EL PASO, Dec. 9.—This is the
story of Heany the private, and the
price he paid for his patriotism. It is
a story for the guardsmen’s folks back
home who think they’ve suffered hard
ship on account of his border duty.
“Americans Massacred at Carrizal”
was the headline that sought Heany
out on his *-ocky, backwoods farm in
the mountains of McGoffin county, Ky.
It had been a lifetime struggle to
wring a living from the ungrateful
soil of the stony slopes where he had
toiled since childhood. Bit by bit he
had bought the half barred farm, mar
ried and raised five children.
“It plumb broke him up” when hit.
wife died, but “the oldest gal” helped
with the litle brood and they managed
to get'the spring crops in.
He had his hands more than full at
home, but his grandfather fought in
the revolution and his father was in
the Union army; and when the presi
dent’s call for men came, Heany went.
The captain of the Second Kentucky
told him to be back by dark. Heany
rode around by the neighbors who
each agreed to take one of the chil
dren until he came back. If he didn’t
come back they promised to adopt
them. One by one Heany took the
little ones to the neighbors and kissed
them good-bye. Then he went away.
On the border Heany drilled in the
hot sun, following his monotonous du
|ps grimly. His comrades said that
fte was “queer.” They didn’t know.
Perhaps Colonel Gullion is the only
man on the border who knows the
whole story. Heany told him when
word came that his “oldest gal” had
run away. Heany wanted to go home.
And the colonel would like to send
him, but the government has no time
for the heartaches of an atom in its
war machine.
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EDDIE CASEY
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Eddie Ca
sey, the young backfield star of Har
vard, is one of the most remarkable
football players- of an age. His
weight, 155 pounds, is the only thing
that keeps him from being rated on a
par with Oliphant of the Army or
Harley, of Ohio state.
A graduate of Exeter, the school
where Tad Jones drilled football play
ers and made them future greats be
fore he took up his duties with Yale,
Casey went to Harvard, insisted that
he was a football player, and made it
stick despite his lightness. Percy
Haughton sprung him on Cornell with
a surprise that was so sudden Cornell
hasn’t fully recovered its breath yet.
He simply ran amuck.
Against Princeton Casey again did
some starring, and he virtually was
the entire Harvard backfield in the
game with Yale. Given a real good
backfield star to help him out, Casey
might have kept up that string of
victories for the Crimson over the
New Haven bulldogs.
Casey isn’t of the plunging, smash
ing type. His lack of weight prevents
any such tactics in his play. But he
can hit a line, and hit it hard. He is
a good ground gainer anywhere. His
specialty, however, is the long, swoop
ing end runs, eluding bunches of
tacklers, spinning and twisting for
ward for gains almost unbelievable.
Against Yale Casey showed to ex
cellent advantage when he broke
around Harvord’s right end, shaking
off three tacklers in his sprint, run
ning into another nest after a 30-yard
dash, shaking them off, and continu
ing 70 yards to a touchdown, which,
so far as Casey’s work was concerned,
was legitimate. The thickness of a
Harvard lineman who discovered a
Yale player in the way and tackled
him alone saved Yale. The officials
noticed that tackle, called the ball
back, and penalized Harvard 15 yards
for holding.
But always there is a next year to
football and next year, it seems, this
Casey person will be a force to be
reckoned with by Harvard’s opj. ev
ents.
Where did you get those lovely
doughnuts? At the North Pole bak
ery, of course. 242
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LICENSED EMBALMERS
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ARE RAPIDLY
BEING SETTLED
WASHINGTON, D. C—Secretary
Lane, in his annual report, directs at
tention to the fact that while the
volume of public land is decreasing,
until now it is almost down to 250,
000,000 acres in the United States,
much of which is in the arid region,
the entries of public land are increas
ing. This year nearly 20,000,000
acres of federal domain were taken
up, as against 17,000,000 each for the
preceding two years, 16,000,000 for
1913, and 15,000,000 for 1912.
“There will still remain, however,”
says the report, "many million acres
of land which can be brought into
rich production by the application of
water, and no inconsiderable volume
that can be put to the public service
by being drained. The problem is no
longer one of getting the people onto
the land but of getting land for the
people who wish it, and ways must be
found by which land can be irrigated,
either from the waters that flow un
derneath it or from the waters that
now go to waste flowing to the sea.”
