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LA PLATA REPUBLICAN LA PLATA MISSOURI GOOD TALES Whence Ghost WdKs CITES rr Axttv Jawing a to Black Hills Rancher Sets orest ires forests of the of the highest Hill Heirs at Odds Over Home Advice to Lady Poet be per cent of all game distributed free of states to stock wild the ox him precautions will insure the publication provided' of course that you have written a poem to begin with Dust Used as Evidence The rench police are making a microscopic examination of dirt found upon the clothing of suspected crimi nals After cross examination the sus pects are stripped of their clothing whose surface dust is first examined under a strong mlscroscope A vacuum cleaner Is next applied to draw out other dirt into a pan In some in stances heating Is used to separate foreign matter rom the dirt thus se cured the detectives determine whether the suspect has been telling the truth One murderer tried to prove an alibi by saying that he had slept in an open field the night of the crime Micro scopic examination of his clothing showed that he had slept in a quarry A carpenter was connected with a mur der by means of sawdust found on a piece of overall which the victim had torn from his assailant and which was found at the scene of the crime The value of the plan has been in breaking down the bravado of criminals They frequently confess when shown that their first stories were Iles Bore 12 Miles Into the Earth SAKS NOTHING CAN SUPPLANT THE ARM Eskimo Girls Bob Hair Two young girls have been admitted to high school in Copenhagen who are perhaps the first of their race to receive a European higher education says the Detroit News They are Es kimo girls and were adopted by the Arctic explorer Amundsen on his last trip to the polar regions The girls ling to finance a big company to do the work" Discussing his project after the luncheon Sir Charles said British sci entists as well as officials of the Roy al observatory at Greenwich were greatly interested in the scheme don't know what is down there and we ought to that's the he said have been doing preliminary experimentation for eight years and I am certain that such a shaft is a prac ticable engineering project and that the only thing necessary to make it a reality is the money It might be pos sible to go deeper than 12 miles would have the shaft 20 feet tn diameter and lined with granite which experiments have shown would not fall In The shaft would be sunk to different levels in the same way that mining shafts are sunk and it would be necessary after we got down to a sufficient depth to have the heat pumped out I suggested that the work be done through International effort because of the tremendous ex pense I have done nothing as yet toward securing funds It would be an admirable thing if some American multi millionaire we have few of them left in Great Britain now would donate money for the i ty" 1921 says Beard attorney and George Slade are all residents of New York while the other plaintiff Walter Hili is either a resident of New York or Montana The complaint states that the plaintiffs are the children of James Hill who died in 1916 and of Mrs Mary Hill who died in St Paul on November 22 1921 without making a will The tract belonged originally to James Hill who also died without making a will but because their moth er had made her home there a great part of the time the nine children joined in a deed of the property to her the suggestion of Louis The complaint alleges that on Jan uary 8 1920 fraud and undue in fluence she was wrongfully and Il legally by Louis HUI to deed the property to him without con sideration The children say that their mother was permitted to occupy the property until her death and that the paper was not recorded until De cember 21 1921 a month after her death when the plaintiffs first learned of it The plaintiffs say that they are each entitled to a ninth of the property In question and aik a judgment decree ing that the transfer of tlie property to the defendant was not 'effective oa the ground of the reasons stated ST PAUL Louis AV Hill son of the late James Hill builder of railroads in the North west who succeeded his father In control of many properties and is president of the Great North ern railway has been sued In New York by two brothers a sister and brother in law for their country home In Ramsay county Minn It is asserted that he got it from their mother by fraud while she was ill and unable to realize what she was doing The property Involved Is valued at more than $231800 the sum at which It was appraised as part of the James Hill estate The complaint alleges that Louis HUI also Induced their mother to transfer to him without consideration railway bonds of a face of $750 000 and estimated at $600000 at the present time The ownership of the bonds is not Involved in the suit The case became public when the papers were filed in the Supreme court after Justice Wasservogle had granted an application by attorneys for the defendant to transfer the ac tion to the United States IJistrict court The petition stated that Louis HUI Is a resident of St Paul and that the plaintiffs James Hill Ruth HUI Beard wife of Anson McCook EW International co operation for sinking of a shaft 12 miles deep for scien tific purposes Is advocated by Sir Charles A Parsons whof adapted steam turbine en gines td commercial purposes on a large scale He made the suggestion at a luncheon given to him and Sena tor Luigi Lulggl president of the So ciety of Italian Engineers at the En gineers' club Sir Charles said an exploration of this character might