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Noted Artists Pick ‘Girl of To-day SCATTERS GOLD
Chicagoan Wins in Beauty Test
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Chum of West's Richest Heiress
Miss Elizabeth Goodrich, chosen as the ideal type of American
girlhood in a contest judged by noted artists.
CompanyAsked $104,623,500 for
Its Plant—“Proved” Capital
Outlay To Be $81,870,295,
But Accepted $51,568,825.
Public Ownership of 600,000
Telephones Was Preceded by
Parliamentary Appraisal—Tele-
gramsl,000 Miles,Cent a Word
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Dec. 27.—The United
States, if it acts upon the suggestion
of Postmaster General Burleson and
tak^s over the telephone and tele
graph systems, may take a leaf from
the history of England's experience.
The British Government, which now
has an absolute monopoly of every
public means of communication in the
Pelted Kingdom, paid less than half
’he sum demanded by the National
Telephone Company when it took over
the 6^0,000 telephones of that concern
on January 1, 1912.
The National Telephone Company
asked $104,623,500 for its plant. Sub
sequently it reduced the demand to a
round $100,000,000. It "proved" that
its capital expenditures, up to June,
1911, were $81,870,295.
\ Parliamentary commission, after
a hearing covering 71 days, awarded
the companv $62,576,320. The Gov
ernment finally paid the concern $51,-
568.825, which included $1,235,945 ex
pended by the telephone company in
raising capital during its lifetime.
The price at which the company
sold out to the Government, was
therefore, $30,301,470 less than its ex
penditures had been, and $53,054,675
less than its original demand.
How Capital Was Divided.
The capitalization of the National
Telephone Company was $53,405,000.
It was divided as follows: $750,000 6
ner cent first preference shares, $750,-
000 6 per cent second preference, $6,-
-*50,000 5 per cent third preference,
$11,125,000 6 per cent preferred stock,
$18,625,000 6 per cent deferred ordi
nary shares, $7,657,320 3 1-2 per cent
debentures, and $8,248,580 4 per cent
debentures.
The average dividend payment
worked out a little under 5 1-4 per
cent per annum.
Prior to absorption by the Govern
ment engineering experts took an In
ventory of every article in the pos
session of the company. This work
required eighteen months. One hun
dred experts were employed. Ham
mond V. Hayes, an American engi
neer. looked after the interests of the
telephone company.
All telegraph and telephone sys
tems in the kingdom are owned and
operated by the Government. There
Is a uniform charge of 12 cents for a
twelve-word telegram to any part of
the British Isles, with a charge of 1
cent for each additional word.
One can send a twelve-word tele
gram from Lands End to John-o’-
Groats, nearly 1,000 miles, for 12
cents. Postmaster General Samuel
recently announced a coming reduc
tion both in the minimum number of
words and the cost.
Cheap Public Telephones.
The rent of telephone instruments
Is $25 annually. This does not in
clude any calls, which, in addition,
cost 2 cents each if in the county of
London, and 4 cents each outside the
county of London, in Greater London.
A deposit of $7.20 is required
against such calls. The deposit must
be renewed when exhausted. An ad
ditional deposit of $4.80 is necessary
if the subscriber requires the use of
the long-distance telephones.
The cost of unlimited service is $85
for the first line and $70 for every
additional line, no matter how many.
The telephone systems of both Lon
don and Paris were not well managed
by the nrivate companies, and are not
well managed by the Government as
yet, but it is only fair to say that the
officials are showing signs of improv
ing matters. Europe has much to
learn, however, from the American
telephone inventors and operators.
HORSE PUT ON PENSION LIST.
JUNCTION CITY. KANS.. Pec. 27.—
Mick, the only horse on Uncle Sam’s
pension list, is enjoying his new free
dom in a pasture on the military reser
vation at Fort Riley. Kans.. after 26
years of continuous service.
HIS FIFTH HUE
Charles W. Lewis, 54, and Miss
Elsie M. Hinman. 20, Mar
ried at New Rochelle.
-My
True Type of New Daughterliood of the United
States Is Discovered.
