The Nocona News. (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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PREPARING FOR DOLLY MADISON BREAKFAST
NOCONA
WALTER HODGES, Ed. and Pub.
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NOCONA.
TEXAS
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UNREST AT CITY OF MEXICO
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COULD NOT BE SAVED
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1200,000,01
ANOTHER BIG SHIP
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ERANS’ SPECIAL IS DERAILED.
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PASSENGER LIST WAS 1,200
FIFTY-FIVE WERE INJURED
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Hattiesburg, Miss.,
May
LEVEE WORK MORE HOPEFUL.
has
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TITANIC PROBE IS COMPLETED.
MILLION
to
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■qualify for the job.
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ing by the cries of the injured.
The tide in the sewer
tunate comrades, carrying them to im
CONFEDERATE OPEN REUNION. .
America
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Americans Prepare for Defense.
feredacy.
score of bands.
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Big Live Stock Loss In Oklahoma.
125,000 FIRE AT SHREVEPORT, LA.
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BOY PLUNGES INTO
DEEP OPEN SEWER
The Youngster Is Swept Out Into
the Ocean, Where the Body
Disappeared.
Declared T
Wide in
Mortgage
Schei
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ifor them will have to
<coats a good deal longer.
auto gang of bandits,
be a bad year for outlaws.
A woman with large feet may have
a large brain, but she has a large
desire to hide said feet.
Mexico just now seems the garden
spot of the world for Americans—tc
stay aw’ay from.
A Bonapartfst heir has been born
but a queen is a poor selection for a
forlorn hope.
Soon the man's vest will follow tbs
■nan’s overcoat.
Keep an eye on the Joyrider.
■till running loose.
Swearing over a telephone line is
Just plain profanity and is illegal.
old-
they
has
only
Believed German Steamer Augsbury,
with $1,000,000 Cargo, Lost.
CURTLY DISMISSES OFFER TO NE.
GOTIATE WITH OROZCO.
ULTONIA LOSES PROPELLER AND
PROCEEDS INTO HALIFAX.
Green viliJ
came to Grl
southeast <
point about
this city tl
that was th J
1 They said t
lions of th]
ing in a nd
The frogs]
■ so thick in I
tracks that I
the road to I
by rolling I
them. |
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Hattiesburg, Miss., May 7—Nine
people, including three women and ■
two children, were killed and fifty- I
fii
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New Yo,
IDO tnortg
Mountain
■oinprehen
.’or the \
Mountain
Ago by tlifj
Ms alreadj
>tockholde|
Luuntain I
July 9 to J
Jure the $
Ing bonds,
to ‘'refund.
Handing oil
.JEjin systeil
*ound num I
Handing it]
The balancl
'efunding J
with the 1
•lancing "al
Jitions andl
.ng equipml
Acquisition I
property. I
The New York authorities dumped
Into the harbor $10,000 worth of re-
volvers, daggers, blackjacks, and oth-
er weapons accumulated in the course
of arrests.
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preacher man In Bpokane is said
fp have stood on his head, probably
$fig?au*« be wanted something solid to
fAfnd on-
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Cuba has the largest tobacco crop
on record, which may assist to ease
the strain on Wisconsin incident to
producing so much of the pure
vana tobacco.
owner
The only differ-
ence between her and other wives Id
that she had the job before marriage
es well as after.
Never judge a man by his appear
ance, nor a meal by the value of the
linger bowl.
The wise sumnier resort gets Into
the public eye early.
Among those able to come back la
jour old friend Wu Ting tang.
The Augsbury had a
Capt. Winter
She was bound for
Old Soldiers and Members of Grand
Saline Band Do Valuable
Rescue Work.
El Paso. 1
flours' con fl i]
ez, which ti
and threatei]
Jey and C.
cans, were 1
the strenuoul
the wife of I
tunate in h]
elite enouglJ
According tol
is an Amerit l
of Coahuila,I
was struck I
the head wit!
of Jose OrozJ
of tile rebM J
around his il
until his feet I
iter of times. I
In addition I
■ was shot anti
ftiung until 11
B'ery eyes of I
■vert- told thal
■text. I
' El Paso WII
KI Paso, Te;
for damages
leu which c
luring the ,M
Juarez are to
it once by .1
t. Uorente
huso claims, t
Ramage ca«<-«|
nd Douglas,
onslderation
onsule sass
More Wreck Victims May Be Texans.
New Orleans, La.: A telegrame re-
received here from the Mayor of Grand
Saline, Texas, states that the descrip-
tions furnished by the New Orleans &
Northeeastern Railroad officials of the
four unidentified victims of Monday’s
wreck of the first section of the "Van
Zandt Confederate veterans' special,"
near Hattiesburg, Miss., appear to in-
dicate that they are lx-onard Hollis,
wife and two children of Edgewood.
