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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-07
LIBERTY BONDS.

New York, Sept. 6.-Liberty
bonds closed: 3hs, $3.50; first As,
$87.7O bid; second as. $3.50; first
ANS, $S7.S2; second ANS, $S7.S2;
third ANS, s91.8S; fourth AIS.
1912: Victory 3%s. $500; Vic
tory ANS. $4,000.
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NEW YORK MONEY.


New York. Sept. 6.--Prime mer-
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WANTED--Salesmen

WANTED-Five high-class salesmen; dc
not call IL you can't produce. Call
from 10 to II q. m. Franklin & Co., rs
West Gold ,r
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FOR RENT-Ofice Room,

FOR kEN1--Uifice rooms. heat anu
water; above Matson's store. Central
avenue Inquire j. Korber's Auto de-
partment.
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Opulent bourgeois of blossoms
Plump and complacent,
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WANTED-Apents

w n WANT houses TO sell, II your prica
Is right we will find a buyer for you !;
results count and we get them. ]. d.
Keleher. 211 West Gold. Phone 40.
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
CHARLESTON men AC-I
CUSED OF THEFT
Men sent by u. S. Officials to
List Bankrupt Stock, Ar
rested at Ruleville.

W. L. York and T. C. Albritton,
two white men of Charleston, were
arrested at Ruleville Thursday after
noon on search warrants by Deputy
Sheriffs, F. ]. Fielder and A. M. Gan
ong. York and Albritton arrived in
Ruleville Wednesday morning. They
were sent there by Jack Stone, ref
cree in bankruptcy for this district,
to invoice the bankrupt stock of the
One Price Store, which establish
ment filed papers of voluntary bank
ruptey early last week.
The keys of the store were deliv-
cred to the two men and they pro-
ceeded with the inventory. Their ac-
tions aroused suspicion of the officers,
who placed watch on the store.
Wednesday, it is charged, they con-
signed to the local express company
two new suit cases out of the stock
addressed to themselves at Charles
ton. Thursday they were arrested
en- route to the depot.
Two more suit cases were taken
from the men. These contained lot
of dry goods and notions from the
bankrupt stock. The two suit cases
delivered to the express company
were secured on seach warrants and
when opened were found to contain
about $500 worth of clothing, shoes,
notions, and other things.
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
". J. TIPLER,
DUDLEY WAGNER,
LOUIS SPENCER,
Committee
MASTER JOHN HENRY WAGNER
GOES TO STUDY MUSIC

Master John Henry Wagner the
talented and gentlemanly young son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John II. Wagner
leaves today for Chicago where he
goes to take up the study of music.
Owing to poor health the lad, who
was student at the famous Maulins,
N. Y. Military School for boys, was
compelled to miss the past year of his
school work while undergoing medi-
cal treatment. During his enforced
vacation the boy secured Xylophone
and began practice on the instrument
and the general study Of music. he
is possessed of rare musical talent
and in the few months of his practice
has mastered his instrument to a
wonderful degree. He now is going
to Chicago TO receive instruction from
Mr.. Jack Kelley, a musician Of ma
tional note and possibly the best
Xylophone artist in the United
States.
John Henry viii make his home
while in Chicago with Mr.. and Mrs
Kelley who are close friends Of the
lads parents.
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
PAY Il DAYS AT new
RATE, GOV. ADVISES
Governor Thinks Courts Or.
der Stops Phone Raise

Gov. Russell Saturday afternoon
made the following statement in re-
gard to the telephone rate question
while have no desire to say any
thing which could be construed to
interfere with the legal controversy,
yet so many inquiries come to me that
/ feel something might properly be
said as to the rate that should be paid
for the months of March and follow
ing it. 1t occurs to me that nothing
could properly be done that would
have tendency to override the de-
cision of Judge Potter. In simple
English, his decision restores the old
rate, thereby refusing to the tele-
phone companies the raise allowed
by the majority of the railroad CON-
mission, which placed the new rate in
to effect on March 2, and this new
rate would be operative until March
21, at which time Judge Potter's de-
cision would take effect. Hence, 81
days at the new rate, and the remain
der at the old rate is the proper basis
of settling this months bills. Sub
scribers, therefore, should make pay
ment accordingly, If due respect is
had for the courts decision, and feel
sure that our citizens desire that the
law be respected and upheld. just
what angle or angles the case will
take from legal viewpoint, / am not
advised, but / know that the citizens
practically unanimously are opposed
to any raise. Their viewpoint is that
the company has increased its wage
scale to a very small degree fol
many years past and neither has the
company improved its service to any
material extent.
THAT the claims of the company
that this raise is necessary to proper
ly equip their plant in order to give
better service is simply making them
selves safe at the public expense, not
withstanding the fact that farmers
and business men everywhere arr
battling a seemingly losing game un
der the present financial stress
These. citizens have no public to ap
peal to to increase their dividends
About all thy can do is to put extra
ordinary energy into their work, Gu
down expense to the minimum anS
hope for better times. / am sure thi
qustion can be properly and equitabl,
settled in the courts"
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
BUsHA COUNTY MISSISSIPPI FRIDAY APRIL /, 1871
CANTON MAN SHOT
BY HIS OWN SISTER
Ex-Service Man Alleged to
Have Threatened to Kill
Family

