NEW BERN SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
AROjLlN-
NEW BERN. NORTH C
A may 18 1915
1
VAST AGRICULTURAL
POSSIBILITIES ARE TO
BE FOUND IN CRAVEN
Since the Days of Baron
-Christopher De Graffen
tied This County Has
Been Famous For Its Fei -tile
Soil A Paradise For
the Farmer and a Good
Place to Live for All
When old Baron Christopher De
Qrnfeni led and his Swim settlers
saikta up the river Neuse away back
In 1710, (bey unknowingly lauded
on one of the most fertile ipoU along
the Atlantic coast, a spot which need
ed only the touch of the ploughshare
to cause it to blossom forth in
yield of agricultural products which
rival those of the far famed valley
of the Nile and whlc h are unsurpassed
at any spot in theis country, for it
was in Craven county that these
doughty settlers decided to oast
their lot and from that day to this
Craven's remarkable agricultural abil
ities have been talked and written
about.
Its Location.
Craven county is ideally located
in every sense of the word. Watered
by two mighty rivers and their num
berless tributaries, located in a tem
perate zone . where snow and frost
are practically unknown, this section
is Indeed blessed and is in fact the
El Dorado for the farmer and the
man who makes it bis life work to
reap from the soil the mighty for
tunes which it contains.
Early History.
For two hundred yoars Craven
has yielded up to the ploughman a
rich harvest year in and year out.
Early in its civilized history farming
was done on a rather small scale, but
as time grew on apace and the popu
lation increased, the number of the
tillers of the sbil also grew and it be
came known as one of the greatest
farming sections in the State. v Fff
ty years ago line farms were to be
found on every side and many stately
colonial homes were surrounded by
hundreds of acres which were in part
in cultivation.
The mighty conflict between the
States caused the county a set -back
and for years there was a spirit of
lethargy manifest and t he -fertile
tion had for the nonce a brief respete
Time passed on and again it grwi
and prospered and today it is furnish
ing and is willing to furnish to all, the
means of growing rich in worldly
goods and to him who cares only for
enough to live comfortably, it affords
a bounty.
It has been ssrtdtrc,vjn;-;truth
thsitrflcttehvhstt ythg can be
grown here,- from a tropical -plant to
the gray "ntoss of the frozen tundras
of the North. Be this as it may, the
faet remains that. the farmer, the
average agriculturist and the man
who uses scientific methods exclus
ively, finds it adaptable to almost
any variety of produce he may wish
to raise. In the past cotton, corn,
sweet potatoes, cabbage, strawberries,
Irish potatoes, and other like vege
tables and grains, have been grown
here with profit. A few yeais ago it
wat discovered that the soil was well
adapted to the growing of the re
nowned bright leaf tobacco and since
that times the farmers have planted
wide acres in this weed.
Trucking Section
The blimstih conditions here in
Craven are sueh as to make the first
truck crops of lettuce, strawberries
radishes and other such products
mature just between the time that
the Florida pioduot is exhausted and
the crop from other sections begins
to reach the market and this causes
the farmers to secure good prices for
the products, which they are able to
furnish to the world.
Following the first crop of early
truck the more staple crops, such as
peps, Irish potatoes are ready for
pie king and digging and forwarding
to the marts of the world. Then
come, the corn, the sweet potatoes
she watermelons and eantdoupes
and In fart it is just one thing after
another until the fall when the to-
baoco comes on, and then the farmer
lays aside his ploughshare and lakes
a uessjed rest and enjoys the fruits
of his labors.
Needs People.
