The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, March 13, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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NEWS AS II HAPPENS
High Hats.
Tho enormous height of the mil-
linery of 1! I4 led Jane Cowl to re-
mark :
"I know a man whose wife Raid to
him the other day:
"'Oil, dear, there's that old Christ-
mas tree lying in the back yard over
a month now, 1 don't know what on
earth to do Mth It.'
" 'Can't you put it on your now
hat?' her husband asked."
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Rub pain away with a smal)
trial bottle of old
"St. Jacobs Oil"
When your back Is uore and lamo
or lumbago, sciatica or rheumatism
has you stiffened up, don't suffer! Get
a small trial bottle of old, honest "St.
Jacobs Oil" at tiny store, pour a little
In your hand and rub It right on your
back, nnd by the timo you count fifty,
the soreness is gone.
Don't stay crippled! This soothing,
penetrating oil takes the ache and
pain right out and ends the misery.
It Is magical, yet absolutely harmless
and doesn't burn tho bkln.
Nothing else stops lumbago, sciatica
end lame back misery so promptly and
nurely. It never disappoints!—Adv.
Testing Nephew's Knowledge.
There is a certain old German of
Wllkesbarre, Pa., whose pride, 11 k«*
that of many self-made men, leads him
at times Into a sort of patronizing con-
descension toward those tilings he did
not "have time for" when he was mak-
ing his way In life.
Upon tho occasion of the graduation
of a nephew, he asked:
"Veil, Wllheim, vol did dey teach
you up there?"
"Greek and l^atln," said the boy,
"and German and algebra.''
"So, so!" murmured tho old Ger-
man. "And vot's der algebra for po-
tatoes, now?" Youth's Companion.
Sufficient Proof.
Prisoner All 1 want is justice!
Lawyer—Then I can save you from
It on the grounds of insanity!
LIFE'S ROAD
Smoothed by Change of Food.
Worry is a big load to carry and an
unnecessary one. When accompanied
by indigestion it certainly is cause for
tho blues.
Hut the whole trouble may bo easily
thrown off and life's road be made
easy and comfortable by proper eating
and the cultivation of good cheer.
Head what a Troy woman says:
"Two years ago I made tho acquaint-
ance of Grape-Nuts and have used the
food once a day and sometimes twice,
ever since.
"At the time I began to use it life
was a burden. 1 was for years aflllct-
«d with bilious sick headache, caused
by Indigestion, and nothing seemed to
relievo me.
"The trouble became so severe I
had to leave my work for t'ays at a
time.
"My nerves were In such a state I
could not sleep and the doctor said I
was on the verge of nervous prostra-
tion. I saw an adv. concerning Grape-
Nuts and bought n package for trial.
"What Grape-Nuts has done for me
Is certainly marvelous. I can now
sleep like a child, am entirely freo
from the old trouble nnd have not had
a k.'"'¥ache in over a year. 1 feel Vlko
a no A person, f have recommended it.
to others. One tnan I knew ate prin-
cipally Grape-Nuts while working on
the ice nil winter, and said he never
felt better In his life."
Name given by Postum Co., Pattle
(Jreek, Mich. Head "Tho Road to
V^'llvlllo," in pkgs. "There's a Rea-
M>n."
ICver rnul (he nhoro letterf A new
•in- npprnra from llmo to time. Thrjr
«rr Renulne, true, anil foil of human
Inlerrat.
NATIONAL. STATE, FOREIGN, OF
INTEREST TO READERS.
WHAT HAS TRANSPIRED THIS WEEK
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Short Mentioning of Interesting Hap
penincj6 From Day to Day Through-
out the World.
WASHINGTON NE VS.
Specific charges that more than UK
American nnd other foreigners have
been killed, murdered or outraged dur ;
Ing the last three years of revolution
in Mexico were laid before, the senate
Monday by Senator Fall (republican)
of New Mexico, in the course of a
speech In which ho urged armed in
terv< nlion- not for wa., but for pro- j
tec lion of noncombtttants- and assail
ed tho administration's policy.
The senate Monday confirmed the I
nomination of Henry Clay Hall ol
Colorado as Interstate commerce com-
missioner to succeed Charlen A. j
I'rout.v.
Two Texas postmasters were named
by President Wilson Monday and sent
to the senate for confirmation; Hob- |
ert K. Spoor at Fort Worth and B. M
liichardson at Athens, Texas.