Lott Cheek, well known young man
of Canton, and brother of Miss
Cheek Of the Jackson Public School
faculty is in a critical condition and
may die as q result of having been
shot three times by his sister, Mrs.
j. C. Miller. The husband of Mrs.
Miller was with his wife at the time
Of the shooting, but made no attempt
to prevent the affair. Cheek is al
legged to have threatened the lives
of Mr.. and Mrs. Millr.
The shooting occurred on the stair
way leading to the law Office of Har-
ry B. Graves, where Cheek had been
discussing family troubles it was said.
When Cheek started down the stair
way he was met with volley of bull
lets fired from his sisters revolver.
Seven shots in all were fired while
but three took effect. Two of the
bullets took effect in the abdomen of
the victim and one in his left lung
The family of Cheek are said to
have been disturbed concerning his
mental condition. A. one time he
was an inmate of the State Insane
Hospital, but later was released af.
ter his condition became apparently
normal. He enlisted in the u. s
cavalry at the outbreak of the wal
and served in Italy with an Oklahoms
regiment.
The direct cause of the shooting
was said to have been a threat by
Cheek that he would wipe the Miller
family off the face of the earth"
Immediately after the shooting
Mrs. Miller went to the Office Of the
sheriff and surrendered. She wa:
released on bond.
Miss Cheek of the Jackson public
school faculty left Wednesday af.
ternoon for Canton.
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
HOPEFUL NEWS FROM wrNoNA

The Winona Times says during the
past week there has been many ru-
mors going the rounds about what
happened out at the Preston Well
Friday of last week. Work was dis
continued, the fire was drawn and the
force went to work on the road from
the well to the main road. One re-
port is that gas was struck, mud and
water was thrown over the derrick.
Another is that an oil sand was
struck, work was discontinued until
1t could be tested.
From reliable source we were
told that hard formation was struck
that would do to set casing on and
this would be done before drilling
was resumed, and the standard tools
would then be put back into opera
ton. The stem of the rotary drill
has been drawn out of the we'll and
everything is in readiness to put in
casing and make the change. Just
what has happened or the next move
of the company will be is all conjec.
ture, but figuring on reports and
happenings II is evident that the
company is well pleased with the way
things are showing up at the well anc
feel confident that they will bring in
a paying well.
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
NUMBER 13
LAND COMMISSIONER
BROWNS BOOKS
SHORT $7,775.19
Late Commissioner Was With
out System-Loose Methods,
Not Dishonesty, Blamed for
The Situation

