Sherman County observer., November 21, 1930, Image 1

ORECON STATE NEWS
OF GENERALjNTEREST
GEN. T. H. ELIS5 DEAD
The Independence Corn Show was
held recently with a good crowd in
attendance.
Plana are being made at Lakeview
to heat the city with hot water from
a hot spring near the city.
Contractors on the Owyhee project
near Vale are taking advantage of
favorable tall weather to rusk ♦*« dam
and tunnels.
The Ione hotel burned to the
ground recently with all furnishings.
The Engelman pool hall was badly
damaged by fire and water.
During the next several weeks the
state tax commission will be busy
listening to representatives of corpora­
tions who seek reduced assessments.
of an em ergency.
Depositors In the commercial de­
partment of the defunct Lane County
State and Savings bank at Florence
will receive 88 per cent and savings
depositors will receive 84 per cent
In the final liquidation.
The car of fancy No. 1 turkey«
shipped from Redmond recently was
the first car of first-grade turkeys to
be shipped in the United States of the
1930 crop, according to buyers from
California, who bought the carload.
Two cars of southern Oregon tur­
keys, about 50,000 pounds, left Med
ford recently for the New York mar­
kets for the Thanksgiving trade. The
shipment was made by the farmers’
exchange there, which plans to ship
a third car soon. Local turkey grow­
ers are guaranteed 29 cent« a pound
with a return on-all over that price
for top birds.
THE MARKETS
Portland -•
Wheat — Big Bend, bluestem, 78%;
soft white, western white, 67%c; hard
winter, northern spring, western red.
8514c. _
Hay—Buying price, f. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, $18@18.50; valley timothy.
817.50; eastern Oregon timothy. 820;
clover, 814; oat hay, $14; oats and
vetch, $14@15.
Butterfat—83@35c.
Eggs—Ranch, 21 @ 35c.
Cattle—Steers, good, $7.25 @8.00
Hogs—Good to choice, 88-50@9.75.
Lambs—Good to choice, 86-50 @7.00.
—■Gan. T ic k e r H. Elies.
W ashington.—Gen. T ask er II. Bliss,
chief of staff of -the U n ite d . S tates
arm y during (he W orld war, and one
of th e outstanding m ilitary figures in
tlitft conflict, died at W alter Reed
hospital. He was scventy-6'x years
old. Burial was made a t Arlington
N ational cemetery.
With the passin g of General Jill is,
America lost one of the highest ran k ­
ing m ilitary stra te g ists who guided
th e American expeditionary force d u r­
ing 1917 and 1918. General Bliss was
American representative on the su ­
preme w ar council and served as one
of tlie five members of the A m eri­
can peace commission to Europe ip
1918. lie wrote the final report of the
suprerrfe council when It dissolved in
1920.
G RAIN-RATE GUT IS
APPROVED BY I. C. C.
New Schedule» Are to Be in
Effect on January 1.
W ashington.—D espite objection» of
th e railroads and of some of the ship­
ping Interests affected, the recent order
of the In tersta te Commerce commis­
sion ^edtfciug by about $15, 000,0 th 1
freig h t nftes^n grain w est o f the Mis-
sisslppt river w ill'g o Jnto effect Ja n u ­
ary 1, an official announcem ent of the
commission snld.
«
O riginally the commission’s order
directed th a t the new rate s go Into
effect on November 1. L ater tlie date
w as advanced to Ja n u ary 1.
Ever since the prom ulgation of the
order. It has been th e subject of hit­
te r attack.
‘ The
commission’s
announcem ent
said :
v
“The In tersta te Commerce commis­
sion J i a s voted to deny tlie various
petitions subm itted to it for modifi­
cation or rehearing in the grain case.
T his notice Is given In tins manner
for the Informal and early inform a­
tion of all concerned. Formal orders
will be entered.”
In revising the grain rates, th e com
mission necessarily was required to re­
arran g e eastern and* southern sched­
ules affecting w estern grain and to
m ake a large num ber of reductions
and increases in the existing grain
schedules.
The final effect of these was calcu­
lated to represent a reduction o f $15,-
000,000 a year under present charges,
on the basis of commission calcula­
tions, hut some w estern carriers a r ­
gued revenues might decline as much
ns $20,000,000.
In addition to th eir specific protesta,
tlie w estern railroads recently ap­
proached the commission indirectly
on tlie subject by a jo in t letter signed
by a com m ittee of railroad presidents,
claim ing the general level of earnings
of w estern roads th is year was sa tis­
factory.
