Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 1917 Page: 3 of 8
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MERCEDES TRIBUNE
ALEX WHELESS
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Practitioner State and Federal
Courts—County Attorney
Hidalgo County
OFFICES
Hidalgo County Bank Bldg. |
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INTERESTING ITEMS
JNO. P. GAUSE
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Practice in State and Federal
Courts
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TEXAS
The French parliament is consider-
ing a bill to make every orphan a ward
of the state, to be supported by the
state with its own mother.
A Dublin publication gives the num-
ber of emigrants embarking at Irish
ports during 1916, with the intention
of settling permanently elsewhere, as
7,366, the smallest number ever rec-
orded.
The production of olives in Spain
during 1916 amounted to 1,146,599
metric tons of 2204.6 pounds each. Of
the 1916 crop 1,110,153; tons of olives
went to the oil presses, yielding 307,-
115 tons of oil.
The group of 108 men at Rockford,
Illinois, who, refusing to register, vol-
untarily surrendered to the sheriff, as
a protest against the draft, were each
sentenced to a year in jail. All had
pleaded guilty.
The wheat acreage in India is re-
ported as 32,962,000 acrees, an increase
of 9 per cent over the figures for this
time last year. The total yield is es-
timated at 9,929,000 tons, or an in-
crease of 17 per cent.
The woodland areas of South Africa
were formerly of wide extent, but have
been greatly reduced through cutting,
the clearing of land and by fires, until
now the principal acreage is in the
government reservations.
A conference on the high cost of
living will be held at the Raleigh ho-
tel, Washington, July 30 and 31 under
the auspices of the committee on the
high cost of living, of which Charles
H. Ingersoll is chairman.
The government of the city of New
York under the administration of a
mayor, a board of directors and a city
manager, is proposed in a report sub-
mitter to Mayor Mitchel by Henry
Bruere, former city chamberlain.
According to a bulletin just issued
by the Canton chamber of commerce
for the year ended April 30, exports
from that Chinese port, in bales of 112
pounds, were: of raw silk,,51,971; of
waste silk, 31,546; of pierced cocoons,
6,951.
Negroes in the United States, num-
bering 10,000,000, have a taxable
wealth of about $500,000,000, accord-
ing to the secretary of the National
Negro Busienss League, who made
public the figures in a recent appeal
to the race for the purchase of liberty
bonds.
Exports of mine products from Ven-
ezzuela for the first half of 1916 in-
cluded 732 kilos of gold dust, valued
at $362,484; 638 kilos of gold bricks,
$326,186; 1,600 tons of magnesite, $3,-
088; 8,435 tons of copper ore, $184,-
532, and 16,686 tons of asphalt, $112,-
631.
The gross earnings of the Cities
Service Company of New,York, for the
year ending March 31, 1917, according
to Natural Gas and Gasoline, were
$13,391,411. This is the largest earn-
ings in the company’s history, being
two and a half times as much as the
figures of the preceeding year.
Thirty-seven states, the territories
of Alaska and Hawaii, and the federal
government now have workmen’s, com-
pensation laws, which has led to the
formation of the National Association
of Industrial Boards and Commissions.
Its next meeting will take place in
Boston during the third week of Au-
gust, 1917.
While American gas companies are
using the war as an excuse for ad-
vancing prices where possible, an Eng
lish company, the Bothwell and Ud-
dington Gas company, announces a
reduction from 60 cents to 48 cents
per thousand cubic feet. The Middles-
brough town council has decided to
reduce the rate for gas from 52 cents
to 48 cents per thousand.
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Preliminary statistics issued by the
bureau of the census give the quantity
of cottonseed received at mills in the
Uniteed States during the period from
August 1, 1916, to May 31, 1917, as
4,461,402 tons, the amount crushed
during the period as 4,369,760 tons,
and the amount on hand at the mills
on May 31 at 105,971 tons.
Arrangements are being ^made to
place a tablet upon Chawton Cottage,
near Alton, Hants, England, where all
the works of Jane Austen were writ-
ten.. The event will take place this
month, which will mark the centenary
of her passing away. Willian D. How-
ells is one of the American Represen-
tatives of the committee in charge of
this work.
As a result of a fight by Congress-
man Jeannette Rankin, Secretary Mc-
Adoo ordered that the eight-hour-day
be established in the bureau of print-
ing and engraving for both men and
women employees. Complaints had
come to Miss Rankin of overworking
of employes in the bureau. In some
cases they had been compelled to
work from 14 to 16 hours a day.
