RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHI3P
Jackson Likes
Petticoat Rule
After Year's Trial of Government
by Women, Wyoming Town
Is Satisfied.
IS NOW QUIET AND ORDERLY
Place Once Rendezvous for Despera-
does Transformed by the Women
Now 'Kept Clean Morally and
Physically Many Reforms.
Jackson, Wyo. Jackson, after n
3'cur'g trial of petticoat government,
lius found It good.
Half n century ago the first Jury
of women to ho Impaneled In the
United States was drawn In Wyoming
mid 20 years later Wyoming Insisted,
and won Its point, that It he admitted
to the Union without one sltigle
change In Its constitutional provision
givlng women equal sulTrago rights
with men. Since then the feminist
Movement lias developed astounding
ly. And so, when tho votes were
counted at Jackson at tho recent elec
tion, they bhowed the following re
wilts: For mayor: Mrs. Grace Miller, 57;
h. W. Splcer, if 1. For coiincllmcn:
Mrs. Genevlevo Van Vleclc, 07; G. It.
dSlalnc, 1; Mrs. Fuustlnn llulght, GO;
(Aimer Nelson, 18.
Turn tho Men Out.
Just n yeur ugo the picturesque lit
tle western town, with u population of
G20, by tho latest census, nestling be
neath tho beetling peaks of the giant
Tctons In tho heart of tho fumed
Jackson's Holo country, Rtartled th
nation by turning not Its mnn-mude
administration and Installing u town
government made up entirely of wom
en. Tho victory was ull tho more
notnulo because of the fact that Mrs.
ltose Crabtrce hud been elected to the
town council over her own husband.
Evidently tho women of Jucksou had
decided to spoil tho town's glamorous
reputation as the rendezvous for bad,
bold, two-gun desperadoes.
Tho exact Issue In tho campaign a
year ago was a matter for argument,
but whatever It was tho women won
decisively. This year It was the samo
tiling over, n threc-to-ono landslide.
During tho year's tenure, the live
women of tho town's administration
managed to keep Jackson clean, mor
ally and phys'cully, and lu uddltlon,
'they brought about n number of mu
nicipal Improvements. They trans-
Vacuum-Cleaning
Stanley C. Smith or Cincinnati has Just made a discovery. Smith's pota
to patch was literally alive with potato bugs, lie tried every method to get
rid of them, but no luck. One day when he was doing spring houseclennlii"
the ease with which his vacuum cleaner took particles of dirt from places where"
it had accumulated tot him to thinking. He attached a long extension feed
wlro to a lamp socket In tho cellar of his home and carried the cleaner into
tho potato patch. Ho turned the Juice on und presto, potato bugs by the
thousands were-sucked into the trap.
MAKES BIG FORTUNE IN SHARKS
-
Extended Use Found for "Tigers
of the Sea."
)New Industry on the Pacific Coast
Promises Big Profits for Its
Promoters.
Victoria. With tho supply of raw
jnnterlal unlimited, nn Industry new
tothls country Is flourishing at I'arker
Island, between Gullano and Mayne
Island, on the Gulf of Georgia. It Is
(the business of catching sharks, and n
week's catch at the beginning of May
run to 80, with an average weight
Of more than a ton each. Nelson Mac
Donald of this city, who operated the
first shark-catching machinery cm the
Island, declares there will never ho a
ehortngo, as there nre millions lu tho
waters surrounding tho Island.
"In fact, tho rurther north you go
tho more sharks you will Unci, and
(from hero to Alaska aro their feed-
-
formed what used to bo country lanes
Into city street; they acquired a slto
for a cemetery to take tho place of
the old, familiar burying ground; and
they are now working on a plan for
a modern, adequate water system to
replace tho present system of Irri
gating ditches fed by near-by Cache
creek.
Stand Pat on .Records.
Two of the eounellwomoii are hold-
overs this year. The other two, along
with tho mayor, stood pat on their
records. The mayor, Mrs. Miller, Is
the wife of a wealthy retired stock
man and rancher, who Is supervisor
of the Teton national forest reserve.
