New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1921, Page 5

+» “THE DUKE OF CHIMNEY BUTTE” By G. W. OGDEN The Romance of a Chivalrous Adventurer in the Lawless West. (Copyright, 1920, A. (Continued from Saturday's Herald.) Jim Wilder, a cowboy who is not teo popular on the range, thinking that Jeremiah Lambert, a peddler, who rode into camp on a bicycle, was A green tenderfoot, offered him his own horse, which was somewhat of an outlaw, if he could ride it. Lam- bert, who formerly broke range horses for a living at the Chicago stock vards, rode the animal without diffi- culty, whereupon Wilder, who was unly bluffing, attempted to take back his horse. In the fight which ensued, Lambert is cut, but not seriously, with a knife wielded by Wilder. The lat- ter's knife is taken from him by a cowboy named Spence, who in turn is shot by Wilder, who flees from camp. Lambert gave chase, returning at dusk leading Wilder's horse. There was blood on the empty saddle. One day the news went round that the Duke was willing at last ta en- * r the race against the flyer. True his peculiarities, the Duke had nade conditions. He was willing to race, but only if everybody else would keep out of it and give him a clear and open fleld. This Sunday, as usual, train crew and passengers were on the lookout for the game sportsmen of Misery. The Duke was in the saddle, holding in Whetstone with stiff rein. He wait- ed until the engine was within 100 _feet of him before he loosed rein and let old Whetstone go. A yell ran up the line of spectators as the pale yellow horse reached out his long neck, chin level against the wind like a swimmer, and ran as ~rrmm—— s Thousands Than Dr. Leonhardt who discovered Hem-Roid, the com- mon-sense Pile remedy. No cutting— no greasy salves—but a harmless tab- let that gives quick, safe and lasting rellef. Money back if it fails, says Clark & Brainerd Co. C. McClurg & Co.) no horse ever had run on that race- course before. Every horseman there knew that Duke was still holding him in, allowing the train to creep up on him as if he scorned to take advan- tage of the handicap. The Duke held Whetstone back until his wind had set to the labor, his muscles flexed, his sinews stretched to the race. Within 300 vards of the station platform, which sloped down at the end like a con- tinuation of the course, the Duke touched old Whetstone's neck with the tips of his fingers. As if he had given a signal upon which they had agreed, the horse gathered power, grunting as he used to grunt in the days of his outlawry, and bounded away from the cab window, where the greasy engineer stood with white face and set jaw. Yard by vard the horse gained, his long mane flying, his long tail astream, foam on his lips, forging past the great driving wheels which |ground against the rails; past the swinging piston; past the powerful black cylinders; past the stubby pi- lot, advancing like a shadow over the track. ‘When Whetstone’s hoofs struck the planks of the platform, marking the end of the course, he was more than the length of the en- gine in the lead. The Duke sat there waving his hand solemnly to those who cheered him as the train swept past. Old Whetstone was standing where he had stopped, within a few feet of the track, front hoofs on the boards of the platform, not more than nicely warmed up for another race, it appeared. As the observation car passed, ,a young ‘woman leaned over the rail, handkerchief reached out to the Duke as if trying to give it to Ihim. He saw her only a second before she passed, too late to make even a futile attempt to possess the favor of her appreciation. She laughed, wav- ing it to him, holding it out as if in challenge for him to come and take it. Without wasting a precious frag- ment of a second in hesitation the Duke sent Whetstone thundering along the platform in pursuit of the train. It seemed a foolish thing to do, and a risky venture, for the platform was old, its planks were weak in places. It was not above 100 feet long, and beyond it only a short stretch of right-of-way until the public road crossed the track, the fence running ddwn to the cattle guard, blocking his hope of overtaking the train. It Whetsgone had run swiftly in the first race, he fairly whistled through the air like a wild duck in the sec- ond. “Before he had run the length of the platform he had gained on the train, his nose almost even with the brass railing over which the girl leaned handkerchicf in her hand. Midway between the platform and the cattle guard they saw the Duke lean in his saddle and snatch the white favor from her hand. The people