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New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-03-05
Ranishes Robber With Spoon.

Great Falls. Mont.-With the aid
while dropping quickly behind the
lar of a sofl-drink saloon. George Ed
monds. the bartender. saved his en-
ployers from being robbed by a man
who entered the place from the rear
and covered Edmonds with a gun.
The silver spoon 50 assembled a re-
volver projected from the rear OF the
bar that the highwayman turned and
fed.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-03-05
SCOTTISH SUPERSTITION.

A death in the family. ii is believed
in many parts of Scotland. is sure to
follow If a Towering hawthorn is
brought into the house. Among the
"sea-going" superstitions of Scotland
are those which prevent a Scotch
sailor from speaking of any ~four-footed
animal while on the sea. lest he come
into bad fortune, and the notion that
the fish VIII be frightened away IL a
fisherman should pass a b~are-footed
woman before beading his ship.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-03-05
NO SHOES FOR TRAVELLING.

A few of my friends and I went TO
a station nearby to camp and pick
blueberries. On the first day. while
travelling through some swamp land
our feet became wet That night 1
built a fire and placed my shoes and
socks on a log nea the fire. intending
to watch them until they dried. I fell
asleep and my footwear burned The
next day I went home on the train
arefooted. to the amusement Of all
he passengers.Chicago Tribune.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-03-05
WOMAN, IL, NOW HAS TWINS
ready the Mother Of rs
Children.

San Francisco.-Friends Of Mrs.
Dora McCants Of Shasta. Cal. are
congratulating her and saying she IL
perhaps the most remarkable woman
in the United States. She Is the
mother of - children. and sends suf-
fcient Of her progeny TO the district
school TO keep IT open. II IT were not
for the McCants family there would
be no school in Shasta.
Mrs. McCants is seventy-two years
old. and gave birth TO twins Septem-
her 20. Jerry McCants. her husband.
Is thirty-nine years old.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-03-05
Russ Losses 35,0oo.0oo.

The Polish professor, A. A. Ossen-
doffsky. chief of the intelligence de-
partment of the all-Russian govern
ment. estimates that the world war.
bolshevism. Civil war. starvation and
disease has cost Russia a total of 35.-
600 lives. He places the cost of boil
shevism at 1 2,2SO.OO lives. Professor
Ossendoffsky says that formerly the
Russian population increased at the
rate of four persons a minute. Today
1t Is decreasing at the rate Of twelve
to thirteen a minute.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-03-05
SHAllOWNESS.

Shallow waters show a very clear
bottom and but little intensity of light
is needed in order to display the peb-
bles and clear sand. That must be a
'purest ray serene"-a pencil of
strongest ~light-which discloses the
black. rich. wreck-strewn depths. For
the c~learness Of depth is very different
from the clearness Of shallowness. The
former is a positive quality. The latter
Is negstive.-Charles Warren Stod-
dard.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-03-05
FlECTlO

All the world used her III, said this
young person. and We may be pretty
certain that persons whom all the
world treats III deserve the treatment
they get. The world is a looking glass
and gives back to every man the re-
Election of his own face. Frown at II,
and 1t will in turn look sourly upon
you; laugh at 1t and with II. and 1t
is a jolly. kind companion; and $ let
all young persons take their choice
Thackeray.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-03-05
Chicago People Living Like Pins

Chicago.-Because housing facilities
are inadequate, 100000 persons in Chi
cago "are living like pigs in the Stun
districts" according to a statement
by the head Of the Chicago Housing.
association.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-03-05
CLEARS Up AN
OLD MYSTERY
Pennsylvania, Believed Slain
When a Boy, Returns
Home. q
MEETS HIS MOTHER
Stepfather, Made Insane Because Of
Accusations Of Having Murdered
Boys, Confesses to
the Crime.

