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The Coconino sun., 1926-12-31

carter Joy says ne aAiuS HedIu ~
was bad business a feller marryln q
relative, but there amt a married
man of his acquaintance that didn't
marry bis own wife.
Coach @swede9 Lynch says the rea-
son his football squad did such good
kicking during the season just closed
was that he taught them whenever
they kicked to put their whole sole
into it.
Phil Hall says he played in an IN
strumentaT endurance contest in Los
Angeles wunct, but only got second
place. He played Annie Laurie for
Is hours but the feller what got the
first prize played Sousa's Stars and
Stripes Forever.
Man walked into the Western Union
office, Saturday and asked Miss Alleu:
''I'm expecting telegram from my
wife. What time do your wires corle
in from Phoenix ?"
John @. Thomas says all our stories
about absent-minded people have been
weak. He had q professor in college
once who shaved the cat and kicked
himself in the face.
Jimmie Hamilton, manager of the
Hotel Monte Vista, says it actually
occurred. In Riverside, where he had
a hotel, woman guest in the dining
room was seen to put spoon In her
handbag She was back for the next
meal, and was watched. She took
another spoon. She had been eating
there a long time and spoons had
been going fast They stopped her on
her way out and told her they would
not make any more trouble if sac
would return the spoons she had
taken.
s'Make me trouble?" She said. 4
guess you won't make me any trou-
Bile! I'm simply following out my
doctors orders. He told me to take
a large Tablespoon after every meal"
Deputy Sheriff Bill Smith arrested
a man Monday and the Indignantly
demanded why for he was pinched.
'.For stealing q Ford automobile,
Bill told him.
.sThe devil you say!' said the man;
'eYou can't prove it. Go ahead and
search me-"
Little Helen Miller, daughter of Mr..
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-31

Folks who demand liberty or death,
are respectfully referred to any boot
logger.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-31

The lastAwish of the confirmed but
modest bridge-player is probably that
he be. buried with simple honors.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-31

Coach "Swede" Lynch says the rea-
son his football squad did such good
kicking during the season just closed
was that he taught them whenever
they kicked to put their whole sole
into it.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-31

Give the Sun you JOB printing.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-31

There was an old maid of Oneida
Who screamed at the sight of a speida
She would kick at lamb
And run wild from a ramb,
But fearlessly tackle hard ceida.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-31

And jokes seem remarkably fue,
He viii jump to his chair,
When the colunlnist's copy is due,
Take a pull at his hair,
Then grind out a limerick or tue.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-31

Man walked into the Western Union
office. Saturday and asked Miss Allea:
''I'm expecting. a telegram from my
wife. What time do your wires corle
in from Phoenix?
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-31

Little Helen Miller, daughter of Mr..
Evening star., 1926-04-18

various religious bodies and organi-
cations and the white and colored
races represented on the board. Ac-
Evening star., 1926-04-18
NEW BUS TRAFFIC EXPANSION
is PREDICTED BY MAJ. CONELL
Assistant ID. G. Engineer Commissioner Finds Only
20 Per Gent of Ultimate Development
Has Been Reached.

which have gone over to the motor
busses, the two traction companies
were forced into the bus business soon
after the Washington Rapid Iransit
Company began making declued
inroads on their revenues.
The washington Railway and Elec
trio Co. now is operating 10 bus
lines and the Capital Traction Co., D.
True, not all OF these lines are paying
but public utilities officials are con
fident of their success as a business
venture.
The motor bus is destined to meet
with greatest success in outlying
residential sections composed chiefly
of homes of persons with moderate
incomes according to Maj CoVell.
Residents in the so-calied exclusive
sections who own two or more auto
mobiles do not want the bus, he said.
AS an illustration, Maj. Covell cited
the recent extension into Brook land
of the Rhode Island coach line of the
Washington Railway and Electric Co.
1.-THE first morning that this exten-
sion was put into effect" he said,
1.-The people of Brookland literally
sWamped the busses and the original
schedule had to be abandoned. The
company had purchased four new
coaches Tor this service, out nau only
planned to use two of them. All four
had to be pressed into service, and it
is likely that others will have to be
purchased to meet the demand"
The Interstate busses running into
and out of Washington in all directions
also, in most cases. are feeling the eff
feet of the increasing popularity of
motor bus travel. There is not a
main highway on which a bus does
not operate. Some of the busses run
as far as Philadelphia. New York, Bal
timore and Hagerstown; others have
shorter hauls. going to Luray, Fair
fax, Alexandria. Olney and other near.
by Maryland and Virginia commu-
mites.
The increasing demand for bus
travel has not been offset to any de
cided extent by the rapid growth in
automobile travel, it is pointed out by
utility experts. While automobiles
have retarded somewhat a quicker de-
velopment of bus transportation, not
only in Washington, but in outlying
communities, their effect has been felt
more by the street railway companies
than the bus lines.
Evening star., 1926-04-18
Maryland District.

