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ze % of Currency Points Out Way to Reduce '. High Cost of Living. ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Banking resources of the United States now total more than $45,000,000,000, Comp- trolier of the Currency Jon Skelton Wittiams' steted in, his annual report to’ Congress to-day. © Of this, national banks on Nov. 17, T919, held $22,444,000,000, an increase Of $11,535,000,000 since Aurust, 1914, and State banks on June 40, 1919, held $26,380,000,000, an increase of $11,705,- 000,000 since June, 1913. It repre- sents a banking power nine times more than it was thirty years ago, ‘Williams said. One person out of every six has a bank account, accord- ing to Williams's report. Wittiams suggested that the United States might solve the question of Collecting its foreign balances by fur- Rishing Buropean countries the crude ‘materials and machinery which their People need, so they may convert the Taw products into articles and mer- chapdise worth from “ten to a thou- ‘\ sand times the value of the raw ma- teriate.” ‘To bring foreign exchange back to the old gold parity, Williams said that there must be more production —_—_—_— & a aM es BANKING AND FINANCIAL. ‘MAKING DOLL OUT OF ARs No one interested in the market, either as an investor or specula- tor, should fail to place his name on our mailing list, to receive a B copy of this full-of-value publi- cation. N ‘Ask for Copy Ne. 30, ; Chas. A. Stoneham & Co. 41 Broad Street, New York. peti Sitineurce—soston, iphia—Cleveland—-Toronte, LOST, FOUND ANO REWARDS. tick, eruk with ‘initials ed, if re Park How ; black walk taeoilg iol ik pola "Tipped vestlons ide. 10.00 reward, no ‘to Room 1505, Wor irae DIED. GHOSHA.—PRince. Services BWLL FUNERAL CHURCH, 66th st. Friday, 2 P.M. HARRIS.—VANNIE. “BELL: FUNERAL CHUL: SOth st. Friday, 11 A. M. CAMP. Broadway vices i CAMP. Broadway ‘Bnd theite: ~Winams aio” dectared every possible effort should be made fo Increase, the production’ abroad of those things for which a market can be found in this country. Williams, touching on the high cost of living, said bankers could be of tremehdous help in-restraining specu- lation in commodities if they would impress on business men that ‘for the long run an assurance of future permanent and substantial profit can be had only by reducing » present profits to the thinnest reasynabie margin and limiting earnings, divi- dends and additions to surplus, to the most modest figures consistent, with safety.” He pointed out that while volume of transactions as ex! in dol- lars has exceeded ali records, there THE EVEN: ORLD, THU when ING W RSD AY, FEBRUAR Y_ 12, 1920 8-CENT FARE SNAG IN I. R. T. PROFITS Probable Cledn Up of $11,000,000 This Year Expected to’ Put Damper on Legislation. The fact that the Interborough is making money so rapidly it may have $11,000,000 rofit at the end ofthe year, which was brought out at the traction inquiry, is expected to put a damper on legislation permitting the New York City traction companies to in- crease their rate of fare. Last year Gov. Smith refused to stand for any Increased fare bill. The have been actual reductions in out~/leaders want to try him out agin, put of mines and factories. According to the report, only one small National bank failed with toss to its depositors between Jan. 1, 1918, and Nov. 1,.1919. During the fiscal year ending Oot. 31, 1919, @orty-five State banks failed. Cash in’ vaults of the country's 7,185 National banks to June 30, 1919, totalled $424,455,000. State banks and trust es reported on hand $572,898,000 and the Federal Reserve Danks reported $2,216,256,000. peeniade eatin TOOK FIRST PRISONER. Michigan Soldiers Capturea First German in the War. WASHINGTON, Fob. 12.—The first Gorman prisoner taken by American forces was captured by Adam Blazi- kowski and John Ochanski, of Iron- wood, Mich., Representative James of Michigan was informed to-day by Adjt. Gen. Harris. ‘The men we members of Company C, Infantry. ‘The capture was made on the night of Oct, 27-28, 1917, in the vicinity of Bures in the ‘province of Meurthe and Mosel! The prisoner was a com- arrier and Was on his way hen wounded elle. yy mail c jack to his company wi and captured. fin AE eS BRITAIN WILLING TO TALK FINANCE Will Not Share in Any Loan to Be Expended in This Country. LONDON, Feb. 12.—J. Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, has announced that the Government was willing to partict- pate in an international financial con- ference if invited by one of the nev- tral nations or by the League of Na- tions, on being satistied that the con- ference would assume a really repre- sentative character. The announcement of Mr. je berlain was made in pot ¥ @ recent memorial from bankers afd others. The Chancellor said that the Govern- ment wished to make it absolutely clear that in the event Great Britain's pacieneties, the Govern- id not su ment cou or take a re in any e involving an ad- iabilities of Gi ain for expenditure in Ameri dition to the Brit ALUMNI DAY AT COLUMBIA. ‘This In It and There's « Big Pro- gtamme for the Old Boyn, A long list of social, business and sporting activities marxe Columbi University’s celebration of Lincoln's Birthday, which, as always, is Alumni Day on Morningeide Heights and will bring back hundreds of former stu- jon of the unveiling of @ memorial tablet to George L. Rives of the Claas of 1868, prominent mem- ber of the bar, who was Chairman of the university's Board of Trustees. The alumni will be welcomed in the ymnasium at 3 o'clock by President utler. Intercollegiate contests will be staged there at 3.30. From 5 to 6.30 a reception and tea will be held in Barl Hi « r with cafeteri held in the Commons in Unive: Hall. ‘The annual meeting of the bia Alumni Federation will be held 7.30 P. M., and will meet Pennsylvania at bask: ee OSBORNE TO QUIT NAVY. Colum- WASHINGTON, Feb, 12. Thomas Mott Osborne,-commandant of the Portsmouth, N. HL, navy prison, has tendered his resignation from the Naval Reserve Force and asked Secretary Dan- tels to accept it as ‘soon as his successor jean be chosen, —Commander Is said Commander Os- resignation had no connection anges of Immorallty among In- ‘mates at the prison submitted by agents of the Department of Justice several months ago. ‘They said he first. pre- sented his resignation some time before made, but later with- the charges were drew it, Caruso’s Cold Causes Chi Opera Programm, agement of the Metrapolitan Company to announce the substitution of “Rigoletto” for the performance of “Marta,” originally scehduled for to- night. ‘Charles Hackett, Mme. Barrien- tox, Mme. Perini, De Luca and others fwill appear, Confesses Murdering Chorus Girt, SVELAND, Feb. 12.—The staying of Frances Altman Stockwell, twenty- year-old chorus @irl, was cleared to-day by the signed confession of Whited, twenty-six, former eoldien “nk cording to the lice, Whited said’ he quarrelied with the girl in his room ‘hers and struck ber in return for a sl M., Tuesday, 2 P.M. UNERAL DIRECTORS. _— as dt is then when * Call “Columbus 8200" FRANK E. THE MOST TRYING TIME When Death enters your household 14 most appreciate the licoes pou of svery responalbilty and tupplss you every ity a every need, not overlooking the least detail. THE FUNERAL CHURC at 66* St. lap ii BAGGS—LEON. fervioce caatrmntt.| the face, Pant stricken, The aaids he 4 carried the k jot in the tear FUNERAL CHURCH, Broadway, 661n| {hc rooming house and placed heen e sis hemp, est FUNERAL DIRECTORS, Any Hour, Day or Night CAMPBELL Hh awe, 23° Street at 8” Ave, ‘Designs oar Borcialty ae Se and it is understood will introduce their meamire next week in the Sen- ate and Ansembly. If the Governor again puts his foot on it the leaders plan to put before him an alterna- uve proposal giving New York and other cities in the State that have Scent fare contracts. authority to break the agreements and fix the fare on a cost plus basis. . The leaders favoring the increased fare believe their only chance Ys in legislation allowing the Public Ser- vice Commission to sect aside 5-cent fare contracts, as they do not be- lieve the Hylan Administration would etand for the cost plus plan, Garrison Favors Linking “1” With Fourth Avenue Subway. Lindley M. Garrison, receiver of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Railroad, de- clared himself yesterday in favor of constructing the Aghland Place con- neotion between the Wulton Street “L" and the Fourth Avenue subway, fol- lowing a conference with members of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, At the meeting were engineers of the B. K. T., who raised questions as to the capacity of the Fourth Avenue subway to accommodate the trains of the Fulton Street “L” for any extended period after the link was built. Mr. yn held, however, that the link was one, way of furnishing relief and at he would interest himself in the building of it. 1 ae RED PENNSYLVANIA RR. TO BE REORGANIZED President Rea Announces Region Division Effective When Roads Are Returned. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12.—When the railroads go back to private own- ership the Pennsylvania Railroad systera will be reorganized and di- vided into four regions, Hastern, headquarters in Philadelphia; Cen- tral, Pittsburgh; Northwestern, Chi- cago, and Southwestern, St. Louis, with each in charge of a Vice Presi- dent, according to an announcement by Bamuel Rea, President of the company, to-day. President Rea sald, in part, im an- nouncing the reorganization: “We recognize that our responsi- bility as managers is threefold, to- ward the public, the employees, and those who directly or through their financial institutions had vested their savings and resources,” Officers will be reorganized as fol- lows: : Region, Vice President Elisha Lee; Central, Vice President R. L. O'Donnel; Northwestern, Vice President J..G. Rodgers, and South. western, Vice President Benjamin McKeen. * U. S. DESTROYER IN PERIL IN BLACK SEA Talbot, Escorting British Cruiser, Is Reported in Distress in General Blizzard. ‘at | CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb, 11.—The/tions gives the impressions that on t_ 9 o'clock Columbia | American destroyer Talbot was report-|more than one occasion the corre- ed to-day in distress near Serpent's Isi- and, in the Black Sea. It is thought, however, that the report may refer to the Talbot's standing by the British cruiser Ceres, which is towing a tanker and two tugs with refugees from Odessa towards Constanza, Roumania, under bad. weather conditions. ‘A blizzund is general over the Black ‘The Russian steamer Grogorieff is ashore near the Black Sea entrance to the Bosphorus. One hundred and fitt ers were rescued in the regini y means of a line landed the ship by a rocket, ‘and efforts are continulng for the rescue of the 200 remaining, ——_—— JAPANESE REVERSE DENIED. Continue Control im Northern Core: OMcial Reports Say. WASHINGTON, Feb, 12.—Reports that an incursion of Corean insur- y ty storm rom, ay ly a month ago in a Baltimore The indisposition of Enrico Caruso, | ents, accompanied by an uprising on | Dear! who is confined to his apartment with | the part of the-native-population, had| newspaper, but the name of the phy- a slight cold, to-day caused the man-|caused the Japanese to evacuate|sician was not given. The story was Opera| Northern Corea, were denied in of-|not given wide circulation because of ficial despatches to-day. The , de- spatches said only weak outlying posts had been overwhelmed and that the Japanese military authorities were, maintaining control of impor- tant polnts, capecially along the rail- road ‘from Mukden. thousand t are at Kengshpn, these re- ports sald, and from 2,500 to 3,000 at Khankyng. 30 DAYS FOR MOTORIST. TRENTON, N. J., Fob, 12.—Irving L. Wright, President of the Para Rubber Co, of this elity, was sentenced to thirty days in the Mercer County Workhouse by Police Justice Gerrashty for driving an automobile on Dec. 3 while under the influence of Mquor and running down ry] _pervounly injuring Sirs. Carrie L. out, ‘When arrested Wright refused to di- e his name, but he was traced by number on ‘his car. He put up no defense and received the mintmum sen- tence under New Jersey law. Mrs, Wright recove: and Found” an advertised in The World directly to ‘The World. Cal) Beckman, New York. @ Brookiya Office, 4100 Mata, |WIRELESS SIGNALS FROM MARS POSSIBLE DECLARES EDISON Oug Messages Surely Reach Planet, He Says, if There’s Any One There to “Get Them.” ‘Thomas A. Edison pays’ our Wireless messages surely reach sugges- “wireless certain strays” caught by him are sig- nals from the Martians may be correct. He said to-day: “Every wireless message gges Into uttermost depths of space. Our wireless stations flash mea- sages, across the face of the earth, but those same waves travel up- ward, of rather outward, billions, even trillions, of miles through ether, Existing machinery is sufficiently strong to send a sig- nal to Mars, The question is, have the beings there receiving apparatus delicate enough to ‘get’ us? “They tell us the Martians are as far ahead us humans as we afe ahead of chimpanzees. If that is true they must have such apparatus. Lee de Forest made an abdgion so. delicate that when a fy over the transmitter the so As amplified will