Their Firm Was Founded Only 817 Years Ago
Díame >nd Dick Found I □
After Many Years :
Famoui Shot Now Practic
ing Physician.
Norfolk. Neb.—Diamond Dick, noted
frontier character, pony express rider
and one of the moat deadly marksmen
produced, who
th« West Ima
quietly dropped out of sight a quarter
of a century ago, has just been dis
covered In Norfolk In the person of
Dr. Richard J. Tanner, on« of the fore
most physician« In Madison county.
For more than twenty year« Tanner
bus been practicing medicine In Nor
folk nnd no one even suspected that
ths physician wan Diamond Dick, who
used to shoot pennies off tbe head« of
persons Just to show what he could do
with n gun.
Diamond Dirk's Identity was mad«
known when he volunteered to take
part In a rodeo the local American
Legion post was putting on. An Inti
mate friend of Tanner “tipped It off"
to some of the Committee that the doc
tor was n dead shot nnd might be In-
duced to give a «demonstration.” Tan
ner put on an exhibition of shooting
that fairly took away the breath of
the audience nnd ended In his seknowb
edgment Hint li« Is the famous Dia
mond Dick, once known nil over Amer
ica for his shooting.
In his exhibition Tanner used th«
tame two old pearl handled 45 caliber
revolvers and the repenting rille he
the Black hills through the worst In
dian Infested district In the trans Ml»
tourl country.
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Draws Salary and Quits.
Diamond Dick was at the height of
of the rifle and both targets were In
pieces.
Pits Ac« of Sped««.
A target board was brought out.
Tanner ahot ring» about It. He cut
the heart out of an ace of epade». He
tired over bls «boulder, using u mirror.
Ho tired left handed. He tired between
bls leg«. And every time lie Bred tbe
target showed a bull'» eye.
A friend took an apple, placed It on
a »tick about three feet long and held
it out. Diamond Dick fired Just on«
■hot nnd the apple went to piece». The
Tokyo Lad 1» Honored
for Great Generosity
Washington.- Genlchiro Y«ma
ds. a Tokyo boy, 1» told In a
letter by John Barton Payne,
chairman of the Red Cross, that
he was responsible for “one of
th« moat remarkable Instances
of self-denial and generosity 1
ever encountered or beard of.”
Yamada, upon receiving hl«
$1.50
"annual allowance”
J from bls parents, forwarded the
entire sum to the American lied
Cross to help relief work after
tbe Hants Barbara earthquake,
saying he recalled “the great
sympathy and kind «»»Istance"
from tbe United State« after the
similar Tokyo occuri*nre.
re shown R W. Farmen. Jr., at the right; R. W. Farmen. Sr., left,
nd young It Farmen. grandson, owners of a basket weaving cone, rn which
,,» been in operation for 817 years. The original firm of
sons, organised la 1’08. Is still flourishing at North Walshain. Norrms.
England.
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SEEKS VETERAN IN
ASYLUMS AND JAILS
Mother Hunts for Son, World
War Soldier.
Diamond Dick.
friend offered to hold an apple In his
hands, but 'tanner refused to fire at
IL
But In 1800 he used to shoot an
apple off n girl'« head twice «sch day.
Finally Tanner's friend« »tuck a
penny Into a «lit In an apple, «tuck the
apple on the end of a stick and held It
up.
“Crack” went the rifle.
The penny was gone. The apple was
Intact.
Marquette, Mich.—Traveling about
the country visiting penal Institutions
and asylums, hoping to find some
trace of her son, Joe Anderson. World
war veteran, who disappeared from
Detroit, March 6. 1024. Mrs. Margaret
Anderson, sixty seven, has arrived
here.
Her «on enlisted when he wag not
yet sixteen and was assigned to Com-
¡»any K of the One Hundred and Thir
ty ninth Infantry. He wa» gassed over
sea«. Later he was charged with
desertion, convicted and sent to I-eav-
enwortb prison. Mrs. Anderson walked
from her home at Sioux Falls to Wash
ington. where she «ought clemency for
her son from President Harding. She
contended Joe was not responsible for
his act because of having been gassed.
President Harding paroled film.
After bls parole Joe went to work
at his trade u» machinist. At the end
of nine months he suddenly dlsap-
¡»eared and the mother has never
heard anything of him since.
Mrs. Anderson visited the Ford
plants here nt L'Anse nnd the asylum
at Newberry. She said her son might
be going under the name of John E.
