Soldiers’ Insurance Problem.
Several hundred men in the army
tmd navy of the United States In the
World war named as their beneficiaries
for government insurance their par
ents living in Russia. The veterans'
bureau cannot pay this insurance, oe
ftause we have not the necessary ma
•liinery In Russia which would be con
st cteil with consular service In that
state. It is presumed that the fam
ilies of these soldiers who have died
for their country are in a bad way in
soviet Russia.
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“I thought you said your wife would
never smoke cigarettes.”
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I said so.”—Life.
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taiOUX CITY, PTG. CO.. NO. 41-192:
WALTON’S FATE
OP TO SENATE
Governor’s Friends Attempt
ing to Gain Support of
Upper House
Oklahoma City, Okla., Oct. 7.—The
political spotlight was swung around
Sunday night and focused on the
Oklahoma senate.
Legislators were flocking to the
city in response to Qov. J. C. Wal
ton’s proclr.mation Saturday sum
moning a special session of the legis
lature next Thursday.
A dozen republicans will hold the
balance of power when the senate
convenes. Heroic efforts are being
made on the part of Walton adher
ents -to win senatorial support, par
ticularly that of the republican ele
ment. They are being assisted, it
is said, by a veritable mogul in G.
O. P. state politics, who has his eye
fixed on a high federal post
Senators approached Sunday stated
emphatically that If Impeachment
proceedings develop they would be
guided only by the evidence.
Military law has practically fizzled
out. Courts are maintained In sev
eral points but nearly all the mllftia
Is either at home or on the way.
Some of the soldiers are reported
walking, others making home via
box car routes.
The BOldiers have been paid in de
ficiency warrants and in view of the
state treasurer's recent warning
against these, the boys could not
cash them.
Two BoldienJ were observed on the
outskirts of Oklahoma City Sunday,
their backs placarded: ‘‘We’re walk
in back home to Muskogee.” The
town Is 200 miles from here.
A prominent hotel Is said to have
a fortune In deficiency warrants,
payment for a major portion of the
parlors and meals supplied the mili
tary court.
A report was received here Sunday
night that a national order has been
Issued from Atlanta for the Ku Klug
Klan to unmask.
TWO PRISONERS
KILLEDSELVES
Bodies of Besieged Felons
Found — Stronghold Is
Flooded With Ammonia
Universal Service
Eddyville, Ky., Oct. 7.—Two of three
convicts who held siege In the dining
hall building here last week after a
battle to escape from prison, died by
their own hand, it was revealed Sun
day.
The bodies of the three despera
does were found on -the floor when
a raiding party stormed the hall
Saturday night. In the early stages
of the battle the convicts had killed
three prison guards.
Monte Walters, one of the most
desperate of the three convicts, was
found with a rifle ball through his
head. He had been slain in battle.
Powder Burns on Bodies
Lawrence Griffith and Harry Fer
land were shot through the heart.
They were stripped to the waist, ly
ing near each other. Powder burns
shewed they had fired the fatal
shots. Their pistols were still gripped
in their lifeless hands. They had
committed suicide when they found
escape impossible.
Examination of the bodies indi
cated that all had been dead more
than 24 hours.
The convicts made a break for
liberty last Wednesday morning,
killed three guards and then took ref
uge in the dining hall where they
made their last stand.
Siege Lasted 81 Hours
The storming party .entered the
mess hall at 8:19 o’clock, after the
building had been flooded with am
monia fumes. Authorities succeeded
in entering the disputed barricade af
ter a spectacular siege of 81 hours,
in 4he course of which the prison
guards reinforced by two details of
Kentucky guardsmen riddled the
building with withering barrages of
steel jacketed bullets from high pow
ered rifles and machine guns; swept
the interior of the building with the
shrapnel formed by bursting rl/lle
grenades and twice succeeded in
placing tear gas in the building.
SOVIET ARMIES ACTIVE
London, Oct. 7.—Dispatches from
Riga based on Moscow reports indi
cate most active military prepara
tions as a result of the situation in
Germany. It is declared that caval
ry forces are being transfered to
the Polish frontier and that the
troops in the Ukraine are being re
inforced.
RAPID CITY HAS
A NEW POSTMA8TER
Rapid City, S. D., Oct. 6.—J. Ho
well Mathias, newly appointed post
master at Rapid City, has entered up
on his duties. Mr. Mathias is a pio
neer, having come to the country in
1886. He attended the city schools,
was clerk in the land oflce for four
years, and sines then has been prac
ticing law. This is a first class poet
office, which means receipts of at
least $40,000 a year.
Irving Fisher's
Weekly Index
New Haven, Conn., Sept. 16.—Last
week’s wholesale prices of 200 rep
resentative commodities averaged
157 per cent, of the pre-war level,
according to Prof- Irving Fischer’s
weekly index number. The purchas
ing power of the dollar was 63.8 pre
war cents, this week’s index num
ber shows.
