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1010 'letters to Santa From our Little Ones )ear Santa Claus: Please a: ing us (remember two f every thing) a large flirting eye oil. a set of jewelry for them, in extra pair of shoes and a set if furs. We want a bracelet, a lew ring, some books, a work iox, an auto horn, for our little ate, ami an automobile bonnet irourseh.. s and most any other ling yea have. We are not hard oplea>< He sure pou dont for et sweet it tie Billie Gee White, know he would like a billikeu irone thing. Please co.re early. Yours as ever N a y and Allien Wilson. (ear Sant i Claus: I wish > ou would bring me as luch as you did last year and lore too. I want a painting out tso I can paint. I want also a igboxof candy and some tire rackors and roman candles and ky rockets a pair of skates and koa Santa Claus suit. I want a irgun and a horn and drum. I iso want some apples oranges ocanuts raisins and nuts and all indof fruit and candy. — 1 Your little friend Jack Blakely. <s> «> ® Iter Santa Claus: I want ;i lot of candy and a little ?d waguii that I can roll around teliou'. md some A B C blocks 'at I can build houses and a itlepi, :ure book and a humpty 1 ecus and a big red ball tat I c'a i throw hard and some “tsancl o angesand all kinds of '"it and also want some pretty tat'bles o and everything nice, ^at is al . Your little friend Thomas Blakely. ear Santa Claus: Ct'tne to my house first. I will “to bed early. I want a air gun 'dsome fife crackers and some 0tnan candles and a tire wagon ’ 80111 ’ sky rockets and a rub (U)d Huptydumppy Circus 1 soui oranges and some ap ^ and some nuts and a bicicle ■ 801110 candy and some raisin 1 80uii■ tigs and dates. Yours truly Conrad White. Santa Claus: atn going to bed at 7 o’clock, r^coine to my house first and don’t put a switch in “locking. I have not talked in °ol today. Bring me a magic €rn’ train, some story books, • dram, horn, two boxes of nuts, oranges, apples aud ! anas- N«W don’t forget me. William Stephens. 1 Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a nice scarf pair of mittens, some apples candy, oranges and nuts, a doll tea set, story book, and a big boj of candy. Fannie Andrews. Dear Santa Claus: I want aimutomobile a rocking chair a horn a drum candy nuts apples oranges, and all kinds oi fruit and lots of tire works and anything else yo think I would like. Your little boy Robert Newth. <$><$«> Dear Santa Claus: I am a good little girl. I wan a big doll and a doll trunk and i tricycle and a little doll and scan bananas and nuts, oranges apples and two big boxes of candj Your little girl Betty Tompkins. Dear Santie Claus: I want a cowboy suit and sonn tire crackers an some Romar candles and skyrocks and some apples and oranges an grapes and some candy. Now dont foget Miss Irene. Now that is all I car think of. Eugene Williams. Mt. Moriah, Ark. Dec. 13 Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a doll buggy and some nuts candy apples and oranges, and bring little brother a silver cup and some chocolate candy. He is a good baby and he will go to sleep early. So dont forget me. Your little girl Mattie Lou Thornton. Dear Santa Clause: 1 go to school every day and have good lessons, please bring me a big doll and a set of dishes, a locket and chain and a pretty tobagan. I would like a pretty red sweater, pleas dont forget tc come. I will go to bed at eight oclock and shut my eyes tight sc: please come. Your little girl Bertha Neal. <®> <§> <?> Dear Santy: I want a airgun, a drum, a little train that runs on a track and some apples, oranges, apples risons ^nd nuts of all kind I will go to bed early and close my eyes tight. Your little boy Clyde Hitt. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a rocky horse a popgun, a airship, indiin suit toy pistol a liumpty durnpty circus and tire works of all kind and some apples, oaanges raison and nuts of all kind and please don’t forget mamma, 1 will go to becLut 7 o’clock and shut my eyes tight. Your little boy # oaxion am. Mt. Moriah, Ark. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me some candy, nuts and some oranges and apples and a doll buggy. 