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Improvement Shown In
Criminal Activities
ONLY NINE PRISONERS
ARE CONFINED In
COUNTY JAIL AT
PRESENT TIME

There are only nine prisoners in
the county Jail at the present
time, and this is far below the
average number of inmates for
this bastile.
OF these nine prisoners only
one, E. r. Bodine, is charged with
murder and none of the others
are held for serious crimes. One
is a crazy alien whose case rests
with the immigration authorities
for disposition. A most pathetic
case is that of Mrs. Laura CotO,
Cuban lady of this city, who
became demented some time ago
and was sent to the insane asylum
at Chattahoochee where the treat
ment administered was believed to
have effected a cure, and she was
released. Here quite recently she
rclapsed and it became necessary
to confine her. At her detention
room in the jail she never ceases
singing Nearer My God to Thee. "
A nurse will arrive tomorrow to
take her back to Chattahooehee,
Sheriff Niles says.
There are usually 25 or 80
/ prisoners confined in ths county
| jail here, and the fact that so few
are now being held there for crime
is being taken as an indication of
Improvement in the criminal ele-
ment of Key West.
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GREAT DAMAGE RESULTS FROM
STORM SWEEPING N|DDLEWEST
HUNDREDS OF HOMES
FLOODED; BRIDGES
AND OTHER STRUC-
TURES DESTROYED
CHy Associated Press)

CHICAGO, June Hum
dreds of flooded homes, bridges,
highways and railway tracks wash
ed out, electric and telephone SER
vice disrupted and scores of fires
were in the wake today of wind,
electrical and rain storms that
swept the middle west, causing
thousands of dollars in property
damage, as well as bringing relief
TO drouth-stricken areas.
One man was killed by lightning
and another who touched a broken
wire was electrocuted.
Rockford, ILL.,, experienced its
worst flood in SO years. Hundreds
were forced to flee from their
homes while others took refuge on
the roofs and in upstairs roomc.
A number of bridges in the
vicinity were washed away, one
Of them carrying with it two auto
mobiles and seven passengers. The
cars were washed down stream
but the passengers were rescued.
Easements were flooded in
Chicago and water in the streets
interrupted automobile and street
car traffic. Two men were killed
Air mail service out of Chicago
was suspended because of un-
favorable conditions.
Thirty fires, all attributed to
lightning, were reported here in
half an hour.
At a southside theatre water
flowed in the front entrance, wet
the feet of persons in the audience
and ran in a steady stream into
the musicians' pit. They continued
to play with the water almost to
their knees.
The number of dead in the
weekend storms totalled ten.
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COUNTY BOARD TO
MAKE INSPECTION
OF ROAD WORK
PROJECT NO OF OVERSEE
HIGHWAY AT KEY LARGO
MPLET ED BY TIDE
WATER CONSTRUCTION co.

Project No. 1 of the Oversee
highway to the mainland, started
year ago by the Tidewater Con-
struction Company, is now report
ed finished at an approximate ex-
pense of 100000, and will be
inspected by the county commits
sioners and engineers on Wednes-
day of the present week.
The completion of this section
of the highway opens up the road
from Key Largo to the mainland.
except a four mile link in Dade
county on which the construction
work has been delayed for some
time.
County Engineer Joe Watkins
says this Project No. l was one of
the most difficult pieces of con
struction work on the entire high
way. The road is "a feet wide
and has been built through dense
mangrove swamp. 1t was neces-
sary to build seven bridges rang
ing in length from 100 to 300
feet and one $500 feet long
which has steel center draw
span that was built by steel
construction gang for the Cham
pion Bridge Company.
The entire length Of roadway
included in Project No. is four
and one-half miles. As soon as
Dade county opens up her end of
the highway it will mean that 80
miles of the oversee road is COM
pleted to the mainland.
From the Key West end the
read and bridges are entirely COM
plcted for a distance of slightly
more than IL miles, and the road
bed is thrown up for several
miles more. which will be easy
to finish and in a short time. when
once the work IS under way.
County Commissioners J. Otto
kirehheiner. Hilton Curry and
Braxton Warren. accompanied by
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DYKES TOLL
OF TRAFFIC
GIVEN OUT
FORTY ONE KILLED AND 263
INJURED IN REPORT COM
PILED FOR PAST WEEK
IN FATALITIES

