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The St. Charles herald., 1922-07-29

QOl cApcCtCu tuo@s ASo1S " e-AoS -
BENJAMIN Corvet's list had had any
knowledge of Alan Conrad or had
heard the name before.
Alan was silent, watching the old
man Burr, silent too, seemed listening
to the conversation which came to
them from the tables near by. where
men were talking Of cargoes. and OF
ships and Of men who worked and
sailed upon them.
"How long hnve you been on the
lakes?" Alan inquired.
"All my life."a afs
.Do YOU remember the Miwaka?'
Old Burr turned abruptly and studied
Alan with slow scrutiny which
seemed to look him through and
through; yet while his eyes remained
fixed on Alan suddenly they grew
blank. He was not thinking now OF
Alan, but had turned his thoughts
within himself.
'I remember her-yes. She was lost
in '95,' he said. "In '95," he repeated.
"Did you know Benjamin CorvetW
Alan asked.
Old Burr stared at him uncertainty.
81 know who he is, of course"
.You never met himY s
"No." aGa stss
Did you receive communication
from him some time this year-a re-
quest to send some things to Miss Con-
stance Sheriff. at Harbor PointY'
.Isneyer heard Of Miss Constance
Sheriff.. To send what thingsT
"Several things among them a
watch which had belonged to Captain
Stafford Of the Miwaka."
Old Burr got up suddenly and stood
gazing down at Alan. "a watch OF
Captain Stafford's3-nO." he said agi-
tatedly. mol"
He moved away and left the place !;
and Alan sprang upsand followed him.
He was not, 1t seemed probable to
Alan now, the James Burr OF Corvets 3
list at least Alan could not see how
he could be that one. Among the
names of the crew Of the Miwaka Alan
had found that OF a Frank Burr, and
his INQUIRIES had informed him that
this man was q nephew Of the James
Burr who had lived near Port Corbay
and had disappeared" with all his
family. Old Burr had not lived at Port
Corbay--at least, he claimed not to
| have lived there; he gave another ad-
dress and assigned to himself quite dif-
ferent connections. For every member
| of the crew of the Miwaka there had
been corresponding. but different
name upon Coryet's list-the name o.
q close relative. II old Burr was mel
| related to the Burr on Corvets list
! what connection could he have with
the Miwaka, and why should Aan's
questions have ngitated him so? AlaI
would not lose sight Of old Burr unit
he had learned the reason for that.
He followed, as the old man crossed
the bridge and turned to his LET
among the buildings on the river front
| Burr's figure, vague in the dusk
crossed the railroad yards and made
Its way to where q huge black bulk
which Alan recognized as the ferry
,looned at the waterside. He dlsap
peured aboard it, Alan. following him
Il gazed about. 50 ss
j A long, broad. black boat the ferr'
Twas. almost four hundred feet to tn
tall, blur bow.
Il Alan thrilled q little at his inspec
tion Of the, vessel. He had not seel
f,.. - t,.,v,SR hofovo npe 6f sfheap vre0
The St. Charles herald., 1922-07-29
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a Fla for Expenses!

"This plan suits me all right" said
the new millionaire.
I believe / could improve the ap-
pearance of yous- mansion by adding
q pergola," said the architect.
"Go ahead. I'll stock 1t with t1sh."
-Rirmincham Age-Herald.
It never rains but it pours, and
when one cloud disappears they all 90.
The St. Charles herald., 1922-07-29

The Man Had Never More Plainly Re-
serbIed the Picture Of, Benjamin
coryet. a tFa
sembled the picture Of BENJAMIN Cor
vet; that which had been in the pic
ture. that strange sensation OF some
thing haunting him. was upon this
mans face, q thousand times intensi-
fled; but instead Of distorting the fea-
lures away from all likeness to the
picture. it made it grotesquely tden-
tfcai.
cro BE coNTINuEDo
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-09-21
FOREIGN.

Santiago, Chile.-Only six persons
including two passengers, out of a total
OF 81 ON board the Chilean steamship
ltata, were saved when the vessel sank
OIL the Chilean coast near Coquimbo.
Inc central News, in a dispatch from
Athens to London, says it is reliably
informed that the Jugo-Slavian and
Rumanian governments have evidenced
without equivocation their intention
OIL aiding Greece in the event of
BALKAN conflict. Serbian troons II
ADDS, are being modified and moved in
the direction of Uskub (Skoplie).
Ii was learned that Mrs. w. s. Fitz.
se..ld lied suit for divorce from ex.
he'.s o. ltzserald, OF Cleveland, Ohio.
''eaf1y TWO Diolflhs ago, asking per-
h-'.iieni '.iiii-oAy aud custody vf tho
Child
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-09-21
MIScELLANE OUS.

