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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-02
"sTANNIE, OLD BOY, THERE'S YOUR FoRTUNEr

Your portion of Grandfather Japers property north
its latest palSon something like $4,000 lies perfectly
safe repository situated bween I05 and I0th degrees of ong
tude from Greenwich 10th degrees
tudA When find it, w be able to identify BY the
of girl Nth brown hair and blue eyes and small mole her
left shoulder piebad horse whch the girl rides and dog nth
split face halt black and half white You OH be than
likely to find the three together and you make the acquaintance
of the girl, you'll be the trail of your legacy"
And there's that. Stanford Bushon attractive soeie
But the will gives all the tangible Sanfrd cousin Percy
And adding, AH
you've do o work and find it."
his own
He finds the dog and the horse Next he finds the girl And then he
the perfectly drownedout gold
The flooded and down. but al Stannie
to
to
to
Rifles sulphur Stannie
and be regular fellow. And the girl
shes worth . dozen gold mines.
made himself famous by his railroad Dollars dughnut
proud of this mining
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-02

est In the property to me upon the
completion of the Job and the unwater~
ing of the mine.
"At the moment was under engage
ment to go to Peru for a Chicago syn
dictate, and I expected to be out Of the
United States for at least six months.
and maybe longer. AS II turned out,
the South American job was lot big
ger than l had anticipated, and for
that reason the time limit of year
expired week ago. on the day that !
landed In New York. Yesterday !
called upon the Omaha banker. and he
gave me the cheering information that
my old man was dead--had died just
a few days earlier"
"Still, don't see how you have lost
out" put In
"Wait: here comes the funny part
Of 1t. Mr.. Banker tells me solemnly
that / am remembered In my old gen.
tleman's disposition of some cash lega-
cies made just before his death, and
I'm to have the thousand dollars which
he put up as forfeit. l took the prize
down and spent some of it within the
next few minutes wiring the old mans
home lawyer. whose name and address
the banker had given me. l briefed
the situation for the lawyer. said was
ready to fulfill my part of the con-
tract, and asked him to wire me the
name and location of the mine. You'd
never guess in a thousand years the
kind of an answer I got"
/ shook my head.
mo; probably not. What was it?"
at was bolt from the blde. all
right Mr.. Home Lawyer wired that
his client had never owned a share Of
mining stock in his life, that there was
nothing In his papers or records bear
ing upon the subject of my telegram.
and that / must be either drunk or
crazy. OF course, he didn't put 1t just
that way in his reply, but that is what
he meant"
''How do you sort 1t out?" l inquired.
''The lawyers telegram? / put X up
that my cautious. secretlve old gentle
man never told anybody at home about
his mining investments; kept them in
a separate pocket, so to speak. Quite
possibly he didn't have any other ex-
cepting the one I've been telling you
about, and the one he regarded as a
dead cock In the pit. That would ex-
plain the situation nicely. don't you
think?"
The story had left me bit logged
as to the present state and standing
of the thing and | said so
"Well, 1t stacks up about this way"
said Brown-beard. There is per-
fectly good mine somewhere west of
us that is worth anywhere from a
quarter to half million, and at the
present moment 1t Is kicking around
without an owner. So far as can see,
I'm the only man on top of earth who
has a claim on any part of 1t. And 1
have no more Idea than the man in the
moon where 1t is at No; Pm afraid
my handsome fortune is a lost dog, so
far as I'm concerned"
His mention of @ lost dog hit me
right In the center Of the solar plexus
and / laughed like a fool.
"What struck your funny-bone?" he
demanded, sort of obviously, fancied.
Nothing" / gurgled; nothing
worth mentioning-only I'm hunting
for lost dog, too"
But / didn't tell him any more. After
we'd smoked a while longer. and
had apologized for max
ing me listen to his rather longish tale
of woe, we took the porter's hint that
he'd like to have the smoking room for
his nightly shoe-shine, and turned In.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-02
rorrens Reconsideration system.