on the train end cheered this feat of quick resolution, quicker action. But the girl whose handker- chief the Duke had won only leaned on the railing, holding fast with both hands, as if she offered her lips to be kissed, and looked at him with a pleasure in her face that he could read as the train bore her onward into the West. The Duke sat watching after her, the train reducing the distance like a vision that melts out of the heart with a sigh. She raised her hand as the dust choked in the wake of the train. .en CHAPTER IIL Feet Upon the Road. “I always thought I'd go out West, but somehow I never got around to it Taterleg said. “How far do you aim to go, Duke?” “As far as the notion takes me, guess.” It was about a month after the race that this talk between Taterleg and the Duke took place on a calm afternoon in a camp far from the site of that one into which the peddler of cutlery had trundled his disabled bicycle a year before. The Duke had quit his job, moved- by the desire to travel on and see the world, he said. He said no word to any man about the motive behind that desire, very naturally, for he was not the kind of a man who opened the door of his heart. But to himself he confessed the hunger tor an unknown face, for the lure of an onward-beckoning hand which he was no longer able to ignore. Since that day she -had strained over the brass railing of the car to hold him in her sight until the cur- tain of dust intervened, he had felt | her call urging him into the West, the strength of her beckoning hand drawing him the way she had gone, to search the world for her and find her on some full and glorious day. “When was you aimin’ to star, Duke?” Taterleg inquired, after a si- lence so long that Lambert had for- gotten he was there. “In about another hour.” “I wasn't tryin’ to hurry you off, Duke. My reason for askin’ you was because I thought maybe I might be able to go along with you a piece of the way, if you don’t object to my kind of company.” “I'll be glad to wait for you, old feller.” And so Taterleg became squire to a knight errant whose quest was to lead them into many adventures. B In a bend of the Little Mountain, where it broadened out and took on the appearance of a consequential stream, Glendora lay, a lonely little village with a gray hill behind it. Close by the station there were cattle pens for loading stock, with Skin Troubles| ~—— Soothed —— With Cuticura I NEW BRITAIN two long tracks for holding the cars. In autumn fat cattle were driven down out of the hidden valleys to entrain there for market. Into this atmosphere there had come many years before, one of those innocents among men whose misfor- tune it is to fall before the beguile- ments of dishonest promoters. Milton Philbrook was this man. Somebody had sold him 40,000 acres of land in a body for $3 an acre. It began at the river and ran back to the hills for a matter of 20 miles. A fence in the Bad Lands was un- known outside a corral in those days. ‘When Philbraok hired men to build one, and operations were begun, mur- murs and threats against the unwel- come innovation were heard. Phil- brook pushed ‘the work to conclusion, unmindful of the threats, moved now by the intention of founding a great baronial estate in that bleak land. While long lines of fence were going up, carpenters were at work building a fit seat for Philbrook's baronial aims. The point he chose for his home site was the top of a bare plateau overlooking the river, the face of it gray, crumbling shale, rising 300 feet in abrupt slope from the water's edge. And to this place, upon which he had lavished what re- mained of his fortune, Philbrook had brought his wife and little daughter. Mrs. Philbrook broke under the long strain of never-ending battles, and died the spring that her daugh- ter became 8 years of age. All this information pertaining to the history of Milton Philbrook and his adven- tres in the Bad Lands, Orson Wood, the one-armed landlord at the hotel in Glendora, told Lembert .on the evening of the traveler’s arrival there at _the end of their first day’s ride. Lambert found the story more in- teresting than anything he ever had imagined of the Bad Lands. Here was romance looking down on him from the lonely walls of that white house, and heroism of a finer kind than these people appreciated, he was sure. “Is the girl still here?” qired. * “Yes, Vesta's back now. She’s been away to school in Boston for three or four years, comin’ back in sum- mer for a little while.” “When did she come back?” “Four or five weeks ago,” landlord replied. “I see,” said Lambert, vaguely, shaking