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Fm MOT PPmiflf II Ff ''KM Ml ii mm i -HOOVER IS READY WILDCAT TANKS r.r MTHERSON GIRL-TELLS OF HORROR THREE ARE KILLED WHEN AIRPLANE AT I Airmen Drop Bombs In Effort to Clear Mammoth Ice Gorge PHILADELPHIA, March 9. Aerial bombs dropped from army SERVE PUBLIC IF HE IS CALLED OF MARASH SIEGE CUNNINGHAM BURNS By VICTOR The Music I WONDER. Did Professor Sickner, music teacher, plant a seed in "our which, two or three hundred years hence, will to wondrous flower? I wonder. Professor Sickner floated into Wichita on the flood of the first boom and remain ejd behind when so. many fickle folk went out on the ebbing tide.

His coming set a mile-post along the highway of the town's musical development, and my own. Wichita h.as always been musical basically. It would be safe to wrager that the first white man here fiddle. Organized effort to record a cultural advance in music appeared very early. That brings me to my first introduction to the art.

I entered" the field by a back-door. My whole interest centered not in the town band, which would not be unusual in a boy, but in one quite subordinate part of the band, snare-drum. For a long time lhi3 instrument so fascinated me that I did, not hear, and so did not mentally catalogue, the others in the band. This particular snare-drum was played by a curly-haired barber Lon Kistler. Declines to Seek Presidency; Brands Himself dent Progressive URGES ISSUES, NOT MEN NEW YORK, March 9.

Herbert Hoover, In a letter received today by Ralph Arnold of, Los Angeles, New representative of the "Make jt Hoover president Club" of California, declared he was not seeking public office, that his "ambition is to remain a common citizen," but that he believed "like every other citizen, I should 'always be ready for service when really called upon." Mr. Hoover's letter followed the action of a group of prominent Californians residing In this city In appointing a com-'mittce to go to Washington to ask Hoover to make known his position. Asserting that while "such proposals are indeed a great honor, I feel that I cannot alter the attitude that I have consisently Mr. Hoover's iV letter continued. "First, I am an independent 'progressive in the.

issues before us today I think that at this time, the Issues the country transcend partisanship. It is well known that I was a progressive repub-. lican before the war and I think right-, ly a non-partisan during my war I still; object as much to the reactionary group in the republican Tslsgrapk Brisfs UNCOIL. NEB March 9. The Nebraska anti-saloon league is preparing to conduct a campaign for nomination of only those men who are favorable to strict enforcement of the dry law.

ROME. March 9. Premier Nitti will present hynself to the chamber of deputies with an unchanged cabinet. He desires to obtain a vote of confidence before recon-tructinif the ministry. ZURICH.

March 0. A wireless dispatch from Moscow announces that the Russian sovit't and Ukvanian governments have informed the allies they ore ready to negotiate peace with Poland immediately. PARIS. March 0. The rovernment presented in-the chamber of deputies today a proposal lor the amicable settlement of all labor disputes.

The government, while admitting the risrht of workers to strike, demands that all means for a settlement be exhausted before cessation of work, 'MANILA March 9. Pensions of six thousand dollars yearly were granted by the territorial legislature to General Eniilio Atfuinaldo. leader of the Filipino insursrents against the Spaniards in 1890. and Caye-tano S. Arellano, formerly chief justice of the supreme court of ihe Philippines.

VILLAGES RUINED -HUNDREDS KILLED IN RUSSIA QUAKE Thousands Homeless As Result of Violent Tremors oh Kura River; TIFLIS IS DAMAGED TIFLIS. March 8. Several hundred person are dead and thousands of others are homeless as 'a result of an earthquake today -which destroyed Grakali, and other villages within a radius of sixty miles west of Tiflis. The city of Tiflis was shaken and many buildings were severely damaged. Thousands of refugees are pouring into Tiflis.

