El democrata del condado de Costilla. [volume], July 28, 1934, Image 2

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ROBBERS’ ROOST
SYNOPSIS
Jim Wall, young cowpuncher from
Wyoinlnf, to the early day* of the cat
tle Industry, seek* a n*w fl*ld la Utah.
Ha meat* Hank Hay a who admits be
ta* a robber, and tells Wall he Is
working for an Englishman. Herrick,
who has located a big ranch In the
mountalna Herrick has employed a
small army of gun-fighters, and Hay*
and others are plotting to steal their
employer's cattle and money. Wall
saves Hank’s life by bluffing a gambler
out of shooting, with Hays and two
other rustlers. Happy Jack and Lin
coln, Jim Wall goes to Herrick's ranch
CHAPTER lll—Continued
Herrick had selected as a site for
his home what was undoubtedly the
most picturesque point In the valley.
If not one that had the most utility
for the conducting of a ranch busi
ness. Ten miles down from the head
of the ralley a pine-wooded bench,
almost reaching the dignity of a pro
montory, projected from the great
slope of the mountain. Here where
the pines straggled down stood the
long, low cabin of peeled logs, yellow
In the sunlight Below, on the flat
extended the numerous barns, 9heds,
corrals. A stream poured off the
mountain, white in exposed places, and
ran along under the bench and out to
Join the main brook of the valley.
Somewhat apart from both the cor
rals and outbuildings on the flat stood
a new log cabin, hurriedly built, with
chinks still unfilled. The roof extend
ed out on three sides over wide
porches, where Wall observed three or
four beds, a number of saddles and
other riders’ paraphernalia. The rear
of the cabin backed against the rocks.
Jim understood that Hays had thrown
up this abode, rather than dwell too
close to the other employees of Her
rick. From the front porch one could
drop a stone Into the brook, or fish for
trout The pines trooped down to the
edge ®f the brook.
Naturally no single place In all that
valley could have been utterly devoid
of the charm and beauty nature had
lavished there, but situation was
ideal tor riders. Hays even had a
private corral. As Jim rode up to this
habitation his quick eye caught sight
of curious, still-eyed men on the porch.
Also he observed that there was a
store of cut wood stowed away under
the porch.
"Wal, here we air,” announced Hays.
“An’ If you don’t like it you’re shore
hard to please. Finest of water, beef,
lamb, ▼enlson, bear meat. Butter for
our biscuits. An’ milk! An’ best of
all —not very much work. Haw!
Haw 1"
“Where do we bunk?" asked Jim,
presently.
**oo *he porch. I took to the attic
myself."
“If you don’t mind I’ll keep my pack
inside, but sleep out under the pines,”
responded Wall.
When at length Jim carried his effects
pp on the porch Hays spoke up: “Jim,
hare's the rest of my outfit. . . . Fellers,
ottape acquaintance with Jim Wall,
ltfe of Wyoming.”
That was all the Introduction Hays
volunteered. Jim replied: “Howdy,”
ard left a return of their hard scru
tiny until some other time.
nays went at once Into low-voiced
conference with these four men.
Hippy Jack hauled up the supplies.
Brad Lincoln occupied himself with
his pack. Jim brought his own outfit
to a far corner of the porch. Then he
strolled among the plnen seeking n
satisfactory nook to ur.roll bis bed.
Jim, from long habit* generated by a
decided need of vigilance, preferred to
fleop fh coverts like a rabbit, or any
other animal that required protection.
Af length he found a niche between
two rocks, one of which was shelving,
wbtre pine needles furnished a soft
mat underneath and the rturmur of
tht brook just faintly reached him.
Jim would not throw bis bed where
the noise of rushing water, or anything
else, might preclude the sendee of his
keen ears. There was no step on his
trill now, but he Instinctively dis
trusted Lincoln, and would undoubted
ly distrust one of more of these other
men.
Hays exemplified the fact of honor
among thieves. Jim had come to that
conviction. This robber might turn
ont big in some ways. But could even
he be trusted? Jim resolved to take
no chances.
