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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-10-26
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Romance and
The thrill Of ad-
venture have not
departed from the
West There are
recesses Of the
southwestern des-
srt known only
to Yaqul and
Papago Indiana
Thsss ultra-arId
sections contain
psrils ~ great a.
when the entire
sxpanss was a
frnokIaan Maata-
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-10-26

0000.
terfzed the manner of both. But Cam
eron's companion. when he had packed
his burro and was ready to start, faced
about and said: 1--WE might stay to-
gether. II It's all right with you"
Il never take a partner" replied
Cameron.
you're alone; I'm alone" said the
other mildly. Its a big place. II we
find gold there'll be enough for two."
81 don't go down into the desert
for gold alone" rejoined Cameron.
His companions deep-set. luminous
eyes emitted q singular flash. 1t
moved Cameron to say that in the
years Of his wandering he had met
no man who could endure equally with
him the blasting heat, the binding
dust storms, the wilderness of sand
and rock and lava apd cactus, the ter.
rible silence and desolation Of the
desert. II may strike through the
Sonora desert. may head for Pima
cate or north for the Colorado basin
You are an old man."
81 don't know the country, but to
me one place is the same as another" /"
replied his companion. Then with
gentle slaps he drove his burro In be-
hind Cameron. Eyes, I'm old. I'm
lonely. too. It's come to me just
lately. But, friend. can still travel
and for few days my company won't
hurt you"
0Hsyo - vour .ovw .stH Narco-c,.
They began q slow march down
into the desert. At sunset they camped
under the lee Of q low mesa. Cam
eron was glad his comrade had the
Indian habit Of silence. Another days
travel found the prospsctors deep In
the wildernesA Then there came Q
breaking Of reserve, noticeable In the
elder man. almost imperceptibly grad
ual in Cameron. And %. a. Cameron
began to respond to the influence of
q desert less lonely than habitual he
began to take keener note Of his com
rade, and found him different from
any other he had ever encountered in
the wilderness. This man never
grumbled at the heat. the glare, the
driving sand, the sour water. the
scant fare. He was tireless, patient.
br0oding.
Cameron's awakened interest brought
home to him the realization that for
years he had Stunned companionship.
In those years only three men had
wandered Into the desert with him.
and these had left their bones to
bleach In the shifting sands. Cameron
had not cared to know their secrets.
But the more he studied this latest
comrade the more he began to suspect
that he might have missed something
the others. In his own driving pas
on to take his secret into the limit
less abode Of silence and desolation.
where he could be alone with It. he
had forgotten that life dealt shocks to
other men. Somehow this silent com
rade reminded him.
One afternoon late. after they had
toiled up white. winding wash Of
snnd and gravel, they came upon .
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-10-26
(To be Continued
BURNETT COMING TO GUNNIsoN

E. F. Burnett, Optometrist, the man
with the NO-CHART method of ex-
amining eyes for glasses, who has
done most of the optical work in
Gunnison County for dozen years
or more, will make his next regular
visit, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. As,
at Mrs. Myers Rooms. Bring the
children to me because my method OF
examining eyes is better for them.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-10-26

Scratch pads, irregular sizes made
from remnants, good pape'. sold by
the pound at the Miner Office. Any
quantity.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22
American Sports in
France Clean Up on
American Race Star

Deauyille, August 22.-Americans
at this most fashionable and most eX-
pensive of Frances summer resorts
ami they are numerous, enjoyed
free hospitality yesterday at the eX-
pense of the pari-mutuel machines
when american Beauty" ridden by
Frank O'Neill, of ST. Louis, Frances
premier jockey, got hom by head to
win the first race on the card at the
juicy odds of 40 to /.
A hot tip was whispered mysteri-
ously among the Americans in hotel
lobbies yesterday, and there were few
Americans in Deauville this morning
who would admit their failure to have
at least a smaIl bet down. Those
ignorant OF the tip evidently like the
name and played the horse on senti-
mental or patriotic grounds, espe-
cially the pikers in the field, where
owing to the heavy play, the winner
only paid 20 TO /, against 40 to l il
the big ring.
Incidentally, ONeill, with IL:
winners is far at the head of TIL
jockeys in the flat racing class thi
lseason.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22
TO
FACE PROBLEMS
BIG -FOUR STAND
Gathering for Confer
enCe at New York
Tomorrow
(By Associated Press)

