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manned indoors. San Juan Joe rushed
from his tent, rifle in hand. The front
ranks broke and erupted to each side
and allowed Scissors and Dinsdale to
stand revealed. With the yell Of an
Apache San Juan dropped his rifle
and ran forward to shake hands with
the two men. Old Pyrites was an
other who fought his way through the
mob to add congratulations.
The procession came to halt, for
the street ahead was filling with men
and women and children A man with
mighty lungs climbed to the top Of
freight wagon and beloved:
"Pete Dinsdale and Scissors, who
we all reckoned had cashed in, es-
capped from the Injuns and have came
back. They say Crook and his soldiers
are on Heart river, that it's race be-
tween him and Crazy Horse to see
whether white or red gifts here first.
Sitting Bull is expected to join 'em
with five thousand bucks. Our two
citizens were chased from Slim Butte
to the Belle Fourche by small band
of Ogalala. They killed their horses
in the race and came the rest of the
way on foot. Three cheers and a
tiger!"
The cheers were given; more guns
were discharged. Mayor Farnum made
his way to the escaped prisoners and
shook each by the hand.
1--WE supposed you We're dead" he
said.
"All the credit for our being alive
belongs to Scissors" said Dinsdale
HE knows more about Injuns than
Crazy Horse does"
I'm wakan," spoke up Scissors.
USED to play in a Sioux village years
ago. What / did was nothing. But if
Crook doesn't make this gulch ahead
of the Ogalala you want to prepare for
lot of trouble"
make room so they can get In
somewhere and rest" cried San Juan
Still cheering, but not so boisterous-
iy now that Scissors had given his
warning, the crowd parted and the
gambler led the two men into the tent
and toward the hidden entrance of his
house. But Scissors at once respond
ed to his environment and with paper
and scissors ready began searching
for customers.
1t seemed to Dlnsdale that a mask
had dropped over Scissors face the
minute he got back among the tables !;
and never did he do such a trade as
now. Instead Of profiles he cut out
lodges and ponies and other bits of
Indian village life. These Were eager
ly snapped up as souvenirs by men
who did not know whether they were
to be victims of Teton cruelty, or live
to welcome Crock. And each pur-
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Daddy5Eyerli!!,pS
FAIRY Ial &
Mary Grahan r
Bonner - Gal
QUEEN ANNE'S LACE

