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almost every electoral vote would be
vital. the returns from down on the
border We're grabbed hot Off the wires.
After veering back and forth for days,
New Mexico was definitely placed In
the Wilson column, though there, too,
the presidents margin was SO scant
that q basis was afforded for the call
for q recount. A few mistakes dis
covered In the figures of the precinct
officials might well swing the state
over to Hughes.
Wilcox Demands Recount.
On Friday National Chairman WILL
cox OF the Republican party handed
out the following statement:
1.-THE result still depends upon the
vote in a few close states. 1t must be
borne In mind that the returns thus
far announced are, in most states, I'M
official, and may be changed by the
official count required by the laws of
those states.
"Twice during these unofficial CON-
putations yesterday In California mis-
takes In additions We're announced
from that state, substantially changing
figures previously given.
1T Is q common experience that the
result Of the official count almost al
ways varies from the returns first an
bounced.
where the vote is as close, as that
reported In several states, 1t may we'll
be that material changes will result
from the official count.
1--WE owe 1t to the country to take
all necessary steps to see that an ex-
act and honest count Of the vote IS
made. When the current seemed to be
running against Mr.. Wilson on Wednes-
day the Democratic managers an
nounced their intention I o demand a
recount In every close state.
"All we desire Is to make sure that
the vote is counted as cast"
Both sides conceded that no matter
what action might be taken in regard
to a recount there was little likelihood
of a contest being carried to the house
Of representatives as 1t was after the
Hayes-Tilden campaign In 1876. Legis-
lation enacted in 1887. 1t was said.
made the state sovereign In
ing Judgment In u recount Of the pres
idential vote.
How Congress Stands.
With returns missing from only one
congressional district in the United
States. the Republicans and Demo-
Gratis each had elected 215 representa-
tives.
The vote In New Mexico, which is
still in doubt, probably will determine
which party Is to have Il plurality OF
one over the other. The present men,
Der from New Mexico is a Republic
can.
The balance of power In the next
house will be held by four men, n
q Progressive Protcctionist from
Louisiana, ~ an independent from
Massachusetts,. IA Progressive from
Minnesota and the other a Socialist
from New York.
The action Of these members ap-
parently will determine the choice Of
a speaker. as well as the fate of lesis-
lation which is supported OF opposed
on purely party lines.
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Republicans Demand a Recount Of Votes in Several
Close and Pivotal States.
RECORD BREAKING INTEREST IN THE NEWS
Entire Nation Kept in Suspense While Election Judges Of a Few
States Counted to the Last Ballot Before Result Was
KnoWn-Solder Vote a Factor.

New York. Nov. 11.-On the face Of
the returns, unofficial and still incom-
plete. Woodrow Wilson has been re
elected president OF the United States
with 4 majority of at least eleven In
the electoral college. But the Repub-
licnns place q cloud OF his title that Is
likely to remain for q week or ten
days. and In the meantime the Repub-
Iicans are declining to pay their cleo
ton bets.
The situation is extraordinary and
has resulted In days Of n~erve-racking
strain for the people of the country.
II the election officials Of a few remote
precincts In q few suites know how the
nation has been waiting breathless to
hear from them. they must be swelled
M enormously with q ems OF their
Importance. For on those few pre-
cincts has depended the nations choice
Of Its chief executive.
That Mr.. Wilson's victory over Mr..
Hughes will not be conceded without q
recount In the close states, such as Cal
lfornia, New Hampshire, New Mexico
and North Dakota, was determined at
conferences Of the Republican leaders
here. Chairman Wilcox asserted a re-
count would be demanded wherever
the margin OF Democratic victory was
% small that comparatively few votes
would turn the scales. He and his as
soclates say they take the position
that there should be no cloud upon Mr..
Wilson'S title to the presidency. The
Democrats. for their part, declared
that there must be a recount In New
Hampshlre. even though the returns
NV the state to Mr.. Wilson.
That the returns are still incomplete
II due to the presence on the border Of
the National Guard Of q number Of
states. The soldiers are permitted to
vote By mail. their ballots being for
varded to the auditors Of their home
counties, and In Minnesota especially
tie vote OF the Guardsmen Is likely to
cut 4 figure in determining whether the
6tate R0es into the Wilson or the
Hughes column.
Minnesota was as bad rs California
IA the matter of shifts, and as its dele
eation Ii nearly as large. 1t, too. was
watched with the intensest interest.
Through days and nights of counting.
the race was q see-saw, with but a
thousand Or 20 Of votes separating the
candidates. Neither side would adj
ri defeat. and even now both are
awaiting the soldier vote and the off,
se1ol count.
D1ess Hampshire . Surprise.
perhaps the most surprising Of all
- states was New Hampshire. It
olona of III New England failed to give
go pepubllcan candidate a substantial
y 1jis1 III. ma Tor days no N knew
Shlch. column 4 would land. The
f1l611ane cIoeene1s OF the vote vas
~ I'D rival claims, three days
IN election, of 100 plurality for
ard ~ for Wilson. In the cir
2Rnnese lt n no wonder that the
~ ~ holh parfies should de-
mon6 arecoUnt.
Sewx1lexicos With three electoral
l1eeE attracted national attention BY
24elne itself Early a the list Of doubt
fnts& md - 4 soon appeared that
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Turner,

