davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-08
WANTS TAFT TO Be NEW CHIEF
PRES HARDING SENDS NOM
NATION TO SENATE
Former President TAFT Refrains From
Speaking Of Appointment But Is
Thought He viii Accept

Washington.-Pre Harding
will send to the senate the nomina-
tion of former President William
Howard Taft to be chief justice of
the United States supreme court.
This was indicated by an admins
tration leader. The president, 1t was
understood. will appoint Mr.. Taft
with the expectation. of having the
nomination confirmed by the senate
before that body takes its proposed
recess.
Since the dx Rth of former Chief JUS
tice White about six weeks ago, the
president consistently has declined TO
indicate his choice, although majority
opinion picked Mr. Taft.
Attorney General Dahgherty and
other members of the presidents cab
met are understood already to have
put the stamp of approval on the
nomination Of the former president,
whose appointment is expected to be
q most popular one.
Although Mr.. Taft necessarily has
refrained from comment pending the
presidents decision, it is said by
many of mis- friends that the former
president would welcome the honor
and the opportunity to round out his
official career on the highest tribunal
Announcement of the appointment
Is expected from the white house.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-08
HARDING FEARS ARMY CUT
President Tells Congressman He Can.
not Comply With Terms Of Measure

Washington. - President Harding
summoned senate and house leaders
to the white house and informed them
that the size of the standing army
could not be reduced to 10000 by
October / as required in the army ap-
preparation bill.
Senator Borah, republican of Idaho,
author of a provision in the bill pro-
hibiting the war department from in
curing deficit, Republican leader
Mondell of the house of representa-
tives, Representative Green, republi-
can, of Vermont, of the house appro,
priation committee, discussed the sit.
uation with the president.
The army appropriation bill pro
vides that the present army of $780,
900 must be reduced to 10000 by
October 1, even if summary dismissals
are necessary. Secretary of War
Weeks has informed the president,
the legislators were told, that the re-
ductions could mot be made that rap
idly.
The congressional leaders were told
that Secretary Weeks believes the
sudden discharge of 10000 men from
the army practically would disorgan'
ize the entire military establishment.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-08
BILL PASSES LOWER HOUSE
FORBID THE USE OF BEER
FOR THE SICK
Campbell Antl-5eer siIl Passed After
Much Wrangling by Vote Of $50
to SO and Sent to Senate

Washington,-By vote of 250 to SO
The house passed the Campbell
bill to prevent the sale of beer to the
sick, and sent 1t to the senate with
expectation of its final enactment.
The vote which was twenty-one
more than the necessary twothirds,
was taken after four hours of stormy
debate, interrupted frequently with
shouts to stop the talk and pass the
bill" Despite the sweltering weather
however, leaders in the fights against
The measure refused to yield to an
ever growing demonstration for an
end Of the discussion. Enclosing in
debate for the opponents, representa-
tive Hill, republican, Maryland, threw
the house into considerable disorder
by charging that Wayne B. Wheeler
general counsel for the AntiSaloon
league, had drafted the bill. Pointing
to the league lawyer in the gallery
and calling him by name, Mr.. Hill
brought wild shout from the prohi-
bition element, some of whom stood
until quiet was restored.
There was another dry outburst a
moment later when Representative
Foster, republican, Ohio, declared
there was no truth in the statement
about Wheeler's part in the prepara-
tion of the measure.
A sharp attack on the rules COM
mittee for failing to give right-of-way
to the Volstead supplemental bill was
made by Representative Davis, repub-
Iican, Nebraska, member of the ju-
dietary committee, who charged that
its work of three weeks had been
stifled. Mr. Reavis declared it was
menance to orderly legislation when
half a dozen members of the rules
committee could nullify the action of
another committee in reporting a bill
Of national Importance. Chairman
Campbell, defending the committee,
said It was unwilling to mix emer
gency legislation with controversial
matters which should be aired fully.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-08
Wlnser chautauqua eaInIna

Chicago--P. H. Kemefer. treasurer
of the International Lyceum and Chau-
tauqua association, at a meeting Of
representatives Of the Federated Ly-
ceum Bureaus of America reported
this winters business in the lyceum
circuits of the country would show,
on the basis Of present bookings, a so
per cent increase over last year More
than 1900 towns and cities were serv-
cd by the entertainment bureaus last
year, a report at the meeting showed.
w. R. Atkinson of Waterloo, Iowa.
presided at the meeting
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-08
NEW HIGHWAY PROPOSED
Meeting Was Held and Discussed
Route to Galveston