The constituent assembly of the Republic of Georgia immediately voted 20,000,000 rubles for first aid to the, suferers. Tiflis is in Transcaucasiai Russia, on the Kura river. SENATOR RACES TO GIVE WOMEN VOTE Rails Cleared For West Virginian Who Hopes to Break Suffrage Tie CHICAGO, Marh 9. Undeterred by news that he may arrive too late, Jesse A. Bloch, state senator of West Virginia, lekt Chicago at 1.

o'clock on a special tain in an effort to reach Charleston in time to cast the decid ing vote for woman suffrage. Advised by the Associated Press that Senator A. R. Montgomery as an anti-suffragist, had reached Charleston and that, even If the vote could be delayed until his arrival, he probably would only bring" about another tie, Senator Bloch said he would make the trip any way. He arrived here at 11:30 o'clock, from California, where he has been spending a vacation with Mrs.

Bloch. The Republican national committee had a special train and an) airplane waiting. The senator and Mrs. Bloch were met by Virgil Highland, Republican national committeeman from West Virginia, and Captain Victor Heintz, in charge of the Republican headquarters here'. The situation was hastily explained.

The railroad representative who was present, stated his train could reach Cincinnati In six hours, making con nections there at 7 o'clock tonight for Charleston. C. R. Borkland, the flyer, offered to cutthe time to three hours. Mrs.

Bloch cast the deciding' vote for the train. .7 The special train cost the Republican national committee $5,000. The aviator had offered to make the trip for $300. CHARGE DELAY IN BONUS Sooner Solon Would Create Corpor ation For Buying Farms -WASHINGTON, March 9. Charges that members of the house ways xL means committee were endcayoring to kill bonus legislation' by delay, were made today by Chairman Fordney when the committee resumed hearings on soldier relief legislation.

Renresentative Morcrnn. rprmhlifwn. Oklahoma, urged adoption of bill creaung a government corporation for the purchase of farms. 7 It would have a caDitalizatlon of smo nfto ono' all of which would be subscribed by those benefiting under the bill. Asked if, he was opposed to the "cash bonus proposiUolf," Mr.

Morgan said a laqd bill was primarily neces; sary, but that "a bonus would not be objected to." R. IMPROVEMENT-PROMISED Midland Valley Official Tells Paw- huska of His Plans PAWHUSKA. March 9. Big things from the Midland Valley for Pawhuska' were promised commercial club officials by A. W.

Le-Feber, vice president and general manager of the railroad, who was here today In his special car. "There Is much to be done for Pawhuska," said Mr. LeFeber, "as soon as we can get the material and the proper equipment. A4ditional switching facilities and an unloading platform for automobiles, ways and means to aid operation of industrial plants, and the most convenient -train service are, among the first steps to bd taken. These will require new tracks and other improvements.

FIFTY BARRELS Scouts Estimate Well Good Daily TANK feUiLDERS RUSHING I'lorence became a full-fledged oil new well of the Robinson Oil pany, in the southwest corner of-the southeast quarter of 18-21-5, -a mile south of was put oh the swab for an hour and produced 50 barrels of oil. The test had been shut down since it was drilled in for tankage to be built, but the owners and operators who have gathered at Florence since the "big strike became impatient, temporary tankage was erected, and the nroil nnf fnr an lionr. At. the time the wel was put on the swab there was 1600 feet of oil in the hole, and it could hardly be said that the initial rroTUction was 50 barrels an hour, but scouts who were' at the -well while it was being pumped are estimating it from to uuv It is thought that tankage Crill be completed by tonight and possibly the well can, be given! a -thorough test Large Pool The test isv on the Gfeely quarter section, and' opens np what is believed to be a large pool. Every acre for a radius of ten miles around Florence is under lease, and the little town is full of speculators, who.

are offering fancy prices for acreage in the pelgh-borhood of the welj. i While Florence has been 'getting good play In the, oil game, it has been wildcat territory, and the Robinson test is the big well to be brought in in the district. The strike now gives Florence a pool if its Rpbinson well, is the well of Ward and associates on the" Covert, iri 28-. oil! tVii-oA miloa from Florence, which. A V- was swabbed Monday, and.

is estimated eood for 100 barrels or more. A steel line measurement shows the bottom of the Covert well to be 2358 feet The depth of the Greely well is lion fnn I Expect Bigger Showings Some of thescauts claim well is on the edge of the poor, and tnat larger psoaucera wui um" iil the neighborhood. However, it is a) sufficient producer to. start a drill-campaign with good assurance of get ting it piUUULTLl. -V "One of the scouts who came to wwa inst because he was un able to get hotel accommodations in Florence, said: "Florence already looks like a new town.