Texas.
/elt 64 G,
President
- tary to cJ
Jonventio
Roosevelt
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Ths Govsrnor Promlssd.
Albany, N. Y — When Governor
Dig's auto becama stuck In the mud.
a farmer refused to pull It out uatU
the governor would promise io sign a
go-xi roads bill. The governor prone
feed.
That new slit skirt will not become
the fashion if the managers of the
burlesque shows have anything to say
about It. They cannot afford such
ruthless competition.
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Victim of Tragedy Waa Doing Balano*
ing Stunta on the Tope of the
Pilings When He Toppled
Into the Water.
Show* Nerve, Then Faints.
Camden, N. J.—At the point of a re-
volver, Mrs. Mary Borich of Master
street and Ferry avenue the other aft-
ernoon compelled a thief to drop
some jewelry he had stolen after he
had engaged board at the bouse, and
then hustled him into the street. Hard-
ly bad the thief disappeared before
the woman fainted, but soon was re-
vived by neighbors. Early in the day
a well-dr seed youth, who gave the
name of Stanislaus Sobliski, was di-
rected to a room upstairs. Mrs. Bor-
ich later became suspicious and caught
him in the act of taking jewelry from
her room.
A N interesting spring hospitality, which is absorbing much attention, is the breakfast to be given by the Demo
A cratlc women of Washington on May 20. Like the Jefferson day banquet given annually by the men of the
Democratic party on the birthday anniversary of the father of Democracy, Thomas Jefferson, the breakfast of
May 20 will honor the patron saint chosen by the women of the party, Mrs. James Madison, the one woman of all
w ho have presided In the home of presidents who has been banded down to fame under an abbreviated Christian
name. The beloved "Dolly" during her long life was said to be the most popular woman In the country.
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Women's coats are to be shorter thin
Reason, the dressmakers say, but in a
|good many cates the men who pay
— "1 to wear their
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As bls first quarterly pension the
ex-emperor of China has received
$640,000. It looks easy, but tbink of
ell the red tape one must unwind to river north of this city.
Work has progressed on the Pon-
chartrain protection levee south of the
city to such a point that there is no
longer danger of inundation of the
country below here in the event of a
break in the fgront levee.
A woman and her two daughters
were drowned in Bayou Latnache. 'I he
raft on which they were endeavoring
to reach high ground went to pieces in
the swift current. Two thousand ref-
ugees were rescued by the Government
steamboat fleet in the back section ol
the flooded district.
by way of encouragement for
1b« ladle*, it may be mentioned that
• Iwotnfc* Jn FlUladelphle n6t only did
Aje proposing.' but paid the car fare,
•ought the licenoe and gav« the pa.-
MB hl* due
Tugs Help Cunarder Reach Port,
Where Those Aboard Are Trans-
ferred to Trains.
A Chicago theater
■wedded his cashier.
Business Is Dead and Country Face*
Dire Calamity Unless Revolt Is
Crushed or Compromised.
An Ayatrlaji archduchess has in-
vested a hew wax candle. She is be-
Itfnd the time*. But perhaps it takes
et *Whlle for archduchesses to catch up
44th the modern procession.
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;Ten tons of storage warehouse eggs
el*e the subject ef a Litigation that has
A$<$n carried to the supreme court.
believed New Yorfsra will get a
q&gnce to eat those eggs in April,
1S13.
-,A Chicago judg* rules that while
> .husband I* competent id p|y for
M* <*ff*a gpwo* be la het competent
U’ tbtj. t * . (
Ta^trofeaaor Mils t>* that It is
<gu- *si!>le to live on !■•• (ban tl.flM
>e*a than that
Mr O^J)
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The joy rider has begun bls sum-
mer campaign. Check him.
waa blown t/om the track. Including
a e-. rf bog*. b* ‘ O< them belBg killed.
City of Mexico: The American de-
fense organization, nearly LOCO strong,
is prepared for an emergency. Ten
companies—or "groups," as they
choose to designate themselves, in
order to eliminate any suggestion ot
a military organization—armer with
Krag-Jorgenscns and with 250 rounds
of ammunition per man, will concen-
trate in a prescribed area In the
American colony for sel(-defense in
the event, happily regarded as remote,
of development of anti-American dis-
orders, or invasion of the city by ir-
responsible hordes.
Chicago has been having prairie
fires. Chicago has everything except
mountain climbing.
