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Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-08-12

Ga.n the joo-i OF Lon Tung Ping,
which was stolen from the taotais
private ahH.ne during the Boxer
troubles"
At the word "joo-i shea heard a
little noise in the corner. He look
ed and saw that Georeotte had been
sitting Just outside the alcove some
twenty feet distant. a large file Of
bound magazines had slipped from
hCr lap and fallen to the tiled floor.
Md as for the girl herself her pos
t@re was most peculiar For she
eat erect ard tense, with parted
li9s. her jeweled fingers clutchins
Inc cushions beneath her, and her
eyes on Shens Kuns Fac, Her atti-
tude was that of one who had been
listening, and who had been sur
p'!7ed by some unexpected state
mont.
CTo BE CONTINUED)
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FINE FARM IN JEFFERSON
COUNTY NEAR CHARLES TOWN

In pursuance OF the provisions Of
the will of Mrs. Susan r. Carroll,
the undersigned will offer for sale
at Public Auction in front Of the
Court House in Charles Town, West
Virginia, on Saturday, August 26th.
beginning at HOO o'clock, A. NJ,
the following property, to-wit:
The Tuscavilla farm containing
264 acres situate about two and one
half miles from Charles Town. Oh
the Charles Town-Summit Point
road, which was conveyed to the
late w. C. Carroll by Cleon Moore
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Shea OF shanghai
GYNOPSI8

Burton Shea Evelyn
evening
from House
cided
Chinese millionaire
house Meeting
Shea realizes
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n,OTICE

No. trespassing allowed on tire
premises of the late Dr. NJ Virginia
IcCuno-Rossa on S. Raleigh ST.
Eiolators will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law
S ct rop j. D. McCUne. Exec.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-08-12

New audible tra.c devices are
are being tried out in New York.
Each time the signals nash bell
Iings autc1atIcai'-
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-08-12
PUBLIC SALE
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE

BY virtue Of the authority vested
in the undersigned attorney IN tact,
by certain power OF attorney, dat
ed the 10Th day Of July, 1922, adj
mitted to record in the County
Clerks office of Berkeley County,
West Virginia, the said attorney in
fact of George p. Butts, and wife,
will offer at public auction at the
front door OF the County Court
House on Saturday. August 26th, az
80 p. NJ, that certain house and
lot of land situate on the western
side Of S. Water Street, in the City
Of Martinsburg, Berkeley County,
West Virginia, and known and de
scribed as 227 s. Water Street, said
house being OF stone construction,
eight rooms, improved by electric
lights, and water and in good re-
pair, said lot being 40x1l0 feet, rich
soil, and being the same real e5-
tate that was conveyed to George
H Butts. by A. C. Griffith, by deed
dated the 7th day of April, 1921, and
recorded in the aforesaid Clerks
office in Deed Book al, page q.
The purchaser will be entitled to
possession Of said property Septenl-
Der list, 1922.
TERMS OF SALE-CASH.
CHARLES r. BEAL,L
Attorney in Fact for George p. Butts
and Anna Butts, His Wife.
5 1t wk Wks.
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OF the government.

Twenty one Of the 48 municipali-
ties In Massachusetts which have
declared their new tax rates, an
nounced reductions.
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Several Bundles CT old papers.
cents Per bundle. Call at Journal
office. 3 80 1p II
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Head the Maw.nsburg Evening
eLTnal.
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TERMS OF SALE-CASH.
CHARLES r BEALI

NTT.kTNLE0 II. DI.As'I
Attorney in Fact for George p. Butts
and Anna Butts, His Wife.
s 1t wk Wks.
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By Stephen Allen REYNOLDS

C0rgh fUb8hed by arrangement wTR t1e Literary Digest
Newspaper Syndicate.
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CHAPT Err V.
The Black Sands OF kai-Feng,
A tael of silver, weight, not a
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-03-16
Rank Financial Fallacy

Discussing President hardingS re-
commentator for constitutional
amendment, to do away with tax-eX-
empt securities Mr.. Ford's newSpa-
per, the Dearborn independent, edit
orally suggests that a long step
might be taken in that direction with
out waiting for a constitutional
amendment an dcloSeS:
Why should any class of private
or corporate property be exempt
from taxation. Someone has TO
pay, Just as the general public has
to make up revenue lost in rebates
and free passes, so the rest of US are
forced to pay double share TO make
up for the eXempts and delinquentS.
1t should be remembered that the
very existence of tax-exempt securi.
ties is forcing taxation in more un.
just directions.
The cry is giong up to tax all form:
of mercantile and banking credits
like money, notes, accounts, bank de
posts, etc.
The varius forms of taxing liquit
credits have all proven failures AMI
even the tax on banks to guarantees
deposits has broken down.
The days of rebates and free pass
es are about over, and the exemption
of any forms of bonds and stock
from taxation should go too.
Taxation of one class of farm LOAF
securities and exemption of other
is rank financial fallacy.-The Man
atdcturer.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-03-16