The streets are crowded with men with; blue maps? ind the hotels are overfldwing." U. S. CAREFUL IX TAX REFUNDS ON STOCK DIVIDENDS WASHINGTON, March 9. Strict regulations were issued today by the bureau of internal revenue to safeguard the government In refusing taxes on stock dividends, the collection of which was held unconstitutional by the' supreme court. Applj'ing, for' over-payments due them individuals must forth full details of stock dividends received.

sequent sale of such shares and must present statements from the corporations which distributed the dividends as to the amount paid' and the year. When the claims are verified, the tax payer may.be reimbursed or have the overcharge credited against any -tax installments to which they are liable. It Is expected that the amount 'to be refunded by the government will be lessened greatly by, crediting against income taxes this year the first Installment of. which is due Monday. ITALY TO ATTEMPT DIRGIBLE FLIGHT TO SOUTH AMERICA NEW YORK, March The Italian government will back an attempted airship flight from Rome to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, next June, Lieutenant Colonel duidoni, air attache of the embassy of Italy, announced tonight.

A twenty-five passenger dirigible has Just, been completed for the voyag and will make its trial trip in April; he added. The big bag will try to. maintain a speed of fifty nautical miles an hour andxCOmplete its flight in' 110 hours. Lieutenant Colonel Guidon! said. Construction the dirigible was begun last June.

It has four motors of 260 horsepower each. The weight of the craft is 34 tons, 19 of which are "useful load" passengers, cargo, supplie and fuel. COLD DRIVES DEER TO TOWN N. J. The extreme cold' weather, with the heavy' snow and ice, has driven the.

deer from the wilds of, Pahaquarry and other points into towns and villages of Warren where; they seekshelter and food, Several of the animals have been seen near Belyidere, and bne ventured into the streets The farmers' are giving the deer every possible protection, and in some instances hj deer are seen eatins witii the cows 'on the. farm. There' Is sortie complaint of deer being killed by dogs In. Pahaquarry township and other IN FIRST HOUR MURDOCK Master rivalry among" the women teachers. "Whenever new teacher appeared with a new "method," she recruited a circle of champions who were not content with endorsing the new method, but also insisted that numerous stubby-fingered children had had' their "touch" ruined by old methods.

But while there was rivalry in this, in the main attack on the community's tastes, the women teachers mSrched shoulder to shoulder. Then Professor Sickner floated fhto town. He was a man and he taught piano. If the town hadn't been-so busy with its boom and other strangers, I believe it would have challenged Professor Sickner then and there. But he was in town and in operation before the town really knew It.

He threw "Silvery Waves" into the ash barrel without apology, dropped the "Shepherd Boy" into ay well, and trampled even "Traumerei" underfoot even It was a daring thing to do, but be 1 did it. He wasn't very pleasant aboufc it, either." A tall supple man, with very long, white, tapering fingers, a pale hands arid feet, he had little patience and no compromise in his nature. He refused to perform on the piano to. impress the. parents of the prospective pupils: he refused to forsake finger-exercises for and he literally threw i I his long arms around the tpwn, forced Its head back and poured Chopin and Beethoi-en dow.

its. jthroat.1 But worst of all, he actually advocated the piano for feoys.l To him music was an art" and there was only one" road to its shrine and that road Industry. After nis day's work, he would hurry home to work in liis garden which he loved thinning his strawberry plants and pinching the parsley back. I can see him now in his "studio." his long form bent over the keyboard, a directing pencil in hand, beside a bewildered boy who kept the measure under his left hand with a monotonous persistency while the fingers of Ins right fluttered over notes that tinkled like distant bells one instant and-cracked like rifle-shots the next. In the end Professor Sickner gave up piano instruction went into business or devoted himself to his garden.