Not until the following morning did
Jim Wall get a satisfactory scrutiny of
the four members of Hays’ outfit.
T%e eldest, who answered to the
name of Mac, was a cadaverous-faced
man, with eyes like a ghoul.
"Whar you from?” he asked Wall.
"Wyoming, last,” replied Jim,
agreeably.
Jett Bridges, a sturdy, tow-headed
men of forty or thereabouts, had *
bluff, hearty manner and seemed not
to pry under the surface.
“Glad Hank took you on,” he said.
"We need one cattleman in this outfit,
an thet’a no Joke.”
Bparrowhawk Latimer, the third of
tha four, greatly resembled a horse
thief Wall had once *een hanged.
Hoys bad said to Slocum, the fourth
member of this quartet: “Smoky, you
an’ Wall shore ought to make a pair
to draw to."
“You mean a pair to draw on,” re
torted the other. He was slight, wiry,
freckled of face and hands, with a
cost In one of his light, cold-blue eyes.
"No I" snorted the robber. “Not
on! . . . Smoky, do you recollect thet
gumblcr Stud Smith, who works the
ataga towns, an' Is somethlr’ of a gun
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Copyright.—WNU Service.
“I ain’t forgot him.”
"Wal, we set In a poker game with
him one night. I was lucky. Stud
took his Josin’ to heart, an’ he shore
tried to pick a fight First he was
goin* to draw on me, then shifted to
Jim. An' Jim bluffed him out of
throwin’ a gun.”
“How?"
"Jim just said for Stud not to draw,
as there wasn’t a man livin’ who
could set at a table an’ beat him to a
gun.”
“Most obligin’ an’ kind of you, Wall,”
remarked Smoky, with sarcasm, as he
looked Jim over with unsatisfied eyes.
“If you was so all-fired certain of thet,
why’d you tip him off?"
“I never shoot a man Just because
the chance offers," rejoined Jim coldly.
There was a subtle Intimation in
this, probably not lost upon Slocum.
The greatest of gunmen were quiet,
soft-spoken, sober Individuals who
never sought quarrels. Jim knew that
his reply would make an enemy, even
If Slocum were not instinctively one on
sight Respect could scarcely be felt
by men like Slocum. Like a weasel he
sniffed around Jim.
“You don’t, eh?” he queried. “Wal.
you strike me unfavorable.”
“Thanks for being honest. If not
complimentary," returned Jim.
Hays swore at his lieutenant: “Un
favorable, huh? Now why do you have
to pop up with a dislike for him?”
“I didn’t say it was dislike. Just
unfavorable. No offense meant.”
“Smoky," said Hays, “I won’t have
no grudges in this outfit. I’ve got the
biggest deal on I ever worked out
There’s got to be harmony among ns.
J'm Gleaned Information From
This Rancher.
But Smoky bobbin' up again my new
man—thet’s serious. Now let’s lay the
cards on the table. ... Jim, do you
want to declare yourself?"
“I’m willing to answer questions—
unless they get nasty.” replied Jim,
frankly.
“You got run out of Wyomln’?’’
"No. But If I’d stayed on I’d prob
ably stretched hemp.”
“Hold up a stage or somebody?”
“No. Once I helped hold up a bank.
That was years ago.”
“Bank robber! You’re out of our
class, Jim."
“Hardly that. It was my first and
only crack at a bank. Two of us got
away. Then we held up a train—blew
open the safe In the express car.”
“Smoky. 1 call It square of Wall,”
spoke up Hays. “He shore didn’t need
to come clean as thet.”
“It’s all right," agreed Slocum, as If
forced to fair Judgment.
Hays plumped off the porch rail.
“Now, fellers, we can get to work.
Herrick puts a lot of things up to me,
an’ I ain't no cattleman. Jim. do you
know the cattle game?"
“From A to Z," smiled Wall.
“Say. but I’m in luck. We ll run the
ranch now."