1t was a warm, sunny day and Md
halia felt quite sleepy. She was sit
ting on a stump in a field near the
farm where she was visiting some of
her friends.
She thought she would get off the
stump and lie down in the warm, sum
ny field.
1t would be so nice to have little
nap.
So Mahalia stretched herself out
and, after a few moments, it seemed
to her the wild flowers in the meadow
began to peep at her and to show her
that they had little faces.
One flower was particularly lovely.
This flower seemed to be made of lace.
In fact, there were great many
little flowers clustered together, and
each of them seemed to be wearing
lovely, dainty lace frock.
"You know who we are, don't your
asked one of the flowers.
II think" said MahaIia, you ara
Queen Anne's Lace"
Correct" said the little flower.
sand, as you see, there are many of
us together. We're friendly family
and we have never become snobbish,
even in spite of our clothes"
II don't know what you mean by
that" Mahalia said.
Don't your The little flower speak
ing looked at Mahalia in very puz-
zled way.
81 really don't" said Mahalia.
"Well, then, / will explain 1t to-
you"
81 do wish you would"
"You see," the little flower began
tive all wear dresses of lace.
"Some only wear dresses of lace
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RIVALS, small band Of warriors. All
Of these except the leader had dis
mounted. AS Scissors stared at the
mounted warrior he cried:
American Horse American Horse
has returned. Lookl He's pointing to
the north, and brandishing his rifle.
Now they're breaking to run back to
the lodges. BY heavens! The ponies
are being brought upl 1t can mean
only one thingl Crooks soldiers have
reached the head of Heart river.
Crazy Horse goes to stop him from
making the Black hills. They don't
even walt for Shunca-luta to prove his
medicine! Here's the trail Now let's
see your heels"
The loud cutlery at the north end of
the street, quickly swollen to deafen-
ing chorus of yells and punctuated by
a rapid discharge of hand guns,
caused more than one citizen of Dead
wood City to fear that Crazy Horse
and Sitting Bull were making good
their threats and were sweeping into
town at the head Of their copper-col-
ored hordes. But as the clamor
reached Kitty the Schemers place.
swept on by Keno Franks gambling
hall, and was added to by those in
front of San Juan Joe's big tent, It
took on a rude rhythm and at inter-
walls burst into reassuring staccato
of wild cheering. Then the tents and
buildings farther south knew some
thing momentous had happened, but
that no danger was imminent.
The soldiers are comingl The SOL
diers are comingr' shrieked woman
from the second-story window of
store and tenement structure. This
was accepted as the truth for min
ute. as the woman's coign of vantage
was much superior to those milling
around In the street.
''No soldiersl Two ~ howled
boy from the top of pine.
Then a solid mass of explanatory
humanity came into the view, swal-
lowing disorganized groups as fast as
reaching them, and only the Ill re-
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for very best. And, even then, maybe
there is only touch of lace about
their dresses somewhere.
"They never wear lace dresses to
play in or to work in or to go to
school in.
mo, their lace dresses are entirely
for dress-up times. But we always
wear our lace dresses.
you've never seen US dressed in
cambria, or muslin. or cotton, or any
other material.
Always flower lace is what we
wear
"You see, years and years and years
ago, over in Europe, from where the
family first came, the first flower
started the flower fashion.
at would be nice if we always
wore flower lace dresses this first
flower said.
eve would be different from other
flowers in this way. We would have a.
style of our own and, instead of wor-
rying about fashions and changes Of
styles, we could have our own style
and our fashion and follow it year
after year after year.
"'As long as it is beautiful style
we will not get tired of it.
Besides, 1t is the custom in the
flower world to follow the same lovely
styles.
$50 let us all wear lace dresses,
every one of US, all the time
"Then," continued the little flower,
''when the family came over from Eu-
rope they brought their own dresses
with them in their own flower trunks.
"And we've never changed the STYLE
We never will. Sometimes we are
called Queens Needlework. which is
another word for sewing.
Sometimes we are called Wild Car
rot, because our roots in some cases.
are like carrots
But / wanted to tell you about our
not being snobbish. You see, some
creatures, when they are all dressed
up, begin to put on airs.
"They act as though they were bet
ter than others. They look at the
clothes of others and say: !.
"'Dear, dear, what shockingly shah
by clothes!'
"But we never turn up our lace.
noses at others. We will never be-
snobbish, even though we will always.
wear lace dresses. You see. we know
that would be silly and vain and hor-
rid-so we wear lace, but we act In a.
sensible, plain fashion"
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Riddles

What is that which is often found
where it is not? Fault.
How long did Cain hate his brotherf
AS long as he was Abel.
What professional men generally
work with will? Lawyers.
Why should men avoid the letter
A? Because it makes men mean.
Why is selfish friend like letter
spy? Because II is the first in pity
and the last 10 help.
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Remember this little rule for sue
cess: Let your every act start from a
sincere interest in the thing to be done,
never from the mere desire to impress
others with your personality Sincere
motives are the firm foundations upon
which actual accomplishments are
built Conceited motives are the shift
ing sands upon which failure 10 built
Lowell Fillmore,
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-16
Gov. Smith IS
CANDIDATE FOR
u. s. PRESIDENT
by United Press Leased Wire

ALBANY, April 16.-Gov. Alfred
E. Smith today is a candidate for
the Democratic presidential nomina-
tion. Making his first public ut
tcrance on the question, whcih has
beer agitated with varying degrees
of strength for over 4 year, the
governor of the empire state, speak
ing before the Democratic desig-
mating convention here, announced
his position in this language:
eff other delegates to the ma
tional convention feel the same way
about it as you do and the result
is a triumph, you can tell them
that | pledged you here before God
Almighty himself that they will
never have cause to regret their ac-
tion through any act of mine.'
A few minutes before Smith made
his speech the convention, which was
called to select delegates and alter
mates to the national convention had
adopted unanimously resolution
that the delegates may be instruct
ed to present the name of Gov.
Smith to the convention as the en-
pire states choice to lead the DEM
ocratic party in the nation.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-16
Barton Report
Given "As Is"
CONTINUED from page ~

