Tllfl NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRTHUNE.
ARBUCKLE JURORS
UNABLE TO AGREE
Foreman Asks Dismissal After
41 Hours' Deliberation.
Vote Ten to Two.
RETRIAL SET FOR JANUARY 9
Following Dismissal Court Officer
Said, However, That the Ballot.
Ing Favored Acquittal
Throughout.
Sun Francisco, Cnl. Tlio Jury which
tried Hoscoo Arhucldo on a charge of
innnslnuKhtor wus discharged, as un
able to iigreo after It hud deliberated
forty-ono hours.
The Jury was brought Into court at
Its own request, reporful a disagree
nient, and asked that It he discharged.
The foreman announced that the final
ballot stood 10 to 2, hut he did not
finy whether the majority favored con
viction or acquittal. Tho case was
set for retrial January 0.
Court ofllcors said, however, that
tho balloting favored acquittal through
out.
Yanko Leave Rhine for Home.
Colilcuz. To the tune of "Stolzcn
fels on the Ithlne," an old Uermati
waltz, played by a cornetlst, a troop
train with 000 Americans, homewurd
bound, loft for Antwerp, where they
will Hull for America. Tho famous
Stolzcnfols castle has been one of the
nearby resorts popular with tho sol
dlers.
Eight hundred of the soldiers arc
returning as casuals. They nro ac
companied by ten ofllcors. The pas
Bonger list also will Include fifteen
soldiers' wives, who married the Amor
leans in the Ithlneland.
Makes Friends' With Indians.
Bismarck, S. ,D. Marshal Foch
funoked the pipe of peace here with
Chief Hod Tomahawk, cementing the
friendship of the Dakota Sioux In
dians and France. The smoking was
part of n tumultous reception given
the French soldier.
Tho dialogue of Marshal Foch and
Chief Tomahawk, the Indian who
killed Sitting Hull after tho latter had
led tho rebellious Sioux la massacre
of General Custer's forces, was con
ducted in three languages, with th(
aid of Interpreters.
Farmero Need 5 Yearc to Recoup.
Chicago, III. Tho depression Is the
most severe In tho history of Amort
can farming, and It will tako five years
for agriculture to recover, Senator Wal
lace declared In an address at tho nn
nuol meeting of, tho United States Llvo
Stock Sanitary association.
Tho method of distribution of farm
products muttt be placed on a sound
economic Irnsls, eliminating tho ml 1
dlo mnn where necessary If his serv
ices have no economic value," he
added.
Seize Powder With a "Kick."
Philadelphia, I'a. A truck load of
puelcuges of powder sent by mall from
Germany nnd which tho shipper claim
ed would convert soft drinks or plain
wator l,nto an Intoxicating beverage
wus confiscated at tho local postolllce.
Approxnintely fi.000 packages were ad
drosscd to business men and were an
nounced as samples. Orders, post
ofllco and customs olllclals said, were
solicited for purchase of larger quan
titles. Suniples of tho powder werf
sent to chemists for analysis.
Council Dars Busses on Tram Streets.
Des Moines, la. The city council
possed a resolution burring motor
busses from streets on which enrs op
erate, upon tho promise of Frank 0
Chambers, receiver of tho Des Mntnes
Railway company, that HO additional
cars will ho put Into operation at the
earliest possible time.
The now street railway franchise
ordinance adopted by tho voters pro
vldes for elimination of busses.
1 i
( More Farm Loans.
Washington, D 0. Approval of soy
enty-ono advances for agriculture and
llvo Btocl purposes, aggregating .$.!,
272,000, has been announced by the
wur finance corporation.
Mrs, Harding Presented with Horse.
Washington, D. (). President Hard
ing has been taking horsubaok riding
ns exercises of into, and a friend de
elded to arrange for Mrs. Harding to
accompany him. Silo was presented
with a thoroughbred horse.
Jacques Reaches Brussels.
Urussols. Lieutenant General -Jacques,
who recently visited tho United
States, has returned to his home. Ho
anld he was satisfied that tho Amer
icans were the sincere friends of Pol
glum. Seventy-Two Buildings Burned,
Nogules, Ariz. Soventy-two houses
In tho Kouqulllo district of Cananea,
Sotiora, Mexico, were destroyed by
lire, according to a word received here.