Low wages of fathers and gainful
employment of mothers away from
home accompany an excessive death
rate among babies in Manchester, N.
H., according to a recent report of the
children’s bureau of the department
of labor. The greatest death rate
was among babies whose fathers re-
ceived the lowest wages, being four
times as high as among babies whose
fathers received the highest wages.'
There were 112 concerns in the Uni-
ted States in 1916 engaged in the ma-
nufacture of 262,558,661 pounds of oil
from peanuts, mustard seed, kapok
seed, rape seed, sunflower seed, soya
beans, walnuts, corn, copra, palm ker-
nels and olives. The movement to
grow soya beans, peanuts and other
oil bearing seeds and nuts other than
cottonseed for the manufacture of oil
has received a great impetus and
there will probably be several hun-
dred establishments engaged in crush-
ing the crops grown in 1917.
A bill to bring about a more uni-
formity in the incorporation of limit-
ed companies (corporations) has re
cently had its second reading in the
Ottawa (Canada) house of commons.
At present in Canada incorporations
can be had by letter patent or by reg-
istration.. The result is much confu-
sion and uncertainty as to the rights
and powers in one province of a cor-
poration incorporated by another pro-
vince, or even incorporated under the
prevailing dominion companies.
Kansas adopted the “manager’" plan
for handling her institutions. This will
do away with many boards. The in-
stitutions which come under the new
board include the University of Kan-
sas, Lawrence; agricultural- college,
Manhattan; normal school, Emporia;
western normal school, Hays; Pitts-
burg Manual Training School, Pitts-
burg; state penitentiary, Lansing; re-
formatory for young men, Hutchinson;
industrial school for boys, Topeka;
industrial school for girls, Beloit; or-
phan’s home, Atchinson; industrial
and education institute, Topeka (for
negroes); Western University, Quin-
daro (for negroes), and eight other
institutions.
A bank, known as the Industrial and
Commercial Bank (Ltd.), has been or-
ganized under the laws of Hongkong
with a capital of $1,000,000 Hongkong
currency. The plans of the company
contemplate ultimate capitalization of
as much as $50,000,000 and the estab-
lishing of branches and agencies all
over China, with a view of affording
Chinees commerce and industry mod-
ern banking facilities, which are lack-
ing in interior districts at present. The
enterprise is being promoted by, Chin-
ese who have had American university
and commercial training. To a consi-
derable extent the capital of the new
concern has been raised by popular
subscription.
Until the recent discovery of an ap-
parently high grade of coal in the Pa-
tagonian region it was supposed that
Argentina lacked commercially valua-
ble deposits. In La Rioja, San Juan,
and Mendoza the mines are isolated
and their output is of low quality, con-
taining a large proportion of ash.
Samples of the coal recently found at
Santa Cruz, however, indicate contents
of volatile matter, fixed coal and ash
that will bear comparison with the
best European fuel. In the chalky
ground where this was extracted the
seam was several meters thick, and
if the deposits are of sufficient size
their exploitation will not be handi-
capped by difficulty of transport, for
the cordillera is not far from the At-
lantic coast and the seams may extend
even farther in that direction.
The most important new industry
developed in Venice, Italy, the past
year is that of spinning glass for com-
mercial uses. The spun glass is mar-
keted in three forms—hanks of spun
glass thread of straight fiber, called
cotone di vetro (glass cotton), masses
of spun glass curled fiber, called lano
di vetro (glass wool), and either of
the above qualities pressed into
sheets or pads from one quarter t<
one-half inch in thickness and re
sembling white felt pads. At presen
this product is used principally for in
sulation, and especially for makin;
separators of electricity; but the glas
wool would serve admirably for mak
ing artificial hair, wigs, perukes, dolls
hair, and for other purposes and ii
the pad form it serves as a hygieni
filter.
The legislature of California at it
last session passed an act providinj
for the purchase by the state of 10,00'
acres of improved land, and its subdi
vision into small tracts upon whicl
those of small means may settle un
der favdrable conditions, it havin;
been determined by thorough investi
gation that, because of the high pric
of land and for other reasons, sue
cessful farming has come to be a mat
ter of large investment, and that tin
whole agricultural situation has there
fore come to be attended with unsourn
social and economic conditions. Thi
10,000 acres will be purchased by tin
state, buildings will be constructe<
thereon and the land laid out in smal
tracts and sold at a reasonable pric<
on easy terms. Purchaseres are givei
forty years within which to repa]
loans.
