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G o TKibodaux Sentinel. VOL. 40. jQ Official Journal of the Parish of Lafourche Md Guardian of the Interest of the Town, THIBODAUX, LOUISIANA, SATUBBBÏ, SEPTEMBER 21. 1!»12. NO. 11. QUITE A DIF « oo r a I! The growth in lumber shipment from Riga, / totaling 97.400,000 cubic f. feet in 1910, ranks this port among the world's greatest timber exjporters. r^e greater-part of this trad*» waB in m sawed lumber. Britain took over half • rxi .th& Jiif nunt ornAfU/i . -M k '%** r ±j>Uh* Jsmted. . .. ' 7 L 1 - - L — 1 YOUNG WIFE SAVED FROM HOSPITAL o Tells How Sick She Was And What Saved Her From An Operation. & U pper Sandusky, OhioS* ' ' Three yeax*# ago I was married and went^to house keeping. j^was not feeling well and could hardly drag myself aloiïg. I had such tired feelings, my back ached, my sides ached, I had bladder trouble aw fully bad, and I could * not eat or sleep. Ihj^ headaches>»fcx), tira be «âme alnÄrat a ner vous wreck. My doc tor told me to gocto a^iospital.-oj did not like that idea ver^ßwell, so, when I saw your advertisementQn. li '-paner, I wrote to you for advice, anÜ have tSme as you told me. I have t*ket(üLydia E. Pmkham's Vegetable (Ssln pound and Liver Pilla, and new I have mjgkealth. " If sick and ailing women womd only know enough to take your medicine, they would get relief. "—Mrs. B ent SH. S tans bery. Route 6, Box 18, Upper Sandusky, Ohio. If you have mysterious pains, irregu larity, backache, extreme nervousness, inflammation, ulceration or displace ment, don't wait too long, but try Lydia E.° Pinkham's Vegetable Compound now. For thirty years Ifydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and such unquestionable testimony as the abo^.proves the value of this famous remeuy and should give every one confidence. ✓j Eczema from beyfesod Resinotoured him t> T OTJSDO, O.. May 10, Uuve completely c eezenm. I B^rered with it 1912,—"I cured my ewr since I was and I am now 47 years old. My arms and face wonld break out, and I was tortured with itching, especially In tbe Sjjrlnfr. fall and winter. On m Itch and crack, and more so o my skin would turn (jMfU d crack, and more so oiQfhy Ä wrists. They would split open and ? Mçffl. "I was in a hospital one day to see a friend who had skin disease, and I found thcr had cured him with Beslnol Ointment, and Dr. , one of tbe best in Chicago, recommended it for my eczema. I ■aed It with Reslnol Soap, and to my surprise they have completely cured me. My skin Is clear. (Signed) CitAH. J. S tbobel , 710 Na iloaal Union Building. Reslnol Soap àliil Ointment are inralo ah le hon se ho in rnraed les fors kin-troubles, holla, burns,* «founds, cbatings, pimples, etc. Nearly all drujrjrlsts gull Krslnol rtoap and Ointment <Wc), or they will be mailed npon receipt of price. neelnolOtipmlitlCo, _ UslUmore, UlQ r ES1!SOL I"-, A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. In thi s of n-^oarch and experiment, all natnr® ts ran«arJ4eti bj t h»* scientific fort he com fort and hap iwnt'S.Hol iniui. Hcjenee indeed madegiantBtridos in the past ce ttiw, and union# the—by no means least tioportan^4Lscnveri«'8 in medicine is that of Thera pion, which has been used with great success 111 Kreuch Hospitals and that it is worthy the attention uf those who hiitfer from kidney, bladder, nervous "dlseas»**,chronic weaknesses, nlcers.skin eyiptiomt, piles Ac., there is no doubt. In fact itseeui»evident from tho big stir created amongst specialists, that THERAPION is destined to cast Into oblivion all those uneHLiooable remedies that were formerly th£ sole reliance of raodioal m«n. It is of course imix ä iihJe to t.«ll sufferers all we should like to tell tm^m in U i!h snort article, but thos# who would like to know n»ore About this remedy that has effected so luanv - we might almost say, miraculous cures, should send addressed envelope for KKKK book to l»r. I^ Clerc Med. Co., llaverstock Hoad. ilarnftstead. l^ndoit. Kntf and decide f or. tinsel ves whether the dindon. Knj:. anddecido fortWuseK es w hether ti •u-w French Ucoiefjjf' 'TH E bW, PI ON' No. I. N«> ,r No. 8 is what th^require have been s«^kir In vain coring a 1 aiid uiih.r/fpin"ss. m«vll tl-ulX. I»\»ugera t"-*».. yu TAKE prv, suffering, 111 h«* Therapi«»n is sold by j. . ■ . 00 ^'»kuiao St.. $ i 's Pills The first dose ofîcn astonlshe^ tjui invthd, giving; ciasticitv of mind. buo> ..xk; of body, GOOD D!