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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01

self had hacked OF pure silver from the Bowie
vein with Ratchet. well, sir, such Q tale
set US wild. and we all agreed right there to
1T out an expedition to find the lost mine.
We got together teams, wagons and enough
supplies to last US several weeks: we even hired
some men to go along to help fight the Indians.
"Our party came through San Antonio and
on No into this very country. H hasn't changed
much. Bow1eS old right bower would tell u
where to camp. but he stayed with ms very 1t
tie. He was out scouting for the Lost mine.
Sometimes he would be gone all day returning
only to tell us to move camp.
by the time the old man had acted In this
manner for four or i've days We came TO the
conclusion that he either knew nothing about
the Bowie Mine or was holding back On Us, re-
fustng to live up to his contract. The leaders
took him aside and in plain terms told him OF
our suspicious. If he had really hacked ore OF
silver vein, they announced, he must tell Of
its location then and there or else be hanged.
"At this the old guide broke down and actual
ly cried There is no Bowie mineP he said
1T is true that was with Bowie, but the only
thing we found was Indians. They turned US
back, Tor we were only a handful. In after
years, with Bowie and the other members Of the
hunting party dead began telling about the
mine. told the story SO often and 30 long that
came to believe it. I am har, but have
told you the truth for once. Gentlemen, hang
me IL you will
The innocent old liar was not hanged, and
half dozen fellows who threatened to hang him
have since appropriated his yarns and told them
as personal experiences. When have the
right kind Of audience I, myself, never admit
having failed to glimpse the silver Of the San
Saba"
1t would be erroneous to conclude that most
OF the hunters for the lost Bowie mine who tell
their stories. however they may excel in oral
narration, are merely artistic liars. The ma
joFity Of these men have bought their expert
enceS-the subject of their tales-at the price
of years of grinding labor and that habitual
ahstemiouSness which devotion to any single
purpose exacts. Many Of them have suffered
jibes and ridicule. only like other martyrs, to
have their patience and confidence strength
ened.
We were In a Mexican restaurant In San An
tonic. Dishes showed to one side Of him, W. NJ.
Longworth was indenting lines In the tablecloth
with the point of his knife, occasionally dipping
it into enchilada sauce for drop Of red to in
dictate where hill stood or where copper peg
had been dug up. He was tan, spare man,
perhaps nearer SO than so. not a white streak
in his mop Of coarse black hair.
But where did you get this map?" asked
him. ct must have a history"
YES" he replied, cit has history, and God
knows in trying to follow it have had his
tory, too
The story was told with many backings and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01

important to the sequel happened: The Moses
Kirkpatrick home in Mullin burned down; at
the annual fair in Dallas, Moses Kirkpatrick
for the first time In his life entered the booth
of palmiSt.
The palrnist pored over the deep wrinkles In
his hand. "Your house has recently burned
down" She described the house. He believed
IN her clarivoyance.
You are on the brink Of great wealth." she
continued.
How am going to get the Wealth." the
Scotchman asked.
That is not clear Your riches are in the
ground. You or some one near you has been
very close to them already"
Years after this incident Moses Kirkpatrick
used to lament in his scriptural manner. MY
heart was turned away 50 that would not
hear. My ears were dull Of hearing and my
eyes they were closed" He had stood on the
brink Of wealth-and scorned the hand that
beckoned him to knock and enter. That hand
now, alas, was invisible beyond the chasm OF
DEATH
Not long after DR.. Jtn's death his brother
surrendered the copper plates, the stone and
the copper box with its contents to the doctors
young widow. She sold the crucifx, the ex-
quisite rosaries and the curious box to a dealer
in Dallas. She gave the stone to some stranger
The copper plates she took with her to Cali
fornia, where she married again and died.
The natives are still digging sporadically
and blindIy out IN the hills where DR.. Jim dug
up some very interesting copper objects-quite
untarnished-
OF all the men who have searched for the
Lost Bowie Mine have heard Of only one
who in the end admitted that the mine might
not exist or that his account Of it was not
gospel truth.
In the FaIl Of 1876 Mr.. J. T. Estill q pioneer
lawyer of "the hin country" and a fellow bar
riSter, d. z. Ports, were driving In a two
horse buggy from Mason to attend court IN
Menard. Ports at that time was perhaps 10
years old, typical plantation gentleman as
well a lawyer Of the old school. Rich IN
anecdote and repartee, he made fine travelling
companion for the equally genial Mr.. Estill.
Some IS miles west Of Mason the soil sudden
ly changed from light color TO deep red, and
as the travellers approached this divide Mr..
Estill remarked: "WeH, we are getting into the
Almagres-the Red Hills of the San Saba. We
must be In the neighborhOod of the great
Bowie Mine"
THE Bowie Nine" retorted Ports with I'M
usual animation, sis q myth. In my time I
have been personally acquainted with man
who accompanied Bowie into the San Saba
hills. One night down in Brazoria County a
crowd of us young fellows were smoking pipes
and telling yarns around campfire at which
this old Bowie adyenturer was present He told
us all about his marvellous experiences with
Bowie, and he ended by swearing that he him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01