reveal the exist ence of new chemical elements and of metals heavier than any known now The force of gravitation he said would draw such minerals downward from the crust know nothing of what Is be low our feet but we know that tlie heaviest minerals are at the center of the said Sir Charles "Instead of sending out polar expeditions it be better to go down and see what we come to? Experiments I have made convince me that it would take 50 years to get down 12 miles would be a great bond of union for the various nations to combine in such an enterprise We have evidence from earthquake waves that It is hot 20 miles below the earth's surface It would take 20000000 pounds ster 1 rounds of golf In California in stead of going to Africa or In dia for big game of the jungles is one of the aims of the Pacific Coast club which is to be in corporated at Sacramento according to rederick Sims of Chicago one of the directors It Is planned to establish a 45000 acre hunting preserve and country club in central California and stock the preserve with lions tigers leopards pumas bears buffalo and other game Mr Sims said The plans have been under way for two years with wealthy Pacific coast men behind the enterprise Mr Sims added The officers he said Include Ray Meacham of Los Angeles presi dent John Rawley of Los Angeles vice president Roland Hill of Bakers field Cal secretary and West of San Gabriel Cal treasurer The land now held under option is a woody hilly tract not many drive from Los Angeles Mr Sims said It Is planned to Include 100 African lions 40 Bengal tigers 20 leopards 100 pumas 150 black bear 1000 buf Riches for University The University of Texas may come one of the wealthiest Institutions of learning in the world as a result of the recent discovery of oil on its lands Under contract with the oil companies the university will receive a one eighth royalty have only one name which sounds somewhat barbaric but for the mo ment they are Kokanltta and Carnitta irst thing they did on arriving In Copenhagen after having looked around a little was to have their hair bobbed Absent Mindedness Plus A Beech Grove merchant was laugh ing over the absent minded customer who recently sent her little girl to the store with instruction to stay there until her mother telephoned an or der After 'the child had been there an hour or so the mother called and said she had forgotten all about send ing her "It reminds me" said the merchant "of the time when I was a boy We lived about a quarter of a mile from the town It was our custom to walk to the village in the evening to get the mall and loaf a while at the gen eral store One evening dad was very tired and instead of walking hitched up the old mare and drove into town About nine just as I had taken off my shoes to go to bed dad came whistling up the front walk "Why I said you drive to town this A queer expression came over his face and In a tone of great authority he spid 'Go right down there and get that Then I wished I had kept Indianapolis News the mining fown of Hill City The three fires were so plainly of an In cendiary character that Supervisor Conner of the Barney forest reserve set on foot an investigation giving the matter in charge of Ranger ox Ranger ox frofc the similarity of methods employed by the incendiary and by a careful Investigation of con ditions in the Immediate neighborhood of the three fires soon obtained clues which aided him in discovering identity of the culprit inally arrested Woodward and charged with having set the three fires After a grilling by Assistant United States Attorney Tscharner and several Black hills officers Woodward con fessed having set the three fires Woodward replied he wanted to earn money and that by assisting the for est rangers in fighting forest fires he could do so Later he repeated his confession before a United States commissioner and was held for appearance In ed eral court Unable to furnish a bond he will be kept in jail until he can be taken to court Origin of Paved Roads Our modern dustless concrete roads may be said to have originated in a dusty limestone highway of England says Popular Science Monthly Just 109 years ago Joseph Aspdln a mason of Leeds England discovered that If the dust of limestone roads was mixed with clay and burned at a high tem perature the resulting mass when ground would produce a material that hardened when mixed with mortar This substance looked like building atone quarried at Portland so he called it Portland cement entire tract of 45000 acres will be under Mr Sims said "Twenty thousand acres will be set aside for the carnivorous beasts Every member of the club will have the privilege of shooting one animal of each variety a year Provision has been made for expending $250000 a year for restocking The club he explained would be conducted after the fashion of Eng lish shooting preserves The by laws provide that 10 raised will be charge to other game coverts No such club as this has ever been planned before A $250000 clubhouse has been planned and 200 cottages for members with 18 and 24 hole golf courses tennis courts polo field avia tion field archery shooting ranges race track swimming pools play grounds and a pack of fox hounds will be maintained The club Is to have 4000 members More than 1000 re quests for memberships already have been received and it Is planned to open the club in September 1925 ac cording to Mr Sims A young lady writes to ask what steps should be taken to have a poem published in a magazine In reply we would suggest that the surest way Is first to purchase a controlling interest In the magazine Then have yourself