Police at Louisville, Ky, reported
that no success had attended efforts TO
locate in Louisville Miss Carolyne
Shuster, described as Is and pretty,
daughter of w. Morgan Shuster, presi-
dent of the Century Publishing Com
pany of New York City, who was re-
ported to have disappeared from the
home of her mother at Glasgow, Ky.
recommendations that Rt. Rev. w.
M. Brown, retired Bishop of Arkansas,
be brought to trial on a charge of
heresy and If convicted be deposed
from the ministry was made to the
House of Bishops Of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, in convention at
Portland Ore.
Mrs. Harding Is showing marked
Improvement and appears to be on the
upward trend, but her condition has
not reached the point where her physi-
clans can be reasonably assured of her
recovery. Nevertheless, all at the
White House were at greater ease and
there is distinct atmosphere of hope.
Her case may be said to have passed
from the desperate to the critical stage
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-09-21
DOM ESTIc.

A party of deputy sheriffs reported
they had surprised four men who were
attempting to dynamite the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad bridge over the
Six-mile creek, near Jacksonville, Fla,
and after a pistol battle they captured
two of them.
Joseph G. Pelletier, who was re-
moved as district attorney of Suffolk
County by the Massachusetts Supreme
Court, won a sweeping victory in the
Democratic primary for nomination to
that office at Boston. Complete returns
from the county gave him a vote Of
42,119 to 1872 for District Attorney
Thomas o. O'Brien, his successor.
One of the most serious situations
that has yet developed in connection
with the shopmen's strike arose at New
York when the first pressure of coal
movements, which tax the overstrained
equipment of the roads to the limit,
brought about embargoes on most Of
the important eastern lines.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and st.
Louis Railroad asked authority of the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
assume obligations for the issuance of
S1,S00,000 of equipment trust certifi-
Gates to be sold to ]. P. Morgan and
Co. VI Ne'7 York.
Headquarters officials of the Nation
al League Of Women Voters seemed
simply "tickled to death" at the action
of the Senate in passing bill which
will permit an American woman who
marries an alien to retain her Ameri
can citizenship IL she so desires.
wives in Texas are cheap. SO at
least, Justice Henri Pyburn has de-
Cided after reviewing the case of u
man and girl arrested st Workman.
Tex. james McNear admitted to the
court he had purchased the girl. Helen
Aountjoy, from her husband, Ross Nc
Kinney. fDr S2a
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-09-21
PERSONAL.

w. l.. Igoe, of st. Louis, former Con.
gresham, was elected chairman of
the new Democratic State Committee
at Excelsior Springs, Mo-, over Vim. r
Painter, former Lieutenant Governor
who was backed by the Wilson forces
OF The committee. The vote stood 1S
to IA.
Beverly D. Harris, former vice-presi.
dent of the National City Bank of New
York City, has brought suit against
Eleanor h. L. Harris, said to be for
merly of Memphis, Tenn, for the an
nullment of their marriage, it was dis
closed by Carthurs Ewing, an attorney
for Harris.
designation of Thomas w. Page Of
virginia, former chairman of the far.
III commission, from his membership in
that body, has been placed in the hands
OF President Harding, it was learned.
put Harding requested Page to recon.
slder his decision to give up the most
William G. McAdoo, former Secre.
tary OF the Treasury, characterized at
ldaho Falls, Idaho, as pure bunkn 81
recent press report from New York
IN winch William c. Lyons of Denver.
Colo, said McAdoo told him that he
would be candidate for the Demo.
cratic presidential nomination in 1924.
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-09-21
LABOR.