Ink on old Egyptian and Roman
papyri consisted of u lampblack pig
ment.
Evening star., 1926-04-18

Motor bus transportation in Wash
tngton is on the verge of its most
substantial development since the
Washington Rapid Transit Co. estab-
lished the first permanent 1nterurDan
system back in March, 1921. accord
ing to Maj, w. L. r. Covell, assist
ant District Engineer Commissioner
AS an assistant to the Public Util-
tiles Commission, Maj. Covell has
kept a constant check on the trans
portation barometer in the Natlonal
Capital and has observed the ever
increasing popularity Of the bus and
the resulting de:line in the use of
street cars.
DESPITE the fact that busses now
are carrying virtually four times as
many passengers as they did five
years ago, Maj. Covell is convinced
that this mode of transportation is
far from the peak of its popularity.
Washington bus system, he said,
has reached only about 20 per cent
of it's ultimate development.
Buses, however, will never replace
the traction lines as the chief trans
portation agency, in Maj. Covells
opinion. While he foresees still great
err use OF busses in the future, he also
predicts that the street cars will con-
tinue to expand their routes.
The ideal transportation system,
which Maj. Covell says will come
with the impending merger of the
traction companies, consists OF a
highly developed and efficient CO.
ordinated service between the busses
and the street cars. Universal trans
fers and a general rerouting of exist
H. T.
the direct result of the consolidation,
providing the District with rapid
service far superior to the present
system, with bus and street car lines
on a competitive basis, and routes
overlapping.
Reduced Car Patronage.
Figures compiled by the Utility
Commissions statiSticians show
graphically the falling off in street
car passengers since the advent of
the busses. In 1920. the year before
the Washington Rapid Transit Co.
turned loose the then cumbersome
motor busses on Sixteenth street, the
Washington Railway and Electric Co.
hauled S5,S00,000 revenue passengers
and the Capital Traction Co, 76.0C0,.
600. The following year, although the
DuSSeS dld not DeSln operation unllI
March /, the former company's pas
senger list dropped 100000 and the
latter's 100000. a steady decrease
followed each year. and in 1925 the
Washington Railway and Electric Co.
hauled &c 200, 900 or $500. 900 less than
it did in 1920. The Capital Traction
Co. last year carried 64,200,000 pas
sengers or 11.S00,000 less than in 1920.
In the meantime the Washington
Rapid Transit Company has steadily
gained. It boasted last year of
5000. 900 paid passengers. as compared
with 100000 in the first year it
operated. The figure in 1922 leaped to
$500, 900, with a 100000 gain in 1928.
The following year it suffered a de-
crease of 100000 passengers. but with
the addition of the double-deckers the
company ran its figure up to the
5000 900 mark.
The double-deckers are regarded by
public utility experts as the greatest
money makers ever used by a public
transportation system. and with the
Washington Rapid Transit Company
about to put six additional ones into
operation. a material gain in revenue
passengers over last year is expected.
To combat the loss in passengers
Evening star., 1926-04-18
Aurora BOrealis
Lures Firemen on
Long Night Dash

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 17.-Virtually
the whole population of Baden is
chuckiing over the fact that the
Eppingen volunteer fire fighting
force recently went racing on
midnight excursion which, as was
discovered later, had as it's object
the extinguishing of the aurora
borealis.
From the village market it ap-
peared as If nearby castle was
burning. When the horse e-drawn
nose cart reached the place and
the men saw no fire they raced on
TO the next village. Seeing an auto
mobile in front of a saloon, the
f1remen dashed in. talked the
driver into abandoning a card game
and driving them on to the next
village. But the blaze seemed to
be farther up the valley. They
had driven several miles farther
before they realized that they We're
chasing rainbows at night.
Evening star., 1926-04-18
PUBLIC WELFARE BOARD
NOMINEES PUT FORWARD
District League of Women Voters
Suggests II Names for Con-
Sideration,