£FSftO\, rc'gulur bowels and solid tlcsh. Price 2 e rt rs • Richest la. Healing Qualities FOB a&CK^CHE, KIDNEYS RHEUMATISM, SLAODEH KIDNEYS Af>T BLAOULH FOLEY KIDNEY PiSLLS CSPEYE WATER XAtWtX JUUM IL-TUUHrüUN ln>» N V ) KO H MAL«:- - Aï A iir Graham. 17v a. < orch., etc.: 08 ricaIn ! — — - 9 1 A. IN TITUS i l'IcaBant ; 32 a. rull ; baiBB . i a or< r !i . 1 wll. u:ie.-|fif.- CK'AV IN* l : N < J O TËX., o 'ôéjd*;«-. .{13. v"v TEX.. NI:AI; MT . hous-'s, S out garti.>n, .£% : ; iox 319. Ohloiiß «--OR EYE?«. UISEASEH U-, MOL 'oTOft, NO. 38-1912. a, Who vas robhf'd or. -, train, in North Carolina a few weeks ago, is ( i NEWS OF ALL j WITH STOLEN GRIP. ' ; Girl Tell a Pitiful j ^RESTED ##. Old Lady and Jgjj Story. Shreveport.—The disappearance of a grip containing jewelry and clothes "worth about $400, property of Miss Madeline Biddell of Spartanburg, S. believed to have been solved here by the arrest of an aged blind woman and a 14-year-old girl, giving the tiames of Mrs. Mary Alcorn and Miss ^lary Dennis, which the police be lieve are assumed names. In their possession, as tjbey stepped from a train from Texas, was found the grip, ijfrith some of the missing articles and severaj^pawn tickets from Atlanta, MempfB" and other Southern cities. The old woman, aged 89, denied the accusation, but the girl, claiming to,' be her granddaughter, admitted to an officty|^>hat the grip was the one want ed, saying it was taken from a Pull man car because her grandmother ^tfded money. The name used by tw old woman is said to be that of a .prominent Mississippi lady who died '.wo years ago. As the Pullman car peoplJUfcid not want to prosecute, the woman and girl were not detained. They let the grip go without a scene, when pronged not to be held. They claimed tsHfce from Vicksburg. § , «Çhree Suspects Under Arrest. New OrleantJtyfThree men were ar rested ThursdrÇ night by special agents of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and are now held in the par ish prison, as possible accomplices of Howard E. Edwards in the holdup a week ago of the Louisville and Nash vhV New jfcrk Ifinited train near Micheaud, outside the city. Ef forts will be made to have them iden tified jÄangers who were seen near MiWeaoff a day or two before the robbery. After first giving fic titious names, they said they were Frjkk Bookcut,f(|j|\'alter Love and GeWge Berinstein. They told con flicting stories. Edwards continues to rally from the injuries received when he was captured", and his physicians say that he will be able to leave the hospital in two weeks. Ax Murder Cases. Crowley.—District Attorney Percy T. Ogden returned Saturday from Lafayette, where he has been prepar ing for the October terr.i of criminal court in Lafayette parish. Mr. Ogden states that the criminal docket this year is the heaviest that has been known for many years. Among other cases to be tried at this term of court will be the famous ax murder cases. Distrijfc. Attoi ney Ogden states that it is hiJ5mtention of disposing, finally, of these cases at this session. During the trials Dr./gttetz of New Orleans, city chemist, be present to prove the presence of blood stains on certain garments worn by those accused of the murders. The principal defendant iri the trials will be Clementine Barnabet, self-confessed murderess, whose con fessions have implicated many other negroes. Married at Father 's Bedside. Shreveport—Miss Peyton Croom and Mr. Howard Simcox, prominent young people of Meoringsport, this parish, were married Thursday night while standing beneath an improvised altar erected beside the deatii bed of the bride's father, Hon. W. H. B. Croom, for sixteen years a member of the general assembly, a banker and one of the wealthiest men of the northern paruof the parish. The date for the we^png had been set for September 17 and invitations had been sent to friends, but. owing to the wish of the father to see his daughter married the plans wei'iÄ|hanged, a minister was secured fr<^r Shreveport and the cere mony performed in the sick chamber. Good Road Contract Let. »eveport.—The Caddo police court warded to R. E. Shisler a con tract to build the first five-mile lap of the Harts Island permanent road, riiTining down Red river from Shreve port, at a cost of approximately $22, 000 One mile will be of macadam and the other four 01' gravel with which material twenty miles of permanent roads in other directions from Shreve p_j1 were begun recently. Offers to Buy Water Plant. Shreveport.