"But he was at the. piano-forte a. long time In Wichita. Did he plant a seed there which centuries hence will come to flower? The art of music is long. I believe no single generation can germinate it.

When grandfather, father, and son, over and over have thought In its notation, then at last, comes one who speaks the speech of the soul which is song. i No one yet has caught and' written down the music of the prairies'. It is an elfin thing the music of the prairies like shimmering threads of summer heat, now here now there, now gone. Itrtsa cosmic thing the music of the prairies like velvet rumbles of receding thunder-clouds, now deep, now faint now gone. It is a' moving minstrelsy the-music of the prairies with a rang- reaching from, a tinkling treble that trembles Into silence; but is still "sound, to a droning double bass which is the music of the spheres itself.

No one yethas caught and Written down the' prairies' Did Professor Sickner plant in the brain of some bewildered boy the seed from which it will some day, flower? I wonder. Now I know only that if it is ever written, he who draws his spirjt bapk from its ecstasy, to set it down," in his flesh, will have seen God. Finds Grip With $6,800 Currency; Gets $40 Reward KANSAS CITY, March 9 A grip containing $6,800 in currency was found in a street car late yesterday by Derby, of Kansas and turned in to a clerk at- the car barns. The grip had been lost by a messenger for a bank and today the bank gave Derby a reward of $40. Derby kept $20 and divided the re-mainder between the- motorman of Ihe car and the clerk at the car barn.

MICIIIGANWOMAN WILL BUN KALAMAZOO. March 9. Mrs. Helen C. Sta tier, granddaughter of the late announced today that she would be a.

candidate for4 the Republican, nomination lor in the third Michigan district. planes, are-being used today to break- ice jams that menace' two Maryland towns on the Susquehanna river. An ice gorge which has piled oip from 20 to 30 feet high on the river between Port Deposit and Cherry-! dale, has flooded the river I streets and houses in both towns." FOR THE LOVE OF GOD Five'liundred and fifty packing- house workers on strike presumably for the love of the families they are bound to Support, have re-' turned to work for the love of God. John J. Walsh has made a name for himseif as a conciliator.

He went after his men in a new way. He could not tell these men that Louis. Swift loves them. He could, not appeal to their "loyalty" to their' employer, nor to their sense of "duty" to the public. Those themes long ago Were worn out.

So he told them of the love of God, of the teachings of Jess! of Nazafeth, the laborer who put down his tools at i the age of 30 and went forth to teach the world a new doctrine of 1 love and universal brotherhood. So these men have" decided to go back to Work and give their master one more chance to show how deeply he is touched by the doctrine of love. Mr. Walsh, wxm over 550 laborers who stick hogs and walk -daily in blood, ought to 'be able to present his appeal with telling. force to the Swift family, which could do a great- deal of loving of its fellow men without any great or exhausting inconvenience.

4 The love -of God is the most potent force for transforming the hearts of men. The average man sees it lis a very abstract and evanescent factor! But let a powerful pleader, imbued with the truth and power of his theme, talk with the most stiff-necked outlaw in the world concerning this love of the Creator for the creature and pf the' teachings that i have proceed rm the mouth of the Most High, and the heart "bf the offender is melted. Thus have destinies and dynasties unnumbered' been" saved" and lost, since the day when Paul stretched forth his hand and almost persuaded" King Agrippa to' become a Christian. The men have gone back to work for the love of God. Let us see what the Swifts Will do.

