La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1914 Page: 3 of 8
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VOLCANSS WIEN
FURTHER DISASTER
8AKURA-JIMA volcano in japan
CONTINUES TO THROW
FORTH LAVA.
WHOLE VILLAGES WIPED OUT
Earthquake Rumblings Continue, and
Land and Sea Are Covered With Vol-
canlo Aehee and Pumice 8tono.
Hundreds Have Perished.
OUT OF 86 BOND ELECTIONS
HELD IN TEXAS, 61 CARRIED.
Bonds Voted In 1913 for Roads and
Bridges Doublet the Amount
Voted In 1912.
EXPERIMENTS AT BROWNSVILLE
PROVE PEAR GOOD COW FEED.
Can Be Cultivated at Very Little Cost,
and When Once Planted, Grows In-
definitely—Texas Good Field.
Kagoshima. — The volcanoes con-
tinue active and are emitting quanti-
ties of stones and ashes. Numerous
explosions occur and poisonous gases
are ejected, making breathing diffi-
cult. The emperor’s envoy has found
it Impossible to make the trip around
Sakura-Jlma. There has been looting
at Kagoshima.
Two further violent eruptions of
the voloano Sakura-Jlma, accompanied
by a severe earthquake, occurred
Monday night, causing the collapse of
many more buildings. Ashes are fall-
ing thickly and floating pumice stone
is so great that It prevents navigation.
. Lava is still floating steadily down
the sides of the volcano to the sea, In-
creasing the area of the island as it
solidifies on reaching the water. It is
impossible to give anything like an
approximate estimate of the number
of victims of earthquakes and tidal
waves.
Professor Fusakichl Omorl, the sels-
tnologhst, pointing Monday to the vil-
lage of Yokohama on Sakura, where
400 houses lie burled in lava, said:
“Are the people burled there as In
Pompeii?” And answered himself:
“Only the future can reply.”
Many refugees are reported to have'f
been driven Insane as a result of ter-
ror and exposure. Over a million let-
ters and eight thousand telegrams are
lying In Kagoshima awaiting delivery.
Tokio, Japan.—Many hundreds are
dead in the Sakura Jlma volcano dis-
aster, according to dispatches Tues-
day from Mitoyoshl. With the first
eruption of the volcano the island of
Sakura Jima, in the bay, was en-
veloped In masses of flame. Its vil-
lages were entirely wiped out and it
is believed that mast of its 15,000
people perished.
Thousands of fleeing people, who
escaped the burning city and villages,
were trapped In the blazing forest to
the north, set ablaze by the white hot
rocks belched forth by the volcano,
pnd were burned to death.
Kagoshima had a population of 64,-
000, most of whom were employed In
the n^inufacture of the famous Sat-
suma pottery. It Is believed at Tokio
that many thousands of the men, wom-
en and children of the city perished.
The entire countryside waB devas-
tated. The telegraph operator who
sent the laBt message out of the doom-
ed city said that he was the only liv-
ing person- remaining in the town. Be-
cause his message was cut off in the
middle of an unfinished sentence It
was presumed that he died at his post.
Terror-stricken fugitives reaching
the mainland of Kiu&hiu Island from
Sakura Jima Tuesday said that fully
five thousand men, women and chil-
dren must have perished as the result
of the continued eruption of the vol-
cano on the small island. They said
that more than ten thousand persons
remained on the island in the harbor
after the 150 earthquakes gave warn-
ing of danger, and of these about half
are supposed to have perished.
Sakura Jima volcano has been dor-
mant for 130 years.
Enormous rocks, white hot, were
hurled twenty miles and more lnto'the
Interior and set the forests on fire.
For a distance of eight miles north of
Kagoshima the railway lines were
blocked by volcanic rocks and de-
stroyed by fird.
Early Monday the ancient volcano
began to rumble ' and small streams
of la$a bubbled up slowly in the crater
and poured down the sides. The peo-
ple were panic stricken and as many
as could fled to the mainland. Many
were unable to go to places of safety,
but some of them thought that when
the voloano had erupted for a day
without serious results the worst was
over.
