Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-07

will name "Leglonnalre.' Four of the pioneers are married and all have had farming experience. Homesteading is now possible in the following other states: Washington, Michigan, Mon tana, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Louisiana, Alabama, Colorado, Idaho and Oregon.
 A family which in itself is thriv ing war veterans society has come to the notice of the American Legion in Independence, Kas, Thirty-three able bodied men and women call the Civil War veteran, Mama c. Bruner, by the familiar "papa." Of the lot, the father, soldier of the Union in '61, is proudest of his even dozen. sons who served overseas with the American forces in the world war. Of the re- mainder, 20 are girls and one son was too young to fight. The oldest is AZ. The Pershing estate in Tangipahoa Parish, La., owned jointly by heirs of John J. Pershing, father of the general of the armies, has been advertised for sale for taxes, according to a letter sent the general by the editor of an American Legion magazine published in Amite, La. The editor posted suf- fcient funds with the parish sheriff to prevent the sale and requested Gen. eral Pershing to make the estate { available for colonization by his com rades who are being rehabilitated, leafter- War wounds, for agricultural
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 The number of civilian employees in z the Panama canal zone has been re- | duced 40 per cent since March 4, 1921, and more than 700 former soldiers | will be forced out of employment if < there is not let-up, an appeal from C the canal zone to the American Le- C gion's representatives in Washington T declares. Two army officers and three 8 civilians appointed by Secretary of l War Weeks recommended the sweep ! ing reductions in personnel. {
 Milady's fashionable corsage bou- 2 quet may have started life as hand I ful of ragweed, for rdisabled soldiers in Kansas City hospitals are doing 8 thriving business in making artificial and lifelike posies out of ordinary a weeds. War Mothers of the city are i teaching the wounded men to color r the weeds with dyes and the American g Legion is helping them place the flow I CTS with florists and gift shops. i
 For the return of a tattered old :. army rain-cape, almost worth it's l weight in gold because. of sentiment | attached to it, liberal rewards have I been posted by American zegtn ser I vice men of Toledo, o. The cape, property of Rev. H. F. MacLane, chap lain of an infantry regiment in France, was used by him to cover the faces of dead soldiers lying in the Flanders mud and rain while their graves were being dug. It had been torn in many encounters with barbed wire while the chaplain followed his troops, but an undiscriminating thief
 stole it from the minister's automo- bile.
 Out of work, arrested on a charge of vagrancy and placed in convict gang at Glenn Springs, N. J., Thomas M. Keelan, world war veteran, was flogged to death by his guards, accord ing to the American Legion post of
 Spartansburg, S. C., near the scene of the outrage. A federal investigation
 has been demanded and two men are being held.
 The body of the unknown American soldier to be brought home from
 France by General Pershing probably will be selected from the Argonne
 cemetery at Romagne, where most of
 the unidentified dead were inferred
 following the fighting in the forest
 tangles, according to information to
 the American Legion shortly before
 the general sailed. But two per cent
 of the wars dead yet remain in