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The Washington times., 1925-10-28
LEAVES PULPIT
To SEEK LOST
GOLD
Finds Hoard Left by Father
on Mountain After 35
Years Search

BONNEVILLE, Ark, Oct 2S.-
Money, cliff, rattlesnake, flat
rock"
These five words, gasped inco-
herently by a dying man way back
in 1889, in what is now Stigler,
Okla, caused M. C. Hall to abandon
the ministry and come to Bonneville
on a thirty-five-year search for
buried treasure that transformed
him into an almost legendary char
acter known as the wild Man
Of Magazine Mountain" led him
into adventure, as thrilling and as
picturesque as any experienced by
Stevenson's seekers after pirate
gold and, finally, brought him into
possession of a fortune after the
weary span of years.
With the muttered words OF his
father, "Uncle Jake" Hall, who died
in 1889 at the age Of ninety five, as
the only clue, young Hall took up
which the aged man was known
to have hidden somewhere.
Starts His Search
The elder Hall had, a year pre-
vious to his death, been visiting a
farm which he owned near Boone
vile, and the son, believing this
was where the treasure trove
would be found, began his search
there.
While he was out hunting with
another son on Magazine Noun
tain, another of his sons had been
accidentally wounded, while stand
ing on a large flat rock. Years
before, the father had been bitten
by rattlesnake near a cliff in the
same vicinity. Piecing together
the broken sentence of the father,
the treasure hunter conceived the
idea that it was somewhere on this
mountain that the gold was buried.
So he took up the search, comb
ing the wide expanse of the hill
inch by inch, during the years
that followed. He virtually spent
all his time on the wind-swept hill,
prosecuting his search, and so in
tent did he become that he paid
little attention to his appearance.
He grew a beard, and became
almost a hermit, living alone on
the mountain much of the time.
Thus, he became known as the
wild Man of the Mountain" %
residents Of the vicinity, and maAy
were the wild stories told of his
queer actions, most of these being
the product of fanciful magma
tons.
Recently Hall. almost despairing
of success, now an old man of sixty,
stumbled unexpectedly upon his
The Washington times., 1925-10-28
TOWN LIGHTS CUT OFF
BY SPARROW ON WIRE

BOYERTOWN. Pa, Oct. ga
bird put the entire electric system
system of Boyertown and the entire
southeastern section of Berks and
Upper Montgomery counties, out Of
business for a long period.
During the heavy rain a sparrow
perched on one of the high tension
wires carrying $4,000 volts from
the West Reading plant Of tire
Metropolitan Edison Company to
the Boyertown distribution station.
Linemen repaired the damMge in
three hours
The Washington times., 1925-10-28
COATS FEATURE
FLARE AND
FURS
~HR1A
~AHS
Irregular Godets Sand Loose
Patches Used in Latest
Paris Models
By ALICE LANGELIER
International News Service


PARIS, Oct. Observation-Disclosures
Is the newest ideal for the new win
ter coats. Irregular godets and
loose patches are far cry from the
sleek straight lines of last year
Fur and flare are the two inn
portant elements Of the winter coat
this season. Some Of the most
striking models seen at the Long
champs races last week were of
rich brocades of red or green vel
vets to the low waist line and from
there down fur set in cores. Many
had godets set in, rounded, triangu-
lar or parallelogramned. Often
times they are isolated and flop
with the movement of the body.
A model from Vergne shows that
the new coat is graceful and sup
pie in spite of it's fuzziness. There
is flaring flounc9, collar and un-
usual cuffs going DIP to the shout
ders in the center, made of mink.
There is a shaped piece of the
same up the center of the back
and the triangular top to the
fIounce is odd and beautiful at the
same time.
Wide bands of beige caracul trim
a very chic coat of dark red kasha
duvetine extending down the front
and around the bottom. It is treat
ed to an applique in scroll design
with narrow curved bands of brown
caracul and enclosing lines.
Detachable fur lining and tri-
angular motifs are the features of
a youthful coat noticed at the Ritz
tea room last week. It comes in
dark blue velour and hasa a deep
shawl collar and cuffs of baby fox
with curved waist line and dis
tinctive flaring.
Gracefully draped sides and backs
give certain chic to Drecoll's new
coats
The Washington times., 1925-10-28

are used daily in their own
kitchens.
And they know with what
scrupulous care each loaf is
baked-how it is tested daily
for richness, grain and flavor by
City Baking Institute.
TRY this fine satisfying bread
that the best Washington host
esseS have selected for their
guests. Delivered fresh twice
every day. Order loaf of
Rice's from your grocer today.
The Washington times., 1925-10-28
ORIENTAL LOVE RITE
LEADS TO ARRESTS