Oklahoma City,-Frank D. Davis Of
Kansas City. secrtary of the Associat-
ed Highways of America, and Ed w.
Hockaday of Wichita, the original
Hockaday were in Oklahoma in the
interest of a highway from jLincoln,
Nebraska to Galveston through Okla
hOma City and Dallas.
Both men spoke at meeting at thu
Chamber of Commerce to which every
person Interested in good roads was
Invited. Hockaday has spent more
than 100000 Of his own money in
marking automobile highways throug-
out the southwest and plans to make
this new highway one OF the best
marked in the country.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-08
CHINA DISLIKES ALLIANCE
Member Of Peace Conference DeIega-
tIon objects to Being Ignored

Peking-Dr. c. T. Wang, one of
China's delegates to the peace confer
ence. commenting on the proposed re-
newal OF the Anglo-Japanese alliance
said that talk OF making the alliance
acceptable to Britain, America Japan
and Australia with no mention Of
China, sounds as though the alliance
was regarded as of no interest to Chi
ma. AS Mr. Hughes (the Australian
premier) and others are purposely
leaving China out of consideration, the
only possible deduction is that they
are interested only in hghting units
and that they do not consider China
as such"
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-08
Warehouse Is Saved

Heroic work of firemen saved Ware
house No. 3 of the Red Ball Transfer
and Storage company, which is just
across narrow alley Immediately in
the rear of the Bentley-Curtis plant
and directly in the path of the flames.
This building contained 100000 wor-
tn of furniture, stored by the Western
Bank Supply company, household
goods stored by the Red Ball com.
pany and quantities Of broom corn
and cotton owned by the Traders
Warehouse Commission company.
Damage to the furniture by heat and
water was placed at approximately
$4,000 by D. W. Collins, president of
the Western Bank Supply company,
while the damage to the building was
estimated at more than $4,000.
Blaze Gets New start
AT one time. according to Goff. the
fire was thought to be extinguished
but due to the opening of a draft by
cutting holes in the floor, flames
broke out anew in another portion OF
the basement and soon spread beyond
control.
Fifteen thousand feet Of hose were
utilized by the fire department in the
effort to combat the flames. Every
truck and engine and all apparatus
in the city were on the scene. An
opportunity was given the fire to
spread to the upper floor Of the build.
ing In delay caused by removing
hose from six-inch low pressure wateg
mains on Main street to larger lines
on Grand avenue and Second street.
Low water pressure was noticed
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-08
Elftx shIps cIear Port

New York.-More than fifty ships
nearly quarter of them carrying pas
sengers recently left here for Europ.
can, South American and coastwise
ports, marking one Of the largest sail
ina days In several years,
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-08
THE WOODWORK PLANT OF
CURTlS-BENTLEY BURN
ED TO THE GROUND
LOSS ESTIMATED At S5OO,OOO
The Three Story and Basement Brick
Building, 22s 100 Feet Was Com
pleteIy Destroyed, Was Covered
BY Insurance; VIII Rebuild

Oklahoma City-One of the most
disastrous fires in the history Of Okla
homa City, originating among highly
inflammable materials In the base
ment of the Curtis-Bentley wholesale
woodwork plant, totally destroyed the
company's three story brick plant at
701 West Main street with property
loss of $5OO,0OO
Heat and water damage to ware
house No. 8 Of the Red Ball Transfer
and Storage company, Immediately
north of the woodwork plant, is plac
ed at $4,000 All of the damage is
covered fully by insurance.
The fire was discovered by George
B. Goff, chief of the fire department
while he was on his way home to
breakfast, after 1t had been burning
probably thirty minutes. Chief Goff
saw smoke pouring from the north
east basement windows and immediat-
ely turned in the alarm.
Chief Turned In Alarm
G. E. Bentley, president of the Cur,
tis-Bently company, was in the build.
ing at ths time, as were the day
watchman and several other employ
ees, who had no inkling of the con-
flagration in the basement, until Chief
Goff rushed into the office and noti-
fled Bentley.
The building of the Bentley com
pany was a pressed brick structure
of three stories and basement, with
south frontage on Main street of
275 feet and extending north to the
Rock Island switch tracks. It con-
tanned the warehouse, factory, engine
room and lumber sheds Of the com
pany and is the largest plant of its
kind in the southwest.
The origin and responsibility for the
fire had not been determined, except
that the flames started in the base
ment of the building in which roof
ing, wall board, tar paper and other
highly inflammable material was sto-r
ed Spontaneous combustion was
given as the probable cause.
1t was necessary for firemen, after
they had gained entrance to the build
ing by breaking in windows and doors
to chop through the first floor in
order that water hose could be
brought to play upon the smoldering
flames beneath.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-23

