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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28

|. Wisconsin delegation was welcomed
by Mayor Sam Bolts. The main adj
dress Of the breakfast program was
made by John T.. Newman. secre-
tary Of the Wisconsin Real Estate
Brokers Board. which has figured
largely in the refusal which has
met the application Of various Val
ley land companies to operate IN
Wisconsin.
Water supply Doubted
The sale Of Valley land in Wis
consin has been prohibited" New
man declared, because the real
estate board does not feel that the
Valley has sufficient guarantee az
irrigation waters. In our opinion,
there Is not sufficient water supply
to take care Of development Of ci-
trus lands. There lis the danger that
Mexico may take a larger supply az
water since a large portion of the
Valleys irrigating water comes from
watersheds Of streams having their
h~eadwaterS in Mexico"
1T seems to me that the Inter-
national Water Commission Great
ed BY Congress for the purpose of
securing a treaty with Mexico pro-
viding for water storage dams. has
been asleep on the jog. The Valley
needs such a treaty, and If 1t can
be secured, the situation as regards
Wisconsin will be solved"
VIII Back Water Move
Newman pledged the support or
his state to Valley efforts to OBJ
tain a settlement with Mexico ON
the water question. The Badger
state would rally TO the Valleys sido
by instructing their representatives
in Congress TO do all in their pow
err TO back the treaty. which would
solve the irrigation question in tho
Valley.
Newman looks for a speedy set
Element of differences between Tex
as and Wisconsin and Is studying
the Valley situation closely with that
idea in view.
Another well known Wisconsin
figure introduced at the breakfast
was William Renk, Commissioner or
Agriculture. who spoke briefly II
praise OF Texas and the Valley, and
the resources Of his own Badger
state as well. Mrs. Harry L. Thomas
Republican National committeeWo-
man Of Wisconsin, was also a speak
or on the program. Other prominent
members Of the party are ATlie
MucEs, OF the Wisconsin Livestock
Breeders association. +. j. Seguin,
commissioner Of the Wisconsin high
way department: and Harvey Burr,
secretary Of the Wisconsin Can
ner's association. Frank Davis ~
Harlingen spoke briefly a. the
breakfast.
Many Visit Train
The Wisconsin party was III oait
Antonio last night as guests at a
banquet. Newman also spoke az this
meeting. and held conferences win
the San Antonio real estate board
relative TO Wisconsin and Texas
land questions.
II was estimated BY George n.
DoDbins. general manager OF tho
Wisconsin tour. that the exhibit
train, showing dairy products MANI
~. has been visited by 1874 per-
sons during the last four days.
principally In Texas and Oklanoma'
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28

ONllZ OF Los All
geles. specia
United States at
torney g e c ]
had sought ans
obtained t h
transfer OF thu
matter to Hous-
ton.
All those In.
dicted and around
20 other person:
vent before the
grand jury in it:
four day inquiry
The democratic
chieftain kept tc
his hotel last
night while the
report was being
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28
Chicago's Secret Six
Begin War on Crime

CHICAGO, Feb. 2S-H1- CRIME
less Chicago in six months was
the slogan today OF the secret COM
mittee of six.
Col. Robert Ishman Randolph, pre-
.,dent OF the association OF COM
merce. who organized the Secret
Six, and who Is its only known
members promised the association
rat the anti-crtme drive would De
nnremitting and said n six months
estimate was based upon n least
knrth Of time in which gangland
karts could be obtained. indictments
turned and convictions obtained.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28

HQI ln I'll Oh l6E 80 gNdAo "a AAC
she dealt from the top Of the deck.
During a life as adventurous as
ar% mans, she gambled for high
stakes without a single betraymg
CULVER OF the hand as she dealt:
without the witch Of a face muscle.
Cold as the steel of the revolver
she wore, she sat In unnumbered
thousands Of high stake games.
Bucks Last Game
Yesterday she bucked a game that
she-that nobody-could beat. OLD
age and complications. following an
operation for gall stones, vera
given by doctors as the cause Of
her death.
Poker Alice was English born,
but American bred, and always the
gambler. She started a a faro
| dealer. A woman at the box was
a novelty that drew the black
| boards OF the wild west. with their
bags of gold, TO the gambling table
So successful was she. that soon
| she was known, not just as a wo-
man gambler, but as a winning
gambler, man or woman.
Married Three Times
Colorado, Nevada, Montana, the
Dakotas-wherever there was pay
dirt and hombres with nerve enough
70 Law II against the turn OF q
card-there Poker Alice was. She
took $4,000 in one nights play al
Silver City, N. Mex.
1t seems rather strange, In re-
Prospect, that Poker Alice, sell
reliant. courageous and able to take
care OF herself anywhere-shouic
have had time for love. yet she
was three times married. Her first
husband was a mining engineer
Frank Duffield.. Then there came
w. @. Tubbs. a gambler who despite
a wide reputation OF his own, nevel
could equal Poker Alice at the care
table. Her third husband was Georgi
! Huckert.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28
Gas Mains Laid

