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PI $ BUR3LA3Y TAUGHT BY CORR3CPONDENCE Wanted One thousand men to study burglary through corres pondence. Taught by mail in ten lessons. Safe, sure, easy. Special 'courses in safe-blowing, second story work and cash register wrecking. Why be poor when "arches- lie within easy reach? Country's most famous experts numbered among Tupils. Ad bess FAGIN INSTITUTE, Box -. f Indianapolis, Ind. f ;Fhe above advertisement is the ,fcauseof exceeding much pain to .fclie authorities of Mesa county, Colorado. .Not long ago an 18-year-old foy wa's arretted "in Mesa county ior the theft of tools from a Grand "" 'Junction .store. Jrt -the boys' -possession was jfotuid an excellent written Snd printed treatise on the construc .' ""tJQP of all makes of safes, with il-.str-t-ed methods of burglarious 1 entering the same. , Sheriff Schrader of Mesa coun ty talked with the boy, who ad mitted he had received the book through the mail from Indiana. More he would not tell. The postoffice authorities and the state of Indiana also are par- , ticl''ting in the search for the qn . rators of the last word in education' b)- correspondence. K) o Canada is disappointed in her census returns which how a gain of "2 ic r cen in 10 vc?rs Total - ;.0Sl.So9. At least another nu'lxcn was expected. BEATTIE MUST DIE; NEW TRIAL DENIED HIM Richmond, Va , Nov. 13. The Supreme Court of Appeals today refused to grant an appeil of Henry Clay Beattie, jr., sentenced to die in the electric chair Novem ber, 24. Only Governor Mann can save Beattie now. All the influence the defense can command'is being brought to bear on thejgovernor to induce him to postpone the ex ecution. Be,attie, now 27 years old, mur dered his wife, Louise Owen Beattie, 21, on the Midlothian Pike on the night of July 17. lie was arrested July 20, tried and convicted on purely circum stantial evidence, and sentenced to death. Throughout .the long, nerve wracking trial, Beattie steadfast ly protested his innocence. His nerve never once deserted him. He is now in Death Row in the state penitentiary, and the jail ers there say he will go to his death, swearing he is innocent. Beattie's father has given up his business here. He is in serious physical condition. The decision of the supreme court today was a severe blow to him. He is not ex pected to outlive his son. . . o o Ida Lewis, keeper of the Lime Rock lighthouse near Newport, R. I., for 54 years, died recently. She had saved 18 lives and kept faithful watch over the ocean all that time. A great woman, be cause she did competently the work she had to do.