Craven's real need at present is
more people. Many of the (arias are
SOW too large and could with profit
be cut up into smaller sections, and
made to pay greater returns than Is
at present tho oas
the Invitation to coi
its has been extendi
answered the call, s
and contented. 8
for all and those i
S5?MSffrTo
THE FAMILY NAME
Belle Starr's Evil Fame Sur
vive Her After
Twenty-Six Years
WAS ASSASSINATED
spirited and far seeing cniieas. tak
ing into considersplM that the water
mute was much ton slow for the
quick shipper, set about to put a
network of railroads in this section.
and while their efforts at first met
many rebuff, they finally su esse dad
in accomplishing the desired result
and today Craven county is traversed Shot in the Back by a Ren
by as good a system of railways as cgade Her Tomb
one could desire to find. Still Seen
uuwu rrom nunuis, a., mo Suf
folk Southern hu run a line that
enables the farmer living between Muskogee, Okla., May 15. The
New Bern and the northeastern edge Starr family one member, of which,
of the county to get his produce on Henry Starr, the Cherokee outlaw.
Mtva or a train ana to noitou every w Rad c,ptured j
few hours. From Beaufort to New , ,
n j x.T , X1A - fU I IU 1 1 1 IIC (VWU Ul OWVUU tMVCt eoaivs
jltciu s ax vi vast iow wiu vvr vuv l
Northwestern side of the county runs & companions had robbed two aa
another line of the Norfolk and tional banks in daylight has in
Southern while those in the western I eluded some of the worst and some
part of the county can use the At- of the best citizens of Oklahoma
lantio Coast Line Railway Company's Though Belle Starr has been dead
route via Wilmington and from there these twenty-six years killed by an
on to Richmond, Va and points assassin her fame as an outlaw
further North. Then there is the overshadows that of most of her kind
water route which is cheaper but I in this part of the country . It ban
slower. been said that Henry Starr is her
Couldn't Be Better. brother, but that is a mistake. Back
T.v .. . &i ..,,t.. of them all was "Uncle Tom" Starr,
tion facilities could not be very much f.the kdf rou
' I t: 1 C ski PnAaAbAA MatltH
better, and the farmers here never "T"" ,u ",7;v Z
murmur along that line. Combined nePnew' OT ""PP ' '
with this Craven county affords the
fnrmPH artmA trnriA ma H a Of ftnll1"RA
all of the road, are not good, but Tom
they are a hundred per cent better
than they were five years ago, and
the County Commissioners are spend
" I . t n-.-.l. n K !..
thousands of dollars each year in Pose e DO"lu uu"
xne oia nouse oi ueuur nu n
improving them, and in the course
of the next five years there will be as
much improvement work carried on,
if not more, than has taken place in
the past. five.
Good Schools.
Another thing with which Craven
county is endowed, is a number of
the best public schools in the State,
and it is a well known faet that in
I'kllrs J ova
which Befit I
and two liiathsy
whisk Bafie
oas ah each side
One
Alios
Maakogee
as reel Warns of the
a .Win sht iter rife
MudSws owned
carriatf Ar ammunition
at Jill I He.
t.b.osesIM Atttre.
is tna
pobtssssiir
daughter of a
TO COMPILE LIST
FOR CUPID'S USE
Kansas Town Tired of Being
Looked Down On
By Dan.
was nenry otarr s tamer, peue
Starr was the wife of Sam Starr a
Belle Starr lived in the South part
of what is now Muskogee County, In
a lonely retreat in the dense timber
open fireplace, its smoke-begrimed
rafters and its two small windows,
through which many a watchful eye
scanned the approaches to the place,
is standing now as it stood then.
Her Tomb.
In the dooryawhts the grave of
Belle 8tarr, marked by a granite
headstone-chiselled by Joseph Daily,
a rural stonecutter. It bears a rude
riiiavnn orlnta linn Vi n a MS nYt tA a tiiflrH
water mark. Right in New Bern, the
county seat, the white population
have four as nice buildings as will
be found anywhere in North Caro
linn and scattered nil over the re
mainder of the county are numeressl80"
institutions of learning which fur
nish an adequate means of gaining
knowledge, for the children of the
farmer.
Here in Craven county, at Vance-
boro, is located the first Farm Life
School ever established in the State,
and this, while young in years is fast
becoming one, of the greatest eduea
its head a star, beneath it a boil and
on its flank a "B. 8." brand. At the
bottom pf the ato'ne"Is a clasped hand
filled with'fifjiwirrk. The inscription
tional. factors in the county and is regret i
BELLE STARR.