Both the commodity prices and the
purchasing power of the dollar are
relative to the pre-war period of 1913.
Thus the "low” prices In January,
1922, for instance, exceeded pre-wa*
prices on the average by 38 per cent.;
that is, the dollar was worth 72.5 pra
war cents
A summary of conditions follows:
Tear Number Power
1918 . 100 100.
1920 May (peak Jrices).. 247 40.5
1922 January (low) .... 138 72.5
1923 1st quarter average. 163 62.8
1923 2nd quarter average. 163 61.5
Last week’s average .... 157 63.8
(Mr. Fisher is a noted professor at
Tale university. His weekly Index
Is appearing exclusively In Sioux City
In "the Tribune every Monday. It Is
the only weekly index of general
prices In the world.—Editor’s note.)
Two South Dakota Banks
Close Doors on Saturday
Belle Fourche, S. D., Oct. 7.—(Spe
cial.)—Two banka m Butte county
voluntarily closed their doors Satur
day and are now in the hands of the
state bank examiners. The first
bank failure which ever occured In
Belle Fourche came with the closing
of the First State bank. The State
Bank of Fruitdaie had already
been closed. F. E. Duba Is president
of the Belle Fourche State bank and
Senator F. R. Cook of this city ii
president of the Fruitdaie bank.
Assets as shown of the Belle Four
che bank at the last published state
ment were about $500,000 and the de
posits $370,000. The state bank fail
ure will have no bearing upon the
First National and Butte county
banks, the two remaining banks of
this city.
ASKS BIG SUM
FOR ARM LOSS
Sues Owners of Threshing
Outfit—Claims Outfit Not
Properly Managed
Schuyler, Neb., Oct- 6. (Special
—Damage of 325,285 are asked by
Fred Egerton against Charles and
Chauncy Dworak, whom he charges
responsible for an accident last July
in which he lost his left arm Just be
low the elbow.
Egerton was caught by an elevator
belt of a threshing outfit as he stood
talking to Charles Dworak, with his
wagon ready to. receive grain. He
alleges that if some one had been in
charge of the engine at the time of
the accident, it could have been
stopped instantly and serious injury
avoided. He declares he was capable
of earning $3,000 a year but that
now he is a nervous wreck and crip
pled for life.
REFUSES PERMISSION TO
SELL $200,000 OF 8TOCK
Lincoln, Neb-, Oct. 6. (Special)—
The state railway commission has re
fused to allow -the Western Public
Service company to issue $200,000 of
stock to be sold as first preferred to
customers in the various cities and
towns In the state in which it
operates. It does permit $100,000 to
be sold bearing 7 per cent Interest
and permits sale at as low as 90 cents.
The company says It Is adequately
financed by the Chicago Trust com
pany, but desires to get local parties
Interested in it. The stock carries no
vote.
The company operates in five
states, and the commission says It
has not the information at hand that
would justify allowing more than ths
$100,000 to be sold. The company has
an Ice plant and an electric develop
ment plant at Holdrege, from which
It serves Funk, Axtell, Hildreth gad
Wilcox, and has plants at Crawford,
Chadron, Scottsburg, Bayard, Qermg.
Minatare, Melbeta and Auburn.
REELECT OLD OFFICERS
OF MISSIONARY 80CIETY
Columbus, Neb., Oct. 6.—With one
exception all of the of fleer* of the
Women’s Missionary society of the
German Nebraska Synod of the Uni
ted Lutheran church were re-elected
Fifth annual cenvention of that de
at the closing business meeting ef tbe
nomination here Friday as follows:
president, Mrs. E. Walter, Lincoln;
vice president, Mrs. Martha DeFreese,
Hastings; recording secretary, Mrs.
A. C. Flotow, Columbus; Statistical
recorder, W. W. Ernest, Columbus,
and treasurer Mrs. M. Schroeder,
Leigh.
AWARD CONTRACT FOR
GRADING ELK POINT STREETS
Elk Point, S. D., Oct. 6. (Special)—
The contract for grading certain
street in Elk Point has been let by
the City Council. The bid of 45 cents
per cubic yard and two cents overhaul
for removing approximately 6,500
cubic yards of dirt was accepted.
FEDERAL TAX IS NOT
PART OF RECEIPT8.
Pierre, S. D„ OoL 6.—(Special)—
In an opinion which has Just been
banded down by the attorney gen
eral's department on request of
Harry Grant, chairman of the state
athletic commission, It Is held that
the federal tax on admissions to
boxing, sparring, and wrestling
matches within the state is not
included in the amount of the gross
proceeds when it comes to the mat
ter of turning over to the state it*
10 per cent. tax.
perfect
nome eyeing is guaranteed with ’’Dia
mond Dyes” even if you have neveT
dyed before. Druggists have all colors.