Uneducated and unframed for the
duties of high responsibility in a
state Office, the late M. A. Brown,
former state land commissioner, left
a shortage in accounts OF $7,775.19,
at the time of his death while on a
visit to his daughter in Yazoo Coun-
ty last December. The official report
of the audit of the land commission
fed public accountant, which was SUBJ
mitted Friday to Governor Lee M.
Russell, shows looseness in the keep
ing of the records rather than any in
tention on the part of the late COM
missioner to defraud the state.
More than 400 typewriter pages
are contained in the report of Mr..
Sharp, who is one of the most widely
known accountants in Mississippi, be-
ing president of the state association
Of public accountants.
The audit was naje az the request
Of the newly appointed land commits
sioner, Russell d. Moore, formerly Of
Amite county. In order tc complete
the work before Mr.. Moore assumed
the responsibilities Of the Office, four
men have been engaged in the work
for the last three or four weeks.
The report covers the period from
January /, 1916, to February 8,
1921, and shows the affairs of the #
fee have for several years bern con-
Quoted with no apparent effort at
| system or ortlec.
Involved IN the shortage are pub
lie funds amounting t. S4.025.t3 and
$3.50 with the various CLERKS and
tax collectors throughout the state.
| The former commissioners bondsmen
will be responsible to the state for
l$4,025.19. In the case of the latter
the attorney general has rendered an
opinion to tn auditor that "these
are not public funds and that the
state is in no way party at interest
to the funds collected as clerks and
tax collectors fees" For that reas-
on the accountant said no detailed
statement was made of how much is
due the individual tax collectors and
clerks, "nor could this we'll be done
from the meager information which
the receipts in hand convey" =
Individual collectors and clerks
| throughout the state, therefore, will
have to enter separate suits to re-
cover. In many cases, it is known
that the clerks are either dead or out
of office.
OF the 80 counties in Mississippi,
the report shows the late commission
er made no efforts to settle with the
clerks except in Kinds, Harrison and
Jackson counties.
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
DEATH OF MRS. IDA. MARDERs

Mrs. Ida L. Marders, member of
one of the oldest and most prominent
families in North Mississippi, died at
her home in Oakland early Thursday,
following an illness of about three
months. The funeral was held at
Oakland Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Marders was SO years of age
and the widow of the late r. Kirby
Marders, former business associate
of Joseph Newburger of Memphis.
When her husband died about two
years ago Mrs. Marders assumed con-
troll of his large estate in North
Mississippi and had managed it since
that time.
Although she had been i'll since
Christmas, Mrs. Marders became con.
fined to her bed only two weeks ago
Her physician and the family thought
her condition much improved unit
late Wednesday night, when she tool
a sudden turn for the worse. She
died at 4 o'clock Thursday morning
Mrs. Marders is survived by thres
children, Eugene, Lovejoy and Rebis
Marders, and one sister, Mrs. Anna L
Moore, all Of whom live in Oakland
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
WATER VALLEY GIRL
HEADS BIG LIBRARY
Miss Fannie Dalton Putting
Order And Pep in The
Clarksdale Public Library

The Clarksdaie Daily Register In
an editorial mention of the City's
public library made special mention
of Miss Fannie Dalton, the beautiful
and accomplished young daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. T. H. Dalton of Water
Valley. The newspaper article fol
lows:
Busy Scenes at Public Library Now
"The Public Library is in the list
of those who now have their spring
cleaning and flower gardening about
completed.
The yard and grounds around the
building have been put in splendid
condition, the hedge has been trim
med, lawn cut, seed and plants put
out and the ground worked in the
flower beds.
Inside the building there is an air
of orderliness and a look of fresh
ness and cleanness, as the floors,
windows and walls have been clean
ed; and the books shellaced and ar
ranged neatly in place.
At the receiving desk a new and
attractive young face is seen, in the
person of Miss Dalton, the assistant.
She is kept busily employed issuing
and receiving books, answering quer-
les, replacing and rearranging books
on the shelves and doing many other
daily tasks, as the Library has be-
come one of the most popular places
in the town.
Miss Wilson, the genius who has
made it so by dint of persistent eff
fort during the past few years, is
usually found at desk piled up with
work mountains high and surround
ed with what looks to the visitor to be
hundreds of recently arrived volumes
to be numbered, indexed, examined,
shellaced, and goodness knows what
else, before they can go out to the
eager readers. N
A new shipment of books came Fri
day and they look mighty interest
ing. In few more days they will
be ready for the public.
A recent feature of the Library is
printed slips of new books and criti-
cisms of them. These steps are kept
in a convenient place <on the front
dels for everyone to carry home and
use as an aid in the selection of read
ing matter. These lists are most
helpful and informative to patrons
of the library.
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
TONS OF ASPHALT
COAT TEXAS BEACH


