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The Washington times., 1924-04-26
THROUGH STREETS MAY
BE TRIED IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO, April ga system
of through streets" from which
horse-drawn and other slow=movtng
vehicles will be excluded may be
Chicago's solution of the traffic
problem.
Plans for putting the system into
effect will be considered by the
city council within ninety days.
Traffic experts, who studied traf-
fic control systems in a number of
cities before making their recon-
mendations, claim the through
street" plan will speed up traffic
and prevent accidents.
The plan provides for the designa-
ton of a number Of streets east and
west and north and south for the
exclusive use of rapidly moving
vehicles-antomobiles and express
street cars. The Through streets"
will go from one end of the city
to the other and will be marked
by a special lighting system and
signs.
The Washington times., 1924-04-26
LOOMS INSTITUTE BOY
BROWNS AS CANOE TIPS

HARTFORD, Conn.,, April 26.-
William Howe SprouI, sixteen, son
of Mrs. Elizabeth Howe Sproul, of
Boston and Pittsburgh. was drowned
in a canoe accident on the Farming
ton river, near Loomis Institute in
Windsor, which he had been attend
ing. N. H. Batchelder, head master
of the institute, said that the boys
body had been sought for twenty
hours, but that all hope Of finding
1t had been abandoned.
Sproul went padding late in the
afternoon with John Lyman Cox, of
Plainfield, N. J.. who was rescued
three hours later after he had
caught the branches Of a tree to
which he had succeeded in swim
ming. Sproul could not swim. The
last time he was seen he was cling.
ing to the side of the overturned
canoe; which was found later by
the Hartford police near the VIII
liamantic bridge.
The Washington times., 1924-04-26

knocked as with cold. They found
places near the rail.
Janina folded her arms. Pres
emily she said: You carried that
off like a princess"
Where are they, Janina? Was
that Bess Abbot with herr"
Eyes. They're sitting at the
other end"
And talking Of meE'
Don't you ever believe 1t! She
was the one confused-I'm glad
of that. Did you know they have
son? And three months old"
II didn't know it,
And Papa Moore IL building
them a home in San Mateo-"
Chickie looked out at the water
at the sea gulls with their white,
shiny breasts swooping down tn
grab at q crust thrown by little
boy. She listened to Janina with
a remote quiet. She wondered
why the doings Of these people,
once so vital, had now little power
to pierce.
She said suddenly to Janina:
''They are like people in another
world"
There had been a time when
Chickie wondered il the Thought
of her troubled him; when She
hoped that it did. Now she
wanted no claim, even to his
remorse.
Sometimes, as the weeks, then
the months, flew by and she. be-
came more absorbed in her work:
when she would sometimes spend
hours studying, she wondered how
much of her old self was left.
She would take bit Of her flesh
between her fingers and pinch it.
All new cells, perhaps-none Of
them in existence a few years
ago
One night she walked up to the
hill at Twenty-first and Sanchez.
Here she had sat, that hour of
wild despair, for she knew that
life had overtaken her. Now she
drew Wildie's head to her elbow.
She said, "a long time, dog-isn't
it?'
Yet she was astonished at this
Quiet-astonished when she found
herself laughing and at the zest
she was forever finding in this
new life. Once only grief had
seemed of moment now the littlest
trifles uplifted her. She did we'll
in a quiz, or she wrote a paper
that was praised she was beside
herself with joy.
Finally she went to the theater
with Jake and to concert with
David Ramm. 1t was a kind Of
ordeal for her. All the while she
steeled herself saying, mo matter
whom l meet-no matter who
I'm. not going to care. Nothing
can hurt me but my own thought
nothing"
TO Be Continued MOndayl
The Washington times., 1924-04-26
CHAPTER Ii
Triumph.

Janina came out often to see
her. One Saturday afternoon they
went over to Alameda for a swim.
They lay on the sands. Chickie
brooded with serious wonder on
her own interest in life. She
thought, 1.-THE sun is warm-I
love it," and she was even a lit
tie dismayed finding a glow and
a Tilt in bert heart.
Janina said, You're almost
beautiful, Chicl1ie."
II thought always was,
Janina."
And you're interesting now"
why the diagnosis?"
II wondered If you knew it,"
Janina stretched her long arms
and yawned. After all, Chickie.
why should we crouch at the
tools life uses as long as she
makes a neat job Of us in the
end?"
The Washington times., 1924-04-26
vETOFOR BONUS
AND JAP BILL
FORESEEN
President to Incline Against
Signing Either Measure
/ and May Use Ak.