Crime Board A djourns;
D issension Is A lleg ed
W ashington.—Sadden adjournm ent
of tlie Wiekershntn commission for ten
days, making It virtually Impossible
for Its report to be Incorporated in
P resident H oover's message nt the
opening of congress December 1, gave
a strong impetus to reports th a t the
commission is split over various Is­
sues.
As It had been seini-oflicially an ­
nounced th a t the so-called law enforce­
m ent body would sit in daily sessions
during all of November, its decision
to quit until November 24, caused
som ething *of a sensation In official
circles. It wap not denied by mem­
bers of thé commission th a t the pur­
pose of the ten day cessation was to
allow dissension in the ranks to sim­
mer down and cool off.
If it Is tru e th a t chickens come
home to ropst, it tU o is tru e tjiat
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bread cast upon th e w aters returns
Lyoni F rance.—¿Scores of persons
a fte r many days.
a re dead and injured as th e resu lt of
A young chap went wrong, was
a series of disastrous landslides
caught and sent to the penitentiary.
wblH» dem olished dozens of homes
He declared th a t ho had been
and buildings in th e densely pop u lat­
••framed,” hut th e fhet remained th at
ed St. Je an district of Fouvleres. a
he had been wild ami become an as­
suburb of Lyon, one of F ra n ce’s
sociate of bad cowl anions. For a
largest and most Im portant In d u strials while he was h itter, hut apparently
centers.
he thought things over. At any rate,
Among th e dead were nineteen fire­
when his tim e was Up he came to nn
men and seven policemen who Were
officer in the New York detective
caught by a «second slide a fte r th e
force and said :
first avalanche had torn Its p ath of
, “I made u udstafc* hut I still am
d estru ctio n down ' th e hillside en
yOUrfg enough to g iv e a lot of fife
which St. Jean nestles.
ahead. <>f me. I w ant to go straight.
The first slide was caused by th e
Will you help me?”
unexplained collapse o f a wall of the
The detective b e i iiv d him ; got his
St. Jean hospital, situ ated alm ost at
citizenship resto red ; finally got him a
th e sum m it of th e hill. O ther slides
good Job with a big m anufacturing
occurred, halting rescue work and
concern. The: man did w ell; In tim e
causing additional death.
b e c am e'h ea d vof a d partuient. One-
T he convent of N otre Dame De
d ay he caught a boy stealing, lie
Simon, a large ap artm en t house .gjul
took him into his office. The lx>y Jia 1
tw o blocks of old homes, each hous­
never done anything wrong before.
ing several fam ilies, w ere destroyed
He was frig h ten ed ; j leaded; wept.
by the avalanche. Among t^ e victim s
“W hat Is your nam e?” said the man.
were nuns who w ere sleeping in tlie L ) The boy told him.
convent when th e h urtling earth
“Is your fath e r’s first name John?”
brought th e stru ctu re down about
said the man, and the boy answered
th e ir heads.
th at it was.
As the electricity supply was cut
“I thought so,” sni 1 the man. “ I
off by the first slide, rescuers worked
know him. I am not going to have
by
flickering
torchlight,
laboring
you a rre ste d ; but there is u condition.
bravely in th e face of death from new
You must tell your father all that has
landslides in an effort to rescue
happened. Tell him my name. Say
scores of Injured who w ere trapped
th a t I sent you homo to him.”
in the Shambles of th e ir homes.
So the man paid a.d eb t and, ns for
Heavy rain s a re believed to have
the boy, he is now a man, too, and
weakened tlie e a rth at the top of th e
mayor of the small city where he lives. .
hill, enabling th e falling hospital wall
to sta rt tons of d irt and m asonry on
It took th e fires of war to burn a n ­
th e ir downward path of destruction.
other boy clean. H e was caught In n
In the space of a moment, th e a v a ­ holdup and convicted, but he was a
lanche became a demolishing m achine
member of a N ational Guard regiment,
of destruction fifty yards wide and
and Its colonel, who thought there
200 yards long. Houses and buildings
was good in the youngster, pleaded for
caught in th e path of the slide w ere
him so eloquently th a t the Judge took
crushed like pap ier mache.
advantage of conditions to suspend
sentence. The young man went to
Vancouver, B. C.—Five men w ere
France, tran sferred to another outfit,
killed and one Injured In a rock and
became a sitrgeant and did so well he
d irt slide at th e Anyox mine of the
was sent to officer’s »‘-bool and com­
Granby Consolidated Mining, Sm elt­
missioned a second lieutenant.* He
ing and Pow er company.