—-The first move look ing to the ultimate municipal owner ship öl' the water and sewerage sys tfius of Shrert^ort was made by the • S> commissioners when they passbd a resolution offer.ag t :e local watei works company $607.655.96 for then giving them thirty days dant, a within which to Baptists End 1 tön Th pti: t chure ist H. T. me Mi» Revival. revival meeting at urels, conducted by Fvan Fred way ot tiie Baptist m Board, has closed ?) ere i church. Î bt nineteen additions to the ■rbeck High Opens. Monda;« morning the Iii h school opened for its k. There was a large at « (we lildren and parents at .01 FARMERS' CONGRESS DELEGATED Appointed by Governor Hall to the Farmers' National Congress. Baton Rouge.—Governor Hall lias appointed the following as delegates to the Farmers' National Congress, to be held in New Orleans, November 8: George K. Bradford, Rayne; C. S. MeFarland, Burnside; Walter God chaux, Napoleonville; Dr W. L). Haas, Bunkie; Phil Connell, Baton Rouge; Horace Wilkinson, Port Allen; O. M. Hollingsworth, Bienville; N. W. Sen tell, Collinsburg; Clarence Ellerbe, Shreveport; Jack Redhead, Lake Charles; N. M. Davis, Columbia; Rob ert T. McClendon, Lisbon; C. B. Bur ley, Monterey; John M. Rogers, Mans field; Yancy Bell, Lake Providence; Kenneth McKay, fethel; T. C. Gilbert, Plaquemine; W. E. Bush, Jonesboro; J. G. Lee, Jr., Lafayette; Jules God chaux, Raceland; J. D. Calhoun, Rus ton, R. F. D.; W. M. Scott, Tallulah; J. H. Oockerham, Luell^; Hy. L. Himel, Convent; C. T. Boagne, Ope lousas; l^eonce Durand, St. Martin ville; John Seal, Amite; John \Vur dock, Newellton; J. B. Minor, Houma; J. M. Hamilton, Downsville; J. Shaw Jones, West Monroe; Colonel T. S. Wilkinson, Myrtle Grove: Hy. Moun ger, Lettsworth; Jos. Siep, Alexan dria; Howard Stringfellow, Howard; C. M. Cook, Ray ville; H. M. Gaudy, Negretî; L. A. Blouin, Luling; Worthy Quereau, Gueydan; Birch Lee, Min den; A. F. Barrow, St. Francisville; Edw. Wisner, E. P. Brady, Emile Stier, John A. Kruse, M. S. Baker, I. B. Rennyson, Charles H. Willard, Meyer Eisman, E. S. Cavanaugh, Warren Reid, William A. Renton, M. B. Treze vant, A. M. i^ockett, A. B. Graves, Lynn Dinkiris, E. O. Wild, all of New Orleans; ('. J. McNié, Kent wood; James Foster, A. L. Arpin, Florence; Louis N. Bruggerhoff, Shreveport; M. L. Alexander, Alexandria. VINTON'S BIG OIL GUSHER. Two Young Men From Beaumont, Texas, Brought in a 5,000 Barrel Well. Lake Charles.—The best weil to be discovered in any of the Southern oil fields in the past eight years came to life at Vinton Thursday night. The well is making 5,000 barrels per day, and is the property of Wilson & Tuck er, two young men of Beaumont. The well is showing a slightly increased production and experienced oil men say that the production of the well may go considerably in excess of its present yield as the pipe clears. The wells adds no new territory field, as it is surrounded by other wells which are yielding less. In fact, it is the only gusher in the field, and its discovery has added much life to Vinton. Wilson and Tucker are both young men, who have been prospecting in the Vinton field for some time. This well is located on a one-acre tract which was secured from Dr A. L. Lyons. Tiie young men own other leases in the field and have two other wells drilling. Among the new companies recently organized who are sinking wells are the Big Ten, the Star, the Gum Cove, the Big Four and the Rescue. I i ! I j I I j I Tracing Kidnaped Child. Baton Rouge.—A new clew that may lead to some early developments in the mysterious disappearance of Rob ert Dunbar, Jr., of Opelousas, bas been found by Chief of Police Huyck and Constable Vince Moran, and is being worked out by C. P. Dunbar, the father of the child. Two weeks ago evidence was discov ered which led strongly to the belief that the child had been Laken by a negro woman in one of the swampers' camps near Swazie Lake, and had got ten off a Texas and Pacific train across the river. The woman and the white child were trailed to Baton Rouge, but there the clew was lost. Quiet work has been under way by the authorities, " and additional facts developed which warranted Chief of Police Huyck in telegraphing to C. P. Dunbar, the father of the child, who arrived in Baton Rouge Saturday. The clew is being followed out very care fully. Additional developments are ex pected in the next few days. Plantations Sold linder Hammer. Franklin.