ASSOCIATED PRESS HEAD
QUARTERS, June 14.--Dix e's
toll Of traffic, including airplane
and railroad during The past week,
was II persons killed and 263 l.
jured. a survey conducted in IL
southern states by the Associated
Press revealed today. A marked
decrease Is shown in COMPARISON
with the week previous when 46
persons were killed and 285 were
injured.
The airplane victims reported
were Lieut.. Harold r. Stiles,
United States Naval Reserve flyer,
and Herbert s. Fentress, civilian,
both Of Norfolk, Va, who met
their death in full view of scores
Of motorists and golfers at East
Camp, when the plane operated by
the latter crashed while stunt fly-
ing. The plane coming ont of q
falling leaf went into a tail spin
and then crashed to earth. killing
both occupants instantly.
Grade crossings claimed one
victim. that being reported at
Nerfolk. Va, another was fatally
injured while walking along a
railroad right of way by freight
train at Marietta. Ga.
Georga led the entire southern
states in number of persons re
ported killed and injured, with
nine fatalities and a total of 81
persons injured. Two Of the
deaths occurred Sunday, s. I.
Whitaker being the victim of one
Of the chit and run" variety Of
motorists, being left dead in front
Of his homo ~ Mountain View,
while a. H. Anderson, Sarasota.
Fla, after driving two days with
out sleep lost control Of mis- car and
the vehicle wnt over an embank-
ment at EatontoH, Ga, killing
him and iniuring MS wife and two
daughters.
Florida was second with SIN
dead and Is injured. while Ten
+ nes1ee ranked third with six deaths
and 80 injured.
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RAILROAD TO KEY WEST
TO FEATURE BOOKLET TO BE SENT
OUT ADVERTISING, FLORIDA

TALLAHASSEE, June IA
"All Florida" will be the name of
a book depicting the advantages
of every county in the state and
setting forth the opportunities of
the Sunshine state, to be publish
ed soon by the immigration bu-
reau of the department of agri-
culture.
T. j. Brooks, bureau director
and Phil s. Taylor, advertising
editor, are now making a tour of
the state gathering data and in
formation of the book which will
be elaborately illustrated. Newell
OdFto. ttSSASbdhL SA6IC ChCAiASI 10 q
member of the party and is the
photographer of the group.
Besides getting first hand in
formation on the agricultural and
industrial advantages of the state
the trio will gather pictures,
beautiful scenery. historical spots
andrivers and springs will be TAX
en- to go in the book.
Chief among the pictures will
be the 80-miIe engineering feat
whereby the Florida East Coast
Railway enters Key West.
The book is scheduled to come
from the press during July.
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ST. LOUIS CAPITALISTS TO
VISIT KEY WEST IN INTEREST.
OF CONSTRUCTION OF BRIDGES
c. A. P. TURNER OR
REPRESENTATIVE TO
BE in CITY In SHORT
TIME

c. A. p. Turner or a Representa-
tive of his firm will be in Key
West in a week or ten days with
a party of St. Louis capitalists in
the interest of the plans for FL
nancing the construction of the
long bridges for the highway to
the mainland, according to a let
ter received from MIR. Turner by
J. Otto Kirchheiner, chairman of
the board of county commission
ers.
Plans will be made for the en-
tertainment of these disting nguished
financiers, and it is confidently
expected by the commissioners
that they will favor the PROPOSE
tion after becoming thoroughly
acquainted with the project and
the wonderfully fine investment
that il is sure TO be.
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TO MAKE INSPECTION
OF TAMIAMI TRAIL
REPRESENTATIVE 0 F
ROAD DEPARTMENT
TO CONFER WITH OF
FICIALS IN MIAMI