Born In Carthade, Mo.
Feb. I. 1848.
Died
- Feb. 1, 188V.
Shed not for me the bitter
tear,
Nor dive the heart to vain
growing in favor each day..
AU That Is Asked.
With excellent soil, with unsur
passed climate conditions, with an
adequate railway and water service
and with unsurpassed educational fac
ilities, Craven county is indeed bless
ed and in future years bids fair to be
come even more famous than she
has in the past.
Ti but the casket that lies
here
The 4m that filled It
sparkles yet.
MOVIES BROKE UP HOME.
Bandits Refuge.
In this cabin for many years Belle
Starr reigned queen of outlaws, giv
ing refuge to every criminal that
came that way. In return each gave
her a share of his plunder. If any
That one in the surrounding country set
Marshalltown, la., May 15.
the first Indian marriage contracted his face in the direction of law and
at the Iowa 8ao and Fox reservation or(ier ne was mw-ked as an enemy of
at Tama is not a success is forecast tne lawless frequenters of the Belle
in a petition for divorce filed by gtarr rendezvous, and many such
Josephine Youngbear, a matron of wer ambushed and killed. Some
copper hue, from her lawful spouse, more cautious, shut their eyes and
John Youngbear. ewrs to wnat wag going on, and their
The couple were marriedJMare.h 14, reww.d was the protection of Belle
114. Cruel and inhuman treatment, otmr-'s friendship. But this, too, was
such as to endanger her life, is the al- ot without danger To be suspected
legation rasde by Josephine, John 0f aiding, even by silence, the out
denies tho charge and say she has not jawry at her homo was to draw the
only treated hit wife as a white man Lnmjty cf tne Deputy United States
should, but that be has put up pa- Marshals that rode the country, and
tier.tly with a lot of nagging. many of these officers were no less
He also alleges that his wire naa oru,i
become addicted to the "movie habit. umA Womanly Traits.
Belle Starr was not a wholly coarse
Mrs. R. L. Thomas and Miss Bet- and unimaginative woman. 8he was
tie Thomas of Beaufort leturued home touched by tho suffering of the belp
yesterday morning after A visit to losst she loved to ling the old "wep
relatives and friends in the city, w ." accompanying herself on the
I guitar, and on occasion could dis
Mrs. Frank Dorrickson of Eliia- course upon subjects that appealed
beth City who has been spending to polite society. But also she eoud
swear nice a pirate, ner roraanuc
Inclinations were shown in the bright
OREGON MEN "NOT FRESH." nolors of her garment when she went
riding to the towns. If she ever shed
at
missionary who for flppi was at the
Tallahassee Mission, fart h of Musko
gee. One day Relofade up to the
mission sod asked filadgiDg. saying
she was pursued Msf her horse was
lame and exhausted. Hem rtmrincd
t here thiee da493Wrowcd a horse
when she departed fsaving ber own
until she should retjsgSlar it. Several
years afterward Mitt Robertson was
with her father at Mpula, at an In
dian council. BeBnBtarr was in
town, dressed in aVXkdy buckskin
dress and hunting tjjpt with a pistol
in her belt. The ettgfng room at the
hotel was crowded at pinner time, and
when Bells, entered tie only vacant
seat was beside atiss Robertson.
Belle recognised herand apparently
was greatly confusedly reason of her
garments. After dMier she went to
her room and put op a plain dress,
and laid aside her pistol snd was the
prim of propriety a long as Miss
Roberston remained' there. When
Miss Robertson's father died Belle
cried in recalling hew he had be
friended her. Miss Robertson is in
dined to think that Bell Starr was
"more sinned against than sinning."
"Uncle Tom" 8tarr, dead these
twenty years, was of the Cherokee
Nation and lived near Bnartown.
He was a killer from the forks of the
Crtek.
