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    RIDER OF FIRST
PONY EXPRESS
Hot Controversy at St. Joseph
Mo., Settled by Girl Who
Finds Sailor First.
St Joseph, Mo.—St. Joseph Is exclt
ed. Groups (father on street comers
In pool halls and near-beer shops tr
talk about the situation. And thf
cause of It all Is a controversy ovej
the Identity of the first rider to leave
St. Joseph In the now famous Pony
Express ride.
The Pony Express Is experiencing h
revival, and the historic ride of hardy
horsemen Is to be relived this fall,
when riders will set out again from
St. Joseph and San Francisco over the
old route. Towns and cities along the
way are preparing for the event, which
will be celebrated In all the states
through which the first riders passed.
When the proposal to revive the ride
was made, no one thought It would re
sult In such a furore. The movement
started In the West, ami since then
committees have been at loegerheads
over the first rider. There seems to he
no doubt about the man who left San
Francisco with the first hag of mall,
hut In St. Joseph opinions differ.
While no homes have been divided
In the strife, some very heated tilts
have occurred. Of course, none of
the first riders are now living, as the
date of the Initial trip was April 3,
1860. Those "first” riders who are
backed for honors are Johnnie Fry,
John Burnett and one sailor named
William Richardson. At the present
writing Richardson seems to have the
contest tucked away, but at any mo
ment an antique letter or document
may be sprung on the committee and
awing the contest In another direction.
Wrangle Over Horse’s Color.
Hie argument does not stop with the
name of the first rider. The color of
the horse he rode, the hour of the day
and the part of the city from which
the rider set off are all In question.
Strangely, the Interest In such an old
affair Is not confined to the old folk.
Usually In a case like this the younger
and, of course, smarter set are content
to sit back, casting supercilious sneers
at the petty arguments of their grand
parents. But not this time.
In fact, the strongest backer of Rich
ardson. and the one who placed him at
the head of the race, Is a young wom
an. And If she had not discovered him.
Johnnie Fry would now. In all prob
ability. be riding at the head of all
“first’' riders.
Bot while some were willing to agree
to let the shade of Mr. Fry absorb all
of the glory, this young woman went
quietly about the libraries, gathering
up data on the ride. She dug up musty
newspapers and faded letters on which
the writing was hardly discernible. She
compared dates and more dates, and
then one day she startled the home
folks by appearing before the ride
committee and demanding that Mr.
Fry he hauled out of the saddle and
his place be given to Sailor Richard
son, who left the hounding main to
ride away over the rolling prairie*.
She proved to the committee’s satis
faction that Fry was the second rider,
and that he left St. Joseph seven days
after the first rider departed.
Dangerous Dash Across Plains.
The Pony Express was the first
means by which mail was carried over
land to the Packflc coast. In I860 the
Eastern outpost of railroads was St.
Joseph. Mctl destined to the Western
territories had to be sent by sailing
vessels around Cape Horn.
However, the Pony Express com
pany was given assurances by the gov
ernment that It might have the con
tract for carrying the mall if It could
make faster time than the vessels took.
The company then prepared for the
Initial ride on which hung the fate of
the contract.
The best riders of the West were
■ecured, and hnndreda of fast horses
were purchased. On the appointed
day, April 8, I860, a horseman set out
from San Francisco, carrying the mall
eastward. At the same time another
horseman was being ferried across the
Missouri river, hound for Seneca,
Kan., a distance of 20 miles.
The result of the ride Is know n. The
trip was completed In ten days, and
the company received the contract.
Seneca was the first stop for a rider
from SL Joseph. He was relieved
there, and waited for the rider from
the West, whom he In turn relieved.
Six horses were used In riding the dis
tance, and the riders were supposed
to make the dlatance In eight hours.
It was a hazardous undertaking, as the
plains were at that time overrun by
Indiana, and many a rider was found
on the trail, his body pierced with a
poisoned arrow.
Bat when the ride la made this fall
horsemen will find conditions dif
ferent, and if old William Richardson
should wander back to this earth he
would probably be surprised to see his
replica hurrying along over a hard-sur
faced highway, while unfamiliar ob
jects, which people call motoron*s.
apeed by the horseman at a terrific
rate.
Boland's Loos In Young Mon.
Warsaw.—Poland’s greatest loss of
recant years baa been, not In devas
tated regions, but In young men.
Therefore physical education was
strssaed at a recent meeting of school
masters la this city, sad the govern
ment was urged to allot more money
tor the building of playgrounds and
otherwise to assist In the building up
of Polish youths.
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AMOS P. SCRUGGS, Lawyer,
220 South 13th Street.
I NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT
To Florence Peat, defendant:
| You are hereby notified that on th<
second day of February. A. D. 1923
Handy Peat, as plaintiff, filed his petitioi
against you In the District Court o
Douglas County, Nebraska; the.object an<
prayer of which is to obtain a divorce
' from you upon the grounds of cruelty am
desertion.
You are required to answer said pet!
tion on or before the 23rd day of Juiy
A. D. 1923.
HANDY PEAT. Plaintiff.
Per A. P. SCRUGGS.
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To Samuel E. Stacks. Non-resident De
fendant:
You are hereby notified that on tht
1st day of March, A. D. 1923, Alberta
Stacks filed a petition against you ir
the District Court of Douglas County
Nebraska, the object and prayer of which
are to obtain divorce from you on tht
ground that you have been guilty of ex
treme cruelty toward the plaintiff with
out any fault on her part. You are re
quired to answer said petition on or be
fore Monday, July 9, 1923.
ALBERTA STACKS. Plaintiff.
Per H. J. PINKETT, Her Attorn-y.
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NOAH W. WARE. Att’y.