to the tips of his fingers with a kind of buck ague that he never had suffered from before. For that was she, Vesta Philbrook was she, and she was Vesta Philbrook. He knew it as well as he knew that he could count 10. “Funny thing about Vesta comin’ home, t0o,” the landlord said, and stopped a little, as if to consider the humor of it. Lambert looked at him with a sudden wrench of the neck. “Which 2" “Philbrook’s luck held out, it looked like, till she got thrcugh her education. All through the fights he had and the scrapes he run into the last 10 years he never got a scratch. Bullets used to hum around that man like bees, and he’d ride through 'em like they were bees, but one of ‘em ever notched him. Curi- ous, wasn't {t?" “Did somebody get him at last?” “No, he took typhoid fever. He took down about a week or 10 days after Vesta got home. He died about a couple of weeks ago. Vesta had him laid beside her mother up there on the hill. He said they’d never run him out of this country, livin' or dead.” “Is she running the ranch?” “Like an old soldier, sir. I tell you, I've got a whole lot of admiration for that girl. Ain’t you the feller they call the Duke of Chimney Butte?” “They call me that in this country. “Yes; I knew that horse the min- ute your rode up, though he's changed for the better wonderful since I saw him last, and I knew you from the descriptions I've heard of you. Vesta'd give you a job in a minute, and she’d pay you good money, too. I wouldn't wonder it she didn’t put you in as foreman right on the jump, account of the name you've got up here in the Bad Lands.” Even more bleak than from a dis- tance the house on the mesa ap- peared the next morning as the riders approached it up the winding road. It stood solitary behind it, not a shrub to ease its lines, not a barn or shed to make a rude background for its amazing proportions. Taterleg remained mounted while Lambert went to the doar. A negro woman, rheumatic, old, came in re- sponse to his knocks. Miss Philbrook was at the barn, she said. Lambert turned back to his horse, swung into the saddle and rode with his com- panion toward the gate cutting the employes’ quarters from the barn- yard. Off to one side of a long barn Lam- bert saw her as he dismounted and opened the gate. She was trying to coax a young calf to drink out of a bucket that an old negro held under its nose. Perhaps his heart climbed a little, and his eyes grew hot with a sudden surge of blood, after the way of youth, as he went forward. She looked up at the sound of his approach, a startled expression in her frank, gray eyes. Handsome, in truth, she was, in her riding habit of brown duck, her heavy sombrero, her strong, high boots. She was a maid to gladden a man’s heart, with the morning sun upon her, the strength of her great courage in her clear eyes; a girl of breeding, as one could see by her proud carriage. But she was not the girl whose handkerchigf he had won in his reck- less race with the train! .o CHAPTER 1IV. A Enight-Errant. The Duke took off his hat, stand- ing before her foolishly dumb be- tween his disappointment and embar- rassment. He had counted so fully on finding the girl of his romance that he was reluctant to accept the testimony of his eyes. “Were you looking for somebody?” she asked, her handsome face sun- ning over with a smile that invited his confidence and dismissed his qualms. “I was ma’am.” “I'm the boss.” couragingly. “My partner and I are strangers here—he’s over there at the gate— passing through the country and wanted your permission to look around the place a little. They told us about it down at Glendora.” She did not reply, but bent again he in- the looking for the boss, She spoke en- RILY HERALD. MONDAY, AUGUST 8, to her task of teaching the little black calf to take its breakfast out of the pail instead'of the fashion in which nature intended it to refresh itself. But when Lambert reached the gate and looked back, he saw her stand- Ing straiglt, the bucket at her feet, looking after him as if she resented the fact that two free-footed men should come there and flaunt their leisure before, her-in the hour of her need. “Did you take the job?"” Taterleg |- inquired. “I didn't ask her about it,” Lam- bert replied. “You didx in the nam up here for “L got to thinkin’ maybe I'd better 80 on West a plece. If you want to stay, don’t let me lead you off. Go on over-and strike her for a job; she needs men, I know, by the way she looked.” “No, I guess I'll go on ‘with you till our roads fork. Where're we headin’ for now?” “I want to ride up there.on that bench in front of the house