al- most shatter your eardrums.” aa R’S STORY. |ACCUSERS WIL ASK TRIAL OF SOCIALISTS | ONGRIMINAL CHARGES (Continued From First Page.) District Attorneys of Kings, Queens and Bronx counties with the gugges- tion that the suspended members be proceeded against on charges of erimi- | nal anarchy, on which charge former | Assemblyman Gitlow has jdst been found guilty and sentenced to from five to ten years’ imprisonment. Seymour Stedman, chief counsel for the suspended five men, was shown a copy of the brief of tho case before the Judiciary Commit- tee, and said that it was a very nice brief, “That is the State's case,” he con- tinued, “and the greatest publicity has een given to their side during the trial. We have not yet had the opportunity of having our side heard That opportunity will be given us next week, and Chairman Martin has promised us Jatitude as wide as that accorded to the prosecution, “All ne ask is that tthe public sus- pend judgment until our case has been put ‘before them. ‘We are then willing to abide by its verdict Mr. Stedman said Morris Fillquit wil be here on Sunday to take charge of the plans of the defense, which are quite elaborate. OF HS HLNES SURPRISES WON (Continued From First Page.) question of the President's incapaci- ty to dischange his public duties. Now that the President has passed the crisis and is on the road to re- covery, it is insisted that no harm can be done by revealing in retro- spect the facts af the case. On the other hand, the distinct loss to the White House in the cireum- stances is the impression that it has riven to so many persons that in- formal utterances on subjects of in- terest to the public may have to be taken with a grain of salt, There always arises a moment in every ad- ministration when the n&wspaper cor- respondents begin to Jose faith in the sincerity of public men who do not deal frankly. NO CONFIDENCE VIOLATED DUR- . ING THE WAR. Usually when an embarrassing question arises, officials have been known to make a clean breast of a case and point olit the reasons why secrecy ds necessary. This was par- ticularly true during the war and there are no cases of importance on record wherein confidence was vio- lated. But in the matter of Mr. Wilson's illness, the correspondents have liter- ally been up a tree. Torn between a desire not to pry too closely into the private affairs of the President and @ consciousness at the same time that the public has a right to know whether its Chief Executive can ‘transact public business, the news- paper men have consistently ac- cepted statements made to them trom authoritative quarters as being frank and complete. Dr. Young's revela- spendents were deliberately misled. This may not be important from the viewpoint of officials, for they frequently imagine the public much less interested in events than are the inquiring correspondents, — More than one request fot information has been lightly dismissed as “idle,” curi- osity. In thi particular instance, how- ever, the policy of withholding the truth served only to intensify the eagerness of the public to know the true state of Mr. Wilson's health, De- mands for information have come from newspapers usually very friendly, but these editorials have had little effect, Somebody then hit upon the idea of issuing an inspired state- ment giving details. This ‘appeared its anonymity. NEWSPAPER ANXIOUS TO OUT THE FACTS. ‘Then the same newspaper, actu- ated, no doubt, by the desire to keep faith with its readers, printed a second statement, this time by the authority of Dr, Young himself, Just how much the White House played a part in this effort to set the public #traight cannot be ascer- tained as yet. Certainly, the more direct method would have been to issue @ statement to the Associated Press or the United Press or In- ternational News Service, which three services reach all the news- papers of the country, : But the mystery deepens when it ts found that some of the things in Dr, Young's utterance are described as “minor inaccuracies," and while the substance of his declaration ap- pears to be admitted, it is pointed out by others who are in a position to know that Dr. Young was not called in until the trouble with the prostate gland developed, The inference is that the learned about the case second-hand from the other physicians who treated the President's arm and leg. And still there is no full and frank statement of the President's condition