That President Coolidge will veto
both the soldiers bonus bill and the
new immigration bill because of the
Japanese exclusion provision ap-
peared likely today.
AS to the bonus, the information
from the White House is that of all
the Senatorial views on the sub
Jet the President sympathizes most
with those Of Senator Borah Rep.)
Of Idaho, who condemned the bonus
along with all other legislation de-
signed to take large sums from the
Federal Treasury.
With respect to Japanese exclu.
sion, the President is hopeful that
some way can be found to carry out
the wishes Of Congress for barring
the orientals and at the same time
avoid offending the Japanese gov
eminent through the abrogation of
the "gentlemen's agreement"
Congress may be asked to take
some of the sting out of the ex.
clusion provision and to give Score.
tary Of State Hughes an opportu.
nifty to limit Japanese immigration
by treaty.
The Washington times., 1924-04-26
The Sequel to 'Chickie' By Elenore Meherin

marriage. Are you able to be-
lieve that, Miss Bryce?"
"Well--suppose they are excep-
tional before--do you think they
can go through such an expert
ence without irreparable hurt to
their owns natures. Won't they
always be less because Of it,"
He considered this and frowned.
She waited in a flaming, sup
pressed eagerness as though the
answer meant her doom.
I'D say 1t depends on the in.
dividua1. For a man or for a
woman the wrong in such an act
is the damage they do to their
own ideals. II Il girl feels that
she's degraded; IL she can't look
herself in the face because OF it
then it's tragic and may be hope
less
do you think it's different il
she lowest"
isn't it? You can't set down
any hard and fast rules, can you?
If girl loves it's mighty pathetic,
I'd say.
"Then there are other types
that take an experience such as
this as matter Of fact just as
they take their mesAs. I've known
Europeans to regard 1t so."
She sat down very low and
looked out to where the acacias
drifted their golden piumes. She
said breathlessly: That's terri
BILE, though-that leaves us no
beauty-none at ALL
He answered in the Same quiet
tone: II believe you're right.
Why should one cheat himself?''
She shivcred-cheat ones self
But il ono /did-could they ever
make 1t right
She started to ask this ques-
ton and grew hot and ended with
a high falsetto laugh
The Washington times., 1924-04-26
Woman, go, And Man,
80, Unite in Business
Marriage

GREELEY, Colo, March rs.
"A business marriage" &C
cording to the reported terms of
prenuptial agreement, occurred
here when Mrs. Florence Lear,
sixty, became the bride Of Will
liam H. Barnes, thirty-nine.
According to the asserted ar
rangement, Barnes relinquishes
all claims to half of his wife's
estate-the amount allowed him
by law-should she die before he
does. In return, Mrs. Barnes is
said to have agreed to make a
will deciding all of her property
to Barnes, the will including
provision that the instrument
shall be void if the marriage
proves an unhappy one.
Witnesses of the pre-nuptial
agreement declare that Mrs.
Barnes, who is said to possess
an extensive estate, but is in
poor health, desired protection"
for the remainder of her life,
prompting her to make the pact
with Barnes, who is robust.
The Washington times., 1924-04-26
MRS. ANNIE R. PEASE
IS AWARDED DIVORCE

Mrs. Annie r. Pease. wife of Leo
w. Pease, has been awarded a
final decree of absolute divorce by
Justice Stafford of the District
Supreme Court on the ground Of
alleged misconduct on the part of
her husband. They were married
May Is, 1909.
Mrs. Bessie l.. Christie, who was
married to her stepson, Seba l..
Christie, December %, 1922. and
was afterward sued by him for an.
nulment of marriage on the ground
that 1t was in violation Of the Dis
trict code, denied in her answer his
charges that she forced him to
marry her. She declares that her
stepson ''importuned her repeated.
Iy" to marry. Christie Is charged
with deserving his wife.
The Washington times., 1924-04-26
Japan Ready to Send
Joint High Commission
To Discuss Exclusion
BY DUKE N. PARRY
International News Service.

