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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-23
FOUR VILLA CHIEFTAlNS 1.
ARE REPORTED SLAIN IN
BATTLE WITH FEDERALS S

Washington, March 22-Four lead :
ers of Villas bandit army were re-
ported killed In an encounter with fed :
eral Mexican troops in state depart
ment advices tonight
The clash occurred near Ascension
killed are Martin Lopez. Felix Marti-
nes. Ramon Vega and Epifanio Hol-
quin. Lopez had been reported killed
several times previously.
Hopilito villa. brother OF the bandit
leader. was reported killed at Satevo
according to rumor reaching the state
department..
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ARMY A|RMEN SKIM
MOUNTAIN PEAKS IN
SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT
Four Aviators Volplane Over
Sierras Into Carson City,
Then Fly to Reno; Equipped
With Liberty Motors.

Carson City, New, March 22.-Now
that they have successfully crossed the
Sierra Nevada mountains, marking the
first aerial crossing in history, army
aviators stationed at Mather aviation
field, California, are planning flights
to Salt Lake and other western cities.
Tonight the flyers are guests of honor
at a big reception in Reno, and tomor-
row will again fly over the mountain
ranges.
Three De Haviland planes, equipped
with Liberty motors, and a slower
training ship. comprise the aerial fleet
that made the trip.
Occupants of the De Havilands are
Lieutenant Colonel H. Watson, flight
commander; Sergeant Conway, Lieu
tenant J. II. Krull. Lieutenant c. w.
Schwartz, Lieutenant T. S. Curtis and
Lieutenant Francis Ruggles. Lieuten-
ant Frank Hackett is plotting the
training machine.
AT $4,000 FOOT HEIGHT.
Leaving Mather field at Sacrament
to at o'clock this morning, the avia-
tors crossed a range Of mountains $500
feet high. To do this they travelled at
an altitude of $4,000 feet. During the
trip they flew across the southern end
Of Lake Tahoe.
The planes arrived here at 1875, the
De Havilands within a few minutes of
each other. the slower machine short
time afterward.
The messages were delivered to state
officials, and the visiting aviators be-
came the guests of Governor Boyle dur
ing the two hours they spent here.
Resuming their flight, the army bird
men flew to Reno, where they will re-
main overnight. The planes will stop
here tomorrow forenoon on their return
trip to the aviation field.
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WEATHER

SUNDAY, FAIR.
YEsTERpAY's WEATHER HERS.
Highest temperature So.
Lowest temperature ss.
Mean temperature 4s.
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NEWS HOUND ON STAND.

The grand jury adjourned at noon
without returning further indictments.
District Attorney Woolwine declared
the adjournment did not necessarily
mean the investigation was over.
Burl Armstrong, former Los Angeles
newspaper man. now of San Francisco,
was said to have been an important
witness before the grand Jury this
morning.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-23
BY FRED S. FERGUSON.

Paris, March 22.-The league of ma
tions commission spent the entire ar
ternoon clarifying the language of the
covenant. Amendments proposed by
neutrals yesterday and Thursday the
commissioners found were largely for
clear verbiage. The constitution was
reviewed, article by article
The commissioners are understood to
have practically agreed on slight revi-
sion of eight articles They will as
semble again at $3.50 o'clock Monday
evening. Meanwhile a sub committee
will attempt to draw up an amendment
that will cover the principle OF the
Monroe doctrine, without specifically
mentioning it,
WILSON ATTENDS BOTH.
President Wilson attended both the
league meeting and the session Of the
supreme war council. The former, ut
which he presided, was shifted from
morning to afternoon.
The council is understood to have
decided definitely to- give Danzig to
Poland. together with corridor ex-
tending from the Posen region to the
Baltic, cutting off portion of east
Prussia from the remainder of Ger
many.
The Japanese postponed submission
OF the amendment to the league consti-
tuition providing for racial equality.
This may be brought up at the plenary
session Of the peace conference-prob-
ably Tuesday-when the covenant Will
be openly debated. The text Of the ia
panese amendment Is substantially as
follows:
WHAT lApAM wANre
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-23
LOS ANGELES MAYOR
WANTS EARLY TRIAL;
DAY OF MANY JOlTs
Accused Executive to Ask Coun-
Gil to Relieve Him of Post
Until Verdict Reached; Pre-
pares for Finish Fight.