issued on GIVE In the meantime the Grand Old Party 1s doing its grandest to make smooth the path of the toboggan which | has been selected for not only the doomed five, but for the rest of the Socialist Party. About the time the Socialists are in the middle of their defense, bills will be shoved into both houses of the Legislature designed to put a quietus on the Socialists as a political party. These bills, which are to be in the shape of amendments to the election laws, are said to be the result of the many long conferences of the Rapub- | ican leaders and which have saved a| factional split and the face of their own party. The Grand Old Party lead- ers now believe that they have found next November and possible interference sinith. G. 0. P. FEARED SOCIALISTS WOULD BE RETURNED, It was feared ut the conference held have weeks ago that, if the five members were ousted after the recommenda- tion of the Judiciary Committee, the Governor would immediately call a} would be sent back for the Grand Old Party to do the same thing over again. But with the new bills made into laws there would be no chance for the Governor to act and no danger of the Democratic Party putting the Republicans up against it. Surprise was manifested in some quarters th: motion was not made by the Socialists last night for a dis- missal, but the reason was apparent to those who had followed the rulings of Chairman Martin. Such a motion could not have been entertained, A conference was held by the Ju- y Committee last night to dis- plans for the sifting of the evi- dence before it and the tdking of the | evidence of the Socialists and to de- termine how its report shall be made. Pellett of New York threw a bomb into’ the meeting by insisting that the committee dismiss the case forthwith for lack of evidence, but the bomb was thrown through the window ‘before the fuse started to burn, Ml Pellett argued that to proceed would be to give to the Socialists the desired opportunity of having their propaganda spread ‘broadcast, But the rest of the committee went after him hammer and tongs and the con- ference left no doubt of the attitude of the committee toward the sus- pended five and what the nature of their report will be. ACCUSED BELIEVE THEY ARE SLATED TO Go. |The Socialists are not fooling them- selves as to the result of the trial, They believe that they are slated for the rollers, And next to being re- seated they want more than anything else the opportunity of having their case go before the public and the tenets gf their party spread to the ends of the earth, With regard to the defense of the five, full plans will not be formu- lated until the arrival of Hillquit, There has been talk of the defense calling Senator Lusk of the Lusk In- vestigating Committee and also Speaker Sweet, It was said to-day that the former would not be permit- | ted to testify on the ground, perhaps, |that his investigation has not been | finished and that examination of him jon the stand might.interfere with his inquiry. $ With regard to the Speaker, no de- cision will be reached until Hillquit |is consulted, Doubtless, he would |be asked as to what is behind the in- vestigation and suspension of the five members. Friends of the Speaker said to-day that he would be pleased to be ques- tioned on the stand, and that the So- clalists would find that they had caught a tartar in the man from Os. wego, who holds the Assembly in the hollow of his hand, This morning Louis Waldman and Charles Solomon left for Chicago, where they are to make a number of the authority of the White House. “age |DEMAND FAIR VOTE the salvation of the Republicans in|@Mteen Governors and Provisional shut oft |Governors of the republic who have from Gov, Al,|Been conferring here at their con- IF DEMPSEY FIGHTS | INU. S. UNCLE SAM WILL WIN $304,350 Collector Edwards Says Taxes Would Take Most of Cham-. Y pion’s $500,000, REPRESENTATIVE of Jack Dempsey, champion pugi- list, has asked William H. Edwards, Collector of Internal Revenue, what the income tax would be on $500,000. s"The normal tax on $500,000 is $40,840, and the purtax $263,510, making q total of $304,350,” sald the Collector. “That means that if Dempsey gets $500,000 for fighting Carpen- tier“he will actually receive but $195,650," said Dempsey’s repre- serftative, “That's just what it means,” said the Collector. | Pressed a wonderful desire to hear all jabout the proceedings at the Capital. Councilman, Quitting Social ails Albany Trial. BUFFALO, Feb. 12.