Sharon. Pa.-Yielding to a longing
to visit the scenes OF his boyhoOd days.
George Burrows Keaster returned a
few days ago to the rural district Of
Clarion county. just over the Mercer
county line, and I'm so doing cleared up
a mystery of many years standing.
In the early eighties William Keas-
ter, a farmer residing on the highway
between Know and Colensburg. mar
twelve. Shortly after the marriage
the boys disappeared and a search
failed to reveal their whereabouts.
The circulation of a story that Keas-
ter had murdered the boys resulted In
breaking up the home. The accusation
so preyed on his mind that Keaster be-
came insane and vas committed to n
state hospital, where he died.
Confesses Murder.
On the date of his commitment he
told the warden hat he had murdered
the eldest boy and had been forced TO
repeat his act to prevent the youngest
from accusing him. lie said that the
bodies of the boys were buried in the
garden near his home. A search OF
the premises failed to reveal them.
Several days ago there appeared In
the locality of the old Keaster home
n stranger who claimed to be the elder
of the boys.
The wanderlust called the boys to
the West; they crept out of bed, left
the house, boarded a freight train and
finally reached the state of Washing
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-03-05

shouldn't fuss. Wasn't 1t some old
Greek who said, The world is only my
idea IL that's the case"
Hes getting philosophical; I'm 60
ing to leave" Nina stretched her long,
slim body.
"Oh, look" The JOY of living re-
turned to Siska's eyes. She fiirted her
short tail and an. Its a nice new
red fiag!"
ID you know" observed Nina to
the pup. sometimes l think that Sis
ka must be Russian"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-03-05

goat has trouble to keep from slip
ping over the brink into the water.
The ground is so loose around here.
I wish they would raise some vegeta-
bles. but with all this iron c~luttering
the earth, I guess it's impossible. How
I would love a good cabbage! As for
work-you talk about working! Don't
you know I'm supposed to help clean
up the place. as well as give milk?
Back home I used to be awfully fond
Of shirts and shoes, but I simply can't
make myself swallow those l find out
here"
Now don't 60 getting morbid. You
always get morbid. AS if things aren't
bad enough without talking about them
all the time. Have you seen the new
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-03-05
OIL LEASE BILL
PASSED At LAST
NATIONAL RESOURCES ON GOV.
EMINENT LAND WILL NOW BE
DEVELOPED RAPIDLY.
COAL IS ITS CHIEF FEATURE
Conditions Under Which This Fuel
n Oil May Be Prospeeted For
n Taken From the Public Do.
main.
BY JAMES p. HoRNApAY.

Washlngton.-After some wears of
parleying congress has finally agreed
on the conditions under which the gov
will permit the mining of
COAL Oil, gas, phosphate and sodium
on the public domain. The bill agreed
10 Is commonly known as the oil leas-
Ing bill. 1t is the expectation of con-
eress thai under the legislation the
natural TO which it relates
VIII be developed rapidly. The at
tempt to fix conditions under which
lhe government would permit the TAX
Ing of coal, oil, gas, etc. from lands
owned by it was started way back
In the Roosevelt administration. In
every congress since that time the sub
Ject mas beer up. A pending piece of
legislation relates to the DEVELOPMENT
OF Waterpower on the public domain.
IL seems likely that this legislation
VIII also be perfected at this session.
ferhaps o interest in the legisla-
ZION that has just been completed CEN
ters In the conditions under which
" HUN tlle DuDllC
domain. All the arrangements for
taking coal as well as the other de-
posts covered by the legislation will
have to be made with the secretary
or the interior. The first step toward
the development of the government
owned coal land will be to subdivide
this land into leasing tracts of 40
acres each or multiples thereof. In no
case will anyone leasing tract contain
more than 2,5G0 acres. Leases are to
be awarded by competitive bidding.
There are some prOvisos or exceptions
written into the legislation. For in
stance, where prospecting or explOr-
atory work Is necessary to determine
the existence or wOrkability of coal
deposits, the secretary of the interior
may issue a prospecting permit for a
term of two years for not exceeding
2,o6O acres; and II within that period
the permittee shows to the secretary
that the land contains coal in CONNER
cial quantities, he is to be entitled to
n lease.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-03-05
Women Seek Equal Chances.