PRESS AS UNFAIR Miners Vote Fnnd to Estab lish Oklahoma Daily; Pledge Loyalty tq3Howat KANSAS CITY, March 9. The United Mine Workers, of America, district No. 14, in biennial conven tion here today were urged to go actively into politics, obtain control of daily newspapers, for the purpose, bf creating public opinion, favorable to organized labor, and elect their members to state and national A large part of the day was devoted to condemnation of newspapers of today as "capitalistic" and speakers repeatedly declared that newspapers con sistently refused to give labor's side' of controversies. After more' than- two hours' debate as to whether the mat-terjshould be referred to a referendum vote of the 'district, the convention ai-propriated money for the 'purchase of stock in a. labor 'daily shortly to be published in Oklahoma City.

Other resolutions adopted lAcluded one pledging. "full and undivided support" to President Alexander Howat at any time he may see fit to call a strike. 3. C. Miliett, head "of a local carpenter's union, told the convention that the Kansas Industrial Court- law did not originate with Governor Allen, but was formulated at the conference of goyernors in November 1.

and that Kansas was selected as the state to "try it out because there was no referendum; in Kansas." Commenting upon the action of 54 posts of the American Legion in Kansas In urging the passage of the industrial court law. he declared "we mustf get In lighting trim; we must be prepared to 'face the guns." SWIFT EMPLOYER RETURN Company Promises to Adjnst Disputed Points CLEVELAND. March S.Afier listening to a sermon on the love of God and the need to return to his teachings, by John J. Walsh, conciliation commissioner of the United States department of labor, today, and a promise by the company to adjust disputed points of an arbitration award with a committee of union env ployes f550 striking packing' house employes of Swift and: Company decided to return to work About 800 men have been out a week in ten locaj plants, the largest of which was that of Swift and Company. Today's settlement' is expected to end the strike in other plants where similar grievances Miss Evelyn Trostle Reports Ten Thousand Remains On Job XMAS PROGRAM SPOILED CONSTANTINOPLE, March 8.

"Ten thousand Armenians are report massacred, and now the French troops are evacuating the city. I have decided to stay with my orphans and take what comes. This may be my last letter. Whatever happens, rest assUred.God's In the heaven and all's well. "I am working in the day time and often In the night at the emergency hospital.

Believe me, war is hell." This entry for February 10, con. eludes a remarkable letter just received at Constantinople- from Miss Evelyn Trostle, of McPherson, a worker of the American Committee for Relief in the Near East, at the seige of Marash, who is still here caring for the homeless and wounded. The letter, begins with a description of January 21, the Armenian Christmas, when the battle opened at Mar-ash just at the time Miss Trostle was preparing to have a Christmas tree for the orphans. "It was a beautiful day," site writes, "the tree was the presents were ready and candles were lighted, when the "We were not surprised although we had no warning. The ''children began to cry and the grown ups began ta get I decided to go on as it nothing were happening.

It Tyas difficult to get the singing started and the 'teached said: 'The children will sing with their lips not with their i EPILEPTIC HOME DESTROYED; EIGHT ARE SUFFOCATED GALLIPOLIS, March 9. Eight persons are dead and two are expected to die as a result of a fire which earjy today destroyed one cottage and the dancing pavillion at the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics. dead, and injured were patients at the institution. Twenty-five patients were ln the cottage when.thfj ui-au tin were sui.ioca.Lcu. j.ne mjurea were partly suffocated and burned.

POWELL, CONTROLS CONVENTION Cof feyville Editor Is Candidate for G. O. P. Convention COFFEYVILLE, March 9. Hugh J.

Powell, editor ff the Coffey- ville Journal and a candidate for national committeeman from the third distritricf, controlled the Republican county convention at Independence which elected delegates to the state and congressional convention today. W. Fitzpatrick, following the temporary organization of the convention by the election of Charles D. Welch of this city as chairman and N. A.

Baker of Cherry vale as secretary, withdrew his candidacy and made a speech in which he urged party harmony. Congressman Campbell addressed the convention this afternoon. BANDITS USED RUBBER GLOVES Make Haul At Bank Near Ponca City, Leaving No Trace PONCA CITY, March 9. Wearing rubber gloves so as to avoid leaving finger-prints, unknown par- ties robbed the Bank of Peckham, this cuuni.y, lusi mmiugni, geuing away last with $337 cash and some Liberty bonds. One pair of gloves was, left behind.