selected editor be careful to read and revise the proof and then sit close to the press while the edition Is being run off to Insure the safe birth of your brain child These with a few minor Jielerz JZsmiJiori of the port of Nev Yorki913 17 and as public protest against the failure of President Wilson and his administration to urge and pass the woman suffrage And who are the Lucy Stoners? Why the members of the Lucy Stone league of course Tlie league is com posed of married women who refuse to take their husbands' names It was organized in 1921 and has Its headquarters in New York city Its president is Ruth Hale of New York and Ruth Hale has been Mrs Hey wood Broun since 1917 Its secretary Is Jane Grant It has been printed 1 that she is the wife of Harold Ross editor of Judge But why the league Probably Lucy was our very first woman Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan Anthony Julia Ward Howe and the other early leaders used to say that Lucy "first really stirred the heart on the subject of Any way Lucy was the first American to hang on to her own name after mar riage At thirty seven years of age she married In 1855 Henry Black well a Cincinnati merchant and Aboli tionist broflier of the famous Dr Elizabeth Blackwell (182N1910) who opened the medical profession to women Lucy Stone (1818 93) early deter mined to get a real education Why? Well when she talked rights for women" somebody was always quoting texts from the Bible against it Therefore she decided to get a college education so she could read the Bible in the original and see if those texts were correctly translated Lucy was graduated from Oberlin in 1847 Evidently she had found the transla tions of those texts all wrong for that same year she delivered from her pulpit at Gardner Mass the very first lecture on rights The next year she lectured in New England the and Canada for the Massachusetts Anti Slavery soci also on rights After her marriage she became still more energetic In 1869 she founded with Julia Ward' Howe the American Woman Suffrage association which later merged with the National Wom an Suffrage association It took these devoted and their successors 51 years to obtain the suffrage by constitutional amendment The Lucy Stoners seem to be getting along fairly aside from Comp troller General McCarl They can get life in some companies They have little trouble with realtors and with landlords with butcher and baker and candlestiekmaker The postmaster general is indifferent and the income tax people give a whoop But hotelkeepers are a bit nervous The State department says when it comes to passports that they can use their names or stay at home And of course the mothers Invariably say married daugh ter Mrs So and Change her name on the hospital payroll Presumably the amount In volved Is not staggering but just im agine what the totals would run to if every Lucy Stoner defies Comptrol ler General McCarl! or example Mrs Helen Hamilton Gardener who is according to the Congressional Directory one of the three civil service commission ers and receives $5000 a year But that well known and justly famous collection of autobiographies' says that Helen Hamilton Gar dener (no has been the wife of Col Selden Alden Day A since 1901 Nevertheless Mrs Gardener or Helen Hamilton Gardener or Mrs Day should know what she Is doing for a graduate (1872) of the Ohio State Normal school She has spent many years in travel in 20 countries collecting pictures and data on social and political conditions a mem ber of clubs in Washington New York London Paris and Rome the author since 1890 of six works a member of the executive board vice president and vice chairman of the congressional committee of the Nation al American Woman Suffrage associa tion And finally she was appointed to the civil service commission in the first woman member Is it likely that a woman of her experience and official position would take $41666 every month from Uncle Sam con trary to law? McCarl certainly ir right as to the part of the law as he lays it down And a pathetic case that proves It: Miss Doris Stevens was permanent chairman of the recent election con ference of the National party at which the delegates decided to cut loose from the whole tribe of male polltlcans to elect 100 women to congress this fall and to establish a woman's bloc in the house The delegates begged and Implored Miss Doris Stevens to be one of those 100 candidates And that insistent demand brought out this pitiful story: It appears that Miss Doris Stevens in private life is Mrs Dudley ield Malone that Mr had estab lished a legal residence in Paris that Paris was therefore her legal resi dence she and her husband had been restored to American citizenship but had not resided long enough in their American home to have even a vote Of course this same domlcile for husband and wife law Is one which SIOUX ALLS Confessing he set three forest fires In the Black hills in the hope of ob taining temporary employment with forest rangers in the work of ex tinguishing the fires George Wood ward a rancher whose home is in one of the valleys of the Black hills will have to face a jury in United States court At this time of the year when the heavy grass and underbrush are as dry as tinder the forest rangers of the Black hills maintain the utmost vigi lance In regard to forest fires which if not discovered at once and extin guished would do untold damage to the national and state Ttlncb hills Lookout points are maintained on tne summit of several peaks in the Black hills and from them smoke from forest fires which break out in the daytime is readily