—Three of the finest sugar plantations in the sugar district went under the hammer by Sheriff Wilson T. Peterman Saturday. These planta tions are the South Bend, the Title Wave and the Ellerslie, property of the Bayou Sale Planting and Drain age Company. Owing to the bad sea son last year the company was un able to meet its mortgage indebted ness, and the plantations were seized by the sheriff in the suit of A. Hero vs. Bayou Sale Planting and Drainage Company. At the sale Saturday A. j scro, plaintiff in the above suit, bid f he property in at the low price of $125,000, about one third of its value, I'h'ese places are situated on lower Bayou Sale, and formerly belonged to the late John R. Todd, a wealthy sugar planter of this parish. Public School Opened. Plaquemine. — The public schools hrougbout the parish were opened Monday for the 1012-13 session with in increased attendance. The new sigh school in the town opened with ;u pupils. Rustin Sanitarium Is Opened. Ruston.—The Ruston sanitarium, which dosed its doors some time ago, has been reopened. .Mrs. Laura Cole man. a trained nurse oi wide experi ence, is in charge. m State Is Âwak of Better Roa Be Cons ng to Need -Many to cted. SYSTEM STATE HAS Bad Roads, Aut Highway Depa Credit for es and State I Are Given Ihterest. Western V f#ÜW Ing to the needs of g#pd roads and many miles of them will be built this year. The awakening is due b the public being aroused by the recent bad weather, when many of tie most im portant roads were impassable, some times for weeks, thereby causing great loss to the farmers. Some cane grow ers last year lost parts of their crops on account of being unable to trans port the cane to the mill. The highway department of the state has been very active in urging upon the different parishes the neces sity of better roads. The automobile also came in for a share of the credit for the building and improving of tiie roads. This is caused by so many tourists who travel over the slate in their machines and preac^the gospel of better roads. Many parishes in the state have made appropriations, or are planning to, for the building of many miles of good roads this coming year. Appli cation has been made to the state in many cases for aid and the state has responded whenever possible. This aid is generally in the form of convict labor and the following will show the work accomplished witli this aid: Natchitoches has completed 42 miles of improved dirt road, Desoto 52 miles of sand-clay, Ouachita 17 miles of earth and gravel, Rapides 3 miles of earth. East Baton Rouge 22 miles of earth, Orleans 15 miles of earth, St. John the Baptist 4 miles of earth, making a total of 158 miles of good roads constructed with convict labor. Contracts by the highway depart ment from February 1, 1911, to Aug ust 20, 1912. Parish. M ioto Plaquemines Grant. St. Bernard . East Carroll Franklin .. . Iberia .. Grant , 33.00 12.87 3.00 38.00 12.00 9.50 33.00 119,681.25 24,665.30 12,167.50 24,925.00 12,305.00 52,413.00 79.2S1.25 Total 191.55 $410,396.30 Prior to 1911 the^e was no state highway fund, but state aid in the form of free use of state convicts un 1er the direction cjf the Board o" State Engineers by several of the parishes was inaugurated as early as 1909, and it was this work which served as a practical demonstration of what real highway improvement meant and what intelligent engineer ing provision could accomplish as com pared to the old system of dividing the road funds among the several wards of each parish to be expended by parties who had no idea of what highway engineering meant, and who frittered the money away in an en deavor to keep up the eternal patch work system of the past. In 1910 the legislature passed a law creating a state highway depart ment with an appropriation of $100, 000 per annum net The new depart ment was placed under the supervis ion of the board of engineers. With this new department and the funds ap propriated, Louisiana has made a wonderful stride in the matter of building good roads. The recent tax commision recommended to the legis lature that the sum of $250,000 per annum be set aside for the purpose of good roads. While Louisiana has always been behind in road building, the new spirit of progress will soon carry the state into the vanguard of the good road ßtätBS Appointments Are Secured j Lafayette. President E. !.. Ste fhens, of the industrial institute, ap peared before the police jury of Aca dia parish, sitting at Crowley, and ob tained the appointment of beneficiary Pension Boird at Work. Baton Rouge—fhe State Pension Board at its quarterly meeting began its examination of the pension appli cations that have been filed since tîi-? last meeting of the board. The board will increase the number of pension ers to tho limit of the appropriation from the state. students