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EVANSVHJtiE HOME Daily Healthogram BY A PHYSICIAN Abscessing of tonsils is called quinsy. Such abscesses usually break into the throat: When a person has had three attacks of quinsy it is usually proof enoigb that the tonsils are of little further Service. A physician's advice on removing them should be followed. Sworn daily aerae paid circulation for 1 IZ the year 1912. YOU SEE IT; YOU HEAR IT; IT'S EVERYWHERE THE PRESS ONE CENT.

SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1913. Vol. 7, No. 239. San Joaquin Goes When A Waterway Like me HEM MMTM fill UHiU hi Eli IJii PTIISftl FlilliriiCD eirs If They 'Holler? To Waste, Can You Blame 1MIIIIN0IS SAYS I wll 'rt i I IFEICIA fv3 ii 3 Before the Railroads Came It Was Good Enough to Carry the Treasure of a Great Valley Forth tothe World.

After the Railroads Got Its Business the River Suffered Havoc from Nature. The Valley Wants Back Its Own as a Leveler of Freight Rates. Other Rivers and the Panama Canal As hi via 1 I I Owing to wire trouble no river reports were received Sat unlay morning. The river is expected to renvitn nearly stationary Saturday afternoon ami nisht and begin fallmii slowly by Sunday night. AL.

BRAND, Local U. S. Forecaster. their homes are in nearby cities or in the hills back of the city. "Mound City is making a desperate fight and there are four companies of national guard working on the levee, momentarily expecting breaks.

Should this occur, the matter of saving the people is- questionable, because there is no high ground around to which it is possible for them to go. The Ohio river is quiet today. Of course, it's high on a stand at 4S.3 feet, but the day is calm and there is to be no wind in the next 24 hours. There is no further danger, and on Sunday the river will begin to crawl back into its kennel. It will 1.., Jm.4v"-J1 0f 71 h' Water is around them 15 to 25 feet deep.

"From reliable reports I would say that in the present flooded area in Southern Illinois there are 20,000 homeless and in dire need. BV HARRY ASHTOX. FRESNO, April 5. That growing young giant, the San Joaquin valley, is not entirely happy. Rich, flourishing, thrifty, popular yet his brow is not unclouded.

He has been robbed of his birthright, and he wants it back. And he is just beginning to realize how badly he needs it. This birthright is navigation on the San Joaquin river. Without it he will be a vassal to the railroads. Time as when the San Joaquin river was the highway of th great valley.

Little steamboats and big. barges plied upon its ample bosom, hauling out the wheat the boulevard' and while some women made haste to reach their second stories, others made arrangements to move. Another report was current that the shelter house in Sunset park had topple into the river and the park was about to be washed away. This made many uneasy. Water ran into practically all the First-st wholesale house basements, including Ragon Bros.

Mackey-Nisbet, Gans, Boettieher-Kellogg and Chas. Leich Co. The Cook Brewing bottling shop basement has water. Boats hugged the river bank all day Friday because of the wind. In those sections of the city flooded, but not enough for boat service, scaffold walls across the intersections permitted the resi Cv the Vnited- Press.

WASHINGTON-, April 5. There is serious want in a great part of the flood area, according to telegrams received today by the Red Cross. Between IS. 000 and 20.000 people are homeless in Southern Illinois. At -least 30 towns are affected In Ohio, 20 in Indiana and many in Illinois, Kentucky and West Virginia.

The situation is very serious in a number of Indiana cities. The report of Adj. Gen. Dickson, transmitted to Red Cross directors today, indicates the gravity of the situation in Illinois. "We have a flooded territory on the eastern edge of the state along the Wabash river, another in the heart of the middle-western part of the state along the Illinois river, but the most serious situation is along the Ohio and the Mississippi, but particularly the Ohio," the report says.

"The entire territory above Mt. Carmel on the Wabash, down past Cairo, is either submerged or in grave danger of being under. Shawneetown is under 30 feet of water and has been abandoned. The 1,000 people driven from be several days before me oia stieam looks normal again. Water continued to line in the flooded dwelling section of the city Friday and Friday night, despite the coming of the crest in the river stage.

