Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 20, Jasper, Dubois County, 6 March 1914 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DOANE, Publisher.

JASPER g INDIANA By1 the way. what has become of the poison needle squad? It sometimes takes a mighty sharp tongue to get in a word edgewise. Give a good talker a plausible theory and he cares nothing about facts. Beats the band how many relatives pring up at the death of a mi'iionaire. The man who thinks twice be'ore he s; i aks is generally the man of few words. It's all right to take time by the fore- ! lock, but don't try to snatch him baldheaded. Grafting the skin of an egg on to the human frame is a feat worth crowing- over. If you have any of those new suspicious looking nickels and don't like ihem we will take them. J "How cold Is ice?" asks an eastern paper. That depends whether it Is down one's back or in a glas. The people who are always finding fault migrht better occupy their time looking for a needle in a haystack. The secret cf success lies in the fact that any fool can catch on, but It takes a wise man to know when ic let go. "How much should a boy spend in college? If you want the best results. All he can earn while going through. A man might become famous bv writing a great poem, but a more sure way is to blow a safe or murder somebody. A Parisian gentleman who was fooled Into a flirtation with his own wife will never be able to trust her hereafter. .ve ca l see a quicK ana painiess finish for that new dance, "the inno- ! 1 1 ( vation." The dancers do not even touch each other. A girl who married at the age of fifteen because all her friends were doing it, is now asking for a divorce. Same reason as before? If men really do adopt those r w spring styles we fail tj see how f ey will have the nerve to criticise women and her dress any more. Some people are philosophical and take the weather as it comes, with a smile on their lips; others accept It with ridges in their brow. What has become of the old-fashioned man who used to pray for sustaining grae and then go oi and beat his brother in a horse trade? Now it has been discovered that members of a certain Kskimo tribe have an extra joint In their waists. The tango ought to do well there. Reports of stolen radium instead of stolen diamonds are likely to give to the hospitals of the future much of the free advertising that now goes to the stage. The man who met with a motor mishap while returning home from a hospital nn here he had spent six weeks can well class himself as a child of misfortune. New York physician declares baring the body to sunlight will prevent cancer. Perhaps we have all this time cruelly wronged the recent fashions in woman's apparel. A Frenchman has invented a ma- ( chir.e that can be propelled by hot air. What a boon this will be to the politicians, who can get about at aJ most no expense! The life of a Chicago man was saved when a bullet struck a gold coin , in his pocket. One should never venIVI out these days without a gold coin or two about him. A bride who was wedded on a mountain prak two rears ago now wants her marriage dissolved It did not take this romance long to come down from the clouds. Sleep is an illusion." says Gabriele d Annunzio, whoever he is. And maybe it is; but getting up in the morning Is oue of the sternest bits of realism that is encountered during & whole day. The cranberry merchant, famed for years as about the most busy man on earth, has still more duties now. He Las to look for "false blossoms," according to latest adi cat from the cranberry belt It will soon be time to start a safe and sane tango movement. A New Yorker has broken a leg tangoing and a St. Ixuis outh dropped cad after a performance. The casualty statisticians can no begin another column. At the present rate of increase. Ir J. M. 'attreli nays there will be no babies after 192.". ( an you imagine a world viitbout babies? Why, all the manufacturers of toys and oaby things would have to go out of business or equip their plants fm the manufacture of dug collara.