This is a system of registration Of
titles to real estate introduced by Sir
Robert Torrens I'm Australia. and
bears his name. This system of Off
cial examination and registration of
titles has been adopted in, Australia,
England, New Zealand, British Column
bia and parts of Canada. In modi-
fed form it is used in several states of
the Union, in Hawaii and in the Phil
ippines.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-02

| Naturally had a quiet little laugh
over this screed of Percy's, taking II
for a joke; poor joke and In rather
bad taste. l thought. In that mood
handed the letter to Lisette for her to
read She didn't laugh. but she did
look a bit scornful and put about, II
you know what mean
would appeal to you" she said,
though the horse and the dog might.
When do you startf"
We discovered that Meridian los
west Of Greenwich split the state OF
Colorado just beyond Denver, Colorado
| Springs and Pueblo, and the hunting
| ground plotted out for me took In
three-fourths Of the remainder of the
state. a slice Of Utah. good bit bigger
slice of New Mexico. with bite out
of the northeastern corner Of Arizona,
just for good measure.
me for the wild and woollyl" /
brayed. Don't you see me rugged out
In a nice, hairy pair of Snaps and
riding hell-bent-for-leather believe
that's the phrase-over the snow
capped peaks or the boundless prairies,
as the case may be? But just imagine
Percy the immaculate pulling a bone
head joke like this !"
"You are taking 1t for q joker" she
questioned.
"Sure 1 am; and it's a rather rotten
one at that, l should say-considering
the source"
'Then you won't go to look for the
blue-eyed girl with nut-brown hair and
the cunning little mole? Think of what
you may be missing"
For just one crazy minute I had
bunch, or a premonition, or whatever
you like to call 1t, that the letter might
not be joke. Grandfather Jasper had
always been q bit eccentric-a rich
mans privilege and a rich old mans
incontestable right. What If he had
actually done this thing to me?-a
thing scarcely less devastating than
cutting me off without a penny? On
the spur Of the moment l said:
"If / should go, would you wait for
me, Lisettef"
She took her time about answering
"a good and sufficient plenty of 1t.
81 think perhaps I'd better not
change the ring back, Stannie," she
said, sort of wintrily. ''If there is any
money and you should happen to find
it, you would probably fling 1t all
away before you could get back to Bos-
ton. Besides, there Is the blue-eyed
girl; If she should bring you a fortune,
you'd have to marry her, wouldn't you?
You are big and strong, and-well-er
nice in good many ways, Stannie,
and much too good-looking for your
own good; but when you marry-if
you do marry-you'd better be sure
that the girl has money enough to buy
her own hats. l haven't enough, as
you know"
II know only too well that the love-
in-a-cottage idea has never appealed
to YOU" said, with the regretful stop
pulled all the way out in Difference to
the sentimental decencies.
mot In the least, Stannie, dear; not
in the nttlest least"
1hlS uppedreu W De tne emu VI oui
rather lukewarm love-dream, and to
be really honest and aboveboard about
1t, am obliged to confess that 1t
didn't break as many bones for me as
suppose 1t should have. Anyway, a
half-hour or so after I had said good
by to Lisette 1 met Jack Downing
and when he asked me If didn't want
to go with him and bunch of the
fellows for q little spin down the coast
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-02
peculiarities of Hair.

Examined through a microscope, the
hair may show certain peculiarities /;
the hairs of different people vary con-
siderably. Apart from color, they may
be coarse, medium, or fine; in shape
they may be round or oval; in struc-
ture they may be made up of large or
small rings. Certain races. too, have
hair of a very distinctive x2e.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-02

of Maine In his motor cruiser, fell
for the invitation so suddenly that he
hadn't ghost Of chance to back out,
If he had wanted to.
SO. few hours beyond that touch
ing little scene at 1.-THE Rockerie," you
may figure me, If you please. spinning
the wheel of one of the nattiest little
boats on the North shore, with fresh
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-05-27
CITY Treasurer'S Statement
OF Financial Affairs of MarsciIIes, Ill.

The following is full statement Of the financial affairs
of the City Of Masccs, Ill., for the year ending April 3d.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
PROMOTER
IS HELD B|GAM|S1
Wife No. ] Threatens Jail for
Man Who Married Her
School Chutn,