“What’ll I do. Hank?” asked Jim.
“Wal, you look the whole dlggin's
over."
Jim lost no time in complying with
his first order from the superin
tendent of Star ranch. What a mon
strous and Incredible hoax was being
perpetrated upon some foreigner!
Evidently there had been ranchers
here In this valley before Herrick. Old
log cabins und corrals adjoining the
new ones attested to this.
Jim pussed cowboys with only a
word or a nod. He talked with an old
man who said he had owned a home
stead across the valley, one of those
Herrick had gathered In.
Jim gleaned information from this
rancher. Herrick had bought out all
the cattle men In the valley, and on
round the foothill line to Limestone
Springs, where the big X Bar outfit
began. Riders for these smnll ranches
had gone to work for Herrick, no
was told that Heeseman, with ten
men, was out on the range.
Presently Jim encountered Hays, ac
companied by a tall, floridly blond
man, garbed as no westerner had ever
been. This, of course, must he tho
Englishman, lie was young, hardly
over thirty, and handsome In a fleshy
way.
“Mr. Herrick, this Is my new Imnd I
was tollin’ you about/' announced
Hays, glibly. “Jim Wall, late of
Wyomln’. . . . Jim, meet the boss."
"How do you do, Mr. Wall,” returned
Herrick. "I understand you’ve had
wide experience on ranches?”
“Yes, sir. I’ve been riding the range
since I was a boy,” replied Jim.
"Hays has suggested making you his
foreman.”
“That Is satisfactory to me."
“You are better educated than these
other men. It will be part of your
duties to keep my books.”
“I’ve tackled that Job before.”
“So I was tellln’ the boys,” Inter
posed Hays.
“As I understand ranching,” went
on Herrick, “a foreman handles the
riders. Now, as this ranching game is
strange to me I’m glad to have a fore
man of experience. My Idea was to
hire some gunmen along with the cow
boys. Hays’ name was given me at
Grand Junction as the hardest nut in
eastern Utah. It got noised about, I
presume, for other men with reputa
tions calculated to Intimidate thieves
applied to me. I took on Heeseman
and his friends.”
“But you really did not need go to
the expense—and risk. I might add—of
hiring Heeseman’s outfit.”
“Kxpense Is no object. Risk, how
ever—what do you mean by risk?”
“Between ourselves, I strongly sus
pect that Heeseman Is a rustler.”
“By Jove! You don’t sny? This Is
ripping. Heeseman said the Identical
thing about Hays."
“Wal, Mr. Herrick, don’t you worry
none.” Interposed Hays, suavely.
“Shore I don’t take kind to what
Heeseman called me to your fnce, but
I can overlook It for the present. You
see. If Heeseman is workin’ for you he
can’t rustle as many cattle as If he
wasn’t. Anythin’ come of that deal
you had on with the Grand Junction
outfit?"
“Yes. I received their reply the other
day,” rejoined Herrick. “By Jove,
that reminds me. I had word from
my sister, Helen. It came from St.
Louis. She Is coming through Denver
and will arrive at Grand Junction
about the fifteenth."
“Young girl—lf I may ask?" added
Jim.
“Young woman. Helen Is twenty
two.”
“Cornin’ for a little visit?” asked
Hays.
“By Jove, It bids fair to be a life
long one," declared Herrick, as if
pleased. “She wants to make Star
ranch her home. We are devoted to
each other. If she can stick It out In
this bush I’ll be Jolly glad. Can you
drive from Grand Junction In one
day ?”
“Shore. Easy with a buckboard an*
a good team,” replied Hays.
Herrick resumed his walk with
Hays, leaving Jim to Iris own devices.
Jim strolled around the corrals, the
sheds, down the lane between the pas
tures, out to the open range.
This Englishman’s sister—this Helen
Herrick—she would be coming to a re
mote, wild and beautiful valley. What
would the girl be like? Twenty-two
years old, strong, a horsewoman, and
handsome—very likely blond, as was
her brother! And Jim made a mental
calculation of the ruffians In Herrick’s
employ. Eighteen!