Los Angeles, CAL, March 22.-Los
Angeles citizens tonight still were
gasping for breath after the sudden
series of Mayor +. T. Woodman for
alleged agreement to accept a $4,000
bribe.
Last of the series of sudden angles
which the case took was the state
ment from Mayor Woodman that he
would ask the city council to relieve
him from office until he has been
tried and it has been decided whether
he Is guilty Of agreeing to accept
$25,000 from two negro politicians In
return for underworld protection.
DAYS DEVELOPMENTS.
Other developments Of the day were: !:
The arraisnment Of Mayor
Woodman before Superior Judge
Craig, his plea Of not guilty to the
indictment and his request for an
immediate trial.
A statement by Captain John
D. Fredericks, Woodman's attor.
ney, that I'VE will meet what they
have to say" indicating the mayor :
is planning finish fight.
A statement by Mayor Woodman
that certain changes" in the po-
lice department may be expected.
He added all such changes must
originate with Chief Of Police John
L. Butler.
Chief Of Police Buffers state
ment that he had no police reor-
A statement by District Attor-
ney Thomas L. WooIwine, eharg-
ing Certain police officials" are
conspiring to block prosecution Of
Mayor Woodman.
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13A

n. A. l.. Fisher, British minister Of
education. Is said to besslated for Brit
ish ambassador to the United States.
He was born in London in 1865, and
was educated In Oxford, In Paris and
In Gettingen. Germany. He was a Low
ell lecturer at Harvard in 1909.
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FOUR ARRESTSMADE
IN BOMB PROBE CASE;
RUSSIAN |. ". ". HELD
Suspect Admits Completely in
Seattle Red Circles; Two
Italians Seized in Cabin in
Isolated Part of Oakland.

Oakland, Cal March 22.-Two more
arrests were made tonight in the in
vestigation of the bomb explosion
Tuesday night which killed Mrs,
George d. Greenwood, wife of San
Francisco banker. Two others were
arrested late today and are being held
while operatives investigate their
whereabouts at the time of the explo-
sion.
Kavel Mellincoff, Russian, who
states he was active In I. w. w. efforts
at Seattle, was arrested today in San
Francisco. He admitted he was in
Oakland the day Of the disaster, ac-
cording to police, but later denied this
Police state Mellincoff has been
prominent in radical activities in
America for several years, and was
held six months in connection with
agitators' activities in Trenton, N. J..
in 1917, when he was held for investi-
cation as q bomb manufacturer and
planter.
FORMER COLLEGE STUDENT.
His room police say, contained con-
siderable anarchistic literature printed
in Russian and English.
According to his own admission
Mellincoff has been a student of chem
istry in several colleges. He states
that he was studying chemistry at the
University of Washington and at the
University of California.
Police are secretive regarding the
information leading to the detention
of Mellincoff. They state, though, that
he has been known to police and fed
eral officers for several years as dan
gerous man.
POLICE GRAB AIDE. va
Isadore Goodman, the second man
held in San Francisco tonight, was
placed in detinue when he sought tc
obtain Mellincoff's release. He lis q
member OF the /. w. W., police state.
Detectives still withhold the names
of two Italians arrested late this after
noon In a cabin in an isolated part oil
Oakland. They state the men resemble
/ those described as fleeing from the
Greenwood neighborhood Immediately
sitter the fatal explosion. Search oi
their cabin led to information which
;.ised their arrest, pending investiga-
ton.
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""1 was afraid was late" said the