Of tho councllwoinon Mrs. Crabtreo
runs a hotel. Her husband Is a build
ing contractor. Mrs. Van Vleclc Is
tiio wife of a hardware merchant,
MrS. Uulgllt IS a School loill'lliir mul
a homesteader, and Mrs. W
' fl. I)i..
Lonoy s husband Is a member of the
Wyoming state legislature.
A few days after the election, Miss
Pearl Williams, the town's twenty-'
Gold Mine Lure
for 300 Years
Fabulous Treasure Said to Be
Hidden in Sierra Madre
Mountains in Mexico.
DYING PRIEST TELLS SECRET
Mexico City Contains Records of the
Old Mine and Prospectors Have
Reported Seeing the Ruins,
but None Reached Them.
IMsbcc, Ariz. For HOO years, accord
ing to reliable records, the Sierra
Mudro mountains of Sonorn and Chi
huahua, Mexico, have held the secret
of u gold mine of fabulous richness
and a vast treasure store of gold,
mined and hidden awuy lu an Inac
cessible tunnel.
Tho romance of tho gold hunter Is
written In the history of man's efforts
through the centuries to reach and
bring back to civilization this wealth
His Potato Patch
jng grounds," Mr. MacDonald said.
"Taking them from the bottom or
tho sea Is automatic. Norway has
hundreds of such industries. The only
real hook for catching them, which
works on n swivel, comes from there
und the so-called coil liver oil, which
Invades the markets or the world Is
really shark Ihor oil, manufactured
In Norway."
Nothing Is wasted In n shark plant.
I hero Is no liner 1Kb meat than that
made from tho oodles of sharks ,s
a fertilizer It K superior to dogllslJ
Tho head of the shark Is full of Kw
of n highly valuable quality, and the
litis aro n much prized Chinese food
delicacy, orientals hero paying ua
much ns 5110 a pound for It.
The liver content runs from CO to 70
per cent of finest oil, of which about
10 per cent Is glycerin. Shark's
teeth are In demand In many parts
of the world, and retch a high price
for the manufacturo of ornaments.
What hones there are, and they are
" 11MI,aMMI""MWW6ttMflBM
J Surgeon's Teeth Pulled,
He Regains His Sanity
Duquoln, 111. Southern Illi
nois physicians l tarvel at the
recovery of Doctor Ihirtz, promi
nent surgeon of Campbell Hill,
who has Just been released from
the .Southern Illinois Hospital
for tho Insane at Anna. Debtor
Hurts: became violently delirious
several days ago and was or
dered to the asylum. 'Miyslchms
there discovered that defective
teeth were the cause of his con
dition and after these were ex
tracted Doctor Ilnrtz, In two
days' time, became perfectly nor
mal and has been permitted to
return to his home.
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two-yenr-old marshal, announced tlint
flie would not seek reappointment of
the new administration. When asked
why not, she replied : "I've had plenty.
Resides, Jackson has become so quiet
and orderly that the town doesn't
need a marshal any more."
The peril of a return to normalcy
H fully realized by 000 valets In New
York who are out of employment
through employers reducing expenses.
of the Old Tyopu mines. Murders nnd
violence have marked many of these
efforts, ami still In many hurdy
breasts of this mining country to
clay there still stirs the spirit which
has prompted many to bravo the dan
gers of Btarvutlon, thirst rnd death at
tho hands of Indlun bunds and out
luws In tho search for gold. ,
Records at Capital.
Mexico City contains records of the
old mine, nud several prospectors, one
or them Jack Dunn, ut'credlted dis
coverer of Uio Warren district, have
reported seeing the ruins of tho old
mine, but none ever reached there.
According to records nt the Mexi
can cupltnl, In the Intter part of the
Seventeenth oentury the Isolated vil
lage of Old Tyopn was raided by In
dians, who destroyed tho town und
killed ull tho Inhabitants except a
priest.
After wandering for several weeks
tho priest arrived at a little town
called Augn Frla, on tho FuquI river,
where ho was received and cared for
by a Mexican family. His hardships
caused his death, but before ho died
ho gave tho family n description nnd
map of tho mining camp. Ho also
reported that tho gold obtained from
several years of mining had been
stored In nn old tunnel, hecauso of the
Impossibility of bblpment to civiliza
tion. The story and map, It Is said, hnvg
been banded down from family to
family for generations. Thoso who
attempted to reach the camp lost their
outfits, and many did not return. Tho
Indians for years menaced all pros
pectors and this condition still ex
ists, augmented by bands of outlaws.