and look around a Lttle at the view: then 1 guess we'll go back to town.” They rode to the top of the bench the Duke indicated, where the view broadened in every direction, that being the last barrier between the river and the distant hills. The Duke stretched his gaze into the dim south up the river, where leaden hills rolled billow upon billow, engarnitured with their sad -‘gray sage. Whatever his thoughts were they bound him in a spell which.the creaking of Taterleg’s saddle, as he shifted in ic impatiently, did not dis- turb. “Couple of fellers just rode up to the gate in the cross-fence back to the bunkhouse,” Taterleg reported. The Duke grunted, to let it be known that he heard, but was not in- terested. He was a thousand miles away from the Bad LaWis in his fast- running dreams. ‘“I#fat old nigger seems to be havin’ some trouble with them fellers,” came Taterleg’s further report. “There goes that girl on her horse up to the gate—say, look at 'em Duke! Them fellers is tryin’ to make her let ‘em through.” 't ask her? Well, what of snakes did you come (Continued in tomorrow’s Herald.) KING GEORGE SEES CHANNEL ISLANDS Reviews Ancient Dukedom of Normandy While on Trip St. Helier, Jersey, Aug, 8.—King George, Queen Mary and Princess Mary recently completed a tour of the Chan- nel Islands, which had not been visited by a British sovereign for 75 years. The islands are the only portion of the dukedom of Normandy now belonging to England, to which they have been attached for more than 1,000 years. French remains the language spoken by the inhabitants. King George, who on this occasion assumed his old title of Duke of Nor- mandy, was received both at Guernsey and here with quaint old-time ceremon- ial. Royal fiefholders knelt before him and swore fealty in precisely the same manner as did their ancestors to Wil- liam the Conqueror on the eve of the Norman invasion. Tenures of land were confirmed by offerings such as a pair of gilt spurs or a brace of wild ducks. In Guernsey, the seigneurs of Rozel and of Des Augries are enjoined by their tenures to ride into the water up to the saddle girths and carry their duke to land. R. Lempriere and Major J. F. Giffard, the present-day holders of these seigneuries, so far con- formed to ancient usage as to meet the king at the water’s edge. ‘““Where are your ropes?’ asked the king banteringly, as he greeted them. “I am afraild, sire, this water would be too deep to ride into,”” replied Mr. Lempriere. ““Ah,”” said the king, ‘‘the world has moved a good deal since that old duty was imposed.’” At the Chamber of the States, local legislature, the royal received by halberdiers carrying arms given to their ancestors by Sir Walter Raleigh, the governor of the island in Elizabethan times. The balberds; had been handed down from father to son. The king also occupied Sir Walter Raleigh’s carved oaken chair. The Jersey and Guernsey breeds of cows are famous throughout the world, and the most valuable of them was shown to the royal visitors. This an- imal produces a ton of ‘butter each year. Another fine Guernsey cow was presented to the king by the local agri- cultural society. ® the DROWNS IN. UNIONVILLE. Unionville, Aug. 8.—John Kapuch, 40 years old, of this town, was drown- ed late Saturday night when he fell from a bridge over ja brook in the town of Burlington, a short distance over the town line. William Harti- gan, who lives near the bridge, heard his cries, but when he arrived at the brook Kapuch had disappear- ed. Kapuch was employed by the Collins company in Collinsville and was returning from that town. He Jeaves a wife and six children. MURDER IN NEW HAVEN, New Haven, Aug. 8.—No trace had peen found by the police last night of the two young men who are thought to be connected with the murder of James Spadaro, a grocer who was shot through the *head in his store here late Saturday might. The police believe that the two young men who ‘were near the store before the crime was committed were the grocer's as- sailants. The police also believe that personal vengeance was the motive. 50 COMMUNISTS ARRESTED Paris, Aug. 8.—Fifty communists members of the Jugo-Slav chamber of deputies have been arrested in Bel- grade, says a dispatch from that city. This action followed the lifting of parliamentary immunity. Wholesale arrests have been made. recently by the police in Jugo-Slavia as a sequel to the attempted assassination Of Prince Regent Alexander last June. \ 1921. SILESIAN PROBLEM CONSIDERED TODAY Allied Delegates Begin Supreme Council Session Paris, Aug. 8.