STOLEN PAPERS FOUND AT BALL Recovery of Diplomat’s Wallet Just as Thrilling as Best of Nick Carter Tales. ITngue.—During the Joyous days of the recent curulvul In Prague there wue i>erfonued, quite uuknown to the revellers, u clever piece of detective work on the part of the local police which resulted in the restoring to a distracted diplomat of certain pitpets which to hltu were of the greatest Im­ portance. The police worked quietly into the night life of the city, and such was their success that before the night was over the city .lull had two new tenants and u young man was speed­ ing out of Prngm to the foreign otlice of his government, expressing heart- felt thunks to the local lns|>ector of police who, iu this narrative, cun I m * referred to only as Mr I>----- . r Valuable Papera Stolen. Mr I»— seated one afternoon In his office behind a pile of papers, was interrupted suddenly by a young diplomat representing one of the great powers of Europe, who declared his business to be most urgent, lie re­ lated that a wallet containing docu­ menta of great value hud been stolen. He had left it for a few moments on his writing table to go to another iron, in the legation, and when he returned It was gone. Furthermore, there were jewels in the wallet. Ills personal prop­ erty, but their abstraction did not dis­ turb the young foreigner half us much as the loss of the papers. “I must leave Prague by the night train,” he explained to the Inspector, “and I will be ruined for life if these documents cannot be recovered.” Mr I>----- drove to the legation and looked over the wnllet substituted for that of the diplomat. It contained a Prague newspaper from which a clipping had been made. The ln«iut w< ll-chosen words. There w as no protest anil no scene They precedei! him to u taxicab, and on the way to the railroad station the Inspector stopped at police headquarters. Ex pert hands searched the pair, and the Inspector quietly took possession of the diplomat's portfolio, the necklace, und other pieces of Jewelry. Mr. I»----- drove on alone, and ar rived nt the railroad station after the gates for the night train hud been closed. On the platform he found the young diplomat with watch in baud trying to persuade the traiti crew to delay departure for Just a few mo­ ments. Mr. D----- made good his prom­ ise. He handed the diplomat his port­ folio and In it were intact the missing documents and the Jewels. ago was being shown the sights of Washington by un American friend. Dropping into a restaurant for lunch, their first dish proved to be mock tur­ tle soup. Tluit led the Moxlcun Into an animated account of a trip aero»« the Caribbean sea. In tlie course of which, lie said, they passed u bare rock "simply covered with mock turtles." “Excuse me," suld the Amerlcun, smil­ ing, "you don’t mean mock turtles, but Just turtles " “Indeed I mean what I sn.v," the other repented, with warmth. "I mean mock turHei»—tlie genuine mock turtles." Anothei Air-Propeller Boat. While there Is nothing absolutely new In tlie idea of driving u boat by means of un air propeller, u craft re­ cently Invented Is distinctly novel be­ cause its builder has made use of a much larger propeller thuii Is generally employed for tills purpose. This air- driven bout has been constructed ill France, where air-driven cruft have always attracted considerable atten­ tion on Un- part of ingenious French­ men. The propeller is mounted on a tall skeleton stand, un extension of which may be used ns a must. Tlie propeller turns at a slow rate, but ow­ ing to Its large spreud it moves u suf tident volurie of air to propel tlie bout along at n leisurely speed.—Scluntlllc American. 20, Naturally, this will aff<•< t th» J 1 “The wheat crop in the northwest Japanese Women Drop Out coming of he Roosevelt highway with is enormous. It is the big farm com­ all wheat products an miles olf the coast of Mexico, sailors suw u long unbroken black line TO GET NEW BUS1INESS on the sea. This I'ae approached the Brush rapidly, until It was seen that It was a wall of water fully 70 feet H. B. Rowley of Otis, who owns a In height. ranch in that section, where he has The ship was made ready for the lived for many years, and who has onslaught and Capt Mitchell said been working in the big mill at Wheel when the water hit the vessel it er for some time past, was in the city seemed as though a great hand claRjied Thursday on his wuy to Otis. He the ship and elevated It Into the air. stated that when the Roosevelt high­ There was not a breath of wind at the time. For Six hours the log of the way is finished to Salmon river and Brush shows the vessel wallowed In connected up with this city that prac­ swells equal to those off Cape Hom. tically all of the trade of that section The ship was driven miles off her will come to Tillamook. This place is course the largest trading point nearest the Wonderland Outdone. Salmon river section, and is not very- Everybody knows of the mock turtle far away. For years the Salmon riv­ Jimmie is a modern lad and lie is and hls profuse tenni described in er country bn liven isolated from the doing as all other humans, “ listening Lewi« Carroll's famous book. There outside world in winter, especially, Is one person who claims to have »wti in" on hls radio set. This photo shows Jimmie In his und thut fact has worked u great a number of them. A young attache hurdshiji on the settlers, who hail the of the Mexican legation several years nightie, listening to a concert ‘ ly progressing between Neskowin in this county and the Devil’s lake coun­ try or Salmon river section, and it will not be long before autos will be travelling from the latter place to N'eskowii. thence to this city. As a result of the coming of the new high­ way, there is considerable activity in that country in the matter of the sale of farm lands.* Many people from the outside are coming in and buying homes, in anticipation of a good road through the country. The Salmon river section is a fine stock country, and is exceptionally good for dairy­ ing. Now that dairymen can get out their milk and other products dairying will take on a new lease of life, and the whole country will begin to res­ pond to the impulse of good roads. Tillamook business men should make a caravan visit to the new trade territory just as soon as the new highway connection with this city will permit and cultivate friendly trade relations with the people of the Sal­ mon river valley and near by settle­ ments adjacent to the new road. The habit of wuiting for things to come to us is not enough. If we want trade, we should go after it, using modern busies« methods and assist by show­ ing that we would appreciate their patronage. ton, Oregon and Idaho and all of those states have a larger than usual crop to harvest. Europe also has large crops and is getting back to her old time producion. Crops of wheat in Argentine and the South American countries will be more than average this year, so that with the ruinous exchange rates on European money and the scarify of money in many European countries our export trade- in whaet will be light. It is figured in a conservative way that the north­ west alone will produce one hundred million bushels of wheat. I look for wheat to go as low as 80 to 90 cents per bushel la-fore the season is over. Charter No. 9!» also a big crop of barky in th» J try ami the same is trw of 1 too, will go down in price.. crop will hold up better for th» J that considerable of tin nop jured by rain, especially