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—“The Girl of
To-day," as. judged for beauty and
distinction by a company of the most
famous American artists and illus
trators, is Miss Elizabeth Goodrich,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert W.
Goodrich, of No. 920 Lincoln Park
way.
The committee of distinguished
artists who favored the charms of
Miss Goodrich with those of the
daughters of New York and Wash
ington was composed of James Mont
gomery Flagg, Clarence Underwood,
C. Allan Gilbert, Philip Boileau," Pen-
rhyn Stanlaws, W. L. Jacobs and
Hamilton King, who were chosen as
judges of a beauty contest in New
York to ascertain “The Girl of To
day.”
“She is the true type," they said;
“the new daughterhood of America—
delicate, yet spirited as a steel
band!”
Miss Goodrich—the “Girl of To
day,” is on her way to spend the
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., Dec. 27.
Ten-dollar gold pieces for everybody
in sight made a joyous audience for
the marriage of Miss Elsie Marie
Hinman. 20 years old, and Charles
W. Lewis, 54 years, by Mayor Fred
erick H. Waldorf in the City Hall
this noon.
Grateful recipients of the bride
groom’s largesse spent their odd pen
nies for rice at the nearest grocery
shop an.l tossed it gleefully upon the
newly wedded pair. City Hull em
ployees stopped work to beat “Here
Comes the Bride" with penholders on
electric light shades, and lucky
loungers jingled their new eagles and
whistled their respective conceptions
of the Mendelssohn march. Mr. Lew
is seemed to enjoy the air, though
he had marched to it into matrimony
four times previously.
Mrs. Charles Hinman, of No. 54
j Decatur street, Brooklyn, beamed on
her daughter and appeared to have
entirely forgotten that she was fined
$7 after her last previous public en
counter with Mr. Lewis. Miss Mar
tha Peralta and Miss Hannah Pear
son. who were witnesses, with Wil
liam J. McAllon, Deputy City Clerk,
did not give their addresses and de
clined to answer when asked if they
were on the stage.
Income $30,000 Yearly.
“I’m going to take them with me
to Bermuda," the bride said as the
big limousines bore away the wed
ding party to Hunter’s Point Inn for
the wedding breakfast.
The bride is the daughter of
Charles Jay Hinman, of New York,
who has a summer home in Wood
bury, Conn. Her mother, who is
wealthy, sought a separation from
Mr. Hinman three years ago. The
daughter then went to live with her
father at Woodbury. Mr. Lewis in
herited an estate of about $400,000
from his father and testified in his
last divorce action that he enjoyed
an income of $30,000, but could spare
none of it for Mrs. Lewis, No. 4, be
cause he needed all of it to gratify
bis passion for travel. She was Mrs
Mary Crofut, owner of an inn at Ox
ford, Conn. She began an action for
divorce three days after the mar
riage, early in 1911, complaining that
Mr. Lewis, with great cruelty, had
deserted her early in the morning
after their wedding.
Gnce Were Enemies.
Mr. Lewis was sitting on the porch
of the Curtis House one day nearly
four years ago, when Mrs. Hinman
appeared in her automobile. Edward
Hinman, her son, was with her. They
expressed indignation because of re
holiday vacation with her parents, in j ports of friendship between Elsie
company with her schoolmate, Miss Hinman, then only 16, and Mr. Lew-
Catherine Barker, the Indiana girlies, who was 51 and married to his
heiress to the steel fortune of $20,- third wife
000,000. | Mr. Lewis went into the Curtis
They are -chums at Brlarcllff, New i House ahead of an umbrella and a
vork. Miss Barker is only 10 and ex-| chair in the hands, respectively, of
peots, with Miss Goodrich and Miss M r.s. Hinman and her son. The ho-
Edith Harrison, daughter of Mayor
and Mrs. Harrison, to enter a finish
ing school in Paris next fall.
Eugenics a Failure,
Declares Professor
MILWAUKEE. WIS., Dec. 27.—Pro
fessor John M. Coulter, of Chicago Uni
versity, declared in a lecture here that
eugenics is practically a failure, say
ing: “Voluntary selection plays a more
important part in the laws of heredity
than anything eugenics has dreamed
of." He asserted that a consonance of
sympathies takes precedence in impor
tance over other acknowledged abilities
and determining factors.
