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G. n. Counsel Scores
Transportation Ills

Fargo N d., Nov. 29-(P)-"Boot-
leg" transportation by trucks is rails
ing havoc with railroad earnings,
causing considerable loss to small
merchants, reducing buyer power re-
Elected in lower prices for farm COM
moditieS, Edward F. Flynn, St. Paul.
assistant general counsel of the Great
Northern. declared before the Fargo
MOorhead Credit Mems association
here Monday night.
Declaring the people of the United
States are paying approximately 40
cents out of every dollar of income as
taxes, Flynn blamed the heavy bur-
den of taxes as undoubtedly the chief
cause OF the present financial and
economic situation"
He maintained much government.
money being poured into waterways
particularly for development of the
Mississippi is being wasted because.
he said, the small amount of tonnage
moving on these waters does not be-
gin to repay the cost Of deepening and
maintaining the river channel.
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having been set for January 2. The
last time the two had been to.
gether was around noon on the
previous Saturday, which was
Christmas Eve, when they lunched
at the Hotel Brevoort and then
looked at a one-room apartment
IN East Tenth Street which Betty
had decided to lease.
II said goodbye to Geraldine at
the southeast corner Of Fifth
Avenue and Tenth Street. Sud.
denly, she leaned forward and
kissed me and she said, If / don't
come home for supper. Betty.
don't be worried-I'll be doing nv
Christmas shopping And before
gould answer she had crossed the
Avenue ana was walking down to.
ward Washington Square,"
And you haven't heard from
her since?" asked Thatcher Colt
filling his pipe. Wv
~ talked with her later thai
afternoon at over the telephone and
Mr.: Colt, it was that last CONVEX.
satlon which makes me feel SC
frightened" o.
Why, how is that?"
II called Geraldine to tell he,
about a Christmas bonus that on,
hrm had given to the employees.
waited Tor an hour, because Geral
dine had said the doctor would +,
out at that time. l could tell b,
J her voice that she had been cryins
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Alberta Wheat Pool
Closes Its Meeting

Calgary. Alta, Nov 29-(P)-Thc
Alberta wheat pool closed it's annual
meeting Monday night after urging
the federal government to grant a
bonus on wheat production and es-
tablish the Canadian dollar on a par
ity with the British pound sterling.
The 70 delegates. representing A.
300 members, decided to continue for
another year the optional marketing
basis of the last season. supported a
world wheat conference proposal and
urged the federal government to es-
tablish a national wheat board.
The resolution on the dollar and
pound sterling asked the wheat pool
directors to work with the Alberta
government and the United Farmers
of Alberta lin pressing upon the fed
eral government the need for in
flating the Canadian dollar to a parity
with the British pound" or "at fig
ure below the pound"
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COL. lack MILLER
GOES FREE UNDER
EXECUTIVE ORDER
Oklahoma Rancher's Term For
Contempt Ended BY Gov
errors Action

Marland, Okla, Nov. 29.-(P)-His
cell unlocked by a threat OF military
force, Col. lack Miller waved a
Iplainsman's thanks Tuesday to "a
governor who's got CUTS" and took
time out to "enjoy the open spaces
of his one-time empire of the range,
the 1O1 ranch.
Miller marched jubilantly from the
Kay county Jail at Newkirk Monday
at dusk, pardoned by Governor w. H.
alfalfa Bid Murray from a con-
tempt of court conviction and i'm
Iprisonment which followed his failure
to pay temporary alimony to his es-
,tranged wife, Mrs. Margaret Blevins-
Miller.
And more than that, the rancher
said he thought the sweeping clem-
lency order may eliminate me- from
the effect of other orders of the court,
Iscme of which have concerned the re-
Iceivership under which the ranch is
operated.
Il must admit" Col. Miller told a
crowd of nearly hundred friends
who met him as he started home to
the ranch white house. that the Jail
was too combining. From now on I
am going to enjoy the open spaces.
Sunday was the longest day I ever
spent. I read all the papers could
get hold Of. even read the want ads.
I'm glad Oklahoma has a governor
who's got CUTS"
The executive order, presented to
District Judge Claud Duval, who sent
Col. Miller to Jail Saturday, was hon.
ored by Sheriff Joe McFadden only
after the two National Guard officers
who brought it declared they were
prepared Ito use force" Neither the
judge nor the sheriff would recognize
the governors right to release a civil
prisoner, but the sheriff finally cap
itulated under protest" saying he
did so to avoid bloodshed.
The order called for Col. Miller's re-
lease from false imprisonment and
for his pardon "of any and all orders
and DEGREES of the said judge or an
other court in Kay county"
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A. F. /. ENDORES
LESS WORK HOURS
Will Begin Intense Drive Toward
Six-Hour Day and Five
Day Week