~ was afraid I was late," said the
girl. . .
'Lunch will be ready in a few min
utes," announced Gerty Hardin. won't
you sit down? There's the new Jour.
nal. Sam came to clean this morning,
and couldn't get to the lunch until
an hour ago."
Innes, settling herself by the reading
table, caught herself observing that 1t
would not have taken her an hour to
get cold lunch. Still, it would never
look so inviting! If Gerty's domestic
machinery was complicated and pri-
vate, the results always were admir-
able. The early tomatoes were peeled
as we'll as sliced, and were lying on a
bed Of cracked ice. The ripe black
olives were resting in lake Of Cali
fornia olive oil. A bowl Of crisp let
tuce had been iced and carefully dried.
The bread was cut in precise triangles
the butter had been shaved into for
,eign-looking roses. A pitcher Of the
valleys favorite beverage, iced tea,
stood by Hardin's plate. There was q
platter of cold meats. ..
It came home to Innes for the hun
dredth time, the. surprise Of such q
meal in that desert. A few years ago,
and what had a meal been? She threw
the credit Of the little lunch to sulky
Tom Hardin lying on the portiere-cov-
cred couch, his ugly lower. lip out
thrust against an unsmiling vision. It
was Tom, Tom and his brave men, the
sturdy engineers, the dauntless sur
veyors, the. Indians who had dug the
canals, those were the ones who had
spread that pretty table, not the buxom
little woman darting about in pink
gingham. ...N N..@'. ..r.. a.
: 'Is it because don't like herr" she
'mused, her eyes on the pictures in the
style book which had just come in that
morning. Certainly Gerty did have the
patience of a saint with Toms hu-
mors. If she would only lose that set
look of martyrdom! 1t was not for an
outsider to judge between husband
and wife, even If the man were her
OWN brother. She could not put her
finger on the germ Of theig painful
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SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER TX. C. Rickard,
engineer of the Overland Pacific,
called to the office of President Mar
shall in Tucson, Ariz. "Casey" is an
enigma to the office force; he wears
"dude" clothes, but he had resigned
a chair of engineering in the East to
,go on the road as a fireman and his
promotion had been spectacular:
While waiting for Marshall Richard
reads report on the ravages of the
Colorado, despite the efforts of Tho
mas Hardin of tn Desert Reclama-
ton company. This Hardin had been
q student under Rickard and had
married Gerty Holmes, with whom
Rickard had fancied he was in love.
= CHAPTER II-Marshall tells Rick
ard the Overland Pacific. has got to
step in to save the Imperial Valley
and sends him to the break. Rickard
declines because he does not want to
supplant Hardin, bat is won. over:
"sStop the River; damn the expense"
tsays Marshall:
CHAPTER III-Rickard journeys
ITO >Ca1exico, sees the irrigated desert
and learns much about Hardin and
his work.
: CHAPTER IV-At: the hotel he
meets Mr.. and Mrs. Hardin and Innes
Hardin, aHardin's' half sister. Disap-
pointed in her husband and an in
corrigible coquette, Mrs. Hardin sets
her cap for her. former lover and in
avites him to dinner.
CHAPTER V-Rickard visits the
scompanys Offices and takes control.
HE finds the engineers loyal to Har-
sdin and hostile to him. Estrada, a
Mexican, son of the ttFather Of the
lmperia1 Valley tells him of the
general situation. l.
! CHAPTER VI-Rickard attends a
sneeting, Of the directors and asserts
His authority. Hardin RACES. Estrada
fells Bickard Of his foreboding that
shis work will fail. ~ can't see it
6nished.n
4 4 CHAPTER YII-Innes is discover
ed in shet garden. She tries to cheer
up Hardin, who is furious against
Rickard. -l.
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CHAPTER viii.
Under tho Veneer.

