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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-07
World Eyes
New Bolivia:
Tin Coveted
Dictator Busch Can Sway
Market of Important
Raw Metal.

Prepared by National Geographi Society,"
Washington, D. C.-wNU Service.
Bolivia's newly established dicta-
torship can affect foreign countries
more than would changes in many
other parts of South America, be-
cause Bolivia's government is
financed mainly by the revenue
from its exports, and its exports
particularly tin-are in strong de-
mand.
Tin, one of the strategic metals
highest on the United States want
list, is Bolivia's number one product
and is responsible for its biggest
business. AS the third greatest tin
producing country of the world, Bo-
livia is the nearest source for that
metal to all countries of the New
World, since its chief competitors
are the Federated Malay States and
the Netherlands Indies in Asia.
Most of Bolivia's tin ore exports,
however, 60 to Great Britain, since
there are no tin smelters in Bolivia
or the United States. Bolivian tin
returns to the Americas from Brit
ish smelters.
In Bolivia 1.-The tin standard" SUBJ
stitutes for the gold standard. This
metal constitutes from two-thirds to
nine-tenths of the country's exports;
and export duties in this land of
impoverished agriculture and limit
ed industry are the chief sources OF
the governments income. During
1887 the nation produced IL per cent
of the worlds tin output.
But Bolivia is by no means a one
metal land. Some SO per cent of her
exports are minerals, tin being fol
lowed in value by silver, lead, anti
mony, zinc, tungsten, copper. anc
bismuth. In antimony, too, the
country ranks third on the list OF
producing nations. Its position is
now of added Importance because
China has previously been the lead
ing source of supply but is no longer
a factor in the world market.
In addition to utilitarian tin anc
The Spanish silver of such romantic
ore. exports of rubber, quinine. anc
vot'- chirchlla fur help to make
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-07
NC-4 Stopped There 20
Years Ago During
Pioneer Flight.
Prepared by National Geographic Society,"
Washington. D. C.--WNU Service.

Washington, D. C.-WNU Service.
Welcoming the Yankee Clip
per on its transatlantic flights
at Horta, Azores islands, is not
new thrill for citizens of the
city.
The navy plane, NC-4, which
took off from Newfoundland
on the first transatlantic fight
in 1919, landed at Horta on May IT,.
Commanded by Lieutenant-C Com
mander Albert c. Reid, the NC-4 was
one of three planes that made the
hop" Two planes failed 200 miles
short of the Azores. One was forced
down and abandoned by its crew and
the other was lost in fog, landed on
the sea, and TAXED to Ponta Del
gado, the metropolis of the islands.
Lindbergh Stopped There.
Again the citizens of Horta peered
into the skies on November 81, 1888,
and greeted Col and Mrs. Charles
A. Lindbergh as they descended
into the harbor from Lisbon on
their epochal flight around the north
Atlantic.
The Azores port, since then, has
frequently been visited by transat-
lantic flyers, especially during 1888,
which was a boom year in transat-
lantic flying Among the planes
alighting on 'the harbor were the
German Nordmeer and British Mer-
curry, the latter the famous picka-
back plane. The city was also host
to the crew of the German Branden-
burg and the French Lieutenant de
Vaisseau Paris.
1t took IL hours and 33 minutes
for the Yankee Clipper to reach
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-07
II AmeEican
II dventurers
liz ~ Elme Scott Watson
Inmortalized by a Dam
By ElWo Scott Watson

Immortalized by a Dam
r ONNEVILLE dam in the Colum-
- bia river perpetuates the men,
ory of an adventurous explorer who
was both great success and a
great failure. In 1882 French-born
Capt. Benjamin Bonneville of the
United States army obtained leave
OF absence to engage in fur trading
expedition on condition that he ex-
plore the Missouri West and
obtain information concerning the
Indians, the topography of the coun-
try and its economic possibilities.
Two years later he set out at the
head OF a party of ITO men.
Commercially his venture was a
complete failure. He built forts in
such poor locations that the from
tiersmen called them Fort Nom
sense" Some were so high in the
mountains that they were cut off
from the outside by the first SHOWS
OF winter. But his expedition was
successful in that he explored the
AoesS uiAou8n SOulIl dSS LII Wo6ou
trains and mapped the passage OF
the Columbia river through the Cas-
cade mountains.
After his return to the East he
met Washington Irving. The result
was the book 1.-THE Adventures of
Captain Bonneville" 1t became a
"best seller" but it did not help
Bonneville's reputation greatly. He
had long overstayed his leave and
when President Jackson reinstated
him many people protested that he
should have been dismissed from
the service instead.
Bonneville proved them wrong by
his conduct during the Mexican war.
In 1852 he became commandant at
Fort Vancouver, 80 miles down the
river from the dam that now bears
his name. He was brevetted a brig
adler general in 1869 and died in st.
Louis in 1878.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-07