BERLIN, Oct. ga sensation
was created in German academy
circles by the arrest of Doctor
Ritter, director of the Oriental
Seminar at Hamburg University,
and two prominent Hamburg mer-
chants.
They are charged with having
staged weird Oriental love rites"
in which the sons of the most
prominent Hamburg families were
involved.
The Washington times., 1925-10-28

one for the mother. There was
one large bag of bearskin, contain
ing $4,000, addressed ITO The
Finder"
The "Wild Man of the Noun
tain has purchased a fertile farm
home near Stigler, Oklahoma, and
has settled down to enjoy the fruits
of his thirty-five year quest, &C.
.cording to w. p. Morgan, of Boone
vile, his nephew.
The Washington times., 1925-10-28

buried gold. tt was buried in the
face Nof a cliff, near a huge flat
rock, at the place where the rattle
snake had bitten his father, years
before. Thus, the words Of the
father. trying to tell him where the
treasure was hidden, were ex-
planned.
The gold was in several squirrel
skin bags, each labelled with the
name of one of the children and
The Washington times., 1925-10-28
NEW SOVIET STAMPS
HONOR RADIO INVENTOR

MOSCOW, Oct 28.-Two series
of postage stamps printed in Els
peranto have just been authorized
by the commissariat of posts and
telegraphs. They are In honor of
the Russian physicist, Popoff, and
bear the inscription, ITO the radio
inventor Popoff."
One issue is of kopecks, in light
blue, and the other, of IL kopecks,
in light green.
The Washington times., 1925-10-28
Gets Year for Shooting

WEST CHESTER, Pa, Oct, Is
Mrs. Tessie Phillips, Of Hayti, above
Gainesville. who pleaded guilty 70
the charge of shooting Perry
Draught. was sentenced to pay a
fine Of $500 and serve one year
in the county Jail.
The Washington times., 1925-10-28
WOMAN LEDGER LIES
DEAD FOR THREE WEEKS

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2S.-For
three weeks, unknown to the rest
of the boarders, a seventy-eight-
year-old woman laid dead in her
bed in a rooming house at Mana
yunk, it was discovered.
When Policeman PENAL, of the
Manayunk station, was called to
the place by Nicholas Roseley,
another roomer, he found Mrs.
Mary Fay dead in her bed.
The Washington times., 1925-10-28
Not by Chance 49,
does This Rich Loaf grace
the counry's finest tables

IN WASHINGTON where the fine
art of hospitality is practised
daily-and even the smallest de-
tails of entertaining have a high
importance = the bread each
skillful hostess serves is chosen
with expert care.
One particular loaf is seen
more and more on their distin-
guished tables.
And not by chance.
Washington's capable host
esses know every ingredient that
goes into Rice's unusual loaf
the same rich ingredients that
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-04-16

Business is getting good" quoth
Mister Bun. "Out of every sackful
l keep measure for my pay. I'll
have Johnny cake and buckwheat
flapjacks and popovers for days to
come."
Then he emptied out the wheat
into one pile, and the corn into an
other pile, and the buckwheat into
another pile.
At that very instant a grain of the
magic snuff settled right on the end
of his nose.
And the next instant he had
breathed it in.
And the next instant he went
"Achoo! .Achoo! Achoo!" 80 hard
that every grain. of wheat and corn
and buckwheat flew out of the mill
windows and showered the country
for miles around.
"Now I've done everybody a good
turn" grinned he. II made them all
go as far as ever ! could. l hope
everybod" is satisfied" u
l don't know what he told the Tat
tered Man and the Man from St, Ives
and the one from Norwich way. The
truth, hope, but they would never
believe it.
(To Be Continued.)
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-04-16

New York, April l6.-Are New
Workers Americans? That question
is on par with Alice Duer Miller's
Are Women People?"
At any rate, consider the l6 boys
selected by the New York Board OF
Education for merit. study, initiative
and leadership as the group from
which one was selected to meet presi-
dent Coolidge as the representative
New York boy.
The nationalities represented in
the list of 1G are Italian, Austrian
Greek, French, Chinese. Syrian, Irish
Russian, Spanish, Polish, Brazilian
Cuban, Argentine, Czecho-Slovakiar
and German.
With the selection limited to that
group you can see that it was i'm
possible to select an American as a
representative New York boy.
Say what you will of New Yorks
crowded traffic, it is the only ci.y
in which 1 have lived where side
walks are kept unobstructed. Despite
great building operations, the raz;ne
Of old buildings and the rearing OF
new ones, the pedestrian still finds a
place on the sidewalks, either under a
protective canopy oyer raised
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-04-16
Means of Making Voter Important
By Chester H. ROwell