Under the veneer.
An hour later Innes, blinking from
the sum-, stepped into the tent, which
had been partitioned with rough red
wood boards into a bed chamber or
the right, a combination dining room
and "parlor" on the left. Her glance
Immediately segregated the three
stalks Of pink geraniums in the center
Of the Mexican drawn-work cloth that
covered the table. Gerty, herself, in Q
fresh pink gingham frock, was DANCING
around the table to the tune Of forks
and spoons. 1t was just like Gerty tC
dress up to her setting, even though II
were only pitiful water-starved bou.
quet. She had often tried to analyze
her sister-in-law's hold on her brother
certainly they were not happy. Was 1t
because she made him comfortablei
Was it the little air Of formality, or
mystery, which she drew around heri
Her rooms when Innes was allowed to
enter them were always flawless
Gerty took deep pride in her house.
keeping. Why was it, Innes wondered,
that she could never shake OF her sus.
picion Of an underlying untidinessi
There was always closed door on
Gerty's processes.
MAY I helpT The sun was still
yellowing the room to her.
"Hello!" Hardin looked up from
the couch where he was lying. Innes
suspected it Of being q frequent re-
treat She had found it tumbled once
when she ran over early. It was then
that 0erty made it understood that she
liked more formally. Innss was, rare.
" IN that. tent except for meals now,
ss dxans hsr alternating week Of
hsnDs 6hasaA
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scenes; she shrank from the recollec-
tien Of Toms temper; his coarse
streak, the Gingg fiber, her own mother
called it. Tom was rough, but she
loved him. Why was it she was sure
that Gety did not; love her husband
Yet there was the disrust, as fixed
and as unjust perhaps as the suspicio!
Of Gerty's little mysteries.
She said aloud: '.This is your 1t
day. My week begins tomorrow"
Mrs. Hardin adjusted precise nap.
kin before she spoke. -. .E
II think I. will keep the reins for a
month tbs time" Her words were e're-
aective, as though the thought were
new. II get my hand in just as I stop.
will be running out for my visit in 8
few weeks. 1t will be only fair for me
to do 1t as long as I can"
Again the girl had sense Of subtle
ty. Whenever Gerty put on that air OF
childish confidential deliberation, she
hunted for the plot. This was not far
to seek. Her sister-in.law was passing
out the hot season to her. p.
"It's all ready" Gerty's glance was
winging, ,birdlike, over the table. Moth
ing had been forgotten. She gave q
little sigh of elastic satisfaction. Har'
din mistnterpreted It,
II ought to, be able to keep a serv.
ant for her" 1t was like him to have
forgotten the Lawrence days; he was
never free Of the sense of obligation to
the dainty little woman who was born,
he felt, for the purple. There was
nothing too good for Gerty. He felt
her unspoken disappointments; her
deprivations. "Of course, she can have
no respect for me- I'm a failure"
Doesn't this give you an appetizer"
demanded Innes heartily! "And I'm
to be lady for three more weeks"
The remark was thoughtless. A bright
flush spread over Gerty's face. She
caught an allusion to her origin.
Innes saw the blush and remem-
bered the boarding house. She could
think Of nothing to say. The three
relatives sat down to that most uncom-
Portable travesty, a social meal where
sociability is lacking. Innes said 1t
had been a pleasant morning. Gerty
thought 1t had been hot. And then
there was silence again.
Innes began to tell them Of her Tue
son visit, when Gerty laid down her
fork. "rve meant to ask you hun
dred times. Did you attend to my
commission In Los AngelesY'
II forgot to tell you. / raked the
town, really I did, Gerty." For there
NAa a elqaa % Qecsz.s pKestz brow. r
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"IduSlSO, AS always hhC" ~ "ooio
turn out all right; life would run
smoothly when they left the desert.
But things were getting. worse; his
mouth puckered over some recollec-
tions. Yet he loved Gerty; he couldn't
picture life without her. He decided
that it was because there had never
been anyone else. Most fellows had
had sweethearts before they married ;
he had not, nor a mistress when she
left him, though God knows, it would
have been easy enough. His mouth
fell into sardonic lines. Those half
breed women! No one, even when a
divorce had hung over him. oh, he
knew what their friends made; Of each
! Of Gerty's heightened flights; he knew
But that had been spared him, that
vulgar grisly spectacle Of modern life
when two people who have been lovers
drag the carcass of their love over the
grimy floor Of curious gaping court.
He shuddered. Gerty loved him. Else,
why had she come back to him.? Why
had she not kept her threat when he
refused to abandon his desert project
and turn his abilities into a more
profitable dedication? He could see
her face as she stared flushing up into
his that nipping cold day when he had
run into her on Broadway. He remem-
bered her coquetry when she suggest
ed that there was plenty of. room in
her apartment! His wife! She spoke