‘Venus' Plays a Joke;
School Teacher Sad
SPOKANE, Dec. 27.—-The dream of a
“veritable Venus” of F. M. Ghormley,
the Troy, Oreg., school-teacher, who
came a-wooing to Spokane by the want
ad route, has become a nightmare.
“Miss Mary Parker," the “Venus,” is
no more. But Mrs. Miller, a hotel guest
who loves a joke, has returned with
her husband to Montana.
Mr. Ghormley’s present wife, whom
“Venus" was to supplant, lives in Lew-
id determining iaciors. . : . ...
Speaking of tendencies to insanity, he jston. U® has biougnt an action for
said that where both parents come from . divorce.
a source of sound mental control, insan-
, B< v,r .pp^, ,n U.e c^n.
$1,000 in Shoe, Hobo j s Cured by Prayer
Asks Mayor to Dine
JOLIET, ILL., Dec. 27.—John Kramer,
Mayor of Rockdale, a suburb of Joliet,
is noted locally for his benevolence. He
is a friend of the friendless. A ragged
and half-starved hobo appeared before
him and was sentenced to jail. Mayor
Kramer asked the prisoner his name.
"John Kramer," was the reply.
The Mayor ordered the man freed,
whereupon the hobo asked him out to
dine. , , _ .
“I thought you were broke and hun-
grv," sattT Kramer to Kramer.
“No, indeed," replied Kramer.
The hobo then took off his shoes and
extracted $1,000 in bills.
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Would Rather Hang
Than Eat More Soup
UNION TOWN, PA., Dec. 27.—“They
tell me I am to be hanged on January
8," said John Payne, aged 65. convicted
murderer, in jail here, to-day. “But I
would be glad If they wou d advance
the date, and hang me as soon as they
can put up the scaffold. I would rather
walk up the steps of that scaffold any
time than face another bowl of soup.
I have had nothing to eat but soup since
1 entered this jail, and I’m so tired of
it I can’t look at the stuff any more.
Indians Use Thumbs
To Sign for License
unable to
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SPOKANE, WASH.. Dec. 27. —For the
first time in Spokane County's civic
records thumb prints were taken in lieu
of signatures of persons
write. „
Neas Skumentia. aged 4o.
Indian rancher, and Louise Larose, aged
18 asked for a marriage license. They
readily acceded to the thumb print sug
gestion of Auditor Butler.
| Greatest Tunnel Is
Planned in West
j VANCOUVER. BRITISH COLUMBIA,
; Dec. 27.—The Canadian Pacific Railway
i Company w ill build an 8-mile tunnel
i through the Selkirks at Rogers Pass.
I Work is to begin on January 1 and com-
j pleted in three and one-half years.
The contract is the largest tunnel job
*»ver let In America and probably will
I cost about $88,000,000.
CENTRA LI A, ILL., Dec. 27.—Mrs.
Edna Kent, a victim of tuberculosis, j
whose case was given up as hopeless ’
by her physician, has apparently fully
recovered her health and attributes her
cure entirely to prayer.
Mrs. Kent was so weak she could
not speak above a whisper when her
physician informed relatives she would
probably not survive, until morning.
The patient overheard the statement.
She called her husband to her bedside
and the two spent the night in prayer.
Indian Is Ordained
As Catholic Priest
ST’PERjbR. WIS., Dec. 27.—Philip B.
Gordon, sin Indian, has been ordained
to the Catholic priesthood by Bishop
Koudelk. He is the second of his race
to be ordained in ihc I'nlted States
The Rev. Albright Neganquet was or
dained several years ago for the diocese
of Oklahoma.
Gordon’s grandfather was Anton (Jor
don. one of the first settlers in this
country. The town of Gordon was
named in his honor. He was influen
tial with Chief Hole,-ln-the Day, and
his counsel prevented an uprising of
the Chippewas in 18(12.
