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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
KEEPS HIS TREASURE
IN A MARINE BANK
Smoky Dives to Bottom Of RiV-
or When Funds Are Low.

E Washington.-Snorky draws checks
on the First Submarine bank of south
west Washington. He indorses them
with file and wrench and cashes
them with cable.
Smoky, known to his mother and two
or three others as Edward Thomas, Is
sixty years old and is to the Seventh
street wharves in Washington what a
beach comber is to the water front at
Apia.
One day about decade ago they
were shunting freight cars down in
the old Jersey yards by the gas works
when switch engine ran off a trestle
and plunged into the eastern branch
of the Potomac. The water is pretty
deep at this spot, and securely embed
ded in the mud bottom of the river the
engine reposed as peacefully as Span
ish galleon at the bottom Of the Carib-
bean until Smoky came along.
AS child Smoky had taken liking
to the water, so when the story of the
submerged freight engine came to his
ears he saw visions Of wealth. Going
to the point on the railroad trestle from
which the engine was reported to have
plunged, Smoky dived into the turbid
Anacostia river, as the eastern branch
is known, and started a submarine in
vestigation. 1t took two or three dives
to locate the engine, but Smoky even
tually found it and made an inventory.
He filed a claim with Neptune for the
engine or such parts Of it as he desired
and returned to the surface to equip
himself with such tools as he might
need.
Calling on the junk dealer, he made
a decker with that Individual. The
junkman agreed to advance tools if, in
return, Smoky would give him an in
itial option on all goods to be replev-
ined from the deep. The covenant was
made, and Smoky dived again. He
piled file and wrench and screwdriver
until he had detached the choicest and
most easily obtainable portions of the
engine. Then he attached cable and
rose to the surface. Standing on the
trestle, he hauled away at the cable
until there appeared the beautiful brass
bell Of the locomotive. This he dis
posed of profitably and earned his first
reward from out the junk dealers
greasy cash drawer. Ever since he has
sold the engine piece by piece to the
dealer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
MEXICO LOSING ITS
WEALTH IN REVOLT
Statistics Stats Show Need Of a
Stable Government.

washington. - Consul Theodore c..
Hamm sends to the department of
commerce from Durango a striking ar
ray Of facts showing the necessity for
ending the Mexican revolution and re-
establishing stable form Of govern
ment in that republic.
For example, the state of Durango
in 1913 was favored with abundant
and seasonable rains, insuring fine
crops Of all staple farm products I'M
der ordinary conditions, but not more
than two-thirds of the usual acreage
was planted, and not more than 10
per cent Of the crops planted were
gathered by the rightful owners of the
land, the remainder being appropriate
ed for military purposes or harvested
by others than the rightful owners on
account of lawless conditions OF
Chile peppers, for instance, the export
was only $4,000 as against $4,000 to
$4,000 in normal years.
The cotton yield, says the consul,
was phenomenal in the famous La
guna district of eastern Durango and
southwestern Coahuila, along the Ma
gas river-12O,00O bales, worth $780,
600. Half the crop is still in the
warehouses at Torreon, and the other
half was shipped to the United States
at a sacrifice instead Of being sent, as
ordinarily, to the cotton factories in
southern Mexico. The exports to the
United States from Durango in the
last year were $2,254,OOO as against
$685. 900 in 1912.
The railways to the gulf have not
been in operation in 1914, and all trade
is paralyzed. Torreon in times of
peace is busy interior manufacturing
city, like Syracuse, N. Y, or Paterson.
NJ J.
In the city Of Mazatlan, state of ST.
naloa, on the Pacific, United States
Consul w. E. Alger reports, the ex-
ports to the United States in 1913 fell
off almost 100000, or 20 per cent.
Eggs are now selling there at 7 cents
apiece, milk at 30 cents quart, fuel
at four and five times the usual price
and all other articles in proportion
Two of the three banks have closed,
and all business is suspended There
was no railroad service in 1913 from
March to Dec. 81, and but for the
numerous arrivals and departures of
American war vessels there would
have been scant mail facilities even
by water.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
CHARLES +. NILES.