Several days ago an entire block was
destroyed )y fire.
Ask Harding to Let Debs Go.
Cleveland, o. Iiunioillnto release of
Kitguie V. I'ebn and other alleged
MNninrs qf the espionage act. Is asked
In 'olejd'nm sunt lo President Hard
Uu bv tlHM'VctfiiJivo committee of the
fiou.i'Vf parry
PACKING HOUSE STRIKE ON
Affect All Plants Where Wage Reduc
tions Have Gone Into Effect
Will Involve About
45,000.
Chicago, III. A trlko of all union
packing houi:u employes In all plants
where wage reductions were put Into
effect Monday was ordered for Decem
ber fi by tho executive committee of
tho Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen of North America
The strike, which affects all union
crafts employed In tho packing indus
try, will Involvo about 45,000 workers
In fifteen cities, according to Cor
nelius Hayes, president of tho butcher
workmen's union. '
Cities where packing houso cm
ployes aro organized are Chicago,
Milwaukee, South St. I'aul, Sioux City,
Omaha, Denver, Nebraska City, St.
Joseph, Mo.; Kansas City, Wichita,
Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Kast St
Louis, St. Louis, Albert Lea and Aust
in, Minn.; and Cedar Uaplds and Du
buque, la.
About .'15,000 union workmen nn
employed by the "big live" packers
and about 10,000 union workers em
ployed In smaller packing plants, ac
cording to President Hayes. About
20,000 of tho union men woro In Old
cago, he said. According to Mr
Hayes figures, there are approximate
ly Ifi.OOO organized workmen and about
JH.OOO unorganized employes. The
packers havo claimed that the ma
jority of their workmen did not be
long to any union, and havo never rec
ognized the unions.
Last month the four packing com
panics began holding assemblies In the
vnrlous plants, following which It was
announced representatives of the
workmen hail agreed to a cut In wages
and hud either fixed the amount of the
decroase or allowed tho companies to
do so. Those reductions, averaging
about 10 per cent, became effective
Monday In tho four plants affected,
,uid Morris & Co. also announced sim
ilar reductions.
Tho unions asserted tho plant as
semblies did not represent the work
men, and expressed opposition to the
nctlon. The last general strike In the
packing Industry was In 1001.
Harding Plans Special Message.
Washington, D. C President Hard
lng will send n special message to con
gress early In January recommendlni;
tho establishment of a ship subsidy
policy by tho United States.
Tho message will contain definite
recommendations, nnd will take up
the whole subject of tho American
merchant marine and methods of In
creasing Its utility nnd assuring Its
permanence. Studies nro now In pro
gress for Its preparutlott.
Calls Himself U. 8. Citizen, i
Washington, D. C Orover C. Berg-
doll, convicted draft evador, through
his mother, Mrs. Emma C. Uorgdoll,
has died suit In tho supremo court of
tho District of 'Columbia for return of
property valu?d at $7t"0,000 seized by
tho government.
Tho petition sets forth that Uorg
doll Is a citizen of tho United States,
regards his stay In Germany as "temp
orary, and expects to return."
$100,000 Slander Suit.
Omaha, Neb. For alleged falso and
slanderous statements uttered nt a
meeting on the South Side, Francis II.
Shoemaker, Nonpartisan league ad
herent, Is named defendant in a $100,-
000 damage suit tiled In district court
by William Ritchie, Jr., on behalf of
himself, as state commander of tho
American Legion, and tho American
Legion, Department of Nebraska.
To Answer Wood-Forbes Report.
Manila, P. I. The Philippine legis
lature intends replying to those fea
tures of the Wood-Forbes report that
Filipinos regard as objectionable, ic
was announced. Tho reply will bo
cabled within a few days. It also was
announced a legislative delegation will
be sent to Washington to present a
statement of Philippine conditions to
President Harding.
More Employed In Recent Weeks.
Washington, D. 0. The number ot
the nation's unemployed hns decreased
by more than a million during recent
weeks, according to an estimate of the
national conference on unemployment,
announced by Secretary' Hoover.
Champion Steers Sell High.
Chicago, III. Tho grand champion
carload of stoors at tho llvo stock
show, entered by John Ilubly, of
Mason City, II1., was also sold, bring
ing $10 per hundred weight. Tho
steers averaged 1,078 pounds.
