Main street two blocks south of Independence street and at the same time drew the boundary lines of the benefit district, inside of which prop erty owners will be called upon to pay for the street extension. According to the plans projected by the council, the street will be extended on a straight line south from the pres ent western line of Main street. This extension will make room for a 45- foot roadway on the new Main street. With the exception of a strip ten feet wide, Aquamsi street has been turned over to the railroad for the new passenger depot location, so that the street on the western side of the new depot will be at least 55 or 00 feet in width. The benefit district declared by the council for ihe payment of the dam ages that will accrue through the ex tension of the street, extends as far south as Good Hope street, north to Broadway and west to the alley be tween Spanish and Lorimier street. The line is described as follows: South along the middle line of Aquam si street to Good Hope, west along the center line of Good Hope to the middle of the alley between Spanish and Lori mier; north through this alley to the middle of Broadway; east to the mid dle line of Water street and south to where it connects with the line on Aquamsi. City Counselor O. A. Knehans last night appealed before the City Coun cil to explain the legal steps that will be necessary in making the extension. The first step is the passage of an ordinance condemning the property over which the council wishes the street to pass. This is followed by a separate ordinance setting out the benefit district which shall join in pay ing for tho street extension. Following that, the City Counselor will file a condemnation suit in the Common Pleas Court naming as de fendants all property owners in the benefit district. .An application will be made to the Court to have a com mission of three men appointed to assess benefits and damages in the district. i ne report oi me commissioners, making .;ueh assessments is filed in the I Circuit Court and each of the proper ty owners effected then has the right to appeal from the report to the Cir cuit Court. Such appeals hinge upon the ques tion of how inucn the benefits or the damages shall be and as a consequence when the money in question is paid into court by the property owner, title to the land is passed to the city and the street may proceed. Last night two plans were placed before the council with reference to the human parasites. The great majority of them are here as employes and j width of the proposed extension of Main street. One was t., make the J. FRANK OLIVER BROUGHT HERE AFTER RUNAWAY J. Frank Oliver, ur.de of C. C. Oliver and United States Attorney Ar thur L. Oliver, as well as brother of R. B. Oliver of the Cape, last night was brought to the Cape where an x-ray photograph of his right hip was taken at St. Francis' Hospital to learn if he sustained a fracture as a result of having been thrown from a wagon in a runaway near Neely's' Landing yesterday morning. Photographs were made of the bones, but at a late hour last night the plates had not been developed so that it was impossible for the physicians in at tendance to ascertain if any fractures have resulted from Mr. Oliver's fall. Mr. Oliver is ! year old, and a pioneer settler in this part of the State. Yesterday morning he had a team oC horses hitched to one of his wagons on his farm two miles north of Neely's Landing and was preparing to drive to Fruitland. He was to be accom panied by his wife. He had mounted to the seat of the wagon and Mrs. Oliver was just about to step into the wagon when the team of horses became frightened at some thing and ran. The sudden start of the vehicle threw Mr. Oliver olf hi baking and he was hurled out of the wagon. He landed on his right hip, and it is said bv his nhvsicians who have examined him. that that is the onlv serious in- ! tho most valuable cargoes of the sea- jurv that he sustained, unless there LOSSES REACH $75,000 AS CAPE GIRARDEAU SINKS The total loss sustained yesterday when the Str. Cape Girardeau, driven upon a sunken piling in a sudden gale, sank off Fort Gage, six miles above Chester, 111., will be between $65,000 and 875,000, it was conservatively es timated in the Cape last night. The wrecked boat which yesterday listed into the river till the water flow, ed through its cabin, is considered be yond salvage, but virtually the entire cargo of the boat is covered bv in surance. Reassurance concerning the ability ot. (.ape (iirare.eau merchants wno ownd freight upon the steamer, to col lect for their losses, was expressed last night by Walter S. Albert, of the Mever-Albert Grocerv Co., and for many years associated with the Ley- hes as their local boat agent. No lives