Dldn't Know the Meant nrf of Fear
His son, Sam Stser, was the hus
band of Belle Starr, whose maiden
name was Myra Belle Shirley, her
father being a farmer at Carthage,
Mo. Dunns the recent fight at the
home or rony starriai rorum, me
place haying been attacked by a band
of masked men, Sam Davis, an old
man of much wealth, sat on a high
hill west of Poruwand watched the
battle in which his brother and Pony
Starr whipped their assailants, killing
a number of them, and then escaped
The wife of Saw Davis is the only
surviving child ofVUftcle Tom" Starr
Belle Shirley was1 first married to
James Reed, whose father was a pros
perous farmer nearRieh Hill, Mo.,
and of this union tiro children were
born, Edward Reed and Pearl Reed
The boy grew to manhood, and was
killed in a feud at Claremore. His
sister lives in the lower world at Fort
Smith, Ark. James Reed took his
bride to Texas and turned outlaw.
In time a charge of murder was lodged
against him. He was assassinated.
"She'll Ruin Your Boys."
Reed had lived with "Uncle Tom
Starr on the South Canadian, and at
his death Belle Starr went there from
Texas with her two children. A kins
man of the Starrs saddled his horse
and rode a hundred miles to give
"Uncle Tm" advice, when he. heard
that Belle was making her home with
him. His kirr-an knew Belle, and
said to "Unole Tom:" "This woman
is going to ruin your boys If you 1st
her stay m, and get you into lots
pf trouble. The only thing for you
to ao is to lane vour pisioi uu kui
her That's all I've got to say."
"Uncle Tom" r. plied' that he had
never raised his hand against a woman
Sam Starr and Bell sloped, and the
prophecy of the kinsman was ful
filled. Shortlv after their marriage
they established themselves in their
retreat on the South Canadian, and
there they lived until both died vio
lent deaths. Sam Starr left Belle a
widow one cold December night at a
dance given at the home of Mrs. Luoy
Surratt, near the present town of
Whitefleld.
Widowed by a Qua.
NEGRO "JITNEYSii HOME WRECKED
PROVE rTOttMfW FAR
SAYS COL KEEl.ui
Out In Texas Tkey Are
Filling a Long Felt
Want
Smith Center, Kans., May 15.
A Net "f the names of citizens who
are igible for marriage is being pre
pared by the City Clerk of Smith
fa; n. i r- aud business men who are
gle. rjaids, spinsters and widows.
who live here and are responsible for
the lily's reputation of being a Cu-
nidlesF town..
The list Is being prepared for na-
tien-uidc distribution. It will be
printi d and copies wjU be mailed to
f persons who will write to the
Ciiy Clerk, inclosing postage.
Sine reports of the anti-marrying
attitude as.umed by citizens of this
frertern lor.n and the largo number
of unmarried persons who make the
city theii home were published in
many newspapers, the postmaster
here has been flooded with letters
from people in all sections of the Uni
ted States. The letters assure the
postmaster the authors are anxious
to get married and request he turn
the missives over to one of the town's
unmarried citizens.
Many of the missives are accom
panied by a request to the postmaster
to put the letters in the call box of
some man or woman.
The Mayor and the editors of the
two newspapers are not escaping the
flood of matrimonial correspondence;
After trying to dispose of its im
mense mail, the City Couneil met in
executive session. Arguing the situ
ation from all angles, it decided emer
gency action is necessary.
Tho City Clerk was appointed mat-.
rimonial correspondent, and Smith
Center expects to marry off its single
citizens and double .its population
within a short time.
Austin. Texas, May 15. la Aus
tin and other towns of Texas jitney
service for the exclusive use of ne
groes has been introduced. These
ears are liberally patronised, and the
new service is having the effect of
greatly reducing the receipts of the
street railway companies.
When the "Jim Crow" law, which
requires that negroes and whites be
seated separately in street cart, was
passed a few years ago, a movement
was inaugurated by negroes to boy
cott the street cars. For a time this
organized plan of showing disapprov
al of the race separation law had
strong support on the part of the
negroes, but gradually they again be
gan patronizing the street railway
system.
Introduction of the jitney automo
biles came as a welcome relief to
many of the negroes, who object to
being seated in the rear ends of the
street cars. The jitney automobiles
for negroes are owned and driven hy
men-of that race. They run between
the different negro communities in
town and the business center. It it
stated that' these negro jitneys are
making more money than those for
white people.