Heads Livestock Exposition.
Chicago, III. Robert A. Falrbalru
of West Held, N. J., was elected presi
dent of the International Live Stock
Exposition association, succeeding 0.
F. Curtis of Ames, la. All other of
llcors were re-elected
Plan Board for Wholesale Buying.
Chicago, I.. A meeting of represent
atives of farmers organizations to
form an association for the wholesale
purchase of rarmor materials wus hold
hero ami tho proposed plan was out
lined. Amerlca'o '21 Corn King.
Chicago. III. .1. W. Workman of
Maxwell, 111., !s the HUM corn king of
America. For the first time Illinois
has captured the grand championship,
Mr. Workman being u warded tho
capital prlxo.
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Sahara-LiKe Sand Dunes of
(Prepared by the National Geographic So
ciety. Washington, D. C.)
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado,
with Its stupendous scenic effects, Its
beauty and Its grandeur, Is little cal
culated to raise practical thoughts In
the minds of most of Its beholders.
Hut anyone with a touch of tho en
gineer In his makeup who gazes Into
this great chasm must marvel ut the
tremendous energy thnt hns been ex
erted by running wnter In carving Its
way more than n mile In depth through
rocks of vnrlous degrees of hardness.
Ajid Into his mind, ns his eye gauges
tho vast canyon, Is sure to como the
question: What has become of tho
billions of cubic yards of material
that once tilled this enormous pit?
Tho lower Colorado country a region
of fascination despite Its deserts and
marshes, Its mud volcuiiocs and shift
ing sand-dunes Is tho answer; for It
Is truly the crentnro of tho river,
built from tho countless tiny grains of
sand and silt thnt Its waters have
brought down through tho centuries.
Thu mouth of the Colorado Is one
of the least-known regions of North
America. Only 00 miles to tho north
In nn nlr lino tho American town of
Yutnn has existed for tho better part
of a century, nnd. through It pnsses
one of tho princlpnl transcontinental
railroads of the United States; while
ltttle moro than a hundred miles to
tho west lies tho rich valley of south
ern California and the coast cities
with teeming populations.
Its Mouth Is In Mexico.
There aro physical dllueultlcs In
reaching the mouth of tho Colorado;
but thu chief Impediment Is an imag
inary line tho Mexican border. For
while tho Colorado Is essentially a
river of tho United States, and
traverses Its soil for some nlneteen
twentlcths of Its length, for tho Inst
7f miles before It reaches the sea Its
bunks nro formed by Mexican terri
tory. And to udd to tho Isolation the
sea which the Colorado reaches Is the
long narrow Gulf of California, whose
northern end, Into which tho Colo
rado pours, Is bounded by desert
snnds nnd rocky, largely barren moun
tains. For 200 miles or more below
the mouth of tho Colorado, the shores
of tho gulf form n desolate region, al
most the only permanent Inhabitants
of which are half-clvlllzcd Indians.
Tho Colorado may be compared In
one way to tho Nile, since for hun
dreds of miles both flow through des
ert regions practically without tribu
taries. Above Yuma, before reclama
tion work was undertaken, the sud
denness with which one traveling In
the desert would stumble upon the
river at almost any point along Us
courso was a continuous source of
wonder.
Ono of the striking fentures of the
lower Colorado country Is Just north
west of the river, opposite Yuma,
where Is to bo found one. of America's
"closest approaches toward duplicating
the Sahara. This stretch of country
Is given over to dunes built of wind
swept sands brought down by tho
river and washed by the rare torren
tlul rains from tho ndjucent hills. A
series of long, snuous ridges with
shurp crests, constantly traveling hack
and forth ns tho .wind shifts their
tiny units, this dazzling wasto of sand
needs only a camel on some summit to
tinvo all tho atmosphere of the Sa
hara. Not only has the Colorado created
deserts; It has mado what may bo
considered their opposite, marshes,
us well. Below Yuma, where the
river emerges from the rough coun
try, tho Colorado delta stretches awuy
to the sen, almost entirely In Mexico.
The strenm does not flow In one chan
nel on this last lap of Its Journey, but
divides Into numerous branches and
spreads over a wide, nearly level area,
especially In flood season. Retween
thu streamlets nro extensive marshes
grown up In cat-tails, with wIIIowb
lining tho channels. Halfway to tho
sea tho many streams meet In n lako
which serves ns a settling basin.