Suddenly, without warning, the vol-
cano literally blew Its head off and
the molten lava almost submerged the
Island. Thousands of helpless people
were caught in their homes and given
no time to escape.
The heavy ash fall extends far to
the north and had already enveloped
the Important cities Of Nagasaki and
Kumuato, as well as many small cities
and towns. Of these Nagasaki alone
bas any considerable foreign popula-
tion. There are about 200 Europeans
and Americans there, with British In
the largest number.
Sakura Jima occupies almost the ex-
act center of a small round island in
the Gulf of Kagoshima and directly in
front of the city of Kagoshima, capi-
tal of the province of Satsuma.
The coasts and the country sur-
rounding Sakura Jima are heavily pop-
ulated and the number in the danger
xone is hundreds of thousands. The
chief city In danger is Kagoshima,
which lies almost In the shadow of the
volcano and is separated from it by a
narrow straiL
Sakura Jima had Its laat general
eruption In 1779.
Kagoshima is the old capital of the
famous Satsuma clan and the scene
of the last battle of the Jatsuma re-
bellion. The great Salgo, who led the
rebellion, committed harikarL
Fort Worth, Tex.—There were 86
mad and bridge bond elections held in
Texas during 1913 and 51 of them car-
ried by large majorities, Resulting in
the appropriation of $7,267,000 for
highway Improvement, according to
data compiled by the Texas Business
Men's Association. This is more than
double the amount of bonds Issued in
this State last year. The aggregate
amount of bonds voted on in 1913 was
$11,661,000, but 35 of the Issues, in
volving a total of $4,394,000, were de-
feated. ThiB amount of money is suf-
ficient to build a first class highway
from Red River to the Gulf, and pro-
vide for its ma.utenance for a period
pf five years.
Harris led all other counties in the
amount of bonds issued, having rati-
fied an election of $1,000,000 on Feb.
20. The smallest issue for the year
waa voted in Kerr Coupty, and was
for $2,000. The election was carried
by an overwhelming majority, and a
heavy vote being polled. Brazoria
County takes the palm for holding the
greatest number ofelectlons. Four Is-
sues, aggregating $585,000, were voted
on In 1913, and all received the neces-
sary two-thirds majority vote.
The law governing the issuance of
bonds for highway Improvement per-
mits a county, precinct or road dis-
trict to bond its_ property far amounts
not exceeding one-fourth of the assess-
ed valuation. This statute went into
effect in 1909, and since that time
nearly $26,000,000 has been appro-
priated in this manner for road build-
ing and maintenance. The largest
amount was voted in 1911, when $8,-
915,000 in bonds were issued. The
records, by years, since the passage of
this law, follows: Amount
Year— . of bonds.
1909 .......................$ 781,000
1910 ....................... 4,015,000
1911 ....................... 8,915,500
1912 ....................... 3,496,200
1913 ....................... 7,267,700
These figures, with the exception of
1909, are taken from records kept by
the Texas Business Men’s Association,
and are complied from data furnished
by commercial organizations, county
Judges, good roads associations and
other authoritative sources. The 1909
figures are from a statement issued by
the State comptroller and represent
the bonds registered In Austin during
the year.
SOIL PREPARATION IN SOUTHERN STAIES
Well Prepared Seed Beds, Deep Plow-
ing, Properly Turned Soli, Etc.,
Very Essential to Spring Crops.
Houston, Tex.—In no section of the
country .does a well prepared seed bed
give better returns than in the South
ern States. The best spring prepara-
tion of the soil is practically Impossi-
ble unless it has been properly turned
and deeply broken during the previous
summer or fall. ^The necessity for
deep plowing in the South is probably
not realized by those who are’ not fa
miliar with the heavy rainfalls In this
section, which frequently packs and
runs the particles of soil together- so
as to exclude air and sunshine. The
absence of freezing prevents any
loosening up of the particles, besides
in many places there is an almost im-
pervious hard-pan of subsoil, pfther
natural or brought about from a con-
tinuous custom of shallow ' plowing.
In other sections this deepening and
loosening of the soil Is done partly
at least by the forces of nature, but
can only be accomplished by the plow
in the South. Such are the findings of
the department of agriculture.