A representative of the state
road department will be in Miami
Thursday to join with officials
from Monroe county in making an
inspection off the Monroe county
portion of the Tam;ami Trail, ac-
cording to the following telegram
received by Chairman Kirch-
heiner, of the county commits
gioners, from DIR. Fons A. Hatha-
way, head of the state highway
department:
Referring to agreement in
Jacksonville, the department will
have Assistant State Highway En-
gineer L. X. Canyon in Miami
Thursday morning, June II, at
Roberts Hotel, to make inspection
of road in Monroe county, and we
will be glad to have an engineer
from your county to accompany
him. Please acknowledge receipt
of this wire. Regards. F. A
Hathaway, Chairman"
Chairman Kirchheiner immedl
ately wired DIR. Hathaway that he
could have County Engineer Joe
Watkins at Hotel Roberts in Mi
ami Thursday morning to accom-
pany the road department en-
Gineer on the inspection trip. He
also telegraphed j. d. Redd, chair
man of Dade county commits
sioners, inviting a Dade county
engineer to go along. A wire was
sent to George F. Cook, in charge
Of the Monroe county road con-
struction for the Chevelier Cor
poration, requesting that he be
present and lend them every as
sistance possible in making the in
spection. Commissioners J. Otto
Kirchheiner, Braxton Warren and
Hilton Curry will also accompany
the engineers on this incpection
trip, going to Miami from Key
Largo after they have finished in
specting the Tidewater Construc-
tion work at that point Wednes-
day.
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DISCUSSION OF
BRIDGE PLANS
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO
HOLD MEETING THIS
AFTERNOON

The board Of county commits
sionefs win meet in extra session
at the county court house at
O'Clock this afternoon for the pur
pose of passing upon the plans and
specifications for the construction
of the long bridges proposed for
the Oversee Highway to the
mainland as submitted by the C.
A. P. Turner Company of Mime
apolis. which were recently receiv-
cd by the commissioners.
The commissioners will have the
two county engineers present at
this meeting, and il is fully ex-
pected that definite action will be
taken relative TO the Turner plans
and specifications this afternoon,
either to approve or reject them.
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Senate Committee Still
Investigating Matters
Pertaining To Primary
Christening Ceremonies
Take Place Sunday
At Stone Church

The infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clement II. Hudson was
christened at the First Methodist
church Sunday morning. being
given the name of Emma Yulee.
the full name of her grandmother.
Mrs. Braxton B. Warren. An in
teresting feature of this event was
the wearing Of a christening dress
which had been worn b. three
generations.
The sponsors were: Mrs. {. l..
Peterson. DIR. and Mrs. Harry -.
S. Jones.
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TWO HAVE NARROW
ESCAPE FROM DEATH
tny AssecIntra pre.sl

LAKE CITY. June 14.-Patrol-
man Walter Davis and Deputy
Sheriff Malone miraculously es-
capped death here today when a
freight train demolished a touring
car in which they were riding.
Both we're painfully but not
seriously injured.
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TO THE PUBLIC

We beg to inform the public
that some Key West bakers have
cut the price Of bread two cents.
We have been informed that this
has been done to run us out of
business.
We beg 10 advise the public and
our patrons that the price of our
bread is ten cents loaf. also that
the quality will be the same. When
you ask for bread. get Curry's
Home Made Bread.
CURRY 4 WATSON, BAKERS
JOHN l. CURRY
Phone 525 1909 Petronia St.
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Infant Daughter OF
Mr.. And Mrs. E. ROjGs
Dies Last Evening

Alice Eoias, five -months-old
daughter If Mr. and Mrs. Ezelio
Rojas. 721 Division street. died at
10 o'clock last night.
The funeral service was con
Quoted BY Rev. Father Maureau at
the residence this morning ri
$50 O'Clock and interment was
made in the city cemetery under
direction cf g. Frank Sawyer Of
the Lopez undertaking parlors.
Much sympathy Is expressed for
Nr and Mrs. Roias in the loss Of
this. their only child.
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SEEKING OWNER
OF DISTILLERY
nv Assneinteh pressl

SAN FRANCISCO, June IA
Federal prohibition agents today
are seeking the owner of a $780,
900 alcohol distillery discovered in
a densely wooded canyon at Point
Reyes, north of here and protect
ed by a fifty foot watch tower
housing an automatic rifle nest.
Officers believe the still has
been in operation for three years.
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CONVENTIONS OF
ROTARIANS OPEN

DENVER. June At h .
seventeenth annual convention of
International Rotary opened here
today with thousands Of delegates
registered from 35 countries. The
first general session will be held
this evening when international
President Donald A. Adams Of
New Haven. Conn. will preside at
a pageant in which 1000 persons
will participate.
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MORE WITNESSES
TO BE CALLED IN
HEARING CONDUCT
tn
my Associates pre~.I

