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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
Bad Form to Be Amazing.

There are no posers on the grand
scale now. Our musicians have short
hair and play golf. Authors cannot
be distinguished from ordinary men.
Art students are abandoning their
amazing clothes. Even poets have
given up poetical locks, and instead OF
writing pretty fancies worry US with
poems OF the outspoken natural school.
Music Is in tweeds, literature Is in
navy blue. and poetry II in a bowler
hat. Apparently there Is no chance OF
any return OF affectation. The world
becomes more natural every day, and
every hour some neglected pose dies
a natural death. There are no startling
and picturesque figures. The glitter
ing Whistler was the last Of the artis-
tic masters to pose. the last man will
ing to spend an hour before n looking.
glass, the last man-to use his own
worldwide could be called amazing"
For now II Is bad form to be amazing,
and every one Is expected to be as In.
significant as possible. The only af.
fectation left Is the a~ffectation OF be-
Ing natural. And there could not be Q
duller one.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
Posts. Up or Down.

The agricultural experiment station
OF Ohio has been making some tests
as to which end OF a post should be
set In the ground. Farmers generally
believe In planting II with the butte
or root end upward, on the principle
that, as II Is easier for the sap TO run
up the tree than down II. setting the
post upside down tends to prevent tho
rise OF water and helps to keep the
wood dry.
The Ohio officials planted l56 black
locust posts 20 years ago. One.third
OF those set top down have rotted of
and only a little more than one.sixth
OF those set top up have met a similar
fate. They reach the conclusion that
there is no difference which end Is
put into the ground, except that the
sounder or longer end should hays
the preference.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
WOULD HAVE THEM HANDY
Married Mans Explanation Of Large
Order viii Be Understood by
Many Similar Unfortunates.

A brisk individual with the accumu-
lated look of 90 winters of married life
entered n hardware shop and without
waiting for preliminaries asked:
DO you keep hammers here?"
THAT IL our specially. sir"
Put me down for "a dozen. How
about screwdrivers?
"Our great feature. Patent reversi.
BILE or plain edge?"
Give me a dozen OF each; II you
have any other varieties I'll take 'em,
too. How about gimlets?"
you are nov mentioning our pet
product. All styles"
Give me all styles-long, short, me.
dunn, thick. thin. from the size OF a
needle to a pickaX. Saws?"
"Of every description"
"lll take 'em-say half n dozen or
s~o-cross-cut, plain, round and square"
ITS down. sir. Can | interest you in
nails?"
You can indeed. I'll take some OF
all that you have, put up In separate
packages; also tacks. brads. screws,
AA'N'o1 NNhpi'S N''l sNllIE' anu i
want hooks, every hook you have, big
and little. Also"
The clerk leaned forward.
Pardon me. sir" he said. you
seem like a sensible person. Unless
you are opening up n business, | am
at a loss TO understand your require.
ments."
1T Is perfectly simple, sir" said the
brisk person. 81 have been married
for II years. and not once since the
ceremony have ! been able to locate a
single implement when / wanted TO
put up a calendar or do any other nee.
essary thing about the house, and the
next time there is need OF anything
done ! am going, so far as human fore.
sight n provide for It, to have the
means instantly TO put my impulse In.
TO play Life.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31

distraught condition OF mind under
which many persons are laboring as
a result OF the disaster may renew
open hostilltles between members of
the miners and the Citizens Alliance
The coroner has begun an inyesti.
cation. Holiday festivities here gen.
orally have been abandoned.
Among those killed was John p.
Westloa, secretary OF the Finnish Mu.
tual Life Insurance company in Calu.
met,
Citizens OF Calument and Houghton
rallied to the aid OF those bereaved by
the panic. Residents OF Houghton
pledged $1,000 and a committee was
appointed to take charge of addition
al subscriptions. This action was
taken at a public meeting AT which
resolutions were adopted pledging II,
citizens OF HIoughton to do all IN
their power TO relieve the distress
here.
Arrangements already are under
way for a public funeral OF the dead
and the suspension OF all work In
the copper mining district during the
funeral, Is probable.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
LEWIS WOULD OWN PHONES
Maryland Congressman Begins New
Fight in The House