to the institute, a young man and a young woman, with an appro priation of $300 to cover expenses. Officers to Serve Without Salary. Donaldsonville—A meeting of the council at which the finance commit tee submitted its report, presenting the budget for 1913. Under the terms o: the budget, the mayor, aldermen and treasurer will serve without sal ary. The salary of the secretary is reduced 50 per cent, and one scaven ger and two policemen will be dis pensed with. The sum of $2,000 was set aside for the use of the commis sion having control of the municipal power plant. INVESTIGATING CONDITIONS Appeals for Aid Still Coming in From Overflow District. Western Newspaper Union News SerTlM. Baton Rouge.—B. W T . Hewett, repre senting the central relief committee, began his tour of the overflow district for the purpose of making an investi gation of the appeals for assistance that are still coming into the relief committee, with the idea of determin ing which of these appeals are worthy of consideration by the committee. This trip was taken at the sug gestion of the American Red Cross Society, whose agent made a tour of the overflow district, and recommend ed that the local relief committee tye «lope aWRv witfe that relief he sent by the central committee direct to the individuals, but only after a personal investigation. Mr. Kewett was selected as the rep resentative of the relief committee to make the investigation, and began his tour of the district. He will visit the southern portion of the overflow territory in Ascension and Iberville before going to Concordia and Cata houla parishes, where the most se rious conditions exist. NEW GUSHER BROUGHT IN Young Men Have Biggest Well Found in Southern Field. Western Newspaper Union News Servie«. Lake Charles.—The best well to be discovered on any of the Southern oil fields in the past eight years came to life at Vinton. The well is making 5,000 barrels per day, and is the property of Wilson & Tucker, two young men of Beaumont. The well is showing a slightly increased P^c l'on and experienced oil men say that the production of the well may go considerably in excess of the its près ent yield as the pipe clears. The well adds new territory to the field as it is surrounded by other wells wh.cn are yielding less. In fact, it is the only gusher in the field, and its dis covery has added much life to Vinton. Posse Looks for Negro. Shreveport. — Posses have been scouring the country in Bossier par ish for three negro prisoners who as saulted and seriously injured Deputy Sheriff Edwards in the Benton jail and escaped. The prisoners are still at large. Edwards is in a critical condition. Business is practically Benton, almost every man in the town being engaged in the man hunt. New Postoffice Appointments. Washington.—James R. King has been appointed postmaster at Bee Bayou, La., a new postoffice, and Francis M. Vernon was appointed at Chesbrough, La., another new post- ! office. Louisiana postmasters have ; been commissioned as follows: James W. Fussell, Pine Cliff; Arrol Ash bridge, Sherman; Moses P. Hale, Till man. Call Has Not Been Issued. Baton Rouge.—While the call tot the conference to be held in Alexan dria to discuss tax amendments was 1 not issued on the day expected by Governor Hall, it is understood that September 21 is the date set by the j governor for the conference to be ! held in Alexandria, at which time a j vigorous campaign in defense of the j proposed reform assessment and taxation amendments will be planned. District Will Soon Be Dry. Lockport. — The waters from the crevasse have almost receded from farms 15 miles from this place, and within a week's time district eleven will be dry and ready for work. One j fact in favor of health conditions is that several families from the North i remained on Delta farms during tho : recent high water and while the j water was receding, and there was not j single case of illness. Meeting Called for Insurance Men. Alexandria.—The local insurance agents of the state have been called to meet in convention in this city on September 23 and 24 for the purpose of reorganizing the State Insurance Association. J. W. Alexander, who is the first vice president of the Nation al Association and who resides here, is making arrangements for the en tertainment of the association. Plantations Under Hammer. Franklin.