Saturday morning the water was slightly higher on Linwood, Evans. Bedford. Grand and Ken- OBSERVER BRAND A wistful picture which might be entitled "Waiting for the R. E. Lee" but which isn t.

It in fact, in the same spirit, but actually is the scene of the widely heralded arrival of the last boat that came up the San Joaquin liver to Fresno. A fervent hope prevails that it will, of a new era, be the first. resi ID DANDY WORK half the ost, ins was men agreeo tucky-avs and along other I from the fields and the river be-i gan filling up. Today most of. the unon u.ider the government's new dence streets.

This rise in tue city, while the river was on a stand, is attributed to the lloow- that will last a "month. Indeed, the valley tantalized itself with the prospect in the summer of 1911, luring a flood tide in the river t'rom the melting snows of the 'mountains. A San Joaquin boat, 'oy virtue of much preparation and amid great excitement. Observer Brand, who is in year a Doat wouia neea suns to get to the historic landings of older days. Also now a great light has dawned upon the teeming population of the valley, the present charge of the local branch of the United States weather bureau, has policy to lest local sentiment for improvements by requiring tnat some of the cost be borne by the section to be benefitted.

With this much settled, a considerable feeling of contentment with progress pervades the situation. An effort to round up the money, $32,000, is now being and cattle to market, 'lhey named out so much that the railroads came. Hurrah! They were kind, and they were welcome. They made agreeable rates for the big cattle barons and the wheat kings. The boats that went up 200 or 250 miles began to come back empty.

The railroads on both sides of the river were getting the business. The boats became fewer and fewer, and went less and less far up the river. In the meantime th valley was settling rapidly and hundreds of thousands of acres of i heir. It realizes that the more tt been on the job at every stage of dents to get to the car lines without wading. Street car men said Saturday that the Bell and Walmit-st car lines arc the only two not flooded at points.

The I. C. has sent out 200 to follow the receding water and put the railroad track back into condition. The water in Oakdale is five inches higher than it was on Thursday and an inch higher than wormed its way over the old pathway again up to within 18 miles of Fresno. All Fresno journeyed out to ste it, and extend an imploring t.vation.

It was a vision that can't well be repeated until the government gets busy and re has railroads, the more it needs the river. Thsre is not much river left, after the first 50 miles. In nine months cf the year it is mainly sand bars. This is keenly felt. If ever boats resume traffic on this ing in of rain water from higher ground.

Promise of the beginning of the decline Sunday buoyed tho people living along flooded Friday was a day of uncertainty. Wild rumors sent more than a few women onto the verge fhysteria an dgave others opportunity to laugh and joke with their less hopeful neighbors. A report that the Green Itiver-rd boulevard had broken put hundreds of women in the southeastern section of the city to packing their portable effects and calling frantically for help. Somehow a report got circulated that water was rushing rapidly into the city from a break in grazing land were turned up by stream as of yore, there will be a the clow. The flood waters be came burdened with silt and sand 1 California festival and holiday CAIRO EXPECTS TB KNOW FAIE BY UtllGHT the game during the flood, as he is when there is no flood or other unexpected catastrophe, and his predictions have come out nearly to a Brand said the river would come to a stand between 4T and 4S feet.

That prediction was made a week ago The river did come to a stand at 4 7.9 feet, but a heavy rain, which Brand hadn't figured on a week in advance, caused the river to rise an additional several inches. Taking it a-11 through the flood. Brand has done Evansville very fine service on the job both day and main. His home telephone was about as busy as his office phone for 10 made. Fraftk E.

Hill, secretary, of the Fresno Traffic says: "This survey is to be a comprehensive one, and will produce information of tremendous importance to the whole valley, whatever the facts it establishes. These facts will throw light 'lot only upon whether the river is adapted to navigation if improved, but will in any event demonstrate the river's resources for irrigation water and its use for drainage. Ever, if this is the only result, it will benefit the agricul on Friday. The home of Wm. Sanders In Garden Acres, was battered apart by waves Friday and the family had to be moved to the McCreary home on Cass-av.