Washington. - Congressman Lewis
OF Maryland, spoke in the house On
his resolution asking the postomce de.
partment 10 present a bill calling for
government ownership OF telephone
aud telegraph lines.
Lewis cited the increasing use OF
the long distance phone over the
telegraph but asserted it's develop.
ment In this country had been curbcd
by high rates. The average interur.
ban a in Germany. he said. was
4 cents; In the United States I. vas
20 cents in many cases, he said. The
American rate was six times greater
than those abroad.
Mr., Lewis declared that telagraphic
rates In the United States are the
highest in twenty countries win the
result that we rank tw~enty.nlntk as
telegraph users. Against this, he as.
sorted, our postal rates average low,
er than other countries and the NUN
Der. Of letters here Is the highest in
the world.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
TERRIBLE SCENES ENACTED WHEN PANIC BREAKS

Even the children were seized with
panic but the small children, many
not more than five years old, soon
were deprived OF fear with the snuff.
ing out OF their lives under the heels
OF the larger persons who, blindly or
because impelled by those behind,
trampled their very offspring to death.
One man was seen to stoop to pick
up his little girl only to be pushed
with such force that he trod her be-
meath his feet. A woman who ran
TO seize three small boys was seen
TO fall as she sought to shield them in
her arms.
Searching for Alarmlst.
A search was begun for the man
who caused the panic.
II was said that the man came up
the stairs from a saloon below. IL
was said by some OF those present
that the man may have been in a
maudlin condition and shouted the
word without any thought as to what
he was doing,
Many swore vengeance II the man
who caused the catastrophe could be
found. IL also Is feared that the
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
cHlLDREN's HAPPY FRoLIc WITH
SANTA CLAUS TURNED INTO
TERRIBLE sHRiEKs OF AN.
GuisH AND SORROW.
DISASTER FALLS UPON
MINERS CELEBRATION
Christmas Celebration for Children Of
Calumet Strikers Made a Scene
Of Death for seventy.Two
by Foolish Joke Of
q Drunk Man.

Calumet, Mlch.-Sevcnty.two per.
sons, mostly children. were killed at
a Christmas celebration by copper
mine strikers In an Italian hall be.
cause of a needless panic caused by a
false alarm Of fire.
While several hundred miners and
their wives looked on. the children
pressed eagerly toward the stage to
receive Christmas presents. At this
point a man put his head In at the
door OF the hall and yelled "Fire!"
The cry was taken up by those In
tho hall. Everyone started for the
doors. The weaker were thrown TO
the floor and those behind tried TO
climb over those ahead of them.
The stairway and other venue OF
egress were blocked so effectually
that those inside could not get out,
and those without could not get In TO
aid the panic.stricken crowd in the
hall. 1t was some time before the
panic subsidized.
The alarm was spread outside the
hall by a few persons who had been
near the door and escaped unhurt. A
crowd soon assembled and the work
of clearing the hail was begun.
The principal exit was q narrow
stairway at the back OF the hall. When
this had been cleared of the bodies
that filed II 10 the top and n quick
accounting had been made, II was
found that seventy-two corpses had
been piled up beside the hall build.
ing.
The dead that were piled up beside
the hall included thirty.seven girls,
nineteen boys, eleven women and five
men.
Excited men and women stood
about the building. some daZed by the
sudden change OF the festivities TO
tragedy; Others calling Historically
for a child and a few even threatening
violence TO the rescuers for keeping
them back from the long row OF
bodies.
Little Work for Doctors.
There was not much work for the
many doctors who hurried to the
scene as soon as the alarm was spread
for those who were not killed In the
first rush were held upright and saved
by the very force OF the onrush
toward the exit. Only three injured
persons were taken TO hospitals and a
few went home assisted by friends,
For many days the children OF the
conner mine strikers had waited eX.
~pectantly for the Christmas tree exer.
clses that had been arranged by the
Woman's Auxiliary of the Western
Federation of Miners. The entertain.
ment was set for the early evening
and the hall, which Is on the second
floor was soon filed to it's limit. The
children elected to recite Christmas
selections and sing carols had finished
their part of the program and the man
selected to play Santa Claus had ~
peared TO distribute the presents that
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
RUN CHECKED ON BANK OF MEXICO
DICTATOR HUERTA COMES TO
RESCUE WITH LEGAL
Heavy Withdrawals by peposltors.-
Seventeen Million Pesos Taken
Out Since Panic Was