Parker.-Wilson. 1874: Hughes, L.
573: Rinehart, SS7, Norbeck. 1877;
Hawley. IS; Benson, Is; Dillon. 1856:
Anderson, 929. Lieutenant governor:
Anderson, 927; McMaster, 1.719; Bird,
500. Rood. 1,747. Balance Of state
ticket running about the same as on
Bird and Rood. Equal suffrage: For.
1927; against, 1873. Prohibitions:
For. 1878. against. l,02S. Republicans
elect every officer in this county. 500
to loco majority.
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Douglas.

Armour. S D.-Douglas county gives
Hughes 1873 majority; Wanzer. state
senator. 246; Sanders. superintendent,
10; Norris. register of deeds. 542;
Van Arendonk. treasurer, 153: Hen
derson, auditor, Ais. All above are Re-
publicans. Hatfield. sheriff. is the only
Democrat elected. Armour dry by IS
majority.
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1urner.

Parker. S D-Turncr county re-
turns from all precincts: For presi.
dent. Wilson. 1905; Hughes. 1887.
twenty-five out of twenty,eight pre-
cincts in Turner county gives Hughes
a majority OF 1923; Norbeck, 6S4; pro.
hibitory amendment, 400. The woman
suffrage amendment carried.
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Lake Andes Winner.

Platte, S. D.-The Charles Mix
county seat fight was won by Lake
Andes by a majority of from 60 to 70.
Wheeler is the present county seat.
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kingsbury.

MISUNDERSTANDING is the vote in
he city Of Arlington: Hughes. 1903:
Wilson. 76: Johnson. I19; Batterton,
40. Norbeck. 1926; Rlnehart. 50.
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Buffalo.

Gam Valley.-Buffalo county COM
plete elects the following officers.
Representative. J.. B. lnsersOn. Re
publ can: auditor, j. T. Stroud. Demo
crat; treasurer. c. Il. Krog. Republic
an: sheriff. c. c. Wedmore. Democrat,
register Of deeds, r. + Beelman, Re-
publican: clerk OF courts, +. II. Wilhel-
my, Democrat: superintendent OF
schools. Julia G. Hart. Democrat. coun
~ Judge. l.. N. Hanson. Democrat:
county assessor, G II. Sinkie, Demo.
crat; coroner, c. 8. Tandy. Democrat;
commissioner, l.. G Everett. Democrat.
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OOIdi6 EvS
@Resuit in Minnesota, with II votes,
will rot be known until soldiers vote
is counted. 1t is possible that recount
in close states may change TIE total te
same extent
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McCook.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. county, which
two years ago elected Democrats to-
the county offices, with few excep-
tons, this year made a clean sweep
With the Republican ticket, with the
exception Of clerk of courts. Follow
ing are the officers: Senator. Han
son and McCook counties, Frank r,
Peckham, representatives, J. t. Cur
uey and r. J. Odell, treasurer, John
Beaner; auditor. Carl T.. Ericsson, reg
lister of deeds, G. Il. Gibson: clerk Of
courts, Vernon w. Knox; superinten-
dent of schools. Laura Bouchie; states
attorney. +. II. Wilson: sheriff. +. l..
Hanson. county Judge, G. t. Todd;
surveyor, j. p. Striif; commissioners.
G. +. Johnson and John Marquardt,
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Rruie.