were lost when the boat sank and all of the fifty passengers had time enough to don their clothing and cany off their personal luggage before the boat was abandoned. The loss on the boat is estimated as follows: Value of the steamer, $25,000; leather supplies for the International Shoe Co.. 35,000; A. R. Zoelsmann, groceries, $2000; Inter-City Grocery Co.. $400; Meyer-Albert Grocery Co., $400; Lorberg Furniture store, beds, $100; and many other merchants lost cargoes aboard the boat, an estimate of whose value could not be made. The boat was loaded with one of are internal injuries that have not de veloped. son. Mr. Albert last night placed $25,00!) as the probable value of the boat. According to Mr. Albert and The team of horses continued to run r ""; "Ul " for a distance of about a half a block IlsslslPPi River pilot, it will cost at I least ?.i,ouw 10 replace me tape uir I ardeau with another new boat now. ! The insurance on the boat itself is w ; iv. l where they went under a tree and stop ped between the ham and house. Doctors were summoned at from Jackson and yesterday afternoon as the steamboat Peoria passed Nee ly's Landing, efforts were made to have it land in order that Mr. Oliver I could be brought to the Cape by boat and taken to the hospital. The boat could not be singalled for a stop, however. The Jackson physicians who were j summoned advised that he be brought i to the Cape as soon as possible in or der that an x-rav photograph might be taken to learn the exact character jor wi P"" a fnmX tc of the injurv. He was brought in on ! flio.ently large enough the local train that arrived in the Cape at 10:10 o'clock last night and taken carried by the Kagle racket Com pany, the owners, in a manner in which most river steamboats are insured. In stead of paying premiums upon an in surance policy issued by a liability company, a certain portion of the boat's earnings during the year are annually set aside for a replacement fund. This fund is, in a measure, conside ed insurance against the destruction of a boat and the normal life of a steam- to accumulate, to construct i new steamer. In this manner the Eagle Packet St. Louis was put on the boat, but he was advised by wire that $700 worth of new drygoods stocks that he had selected last wek, had been routed over the Frisco. Martin Lorberg had $100 worth of beds on board, but his new $400 hearse was left behind because the workmen delayed in tuning up th T.rine. The delay saved Mr. Lorberg money, he said. Two automobiles were on the cat and rolled off into the river as the boi; listed sharply, while settling . H. A. Nussbsum of the Inter-City Grocery Co., said his firm had about $400 worth of freight on the boat, and the Vogelsanger Hardware Company had a consignment of stoves on board. According to advices from St. Louis, none of the passengers on board was from Cape Girardeau. Many St. Louis ans were among the passengers and there wre some women and children. While on a return trip by rail from St. Louis to the Cape, Capt. Stout yes- IiEGAL NOTICES. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Notice is hereby given that letters of administration upon the estate of Mary Jane Lape, deceased, have been granted to the undersigned by the Pro bate Court of Cape Girardeau Count v. Mi ssouri, bearing date the 3d day of October, 1916. All persons having claims against said estate are required to exhibit them to the undersigned for allowance within six months from the date oC said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and if said claims be not exhibited within one year from the date of the publica tion of this notice, they will be forever barred. Wm. H. Lape, Administrator. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given to all credit ors and others, interested in the estate of Elizabeth E. B. Grimm, deceased, that I, Don Grimm, executor of said . .l . , , , T- - . I --"v, jukim uitincr final St L 1 1 1 1 1 ir . I L u i i u there of at the next term of the Cane Wittenburg, a farmer, and two of the . , . . . ' latter's companions, who had been pas sengers on the vessel and told their ex. periences in getting off. They told Captain Stout that they did not known the facts about how the vessel struck the submerged piling that tore the hole in the bottom of the hull. When they were aroused, the boat was filling rapidly and the prepa rations were under way for taking the passengers off. At the place where the accident oc- Girardeau Court of Common Pleas of Cape Girardeau County, State of Mis souri, to be held at Cape Girardeau on the 27th day of November, 1916. Don Grimm, Executor. FINAL SETTLEMENT NOTICE Notice is hereby given to all credit ors and others interested in the estate of William Wissmann, deceased, that