Especial to The Herald)
ROMA. Feb. 28-The pipelaying
--sw for the Border Gas Co., Is
now engaged in laying gas mains
s~S-,uahout the city Of Roma and
A.sthin the next ten days the gas
stn be ready for consumption To-
kIv. Statements are current to the
Meet that the company fully in
.rds extending the line to Rio
Grande City as soon as possible.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28

charging him and the seven With
conspiracy to injure persons in
the exercise Of political rights"
1t was the first clear cut victory
for the independent republicans
Of the county, who long had been
alleging that the Weslaco box il
legally was thrown out in order to
save the Baker regime from cefeat.
Baker Still Silent
A previous grand jury at Browns
vile had investigated without max
ing a formal report, and Fred Hor-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28
Wrong Price Is
Quoted on Trip

A round trip by air to Mazat-
Ian for the carnival week. Feb.
28-March z. is being put on by
c. A. T. Air Lines for S139.05.
A typographical error in the
Herald Thursday said the fare
was S39.O5.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28
Baker Remains Silent
Eight Indicted In Hidalgo Election Case Are
Expected to Make Bond Today

HOUSTON. Feb. 2s-H-Indnted. along with seven others, for vio-
lauons Of the national election laws by conspiracy, A. Y. Baker. mil
honaire sheriff" Of Hidalgo county. faced today the most material threat
ever made against his long political leadership in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley.
Baker, a former Texas Ranger, heard last night without comment that
a federal grand jury. which began Monday an investigation OF the con-
duct Of the 1923 general election in HdaIgo county, had brought bills
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28
New Underworld Opens
Explorers Discover Many Unknown Wonders
In Great Carlsbad Cavern
N. NJ, Feb.

CARLSBAD, N. NJ Feb. 2s-R-Frank Nicholson, explorer, has seen
a new underground world.
Surrounded by fantastic creations Of cave marble and fowIone per-
haps unseen by man previously during the million OF more years Of their
formation. and perhaps never before touched by light, Nicholson pene-
trated a previously UNEMPLOYED room Of the Carlsbad Cavern
It was the first bit of exploring of unknown places Of the under
ground labyrinth to be known by this New York explorer. financed by
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28
Naval Delegates
Recall Advocated

WASHINGTON, Heb. 26-tPl-
The recall Of the american dele
CATION from the London naval arms
conference was prohosed III the
senate today by Senhtor McKella-,
Democrat. Tennessee who asserted
there was no opporA nifty for naval
reductions.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28
Taft's Condition
Slightly Weaker

WASHINGTON. Feb. 28-tPl-The
condition OF william Howard Taft
was reported as slightly weaker
in a bulletin issued by his physi-
clans at iI:40 a. m, today.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28
QUESTION
VEXES
Good VII Visitors Present Irrigation As Cause
For State Ban Against Lower
Valley Land Dealers
Especial TO The Herald.)

HAELINGEN' Feb 2s-Greeed by 200 prominent Valley citizens, Har-
hnsens nigh school band and 1000 school pupils. the Wisconsin good
VII tour Of ITO persons on a special train of fourteen AR arrived here
this morning at 7so and took up Immediately the full days program
arranged for their visit in the Valley.
"A breakfast at Reese-Wn-Mond hotel preceded beginning or the jour
ny up the Valley, which is TO end tonight with dinner in Brownsville.
y. I. Rogers. Harrington postmaster. presided at the breakfast and the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28
Poker Face Alice Draws Card
From Cold Deck: Death Calls

NAPrD CITY, 8 d., Feb. 2s-P-Death. dealing from "a cold deck"
III rtpued the ace of spades foA"Poker Alice" Tubbs yesterday. It was
her admission card to the bid game that Is eternity.
She a one of the last of ajcoterie of hard living, straight-shootng
nen women who added th& coIor-sometimes it was bhood-red-to
the old west. "Deadwood Dick, wild Bill Hickock and Calamity ans
were others.
Poker Alice wore a CUR. smoked cigars and could swear like a trouper;
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28
las Cars Mo-