Woman Shot Him and
Now He Marries Her
CHICAGO. Dec. 27.—A near-tragedy
in the life of It. Bruce Watson, archi
tect and politician, has turned into a
romance. Mr. Watson has married the
woman who two years ago shot him
twice and chased him through the
streets with a revolver.
The present Mr.s. Watson formerly
ealthv [ r as •V s - !:•""*« '/■ Roney. Coney ob-
-i.S i tamed a divorce three years ago, men
tioning Watson a* co-respondent.
Pastor Calls Tango
Devil’s Harvest Field
MARSHALL. MICH., Dee 27.—Resi
dents of Paw Paw have burned hun
dreds of decks of playing cards and the
public dance bail has been closed This
is the result of revival meetings con
ducted by Rev. Mr. Grimes, pastor of
the Baptist Church of Ceresco who
ral ed the tango “the devil’s harvest
field. -
The tango, hesitation glide and other
new dances are now tabooed at Paw
Paw.
Children’s Long Hike
Inspired by Movies
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 27. -LOured by
what they saw irt a moving picture
show. Viola and Donald Norton, aged
13 and 12 years, set out on a camping
expedition to Lake Minnetonka.
Although the distance is more than
20 miles, they made the trip on foot,
carrying provisions and cooking uten
sils. They were found living in a small
house at the lake. Believing that they
had been kidnaped their parents and
the poliee had searched for them since
their disappearance.
tel lost a door and a window before
Mr. Lewis was rescued. Mrs. Hin
man and her son were each fined $'
next day.
All Merry at Fifth Wedding.
Everybody Interested had forgotten
that little incident to-day and Mr.
Lewis in his sworn application for a
marriage license reported that his
fourth wife, Mrs. Crofut, had obtain
ed a divorce on January 16, 1912, in
Waterbury, Conn., and an award of
$15,000 from Judge Lucien F. Bur
pee. He said his first divorce was
December 23, 1881, at Moodus, Conn.,
but did not go into details. Two ol
the predecessors of his bride of yes
terday had died, he said.
Mrs. Hinman, whose decree of sep
aration was granted by Justice
Keough in Westchester County Jan
uary 20, 1913, and Mr. and Mrs. Da
vid W. Glasser, of New Rochelle,
went with the others to the wedding
breakfast after the ceremony. Mrs.
Hinman and her daughter have been
staying here with the Glassers, who
have a country place near the Hin
man home, in Woodbury, Conn.
The whole party arrived in auto
mobiles about 11 o’clock, and after
the license was issued arranged with
the Mayor for the wedding at noon.
In the interim they disappeared, and
when they returned Mrs. Hinman
bore a great bunch of orchids, lilies
and Killarney roses.
Four Offices Filled
One Oregon Citizen
ALBANY, OREG., Dec 27.—Through
being drawn as a member of the Linn
County Grand Jury, Henry W. McEl-
murry, of this city. In for the next few
months an officer of the county, city
and school district in which he re
sides.
Last spring McElmurry was elected a
member of the Albany School Board.
In the city election he was chosen
Councilman from the Third Ward. Last
month he was drawn as a Juror for the
December term of court and began his
service on the same day an the city
election.
Marion Jackson's Aid i
Sought by Savannah !
Leader of ‘Drys’ Thinks Atlanta Man I
Should Make His Fight
Statewide.
SAVANNAH. Dec. 27 —The cru
sade that opened this week with the
closing of six wholesale places by
injunction and the serving of 23 war
rants on alleged whisky dealers will
bring Marion Jackson, >»f Atlanta,
into the fight, if lie accepts the invi
tation of W. R. Stubbs, the local
leader.
Mr. Stubbs and his attorney, Ma
jor George Richter, considered to
day a campaign similar to that car
ried out by Mr. Jackson in Atlanta
including the posting of bulletins in
daily papers. They have, however,
decided that it will be necessary to
get some one experienced with the
work and at a meeting this afternoon
it was decided to make an effort to
interest Mr. Jackson and see if he
will not make his fight statewide.
The leaders say it will be difficult
to raise money enough in this city
to prosecute the fight, and unless aid
comes from the outside it may prove
unsuccessful.
