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THE CROSSVILLE CHRONICLE Wealthy to Have Jackson Barnett Will Sample City's Luxury With His Bun dle of Oil Money. - IS RATED AT FIYE MILLION Lived Simple Life While Million Were Accumulating Invested Many Thousands In Liberty Bonds During the War. Muskogee. Jackson Barnett, Okla homa's richest Indian, lias gone to Kansas City to have a ding at metro politan luxury. If he finds that he can stand it, Barnett will make it permanent with the consent of the United States government, of -which he is a ward. Barnett until recently lived in a two room block house at Henryetta, thirty miles from Muskogee, wore , cheap clothes, smoked cheap tobacco and didn't even own a phonograph which is an odd way to live for one rated as worth $5,000,000. While at Henryetta Barnett was well satisfied in his two rooms, and let his guardian, attorneys nnd agents of the Indian agency in Muskogee and Washington worry about the millions flowing from oil wells on his property. Ills wants were few and the money went into the banks of Oklahoma on deposits made by the Indian agency to his credit. Bought Liberty Bonds. When the war was on thousands of dollars of his money went Into Lib erty bonds and War Savings stamps. Contributions were made to institu tions of learning, and Jackson lived the -simple life, never, going more than a few miles from his cabin. Then he met Mrs. Anna Laura Lowe and they married. "Kidnap ing," Is what Barnett's agents called - It Barnett was held under restraint Until Victor M. Locke, Jr became auperlntendent of the Indian agency in Muskogee. Locke decided: "A wealthy Indian has as much Tahitians Protest ft Even way down in Tahiti, the French Islands in the South Pacific, the people have been walling about high taxes, and recently there was an Incipient revolt which was suppressed by soldiers. The citizens of Papeete, the capi tal, are here shown gathered In front of the governor's mansion to voice their protests. - D'ANNUNZIO IS WINE MAKER Italian Soldier-Poet to Produce Vint age of Unequaled Qual ity, He Says. Gardone, Italy. Oabrlelle d'Annun ilo, poet and hero of Flume independ ence, has become a producer of wine In his hours of quiet on the lake here. "I ' produce very little wine, but enough so that I can call myself one of the Italian family of wine pro ducers," he told a friend recently. "I expect to produce a wine that will be the envy of the French and Span ish producers. I will give It a new name of my own coining so that It will not be confused with any of the wines at present on the market" The remarkable volcanic region In Alaska known as the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes actually contains, not 10,000, but millions of smoking volcanic vents, besides various other wonders, such s Falling mountain, where falls of, rock occur every few mlautos. Indian Fling right to spend his money as a wealthy white man.". Barnett and his wife and her daugh ter sought to make a dent In the $5, 000.000 pile. Mrs. Barnett said her husband needed a change, and the government consented to a vacation In Canada. After that vacation the Indian was unhappy for the first time In his life and refused to go back to the cabin and cheap clothes. Let Indian Decide. "We are going to let the Indian him self decide where he wants to live," Superintendent Locke said. "If he wants to live In Muskogee, all right If he chooses some other city we have nothing to say In the way of object ing, for he has the right to make his own decisions." If a suitable residence can be found in Kansas City It will be purchased by the government for Its wealthy ward. Otherwise, a house will be built i New Species of Fish Eruption of Mauna Loa in Hawaii Responsible for Remark able Discovery. SIX FROM DEPTHS OF SEA Dr. David Starr Jordan Classifies Specimens Sent From Honolulu Lava Stream Brings Strange Specimens to Surface. Honolulu. Varieties of fish hitherto unknown were discovered as a result of the eruption of the volcano -of Mauna Loa two years ago. Thjs fact has Just been announced by Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus of Against Taxes o sasm ri fd CTII I CDDCAniMr WIV1DLI1NU 13 OllLL, oriifisii2 Germany In Throes of Wild Orgy of Speculation. Government Is Making Efforts to Halt the Fever, Which Has Spread to All Parts of the Country Stakes Are High. Berlin. The government Is try ing to halt a gambling fever which has swept Germany for many months and which authorities say continues to spread despite hundreds "of arrests, the confiscation of