windings, and did not get the whole Of y
until nearly q year after our first talk, when
I found Longworth one day in little room out
in the yard behind the boarding house his wife
for locating minerals that he calls the radio
sleuth" After explaining its mechanism, he
brought out a thick pile of documents From
them and from his own testimony, have put
Longworth's story together. Like all good
stories. it begins far away and long ago.
The Washington times., 1931-04-14
STRIKING PUPIL
REPORT DUE

The case against Miss Ada L.
Wagner, teacher at the Polk
School, who is charged with hav-
ing struck Edward Walker, a
pupil, with a ruler on two occa-
sions, has been laid aside pend
ing q report from the committee
on complaints and appeals of the
Board of Education tomorrow.
This was brought about yes
terday when Alfred D. Smith,
attorney for the child's parents,
failed to appear on time at a
hearing at the Franklin School.
Because of the unusualnesS CT
the case, six members Of the
board appeared for yesterdays
hearing. They were DR.. J. Hay
den Johnson, chairman of the
committee on complaints and ap-
peals; Daniel C. Roper, DR.. H.
Barrett Learned, president of the
board; DR.. F.. 1. A. Bennett, Mrs.
Philip Sidney Smith and DR..
Abram Simon.
The committee will report its
findings to the board at its meet
ing tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1931-04-14
Amazing Pre-
scription to End
Acid Torture
For Millions

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The Washington times., 1931-04-14
672 Planes Share
In Biz Air Spectacle

In all, 672 ships. attack, pur-
suit, observation, bombing, trans.
port Photographic and staff
planes. will take part in the com
mand and staff exercises OF the
Army Air Corps. May Is to 81,
according to a War Department
statement today, which claims
that it will be the Nations great
est air spectacle"
Every State will be crossed by
one or more air units and 75,O0O,,
900 people will have an oppor-
tunity to see the planes as they
concentrate at Dayton and pro-
coed with demonstration and sim
ulated attacks at Chicago, BoS-
ton, Washington, Philadelphia,
New York and other eastern
points and then return to home
stations throughout the entire
United States.
The Washington times., 1931-04-14
price red uC6OnS
for Opening Day

1880 Ford Tudor, very low
mileage in perfect mechanical
condition, paint like IOOHE
new. A real bargain, OOOO
1928 Ford Tudor perfect con-
ditiOn mechanically and it
looks like new,. offered at a
bargain price with O1O0
an OK that counts. O1OV
Ford Model A 5 window
Coupe, this 1929 model has an
exceptionally quiet motor and
looks like new, it is sold by
us with an OK that O0OE
counts, for only. ... OAOC
The Washington times., 1931-04-14
Reservoir Chosen
As Site of Library

The Georgetown Public Library
will be located on the reservoir
site at wisconsin Avenue and r
Street Northwest, according to
Dorsey Hyde, jr., chairman Of
the Georgetown Library Associa-
ton, speaking last night at a
meeting of the Progressive Citi,
zens Association in the Hyde
School.
The selection of a site for the
library has long been a moot
question, but with Mr.. Hyde's
announcement last night, 1t is
expected that plans will be
drawn up at once and work
begun.
The Washington times., 1931-04-14
KGLOrdn1G Citizens
Ask Street Repairs

improvements of two streets
in their rieighborhood is sought
by members Of the Kalorama Cit
izens Association. Resolutions
urging repaying of Decatur Place,
between Massachusetts, and
Florida avenues, and recurbing on
Euclid. between Sixteenth and
Mozart Streets, were adopted at
a meeting at the John Quincy
Adams School last night.
The Washington times., 1931-04-14
Sir Charles L. Ross
Will Speak Here