probably hfreen pounds the advantage
of me in that direction but after l
had got tie thumb of my free hand
upon a certain spot in his neck, IL was
all over but the funeral.
Jehui how he swore when / crum.
pied him, and took his gun away from
him, and slammed him down on a bed
of broken stone and stuck g knee into
his breathing machinery. But he
couldn't do anything; the thumb-jab
had fixed him. His head was skewed
over to one side and he couldn't
straighten ii. l CROPPED around until
| found that other paralyzing nerve
ganglia-the one at the joint of the
third vertebra.
Listen to what he says, Daddyi"l
said TO the old man who stood looking
on with the face of a wooden image
Then 10 FULLERTON, who was now mere
ly a wad of flesh gone faced under
the t%orturing touch: Tell what you
know. and all you know; and tell II
quick and straight Z" and l gave him
one more little prod on the agony
nerve.
With a preliminary shrek he let I,
out by Titles, gasping betweeu the
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-23

words and phrases like a mar in the
last stages of lockjaw.
1--WE were going to Angels-to get
married." he painted. "Ah-oh-I was
to meet her at Atropia-she-she was
afraid to ride all the way with me-
afraid-the old man-would come gun
ningl Oh, for Gods sake, B%roughton,
take yoar thumb out of my back
you're Killing me by inchesi"
You need a little killing worse than
anybody l know" l told him. go on;
you were TO overtake her at Atropia;
what them"
81 didn't see her again - he howled.
II don't know where she went"
I didn't believe much of what he
was saying, and l think Daddy Hiram
didn't, though we had proved 1t true
up to the point where they had sepa-
rated on the Atropia road. | would
have gone on, making him talk some
more, but the look that was creeping
into the old mans eyes made me let
up. AS ! read the look It meant that
Daddy couldn't stand 1t to see the
t~hird-degree stunt carried to It's finish,
so | got up and pulled Fullerton to
his feet. He was pretty badly wrecked,
as | meant him to be; still couldn't
straighten his neck, and stood as If
one leg were about half paralyzed, as
perhaps 1t was.
This outfit is my property, and
you've out-stayed your welcomei ~ /
snapped at him. "Climb your horse
and get off the mapl"
He limped over to his horse and
gathered the reins and tried to put a
foot into the stiyrup. When | saw
that he couldn't do ever that much, I
grabbed him and heaved him into the
saddle; did this, and gave the horse a
slap to set him going. ! guess | shall
always be able to recall the picture of
that brown-bearded pirate riding
across the Cinnabar dump head in the
early morning sunshine. screwing his
body in the saddle-because he
couldn't turn the stiff-Decked head by
itself-to yell back at me with siz-
zling curses, "Ill get YOUTH get you
yeti On your eyes-do you think
you can make a hobbling cripple of
me and get away with It? III" and
then breaking it off short and kicking
the ribs of his nag frantically for more
speed when | made as If / were going
to run after him.
Throughout this bit of b~elligerent
by-play, which hadn't used up more
than a few minutes. oil told. Daddy
Hiram had stood aside, as | have said,
taking the part of the interested spec
tator. Now he remarked: "rou can
all your old clothes. son, that we
seen the last o. Charley Butler
not by a long chalk. You ricollect
] told you once he'd got n man. down
In one o the camps on the Sa suache?
Well. II was for n heap less than what
you done TO him a few minutes ago.
But LET'S 70 eat"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-23

%buffeting, sIapping and rubbing. maui
ing me worse than any Turkish-bath
pirate would have dared TO. 1t was
keen torture, but IL turned the trick,
and by the time / was able to breathe
comfortably again, / had acquired a
beautiful spanked blush where | had
been blue-all but the great bruise,
r~ing-shaped, where the suction pipe
had bit me.
OF course. Daddy was chock full of
sympathy and concern, mixed up with
a good bit of curiosity.
zone Of the suction pipes" l ex-
planned, beginning to crawl back into
my clothes. II was foolish enough to
get under it and 1t grabbed and held
me. If you hadn't stopped the pumps
I'd have been a gone goose. l was just
about all in. as it was"
"Well, you found out the pumps are
suckin' all right, anyhow" he re-
marked.
"They sure are; you'd think so If
you'd been where l was" Then l be-
gan to recall some of those mixed and
mingled impressions l had gathered.
"What kind of soil is there under this
floor. Daddy?" l asked.
Huh" he snorted "what soil there
is on this here ledge you could mighty
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-23
CHAPTER XIII.
A Battle and a Siege.