It is Secretary Lane’s belief that no
sufficient effort has been made to dis
cover underground supplies of water
which can be used upon the arid dis
tricts of the west and that congress
might well either appropriate directly
for improving these lands by a system
of drilling or pass a law by which pri
vate parties could be induced to make
this effort.
“The agricultural possibilities of
Alaska are still a matter of conjec
ture,” says the report, “although it is
known that in the Tanana valley and
in other portions the hardier cereals
and vegetables will grow. With the
completion of the railroad which is
now being constructed from Seward to
Fairbanks, there promises to be a
considerable movement within Alaska
to make that country an asset which
the government should further by un
dertaking a broad plan of promotion
based upon the knowledge already
gained as to what can be done agricul
turally in that far northern part of
our country.
“Outside of Alaska the outlook is
that within five years the only pub
lic land available to the pioneer will
be that upon which a large amount of
money must be expended in holding
back the floods of the streams or in
bringing water upon the land. This
is not a work for men of little means,
so that it may safely be said that the
pioneer with his prairie schooner wil'
have vanished from the United States
within a few years.
“One feature of the work among
the Indians during the past year has
been the effort to discover the Indians
who were competent through a system
of competency commissions composed
of men of long jxperience among the
Indians. A commission consists of
three men who gi through a reserva
tion from house to house, making per
sonal studies of the character of the
Indians and reporting upon their prog
ress- -the kind of houses in which
they live, the way in which their chil
dren are dressed, the manner in which
their farms are tilled and their cattle
cared for, and in general their eco
nomic condition. Out of those so in-1
spected the commission makes report
to the secretary of the interior of j
those who are, in its judgment, fitted '
to take on the responsibilities of citi
zenship by being released from the j
paternalistic care of the Indian bu
reau. Upon the approval of these re
commendations the Indians so selected !
for distribution are gathered together,!
and they are presented with patents \
in fee to their lands under an impres
sive ceremonial.”
The inventive genius of the Ameri
can people is illustrated in the report
by the fact that 70,000 applications
for patents were received in the last
year and the information is given
that the bureau of education is con
ducting a campaign for the education
of adult immigrants and for better ru
ral schools.
The reclamation service carried on
construction work on 24 irrigation
projects, bringing ten projects or
units thereof to completion and added
250,000 acres, or 5,000 farms to the i
area on the government work for
which irrigation water is available.
It completed the highest dam in the
world and another forming the largest
irrigation reservoir; built 700 miles of
canals, 80 miles of drains,' 50 miles of
pipe line, 66 miles of roads, 7,200 ca
nal structures, 600 bridges, 650 cul
verts, excavated approximately 10,
000,000 cubic yards of earth and rock,
used 500,000 barrels of cement, manu
factured 60,000 barrels of sand ce
ment.
To the bureau of mines is given
credit for developing methods for
treating low grade complex gold, lead,
silver and zinc ores that promise to re
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juvenate mining in certain parts of
the country and render valuable milli
ons of tons of ore that cannot now be
treated profitably. The beureau has
since its organization trained 41,000
miners in mine rescue work.
LAWS TO COPE
WITH ORIENTAL
INVASION URGED
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The strong
probability of a vast movement of im
migration from western Asia to the
United States within the next few
years should demand attention in ad
vance, according to the annual report
of Commissioner-General of Immigra
tion Caminetti to congress Thursday.
This movement was just commencing
and was temporarily stayed with the
breakout of war, says the report, but
it is only a question of time when it
will begin anew, when doubtless the
history of previous large migrations
will be repeated.
Immigration from western Asia,
says the report, which has been one
of the most serious problems for years
has not yet been solved. Modifications
and additions to the present immigra
tion laws to cope with this Oriental
invasion are urged.
Regarding the necessity for exclud
ing aliens on “economic grounds,”
which question has been before the
judicial and legislative branches of
the government, the report says “it
is just as undesirable from the point
of view of the communities affected”
that an alien shall become a public
charge because he cannot find a job
in which he can make a living, as it is,
that he shall become a public charge
because he is of poor physique.
During the fiscal year 1914 aliens
to the number of 1,218,480 migrated
to the United States. In 1915 the
total dropped to 326,700 and in the
past year only 298,826 entered the
country.
Increase of “the medical force for
the examination of immigrants is rec
ommended, a more “intensive physical
examination” having shown by experi
ment that it rejects a greater percent
age of those unfit for admission.
The service has been particularly
active in the past year, according to
the report, in combating the evils of
“white slavery.” Prosecutions were
instituted in 86 cases and 70 convic
tions were procured. The correspond
ing figures for 1915 were 66 and 53.