Sir Charles L. Ross, OF Scot.
land, expert on ballistics, will be
the guest speaker at the meeting
of the American Society Of Me
chanical Engineers Of. Washing.
ton April % at 8 p. m. at the Cos
mos Club. Sir Charles will speak
on the subject, "New Ideas Con.
cerning Ship Propellers."
The Washington times., 1931-04-14

1880 Whippet Sedan. This car
is in really fine condition
throughout. The tires, paint
and upholstery are like
new. To be sold for C07E
only ............ OO6O
1880 Ford Coupe. Run only
$500 miles and looks and runs
like a new car. Has 3 wire
wheels. This car you can't
tell it from a new one COOK
and is priced low at OOCC
1927 Chevrolet Sedan. A good
clean job with good paint,
tires, and mechanically good.
This car is well worth at
least $40 more than the
price asked. Very O1OE
low at.........O O1OO
The Washington times., 1931-04-14

unloading these cars-we are offer
ing them now-at prices SO low that
you can't afford to delay your pur-
chase any longer.
The red OK tag is your proof of
quality and satisfaction. 1t signifies
that the car you buy has been
thoroughly checked and recondi-
toned to give better performance
and longer life. Buy during this
great money-saving event! Come
early tomorrow! Get first choice of
the opening day specials!
The Washington times., 1931-04-14
Rabbi J e. RdffGeLi
Talks on Palestine

The transformation in Palestine
since the Balfour declaration was
pictured to an audience at the
Jewish Community Center last
night by Rabbi Joseph E. Raj
faeli, of Petersburg, Va.
DR.. Raffaeli's lecture was fol
lowed by play, designed to show
the Transformation pictured in
his lecture.
The Washington times., 1931-04-14
Piney Branch Group
Joins L1LUn Contest

Members of the Piney Branch
Citizens Association will compete
in the city-wide garden and lawn
contest which is being sponsored
by the Washington Bicentennial
Commission and the Federation
of Citizens Association.
Preliminary plans were drafted
at a meeting last night at the
Hamline M. E. Church.
The Washington times., 1931-04-14
KRAMER TO SPEAK

Charles P. Kramer, president
of the National Federation of
Temple Brotherhoods, will talk on
Man and Religion"
The Washington times., 1931-04-14
TAK0MA GROUP MEETS

TAKOMA PARK, Md, April IA.
The Community Leage of Takoma
Park held a meeting last night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
BACKS RUM REPORT
Loesch Sees No InconSiSt.
ency in Findings.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. 31.-Frank j.
Loesch, one of the five Wickersham
commission members who favored
revision of the eighteenth amend
ment, does not think the commit
tees report to President Hoover
was inconsistent.
LoeSch predicted the report will
be an important issue in the 1852
presidential campaign, and reiter-
ated his stand that there should be
a change in the prohibition law.
In defending the report, Loesch
said that although a majority of
the twelve members favored a
change of some kind in the dry
laws, he could see no reason why
that same majority should not adj
vocate strengthening enforcement.
THE commissions attitude was
that the prohibition law is on the
statute books, that it devolves upon
the President and other executives
to enforce it so long as it is a law"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
True FOYeUer
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. 31.-More
than thirty-one years ago,
John HalSted and Ida Frances
Gibson promised to be true
to each other forever"
Arrangements we're complete
for their wedding when Hal
sted was stricken with heart
attack in 1900.
He lived an hour, just long
enough for his f1ancee to reach
his side.
They renewed their engage
ment pledge and she promised
that when she died her ashes
would be placed with his.
Miss Gibson died in San
Diego, Cal, ten days ago at
the age of SO. Her body was
cremated and brought to Chi
cago by her sister.
Halsted's grave in Graceland
cemetery was opened Friday,
the urn containing Miss Glib
sons ashes was placed upon
his coffin and the grave was
sealed again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
Ell PASO WINS
RADIO OUTLET
Broadcast Facilities Long
Denied Texas City.