Of seeing his pictures in the papers.
1He had grown to be great man." "
That piquant meeting, the week fol-
lowing had been the brightest Of his
life. He was sure then that Gerty
loved him. The wrangles were only
their different ways Of looking at
things. OF course, they loved each
bther. But tGerty couldn't stand plo.
neer life. She had loved him, or she
would not 80 easily have been per-
suaded to try 1t over again. She
yearned to make him comfortable, she
said. So she had gone back, and pulled
down his ramada, and put his clothes
In the lowest bureau draweri +
TT wasn't either Of our faults" he
ruminated. ut was the fault Of the in
stitution. Marriage itself. is a failure.
Look at the papers, the divorce courts.
A mans interests. are no longer his
wtfe's. Curious that 1t should be so.
But it's fact. It Is the modern dis
content. Women want different careers
from their husbands" :, !
YET, how could he help throwing his
life into his work? He had committed
himself; It was an obligation. II it
were not for that indefnable some.
thing, his allegiance to the cause which
Knocked at reasons and definitions; oh,
he knew!-h had tilted with, Gerty
and been worsted The would have re-
signed from his company, his company
which had dishonored him. Why should
he stay to get more stabs, more
wounds? And the last blow, this pet
of Marshall's! Hardin gave q scant-
ling in his path a vicious kick. ( -
The girls prattle had died, She
walked with him silently. ,..I. (
At the, door. Of her tent; she stopped,
looking &C him wistfully. She wished
Fhe could hide his hurt. If he had only
some Of lines prideI e. ,>.j-.
SLOW are things" She used thei
fond little formula. :,
"Oh,F rotten p growled Hardin, fling
ing away. The; gate slammed behint
him. - .
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could have got you the other. kind, but
you said you did not want it.''
II should think not" The childish
chin was lifted. "1hose complicated
things are always getting out Of order.
Besides. If I had an adjustable form,
everybody'd be borrowing it, :
"What are you talking about?" de-
manded Tom, waking up. who'd bor-
row your what, Gert"-
"Please don't call me Cert, Tom, "
besought his wife plaintively. "a fig.
ure. I wanted Innes to try to get one
for me in Los Angeles"
II did try" began lines:
"Yours is good enough for anyone.
Why should you get another2" He
was openly admiring the ample bust
swelling under the pink .gingham.
"Don't, Tom" -.
Innes tried to explain the sincerity
Of her search. She had visited every
store (which might be suspected OF
having a figure" She could not bring
a smile to her. sisters face. ''There
was none your size. They offered TO
order one from Chicago. They have to
be made to order, if they are special
sizes. You are not stock. size, did you
know that?" :. f'''
"I should think not" cried Gerty
bridling. "My waist is absurdly small
for the size Of my hips and shoulders
| Innes wondered If it would be safe
to agree with her. :..s...,.s i,
"When will it be here?" -
you'll be disappointed" Innes
found herself stammering. ''But not
for six weeks. I did not know whether
to order it or not" M "
"And in Los Angeles with my sum.
mer sewing all done! What good, will
it do me then?' The pretty eyes
looked ready for childish tears. =.
IT know. That is, didn't know
what to do" apologized Innes Hardin
"I decided to order it as I'd found the
place, and was right there, but made
sure that could countermand the or:
der by telegram. So I cdn this very
afternoon. I knew you would be dis.
appointed, I was sorry" IS -
}"I'll need it next winter" admitted
Gerty, helping herself to some Of the
chilled tomatoes. "Tm sure I'm much
obliged to you. I hope it did not put
| Won to much trouble" ~
The words raised the wan Of for
mality again. Innes bent over hel
plate. r.-..i =. ~. :. !
"What made you change your plans p
suddenly demanded his wife Of Hardin
"When Sam came in with your bag, he
surprised me so."' ..f- !. #.l.'
my boss kept me-" ;Hardin's face
looked coarse, roughened by his ugly
passion. "Rickard, your old friend
He served subpoena on me at the
station" s.. i| =
aoh," cried Gerty. Surely, he did
not do that, Toni" =. :, -. :
"Sure he did" Hardin's face wal
black with his evil mood. I'm only ar
underling, q ;disgraced underiing. He.
my boss. Hes going to make me re
member It." IL. (
"You mustn't say such things" pout
ed his wife. III 1t does not hurt you
II you do not care, think how I mus
feel" : o., -, 3.
"Oh, rot!" exclaimed Hardin. Tht
veneer was rubbed down to the rough
wood. Innes saw the coarseness hel
mother had complained Of, the Gfngi
fiber. - a.. /:
(To be Continued Friday.) !
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HAD NARROW; ESCAPE.

News comes to us that Judge John
S. Wilson, Of Manning, had a narrow
escape one day last week. The Judge
had been holding court in Berkeley,
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and at the adjournment of the court,
he went on a fishing excursion with
some Of the lawyers. In some way
the boat in which he was riding was
overturned. The judge was rescued
with the greatest difficulty. .