davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1937-02-24

the flowers, and, Of course, you have
noticed that the water in which they
stand has slender little roots floating
at the end of the stems.
If you have some damp place in
which to establish these guests later
on in the Spring, in short time you
will have your own little pussy willow
tree. A few branches clipped off will
not harm it and each Winter you can
have the harbingers of Spring in the
house and later add them to your
group outside.
If you cannot go out and find your
own pussy willows, the florists have
them And the opening flowers seem
to bring Spring more quickly to us.
Willows have very wide distribu-
ton. Some member of the family
may be found from the Equator to
the Arctic Circle. There are a few
of them that even enjoy living in
dry soil, but most of them are only
happy and prosperous when they have
their feet in the water and can see
their beautiful reflection in the shiny
waters below.
willows make fine nurse trees as
they are fast growers. Whilc they do
not get the credit for being such
worthy tree citizens as the hard
woods. yet they have played a most
important part when they have served
as faithful guardians of the more
priced trees.
However, the willows will always be
remembered as the trees that have
been used to hold the banks and
streams to their courses, and their
branches formed the original jetties
that kept open the channel of the
Mississippi.
(Copyright. 1877
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at no-trump game, in which case 1t
might be very helpful to stop dia-
mond lead. He should have responded
with one heart.
8. South is now able to show his
second suit while still at the level OF
one.
4. North outthinks himself again.
With both black aces and four hearts
to the king. he should definitely have
jumped to three hearts. But, having
bid a diamond without anything in the
suit, he was slightly afraid that a
three-heart bid might be taken too Sc
riously and cause his partner, with a
good hand, to try for an impossible
slam.
S. South actually thought about
making another bid but could find no
excuse for doing so and passed.
There was practically nothing to
the play at all. Not only did hearts
break 80, but the queen Of clubs was
in front Of the king-jack and dropped.
As q result, all the declarer had to
lose were two tricks, one in hearts
and one in diam( ndS, and he made
f1ve-odd But North's super -brilliance
had cost his side game.
(Copyright, 1877
Evening star., 1937-02-24
President Fights
Soil Erosion OF,
Duchess Estate
10000 Young Spruce
to SerUe Also as
Christmas Trees.

President Roosevelt Is more inter-
ested in preventing soil erosion on his
Duchess County estate than in be-
coming a christmas tree king"
He admitted as much at the White
House yesterday when bill of lading
came through for $4,000 young spruce
trees shipped to his estate by the New
York State Conservation Commission.
The trees cost the President SIS a
thousand and will be set out in the
more or less scrub acres in the Val
Kill section of the estate. The Presi-
dent already has several hundred
thousand of these small trees.
When sufficiently grown some OF
the trees will be sold in the Christmas
market, but the Presidents primary
purpose in the paintings is to check
soil erosion.
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Natures Children
Pussy Willow (Salix discolor).

and too many other evidences to
mention here you will be delighted to
discover for yourself, that Spring Is
Just around the corner.
The pussy willow just seems to beg
you to take a few of its branches
home with you. True. the small
pussies will look as if they were
tucked under their brown blankets so
snug and warm they would take some
time in your warm house to wake up.
But try them and see.
What q transformation occurs!
The warm room has done its work.
The silky hairs are fairylike in tex
Evening star., 1937-02-24

ture and glow like opa6. Some
branches seem to have very different
looking pussies on them from others.
The fluffy ones are the little girls
and the ones with tiny pollen tips are
the boys. Pistillate and staminate
flowers) From now on there will be
new flowers to open each day, until
the whole stem is filled with the
dainty little downy willow pussies.
For weeks you will have the Joy OF
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SOUTHERN EXPOSURE

them
n S a healthier holiday
Washngtons birthday
q Cruise weather for
presented can't follow the right
Of natural gabardne with youthful color breaking
horizontally striped rubber
sporting
necess medium
side
fanne always correct brown
mmed bcksh
Evening star., 1937-02-24

The Four Aces will be pleased to an
swer letters from readers IL a stamped
C3-centb Self-addreSsed envelope is in
closed with each communication. If
you desire the pocket outline OF the
Four Aces system of contract bridge
send with your request a stamped g.
to the Four Aces, Inc, $50 West Forty
second street, New York City. and you
will receive an outline without any
charge. The next article in this series
will appear Friday
Evening star., 1937-02-24
BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY.