Many stables in Oakdale are off their foundations, PRISONERS filAY BE PUT TO WORK THE LEVEE claims the river. The business people of the upper valley, and especially of Fresco, are doggedly trying to have that done. Strange to say, and this is halfway" between comedy and tragedy, all that stopped the noat rrom going closer to Fresno was a county, bridge without a draw span. On the ether hand, all the railroad bridges crossing the former channel do have draw spans, monuments of their former respect for it. But if the government ever lets boats get all the way up again-believe this: that county bridge will have a draw span put into it instants.

Then the boats can get a few miles nearer Fresno, and tural interests, which are para nT faited Pre. days. mount. It may be. that the survey will show that water is plentiful for both navigation and irrigation.

In fact, it may show that improvement of the river for navigation will be a benefit in sections of the-valley where irrigation has been overdone. In India it has been shown that the deepening of riv- Prisoners confronting City institution, barring any prisoners Judge Gould in the last few days I from leaving or any other persons with impunity laugh, refuse to from entering the place. CAIRO, April o. tseiore mia-night residents expect to know the fate of the city. The crest of i the Ohio river flood should bear down upon the bulkhead before Sunday morning.

There was no let-up to the work of banking saidbags above the levee. PE TELLS OF Judge uotiia isaturuay an- ipay fines if they care to and say: 'We don't have to ao to nounced he nau. a tnt-ory wnicn no 3 ail and Fine us iail and lonsrer would permit tbrt offend Fresno why Fresno will build -a canal to connect with it and have a water terminal to the universe you can't make us go. OHIO TOWH SITUATION 1 ers nas resulted in uramiug me ta million dollars." be swept off its foundation ii vi i i thrilling rescues. Two old negroes How his life was saved after i and any ground water from areas adjacent.

right the heart of town float out into the current he had seen nine head ot muies These conditions are brought about by smallpox in the county jail and the quarantining of that drown and 6,000 bushels of his It is food for thought in the val- where water table has risen so that Germany is building bil-j high is ruin the soil for agri- moment. The loss of my mules and corn did not affect me so much as my own danger. 1 was lev corn swept away; how he was sit culture. were taken from a raft after they bad drifted without food for three days. Two women, one sick with typhoii lever, three children and two men were rescued from a Coating house.

ers to defeat justice. He promises' to put it in eifect if he is supported by the county commissioners and council meeting Monday night. The theory is to put the prisoners, who under ordinary conditions would be sent to jail, at work. When the Ohio begins to lions of dollars' worth of canals The first word Mgr. McGowen, of the New Grand, received from his niece, Miss Dora McGowen, survivor of the Miamisburg, ting in the attic window ot nis house under the gable when the mighty glad to see the boat com ing to me.

rescue boat came; how the house i flood, was a letter Saturday con- "As I was getting into the boat was about to be washed away, where it isn't favored with rivers, but here is a river that isn't even improved in a wide area that is potentially richer. It has been two years since the San Joaquin valley woke up to the was told to Township Trustee At-kin Saturday by Robt. Gibson, 35, I saw the house give and I know that it did not withstand the foot of water that has come since I was taken off. Besides being not too proud to take a leaf from India's book of knowledge in the way of drainage benefits, and from that of more-modern Germany in the way of getting waterway facilities, the San Joaquin shippers want their share of the world traffic that will cpme to the Pacific coast through the opening of the Panama canal-They want to send their commodities all the way by water. It is tantalizing to have a river only to food refugee from Kentucky, absurdity of the situation, bince GIRL THOUGHT TO HAVE DROWNED HAS RETURNED who called on Atkin for aid.

HAYWOOD FREED BY JUSTICE DF SUPHCOURT then there has been a determined "I have a piece of property at Gibson lost his wife shortly be fore the flood came. Like other Clay, valued at $500. Lend me enough to get a ticket to got taining many thrills. Miss McGowen is manager of the telephone exchange in Miamisburg and hardly without warning she and nine exchange girls found themselves penned in the exchange, water raging on all sides. For three days they were unable to attract the attention of rescuers.