I, the undersigned, intend to make fin:.! settlement of the estate of said deceas ed at the next term of the Probate curred, there formerly was a railroad Court of Cape Girardeau County, Mis transfer crossing. The piling for the srmr: to hp brt at .Tnrk."n. Missouri railroad incline leading to the cradle beginning on the 13th dj of Novem- still is standing in a delapidated con- tg. dition at that point. Some of the pil ing was removed by a Government boat, to remove a hazard from the river. .r, Wm. E. Wissmann, Administrator. FINAL SETTLEMENT NOTICE Notice is hereby given to all credit- The boat had swung around with ! ors and others interested in the estate bow upstream and was either making of Frederika Plagge, deceased, that 1, a landing or coming away from the the undersigned, intend to make final landing, Bain said, when the rear end settlement of the estate of said de- crashed into the submerged piling, ceased at the next term of the Probate Virtually the entire rear end of the Court of Cape Girardeau County, Mis- hull was caved in and the water rush- souri, to be held at Jackson, Missouri, ed in rapidly. beginning on the 13 day of November, tv Vn r f tVi o vctcfkl the samp 191b. X. 11C UV V L HIV w v m - - time was held in near the shore and the remainder of the incline. When the passengers were wanted removed, Bain said, the stage plank was swung from the vessel to the incline and the I passengers and crew escaped by that means. Wesley A. Deneke, Administrator, De Boins, Mon. FINAL SETTLEMENT NOTICE Notice is hereby given to all credit- or&and .others interested in the estate I e -a- r i t i t .. l 3. a. T,;n hi companions walked in- 01 jac0D rKDigier, ueceasen, mac to Chester. The accident ocrurred at th,e undersigned, intend to m:e final 2 oclock yesterday morning. At Ches- uie us- .... .I .1 ed at the next term of the Probate vrr me nirue men nuascu mc nvci in the ferry and waited to the Perryville Gour.t Pe Girar deau County, Mis- at once to the Hospital where mem- Company has been protected against . , ' beginning on the Vi day of November, hers of the Oliver familv in the Cape I the 1ss of the Cape Girardeau. Fori not as employers. They are contributing nothing to the growth or up l.efo of the citv. For everv one who employes a man vou will find nine v. ho are furnished their meal tickets by working for someone else. This is the type of the mod; in crusader. He is a destract'onist and not a construc tionist. He "wrecks, but never builds, and he does it under the guise of reform. BETHMANN-HOLWEGG. Every world crisis has developed ultimately some man of striking per sonality. All Europe has been involved two years in a war whose propor tions surpass anything in history and hitherto undreamed of. One figure stands out strong, calm and clear cut. The lightning's thunder around him. the winds and waves vent their fury, and he stands immutable and unmoved. This man is Bethmann-Holwegg. German Chancellor. The strongest naval and military influence in Germany heretofore imperialistic, have endeavored to swerve him from his position of fairness and well-dealing with the United States and other neutral countries. He has demonstrated a great prophetic insight above and beyond the prejudices and hates engendered by war, looking forward to Germany as a great nation after the deluge. He sees Germany, whether victorious or de feated, still standing upright, fighting for principle, for rights of humanity and for international respect and confidence. Whatever the result of the war may be he will ever be regarded as the real upholder of Germany's faith and honor. EXTEND THE FIRE ZONE. Every day there are new evidences that Cape Girardeau has outgrown it proportions, just as a boy outgrows his last year's clothing. The city has witnessed a building boom and expansion, but it is merely beginning to grow. The completion of the drainage system of Southeast Missouri must in evitably make Cape Girardeau a leading city in Southern Missouri, and many new people must come here to live. But with added prosperity comes additional responsibility. Our citizens and our city officials must accept the obligations growing out of our expan sion and new conditions. Several fires have recently occurred and large destruction of property has followed because of lack of fire protection. We cannot invite people to in vest money in the improvement of property, and properly assert and main tain our class as a city unless they are assured reasonable safety. Citizens out of the fire zone pay taxes, and are therefore, entitled to the same advantages and safeguards that the people in other portions of the city enjoy. Houses are becoming too numerous in the suburban sections of Cape Girardeau to longer deprive them of fire