1 will go to sleep at b o’clock, so do not forget me. Your little girl Mildred Thornton. pear Santa Claus: 1 want a knife a drum, a horn, some blocks, some marbles, a train, a story book, and a speech book. A little rocky horse a post card album, a gun, a flag, apples, nuts, candy, oranges, bananas and lemons. Your little bov Phillips Burns, ♦ ♦ ♦ Dear Santa: 1 am a little girl nine years old and I want a doll a doll buggy and a little bed a little stove and a set of dishes apples, raisins, peanuts and nuts of all kinds* Your little friend Gladys Jones. FIREMAN'S Carnival ‘ ! Rrescott, Dec. 19 to 24, Inclusive I Great Eastern Shows ' L : ! DURING thi CARNIVAL MAX d 0 U J U H fc [World's Greatest High Hiving Horses] Dear Santa Clays> 1 will go to bed at eight o’ck ck Please bring me a knife and a horn rnd some tire works and a little train uome apples oranges candy and some nuts. Your little friend Dorris' Kershaw. Dear Santa Claus: I am going to be a good boy so bring me a horn, a drrm, a black board and a big box of candy, oranges, apples, bananas, nuts and raisins. 1 want some fireworks, a jumping jack a pair skates some books and a humpty dumpty circus. Win ton Hilliard. Dear Santa Claus: I am a good girl. I want a doll; and some oranges and some ap ples and some candy and some! nuts and some bannanas and a set of dishes, some gum and a little horse, play house and a I bird and two story books and a box of candy a pretty box of paints and a new dress and a picture a little stove and a bank and a few cents in it and a wagon two baby dolls and a bell that I can ring a new ribbon and a pair of skates and a little doll dress, good bye That is all I can say. Anna Lee McMillion. STAMPEDE TO GOLD FitLD Owner of New Mine in \ t Aus tralia Refuses Off-. t $2,000,000. Brisbane. Australia, via \ i aria, Hoe. ,6.—The discovery of a rich, cold reef in tin1 • lull Finch field in West Australia ha- resulted in a tre uiendous stampede and claims have been staked over a radius of thirty miles. The owner of the Bull Finch mine, Dorrev Doolittle', refused $2,000,000 for the property, and said he would r.ot consider double that amount. From . 20 tons of ore $19,000 was ob tained ai d ore was reported by gov ernment experts valued at $150 to the ton. The government has decid ed to build a railroad north from Perth. BANDIT ROBS OWN WIFE Joplin (Mo.) Man Finds His Efforts in Highwayman Line Are Misdirected. Joplin, Mo., Dec. 16.—llomer Matt lode turned highwayman and his first victim Was his wife, according to the police here. He attacked her less than a block from her home, knocked her down and disappeared with her pocketbook. With her at the time was her sister, Mrs. Ora Tylor. Mrs. Tyler was also beaten. Mattlock was arraigned before Jus tice of the Peace S. F. Jones and held under $500 bond for trial in tho circuit court. New York, Dec. 16.—Melville De laney Eangdon, better known as “Eli Perkins,” the humorist, is critically ill at his homo in Yonkers with loco motor ataxia. Langdon, who is 71, has been in failing health for six fears. MORE BERNHARD ARRESTS Two Men and Women Held by Kan sas City (Kas.) Police on Suspicion of Guilt, Kansas City, Kas., Dec. 15.—With the arrest of two more suspects in the investigation of the murder of four persons on the Bernhard farm near Dallas. Kas., it was expected that John B. Feagles, Jr., would be released. The authorities here are awaiting the identification of a handkerchief found in the possession of Samuel Dailey, former employe of the Bern haids, which is said to have been given Mrs. Bernhard by Mrs. C. Ei Campbell of Overland, Kas. Bailey and a woman who claims to be his who were arrested, and other articles which the police declare throw suspi cion on Dailey were found in the rooming house. The other suspect arrested is Isaac .Whitsett, a laborer, who worked on j i ’. Dernhard house several months | ago. CO.iPSE COIVIES TO LIFE Supposed Dead Man Sits Up on Embalming Table and Speaks. Westbrook, Minn., Dec. 15.—As the undertaker was about to inject em balming fluid into the body of John Regnell to prepare it for burial, Reg nell rajsed himself from the embalm ing table and Bald: “Hello, BUI!” A physician soon had Regnell out of danger. His face, however, will be permanently marked by the carbolic acid which he took In trying to end his life.