The bandits went through the outside brick wall of the building with a crowbar and broke the combination of the outside' door of" the safe. The inner vault was hot molested. 0 WHITE SLAVER CONVICTED Enid Man Will Get Sentence For Ply-ing Illegal Traffic ENID, March 9. John Bowman, accused 1 of violating white slave act in federal court here, was found, guiltyion one of four counts by the jury in the cae this afternoon. Bowman transported Pansy Martin across the Kansas-Oklahoma line several times in an automobile last May, according to her testimony.

She is Bowman's sister-in-law. Bowman will receive sentence from Judge You-mans WOOD TAKES NEW HA3D7IISHIRE MANCHESTER', N. March 9. The first of the presidential primaries to elect delegates to the republican and democratic national conventions were held in' this state' today: The vote was light. 4 With one exception the; republican candidates were either pledged for Major-General Leonard Wood or known to be favorable his nomination.

The exception was John W. Flaherty of Nashua, a candidate for delegate at large, who was pledged for Senator Hiram Johnson, In the early "returns Flaherty's Yote- was comparatively small' 0 RUFE IvING TRIAL CONTINUED March 9. The trial of Rufus King, held on the charge of murdering three men whose skele' tons were unearthed last August on property formerly occupied by King at Ma pie Hill, was continued for two weeks today-bvJudge Robert C. Heizer in the Osage County district court, at Lyndon 1 I I Exhibition Flights in Kingman County Town Come to Tragic End, VICTIM KNOWN HERE Three persons, one the pilot of an airplane and two passengers In the same machine, were burned to death at Cunningham, at 4:30 o'clock, Tuesday afternoon, when the machine caught fire while flying 600 feet from the ground; one-half mile south of Cunningham. The.

dead are: John T. Ratciif 10 years, son of Mrs. Joseph Ratclif Miss Claris Hart, 19 daughter Of f. A. Hart, retired farmer, both of Cunningham, and Emil Saegusser, pilot, of Bushton, Kan.

Known Here Young Ratclif fe is the "nephew of Mrs. J. M. Crossfield, 2919 East Douglas avenue, and is well known to her friends in this city. The boy has been a frequent visitor here; Miss Hart was a teacher in the Cunningham schools.

Saegusser came to Cunningham at, 11 o'clock Tuesday morning, in his airplane, and solicited passengers at $7.50 a ride, it was said by persons at Cunningham. Airplane riding was proving a good business for Saegusser'at Cunningham. He is reported to have taken up between 12 and 15 persons at Cunningham up to the time of the accident. Pilot moking? No- one was able to say what caused the airplane to catch fire. It was rumored the pilot was smoking while driving the machine.

Mrs-. Crossfield received a telegram Tuesday night, from Herman Ratclif fe, uncle of young Ratclif fe, giving meager accounts of the accident. The undertaker In charge of the bodies reported they were burned beyond recognition. Emil Saegusser was a member of-headquarters company of the 10th divisign. He has been a professional flyer for four years, but was not a pilot during the war.

His mother, who lives at Granite, 111., has been notified of the tragedy. Made 15 Trips Saegu sser had made 15 trips with passengers prior to -the fatal accident, use Deiore embarking on the disas- "Well, this will be trio." The plane was flying at a height c'f about 500 feet when the crowd gathered below saw it suddenly burst into flames. The pilot could be aeen frantically struggling to bring his ship to a quick landing; then it nosed Jown and with the engine running speed crashed into the earth. The bodies of the victims were un-1 recognizable and fthe plane was a charred mass of ruins when the flames were extinguished. ARREST K.C.