New York, Aug. Z2-The shop
crafts strike entered another phase
today when rail presidents from Wes-
tern states began to arrive for to-
morrow's conference of the Associa-
ton of Railway Executives, where
they will vote their answers to mea-
sures proposed by the five big hro-
therhoods as a practical means of set
tling the seniority question and end
ing the strike.
This will mark the third nation
wide assembling of rail chiefs within
the last month, at which the problemi
of strikers seniority rights has risen
to block the path of settlement.
At the first two meetings plans sub
mitted by President Harding were
partly accepted, but with reservations
and conditions which eliminated them
as basis for calling off the strike,
Tomorrow the raj men will face a
new situation-the entrance Of the
big five brotherhoOds into the nego-
tiations, where, as mediatOrS, they
have made plain their attitude toward
seniority rights as applied to their
fellow workers, the striking shop
craftsmen.
The response of the carriers to the
call sent out by T. Dewitt Cuyler'
head of the association, led officials
today to predict that every member
road, including POI class one lines
with 100000 miles of track, would be
represented when the conference be-
gan.
Heads of the sixteen rail workers
unions including the big five OF the
running trades and others OF the sta'
tonariy crafts, were expected to re-
assemble here tonight. Although II
has not been determined that the JOINT
conferences cannot be resumed be-
fore Thursday, they agreed to be IN
the city, within call tomorrow, whlle
the Association of Executives Is II
session.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22
Would Get Divorce, and
Then Wed Man She
Loves
IS SPRECKLES' WIDOW
Relatives of Girl Urge
Her to Accept the Odd
Offer
(By Associated Press)

San Francisco, Cal, August o.
An offer by Mrs. Edith Huntington
Spreckles Wakefield first wife of the
late Jack Spreckels, California
and herself prominent in
San Francisco society, to buy anoth-
er woman's husband from her for
$100 a month for the rest of her
life" came to light here today and is
admitted by all persons involved.
The husband, whom Mrs. Wake
field is credited with having offered
to buy" is Rodney kendrick, a
newspaper artist. The wife, who is
ill and admits she is considering"
the offer, said she already had given
her wedding ring to Mrs. Wakefield.
Mrs. Wakefield said she, too, planned
a divorce.
A statement from Mrs. Wakefield
said:
"It was a long time ago l told Mrs
Kendrick that | loved her husband
and wanted to marry him. prom
ised her she would have a home with
! Rodney and myself as long as she
lived. She is very sick girl and I
took care of her for weeks. A hun
dred times she told me how CRATE
! full she was, in the presence of her
! husband and his mother and sister.
When we left her put $500 in the
bank for her to draw on"
| The wife said:
Mrs Wakefield wrote me a letter
five or six weeks ago when l was in
sanitarium asking me to come to
her home in Sausalito. | had met her
a year ago and | thought her motive
was one of kindness and friendship.
Soon after | arrived she told me that
she was in love with my husband and
that he was in love with her. She
said she would give 800 a month for
life and would see that my baby was
we'll taken care of if l would divorce
Rodney so that she might marry him
as soon as she secured divorce from
Mr.. Wakefield. Ten days ago she
and my husband both told ME that it
was a bargain and they left in her
car for a camping trip in the Lake
Tahoe district"
The husband said:
Long before this episode my wife
told me she did not love me any long.
Continued on Page 81
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22
Soviets Halted on
Belgian Frontier to
Get Passes Vised
ny Associated Pressl

Herbesthal, Belgium, August 22.-
NJ. Tchitcherin, Russian foreign min
lister, and several soviet colleagues
proceeding to London on the Cologne
Ostend express, were refused access
to Belgian territory today. They
were forced to return TO Cologne. as
they had failed to obtain the wise of
the Belgian consul in Cologne.
The soviet minister argued that his
party was only passing through Bel
gium, with no intention of stopping,
but the frontier officers were obdu-
rate and the Russians had to leave
the train.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22
WILL PLAY
ST. PETERSBURG
FOR STATE TITLE.
First Game Here Next
Thursday Attracting
Interest
TO PLAY THREE GAMES
Expected Large Crowds
Will Attend From 9th
er Cities