VELASCO, Texas re-
turning from Quintana beach report
ed the washing up on the coast of
tons of fresh asphalt by the waves of
the gulf. Blanket-like strips of rs
to so feet in length and varying in
thickness up to several feet were cast
up Sunday morning along a stretch
of the beach from Jupiter ont to the
Perry Bryan beach home and thence
six miles beyond toward the Bernard
River, they report.
H. J. Parks, one Of the fishermen,
experienced difficulty in making his
way through the surf to shore after
the first strip of asphalt had bowled
him over as he was adjusting his
tackle far out in the surf. A kero-
sene bath was necessary as a result
of his encounter with the vicious
fiotsam.
The temperature of the asphalt in
dicated its origin was close to the
coast according to the fisherman, who
declared the quantity deposited on
the beach would have sufficed to load
several score Of freight cars. As one
result of the deposit, the beach for o
stretch of approximately 10 miles will
take on the characteristics of mo
tor speedway.
The phenomenon of ashphalt ap-
pearing in the beach surf revives
stories told many years ago by coast
residents of similar occurrences, long
before the discovery of the Tamoico
oil fields. The surmise has been ad-
vanced in the past that the ashphalt
originated from some section of the
bottom of the gulf through an earth
disturbance, causing emission of the
substance from an underlying de-
post.
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
FIND PROTOTYPE OF
"MOWCLI" in INDIA
Boy Was Stolen and Suckled
BY Leopard

A wild boy resembling in some re-
spects Kipling's character, "Mowgli,' =
who was sucked by she-wof and
grew up to be leader of the pack,
has been found in a remote section
of India, according to story told in
the Times. In this case, however,
the boy is reputed to, have been kid
mapped by a leopard. He has been
recaptured and his father is now
keeping a sharp eye on him to see
that he does not run away to the
woods.
The Times credits the tale to Stew
art Baker, who was recently in the
undeveloped country round the
Cachar Hills on the northeast from
tier of India, where he was in charge
of road-mending. tits customary in
that region for villagers to mend
roads instead of paying taxes. Mr..
Baker asked villager why he did
not do his share of road-mending.
The man replied that he was afraid
to leave his village. His wife hav-
ing died short time previously, he
had no one to take care of his little
wild son." who, in his absence
might run into the jungle and gel
lost. Mr.. Baker paid the villager Q
visit and found with him child a.
bout seven years of age, with in
Vulnerable white scars of tiny cuts
and scratches all over its body.
The child's father told him that
five years before, the villagers Of
Cahari had killed two leopard cubs
The mother leopard prowled about
the jungle bordering on the village
A few days later the mother of the
child left it lying on cloth while
she went away to reap rice. In hel
absence the mother leopard carried
the child off. The villagers searched
for it, but could find no trace of it
Some three years later a sports
man killed a leopard in the jungle
He told the villagers that the leopard
had two cubs. They searched th'
Jungle and found the two cubs ant
with them the missing child.
1t ran on all fours quite fast, dodg
ed and hid in bushes with great a
gility and skill and bit and Tough
with every one who tried to lay holt
of it. It tore to pieces and ate will
extraordinary quiclSness any villag'
fowl that came its way.
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
CONGRESS CALLED TO
CONVENE APRIL II
Tariff and Tax Revisions Are
Principal Subjects

WASHINGTON, March ga
formal call for an extra session Of
Congress to meet on April IL and re-
ceive legislative recommendations
from the new administration was is
sued today by President Harding.
None of the specific problems to
be laid before the legislative branch
were named in the proclamation the
president merely declaring that an
extraordinary occasion required that
Congress convene "to receive such
communication as may be made by
the executive"
Mr.. Harding already has indicated,
however, that the tariff and taxation
will be foremost in his message to the
special session. He is expected to
make special plea for prompt relief
to the nations agricultural interests,
and the list of recommendations may
touch many other subjects, such as
the railway situation, the merchant
marine and immigration.
One recommendation relative to re-
construction measures within the
government machine itself is expect
ed to suggest the creation of gen.
eral commission to dispose of many
kinds of property acquired by gov
ernment agencies during the war.
Whether the message win touch on
foreign relations is matter of specu-
lation, but the president has indicated
that his primary desire for the ses-
sion is that it work out plan Of
governmental and industrial re-
habilitation at home.
A programme for the session has
been discussed at series of confer
ences between the president and
leaders in the Senate and House and
although definite decisions still are to
be made, feeling of conference is
manifest that there will be working
agreement that will expedite legisla-
tive business from the start.
Some of the presidents friends be-
lieve he will follow the custom Of
President Wilson in delivering his
message to Congress in person. 1t
was said tonight at the White House,
however, that no decision on that de-
tail had been reached.
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01