Cincinnati, O., Nov. 29-(P)-En-
couraged by the roar of approval with
which their convention accepted one
phase of their program for unemploy-
ment relief, leaders of the American
Federation Of Labor looked forward
Tuesday to speedy action on others.
The body Monday committed itself
to a nationwide application of the
five-day work week and six-hour day
without reduction of wages.
Tuesday, the convention awaited
the resolution committees report on
compulsory unemployment insurance,
recommended by the federation's ex-
ecutive council-along with shorter
work schedules-as 'of prime import
ance if unemployment relief is to be
obtained"
Another committee studied move
urged by John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers, who Mon-
day presented resolution calling for
an amendment to the federation's
constitution to enlarge the executive
council membership by increasing vice
presidents from to Is. Lewis de-
clined to discuss his proposal. except
to say 1T is broad matter of con-
strucuve change
The delegates heard Secretary of
Labor William N. Doak declare that
because of his fight against racketeer-
ing he had been threatened with as
sassination several times" He called
upon labor to mobilize behind its
leaders in the war" against racke-
teerS.
The convention approved a propos-
al that congress be asked to conduct
nationwide study of school fl
nances, and took a stand against re-
auctions in teachers salaries, or
shortening the school year.
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in the mass of the American people
in recent years.
Claim White Wife
OF Negro Insane

Los Angeles, Nov. 29.-(P)-
Still possessing the beauty that
made her known on Broadway
as "the gloriously golden girl"
Helen Lee Worthing, "a, former
Follies girl who sacrificed a the
atrical career tor the love of
negro physician whom she mar
ried, Tuesday faced an insanity
hearing.
The former actress was taken
to the psychopathic ward of the
general hospital on an insanity
complaint signed by Horace An
derson, friend. who stated Miss
Worthing had threatened suicide
and suffered Authorizations.
A hearing of the insanity COM
plant against Miss Worthing will
be held in conjunction with
hearing on the application of her
former husband, DR.. Eugene C.
Nelson. negro physician, that she
be paroled to him that he might
place her in a private sanitarium.
When she sued DR.. Nelson for
divorce, Miss Worthing had
charged her husband with keep
ing her in "a comatose condition
by drugs" She was granted the
divorce and given $500 monthly
alimOny.
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Forks Man Shoots
Self Accidentally

Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 29.-(P)-
Sivert H. Bake. office manager of the
Minneapolis-Mol Power Implement
company at Grand Forks, was acct
dentally killed Monday while hunting
rabbits four miles east of Marvel,
N. D.
Guy S. Hemsted. Bakkes companion
on the Inflated hunting trip, found
the body and notified county author
tiles.
A charge of shot from Bakke's gun
had struck him at close range passing
into the stomach. County officials
reported study of the tracks and posi-
ton of the gun showed Bake had
been moving through the brush and
evidently had stumbled into deep
snow.
Bake was so years old. He was
born in East Grand Forks and grad
uated from high school there. He had
been with the Minneapolis Moline
company since 1904. He leaves his
widow. his mother, two brothers, two
sons, one daughter.
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Memory of Louisa
AlcOtt Is HOnOred

Concord, Mass, Nov. 29.-(P)-An
fashioned brown-stained house be-
s:de a modern highway in the out
skirts of historic Concord was a gath
erirg place Tuesday of childhood
memories.
Here, to Orchard House, from
whose doors Meg and 10 and Beth
and Amy trooped from the mind of
their creator. Louisa May Alcott, "a
years ago, came a pilgrimage of men
and women and children to pay tri-
butte to the author of Little Wo-
men," on the centenary of her birth.
One hundred years ago today
Louisa Alcott was born in German
town, Pa. Little of her life was spent
there, however. Her father. Bronson
Alcott, impractical dreamer and vi.
sionary,. brought his family to New
! England soon after Louisas birth and
| thereafter much of her life was spent
in Boston and Concord.
| 1t was in the house here-bought
with legacy received by Mrs. Alcott
that Louisa May found the means
with her pen, to provide livelihood
for the family.
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Half Truths.