reuu ol tHe department OF laDor,
are moving to Obtain equali.
~ of opportunity in the government
service. Last fall this bureau ar
ranged TO make n study of positions
in the government service open by ex-
animation to women rs compared
with those closed to women. The
study was begun In September. On
November 8, ten days after receiving
n partial report from the bureau. the
civil service commission passed a rul-
ing opening all examinations to both
women and men. leaving II to the dis
erection OF the appointing officers to
specify the sex desired when request
ing certification of eligibles.
On November 10 a bill was intro
duced In the senate by Senator Nc
Lean OF Connecticut, amending the
statute o In force which dates back
to 1870 and provides that, at the dis
erection Of the head Of any department,
women may be appointed to any clerk
ship in the government service. The
amendment provides that In request
ing "A register of eligibles for appoint
ment the nominating and appointing
officials shall not specify sex unless
sex Is n physical barrier to the prop
er performance of the duties to be
fulfilled. Thus one of the ends de-
sired has already been almost COM
pletely accomplished.
The largest employer OF labor in
the country and the employer Of the
greatest variety of labor. the United
States government, has as its employ
ment agent the civil service commits
sion. This commission Is responsible
for securing the proper person for al
ment service except those of unskilled
labor in some states, and those filed
by presidential appointment. The ap-
pointment OF women TO any govern
ment position is still regulated by a
statute written in 1870, which de-
clared that women may in the discre-
ton Of the head Of n department
be appointed to any Of the clerkshlps
therein authorized by law. From this
statute has sprung the custom of
opening examinations TO both sexes
or closing them to either sex at tie
discretion Of the head Of any depart
ment. regardless of the fact that nei-
Their rule nor law covers the examina-
ton itself.
Barring women or men from any
examination. however. bars them not
only from the special occupation for
which the examination is given but
from all kindred occupations. All
other bureaus which may require
services of the same or like quality
as those specified in the examination
are confined to a register made up q
clusively Of one sex when the oppo-
site sex may be as acceptable or pref
cradle; or they must ask for a spe-
cial examination in which no sex line
is drawn; or they must seek the wom-
an or man desired among those al
ready in the government service.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-03-05
Restrictions on Railroads.

vi hdiiOduo.
No lease Of coal land is to be ap-
proved or issued until after a notice
of thirty days has been given In n
newspaper of general circulation In
the county in which the lands or de-
posits are situated. There Is also a
provision that no railroad shall be per-
mItted to hold n lease to mine coal on
the public domain except for its own
use and no railroad company can re-
celve more than one permit or lease
for each 200 miles of its railroad line
within the state In which the coal land
Is situated.
The most of the delay In getting
through this legislation was due to
the inability to agree IN the compen
satiOn which the government should
exact. As finally agreed on the bill
provides that when the government
decides to lease a tract of coal land,
1t shall announce In advance Of the
offering of the leases the royalty that
will be charged. This royalty is not
to be less than 8 cents a ton, payable
at the end of each third month sue
ceeding that of the extraction OF the
coal from the mine and an annual
rental payable at the date of the lease
and annually thereafter on the lands
or coal deposits covered by the lease at
such rate as may be fixed by the sec
rotary of the interior prior to offer
ing the lease. This rental Is not to
be less than % cents an acre for the
first year, not less than 80 cents an
acre for the second. third, fourth and
fifth years, and not less than 81 an
acre for each year thereafter during
the continuance Of the lease.
Coal Leases In~determinate.
Leases are to be for in~determinate
periods on condition of diligent devel-
opment and continued operation Of the
mine, except when operation shall be
interrupted by strikes. At the end of
each 20-year period the secretary Of
the interior may require a readjust-
ment of terms and conditions.
As to the oil and gas, the legislation
provides that the secretary of the in
terror may grant to any qualified ap-
pllcant the exclusive right for n Pc
riod not exceeding two years to pros
pect for oil and gas upon not to exceed
2.JGO acres OF government land. On
establishing to the satisfaction OF the
interior department that he has locat-
cd valuable deposits of oil or gas the
permittee is to be entitled to n lease
for one-fourth of the land embraced
I'm his prospecting permit. The lease
is to be for a term of 20 years upon
a royalty of 9 per rent of the value
of the production and the annual pay
ment in advance of a rental of 81 an
acre. the rental paid for any one year
to be credited against the royalties as
they agree for that year.
No Big Military Legislation Likely.
Ii looks now as IL the United
States would continue TO drift so
far as preparedness for possible
war is concerned. The immediate en-
actment of military legislation of i'm
portance is not probable. At the pres
ent time moi much interest Is being
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-03-05
War Department viii Suffer.