Johnson nnd has always given his ad
dress as Steven» Point. WIs. He 1»
over six feet tall, thin nnd of blond
complexion and has a scar on his
chest on the left side where he was
wounded In the war.
She said she is making her way to
Chicago, visiting asylums and indus
trial centers In hope of finding some
trace of her missing son.
light. At that time he wns traveling
«round the country with n circus. giv
ing an exhibition of fancy rifle nnd pls
lol »hooting, He hull been doing this
of his stunts wns
leverai yenra.
to «hoot n penny otT the head of a
companion.
One day he drew his salary and
quietly vanished.
Trapped in Ice Box
A month later Richard J. Tanner
J. Nick Cormoose,
Millville.
matriculated nt Cotner <
braskn. A couple of years later he sixteen year« old. went Into the re
enrolled nt Nebraska Wesleyan. Five frigerator of the Royal Confectionery
or »lx years Inter he bad w on his medi company to get some Ice cream, nnd
cal degree nnd was a full fledged doc- while he was eating the door swung
shut.
More than two hours later he was
n
He practiced a year or t
found, unconscious ami almost frozen
Kansas town nnd then came
to death. He was soon revived.
folk, where be has ever since lived.
Tanner like« to recall the early days
among the West's great gun tutor« and
pioneer« He knew Wild Bill Hickok,
CallfoAd« J<>e, Calamity June. Dead
wood Dick. Texa» Jack, Buffalo Bill.
Pawnee 11111« etc.
He had fought Indiana nil the way
from the Platte to the Belle Fourche
nnd nothing but hl« wonderful ability
to handle Ids guns nnd to outride Ids
enemies kept hl» scalp on top of Ids
bend time after time.
French Scientists Give Rec
Diamond Dick’s resurrection was
ipe 1 hey Use.
more dramatic than bls disappearance.
It had been whispered around Norfolk
that one of Its cltlxens who had been
New York.—A few months ngo the
a crack »hot In other days would do world wns startled by the announce
ment that Professor Nagaoka In Jn-
some shooting nt the rodeo.
The time came and Tanner rode Into pan and Professor Mlethe In Germany
the arena. He was dressed In his old hud succeeded In making gold out of
mercury. The process wns not yet of
buckskin«.
Somebody threw a glass ball up Into commercial value» but »till the trans
the air. Tanner looked nt It a mo mutation of the elements so ardently
ment, threw up bls gun nnd tired. The sought by the ancient alchemists hail
been effected. Now conies the asser
ball went to pieces.
A trap sent a clny pigeon sailing tion that some alchemists of the old
--------- have succeeded In
through the air. Tnnner didn’t mem school In Frunce
doing
tlie
same
thing, but this time It
to tnke nny alm or to pay much atten
tion, but the clny pigeon went nil to Is rcnl alchemy.
The French have scorned all mmlern
pieces following the crack of his rifle.
Two targets came sidling out In dif methods, nnd do not employ electric
ferent directions. Two sharp cracks discharges or high tension currents.
Say They Get Gold
by Alchemy of Old
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Here’s Your Chance to Get a Buffalo
■’ll
Will Play Golf in
Twenty Countries
I that, when the steamship Empress of
Scotland leaves New York next De
cember ot a 12»day cruise of the
world, carrying with her the Round
New York.—We have often heard the World Golf club made up of tour
of singing skippers, literary skippers, ists who have been Invited by prac
poetical skippers. musical skippers tically all the golf clubs in the 20
and »kippers who have become famous countries to be visited to match their
as doctors and scientists, but we hnve skill against the local champions. Cap
rarely heard of a skipper who ranks tain I-atta should be In command.
Traveling the seven seas, strange
with some of the best golf amateurs.
The “golfing sea captain.” IL G. races, unusual customs, as well as un-
Latta, Is well known on »be Atlantic familiar caddies, will greet the golf
as a man to be feared on the golf ing skipper and his golf enthusiasts.
Plan Unique Cruise.
links and there is hardly a port which
Imagine the skipper ar.d his touring
he has entered where he has not
. played the ancient and honorable golfers teeing off at Naples, with
Vesuvius for a background; at Cairo,
game of Scotland.