T YAVE you marsh, bog, or such
place you can visit IN late
February? Don't you re-
L Il member the slender stems OF
the pussy willows and the buds that
had been used by insect pests for a
home2 Most likely you will find many
old friends Of yours. Surely the
skunk cabbage will have opened, had
her reception, and is now busily en-
gagged in setting her seeds. You will
find some moses and see Winter
rosettes. In some 'tates the violet
leaves will be peeping above the soil
Evening star., 1937-02-24
TURKEY PRESENTED
Lees Great-Granddaughter Makes
Gift to President.

UIIL 20 1ItSIU6uI. Z
A 17-pound smoked turkey, cured
at the ancestral home of Gen. Robert
E. Lee of Stratford, Va, was presented
President Roosevelt yesterday.
James Roosevelt, the President's S
secretary-son, received it for his
father from 9-year-old Anne Carter
Lee Ely, great-granddaughte of the
Confederate general She is a daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Hanson E. Ely,
jr., of this city.
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Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.

Jaeoby and Howard sehenken world
~ every othe n existence)
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Catapult for Planes.

Four new ice-breakers being con-
structed by Russia for the Arctic Sea
route will have catapult apparatus
for launching airplanes.
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/. With a high-card value of 812
and 5-4-3-1 distribution, South has a
sound opening bid but nothing to brag
about.
2. North outthinks himself. He de-
cides that unless his partner can bid
hearts he will want to play the hand
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Too Clever.
vUST as there are both natural
and acquired tastes, SO at bridge
there are both natural and &C
~ quired faults. One of the most
dangerous of acquired faults is the
habit of outthinking ones self. For
instance, there really should be MOTH
ing to the hand shown here, and yet,
through the fact that North out
thought himself, he and his partner
failed to bid laydown game.
South dealer.
Evening star., 1937-02-24

. Most popular sports shirt is the
Gaucho model. While this is a
solid color flannel, other fabrics
are smartly adaptable to the long
sleeved model here illustrated.
The Washington times., 1937-11-23
NeW Balloon
To Direct
Artillery

(I.N.S0-.Development Of q
motor.propelled observation bal
loon designed to direct artillery
fire was announced today by the
War Department.
The new balloon has undergone
rigid tests at st. Sill, Okla, and
is expected to replace the war
time type Of captive balloon.
which was familiarly known as
sausage"
The fire hazard, which made
the wartime observation balloon
so dangerous, has been overcome
by filling the new balloon with
helium instead of inflammable
hydrogen.
The new observation balloon
has been powered with a 90-horse
power engine In order to permit
free movement in the air. The
balloon can maneuver and travel
from point to point in the air,
descend to the ground and be at
tached to cable on its truck, per.
mitting it to become a captive bal.
loon affording a stationary plat
form for directing artillery fire.
The Washington times., 1937-11-23
Australia to Seek
i. S. Trade Treaty

CANBERRA. Australia, Nov. 2S.
AS soon as the cabinet is recon
structed next week, Prime Minister
Joseph A. Lyons will ask it to con-
slider making an overture to the
United States for a trade agree
ment.
When the dominion treasurer,
r. G. Casey, visited Washington
on his return from the imperial
conference he was informed that
as soon as the Anglo-British dis
cussionS reached the point of be.
ginning formal negotiations the
time would be ripe for exploratory
discussions between Washington
and Canberra.
The Washington times., 1937-11-23
CADETS WIDOW
SEEKS PROOF OF
MARRIAGE CLAIM
Mother of Dead Youth
Amazed by Story