Five pickets, said to be striking rail.
way shopmen at the Missouri Pacific
Railway Company's shops at Van
Buren,, Ark, were arrested by United
States marshals and lodged in the
Crawford County Jail, charged with
violations of the Daugherty injunction.
The resentment of organized labor
to the action of the federal government
In attempting to break the shipments
strike appeared to be crystalizing at
Atlantic City in a labor movement to
boom Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette
OF Wisconsin for the presidency in 1924
Anthracite coal mine workers, as
sembled in TriDistrict convention at
Wllkes-Barre, Pa, unanimously adopt
ed the Pepper-Reed plan for terminal
ing the anthracite strike A viva voce
vote was taken and when the "ayes''
were called the convention was in one
voice for adoption.
The conservative faction of the In
ternational Typographical Union at the
Atlantic City convention won what
their leaders declared to be a decisive
victory when they defeated an ATTEMPT
by the progressiyes to take control
of the Typographical Journal, official
organ of the union, from John w. Hays.
secretary treasurer, and place it under
the direction of the radical executive
council.
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-09-21
Condensed News Items
SHORT STORIES TERSELY TOLD FOR
THE BENEFIT OF BUSY READERS.

The deadlock between the Hyde and
Brewster factions over the chairman
ship of the Republican State Commit
tee was ended a few minutes after tho
committee met In executive session at
Springfield, Mo, when DIR. e. b. Glenn
ents, of Macon, was reelected by ac-
camation upon motion of Lieut.. Gov.
Hiram Lloyd.
More than a dozen persons were
injured, three seriously, at Dallas, Tex,
in two train wrecks in the Union Ter
minal switching yards. The first &C.
Cured when the Santa Fe passenger
engine No. 425 jumped the track and
toppled over on its side and the second
a few minutes later when a Texas "
Pacific engine crashed into the rear
end of a baggage car.
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-09-21

Little Rock.-Dr. J. H. Trustworthy
physician at the Tucker farm, has
filed his resignation with the Arkan-
sas Penitentiary Commission, effective
October l.
Little RocK-Responding to an ap-
peal from the Board of Directors of
the Arkansas State Fair Association,
relative to the raising of funds with
which to establish permanent fair
in the state, Fred R. Brown OF the
that he would head the list of 100
local men with a donation of 81 900.
Little Rock-The first sale of cot
ton by the Arkansas Cotton Growers
Cooperative Association is announc-
ed by President Charles G. Henry. He
reported that 10 bales of middling
short cotton had been sold directly
to an Eastern mill for "a cents a
pound, landed.
Benton.-B. H. Cox was declared
the Democratic nominee for sheriff
of Saline county in a decision render
ed here by Judge w. H. Evans in Sa-
line Circuit Court. ]. J. Grow, the in.
oumbent, contested his election.
Bald Knob.-W c. Crenshaw, sec
rotary of the Bald Knob Fruit Grow
ers' Association, has called a meeting
The Bald Knob Fruit Exchange con
yened the same day at a different
hour. The question of accepting the
plan of organizing the whole of the
White county district into a strong
working unit that will cut out com
petitive selling between the various
associations in the district Dele
gates from the various association
met in Judsonia last week and for
INFLATED a pan to be adopted By tbs
growers
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-09-21
GRIM | NAL.

Five armed bandits raided the home
of FRANKIE Weeke, st. Louis County,
lined Weeke and II guests against the
wall, stripped them of their yaluables,
looted the house and escaped with jew
elry valued at $500.
Lieut. Gov. NJ. E. Trapp of Oklahoma
was indicted by grand jury at We
woka, Okla, on charges of conspiracy
to defraud the county and obtain a
false judgment against the county.
G. w. Lawles, % manager of a
large Fort Worth, Tex, department
store, was shot and instantly killed at
his home there. Ben Archer, whose
brother, Ellis Archer, occupied a por-
ton of the residence of Lawley, is be-
Ing sought by the police.
Sixteen of the thirty-eight men in
dicted by the special grand jury on
charges of murder in connection with
the Herrin massacre, which took %
lives June q and %, We're still at liber-
ty. Eight surrendered to Sheriff Mel
win Thaxton at Marion, ILL.,, in addition
to the IA who have been in custody in
the county Jail.
A verdict of guilty, assessing punish
ment at 20 years in the penitentiary,
was returned at Houston, Tex, by the
jury in criminal district court, which
heard the trial of j. r. MCGOWAN, %,
charged with murder in connection
with the fatal shooting, May 20, of
George Emrey, mining engineer, his
neighbor.
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-09-21
CONGRES SIS.