CHARLES +. NILES.
in midair without mishap Moreover,
he has repeated these surprising feats
no less than four times over Hemp
stead plains. His only serious accident
took place one afternoon when his mo-
tor stopped before he had risen seven
ty feet off the ground. The result was
fractured nose and a partially wreck
ed machine. But his willingness to
take a chance was not injured.
Lincoln Beachy has Topped the loop
in midair, but flying wing over wing
had never been accomplished success
fully until Niles did it last month. 1t
is the most spectacular flying stunt
that has ever been seen either in this
country or abroad.
Less than two years ago this young
aviator-he is only twenty-five years
old-was In the automobile business
with his brother in Rochester, N. Y,
his native town. It was not very
exciting life. He was not in the rae
ing game but simply selling cars, and
he looked around for something more
caught his eye-an advertisement for a
school of aviation announcing that til,
art of flying was taught in ten lessons.
Instantly Niles made up his mind to
be an aviator. Within a week he pre-
scented himself at the school and de-
cared his intention of becoming q pu-
pill.
Then" said Niles, 1.-THE instructor at
the school explained that it often re-
quired more than ten lessons at $40
each to learn how to fly and that the
advertisement was not to be taken too
literally, but l handed him $500, told
him I'd take ten lessons and that if I
could not fly at the end of that time I'd
bring suit against him for fraudulent
advertising.
But l didn't have to bring suit of
any kind against the school," he added
AT the end of the seventh lesson I
was making circles in the air. And be-
fore I finished the course 1 was able
to do more stunts and make better
landings than my instructor In fact
l was offered a position as a profess
sional aviator before my tenth lesson"
Niles few months with the COM
pany were replete with adventures
One day he decided to go after the en-
durance record. He was up in the air
four hours and thirty-five minutes,
when the crank shaft broke. Fortu-
nately he was nearly 10000 feet above
the city so he was able to glide down
to safety. His special work at the fac.
tory was to try out new planes and
enthusiastically as hazardous an oc.
cupation as the most adventurous per-
son could wish for. But no risks SEEM
ed too great for him.
IF machine looks good to me on
the ground I'm willing to take chance
with it in the air." said Niles as he
prepared for his second fight after
looping the loop. "Pm afraid Of only
one thing-the collapsing of my ma
chine while I'm flying"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
WORK NECESSARY TO
Be TENNIS CHAMPION
Girl Tells Of Training Months
For a Single Match.

New York.-It is not an easy thing
for girl to win tennis championship
But the hardest work is not done
around the nets while the contest is
actually on; it is keeping in physical
condition for such a match.
Miss Glare Cassel of this city, nation
al indoor tennis doubles champion, has
compiled twelve rules which, she de-
clares, must be rigidly adhered to be-
fore one can hope to win success as
tennis player. They are: First, no golf;
second, no candy; third, no dancing;
fourth, no cigarettes; fifth no reading
at night; sixth, no wine or cocktails;
seventh, no swimming on match days;
eighth, massage after each days play:
ninth, luncheon on glass Of milk and
a sandwich; tenth, plenty of rallying
exercise before each match; eleventh.
drinking nothing during a match ex-
cept barley water; twelfth, bed at 10
p. m. and nine full hours undisturbed
sleep.
Miss Cassel in telling of the work
necessary to keep in condition and the
strength necessary for game says:
mo matter how primed man really
is, a five set match finds him all in.
He has to play harder to win-or lose
than any man who goes through nine
innings of baseball A championship
match with the players even and the
score often running to deuce games
and deuce sets will find both men ut
terly exhau' ted at the end of the play.
1t makes many more demands on the
players than two halves of varsity
football
And If tennis means this for men
perhaps one may imagine what it
means for women and girls. If you
play to win matches, if you long for
the brackets which proclaim you
champion of your club your county
or your state, you must be ready to be
grueled week in and week out, for ten
mis- Of that class is a grueling game.
Consider the girls and young mar
,ied women who follow the tourna-
ments from place to place all the live
long season. 1t means five months Of
training and self denial, five months of
the hardest kind of work from June
through October. And then they must
play indoors at least twice week all
winter long if they would keep in
form" a
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
RAISED ARMY FOR MEXICO.