After supper Hays leaned back and
surveyed the company. “Fellers, we’ve
a pow-wow on hand. Clear the table.
Fetch another lamp. We’ll lay out the
curda an’ some coin, so we can pre
tend to be settin’ In a little game if
anybody happens along. But the game
were really settin’ in is the biggest
ever dealt In Utah.
“Talk low, everybody,” Instructed
Hays. “An’ one of you step out on
the porch now an' then. Heeseman
might be slick enough to send a soout
over here. ’Cause we’re goin’ to do
thet little thing to him. . . . Happy,
dig up thet box of cigars I’ve been
savin’.”
“Hank, trot out some champagne,"
Jeered Brad Lincoln.
“Nothin' to drink, fellers,” returned
Hays. “We're a robber outfit. No ar
guin' or fightln’. . . . Any of you who
doesn’t like thet can walk out now."
They were Impressed by his cool
force.
“All right. Wal an’ good. We’re
set,” he went on. “Today I changed
m.v mind about goin’ slow with this
Job.”
Jim Wall had a flash of divination
as to this sudden right-about-face.
"Herrick reckons there are upwards
of ten thousand head of stock on the
runge. Some of these ranchers he
bought out sold without a count. I
bought half a dozen herds for Herrick.
An’ I underestimated sny, rough cal
culatin’, around two thousand head.
So there's twelve thousand good.
Thet’s a herd, fellers. Air there any
of you who wouldn’t care to piny a
game for twelve thousand head of
cattle at forty dollars per?"
There did not appenr to be a single
one.
A huh. Wal, thet's okay. Now, can
we drive such a big herd?”
“Boss, listen to this Idee,” spoke up
Smoky. "Most of these Star cattle
range down the valley twenty miles be
, ,ow here. flow’d It do for. say, five of
, ns to quit Herrick an’ hide below
somewhere? Meanwhile you go to
Grand Junction nn’ nrrnnge to have
I your buyers expect a bunch of cat
, tie every week. A thousand to two
, thousand head. We’d mnko the drives
hii’ keep It up ns long UH it worked
, You’re boss, an’ Wall here Is foreman
You could keep the cowboy? clow® to
, the ranch.”
TO »■ OONTINUaQ.
MB OQartLLA CAnuTT democrat
Washington
Digest
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
Washington.—Unless all si*™ fall
there Is going to be a determined
Fight for
Limit on NRA
stand by many of the
country's business in
terests for u limita
tion on the provis-
ions of the national Industrial recov
ery act when that question comes up
for congressional action next January
or February. An undercurrent of In
formation, to the effect that a move
ment to that end Is under way, has
begun to seep into Washington in u
growing volume, it indicates that we
will hear much about NRA during the
coming campaigns. Indeed, some ob
servers are convinced that President
Roosevelt already is attempting to get
the administration’s side of the story
to the country by sending General
Johnson, recovery administrator, out
for a tour of speechinaking to sell the
blue eagle to the country.
The President. It will be remem
bered, already has declared that NRA
must be made a permanent part of our
economic structure. I have found few
persons who disagree with that. There
Is a difference of views, however, and
It is emphatic, as to the extent to
which NIIA should go in managing the
country’s business on a permanent
basis. It is upon that question, there
fore, that the battle apparently will be
waged.
From what I can pick up around
here, It is certain that a considerable
portion of the business Interests is de
sirous of a limitation on the recovery
act provisions so that they will apply
really Just to establishment of maxi
mum hours of labor and minimum
wages, and to abolition of the sweat
shop and elimination of child labor.
They are determined In their opposi
tion to retention in the recovery act of
provisions that give power to fix
prices, to control production and to
grants of authority that bring private
business books into the limelight when
ever snooping government agents want
to dig Into private affairs of individ
uals or corporations. Frankly, I think
that feature has done more to discred
it NRA than any other phase of the
law under which it operates. On the
other hand, only the meanest and
cheapest of individuals can oppose any
move that is designed to provide better
working conditions and hours of labor
for those who live by the sweat of
their brow.