There, then, is being deposited much
of tho solid materinl now washed
from tho upper Colorado; and whllo
tho streams which enter tho lako nre
dark and muddy, those which flow out
are nlmost clear.
Queer Mud Volcanoes.
On tho edse of this lake are numer
ous mud volcauoos, smnll mounds
which appear from a distance Uko
roughly conical shocks of hay. From
I 'holr crntms bolls soft, scalding hot
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Colorado Desert In California.
mud, while strenms and sulphurous
gases escape In hissing Jets, leaving
orange-bellow crystuls around the
vents nnd scattering golden dust over
the slopes of the mounds. Similar vol
canic nctlvlty occurs a few miles north
of tho United Stntes line. One theory
Is thnt the tremendous pressure gen
erated on tho underlying ntrata by the
deposits thousands of feer thick which
the Colorado has laid down through
I ho ages has caused the heat which
shows Itself In the development of the
mud vents.
The Colorado has been n destroyer
on a grand scnle, and a creator as
well of strange geographic regions
nnd forms. Rut one of Its most sig
nal achievements hns been In the eco
nomic sphere the nddltlon of hun
dreds of millions of dollars of value
to the country. In this accomplish
ment tho labors of the river for un
numbered centuries must needs be
supplemented by brief, but nil-Important
Inbors of mnn.
Ages ngo (the Gulf of California
thrust n long nnrrow arm more than
150 miles Into the Interior of North
America, perhaps 100 miles above the
present United Stntes border. Into
the side of this deep gulf the Colorado
emptied near the present site of Yuma.
Rllndly the river carried the sunds
torn from the Grand Canyon and the
upper renches of Its streams nnd
dropped them Into tho gulf. Cubic
miles were thrown Into the depression
nnd steadily a bar was built out Into
the salt water. Eventually the bar
was built above sea level entirely
across the gulf and became a mighty
dyke, damming It. At first a fresh
or brackish lake existed to the north
of this dyke, while the Colorado al
ternately fed It and' discharged south
ward Into the shortened gulf. Rut
evcntunlly tho river took a more or
less permanent course to tho south;
nnd tho lake, no longer fed, and
bathed by the Intense sunshine and
dry nlr of the southwest, evaporated.
When this country was first explored
by tho Spanish pathfinders, a half
century after Columbus discovered
America, this old lake bed, with ItH
deepest point moro thnn 200 feet below
sea level, was one of tho hottest, dry
osr, most desolate regions of the
North American continent tho Colo
rado desert.
Reclaiming a Fertile Desert.
And so It continued during the ex
ploration nnd settlement of tho West
by Americans. Mnny of the pioneers
bound for tho Cnllfomln gold fields In
the rush of MO passed this way,
nnd found the great depression of the
Colorado desert tho most forbidding
stretch of their journey. Where any
thing grow It was typical desert vogo
tatlon cnctl, grease-wood, an occa
sional desert' palm. Rut much of It
was dry, powdery soil devoid of nil
vegetation. The temperature wus one
of the highest on tho globe, sometimes
reaching 130 degrees Fahrenheit.
Rut though tho region was n desert
because of the luck of moisture, its
soil was a wonderful rich silt, washed
down by the Colorado, ns potentially
productive ns the soil of tho famous
delta of the Nile. A few engineers
recognized this nnd saw that since the
region lay below tho level of the
Colorado river Its Irrigation would be
a relatively simple matter. Water
was first taken by canal to tho desert
In 1001, nnd wherever It was led tho
desert character disappeared. Al
falfa nnd other crops quickly covered
tho one-time dead, seared soil with a
sheet of green, whllo trees sprang up
besldo tho wnter courses.
The one-time Colorado desert has
disappeared to be replaced by tho
Imperial valley, one of the most re
tnnrkablo agricultural regions ot the
United States. Where a scoro of yeurs
ogp tho Colorado desert did not pro
duce a single dollar's worth of crops,
tho produce of tho transformed Im
perial valley now represents Interest
on approximately half a billion dot
lnrs. And the muddy Colorado can
be given, fundamentally, all the credit,
Tho Imperial valley might, In truth,
bo termed a "by-product" of thnt great
scenic wonder, the Grand Canyon.