1t was Daddy Hiram who made the
first break.
Charley BullertOn, where's my
daughter?" he raped out, hurting the
question at the loafer on our doorstep
in a sort of deadly rage that you
wouldn't have thought possible in so
mild-mannered a man.
You needn't worry about her." was
the cool response. Didn't you get the
note she left for you, saying that you
needn't?" Then, as if he had just seen
and recognized me: Hello, Brough-
ton we've missed a day. but I'll give
you the benefit Of it and not dock you.
Are you selling the old water-logged
Cinnabar for twenty thousand dollars
this fine morning? It'll probably save
you more or less trouble If you are"
He di.ln't get the kind of answer he
wanted or any relating to the mine.
Unbuckling Jeanie's gun and handing
II to Daddy Hiram. | walked across to
where he was sitting, keeping "A wary
eve on the hand which would have to
be the one to go after the weapon he
ldu OHCt ollOM GU III AiAASii LAANCl Ills
eft arm-pit.
Mr.. Twonbly has just asked you
where his daughter is, and you haven't
told him." | gritted. you've got about
seconds in which to tell him MI
you know. and after you've done it,
I'm going to trim your
He had scrambled to his feet when
saw me coming. and. just as I ex-
pected. that watched right hand fiicked
suddenly under his coat. AT that |
him and we mixed 1t promptl-.
I got hold of the gun hand before II
got to the pistol butt. and at the clinch
were all over the place. each Crap
pllng for the underhold. and neither of
rs paying much attention 10 the rules.
Marquis Of Queensberry or other. Bull
lerton WINS a heavyweight he had
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-23
The Girl, q Horse &c 2
and a Dog 5 5xnDE
Copyright by Charles serionsrs Sons

gravel of the tunnel spoil, and a full
troop of cavalry might have passed
over 1t without leaving any visible
trail. Worse han all, Barney. the pie.
faced collie, appeared now TO be com,
pletely at fault. He was running
around in circles with his nose to the
ground a pretty plain indication that
he had lost the trail.
'T1l be bat-clawed and owl-hooted
if l know what-all to do next" Daddy
puzzled.
He hadn't any the best of me there,
and it was precisely at this point that
the split-faced dog took it into his
head TO add another snarl to the knot
ted tangle. After galloping around all
over the place half a dozen times,
shifting at everything in sight, he had
finally come to a stand with his nose
at a crack In the tunnel boarding. The
next instant he had leaped through
the hole where the planks had fallen
away. and presently we heard him
whining and scratching behind the
bulkhead.
| don't know about Daddy Hiram's
heart, but l do know that mine was
doing flip-flaps and back somersaults
when we ran up to see what the dog
had found in the tunnel. For a half
second after Daddy thrust his torch
through the hole | was afraid to look
scared stiff at the thought of what l
might see. When l did look, l saw the
dog digging frantically at the heap of
caved-in earth, and, of course to my
disordered Imagination, the hole in
which he was burrowing transformed
itself at once into a newly made grave.
Good God!" l gasped; and then:
Look, Daddy-right under your
torch !"
He looked and staggered back. and
would have dropped the blazing pine
branch If | hadn't caught it from his
hand. For what he saw, and what 1
had seen, was the unmistakable print,
in the soft earth just inside of the
planking, of one of Jeanie's brown
leather riding-boots.
In another half-second we were both
in the tunnel and Daddy was heaving
the dog aside from the hole be was
paving out in the earth fall. Snatch
ing up a broken-handIed shovel that |
the former tunnel drivers had thrown
away, the old man flung himself mad
ly upon the dirt pile, and since there
was room for only one to work at a
time, l stood at his elbow and held the
torch. l don't know what he expected
to find hidden under the slide, but l
do know what l was afraid he was
going to find.
After all, 1t was only a flash in the
pan, so far as any dreadful discovery
was concerned. Inside of five minutes,
Daddy, working like a man demented.
had dug the entire cavern away, and
there was nothing to show for the
frantic shoveling-less than nothing.
/ don't know how Daddy felt,
but I'm sure l was able to breathe
the Improvement dating from
the moment when 1t became apparent
that the earth heap had grown too
small under the shovel stabs to pos
sibly conceal a human body.
The collie had followed us end
Daddy Hiram scowled down at him.
IF that dog could only be like old
.ran'paw Balaam's donkey for a min
ute or So" he unused. "He saw her
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-23