REHABILITATION carried Brule coun-
ty by a majority of 1877 and Rinehart
by 100. On county offices it was an
even break, Democrats losing the
treasurer and register OF deeds and
gaining the sheriff again and another
county commissioner. E. B. Hubbard
defeated H. A. Schoenberger for rep
resentative. and Though Iiebach car
ried the county by nearly 100 majority,
he was defeated for the senate by
Will, of Jerauld county. Carl Ander-
son was elected treasurer; w. X. Van
Horn auditor: J. II. Bingham, regis
ter OF deeds; Geo. Schair, sheriff, Miss
Evdlcna Rossman. superintendent or
schools; Ernest Henegar, clerk OF
courts. B.. G.. liuddle, county judge,
and II. r.. Slifer, states attorney. The
last three named had no opposition.
David Gearhart and H. l.. Willrodt
were elected county commissioners.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1916-07-14

the motor dropped an octave to
er tone. The speed was sensibly
creased.
Lanyard contemplated with unterI
pered wonder the fact of his equaniII
ity-there seemed nothing at I
strange in this extraordinary expel
ence: be was by 10 means excited. =
manned merely deeply interested. An
he could detect in his physical sensa
tons no trace Of that qualmish dreal
he had always associated with higl
places-the sense ne now experienced
81 security Of solidity. ever afterwar,
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TO DEAL FAIRLY WITH MEXICO.

Detroit, Mich, July 10-President
Wilson aroused great enthusiasm at
the worlds craftsmanship congress to-
day by urging that business men car
ry justice and fair dealing into the
ports of the world, particularly those
of Mexico, and, thereby, establish con-
fidence in American principles.
His efforts, he declared, would be to
serve all America by serving Mexico
for her best interests without using
force.
When the president asked the crowd
what it desired at the end of the pres
ent world troubles, it shouted "peace,"
and then he added that his wish was
permanent peace"
81 heard some men say" he said,
that they want to help Mexico, and
the way they propose to help her is to
overwhelm her with force. That is the,
wrong way as well as the long way.
after fighting them you would have
nation full of justified suspicion.
What makes Mexico suspicious is
that she thinks we do not want to
serve, but possess her. And she has
Qualifications for this in the way some
gentlemen have sought to exploit her.
II will serve all Americans by try
ing to serve Mexico herself.
"The way to establish our sovereign
ty is,to respect hers"
The president added that he believes.
in the old Virginia bill of rights,
which declared that a country may do
as it pleases with its own government.
The president declared that the.
merchant marine which some are slow
in giving US, would be great help to
the business of the United States.
I'm order to gain foreign business,
however" he added, at will be neces-
sary for American business to adapt
the goods to the demands of the other
countries. Salesmanship, he said,
would go hand in hand with the states
manship after the war. The president
received an enthusiastic reception here
Thousands lined the streets and when
he entered the hall, the entire audi
ence arose and waved American flags.
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climb to his perch. With a cool nod
for Lanyard and a civil bow to his
woman passenger he settled himself,
adjusted several levers and flirted a
gay hand TO his brother officers.
There was a warning cry from the
rear. The crowd dropped back rapid.
ly to either side. Ducroy lifted his hat
in parting salute, cried Bon voyage!"
and scuttled clear like a startled roost-
er before motor car. Thereupon the
motor and propeller broke loose with
a mighty roar comparable only, in
Lanyards fancy, to the chant of ten
thousand riveting-locusts.
He felt momentarily as If his tym-
panums must burst with the incessant
and tremendous conclusion registered
upon them; but presently this sensa-
ton passed. leaving him with that Of
permanent deafness.
Before he could recover and regain
control of his startled wits the aviator
had grasped lever and the great fab
ric was in motion.
1t swept down the field like a
frightened swan, and the wheels of its
chassis, registering every infnitesimal
irregularity in the surface of the
ground, magnified them all hundred
fold. 1t was like riding in a tumbrel
driven at top speed over the Giants
Causeway Lanyard was shaken VIC
lently to the very marrow of his bones;
he believed that even his eyes must be
rafting in their sockets.
Then the PARROT began to ascend.
Singularly enough, this change was
marked at first by no more than a
slight lessening Of the vibration-the
machine seemed still to be dashing
over cobbled thoroughfare at break
neck speed; and Lanyard found it diff
ficult to appreciate that they were
afloat, even when he looked down and
discovered hundred feet of space be-
tween himself and the practice-feld.
In another breath they were soaring
over housetops.
Momentarily, now, the shocks be-
came less frequent. And presently they
ceased almost altogether, to be repeat
ed only at rare intervals, when the
drift of air opposing the planes devel-
oped Irregularities in its velocity.
There succeeded, in contrast, the sub
FINEST peace; even the roaring Of the
propeller dwindled to the negligible
status of sustained drone; the Par
rott seemed to float without an effort
upon vast, still sea, flawed only occa-
sionally by inconsiderable ripples.
Still rising, they surprised the
earliest rays of the sun; and in their
virgin light the aeroplape was trans
formed into thing of gossamer gold.
Continually the air buffeted their
faces like a food of icy water.
Below, the scroll of the world un.
rolled like some vast and intricately
illuminated missal, or like some
strange mosaic. marvelously minute.
Lanyard could see the dial of the
compass, fixed to a strut on the pilots
left BY that telltale their course lay
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CHAPTER XXI.
IT Y
The Flying Death.