Rapid transit jitney service is be
ing extended to interurban traffic.
Nearly every town in' Texas of
more than 2,000 population it now
equipped with jitney automobiles.
Plans for the extension of existing
street railway lines and the construc
tion of new ones have been aban
doned. Councils of the municipali
ties are hesitating about imposing un
bearable burdens upon the jitneys,
for the reason that the new transpor
tation service is in great popular
favor, despite the financial injury it
is doing street railway companies.
BUILT OPPOSITION CHURCH
Rich Friends of Ousted Pastor
Build Near Old Church.
Abilene. Kan., May 15. Last" faR
a church case of more than ordinary
interest was tried in District Const
here, and the Rev. L. Brauer was de
clared by the Court to have been
legally ousted from the pastorate of
the German Evangelical Church at
Shady Brook, sdlflfcesat of Abilene-.
Some of the members of the con
gregation who were lifelong friends
of the ousted minister said then that
they would nqt worship with aaother
pastor.
The Shady Brook community is a
wealthy one, and the Rev. M. Braners
friends soon raised enough money to
build a handsome church near the
one of which Mr. Brauer was for
merly pastor.
The Brauer ohuroh has just been
dedicated anil regular services are
being held.
LOST Pocketbook containing be
tween 13.00 and $5.00, also visiting
cards on James City bridge. Fin
der please return to Hill Tailor
ing Confpahy and receive reward.
5-15-lti. pd.
New Jersey Man Wanted to Ship
Animal.
New York, May 15. Charles A.
Walker, proprietor of the Gray Horse
Hardware Company of Newton, N. J.
walked into the Newton Post Office
yesterday and - said to Postmaster
George N. Norris: ' " '
"George, how heavy do you go on
parcel post packages?"
'WVH go as heavy as fifty pounds.
Charlie," the postmaster answered.
'Come on down to the store,
George," Walker suggested. "I Want
official advice." So the postmaster
and merchant went to the hardware
store, and pointing ont a papier mache
horse in front of the establishment.
Walker asked?"
"Do you think they will take him
by mail? You see I have him stamp
ed and addressed to Hartford, where
I want to send him for repairs and
fittings for harness."
"Well, Charlie," announced the
postmaster, no doubt he's light
enough, but he's too big of bulk. I
can't take him." -
Walker took off the stamps and
called for a wagon to haul his horse
to the freight depot.
liable paradise.
Hen Transportation.
rhabst agricultural p
with'
duett of tl
4h4 fori
Women "Hiked!" It Alone. Un- Unman blood there Is no authentic
armed and Unmolested. record of it. She visited the families
Kugene, Ore., May I V Five Ku- jn Ber vicinity and won the affection
gene young women have Just finished 0f tno women, earing for them In
a "hike" of sixty miles along the Ore- ther ajakness and carrying them food
Far and wide g0n soast unarmed and unafraid of k, Belle Starr is not without her apolo-
s of bears told them at virtually -4.1. and defenders in that section.
place they stopped. They Recently Mrs. Mabel Janes of Ta-
d packs weighing almost 30 m.k.. now an old woman, who knaw
and took their ohances at Belle Starr in the old days, was skews
better oath night. U photograph of Belle's grave. Tears
ily boast that not one tiM the eyes of the old woman at
and that It would ,n pointed to s sumach near tat
for a woman to grave and said: "I planted that ss-
gon alone without meh; Belle told me onoe that ah
wanted me to plant a sumach at her
I its Frieda ... k.n ah m-u nut unnW MMtnd.