. ities until permanent peace is restored
1 by some means and tourists begin to
I visit the country again. They bring
I in the cash, which they spend freely,
| but there have been few of them for
a year and none at all recently.
C ity of Mexico, May S.—The capital
is seething with alarming rumors and
there is much unrest among the peo-
ple. The government issues a type-
written bulletin each evening to the
journalists," which is principally made
up of denials of exerything except Fed-
eral victories, which are not conspic-
uous. Much space is usually devoted
to describing the slaughter of two or
three rebels, but no actual news is
imparted, as a rule.
De la Barra, one of the strong men
of the country, placed his services
at the disposal of Madero severul
weeks ago and proposed to negotiate
with Orozco to settle all differences
and restore order. Madero rather curt-
ly refused to listen to De la Barra
and declared he desired only to sub-
jugate the rebel chieftains by force of
j arms.
The capital is perfectly quiet and
the crowds on the streets seem placid.
Business is dead and there are no
j hopes of revival of commercial actlv-
I until A n 1 — _ ____i
New York.—By tumbling into a
street excavation opposite 313 East
Seventy-first street the other day, Wil-
liam Boheriey. about four years of
age, plunged into tjie uncovered sewer
12 feet below and was swept out into
the East river, three blocks away,
where the body sank and was whirled
south with the tide.
For a distance of almost fifty feet
a half score workmen saw the body
carried in the thick, murky waters of
the sewer and then vanish where the
excavation ended, a hundred feet or
so west of First avenue.
The excavation is the width of the
sewer main and shored up with heavy
planks on each side. The top was re-
moved for repairs and for a distance
of 50 feet is uncovered. The shoring
planks rise above the street level in
I Irregular pilings for the purpose of
I fencing the excavation and preventing
1 unwary pedestrians from tumbling in.
But there are breaks here and there
in the shoring and the boys that
i swarm the neighborhood have persist-
ed in wriggling through and walking
along the edge of the excavation or
doing balancing stunts on the tops of
the pilings.
The victim of the tragedy was do-
> balancing stunts
New York: There is a fear among
shipping men that the German steam-
ship Augsbury, which left here on Feb.
2 last with a cargo valued at $1,000,000
is lost, and that all on board have
perished.
Word was received that the German
cruiser Bremen, which put out from
Bermuda to search for the vessel, has
not been able to locate her.
The last word received of the Augs-
bury was on April 11, when a steam-
ship sighting her in latitude 36 North
and logitude 56 West, and said she
was drifting,
crew of thirty-six men.
is in command.
Australia.
When Massachusetts men becom*
too old to work they proceed at once
to wed.
One swallow doe* not make a sum-
mer, nor one poem a spring.
Good Weather Puts Heart into Army
of 5,000 Men.
ALLENS READY FOR TROUBLE.
Wytheville, Va.: Evidence Intend-
ed to show the Allens came to Hills-
ville prepared to ‘ shoot up” the Car-
roll County Court, continued to be in-
troduced at the trial of Floyd Allen,
the first of the band to be tried in con-
nection with the killing of March 14.
Witnesses testified of Floyd Alien's
threats toward the court and Cyrus
Phibbs, a civil engineer, swore that
on the day before the shooting, when
the Allen jury came into court to re-
port a disagreement, Sidna and Claude
Allen prepared themselves for a ver-
dict by reaching for their revolvers.
Dexter Goad, clery of the court, who
was shot four times during the affray,
refuting the charge that the court of-
ficers had begun the firing, testified he
did not see Sheriff Webb draw his re-
volver. It was developed on cross-ex-
amination that he had written a let-
ter to the contrary.
Order Care Rushed to Fort.
Cheyenne, Wyo.: Orders have been
received by the Colorado and South-
ern Railway to seize all empty flat,
box and stock cars, no matter to whom
consigned, and send them to Fort D.
A. Russell, for shipping* horse* and
equipment of the Ninth Cavalry, which
Is expecting order to move to the Mas-
lean border at any time.
About eight-Ava slock
been delivered already,
Dalia*
dcratic c
to 2 o’cM
but the i
ventions
mg vietd
Of New J
‘.est whid
Wilson 4
lion with
lontrol tl
lelegatesl
Itructiona
lomblnatl
'orces wJ
nation. I
The votl
non 121 I
vortlng 14
Necessarjl
Action J
mentions J
('• 'tounties I
Statistics show that surgery
r*tade such progress that now ____
about one operation in 50 is fatal,
■Mt the pocketbook suffers just as
ifttuch as it/iid before.
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.^WiB chat Connecticut young woman
■who announces defiantly that she will
■tot wed .until she is allowed to vote
■bell us c^crnfidenttajly how many pro-
posal* she has had?
j IUC piilllgB.