protection. The installation of the new fire fighting facilities can assure every build ing in the city adequate protection. Water should be provided everywhere for everybody. No home should be placed in jeopardy for lack of it. extension "5 feet in width in order to leave a wider lot on Independence street next to the present location of the Salvation Army headquarters. This would leave a jog in the street at the cornei". The council voted to make the line straight and take off more on the western side of the land at that place. In settling the benefit district, the question of the size arose and was set tled when Bowman, sponsor of the boundaries for the district adopted, brought his plan to a vote. Much of the property in this dis trict, the council considers will not be benefited greatly by the street exten sion. his district is not aimed at resi dential property and it is expected that he commissioners will not assess heavy benefits against residence owners. The business property in the district, how ever, will be called upon to pay liberally. ipe went to join the members of the fam- j several years since the Cape has been ily who accompanied him to the Cape, in the trade plying between St. Louis His condition is considered dangerous nnd the Cape, it has been the only bv his doctors. F. W. KELLER WILL BUILD CAIRO SEWER Cairo, 111., Oct. 25. The work of re- I vessel that also carries a blanket in surance policy. Mr. Albert last night explained its provisions. When the blanket policy first was procured, it was for $15,000. That sum was to protect shippers against loss in the event of the de struction of the boat ami cargo. As the cargoes of the vessel grew It S All t 3 . . pairing the broken Commercial avenue ;?". -ir- A'Dert neciami mat trie sewer is to he started immediately, a i " "-" i'-j .i -a.-- contract for the reconstruction having Jacob B. Berkbigler, Administrator. IMfi According to advice received irom the St. Louis office of the packet com pany, the boat was trying to make the landing at the incline when the gale N0XICE 0F pjxAL SETTLEMENT or squall struck and crashed the ves sel into the piling. Capt. Buck Leyhe, FRISCO CLAIM AGENT JUMPS, BREAKS ARM T. B. Ruffin, a Frisco claim agent, had a narrow escape from death Satur day afternoon while riding a motor car near Lancaster. The steam gascet blew out while the machine was run ning, hurling scalding water out of the engine on Mr. Ruffin. To prevent being seriously scalded, he leaped from the speeding machine, falling on his left arm, breaking it half way between the elbow and the wrist. Other Frisco employes, who were riding on the motor car, helped him back on the car, after it had been repaired, and took him to Lancaster, where his injuries were dressed. been awarded to F. W. Keller of Capo Girardeau, who offered to do the work for $20,1!2.45. W. F. Crossley, superintendent of the Cairo Electric and Traction Com pany, also filed a bid for the full amount of the estimate, $20,292.45. This was done simply to insure that the work would be done in the event no one else made a proposal. Mr. Keller, following 1he awarding of the contract, said he would leave for Cape Girardeau to assemble his equipment and ship it to Cairo. It is necessary to order material and rush it here. He said that by the end of the week he would have all the equipment and material on the ground and that he would start immediately upon the ac tive reconstruction of the sewer. Mr. Keller intends to prosecute the work day and night, working two shifts. Arc lights will be strung over the work which will afford full oppor tunity to go ahead without any inter ruption. The only thing he dreads is a rise in the river which will cause a suspension of the work. Commissioner Kelly and Engineer Dewey will oversee the work and ob serve that only the best of material and first-class workmanship shall en ter into the construction of the sewer. If there is no interruption from un- forseen conditions, Mr. Keller expects to have the job completed by December 1, if not sooner. Accompanying Mr. Keller's bid was the required certified check for $2050 which represented 10 per cent of his bid. This will be returned to Mr. Kel ler if he shall within the next 10 days file a good and sufficient bond in the sum of 50 per cent of his bid. ed and he said that at present it either was $20,000 or $25,000, In addition to the blanket insurance policy, Mr. Albert said, the packet company also has a special insurance arrangement with the International Shoe Company for obtaining protec tion against loss of heavy shipments of leather to the Cape from St. Louis D. B. Smith, superintendent of the shoe factory, last night said that the value of the leather cargo was $35,000. Special insurance arrangements