w ag'“'» fine soldier. Before he was
shipped back to th e Unit >d States they
had pinned on hi» chest a D istin­
Corn Crop Estimate Is
guished Service Crow a nd a Croix de
Raised by 47,0^0,000 Ea. - G
uerre w ith two palms. But he w’asn ’t
Chicago.—E stim ate of the corn ci<>?
happy. He met th e chaplain of a reg­
in the U nited S tates was incretv e .l
iment who knew his story and Sn'.d to
47,000,000 bushels over the figure o f
him ; f
last month by the Department of Ag-
\ “ You know I ani4 «till under sus­
rtru ltu re The p resen t esHnBGF Is for
pended renfence. I have no citizen­
a yield of 2,094,000,000 bushels. Tills
ship. I don’t belong here. I don’t
figure is som ew hat larg er than the
belong anyw here.”
trad e anticipated, ns the average of
The chaplain bought the man a tit­
private estim ates was 2,040,000,009
tle D. S. C. button and put it in his
b u sh e ls.J
lapel.
The figure com pares w ith a crop of
“You won th at for courage,” lie
2,014,000,000 bushels last year, decline
said. "Live up to it.” L ater lie quiet­
of 520.000,000 bushels. Com parison
ly managed to get the m an n pardon.
w ith tlie five-year average is even less
He is working a t his tra d e ; looking
favorable. Only a small am ount of
the world in ti e ey e; doing very well.
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old corn rem ains on farm s in this
country, the report placing the total
I asked Bernt B abhen, the other
at 72,349.000 bushels or 2.7 per cent
day, w here he really got th e greatest
of last year's production. T his com­ thrill out of flying; w hether It was
pares with 70.339,000 bushels a year
over the ocean or the South plateau.
ago and 102,103,000 bushels, the 1921-
“ Well," snld Balchen, "you know
28 average.
you . really haven’t much time for
T h e thfai available supply of corn
th rills; you are too busy flying."
for this season, including th e crop,
When you come to think of it there
carryover jm d visible supply, aggre­ is a lot of sense In th at as there Is In
gates 2,170,000,000 bushels, coffipared
anything Balchen say». When en ­
with 2,093,000,000 bushels a year ago
gaged In a hazardous undertaking, the
and ten-year average of 2,981,000.000
good man Just goes ahead and does
bushels. Yield of com to the acre this
his stuff as p art of the day’s work.
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year is placed a t 20.G bushels against
20.7 bushels Inst year and ten-year av­
A Brooklyn man sent a suit to a
erage of 28.2 bushels.
tailor to be pressed. In th e pocket he
Q uality of the 1930 crop Is given ns
left a little memorandum book. The
78/t, compared with 80.2 la st year and
honest tailor sent the hook hack, and
1919-28 average of 80.3.
thereby lost a customer. The man
was out when the book was returned
and It was received by his wife. In
Live Stock E xposition
It she found thirty names and tele­
W ill O pen Novem ber 23 phone numbers. They were not nam es
of men. Tlie wife Is suing for divorce.
Chicago.—Chicago will be host to
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the country from November 29 to De­
cember G, when the International Live
Lord Castlerosse. tlie English Jour­
Stock exposition will draw to it a
nalist now hi New York, tells a story
of a lively party a t Cannes, which in-
mammoth display of the manifold
• eluded among the guests a woman
wonders of the ru ral world.
gossip once connected with a famous
Extending throughout 20 acres of
buildings and a large p art of the ad ­ murder in the United States. The fol­
lowing evening Custlerosae dined with
joining pens in the Chicago stock
a $idy of title who said to him that
yards, th is renowned exposition will
she understood he had been at a party
unfold to the visiting thousands an
eye-filling pageant of the final p ro d ­ with a m urderess the night before.
C astlerosse Raid the woman never had
ucts of scientific methods applied to
killed anybody And that th e story was
present-day agriculture, says B. II.
Ilelde, secretary-m anager of tlie show.
nonsense.
Saturday, November 29, m arks the
“Oh, never tell the host th a t,” said
the lady of quality. “He thought he
official opening of the exposition, it
was entertaining a murderess and, If
will be a day crowded with events of
Interest to yofing people, wiHi the Jun­ ~ he discovers .that she tfms not, he will
ior live stock feeding contest, tlie col
be broken hearted.”