The District League of Women
Voters has suggested II names for
consideration by the District Com
misioners for appointment to the
Public Welfare Board, provided for
in the District Public Welfare bill
1t was announced yesterday. The
action was taken at a meeting at
the headquarters of the American
Association of University Women,
1884 ! street, Friday. The selections
were as follow:
Miss Mabel Boardman. Miss Mamie
Burrows, Miss Lydia Burklin, Mrs
William +. Chamberlin, Mrs. Avery
Coonley, Mrs. George NJ. Eckels
Mrs. Henry Flather, julius Gar.
finckel, Coleman Jennings. DR.. Will
liam Kirby, Miss Helen Nicolay, Judge
Kathryn Sellers, Rabbi Abram Simon
Mrs. Lyman 3. Swormstedt. Walter
5. Ufford, DR.. W. A. Warfield and
Evening star., 1926-04-18
Montana Society BANQUET.

The Montana State Society of Wash
ington held its first annual banquet
last Monday evening at the Hamilton
Hotel, attended by about 1875 former
residents of the State. Senator Walsh
and Representatives Leavitt and
Evans of Montana spoke on the de-
velopment of Montana from it's days
of pioneer settlement. 7. Emmett Nc
Kenzie. president of the society acted
az toastmaSter.
Evening star., 1926-04-18
STOP WATCHES ABUSED.
Navy Orders Cheaper Variety for
Use of Officers.

Expensive stop watches have proved
TOO much of temptation for the per-
SonneI OF the Navy, which has used
them as timepieces, with the result
that many have been broken and lost,
according to officials of the Navy. AS
a corrective mea sure cheaper watches
are to be provided.
All of the expensive watches with
time-telling hands have been called in
and will be replaced by those with
only the stop check hands on them.
Evening star., 1926-04-18
Plague Is Stamped Out.

When several cases of plague, re-
calling the deadly scourges of histori-
cal nature, occurred recently at Lagos.
in Nigeria, the prompt action of the
governor checked its spread. This Of
fetal had all cases isolated. Three
cases were found and all three victims
died
Evening star., 1926-04-18

cordingly, the list of names was
chosen with that object in view It
was stated
Evening star., 1926-04-18

Mrs. r.. Thomas West
1t was pointed out at the meeting
that 1t was intended to have the
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
ADVERTISEMENT
If You Feel Old and Worn
Out Read What
HOBO KID NE Y AND
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DID FOR OTHERS.

Mr.. ]. c. Slower Of Atlanta, Texas,
says be suffered from kidney and
bladder trouble for the past 80 years
and spent more than $1,000 buying
medicine, paying doctor bills trying
to find some relief. As last resort
was carried TO a sanitarium for opera
lion but was found too Weak to stand
an operation. His attention was called
to Hobo Kidney and Bladder Remedy
while Mt the sanitarium. After taking
first bottle of Hobo he found that he
was improving and continued taking
during which time he passed at least
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you suffer from kidney or bladder
;-yuble in any form or have pains in
your back, swelling Of the feet and
hands, get treatment Of Hobo Kid
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neighborhood druggist. 1t has given
relief in most eases and treatment of
Q bottles is guaranteed.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
REUNION OF PARENTS SEQUEL
TO CINDERELLA MARRIAGE

ing care of Peaches" in New York.
He and his second wife agreed it was
his duty to 90 TO New York.
He has written regularly to the
wife left behind, she said, and now
that the girl is married, he is free to
return.
Heenan was divorced from his first
wife. Frances mother, ten years ago
in Columbus, Ohio, according to his
second wife. Two years later he met
and married his present wife, widow
of d. J.. Bailey Of Louisville. Ky.
Employed as a saleswoman in a
store here. Mrs. Hecnan has been
maintaining herself and her own
daughter.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
California to Use
Old Moonshine Law