DICTATOR-Col. German
Busch. youthful president of Bo-
Hpia yho dismissed his congress
and set himself up as dictator.
promising to giue his people an
election in a fen months.
Bolivia known to the outside world.
Some estimates rank Bolivian for
ests second to those of Brazil for
production of South American rub
ber; since much of the smaller
country's forest products float down
the headwaters of the Amazon to
Brazilian ports, their origin is OBJ
scure.
In an area more than twice as
large as Texas, Bolivia supports
only SIS per cent as many people as
the Lone Star state. This is the
only South American nation without
access to the sea directly from its
own ports; Bolivia lost her coastal
territory to Chile after the War of
the Pacific nearly go years ago. The
land-locked Andean plateau, Graded
$4,000 feet above sea level between
two snow-capped ranges with peaks
exceeding $1,000 feet, has SO i'm
pressed popular imagination-with
its worlds highest capital, La
Paz," and its worlds highest
steamer service" on Lake Titicaca
that the low tropical plains to the
east of the mountains are frequent
ly forgotten. Yet these extensive
lowlands constitute about 70 per
cent of the nations 537, 1872 square
miles. On the south they merge
into the Gran Chaco. scene of the
most recent war in the Western
Hemisphere.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-07
e2zCU72
HeyOlnes
Dy LOUISE M. COMSTOCK
Antonia Ford
USE M. COMSTOCK

A SOUTHERN belle before the war.
"A daring spy for the Confederate
forces during 1t. bride of Yankee
officer after It: that is the story of
Antonia Ford. heroine Of the Civil war.
Antonia was a commissioned lieu
tenant in the Confederate army. an
honor very rarely accorded woman.
Just how she first began to operate as
secret agent we shall perhaps never
know. Our first evidence that she was
serving the South in an official capac-
ity Is In a letter written to her by
Gen. ]. E. b. Stuart, appointing her
his honorary aide in camp. This was
written in 1861. when Antonia was
twenty-three
1t was not until the late summer of
1862 that Antona's work for the Con-
federacy became matter of record.
In August of that year North faced
South making ready for what was to
be the Second Battle of Bull Run.
Working unsuspected in Fairfax this
charming Southerner was able to pick
up information essential to the wait
ing Condererate army. Having no
other way to forward It, Antonia set
out on horseback, over picket guarded
roads, In a pouring rain, at length
reached General Stuart at Manassas,
twenty-odd miles away.
1t was some time after this that
Antonia rendered her greatest service
to the South. In March, 1863, three
Union corps In charge of Brig. Gen.
Stoughton were stationed at Fairfax
to protect the capital. AT this time
Col. John S. Mosby, an Independent
scout, had reused high feelings by his
repeated raids against the Union
stronghold Then suddenly, from AL
die. twenty miles south of Fairfax,
Mosby led his men against the town,
and with midnight and rain to aid
him. slipped through a gap In the
Union pickets and took calm posses
sion of Fairfax and General Slough
tons troops 1t was spectacular vic
tory, and the information as to the
gap in the lines that made it possible
came from Antonia Ford!
AS a result of this Antonia was ar
rested. But the Union officer sent to
conduct her to Washington proved to
be an old friend, Maj. Joseph G. Will
lard, who promptly fell in love with
his fair captive. Through his efforts
Antonia was released within few
months. Thereupon she smuggled the
major, bundled in rugs In the back of
blackboard, through the Union lines
and back to Fairfax. where she mar
ried him. Antonia died In 1871 and Is
buried in Oak Hin cemetery. Wash
ington.
@. ls32. Western Newspaper Union.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-07
Hog And Wheat Prices
Soar On Market
Continued from page u