Mr.. ID. G. Crane General Counsel
and Director of the Owens Oil & Gas
Company accompanied by Mr.. Z. e.
Lovewell, the Company's geologist.
spent the latter part of the week in
Water Valley inspecting the sur
rounding country.
The Owens Oil & Gas Company
through its subsidiaries The Arthur
Pltts Oil Co. of Texas, The Owens
Drilling Company, The Sabine Oil Co.
OF Alabama are drlling six deep test
wildcat wells in Texas, Louisiana and
Alabama, and are desirous of drilling
In Mississippi if structural conditions
can be found to warrant so doing.
These gentlemen have been in varl-
Gus parts of this State for the past
ten days making preliminary ex-
animation of areas which are general
ly known to be favorable.
Mr.. Lovewell says that the same
tertiary formations which out crop
IN Louisiana and Arkansas came to
the surface in this locality and that
there is every geological reason to
expect oil fields of as great magni-
tude and richness in Mississippi as
are found in the former States. He
Is firm however in his opinion that
only closed anticlines should be drill
ed, and that the same, if found, will
be productive from the same geologic
al@horizons that have produced the
famous Homer, Caddo and Ell Do
rado fields, west of the Mississippi
River. Mr.. Lovewell was naturally
reticent concerning the expression of
his opinions regarding the areas Wis
tied in this vicinity but it is under
stood that he was very favorably inn
pressed by what he saw.
He is returning next week to make
a more thorough and detailed ex-
animation of the sub-surface strata
of the localities in this neighborhood
which he considers promising.
Mr.. c. A. Owens, President of the
Owens Oil & Gas Company, and its
subsidiaries is we'll known operator
in the Mid-Continent Oil Fields and
is especially interested in wild cats,
His various companies expended last
year sum exceeding $350,000 in
pioneer development work. The de-
cision of his companies to commence
work in Mississippi would mean the
expenditure of very large sums by
competent and experienced oprators
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
MILITARY FUNERAL
FOR SOLDIER BOY
Pvt. c h aries Wickersham
Quinnelly Fell With His
Face to The Enemy on Bat
tie Field of France. Body
to Arrive Here. This Week.
Funeral Held Sunday.

The remains of Private Charles
Wickersham Quinnelly win arrive
here this week and the funeral will
be held Sunday in the Baptist Church
at p. m.
Private Quinnelly was the son of
Mr.. j. I. Quinnelly former Chief Dis
patcher for the l. C. Railroad Com
pany at this place. The young man
spent the early part of his life in this
city where he was highly esteemed by
all who knew the lad.
When his country called, Charles
Quinnelly patriotically and bravely
answered that call. He went across
and on October 8, 1918 fell mortally
wounded in the battle of st. Mihiel,
France. A few days later he died in
an army hospital and was buried in
the American Army Cemetery at
Sulnes near Paris.
His body was exhumed and brought
to the United States, arriving at
New York on March 26. From New
York the body was sent to Water Val
ley and is due to arrive here this
week. Upon arrival here the body
will lie in state in the Baptist Baraca
Hall.
On Sunday, April 3rd, at 8 p. m.
the funeral win be held in the Bap-
tist Church with full military honors.
| While Curtis E. Pass Post No. 81,
American Legion, will have charge of
the arrangements, it is desired and
understood that all ex-service men
are to assist whether they are men,
bers of the American Legion or not.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS
Full Military Honors.
Services conducted by Ex-Chap-
lain Wayne Alliston.
PAIL BEARERS
Pete Green Wade Miller
Dudley Wagner P. C. Whitehead
Ray Kennedy Lloyd Bowles
ARMED MILITARY ESCORT
Olin Anderson George Doyle
Earl Truett Lewis Howell
Carl Blackwell Howard Nolen
Rufus Treloar Lloyd Hellums
Rudolph Erickson
NOTICE TO EX-SERVICE MEN
All Ex-Service men are requested
and urged to meet at the New Ma
sonic Temple on Sunday, April Bird
at 2:30 p. m. wearing civilian clothes
with "Victory Medals" worn on left
breast.
W. J. TIPLER,
DUDLEY WAGNER,
LOUIS SPENCER,
Committee
The north Mississippi herald., 1921-04-01
DISSOLUTION NOTICE

The partnership heretofore exist
ing between the undersigned under
the name of Aven and Moore has this
day been dissolved by mutual consent.
The above firm was succeeded by
E. C. Aven, who assumes all of obli-
cations and liabilities of said firm.
Dated at Water Valley, Miss,
March 2Sth. 1921.
e. C. AVEN.
J. M. MOORE.