WASHINGTON, June 14.-Al-
though IL had advanced far into
the tangled story Of the Pennsyi.
vania Republican primary cam
psign, the senate investigating
committee has a number Of inn
portant witnesses on It's list yet
10 be heard and is steadily Is
suing subposnas as the testimony
develops new leads holding
promise Of aid in the untaneling
process.
Representative Ware. the sac-
eeasfuI candidate for the sena-
,oriaI nomination, is among those
whose testimony remained = be
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NO WORD RECEIVED
FROM AVIATOR
ny AnsocInfca rrrr.l

PARA, Brazil, June 14.-News
was lacking this morning regard
'ng the whereabouts of Bernardo
Duggan,. Argentine flier and his
two companions. who left Para
maribo for this city yesterday
morning. Their plane was last
seen passing over Cayenne. French
Guiana, at 9:20 a. m. yesterday.
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EARTH SHOCK is
FELT In ALMERIA

ALMERIA, Spain, June IA
An earthquake. preceded by loud
subteranean noises was felt in
Almeria and vicinity shortly after
midnight. The tTemors continued
for four seconds. The inhabitants
fled from their beds in panic.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-14

County Engineer Joe Watkins,
will leave here tomorrow for Key
Largo 70 make final inspection Of
this portion of the road built by
the Tidewater Construction Com
pany on Wednesday. and from
there they will go 70 Miami to
meet with representative of the
state road department to inspect
the Monroe county link of the
Tamiami Trail.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-14

Asa Bartlett, Klan leader and
constable of Blue Lake Township,
Mich, was sent to prison for life
after admitting that he made and
mailed the bomb that killed
August Krubaech, proprietor of a
tavern, Krubaech's daughter
Janet and her fiance, William
FRANKIE. Political antagonism to
Krubaech caused the act, he said.
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REQUEST FOR CHANGE
OF VENUE DENIED
Gnr As.oeIn,ea Pres.l

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,. June IA
Petitions for change of venue and
habess corpus filed by Russell
Scott were denied by the Illinois
supreme court today. Scott is un-
der sentence Of death for the mur-
der Of Joseph Mauer, drug clerk
in Chicago, pending a sanity re-
trial.
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BRAZIL RESIGNS
FROM LEAGUE
Inv A$s"cinted I-res@,

GENEVA, June 14.-Brazil has
resigned from the League of Ma
tions. This announcement was
made officially this morning.
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SAN CARLOS THEATRE

+ q u AY - Harry Cordray'S 5
Musical Comedy and Moving Pic
turcs.
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A M u Sc M { N 7 S
MONROE THEATRE
sssesssssosssSesssssos 9

TODAY-"The Far Cry" Al
Reach Comedy.
TOMORROW -- "Hells High
road" Comedy, THE Mad
Racer.
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(Continued on Page 81
, 1926-02-10

Good times are bad times unless
you do more than have a good time.
, 1926-02-10
Sour Grapes

Backward, turn backward, oh Time
in your flight"
And give us a girl with skirts not
so tight,
Or skirts not so short that each
passing breeze
May play hide-and-seek with femin-
inc knees;
The old-fashioned girl that we for
merly knew
Before she'd adopted the wild peek
a-boo.
Give us the girl that we knew in
our youth,
Before lipstick and rouge had made
her uncouth,
Ere eyebrows were plucked, hair
cut like a broom,
And street windows used as a star
dressing room.
And give us the dance of the days
gone by
With stately measures and steps
not so high,
No bunny hug wiggles, nor kanga-
roo glides,
No turkey trot capers, nor from
bone slides,
No cheek to cheek slumbers, nor
~serpentine clutches,
Where the clothes you speak of are
not very much.
Aye, grant us all these that were
asking tonight,
Or give Is again our youthful eye
sight
E. L. AULTMAN.
, 1926-02-10
COUNCIL BUYS
FIFTEEN TON SCALE