WILSON

IN PRESIDENT INSISTS THE OBJECT 80UGHT IN MEXICO MAY BE HAD WITHOUT BLOODSHED. VILLA BOWS TO CARRANZA In Supporting Block to Benton Inquiry Says Bauch, the American. May Be Dead Bryan Demands Slayers of Vergara Be Punished. Washington. March 3. That General Villa lias acknowledged the authority of Cleneral Carranza as his Chief and will not permit the American commission to examine the body William S. Henton until the Washington government has consulted Carranza was the explanation made by President Wilson of the. latest phase of the Mexican situation. The president told callers that the desire of the commissioners to get further instructions from Washington as well as orders from General Villa necessitated a postponement, but Mr. Wilson takes it for granted that the commissioners will start in a rewrites. Able to Wait. Says Wilson. Asked whether in view of the new developments, a change of policy was intended by the I'nited States immediately, the president pointed out that a country of the size and power of the United States could afford to wait just as long as it pleased; that nobody doubted its power and nobody doubted that Huerta eventually was to retire; that there need be no hesitation in forming the judgment that what the United States wished to accomplish in Mexico would be accomplished, but that those who were in haste to have things done were forgetting that they would have to do them themselves; that they would have to contribute brothers and sons and sweethearts to do it if they wished something done right away. If they were willing to wait, the president indicated, such a step might not be necessaryThe president was referring, it was presumed, to speeches in congress demanding radical action of some kind or armed intervention, which he seemed to deplore. Demands Slayer- Be Punished. Washington, Feb. 28 Secretary' Bryan announced that a demand for the punishment of those responsible for the killing of demente Vergara. an American citizen, had been sent by the United States to the Huerta government. That the American government regards the hanging of demente Vergara. an American citizen, near Hidalgo, Mexico, as a subject for reparation by the Huerta Rovemment became known here after the cabinet meeting. The cabinet discussed practically, nothing except Mexican affairs, dispatches being read from Consul Letcher saying General Villa would give permission for a complete medical examination of the body of William S. Henton. British subject, at Chihuahua. Punishment to Be Demanded. While toe Henton incident was discussed in detail, members of the cab inet were concerned especially over the hanging of Vergara. That act, they believed, had shocked the American people and should not go unpunished. So far as could be learned, the cabinet was not inclined to condone the killing of Henton, but in discussing responsibility for the act some members were inclined to think Henton was indiscreet in going into the camp of a military commander with whom he was not on friendly terms and entering into an argument with him. Final judgment was not reached as to the merits of the Henton case, but it was apparent vigorous step to procure the body for his widow would be continued. Assails "Policy" in the House. Representative Mondell, Republican, of Wyoming, in a vigorous attack on the Mexican policy in the houLe. predicted that if the constitutionalists overthrew Huerta there would follow a "reign of rapine, plunder and murder" that would Spread all over Mexico. In a speech attacking the pension policy of the government Representative Dies, Democrat, of Texas, warned against Mexican intervention. Representative AIne resolution calling upon President V lson for information regarding the safety of foreigners in Mexico was considered without action by the house foreign affairs committee. Representative Alney told nie committee that danger to foreigners threatened to involve the United States in international complications "because of the lack of a definite policy in Mexico " Huerta Puts Guard at Legation. City of Mexico, March 2 President Huerta insisted on furnishing a spe cia! police guard for the American embassy. He told Charge O'Shaughnessy there might be justification for the presence of guard and as he deplored the bringing of marines to the capital he would provide a sublegation guard. Six policemen appeared at the American club, the rT.son given being that som-:hini: -n i .isaut may occur, and the government is disposed to use every means available to protect forigners." It was reported agitators had planned an anti-American demonstration. A mass meeting of British sub: I sent an appeal to the Hntish foreigu secretary to assume full charge of