Californian Held Up Eight Men and
Drilled Thorn For an Hour.
San Rafael, Cal.-An attempt to or
ganize company of soldiers for the
purpose, he said, of marching on Mex
leo landed Henry Klopp, caretaker of
a large estate near here, in Jail.
Klopp shOuldered a rifle, went to a
county highway and halted men on the
road until he had accumulated an
army" of eight. For an hour he drill
ed them.
Word reached the sheriff's Office that
the men were being held prisoners,
and a deputy slipped up behind Klopp
and with the butt of his gun knocked
him down. Klopp's gun was found to
be empty. He will be examined for
his sanity.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
AMERICAS MOST
DARING AIR man
All You Have to Do Is Take a
Chance, Says Niles.
HOW he STARTED FLYING.

Aviator Only Twenty five Years Old
Has Looped the Loop, Flown Upside
Down, Flown Wing Over Wing, Stood
His Machine on Its Head and Then on
Its Tail Without Mishap.
Hampstead, N. Y.-It is never q bad
day for flying, according to Charles F.
Niles, the most reckless aviator in
America today. He has held crowds
spellbound as he loOped the loop and
turned somersaults in midair while
sixty mile an hour gale was blowing.
1T was as easy as rolling off log"
he said simply. "Al you have to do
rs to 60 up and take chance"
Here In one short sentence you have
his philosophy of life. And because he
has always been willing to take a
chance do Anything" Niles, or "Take
a Chance" Niles, as he is called by his
intimates, is recognized as the most
daring aviator in America.
Although he has been flying less than
eighteen months, Niles has already
Topped the loop, flown upside down,
flown wing over wing stood his ma.
chine on it's head and then on It's tail
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
Rat Robs a Slot Machine.

Findlay, O.-The discovery of a rat
working slot machine averted sus-
picion from several boys who, it was
thought. had been robbing it in the
Toledo and Ohio Central passenger sta
ton of gum and pennies. Four hun
dred sticks of the former and fifty
pennies were missed when a rat was
seen climbing up the wall near the
machine. It jumped on the trap in
the machine and in this way released
gum and pennies.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
E EMPRESS OF IRE

CAPTAIN KENDALL OF EMPRESS OF IRE
year are survivors also Of the wreck
Of the Empress of Ireland One of
them was j. H. Price, an ordinary sea.
man on the Ireland, who while serving
last year on the Devonian plunged
overheard and saved a woman passen-
ger of the Volturno.
The other man was pantryman on
the Ireland, John Cope, who was one
of those saved from the Volturno.
Robert w. Crellen, a bronzed miner
from Silverstone, B. c., swan for over
an hour with golden haired little girl
of eight on his back.
And when will mamma and Evelyn
get here" the little girl asked when
she arrived in Quebec. Mr. Crellen
had not yet told her that her mother
and small sister had lacked strong
arms to support them in the icy wa
ter and had died there. They were
Mrs. Sabina Barber, widow, and her
daughter, Evelyn, three years old. The
little girl who was saved was Florence
Barber, eight years old.
With Crellen and William Barry of
Silverstone they were going on a hol-
day trip to England. They occupied
rooms near one another in the second
cabin. All Of them got on deck to-
gether. This is Mr.. Crellen's account
of what happened:
"A great hole was in one side of the
ship, and she listed over so far that
it was only with the greatest difficulty
that we could get them all up the COM
panionway. We got to the rail and
stood there. held Florence, and Mrs
Barber held her little sister,
Then as the ship listed we climbed
over the rail and walked cautiously
down the ships side to the waters
edge, trying to avoid falling into the
portfolios: Just as we reached the wa
ter's edge the ship gave tremor that
was terrible. We knew it was all
over. I saw Mrs. Barber and her
child tottering toward the water and
reaching out their hands to me.
tried to get them, but L couldn't reach
them, and that's the last saw Of
them"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
SEA TRAVEL NOT
YET QUITE SAFE
Hidden Dangers lurk Beyond
i Reach Of Human Hand.
But PROGRESS IS RAPID.