Betty Canfield's glance toward
Captain Laird was full Of appeal.
However, our most difficult
cases." admonished Thatcher Colt,
"are those in which the family or
friends give only a part of the
truth, and not all. So tell US
everything"
With admirable directness, Betty
Garfield related a curious story.
For three years she had been shar-
ing a small apartment on Morn
ingside Heights with Geraldine
Foster, a girl Of about her own
age, who worked in a doctors
office in Washington Square. Re-
Gently the two girls had agreed to
separate, because Geraldine was
planning to be married, the date
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t1HE MYSTERY GERALDINE
j by ANTHONY ABBOT

and / asked her what was the mat
ter. She admitted that she and
Doctor Maskell had quarreled.
But she wouldn't tell me why"
Doctor Maskell" reflected Colt
aloud. SIS he related to George
Maskell, the criminal lawyer"
IT understand they are brothers,"
said Betty.
"a very distinguished family"
interposed Captain Laird. "And a
queer one. George Maskell is the
Robin Hood of the radicals-he
and his wife, who is his law part
ner, represent rich clients at enor-
nous fees and then work for rad
icals for nothing. They were also
associated with Clarence Darrow
and Arthur Garfield Hays, in the
Grecco-Carillo murder case"
81 remember nodded Colt.
doctor Maskell must be a rich
man."
Geraldine told me he will be
rich when his father dies" ex-
planned Betty Garfield. "The two
sons will inherit millions then. But
neither of them has much now, !
understand"
"About what time was it when
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Kill the Fungus

I followed your gasoline treatment
for athletes foot itch. After I'M
mersing my toes in little pan of
gasoline for half minute five
nights succession the trouble was
completely cured. had tried many
prescriptions in vain. miss M. H.
AnsWer-It kills the fungus which
produces epidermophytosis or ring
worm Or trench foot. Use only ordi-
nary gasoline, not ethyl.
Antiseptic Absurdity
Is Can antiSeptic noStrum) a sure
preventive of halitosis in all cases?
Can an odorous breath be natural
condition? Or. M. d.
Answer-I doubt that even good
antiseptic is preventive of foul
breath or remedy for it in any case.
Foul breath may be due to certain
foods or medicines, or to various
pathological conditions, such as in
fected tonsils, sinusitis, pyorrhea
dental carries, or certain stomach dis
cases. Obviously even a good anti
septic is futile against these causes.
In my opinion the nostrum you men,
ton has precisely the antiseptic
value of a teaspoonful of boric acid
dissolved in a pint of boiled water.
Bleaching the Hair
I had chestnut colored hair but
used ca nostrum) and later peroxide
and bleached it. Now I have to keeI
using the bleach as the hair grows
out Will this injure my hair, OF
my mind, or my health? miss L
X
Answer-It is harmless to health tt
use peroxide to bleach your hair, but
I can't answer for the nostrum. o.
course bleaching Is chemical pro.
cess and may eventually harm thu
hair
Copyright, John F. Ollie Co..
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Heavily -Laden Liquor
Truck Is COnfiscated

Fargo. N. D., Nov. 29.-(P-Laden
with 1000 gallons of alcohol, a truck
was seized and its driver arrested
Monday about two miles west of Fra
zee, Mimi, by John H. Hagan. North
Dakota deputy prohibition admins
traitor, and Osmund Gundvaldsen, U
S. marshal, both of Fargo.
The driver said his name was May
nard A. johnson and gave his address
as a Fargo hotel
He was arraigned before U. S. Com
missioner D. c. Carmen at Detroit
Lakes, Mimi, on charges of trans
portation and possession of intoxi-
eating liquor. johnson waived hear
ing and bond was set at $4,000. He
was remanded to the Becker county
jail at Detroit Lakes.
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CHAPTER I.
THE disappearance of Geraldine