Mexico City.-The directors OF the
Bank OF London and Mexico are max.
ing a careful scrutiny of the AFFAIRS OF
that institution and II their finding Is
Endorsed by other bankers II Is not
improbable that assurances will be
offered the directors which will en-.
able a full resumption Of the business
OF the institution. II Is reasonably
certain, however, that the bank will
continue TO avail itself of the decree
of Huerta issued making the last ten
days of the present year legal holi'
days.
With the exception OF n other In.
stitution, IL Is believed no other bank
than the Bank of London and Mexico
will take advantage OF the official
edict, which authorizes financial In.
stitutions to do as little or as much
business as they desire during what Is
regarded as a financial crisis.
The Bank of London and Mexico
was crowded to It's capacity ut the
close OF business and lines of men and
women who sought to withdraw their
deposits extended into the street.
Those who were paid were limited 20
200 pesos and no assurances yer
given that even this much would be
given out in the future. The approx.
mate amount withdrawn from the
bank since patrons began demanding
their money several days & is said
to exceed II. 900. 900 pesos. or this
amount 100000 pesos have been
withdrawn within the last week.
The Bank OF London and Mexico
has in the various states twelve
branches, four OF which were closed
some time ago on account OF local
conditions. These were at Monterey,
Torreon. Mazatlan and Durango, On
4 minor scale the condition OF the re.
naming branches Is similar TO that of
the parent institution, but all are TAX.
ing advantage of Huerta's decree
which has been telegraphed to the
various points where the branches are
located.
The other banks escaped the de.
mands Of the depositors largely be.
cause for many weeks they have been
refusing TO accept deposits. The
Bank OF London and Mexico, on the
other hand has been receiving de.
posits and paying interest. There is
a slight relief in sight for this bank
in bills now being printed in the
United States, but the total value OF
these Is comparatively small.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
Mall Shows Country Prosperous

Washington.-Reports from the
principal points throughout the coun.
try where the holiday mails run
heaviest were received by Postmaster
General Burleson. Practically with.
out exception conditions were shown
TO be better than for many years and
at no point was the volume of ,nails
exceeding the distribution facilities.
Conditions are better than in many
seasons past despite increased vol.
ume OF mail caused by the parcel
post.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
OF Contradictory Weiobt

What does you understan' by cir.
cumstantial ~evidence?'" asked Miss
Miami Brown.
a near as ! kin splaln It., rum de
way 1t has been splained to me-" an.
s"ered Erasmus Pinkley, "circdm.
stantial evidence Is de feathers dat
you leaves lynn round after you has
done ct de chicken"
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
Slow 10 Realize.

MY dear" said Mr.. Bickers to his
WIFE, Il saw in the papers today a de.
cision OF n Virginia cour that the wife
may in some cases, be the head OF the
family
John Henry" replied Mrs. Bickers,
courts are sometimes very slow in
finding out things!"-puck.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
LIVES LOST FIRE DISASTERS or RECENT YEARS

1s64-January 8, Church Of me
J~esults, Santiago, Chile ... $500
1s7e-Deeember s, Brooklyn the.
alter, brooklyn, N. Y..,..... 2ss
1est-Deeember 8, Ring theater,
Vienna, Austria ........... $50
1e93-June 10, school at sunder-
land, England ............ 200
1ss7-May rs, Opera comlque
Paris ..,.....,...,.,...,.. 26o
1eS7-septembcr 4, Exeter thea.
ter, England ,........... 200
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
Sensible Realization,

Quinn-Where is the young poet
these days?
De Fonte-Doing well. Always has
n dollar and wears q new suit. He's
realized something.
quinn - Sold some of his poems.
Ell?
DeFonte--No, realized that he Is
not n poet and got a job as book.
keeper.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
Cranky Sueedera.

