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DISCOVERED THE REAL BEAUTY 0UEEN Well now that all the excite- going tO7S0pvVmevoyeivpn every body. - , - v .. We weren't a savin' much-jvhile the cQnflah-Was'gbin' on,&ut that don't mean'we were sleepih'. No siree! Don't you believe it I You know what we been doin'? We been scoutin' 'noun' and watching for some swell lookin' dame that could take a beauty prize. And believe me, we found her ! She's a pippin. The only trouble is, she refuses to make known her name (maybe she's 'wise), and neither will she give her address. But, shucks, what do-we care. All w'e know is that we'tiave lo cated the "One Best 'Bet' in the beauty contest and here she is. Take A good look and then don't forget that today is . April Fool's day. PUT BLOODHOUNDS ALLENS' TRAIL ON ' iSfcmht -Airy, N. C, April 1. -The same bloodhounds that prov ed Henry Clay Beattie, jr., the Richmond wife murderer, a liar, and led tb his death m the elec, trie chair, today took jp the trail of the Allen outlaws in the moun tains of Buzzard's Roost, near here. There are only two Aliens still at large, Sidna Allen, leader of the clan, and Wes Edwards. Both of them,are about 50 years old, and men who will sell their lives dearly. The dogs were-brought frdm the state farmland set on a trail believed to be. that of Allen and Edwards, which was uncovered bv detectives vesterdav. J UC UCICLUVC3 ilC ItUl UCJJCUU- j ing much on the dogs, however. As a matter of fact, the detectives dojiot wish to find Sida Allen and Wes Edwards. They know what wduld happen if ihey did. The game of the ,detectiveS is io starve the two men out. De tectives are so numerous in the mountains that the people here fall over them every time they walk a "block or so. Every moun tain Kamlet to which the two Al- 4 lens might come for food hides a dozenor so detectives, and the hope" of the cleaning out of 'th Allen outlaws lies", in these am bushecT detectives "" "getting" the starving Aliens. Nevada is 3,000 .miles from New York City.' Well, you c say that in its favor, anyway. .jJj.