By Times Special
Ell PASO, Tex, Jan. 31.-El Paso
biggest American city on the Mex
lean border, which has been denied
radio access to the outside world
because channels allotted to Texas
are overcrowded, is to get on the
air now through remote control
across the state line into New Mex
leo.
1t is to be through station KOB
1,180 kilocycles, at State College
N. M. forty miles north of Ell Paso
in the foothills of the Organ noun
tains, once famed hangout of Billy
the Kid, and on the ancient Jor-
nado del Muerto, along with Span
ish conquistadores brought Chris
tian civilization to the Indians OF
the far west three centuries ago.
Ell Paso Evening Post, a Scripps-
Howard paper, arranged the hook
up and provided a studio in the
new Post building.
It's formal opening will be Satur-
day from Z to 10 p. m, Indianapolis
time. Ell Paso broadcasting will
continue thereafter seven hours
daily, three hours in the morning
and from 6 to 10 p. m.
KOB is a 20,000-watt station, the
biggest college-owned station in the
United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
AIMS BLAST AT
POLICY ON INDIA
Winston Churchill Bitterly
ASSaiIS Macdonald.

By United Press
MANCHESTER, England, Jan. 81.
Winston Churchill celebrated his
withdrawal from the conservative
shadow cabinet" by condemning
the LABOR government and the In
dian Nationalist party in an unusu-
ally bitter speech here.
Churchill'S attack On the way
Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald
and his colleagues handled the In
diarl situation was one of the most
drastic launched against any British
government for years.
"Tlle government is preparing to
hand rule in India to comparatively
small and utterly misrepresentation
political factions" Churchill said.
India thus will be the prey of mis-
government, deterioration, disorder,
nepotiSn, corruption and religious
bigotry of kind undreamed in the
west, and finally to inevitable civil
war.
There would be no more wicked
or contemplate act by any great
nation than to hand over the we'll
being Of three hundred millions of
persons to the tight oligarchy of
lawless politicians, fanatics, and
greedy merchants of which the
Indian congress party is composed -
For the last eighteen months the
Labor government has stimulated
all the forces Of sedition and dis
order in India, and has witnessed
the disintegration Of British inter-
ests and authority" he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
WET MEASURES
BEFORE HOUSE
NOW TOTAL !
Bills to LegaIize Medical
; Whisky, Cut Fees OF
Prosecutors Filed.

Legalization Of the sale of medi-
cinal whisky, provided in bill
among the thirty-three introduced
in the house Friday, brings to four
the number of wet measures now
before the house public morals COM
nlittee.
The medicinal whisky bill, spon-
sored by Representative Fred A.
Egan Dem., Lake. and j. Henry
Monnig Jr. Dem, Vanderburgh)
permits the prescription of whisky
by licensed physicians with So
cent license fee on each prescription
blank. Sale by registered pharma-
cists is confined to those who have
been in the drug business at least
two years prior to application for
permission to sell whisky.
A companion measure introduced
by Egan and Monning reduces
prosecutors fees under the 1925
Wright bone dry act from $25 to
SO. This bill differs only from the
measure of Representative Howard
F. Grimm Rep., Dekalb) in that
the reduction is to IS.
Friction Is Suspected
The fourth wet bill pending in
the public morals committee, OF
which Representative Russell J.
Dean (Dem., Marion) is chairman
is the Galloway-Egan measure for
outright and complete repeal of the
Wright act.
No report has been made on the
repeal bill which was assigned the
public morale group Jan. Is. With
the bill inactive over the seventeen
days of the session thus far, the
lack Of report of either favor
able or unfavorable nature has lent
credence to repeated charges of
friction in the Marion county dele
cation.
Representative Gerritt M. Bates
DeIn., Marion) is ranking men,
Der of the public morals committee,
and Fred Galloway (Dem., Marion)
introduced the repeal bill from the
floor.
Two Thirds Vote Needed
Wet members of the house, it is
known, have considered an effort tc
pull the bill from committee and
force report on the floor Of the
house. However, there is no house
rule on neglected bills and the vets
are afraid they would be unable to
obtain the two-thirds majority vote
necessary to force the report.
Dean has explained this mac
ton of his committee On what is
regarded as one of the most i'm
portant bills of the session by say
ing the public morals group only
is waiting until it has enough
measures to consider"
The public morals commute now
has five bills in all before it, in
Guiding one by Representative
Charles j. Aallardt dem. st. Jo-
sephD, to legalize pari-mutuel bet
ting at licensed racing meets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
I COPS APPOINTED
Promotions Of Two Others
Are Announced.