Husband WedsAgain;
Wife to Get Divorce
DANVILLE, VA., Dec. 27.—Mrs.
William Lamb, of this city, whose
husband was arrested in Augusta,
Ga., several days ago, a few moments
after he had married a young woman
of that city, announces that she will
lose no time instituting divorce pro
ceedings. She and two of her chil
dren have been working for some
time to support the family.
Mrs. Lamb is held in the highest
esteem here and has the sympathy of
the entire community. Her husband
was here last summer, anti is said
to have sought a reconciliation with
his wife without avail. Mrs. Lamb
expressed no surprise when she learn
ed of the Augusta marriage and his
arrest.
According to a dispatch from that
city. Lamb escaped from the bailiff
while pretending to be ordering a cab
for his bride before he was lodged
in jail. J
“Dirtiest Man" Made
To Wash His Face
Peary Wants U. S.
South Pole Station
First Rural Credit
Bank in U.S.Opened
MARINETTE, WIS.. Dec. 27.—Th*
first State Land Mortgage Association in
Wisconsin under the new law has
opened for business with a paid-in cap
ital of >25.000. The institution is com
bined with the Farmers' Saving and
Trust Company, also a new organization
with a pa’d-in capital of $55,000.
Application for a number of loans by
farmers under the provisions of the new
statute were received before the bank
opened, and it is believed that the as
sociation will play an important part
in agricultural development.
11 IT DIVORCE
CAUSED BY PACE
SET IISDCIETV
Major Ferguson, Defendant, Tells
of Aspirations That Brought
Trouble.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 27.T-The dirt-
lest man in Kansas City. charged
with vagrancy in the South Munici
pal Court, was sentenced by Judge
Bland to wash his face. He was
Frank Jackson.
“You are the dirtiest man I ever
saw,” said the Judge. “Go and wash
your face and hands and let us see
what you look like.”
Ten minutes later the man re
turned. The change was wonderful.
His face was flushed from the vigor
ous rubbing.
“You have been punished enough,”
said the judge. “Discharged."
Teacher Wants Cut
In Pay; Is Refused
BOSTON, Dec. 27.—Diogenes, please
harken! The Everett School Board
was in session when Clerk Whitney |
read :
“Communication from Charles R.
Herrick, instructor in high school and
evening school. Mr. Herrick asks
that hi» salary as evening instructor
be reduced.”
“Move motion be refused," gasped
one member. And the other revived
long enough to nod assent, ^o Her
rick will still get the money.
Wedding Off, Both
Soon Wed Others
JEFFERSONVILLE, INI)., Dec. 27.—
Miss Dora Dediva refused to be kept
“waiting at the church," even if it was
only a country justice’s court, so, when
the man she was to marry was late,
she married another. William E. Mo
ran#, of Danville, Va., who was to
marry Miss Dediva, was not to be ex
celled by her. He was introduced to
Miss Lora E. Blythes, of this place.
Twenty minutes later they were mar
ried.
SAN’ FRANCISCO, Dec 27—Tile
sorliil aspirations of .Mrs. Hattie May
Ierguson were the underlying rea-
sons for her divorce from Major
Henry T. Ferguson. 17. s. A. as
brought out in his testimony. She
mon * ranted $17 ^ per month ali -
«ml a i jor , r erp:usu ’' on the witness
stuml objecting to his wife’s peti
tion lor 1200 a month alimony, sum
marized their domestic troubles In
one short sentence: -Judge, 1 have
been Poverty-stricken for eighteen
years.
Counsel for the wife asked the
Major if he considered $50 a month
sufficient to maintain the 18-year-old
daughter in the social position which
“flf. , a , d . boen accustomed to, and to
which them standing in the commun
ity entitled her.
Mistaken Idea.
“There seems to be a mistaken idea
about the culture and social position
which officers of the United States
Army occupy," replied Major Fergu
son. “Army officers, as every one
knows, are honorable genflemen, but
as everybody also knows they are
poor devils in the matter of worldly
goods.
“It is not necessary that my daugh
ter should associate with millionaires.