Tjark-Ever notice these motorists
winding up their machines In front?
Every auto must carry a crank.
BJenks-Yes, from the way some
motorists yell at pedestrians some
autos must carry two or three
cranks.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
Plain PrnnhAcu

What did the doctor tell you today
about old Uncle Jake's condition"
lie was telling us that his mean
temperature was"
Telling you about his mean tenn.
perature, was he? That's no news.
Everybody who knows Uncle Jake
knows that he hasn't anything about
him that isn't mean"
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31

t910-August. Forest fires north.
west part United States. 2oa
t91o-oetober I, Los Angeles
Times building ............ 25
teto-November 20, factory
building, Newark, N. J..... 4C
1st1-February, theater, ST.
Petersburg Russia mum. sc
1s11-Mareh rs, New York TrI.
angle Waist Company fac.
tory '''''''''''''''''',''' 14e
tett-Aprll 9, Toxic Yoshlwarl. zoe
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
Notifications,

Your speeches indicate that your
views have changed"
Not exactly. My constituents
views have changed. and | am keep
Ing In touch with tho wisdom OF the
plain people,"
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
Recreant Audltor,

You went to sleep during your
wife's speech"
Yes" replied Mr.. Meekton. Hen.
rietta has been rehearsing that speech
for n week. ; told her | had better
not COZ here. l knew something like
this Id happen II she couldn't shout
Are you listening. L~eonidas?' every
10Y and then"
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
A Marvellous llnuuIst.

"Dobbs will never let himself be
downed by anything"
For instance?"
IL was reading n newspaper out
loud the other day and when he came
to a pied line he translated IL without
a moments hesitation"
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31

THE doctor told Hobbs that he
must take longer rest, so he bought
himself a racing automobile"
Did that bring him rest?"
"Oh, yes, He's in a nice, quiet hos.
pital for three months now"
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31

Phone news items to No. 22. u Is
not possible 10 get around TO each
place or 10 talk TO each person. and
everyone should know ONE item which
would be OF interest and greatly add
TO tho local features OF our paper.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
Uncompllmentary.

H!cks-Your wife has no sense of
hCmor.
Wicks-You never saw her. How
do you know?
Hicks-She married you.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31
Tucumcari Steam Laundry

under the management OF a prac-
iical laundryman OF 20 years ex-
perience. Guarantees satisfaction.
All garments repaired and buttons
sewed on. Cleaning and Pressing.
Phone 192 and we will do the rest.
CHARLES L. McCRAE
Manager
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-12-31

were piled around the large iiluml.
mated tree.
The children we're instructed TO
march up the aisles to the tree 80
that the presents could be handed to
them. The aisles were filled with
boys and girls when a large.bodied
man thrust his head into the door
of the main hallway and shouted
"Fire!"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-10-19
The Fourth Fu-Manchu Story

house-trying pacfy the girl out In the han
yonder. and Malay and another colored man beating
foreheads how1ngl There no sense to Dc
out of any them he started to investigate Tor
himself He had taken the bearings Of the place earlier
evening, from the light In a window on the
ground floor had located the study so he started 10
look for the When he found It was locked from
the inside
"wen?"
He round to the window. There's no
blind and from The 5hrubbery see into the lur
Der known tho study He looked mas appar-
emily Miss Edmonds had done before him. what ne
accounted for hyster1csf'
Both Smith and were hanging upon his words
"Al among the rubbish the floor. a big Egyptian
mummy lying its side. and face downward
with his thrown it. lay Sir Lionel Bartonl
My God, Yes. on
There only shaded reading lamp alight ana
It a chair shining right down on him. 1t made
a patch of light the floor. understand" The in
spector indicated Its extent with his hands Well as
the man smashed the glass and got the window open
and just climbing n-hs something else
sc he saysF'
He paused
What cid he seer demanded Smith shortly.
"A of green mist, ari He It seemed to b
alveI It moved the floor. about foot from the
ground-gong away from him and toward a curtain at
the other end o. the study"
Maryland smith @xed his upon the speaker
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-10-19
The Green Mist