The upshot of it all is that the lead
ers have decided o to try TO get
through universal training legislation
mt this session. They believe the main
features of the Wadsworth bill will
eventually be accepted by the coun-
try and by congress. but they realize,
so they say, that nothing. perhaps,
could be gained by putting that bill
through the senate at this session and
sending it TO The house to be slaugh-
tered.
The uprising In congress against
partment in n most unsatisfactory
condition. 1t had counted on legis-
lation by the end of the fiscal year
providing for the peace military es-
Establishment. Now it will have TO go
along in a makeshift way until con-
gress acts. Meantime nearly all the
new branches of the service that were
built up during the war, like aviation,
motor corps, gas and flame, etc, are
rapidly d~eteriorating for lack of
funds. Between now and the end of
the fiscal year, June 30, the regular
army appropriation bill will be
passed and 1t is the thought of the
men in congress who are dealing with
the situation 10 make provision in
that bill for tlding the department
over until Il permanent policy shall
have been decided on.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-03-05

taken by the men who frame the laws
In the construction program proposed
by the navy department. An inquiry
INTO h situation that exists In con
gress with respect to military and
naval legislation shows that most Of
the congressman have got an impress
sion that there Is a distinct reaction
throughout the country against mill
tary or naval legislation and for this
reason. and this reason alone. they
are dislnclined to support any great
forward step of a military or naval
nature.
Nc sooner was the senate bill with
its universal training provision out
in the open than the members of the
house. regardless Of political affilia-
lions. began to let 1t be known that
they were opposed to universal train
ing in any form. On the Republican
side the leader. Representative Mon
dell of Wyoming, came out f~iatfooted
against the training feature of the
senate bill and his position was sup
ported by the members of the house
committee on order of business. The
effect of this was to discourage the
house committee on military affairs
from going ahead with the idea that
it should report a bill providing for
universal training. The Democrats
of the house, with the notion that they
could gain some political advantage
by taking a stand as a unit against
universal training, ~caucussed and al
most unanimously voted to oppose
this training. This action was taken
after President Wilson had written
the caucus a letter asking it not TO
take a stand against universal train
inc
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-10

Groves Tasleless Chill Tonic
Restores vitality and energy by
purifying and enriching the blood.
You can soon feel its Strengthening
Invigorating Effects. Price soc
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-10

children, but now we have a fine big
boy and we always call him our Pink
ham boy. The doctor was afraid Of
my case as I was Al years old when the
boy was born, but came through all
right. You can use this as a testimon.
iaI if you wish and will certainly write
to any one who writes to me about it. y
Mrs. MARGARET G. HAvERCAMP, 500
Howard Avenue, Lancaster, Pa.
If you have the slightest doubt that
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound will help you, write to Lydia e.
Pinkham Medicine Co. (confidential)
Lynn, Mass, for advice. Your letter
will be opened, read and answered by a
woman and held in strict confidence.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-10
sal ,e72. 600 For Agriculture

Washington, March 10-Appropra-
lions of approximately S31 ,972 coo for
The agriculture department for the
next fiscal year were reported by the
senate agriculture committee. The
committee added $1.722,OOO to the
amount carried by the bill as passed
by the house.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-10
FIERCE FIGHT UNDERGROUND
Expert Engineers and Coal Oissers
Clash in Mine at Scranton.

Expert Engineers ana Soai SssSs
Clash in Mine at Scranton.
, Scranton, Pa, March 10.-Expert
mining engineers appointed by Mayor
Connell to investigate conditions IN
the Oxford mine of the Peoples Coal
company, in West Scranton, had a
confiict with the employees Of the COM
pany, hundreds of feet under the sur
face. and at last reports the fight was
still on.
Mayor Council, informed of the trou-
BILE, hurried to the mine, bue was not
permitted to go down the shaft.
Caves in the workings OF the COM
pany have been playing havoc with
the surface, causing damages to homes
and business places and public streets,
---aing into thousands of dollars.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-10
State Of onio, .Iry o. 1ol

Lucas .Ou1tS sS.
Frank ). Cheney makes nath that
ne Is senin, partner of the firm of
F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business
In the City of Toledo, County and
State aforesaid, and that said frm
will pay the sum Of ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS for each and every case
of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
the use Of HALLS CATARhH
MEDICINE. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and cab
csribec in my presence. this 9Th day
of December, A D. 1886. A. w
GLEASON, (Seai) Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Medicine In eaken
internally and acts through the
Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of
tbs System. Send for testimonials
free.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo O.
Sold nv I'll druggists. 75c
Halls Fani = fills for coma :
Dation.-A0S.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-10
FATAL OHIO HOSPITAL FIRE
Eight Male Patients Suffocated in
Blaze at GaIlipoIis Institution.