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GEN. CARRANZA

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Gen. Venustiano Carranza, commander-in-chief of the constitutionalists in Mexico, who questions the right of the United States to demand an investigation of the Benton case. the Benton Investigation as one step to insure the protection of Britons in Mexico. Carranza Defies U. S. Xogales, Sonora, March 2. General Carranza declined to furnish information to the state department at Washington regarding the killing at Juarez of William S. Benton, a British subJect, At the same time he assured Seen tary Bryan that he would investigate the disappearance of Gustav Bauch, an American citizen. The attitude of the revolutionary leader was that the death of Benton should be taken up through the diplomatic channels of his own country, Great Britain, and not by the United States. Carranza. announced his position in two notes addressed in repsonse to Mr. Bryan's requests for information to Consul Frederick Si in pich. The notes were delivered by Ysidro Fa bela, Carranza s "acting secretary of foreign relations." MRS. EDWARDS IS PARDONED AFTER 13 YEARS BY TENER Was Convicted of Killing Her Husband Exonerated Negro Charged With Crime. Beading, Pa.. Feb. 28. -Mrs. Kate Edwards, who has been in the shadow of the gallows for nearly 13 years, for the killing of her husband, was released from the Berks county jail here, under a pardon granted by Governor Tener and secretly taken from the city to begin life over again. She was convicted of fint degree murder in 1901, and sentenced to be hanged, but foer governors declined to fix a day for her execution. Mrs. Edwards' case was several times taken to the board of pardons, but commutation of sentence was always refused. Last month, however, the board recommended that she be pardoned, provided she would not be made a victim of further notoriety. Mrs. Kd wards was convicted of the murder with a negro, who was employed with her husband, in a quarry near her home. The husband was found dead with hie head battered in. A short time after her arrest Mrs. Edwards gave birth to a negro child. The woman later confessed that the negro was innocent of the crime and he was granted a new trial and acquitted. Mrs. Edwards has five children, who are livfng in different parts of the country. QUIZ FAR UNDER GROUND Congressmen Investigating Copper Strike in Michigan Go 1.800 Feet Down. Hancock. Mich., Feb. 28.-The congressmen investigating the mine strike entered the No. 1 5 shaft of the amygdaloid branch of the Calumet & Hecla Mining company. John Knox, general superintendent of the company Fred James a mine inspector of Houghton county. Herbert Laux, a representative of the strikers, and two newspaper men accompanied the investigators. Inspections were made in the ninth, tenth, seventeenth and eighteenth levels, each level being approximately 100 feet blow the preceding. To test the severity of the labor required of workers each of the congressmen, with the exception of Representative Switzer. tried his muscles by shoveling rock into tram cars. UPHOLD PARCEL POST CHIEF; Amendments to Post Off.ce Bill to Strip Burleson of Power to Lower Rates Killed. Washington. Feb. 28. Amendments to the post office bill to strip the postmaster general of power to lower rates and alter regulations of the parcel post, were thrown out by the senate 33 to 24. Dies Trying to Save Daughters. Sikane. March 2. Mrs Stella Maries, a widow, lost her life when she attempted unsuccessfully to saw the lives of her two daughters. Helen, four, and Cale. seven years old. when her Lome burned. The three were killed. Her two sons escaped by Jumping from a window.

GALE STOPS TRAFFIC TRAINS ARE LOST IN SNOW STORM, LINERS CANNOT ENTER OR LEAVE PORT. 15 PERSONS LOSE LIVES

Eastern Blizzard Worst in Quarter of Century Scores of People Injured Milk Famine Threatened New York Isolated by Terrific Storm. New York, March 3 Fifteen persons are dead, scores have been injured and hundreds are in peril on land and sea in a blizzard, which has been sweeping the Atlantic seaboard for 24 hours. Business in this city is paralyzed. Fourteen inches of snow has fallen. Rail traffic is at a standstill and wire communication is badly crippled. City Completely isolated. Dawn found this city isolated. Telegraph and telephone service was badly crippled, many wires going down in the wind and snow. Scores of trains bearing commuters into the city were blockaded. Street car and elevated traffic was seriously impaired. Hundreds of miles of city streets were absolutely impossible. Six Vessels Wrecked in Gale. Six vessels were reported to have been wrecked in the gale off the NewEngland coast. Train service on the Pennsylvania was halted entirely. The Congressional limited, one of the crack trains on the Pennsylvania, bound from Washington to this city, stuck in a snow drift outside of Trenton. At the Pennsylvania station it was announced that all outgoing traffic had been stopped until further notice. The New York Central, the Erie, 1 the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Delaware & Hudson and the Lackawanna all experienced similar difficulties. Four New York Central trains were reported lost between this city and Albany. Some of the railway lines trains crawled along at the rate of ten miles an hour, the passengers rejoicing at even this speed. The monetary loss from the storm will be enormous. Nineteen Steamers Held at Sea. With 19 steamers, nine of them big ocean liners, held at sea by the worst gale since that of 1SS7, fears are felt here that some of the vessels may meet with disaster. For the first time in its history the local weather bureau notified the steamship companies that no vessels should be allowed to leave port. The stoppage of railroad traffic threatened a milk famine as trains i bearing the city's milk supply were unable to enter this morning. The fire alarm system was partially out of commission and it was estimated that .r0 per cent of the fire alarm boxes were effected by the storm. Thirty-Two Men Are Facing Death. New York. March 3. Thirty-two men are hopelessly facing death on eight steel barges anchored in a 50mile gale off Fire island. On shore life savers are watching the imperiled vessels but unable to launch a rescuing boat in the mountainous seas, as the wind is blowing directly toward the dangerous coast. Each of the barges is loaded with 2.000 tons of coal and stands only two feet out of water. Hig waves are sweeping over them and they may sink at any moment. Five Dead in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, March 3. Five persons lost their lives in the terrific blizzard which struck this city. Snow was still falling at noon, being piled Into high drifts by a high wind. Steam and electric traffic was at a standstill and wire communication was badly crippled. Trains arriving here from the west on the Pennsylvania railroad were many hours late, the snowfall being exceptionally heavy in the allegheny mountains. Wreckage on the tracks of theReading held up traffic on that line. The thermometer was 16 degrees above zero. Vice-President Marshall Snowbound. New Brunswick, N. J., March 3. Vice-President Marshall was a passenger on a Pennsylvania railroad train which was stalled by the snow near the local station about midnight and was still there early in the afternoon. The train was bound from New York to Philadelphia. The west-bound track of the Pennsylvania here is blocked by fallen wires and poles. Blizzard Hits Cleveland. Cleveland, 0 . March Z Cleveland was staggered by another blizzard by which traffic was greatly delayed and which caused suffering among the j poorer classes. MURDER DEFENDANT IS SLAIN Wesley Simon Placed on Trial Ch-irged With Slayiog Emme Carroll Assassinated in St. Louis. St. Louis. March 3. Wesley i Ked") Simou. placed on trial here for the murder of Emraett Carroll, was shot to death as he went to lunch at noon, guarded by several officials. It is u norted that he was killed by gangsters. Seney Zang. twenty-eight, gave himself up at Centra1 police headquarters and confessed he had kiiled Simon. Sweden Ratifies Treaty. Copenhagen, Feb 2S The arbitra- ' tion treat witk the I nited States was 1 j ratified by the lower bouse of parllai meat.