The biggest baseball event in the
state will be staged in Palatka this
week when the St. Petersburg State
league pennant winners will play the
Pals. champions in the Independent
field, for the state title, three games
having been arrange to decide the
title, with a split Of forty-sixty in the
gate.
Announcement Of this engagement
will attract the attention Of fans all
over the state, especially since St.
Petersburg was urluestiOnably the
champions of the state league, having
won both sections # the pennant
race, and had no one with which to
play off the two sections.
It has been common report around
the state that some Of me nidepend-
ent clubs were as strong ~ stronger
than the average state league team,
and that this applied especially 10 the
Pals. With some strengthening Of
weak places it is now believed that
the Pals will make a splendid show
ing against the fast St. Pete organ
ization, and will be able to take two
out of the three games 10 De played.
This, Of course. remains 10 be seen.
Saints Strong Hitters.
The Saints developed some spIen-
| did offensive work during the sea
son. carrying 8 wreck.ng crew that
is said to be the equal or superior Il
that of the Pals. Under the leader.
ship of Block and Roser. the hittin2
! has been maintained against al
tpitchers, with ehe result that the pen
nant winners were never in doub
after the first few weeks II play.
According to former state leagu.
| players now on the Pa! lineup ths
Saints have nothing on the loca
club, either in pitching or in hitting
The Pal outfield is said to be strong
er than anything tha. was supgorter
| in the state league, and he jnfielc
nov is made up Of stars.
Plans are being made t2 adver.is
! +Ln oar,,as in oil surrofinfiOo- -1HrS
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22
GERARD ROASTED
BY PRISONERS OF
THE WORLD WAR
Germans Take Exception
to His Speech in
France
(Ry Associated PressD

Berlin, August 22.-The ire of the
German National Society of Former
Prisoners of War has been aroused
by an address in which James w.
Gerard, fomrer American ambassador
to Germany, is reported to have told
French organization of former war
prisoners that no nation during the
war treated prisoners so barbarously
as Germany.
The society declares in an open let
ter to the press that Mr.. Gerard
would not thus have ridiculed the
truth had he taken the trouble to
read official reports of American
and other national commissions
which investigated the subject"
The letter also says that Mr.. Ger
ard neglected to take into cOnsidera-
ton the official American report on
the treatment of war prisoners by
France. 1t asserts that none of the
allies or associated powers observed
the fundamentals of human rights
! in governing the treatment of pris.
oners, but that nowhere were inter.
national regulations 50 flagrantiy
violated, nowhere were prisoners OBJ
liged to suffer more than in France
1t adds that mention Of the names o
such camps as Dinan, Tregureus ant
| SOuilly ''makes German former pris
oners boil with indignation.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22
AyIATORS ARE FOUND
DIV AssOCiated Pressl


New York, Aug. 22-One of the
most elaborate searches ever devised
ITO locate a missing airplane was call
ed off early today when 4 fishing
smack arrived at Long Beach, 40
miles from here, bringing W. 7. Mill
er, pilot, Harold Thompson, mechan.
ieian, and the lone passenger of the
seaplane Ambassador S. l. I. that
dropped from sight Sunday morning.
The fishing smack attempted to tow
the battered hulk of the sky cruiser in
which three men had fought 8 game
fight for 43 hours against the chill
winds.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22
.ailway Officials Return
10 Active Duty on
Locomotives
[NSE DAY At SPENCER
)uthern Railway Train
Crews Barely Able to
Handle Traffic
INV Associated Press)

Spencer, N. c., Aug. 22-With
Engineers and firemen refusing
10 man the engines on account Of
sOldiers being placed around the
shOps, the Southern Railway NOV
ID passenger trains out of Spen-
fer last night with crews made
pp of officials of the road. Al
though several were badly delay
ID the road managed to clear all
passenger trains arriving here
during the night.
All passenger trains moved out
Il freight service was at a stand.
d. Members of the brotherhoods
ltchmen and clerks in mass
seting this forenoon planned to de
de whether action taken by then
Il night in agreeing as individual:
! 10 take trains out or go on rail
ad property be made permanent.
Persons leaving the meeting at II
llock said indications were that the
lons would vote to make the walk
i permanent as long as troops
iard III eshops.
Eight negroes brought here las
bit to work in the shops were seiz
by masked men at Salisbury anc
Fen out of town. One Of the ne
'Ces was found today badly wound
He said that after the mob tool
em into custody they were dumped
the road and told to run. AS the!
gan running the masked men be
\ firing on them. The other sew
have not been accounted for.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22
E772zKE VIOLENCE APPROAC CHES ANARCHY
WIDOW WOULD BUY HUBBY
Hughes Is Merely
Muddying Waters,
Cordel Hull Says