The selling by manufacturers o
large consignments direct to chair
stores, mail order houses, and depart
ment stores at prices normally charg
ed the wholesaler and at which th<
manufacturer cannot profitably sel
the .individual small retailer, was de
nounced as unfair competition, ac
cording to a committee report to tin
recent “Liberty Convention” of the Na
tional Wholesale Groceers’ Associa
tion at Chicago. The report asserts
“The tendency to eliminate the smal
man is, therefore, toward monopoly
and under the present conditions thi:
tendency will soon become an accel
erated movement which will sweej
thousands of American retailers t<
eventual ruin, at the same time injur
ing the jobber, who is their only prac
tical source' of supply for other thai
locally produced goods. It now re
mains to be seen whether the govern-
ment will permit a far more giganti*
monopoly than any which have pre
ceded it to be built up with ever in
creasing rapidity and to obtain contro
of the first necessity of life.”
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A gnarled and half-deadi orange tree
back of one of our citizen’s hog pei
blew down recently, whereas he wa:
sorely vexed. A neighbor who heart
him complain, said: “Why fret? Wha
few oranges the tree bore were worth
less.” “I know that,” replied our citi
zen, “but that tree served as a hen
roost for eight years and now I ma3
have to build one.”
A many-sided man should, of courste
be square.
UNCLE SAM IS HOST
FOR DEPORTED I. W. W.
Are Not Treated as Prisoners, But Are
Guarded By Soldiers Wearing
Side Arms at AH Times
COLUMBUS, N. M.—The United
States is host to Arizona’s deported
miners, mill men and small merchants
encamped on the desert half way be-
tween Columbus and the Mexican bor-
der.
A small city of canvas has sprung
up on the site of the Mexican refugee
camp establiished by Major General
Pershing and 1,140 men are sleeping
on beds for the first time since last
Wednesday at Bisbee. They came
here under escort of United States
cavalry.
Under direction of the army officers
and soldiers an orderly, well-policed
camp was formed out of the chaos
which followed the arrival of the tired
and travel-stained men.
They were almost unanimous in
saying they will be ready to return
to Bisbee when accompanied by Uni-
ted States soldiers and not before.
Army officers are in the dark as to
what the next move will be, and say
they have orders only to feed and care
for the wants of the men. The exiles
are not being treated as prisoners, but
are being guarded by soldiers with
side arms and no one is permitted to
enter the camp without a pass.
Motley Looking Crowd
When the unshaved and unwashed
crowd marched up to the refugee
camp they presented one of the strang
est sights Columbus has seen since
Villa’s Mexican bandits dashed into
the town, March 9, 1916.
Many were without hats and wore
soiled handkerchiefs on their heads to
keep off the hot sun. Others limped
from blistered feet while old men and
the physically unfit had difficulty in
marching the mile to the camp from
the railroad. One man fainted after
reaching camp and the hospital tent
■vyas crowded with minor cases.
DANBURY HATTERS’
CASE COMPROMISED
Union Said to Have Agreed to Pay
Two-Thirds of $252,000 Judge-
ment and Costs
FOREIGNERS EXPELLED
FROM LEAD MINES
Americans Force Miners to Depart
From Missouri Mining Camp
FLAT RIVER, Mo.—About 700 for-
eign-born laborers were forced out of
the St. Francis lead belt by American-
born miners, who insisted that all the
foreigners must leave.
The Americans, armed with shot-
guns, and carrying an American flag,
rushed the foreigners to a railway
station every time a train came in.
Hundreds of foreigners, bewildered
and helpless, began to show signs of
terror. They were not resentful and
have shown no fight. The refugees
are puzzled and apparently do not
comprehed what it is all about.
The I. W. .W. has been trying to
establiish a strong following here for
months, it is said, but no encourage-
ment has been given.
NINE ARRESTED IN KANSAS CITY
Guard Officers Raid I. IV. W. Head-
quarters and Seize Literature
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Nine men
were arrested here in a raid upon the
headquarters of the I. W. W. by Lieu-
tenant Ralph Treuman with members
of the national guard acting under
governmental instructions, it is said.
DANBURY, Conn.—An agreement
for settlement of the judgment of
$252,000 and costs in the case of D.
E. Loewe & Company against mem-
bers of the United Hatters of North
America, was announced after a con-
ference between lawyers and union
representatives.
The amount paid by the union was
not officially stated, but it is learned
that the settlement was for approxi-
mately two-thirds of the amount of
the judgment and costs.