French do want to vote" says sundry Depu-
ties but since have widows, and many
young foredoomed to be spnsters, it may be
necessary to force political rights them"
1t par with the American slogan, "Vote as you
like; Vote We all tend to make fetch of the mere
vote if that the whole Of and
democracy.
What boots to vote the political system makes that
vote futile meaningless? No SYSTEM to be sure, does
that completely and the vote is nowhere entirely useless
But the restoration of local self government in France
the shortening of the ballot in America would be
important steps toward democracy than is the expansion of
the franchise.
A French city would nearer to self government
with half people voting and the right to elect it's
mayor than with all them voting and power that
vote on their own local affairs
More would be gained for democracy in America by max
ing the ballot short enough to vote negenty than
gained by extending the right of unntegent voting to all
the people, Voting is Important but the of making
that vote count equally
Figures the temperature of Mars observed during
the recent approach, given out Astronomers
fine themselves facts but the rest of may the
privilege of specializing on those facts
appears that the temperature of Mars at the poes is
about the that Of the arctic regions earth At
the equator the temperature at in the dark spots,
where if anywhere life exists is about that of cool March
day in New York. :
But snce for purposes of e the extremes of heat and
cold marked by the freezing and boiling points Of water
bols Mars hundred degrees cooler than
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-04-16
PROTECT THE PUBLIC
WasAlburn Laadcrl


The business men Of every small
city like WaShburn are confronted
with a new and serious problem
Ii IS due to the growth of pet.uling,
canvass ng, or order taking And
many communities like ours are
solving the problem by licensing or
bonding all peOp.e who 60 from
house to house taking orders for
merchandise handled by local mer-
chants.
AT first glance this may not seem
quite fair ID some people. But the
Editor feels that common sense
view of the issue, will conyinc =
everyone that the merchant is
right in demanding some action TO
curb the spread Of this kind of
business. For in the long run any
thing that iniures the merchant in
business way Injuries all the citl-
zens of the community.
The peddler comes into the town,
am often demands cash deI0si'
on the article he sells Then he
goes elsewhere and delivery of the
ordered goods Is made TO the Gus
toner &. O. ID. People often find
later that the goods Is not up to
standard - has been misrepresent-
ed. But by that time the 'peddler
may be i'm the next state and the
buyer has no recourse.
Bonding anu licensing, 1T seems.
are the only sensible methods tor
giving the buying public much
needed protection.
But there is more to the ques ion
than this. The peddler comes dur
ing the time Of peak demand,
takes the cream of the business out
cf the community, and pays not
ono red cent in the way of taxes
for the upkeep of our schools and
other public Institutions. The
merchant On the other hand, is
here the year round, gives service
in and out of season, an.' turns a
Substantial sum Ot money over TO
the city treasurer every year.
If We a:tow these peddlers II in
jnre the business Of local mer-
chants, we will he guilty of stand
ing by and allowing a condition to
develop which may make for bust
ness s'agnation locally, which will
throw more Cf the tax burden on
the poorer citizens of the Commun-
ity, and wrich may make Wash
burn a less desirable town in
which to live.
The e1itCr believes that we
should protect the business men
who keep up our town.
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-04-16
ADVENTURE OF
THE TWINS
MISTER BUN TRIES TO OBLIGE
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