Drastic Laws Requiring Sufficient Life
boats and Advent Of Wireless To.
iegraphy Have Not Entirely Eiinni-
mated the Dangers-Heroic Rescues
az the Empress Of Ireland Sank.
Montreal.-The sinking of the EN-
press Of Ireland, crack transatlantic
liner Of the Canadian Pacific line, BY
the coal laden collier Storstad in the
st. Lawrence river almost in sight of
the shore tends to prove that one in
trusts himself to the fates when board
ing vessel. Although in no other d.
rection has such notable progress been
made in recent years, no human hand
has been able to make travel at sea
absolutely safe.
The perfection Of the wireless. the
improvement Of revenue cutter service
and drastic laws requiring ample and
seaworthy lifeboats have eliminated
many of the dangers lurking in the
path of the great ocean going vessels.
But we still have the elements to con-
tend with, and these can never be
conquered.
When the Titanic sank with it's fear
full toll of life it was the elements that
caused the disaster. The iceberg freed
from winter quarters by the springs
sun broke away and brought death to
the hundreds. The dense fog on the
St. Lawrence, prohibiting the captains
of the Empress of Ireland and the
Storstad from seeing ten feet ahead,
meant death to 1000 persons.
The inquiry now under way will re-
veal that one man was perhaps more
at fault than the other, but it cannot
place the blame for the disaster on the
shoulders of any one man. 1t was
caused by the weather conditions-by
the elements.
Following in the wake of the disas-
ter many pathetic stories are told of
brave rescues and intense suffering.
Two participants in the tragedy of the
burning of the Volturno at sea last
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
MADE PosToFFIcE OF A TREE.
Iowa Pioneer, Just Dead, Carried Mail
In 1874,

McGregor, Ia.-Jeremiah Roser, be-
leved to have been the oldest resident
Of Iowa, was recently buried. He had
lived in Iowa continually seventy nine
years. When he was sixteen years old
he was mail carrier. hole in a tree
serving as one postoffice
In the winter of ~ and. As Mr..
Roser carried the mail on horseback
from Dubuque sixty miles north into
Iowa. The first stop on his route was
an old oak tree by the roadside. where
he left mail in hole cut in the trunk
for the settlers who had built cabins in
the timber roundabout.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
RUNAWAY HOGS ARE "WILD."
Farmers Can Make Them Pork Only
by Shooting.

Farmers Can Make Them Pork Only
by Shooting.
Ben, Ark.-G. B. Lewis, a farmer
living near this place, killed two wild
hogs which ran away from his place
In 1910. The hogs were not full grown
when they left and went away to the
range, since when all efforts to get
them had been futile until recently,
when he found them in the forest and
shot them at distance Of about 100
yards. He has three more hogs that
are also in the forest.
The hogs 60 in punches in the woods
and are as hard to find and kill as
deer.
They are afraid of men and will run
from them, but have no fear of dogs
and will attack them The two hogs
killed by Lewis dressed about 200
pounds each.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
TWO TOES HIS FRAT FEE.
Student Loses Them While Stealing q
Qualifying Ride.

Student Loses Them While Stealing a
Qualifying Ride.
Kansas City, Mo.-Cameron Reed of
Cambridge. Mass, gave two toes as
part Of his initiation fee in a fraternity
at the University of Missouri, where he
is sophomore.
Reed, with three other students, came
to Kansas City riding the brake beam
in order to qualify for the fraternity.
Only those who have Travelled "a thou
sand miles without cent" are eligible
to membership.
The students boarded the rods of
train to make their return trip to Co.
lumbia. Reed fell as the train started,
and wheel crushed his foot. He was
taken to hospital, and two of his toes
were amputated.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
KILLS AN EAGLE IN A TRAP,
Bird Was a Hugo One and Boldly At.
tackled Hunter.

o'To was hugo One ana Boldly At.
tackled Hunter.
Edmonton, Alberta.-Tom E. Mason,
a fur trapper, has come to Edmonton
for medical treatment, following a
fierce fight with golden eagle, which
clawed and pecked his face, neck and
left shoulder and arm. He killed the
bird, which had a spread Of wings of
eight feet two inches from tip to tip.
Il was attracted to a trap" Mason
said, "by strange noise, and as l got
closer I saw huge golden eagle held
by one foot.
my first thought was to release the
bird, not thinking that it would ven
'ture an attack, but that is where l
was fooled. l was quickly made aware
Of the fact when l was sprawled upon
my back with the eagle and the trap
on top of me-"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
PETER OF SERV|A
WOULD ABDICATE
Aged Monarch Wants to Sur
render Throne to His Son,

Geneva.-lt is an open secret in Eu-
ropean diplomatic circles that the aged
King Peter of Servia wishes to abdi-
cate in favor of his son and settle
down in private life in Geneva. His
majesty has large circle of private
friends here, he having passed ten
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
Coffin Ready. Kills Himself.