T here is a fellow who should have
legiate live stock Judging contest, and
known Lucretia Borgia.
tlie opening of tlie 4-H club congress.
(© . 1930. B e ll Svndloata.)
Saturday evening will bring the first
of the horse shows, wliicli will eon-
C r e m a t io n 1» C h e a p
tinne eaeli night, except Sunday, until
Debreczin,
H u n g ary —T his city is
th e close of the exposition.
constructing a municipal crem atory
which will he the first of Its kind In
C hester (P a .) P ack in g P lan t B urns
H ungary. A charge of $3 a body will
- Chester, Pa,—The C hester Packing
be made for cremation.
nnd Provision company plant was
sw ept by flames w ith a resu ltan t loss
estim ated a t $100,000.
Seattle
K ills S e lf D uring B ank E xam ination
D rou gh t R ates End N ov. 30
Wheat—Soft white, western white,
northern spring, hard winter, we.iHrn
red, 68c; bluestem, 78c.
Egga—Ranch, 22 @38c.
Butterfat—38c.
Cattle—Choice gteers, 86.75@7.75.
Hogs—Good to choice, 810 @10.15.
Lambs—Choice, 85.50@6.50.
Topeka, Kan.—A rth u r F. Miller, as­
sistan t cashier o f ,th e Topeka S tate
hank, shot and killed him self a t his
home here while sta te hank examiner«
were conducting th eir regular exam i­
nation of the bank.
W ashington.—The em ergency reduc­
tion iu freight ra te s for the benefit of
farm s In the drought areas will end
on November 30, it was announced.
The railroads m ade special rate s on
feed and feedstuff« and w ater as p a rt
of P resident Hoover’« relief program.
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8pokane
~ Cattle—Steers, good, 8707.25.
Hogs—Good to choice, 89-50.
Lamb«—Medium to good,$5@6.
LIGHTS ►
oZ N E W YORK .
«y WALTER
TRUMBULL
N”nx, Policemen and Fire­
men Among Victims.
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled
for Information
—
j
of Our Readers.
A huge meteor exploded over the
Deschutes basin recently with a blind­
ing flash which Illuminated the coun
tryslde, according to widely scattered
reports.
The Farmers’ bank of Weston, es­
tablished In 1891, was closed recently
by State Superintendent Schramm. No
statement has been made regarding
liquidation.
Orchardists and ranchers In The
Dalles district characterised the soak­
ing rain recently, as worth thousands
of dollars. It was the best fall, rain
in ten years.
Steelhead trout are now entering
the Siuslaw river with a rush, accord­
ing to reports from that section. Sil-
▼erslde salmon also are being caught
In large numbers.
It’« springtime on the farm of Carl
Plucker, in the Pendleton district, near
Adams. An apple «tree and bis holly­
hocks are in bloom. His garden is
yielding ripe strawberries.
Some unusual specimens of potatoes
of the Netted Gem variety are on dis­
play at Sven sen. The tubers weigh
from two and onehalf to three pounds
each, and are of excellent quality.
The “biggest event” in the history
of Washington county was the formal
opening and dedication of the Canyon
road at Beaverton, where the new
highway Intersects the Tualatin high­
way.
The Lakeview municipal water­
works, which Was purchased by the
city a year ago, made a net profit of
810,000 during the last 12 months. The
profits have been put into new pipe
lines.
The state board of control has
adopted a resolution granting to the
Daughters of the American Revolu­
tion grounds surrounding tho new
building of that organization at Cham-
poeg park.
In anticipation of an accident that
would threaten Its water supply. Sea­
side has made an agreement with
' Warrenton whereby the system s’ of
the two cities can be Joined in case
MANY DEAD, INJURED
EN AN EARTH SLIDE
V o tes
P u b lic
O w n e r s h ip
Seattle. — W ashington voters ap­
proved public ow nership of power
utilities by giving the district power
bill a substantial m ajority, retu rn s
revealed.
’Y»
Claim R ussian W heat Poor
Winnipeg. — The M anitoba w heat
pool h as issued a statem ent saying
th a t Russian w heat makes much poor­
er bread than does Canadian w h e a t
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Men May Have Blue
Mondays, Not Women
Bristol, E n g lan d —Prof. Sar­
gent Florence, in a paper read
a t the economic session of the
B ritish association meeting In
conference here, • claim« t h a t ,
women are not only more effi­
cient in every walk of life than
men but Women have no blue
Mondays and that, given equal
opportunity, they always show
higher intelligence.