The division of information placed
75,195 persons in employment, 58,263
of whom were American citizens.
Fifty-four races apd 66 different occu
pations were represented. Figures
show that of the applicants, citizens
now preponderate where aliens for
merly did.
The report carries a recommenda
tion for favorable action on the meas
ure to increase the limit of cost for
the new station at Boston, and recom
mendation also for additional facili
ties on the Mexican border.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
SOLD UNDER THE HAMMER
NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—Madison
Square Garden, from the tip of whose
dome the whirling Diana once waved
greeting to the Statue of Liberty far
down the bay, will go on the auction ■
block today to satisfy a $2,300,0001
mortgage held by the New York Life
Insurance company.
The Garden, last vestige of the old
Madison Square Garden company fi
nanced by J. Pierpont Morgan, Darius
O. Mills, James B .Darling and others
in 1885, is valued at $4,000,000 and is
the largest single piece of downtown
property that can be bought in New
York.
The Old Fifth Avenue hotel is gone
long since. The Eden Musee too has
disappeared; and now the Garden, last
and greatest landmark of the Madi
son Square district of generations ago,
is about to pass. Skyscrapers, nota
bly the Flatiron building and the Met
ropolitan have closed in the old Gar
den and buried it.
The Garden, scene of innumerable
horse shows, circuses, balls, mass
meetings, prize fights and six day bi
cycle races, never has been a finan
cial success. It cost $4,000,000 to
build and the promoters have lost
money on it ever since.
More popular than ever, the lunches
at the North Pole bakery. 243
THE DARCY MILL
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(Patent Applied For)
The Darcy Mill is designed to meet the need of the mine owner am I
prospector who wants to develop his own mine or open tip ore bodies wiili
a view of disposing of the property, to work rich stringers of pav ere
to mill and ship concentrates or to try out a propertv before purchasing
—at as low a cost as possible.
It is not a toy mill or a makeshift in any way but a mill constructed
on scientific principles and etiual in efficiency us any stamp of the same
weight. The 2000 pound mill has two stamps of .125 pounds each and drop
at 110 blows per minute for each stamp. The number of blows and the
force of the drop can be increased very easily by placing springs on the
stamp stems or the weight of the blow be increased with additional
weights, which we furnish when necessary.
It occupies a space 4x4 feet; no piece weighs over 100 pounds, and is
easy to move, pack, or set up, and uses less power and less repairs than
any other. The frame, battery blocks, etc., are made of Washington Or,
strongly bolted witli rods to stand all strains; guides have large weurirej
surfaces; in fact the mill is so constructed that any one can handle it
satisfactorily. Shoes and dies are of special hard iron with chilled faces,
screens easily removed—the whole front and back can lie removed so as
to get at the shoes and dies. Tappets arranged to clamp on a screw
thread so that the wear can be easily taken up. No expensive machine
work to pay for In repairs, in fact everything about the mill is simple,
compact and durable.
It is the simplest mill to start your mine with, as it is an easy mat
ter to add two or four more stamps or to increase the output by adding
the extra weights without any alterations in the mill.
We can furnish the complete mill or just the iron work, or lease them
to responsible parties if they show us their properties are O. !v. We can
furnish engines, concentrators, copper plates, rock crushers, jigs, tables,
etc., at market prices.
A vast amount of ore could be put on the market bv using one small
mill for coarse crushing and jig the pulp, which will save the coarse
metals and get rid of the lightest, and the middlings recrushed In another
small mill and this pulp run over concentrators or tables. This plan wilt
enable a lot of low grade ores to be worked at a profit which it is impos
sible to do in any other way.
Write us if you have such properties or if you wish further particulars.
Yours truly,
H. J. DARCY,
West Tacoma
NELS OTTO JOHNSON, Agent,
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view here exclusively. They are so
unconventional, so out of the common
and so unusually artistically attrac
tive. If you plan to repaper you
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| is apt to result in regret later.
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FOR HUNTERS WHO ARE LOST
MUNSING, Mich., Dec. 17.—Food
boxes for lost hunters are being
spread throughout northern Wiscon
son woods today as a result of the re
cent near tragedy of a Chicago hunter
who was lost in the woods for four
days and found nearly starved. In
addition to the boxes containing food,
there are knives forks, spoons, and
matches. Hunters are asked to report
anyone tampering with the food box
es. There are about 10,000 hunters in
the woods here trying to bag deer.
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
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