Sbe not able to and neither am [
able to move in tlie same social set
as do our millionaires
$50 Month for Daughter.
I believe that $50 a month, which
Is all I am able to pay, is sufficient
to maintain my daughter in the sta
tion in life which she was intended
to occupy, and I would like it to be
understood that I pay this money
directly into her hands each month.
“I want my wife’s allowance to be
separate from that of the children.
I shall pay it to her each month, and
it will be hers exclusively as long
as she lives or until she remarries.
I have no attack to make on my wife,
and if any one else should attack her
I stand ready at ull times to act as
her defender.
“I couldn’t possibly live in the same
house with her any longer, however.
1 his divorce has been coming on
gradually for eighteen years."
Street Car Men Are
Forbidden to Drink
RICHMOND, IND., Dec. 27.—All em
ployees of the city street car lines and
the local division of the Terre Haute,
Indianapolis end Eastern Traction
Company were notified to-day that
their presence in saloons, on or off
duty, will result in dismissal front the
company’s service.
It is probable that a delegation of j TT Q QVino TitOf UVD
local motormen ar.d conductors will go Ui ij i ijIlOtj i-CoLoI
to Indianapolis next week with General
Superintendent Jeffries regarding an
increase In the wage scale on the Rich
mond lines.
S ERGEANT WALSH, who
just finished a walk from
Washington to San Francisco
to test shoes offered for army
use.
G.0.P.HDPEI5
Raleigh Republicans Believe Plan
Wou'd Have Saved Party in
South Last Year.
RALEIGH, Dec. 27.—Raleigh Re
publicans look with considerable com
placency upon the recently announced
program of reorganization.
Colonel Harry Skinner, until threo
years ago District Attorney of the
Eastern District, has been here this
week, and by a leading Democrat m
quoted as saying that the sole horn*
of the party in the South is the plan
adopted a few days ago. Colonel
Skinner’s view is that the trading
power of the South has been too great.
Lester F. Butler, brother of former
Senator Marion Butler, declares that
the old organization in the South was
opposed to growth and that tile new
plan will help. Ex-Senator Butler
says the present State organization
opposes reorganization because it de
poses present leaders and gives tho
opportunity to "row.
Such leaders as former Attorney
General Zeb Vance Walser. ex-Con-
gressman Richmond Pearson, ex-See-
retary of State Cyrus W. Thompson.
Judge YV. S. O’B. Robinson, leading
Republicans two years ago, declare
that they are no longer of the faith,
but they believe the plan now would
have saved the party from defeat last
year.
Chairman John Motley Morehead,
Congressman from the Fifth North
Carolina four years ago, is strongly
in favor of the new plan, it is said
here, though Mr. Morehead is not In
the State and could not be Inter
viewed.
Colonel J. C. L. Harris. Roosevelt
leader of last year, declared vest< r-
day that Republicans can not hop® to
restore the men lost last year, though
the reorganization plan should
strengthen the party next year.
Minister Working
To Save Dora Murff
His Foot Not Dainty;
Shoe 17 Inches Long
LORAIN, OHIO, Dee. 27.—A shoe
company of this city received two pairs
of shoes, one lor dress’, the other for
working wear. These shoes are for
Louis Levandosky, a. tube factory em
ployee. They are No. 16.
The store had nothing larger than
No. 12 when Levandosky called recent
ly to make a purchase. The shoes were
made to order.
Levandosky. is 6 feet 10 inches high
and weighs 290 pounds. The shoes are
17 inches long.
Elevator Man Wants
Raise to Haul Women
RICHMOND, Dee. 27.—Anticipating
an extraordinary rush of traffic inci
dent to the session of the General As
sembly, which convenes next month,
Dick Blankenship, elevator man at the
Capitol, is demanding a raise in sal
ary from $80 to $100 per month.
Ho estimates that women lobbying
for State-wide prohibition and the equal
ballot will alone furnish his elevator
with more traffic than It can handle.