Continued from page l
now being inclined to hold their hogs
in anticipation of still higher prices.
WHEAT AT 78 CENTS
Wheat, likewise, skyrocketed to top
levels, being quoted at 78 cents
bushel Wednesday morning, an ad-
vance of ten cents over Saturdays
market close.
Corn, likewise, went to higher
levels, 50 cents per bushel being
quoted Wednesday.
Dealers here were unwilling to
predict future course of the market.
With trading proceeding at fever
ish pace almost anything can happen
now, it was pointed out. "a week
ago there was a surplus of grain,
lard and meat-with hardly any
sale for it-now there appears to be
a scarcity and everybody is crazy
to buy was the way one dealer
summed up the situation.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-07
$4,000 Sewer Bond Is
sue Up To Voters
CONTINUED from page u

Continued from page II
all materials, machinery for the plant
and other non-labor items.
Proportionate Share Higher
AS a result, in the construction of
the intercepting sewers, Bluffton's
share of the total expenditure would
be approximately 33-1/3 per cent, as
compared with the minimum WPA
sponsor requirement of 25 per cent.
Completely sewering the town and
building a disposal plant would cost
100000, the council was told. The
sponsors share of 25 per cent would
cover the cost of materials and non
labor items, it was pointed out, and
a bond issue for 100000 would give
the town completely new system,
modern in every detail.
Should the project be entirely hand
labor thruout, the cost would be S440,-
600. with Buttons share amounting
to $4,000. This figure was shaved
to 100000, however, by specifying
that a trenching machine be used.
Trenching operations would cost 49,
600, but the total cost would be re-
duced by $4,000.
Council Vote Unanimous
With estimates showing that COM
pletely new system for the town can
be obtained for $4,000 more than
the cost of intercepting sewers along
the stream banks, councilmen voted
to submit the larger project to the
voters in the November election.
Vote at Tuesdays meeting was
unanimous, with five members agree
ing to have the 100000 bond issue
included on the ballot. Elmer Romey,
the sixth councilman, is on vacation
trip and did not vote.
Should the proposal be approved,
$4,000 in general obligation municip
al bonds will be issued, and the re-
manning $4,000 would be obtained
from special assessment revenue
DOIlus. lnC uOiiuS Would Iuli AOA ~o
years and would require an average
tax levy of 2.3 mills during that
period for their retirment, according
to estimates presented to the council.
Bonds cannot regularly be issued in
excess of five per cent of the valua-
tion of the town. Bluffton's five per
cent maximum is S113,333.75, but the
municipality now has $29,333.75 in
outstanding bonds. Consequently a
maximum of $4,000 in additional
bonds can be issued.
Special Assessment
The $4,000 special assessment
which would be required would be
levied only on property owners who
have sewers emptying into the muni-
cipal system, and each would pay a
fiat rate rather than payments being
made on the basis of property valu-
alton.
Estimates on the cost of the system
were prepared by Champe, Finkbeiner
and Associates, Toledo engineers, and
were presented to the council at their
meeting last Friday by C. E. Pettis,
of the firm.
This will be the third time in recent
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-07
Hold County Hybrid
Corn D0Y FYid0u

Allen county hybrid seed corn
growers will hold their annual hy-
brid corn day at the state test plot
on the Dwight Capbell farm, seven
miles west of Bluffton, Friday after
noon.
DR.. G. H. Struggled and DR.. L.
L. Huber of the Wooster Experiment
station will be in attendance to
speak on comparative advantages of
hybrids and also the effect of the
corn borer in relation to hybrid
varieties.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-07
Fraud Charged In
School Case
Continued from page l