SACRAMENTO, Cal, April 90
R)-The old law declaring Illicit dis
tlling n felony carrying maximum
fine of $1,000 or Two years in Jail,
or both, used in the mountainous
regions of the South and Fast against
m"Onshiners, b@s been put into effect
by the federal government against
present day distillers in the 81 cOun-
ties comprising the northern district
Of California.
This was announced yesterday by
Assistant United States Attorney
Albert +. Sheets of Sacramento. This
law, Sheets points out, replaces the
lighter fine Of $1,000 or six months in
Jail or both, assessed since the advent
of the eighteenth amendment.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
NAR-T I'M { Spy
MYS 7 cry
A~..s--
SOLVED
Former French Minister.
BareS His Relations
With DanSeuSe.

PARIS. April 20.-CP)-A mystery
involving Mata Hari, woman spy, has
just been solved The mystery was
the identity of the war time minister.
, his name beginning with M and
ending with "Y,'' who wrote gallant
epistles to the mystic danseusc, ex-
ccuted in October, 1917, for espionage
For years the enemies of LOUIS
Malvy, once minister of the interior
had implicated him, but now Adolphc
Messimy, former minister of war, ad.
mits that, intrigued by the beautiful
dancer-spy, he wrote the letters which
she cherished until they were seized a
her arrest.
1t was believed by some that the
Senate. which convicted Malvy Of
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
Blood Pressure
Serum Discovered
DIV InlyersaI SerNIce.

NEW YORK, April 20.-A remedy
for high blood pressure. an affliction
which has troubled civilized man for
centuries with death by sudden stroke
and rupture of blood vessels, has
been found.
DIR. c. Legiardi Laura. formerly an
assistant TO Cesare Lombroso, the
great psychologist and criminolOgist,
in an address IaSr evening before the
Medical Association. of the Greater
City of New York at the New York
Academy of Medicine announced that
he has discovered a serum several
injections of which have been suffi-
cient to restore the blood to normal
pressure.
This serum, called "Hypotensine.
extracted from q horse. is declared
by DIR. Laura to be the first agent
known to medicine to reduce high
blood pressure.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
ADMISSION IN LETTER

Messimy's admission is contained in
letter to Nine. Severing. a Socialist
writer, who in some way had learned
that he was the author of the notes
to Mata Hari.
The letter says: you ask me to
bear witness TO clear up an enigma
and soften sadness. You think
this testimony may contribute to lesser
the hateful vehemence of adversaries
attacking my friend and old colleague,
NJ. Malyy.
"You recall to me that the French
always have been most indulgent for
the faults which brought Francis and
the Bearnais (mcaning Henry 1N) q
good part of their popularity. i
know also that not only Frenchmcr.
but perhaps French women, are even
more devoid of all tolerance and all
amenity for the man who seeks to
escape flattcring advances. tempting
and direct, of woman, above all II
she is famous and beautiful.
SHOT TO DEATH
Nevertheless. that is the true story
Of my relations with Mata Hari; dur
ing many months fourteen years ago,
she by all the means Of seduction
which she knew how to employ in in
comparable fashion, tried to acquire
the right to call herself my mistress.
| found her charming, but full of
mystery and just as enticing as she
was disquieting. / had the impudence
not only to tell her. that, but to write
it to her."
Mata Hari was declared by some
persons TO be Dutch. Others claim
she was Javancse. She was convicted
Of conveying to the Germans the Sc
crct Of the construction of entente
tanks. and died before a firing squad
on the parade grounds at Vincennes.
During n recent debate in the senate
on the financial bill, NJ. Malvy was
castigated by his opponents, presuma-
bly, in connection with the Mata Hari
case. During a bitter retort he faint
ed on the rOstrum. Later he retired as
minister of the interior in the cabi
net of NJ. BRAND in order to fight his
enemies. For a time during the war
Malvy was minister of the interior
and Messimy was minister of war.
General Messimy in his letter says
Of the letters he sent to Mata Hari.
SOUNDS WARNING.
81 never had foresight enough TO
make copies of notes of that sort when
it came upon me to send them" the
general declared. But certainly those
letters were most gallant. because in
writing them reproached myself for
being too docile before the counsels of
prudence to re-enact stupidity the story
Of Madame Potiphar and her servant.
Let this adventure serve as a les
son to young deputies of ministerial
timber whom beautiful women pursue
with advances which they suspect
somehow confusedly. Let deputies be-
ware leaving in ladies' hands both their
overcoats and their letters which might
serve as poisoned weapons. In the last
analysis it was to that hate-filled pa
per that the whole perfidiOus cam
paign aimed linking up of NJ. Malvy's
name with that of the celebrated spy
can be traced"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20