While obvlousw none can foretell
the result of tiis issue at such an
early date, that I gather
among observed here make me be
lieve that there quite a popular ap
peal In the arguWjf which is being
advanced for revisli: of the recovery
act and llmltatio?»f NRA control.
Folks generally v L go along with
propositions that v irk for betterment,
but which do not i [the same time In
clude invasion of hit they believe to
be their personal r 'its. The adminis
tration contends, I iwever, that exten
sion of the recovei | act powers—or at
least, retention of be powers now ex
istant In NRA—art not an invasion of
personal rights bjyond the necessity
for creating greater human happiness.
But the hard-h»M<led business man,
great or small, is goin; to be hard to
convince, it seems to lie, that govern
ment control to the extsit of fixing his
prices and doing som* of the other
things now permitted li not an undue
messing with bis persconl affairs.
The lessons of the fenr-year depres
sion have been so severe that there is
little evidence of impoiant opposition
to curtailment of hoursof labor. Like
wise, sound business leaders cannot
Justify opposition to nlnimum wages
nor can they find a srfe ground upon
which to propose use (t child labor or
operation under sweatshop conditions.
Politically, therefore, ftbor will be In
terested only In those four Items ; the
women vote of the country probably
will be Interested only In accomplish
ment of those ends, and business In
terests worthwhile will not object.
• • •
Attention was culled above to the
tour which General Johnson Is making
Johnson Wants
to Retire
In behalf of the
blue eagle of the
NRA. and It will
be recalled that
some months ago I reported on the
probability of changes in NRA man
agement. During General Johnson’s
absence, a board cf five men consti
tutes the administrative authority of
NRA. It seems to be in the nature
of an experiment If It works out sat
isfactorily, we may expect to see the
veteran army officer retire to private
life. He has gahl a* much. He wants
to get back Into private business. Mr.
Roosevelt, however. Ukes the fighting
qualities of General Johnson, and it
Is still possible that he will remain
on the Job. He Is responsible for the
general plan of NRA administration
and the theories embodied In the va
rious codes. It would seem, therefore,
that the mun who worked out the
codes should stay along nnd sift
them down to the permanent level, If
permanency be the goal.
Whether General Johnson continues
at the helm, or whether the manage
ment of that work Is entrusted finally
to General Johnson’s hand-picked
Kroup of five, it le certnin that tho
summer und autumn will witness elim
ination of many petty features of
thnt have proved to he only an
noyances. I believe there Is agree
ment uiuong unbiased thinkers thnt
development of codes nt the rute nec
assnry to mnko tha Initial drive for
recovery naturally brought many pro
visions of a worthless character. Many
times, It has been shown, those pro
visions have very nearly upset the
good that was obviously going to re
sult from fulr practice agreements
The Job the five-man board has to do.
If it remains as a successor to Gen
eral Johnson, Is to go through tha
codes with a fine-toothed comb and
eliminate all of the questionable and
useless provisions. My opinion Is, If
this were done, there would be much
less opposition to the codes and con
sequently to continuation of the In
dustrial recovery act.
The prevalent thought In Washing
ton, then, is that as a result of the
annoying features contained In the
codes, the administration Is likely to
pull hard to revise as many of them ns
is possible before next winter. Much
of this work obviously will have to he
done before election and such political
effect ns may be will be reaped In the
ballot boxes.
• * •
It always has been true that an In
valid who Is convalescing passes
Invalid
Perks Up
through a stnge on
the way to recovery
where he develops a
genuine grouch. Ev-
erythlng hits him wrongly. Food Is
not right and medicines are no good,
and a thousand and one other things
furnish grounds for complaint. This
condition nearly always precedes the
time when the patient gets out of bed
and takes a few steps again.