to cut down somewhere. The most
popular item Of attack is the reduc'
ton Of teachers wages, this, OF
course being the largest item Of eN-
penSe in the conducting Of the
schools The thought also occurs to
many that there might be a reduction
of expenses BY eliminating some un-
necessary studies and activities.
These things are being discussed
freely over the state, and touching
on these matters the Gazette Times
of Corvallis, says;
We think there could be mater
ial saving in school taxes if we would
cut out a lot of noneSSentialS that
have crept into the curicula. The
/ high schools nowadays are aping the
colleges, and the grade schools are
aping the high schools, The extras
that they teach are all very we'll and
fine when you can afford them, but
they go far beyond the reasons for
the establishment of free public
schools. Free public schools were
established for the purpose of abol-
iShing illiteracy. There is no other
excuse for them. They are necessary
in democratic form Of government.
But when grade schools and high
schools take on the extras, dress
making, house keeping, cooking, vo-
cal and instrumental music, carpen-
try, painting, printing and the Lord
only knows what, they are going be-
yond the limit that the taxpayer
should be expected to pay for. Those
things are the function of the col
leges and We have no right to ask
the taxpayer to carry on that kind
of work in the grade schools.
I'VE know very well what the ans
wer to that is and we know very wei
that criticism of the progressive
ness of the public schools is no
popular Neither are taxes"
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-03-16
Grants Economic Forecast

Grant as president has been cen
sured or patronized by writers who
admit the importance of his milit-
ary services. 1t is said, and with
truth, that he had no political eX-
perience but the real cause of the
attacks is that he had fault not
common to the majority of the race,
a serious handicap in the struggle
for honors, but perhaps one that will
be pardoned at the last accounting.
Grant was slow to believe evil of a
friend, especially a comrade. He
preferred to defy public feeling, to
endure pen-and-ink denunciation, to
be abused as credulouS and stubborn
rather than to credit anything said
against one of his intimateS. This
was indiscreet, ii got him in trouble,
it reflected on his judgment. Still
we may have known prudent and
practical men, really on a moments
notice, to save themselves trouble
by dropping friend, who were less
worthy of regard than the man whom
Queen Victoria called the bullet
headed soldier"
Ulysses S. Grant knew a great deal
about this country Of ours. He had
worked on the farm and in the tan
merry. He had gone through West
Point, fought in Mexico, crossed the
lsthmus, served out West and lived
near St. Louis, before the Civil war.
When he spoke Of agricultural or in
dustrial conditions he spoke with
force as one who knew what he had
to say.
In the year Of his first Inaugural
tion President Grant said: The ex-
tension of railroads in Europe and
the East is bringing into competition
with our agricultural products like
products of other countries" What
he said then is now being said in
every agricultural county in the
Union.
The forecast of Grant did not re-
ceiye the attention it merited. For
years there were plenty of Southern
agriculturists who dreamed that they
would grow wealthy if they could
frighten the freedman from the polls.
A number of Western men faneied
that prosperity would sweep over the
land if they smOte the railroads hip
and thigh. Nearly a decade after
Grants words there were so-called
humorous paragraphs over the bare
possibility Of Chinese eggs in the
American market.
But today there is not state in
which the shadow Of Oriental com
petition does not fall across the
farm. Chinese eggs have been sold
here. East Indian grain may com
pete with the crops of our own mea.
dows. The cooIie can work on dis
tant sugar plantations. Cotton from
far away lands may be sent into oul
harbors. In the South more thar
in any other section this dread is felt
Within the last month the most anx
ious expressions have sounded from
the rice swamps Of the South. It j:
felt by practically all the agriculture
organizations below Mason's anC
Dixon's line that the Chinaman il
their competitor, and that low dutie:
have offered him a chance he is no
slow to take.
This fear is not manufactured by
Republicans. 1t arises from wei
known facts, it is based on logica
reasoning, il is spreading from plant
alton to plantation. From Baltimore
to ST. Augustine, from Charleston
to Galveston, il is understood tina
what Grant predicted fifty-three year
ago has come to pass.-NatioHal Re
publican.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-03-16
Spring has arrived-maybe.
Hints to Stock BUYERS