Ends 4,000-Mile Trip
Sergeant Walsh, U. S. N., Retired,
Wears Out Six Pairs of Shoes on
Trans-Continent Hike.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 27.—Hikers
after records, professional walkers and
seekers of fame through the medium of
their tireless legs have come in for an
unusual share of the public’s attention
In recent years, but here Is a walker,
unheralded and unsung, who hikes for
the United States Government and gets
paid for it.
He is Sergeant John Walsh, United
States Army (retired), who has com
pleted a 4,000-mile hike from Washing-
1 on.
Walsh, who Is 64, was retired from
the Second Cavalry two years ago to
become official shoe tester for the
Army.
When the War Department lets a
I contract numerous tests are made of
types of sty)e.
To Walsh Is delegated the choice, and
he makes his recommendations on ac
tual wear and t»-ar Dn his present
trip, which started May 6, he wore out
six pairs of shoes. He put on his sev
enth pair at Rugby, S. Dak., ami they
were polished for the first time oi\ his
arrival here.
As soon as he made out his official
reports on footwear he prepared for aft-
other long tramp across the Continent.
CROWLEY. LA.. Deo. 27.—An 80-
year-old minister has taken up the
cause of Dora Murff. convicted of man
slaughter in the. killing of her alleged
betrayer. Millard Delhaye.
The Rev. J. S. Sutton, attending the
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, in Crowley, is circulating
a petition to ask Judge William Camp
bell for a merciful sentence.
Each day the white-haired minister,
whose service In the church measures
half a century, passed among the dele
gates attending with his plea fo rinter-
cession in the imprisoned girl’s behalf.
Son Will Not Accept
His Fathers Bequest
PARIS. ILL.. Dec. 27.—Erastus Hurst.
of Billet, Ill., has refused, in court, to
accept property, valued at $25,000, be
queathed to him by his father, William
Hurst, of this County.
The unusual action was the outgrowth
of an estrangement which the lather,
•on his deathbed, sought in vain to heal.
The wiil disposes of an estate of 700
acres and includes a bequest of 120
acres to Erastus, but a codicil, follow
ing the date of the attempted recon
ciliation, provides that if the legatee
does not *ake possession of the land
within one year after the father’s death,
the property shall revert to the other
heirs.
Divorced One Day,She
Weds Aged Veteran
BALTIMORE, Dec. 27.—One day after
her divorce. Mrs. Lillian M. C. Buck
was married to William A. Wankmiller,
71. and a veteran of the Civil War.
The bride has been living apart from
her first husband for five years. About
two years ago she met Wankmiller and
the two began a courtship. It was
then arranged that Mrs. Buck should
secure a divorce, which was done, and
the wedding followed promptly.
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NEW YORK, Dec 27. Admiral Peary
in an address to the blind of the city
at the Museum of Natural History urged
American scientists to continue bring
ing glory to the United States, as they
had done in the past.
“In the discovery of the North Pole
and with the completion of the Panama
('anal. Americans have accomplished in
five years the things of which men had
dreamed for ages..” he said. "I would
like to see American scientists stationed
at the South Pole."
High School to Use
Motion Pictures
DES MOINES. IOWA. Dec. 27.-Mo
tion pictures are to be introduced as a
regular part of the course of study of
the YV'est High School.
Not only this, but one night each
week the large auditorium will be open
ed as a real "movie" house, although
without train robberies. Indian massa
cres, Chinatown murders or Illustrated
songs. Weekly news event service will
be a feature, and there probably will be
a series of cartoon films.
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SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. 27. Food
lectures in churches, as a campaign of
public education for enforcement of
State and Federal food regulations, are
being planned for the winter by F. B.
Raynor. Food and Drug Inspector.
“Every food buyer an inspector” is
the slogan adopted.
Hold-ups Cause Drop
In Church Going
SPRINGFIELD. ILL.. Dec. 27.—That
the frequency or hold-ups perpetrated
by highwaymen In Springfield is cut
ting down church attendance Sunday
nights, and that the city authorities
should therefore take extreme meas
ures to catch and convict the band of
crooks now Infesting the city, was the
plea made In his sermon recently by
Rev. G. T. Gunter, of the Second Pres
byterian Church.
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