The circumstance to which I have
referred Is such a common occurrence
that It seems to me there Is no better
illustration of the condition In which
American business now Is represented
to be. It is highly significant. In the
first Instance, it shows, according to
the experts, that business has enough
□ew life blood to start fighting back
against administration plans and pol
icies that cramp its style, and, sec
ondly, vigorous opposition never has
failed to be a healthy thing for the
country as a whole.
From the Information 1 get In many
quarters, It is yet too early to tell
whether commerce and industry Is go
ing to be a unit in any one course of
Its opposition. The strictly recovery
phases of the New Deal are not going
to be attucked, even by the Republican
national committee. That question ap
parently Is settled. But business In
terests apparently and quite logically
are distinguishing between recovery
and reform. Take the legislation that
created the commission for control of
security sales and policing the stock
exchanges, as an example. I frankly
do not see how the Republican leader
ship or business Interests can expect
to get far In criticism of that, even If
it is solely a reform proposition. Un
the other hand, business interests can
and will attack such projects as the
government manufacture and sale of
electric power In open competition
with private plants, such a3 Is taking
place under the experiment in the
Tennessee valley.
Not the least of the problems that
are arising out of the work so speed-
Legal
Questions
ily done in creuting
NRA and other re
covery agencies are
the horde of legul
questions now on tlie horizon. One of
these stands out. It relates to the
rights of citizens after they huve
signed the codes of fair practice, and
legal lights tell me It runs straight
back to a base lu the Constitution or
the United States.
It is an old legal uiaxiui that after a
person has accepted beneiits from a
statute or regulation, which means a
voluntary action, that person may not
be heard to questlou tire validity of
the provision from which those benefits
accrued. Now, business men signed
the codes under what NKA lawyers
claim was a voluntary act. Having
done that, It is claimed they cannot
test the constitutionality of the law or
regulations (or the codes) written un
der that law.
It seems, however, thut there is a
difference of opinion between the law
yers of Nit A and the lawyers af the
Department of Justice. Many lawyers
outside of the government are under
stood to be gathering up all of the
pieces of argument they can find re
specting the positions of the two gov
ernmental groups.
As 1 understand It, lawyers repre
senting code signers have put forth the
argument that the signing was not a
voluntary action. They contend thal
throughout the making of codes, Gen
oral Johnson and bis aides consistently
stressed the point that unless those to
whom the code was to apply, agreed
the administrator would write u code
for them and they would be bound by
It l never heard It used as a threat,
but it nevertheless is a fact that most
of those who had dealings with the
NUA were afraid they would suffer
from the licensing of their plants if
they failed to sign the codes.
These technicalities may uppeur In
consequential, but they ure of the
greatest Importance. There are going
to be court tests of some provisions of
the recovery act and the authority ex
erclsed by NIIA. The consensus here
seems to bo that these tests will In
elude mnny suits that ought never to
have been brought as well us some
thut will serve to clarify the laws il
they result In real court consideration
C, Western Newauaner Uni >n.
News of Silver State
The annual summer conference of
the Colorado Chiropractic Association
was held at Glenwood Springs July 14
and 16.
Jerry M. Moran, for half a century
overseer at the state penitentiary, died
recently at the home of his daughter
in Pueblo.
Preliminary work has started on the
new cement bridge crossing the Ar
kansas river, west of Rocky Ford. The
bridge is located on the new high
way which is being constructed be
tween Otero and Crowley counties.
A group of 120 boys from the south
ern Colorado drouth counties were
sent to Colorado civilian conservation
corps camps on July 19. Fifty Pueblo
county boys went to the CCC camp at
Beulah until the new camp la com
pleted at Norwood.
According to the records of the lo
cal agent of the Colorado & Southern
railway thirty-one cars of ores and
concentrates were shipped from the
Idaho Springs district in June. This
makes a total of seven more cars than
were shipped during May.
Entries are already being received
for the rock drilling contest to be held
at the Pay Dirt pow-pow in Boulder.
Colorado Day, Aug. 1, and Indications
are that most of the mining camps of
Clear Creek, Gilpin, Park and Boul
der counties will be represented.