MISS KATHLEEN GLADSTONE

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Miss Kathleen Gladstone of Hertfordshire, England, and a relative of the "Grand Old Man" of Great Britain, Is visiting Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Moreton F. Gage in Washington. Lieutenant Colonel Gage is military attache of the British embassy. BORAH URGES PERKINS TO TO MAKE ' RESTITUTION-' Senator Attacks Progressive Following Receipt of Letter Accused as Trust Aid. Washington, March 2.- Senator William K. fiorah of Idaho' turned on his assailants at Columbus, criticising especially former Senator Heveridge and George S. Perkins. Mr. Perkins respited the reference to himself and wrote a letter to Senator Borah which the senator read in the newspapers. In a caustic reply Senator Borah pays his compliments to Mr. Perkins and what he conceives to be the latter's attitude toward monopoly. Incidentally Senator Borah refers to Mr. Perkins' connection with the International Harvester company, which he denounces ae ' The most unconscionable and shameless monopoly" and which he suggests Mr. Perkins organized, and says it "was intended to and did sufficiently control this industry and dominate it, and out of which you took, ae 1 am informed between $5,000,000 and $7,000,000." Mr. Perkins' letter was a disclaimer that he was defending monopoly. On this ioint ihe senator passes out the following to the Bull Moose leader: ' If you did take out that amount, who paid it? Ultimately, the farmers of this country. And how were you able to make them pay you between $."..000,000 and $7,000,000 for what you did? Simply through the power of a ( niel and brutal monopoly." Senator Borah described another monoK)listic characteristic of the harvester trust as "the inhuman way in which it worked and treated its employes." Senator Borah th n reviews the history of the organization of the steel trust and reminds Mr. Perkins of his connection with that organization through the firm of .7. P. Morgan & Co., which, according to Senator Borau, took $f2,000,000 out as profits for devising a plan by which compeM tion was destroyed. The senator also identifies Mr. Perkins with the organization of the New York. New Haven & Hartford system to dominate the transportation of New England. ASK CENTRAL POWER IN IOWA Efficiency Engineers Want Governor as Head Would Have Judges Appointed by Chief Justice. Des Moines, Ja.. March 2. The governor of Iowa will become the actual head of every department of the executive branch of the stato 'government, while every judge in the state will be appointed by the chief justice of the supreme court, if the plans of the efficiency engineers of the last legislature are carried out, it was announced The report of the engineers is in the hands of the legislative com mittee on retrenchment and reform The basis of the recommendations is centralization of power and responsibility. One-man control in the executive and judicial branches of government is a part, of the changes proposed. It Is said the proposed system provides that the governor shall be elected and that r?e shall appoint the directors general of departments of agriculture, commerce, industry, public works, public he&ith, education and charities and corrections, and that the governor himself shall be the head of the department of public safety. U. S. EXPRESS FIRM TO QUIT? Rumored in New York That Company Has Been Hit Severely by the Parcel Pert. New York. March 3. Because of the tremendous inroads made on Its business by the parcel post, the United Stat s Express company was rumored to be preparing to liquidate and go out of business. The report was beard everywhere in the financial d is trit t and was given general credence on the New York Stock Exchange rording to the rumor the company is considering amalgamating with another company.