Directions in a»iv<»«.
tlsement.
Absolutely Honest.
Robert W. Chambers, wh
portraits of the modern girl have made
him famous, said at a dinner party
in his New York home:
The modern girl has many fatlHs.
but at least she Is open and above
board. There’s nothing of the deceit
ful puss about her.
“On a moonlight winter night In
Florida a modern young man passion
ately kissed a beautiful modern girl
under a palm tree.
“ ‘I’ll be frank with you,’ the young
man said after the embrace was over.
‘You’re not the first girl I’ve ever
kissed, by a long shot.’
“She lit a huge and costly cigarette.
“ ‘And I’ll be equally frank with
you,’ she answered. ‘You’ve got a
great deal to learn even at that.”’—
New York Mall.
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“My dear,” said the newly-married
man to his wife, “where did all these
books on astronomy come from? They
are not ours."
“A pleasant little surprise for you,”
remarked his wife. “You know, my
dear, you said this morning that we
ought to study astronomy; and so I
;vent to the bookseller’s and bought
everything I could on the subject.’’
It was some minutes before he
spoke.
“My dear,” he said then, his voice
husky with emotion, “I never said we
must study astronomy; I said we must
study economy."
When All Signed With Cross.
In olden times the signature of the
cross, now made by persons who are
unable to write, was not confined to
the illiterate class. Among the Saxons
the mark of the cross, as an attestation
of good faith of the person signing,
was required to be attached to the sig
lature of those who could write, as
veil as to stand in the place of the
signature of those who could not write.
—Detroit News.
Loss of Silk Cocoons.
Adverse climatic conditions and dis
eased silkworms are blamed for the
failure of this year’s crop of wild silk
roeoons in the silk districts of Shan
tung province, China.
Prolonged visits are apt to deal hos
tality a death blow.
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Bread making
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Lucky Dogs.
A Detroit dad who is in the market
—or was—for a dog, visited one of
the numerous kennels near the city re
cently. Almost simultaneously, as he
entered the yard, 35 dogs, ranging
from the grown-ups to pups, let loose
a wild barrage of barking, yapping
and whining. He picked the least
noisy of the dogs and left, but not be
fore he had asked: “What do you
feed all these animals?’’ “Well,” the
owner of the kennels replied, “we feed
them bread, meat, rice and milk. They
get better food, I suppose, than some
poor children, and more of It."
Odd Musical Instruments.
The ordinary handsaw has appeared
as a musical Instrument. One seeker
after novelties uses a saw as a violin.
After long experience and untiring
practice he has actually succeeded in
getting an agreeable music from the
tool.
He holds the saw handle between
his legs, holds the tip of the saw In
one hand, and works the usual violin
bow with the other. The vibrating
steel blade emits soft, appealing notes,
the pitch of which is varied by chang
ing the curvature of the blade. All
sorts of queer effects can be got. by
adept manipulation of the blade.
Sometimes the music resembles the
human voice; again it has the weird
wall of the Hawaiian ukulele.
A Difference.
“How long Is It going to take to get
through with this caie?” asked the
client, who was under suspicion of
housebreaking. “Well,” replied the
young lawyer, thoughtfully, “It’ll take
me about two weeks to get through
with it, but I’m afraid It’s going to
take you about four years.”—Green
Bag.
Much Ammunition Destroyed.
During the last three years 500,000
tons of ammunition from Britain.
America, Belgium, Germany and Rus
sln have been broken up in France.
Many a man stumbles over imagin
1 ary things in his path.
The People Themselve*.
At an agricultural show in Dublin tf
pompous member of parliament, whs
arrived late, found himself on the out
skirts of a huge crowd.
Being anxious to obtain a good vieWf';
nn£ presuming that he whs well known
to the spectators, he tapped a man on
the shoulder and ordered: “Make wag
there!”
“Gam! Who are ye pushin’t” was
the unexpected reply.
"Do you know who I am, sir?” cried
the indignant M. P. 'Tm a represents*
tive of the people!”
“Yah!’’ growled the other; “but
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Discovery of America Cost $7,008. t
After a searching inquiry, it has
been estimated that it cost $7,250 for
Christopher Columbus to discover
America. The explorer was paid about
$320. Louis Santangel, a nobleman,
and not Queen Isabella of Spain, pro
vlded most of the money to putflt the
three ships and pay the sailors, who
were seeking a new route to A«if,
says the Investigator. The PlnzoiUk
who commanded two of the ships, wero
paid $130 each, and a common seaman
got $29 for the voyuge.—Popular Us>
elmnics Magazine.
Back to the Source.'
Mrs. Newlywed (tearfully, after corn*
plaints about sponge cake)—It’s tba
wretched drugist’s fault—he must
have given me the wrong k-kind of
sponges!
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