Forty-one carloads of wool, consist
ing of 1,632 sacks weighing 481,000
pounds, have been shipped from
Dolores this year, as compared with
1.477 sacks, weighing 422.000 pounds,
at this time last year, according to
records of the local railroad agent.
Presaging a possibly critical water
shortage, flow of the Colorado river
was measured recently at only 2,350
cubic feet per second. Normal flow
is 23,000 cubic feet per second, near
ly ten times as much. Water on the
Colorado has been jinking lower for
weeks.
Division headquarters of Varney
Air Lines were established in Pueblo
with the opening of the PueblaEl
Paso airmail and passenger route.
Avery Black Is In charge of the oper
ations, which will connect Pueblo with
Wyoming Air Service's Pueblo-Denver-
Cheyenne airmail line.
L. T. Overman, who lives about
twenty-five miles south of Las Ani
mas, was the first man in Bent coun
ty to dispose of cattle to the govern
ment in its cattle buying program for
the drouth areas. It is believed that
Overman was the first farmer In the
state to sell his stock to the govern
ment.
Leadvllle received the largest sum
—s3,ooo—out of $16,500 apportioned
for airport construction work in Cola
rado by Danleld F. Kearns, airport
advisor, and C. D. Shawver, state ra
lief administrator. Kearns said he
considered Leadvllle one of the most
j Important airport projects In the state,
and for that reason Insisted It receive
the largest allotment.
Relief appropriations for Colorado
during June amounted to $1,934,560
according to Aubrey Williams, acting
federal relief administrator. The
grant included $1,050,000 for drouth
relief, $125,000 for transient relief, $3,
960 for relief research. $5,600 foi
teachers' training Institutes. $16,000
for completion of airport projects, and
the remainder for general relief.
A reciprocal agreement between
Colorado and New Mexico wherebj
Colorado trucks may enter New tyex
ico to haul out New Mexico products
but trucks hauling goods or product
into New Mexico must have New Mex
ico licenses, and vice-versa, probabl>
will be approved by Diego Salazar
state motor vehicle commissioner, ac
cording to recent press dispatches.
On a tour of various consistories ol
Scottish Rite Masons, John H. ('owlet
of Washington, D. C., grand comman
der of the southern jurisdiction of tht
Anicent and Accepted Scottish Rite ol
Free Masonry, arrived In Denver re
cently to be the guest of United State*
District Judge J. Foster Symes. Tht
position of grand commander is per
manent and has been occupied b>
Commander Cowles for twenty years
Here Is one forest fire that cannot
be charged to a cigaret smoker or a
campfire. Casper Zimmerman anti
Clarence Jones of Fort Collins re
ported they saw a bolt of lightning
strike a tree and start a fire that
burned over thirty acres of timber on
a ridge south of the Big Narrows in
Poudre canon, west of Fort Collins
A crew of twenty-eight men fought
the flames and finally brought them
under control.
Officers In Bent county were investl
gating an attempted wholesale theft
of several hundred head of cattle from
the rangelands In the vicinity of Blu<
Lakes, eighteen miles north of
Animas. Tbo officers reported that
two men on horses and a man In an
automobile rounded up a big herd
from widely scattered ranges and had
driven them several miles from Bent
county Into Kiowa county before the
theft was discovered.
George E. O'Brien, in charge of
construction of the $511,000 Bent coun
ty irrigation project, announced that
work will start within the next sixty
days. Approximately 340 men will be
employed for a period of from twelve
to fourteen months. The reservoir
will bo four miles south of tho
Animus county boundary lino and will
Irrigule land thirty miles away. The
water will be carried by ditches seven
miles north and diverted by tunnel to
Muddy Creek canon. Twenty thou
sand ucros will be affected, most ol
it raising forage crops.
Historians Stirred by
Find of Ancient Coins
Coins that shed new light on an
jbscure period of Jewish history
have been discovered In a private
collection In Jerusalem.