PHILADELPHIA, April 26-Paul S
Stansbury, who. two years ago unsuc.
cessfully promoted a trolley company
in coatesvilie. was married Saturday
to Miss Margaret Gatchel, formey
dietician at Hahnemann Hospital.
But Stansbury will not enjoy his
honeymoon, according to Mrs. Jane
Heck stansbury. wife No. 1, who de.
clared yesterday. she intends to swear
out warrant for his arrest for big =
amy. g..
Mrs. stansbury No. and Mrs.
stausbury No. 2 are girIhood chums.
Stansbury declared he obtained n
divorce In Texas from his first wife,
who Is living with her sister in
Wynnefieid. '~ r.. .
IT no ever got a divorce at all there
was something mysterious about It.
safd Mrs. Jane Heck Stansbury. "No
papers were served on me" This Mrs.
Is tventy-nine. with bluc
eyes and black hair.
After the former Miss Gatcnoi
served as dietician at Hahnemann
Hospital, she became attached to st.
Mary's Hospital, Stansbury is said
to have been introduced to her by his
first wife.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
QUITS CO[LEGEA AS
B0LSHEV|K H0TBED
President Hodgson Of vaIpa-
raise Ind, University, Alleges
Sinister Inside Influences.

CHICAGO, April 26.-Charging that
Valparaiso University, at Valparaiso,
Ind, is a hotbed of bolshevism, COM
munism and other cults, and that all
efforts Of his to thwart this propa-
ganda have failed because of ''sinis-
ter inside influences" Daniel Russell
Hodgdon. president. yesterday sent
his resignation to the trustees.
The stream of propaganda" de-
clared DR.. Hodgdon, can be traced
to the very heart of the Federal Gov
eminent, SO firmly are it's protagon-
lists intrenched."
The letter to the trustees said, in
part: 80
There has been fostered by faculty
and outside bolshevism, communism
and other cults, the practice of which
is destructive to American ideas and
principles. Unsigned letter have come
mysteriously to my desk warning me
against the principles / have preach
ed, namely, loyalty to Americanism
and American industrial life as the
basis OF American citizenship.
II have been visited by so-called
reds and foreign-born members Of
organizations claiming to be backed
by strong influences. Such repre-
sensations, undoubtedly. are part Of
"a deep-laid plan to make Valparaiso
a center of radical teachings. 1t lis
possible that much of the unrest Of
college life today is due to these de-
structive outside influences. aimed to
destroy the basic principles upon
which this Government is founded"
DR.. Hodgdon has been president of
Valparaiso University for about
year. Prior to that he was president
of Hahnemann Medical College, OF
Chicago, until IL was affiliated with
Valparaiso University. He was asso-
ciated with the New Jersey State
Educational Department Ave years as
lecturer and is the author of several
books and numerous articles.
Valparaiso is q co-educational insti-
tuition. Dr. Hodgdon's term does not
expire till next August, but he re-
auested an immediate leave OF
absence.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
NEWLY-WEDS FACE
HOMICIDE CHARGE
Man Found Slain in Bride.
groom's Apartment After
49, Celebration, p

NEW YORK, April 26.-Married last
night, Frederick Black. TWENTY-FIVE.
and his bride, seventeen, were today
being held by the police on a charge
Of homicide.
Seventeen others. who were guests
at a wedding celebration at Black
Brooklyn apartment, also were being
held while the police continued their
Investigation of the murder of the
Unidentified man whose body with a
bullet hole in his temple, was found
in the dining room of Blacks apart
ment when the police arrived after
being summoned by neighbors.
Another man, Dominick Pendasdene
was found unconscious. having zen
badly beaten.
Neighbors told the police a free-sor-
all fight had broken out while the
wedding party was holding it's cel-.
bration. Two shots were fired and
chairs, fatirons and bottles hurled.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
RAIL OFFICIALS PROBE
EFFORT TO WRECK TRAIN

PROVIDENCE. r. l.. April 90
Railroad authorities today are con-
Quoting a rigid investigation OF the
attempt to wreck a Providence bound
passenger train between Worcester.
Mass, and Lake Quinsigamond juno
tion by placing a heavy chain across
the rails.
Unable to bring his train, which
was making 40 miles an hour, to
halt. Engineer Gctchell managed to
so diminish It's speed that II jolted
over the obstruction without leaving
the rails. ''
In addition to Ave passenger
coaches, the train carried two heavy
steel express cars with valuable car
goes. one for Pittsburgh and the
other for Washington.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
SEC. HOOVER RAPS
. HIGH RETAIL PRICES
declares Present Cost of Articles
Unreasonable S. May Pub
IiSh Fair Price Lists.