MISTER BUN TRIES TO OBLIGE
Mr.. Bun, the fat miller, was lean.
ing against the door of his flour mill
smoking pipe.
It's a wonder that he wasn't sleep
ing, because he was the biggest
sleepyhead in Daddy Gander Town.
Really he belonged in Snoozer Town
along with Mayor. Snorealoud and
Forty Winks, his clerk, and all the
other SnOozers.
But just now he wasn't sleeping.
He was smoking and looking down
the road and thinking that business
wasn't very good, because no one
had brought q sack of wheat to be
ground into flour for ever and ever
SO long.
Well, while he was watching, up
drove the Tattered Man who had
married the Maiden All Forlorn. he
was no olnger tattered because his
wife had mended him all up, besides
being thrifty and good manager,
and now he was q prosperous farmer.
/ "Good morning, Mister Bum" said
he. "Ive brought two sacks of wheat
to be ground into flour. Be very
careful, please, and don't waste any.
Make them go as far as you cam"
"That I'll do sir!" said the jolly
miller taking the wheat sacks and
setting them on the floor.
A minupte latera along came man
from St. Ives.
f"Hi, there, Mister Bum" he shout
ed. "Come out and get my sack Of
buckwheat. l want it ground into
buckwheat flour and please make it
60 as far as you can"
"That I'll do, sir!' said the miller
taking the buckwheat and setting it
down on the floor.
The man from St. Ives went away
and pretty soon along came farmer
from down Norwich way.
"Good morrow, Mister Miller" said
he. Eve brought a sack of corn to
be groundlinto meal. Times are hard
and corn is scarce SO please make it
60 as far as you can"
"Aye, aye, sir" said Mister Bun,
taking the corn and settinng it down
on the floor.
When the last man had gone the
miller started his mill-wheel to turn
ing. st ~ +. .s'7
inside the mill I the great mill
stones started grinding together with
. great ciattex. .Ee s--.s-e
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-04-16
=: The TQngle -:

asked her outright the other day
if she ever intended to marry and
she answered honestly. Il don't
know, Bee,'
You see we have become intimate
enough to call each other by our
given names.
81 am not saying that ! will never
marry, but just now ! am more in
terested in my acting and sometimes
hope that | shall never fall in love
with any man" she continued.
II never want to wish for man
to be always beside me. 1t must be
agony, particularly if, as you so
often see, that man is more interest
ed in some one else than he is in
you.
Il have always wanted to know
what wife thinks under those cir
| cumstances."
Surely you know, Paula, most
wives kick up an awful muss," | said
But that is not always the best
thing for them to do" she ans wered.
In my close observation 1 have cOme
to believe that the wife is not only
the housekeeper and the homekeep-
er, but also the lovekeeper of the
family"
| hope this rambling letter will
interest you. Anyway | have writ
ten it and will let it go.
Affectionately,
BEE.
Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-04-16
LETTER FROM BEATRICE SUM-
MERS TO LESLIE PkESCOIl


You're a very clever girl, thought,
as | watched Paula. l do not know
where you learned your lessons of
life, but you certainly have done it
too well TO have learned 1T in the
short time you have been before the
camera.
think one Of the great fascina-
tions about Paula, my dear, is her
mysteriousness. No one i'm all this
gossipy little town has been able
10 put his little finger on an in
discretion of speech or action of this
girl, and yet she never gives you a
feeling that she does not know. She
never makes YOU feel that she is
innocent, but she does give you the
impression Of pure mind.
Why is it that men viii always
com1ound innocence with purity
when they think of women? limo
cence means nothing but lack of
knowledge-it is not virtue but a
state OF mind, and. in this day of
plain speaking. innttence lasts a
very little while.
once heard man boast that his
wife was /; child in thought when he
married her, that she knew nothing
of the world, the flesh or the devil.
man was not young, for he boasted
that he had taught his wife all she
knew about love.
After the man had left Che was
calling upon Dick and me), my hus
band told me that two years after
marriage this innocent woman had
eloped with the mans best friend.
She had apparently changed her in
nocence to a knowledge which she
had not the purity of mind to resist.
! am very anxious indeed, Leslie,
to know the man that Paula Perier
will marry. She will make good
wife for someone, and yet sometimes
l think she shrinks from ever al
lowing love to come into her life.
She is very good friend to many
men out here, but again must tell
you that while many men have SEEM
ed to be in love with ner, no one has
for moment intimated that she was
in love with them.
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-04-16
A GOOD CITIZEN CONE
Beach AdyancC) }

In the death last week of Walter
+. Macomber, of Wilton the state
has lost one her best citizens, and
one who has done more to advance
the Ignite coal industry than any
other we know Of. OF the kindlie3t
! disposition. interested in anything
| for the betterlneut Of his town AMI
state, Mr. MacOmber, a real work
Ct where work was to be done, and
quiet philant;hropiat ana helper
of others, will be sadly missed by
those, who like the writer, knew
him intimately in other days and
was glad to count him a good
friend.
Mr. Maconber was a builder and
to his untir.ng work il due the
solid basis upon which the Ignite
coal industry Is now placed. He
was president and manager Of the
Washburn Ignite Coal company
at Wilton, which he developed
from a small mine to the largest
in the state. He was ever ready,
although his mine was the most
advantageously located Of any in
the state. to share that advantage
as to freight rates SO that all the
mines could become competitor
and able to bid for large state ana
other contracts, a generosity not
always found in business. He was
man who will be missed in the
upbuilding Of the state.
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-04-16