The coins are of the Fifth century,
B. C„ which Is 800 years older than
any Jewish coins heretofore known.
The money known to have been reg
ularly used In ancient Palestine was
foreign money, chiefly coins of na
tions which In turn dominated the
Hebrew country. It hns been sup
posed thnt the Jews were not al
lowed to Issue their own colnnge
until a Syrian king granted thnt lib
erty about 139 B. C.
The discovery shows that after the
Persians swept the Babylonians from
power nnd allowed the exiled Jews
to return to Jerusalem, the Persian
king granted autonomy.
The Jerusalem coins are said to
mntch a small silver coin which for
the last 160 yenrs hns been In the
British museum. It benrs nn Inscrip
tion of three Armnic letters, which
It Is said always have been wrongly
Interpreted by scholars nnd therefore
the significance of the coin was not
completely understood. He rends the
letters ns “Yehud," which was at one
time the official name of the province
of Judea. The coins bear the en
graving of nn owl. under which np
penr the three letters In the old
Phoenician Hebrew script.
Roost for Graf Zeppelin
South America’s tallest skyscraper
Is to he built In Buenos Aires. It
will cost $4,000,000 nnd will be 34
stories high. On the tower will he
n mooring mast for airships, nnd it
Is expected thnt the Graf Zeppellrv
will be moored there when at thnt
end of Its transatlantic voyages.
IS CRAZY WATER
EPSOM SALTS
No, says Dr. W. E. Fitch in
nation-wide broadcast
over N.B.C. network
NOT A MAN-MADE DRUG
Tells why natural mineral
water is so often beneficial
for “rheumatic” aches
and pains
On a recent Sunday afternoon
broadcast on the National Broadcast
ing network the following discussion
took place between Mr. Gene Arnold
and Dr. W. E. Fitch, internationally
known authority on natural mineral
waters.
Gene Arnold : “I receive letters
from people saying they heard that
Crazy Water Crystals are made of
nothing but salts—Epsom Salts or
Glauber’s Salts. These people want to
know if it’s true you can buy some of
these salts for a few cents, and get
the same effect as you do with Crazy
Water Crystals ”
Dr. Fitch : “No, it is NOT true.”
Gene Arnold: “I'm glad to hear
you say that, because I know your
opinion is worth a great deal. But will
you explain a little more about it?
What are the true facts?”
Dr. Fitch : “The facts arc that it
has always been hard for a few doubt
ing Thomases and skeptics to believe
that old Mother Nature knows how to
prepare and compound natural min
eral waters in away that cannot be
duplicated in a laboratory. In the
course of my studies I have found
that those same doubts were expressed
Two Thousand Years Ago, in the
early days of natural mineral water
therapy. The truth is that natural
mineral water and natural crystals
from such waters are as different
from synthetic or artificial salts as
day from night. And that’s why
the medical profession has always
been in favor of the Natural Wat
ers has always insisted that they
are the one product of Nature that
cannot be imitated successfully by
man. People have tried for many,
many years to make up synthetic con
coctions to take their place but they
do not have the same effect. The
predominating chemical constituent of
Crazy Water Crystals is sodium sul
phate, but it is in its Natural State,
and has a far different physiological
effect than the synthetic salts made in
a laboratory. When you buy salts for
a few cents you get just what you
pay for—a dose of salts. But when
you use Crazy Water Crystals, you
get undiluted minerals in their natu
ral state, taken from natural mineral
water by evaporation with nothing
added.”
That is why Crazy Water Crystal*
have proven themselves so beneficial
in the treatment of “rheumatic” aches
and pains. Thousands of people in all
parts of the United States testify to
this.
If you, or any of your friends, suf
fer from “rheumatic” pains wc sug
gest you investigate Crazy Water
Crystals immediately. Ask any of the
millions who have used them. Then
get a standard size box—it costs only
$1.50 and is ample for at least three
weeks treatment. Crazy Water Com
pany, Mineral Wells, Texas.
fluzy
arc for sale by dealers displaying
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