Fair price lists may be published
by the Government as a consumers
guide on the cost OF commodities.
The Commerce Department is giving
serious consideration to the plan. in
connection with the work OF reor-
ganizing the Federal bureaus on sta
tistics, Secretary Hoover said today. A..
Retail prices on manufactured
articles are still unreasonably high
in many lines" sair Secretary Hoo
yer. Wholesale prices show deep cuts,
but the consumer is long way from
getting the benefit OF corresponding
reductions"
Secretary Hoover cited wooden
goods as a sample from lengthy lists
on which consumers still are being
forced to pay pre-war profits
Reductions maze by Dealers said
Hoover, "are upon a narrow margin
and the prices in many directions
still enable dealers to make even
more than was possible during the
war imitation.
The Government seeks in no way
to interfert with the normal processes
OF business, Hoover said. What It
does contemplate, however, is the
matter of an accurate determination
of manufacturing costs. for the full
benefit of the public, and with such
wide publication that small buyers
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Simple Way to
End Dandruff

There is one sure way thai has
never failed to remove dandruff at
once. and that is to dissolve IL. then
you destroy it entirely. To do this.
just get about four ounces of plain.
common liquid arvon from any drug
store Ohfs is all you will need. ap-
ply it at night when retiring; use
enough to moisten the scalp and rub
1t in gently with the, finger tips.
BY morning. most IL not all of
your dandruff will be gone, and three
or four more applications will COM
pletely dissolve and entirely destroy
every single sign and trace of it, no
matter how much dandruff you may
have.
You will find all itching and dig
Ring of the scalp will stop instantly.
and your hair will be fluffy, lustrous.
plossv. silky, and soft. and look and
feel hundred times better. .-.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
BRITISH DEBT
.PAR[EY NEARS
Mellon Says Funding Of Money
Due U. S. Will Not Wait on !.
!, Reparations Settlement.
BY w. H. ATKINS.
IntePna tional News Service.

+, Funding of the British debt of $5,-
600 ,O00, 900 due the United States
will not wait upon settlement Of Ger
man PREPARATIONS, nor any other for
eign or domestic fiscal problems. Sec
rotary of the Treasury A. w. Mellon
declared today.
~. .. READY FOR DISCUSSION.
The State Department will soon
notify Great Britain that this Gov
eminent is ready to proceed with the
negotiations to convert the demand
notes held by the Treasury into long
time obligations. This Government
Is ready to begin the discussions,
Secretary Mellon said, and speed
them to a conclusion.
Lord Chalmers probably will sail
at an early date from London and
handle the question for England,
probably with the assistance of the
British Ambassador, Sir Auckland
Geddes.
Great Britain, it now develops, has
dor some time been eager to press
the debt question to g settlement, but
has been compelled to wait, pending
the formulation of definite policy
on the debts of Europe by the Presi-
dent and his Cabinet.
POLICY DETERMINED.
Secretary MELONS discussion of the
debt question today left no doubt
that this Governments policy has
been determined, although no official
disclosure was made either Of the
plan which the Treasury may offer,
or OF the mode of procedure which
probably will be followed.
Secretary Mellon will be the ac-
tive negotiator for the United
States. He has devoted great study
&c the whole problem and is eager
for an adjustment that will meet
with favor among the American peo-
pie. He has not yet discussed the
program which he may follow, and
, in fact, will not be prepared to dis
close this Governments full post
tion until the discussions have got
ten under way. All depends upon
The British attitude.
WOULD DEAL WITH FAIRNESS.
Secretary Mellon, it is known,
desires to deal with the British
negotiators in an attitude of fair
Eess." But the Administrator de-
cision that there must be a just
settlement of these and other out
standing foreign loans, precludes the
possibility that the payment OF them
viii be- unduly heightened by un-
reasonably long maturities.
Under the Liberty Loan acts. IL
" ould be impossible for this Gov
eminent to extend the maturities of
the British debt beyond 1917 At
The Treasury, it is expected the debt
settlement would provide that the
Plitish government shall IN the near
future, begin prompt payment OF the
interest. anI9untipg alone to $3.50
100000 year, And also include a
provision for gradual curtailment of
the principal of the debt
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
PASSENGERS IN PANIC
WHEN PYTHON ESCAPES

NEW YORK, April eS.-Ths escape
of a nine-foot python on the Lamport
and Holt liner Vauban, four days out
from Rio Janeiro, gave 810 cabin pas
seEgers, including many women,
plenty Of excitement on the home
ward voyage, which ended with the
liners arrival here yesterday.
A reward of s25 for the python
dead or alive was not claimed. A
fireman said he thought he was en-
titled to part OF the reward, as he
declared he saw II going over the
aide, chasing a pet monkey belong
irr 10 Miss Lucy N. Linderman, Of
Bethlehem. Pa
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Colds Going
Speed Limit
More Sleep, Less Hosiery
Display Advised by
Women Deans.