Continued from page l)
charted course. Comparisons are of
little or no value. There has never
been anything like this before.
There are no precedents, no land
marks, no rules of conduct. 1t has
been necessary tc blaze The trail all
the way through the wilderness.
There have been mistakes of ,ou-Se,
many costly ones-and vet perhaps
not more or greater errors than
were to have been expected when
it is realized that This project is
unfolding before us day by day, u
thing newly born of human inven-
tion. And when criticism becomes
bitter, rs it frequently does, would
it not be helpful to consider that we
are each of us but giving expression
to personal opinion which may be
right or wrong. There is no abso-
lutte wisdom written down to be read
by him who runs. No one may
say that certain course is altegeth-
er right and wise and another en-
tirely wrong and foolish. There
has been something of wisdom and
something of error in all that has
been done. Every situation has been
met by men of like frailities and
human limitations with our own. To
the solution of each problem those
who have for the moment been charg
ed with responsibility have brought
their highest understanding of>right.
No one can do more than that, Had
criticism always been constructive
it is not improbable that results
might have been more favorable.
Comparisons Are Irnpolite
1t is 10 be considered that the
enterprise with which we are deal
ing is of tremendous magnitude. In
describing it figures bewilder
rather than elucidate. Thousands
or hundreds of thousands mean moth
ing unless we are able to distribute
the amount over units of accomp-
ishment. Moreover, in the affairs
of Imperial Irrigation District
everything is special and very little
is usual. In the ordinary irriga-
ton district the same thing is done
once, twice, hundred times, until
experience wears grooves for prac-
tice. Here it is always an emer-
geney-something To be done under
pressure and for the first time. We
are always at the mercy of forces
over which man has no control and
which may take any turn, no one
being wise enough to forsee the
end from the beginning. More than
this, crises arise when they are
most difficult to handle. AS if ma
tural forces did not make the pro-
blem staggering enough, there is
added q human factor which taxes
resources to the limit. Many times
it has been almost impossible to
mobilize the necessary man-power
at all, to say nothing of maintain
ing it st a state of efficiency.
Take the District As 1t Is
Again, it is necessary to take
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-16
Joint
For Creaky Joints

Just rub on the new application
called Joint-Ease if you want to
know what real joint comfort is.
It's for stiff, swollen, or pain-tor-
tured joints whether caused by
rheumatism or not.
A few seconds rubbing and it
soaks right in through skin and
flesh right down to ligiment and
bone.
1t oils up and limbers up the
joints, subdues the inflammation
and reduces the swelling, Joint
Ease is the one great remedy for
all joint troubles. +. w. Clements
and other live druggists are dispeus-
ing it dailyJa tube for go cents. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-16

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PRESS CLASSIFIED
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Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-16

ordinary thrift and economy in MAX
ing use of equipment already on
hand but ineffective.
The River Division is a place
where necessarily there must al
ways be maximum of this
character Of losses, but as the
problem becomes solved and
methods become standardized
this item will continually grow
less as it is actually doing at
the present time. Those who
have criticized have come on to
the evidences of situation
which could hardly have been
remedied no matter how con-
scientiously or capable the en-
terprise has been managed
The foregoing accounts for the
major portion of the equipment
which is out of use at Andrade.
There is another class of abandoned
equipment, together with the re-
newals therefor, for which changes
in management as to be held ac-
countable. Engineers have whims
and notions, the same as other hu-
mans; possibly even more than their
share. From experience, or from con
clusion by some other process, the
decision Is made that certain equip
ment should be changed and that
certain other machinery would do
the work better. Whenever that de-
cision is put into practice every.
thing on hand Immediately becomes
obsolete and not only the equipment
itself but everything the store has
in the way of parts and renewals
for the old equipment. a
Changes Mean Expense
Therefore, every time the head of
a department comes to the Board
Of Directors with a proposition to
change equipment at the time in use,
it is to be realized that the mo-
ment the proposition is approved
there must be hundreds and per-
haps thousands of dollars written
off of the assets because of the
transfer of machinery from active
service to the junk pile. In the
past there have been many such
changes, especially in the electrical
equipment, and this again accounts
for another considerable part of the
abandoned materials which are in
evidence.
To summarize, therefore, the
charge that there is large amount
of abandoned equipment is sustain
ed. Probably the greater part is
only what would have been the ex-
perience of any enterprise of the
magnitude of Imperial Irrigation
District. Another part is there be-
cause of the pressure under which
operations are conducted; and an
other part because engineering judg-
ment differs concerning the charac-
ter Of equipment which is most eff
fective. The later waste is Of a
sort upon which the Directors viii
always be compelled to hold a
check.
If the report May pause to be
complimentary as an offset to un-
just criticism, it may be stated that
the superintendent of the River Di-
vision is a man who is not only
practical and seso1rceful but lin
every way competent aGministra-
tor of a difficult job.
Extravaganza in Legal Administra-
ton
This report is not able to pass
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-16
REPORT IS RESUMED
FROM YESTERDAY

