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- S | | | THE BEMIDJI DAILY FIONEER FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1922 Disguised As A Woman, Bandit Driver Escapes (By United Press) St. Paul, Nov. 24—Disguised as a woman; the driver of the bandit car, which attempted the $5,000 pay- roll robbery here Thursday noon, threw the police off the track, they admitted today. The bandit car es- caped through a cordon of police af- ter the bandit had removed his fem- inine disguise, ‘One of the trio of hold-up men ‘was in the Minneapolis General hos- pital today in a serious condition. ac- cording to Chief. of Police Frank Sommer. He gave his pame as Will- jam Keeney. and is residence as Detroit, Michigan. He has not been positively identified. The man was shot by Arnold Cheneaux, guard on the armored bank car, which the bandits attempt- ed to rob. The bandits dropped the money bags when wounded and es- caped. VAST PROBLEMS FAGE NEW IRISH REPUBLIC (Continued from page 1) finance is admittedly one of the grav- est questions to be faced by the nat- ional government. Although the ac- tual divorce between the British and Irish exchequers does not come into force until March 31, 1923, the end of the present financial year, a di- vision of revenue is already being made in ragard to customs and Irish government experts are at work on , budget problems for the coming fi- ] nancial year. It is éstimated that there will be a deficit of about $45,000,000 on April 1, next, when the Irish fiscal ‘machinery will be independent' of England. This amount is apart from the sums to be paid as com- pensation for property losses during the fighting of the last six years roughly estimated at present at $135, 000,000. Bertha Farner Charms Large Audience Here (Continued from page 1) to the hearty applause by playing a delightful number by Debussy. The State Teachers college is to be congratulated upon bringing to Be- midji such excellent talent and the citizens who attended are loud in voicing their aproval. “The next number of the entertain- ment course will be given by James A. Burhs, lecturer, on January 27. DeValera's lieufinant ; Is Executed In Dublin (By United Press) Dublin, Nov. 24—Erskine Child- ers, British Chief Lieutenant to Eamon De Valera, was executed here at seven this morning, it was officially .announced by the Free State government. The execution is understood to have taken place in Dublin. Extreme excitement is re- ported to have been caused in the Irish capital by Childers’ death. Throughout the night rebel activi- ties confinued but no casualties were reported. Childers, whose wife was an Amer- ican girl, is by far the most promi- nent person to be executed in Ire- land since 1916. A noted author, 2nd former pacificist, known through- out Great Britain after the Easter rebellion in Ireland in 1916, he ex- erted himself in the cause of the Irish Independents, finally becoming so extreme after establishment of the Free State that he was captured by orders of the Cosgrave govern- ment and executed. FASHION TIPS (By Hedda Hoyt) (By United Press) New York, Nov. 24—As we get in- to the rainy weather, we find an in- teresting selection of rainy day hats which are beautiful as well as water- proff. There are hats of waterproff satin, hats of black patent leather with perky little patent leather quills and hats of leather that have been gilded or silvered and made water- proof. These latter types are best when made of blistered lcather when their effect is entirely fascinating. Carved animal heads from the handles of many of the newer um- brellas this season. They are made with straps of leather whick fit over the wrist and can be easily carried. Most of these animal heads have mbuths that open and shut so that iy be used for holding gloves or handkerchiefs or carrying some small article. Blending brown and black together for, the street costume is considered quite the chick thing of late. Entire costumes of black are being worn with brown or bronze footwear. One of ®the newest foot novelties is the comhination bronze and black patent which is worn with a bronze colored stocking: ‘With the flapper have vanished woolen hose, low heels, short skirts, rolled stockings, ear-rats, painted moles, tan top coats, noisy mufflers. Bramley collars, Ford hats, tan and h:vwn sport shoes and wabbly Necks, [and speedily effected a resgue. But at ..... Adhering to Custom. A mouse had the bad luck to fall Into a can of beer while on a food hunt. Presently a gray old cat came Prow- ling along and pricked up its ears at the sight of mousey’s struggles. «Sitha, Tom,” gasped the victim of misfortune, “If tha'll get get me out o this ale ean tha can ait me!” To which bargain the cat agreed, as soon as he felt himself on firm ‘ground the mouse made a bolt for. it and disappeared down & hole. The cat went to the mouth of the hole and remarked angrily: wThat's noan' reet; tha sald if Ab got tha abt, I could alt tha.” To which the mouse,. keeping well out of danger, replied:* “Ay, Tom, Ah did; but tha knows folk’ll say owt when they're In drink 1" —London Tit-Bits. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PIONEER The NANGLE STORE SATURDAY SPECIALS Flour, Lily of the Valley, 49 Ibs ...... 82,00 Flour Rising Sun, (Baker 2) 49 Ibs. ... ...