Max Covlta, for several years Mexi
can consul nt Nnco. Is said to havo
been tho Intest possessor of tin
priest's mnp.
Has Twice Seen Ruins.
He declared ho twlco succeeded In
getting ns fur as Casa Itlnnca, from
which the ruins of Old Tyopn aro vis
Ible, and It was reported he had not
given up hopes of reaching tho pluco
at his death several years ago.
Uert Grover, a local man, twice
started with two companions to make
the perilous Journey, but was forco.i
back because of Insutllclent equlp-
menr, minims ami outlaws.
Some remarkable cold snoHmnnu
have been brought buck from the vi
cinity or tiio Old Tyopn, hut so fur
as known no one ever reached tho
mines since tho old town was de
stroyed centuries ago.
Cat Catches Two Trout
Hollls, N. II. It takes a cat to put
to blush Mime of the fastidious Isaak
Waltons. A feline belonging to A. R.
Katon recently brought In two live
trout, each measurlm? siv in..i.u
AN here the cat got the trout Katon does
1101 Know, ane keeps her own secret.
few. go Into the fertilizer pnrt of the
Industry.
The greatest interest In this new
Industry Is being manifested In the
manufacture of hides. Several Anierl
can companies have been formed, und
much research work is being dono at
present. Tho shark hides run from
an Inch in thickness to the consist
ency of paper In the baby shark 'in
Seattle they nre manufacturing 'bin
hoots from hlrirk hides nnd thev nre
declared to he completely wuterproot
Llfjhtnlng Deafens Horses.
Columbia City, Ind. Fo,lr Jl0le ,
a barn at the rami of Finnic Jones
live miles southwest of this city wertl
made deaf by a stroke of lightning thu
other day. A hrilt struck the west side
of the barn during a Mnrm and ripped
01T the entire west side and part 0
the roof.
Seven hens were sitting on eggs
The eggs under live of the bens were
broken to bits, but the hens wore- not
hurt. Mr. Jones and his son jL.ft t)lu
building a row moments hoforo It wua
struck. Tho barn did not tuke lire.
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Nebraska
Given in Briof Itcni3 For
Busy Readers.
Sutherland Is organizing n new baud.
It will start with sixteen pieces.
Work on Haveloek's new JJHO.OOO
school building Is rapidly Hearing com
pletion. The Hay Springs post of the Ameri
can Legion is fitting up a couiodeous
headquarters.
Protestant churches of Gothouhtira
have united to bold union sorv'ces In
the city park Sunday evenings.
The Rtiiilngtoii railroad has about
0,000 extra box cars on Its lines In Ne
braska for moving this year's wheat
crop.
J. It. McCarl, nominated by Presi
dent Harding to be controller general
of the United States, is u resident of
McCook, this state.
The potato clop In tho Mlnntnre dis
trict of which tho acreage v ulmo
three times that of last year, Is being
menaced by the potato beetle.
Aurora now has three and one-half
miles of paved streets. The big pav
ing Job which has been under way for
tho past year was finished u few days
ngo.
R. C. King, cashier of the Hank of
Graf, has been appointed chief of the
bureau of banking, state department or
trade and commerce, at u salary or
.fJJ.OOO 11 year.
Alexander Long, farmer near Ord,
has the destlnctlon of being the first
In the district to engage In the raising
of sugar beets. He says the soil Is ex
cellent for beet raising.
Instead of a warden the new stnto
reformatory to be located nt Lincoln
will be presided over by a superintend
ent who will receive a salary of from
$2,000 to $2,000 a year, according to
members of the hoard of control.
A totnl of over 8.0(H) of Webster
county's 00,000 acres of wheat Is of the
Knnred variety. Tills will mean thnt
every acre or wheat next year can be
planted In Knnred and county farmers
will still have a surplus of over 20,
000 bushels.