A total of las cars Of vegetables
rolled from the Valley Wednesday.
Missouri Pacific hauled 81 cars and
Southern Pacific 48 cars.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28
TIDE TABLE

TIDE TABLE
High and low tide &C Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal n~ieteorolo-
gical conditions.
High ...... 1882 n. m: sos ". m.
Low ...... 1913 a. m; 1881 D. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA.
Sunset today ........--....- 6.sI
Sunrise tomorrow .......-.. S:5A
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28
THE

For Brownsville and the Valley:
Cloudy and unsettled tonight and
Saturday, probably with occasional
rains; no much change In temper
ature. ,
For East Texas: Partly cloudy to-
night and Saturday; not mucEi
change In temperature.
Light TO fresh shifting winds on
the coast, mostly northwest.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-28
RIVER FORECAST

There will be no material change
in the river during the next few days
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr.
Stage Stage Ching. Rain
Putnam patriot., 1930-08-14

the story of which is one of the most cherished American traditions. In those days the Israel Knapp was ore of the most popular hostelries on the main road between Boston and New York. The house is now known as the Putnam Cottage ted-room and probably dates back two hundred years.
 Putnam's Hill at Greenwich or Horseneck, as the place is generally called in allusion to the hazardous ride down the steps cut in the preci- piee is as we'll known as the victory over the wolf at Pomfret.
 General Woife's Picture
 Strange happenings sometimes seem to be guided, by an unseen hand. How curious that when the Mortlake house at Brooklyn, Connecticut, was opened by General Putnam to his admiring. having. guests, that he caused to be hung over his front door brayely- painted full length sign of the hero, General Wolfe, thereby making 1t the Wolfe Tavern. which uniformed peo- ple associated with our hero of the Wolf Den.
Putnam patriot., 1930-08-14
Eastford

Saturday nights dance was a big success.
 orris Spink is driving new horse, a high stopper.
 The registrars were in session on Friday to enroll voters.
 Phoenixville, II; Eagleville, 9 is Sundays baseball score.
 Come and gone; Edward Stan ford of Macon, Georgia.
 The reorganized brass band is pro- gressing encouragingly.
 The Willimantie Congregational church campers left Crystal lake Sat urday.
 Grover Holquist of Southbridge has been visiting his grandmother, Mrs. Ida Hall.
 Mr. and Mrs. E. NJ. Ives and Mas ter Joe Ives of Danbury were in town Friday and Saturday.
 Mir and Mrs. Amasa Trowbridge may spend the winter in Florida probably at Melbourne Beach.
 Mir. and Mrs. Herbert Johnson of Putnam were callers at the home of J. W. Jones one day last week.
 Mrs. W. D. McHenry, Jona Me- Henry and Myra McHenry of Wood cliff, N. J., were in town Sunday.
 George Nj. Parks and friends of Providence motored Saturday to East ford and admired it's rural attractive ness.
 Several from this locality went to Putnam Sunday to see and hear Rev. Walter E. Lanphear st the Baptist church.
 Mrs. Dora Hull and daughter Phyl- lis of Middletown visited Mrs. Hulfs parents, Mir. and Mrs. Emerson Lyon, last week.
 The children of Gustav Rosyar gave him a very happy birthday surprise Saturday evening. 1t was his first birthday cake.
 James Neville met his brother, John, who conducts shoe store in western New York state, at Stafford Springs, Tuesday.
 Guests at Archa $. Walkers in- cluded Mrs George Barlow and sons of West Westford and Herbert Bar low and family of New Britain.
 Miss Ida Bartlett spent the week end with her sister. Mrs. Earl Young, at Norwich. Later she will visit her brother Stanley and friends in Yer mont
 MT. and Mrs. Oscar Heimmeler, &C., companied by Miss Sybil Converse, have been guests of Dr. and Mrs. Frank B. Converse at Wells Beach, 0gunquit, Me
 Footpads mounted the running board of Charles W. Clark's auto Saturday night, but, luckily. were frightened away by an approaching car near Grove cemetery.
 Mrs. N. B. Burton of East Wey- mouth. Mass, and Mesdames G. Stan ley Shaw and E. s. Morse of Put nam were dinner guests at General Lyon tavern on Friday.
Putnam patriot., 1930-08-14