detected and at night the fires are detected by the Recently three forest fires of mys terious origin were discovered in the forests of the Harney range north of Not in His see by the fashion notes in the newspaper that even the styles in pocketbooks change quite Harduppe Is sel dom any change in mine" Comptroller General Ruling Stirs Up Controversy Synthetic oods Not Practi cable Chemist Declares Predictions often arenade that some day we shall have all our food made in chemical factories out of air and water and carbonic acid gas that even farming soon is to be a thing of the past and that chemically prepared food will come to us in tablets that we shall nibble These notions are mere guesses un sound economically The farm Is not to be supplanted by the chemical fac tor' writes Dr Eli wood Hendrick noted chemist in the Popular Science Monthly although the farm already is beginning to draft the chemical and biological laboratories for its own pur poses Even if we chemists could make tasty and nutritious foods of inani mate matter instead of things that have been through the process of life of things that have grown on the farm its a fact that we know how to do It there power enough available to make the food for the world in factories We should require coal or water power or fuel oil while the plants and trees use the power of light direct from the sun for their growth We cannot use light for pow er Every green leaf lias us beaten in this respect Again our internal organs are so constructed that if we undertook tolive on tablets without tlie necessary rougnage or coarseness of food they would collapse and the whole world soon would come down with an inter national bowel complaint keep our feet on the ground Men of sci ence have to do so But be dis appointed Science working along practical lines already is accomplish ing amazing things in solving our food problems It has learned to extract elements necessary to plant growth from the air from the sewage of cities from the smoke of factory chimneys it is conserving our crops through the development the can ning industry It has taugnt the bak ers to produce better and cheaper bread It has helped crops by destroy ing insect pests It has studied foods in the laboratory and taught us how to balance our diet according to the requirements of our bodies Science does not move ahead with a brass band with trumpets and drums its progress results from hard slow work witli here and there happy reward the National Worn I SI A I I njAn Ar Sr 4 I 1UICUU1 wipe it by passing the Twentieth amendment to the Constitution But in the meantime just see what suffering It inflicts upon our American women! cor roborates this sad tale in part Miss Doris Stevrtis is not listed but Dudley L' lAIrl tn 1 A AvlUI JAillVUC 13 UUU I it says that he mar ried Doris Stevens of Omaha "writer economist and mem ber of the executive committee of the Na tional par December 14 Mr ield it was collector the Club for Real TT OS ANGELES CAL Staging a I falo and thousands of smaller game I lion or tiger hunt between in the preserve stock Mr Sims said 7 By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN COMPTROLLER GEN ERAL JOHN RAYMOND McCARL a bu reaucratic snooper" or a official The newspapers call him both He may be both But he certainly is the latter or lie has bearded the married maidens In their tllft T11HV Cfnnora their ball This sounds a bit mixed but just exactly what he lias done And more he has run right smack up against the' serried ranks of tlie National party led by Alice Paul and Legal Research Secre tary Burnlta Shelton Mathers march ing at the double quick for the fray Comptroller General McCarl in short has made the ruling that a mar tied woman employee of the federal government who wishes to be carried on the government payroll must en roll under her married name He quotes'various marriage laws and then lays' down this ultimatum: The law of thia country that the wife takes the surname of the husband is aswell settled as that the domicile of the wife merges In the domlcHS of the hus band A wife might reside apart from her husband but as long as she re mains his lawful wife she has but one legal domicile and that Is the domicile of her husband So it Is with the name She may have an assumed name but she has but one legal name Now why did McCarl do It? been a married man since 1905 and has presumably learned not to rush in where angels fear to tread Prob ably the poor man Is just playing safe or you see as comptroller general he's head of the general accounting office and his business to watch all disbursements of public funds to the last penny So of course if the Lucy Stoners are being illegally paid that means trouble for him or Uncle Sam be it whispered when it comes to the ppying out of real cash is just a bit near as they say in Cal vln neck of Woods ff Comptroller General McCarl is a lawyer and he may be right about the Jaw In the case Nevertheless the other side: HL The National party has pointed out In the brief submitted none of the cases cited by Mr McCarl1 has any bearing on this case that no 2 statute or court decision exists in any A' state supporting the principle that a must take her husband name that contracts decrees deeds made inthe maiden name of a married woman are everywhere valid at law that the law allows any one man or woman to assume any name he or she chooses The casus belli so to speak is the case of a nurse In St Elizabeth's hos pital under the Interior department who married last summer and refused TO I Lan IB kb SO JIB gifs A A lill I Ki 1 I Wik Al Wif i 4 NSpSKJfs I Tw a A UeS 7 I A.