Washington, August 22.-Chair-
man Cordel Hull, of the democratic
national committee, replied in a
statement last night to the letter of
Secretary Hughes on the seating of
Senator Newberry of Michigan, de-
claring that the letter was a plan of
republican leaders to make "New-
berryism the paramount issue" of
the campaign as the only means "of
diverting public attention from many
other issues still more damaging"
Secretary Hughes, in his letter,
which was made public last night by
the republican national committee,
declared that Senator Newberry had
been wrongly and most unjustly
convicted"
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22
Holding Convention To-
day at Same Time as
Republicans
PUT POMERENE FORTH
Will Also Make Efforts
to Change the State
Administration
(By Associated PresAI

Columbus, o., Aug. 22-Plans for
the coming political campaign in
Ohio in which Democrats seek to
change the makeup of the solidly Re-
publican state administration and
congressional delegation and return
to the upper house of congress, Sen
ator Atlee Pomerene, were being
made here today. Republicans, too,
as we'll as the Democrats, were hold
ing their state convention at which
ratification of platforms and selec-
ton of a chairman of the Republican
executive committee was the main
business.
With party leaders in earnest con-
ference, it appeared prior to the act
nal calling of the convention that nai-
ther party faced a fight of conse-
quence over platforms.
Reendorse National Platform
RumOrs that attempts would be
made by certain Democrats to insert
in their platform a plank providing
for Jury trials for all violations OF
state laws-said to be aimed at pro
n!bitiOr enforcement-were belittleC
b. Democratic leaders. The league
! OF nations issue, it was said, would
not find a place in the state platform
! According to custom, it was presumed
! that the 1920 national platform, whic!
supported the league of nations woulc
/, be re-endorsed.
: TIE reported announcement from
State Senator John F. Burke, of Ely
"a, ana colleague George H. Bender
Of Cleveland, that they would seek t.
insert progressive" planks in the Re
publican platform, apparently was re
sewing only minor consideration Il
the Republican camp.
keynote speakers Of both partie
| were expected to touch upon notiona
! issues, for both are members of tn
nresent congress and will oppose eac
other as candidates for the Unite
! States senate. Senator Atlee Pom
! creme will fire the opening gun 70
the Democrats, while Representativ
! Simeon D. Fess, his opponent will Sc
sorth the Republican ideals.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22
GERMANY SENDS Def
INV AsSociated PressD
10 N,,,-fa~ nE

Berlin, Aug. 22-Miuister Of FL
nance Hermes was reported today to
have left no doubt in yesterdays de-
liberatiors with members of the repa-
rations commissoni that the pledging
of state forests on the left bank Of the
Rhine and state mines in the Ruhr
district as guarantees for the pay
uent of German separations was i'm
possible.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22
Thy Associated Press)

IMcagO, August 22.-Walkouts by
FiAmen on the Southern railway,
putting in tieups in North Carolina;
Eaolngs, beatings and investiga-
Pns Of alleged wreck plots marked
pgEeSs of the rail shipments strike
Pc efforts to settle it hung sus-
F'12d pending the New York meet
tomorrow of rail heads and Of
Pals of the transportation brother
|OdS' mediators for the striking
|ppmen.
r'ght companies of state troops
f. On duty about the shops of the
|D'Eern railway at Spencer, N. c.,
|ere LOO men are out, and about
9oSJoffice at Salisbury, three
PES from Spencer. Troops at the
S'oiilce were requested by Post
r>'er A. H. Boyden, who alleged
h open threats had been made to
Pcn postOffice clerk.
ieRse Situation at Spencer.
'ensenesS prevailed in the situa-
y at Spencer, but was broken by
'al of the troops. Trainmen,
'cnmen and clerks held a meeting
which they decided to defer mov-
'rains until later today, when
O'l'er meeting was to be held to
0e whether the walkout was to be
'"ahent. All trains arriving at
'Heer after midnight over the
."erh were tied up, with the ex-
p,on Of No. 13S, which left with
&c Newer, general foreman Of
southern shops, at the throttle.
Atlanta thirty-five extra Unit.
o'a'es deputy msrshals were or
!" the Southern railways Inmar
L. Where yesterday a negro was
'1ps fatally injured and nine 9th.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22
Union Head Says
Wreck Was Due TO
Defective Engine
By Associated Press)