the Bluffton- -Richland school district
to which the territory sought to be
transferred, could be legally and
properly transferred, and that man.
damus proceedings would be COM
menced forthwith, if the respondent
failed and refused to make the prop
er transfer as, demanded, before the
election that was to be held the
following Tuesday, April 10, 1888.
Respondent says that it had no
opportunity to make any investiga-
tion as to the truth or falsity of the
aforesaid representations, so made by
relators as aforesaid, and that it did
not make any investigation as to the
truth or falsity of such statements
SO made, as aforesaid by relators and
relief upon the statements so made
by relators and their counsel as be-
| ing true.
"That the respondent had at the
time, taken no poll of the district or
territory and had no information as
to the false and fraudulent represen-
tations made by relators, other than
given to it by the relators.
Say Members Misled
"That certain members of the re-
spondent board of education, fully re-
lying upon such false and fraudulent
statements, and then believing them
to be true, were misled and coerced
into voting for the passing and
| adopting resolution to transfer said
territory.
Respondent says that Immediately
after April 16, 1888, it investigated
the aforesaid statements, so made to
it by relators on April Is, 1898, and
learned of their falsity. There was
no such district in the State of Ohio,
as the Bluffton- Richland School Die
trict to which such territory could
be transferred. A poll of the resi-
dent electors Of the territory sought
to be trasferred was taken which
showed that fewer than rs per cent
of the resident electors thereof had
signed said paper writings.
"That thereafter, at the regular ad-
journed meeting of April 16, 1888, to-
wit, April 20, 1888, and being immed-
lately after said false and fraudulent
statements, as aforesaid, had been
found to be untrue, and no steps hav-
ing been taken upon such motions to
transfer, and there being no interven-
ing rights, this respondent board of
education rescinded the action so err
roneously taken on April 16, 1898.
"This respondent says that on the
9th day of May, 1888, at regular
meeting of the Hancock county board
of education, respondent herein, the
petition of relators was finally reject
ed.
'This respondent specially AYERS
that the paper writings referred to in
relators' petition for mandamus, as
petitions to transfer have not and
| never had the signatures of rs per
cent of the qualified electors of the
territory sought to be transferred by
the relators.
Wherefore, this respondent asks
that the petition for mandamus be
dismissed and for such other relief
to which respondent may be entitled.
The petition is signed by C. A.
Blackford, Findlay and Knepper,
White and Dempsey, Columbus attor-
neys for the county board, and is
sworn to by Carl L. Davis, president
of the board.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-07
Inspection Tuesday
At RichLdnd Grange

Inspection night will be held at
Richland grange next Tuesday, with
County Deputy H. T. Morris, of
Lima, taking part in the program.
A varied program has been ar
ranged including an educational topic
by Mildred Fett and an agricultural
subject by Raymond Stratton. A
contest will be directed by Anna
Huber and special music will be pro-
vided by the grange quartet AS a
closing feature a playlette will be
presented.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-07
Grace Choir To Be
At Ebenezer Church

Choir of the Grace Mennonite
church of aPndora will be heard in
a guest program at the Ebenezer
Mennonite church west of Bluffton
Sunday night at 8 o'clock. The
choir is under direction of Miss
Hilda Amstutz with Misses Eulalia
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-07

"Please send $400 dollars at once;
the school is bankrupt and each stu
dent has to pay double tuition
Kindly make check out to me. Yow
son, Bob, Jr."
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FIFTY FAMOUS
FRONTIERSMEN
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
"The Father of Oklahoma"

GONSIDIsR the paradox of Capt.
~ David l.. Payne. He was the "fa-
ther of Oklahoma" yet he was a ma
tive of Indiana; he was given his first
name because of an event which took
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-07

Steiner organist and Wanda Sutel
pianist.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-07

years that the sewage disposal propo-
sition has been presented to Bluffton
electors at the polls.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-08-26

was the intention of the fugitive legis-
lators to go on down the river to St.
Louis and remain long enough to kill
the life of the SeSSion-60 days Ten
more days would do it. But Mrs. Con-
rad so improved that her husband
could return to Helena to help finish
the fight against the railroad tax ex-
emption bill
The returning legislators found they
had no friends in Helena but were,
nevertheless, much in the limelight
Only one vote was needed to pass the
bill. All the ants were interviewed by
the railroad lobbyists, with offers up
to $4,000 for that one vote. But they
couldn't buy it.
resorted to. Missoula county, many
times larger than now, had an enor-
nous debt, with its warrants worth
10 cents on the dollar and slow at that.
The Missoula delegation, following the
gimme" spirit Of the railroad legisla-
ton, introduced bill for the territory
to assume the countyS debt. The rail-
road lobby was helping this bill along,
but 1t was easily defeated. 1t had 70
be defeated before the railroad bill
could be defeated.
On the final vote the railroad ex-
emption bin lost by narrow margin.
Harry Comley, clerk of the council,
kept the fugitive legislators posted
while they were at Fort Benton, and
on their return to Helena he was given
a suitable present for his invaluable
service.
Few Knew Of flight"
Despite all the furry that it caused
in Helena at the time, but few people
knew of that historical flight from the
quorum" which kept Montana from
granting favors to railroads. Had that
first exemption ill been enacted, 1t
is certain that others would have fol-
lowed, entailing much loss to Montana.
THE members who made this fight
for antiexemption, says Barrett. could
have all supported the measure with
out violating any party pledge or po- /
litical obligation OF any kind. They we're
guided In the matter solely from q
sense of what was just and best for
the whole state and not from sense !
Of what might have been popular at |
the time, for to be on the side of the /
railroad at this time was the very
essence Of being popular.
NOW" he concludes his 1914 manu-
,cript, II think those gentlemen who 4
made the historic trip to Fort Benton
Tor the purpose Of defeating the sub
;idy, or exemption bin at that time,
we're entitled TO at least q vote OF
hanks by the Legislature Of Montana,
which they never got"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-08-26