neal put In your eye, 1 reckon. 'Tain'i
nothin' but rock, and blame hard rock
at that"
THAT was my notion. But If the
shaft Is In rock, why did they box II
so strongly with timber? Surely there
wouldn't be any danger of a cave in
solid stone"
well, now, I'm dingedl" be re-
turned, musingly. Long as I've been
monkeyin' round mines and such, 1t
never once come to me to wonder about
thatl"
Speaking of the wooden bulkheading
renewed that other impression. or rath-
er two of them n of having the feel
ing hat l was shut in a tight box at
the moment of the fiercest struggling,
and the other of fancying that I had
felt a swirling thrush of the liquid Ice
as well as the sucking outrush. But
the recollection was so confused that
| attached no Importance to 1t. When
a man Is fighting for his life ten or
twelve feet under water. pipe-dreams
are nothing to the things he IA i'm
agine.
II was while We were sitting al the
shaft-house door. hammering away at
the old puzzle of why the water level
never varied so much as a fraction of
an inch in the shaft, in wet seasons or
.dry-aS Daddy testified it never did
and why the subtraction of two six
inch streams at a velocity sufficient to
stir up a veritable whirlpool at the
suction intakes should make no i'm
preston upon IT, that / began TO no
tice the queer actions Of the pie-faced
collie. Barney. First he would come
and stick his cold nose into my hand;
Their he'd trot over to the cabin and
back, and maybe loaf a little way down
the road toward the bench level. Com
ing around to the shaft-house again,
he'd sit beside Daddy Hiram, yawning
and painting as If he were waiting Inn
patiently for us TO stop talking and
pay some attention to him.
"Poor old Barney's hOmesick. and |
don't blame him." / said. I'm feeling
a good bit that way. myself, Daddy"
Then to the dog: "Come here, old
boy :"
The collie came to lick my hand. and
while 1 was petting him I found a
bad cash just behind one of his
ears.
"See here. Daddy" 1 broke out
the dogs hurt J"
We examined the wound and decided
lt once that 1t was not a bite. 1t was
4 bruised cut, looking as II II had been
made by some blunt instrument or
weapon. i had a hot-fiash vision OF
Fullerton kicking the dog with his
ron-shod heel in an attempt to drive
him back home, and It was so real that
couldn't shake IL off.
When 1t began to grow dusk In the |
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-23

go in there and saw her come out
likewise and the same. he must We
seen what she did after she come out.
Looks as If he wanted to talk and tell
us, don't he?"
Barney was certainly giving a good
imitation Of that, or some other anx-
iety. He was frisking about and bark
ing, leaping up now and then to snap
at an imaginary fly In the air. Daddy
caught him by his lower jaw and held
him immovable. go find her, Bar
neyv he commanded; good dog-go
find herr
The instant he was released the col
lie acted as If he understood perfectly
what was wanted of him. S%pringing
aside. he began 70 circle aGnin. nosa
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-23

shaft-house We shut up shop and went
over to the cabin to cook our supper.
The dog went along, but evidently with
reluctance. While we were crossing
the dump head he turned back and
once more started off down the road
toward the bench below, but when he
found that we were not following him
he came to heel again. Still, neither
of us had dog sense enough to guess
what was the matter with him.
Daddy Hiram and l, being merely
stupid humans, were commenting upon
his queer actions, and laying them to
Jeanie's absence, when again the dog
started off down the road, looking
back and barking when he found that
we were still sitting on the doorstep.
At that, since even solid ivory can be
penetrated If the would-be driller of 1t
stays on the job long enough, we final
ly caught N.
"Say, Stannie he's a-tryin' to tell
us to come on p Daddy exclaimed,
starting to his feet. "Methuselah-to-
gracious did 1t have to take us a hull
endurin' afternoon to figger out that
much d~og-talk?"
ut looks that way" l admitted but
now, having fingered" it out, we made
no delay. Daddy got his rifle and cart
ridge-belt, and told me to take Jeanie's
pistol for myself-which | did. And
thus equipped we took the trail, In
dian-fling down the mountain road In
the darkness, Daddy Hiram, with his
gun in the crook of his left arm, set
ting tn pace, and the collie running
on ahead to point the way.