—Consultations rela- tivae to tire Upper Silesian question took place here today between the heads of various government delega- tions to the meeting of the supreme allied council, preliminary to the first session ol the council thia afternoon. It wai hoped to present at the first meeting of tha body the views *of France, Great Britain and Italy which have been divergent thus far. Prime Minister Lloyd = George of Great Britain took dinner with Pre- mier Briand last night and later the two statesmen had a long confarence. It was assumed that an attempt was made by them to adjust the conflict- ing positions of their governments relative to Upper Silesia so that the work of the supreme council might be eexpedited. This morning’s meet- ing of the council was not held) as was planned, because Premier Bono- mi of Ttaly had not arrived in time to participate in it. < Tt is understood that Great Britain would solve the Silesian problem by ceéding the districts of Pless and Ry- bnik to Poland and it is said Premier Lloyd George has expressed appre- hension that any other solution of the question would :create in Upper Sil- esia a new Alsace-Lorraine. France, on. the other hand, would draw the frontier between Poland and Germany along the Oder river, it being asserted by French experts that such an award to Poland would be in line with the Tesult of :the plebiscite held in- Upper Silesia. Italy-repre- sents what might be. called a middle ground, suggesting that the frontier be placed east of the Oder river, but giving to Poland more than the small portion -of the mining .district in the southeastern quarter of the country, where the Poles showed a clear ma- jority in the plebiscite. Interest in the meeting of the coun- cil was inteensified by the presence of George Harvey, the United States am- bassador to Great Britain who came to Paris to act as American represen- tative. MISS STERLING HOME. Her British Rival to Follow Her Here And Play Her Again. New York, Aug. $. — Miss Alexa Sterling of Atlanta, Ga., holder of the American and Canadian women's golf championships, arrived on the steam- ship Carmania today from England, where she went in an unsuccessful effort to add the British and French titles to her list. Miss Cecil Leitch, the English star Who defeated Miss Sterling in the British title. gvents, plans to follow her‘across and attempt to capture the laurels Miss: Sterling. holds oh the American eontinent:Misy Leiteh will sdil on” August 29 and plans to enter both ~the Canadian and American championship -tournaments. TO ADD NEW SHARES: New York Stock Exchange to §ecure Anglo-American Diamond Corp. New York, Aug. 8 —If negotiations now under way are carried to a suc- cessful conclusion, the New York Stock Exchange will soon -add to its fast-growing list of internaticnal se- curities the shares of the Anglo-Am- erican corporation, diamend produc- ers of South Africa. The desire of the Anglo-American corporation to list its shares in this country is based largely on the fact that the major portion of its product is purchased by Americau dealers in precious stones. FORMER DIPLOMAT DIES Bogota, Columbia, Aug. 8.—Dr. Carlos Zavalia, Argentine minister to Colombia, died here late last week fol- lowing an attack of angina pectoris. He had served his country as charge @' affaires at Washington. The Prettiest party was |- Miss Ethel Morganston holding the cup she won in the annual bathing beauty contest at Tidal Basin Beach, Washington, D. C. BACKWOODSHEN AS LANGUAGE MAKERS Lumberjacks’ Talk Unknown to Uninitiated in Their Lingo Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 8.—Workmen in the great woods of the Pacific coast have a language all their own that is not understood by the uninitiated. A ‘‘faller’" is the workman who ‘““falls” the trees, and a good faller can always fall his tree so that it will drive a stakc that he has previously set into the ground. A ‘‘bucker'’ saws the tree into logs, and the process is called ‘‘bucking a log.”” A ‘‘sawyer’’ always works in the lumber mill, and he saws the logs into lumber. A ‘‘filer” files the saws and keeps them sharp. The ‘‘hooktender’ in a logging camp puts the chain around the logs so they may be hauled in with a donkey en- gine. A ‘‘chaser’’ follows the log as it is being dragged in, a ‘‘swamper’” keeps the roadway clear for €he logs, and a ‘“‘sniper’’ cuts off the sharp coi- ners of the logs so they will drag the easier. A ‘‘choker’’ is the cable line placed about a log. A ‘“highclimber’’ in a logging camp is the workman who goes up the log- ging mast to place ‘‘high lines”” from the donkey engine. The ‘“‘skid greas- er” puts grease upon skid roads so the logs will slide more readily. The “‘whistle punk’’ operates the donkey engine whistle and signals the workmen with it. A engine with cables that long ago replac- ed oxen in log handling in the west. A “boom’ is a number of logs in the water held in place by ‘‘boom sticks.'