CHICAGO, Nov. % QNS0-In
mourning as young widow" q
15-yeAr-old high school girl today
sought proof to support her claim
Of a midnight marriage with the
military school cadet who killed
himself early Sunday.
Oretta Harynek, urely
pretty behind a black veil, eli
NAKED the revelation that size had
Lied to Warren s. Stanley about
expecting to become the mother of
his child with the assertion that
they had been married early in
November.
STORY Is VAGUE
The girl was vague about the
ceremony, saying she had failed
asleep while he was driving and
that he awakened her in front of
q building in q strange town.
A man with a Bible married
them, she said, in front of two
witnesses recruited from the
street. Warren had kept the GER
tificate, she said.
@AO SA4 . 0VOAJ wac A4CJ W411A
an astounded denial by his
mother, Mrs. EStelle Stanley, di-
vorced from the boys father, Sin
clair q Stanley, q wealthy cos
meti0 manufacturer.
Loretta, however, maintained
she was telling the truth and is
sued q public appeal for proof.
BliAdly in love with her childhood
sweetheart, the girl said she had
never thought to ascertain details
Of the wedding.
3OO-MILE DASH
Stanley shot and killed himself
in a stolen car after a wild 300
mile dash from his school in Mis-
souri, to return to Loretta's side in
q conviction that she was to bear
his child. He admitted paternity
in q death note left in the car.
Loretta said she told him the
falSehood to make him happy, be-
cause, Warren always wanted to
be a father"
The Washington times., 1937-11-23
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The Washington times., 1937-11-23

'slnE. Baby, Sing" Z. an article
explaining why teaching songs to
babies has q definite therapeutic value.
Children may be taught to make muAi-
cal sounds before they talk Read
II in the American Weekly with Sun
The Washington times., 1937-11-23

Household Articles :. Helpful ideas
on efficiency in the home. by Mrs.
ChrIstine Frederick, distinguished
household authority .. recipes, menus
and mealtime suggestions. In the
American Weekly with Sundays WASH
ington HeFald.Timea.
The Washington times., 1937-11-23
THE WASHINGTON TIMES. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2s 1897

to q shortage Of water, this years
rice crop was q failure and that
the government had bought co.
500 tons Of Siamese rice, costing
76, 700 pounds.
The Washington times., 1937-11-23
LIMA RICE RUINED

L I M A, Peru, Nov. 23.-Col.
Teofilo Iglesias, minister Of fl
nance, announced here that, due
The Washington times., 1937-11-23
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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-01-15
Judgment of $40 Won by Defendant i'm Heugate's
First Lawsuit, Was Unsolicited for Lack of Sheriff