TOKYO, April 26.-Japan is pre-,
pared to send joint high commits.
sion members and otherwise follow
any suggestions of the United
states in reaching a solution of the
immigration question.
This declaration was made in un.
off1cial sources close to the Foreign
OFFICE today following receipt in
Tokyo Of news that Premier Cool.
fdge was DESTROYS of modifying the
stringent exclusion act of Congress.
Viscount Kaneko, Prince Toku-
gawa and Ambassador Hanihara
probably will be Japan's choice for
membership on such a commission.
1t is generally agreed that Japan
y prepared to enter such con
ference, providing it is held.
The Foreign Office expressed
8rat1f1cation at President Coolidge's
stand in the matter and Japanese
and American circles here were
distinctly more helpful, following
publication of Washington dis.
patches this morning reporting
president Coolidge's attitude.
The Washington times., 1924-04-26
GIRL RIDING 600 MILES
WITH BID TO COOLIDGE

BELLEVUE, Ontario, April &c.
Miss Gwendelen Lazier, athlete and
daughter Of one of the city's Oldest
families, started on a 600-mile horse
back ride to Washington, ID. c.,
carrying greetings Of Mayor Mikel
to President Coolidge.
She will invite the President to
the 140th anniversary celebration
here in June of the settlement Of
Ontario by United Empire loyaiists,
who came largely from the New
! England colonies.
The Washington times., 1924-04-26
MODERN DANCE
ALLY OF DEVIL
SHE SAYS
Choice Squirmers Need Only
Two Square Feet of Room,
Adds PoIiceWoman.
By FRANK I WELLER
International News Service.


INDIANAPOLIS, April 26. =
Cheek to sheik dancing is
filtration with the DEVIL" says
Mrs. Anna Bruner, policewOman
in charge of dance hall rnatrons
who are waging war on the
Trance" step, latest BALI room
sensation.
you can't get a toothpick
between these thip hounds who
are making immodest dancing a
rule rather than an exception"
Mrs. Bruner declares. She raps
the soul caress" of the Trance
step.
Night after night of this purple
paradise" puts pale and pallid
cheeks on the Children Of Jazz,
matrons report, but when such
cheeks meet, Sheik and Sheba
catch each other by the nape OF
the neck and around the back-a
cross between a deadlock and a
half Nelson-and, closing their eyes
move away in semt-consciousnes
Sometimes they don't move far,
for others are doing the same
thing. Good to choice squirmers
floor space. While high priced
Me Good, Daddy. 1 Wanna Be
world safe IOr sanity put up a
brave wrestle to reach animated
clinch experts and call off objec-
tionable struggles. While the sax"
sobs 10y is unconfined," youth
answers youth, hot lips tremble,
and pleasures plunge into a
whirlpool Of fantasy, the matrons
declare.
Young girls dancing together
form the bulk of complaints at
police headquarters. 1t is charged
they allow their emotions unre-
strained expression, even dancing
together the entire evening rather
than risk "kicKless' dance with
the youth who don't know his
stuff" Since tho new woman"
has come forward a row of gates
ajar collars form a line where
the wall-flowers blossomed in days
agone.
But it is the aftermath of these
semi-Apache dances that causes
the policewomen to hum a hymn
of hate.
"Girls between sixteen and eight
cen years of age crash into dates
and spend the rest of the night
on wild joy-rides or mule parties"
Mrs. Bruner asserts. "An age
certificate ought to be part of
the apparel of every girl at a
public dance. Neither men nor
girls should be allowed to visit
dance halls alone. The men come
only to pick up girl for the
evening, and the girls openly ad-
vertise for a pa rtfler. "
Booze and dope peddlers flour
ish because of the mixed crowd.
A girl dancing Unfortunately
with men she has never, seen
before is in real danger.
Modern dancing has taken a,
front seat with Death as the
greatest leveler of all mankind.
People of almost every station
in life go to public dances. smoke,
Rnkle.scratch and mix drinks" Mrs.
Bruner reported in her conference
with Police Chief Herman Rikhoff.
She has been promised additional
assistance If improprieties do not
stop. Nearly every pulpit IN the
city has launched an attack on
the dance halls.
A young man desiring to stage
dance at a downtown hotel
asked Mrs. Bruner for permission.
what arrangements have you
made for a matron?" he was
asked.
"Oh, a matron won't be neces-
Sary. She would be out Of place,
or maybe she could wear an eve.
ming gown, eh?"
mo-" replied Mrs. Bruner, ''the
matron will be fully clothed
The Washington times., 1924-04-26
PINcHoT's PRIMARY
BILL LESS THAN $50

HARRISBURG, April 2S.-Cov.
srnor Pinchot spent less than $50 IN
ms unsuccessful campaign for dele.
safe at large, according 20 his ex.
Pense account, filed with the state
bureau of elections.
II campaign expense accounts are
less than $50 the candidate nee5
nov specify what the money was
spent for. If over $50 the accounts
must be itemized.
The Washington times., 1924-04-26
SHORT SUMMER COURSES
At WORKERS COLLEGE