... « .
i ing one of these
when he suddenly toppled over and
went headlong down into the rushing
| water below.
There were no workmen within
twenty feet of where the boy splashed
Fireman Fall* Through Awning and I*
Badly Injured.
Shreveport, la.. Four two-story
brick building* were gutted by fire
Tuesday night, the lose lining estimated
at $Z&.00(>. The seeond stories used
for rooming purposes, ware totally ruin
nd Water badly damaged the stock
in the store* on the ground floors
Beweral firemen fell through an awn-
lag. Me of Omm, Jone* witey.imJM
badly injured.
Drenching Rain Does Not Dampen Ar-
dor of Old Southern Soldiers.
Macon, Ga.: A drenching downpour
of rain which continued intermittently
throughout Tuesday, did not damjien
the ardor nor allay enthusiasm in the
opening here of the twenty-second an-
nual reunion of the United Confeder-
ate Veterans.
Throngs of visitors and thousands of
veterans participated in the first day's
sessions of the runion. Rousing ad-
dresses were delivered by prominent
men and women of the quondam Con-
At frequent intervals dur-
ing the day music was rendered by a
The rain and mud-
bespattered uniforms were forgotten
when the strains of "Dixie" were heard.
Each time the familiar tune was greet-
ed with tumultuous cheers and the
"rebel yell."
Sessions were held by the veterans
in the morning and evening and meet-
ing* were conducted by the United
Sons of Confederate Veterans and oth-
er affiliated organizations.
cars havs
Scouts from
th* fort hav* b«*n busy rounding up
th* m*n
vW il
ft 1
In England the objection that wom-
en cannot fight is rapidly going out
of use, although there are still
fashioned people who think
Should not fight.
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Halifax, N. S., May
trans-Atlantic liner has been damaged i
in the ice fields which crowd the en-
trance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The Cunard liner Ultonia from South-
ampton. bound to Montreal, arrived
here Sunday night in a disabled con-
dition, and reported the loss of one
propeller. The Utonia has twin screws
but Capt. Prothero decided not to risk
further ice perils ot the Gulf and pro-
ceeded to Halifax, the nearest port.
This is the Ultonias first trip to
Canadian ports this season. She had
1,200 passengers on board, who were
debarked and forwarded by rail
their destinations in Canada and the
United States.
Phenomenal ice conditions are re-
ported in the track of trans-Atlantic
liners, extending far south of the
Grand Banks. Navigators have to ex-
ercise great caution in approaching the
Gulf of St. Lawrence, where the field
ice is closely packed, and in some
cases extends for many miles.
The Ultonia is a four-masted twin-
screw steamship of 10,500 gross ton-
age, of 500 feet length, 57.4 feet beam
and 33.9 feet in depth of hold. She
was built for the Cunard line by Swan
and Hunter in 1898 and was until last
October engaged in the New York-
Mediterranean service, carrying sec-
ond and third-class passengers, .ac-
cording to the reports the Ultonia was
300 miles east of the Gulf or St. Law-
rence when she was damaged.
Parts has caught the leader of its .
itn nf bandits. This seems to !
• FEARS FOR SAFETY OF BIG SHIP.
Guthrie, Okla.: Estimate* place the
loss of live stock in recent tornadoes
and flood* in Oklahoma at 5.000 head,
a* but few communities In the State
do not report some loss. In this coun-
ty alone 300 head of live stock drown-
ed In recent floods, and from one herd
of cattle In Kingfisher County twen-
ty-flv* were drowned. During the tor-
nods st Tugert. an Orient freight Wais
HAD 11 CENTS; INHERITS $25,000
Farm Hand Rewarded for Having
Saved Two Girls From a Fir*.
Marlon, Ind.: At work on a farm
i and with only 11c In his pocket, wil-
liam H. Prickett was told he had In-
I horlted 125.000 from Frank Horch. a
, ranch owned of Pocatello, Idaho, for
having rescued Horch'* two daughter*
from their burning home several year*
i ago- Prickett, then a circus bill pos-
i tar, risked bl* life by running Into
i th* blazing house and carrying tba
girl* to aalety. a
Committee Will Recommend Detention
of Improperly Equipped Vessels.