Note@From the following
paragraph on, the report is
picked up at the point where it
was discontinued yesterday in
these columns, and will appear
as daily feature until the 40
page report, in its entirety, is
printed.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-16

the District rs it is, not rs one
might wish it 10 be. There are those
who would modify it, who would
restrict powers and enlarge them
there. There are those who regret
that we have public ownership at
all. Among those of the latter class
are many who have only fi.ltering
confidence in popular institutions
and who maintain as n principle
that privately organized public uti-
lities are always to be preferred to
public ownership. On this score it
would seem that it must be accept
ed as q promise that the general
tendency is toward an enlarged
sphere of public ownership and to-
ward public direction of all those
activities that touch the interest
and the welfare of the people. We
must admit not only that such
tendency exists, but that it is right
and good that it should be so, and
that in the end experience proves
fhst II is wisest and hest
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-16

In an age which is SO alert for
efficiency, obsolescenee of equip
ment is one of the factors upon
which every enterprise is obliged to
figure. Imperial Irrigation District
must always accept a certain amount
of loss in this way; but there will
have TO be continual vigilance to
make sure that this loss does not
become out of proportion because Of
the manner in which operations are
conducted. For example, wherever
pressing need is TO meet an emerg-
eney, it is necessary to equip with
machinery that viii do the work
and quite naturally there cannot be
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-16
/. A. Youth Is
Killed in Auto
Crash in Mexico
!, United Press Leased Wire

], United Press Leased Wire
NoeALEs, Ariz., april 16.-The
" of Davis Richardson, of Los
eles, was enroute home today,
er having been brought OUT of
Rio Yaqui Delta, Mexico, terri
sory yesterday, where he was killed
an automobile accident.
Young Richardson was president
If the Richardson Construction Com
,any, operating n great irrigation
enterprise in the Yaqui Delta eoun-
try, started by his father, also de-
ceased.
The fatal accident occurred Sun
day between Esperanza and Cajeme,
Mexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-16
Release Mexican
In Border Case

Probation Officer Swanson was
called to Calexico yesterday to in
vestigate a kidnapping charge in
which Francisco Loera, Mexican
was being held in Jail on complaint
of neighbors who claimed he had
kidnapped Refugia Bracamontes
nine year old girl who had been left
with him and his wife a year and
a half ago.
Mr.. Swanson found that Loera
had taken the girl to, the home of
Luiz Hernandez, west of Calexico
where he had left her, he said, be-
cause his wife had appeared to dis
like her. He said he was waiting
to hear from the girls father who
lives in Oxnard. Following his in.
vestigations, the probation officer
ordered the release of Loera.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-16