Captain Latta was not originally In- where the links are the sands of the
tended for a seafaring life, having desert and where one wears tennis
been placed In an <»ffice as a youth un- shoes, with the Sphinx afar off as a
“silent gallery”; in India, with gor
geously covered elephants, your car
riers to the links, on the side lines
nnd some golden-topped mosque in
the distance; at Batavia, on the Island
of Java, that mysterious country and
subtropical paradise of the romances
of Joseph Conrad, the late seafaring
novelist, where the gallery will be
made up of natives attired In a riot
of Batik silks: at Manila, the queen
city of “The Pearl of the Orient” ; In
China and Japan, where 'ricklshas
‘Golfing Skipper’ to Conduct
Unique World Cruise.
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Oxford, England.—Had Christopher
Columbus known as much of English
theological Uterature as he knew of
navigation he might have saved him
self a deal of pains In his effort to
prove the world was round. He might
have consulted a musty tome recently
dug out of the dust of Oxford’s hoary
libraries, a “Metrical Lives of the
Saints,” written by a monk at the end
of the Thirteenth century, in which it
Is set forth that:
“As an appeal the urthe is round, so .
that evermo
Half of the urthe the sonne bischyneth,
hou so hit evere go.”
He would have been told that the
moon Itself gives no light, that the
earth Is bigger than the moon, and the
' sun 165 times bigger than the earth.
They »till follow the recipe of the
medieval sorcerers. But. In contrast
belt. Yet personal encounter between
Corsica Is Full of Interest to natives is still a commonplace.
to their ancient brothers, they are not
nt all secretive about their work, and
“Corsica, where women go safely
the Tourist.
have published their procedure In full,
alone by night and gendarmes travel
no that every one enn now go ahead
Washington.—Corsica. Mediterrane In pairs by day, where there are hun
nnd produce gold In his spare time.
an Island, in tbe neighborhood of dreds of bridges and no rivers, where
The Idea Is very simple. Take 125
which France lost five brave sea everyone expects the visitor to pay
parts of pure silver, seven parts of
faring airmen, in a disaster compara verbal tribute to ‘Kalliste’ (Most Beau- ■
bisulphite of arsenic and three parts
ble to the loss of the PN-9 No. 1. Is tlful) and few can name the moun- -
of sulphide of antimony.
Melt this
described as follows in a communica tains in whose shadow they were -
and keep it at a temperature of 1,000
tion to the National Geographic so born!
degrees centigrade for some four
“Banditry Is' still a byword and
ciety.
hours and you will obtain a yellowish
"Submerged by wave after wave of thievery 14 abhorred. The Innkeepers
Captain
Latta,
the
“
Golfing
Shipper.
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metal. This must be melted again. ।
history and conquest, home of a race boast of what grand things they would
nnd again ten parts of the arsenic com
til his twentieth year when he went full of passion but free • from low do if there were more tourists, and
pound should be added very gradually.
to sea on a sailing vessel of which his crime, the scented Isle south of the neglect the few they have, The sun
And ngaln you must keep the temper
uncle was the master. After sailing Cote d'Azur offers a distinctive reward gives the land Its charm ; and the
ature at 1.000 degrees centigrade for
The
round the world for nine years, play to those who leave the rush and dis snow, its beauty and health.
four hour«.
ing golf at every port he could, and play of the continent to visit vendetta roads are blocked by horses, mules
Finally you add ten parts of potas getting his master’s • certificate, he
and donkeys, few of them laden, and
land.
sium nitrate, ten parts of ammonium joined the fleet of the Canadian Pa
“Corsica, like every other country, the automobile,- even for the- singl*^
chloride, ten parts of borax nnd some cific railway In 1905 and has since is a land of contrasts. But more than traveler, offers the cheapest means of
powdered soup, which Is supposed to
then carried that company's flag the most. It Is the land of paradox. Be transftortation. The'perfume of the 4
purify tbe metal, which will now ngaln farthest north of any of his fellow hind the striking beauty of tbe Island, maquis and the smells of the streets
take on n white color. Your labors are officers to Archangel, and the farthest concealed beneath the commonplace are alike Indescribable.”