with the expedition commanded by
General Mullan, which marked out the
road from Montana into Idaho, still
known as the "Mullan trail" The day
lineup Joe and his wife called on the
O'Keefes, the brothers had just heard
that General Mullan and his party were
again camped nearby, and had decided
to visit him.
Hospitality Abused
The brothers had raised a small
crop of oats that year and were treas
uring their harvest for seed the follow
ing season. Warming Lineup Joe to keep
his horse away from the oats, but in
viting him to make himself at home
otherwise, the OKeefes left for Null
lan's camp. They found it closer than
they had expected and hence con-
cluded their visit and returned home
sooner than either they or lineup Joe
had anticipated. When they arrived
they found lineup Joe'S horse with
his head in the oat bin.
Baron OKeefe, in a towering rage,
stampeded the animal away from the
bin with a shower of sticks and stones,
and did it 50 we'll that the horse ran
smack into a partially excavated root
cellar, sc injuring itself that it died
before the O,Keefe brothers and Joe
could get it out.
lineup Joe and his wife went into
Hellgate on foot and told their troubles
to Frank Woody, lawyer and trader,
later and for many years a judge in
ure in legal circles. Woody s~ympathized
with lineup Joe, and after a confer
ence with other citizens, it was de-
cided that Baron OKeefe should be
prosecuted in a civil action for dam
ages. A man named Henry Brooks was
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those men the only protection the law
abiding citizen had was his own abil-
ity to take care of himself and his
property.
Strangely enough, Montana's first
lawsuit involved no bad men" The
defendant was Cornelius c. Baron
OKeefe. n of Montana's most fam
GUS pioneers, the soul of honor and
hospitable to a fault. The plaintiff was
a harmless, wandering squaw man
known as "Tincup Joe." The law suit
resulted from an unfortunate episode
attending the extension by Baron
OKeefe and his brother Dave, of hos
pitality to Mr.. and Mrs. lineup Joe.
Because of their failure to appreciate
it, they lost their only horse.
Horse Was the Troublemaker
One day lineup Joe and his wife,
with their one horse, stopped at the
OKeefe cabin, IL miles west of He'll
gate. There Baron OKeefe and his
brother Dave we're both residing.
Dave OKeefe had come west in 1868
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tials for process serving and showing
neither the energy nor the desire to
obtain them, no effort was ever made
to collect the $40, and it was never
paid.
big Nick" Shoots "Overlander"
The first coroner's inquest, held
about the same time as the lawsuit,
was attended by no such spectacular
courtroom proceedings. The inquest
was a formal inquiry into the circum-
stances attending the death of a cit
izen known only as "Overlander," at
the hands of another who rejoiced in
the euphonious cognomen of big Nick"
Trouble arose between the two as the
result of Overlander's attentions to an
Indian squaw in whom Big Nick also
claimed a proprietary interest. When
the affair reached gunplay stage in
Hellgate night, Big Nick proved to
be the quicker on the draw and downed
Overlander. Dave O'Keefe, who was
present at the time, always insisted
that Big Nick used two guns and
emptied both of them at his opponent.
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Nuts to the Car Says
Fair Weather Motorist,
and Hops a Truck West

Highway Patrolman Hugh Potter,
during his travels, has seen a lot
of funny auto accidents but one
atop Macdonald pass recently took
the cake, he reported.
An unidentified man driving a
1928 Chrysler car lost control of his
machine near the top of the pass
and plunged over a bank, Potter
said. The car was demolished.
Climbing YEARLY and painfully
back to the road the unfortunate
driver, who suffered only a bump
on the head, tagged a highway
maintenance truck.
"Give me a ride west" he said.
The truck driver looked at the auto
wreckage below. "What about your
carr" he asked, "aren't you going
to do something about it,"
"Nuts to it," the mar said. I'm
In q hurry to get west. Let that
wreck lay" And he rode away.
Later the truck driver realized
that possibly he had let someone
escape from a 'rhOt' car and in
formed authorities. A check re-
vealed that the auto had been le-
ultimately purchased the day of the
accident, for a used car concern in
Spokane.
Potter expressed the opinion that
the man was anxious to get from
Montana's subzero temperatures
back to sunny Washington. And
he couldn't bother taking a
wrecked q with him.
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There is, however, no definite infor-
nation on the number of guns used
or the number of shots fired. But at
any rate Overlander was killed, and
instantly.
To Make the Murder Proper
The more law-abiding element of the
town decided that a coroner's inquest
was necessary to insure regularity and
best prevent the stigma from attaching
to the community because of the Shoot
ing scrape.
A coroner was accordingly appointed
and a jury impanelled. Eye-Witnesses
of the affair were duly sworn and gave
their version of the battle, and the
body of Overlander was examined.
The post-mortem, if it may so be
called, revealed that every shot fired
by Big Nick hitting Overlander, had
entered his heart, and all within d
space which could have been covered
by a silver dollar.
After a brief session at which the
evidence was considered the jury came
from retirement and announced its
verdict. which was:
Damn good shootin'!"
The case ended right there.
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AS Raging Blizzard Doomed Great Cattle Herds,
Crrptic Reports Were Sent From Miles Pool Hall