Anyone tempted to speculate in oil
stocks would do well to observe the
following precautions:
Speculation in the stock of an en-
terprise that has not had the approx
al of, competent geologist is so
risky that there is practically no
chance of success.
Become financially interested only
in a company that controls a traca
sufficiently large to contain several
wells and which is not unduly mar
row.
Unless interested in wildcats, see
that there are producing wells on at
least three sides of the area to be
drilled, and as close as possible there
to-preferably within few hundred
yards.
Select company with sufficiently
high capitalization to pay for drill
ing several wells, providing there is
no doubt Of the company's intention
to drill a number Of wells.
Avoid companies with excessive
capitalization. Other things being
equal, the lower the capitalization
the higher the shares will 60 if oil is
struck.
Do not buy share of stock in any
company until assured that the off.
GERS of the company are honest anc
capable men, and that not over one.
third of the capitalization will be
used for promotion.
Do not speculate in oil at all un
less you can well afford to lose the
money expended.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-03-16
Reducing School Taxes

In the general discussion of the
subject of reducing taxes, the pub
lie school system Of the state of Or
egon is coming in for its share. There
seems to be many and varied ideas,
but il is realized that it is necessary
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-03-16

Attention of ex-service men is
called to the fact that May 25th is
the last day on which the filing of or
iginal applications for aid under the
state bonus act can be made. There
may be many ex-sevice men yet in
the county who would like some time
to receive help under this act, and
they will be shut out unless they
make their applications prior to May
or
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-03-16

Frank Sloan of Stanfeld would
like to have place in the state SEN
ate and will contest for the place
against Colon R. Eberhard of La
Grande. We do not have any inform
alton as to just what following Mr.,
Sloan may have in his home coun-
ty but we are of the opinion that Mr..
Eberhard is a leader in the race so
far as Morrow county is concerned.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-03-16

Mr.. and Mrs. Waldon Rhea, Of
Westland, arrived in Pendleton yes
terday, en- route home after visit
in Portland. Miss Irene Rhea, who
is teacher in the public schools of
Pilot Rock, and her sister, Mary
Louise, who has been visiting in
Pilot Rock, spent the day here with
Mr.. and Mrs. Rhea.-East Oregon
ian.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-03-16

Shoe Repair Work.. N Comfy
Shoe store is now prepared to take
care of all shoe repair work. There
is a good man on the job. Bring
your shoe troubles to Gonty.-Adv.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-03-16
So Din
Br Ross FARouHAR

Friday Jane smiled at me today
Ia SkoOl and / rote her a note in
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-03-16

loafing earlier and have more time
in witch to tend to it in.
SURdIy-Stayed for chirch today
and it was to wet TO play any thing
any way. | CESS it was a good SER
mon but | got to wandering how a
deef and dunn man wood tell a blind
news boy witch kind Of shoe strings
he wanted and diddent get much out
of the sermon.
Monday was a reading in the
court house News where a woman
was give the control of her child
the Judge. All | got to say is thai
ma don't need no Judge to give hel
Control of her child. Or pa neither
TueSday-Pa was late to supper
because he stopped a long vile Il
watch sum men building house
Ma says they are all ways to kind:
/ of foxes around when a house is {
getting built. Them witch has bis
ness there and them witch hassen
any biSness no where's. Joe Luce
went and pawned his Pajamas {
when pa asst him why he done it hi
sed he had TUX a job as mite watch
man and woodent need them ne
more now.
WedneSidy-MrS. Gillem rote II
a Co. and sent 25 cents to find ou
how to avoid Falling arches and the,
rote back and sed for her to Step ou
of the Way when they begun to Fall
ThurSdGy-Jake has got a unke
out in the country witch is eight
s yrs. old and has never got to rid
in a ottomobeel nor eat sandwich
| CESS mebby that is the reason h
is eighty s yrs. old.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-03-16

witch ! Sed IN u mat
when she looks at me |
get SO Ratified | don't no
enny thing and she rites
back that She geSSeS it
duSSent make very much
dih'rence wether she
Hooks or not.
Saturday Pa wont
mention names for he
is Skared it mite hurt his
biSneSS but he says they
is a fellow up on Main
st. witch is so lazy he
gets up at 5 o'clock in
the morning in order Sc
as he can get started to
The Idaho recorder., 1922-12-15
MAS. .,ia ossENcHAin FREED; ;'''s
s.:. .7.s:4 MURDER. GASES WAIVED