Farmers of Rox Rutto county pre
dict that wheat will nverage thirty
bushels to the acre, which Is far nbove
the average for the county. Corn Is
doing exceptionally well and there Is
the largest acreage of potatoes that
has ever been planted In the county.
According to figures given out by
tho state department of ngrlculture
the loss during 1020 by the denth of
live stock on farms In Nebraska was
$11,1-10,110. Some of the losses were
due to accidents and natural causes,
hut the greater loss was due to disease
which tiio department says are con
trolnble. Hastings has n boy scout hero In
Raymond CofTey, 14, who rescued
George Bacon, weighing 225 pounds,
from drowning In Crystal lake, while
scores watched him without offering
assistance. CofTey is 11 member of St.
Marko Hoy Scouts and learned rescue
work as a part of his scout training.
Varsity Derby Sultana, a 2-year-old
Ilolsteln cow, bred nnd owned by the
state college of agriculture, has estab
lished 11 new state butter record by
producing 807 pounds in H0.1 days.
Considerable black stem rust hns
been found In the Into Turkey red
wheat In Clay county. Hut very little
leaf rust and practically no stem rust
was found in tho fields of Knnred
wheat. Clay county farmers shipped
in seven car load of this new rust re
sisting wheat last year nnd with what
was grown In 1020, now have 11,000
acres of Knnred wheat thnt is expect
ed to out yield the Turkey Red from
live to six bushels' per acre.
Many Lincoln politicians and busi
ness men have vigorously criticized
the state hoard of control for purchas
ing the old military academy nt Lin
coln for the new reformatory. It Is
false economy to buy an old building,
even for $.'17,000, the critics declared,
when nobody knows Just how much
more It Is going to take to make It
Into n reformatory where prisoners
tiro to be kept. It Is a poor location,
others said. The building will have to
ho practically torn down nnd rebuilt
in order to put it Into shape for a re
formatory, it was declared.
Announcement has been made that
thirteen types of automobile lens havu
been approved by the state department
of public works, preparatory to tho
going Into effect of the new sato lens
law July 2:1.
Farmers or the Rrunlng district
have agreed upon the following wage
scale for harvest hands: Single
hands, $2 a day or HO cents 1111 hour ;
machine men, engineers and separator
men, $0 to $7 a day. Threshing prices
were llxed ns follows: Wheat, 8 cents
u bushel ; oats, 5 cents, barley, 0 cents
nt oats weight.
The first of the new wheat crop to
bo marketed In the Do Witt district
was from the field of lien Stolnnioyor,
which averaged twenty-three bushels
to tho acre and tested OH pounds. It
sold ro'r J? I. OS por bushel.
The 1020 corn crop cost an nverage
of 10 cents 11 bushel to produce In one
of the central Nebraska counties, nc
cor ling to figures compiled by the
stale college of ngrlculture. Tho
nvernsro cost was figured from iccords
kept by members of the county farm
bureau it ml nro considered conservative.
Thirty blocks of paving will be laid
at Ord this summer. .
In many parts of Nebraska farmers
declare corn Is farther advanced thnn
ever before nt this time of the year.
A ton nnd a half cake was tho
principal feature at the celebration of
the forty-seventh anniversary of S.
N. Wolbach, pioneer merciinnt nt
Grand Island.
A dally automobile passenger ser
vice has been estnbllshed between
Lincoln and Grand Island on u spcellle,
schedule of arrival and departure for
all liitormed'ute points.
A great deal of old wheat and some
corn Is being 'marketed by farmers of
Gage county who me making plans to
handle the new crops that are coming
on.
Applications for Jobs In connection
with the opening or the new state re
formatory are besieging the statu
hoard of control, according to Chair
man Oheiiles.
Paul -Green of Grand Island, who
was piloting the airplane which
crashed to the ground at Red Oak, In.,
killing Donald Seefelt, high school
boy. died of bis Injuries.
Work on McCook's new fifty-bed
hospital Is to begin In a short time.
The hospital will be the only one of
any size In that section of the stnto
and nearer than Denver.
More than 1,000 Nebraska national
guardsmen will go to Camp Dodge for
training together with the Iowa nation
al guard from August 17 to HI, It was
announced by Adjutant General Paul,
at Lincoln.