BANK BANDIT SUSPECTS One Man Wounded in Hip; Had Car Similar to One Used By Robbers KANSAS CITY, March 9 Four men and two women, one of the men suffering from a bullet wound (in the hip, were being held by the police tonight in connection with the attempted robbery of the South Side Ranlr tnAav in mWoli (Hon Af L' Tt. key, cashier, was shot to death. aii. were arrested this evening at a residence in the eastern part of town. A large motor car, similar to that said to have been used by the five men who attempted the bank robbery, -was found six blocks from the house where the arrests were made, It was announced In the tonneau were found two caps and five exfloded cartridges, One of the robbers Is supposed to have been wounded when he was struck by a bullet fired by Henry SJrohmeyer, the bank's bookkeeper, who, with Cashier Shockley began shooting at.

the men: when their purpose at the bank was discovered. The man supposed to have been wounded was dragged into the car by his companions. The arrests tonight, it was stated, at. police headquarters, followed an anonymous, telephone message saying "if jou want to catch the bank robbers, go to the home of 1 Officers with riot guns went to the house ana found the two wo- men and three men preparing' to re move the wounded man from' tne house. 1 IRISH HAVE KU-KLUX KLAN Mask For Attack On Police Barracks In Old Erin WATERFORD, IRELAND, March 9.

A large partyj of masked, armed men last night attacked the police barracks, killing one policeman and seizing rifles and ammunition. -AIJENS ON HUNGER STRIKE- March. More than 200 aliens held at Fort Wayne for deportatioiv declared a hunger strike today "as "a protest asain an order which curtailed the 1 numlr. of visitors ttiey receive daily. (Tne prisoners who were taken in raids a number of weeks "ago4 refused food and declined to fire the boilera which supply heat for their quarters.

Only after I had satiated myself on his performances, did I consent to admit the other instruments into the picture as a necessary background. Even then I did so by degrees. I accepted first the bass drum, and a little later the grunting tuba and shopped there. I know now, i as I did not know then that very primitively, and very properly, I was concerned only with the rhythm. After a time I examined curiously and embraced the alto horn and the tenor.

I was a long time in making my peace with the- cornet. De spite its monoply of the melody, it seemed to me, in my early experiences, always to be interfering with the rest of the band the rhythm and the harmony1. Gradually I came to understand Its leadership and to accept its melodies when they occurred in its lower register. There was ample opportunity to become acquainted with the For it seemed to be the one band Instrument In a town band which demanded practice. As I write an old alley Tn Wichita rises before me, an alley, Sunday morning with Its coal-sheds and butcher shop smoke-houses, and mountains of dry-goods boxes andin the midst i of it, the town's cornettist bruising his upper lip and his musical soul against the flatted high notes of Trovatore However the town did not stop with a brass band.

It had an orchestra. This held forth at the opera house. It was led by A ntoine Misener, who worked on: the "railroad section with aT shovel fritheday, and fiddled with a bow at night. I-had no sooner reconciled myself to the cornet, than I took on a bitter feud with the violin. Its high notes distracted me, so much so that when the lost the beat and Antoine lifted his bow to bring it back to I always felt relieved.

liked the 'cello and the bass-viol and the flute, but curiously had a contempt for the clarinette, which, because of its mouthpiece, I believed to be a lazy man's substi-tute. for the flute. In time between the town" band and the orchestra, I began to separate the concord into four voices and' to distinguish them but I alwaj's listened primarily to the harmony, and while long ago I changed my mind about melody, I still direct myself first to the rhythm, then harmony and only incidentally to tune. Soon the crop of pianists appeared. Instruction on the piano-forte in the frontier town was regarded as a field open only to women, and piano pupilage as fit' only for girls.

-The only man admitted to the sacred circle was a white-bearded visitor, named Sheldon, who appeared at intervals with a small satchel, tuned the instruments I and then mysteriously disappeared again, striking during his visit, a few sonorous chords, but refusing to play when asked, with an air of. one who considered himself altogether too much of a man for such trifles The women who had Wichita's early musical education in hand, so far as tbe piano was concerned; were, martyrs, community for the most part, and despite its large German contingent, had a decided leaning toward certain hopelessly elementary compositions among them "Silvery Waves" and' "Shepherd Against this the women music teachers fought valiantly for years, but with only partial success. They battled forward, step by step, vuntil they entrenched behind. Schumann's "Traumerel," and there the contest deadlocked. The town' did' accept "Traumerei," with a kind of Unholy show of pride in its ability to recognize it.