With only seven negative votes re-
corded, the Senate passed the first OF
the emergency coal bills. The House
measure as amended was sent to con-
ference for adjustment of differences
with the House.
The Republican membership of the
House of Representatives staged re-
volt and, accepting momentarily the
leadership of Representative Garner,
Democrat, voted with the Democrats,
1T to 40, to recommit the tariff bill,
with instructions that the conferees
abandon the so-called dye embargo pro-
vision and also place fertilizer potash
on the free list.
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-09-21
Thanksgiving In Russia.

Riga.-Beginning with the present
year the Russian people will also
celebrate a day of thanksgiving pat
termed after the American Thanks
giving Day, according to the Moscow
Prayda, which continues to print Cd
tlmistic reports regarding the com
ing harvest. The exact day of cele
bratlon has not yet been appointed
but it is stated that at the next meet
ing of the All Russian Soviet of PEG
PIES Commissions Russia's Thanks
giving Day will be designated.
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-09-21
Tar And Feather Assaulter

Ponca City-Fifteen masked men
forced officers to realease a man Civ.
ing MS name as Carl Morris, as he
was being taken to the county Jail at
Blackwell following his arrest here
on the charge of attempting assault
upon 10-year old girl.
After flogging Norris severity. tie
men applied a thick coat of tar to his
BODY, and the prisoner was released
somewhere in the Usage hills cas-, of
here.
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-09-21
ENT()uBED MEN
ARE ALL DEAD
THE az MINERS CAUGHT IN NINE
AFTER EXPLOSION AUGUST
81 ARE DEAD
DIED IN FIVE HOURS
Men Found Piled Up Together Where
They Had Built Crude Walls To
Keep Off The Gas.

Jackson, Cal-All AZ of the miners
gust 81 are dead.
A note found on one of the bodies
indicating that all the men had died
within five hours of the beginning of
the fire August 81, officials said.
The note found read as follows
"3 a. m. Gas bad
The same note bore scrawled fig
ure a." apparently indicating the
same man had attempted to leave
word for those who might come after
them of the condition of the mine at
that hour.
Mine officials declared the condi-
ton of the cross-cut behind the bulk
head was such that life could not
have been sustained there by the en-
tombed men for more than five hours.
The bodies were found piled on top
of another and decomposition had
progressed so far that identification
would be impossible, Pickard report
ed
The mine officials said that the &C.
tons of the men, as evidenced by the
bulkheads they built and other mat
ters indicated they had died within
five hours after being entombed.
The officials declared the mute evil
dence of the mems struggles showed
they were of the most coolheaded i'm
aginable
Sixteen of the entraped miners re-
moved their clothes to provide mater
ial for stuffing the cracks in the wood
en- barrier hastily constructed, which
was found by the rescuers.
Then another barrier was built of
rock, earth and debris However, the
gas and fumes from the fire apparent,
ly seeped through the first bulkhead
and the men fled from the site where
they were building the second one to
start third one, farther on
This third attempt to ward off the
death-dealing gas was made at the end
of the 4,350-foot crosscut in the Argo-
naut, but the fact that only bare
start was made proved, the mine Off
Gals said, that the deadly carbon mon
ohiuC nuu Iuc oUllOCdtluS CdIDOQ Ill
oxide had reached it and performed
their fatal office before the AZ unfor-
tunaes could raise even an excuse for
a barrier
Mine officials said that death had
come to the entombed men painlessly
The gases, they said, would produce
first lethargy, then coma and fin
ally death.
jackson takes its greatest tragedy
in silence. After the first hasty news
that AZ men had been found dead in
the Argonaut mine, groups gathered
on the sidewalks and discussed the
possibility that some, at least, of the
five others who had been entombed
since August q, were alive.
But news came soon that all the
men were dead, and the little hope
still held by wives, mothers, fathers,
sisters and sWeetl.earts vanished.
Relatives of some of the dead could
be seen walking slowly, calmly, to the
telegraph office to send word to other
relatives in distant cities that there
no longer was any hope.
Jackson's long period of bitter anx-
ley, desperate struggle and Suspense
was over.
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-09-21
ACCIDENTS.