The river Is doubly the valley's crea
tor. It built up the rich soil from
tho mnterlals it gouged out In making
tho canyon, nnd It brings throughout
the year tho llfo-glvlng water that on
the canvas, of the Southwost baa
erased u desert and drawn In an agri
cultural wonderland.
AMERICAN
foam
(Copy tor iliu Derailment Supplied by
the American Legion News Service.)
BOOSTER FOR HIS HOME TOWN
Bert Hutchlngs Served as General
Chairman for Legion at Kan
sas City.
"If thero Is anything going on for
the good of Knnsas City, Rert Hutch
lngs Is usually the
motive power be
hind It."
This Is a com
mon remark In
Kansas City re
garding Albert K.
Hutchlngs, gener
al chairman of
the third annual
national conven
tion of tho Amer
ican Legion, un
der whose direc
tion Kansas City
entertained tho largest assembly of ex-
sorvlce men nnd women since the war.
The career of Mr. Hutchlngs Is
closely Interwoven with the progress
of Knnsas City, which ho visualized
in 1000, when he decided to live there.
Since then ho has organized the Kan
sas City Advertising club, he bus been
president of the Rotary club and the
Automobile club, und has participated
In every movement for tho advance
ment of the city.
During the World war he was given
tho Immense tnsk of organizing tho
Liberty lonn campaigns In the Tenth
Federal Reserve district, but civilian
service was not enough for him when
his country was Involved In a war.
He organized n Seventh Missouri Na
tional Guard company, and served as
Its captain. Later he was transferred
to the motor transport corps of the
regulnr army, serving at Camp Meigs
and Camp Merrltt, In command of
headquarters motor command No. 80,
AFTER THE FAKE PROMOTERS
American Legion on Watch to Detect
and Expose Organizations Victim
izing Ex-Servlce Men.
Tho harpies who prey on public
sympathy and the vampires who at
tach themselves to every legitimate
and worthy campaign for the relief of
human distress, have been flying in
flocks behind the trudging army of Job
hunting ex-service men. The police
courts are revealing the sordid opera
tions of scores of avaricious persons
who have been conducting money-raising
campaigns on a get-rlch-qulck ba
sis, on the pretense of assisting unem
ployed World war veterans. Some of
these fly-by-night promoters have
formed Inrge organizations, using as
dupes veterans who nre, themselves,
honest, but have been Induced by ur
gent need to grasp at tho straw of a
Job which the swindler dangles before
them.
Rchlnd n shield of plausibility, the
promoter sends his money solicitors
out upon tho public. Needless to sny,
little of the money raised actually Is
used to assist the unemployed ex
service men. The promoter takes good
care to see that his account books, If
he keeps any. never record the full
amounts whlcTi hnve been extracted
from tho sympathetic public. And If
ho makes a pretense of accounting for
tho wny the money is expended, this
accounting is only a clever construc
tion of falsities, intended to protect
the promoter, if he Is made the sub
ject of Inquiry by public ofllclnls. The
system by which ho operates precludes
honesty.
These swindlers often copy the
nnmes and methods of organizations
which are legitimate and have repu
table sponsors. The nnmes the em
ployment swindlers select for their or
gnnlzntlons only too often Inspire pub
lic confidence because they may easily
be confused with those of long-existing
public charitable societies. The Amer
ican Legion Is constantly on the watch
to detect, expose and prosecute organi
zations victimizing ex-service men.
The public should come to know thnt
any organization ostensibly for the
help of unemployed veterans should bo
regarded suspiciously If It does not
have the Legion's Indorsement. Amer
ican Legion Weekly.
WOMAN AS STATE ADJUTANT
Miss Honorah Sua Glttings of San
Francisco, First of Sex to
Hold Legion Office.
Miss nonornh Sue Glttings, of Snn
Francisco, Cnl., Is the first woman to
hold tho position
of stnto adjutant
of tho American
Eeglon. She wus
appointed to that
position by tho
commander of tho
California depart
ment, pending the
election of a per
manent adjutant.
Miss Glttings
was one of the
llrst women to en
list In tho service
of her country during the World war.
She Joined tho Hvy ns a yeomanctte
In 1017
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"You would hardly call golf a dan
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"I don't know nbout that." said Mr.
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Even a sick child loves the "fruity"
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Millions of mothers keep "California
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