Montgomery City, Mo.-Nicholas De-
tout. the oldest merchant in Montgom-
cry, had a carpenter here make for
him a walnut coffin, which he kept
under his counter. He took pleasure
in showing the coffin to customers. De-
toul tried to kill himself number of
times, saying he was too old A wild
ow survives since he shot and killed
himself recently.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
WED IN HENcooP, JAIL NOW:
Judge Tells Wife Deserter He Deserves
to Be Cooped Up.

TO 30 Cooped Up.
Kansas City, Mo.-Charles Sumner.
a clerk, married year ago in a chick
en- coop before 10000 persons at a
chicken show in Convention hail. was
remanded to the county jail on
charge of wife abandonment. At a
hearing in Justice court Mrs. Sumner
said she believed only the novelty of
marriage led Sumner into matrimony.
The poultry show committee gave
Mr. and Mrs. Sumner $40, dozen
chickens and the coop for consenting
to the novel marriage. Justice WEIGH
in remanding Sumner to Jail said:
ANY man who has the nerve to be
married in d chicken coop before TO-
600 persons belongs in COOP"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
MOVES HOUSE TO Die HAPPY,
Shifts It From Vermont to Massaehu-
sotts, Where It Formerly Was.

SOttSy "nere u Formerly was.
Pittsfeld. Mass. EleaZer Larabee
has moved his house from Vermont
into Massachusetts because he was
born in Massachusetts, and wants to
die In the old Bay State.
When he built home in Williams
town he supposed that he was in the
state. Then government surveyors
came along and changed the state
boundary after he had paid taxes to
Massachusetts, for several years. Lara
bee then had new cellar dug over in
Massachusetts and moved his resi-
dence into the Bay State. The change
cost him $1,000.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-13
Millions For Chewing Gum.

Millions For Chewing Gum.
Troy, N. Y.-Americans epent $9,O0O.-
600 more for chewing gum last year
than they did on foreign missions was
the complaint made by Methodist min
listers In conference here.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-12-21
Water at Cushing.

Water coming into the sand has
caused feeling of unrest to exist
among a number of the operators in
the northern pool as few wells
have practically been ruined by wat
cr, although attempts have been
made to put in a plug and shut OF
the fluid West OF the Cimarron
river the conditions are none too
good as there is streak OF water
running through sections Is and II,
although the eastern portion of the
llst-named section, east of the river,
looks possible for good wells. The
eastern portion of the pool looks
good, AS this is where the largest
wells in the northern area have been
discovered SO far as known, eight
wells in the western portion have
struck salt water, rs the owners are
not letting the fact become known
if possible Oil and Gas Journal.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-12-21
Magnolia Refining Site.

1t now develops that the refinery
site recently purchased near Beau
mont, Tex, by J. Il. Pew, was for
new site for the Magnolia Refining
company, and it might be said in
this connection this news revives the
story Of the possibility Of the Mag
nolia company taking up the work at
an early date of completing its s.
inch line from Addington, Okla, To
Cushing for which the survey has
been made. The S-inch line ends
abruptly at AddingtOn and a 6-inch
line extends east to the Healdton
field The latter line is not taking
the capacity of an S-inch line. The
Magnolia company is making large
shipments each day by tank cars
from the Gushing field to its. large
refinery at Fort Worth, Texas. 1t Is
about 10 miles from Addington to
Gushing. Oklahoman.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-12-21

With an increase of more than 20
Oo0. 900 barrels over the preceding
u months output, the year 1913
made another new high record in the
production of petroleum in the United
States. the total being 2tS.ii6,23O
barrels. against 222,935,O4 barrels
in 1872. The value of the yield was
S2G7l2l,3SS, producers receiving an
average of 95A cents barrel, as
compared with $16i,2l3,2i7, or an
average of 73.7 cents in the previous
year.
Since the beginning of the industry
in 1859 there has been produced in
this country 3.O69 .694, ,5O5 barrels, hav-
ing a gross value of $2,575,7oA53o.
The worlds production last year
was SSl,5 .6O5 barrels, of which the
United States contributed 65.12 per
cent. with Russia and Mexico holding
second and third places, respectively
California continued to lead among
The producing states with produc-
ton of 91.7SS.525 barrels last year
which was equal to 39.356 per cent
of the country's yield.-Ol and Gas
Journal.