Appointment of seven policemen
and promotion of two others were
announced Friday by safety board
members following a caucus with
Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan.
Those appointed fill vacancies
including those caused by recent
dismissal of five department men,
berS who were convicted of con-
spiracy to violate the federal pro-
hibition law in federal court.
Sergeant Leo Troutman was pro-
NOTED to lieutenant and Patrolman
Dan Scanlon to sergeant.
Those appointed: Fred j. Stevens,
2529 West Twelfth street; George
Johnson, 963 West Twenty-eighth
street; William Marks, 2126 Station
street; Emmett Mccormick, soc
Woodlawn avenue; Alvie G. Enlmel-
man, 1904 Lexington avenue;
Thomas Smith, 1885, North Tai
bot street, and Joseph Comiskey
104S Blaine avenue.
The appointees are Democrats.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
81 ARE NATURALIzED
MuSsoIini No Longer Boss,
Italian Applicants Verdict.

Fifty-one persons marched home
from federal court Friday with
smiling faces and tiny American
flags because the stamp of alien had
been removed when they took the
oath of allegiance to the United
States before Judge Robert G. Bait
zell.
w. A. Keefer, district naturaliza-
ton director, of Cincinnati. found
that allegiance to MuSsolini stops at
the American shore, even though
II Duce claims members of his race
to the third and fourth generations.
do you belong to Mussolini?" the
examiner asked three Italians who
had served in the American army.
"No, sir, we do not" they all an
swered eraphatically.
"You would make good soldiers
for him, wouldn't your" the ex-
aminer again asked.
'Mussolini may think so, but we
have different opinion" the three
answered in broken English.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
. TAX SALE BILLS
PASSED BY SENATE
Measures Would Relieve
Owners of Property,
Unable to Pay.

Suiting action to words, the IN
diana senate Friday passed and sent
to the house of representatives two
bills to prevent or soften the blows
of auctioneers' hammers on prop
erty scheduled to be sold Feb. 8
for approximately $10,000,000 de-
linquent taxes.
known as Senate Bills SO and 81,
the measures, as explained and
championed by Senator Alonzo H.
Lindley (Rep., Fountain, Vernail-
ion and Warren), their author,
would:
Senate Bill Eliminates neceS-
Sity Of paying taxes due for the
current year by purchasers Of prop
erty sold for delinquent taxes Feb.
and eliminate immediate payment
of such taxes upon redemption.
Senate Bill 94-Eliminate entirely
the tax sales Of Feb. 9 by declaring
one-year moratorium, and pro-
viding also for amortization Of de-
linquent taxes over a four-year
period.
Passed to Third Reading
On the first measure, the vote
was Al to 2 for passage and on the
second, 81 to g.
A third and companion measure,
Senate Bill 95, which would have
declared moratorium for one year
ON sale of property for non-payment
of Barrett law assessments, was re-
turned to second reading SO that it
might be amended to eliminate OBJ
jectionable features.
The senate suspended the rules to
pass to third reading the Weiss
house bill, similar to Senate Bill SO,
but eliminating the 10 per cent pen
atty as well as current taxes upon
redemption of property sold for de-
linquent taxes.
Amendment Adopted
Still further attention was given
tax relief when the senate resumed
consideration of the Hartzell bill to
repeal provisions of the tax laws
which exempt fraternal property
from taxation, except where used for
educational or benevolent purposes.
On second reading Friday, Senator
j. Clyde Hoffman (Rep., Marion)
offered an amendment to postpone
the taking effect of the measure
until Jan. l, 1886.
An amendment offered by Sena-
tor Winfield Miller (Rep., Marion)
and adopted Thursday placed back
on the exempt list properties owned
and used for securing income for
the benefit of such institutions, in
dividual associations or corpora
TONS"
This amendment still chung to the
bill upon its recommitment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
The City
i'm Brief

The Rev. B. r. Johnson, pastor
of the Downey Avenue Christian
church, will speak on Touching
Bottom" Sunday afternoon at the
Y. NJ. G. A. Big Meeting at Keith's
theater.
The thirty seventh annual con-
vention of the Indiana Ice Dealers
Association will be held at the
SEVERN, Feb. 1S and 10.
Police and firemen's posts Of the
American Legion will take an active
part in Legion week, Feb. Is to u,
and the presentation of Floyd Glib
bons at Cadle tabernacle, Feb. 0.
William Gear Spencer, president
Of Hillsdale college, Hillsiale, Mich.
will appear on the first program Of
the new members education COM
mittee of the Rotary Club at the
weekly luncheon in the ClaypooI
Tuesday.