Representative .lack lleall Monday
recommended to Postmaster General
Burleson the appointment of Charles
A. Graham to be postmaster at Hills- j
boio. Texas.
The Padgett bill to create the grade
of vice admiral of the navy was rein- j
troduced in the house Saturday,
changed so sis to nive not only the
commanders in chief of the Atlantic
and Pacific fleets that rank, but also
the Asiatic fjeet commander. Each
fleet would have a vice admiral.
An effort to conclude hearings on
the administration anti-trust bills by
March 17 w'.ll be made by the house
Judiciary committee, according to
Chnirman Clayton.
Senator Newlands, chairman of the
Interstate commerce committee, with
a view to expediting legislation, Fri-
day appointed a subcommittee to con-
sider and make a report on the pencl-
'inn hill to create an Interstate trade
i commission. On the subcommittee are
Senators Newlands, Pomerene, Robin-
son, Saulsbury, Cummins, Brandegee
! anil Townsend.
| Representative Reyburn, the Texas
member of the house committee on in-
terstate and foreign comt.terce, Fri-
day Joined tho majority of the demo-
crats on tli" committee in ordering a
favorable report on the Situs bill,
which, In accordance with the presi-
dent's message on the Panama canal
tolls question, calls for the repeal of
the exemption from tolls of American
ships engaged in coastwise traffic that
pass through the canal.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Conditions along the Mexican border
are grave, according to J, K. Vaughan
of Captain John If. Hughes ranker
company stationed at Ysleta, thirteen
miles fast of El Pa-o, Texas, who
Monday confurred with Governor Col-
quitt and Adjutant General Hutchlngs.
Bands of Mexicans, ho said, are daily
engaged in cattle stealing and smug
gling across the border, and as a re
suit Texas ranchmen are suffering a
| grent loss.
| Nine determined men, comprising
former employes and personal friends
I of the dead man. residing In the vicin
tty of Palafox, Texas, Sunday morn-
ing at 2 o'clock left Palafox in a body,
crossed the Hidalgo on the Mexican
side of the river, then, by a circuitous
route, went to the llidalno cemetery
and, from a shallow grave, exhumed
the body of Cleinente Vergara, the
American stockman, who wily recent-
ly wiw captured and executed by Mex-
ican federal soldiers at HldalKo. Tho
capture was made at Hidalgo Feb 14,
nnd tho execution took place on the
morning of Feb. Hi.
In the election on pool halls in the
Rockdale (Texas) precinct Monday
the pool halls won. ,
A claim of $75,000 against the
Huerta government for the death ol
Clemente Vergara, the American citi-
zen who Is alleged to have been lured
from an island in the Rio Grande,
near Laredo, onto Mexican soil and
killed by Mexican federal soldiers, is
being drawn by a law firm of San An-
tonio. Texas, Payment will be do
mnuded in the name of relatives of
Vergara.
r.ouls A. Dlabrow has Just been in-
formed by the contest board of the
American Automobile Association at
New York City that ho has In en al
lowed the one mile circular d rt track
record .it fifty miles In minutes 32
seconds, made In his Simplex at De-
troit on Sept. 29, 2912. The old record
of 47 minutes 21 seconds was made at
Syracuse by Ralph Del'alma on Sept
16, 1011.
Leo M. Frank was resentenced to
death at Atlanta, Ga , Saturday for the
murder of Mary Phagan, a factory
girl. Hla execution was set for April
17th.
WHlle Hoppe of New York, world #
Champion bllllnrdlst, finished the most
brilliant run of his career Saturday at
Chicago, 111., by defeating George Sut-
ton and winning the all-star tourna-
ment, which has extended over the
week. Hoppo's grand average for the
3,500 points he has played the two
weeks he has been In Chicago was a
fraction over 47. Ile.made a world's
record averuge of HIS'* in his 1,500-
polnt match with Sutton last week.
A large number of coons, foxes,
opossums, civet cats, boh cats and
skunks were tnipped and caught with
dons near Fredericksburg, Texas, the
pant winter, especially the number 3f
skunks caught was large, they bcirg
more numerous than ever known be-
fore.
One hundred and seventeen ne
groes, many of whom were womei
and small children, arrived in Gal-
veston this week with the expressed
intention of emigrating to the west
coast of Africa. The negroes ura
followers of Chief Alfred Sam.
Chief Justice Harry H. Clabaugh or
tho supreme court of the District of
Columbia died suddenly in Washing-
ton, D. C., Friday of heart failure.