There was always a certain subdued Oklahoma Wolves Kill Stock: Will Stage Big Drive PONCA CITY, March 9. Farmers living between Ponca City1 and" the Chickasha river visited town today and requested help in eliminating the wolves which have become so? tame that they 'are killing and carrying off lambs, pigs and turkeys. It was, decided, to hold a mammoth drive, in which the' town people will participate on -19. MEX BANDITS KILL TANKS HOUSTON, March 9. vablegram sent by.

P. J. Blackmon, manager of the Magnolia Petroleum Company at Tampico, to S. J. Byington of Houston, Tuesday, stated that "Pat! Foley, an employe of the Magnolia "petroleum Company, had i been -killed by Mexican bandits.

party as I do to the radical group in the democratic party. Docs Not Want Office "Second, I am not seeking public office and, consulting my own personal inclinations, I do not want public office. I cannot prevent 'any citizen or group of citizens from agitating" that I should take public office, but cannot conscientiously participate In any organization to that end. "Third I hope to have the affection of my countrymen, but my ambition is to remain a common citizen, ready to engage in team play with any organization and leadership that has for its objective, the consummation and maintenance of great issues In the forms that I believe are to be public interest and benefit. of course, believe In party organization, but it must be for the promotion of issues, not of men." "Fourth Yom and your friends have lirgdd' that I should undertake fo propaganda for myself as representing issues, by entering into competition for, nomination by a great party.

Asido from the reasons mentioned above, 'this Implies entry upon a' road of self-seeking, whereas my view is that I should agitate for the issues, not for myself. "Finally, I am not so ignorant as not to realize perfectly well that such a course does not lead to nomination to the presidency, but I would not be myself if I started out on a path of self-seeking to obtain any office." INDICT LABOR EDITORS Accused of Inciting Overthrow of Government By Force CHICAGO, March 9. Ludwig Lore, New York editor of "Class Struggle," said to be one of the founders of the Communist Iabor party, and" 'four members of the organization, were indicted here today charged with conspiracy to overthrow the government by force. They were mot Included In the blanket indictments returned, last month against more than 100 Communists, Communist Laborites and I. W.

Dr. O. J. Brown, De Kalb, 111., and Dr. Karl T.

Sandberg and M. J. Christcn8en. both of Chicago, were others indicted today. The name of the fifth man is being withheld pending his arrest.

NEW COURT PROBES COST Will Try To Fix Responsibility For Hiking Prices TOPEKA, March 9. The Kansas industrial relations court will probe "the high cost of living and the cost of high living" and, incidentally, expects to ascertain which is responsible for the continuing Increase in prices. The court has sent out questionnaires to manufacturers, wholesalers and Jobbers or tnevtnft. and products. The court also has sent questionnaires to coal mine oner ators ascertain what per cent of full capacity the mines are worked.

RANCHMAN DIES PONCA CITY, March' 9. Charles Evans, 101 Ranch employe, who had his head crushed yesterday between two barrels of oil, died in a local hospital today. Evans was, driving a wagon hauling the barrels, and an axle broke, throwing him to the ground and between the barrels. relatives have not been located, but Jt is" understood they live In Northern Missouri. SCAFFOLD VICTIM DIES ST.

LOUIS. March 9. Dennis Guil fore, 42, died In a local hospital early tonight from Injuries received yester day when a scaffolding at' the plant of the General Motors Company, collaps ed and precipitated a number of work men thirty feet to the ground. His death was the fourth resulting from the accident. THE WEATHER CHICAGO, March 9.

Kansas: Partly cloudy Wednesday and Thursday. Probably, in east portion. Moderate temperature. Oklahoma: cloudy; armer. Thursday Partly cloudy.

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