The best Implement for deep break-
ing of the soil is the disc plow which
turns, pulverizes and mixes at the
same time. When properly adjusted
the disc breaks the land deeply and
thoroughly loosens it, mixing this soil
and the subsoil to some extent, but
does not turn to the surface enough
of the inert subsoil to Injure the suc-
ceeding crop. The next best method
for deep breaking Is moldboard plow-
ing, set to turn furrows on edge, and
this is fallowed by a subsoil plow In
the same furrow as deeply>us desired
Rain Hurt the Peanut Crop.
Brownwood, Tex.—According to sta-
tistics gathered at Brownwood, the
farmers of Brown, Eastland, Callahan
and Comanche counties have lost not
less than 250 carloads of peanuts on
account of the excessive rains which
fell during the fall and winters
Washington.—With a view to ascer-
taining the value of the prickly pear
cactus as a feed for dairy cows the
dairy division of the bureau of animal
industry in co-operation with the of-
fice of farm management of the bu-
reau of plant industry conducted a
series of experiments, 1911-1913, at
Brownsville, TexaB.
Following is a summary of results
obtained:
Prickly pear was found to be very
palatable, and when judiciously fed
was in no way detrimental to the cow
or her product during the two years’
trial.
The most satisfactory amount was
sixty to one hundred pounds of the
pear per cow per day, depending upon
the size of the cow and upon the yield
of milk. Larger quantities of the pear
caused a very laxative condition of
the bowels. Chemical analysis show-
ed that the pear was low in protein,
high in mineral matter, and contained
from 87 to 93 per cent of water. Feed-
ing trials indicated that the pear
should be used with some dry feed
containing a large amount of protein,
and that V»e pear on account of its
high mineral contents Is a good feed
to give with a ration deficient in min-
eral matter, like cotton seed hulls.
When compared with other com-
mon roughages In Southern Texas the
pear was found to have the following
relative value for the production of
milk fat:
One pound sorghum hay, equal to
10.1 pounds of pear.
One potfnd sorghum silage, equal to
3.3 pounds of pear.
One pound cotton seed hulls, equal
to 8.8 pounds of pear.
By substituting sixty to seventy-five
pounds of pear for a portion of the
dry roughage the percentage of fat
in the milk was decreased forty-two
hundredths per cent on an average.
It also decreased BomeSvhat the total
amount of fat and the percentage of
solids not fat, but increased the total
yield of milk. Like pasture grass, the
pear produced a higher colored butter
than did the dry feed. The flavor of
the milk and butter was not impaired
In any way.
A good dally maintenance ration for
grade Jersey rows when dry was
found to be as follows:
Four to six pounds sorghum hay.
One pound cotton seed meal.
Sixty to one hundred pounds of pear.
Cows that were fed no roughage ex-
cept pear, drank no water for days
at a time and then only a few swal-
lows; those fed one hundred and fifty
pounds per day drank an average of
five pounds daily; those fed seventy-
five pounds drank thirty pounds daily;
those on dry feed drank sixty-nine
pounds per day on an average. From
these results It appears that pear is
a valuable feed when there is a scar-
city of stock water.
Under farm conditions the cost of
establishing a field of pears will be
$6 or $7 per acre. When once estab-
lished and properly cared for, the
field of pear will last Indefinitely, the
young growth springing from the old
stumpS as soon as the pear Is harvest-
ed. In Southern Texas no irrigation
is necessary, but shallow cultivation
sufficient to keep out weeds and grass
should be given.
The averago yield at Brownsville,
Texas, under very favorable condi-
tions, two years from planting, was
eighty-five tons per acre per year.
The growth from old stumps is con-
siderably greater, amounting in one
test to over two hundred tons per
acre for the two years’ growth. These
yields wereymade under good dry-land
cultivation. At San Antonio the yield
of native spring cactus was twenty-
three tons per acre without Irrigation,
but with fair cultivation. At Chico,
the yield of spineless cactus was about
twenty-five tons per acre without ir-
rigation, but with expert cultivatioa
State Purchased 8haw Farm.
Huntsville, Tex.—When the atten-
tion of W. O .Murray, chairman of the
prison commission, was called to the
report that the state paid a cash con-
sideration of $100,000 for the Gus
Shaw farm, he said that while the
amount of the consideration was $100,-
000, it was by no means a cash con-
sideration.