From the windows the girls saw pianos, household furniture and houses float past them. movement to unchain the river. Red tape is a baffling thing. It is like steel cables to unwind. It farmers living across the river there and I will send the amount back," he asked Atkin.

clutches its victim tightly, coil up fall there is certain to be a large quantity of brush, dead stock and other debris brushed upon the flooded Erections of the city. Judge Gould would put the prisoners at the work of cleaning up the city. The county jail will be under quarantine for seven days. In the past few days, since the quarantine was established, Judge Gould has shown forced leniency by allowing ordinary drunks and minor offenders to go free. In other more serious cases he has continued trials until later dates.

from Mt. Vernon, in the Kentucky bottoms, he did not expect the flood to reach devastating magni on coil, and cannot be snapped. Atkin told him he could have a ticket, but said he could get work look at. The up-river points want to be lik3 Stockton, down near the Men have become hoary at me task! tude. mouth, which is not even on the When he realized it was to be on the T.

C. He went out with a gang of workmen to Stevvarts- The chief trouble has been to Luro Cole, whose disappearance from here Thursday caused ber parents to believe she might have been drowned in Pigeon-ck, has returned home. A farmer living five miles out on First-ay road brought the child to the Associated Charities Friday afternoon. main river, but which can ana a real nooa ne couiu uui gu a. does send the bulk of its potatoes start the unwinding, ine oan Joaquin river has never had a sur rescue boat.

And here is how he ville Friday and the gang was brought back Saturday. and era in to San Francisco by wa told the story to the township ter. Of course, the rates by boat vey. There nas to De a survey before vou can go to congress and trustee: Bt tk Vnlted PreM. PATERSON, April 5.

Justice Minturn of the state supreme court today freed Wm. Haywood and Adoiph Lessig, leaders of the silk strike, from a charge of unlawful assembly. The decision establishes the and rail are the same from there "I took my mules to the highest but as Secy. Hill points out, "the ask for relief. The first agitation for a survey resulted in a fizzle point on the Geo.

Martin farm. river makes the rates, not the rail The flood never had gotten over The government engineers to whom the matter was presented road. Water is the greatest level er of rates in the world." ioiher ram that before. My corn was in a raised crib. Then I went back to made a report on the proposition.

FLOOD HERE CLOSES ABOUT 25 FACTORIES Between 15 and 5 of Evans-villes factories are closed on account of the flood. Two of the Globe-Bosse-World factories ar closed, the Evansville cigar factory, the Davidson-Diettich Plow the U. S. Furniture factory, Hartig-Becker Stove works-, Southern Broom factory. Peerless Seat and Tank an And that's undoubtedly axiom.

adversely. That killed off the plan LEVEE NEEDED, SAYS WORKER STICKELMAN Worker Stickelnian says the city is in great need of a levee on the south side of the city to protect the residences in that section in future floods. "This is a problem for this and the next administration," said Stickelnian ZIEALTHERS ISSUF, TIMELY WARNING Healthers Saturday issued warnings to residents in the southern section of the city to guard against creating added sew-asre about their premises for fears my house and waited. The water came over the first floor and I climbed into the attic and was right i free speecn and orderly assembly. It was received with applaure in the court room and a moment later by prolonged cheering of thousands of strikers in the streets.

for a while. The-eity or resno, at the head of what used to be navigation, is the center of the MEnPlllS BREAKS sitting in the window under the NO DANGER NOW OF gable when rescuers trom mi. new movement. The United State engineer once more was urged to Vernon found me Thursday cf an epidemic of sickness which th fnlted Pit." BREAK IN THE LEVEE Danger of the break in the Memphis, April ine 4evee "I saw the water creep up around my mules; I saw them misfct follow the flood. At pres-i works, Heyns eneer works and tnt the sewers are unable to carry the J.

A. and Clements Reitz mills away the waste. are all down. at Tnird and Concord-sts broke boulevard embankment, giving Saturday, flooding 10 blocks. the Ohio a passageway through huddled together; I saw the water the southern residence section of line creep up and up and finally the city, has passed, it is believed.