hompson gBC VM twining red sumach leaves
t Mary Per- on B0 bridle of her favorite riding
ha Hepburn. Wo-, when aha aikrd tne 10 make
""J tfct premiss, laving: Tin kaav,
Jge' thf Mwtyt tailed a Jot 'I
bo 1
walk
s pro
plaos, my u
Dr. Bertha Htewar
klnt and Mitt
four art mtaban
f Onto tmUy,
Earlier that year 8am bad been
ambushed by officers trying to arrest
him. He was fired upon and Us
horse killed, but he esoaped by spring
ing into tht brush. In the posse was
Frank West, a brother of Capt. John
West of Muskogee, Starr belitved
that his horse bad been killed by
West. At the Surratt dance a big
heap of logs in the yard blazed for
the comfort of the guests, the house
being too small for both stoves and
dancers. West was sitting alone in
tht ytrd by the fire, wrapped in hit
overcoat, when Sam and Belle rode
up on horseback on their way home
from Fort Smith, where Sam bad to
give bail for soma offense charged
against him. Sam was drinking, and
at once began making throats against
West, who was warned to be careful.
Watt said that Starr had no cause to
quarrel with him, and seemingly dis
missed the matter from hit mind
About midnight Sam and Belle
same from the house toward the fire
Robe walking in front. 8uddenly the
Isippid aside and West saw 8am
standing with his pistol drawn. Starr
fired, giving West a -mortal wound in
the neck. West, tugging at his pistol,
finally got It out of his pocket, and
though struggling with death, fired
at Bur. who njliaiajittd la ths
darkness West wat tarried Into tht
bouts tad laid on tht floor
Tht IMI. of MfUgfllag hajaf
heard in the darkness, a search was
made and Starr was found in his
death throes He was laid beside
West who had just breath enough left
to turn his face and see Starr died
Then West gave a gasp and the two
men lay dead together.
Her Own Death.
In the forenoon of Sunday, Feb. 3
1889, Belle Starr stopped at the King
Creek store and gin south of the
river, after having ridden toward
Fort Smith for a day or two with July
She took dinner with the propiietor
of the gin, and at table said she had
a premonition that she would be kill
ed soon. She rode away about one
o'clock, and was last seen at the home
of Mrs. Barnes about 3 o'clock, where
she shopped for a pone of sour corn
bread, of which she waa exceedingly
fond. Watson was standing in the
yard when the arrived, and he at once
left in the direction the wat traveling
He carried a shotgun.
Assassin Acoultted.
At 4 o'clock that afternoon Milo
("Frog") Hoyt, a farmer, had jast
ridden off a ferryboat on ths south
hank of the river when be heard the
clatter of a running horse, and
moment later the riderless mare of
Belle Starr plunged over the river
bank and swam across. Hoyt soon
same upon the body of Belle Starr
in tht road. Two loads of shot had
entered her back
Watson was arrested upon a war
rant sworn out by July. At Fort
Smith merchants and butiness men
along the South Canadian appeared
In kit behalf and convinced .lunge
Parker that Watson wat guiltless.
After Watson wag shot and killed
while a sonvlet la Arkansas kit rata
ttm disclosed that he MsastiMtof
BtUt Itirr,
HORSE BY PARCEL POST.
BRIDGEPORT SEES
A FIERCE RIOT
Bridgeport, Conn, May 15. Wile
a rush order for 4,000 eases of ammu
nition to replace that lost when the
Lusitania was torpedoed, was being
packed at the plant of the Remington
Arms U. M. C. Company, in this city,
feeling over the sinking of the liner
and the war in general precipitated a
riot that nearly coat several lives.
Crowbars, shovels, and ammunition
boxes were used when English speak
ing workmen wee attacked by giant
Hungarian speaking laborers.
The foreman of the gang. Frank
Devil t, was being beaten with a crow
bar when he was rescued by Major
Louis Hermann. He was taken to
the emergency hospital with a deep
dent in his skull and bruises.
He will recover.
Nicholas Neary, another workman,
was beaten murderously wit h a shovel
but waa resound. The foreign born
fighters were repulsed after many
minutes terrific fighting and lied from
the plant.
Philadelphian Declares Sun
day't Crowd is te
tractive One
Philadelphia, May 15.--A bill for
SI. 754 in damages among the
being smashed furniture, broken 1
vanished glassware and damaged brio
a-brae has been prepared by Col.