New York: When the Senate Com-
mittee's investigation of the sinking
of the Titanic was completed here by
Senator Wm. Alden Smith, it became
known that the committee's report,
which may be ready for the Senate
in a week, will be based on these facts
brought out in the testimony:
The Titanic was warned of icebergs
by other vessels. The liner was run-
ning twenty-three knots an hour and
did not slacken her speed. Captain
Smith was not on the bridge but at
dinner in his cabin. The lookout in
the "crow's nest" was not provided
with binoculars. There was no evi-
dence that the water tight compart-
ments were closed at all. There was
no evidence that the life-saving appar-
atus and safety devices were properly
tested before the Titanic left South-
ampton. There were lifeboats for not
more than one-third of those on board.
It was learned that some of the
things that Senator Smith s report to
the Senate will recommend are: More
complete American inspection of lin-
ers. The United States cannot inspect
foreign built liners before they are
launched, but this country can prevent
improperly built and equipped vessels
from leaving American ports. Regu-
lation of life-saving apparatus and ef-
ficient water tight compartments.
Standardization of the wireless.
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A Nebraska farmer lays claim to
a hen that has laid 1,000 eggs in three
years. Another argument in favor of
substituting the hen for the eagle as
our national bird.
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five injured when the first section ot |
tlie “Van Zandt Confederate Veterans’
Special" of eleven cars en route to Xa-
con, Ga., was wrecked Monday morn,
ing on a trestle one mile east of About
chie, Miss., on the N. O. and N. E|
railroad.
The locomotive, baggage car, one
day coach and three tourist sleepers
were derailed and tumbled down a
high embankment, making a conglom
erate mass of wood and iron debris.
Although several hundred Confederal*
veterans were aboard the train, not
one was numbered among the dea<L I
Several of the veterans were injured, I
though none fatally.
The scene immediately after the [
crash was made particularly distress- j jqe Toppled Over,
ing by the cries of the injured. Those '
among the agred veterans who were ! and there was no possibility of
injured assisted in extracting less for- | saving him.
______________________ ’ washes swiftly toward the river and’
provised hospitals in the few coaches ■ small body was borne along as if
not overturned. Many of the injured I a chip. To those who
veterans did what they could toward
relieving the more seriously hurt.
When the engine and tender left the
track at a short trestle they were fol-
lowed by the baggage car, day coach
and three tourist sleepers.' These cars
were badly splintered and it is regard
ed as almost marvelous that any of the
occupants escaped.
A band of forty musicians from
Grand Saline, Texas, none of whom
was hurt, rendered good service in res
cue work.
Eaton Rouge, La.: Good weather
came Tuesday and put heart into the
army of 5,000 men who are working
in this section to hold the levees.
Although a further rise in the river
Made more threatening the condition of
the front levee at Baton Rouge, it is
felt that the battle is won if sunshine
will continue another day, barring, ot
I course, unexpected heavy rises in the
news) MADERO REFUSS
PEACE PROPOSALS
600 REBELS KILLED IN BATTLE TWO TEXAS WOMEN
CRIPPLED BY ICE KILLED IN WRECK
Mexico City: Cltleeu hundred reh-
els who on last Friday occupied Cau- , SEVEN OTHERS DIE WHEN VET-I
tero Cienegas, were met and defeated j
by 400 Federate under Lieut. Col. Pab- I
lo Gonzalez, between Cautero Cienegas
and Monclova Sunday.
The rebel dead numbered 600. The
rebels fled in disorder toward Cuatero,
Cienegas. The Federal loss was not
made public. Gen. Trucy Aubert, with
forces said to number 3,000, is in Mon-
clova and will take command ot an
I attack to be made upon the rebels at
6.—Another ! (’ a“tero C*enesas'
Engagements with the rebels at Sin-
aloa are reported from Mocorita and
Comadero. At Mocorito 800 rebels
were defeated by the Federate and lost
fifty four dead and sixty-four prisoners.
The Federal losses were small.At Com-
adero the rebels lost over 100 head
and a large amount of ammunition.
A Connecticut man was killed as
the result of an April fool joke. Prob-
ably sprung by fellows w-bo rock the
boat.
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---------- nnv a laicr? nun
Many of the injured ' Iwn a chip. _ ----- ----
looked on and were unable to act it
seemed only a matter of seconds be-
fore the boy's body vanished.
Several w-orkmen and a troop of
boys sprinted down the street for the
East river, but it was not likely that
they went as fast as the body of the
boy was whirled along. When they
reached the pier that looks down on
the mouth of the sewer they provided
themselves with boat hooks and ropes
and watched for about half an hour.
They watched in vain. Later ex-
periments were made by tossing
! pieces of timber into the excavation
and trying to keep pace with their
progress down the sewer, but the
fleetest runners among the boys in
the district were unable to keep pace
with the progress of the rushing wa-
ters.
The tide was running out at the
time the boy was lost—about 3:15
o’clock.
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