-Four railroad men were killed and
six injured when the Northern Pacific
fast Mississippi Valley Limited train
No. Al crashed head-on into q switch
engine at Parkwater, four miles from
Spokane, Wash.
Henry A. DaredeyiD Smith of Bos-
ton was instantly killed at the Rutland
(Vt) Fair Grounds when his para
chute failed to open after he had
dropped from balloon at height of
1000 feet. -Four hours earlier Lieut..
Belyin w. Maynard, known as the
"Flying Parson," and two companions
were killed when their airplane
crashed at the Fair Grounds.
Two men are known to be dead and
damage estimated at 100000 done
as the result of a fire caused by dust
explosion which destroyed the plant of
the American Hominy Company at
Terre Haute, Ind.
Tommie (Pewee) Tucker, Is, we'll
known amateur flier, and Archie J.
Stowell, 2S, professional aviator, were
instantly killed when their plane,
piloted by Stowell, fell $50 feet, crash
Ing into a pasture near Tulsa, Okla.
DR.. Rolla Y. Henry, superintendent
of the st. Louis City Hospital, was
fatally injured in fall from window
of his apartments on the sixth floor of
the hospital building. He died later
IN tho oporatin q ohla in tho amarpopcv
room without recovering consciousness
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-09-21
Lloyd George At League Of Nations
MEETING.

Geneva.-The League of Nations
proceedings here, even in connection
with such topics as cooperation, be-
came completely overshsdowed by
anticipation of Prime Minister Lloyd
Georges visit. This was caused by
the arrival of Sir Edward Grigg, his
personal secretary, whose object ap-
parently is to discover whether the
ground is suitable for an incursion by
his chief.
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-09-21
THE SEPTEMBER
CROP REPORT
CONTINUED DRY WEATHER IN
JuRED ALL CROPS CAUSING
GREAT DETERIORATION
DECLINE Is s PER CENT
Pears Is Only Crop Showing An I'M
provement over August Report.
Sweet Potatoes, Rice And
Hay Hard Hit.

The September 1St Crop REPORT Aol
Arkansas shows decided reVerses III
crop conditions in comparison to tlg-
ure announced one month ago. Iheh
two-thirds of the crops showed I'M
proved conditions, and nearly all
were above the ten year average.
Now the average decline is eight
points for the past month, and general
average three points below the ten
year average The only crop that
shows an improvement is pears
which turned out better than expect
ed. 1t will be recalled that cotton
declined 10 points. Our other lead
ing crops, corn and rice, have de-
clined seven and four points respee-
lively.
Corn
Corn had a condition figure of
per cent on September 1st. This IS
D points below the ten year average
and points below Sept. /, 1921. Late
corn has deteriorated as much as 20
per cent, but early corn has not been
hurt much. Forecast rs for total
production of 4S,S19,000 bushels, and
a yield of 1872 bushels per acre.
Oats
DAT condition at time of harvest
was rs per cent. This indicates
yield per acre of twenty-four and one.
fifth bushels.
White and Sweet Potatoes
Practically all Irish potatoes ex-
cept those planted in August have
been harvested; hence there could
be but little change in forecast. The
outlook for the Fall planted crop is
poor, owing TO insufficient moisture
Condition of 75 indicates yield OF
IA bushels per acre, and IN four
points above the ten year average.
Sweet potatoes determined from SO
to rs, which figure is points below
the ten year average for Sept. l. The
indicated yield is now "a IL bushels
per acre, and production forecast A.
S4S, 900 bushels, or $4,000 bushels
less than the 1921 production.
Rice
Rice has also refrigerated. GROW
ers expect now yield per acre OF
az bushels, through the Early Prolific
variety now being cut may average
At or 48 bushels. The condition fig
ure is points lower than last month,
and the outlook is for crop of s.
$4,000 bushels.
Hay
Because of good rains in early sum-
mer, tame hay yields are nearly nor
nal. and amounts to one and one-tlfth
tons per acre. State production is
forecasted at 100000 tons, with a
quality rating Of SO per cent, or
points below the ten year average.
Wild hay yield is LOS tons per acre;
quality 80 per cent; estimated pro
duction 13S, 900 tons.
Timothy hay cuttings, according to
reports, averaged 1.12 tons per acre.
Alfalfa, owing to dry weather, aver
ages only 2 tons this year, this being
80 per cent OF the normal yield.
Hogs
The number of hogs for fattening
is 2 per cent less han last year on
September 1, and is placed at 1,212,o00
for the States supply.
Fruits
The peach crop was slightly lower
than the earlier estimates, making
68 per cent of full crop.
Watermelon yield was IL per cent
of normal, and cantaloupes 70 per
cent. Carlot shipments were sos,
against nearly 1900 last year, but
acreage was only 70 per cent of last
year.