Gallipolis, O., March 10.-Eight per-
sons are dead and two are expected to
die as a result of Il fire which de-
stroyed one cottage and the dancing
pavilion at the Ohio Hospital for Epi
leptics.
The dead and injured were patients
at the institution.
The cottage, operated as a hospital
for male patients, caught fire from the
ents were in the hospital. The dead
were all suffOcated. The injured were
partly suffOcated and burned.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-10
JAPAN TO TRADE WITH REDS
Formal Recognition of Soviet Fere-
cast in Toxic Advices.

G6SL ht ONiO NONlSC~
Honolulu, T. H., March 10.-The
japanese foreign Office intimates an
early resumption of commercial rela-
tions with the soviet government of
Russia preliminary to Il formal recog
milton of the soviet as de facto gov
eminent, according to a Toxic cable to
the Japanese newspaper Nippu Jill.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-10

$500 ~VSsASs%N~e4 ess4 ~AA&
time, and bearing
down pains. I had
used Lydia E. Pink
b a ms Vegetable
Compound and it
helped me, so my
mother got me TO
try it again, and !
am now feeling bet
ter than I have for
years. We W e re
m arrie d sixteen
uooro and ho1 nn
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-10
CHI[D[ESS
WOMEN
Please Read This Letter And
See What Normal Health
VIII Do For You.
Observation-Disclosures

Lancaster, Pa.-'T was weak and
run down. had pains in my head, back
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-10

Farm Implements great big stock
at right prices. Phillips Hdw. Co.
ADV.
Davis and L. M. Paints, big stock.
Phillips Hdw. Co.-Rdv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-30

$50; New York exchange on Mon
treal 9-I6 per cent discount.
Government and railroad bonds ir-
regular. Time loans steady; sixty
DAYS, ninety days and six months 81
at 8 per cent.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-30
ACRARIAN REFORM
CONTENTS PEASANTS
Over Five Millions of Acres Govern
ment Lands in Rumania Was Dis
trihuted.
fsy Associates Prsss.)

Jassy. Rumania, Oct. 29.-Rumania's
agrarian reform act giving 5,OOo'ooo
acres of state. institutional and pri-
vate lands to the peasants, has been In
operation a year, and has brought
about a degree of contentment and sat
isfaction among the population here
tofore unknown. For the first time IN
Rumania's history the peasants nave
been given outright ownership OF land
King Ferdinand was the first to give
IN a. part of his large land holdings
to the people.
The appropriation of large private
estates by the government did not
please the proprietor classes, but II
has had a steadying influence upon the
tenper and spirit of the people, VINO
now have little sympathy for bolsheV-
list doctrines. Nearly rs per cent or
the neoule of Rumania are supported
nv agriculture and under their own
ership the land during the last year
welded larger and better crops than
ever before.
Ftve-sixths of the population of Ru-
mania consists of the peasantry, VINO
combine thrift with industry. In ract
the peasant class constitutes the real
Rumania, The whole hope OF the
country is bound up in 1T. A large
percentage of illiteracy prevails, but
the people possess many good quail
ties. One sees the same hand-worked
costumes that obtained in the middle
ages. the same goodness OF heart and
simplicity OF manner which always
chara cterize highly stratified socletles
where people know their stations III
life and act accordingly.
The bulk of the Rumanian nation
still lives in dirt -floored huts made
| of woven branches and plastered with
mud. These novels usually are win
| dowless and sleeveless. The people
sleep upon the floor or upon benches
| with their day clothes on, often six K
ten of them in one miserable, low
| ceiled room ten feet square. In many
cases the poultry, pigs and cattle oc'
| cupy the same room.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-30

$40 IA; contracts demand 6.37; ca
bIes 80 Belgian francs, demand
~. cables CTS. Guilders: demand
"a Ak. cables 3O.55. Lire: demand
"a. cables AIS. Marks: demand
3a cables 1.31. Greece: demand