Chicago, August 22.-J. F. Nc
Grath, vice president OF the railway
employees department Of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, issued a
statement today declaring the real
cause Of the Michigan Central wreck
at Gary, Ind, early Sunday, was
clearly an unfit locomotive" hastily
patched up. He issued statement,
he said, to clear up the situation and
relieve the striking shopmen Of re-
sponSibility.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22
viii ReaOminate DUPONT.

Dover, Del, August 22.-Every in
i;cation is that Senator Dupont will
br nominated to succeed himself by
,he republican state convention IN
session here today.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22
Hill Asks That
Haynes Be Fired
for Graft Plans
INV Associated PressD

Washington, August 2Z.-hep'e-
sentative Hill, republican, Maryland
todav asked Secretary Mellon to re-
movs Prohibition Commissioner
HAYNES who Mr.. Hill charged with
"defrauding the government in that
he is using the official mail franks
of the treasury department for send
ing out personal political propaganda
in the interest of himself and his as
sociates in the Anti-Saloon league.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22

ers severely beaten"
A party of men was repoe'eu .
have attacked j. r. Feaster, boiler
maker at Birmingham, late last
night near the Louisville & Nash'iite
sbops. Feaster, according to the re-
mart was bound, and severely beaten
southern railway clerks from
Washington arrived at Knoxville 10
Continued on page p
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22
Gold Star Mother Finds
Mate in Man 20 Years
Her Senior
JURY TAKES UP MAT TER
Presiding Judge and Jury
Helps in Aiding Bleed
ing Hearts
(By Associated PressD

ldWnOHLOnp N. J'J aug G1-A hSic
has come into being here one Of the
strangcst courts in all the worid-the
court of loye-where men and women
in search of mates may come, pour
out the longings of tte heart ard be
succored.
Before the court are the qualifica-
lions and the yearnings Of some 1000
bachelors and 1,1OO spinsters, but the
first days work resulted in only five
matingS. These, however, were shin
ing examples of what may come to-
day and hereafter.
A man, 81 years old, was mated
with a gold star mother, 43 years old;
an undertaken was selected as hus-
band for a nurse; coast guard was
picked to become the protector and
life companion of a fair divOrcee; a
widow was slated to become the help
mate of painter, and, last but not
least, a Nentucky belle-a daughter
of the mountains-waSs snatched up by
Thomas Bancroft Delker, founder of
the court.
Like Any Other Court.
The court of love, be it known, is
constituted much the same as any
other court having a presiding Judge,
Nr cupid, in this case a woman, and a
jury of seven, including the chief OF
police, a former solder, telegrapher
and four women.
The idea of the court, so the story
goes, was conceived over plate OF
hash in the town restaurant by Delker
and Lewis Conley, HammontOn lead
ing cigar store proprietOrs. They or
garized the Lovers Cooperative
union, which in turn produced the !ove
court.
Court sat for the first time in the
one and only moving picture house
Bleeding hearts, with black arrows
piercing them through, decorated the
bench and the jury box. The first
audience was made up Of twelve news
paper reporters, six photographer;
and two boys.
jury Recommends Him.
Delker opened court by reading th'
letter from the lonely Kentucky belle
and after going over her qualifica
tions asked the jury to recomment
him, which it did.
It was announced that Of the l,lO'
women who sought husbands, th'
Youngest was 18 and the oldest So
The youngest male applicant was ,;
and the oldest 70.
The jury deliberated some time II
mating the gold mother, whose hom
is in Norwalk, Conn, and the 6l-yea
old man from ElmhurSt, n. Y. The!
explained, in deciding in favor of tn
man, that he was well-preserved, ha'
a good Job and healthy bank accoun
"He is much younger than his years
they reported.
The five women whose cases wer
disposed of were notified that in cas-
they were dissatisfied with the find
ngis of the court they had two week
within which to file applications 10
new hearings.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-22

Virtue alone outbids the prya-
mids; her monuments shall last
when Egypt's fall.-YOung.'