''Sr 80 fLa W ~ '"'F - .
u'Los Observation-Disclosures against
Arthur O. BurcA undl Mrs. Mnualynne
iObencliatn, charged with the murder
Il j. ''Belt6ns Kennedy, Young Los Ans
reles broker, have been dismissed by
Judge. John W" shenk on motion of
District 1AttorFey Thomas Lee Wool
wine. ~c.!J s,.t4;s att. -
Mr.. lWoolwne moved dismissal. OF.
he indictments on the grounds, of in
sufficient evidence. Paul W. Schenck,
attorney for burch, then swore out an
insanity complaint against his client,
and Judge Shenk directed that he be
committed to the psychopathic ward of
he county hospital for observation.
The courts action left Mrs. Oben-
chain free to leave the county jail. She
said that she planned to leave Los
Angeles, but did not intend to go very
far away. She declared that she would
not return to Chicago, her home at the
time of the Kennedy Staying.
The Idaho recorder., 1922-12-15
FOUR CHILDREN PERISH

Chicago.-Four of the six children Of
Joseph and Veronica Budak We're burn
ed to death and the parents and their
two remaining children severely burn
ed in a fire that partially destroyed
their home. 1t was believed by firemen
that the blaze was started by an over
heated stove. .r
One of the dead children was 10
inonths-old girl. Heat from the flames
ewoke the elder son and the father,
who ran to warn Mrs. Budak and the
children, sleeping in rear bedroom.
But the flames so enveloped the rear of
the house that they were unable to
gain an entrance. The father was
severely burned in the attempt. With
In few moments the fire department
called by pedestrian, had arrived and
members rescued the mother and
daughter and carried out the dead
bodies of the four children.
The Idaho recorder., 1922-12-15
Canada Takes oat and Wheat Prizes

Chicago.-Canada won the oats grow
ing championship at the international
grain and hay show held here. The
entry of ]. w. Biglands, Of LaCombe,
Alta, won the sweepstakes over large
field of American and Canadian grow
RS competing for the $4,000 in cash
1rizes offered by the Chicago board of
-rade. Biglands' sample weighed 461a
pounds to the buShel.
Canadian farmers were even more
elated over carrying off the premier
wheat growing honors. The board of
trade cup was awarded to r. o. Wyler,
husband, Sask., for having grown the
rest wheat produced on the continent
his year. He won with sample of
hard red spring. Montana had held
the title, it having been won last year
by G. w. Kraft, of Bozcman, from j. C.
Mitchell, of Dahinda, Sask.
The Idaho recorder., 1922-12-15
1922 Patents Break Record

Washington, = Seventy or eighty
years ago an official of the United
States patent office resigned, saying
there would be no more use for the
office, "since everything inevitable
had been invented" In 1920 when ap-
plications for new patents jumped from
1851 to 102,940 for the entire year,
1t was believed the high water mark
had actually been reached, as nothing
comparable to that figure had ever be-
fore been attained in the history of the
office. In 1921, however, the number
rose to 107,G56 and in the fiscal wear
ended last June it reached the total of
1897, according to the annual re-
port of the commissioner of patents,
just published. 's.t. ,ln- Sc. :
The business of the patent office is
In excess of what the present force can
dispose of adequately and efficiently
Commissioner Robertson reported. ..'
The Idaho recorder., 1922-12-15
SECRET
IS At LAST OUT
Dudley Field Malone, Then Collector
OF New York Port, Dlscloses
,-e s.. MAE Mystettysq- j

=. 4igsI-Tt - lsbI ~ ~ g. e
i, ,Ney, York. The Cunard' liner Lpsi-
tahia, sunk by Germah submaFines sih
fg15, off he Ii1sh coast, iedneithet
gpiis, weopsI Dp EXPLOSIVES sbut did
carry 5,4OO cases Of aWnuftion. the
Official report of the vessels carg's
plade public bytpudey Feld Malone.
fc5t'ect6r q the port at thespme, shosts,
'a<cdfdfBfate copyrighteA story in
the New YorbLiTorld
The, cases Of ammunition{ tke report
AatSS, r@ssre carried by s1n.tslse&er-
,ssissio orbsns slec, ahlings of BE AefSlft-
Hs,T af sa0nfmeree in fofce nee 19s1'
:, The Malone report was made;4o. Sec;
retary Re aii:y Of the Treasury McXdoS.sSff
YVagdased June 4, 1915, And VAS eafted d
for .attes tbe, ,Geeyman REPLY Of Adt y
to President Wilson's frst Dnsir!atn,ia |
'nN6se OF May 8, Rdd set up the ennten'
tion therEhsitanta had b&eti armed d'a5d
mat her rapid sinking Wis due, fSt to
the. torpedo hut 10 ths explosion Of
ammunition. IT was dis report n
which President Wilson, iashisrsss6ad
note OF June 8 referred. when he said
Fortunately, there are matters con
'cerping which the government of the
Unised States is In q Position to give
the Imperial Gerr1ap government Of
ficiAa informatiprnkss@ -s4 4 a, u .,ia.
The Idaho recorder., 1922-12-15
VT gs-' ,F1s-
coNFIscATE $50 900 n At.G 4..i- 4 (.
] SPURIOUS " l s.Hi:Tlll AT ll llst NoTsse! 4!