* In former times the word ‘bull fighter'’ was commonly heard. It ap- plied to the man in a logging camp who had demonstrated his superior ability with his fists in numerous en- counters with his fellow workers. This expression is no longer heard, loggers say, because fighting in logging camps is a pastime in which workmen no long- er indulge. A fight is now a rare oc- currence in the woods of the coast. WHO IS “1Z2Y?” New York Has Second “Hawkshaw'’ Who Delights in Finding Hlicit Liquor Sellers. New York, Aug. 8.—Another Ein- stein is capturing space in newspaper columns. This time it is not the learned pro- pounder of the theory of relativity, but one of New York's most zsalous federal prohibition enforcement agents. His name is “Izzy,” and not a liquor raid is complete withouc him, for he always supplies a unique touch to proceedings. For “Izzy’” has it all over famous detectives of fiction for disguises. He is the most disguised man in New York. One day “Izzy” is a very old feeble man, seeking just a little drop to bol- ster up his declining years. Another timee he bobs up in a saloon attired as a motorman and thirsty after his long runs. And again he is a golfer, searching for the ephemeral 1Sth hole. Sometimes he just “sniffs out’ concealed spirits. It's all in a day's work with “Izzy,” but he does object to photographers, particularly when they catch him without his disguises. : DIG . UP MUCH HOOTCH. Vast Quantities Unearthed Near Bar- negat, New Jersey. Toms River, N. J., Aug. 8.—Thir- feen hundred and twenty bottles of high class Scotch and rye whiskey bearing three famous labels, believed to be part of the supposedly “jetti- soned” cargo of the schooner Poco- moke, which was seized by revenue men recently, were found buried in the woods about a mile from Barne- =at Saturday night by a raiding party neaded by Sheriff Harold Chafey ahd County Prosecutor Richard C. Plumer of Ocean county. Seven men were arrested, five of them natives of the Barnegat region, and two from New York or Atlantic City, believed to be the owners of the liquor. “LIGHTNIN’ ” TO LEAVE NEW YORK AFTER THREE YEARS. New ¥York, Aug. 8.—“Lightnin’,” “| ‘Winchell Smith’s play which, starring Frank Bacon, has had a sensational run of 1,291 performances at the Gaiety theater in this city, will leave that play house on August 27 for. Brooklyn, where it will open the sea- son at the Montauk theater. The play is scheduled to go to Chicago carly in September. Incidentally, the top price for the show in Brooklyu will be $1.50. HAWAIIAN TAXES HEAVY. Pays Largest Pcer Capita Income in The Nation Excepting New York. Honolulu, T. H.,, Aug. 8.—Hawaii pays the largest per capita income and miscellaneous taxes in the nation, not accepting New York, according to Colonel Howard Hathaway, collector of internal revenue at Honolulu. He reports that 18,645 persons made returns here last year and that the money they paid in taxes aggre- gated’ $20,676,778.. Of this amount, $18,889,082 represented income taxXes. CIGARETTE DYNAMITES BOY. Portsmouth, Ohio, Aug. 8.—When Carl Newman, 15 years old, attempt.- ed to toss a lighted cigarette away it lodged in his pocket with a num- ber of dynamite caps, exploding them. The lad was virtually blown to pieces and six companions were more or less seriously injured. Thurold M. Carmichael, 13, lost a leg. DIES OF SNAKE BITE, Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 8.—The eleven-year-old son of J. D. Rans- Darger, resident of Ballinger, lived only an hour after being bitten by a rattlesnake. With a companion, the boy was hunting and stepped on the snake. ‘‘donkey’’ is a stationary o3 MAY DEVELOPOIL -SHALE. INDUSTRY Rocky Mountains Can Yield Large Quantities ‘Washington, Aug. S.