millions of marks, sentencing of scores of persons to jail and the imposition of heavy fines. Close upon the heels of the gambling and speculation mania which appeared among the people of all classes came a horde of stock-market manipulators, racetrack touts, bucket shop proprie tors and organizers of get-rich-quick betting, associations, who, starting with small sums, subscribed by work inera m uaio in cue r-v iBat we are going to spend $2U0.u00 for a residence for Jackson Barnett," Locke said, "but we are going to see to It that he has a house In keeping with his wealth and one with which he will be satisfied." UNCOVERS QITY OF 2,500 B. C. Pennsylvania Scientist Reports on E- cavations at Beth-Shan, Palestine. Philadelphia. Remains of the an cient city of Beth-Shan In Northern Talestlne, dating back as far as 2,500 R. C have been uncovered by Dr. Clarence S. Fisher's research party, according to a letter received from him by the University museum here. Already several Important dis coveries have been made dating back to the time when the Semites are supposed to have entered Palestine, about 2.500 B. C and it Is believed that remains of an even earlier period will be located. University museum authorities here believe Doctor Fisher s excavations promise to throw much light on Bib lical times and perhaps even on tne life of a thousand years Deiore Abraham. Revealed Leland Stanford Junior university, Cal Ifornla, a noted ichthyologist, The columns of lava burrowed deeper Into the ocean than man had been able to penetrate, and thousands of fish of strange and fantastic shape and color were killed and washed up on the beach by the tidal wave caused 4 by the lava flow. Among them were found six varieties hitherto unknown to science because their habitat was presumably lower In the water than science bad been able to observe, Amateur Ichthyologists In Hilo, Ha waii, selected species which were un known to them sod sent them to Doc tor Jordan for examination. The re sult was that the six new specie were classified. Discovery Important "I consider the discoveries, from a scientific viewpoint, to be among the most remarkable and important on record," Doctor Jordan said when he made public the classifications here, while he was attending the sessions of the Pan-Pacific Educational con ference. Rhyacanthlas Carlsmlthl, named tor Carl A. Carlsmlth of Hllo, who sent many of the species to Doctor Jordan. It Is a deep rose red In color, Rhechlas Armiger, a conger eel with hooks on Its snout resembling black berry thorns and is solid dull black In color. Nyctlmaster Relnhardt, named for the Hilo resident who discovered It It Is a small alack lantern fish, so des ignated because of the many luminous glands behind the eye and along Its sides which gives the Impression of nhosnhorescence. It Is a solid dull black In color. Perlstedlon Engyceros or alligator fish of a brilliant scarlet hue which Is characterized by large bony plates of armor. Are Deep Water Fish. Each of the six Is a deep water fish. All live in water of more than 150 feet In depth, and some as deep as 600 feet. Nothing except such a cataclysm of nature as the Allka flow cculd have brought them to the sur face, Doctor Jordan said. Rhyacan thlas Carlsmlthl ranged at least 1,000 feet below the ocean's surface, h added. Doctor Jordan has sent to the Smith sonian Institution In Washington, D. O., a paper detailing the results of the In vestigation and the new classification. ing men and women, shortly were able to open-luxurious gambling bouses. At least a dozen such establish ments operating in Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden and smaller provincial towns have been raided and closed by the police. Sums as high as 12,000,000 marks have been found and confiscated by the police In gambling houses which apparently were catering only to the smaller gamblers. The proprietors have been held on charges of fraud. , The horse racing season, which has been unusually successful, offered the crooked gamblers and promoters a chance which they promptly took ad vantage of, and It Is known billions of marks were wagered on alleged tips, Some of these promoters became wide ly known as reliable "Informants" and made so much money for their clien tele that they became popular idols. The Smith family numbers 14,000V 000 members throughout the world. K m. M- -After yawn IMsUV i m ill iir in in III ill III Ml I The Flavor Lasts Progression. ; He Every time I kiss you It tends to make me a better man. 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