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now finished, and you will be reward
exteriors of the people, there Is a mys
south, around Cape Hom.
ed by finding one quarter of 1 per cent
tery,
a
contrary
quality
which
first
es
Rushes for the Links.
of gold In the residue.
capes observation and later intrudes Michigan Breeds Herd
During the past two winters when
To prove that It Is not a fnke, M.
everywhere. Probably nowhere is a
of Pure Albino Deer
Tolllvet Castelot, tbe president of the he piloted his steamship on cruises generalization more likely to be true
Detroit,
Mich.—On Grand Island, a
through
tbe
West
Indies,
he
was
just
French Society of Alchemists, lias had
and false at the same time.
game refuge In Lake Superior, is a
several chemists of renown repeat the ns enthusiastic as the tourists to go
"One goes to Corsica, as did Bos-
experiment, and declares that all of ashore, not so much to sightsee as to well's friend, expecting to find every herd of partial and pure albino deer
—the result of breeding from Albinos
try
the
local
links
and
pit
himself
them hnve confirmed tbe results.
bandit a menace. He remains to find
The history of the transmutation of against the local stars, and many a the man with the gun the most unro- originally taken by capture. Men have
one precious metnl Into another goes local star succumbed to his prowess mantle of mortals. Melodrama heroes previously bred albinism into various
animals, as the white rats and mice,
back to the Middle Ages, but Francis with the clubs.
have accomplished more with the gllt- and domestic rabbits, but this experi
Golf has probably made Scotland as
Bacon Is really the man who first put
ter
of
a
silver
spoon
held
revolver
alchemy on n scientific basis In Ids well known as her famous bards, her wise than the most Tartarlnesque of ment constitutes tbe first attempt at
famous book, “The New Atlantis. Sir fighting chiefs and clans, her pipers Corsicans attempt when loaded to the such selective breedings with any of
the large mammals.
Robert Boyle founded’ his "Invisible and her plaids, and it Is only proper
That which has been accomplished
College” on that structure, nnd nfter
on Grand Island, and with comparative
several experiences and transmuta
ease, is difficult of accomplishment In
tion« this Institution became the
a state of nature where the albino is
Royal society (under the reign of
cruelly conspicuous and speedily hunt
Charles II), the first scientific society
ed down by man or the hunting beasts.
In Europe.
There have been occasional reports
German» Fall.
of
albino deer in Oregon. Always the
In the meantime, news comes from
white coat proves the animal's undo
Germany that three other physicists.
ing. There Is no rest until it Is slain.
Erich Tlede, Arthur Schleede nnd
Frieda Goldschmidt, hnve repented the
experiments of Mlethe without tbe
Father, 42, Mother, 41;
lightest success. Using chemically
They Have 10 Children
pure mercury anil subjecting It to the
Attleboro,
Mass.—Mr. and Mrs. Jo
»nine infusion treatment a« did
seph Sheldon, of Broggs Corner dis
Mlethe, they have not been able to
trict, are claiming records for family
find even the smallest traces of gold
honors. Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon were
In It. Also we are Informed that Doc
married when he was sixteen and his
tor Aston, the world famous physical
wife fifteen, and they have ten chll-
chemist of the Cavendish laboratory
dren now, at the age of forty-two and
In Cambridge, England, has decld
forty-one. None of the children has
cd that If gold Is made from mercury
ever had a day's lllpes», and only once
It must be heavier than ordinary gold
has the doctor been called to the Shel
Unfortunately for the electrical al
don house, except to assist the stork,
hemlsts, their analysis showed that
that occasion being when Joseph, Jr.,
heir gold made from mercury was
Above are shown Crow Indians watching tor a sight oi me buffalo herd
the eldest, stuck a Ash hook In his
precisely the same as ordinary gold,
the spectacular mimic hunt In Yellowstone National park. In which the
hand.
vhich Is another severe blow for In
days of their fathers were revived.
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UNÖCÄWQO o T
Earth Round, Monk Said
Long Before Columbus
VENDETTALAND IS LAND OF
CONTRASTS AND MYSTERY
Revive Their Old-Time Hunting
Uncle Sam has about a hundred bull
buffaloes to «pare, and anyone who
wants one for a pet should write to
the Department of the Interior. Arno
B. Cammeror (right) will examine the
application and if It 1« approved a
buffalo with a head like the one above
will be sent for the cost of catching
and crating—about $85.
carry one to the green and the netting
la either a pagoda or cherry-blossomed
trees; at Honolulu to the distant
music of ukuleles and the odor ot
pineapples carried on the breeze from
fur off groves, and then to try the golf
links of sun-kls«ed California, of Pan
ama and of Havana.
The uniqueness of thl« golfing cruise
around tbe world with a golfing skip- .
per has never been attempted, and
when the "Empress of Scotland pulls
into her dock at New York next
spring the story wfil be told of how
at Delhi, up near the Himalaya moun
tains, either Captain Latta or one of
the tounsts, holed out In three, beat
ing the local maharajah, who probably
played with gem-studded clubs and
was attended by silken and golden-
robed caddies.