How DO you arrive at that7" asked Weymouth
"The servants In hall bewaing him dead
II they had him out they would know that 1t
one who lies here"
What about the ChinamanT
Snce other means OF entrance to the con-
servatory through the study Kwee must have hid
den himself there at time when his master
absent from this room"
"Croxted found the communicating door closed. What
killed the Chinaman7'
both Miss Edmonds and Croxted found the study
door locked from the inside. What killed Strozza7"
retorted Smith
will have noted" continued inspector. that
secretary is wearing Sir Liones dressing 1t
wa seeing him she looked In at the window
which led Miss Edmonds to mistake him for her en-
poyer-and consequently to put the scent.
He II in order that anybody looking in at
the window would be make that mistakei"
raped Smith.
asked.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-10-19
''Why?'' ] asked.

because he a felonious purpose Seer
Smith stopped and up several litter
the floor. There lid. open the
sarcophagus. contained mummy notable
who four4shed under Meneptah II Sir Lionel
told that number of valuable ornaments and jewels
probably secreted the wrappings. He pro-
posed TO the thing and to submit the entire
tents to examination tonight He evidently changed
his mnd-dortunateiy himself"
ran my fingers through my hair in perpiexty.
'~Tnen what has become OF the mummy"
Maryland Smith laughed dryly.
1T vanished o green vapor ap-
parentIy," said Look Strozzas
He turned the body over. used l to
spectaces. the contorted OF filed
me with horror suggestive they death
than ordinarily violent pulled aside the dressing
Maryland Smith crossed tho room, and. assisted
by the detective carried Kwee the Chinaman the
study and laid him fully light puckered yell
low face presented a sight awful than the
other and his blue lips drawn back exposing both
upper and lower teeth There marks of vo-
'ence but his limbs. like Strozzas, had been tortured
during his mortal struggles into unnatural Pastures
Tho breeze growing higher. and pungent odor
from the damp shrubbery. bearing too OPP
pressive sweetness of the creeping plant
stansy through the open window Inspector Weymouth
carefully relighted cigar r..
I'm with you thus Mr. Smith," "Stroz-
"a. knowing Sir Lionel TO be absent, locked himself
here to rife the mummy case. Croxed entering by
way OF the window. found the key inside
didn't know that the chinaman was hidden in the con-
servatory-"
And Kwee did to show himself because
he. too. there for mysterious OF
own." interrupted Smith.
Having got the lid oh-something-
Suppose say the mummy
Inspector Weymouth laughed uneasly.
Well sir. something that vanished from a locked
room without opening the door the window-ksd
And something which. having killed strozza next
the door Sehnd SRh he lay sSfs9n sm Il
sssa his VII VIII
hs s' in that
M s ,s s ss S:t power ss sJsss b
xs sssn IL sf me brought Smith
chnasnan surely is suicient Kwee feel assured was
armed. should feel dispossd think his part
stroazas opening the sarcophasus clearly spoiled the
And led to death"
"of servant Of Fu-Manchu7 Yes
DO YOU think that sarcophagus entered into the
scheme SMITH
Yon mean thai its arrival at the time when crea
Of the Kwee-was concealed here may have
nodded and smith bent over the sarcophagus curl
ousy examining the garsh paintings with which it
decorated inside end oa, lay sidewsys the
sized il 4. he teI. He would. have laid it It's
He further forward. catching piece twine
and out Of the mummy case pulled rubber stopper
This stuck a hole down near the corner" he
said Ugh! II has disgusting smell!''
IL when eok loud Hos Sounded Outside IN the hail The
door was thrown open h ana oig man who despite
r rus mpssaous ~ into he room
sSsr Llonel!s cried Smith sAger3y,'I warned yout
And sss-you have had v2y marrow sscaps!'