Nueces County Wants Good Roads.
Corpus Christl, Tex.—That during
the year 1914 property owners of
Nueces County will vote on the issu-
ance of more than $500,000 for modern
roads throughout the county is now as-
sured.
8truck Water 8upply Near Crockett.
Crockett, Tex.—The Kathleen Oil
Company, while sinking a test well at
Brookfield Bluff on Trinity River Mon-
day stfuok water at a depth of 1,000
feet that has been gushing at the rate
of 35,000 barrels a day.
Will Have Freeze Signals.
San Benito, Tex.—Light signals will
be placed at the apex of the Water tow-
er at once to be used for giving warn-
ing *to farmers in case of a predicted
freeze.
Three Prisoners Shoot Throe Prison
Guards and Federal Judge and
Were Killed Trying to Esoaps.
McAlester, Okie.—There was n
mutiny of prisoners at the Oklahoma
State penitentiary at McAlester Mon-
day, with the result that seven per-
sons were. killed and three wounded.
The prisoners were being returned
from their work to their cells when
Reed, Lane and Koonts, who had been
working in the tailor shop, went to
the storeroom to turn in their day’s
work.
They approached the back door of
the corridor in the administration
building and told the turnkey, Jack
Martin, that they wanted to see the
parole officer. He opened the door,
when China Reed cut down on him
with a six-shooter, shot him through
the cheek and took from him his keys.
The three of them started toward
the warden’s office, met Pat Oates,
the assistant deputy warden, who saw
they were armed. A guard rushed a
shotgun to him from the front tower
Before he could get it into action
Reed had shot him through the heart.
At this time a random ahot passed
through a door into the office of H.
H. Drover, Bertlllon officer, killing
him.
Rushing to the next office room
they encountered F. C. Godfrey, a
guard, and killed him.
Judge John R. Thomas, a leading
citizen of Muskogee, was sitting In a
chair in the office; where he had
gone on business, and without a word
of warning he was shot, dying Instant-
ly.
Then the three men, Reed and Lane
having slxshooters, grabbed Miss
Mary Foster, the telephone girl, and
turned the switohhoard of the tele-
phone exchange over, trying to dis-
connect It, and carried her into the
yard, holding her before them to keep
the guards from shooting. In this
manner they made their way through
the yard with the keys, opened the
front gate and got through the wall.
In some manner the young woman was
shot while passing through the yard
The prisoners threw her down and
ran to Warden Dick’s buggy, which
was hitched in front of the gate.
Jumping into the buggy they drove
east. The guards outside the walls
and on the farm saw them, and Jump-
ing on their horses took after them.
There was a running gun fight with
the result that the three prisoners
were shot dead In the buggy. It waB
said that one guard fired the three
shots that killed the three prisoners,
never missing a shot.
While the shooting was going on
and the prisoners were trying to es-
cape, all of the 1,500 prisoners were
screaming and about a hundred and
fifty in the yard mutinied and prom-
ised trouble, but were suppressed by
the guards.
Judge John R. Thomas of Muskogee
was one of the first Judges after fed
eral courts were established in the In-
dian Territory. He was a noted law-
yer and an honored citizen of Mus-
kogee. He was at the head of nearly
every public movement there and was
universally liked. He was at the pris-
on on a little business matter and
visiting with the officers.
Honored Lae’s Birthday,
Richmond, Val — Celebrations in
commemoration at the 107th anniver-
sary of the birth of General Robert E.
Lee Monday were held throughout the
South. The day was observed as a
legal holiday in Virginia, Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North
Carolina and South Carolina, schools
being closed and business partially or
entirely suspended. In Texas the day
was quietly observed by patriotic so-
cieties and in the schools. Missis-
sippi’s legislature held a brief session
at which tributes to Lee’s memory
were paid. Daughters of the Confed-
eracy conducted special services at
New Orleans.
Good Roads Courss 8tarts.
College Station, Tex.—The first an-
nual good roads short course conduct-
ed by the highway engineering depart-
ment of the Texas Agricultural and
Mechanical College opened Monday
and students of that course are now
being gjven practical Instruction on
how to build good roads Iq Texas.