Grain reports Issued by the C. & N.
W. railroad shows 0,.0H,100 bushels of
corn. 1,210,2(5." bushels of oats and
S." 1,(500 bushels of wheat being held
for shipment by fanners nnd elevators
on the eastern division covering about
000 miles of railroad.
Lincoln unto dealers estimate that It
will cost Nebriiskiins about $.'00,000
to equip their automobile headlights
with the noglare lenses required by
law after July 2H. There are register
ed In the state about 200,000 auto
mobiles, very few of which huve tho
legal lensos, it Is said.
Announcement has been made that
work will commence soon on Hebron's
new $12,000 public library building.
The adopted plans call for a structure
HOvHS feet. The board has about $1H,
000 to spend for library purposes, left
by the will of the late L. O. Secrlst,
phllanthropblst of the city.
On account of a dangerous and con
tagious disease known as white plno
blister rust, existing In certain sec
tions of the country, Prof. Myron II.
Swenk, state entomologist, has de
clared n quarantine ngalnst Importa
tion Into the state of all live white
pine or other pine bearing needles In
bundles of five each.
Considerable of the whent yield In
southern Nebraska Is above the ex
pectations of the growers; many farm
ers estimating the yield nt from 18 to
20 bushels an ncre. In some fields
heads are short and not very well
filled and the stand Is somewhat thin.
Similar conditions prevail generally
In the whole northern and central
Knnsas wheat belt.
Farmers and business men of Hay
Springs have petitioned the state rail
way commissioners, for additional
sidetrack facilities for handling tho
Immense potato crop that will be har
vested this fall. Conservative esti
mate of tho acreage lu the locality Is
2,000 acres, and many say H00 to 000
enrs will go on the irket this fall.
It Is believed that the selling at
auction of the plant of the Ilebb
Motors Co. nt Huveloek last week for
$110,000, was the greatest llnanclal
crash lu the history of the state.
Nearly $0,000,000 vanished from No
braskii with the crash. Of this
amount $H,2."0,000 is stock In the
company a total loss. The stock
holders will not realize u penny upon
their money. The total Indebtedness,
according to the receiver's report Is
approximately $1,000,000.
Lid coin has been selected as the
site for the men's reformatory by the
state board of control. The board an
nounced It has purchased tho former
Hay ward military academy located
two miles southwest of the capital
city. The building, which has been
vacant for years, together with ten
acres of ground, was purchased for
$H7,0()0. The recent legislature ap
propriated $.'00,000 for establishment
of the Institution. Sixteen towns In
the state contested for the location of
the reformatory. In choosing Lincoln
the board stated It took Into consid
eration tho woirare of the prisoners
and tho saving to taxpayer;.
The report that the family of Clyde
Dickson, fanner resident of Adams,
had lost their lives lu the Pueblo Hood
has been found to be an error, a letter
having been received at Routrlce from
Mrs. Dickson to the effect that all
escaped with their lives.
According to the new Fremont di
rectory, that city has n population of
1(1,020, an Increase of 1,000 people,
since tho last previous directory was
issued before tho war. Tho new di
rectory contains 0,103 names. Tho
government census gave Fremont a
population of 10,000.
Nebraska boys and girls' clubs will
have an enrollment of more than -1,000
this year. Records In tho ofllce of tho
college of agriculture at Lincoln show
ed n total enrollment of H.S20 on Juno
10, and beventl clubs had not yet re
ported. The plea of Henry Harrows, 71,
murderer, to return to his old homo In
Engljind to die, will be heard by the
state board of pardons and paroles at
Its healing in Lincoln July 10. lliir
rows shot nnd killed his only friend,
Jim Sayles, at Plattbiuouth on Christ
mas eve, 1011.
RAISE OWN FOOD
Writer Tells of Agricultural Ants
In Central America.
Have Really Comprehensive System of
"Gardenlno" as Well as Knowl-
cdfje of Other Trades.
The dark forests of Central America
shelter a remarkable tribe of agricul
tural ants, If we tiro to credit tlu
testimony of competent investigators.