EXTRA SESSION NOT
ON SENATE PROGRAM
JAPAN’S PREMIER IS SHOT
Spot Where Girt Died 1» Kept
Green by Farmer.
Both Sides Promise Aid to
Speed Up Legislation.
W ashington.—P resid en t Hoover has
received a pledge of aid from Repub­
lican and D em ocratic leaders of the
senqte In avoiding an ex tra session of
tlie new congress, th e W hite House
revealed.
T his co-operation .in passing th e
governm ent supply bills w ithout delay
was prom ised by S en ato r W atson of
Indiana, Republican lender, and Sen­
ato r Robinson of A rkansas, D em ocrat­
ic leader.
W hile th ere w ere some protests
ag ain st tills “harm ony” program from
Dem ocrats, the pledge to th e P resi­
dent was expected to prove enough
to prevent un ex tra session.
The W hite House statem ent fol­
lows :
“T he President has been In com­
m unication’ with th e floor leaders of
the Republican and D em ocratic sides
of the senate w ith a view to securing
co-operation -for th e prom pt passage
of tlie appropriation bills through the
sen ate nt the forthcom ing session.
“Both leaders have expressed their
desire and full co-operation to accom­
plish this. Tlie fear and apprehension
which have been > expressed over re­
ports th a t delay o r flllibuster would
b e resorted to to -force ah ex tra ses­
sion of tlie congress have therefore
no foundation."
Co-operation betw een the leaders of
the two m ajor p arties in giving a
pledge of this kind to the P resident
m arked a now d ep a rtu re in congres­
sional politics. The “harm ony plan ”
had its inception Im mediately follow­
ing tlie recent elections when seven
prom inent D em ocrats Issued a s ta te ­
ment promising th a t th ere would be
po "rocking tlie boat by the Demo­
crats.”
P resident Hoover Immediately ac­
cepted this nt its face value and w rote
Senator Robinson asking his help in
avoiding an ex tra session.
The D em ocrats apparently have no
desire fo r a special session next
spring, even if they are able to or­
ganize th e next house. They .insist,
however, upon having their own leg­
islative program when the new con­
gress meets.
$100,000 Football Funds
to Help the Unemployed
Chicago.—N orthw estern ~ university
has answ ered th e plea for charity
football by offering an Immediate ad­
vance of $100,000 to th e Illinois sta te
unem ployment commission providing
certain requests w ere granted for th e
N otre D am e-Northw estern game in
1931.
Tlie provision^, nam ed by the exec­
utive committee of th e university's
board of trustees, w ere th a t the W est­
ern conference and N otre Dame agree
to tran sfe r of th e gam e from the
N otre Dame stadium
to Soldier
field, Chicago; thnt N otre Dame agree
to give N orthw estern th e extra pro­
ceeds available by such n trnnsfer to
a larger stadium up to $100,000, nnd
th a t the south park board of Chicago
ren t Soldier field free of nil charges
for the c o n t e s t .
By its o f f e r N orthw estern would
ta k e a chance < n obtaining all or purt
of tlie ï'109.000 from the extra re ­
ceipts afte r it and N otre Dame re­
ceived their sh ares of w hat the game
would bring If played at N otre Dame's
«tädin ::i.
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Prospi et--, for nn Army-Navy charity
football C. i ie grew brighter when
MnJ G. u. William R. Smith, super­
intendent of the m ilitary academy,
announced that th e Army would he
willing to meet tlie Navy In New Yo»k
on December (5. The question of dates,
however, has not been settled.
Da\ 7CS Urges $18,000,000
for the Waterway Fund
W ashington.—W illiam It. Dawes of
Chicago, president of the Mississippi
Valley association, has asked an In­
crease of $18,000,(MX) in w aterway ap­
propriation for next year ns a means
of speeding up the work and nt the
sam e time relieving* unemployment.
The current appropriations, he suld,
Including a $12,000,000 deficiency fund,
aggregate $07,000,000 The rivers and
harbors act Inst year added new p ro j­
ects nnd Incressed funds will he need­
ed, Mr. Dawes pointed out.
50 Cts. Canadian Wheat
Pool’s Initial Payment
Yuko Hamaguchl.