Short summer courses are offered
this year by the Brookwood Work
ers College at Katonah, N. Y. A
be held June % to 20 especially for
delegates to the annual convention
of the Women's Trade Union
League. although Attendance will
not be restricted to them.
A two-weeks course will be given
July z to 20, which In designed for
officers, organizers, business agents,
and members of unions. Current
labor problems will be the basis of
this course
The Washington times., 1924-04-26
BULLET IN VET So YEARS
REMOVED; HE FORGOT 1T

WATERLOO. N. Y, April &c.
After carrying a bullet in his hip
for fifty-nine years, Aaron d. Lohr,
civil war veteran, had it extracted
at a local hospital.
Early efforts to locate the bullet
by probing were unsuccessful. Re-
Gently he experienced trouble with
his hip. An examination showed
the bullet had become loosenei
from the muscle or bone in which
1t had been imbedded, and the oper.
alton was ordered. Lohr said he
had forgotten the bullet was there.
The Washington times., 1924-04-26
BOSTON POSTMASTER
TO BE REAPPOINTED

Roland M. Baker will be re-
postmaster of Boston. it was
learned at the White House today.
postmaster General New is pre.
pairing to send Bakers name to the
appointed by President Coolidge as
PRESIDENT, following which 1t will
pc placed before the Senate for
The Washington times., 1924-04-26
Daily Traffic Calendar
FINES AND COLLATERAL. FoRFEITUREs

Total for yesterday II
Grand total .......... $3.50
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-08-15
SPRING LAMBS
ARE SHIPPED
Six Thousand Head Shipped
From Minden Yesterday to
San Diego, CAL, Markets

Six thousand head of lambs were
shipped from Minden to San Diego,
Cal, yesterday and marks the be-
of movement of livestock
that has been held on the Mono and
Alpine county ranges for the past
few weeks, pending their release by
quarantine officers.
Half of the lambs shipped yester-
day were owned by VIM. Dressler
and the rest by the II. F. Dangberg
Land and Livestock company. Mr..
Sessmith, of the Western Meat COM
pany, was here attending to the ship
ment of the lambs, which come from
the ranges in splendid condition.
Mr.. Dressler reports that every
precaution is being exercised by the
stockmen as well as federal officers
in preventing the spread of the foot
and mouth disease. All stock is be-
ing rigidly inspected before driven
from the ranges. In addition to
this stock ranging in the section ad-
jacent to the infected area, have
been driven back and destroyed by
federal men, thus preventing any con-
tact with the stock now being moved
into Nevada.
Other shipments of livestock that
are on the range and ready for mar
ket will be made just as fast as in
spection can be made. Most of the
stock, it is understood, will be ship
ped to California markets.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-08-15
BIG HOLDINGS
CHANGE HANDS
State Senator William Dress
Ter Buys Yparraguirre Inter-
ests in Sweetwater Section

State Senator VIM. Dressler this
week closed a deal for the purchase
o. the vast land and livestock hold
ings of the parraguirre company at
Sweetwater, one of the biggest out
fits in this section of the country.
The acquisition of this property ad-
vances Mr.. Dressler to one of, if not
the heaviest land and livestock own
ers in Western Nevada.
Mr.. Dressler already owns the sec
ond largest holdings in Douglas
comfy with mountain ranges extend
ing into Alpine county. Some years
ago, with Richard Kirman and Chas.
Lewis he purchased the Plymouth
ranch, the largest single farm prop
erty in Smith Valley. After short
time Mr.. Dressler acquired the in
terests of both Lewis and Kirman.
In order to secure sufficient pasture
and range land for his livestock on
the Plymouth ranch, Mr.. Dressler
purchased the Elliott ranch, one of
the most extensive properties in
Bridgeport Valley. With the addi-
tion of the Yparraguirre land and
livestock holdings Mr.. Dressler ad-
vances to one of the foremost live
stock and land owners of Western
Nevada.
No details of the big transaction
has yet been made but when inter-
viewed yesterday Mr.. Dressler con-
firmed the report but had nothing to
say for publication.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-08-15
RIVER
PLACER Mine
Raloh Lake and Associates
Have Method of Saving
Fine Gold of Carson River

Ralph Lake and associates, who
last year acquired extensive placer
holdings on the Carson river, about
a mile and half below Young's
crossing, this week put a 100 ton
plant in operation, and according to
present plans will run to full caapci-
ty until storms of winter set in.
Exhaustive tests have been made
by Mr.. Lake and associates in devils
ing a process for saving the fine
placer gold found on the Carson riv-
er. He is satisfied that the process
decided upon yill be tthe means of
saving values that will make the un-
dertaking a paying investment.
At present teams are being used
to convey gravel to the sluices but
if the run being made this fall proves
as remuerative as is anticipated, next
spring his company will install a
drag line for the economical handling
Of gravel.
Some twenty years ago +. c. Ev-
erett organized a company and ex-
pended considerable money in an at
tempt to save the gold values on the
upper Carson river. He was not
successful in saving values sufficient
ly to make the proposition a profit
able venture, but it would appear
that he paved the way for success
of others that were to follow in de-
vising method of saving the gold
values of the Carson river.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-08-15
MASS OF BLOOM AT
SPRINGMEYER HOME