of the stagecoach. It was necessary to
send back three miles for an ak to
remove the obstruction. The legislators
fled from the coach for the SAFETY OF
the timber on the hills just IN case
the sergeant at arms and the sheriff
from Helena should come along. The
fallen tree caused a delay OF three
hours, but the coach made Fort Ben
ton in record time.
Twenty miles out of Fort Benton,
Charley Rowe, proprietor Of the stage
line. was encountered. He demonstrated
with the driver over the condition OF
the horses. Don't kill the team" he
admonished the driver, who replied
that he didn't give a damn. I've got
the legislative quorum aboard"
at Is doubtful" said Barrett, that
he knew what quorum was. guess
he was feeling the effects OF some
freight we carried aboard with us.
The anti crowd received a royal well
come at Fort Benton, which was solid
" antiexemption. Benton people want
ed all the freight for Montana TO con-
ttrue coming by boat up the river.
When the railroads came, Fort Ben
ton would be Just another town in
stead of the territory's most important
freight terminal. It was known the
coming of the railroads would be In
evitable, but why hand them bonus
to speed the ball Of the famous old
river town?
Headed for st. Louis
Had Mrs. Conrad remained so thai
her husband could not leave neT, II
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-08-26
5-DGy Pheasant Season
UrOed on Game Board

SpOrtAnenS OTEAuI1AtIO1s On XII
ispeIl recommended TO the state fish
and game commission a five-dsay
with q closed season en- all upland
birds.
Following IN general the recommen-
dationS OF Deputy Warden Archie
OClaire, the FIathead Sportsmens as
sociation recommended that hours Of
shooting conform TO federal regula-
tons on migratory waterfowl, a. M,
to p. m, and that the old bag limit
Of three cocks be continued.
They also urged establishment Of
two checking stations, one at each end
Of the Fiathead reservation pheasant
area.
The Western Wildiife league stressed
protection for Hungarian pheasants
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-08-26
Butte Prepares for Pioneers
Meeting There Aug. 1918

have accompanied their parents into
this state before that date Always
they have been given a hearty vel
come by the cities which they honored
by choosing them as convention cities.
The Sons and Daughters organization,
which always meets with the society.
Is made up of those who were born
after Dec. 81, 1868.
Fred w. Scheuer, historian Of the
Sons and Daughters Of Montana Pho
neers, is chairman Of the arrangements
committee for this years convention.
The headquarters for the convention
will be at the Ftnlen hotel, where the
reception will be held on the opening
evening. 1t will start at 8 o'clock. The
banquet will be held on Friday evening,
Aug 10, at the Butte Country club.
The annual picnic will be held the
following afternoon at Columbia Gar
dens, starting at 4 o'clock and follow
ing the conclusion Of the business
sessions Of the two organizations.
The officers Of the Society Of Mon
tana Pioneers are: VIII Cave, Hamu-
ton, president; Hugo Freyler, Helena,
vice president; Jenny Ennis Chowning,
Ennis, treasurer; j. z. Norris, Helena,
secretary; Mrs. Augusta Trask, Deer
Lodge; VIII Orton, Butte, and Norris,
members Of the executive board.
VI AAAC eDQAlo bAt0 laugh
ters of Montana Pioneers are: Roy M
Crismas, Great Falls, president; Ed
ward Horsky, Helena, vice president;
Mrs. Lottie Rumsay Willett, Helena,
secretary: Victor NJ. Kessler, Helena,
treasurer: Scheuer, historian.
Mrs. George Dick, MissoulA; Mrs.
Edith r. Maxwell, Great Falls; Mrs.
Nina Morrison, Helena; Mrs. Mary
Molleur. Dillon; Mrs. George P. Porter
and Nate Miller, Anaconda, and Mrs.
Mary Bruneau, Cascade, members Of
the executive board