Tokyo.—Yuko Hamaguchl, prem ier
of Japan, was shot and seriously
wounded us he stood on the platform
of the Tokyo central station w aiting
for n tra in to take him to Join the
em peror a t th e m ilitary m aneuvers
nt Okayama.
The bullet lodged in
his abdomen.
The assailan t was captured by po­
lice, who identified him as Tomeo Sa-
goya, tw enty-three years old, a mem­
ber of the reactionary patriotic so­
ciety, Alokusha, or “Love of Country
association.” The motive for the a t­
tack is unknown.
CUBA UNDER MARTIAL
LAW; RIOTERS SLAIN
Newspapers Suspended; High
and Normal Schools Closed.
H avana.—C onstitutional guarantees
were suspended throughout the repub­
lic by P resident Machado.
M artial
low was declared and municipal po­
lice have been replaced by army and
m arine detachment».
A stric t censorship has been de­
clared and all native language new s­
papers have been suspended.
D em onstrations against the d ep art­
ment of educatiou by students nnd
feeling extending tow ard even higher
posts resulted In several dead and
more th a n fifty wounded throughout
the Island.
Rum ors th at a minor uprising Im­
pending were denied by government
and opposition leaders.
It was pointed out th a t the revo­
lutionary sp irit prevnlls only among
th e students of the U niversity of Cuba
nnd other Institutes, whose actions
In abusing a quasi-privilege of free
assembly have resulted In the bloody
dem onstrations.
H avana is without new spapers for
the first tim e in thirteen years. In
1917 nil publication was »topped be­
cause of a strike.
As a consequence of the student
outbreaks the chamber of deputies de­
feated a bill dem anding resignation
of th e seeretury of Instruction. The
secretary of public Instruction recent­
ly issued a decree closing the col­
leges until Jan u ary.
High sdihols in H avnna and all
normal schools have been closed.
ran t, inhum an and despotic,” were
made by United S tates S enator David
I. W alsh (Dem.) of M assachusetts,
before th e In stitu te of C urrent In ter­
national Problems of the United
States.
Illinois Now Raising
$5,000,000 to Aid Needy
-Chicago.—Philip R. Clarke, presi­
dent of tlie Centrul T ru st Company of
nilnbis, was «elected by Governor Em-
merson to hend nnd conduct a w hirl­
wind drive for the $3,000,000 which,
in the Judgment of the governor’s com­
mission on unemployment and relief,
is necessary to take care of the em er­
gency th a t confronts the community.
Governor Emmeraon has called on
25 prom inent men In Chicago to as­
sist Mr. Clarke in the campaign.
Two Americans Killed
in Mine Riot in Peru
Lima, Peru.—Two Americans were
among fifteen men killed in a riot at
a copper mine near Mai Paso, about
125 miles northwest of Lima. John*
W. Chapman of Chicago and E. L.
Trlpary, whose home address is un­
known here, were the Americans who
lost their lives.
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U. S. Prison for Camp Custar
R iver Traffic Soon to Close
Dubuque, Io w a—Buoys and other
m arkers along the Mississippi river
will be taken In for the w inter next
month when the navigation season for
th e upper river closes.
Charlton, Iowa.—A tragedy of tho
highway In which a young woman loot
her life la kept ever green in the
memory of E. O. Millan, aged farmer,
who Uvea near here, for every morn­
ing since September 14 he ha» placed
a bouquet on the spot where Miss
Agnes Smillle, of Williamson, died
from Injuries suffered la an automo­
bile accident.
In the early hours of September 11.
Miss Smillle, together with John Falt­
er, Lena Stewart and David McNelah,
were returning home from a dance
the Chariton Gun elute In frond af
Mr. Millen’s home a black eat dashed
In front of the car driven by McNetah.
Rather than run down the omen of
bad lock, McNelsh swerved the ear
and It tumbled over Into the ditch.
Millen heard screams, clothed himeelf
and rushed to the roadalde to glvo
aid. He found Miss SmUlle la tho
ditch fatally injured. Ho picked her
up with the Intention of carrying her
into his home to give her aid, bat abe
died in hla arms.
On September 14 the funeral eort-
tege bearing Mias Smillle'« body
passed the Millen residence on Its
way to Albia for burial. Mr. Millen
went to hla flower garden, prepared
a large bouquet and placed It on the
spot beside the road where the girl
was Injured. Every morning Since be
has paid the same tribute te her
memory.