Martin Lawler, secretary of the Uni-
ted Hatters, declined to state the terms
of the settlement, but said in response
to a statement for the press:
“You can say hat Loewe & Company
bled the United Hatters for the last
cent.”
The case had its inception in a boy-
cott of the product of the Loewe fac-
tory after the firm refused to make
their shop a closed one, at the time in
1902 when organized labor was trying
to unionize all factories in Danbury.
It has been claimed that throughout
the many years of litigation there has
been no personal enmity between Mr.
Loewe annd his former employes.
TURNED BACK BY U. S.,
ATTEMPS SUICIDE
LAREDO, Texas.—Alter being re-
fused admission to the American side
of the Rio Grande by immigration au-
thorities who turned him back, Guada-
lupe Sierra, a Mexican, walked to the
boundary monument, mounted the
railing and jumped to the river, a dis-
tance of about twenty-five feet, land-
ing in shallow water and sustaining
internal injuries.
He was rescued from the river and
rushed to a hospital in this city and
will recover from his injuries. He re-
fused to say why he was leaving Mex-
ico, blit preferred death to going back.
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$100 Reward, $100
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages, and that is
Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional
disease, requires a constitutional treat-
ment. ‘ Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in-
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system, there-
by destroying the foundation of the dis-
ease, and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative pow-
ers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure. Send
for list of testimonials.
Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by all Drug-gists, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for conotipation.
CALOMEL DYNAMITES
A SLUGGISH LIVER
Crashes into sour bile, making
you sick and you lose
a day’s work.
Calomel salivates! It’s mercury.
Calomel acts like dynamite on a slug-
gish liver. When calomel comes into
contact with sour bile it crashes into it,
causing cramping and nausea.
If you feel bilious, headachy, consti-
pated and all knocked out, just go to
your druggist and get a 50 cent bottle
of Dodson’s Liver Tone, which is a harm-
less vegetable substitute for dangerous
calomel. Take a spoonful and if it
doesn’t start your liver and straighten
you up better and quicker than nasty
calomel and without making you sick,
you just go back and get your money.
If you take calomel today you’ll be
sick and nauseated tomorrow; besides,
it may salivate you, while if you take
Dodson’s Liver Tone you will wake up
feeling great, full of ambition and ready
for work or play. It’s harmless, pleas-
ant and safe to give to children; the*
like it.
The Mistress—Mary, what is that
old paint-pot doing on the corner
shelf?
The Cook—It belongs to the man
who worked here last spring.
The Mistress — You may throw it
away. Y-
The Cook — I’ll do nothing of the
sort, mum. It’s all I have to remem-
ber him by.
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“What is the capital of the Philip-
pine Islands?” asked the teacher of
her geography class.
“Manila,” answered the class in
chorus.
“And of the Sandwich Islands?”
continued the teacher.
The clas sseemed nonplused, until
little Harry shouted: “I know; it’s
Ham!”
Two revolvers, considerable ammu-
nition and a patrol wagon load of
literature were confiscated by the
troops.
AFTER THREE YEARS
Corpus Christi Testimony Remains
Unshaken.
Time is the best test of truth. Here
is a Corpus Christi story that has
stood the test of time. It is a story
with a point which will come straight
home to many of us-
Samuel McComb, fireman S. A. & J%.
P- R. R., 1016 Tiger St., Corpus Chris-
ti, Texas, says: “I had pains through
my back and kidneys- The kidney
secretions were irregular in passage,
too. I used Doan’s Kidney Pills and
they made a complete cure.” (State-
ment given November 20, 1911)
The Cure Lasted. -
On April 30, 1915, Mr. McComb said:
“I haven’t had to use any kidney
medicine in the past few years- as
Doan’s Kidney Pills have completely
cured me.”
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—-get
Doan’s Kidney Pills — the same that
Mr. McComb has twice publicly re-
commended- FosterMilburn Co-, pro-
prietors, Buffalo, N. Y.
Redd—Now they want to comman-
deer my automobile for war.
Greene—Well, aren’t you^vuTling?
“Yes, but I can’t get itdo go.”
“Deacon,” said Brother Meek, “that
horse yoif traded me yesterday inter-
feres.”
“He doesii’t-interfere with anybody
but himself, does he, brother?” replied
Deacon Jones.
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The Food Problem?
Cows,
Hogs,
Chickens
And Feed Crops
Will Solve It.
DIVERSIFY
FOR SERVICE AND
ACCOMMODATION
Hidalgo County
Bank
AT YOUR SERVICE
MERCEDES,
TEXAS
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