No one can pass the farm home of
Mr.. and Mrs. f. c. Springmeyer,
south of Gardnerville without ex-
pressing words of praise for the gor-
geous mass of bloom that covers the
greater part of the large, well kept
yard. AT this particular time the
flowers that are under the direct
charge of Mrs. Springmeyer, are at
their best and it would appear that
the season has been most favorable
for the cultivation of flowers of ev-
cry kind.
Mrs. Springmeyer has the largest
flower garden in Douglas county and
in recent years she has devoted con-
siderable time not alone to the cul-
tivation of flowers, but to the selec-
ton of plants that go to make up a
wealth of bloom that is extremely at
tractive and, tinted with every color
of the rainbow, scenting the air with
their sweet fragrance that comes
from n million blossoms.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-08-15
FOX Mine Is in
VERY RICH VEIN
Shaft Down $50 Feet and
Free Milling Gold Values
Show Assays of $50 a Ton

One of the most promising prop
critics in this section, according to
r. c. Walker, is located on the east
ern side of Antelope Valley and is
within the boundaries of Douglas
county. Mr.. Walker returned few
days ago from that section and re-
ports that p. Fox and associates,
who have been operating the mine
for the past year, have carried the
shaft down to a depth of $50 feet
and at present has a large ledge
that assays $50 per ton in free mill
ing ore.
The mine is located in a most un-
pretending locality and when the
owners started to develop the prop
erty values of 81 per ton were found.
As the shaft was sunk values in
.reased and today the property is
one of the most promising in this
section.
Viewed from the west side of An
telope Valley, the low hills to the
east give every evidence of being
barren of not only mineral, but tim
1r and water as well. However, the
canyon where the mine is located is
heavily timbered and an ample sup
ply of water is furnished by a big
spring, the flow of which shows no
sign of diminishing, even, this sea-
son.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-08-15
NEVADA LAND
BY E. CHAPLIN GARD

Nevada Land! Realm of the mys-
tic and mysterious. Region of eli
matte marvel and of geologic mys-
terry. Bourne of an Invisible En-
pire" of subterannean wonders-of
mighty streams-Nevada' Lost Riv-
ers"-rushing on over ledges of sill
yer and sands of gold hundreds of
miles to the sea. Of mountain ranges
cleaning against the sky, and iso-
lated peaks fading in the distance
and lost in the haze; of herds and
flocks on mountain and plain; of
green wales with grain fields and
meadows, orchards and gardens
where soil responds to industry and
skill, to sunshine and moisture in
harvests of plenty.
Nevada Land! Enchanted pale of
mineral wealth without precedent or
peer writing on page historic and in
the memories and gratitude of men
the tale immortal of the Comstock
and other bonanzas that thrilled the
world; of geysers not yet extinct
gushing treasures of chemical and
geologic lore, and furnishing the key
to scientific problems and assurance
that the Comstock is not alone in its
class; of lakes that mirror cloud and
sky and consultations and that re-
fleet landscape grandeur, the fairest
and serenest upon which mortal eye
hath gazed.
Nevada Land Tiresome trail of
Argonaut to "the foot of the rain
bow" to realization of his dream in
that world sung utopia by the sunset
sea; golden shrine where supplication
wasted to God for protection against
climatic inclemencies and dangers
from ferocious beasts and savage
men; bier and sepulcher where weary
feet faltered and failed and hearts
exhausted, ceased to pulsate. Land of
sage brush, of sand and solitude
where desert desolation, dearth of
the dew, and "bereft of the rain re-
mains the one lure unexplainable and
irresistible; mighty domain of re-
sources innumerable, of possibilities
inconjecturable, of people, the best
and noblest type of modern civiliza-
ton; and of future that can only
be measured by distances to the
stars.
Long is the trail | tread, vending,
winding,
Forever on to my Haven of Hope,
out there,
To my dream land, fair, and enchant-
ments rare;
Mid scenes that enthrall, on a gol-
den strand.
Firm is my faith, and fond-seeking
finding
Enjoying all of the garner gain
and hold;
Vaster than store of old, or the
wealth in legends told,
Where silvers the balm sweet sage OF
Nevada Land.