CHICAGO. April 2s.-Girls are not
getting enough sleep these nights
They are too avid to trip the todd.
under inadequate chaperonage. They
are too prodigal in the display of
their silk stockings. In a word.
they are exceeding the speed limit.
Sixty deans of women,s schools
and colleges throughout Illinois,
meeting in the Northwestern Uni
versity to establish uniform
standard of ethics for the feminine
student, resolved to communicate
that intelligence to the parents OF
every girl under their jurisdiction.
The women deans. discussing the
"co-ed" behind closed doors, con-
coded the modern girl is giving a
bit of anxiety. The feminine scholar
of the earlier generation did not
cut so many capers, II seems.
But we are still optimistic for the
future" Dean Mary Ross Potter, Of
Northwestern University. declared.
THE girl of today cannot be judged
by the old standards. either of dress
or actions. She is forced to assume
responsibilities much earlier in life.
For that reason vocational guidance
10 an important essential"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
U. 5. SNUBS CLASSICS
FOR LOWBROW JAZZ

NEW YORK, April ga verdict IN
the case OF, jazz VS.. classics, enterti.,-
ment VS.. culture and l.. Brow VS.. II.
Brow, tried during the theatrical sea-
son here, was handed down yesterday
as followsi
The Hippodreme closed its season
with a profit of S15O,000.
The Metropolitan opera-oiesed its
season with a deficit of $4,000.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Auto Turns Over, Three Drown

TOLEDO, Ohio, April 26.-Three per-
cons were drowned yesterday when an
automobile turned over and rolled into
ditch few miles south of Perrys-
lurg, near here. The dead: Mrs.
Bertha Woodhill. Detroit; Mrs. Eta
Roberts, Detroit, and Mrs Roberts
two-yesr old daughter. A party OF
seven ~ss in the machine
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
BRITISH.
OIL MONOPOLY.
Dutch Trading Company Says
England Is Without Share of
Stock in East Indies.
By NORMAN HAPGOOD.

A cablegram has been received in
this country that carries the oil con-
troversy on fact side one step fur
Their.
1t is a result of the publicat ton of
Senator Falls letter to Senator
Lodge on the British governments
ownership of oil stock in Mexico
and in the Dutch East Indies.
AN ABSOLUTE DENIAL.
What relation, If any, il has to
the difference in the Cabinet on the
subject can only be surmised.
The cablegram is from the head
office of the Dutch Shell Company in
Holland to the head of their business
in this country. 1t is an absolute de-
NAL that the British company
owns a share of stock in the com
pany or ever did own a share.
1t should be realized that the con-
troversy over oil fields is only in part
a controversy over facts. As Mr..
Hughes first became famous through
fact inquiries. We may assume that
he will soon get to the bottom of the
subject, as far as it depends on the
accuracy of conflicting reports about
ownership. ..
.. JAP NOTE MEANS MORE.
There will remain the question OF
principle, in which. on its political
side; the outstanding feature at
present Is the matter of mandates
Some prominent statesmen have
maintained that our note on zap re-
lated to zap only.
It is. on the contrary. entirely GER
tain that the most sklllful aspect OF
that note was the broadening OF the
zap questionEto include all mandates
of every kind, and indeed all points
of the Versailles Treaty in which we
have any interest
Some members of the administra-
ton who are more concerned with
these matters hold that the most i'm
portant thing for us in the protec
ton of our oil future is the actual
ownership OF the oil lands. Anything
else, they hold, is likely to prove
elusive. -.s-
Naturally this means private pur-
chase as our Government does not 80
into such purchases abroad.
If private business men are to
branch out in the most prominent
fields this point of view holds, they
will naturally expect reasonable back
ing from the Government as far IS
the protection of their investments
are concerned on the diplomatic side.
CITES BIG BUSINESS MOVES.
A corollary to what l have pust :e-
lated is that, according to the same
type of thinking, the big business
men in the countries that are com
peting for the worlds oil supply ave
the ones to work out a satisfactory
agreement about relative amounts
owned by them in such important
fields as Mesopotamia. the Dutch
East Indies and the west slope of the