The Town Council, at a meet
ing last week accepted the bid of
the Casper Supply for a set of fiji
teen-ton scales which are to be
placed at some advantageous place
in Cody for public use. The scales
are of the best equipment which
could be purchased, and r of
sufficient size to handle all kinds
of weighing for many years to come.
Just where the scales are to be
placed has not yet been decided.
1t will be necessary to have them
at the city offices. where either the
water commissioner or electrician
may look after weights, but mas
much as the office now used by
the town, is only leased, it will
probably be necessary to move the
offices to property owned by the
city.
, 1926-02-10
Secretary Mellon

is the country which
can command in the adjustment O,
its finances during a crucial period
h services of such a man as An
drew w. Mellon. The magnitude OF
his service to the nation will per.
haps never be fully appreciated, fol
he has done his work with no brass
band accompaniment.
1t means something financially to
a man of Mr.. Melons large inter
ests and unquestioned financial gen
Jus to turn his back upon private
business affairs, and give his time
solely to the national service. The
earning power thus sacrificed over
a period of several years runs into
big figures.
Secretary Mellon has his reward
it is true, in the esteem of millions
of level-headed patriotic Americans
who realize the stupendous size of
the task Secretary Mellon confront
ed when he took charge of the ma
tion's disorganized finances at the
beginning of the Harding admins
tration, and that the benefits of
the stability and prosperity which
has ensued has extended to every
citizen of the republic.
But such services, too, for a man
of Secretary Melons size carries
with it penalties. He has become
the target of the demagogue, whose
political stock in trade is outcry
against 1.-THE rich" These political
scavengers have sought to find some
%crevice in the Mellon armor through
which the could throw their jave-
Inns of defamation.
The fact that Mr.. Mellon as sec
rotary of the Treasury has run his
office in the interests of the whole
people rather than for political
ends, has drawn attack not only
upon Secretary Mellon but upon all
the business enterprises with which
he was actively connected before
he assumed his office.
That a mar of the Mellon quality
is willing to accept high office in
the face of certain assault by the
muck-rackers, the scandal mungers,
the small-bore politicians who think
of no public problem except in term
of votes, is a testimonial to his pa
triotism.
When the story of the war period
and the events following has bee
written by the impartial historian.
the name of Andrew Mellon will
stand forth as that of one of the
greatest financiers this or any other
country has aver produced. When
his traducers have been forgotten
his name will be remembered and
honored by a grateful people.
, 1926-02-10
BIDS In FOR MAIL
LINES OUT OF CODY

Bids for the operation of the
several mail routes out of Cody
were mailed last month and there
will be some keen contests for the
conducting of the various stage
lines. The bids were called for
January 10th. and by the LIST of
March it is likely that those who
have been awarded their contracts
will be announced. The fiscal GEAR
starts July LIST.
For the Valley stage there are
two bidders. Southgate Freeman and
Jay Blood. 1t is possible that other
bids were mailed direct to Wash
ington, but these are the only bid
ders. Mr.. Freeman has the con-
tract at the present time.
Five men seek the job of carry
ing the mail to Meeteetse, namely,
Harry and George Thayer and Joe
Wolfe of M~eeteetse, and verle Blu
chanan and Robt. Worrell of Cody.
Geo. Thayer is the present holder
of this contract.
On Northfork tn rec men also
seek the job of carrying the mails
E. H. Jenkins who has been an
efficient operator for several years
will ask for a renewed of his con-
tract, and Jack Spicer and H. x
Barbee have also sent In bids for
the route.
, 1926-02-10
Jury Returns Verdict
Not-G Guilty Morrison
He Case
CONTINUED from page one)

went to trial, and 1t will probably
consume the greater part of the
courts time this week.
This case is one in which the
plaintiffs are asking for. permanent
injunction to keep Holman from
daming or attempting to place a
dam on Ishawooa creek, at a point
Sear his ranch home. Plaintiffs
charge that such a dam will change
course of creek, and endanger their
property rights. Holman contends
that property of plaintiffs is To-
Gated on the old channel of Isha-
o creek, and that the building
of the dam is essential to protect
his ranch property.
This case has the most complicat-
ed angles. and one which will try
the powers Of the court and coun-
sci to the extreme. H. F. Bell,
engineer, was one of the principal
witnesses for the plaintiffs on Tues
day, and was kept on the stand for
a period of five hours.