These are foresters, road makers,
wood choppers and gardeners, and It
Is said they actually plant nud raise
ull their own food. The traveler lu
these forests is surprised to see many
great trees half stripped of their foli
age, and whole tracts of smaller ones
left completely bare, says u writer lu
the Christian Science Monitor.
Everywhere, too, he sees little well
beaten paths lending In and out, from
the open country to the center of tho
foiest, and these are covered with buy
workers. They run to und fro, somer
heavy laden with bits of leaf they
have torn lrom the trees, others empty
handed on their way to market.
These tints, us a rule, build their
nests on the outer edge of the forest,
often under some big tree. The road
uro kept in perfect repair by corps of
workers detailed for tho purpose
trained civil engineers ami road mend
ers, one supposes, who, can do their
work Intelligently and well. One can
see them picking up stray bits of
debris, or earth, clearing the track of
everything thut might hinder the busy
gardeners In their work.
What becomes of all of the green
stuff tlicy collect? All the ants In thut
part of the world could not consume
such piles of leaves.
The little unts are gardeners, and
the leaves are used In their mushroom
beds. In the first place, they work
the green-leaf substance over Into
little brown balls that eventually be
come u soft, spongy mass, grown over
with fungus genus. On close exam
ination, one can see tiny white knobs,
the swollen ends of hairlike llluments.
These are the mushrooms on which
the farming ant lives.
An enthusiastic student bus rondo
some Interesting exiwrlments with tho
nnts nnd their garden-truck. He placed
a few nuts In a glass dish hnlf-flUed
with the sort of rose-leaves of which
they were fond. They made tunnels
In the sund, but left tho leaves un
touched. He repented the experiment, but
plnced some of tlte little "ant cab
bages" on one of tho leaves, and with
his forceps lifted one of the Impris
oned nnts upon It. The little Insect
at once rushed off with the news of
food to Its comrades, und ull came hur
rying up to taste.
The experimenter then put into tho
dish some of the loose ant food found
In their nests. It was curious and
delightful to wntch the busy creatures
as they began nt once to put It Into
order, arrange It In careful piles, and
contlnuo the cultivation of tho tiny
mushrooms.
Another scientist found on an aban
doned ant-mound a largo mushroom
that bad evidently been left to grow
up from some spores of unt food left
In the nest. It was of a handsome
species; tho cap was reddish purplo
and dotted over with small scales, tho
gills were white, and the spores of a
yellowish color. He plnnted some oC
tho spores, and they grew thriftily,
thus proving that the ants really ralso
true mushrooms, und can be said to
follow tho occupation of kltcheu-gar-deriing.
Destroyers Supreme.
"Wo knew whenever a submarlno
left a German port, and we kept
track of it day by day until It re
turned home," snys Admiral William
S. Sims, In the World's Work. "No U
boat ever made u voyage across tho
Atlantic without our knowledge. Tho
submarlno was a slow traveler, and
required a minimum of HO days for
such it trip; normally the time would
bo much longer, for a submarine on
this long voyage seldom cruises nt more
thnn five knots. Our destroyers und
aiitl-submiuino craft were much faster,
nnd could easily cross the Atlantic lu
ten days. It Is, therefore, apparent
thnt a flotilla of destroyers stationed
In European waters could protect tho
American coast from submarines ul
most ns successfully us If It were
stationed tit Hampton Roads or New
port." A Better Show.
A "militant," ns the really vlnilent
type of advanced woman Is called, said
to Governor Miller at a charity ball
in Albany:
"You men! Weil tnko your special
privileges "from you yet. We'll oust
you from politics, tho urts and every
thing else."
Governor Miller smiled before tho
militant's Ire. Then he nodded to
ward a group of pretty girls In back
less nnd sleeveless gowns, short skirts
nnd all the other extravagances of the
1021 mode.
"Oh, I don't know," he said. "An
I look around, It seems to mo thnt
the ladles aro giving man a better
show thun ho over had before."
New Wheat Storage Plan.
An old suggestion comes from Eng
land ns to conserving wheat. It Is
proposed to crush or rough grind
wheat, then soften with superheated
stenin nnd compress In hard blocks
and storo until wanted, when n slm
plo crushing process would fit It for
Hour manufacture. Scientific American-
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