Steadying himself with a splendid
display of self-control and downright
courage, Captain Vauquelin concen-
trsted upon the management of the b.
plane.
The drone OF his motor thickened
again, its speed became greater and
the machine began to rise still higher,
tracing a long, graceful curve.
/ Lanyard glanced apprehensively to-
ward the girl, but she continued in APP
parent Inconsistencies that anything
was happening out of the ordinary.
Her profile still looked forward, and
still the wind-veil trembled against her
burning cheeks.
Thanks to the racket of the motor,
no audible reports had accompanied
the sharpshooting of the man in the
monoplane, while Lanyard's cry of hor-
hor and dismay had been audible to
himself exclusively. Hearing nothing,
Lucy suspected nothing.
Again Lanyard looked back.
Now the Valkyr seemed to have
crept up to within quarter of mile
of the biplane, and was boring on at a
tremendous pace, its single spread Of
wings on an approximate level with
that of the upper plane of the Parrot,
But this last was rising steadily.
The drivers seat Of the Valkyr was
occupied by mufHed, burly figure that
might be anybody-De Morbihan, Elk
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strom, or any otner nomicidal maniac.
At the distance its actions were as
illegible as their results were unques-
tionable. Lanyard saw little tongue
OF flame lick out from point close be-
side the head OF the figure-he couldn't
distinguish the trearm itself-and,
like vauquelin. quite without premedt
tation. ne ducked.
simultaneously there sounded
haru, ripping noise Immea.ately
above his head. and he found himself
staring up at a long. ragged tear in
the canvas of the plane, caused by
bullet striking it aslant.
What's to be done?" he screamed
passionately to Vauquelin.
But the aviator only shook his head;
and they continued to ascend rapidly;
already the web Of gold that cloaked
earth and sea seemed thrice as far be-
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HoW'S This :