CHICAGO, April 20.-CP)-Mar-
riage of Frances Peaches" Heenan &c
Edward W. Browning, New York mil
lionaire, may speed the reunion of
W. b. Heenan, the girls father, and
his second wife, Mrs. Hattie Heenan,
Chicago.
With the burden of keeping father
ly eye on his daughter lifted, Heenan
is now planning to return to Chicago
as soon as his business in New York
will permit. his second wife has
learned. Although separated many
months, their love was not cooled, she
said.
Three years ago Heenan learned that
his first wife needed assistance in tax.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
0usted President
Leaves Tientsin

PEKING, April 2O.-LR)-Tuan
Chi Jul, latest deposed president Of
China, departed for Tientsein early
today. Apparently discouraged by
eviction from the city by pressure of
the Fengtien authorities of General
Tang Chi Tao. who with his troops.
called the ninth division, were the
deposed presidents last reliance. the
latter found it expedient to desert
the post to which he had announced
his return after emergence from hid
ing in the legation quarter after
evacuation Of the capital by the ma
tional army.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
8. A. OIL BOOM
. GETS IMPETUS

Following announcement that Il
deep test for oil will be started in the
newly discovered Mission Grove shall
low field in a South Side San An
tonic residential district, brought re-
newed activity to the field Tuesday.
Property owners who already had
brought in small producers, began
deepening them in the hope of increas-
ing their yield.
Ed Duderstradt is preparing to set
an 1S-inch casing at II feet in a well
being drilled at the corner of Kali
tcycr and Weaver streets.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
Culberson's Widow
Dies at Capital

WASHINGTON, d. c., April 90
P)-Mrs. Sally ii. Culberson, widow
of the late Senator Charles A. Culber-
son Of Texas, died here last night from
apopleXy.
Funeral services will be held here
Wednesday and the body will be sent
TO Fort Worth for intermcnt.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
IL Injured in Sub
Blast; l MAY Die

NEW LONDON, Conn, April 90
R)-Twelvc men, members of the
$40, which was moorcd at a dock
at the submarine base. were injured
this morning when the after battery
in the submersible exploded. All the
men were taken to the base hospital.
One man may die.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
100 Fishermen Lost
in Japan Sea Gale

TOKYO. April 20.-CP-More
than hundred fishermen are report
ed missing as a result of severe
storm in the Japan sea. Consider.
able damage has been done and there
have been casualties on the island
of Hokkaido and on the Kprilc
Islands.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20

having communication with the enemy
and exiled him to Spain, knew the
authorship of the letters, but other
persons declared that they did NOT
fipIlre in his conviction,
Evening star., 1926-10-03
EP!PHANIS EXPECT.
ANOTHER GOOD FIVE

sEpiphany Roses who won the Dis
;riCt inni"r and senior basket ball
titles last season and also the 14J-
H"und r'ass South Atlantic cham
piunship looks 10 another successful
campa ign
In addition to the entire 1925 five,
the church boys will have Wirtley
ScruGSs, former crack Central High
center. However. Dutch Schloss
and Bill Banta will not be availa bic
for considerable of the campaign.
Games VIII be sought by the Roses
for Epiphany gym with high schools
as well as senior and unlimited COM
binations.
Clark. Ellis and McGarry are new
players who will strive for berths on
Cardinal Junior basket ball team
which this year will begin its third
season. Clark was d member of
the original Cardinal Junior quint Of
l924-25; Ellis for Tie past few sea
sons has been a mainstay for Column
hia juniors and McGarry formerly
starred ak an all-round athlete at
Hampton, Va. High School
The Cards will gather Wednesday
night al 7:3o o'clock at 4502 Fifteenth
street 10 plan the campaign and
these players are asked to be on
hand: J. Burke, Tansora. Lester.
Murphy and Buscher. Features of
the Cards schedu'e will beStrips to
Duncannon, Va. Phoebus. Va. and
Baltimore.