Woman Beggar Who Slept
on Bench Carried $2,000
New York.—Mrs. Anna Kats, sixty-
seven years old, who bad been sleeping
for six weeks on a bench in the park­
way along Allen boulevard, waa ar­
rested and arraigned before Magis­
trate Raphael Murphy In Tombs court.
Magistrate Murphy asked the wom­
an, who had begged and collected tin-
foil on East Side streets. If she had
any money. .
“Plenty,” she replied, briskly, and
from her worn clothing and from bun­
dles she carried she extracted several
cloth bags and dumped their contents
ou a desk. There were ah e a fa ef bank­
notes and hundreds of sliver celna,
amounting to 82,000.
The woman waa held without ball
for Investigation and sentence. She
said she had been boarding the
money to enable her to return to Hue-
ala. having lost all desire to live .in
America after the death of her hue
band and three children.
Six-Foot Fossil Fish
Dug Up in Texas Canyon
Austin, Texas.—The fossilised re­
mains of a giant species of flab, found
partly exposed In the Austin forma­
tion in Grace canyon In Brew»tsr
county, has been received by the Uni
verslty of Texas bureau of economic
geology from M. B. Arlck. of Alpine,
formerly assistant geologist In the bu
reau and now geologist for a Texas oil
company.
Thia fish, about six feet long, wus
; found by Dr. J. T. Lonsdale, bead of
J the geology department of Texas Ag-
i rlcultural and Mechanical college and
[ consulting geologist of the university
bureau, and W. S. Adkins, bureau geo­
logist, «bout two years ago, and waa
later dug up by Mr. Arlck and kept
Boston.—Charges th a t Cuba Is gov­ at Alpine until recently. The exact
erned by a d ictator who was “a ty­ species of the foeall la not known.
W innipeg.—With the pool Initial
paym ent finally down to 50 cents for
w heat, it was considered th at a fu r­
th e r cut was unlikely even though
th e December optloji closed nt G3
cents, lake head basis. The initial
V atican to Isauo Own Money
payment now stands w here the Ca­
Rome.—The council of ministers ap­
nadian Icnkltig hoard wanted to
pluce It in Hie beginning of the sea­ proved a decree legalizing the Italo-
son. not deeming It wise to go higher, ! Vatican City agreement under which
and even's have Justified their view. i Vatican City will Issue Its own money.
B attle Creek, Mich.—Bids will be re­
ceived tills month for construction of
a federal prison farm nt Camp Custer
capable of holding 300 prisoners. The
cost of the buildings 19 estim ated nt
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$100,000.
BLACK CAT CAUSE
OF ROAD TRAGEDY
Form er Sen ator du P on t D ead
Wilmington, Del.—T. Coleman du
Pont, former United States senator
from Delaware and formerly president
of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours and
company, died after suffering from a
throat ailment for several years.
Kohler Ouator SuH la Diamiaaed
Madison, Wls. — The 4 two-year-old
suit to oust Gov. Walter J. Kohler
from office was ended when a motion
for dismissal was granted by the State
Supreme court.
Sit Down When Lost in
H ills , R a n te rs A dvise
Fresno, Calif.— Whia lost la tbs
mountains the beet way to find your-
self is to start by Mttlng down.
That 1« the advice ef United State«
forest rangers. They are:
Sit down and think It over, trying
calmly to place yonrealf,
Next, start traveling. Walk always
down hill. Never run. Don’t yelL
If caught by night, fog or storm,
stop at ouce and make camp. Build
a Are and gather plenty of fuel. If
without a blanket, Stoop out a hole,
build a Are In IU and cover tho hole
with six Inches of dirt, and sleep on
that
A lost boy spent three nights safely
In southern California mountains thia
year by following these rule«, the
rangers say.
Stork Leaves Problem
in Detroit Zoo Cage
Detroit.—The Ron problem whUh
has brought sleepless nights te John
T. Millen, director of the Detroit aoo,
at last has been solved. The problem
was caused by the nine adult bene
presenting the city with M little Menu,
whereas the aoo has accommn Satisaa
for only ton of tho cats. Now Mr.
Millen has arranged with animal Seal-
era In New York and California ta
trade In hla slightly need lion «bn an
new gazelles, of which the aoe Is In
need. Lions depreciate very little In
trade-in value.
Seeking a Gas Leak,
Ho Loses Mustache
Boulder, Oolo.— M. E.
han lost hla m
ha held a lighted match In
manhole st archin g Mr n
leak.
The gas exploded,
the mustache and Injuring
ahan and hla two
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