WHAT AN OHIOAN HAS TO SAY ABOUT CONDITION! IN WESTERN CANADA.

W. E. Lewis formerly lived near Dayton, Ohio. He went to Saskatchewan seven years ago with $l.0u in money, a carload of household effects and farm implements, including four horses and three cows. Of course, the first year be only got feed from the crops, but (he second year had 100 acres in wheat which made over LV u bushels. lie has not had a failure in 'crop, and at present has 22 head of horses, 15 head of cattle and SI hogs, and owns 1.120 acres of land, all under cultivation. He has been offered $35 an acre for his land, and should he care to dispose of his holdings he could pay all his debts and have föu 000 to the good; but, as 1 ?ays, Where could I go to invent my money and get as good returns." He continues in his let'er to the imni:graL.ua department, August, 1912: "Ye have equally is good if not better prospects for crops this year as we had three years ago, when our wheat ranged from 30 to 48 bushels per acre. I never believed such crops could be raised until I saw them myself. I had !" acres that year that made 50 bushels to the acre Our harvest will be ready by the 12th. We have this season in crop 400 acres of wheat. 125 of oats. 90 of flax and run three binders with four men to do the stookinz. We certainly like this country and the winters, although the winters are ccld at times, but we do not suffer as one would think. What we have accomplished here can be duplicated in almost any of the new districts." Advertisement. Malicious Story. A publisher's reader told at the Player's club in New York a malicious story about Mrs. Florence 1'arclay. author of "The Rosary." "Mrs. Harclaj; was working in her garden,' he said, ' and fell into talk with an old chap with a grass hook, who had been hired to cut the grass. "The talk turned to books, and Mrs. Barclay said: " And have you read 'The Rosary'0" " 'Well, ma'am,' said the old gardener, scratching his head with his grass hook, 'I ain't exactly what you might call read it, but I've tried to. ma'am.' " ERUPTION ON ANKLE BURNED Kingsville, Mo. "My trouble began eighteen years ago. Nearly half of the time there were running sores around my ankle; sometimes it would j be two years at a time before they i were healed. There were many nights I did not sleep because of the groat suffering. The sores were deep running ones and so sore that I could not bear for anything to touch them. They would burn all the time and sting like a lot of bees were confined around my ankle. I could nov. bear to scratch it, it was always so sensitive to the touch. I could not let my clothes touch it. The skin was v r red. I made what I called a cap out of white feH, blotting paper and soft white cloth to hold it in shape. This I wore night and day. "I tried many remedies for most of the eighteen years with no effect. Last summer I sent for some C'ut.cura Soap and Ointment. The very first time I used Cuticura Soap and O ment I gained relief; they relieved the pain right then. It was three moc'hs from the time I commenced using Cuticura Soap and Ointment ur.Ul the sores were entirely healed. I have not been troubled since and my ankle seems perfectly well." (Signed Mrs. Charles E. Brooke, Oct. 22, 1912. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sild throughout the world. Sample of nach free.with .2-p. Skin Book. Address postcard "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. 'Adv. Couldn't Find It. Albert was sent down by his motiei to get some horse-radish which sht needed about her pickles. After quite an absence he can. back home, tired and empty-handed. "Well, where is the horse-radish?' asked his mother. "Why, mother, I went to every liv-ery-stable in town and they didn 1 have a hit," murmured Albert v. . :i weary sigh. Important to Wl others Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOP I A, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Yeara. Children Cry for Fletcher's Caatoria Easy for Bröks. "Young Brooks is relieved of one i trouble, anyhow.'' 'What's thai ' "He won't have to lie about his salary to the girl he's going to murr Ha works for her father." Or. Pierce' Pleasant Pellet c:n onFtipation. Constipation if the eatie of many dieae. Cure the oause and jroa cure the disease. Kay to take. AJv. Six months after marriage a woman begins to feel a kindly interest in the man she could have married, but didn't. Let Dean's Mentholated Cough Drp relieve you of I lat t-ough and top the throat irritation- 3c at Hrug fctore. A family descends from father to son. and sometimes the descent la something fierce. Putnam Fadeless Dyes make no muss. Adv.

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