—Three of the finest su gar plantations in the sugar district went under the hammer by Sheriff W. T. Peterman recently. These planta tions are the South Bend, the Title Wave and the Ellerslie, property of the Bayo.i Sale Planting and Drain age Company. Owing to the bad sea son last year the company was una ble to meet ire. mortgaged indebted ness, and the plantations were seized by the sheriff Will Df i 1 1 Well. Shreveport.—A contract was sward ed to Brown Brothers to drill a 6-inch gas well at the state fair grounds, primarily to illuminate the grounds. The contract price was $3,700. Recall Eelection Ordered. Shreveport.—An election for Octo ber 7 on the proposed recall of Mayor Eastman and Commissioner Rives and Fullilove was ordered. Candidates niav file applications up to eight days } before the election. 1 AS II NATIONAL, STATE, FOREIGN, OF INTEREST TO READERS. THE WHOLE WEEK'S NEWS Short Mentioning of Interesting Hap penings From Day to Day Throughout the World. STATE AND DOMESTIC NEW8, Al G. Boyce, Jr., was shot and in stantly killed Saturday at Amarillo, Texas, three charges from an auto matic shotgun having entered his body. the" offiue*» « ing over two automatic pistols' and tbe automatic shotgun with which the Bhooting was done. The worst storm experienced since the memorable hurricane of Septem ber, 1906, swept Pensacola's water front Saturday night, doing thousands of dollars damage to the shipping in terests. Booker T. Washington, the apostle of industrial education and the fore most negro in America, was greeted by thousands of his people Saturday night at the auditorium in Houston. Frank Merrick, a prominent news paper man and managing editor of the Guthrie (Okla.) Leader, was lured to a sparsely settled portion of Guth rie Saturday by a telephone call and on his arrival at the rendezvous was shot and almost instantly killed by an unknown party, who escaped. Aviator Howard W. Gill of Balti more, Md., was fatally hurt on the Cicero aviation field at Chicago Sat urday, dying later, while George Mestach of France, whose monoplane G m's'biplane whën"the'y ^ participating in a race seV enty f . ye fegt in the air was injuredi as men an( j machines fell w the earth in the dark Panama canal is to be opened tQ trafflc jn the f&n Qf m3 TMs statement was made officially at the navy department in Washington Satur day with an annoimC ement that the Atlantic fleet would be rendezvoused at Colon this winter before the water is turned in. Western Champion Charles Evans, Jr., of the Edgewater Club Saturday at Chicago won permanent possession of the Mayflower golf cup, given by the ontwentsia Golf Club, by defeating Paul Hunter of Midlothian in the finals. William D. Haywood of Denver, gen eral organizer of the Industrial Work ers of the World, was arrested in Bos ton, Mass., Sunday on a capias war rant issued as the result of an indict ment by the Essex County grand jury charging him with conspiracy in con nection with the strike of textile work ers in Lawrence last winter. He was released on $1,000 bond. pjve naval apprentices were drown ed and five are missing as a result D f the capsizing of a cutter from the United States naval training station at North Chicago, 111. The known drowned are R. C. Harlan, 1. L. South worth, J. Wallace, J. A. Patton and W. N. Autrobus. Sidna Allen, leader of the Allen clan, which shot up the Carroll County court house at Hillsville, Va., March 14, killing Judge Massie and others, and his nephew, Wesley Edwards, were captured Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa. Both have announced their willingness to return to Virginia with out requisition. which originated in the condensers j *t an early hour Saturday tnoruia*. i Advices to army officials at El Paso from Marfa, Texas, report the cap ture by Captain Thomas F. Mitchell of Pascual Orozco, Sr., a colonel in the revolutionary army. The plant of the Texas City Cotton Seed Company, located at the indus trial site at Texas City, was entirely destroyed by fire Saturday, entailing a loss of between $30,000 and $40,000. President Taft has given President Madero thirty days in which to pro tect American property and lives in Mexico. If Madero fails to do this, the United States will require that he immediately resign, If Madero should refuse to resign, intervention will speedily follow. This statement was made Saturday by a high official ol the department of state to Juan Pedro Didapp. representative of the Mexican revolution in Washington. The conference between the South western railways and representatives of the conductors and trainmen over the question of an increase in wages was brought to a close Friday at Washington, D. C., by the railroads agreeing to