platform. In most cities he must
detour into the street and take his
chances with autos.
Warren Gamaliel Harding came
back to America on the freighter
Carenco the other day. He had
been gone three months AS a pulser
and MI called at the po !, of Egypt,
Greece and Syria. He rs nephew
Of the late president and lives at
Columbus, O. A student Of an alb
normal psychology and prospective
medical student, he had note book
full of observations of strange char
acters encountered on his trip.
The other evening it was my mis-
fortune to get into crowded BMT
subway train during the rush hour.
| tried to get Off at Canal street, bat
the inruslang crowd swept me far
back into the car and the train had
reached De Kalb avenue in Brooklyn
before | could get off.
Another young fellow caught in a
similar situation was much cleverer.
Seeing that he coulan t get off, he
yelled 'Stand back, woman has
fainted!" As the mob momentarily
halted he rushed off the train.
Once in while the subway mob
can be halted for a moment by a
fainting woman, but on two occa-
sions | have seen women collapse on
subway platforms with scant atten-
ton from the hurrying throng.
Katy Geist has been running a
kitchen for poor kids of the East
Side for the past 20 years. Hundreds
Of the hungry know her. Now she
is retiring and after her long career
of service the Presbyterian Hospital
is giving her purse that she may
never know hunger herself.
JAMES w. DEAN.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-04-16
Official City, State and County Newspaper
POWER IN SOUTH AND WEST

While Senator Borah complains of the Capitalization of
bureaucratic power in Washington the New York World,
taking different slant at facts points out that the nations
economic and political power formerly cenered in the East
becoming "deconcentrated."
Great industries like oil and coal and the rail
roads," says the World, land banking power itself,
are throwing off eastern control. Powerful indus
trial centers have arisen in the West and rising
in the South, which increasingly Independent of
New York and Pennsylvania and Massachusetts"
This truth anyone learn for himself by following
the nteigenty from day to day began perhaps
with the Federal Reserve System, which decentrazed the
financial system in Wall Street and spread it around the
country Industrial developments in recent years have
creased the tendency.
An interesting part of this commentary is refusal to
weep such scattering of power.
1T is tragedy for the East" remarks the
World. "On the contrary, the decentralization Of
economic power is desirable and necessary in
country as vast the United States The people
of the East will gain from more evenly balanced
national life. monopoly of control and prestige
is in the long good to it's possessors.'
This is sporting comment and also true 1t
might we'll be accepted in every section of the country
expressing the spirit of and wholesome national
development 1--WE are members one of another.
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-04-16
NOW FOREST DAY

Tomorrow is Arbor Day set apart by proclamation to
encourage refoesaton and focus the mind of the youth
upon the value of the and it's In fact the
day has merged nationally into what is known Forest
Day and is to be much broader in scope
Nothing beautify city state more than syste-
matte planting The practice should become more
general There million of in the United States
available for refoestation purposes which not produc
tive except for trees
1t is known increase the fertility of the soil
F. Schuyler Mathews in his Familiar Trees says: "The
are sponges which through their leaves soak
up the benece ranrops and compel them to slowly
through shaded channels to parched lands beyond!
North Dakota should make this Arbor Day really For
est Day. Not merely 'plant tree but pant many Of
them"
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-04-16

ing careful to spit out the poison
blood
A drop of pure carbolic acid may
be applied to the wound, or strong
solution of permanganate of potash.
If person has the nerve, a red
hot, iron or live coal Of fire should
be placed on the wound. This helps
to cauterize the wound.
Most Of the common variety of
snakes are poisonous. Mrs. Jones
learned. She planned to get list
and description of the poisonous kind
80 her children would know them on
sight.
Copyright. 1925. NEA Service, Inc. J
The Bismarck tribune., 1925-04-16
--FABLES ON HEALTH-
IN CASE OF SNAKEBITE

Living in small town, Mrs. Jones
children know little about poisonous
snakes. But as soon as school is out
they plan to spend several weeks in
the woods.
So Mrs. Jones dug into her library
to find out what to do in case of
snakebite.
Here's what she learned:
Keep the poison from circulating
throught the body. This is done by
tying cord, rope or necktie short
distance from the bitten spot, and
between the latter and the heart.
If there are no sores in the mouth
or on the lips. suck the wound, be-