He was 58 years of age.
George W. Vanderbilt, 52, multimil-
lionaire, philanthropist and sportsman
of international reputation, died In
Washington, D. ('. Friday from heart
failure after an operation Tuesday for
appendicitis.
The United Mine Workers of Amer-
ica, it was learnt (1 Saturday, have paid
practically $2,000,000 in strike bene-
fits to Colorado minors since April 1,
1SM0.
By a majority of thirteen votes to I
Paso, Texas, Thursday captured tho
1915 convention of the Panhandle
Southwesti rn Stockmen's Association,
defeating Am "iilo, Its only opponent,
in a contest which has been waged
since the cattlemen's convention open-
ed at Oklahoma <"ity last Tuesday.
A display of much gold braid and
many medals, the firing of cannon,
the parading of troops, the recounting
of valorous deeds of revered Texans,
with the less spectacular feature of a
luncheon a lu San Antonio, till bore
testimony to the Alamo City's pride
in having as a guest a few days ago
Hear Admiral Christopher ('radUock
of the British navy.
Importation of beef cattle from
Mexico, which lias assumed consider-
able proportions through the port of
Galveston since the removal of thfi
duty by the new tariff laws, is threat-
ened by the imposing of an export,
duty on the part of the Mexican gov-
ernment.
The court of criminal appeals al
Austin, Texas, Wednesday affirmed
the case of 'Joe Durfee, from Brazoria
Count>, convicted of killing Mrs. I,. B.
Seltz, who was criminally assaulted
and killed at Angleton on July 8, 1913.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Government troops were defeated
by constitutionalists in a battle Wed-
nesday in the bills between Monte-
inorelos and Cadereita, in the slate of
Nuevo Leon, the Mexican federals los-
ing sixty men killed, Including six of-
ficers The losses of the constitu-
tionalists were two killed and seven
wounded, including two captains.
Madeleine, the Siamese twin who
was separated on Wednesday from her
sister, Suzanne, by means of a deli-
cate surgical operation, died Sunday
of convulsions at Paris, France. Su-
zanne Is recovering.
Ferdinand Pinney Katie, the Ameri-
can artist, and Miss Charlotte Her-
man, charged with having kidnaped
Karle's son, Harold, from a school
near Paris, were found guilty at Ro-
morantin, France, Saturday. Katie
was sentenced to two months in pris
on and fined $5, and Miss Herman to
a month in prison and fined
All classes of workmen in Home,
Italy, have decided to take part In a
general strike to be called this week
It will be the lirst movement of the
kind in Home.
A sentence of three months' im-
prisonment was pronounced Saturday
at Berlin, Germany, on Krnst Meyer,
"jail editor" of the socialist newspaper
Vorwaerts, who was tried on charges
of treason for libelling Crowa Prince
William
An English expert declares he has
discovered a large deposit of radium
hearing on In Jamaica and a sample
Kent to the United Status has been
pronounced satisfactory.
The taxidermists at the Natural 11 is
tory Museum In Paris, France, are
now preparing the body of a huge
mammoth, which lived 40.000 years
ago, and was recently found frozen
in u Siberian ice block. Tho animal
was so large that It had to be quar-
tered before being brought to tho
Purls museum The experts discover-
ed In a vein a fev drops of brownish
substance which proved, on analysis,
to be lHood which had remained liquid
through 400 centuries.
Hordes of starving wolves, driven
from the Apennine troitninlns by tho
heavy snows. Wednesday descended
into the valleys of the Abruzzl prov-
inces and in the vicinity of Homo
Italy, and devoured l utidt- ds of slieep
TAKING BODIES FROM BURNED BUILOING
Thirty-Five Others Believed to Be in
St. Louis Fire Ruins, Making Loss
Total 45—$1,300,000 Saved.
Rt. Louis, Mo Officials of the Mis-
souri Athletic Club, after recovering
records from the ruins Tuesdi.y, estl
mated that, forty live persons lost
lives in the fire which destroy d th*
building early Monday, hut could add
no new names to the list of missing.
Thirty-five are thought to be In the
ruins, mukiru; the total death toll for-
; ty-flve. Of the many bodies recover-
ed, eight have been Identified. Tho
Identified dead:
Marshall Bier, ;$5, head of Marshall
Bier & Co., fur dealers, St. Louis.