The girls camping season closed Tuesday at Black Pond.
 Harry l.. Tatem treated his Sun day School class of boys to a motor trip to Narraganset Pier, K. l.
 The highway of the Buell. district is being put in good condition by First Selectman Ellery Bartlett.
 Mir. and Mrs Ralph Mariners and two children of Middletown spent the past week at the home of Mrs. Martin CTS parents, Mir. and Mrs. John w. Jones.
 Mir. and Mrs. s. P. Dienst of Pleasantville and Mrs. and Miss H.. C. koehler of New Rochelle, N. Y., were the guests of Mrs. N. w. Ken nedy last Thursday.
 Mrs. John Sheern, wife of the su- perintendent of construction on the Eastford- West Woodstock highway. has returned to her home in Hazard vile. Mrs. Sheern made many friends here.
 The erection of historical signs leading to the final resting place Of General Nathaniel Lyon is suggested. Incidentally it Is noted that Lyon was shot dead while leading charge at Wilson's Greek. Mo, August 10th, 1861. When the funeral took place General Lyon tavern was military headquarters.
Putnam patriot., 1930-08-14
Phoenixville

Nathaniel Lyon, who has been ill is recovering.
 Miss Viola Fabyan of New York is spending few weeks with her parents.
 Mir. and Mrs. Stephen Rashche and family are spending August at their summer home.
 Rev. George A. Reese conducted the service in Ashford Sunday after noon at p. m.
 Thomas Colburn Is entertaining guests from New York for a few weeks at the Knowl.on Lyon home stead.
 Mir. and Mrs. Henry Buell. and Mir. and Mrs. Ian Byers are visiting Mir. and Mrs Frank Abbott in Pennsyl- vania.
 Miss Dora Pray returned to Thompson Thursday after a weeks visit with friends here and in Wilh- mantle.
 James vaida Jr. of Boston is spending his vacation at his home here. He will return in September to the Institute of Technology to continue his studies.
Putnam patriot., 1930-08-14
ENDS THE
 TOLL OF OLDEN DAYS

Contrast the toll of a bygone day with the easy efficiency of Tractor work AS you find it now, says M. R.. Tyler. 344 Columbus avenue. Spring field. Massachusetts. local "Caterpil- lar" dealer.
 It is only back around the corner when a long line of men were busy swinging shovels. filling a trench to cover a water main or gas line; ten men or thirty, using their arms and hacks like so, many animals; men de- prived of a greater chance for joys of living. by the fatigue and the low nav of long hours of toll. Now you Gan % into a hundred places and watch the Caterpillar at work with the back-filler blade mounted on its nose. Down along the edge Of the ditch it rides. The earth glaneing afr the slantine blade and pouring hack into the trench. One man with loot on the throttle. and riding on a cushioned seat, three or four trips and the trench is full and packed. The course of a score of lives has been changed. drudgery has been abandoned, cost cut, there is time and money for more water mains and gas lines.
 By doing routine and humdrum tasks in a better, quicker. cheaper way. the "Caterpillar" Tractor is s-riting 2 story of romance. Perhaps the high lights are in the individual yecitals of rescue, the stunts and of an occasional hour; but inc great theme of it's feats of out door power Is the saving of men, money, and minutes.
Putnam patriot., 1930-08-14
West Clocester

Little Barbara Place who has been il with cold is better.
 Mir. and Mrs. Lester Dinges enter tained relative from Boston the past week.
 Mr. and Mrs. Everett Cutler and family entertained callers from Willi- mantle and Hartford during the past week
 Mir. and Mrs. Fred Barnes had as their guests on Sunday Mir. and Mrs. J. Peckham and family of Cherry Valley.
 Miss Clara Barnes entertained Mrs. Flora J. Smith and daughter, Miss Virginia Smith, of Mapleville, R. l., the past week.
Putnam patriot., 1930-08-14
Costume Dance for Fund

General Lyon Hall was crowded on Wednesday night of last week, when a costume dance was given for the benefit of the Nurses Home Fund of the Day Kimball Hospital, under the auspices of the Eastford committee headed by Mrs. Oliver Bowen and her assistant, Mrs. Mildred Erickson, of Chicago. Over $100 was netted. Much credit is due all who helped and attended.
Putnam patriot., 1930-08-14
Woodstock Valley