$1.50 A‘pples box, all wrapped, good sizes ....... Sunmaid Raisins, seedless bulk per lb. ............18¢c Sunmaid raisins, seedless pkg. at ..o..21e ———— New Prunes 50-60 ver lb. 1 ———————————— . 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BRADSETH & WILLEY Phone 81 e Aathor of Riders of the __/Continueq from last issme) The Yaqui, If not at fault, was yet uncertain. His falcon eyes searched and roved, and became fixed at length at the southwest, and toward this he turned his horse. The great, fluted saguaros, fifty, sixty feet high, raised columnal forms, and their branching limbs and curving lines added a grace to the desert. It was the low-bushed cactus that made the toil and pain of travel. Yet these thorny forms were beautiful. In the basins between the ridges, to right and left along the floor of low plains the mirage glistened, wavered. faded, vanished—lakes and trees and clouds. Inverted mountains hung suspended in the lilac air and faint tracery of white-walled cities. At noon Yaqui halted the cavalcade. He had selected a field of bisnagi cac- tus for the place of rest. Presently his reason became obvious. With long, heavy knife he cut off the tops of these barrel-shaped plants. He scooped out soft pulp, and with stone and hand then began to pound the deeper pulp into a julcy mass. When he threw this out there was a little water left, sweet, cold water which man and horse shared eagerly. Thus he made even the desert’s fiercest growths minister to their needs. But he did not halt long. Miles of gray-green spiked walls lay between him and that line of ragged, red lava which manifestly he must reach be- fore dark. .The travel became faster, straighter. And the glistening thorns clutched and clung to leather and cloth and flesh. The horses reared, snorted, balked, leaped—but ' they were sent on. Only Blanco Sol, the patient, the plodding, the indomitable, needed no goad or spur. Mercedes reeled in her saddle. Thorne bade her drink, bathed her face, supported her, and then gave way to Ladd, who took the girl with him on Torres' broad back. The middle of the after- noon saw Thorne reeling in his saddle, and then, wherever possible, Gale's powerful arm lent him strength to hold his seat. The fugitives were entering a deso- late, burned-out world. The waste of sand began to yield to cinders. The horses sank to their fetlocks as they toiled on. A fine, choking dust blew back from the lenders, and men coughed and horses snorted. But the sun was now behind the hills. In be- tween ran the stream of lava. It was broken, sharp, dull rust color, full of cracks and caves and crevices, and everywhere upon f{ts jagged surface grew the white-thorned choya. Again twilight encompassed the travelers. But there was still light enough for Gale to see the ‘constricted passage open into a wide, deep space where the dull color was relieved by the gray of gnarled and dwarfed mes- quite. Blanco Sol, keenest of scent, whistled his welcome herald of water. The other horses answered, quickened their gait. Gale smelled it, too, sweet, ¢ool, damp on the dry air. - Yaqui turned the corner of a pocket in the lava wall. - The file ‘of white horses rounded the corner after him. And Gale, coming last,.saw the pale, glancing gleam of a pool of water beautiful in the twilight. Next day -the Yaqui’s relentless driving demand on the horses was no longer in evidence. He lost no:time, but he did not hasten, His course wound between low cinder dunes which limited their view of the sur- rounding country. These dunes finally sank down to a black floor as hard as flint, with tongues of lava to the left, and to the right the slow descent into the cactus plain. Yaqui was now traveling due west. It was Gale’s idea that the Indian was skirting the first sharp-toothed slope of a vast vol- canic plateau which formed the west- ern half of the Sonora desert and ex- tended to the Gulf of California. Travel was slow, bat not exhausting for rider or beast. Thirty miles of easy stages brought the fugitives to another waterhole, a little:round pocket under the heaved- up edge of lava. There was spare, ! shorty. bleached grass for the horses, but ®o wood for a fire. This night there” were question and reply, con- Jecture, doubt, opinion and conviction expréssed by the men of the ‘party. But the Indian, who alone could have told twhere they were, where they were going, what chance they had to escape, maintainad his stoical silence. Gale took the early watch, Ladd the midnight one, and Lash that of the morning. The day broke rosy, glori- ous, cold as ice. Action was neces- sary to make useful benumbed hands and feet. Mercedes was fed whyle yet wrapped in blankets. It was a significant index to the day’s travel thnt Yaqui should keep a blanket freiui the pack and tear, it Into strirs to bind the legs of the horses. It meant the dreaded choya ‘WildFfire. Ete. i Mercedes Must Ride; but the Others | Must Walk. and the knife-edged lava. That Yaqui | did not mount Diablo was still more | significant. Mercedes must ride; but ! the others must walk. The Indian led off into one of the | gray notches between the tumbled ! streams of lava, At the apex of the| notch, where two streams met, & nar-| row gully wound and asgended. Yaqui | led Diablo into it, and then began the most laborious’” and ‘vexatious and, painful of-all slow travel. The disintegrating surface of a lava | bed was at once the roughest, the: hur_de'st, the meanest, the cruelest, the most * deceitfulwikind..of ground to’ travef. The fugitives made slow ' progress. They picked a cautious, winding way to and fro in little steps here and there along the many twists of the trail, up and down the unavoid-! able depressions, round and round the! holes: At noon, so winding back upon | itself- had been their course, they ap-| peared to have come only a short dis-; tance up the lava slope. It was rough work for them; it was terrible work for the horses. Blanco Diablo refused to answer to the power of the Yaqui. He balked, he plunged, he bit and kicked. He had to be pulled; and beaten over many places. !