Lucius Huff, 34, department head
Simmons Hardware Company, son of
Dr. L. P. Huff of Capo Girardeau. Mo.;
lived with mother In Dallas, Texas
(Identification doubtful.i
William J. Kinser, treasurer Kinser
Construction Company, engaged in
construction of east side levee.
James B. Heilly, 50,i member con-
tracting firm of Waro & Heilly, St
Louis.
John N. Hlchey, 40, Chicago, treas-
urer Ford Manufacturing Company;
widow and child In Chicago
William F. Erd, lawyer and real es-
tate dealer, East St, Louts, III
Edwin O. Kelssler, .'17, cashier Lud-
low Say lor Wire Company, St Louis.
E. P. Williams, bank promoter, Sau
tee, Ga.
Nearly $1,300,000 in coin and cur-
rency was removed under heavy po-
lice guard to tho vaults of the St.
Louis Union Trust Company, where
the money will he kept until a place
can be provided in the temporary
quarters of the Boatmens Bank.
No satisfactory explanation of the
fire has been found. Explosions
i heard during the fire were attributed
; by the chief of the fire prevention bu-
reau to gas that, escaped when the
meters molted under the intense heat.
One hundred men are dinning on'
the ruins with hopes that the bodies
of the dead may be recovered as quick-
ly as possible.
J. R. Pfeiffer, Pre*.
E. 3. Orgain, Sac. and Treat.
Iron Workers Lose in Court.
Washington.—The final chapter in
the iron workers' campaign to destroy
"open chops" with dynamite and nitro-
glycerin was written Tuesday in tho
supreme court in refusing to review
penitentiary sentences imposed on
Frank M. Ryan, president of the In-
ternational Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, and twenty-
three of the association's members
Voters Refuse Proposed bonds.
Beaumont, Tex. The pioposal to is- |
sue $200,000 in bonds for draining a
district known as No. 5, lying to the
west and southwest of Beaumont, and
contemplating the improvement of H11-
debrandt bayou, failed to carry Tues-
day by a vote of 93 for the bonds to
(it) against.
6.600 Fish Sent to San Antonio.
San Marcos, Tex.- Fish Commis-
sioner Mark Riley lias just sent from
the fish culture station at San Marcos
n consignment of 0,000 bass minnows
to the river commissioner pf San An-
tonio, to be placed in the pools at tho
head of the San Antonio river.
Irrigation District Is Sought.
Harllngcn, Tex. — A petition to
create an irrigation district at Har- 5
Unpen was filed iti the county court
at Brownsville Tuesday. The farm- I
em have decided to take over the hold- !
itigs and system of the Harlingon j
Land and Water Company. The con-
sideration was said to be $400,000.
Body of Vanderbilt Is Buried.
Now York * lie body of George W.
Vanderbilt was laid at rest Tuesday
i#in the family mausoleum In the Mora-
vian cemetery at Newdorp, Statcn
Island, near the old Vanderbilt rosl-
donce, where lie was born fifty-two
years ago.
School House Bonds Carry.
HefuKlo. T<\ At the election in
Refugio Tuesday on the question of
Issuing $lil,()00 school house bonds, 79
votes were cast for and 1 against the
i bolide.
Federals Bottle Up Tampico,
City of Mexico.—Federal forces
Tuesday bottled up in lite harbor of
Topolomhompo the gunboat Tampico,
whose crew recently i nlisted her with
I ho rebels.
Exchange Sells 350 for 1.
City of Mexico.—At the close of tho
market Tuesday foreign exchange sold
at .!*>0 Mexican for 1 gold
Citizens Ask for Road Bend Issue.
Bastrop, Tex. Citizens of this road
district, lit' mass meeting Tuesday,
urged a special election to vote $7o,-
000 additional road bond Issue
Houston Ccunty In Dry Column,
Crockett, Tex.—Complete reports In
the county give the prohibitionists ,i
big majority
Bastrop Lumber Co., Inc.
BASTROP, TEXAS
Contractors and Builders
Will Develop Your Plan9
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winter or summer
Your Cotton Seed
Bagging — Ties
To exchange for the
8eed Only.
Buy and Sell
Everthlng for the
Cash Only.
POWELL OIL MILL CO.
MAXWELL AUTOMOBILES
Five passenger, 4 cylinder 25 horse power, com-
plete with wind shield, top and speedometer,
$750.00.
Five passenger, 35 horse power, complete with
top, wind shield and speedometer,
$1,085.00
OUR GUARANTEE GO Wlfll THESE CARS
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