—Frank C. Per- | kins, Cily Counciian eiecled on a non- | Partisan ticket and member of theSo- cialist Party at the time of his election, has resigned from that party, In his r of resignation Perkins said: ‘IT am satisfied that there is a decided attempt to legisiate out of office members of the Socialist Party who stand against spec- jal privilege being gran to public utility corporations and against prof- iteers, (While this may be the means of legisiiting many out of membershi in the dist Party, they will worl and vote against, profiteers wherever they may be found. ‘Would Report Reds in Broad Day- hight WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Ships sail- ing frgm American ports with danger- ous Anarchists and aliens, like those deported on the transport Buford, should fo out in broad daylight with flags fy- fre. We Borkalines immigration in- spector at El Paso, Tex., told the House Immigration Committee to-day, lating the story of the recent voy the “Soviet Ark.” COUNT IN MEXICO Carranza Warned by Governors Not to Interfere in Coming Elections, MEXICO CITY, Feb. 12.—Thé sev- B Pap SYNOP’ Seem nom al stones fea arog tn bruya the restaurant rom: him, Ganer, but ts interrupted by the arrival CHAPTER VI. (Continued.). 66 RECKON I made a mistake,” Said Pendleton Pete. “I reckon maybe you've made a lot of ‘em in your time. You look Jike the original mis- take manufacturer. ¥du come tearin' down the avenue and wrecked my business. I had ten men eatin’ in here and they all went out the back way without stoppin’ to pay their ‘bill My assistant ‘waiter and ‘dish- washer closed the parade; they'd have led it, only they didn't have as:much Speed as some of the others. And it's all your fault, you boob! There's my money for them’ dinners gone, and there’s a lot of dirty dishes waitin’ to be washed, and I'in too tired to do ‘em!"" Murphy's voice almost had been through too Barbara broke, She much for one . “I'm right down sorry, Pendleton Pete told her. “I didn't figure on findin’ a woman herenbout: ou reckon you could gét me ome- thin’ to eat?’ “I reckon-I could, byt I won't. Smash my business and@then make me feed you, huh? Yi di tor them dinners and that window?” ‘No'm; I'm goin’ to collect. for ‘em. I'll see that you get your money all right, ma'am. You just wait here a few minutes, and I'll see that you get it.” Pete started for the door. “You don't work any sneak like that on m Barbara exclaimed, get- ting before him, “I ain't tryin’ to swindle you, ma'am. I'm goin’ out to collect like I said. I'm goin’ to corral them desert rats and town lizards that hurried away without payin’, You just wait. Before she could reply, Pendleton Pete was out on the walk before the restaurant, still holding his six-cuns in his ready hands. He hurried across the street to the Last Chamce and entered the resort. He passed cluding session have issued a man-| ifesto to the nation which in general) gives assurances that the coming} elections will+be held peacefully and, by the big leaders in New York two| honestly. The Governors of the vari-| the town?" ous States, the manifesto says, will! responsible for law and order, within their jurisdictions during the) election period. Twelve fundamental measures for special election, in which case the five |fair elections were adopted. These in- | yours’ — ide non-participation of the Federal Army in the elections; a guarantee of the right of suffrage; non-participa- tion in the elections by public officials jand others dependent upon the Execu- tive; a special provision as to when and how soldiers may vote and an ar- | rangement by which a fair counting of the yotes will be assured, — MESSENGER GOES HOME WITH $1,406 “Must Have Money” Explains Youth Held for Theft Day He Got Job With Broker. njamin Wallach, eighteen years old, of No, 3 Rutgers Place, got a new job yesterday morning as mes- senger in the firm of Prince & Whiteley, brokers of No. 52 Broad- way. He had been there a little over three hours when his emlpoyers gave him $1,406 worth of securities to de- liver to L. Hartman, broker of No. 41 Byoad Street. Benjamin delivered the securities, collected in cash for them and did not return to his employers’ office. ‘After a few hours’ search he was arrested at his home by Detectives Gilifijan and Meringolo of Old Slip Police Station, ‘The money, they said, wus found in Benjamin's hip pocket, He was locked up, and when asked why he took the money he answered: “| must have money.” He denied the stories of the $5,000,- 000 bond plot had any influence upon him. ; m RUSSIA GIVES LAND TO GERMAN REDS Great Colony to Be Established Under Agreement With Soviets. it, 1930, Ww The Prow Publishing Co Coorg! ew York Bening World.) LONDON, Feb, 12.