Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-07-21

leg is four inches longer than with his right.
 Although their fair city is long way from the native haunts of alliga- tors, the residents of Ware, Mass, stoutly maintain that they have seen a huge gator in swamp nearby. American Legion men are making search through the swamp land.
 Both Democratic and Republican Representatives in Congress from New York have joined in the investigation of charges made by. the Staten Is land American Legion that eleven world war veterans were buried "prac- tically in a public dump" in Whitlock, Staten Island.
 Remembering how they shined up camps during Army days with brushes and buckets of whitewash, the Ameri- can Legionaires at Osgood, Indiana, whitewashed all the shade trees and hitching posts in the little city, ther- by starting movement which result ed in making Osgood one of the clean est and most sanitary towns in the country.
 The first thing Charles Ogle, wounded world war veteran, who had been in a plaster cast in an Omaha, Neb., hospital for many weeks, did when the cast was removed was to dictate a letter to the American Le- zion Auxiliary, thanking the organi- zation for the kind treatment of it's members during his confinement.
 Of the TOSS postmasters appointed by President Harding since March, 1921, 900 served in some branch of the military service during the war, according to an annuncement of the American Legion.
 Rumors that state prison labor is being employed to compete with pri- vate industrial concerns has caused an investigation by the Seattle, Wash, American Legion.
 Any information concerning Gov ernment homesteads in Wyoming will be furnished to members of the Amer ican Legion free of charge by J. w. Dillrance, Box 295, Gillette, Wyo., an ex-soldier who has taken a claim him. self. Relinquishments may be had from $15O to $4OO and time spent in service counts.
 In an effort to regain the worlds heavyweight wrestling championship, which he lost last winter, Joe Stecher, the Nebraska grappler will meet Char lie Hanson, in Omaha, Nebraska, July 4. The match is being staged by the Douglas County Post of the American Legion at Omaha.
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 A colored sergeant on his way up to the front met dusky private com ing away from the same place with much speed and eclat.
 "Wh' yo' mean, boy, runnin' away like dat fo'?" demanded the non-com-
 "Runnin' away? Who say runnin' away?" demanded the bu ok, halt ing.
 "Ah ain't runnin' away. Nssuh. But An done heard dem Germans was shootin' dumdum bullets an An was chasin' one fo' evidence. ."-America Legion Weekly.
 The s. S. "President Pierce" will carry 200 members of the American Legion and the Legion Auxiliary to France, sailing from New York, Au- gust 5. The party of former service men, their wives, sisters and mothers will tour France, England and Bel gium, returning September 8, via Montreal. A few receptions and pub lie affairs have been arranged in the chief cities to be visited but these will not in any way interfere with the personal business or pleasure of any member of the party. Detailed in formation concerning the trip may be obtained from "Second Annual Euro pean Pilgrimage" % The American Legion Weekly, 627 w. 43rd. St., New York City.
 Only 2,500 of the 5000 world war veterans believed to be eligible for aid have applied for it under the recently passed New York state law which sets aside S1 .O00. .000 for disabled and un