the first telegram. "Quicksilver in ther-
mometers out of sight. Everything is
frozen stiff. Some 200 of our cows blown
off their feet last night, but I helped
extricate them myself. Campbell and
Mckay losing big as result storm"
range. Froze nose and got chilblains
in feet. Cattle standing It well. While
still in saddle, three of our boys froz-
en-" said the second telegram. Picking
up the third telegram, Davidson read:
Everything all right our way. Bad
state of affairs over on Campbell and
Mckay ranches. Boys working hard, but
can't keep life in cattle. Losses there
will reach so percent. Our loss will
amount to almost nothing"
Something was wrong. The distant
owners went into a huddle and held a
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selected to act as judge and Woody
himself appeared as counsel for the
plaintiff.
A summons of sorts was served upon
the baron, and the cas was called for
trial.
After the court was convened, a jury
impanelled, and the case outlined,
Baron OKeefe stepped before the court
n demanded to know by what auth
GRITTY Henry Brooks set himself up as
a duly constituted judge of the ter
ritory.
Credentials Are Presented
The judge reached in his pocket and
brought out a deck of cards.
These are my credentials" he said.
spreading them upon the table in front
of him.
The judge then demanded to know,
in turn, by what right O'Keefe ap-
peared in a duly constituted court of
law and assumed to act as his own
counsel in an action in which he was
the defendant.
do you want to see my credentials"
demanded the %belligerent Irishman.
II do" replied the court.
These are my credentials said
OKeefe, and with the words hit Brooks
between the eyes and knocked him off
the bench. Spectators and jury joined
in the general free-for-all fight which
followed. The judge fled from the
courtroom and was followed by most
of the Jurors within a few minutes.
They later returned, however, rendered
a verdict, and entered Judgment
against O'Keefe for $40.
With a sheriff lacking the creden-
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conference. Notes were compared. Here
was serious business for the men with
heavy property interests in southeast
ern Montana. It was agreed that Mckay
should go to MilestoWn and report on
the situation. Absent from st. Paul for
two days, nothing was heard from him.
At length Davidson received the fol-
lowing telegram:
Have found no signs of the boys.
Fear they have frozen to DEATH"
Regretting the suspicious they had
entertained, Campbell and Davidson
joined in a telegram to Mckay in
structing him to continue his search
and if he found the boys to reward
them literally.
That afternoon, however. Davidson
and Campbell each received kilograms
from their respective foremen couched
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COWBOYS Dedicated Creek to LonelyEI
Death of Overwhelming Sheepherder

had returned to them, the band num-
bered in the neighborhood of 1900. O:
the 5O7 found, 300 were of the bunc.
the dog had brought in.
In the spring of 1887, when the
roundup was working down North Suil-
day creek it camped at the mouth OF
Sheep creek. I was of the riders
who "a sem on the circle to drive
that creek.
While we were driving what stock
we had found, down the creek to tic
roundup grounds, we passed the de-
serted camp where Rocks dead bod!
Waddy Peacock of the L-U Bar said
Lets change the name of this creek
Instead of Sheep creek, we will call il
"Deadman's creek" The idea met with
approval, and by that name the creek
is designated on maps. today.
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Heard some of McKay's stock COM
mitted suicide on railroad right-of-
way" One more telegram remained to
be read.
"Took occasion to ride out to the
range today. Everything in good shape.
Not so bad, thought Campbell. He
forwarded his congratulations to the
ranch foreman and instructed him to
spare no expense and keep everything
in good condition. Frequent reports
until the storm was. over were request
ed. Davidson went over to McKay's
office, when it happened that Camp
bell had arrived about the same time.
Davidson was reading some kilograms
from his foreman.
Never seen anything like this
in the Badlands country BEFORE" said
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Red Lodge Airport
Made Larger, Safer

eliminating a long exerted effort
for the removal of a power line hazard
at the Red Lodge airport, the work
longer landing field afforded because
of it.
The project was sponsored by WPA
and the city of Red Lodge. In addition
to moving the lines. the WPA crew
also set up inverted trough markers.
The lines extend 300 yards beyond
each runway.
Word will be sent out to all pilots
in the country informing them there
is no longer any power line hazard at
the Red Lodge landing field.