I. A G. N. Shops to Stay at Palestine.
Rusk, Tex.—The International and
Great Northern shop removal case,
which has been on trial In the district
court for the last two weeks, resulted
In a verdict Saturday In favor of Pales-
tine, and the effect of the verdict will
be tbe retention of the shops and
roundhouse at Palestine.
New Oil Well at 8our Lake.
Beaumont, Tex.—An oil well was
brought in at Sour Lake Tuesday,
which Is reported to be flowing about
100 barrels per day
Exhausted Army Reaches Marfa.
Marfa, Tex.—Almost all of the
3,300 Mexican soldiers and the 1,367
women and children refugees who fled
from OJlnaga, Mexico, had arrived In
Marfa from the border Monday night,
and trainloads were made ready to go
to Fort Bliss, at El Paso, where they
will be interned. Beenes of unbound-
ed joy attended the arrival of the
Mexicans at the American camp after
their four days’ march of sixty-seven
miles from Presidio. The exhausted
and half-famished soldiers literally
dropped on the ground. The town
witnessed all day an unbroken In-
rush of soldiers, ^omen, children,
hor&es, burros and dogs, and when the
vanguard reached Marfa the rear was
still ten miles away.
8urvsys Started for Bridge.
Freeport, . Tex.—Engineers repre-
senting Brazoria County and the Mis-
souri, Kansas and Texas railroad
started field surveys Monday for the
purpose of selecting a site for the new
$120,000 combination railroad and
wagon bridge which Is to span the
Brazos river at Freeport.
Railroad Strike Suddenly Settled.
Albany, N. Y.—The strike on the
Delaware and Hudson railway was set-
tled Monday. Company officials met
the union’s demands that they restore
two discharged employes, Engineer
James A. Lynch and Conductor F. A.
Slade, to their former positions.
Grasshoppers Mske Appearance.
Austin, Tex.—As a result of the
warm weather grasshoppers in large
quantities have appeared In Hamilton
and surrounding counties to the detri-
ment of growing crops.
LAND VALUES
are not dimipishing- Buyers are
looking to us to furnish good prop-
ositions, and our aim is to give
them the benefit of our knowledge
and please the seller as well. List
your land with us if you desire to sell
Lenert, Smith & Lidiak
Land and Insurance Agents
We Represent Old and Reliable
Fire Insurance Companies
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Do You Want a Town Lot?
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Do You Want an Excellent Farm?
Consider well what these questions mean. In
town lots 1 can offer you the best and cheapest
proposition on the market—Houston Harbor Addi-
tion lots.
In farm land, I have the agency for the
ALLISON-RICHEY LAND COMPANY. Lands in Harris,
Wharton and Brazoria counties. None better any-
where. If you can't call on me, drop me a card.
AMZI B. BRADSHAW
Agent for Fayette County
E. J. WEBER
Only the Best Companies Represented
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Farmers
Lumber
Company
Dealers in lumber, sash,
doors, shingles, red and
white brick, cement, lime
—everything needed to
build a house. Give us
a call when in need of
anything in our line.
LaGrange, Texas
DR. W. E. KIDD
GENERAL PRACTITIONER
LAGRANGE, TgXAS
Specialist in treatment of plies and
other rectal troubles and diseases of
women. Calls answered day and
night, city and country. With tbe
Corner Drug Store. Phone 121.
DR. P. BECKMANN
PHYSICIAN AND SUROEON
LaGrange, Texas
■pedal attention riven to DiMaacs <
>nd Children. X-RAY and HJectrical
for the treatment oi all Catarrhal
Call* anawered day or night, city and coantr
Office Bcckmeyer Sanitarium. Phone it*
George willrich,
phlers
Engineering v'pany
Engineers and Architects
Reports, Plans, Estimates and Specif
Will practice la District, Si
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inltary
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upply.
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Portsmouth, Va.( LaGrange, Cameron
and Bishop, Texes. Write or call.
OR. CHARLES M. HOCH
PHYSICIAN AND SUROEON
Office over Hermes’ Drug
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Corner Hotel.
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