"VHE disappearance OIL IeralulHe
Foster was first reported to
the authorities on the third
day after Christmas, several years
ago.
Only a desk-lamp was burning
in the famous private office at the
north end of the second floor of
Police Headquarters at 240 Centre
Street, New York City. The rest
of the Commissioners room was
darkened with the premature
shadows of a raw and gusty win
ter afternoon. Brooding over a
shuttle of blue-prints, Thatcher
Colt sat at his desk, enchanted
with the traffic puzzle of great
city.
Finally he glanced up at me
quizzically.
"You can 60, Tony" he said.
"You've done enough work for one
secretary today"
captain Henry wants to see
you, but told him you didn't wish
to be disturbed" I replied.
ooh, well-send him right in"
Captain-now Deputy Inspector
Israel Henry was in charge of
the cluster of Offices surrounding
the private room of the Police
Commissioner of New York City.
In this capacity he was the guard
ian of Thatcher Colts privacy and
all visitors had to see him first.
Responding to my call, Henry
marched into the Office, a heavy
set, silver-haired police captain,
and, saluting, laid an opened en-
velope before Thatcher Colt.
"Young lady brought this in.
Been waiting an hour. Says she
won't go away until you've looked
at it yourself"
Thatcher Colt read the letter
with deep attention. Under the
lamp-light the Commissioner was
a striking figure, with his huge and
powerful frame and Soldiers face
He was the best dressed man in
public life, and regarded by the
more frivolous newspapers as a
tldneur or, at best, a dilettante in
crime, yet not since the days OF
Theodore Roosevelt had the De.
partment known a chief of such
strength, courage and decision
His black hair was crisp and
closely cut, his brown eyes sombre
and resolved and in his firm fea.
lures lived action and authority.
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MinOt Jury to Get
Arson Case Today

Minot, N. D., Nov. 29.-LP-Intro-
duction Of testimony in the trial OF
Mrs. Matte Handy of Minot, charged
with arson in connection with hotel
fire here last February, was complet-
ed late Monday in district court and
the case was to be given the jury
Tuesday.
Taking the witness stand in her
own defense. Mrs. Handy denied any
knowledge of the fire which the de-
Tense admits was of incendiary origin
Mrs. Handy was owner of the build
irg.
The state charges the fire was
planned to collect $4,000 insurance
on the building and it's contents.
Mrs. Handy once was a resident OF
Devils Lake.
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Official City, State and County
Newspapcr)
Foreign Representatives
SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER
incorporated
CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON


After three years Of research anc
study, a professor at Columbia uni
versity lifts his head from maze
of figures and announces the aver
age incomes of persons engaged in
IS professions or classifications o!
work.
Doctors and lawyers lead the list
with averages of $3.50 year each
while engineering and architecture
are in second place with $4,000 each
Then, in order, come dentistry, col
lege teaching, library work, journal
ism, the ministry, skilled trades, So
cial work, nursing, public school
teaching, unskilled labor and farm
ing.
The man on the bottom of the list
the farmer, is credited with an aver
age income of $3.50 year as COM
pared with $945 year for unskilled
laborer. next to last on the list.
This looks, and is, bad enough
but it does not tell the whole dismal
story Of what has happened to agri-
cultural America. The figures are
for three-year period and arc an
average. They are not the extreme
low figures provided by last year and
this.
The average farm income in 1881
according to figures compiled by fed
eral statisticians, was s35l. From
that figure, received in cash, the
farmer is expected to pay taxes, in
terest on mortgages, clothe and feed
his family and purchase such other
essentials as he needs. There GER
tainly is no room left for luxuries
and with those who fall below this
average there is not enough to meet
fixed charges and buy essentials.
The significant thing about the
whole business is that the farmer is,
essentially, capitalist. If he owns
his farm outright or has an equity
in it, he is entitled to return on his
investment as we'll as upon his labor.
Yet this man, comprising at least a
third Of the population of these Uni
ted States, finds himself we'll below
the unskilled laborer with no capital
invested, in point of income.
The figures show, among other
things, the compelling urge to tax
reduction as reflected by North Da-
kota voters at the last election. Men
whose average incomes are 1851 a
year cannot be expected to pay heavy
taxes cheerfully, if, indeed, they can
pay them at all.
We have all heard in general
terms of the problem presented by
reduced purchasing power on the
farms and everyone, no matter where
he lives, has felt the result of this
situation. The actual figures present
the matter as stark reality and
show how serious the question Of the
shrinking farm income really is.
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Among the Missing.
Having read the letter, Thatcher
Colt picked up the telephone.