had been made for its protection, he said. According to Mr. Albert, the blanket policy carried by the packet company, will be applied to all remaining ship ments of freight on the boat and he declared he is confident that the packet company will be able to cover every dollar's worth on the vessel. Several merchants in Cape Girar deau who had expected to receive stocks from the vessel, yesterday were at a loss to know whether or not they were losers. Some of them purchased their stocks from St. Louis dealers un der terms whereby it became their property the moment that it reached the wharf boat in St. Louis. Other purchased under terms where by it became their property only on delivery in the Cape. A. R. Zoels mann, president of the Dempsey Gro cery Co., said that he had 40 cases of dried fruit valued at $1100 on board. The fruit was shipped under a pooling arrangement from California to St. Louis where it was handled by a broker. Advance payment was made on the fruit. He also had $50 worth of rice, $150 worth of peas on board and numerous other articles. C. W. Stehr yesterday declared that he does not know if a shipment of $400 worth of groceries he ordered in j who was in command of the vessel, had held off from the landing for several hours on account of the gale that was blowing. After midnight, however, the wind apparently had ceased blowing and he ordered the landing. The boat was drawing close ashore when the squall struck. Henry Wride, ship's carpenter, went below to endeavor to repair the hole in the hull. He remained too long and his life was endangered by inrushing water, so that it was necessary to let a rope down to him in order to get him out of the hold of the vessel Notice is hereby given to all credit ors and others, interested in the estate of Wm. Sailer and Co., deceased, that I, Herman Rabich, administrator de boni3 non of said estate intend to make final settlement thereof at the next term of the Cape Girardeal Court of Common Pleas of Cape Girardeau County, State of Missouri, to be held at Cape Girardeau on the 27th day of November, 1916. Herman Rabich, Administrator de bonis non. FINAL SETTLEMENT NOTICE Notice, is hereby given to all credit ors and others interested in the estate I T T-V-. 11 T. -1 i lUr.l T Members of the crew were ordered "1 u.u, to arouse the passengers, all of whom tiie undersigned, intend to make final were asleep in their staterooms at the settlement of the estate of said deceas t,nt of tht- msh. M.-mv won awal-pn- ed at the next term of the Probate ed by the crash as the vessel hit the Couu of CaPe Girardeau County, M nilimr. Thev were told thev were not ur. 10 De neld at JacKson. Missouri, in danger, "but were advised to be beginning on the 13 day of November. It required two hours for the vessel to sink. Some of the crew and pas sengers walked to fchester, six miles waya and various kinds of vehicles were drafted into service to get them into town. The crew of the steamer included from 35 to 50 or 60 persons. George Street and Tom Hines were pilots on board, Aler Fraley was first mate, and Fren con Grinigen was purser. Other positions that were filled on the vessel were that of roof watchman, four cabin clerks, one cabin watchman, two stew ards, two barkeepers, two mates, two engineers, two strokers, thirty negro roustabouts, ten cabin crew, two pan try men and three cooks. J. A. Reynolds, James H. Reynolds, Administrators. A REVELATION TO CANCER: SUFFERERS A new book on cancer has just been published by Dr. O. A. Johnson, Suite 520, 1320 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.. which shows how cancer has been treated bv a combination medical treatment and proven so efficient there is no longer any question or doubt about the treatment for most kinds of cancer if taken in time. Absolute proof of this treatment can now be verified by living witnesses who were treated three to fifteen years ago. The Str. Cape Girardeau was built Write tod-ay for a copy 0f the book. on the Ono River in 1892, and it or- It wiu be sent free for the asking. lgmally was constructed to operate m the Ohio Kiver trade under the name I GREEN FEED IN WINTER of Ariadne. Whv don't vour hens lav when ptcs I - "m J mf J C" Before it had been placed in service are high? They do not get the chem- on the Ohio, however, it was purchased ica! ingredients that the grasses and by the late Colonel T. J. Moss, who green feed supply in season. B. A. converted it into the New Idle Wild. Thomas Poultry Remedy supplies It was operated for two years under these very ingredients only in a more that name, and one the death of Col. concentrated form. We sell it and , - . Moss, the EagU Packet Co., purchased guarantee you to get eggs. it from the Moss estate. i F. F. BRAUN & BROS. 9