City Engineer Pfaftiin STANDPIPE IS SOME GOOD, ANYWAY I saw that they were swimming One by one they became exhaust 01ILL ROASTED Vnles" the water can be gotten out of the high school dining-room before Monday the regular sessions, discontinued Friday at noon, may not be resumed again. Three schools are now dosed down, the Oakdale, the Englesida and the high school. and Building Inspector Brentano ed and sank and then my corn SUPPLY COMPANY INCREASES CAPITAL The Evansville Supply which secured a switch grant across First-av, of the city's most imporant switches in. January, later buying property of Comptroller Kollmyer, paying approximately $13,000, filed papers in the recorder's office Saturday increasing the capital stock from to $50,000. There are no names of addi inspected the embankment Satur crib floated off with my b.uuu By Tntted Pmm.

INDIANAPOLIS, April 5. Res day morning and agreed that only bushels of corn, valued at $3,000. make an estimate or me cost oi a survey and a recommendation. He complied, and bis estimate was that: $64,000 would be required for a preliminary survey, but his recommendation was that the government refrain from the expense ot a survey, on the ground that the traffic on the river would prob-abljrbe-cut of all proportion to the cost "of the improvement and the amount needed for upkeep. An appeal 'was then made to the army boArd ft engineers, which is the first the project got that far up and they finally reversed the locar -ingineer's office to the extent of Jtecomending to the secretary ofwar that the survey be made if the valley interests would provide a very high wind cutting into the "I was expecting my house to deploring Lieut.

Gov. soil could bring about a collapse O'Neill's act in stopping the pray er of Rev. Henry, a Baptist pastor "BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA' at the opening of the senate ses Building Inspector Sol Brentano sion, was unanimously adopted at snent Saturday morning on a tional stockholders. the opening Of Indiana conference ter-st, viewing the buildings that of the Evangelical association to have water in the cellars and day. basements to determine If there PIANO FLOATS IN "Contemptible, was the word will be any danger of collapse.

used to describe the act. MM BROSHEARS HOME BOY AT FIXK HOME. BELIEF BOAT HURRIES The sterk left a fine boy at the A piano in the front room is home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fink, floating in the home ot Perry 1424 Fulton-av, Thursday.

Brosbears, Oakdale. TO AID OF CASEYVILLE The high winds of Friday night broke down the front door of his SHINN HELD AT ST. home, giving the water a passageway into his parlor and dining refugees, housed In stalU at the room. Broshears lives on the second floor of his home. LOUIS BY THE FLOOD Detective Heeger, With his pris oner, C.

Shinn, wanted here for grand larceny, is in Louis but cannot re 1 Evansville because of the tied up conditions of the railroads. fair grounds of that city. "Surely conditions could be no worse," he declares. Little children hug their miothers skirts and cry. Members of the relief expedition could not hold back the tears." Archer sent word from Mt.

Vernon he hopes to be back here Saturday night. The county commissioners did not come to their office in the court bouse Saturday, spending the day in their districts where The E. B. A. relief expedition on the well equipped Nellie with W.

G. Archer in charge Saturday is speeding to Caseyville, past Uniontown render aid to the hundreds of hungry flood victims in that neighborhood. Archer was in communication from Vernon by telephone Saturday morning with Capt. W. K.

Naylor, U. S. here, who authorized Archer to bestow government supplies on those citizens not fed by former expedi tions. Archer told a pitiful story of the sufferings of the Uniontown Allfrtar tkat tts vUs Snllte the flood has wrought en dangering life and property. Com missiouers Hartig and Wimberg have large areas of their districts Mim Grnviev Sleffert returned to the Academy of Immacu Reasor has permitted Albert Jfchea-fer come into UJiir home anS had treated Wm intimately, Wm.

iReasot fileS a petition for a decree ot divorce Siiurday to the circuit court. The Reasons were nvu-ried in 1S8? under 'Rater. late Conception Ferdinand, after a visit with her pirents, Mr. tsr. Edwta tVlkr Bad Wife and Mrs.

Louta ieffert. ana separated Ui 1911. returned from Seabreeze, Fia..