\ler—? cedes’ horse almost threw her, and’ she was put upon Blanco Sol. The’ white charger snorted a protest, then, | obedlent to Gale’s stern call, patiently ! lowered his noble head and pawed the: lava for a footing that would hold. | The lava caused Gale toil and worry and pain, but he hated the choyas. He came almost to believe; what he had heard claimed by desert travelers—that the choya was alive and leaped at man or beast. Certain it was when Gale passed one, if he; dld not put all attention to avolding it, he was hooked through his chaps and held by barbed thorns. The pain was almost unendurable. It was like no other. It burned, stung, beat— almost seemed to freeze. It made useless arm or leg. It made him bite his tongue to keep from crying out. 1t made the sweat roll off him. It, made him sick. < 3 » (Continued In Next Issue) RECOGNIZED POWER OF MUSIC | In All Ages the Value of Sweet Sounds Has Been Acknowledged by the Wise, A leading educationalist has this to say concerning the value of musiet “I cannot think of an ideal home without music, for it would surely be very incomplete without it. To me, the beauty of music cannpt be de- scribed in words. . There seems to be | no state of mind that one can be in in which music is not welcome. Even in. the Bible we read that David played on the harp for Saul to quiet his’| troubled mind. We need music every day in our home more than any other place, for the good of our mind and body. “The benefits of music are also | reaching the hospitals, the homes of the sick, and busy people after a hard day's work find it refrushing to come home and hear its soothing strains. “We also enjoy music In our homes of learning—the schools. The school orchestra and the songs we sing in assembly make us feel like starting out on the day’s study in an excellent mood.” ‘2 SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PIONEER L3 CLEAR HOUSES OF ROACHES Species of Ants That Bring Their Own Welcome in the South American Tropics. “House-cleaning ants” are welcome visitors in the South American tropics, for they hunt aud kill the cockronches which infest the homes there. Cock- roaches cannol. be kept out of the houses; they grow to unbellevable size, and they 'eat’ everything, including clothing. They even nibble at one's face or lips while one is asleer. The ants appear in g)rdos at varied periods, apparently from nowhere. A strange fact In connection with their : coming is that a tropical vartety of blackbird with a very long tail is ati- ways the forerunner of the foraging ants, appearing in huge flocks. That is the only time that these particular birds are seen. The ants invade the housés in mil- lions on their cockroach hunt. Whole bunches will grab a big cockroach and of wolves fn fhel Suit of pre; Every closet, every bureau drawer, every crack and crevice in every room is thoroughly ransacked by the ants until no more cockroaches are to be found. One corps of ants will hunt out the scampering roaches, bitlng and passing them to other ants, who seize | and drag them away. GIANT TREES CENTURIES OLD ‘Sycamore Near Long lsland City Be- I lieved to Be Good for Many " " More Years of Life. “0ld Sycamore” a giant tree at Wheatley, ‘L. 1, was born only 57 years after Columbus landed at San:| Salvador, in 1492. It was elghty years '0ld when Hendrick Hudson first saw Long Idland. This is. the opinion of experts who have examined the giant sycamore. Its age is estimated between 300 and 400 years, more likely the latter, it is said. The trunk near the ground is| 24 feet_in_ circul e 8 the limbs, half way up even, are larger than the trunks of many trees which claim to be patriarchs. The height of “Old Sycamore” has not been ascertalned; but it towers over the landscape in lordly fashlon. Ninety years ago the place was used by the county butcher as his home. ° His beef when slaughtered was hung on chains from “Old Sycamore’s limbs. The tree is said to be in splendid condition, and good for a century or so more. Details, Please. Old Man Matthews’ daughter was reputed to be the slowest-witted and laziest girl in the state of Oklahoma. One day her father came in to find her sprawled in a chair with her feet in dangerous proximity to the blazing fireplace. 3 up, gal” he yelleds “You're cally standin’ on a red-hot * “\Whick foot, paw?” drawled Sal, opening one eye—American Legion Wee INSTITUT! " This Store Has Prepared Many Things NATION-WIDE . [/_/*/’—’—:—//\ 371 DEPARTMENT STORES BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA - Stylish Fall Coats Offering Exceptional Values . 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