—Recen vestigations by the U. Geolo Survey are beld by its experts to in- dicate that, in the Rocky Mountain States, “there are enormous quanti- ties of oil shales which can be made (> vield hydrocarbon oils to a much sreater extent than we can hope 1o obtain from our oil wells. The __'3s are said to constitute a iremendous potential oil reserve. “The oil shales of this country,” rays the report, “contains enormous quantities of oil, but large amounts of money will have to be invested be- fore the oil shale industry becom#7 of commercial importance. Esti- mates by various engineers of the <ost of a complete retortinz plant, handling 1,000 tons dail be- tween $4,000,000 and $5, 000, “In this country the oil shale in- Gustry can not be developed over- night and probably can not attain suc- cess until large sums of money have been spent i perfecting mining retort- fag and refining methods. A com- pany to be successful, whenever oil shale operation become commercially Zcasible, must be able to employ the best technical, business and engin- cering skill available, be prepared to operate on a large scale, and be linancially strong enough to wait sev- eral years for any large return om the money invested.” The report declares that it is “un- fortunate that a large number of the many companies organized to deal with oil shale are devoting their ef- forts to stock selling rather than as- sisting in building a firm basis for the industry. A summary of the report follows: ‘There are no commercial oil shale nlants operating in this country at the present time, although there is a well established industry in Scotland. Many American shale deposits are ticher in recoverable oil than Scotch shales now being worked, and prob- ably nearly equal in nitrogen content, which. is a measure of recoverable ammonia. Market conditions for shale pro- ducts are less favorable in this coun- iry than in Scotland. Great quantities of American shales are of greater thickness and better suited for mining than Scotch shales. As vet no process for obtaining oil from oil shale has been used in actual commercial practice in this country. Indications are that the United States.can not continue lonz to de- pend on domestic petroleum produc- tion to supply completely the demand for petroleum products, and that socner or later our oil shales will have to be used to help supply the Jeficit. 3 The oil shale industry can not hope to supplant the petroleum industry in a large way for many years, but will probably grow up from local indus- iries in favorable places. Costs of oil shale operations can not be reliably estimated until com- mercial practice in this country fur- nishes the necessary basic data. The quantity, quality and value of products and bylproducts to be ob- tained from oil shale in this country are not known with any degree of certainty. The oil ale industry is a large scole, low grade, raw materiols man- vfacturing enterprise, requiring large capital, high technical and business ability, and probably making slow re- turn on the investment. Once eco- nomic conditions become favorable for the development of the oil shale industry and satisfactory mining, re- torting and refining processes worked cut and marketes established, there 20uld be only ordinary business risk ~onnected with the industry, MOROCCANS PRESS THEIR ADVANTAGE e Reported Attacking Last Spanish Stronghold—Panic Stricken Peo- ple Fleeing from City London, Aug. 8.—Moroccan tribes— men which two weeks ago signally de- feated Spanish troops in northeastern Morocco and who have been pressing their advantage since that time are re- ported to have appeared in force be- fore Melilla, the last stronghold of the Spanish in that section of the country. It is asserted that panic reigns in the city and that civilians are seeking safety on board ships in the harbor. Uncertainty surrounds the fate of Gen. Navarro and several hundred men Who were reported last week to have been surrounded by Moors on Mount Arriut. Madrid advices indicate the fear in official quarters there that Gen. Navarro's forces have been an- nihilated. It was reported from Ma- drid last night that the body of Gen- Silvestre, commander of the Spanish troops which met defeat two weeks ago and who committed suicide fol- lowing the reverse at the hands of the Moors, had been found. Spanish soldiers have been landed on the Moroccan coast southeast of Melilla, where they are under protec- tion of the guns of warships, but it would not appear they have made any serious advance against the right flank of the Moorish army advancing upon Melilla. Dispatches state that the “‘tribesmen have been shelled by the warships. CHINESE FILM COMPANY. Acting Staff is Composed of Orients With American as Director. ‘Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. S.—A Chin- ese film company, financed By a Chin- ese merchant here, and having a busi- ness and acting staff composed almost. exclusively of.Chinese, with a Chinese leading woman, has joined the ranks of the producing concerns here. g The director is an American, how< ever, and there is a lone American actor in the cast. The picture will be titled in English tand in Chinese for use here and China, [2 <