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Catarrh Cure.
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Halls Catarrh' Cure Is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
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sent free. Price rs cents per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
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- Gih AiNSd liNdblOtlAs
meath them as it had been at the mo-
ment when Vauquelin made the ap-
palling discovery of his bullet.punc-
tured sleeve.
But the monoplane was doggedly fol-
lowing suit; as the PARROT rose, so
did the Valkyr, if trace more slowly
and less readily.
Lanyard had read somewhere, or
heard it said that monoplanes were
poor climbers.
He told himself that, If this were
true. Vauquelin knew his business,
and from this reflection drew what
comfort he might.
And he was glad very glad, of the
dark wind-veil that shrouded his face,
which he believed to show nothing
less than panic terror.
He was, in sober fact, quite rigid
with fright and horror. 1t were idle
to argue that only unlikely chance
would wing one of the bullets from
the Valkyr to a vital point-there
was the torn canvas overhead, there
was that hole through VauQuelin's
sleeve.
And then the Paragraph on the strut
beside Lanyard disappeared as il by
magic. He was aware of slight jar;
the framework of the biplane quiv-
cred as from heavy blow; something
that resembled a handful of black
crumbs sprayed out into the air ahead
and vanished-and where the instru-
ment had been nothing remained but
an iron clamp gripping the strut.
And even as any one Of these bull
let's might have proved fatal, their first
successor might incapacitate the avia-
tor, if it did not STAY him outright
in either case inevitably the result
would be death following fall from a
height, as recorded on the Paragraph
dial the instant before its destruction,
OF over four thousand feet.
And they were still climbing.
Now the pursuer was losing some of
the advantage OF his superior speed !:
the Parrot was perceptibly higher;
the Valkyr must needs mount in o
more sweeping curve.
None the less, Lanyard, peering
down, saw still another tongue OF
fame spit out at him, and two bullet
holes appeared in the port wings OF
the biplane, one in the lower, one In
the upper spread of canvas.
White-lipped and trembling, the ad.
venturer began to work at the fasten-
ings Of his surtout. After a moment
he plucked of one of his gloves and
cast it impatiently from him. Asprawl,
1t sailed down the wind like wound.
ed sparrow. He caught Vauquelin's
eye upon him, quick with curiosity
which changed to sudden CLEAN Of
comprehension when Lanyard, thrust
ing his hand under the leather coat,
CROPPED for his side pocket and pro
duced an automatic pistol which Du-
croy, learning that he was unarmed,
had pressed upon him.
They we're now perhaps hundred
feet higher than the Valkyr, which
was soaring a quarter of a mile of to
starboard Under the guidance Of the
Frenchman the PARROT swooped round
in narrow circle until ii hung almost
Immediately above the other-a ma.
neuver requiring, first and last, some.
thing more than five minutes to effect.
Meanwhile Lanyard rebuttoned his
surtout and, clutching the pistol, tried
hard not to think But already his
imagination was sick with the thought
of what would ensue when the time
came for him to carry out his inten-
ton.
Ito be Continued.l
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THE En-

Well begin with
is boxes;
But the plural of OK
not oxes.
Then one fowl is goose
called geese;
Yet the plural of mouse sh
be meese.
You may find lone mouse or a whole
lot of mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not
hice.
If the plural of man is always called
men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be
called pen?
The COW in the plural may be cows or
kline,
But bough if repeated is never called
bine.
And the plural of vow is vows, not vine
And if | speak of foot and you show
me your feet,
And / gave you a boot, would a pair
be called beet?
If the singular's this and the plural
is these,
Should the plural of kiss be nicknamed
keese?
Then one may be that, and three would
be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be
hose;
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose-
We speak of brother and also of
brethren,
But though we say mother, we never
say methren.
The masculine pronouns are he, his
and him,
But imagine the feminine, she shis
and SHIN.
So the English, / think, you all will
agree,
Is the most wonderful language you
ever did see.
Penny Pictorial.
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FLIES NEVER BOTHER

In the summer flies worry an animal
Get bottle of Ferris Healing Rene
dy-costs but 50c-makes a pint, wort
$500. Apply it to the wound. Flies
will not bother it. Get it today. You
may need it tomorrow. We sell it.
Short & Collins il
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nearly due northeast. Already the
weltering roofs of Paris were in sight
to the right, the Eiffel tower soaring
from them like fairy pillar of fine
gold lace-work, the Seine looping the
cluttered acres like a sleek brown
snake.
Versailles broke the horizon to port
and slipped astern. Paris closed up,
telescoped its panorama, became a
mere blur, a smoky smudge.
But it was long before the distance
eelipsed that admonitory finger of the
Eiffel.
Vauquelin manipulating the levers,
the plane tilted its nose and swan
higher and yet higher. The song Of
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Ito be Continued.

About one-fourth Of the area of the
United States is still covered by for
ests.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-23
YOUNGSTER S
BEAT VETS

The Mckinley Hill Reds soccer
team, composed of youngsters
from the East Side hilltop, de-
feated their more experienced op-
ponents, the Smelter team, yes
terday afternoon at Willard
school grounds, 3 to 0. The for
wards for the younger team play
ed a smashing game and the
backs put up a splendid defense.
Earl Tollefson played fast
game for the Reds, making two of
the goals. Gauley made the third.
Shuts at goal played a splendid
game.
The Mckinley Hill Reds meet
the Logans next Sunday, and will
play a return game with the Smell
ter team the following Sunday.