PETITION FOR ADOPTION.
In the County Court of Douglas County,
Nebraska, in the Matter of the Adoption
of Baby Harris, minor.
To the parents of said minor and all other
persons interested in said matter:
You are hereby notified that on the
11th day of June 1923. a petition was
filed in said court by Clarence Wilson and
Lula Wilson, husband and wife, residents
of Douglas County, Nebraska, praying for
the adoption of said minor. That a con
sent to said adoption was filed by Ada
Kelley the legally appointed guardian of
said minor. That the whereabouts of
said minor’s parents is unknown That
a hearing will he had on said petition for
adoption before said court on the 18th
day of July 1923. at 9 o’clock a m.. at the
county court room of Douglas County.
Nebraska, and that unless you appear at
said time and place and contest said
petition, the court may grant the prayer
of said petition, whereby said minor shall
be adopted by said Clarence Wilson and
Lula Wilson.
BRYCE CRAWFORD.
4t-8-15-23 County Judge.
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' France Issues Orders Intended to
Extirpate Practice in Af
rican Possessions.
Paris.—Albert Sarraut. French min
ister of colonies, who was one of
France’s representatives at the Wash
ington naval armament limitation and
pacific conference, has Just signed two
decrees Intended to extirpate the
practice of cannibalism In the French
1 African possessions. The death penal
ty Is Imposed on any one killing or
trying to kill human beings for the
purpose of eating their flesh. Impris
onment of from one to ten years and
a fine of from 100 to 1,000 mines ure
to he the punishment for complicity In
such crimes or for eating human fleSh.
| Cannibalism survives, M. Sarraut saya,
principally under the form of ritual
; rites or acts of sorepry.
Discussing this subject In Be Jonr
j nal. M. Fernand Hauser writes:
"Doctor Cureau, formerly a colonial
governor, assured us some years ago
In a work on the primitive peoples of
equatorial Africa that cannibalism, as
practiced there (and it Is practiced,
even In regions rich in food resources
of all sorts, vegetable and animal). Is
not due to privation or famine. ’It is
simply a mutter of taste,’ he said, *a
predilection for a certain kind of meat.’
Cannibalism Called Instinct.
“Cannibalism ts then, according to
Doctor Cureau. an Instinct. It Is a
custom. The man who Indulges in tt
Is not necessarily ferocious. ‘He may
be a man who Is gentle, gay. cheerful
and friendly In his ordinary relation*
—at least with those about him.
“Doctor Cureau added that he had
several times seen evidences that cer
tain tribes make prisoners of war or
buy slaves to hold them In reserva,
and then kill them and eat them In ac
cordance with their needs.
"Pere Martron. who also made a
close-range study of the African ne
groes. declared, on the contrary, that
the cannibals did not hunt men to sat
isfy hunger. They eat, he said, only
the bodies of enemies killed In war
!ind, more rarely, the bodies of those
on whom they wish to wreak a terrible
vengeance.
“However that may be, Pere Mar
tron and Doctor Curean both stated
that cannibalism Is dying out. Coming
Info Intercourse with more dvlllsed
tribes, the cannibals feel a sense of
shamp and soon refuse to admit that
human flesh Is eaten hy them.
Reports for Many Years.
“These are reports dating back some
years. M. .T. Brevle, chief admlnistra
for of colonies, director of political
and administrative affairs In the gov
ernment of French West Africa, says.
In his ‘Islamlsme contrq Naturiame au
Soudan Franca!*—a penetrating essay
on native psychology which he has
published—that many Macks still prac
tier cannibalism, less from any real
need than from an attachment to in
dent rites, which, divorced from their
primitive significance, appear unlntel
llglhle to ns, and which they them
selves can no longer explain.
“ ‘We are dealing here.’ he declares
‘with human sacrifices, intended to dis
arm hostile spirits, or to produce a
sort of physical and moral transsnh
stanlatlon from the person sacrificed
—to the jierson who eats, the latter
thus assimilating the former’s strength
and qualities.’ “
But whatever may be the reasons
which have kept cannibalism alive, the
French government Is now determined
I to make an end of tt.
Week-End Gardens Are
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Stockholm.—The regular week-end
exodus of 7,000 Industrial workers
armed with garden tools Is one of the
unique signs of spring now appearing
In the Swedish capital.
Every one of these amateur garden
ers has his own "colony lot" In the
large co-operative garden colonies sit
uated In what appears to be country,
though actually within the city limits.
Here he grows his own flowers and
vegetables, and finds a retreat from
the factories and city streets.
The 7,000 colonists are grouped Into
flO different garden sections In the out
skirts of the city, and the administra
tive work Is In the hands of co-opera
tive garden societies.
The plots of ground worked by In
dividuals vary tn size from 1,800 to
5,500 square feet, and the rentals
range from $2.50 to $15.00 for the sea
son Greens, vegetables, strawberries
and various other garden products are
raised, enough to supply the worker's
own table and to yield him a small
profit besides.
Hunts Panther With Spangai
Nanaimo, B. C.—Jim Craig of
Craig’s Crossing, who had shot 180
panthers, brought here the carcass of
one that he killed with chloroform.
The animal had lamed Craig's son,
Duncan Craig, and had scratched
Craig's arm. With a lethal rag on
the end of a pole, he put the animal
to Bleep. Then he lassoed It and
dragged It from a tree.
To Start Whaling In Rosa Sea.
Seattle, Wash.—Three steel whalers
are being sent to Roes sea, where
Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the
Booth pole, noted the presence ef
whales In large numbers. In Roes
sea they are to meet a 12,000-ton
steamer from Norway, which will be
a floating plant for the utlUaatlon of
whales.
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