submit the matter to me diation under the Erdman act. Ef forts by the railroads to have the mat ter arbitrated met with refusal by the employes. Charles F. Neill, United States commissioner of labor, and Judge Martin A. Knapp of the United States commerce court, will be the mediators. Victor Allen, last of the Allen clans men to be tried, was acquitted Friday of the charge of having participated in the Carroll County court murders at Hillsville, Va., last March. William H. Lewis, the negro assist ant attorney general of the United States whose recent admission to the American Bar Association provoked a great row, declared in a political speech at Newark, N. J., Friday that Attorney General Wickersham's noted fight against his expulsion from the bar association had been conducted with the advice and consent of Presi dent Taft. Tbe Gonzales County Farmers Unioc Gin and Mill Company suffered a loss! of several hundred dollars by a fire j FOREIGN BELIEFS ARE QUEER Spanish Wedding Is Ruined If One Person Appears Entirely in Black —Some Other Signs. In Spain the wedding is spoiled if one of the guests appears entirely iu black, or if the bride looks into a. mirror after orange blossoms and veil are fastened in her headdress. When a person's hair ends split, it's taken by the superstitious for a sign that she is either a witch or has been bewitched. As blond hair splits more readily than dark hair, all witches, spirits and sorceresses have blond or red hair, according to popular belief. Likewise, according to the standard of art, i. •*e { the groom and f c ountries as to who shall blow out the candle, for the person who does will be "first to die." It is impossible to trace the origin of this superstition, yet it prevails in aristocratic society as well as in the peasant's hut, even, as like this, that "to insure the life and health of the children" the wom an must occupy the right side of the bed. In addition, she must not smoke before her forty-fifth year. There is a superstition in this coun try and many others against burning a broom. The bud of birch broom is used in southern Germany as a pre ventive against erysipelas. These buds, a piece of yellow wax and soma other articles are inclosed in a pink, silk bag. secured with red silk and worn on the back of the neck. The person must change his shirt every Friday. CRUST COVERED BABY'S HEAD 532 Brunswick St., Baltimore, Md.—■ "My baby's face broke out in pimples, which after bathing would weep and. form scabs until his head and face were completely covered with a crust and his hair all fell out. It was crosa and would not sleep. Each day it spread until his entire face and head were covered with weeping sores. I tried several prescriptions, but did not find any relief. Then I decided to try; Cuticura Soap and Ointment. "After using them two or three tim es the sores dried up and after a half dozen applications all disfigure ment disappeared. In less than three weeks the sores and scales were com pletely gone, and baby's skin as smooth and clear as when he was first born. Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured him." (Signed) Mrs. Lottie V. Steinwedel, Jan. 14, 1912. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Add. post card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston." Adv. "THE ETHIOPIAN RACE." ens □ ■Hit»*!* r .>/ Improved Vacuum Cleaner. A new vacuum cleaner, designed to be operated by water power in a sink or bathtub, consists of two suc tion pumps driven by a water wheel, and a chamber in which the dust Is collected, to be washed away by the waste water. At Take tho Old CIUUL TONIC. ua know what roa are taking. form, and the most effectual form. Kor tfrown people and children, SO cento. Adv. The world is full of the sort of friends who take to the woods when trouble shows up. Mrs. WlnBlow 's Soothing Syrup for Children teething, »often» the (puna, reduce« inflamma tion, alU}s pain, cures wind eolle. Sc • bottle. Ad*. Babies and grievances grow larger with nursing. \ C <* ❖ £ Some of the best physicians prescribe OXIDINE in cases of malaria They can doBoethically, for Oxidlne inafctiot^n remedy with a known result. In cases of oittier incipient qrc!ironicra>;faria.Uxidine effects definite benefit and almost instant relief. Take i t as a preventive, a* well aaa remedy. It is a great tonic. OXfDINE i noMhval I drug gists under the strict guaran tee thatif the f i rst bo tt le doe% not benefit you, return the empty bottle to the druggist who sold i » arid receive the I full purchase pricc.