Charles M. Keegan owner of, tVe
house at No. 1914 Spring Garden 8t
which was used as a horns by Bill
Sunday and his party during their
recent revival in this eity.
"I'm going to present this bill to
the Sunday Campaign Committee, and
if they don't pay it, I'm going to
bring suit,'! said tht Colonel today.
The committee was the organisation
that had charge of Billy's temporal
affairs, ban. Its members know
about tho. Mil and say they art not
going to pay it because it is too high
The temporary Sunday rotHence
was overrun almost every day and
night with delegations of visitors
from local churches and from other
cities, which may explain some of tho
alleged damages.
Whiskey Glasses Unwrapped!.
Coi. K eegan's bill is a very interest
ing document, filling five typewritten
pages. One of the first t hings he com
plains about is that more than 100
glasses disappeared while Sunday's
party occupied his house, tfe as
serts that twenty whiskey -ghtfan.
which be had never taken from pS;
original wrappings were fou nd. after
a search, unwrapped, in a telephone
closet on the first floor.
Wails were gouged, he astffif
Six doors were off their hinges, and
the Colonel charges the modest ' sum
of 94.40 for rahanging them.
item in his bill is for carting 0
loads of rubbish, which he says the
revivalists left behind.
A five-foot jardiniere in the draw
ing room was broken and patched to
gether, he says, in the occupancy of
the temporary tenants. Some owe
broke a leg off a heavy leather chair
in tht room Billy himself occupied.
Heavy on the Piano Stool.
7WiamkJtttt: and
the marble top of a table in a room
on the first floor was cracked.
Then a good many things are mim
ing, it is asserted. Among these is a
marble dog, which graced the Kee
gan recaption room, the big toe of a
status of a girl also in the reception
room, a silver-plated syrup jug and
much bed clothing.
Col. Keegan refused to confirm a
report that several bottles of ginaaul .
whiskey he had left in a. padlocked .
trunk in the cellar were empty and
the lock broken when he took possess
ion of the house again.
Burns, preaumably made b vOsgan
or cigarettes, were found on the Itry
keys and mahogany sides of a piano.
A Catalogue of Missiod Things-
Here is a list of the claims in past:
Missing: Two sets Havjland china,
six oil paintings, nine bath lowols,
three table covers, ton napkins, thir
teen pillow eases, seven sheets, eigh
teen bapr glasses, forty engraved
water glasses t wentysix whitkey glass
es, top wins glasses five cordial glasses
ix ertme de menthe glasses, four
champagne glasses, nine fancy stieni,
one wicker armchair, five embroid
ered soarfs, three silk eutaint, put
Turkish rug, five books, one silver-
plated syrup jug, one marble god
one shade on front door.
The broken things include:
One jardinerc, five armchairs. One
mahogany chair, one large leather
chair, one French plush ehair, one
corner lounge, one piano stool, oat
marble top table.
In the party that stayed at ths
Sunday home were: "Billy" and Mrs.
Sunday, Homer A. Rodhavear, tho
chior leader; Miss Grace Saxe, Blenly
C. Aokley, Sunday's secretory; Miss
Francis Miller; Jack Cardiff, Sun
day'! trainer; George Sunday, Jr.
and Mrs Mary Schuler, the house
keeper Sunday brought on from the
Wett.
Much Scrubbing Afterward
Tho housekeeper was not. attupp.
lous, say persons who went to clean
the house Col. Keegan has
charge for emptoyingjh
and two men taw
Miss Hasel Rooks, of
passed through tho ajj
morning enroute home
ton where she has ben
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saimMlii. newspan
Mrs. O. C
N, C, arrive
mom,! tig and
Wade.
id Wddon,
ty yesterday
if Mrs. J. N.
ire be 1 0 letters
tok. were unearthed in March, bore
tos in January and February, to It
ttmpeesd they lay under the bed a
Santa were oat of alsnoan thirty
chairs by tho time the Sunday part
loft. There wore burned boles oa fi
ve bitmaps and one bedspread
Mrs. Jack Pierce ef Polloeksville
returned home yesterday after
visit to relatives,
Keegan s I
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room smUt
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