Having read the letter, Thatcher
Colt picked up the telephone.
us Captain Laird still in the
building? Helloa, Captain =.
Young lady in my office-sent to
me by one of my oldest friends.
Mind if we talk with her together !?
Come right up"
Meanwhile, Captain Henry had
led in the girl, whom he introduced
as Miss Betty Garfield. She had
an attractive and piquant face and
exceedingly large brown eyes, and
she was becomingly dressed in a
squirrel coat, saucy blue hat and
the smallest snakeskin shoes l had
ever seen. As I brought forward a
chair, Thatcher Colt greeted her
pleasantly.
$50 you are the niece of Frank
Garfield" he began. 1T will be
a pleasure to do anything / can for
you. Do / understand one of your
friends is missing?"
my roommate" said Betty Can.
field, with catch in her voice.
The door opened then to admit
Captain Laird, a tall, slender, keen
eyed officer in middle years. Laird
was one Of the first university men
to choose career in the Police
Department. At Dartmouth he had
been a track star and now the thirf.
ty-four detective sergeants unde,
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you had this telephone converse
ton with your roommate"
1T was exactly three o'clock"
What makes you so precise on
that point?"
Il waited until that exact time
to telephone, SO that l could avoid
talking to Doctor Maskell-J have
never liked the man."
"Still, you haven't told me how
you knew when it got to be three"
"Oh! There is a little clock on
my desk-Geraldine gave it to me-
last Christmas-I was looking al
the dial all the time was waiting
for the number tn snswarN
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Refuse to Ask for
Liquor Law Repeal

Minot, N. D., Nov. 29.-(P)-An eff
fort to have the Minot city commits
sion petition the state legislature to
repeal all existing state liquor laws.
made Monday by Commissioner Nap
La Fleur, failed for want of a second.
1T behooves us to be prepared, that
we may derive revenues we are en-
titled to and that the bootlegger and
speakeasy may be wiped out forever"
the proposed petition stated.
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his command were all athletes. Ad-
dressing Betty Garfield, Thatcher
Colt explained:
Captain Laird is the chief Of our
Missing Persons Bureau. More
than three thousand disappearance
cases are reported to his office
every year and he manages to ac-
count for an average of SO per
cent of them-so you've come to
the right place."
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Life Holds Nothing,

II see. Now tell me what was
said further between yourself and
Geraldine, over the telephone"
After Geraldine said she had
been quarreling, ! didn't have the
heart to talk about the bonus. hut
| told her if she would come home
to supper / would go out shopping
with her. But all she answered
was, Christmas doesn't hold anv-
thing for me now, Betty. | wish to
God ! was dead. And I guess /
soon will be. Betty, you may never
see me again as long rs you live.'
ana then she burst out laughing
and said she knew she was acting
IKE a fool and promised to be
home early"
Ae Be Continued Tom orrew.l
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ponds largely on popular reaction to
the idea. He believes it would work
out we'll and would prove OF benefit
to North Dakota agriculture, but II
the people do not want it, it is i'm
probable that he will attempt to
force it upon them.
If the compulsory insurance feature
is not recommended, Olsness indicat-
ed, the 1888 legislature probably will
be asked to enact law similar to that
recommended two years ago and
which was subsequently emasculated
by an unfriendly legislature.
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SOCIALISTS ORGANIZE CLUB

Williston, N. D., Nov. 29.-Seven-
teen persons met in the courthouse
here Nov. Is and organized a study
club which will delve into the works
of Carl Marx, Coin Harvey, William
z. Foster and other Socialistic ano
Communistic authors. L. H. Retain
state organizer for the Liberty party
presided.
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Slayer Proves
He Isn't Coward

Los Angeles, Nov. 29.--(P)--It
was Dallas Egan's boast he was
no coward. He was product of
the street gangs-fighting. steal
ing, and ever at odds with the
law.
In superior court on trial for
the murder of w. J. Kirkpatrick,
coal merchant of Battle Creek.
Mich, during a holdup, Egan
made good his boast Monday.
Il have always said that if
poisoned we'll. I could drink
from it," Egan told Judge Isaac
Facht. Il want the full penalty"
The Judge granted his request
and sentenced him to be hanged.
Egan's attorney. who had been
pleading his client was insane,
sought to interrupt the killers
request for the death penalty.