= New York.-Withs stheearrest Of John
iPoHovlch pfts Los .ASgSfesS cnrrylng
90. 800 pounds IN 4ceAnterfeitS notes, or
more than $3.50 QNo4 face value, United
states secret service agents said they
had captured the third Of gang Of
counterfeiters .whs4a have done What
was heretofore considered almost I'M
possible. making and passing bogus
Bank Of England notes.
The other two alleged members Of
the band reported to be under arrest
In Los Angeles are Oscar A. Simon and
Ivan Glavadonovich.
The secret service agents said that
about $30,00 had been obtained by the
gang in California through passing the
notes. They ascrlbe the success Of the
counterfeiters in part to the. fact that
since the war many inexperienced deal
ers In foreign exchange have set up In
business. Twenty thousand dollars
worth Of the bogus English bank notes
have been accounted for, 1t was said.
The Idaho recorder., 1922-12-15
Wood to Remain In Philippines

Washington.-Major General Leon
ara Wood, governor general of the
Philippine Islands, has decided to re-
main at his present post and not to
accept the offer made by the Univers-
fty of PENNSYLVANIA to be the provost of
that Institution, according to inform
alton received here by administration
officials. War department officials
decline to make formal announcement
OF General Woods decision but it was
said In Secretary Weeks office that an
announcement probably would be made
soon.
The Idaho recorder., 1922-12-15
STEP NEARER SOLID FRlENpss1

Billings, Mont.-Sheridan and
lings, neighboring cities sepaniA
state boundary line. shoOk hd
again and became a little better
quainted, came a step nearer NJ
interco1nmunity friendship. ,e,,la
This transpired, through theMdlz
of Rotary. The spirit Of this btAAs| ]
mems fellowship club brought AM
Of about 20 members of{ths Slsl|
club to Billings on a visit, and ne
lunched with the Billings menSs|
The occasion brought about a -fsna'
good time for the club men Of W.
cities. - 4ttft $is III
The meeting was a lively one y
orchestra helped out with the senEEss N
jollity.s and: there were many s's
ballads extolling Rotary, praislns Y
states and towns concerned, ald =
recting friendly jibes at .indiylpd1aaaa' indiIp1la'
The introducti6ns gave .opportan'e !
a good deal of fun and cneen'
"roasts.a President Louis D0usnspss "
the Billings club presided and "
coined the clubs, guests ip, ip apprepfa
words ~ Z ME- ! 2IID ~
The Idaho recorder., 1922-12-15
MRS. CLARA PHILLIPS
ESCAPES FROM JAIL
Saws Through. Steel Bars; Eur On
''. Beach Is cIew That She y. =.
Put to Sea . ssie1 ~.

4 Los Angeles.-Clara Phillips climbed
out Of a. window In. the Wopenl,s rlf = sec
ton of the county Jail here and. .es- !,
caped. She. was under 4a-sentence 1aft
10 years-.to life sitaprisonHrent .after
conviction Cor, tilep hammer. mnrder.of
Alberta Meadowsja She was held IN.
the faiI pending formulation Tof an Fap-
100, "a f1-s ETs7t .x.st5I1.''' al stss tTf
- VIM the ala Of .sseee5srai% steel sawyS
her, esedpe was affected, According t9e
a:-report IL the she sheriff f hy tie yai1eE:
4selietYss expressed that she Aad been
qtded by other inmates. sRarsa were.
sawed through, and; :after efawliRg out
IL the window, she dropped 'tDgiher roof
Il ari a adjoining building, climbed down
ne he fire. escape ard Disappeared .s{
= - sa~ IN u ELL .. '.S''s.' -,4 H. =
> Long Bedach, Bedi aCaf.2A fur similar 70
hat worn by Clara phillips During } \ her :
ssial, and heliesSsd fo bays been In n her
,ossessipn 4at. tbs time sofs herE escape
rom the Los Angeles county jail. r.
.aAes from here was found in an aban-
auto hAre.asiEk utaDzataess here
ztar "a .anainS nSestige tiontea the theory
nat tfesescaped woman 7n1ay'.hav We put
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