Carl Teller of Hartford spent the weekend with his parents, NIT. and Mrs. Herman Teller.
 Miss Marguerite Burns of Aelrese, Mass. was at the home of A. N. Hammond on Sunday.
 Adrian Grover and son Ralph of srooklyn, N. Y. are spending the week with Mrs H. P. Leonard.
 Miss Dorothy Wyman. who spent last week at Camp Allen returned to her home in Somersville, Mass. on
Putnam patriot., 1930-08-14

Mrs. Shankweiler--Harry Is awful iy obstinate.
 Mrs. Fatmuller-In what wayf
 Mrs. Shankweiler-It's the hardest thing in the world to make him ad- init I'm right when he knows I'm wrong.-The Pathfinder.
Putnam patriot., 1930-08-14

Sunday. Mrs Addie Fenner and Mrs Stuart Fenner will remain at camp this week.
Putnam patriot., 1930-08-14

Edgar and Raymond Barnes spent several days the past week with their grandparents, Mir. and Mrs. Wilson Peokhan, of Cherry Valley
Putnam patriot., 1930-08-14
The Daring Ride

The year l77s is memorable one for our hero, Israel Putnam, for ie was at the Greenwich tavern kept py Israel Knapp that "old Put, rushed ont with his face half shaved, 10 take that daring ride down the stone steps
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-02-20

upon the Nee Perez horde while on q
hunting trip and after escaping from
them, started out to VAR some of the
settlers and ended up as q spectator
Of the battle between Chief Joseph's
warriors and General Sturgis' COM
mand.
Forrest Young's parents were Mr..
and Mrs. Alonzo Young, who were
among the first permanent settlers on
the Yellowstone. In 1875 and 1876,
they had been in charge Of the hotel
and tavern at the stage station, known
as the Ten Mile place, east of Boze-
man. In 1877, Gilmore and Salisbury,
owners Of the stage line from Utah
into western Montana, started a stage
line from Bozeman through the yell
lowstone country. Starting with horse
back mail, a regular stage was soon
started with stations every 16 to 20
miles.
In June, 1877, the Youngs came down
the Yellowstone to establish one Of
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-02-20

that side Of the ridge, he looked down
and saw that a band of six or seven
Crows had surrounded a single Nez
Perez who had gone into a pocket in
the hills and killed a buffalo. The
Crows rode around and around, shoot
ing and singing their songs of tri-
umph. The Nez Perez fell at length
before their attacks and they then
rushed up and each in turn, beginning
with the man who had actually killed
him. cut of a round piece Of the
scalp with the hair attached SO that
each could claim a coup.
This was the only Indian killed, ac-
cording to Mr.. Young. The Nez Perces
gave the soldiers nothing to shoot at
even after they had gotten out of their
exposed positions in coming into the
canyon. They did, however, pick up a
number of guns left by the Nez Perces
While the soldiers were being de-
ployed into the sage-brush, Young
came down from his vantage point
and Joined the command. Sturgls
at the close of the fight, sent him with
dispatches to Howard, whom he found
about II miles up the Clark's Fork
The message which was given to him
verbally as we'll as written was to the
effect that so or so Nez Perces had
been killed and that the command had
the rest corralled.
Howard took a bodyguard of IL men
crossed the Yellowstone, and went over
the bench to Canyon creek where he
found a few soldiers looking after the
wounded while the rest of the COM
mand and the Indians were both gone.
General Towards outfit was the rag
gedest bunch of soldiers he ever saw,
Mr.. Young says. They were completely
worn out by their long pursuit of the
Nez Perces on foot and many of them
had no shoes. Howard went into camp
about a mile down the creek where
he stayed three or four days waiting
for a supply train from Fort Ellis.
Kill and Eat Horses
Liver Eating" johnson, who was
scouting with the troops, was sent
back to guide the supply wagons into
camp. After their arrival, a few of
the horses were killed to supply the
soldiers with meat. Furnished with
new equipment, Howard pulled out on
the trail toward the Musselshell.
The Nez Perces in the meantime
went over to the Musselshell and after
going up the river 10 or IL miles formed
a camp where they stayed three days.
Sturgis had followed, but after locat-
ing by scouts the Nez Perces' position,
ne halted his command at the previous
Nez PerceS position while he waited
Tor Howard to come up. The Nez
Perces then struck out for the Missouri
with Sturgis and Howard following be-
hind without attacking again. At Cow
island, where the government had a