upon the charge of extravaganza
in the legal department. The
cost of the legal department. is
very much in excess of that in
other places; but again there is
no parallel situation with which
to compare that existing here.
The chief counsel has furnished
a statement which is appended
to this report showing that legal
costs as whole have been
greatly reduced over those exist
ing prior to consolidation.
The charge that there has been a
reckless plunging into litigation
seems to be entirely without founda
ton. There is much criticism of
costs in this department, but pro-
fessional men assert that the re-
tainer paid the chief counsel is not
out of proportion for the response
biity carried and the work involv-
ed. This expense will grow less as
affairs become settled.
Expenditures -or Lobbying and
Propaganda
1t is always question how far
the Directors are justified in going
in their support of projects to
which the people have committed
themselves. No doubt very great
majority of the people in Imperial
Valley favor the All-American canal
and probably the support of the
Boulder Dam project is practically
unanimous. Every practical person
realizes that these enterprises are
not likely to come to consumation
without some sort of organization in
their behalf. Eastern people as a
rule have very imperfect inforna-
tion concerning the great enterprises
of the west and their economic value
to the nation as a whole. People
of this type comprise a majority in
congress and to persuade them of our
needs requires campaign of educa-
tion. This much may be accepted rs
fundamental.
However, the sums Of money
which have been expended in
behalf of these enterprises,
purely on a basis of promotion
and propaganda without the
turning Of a single shovelfull Of
dirt, have now mounted to a
startling figure and we must
begin to consider how far we
are to go in this respect. Per-
haps. under all the circum-
stances, it could not have been
otherwise; but it remains fact
Notwithstanding that much of
this campaign has been Of very
doubtful value and it may well
be questioned whether tactless
and inexpert lobbyists, unac-
uuainted with men and affairs
and unfamiliar with the methods
and practices Of congress have
not by their activities done more
harm than good.
With very rare exceptions it is
probable that the cause would have
been better served had the money
been saved and our lobbyists call
ed home to their chores and regular
vocations. The costs of the lobby
in Washington at the present session
of congress have been as follows:
Fl. f. Fly, $S64.1S ($125.00) per
month and expenses.
Rev. George A. Hartman, 1895,
$4,000 per day plus expenses.) Not
including those of his family.
S. o. Buck, $1202.78, $4,000 per
day plus expenses.)
Mark Rose-expenses approx
mately $4,000.
The total cost Of All-American
canal and Boulder dam propaganda
up to the end of the fiscal year, as
set out in the chief engineer an
nual report was: for 1921 100000;
for 1922 $l0,672.38; for 1923, $780,
502.l2; n grand total of $S0,l74.50.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-16

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal.
Wallace O'Connor, sprint man,
and Nelson Collect, guard of the
Stanford team, have been named
by Coach Ernie Brandsten as hav-
ing been approved members Of the
United States Olympic games water
polo team by the game nominating
committee. AL White, national spring
board diving champion of Stanford,
has been nominated to represent
the United States as . diver.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-16
BOWERS MATTRESS SHOP

Mattress rebuilding a specially.
Your old cotton, floss or hair mat
tress made like new, at small
cost. Upholstering and furniture
repairing. Work called for and de-
ivered. 5S3 Broadway. Ell Csntro.
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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-02-28
POPE rs CHAIRMAN
STATE DEMOCRATS

James T.. Pope. Boise, was elected
chairman of the Democratic state CEN
trail committee at meeting of the
committee in Boise. Saturday, to sue
coed viii II. HOrnibOOk, resigned. and
Charles Tracy, Boise. was elected sec
rotary to succeed r. r. Edge. resigned.
Twin Falls. was selected as the place
to hold the state nominating cOnven-
ton. August 25. and st. Maries was
selected as the place to hold the con-
vention to select delegates to the ma
tiona1 convention, the date of the lat
ter convention being set for May 20,
Thirty out of the forty-fOur coun-
ties were represented either by the
committeeman or by proxy. S. o. Tan
nahill Lewiston. presided until Chair
man Pope was elected.
While the committee took no action
on the candidacy of any Democrats
who aspire to the presidential nom-
nation, majority of the Democrats
made il clear they are for William
G. McAdoo and predicted that the con-
ventiOn at ST. Maries will go on record
for him. and so instruct the delegates
to he sent to the national conven-
ton. in New York. June "a.
Idaho county will have three del
ceares in the st. Maries convention.
They will h., selected in any manner
determined upon by the county chair
man, NJ. r. Hattabaugh.