—The Berlin cor- respondent of the Daily News says an agreement has been arrived at re- cently between the Russian Soviet Government and sore of the leaders of the German Communists which, if it can be carried out, will result’ in one of the greatest treks in history. According to the terms of the agree- ment the Russian Government has placed at the disposal of the German Communists a vast tract of land sit- uated on the Volga between Saratoft and Tula, The Soviet Government promises also to construct the neces- sary railroads. On the other part, according to information from trustworthy sources, the Communists’ leaders have agreed to try to send 60,000 colonists to take over the allotted land. po ER HUGE PLANE SUCCESSFUL. OLBVELAND, Feb, 12.—dn the pres- ence of the trial board of naval oM- cers from Washington, a huge Martin torpedo-plane, carrying 10,400 pounds, exceeded all specifications set for it in trial flights here late yesterday, ‘The machine measures feet from id 14 feet tip to tip, is 45 feet long ani high. It éarries three men, four hours! through the rear door after a look behind the bar, and finaly located Cyrus Welch behind u barrel. You come right out of that, Welch!” he commanded, “Come right here to me! Was you eatin’ in that restaurant when I begun shootin’ up “You-—you leave me alone now, Pete,” Welch complained. “I ain't ever done anything mean to you. And any time you want a little credit at the bank against’ that claim of! “I'm waitin’ to be answered, you rat!” Pete. interrupted, flourishing ig weapons, I was in the restaurant, yes. You'd better go slow, Pete, Take advice from a friend. The boys won't stand for this gun-pla you in jail.” saw the constable passin’ rapid! toward the south a few minutes ago Pete remarked. “I reckon I needn't jail, You come along with me. “What you gain’ to do, Pete?” tions, for one thing. Come right alon, You coin shark!, You can’t bluff me pne. You ain't got any mortgage nN my minin’ claim and you won't 01 ever have one, either. And if you You come right along with me! He grasped Cyrus Welch by the collar of the shirt and led him in this undignified fashion across the street and into the restaurant before Bar- bara Murphy. “He's one of ‘em, ma'am,” Pete re- ported, “He says he escaped with- out payin’ He's the rich bug of the town, How many got away without puttin’ up their dues “Ten”, ‘And how much is the whole bill?” “Ten dollars, “Must have been a lodge banquét!" said Pendteton Pete. “Well, 3 rus Welch ‘here. is goin’ to pay them $10 all in one little lump. But the other men——" Cyrus Welch protested. “Oh, I ain't aimin’ to rob you nong, old-timer, I'm just savin’ time for the lady, You'll pay her the ten, and then you can collect nine of it from the other skunks. And you can just pass around the word that if they don’t step up and pay you I'll attend to them personally. You shell out that ten. And while you're doin’ it, make it fifteen.” “This is robbery: protested. Cyrus. Welch “T'm just achin’ for a little target practice, you rat! I'm wolfin’, and I'm seein’ red! I've been eatin’ raw I'm a wild animal, and it's meat! feedin’ time! long past my regula You'd better shell out rns Welch paid the ill. ‘Arfd now I reckon you needn't hang around here any longer,” Pete told him. “You'd better hurry right ont and collect them $9. Think of the interest you're losin’ every second, you shark, Cyrus Welch factd about and made his way to the street with a speed that was unusual for him, forgetting for once tq be dignified in his move- said Pendleton Pete to “I reokon that win- dow light won't cost more'n $3, and 80 you'll have a couple of dollars profit. “Yeh! But that ain't gettin’ that ile of dirty dishes washed!” Bar- ara told him, “You march yourself right into that kitchen and wash ‘em!" “Meanin’ me?” (Pendleton Pete ed. ask “Meanin’ you, you ‘boob! You chased away my dishwasher, and you've got to-take his place. You had your little dance, and now you've got’to pay the fiddler!” “Well, by gosh! What's a man to 7” Pete asked, entering the Kitchen before her. | “There's just one stipulation, as the lawyers say— if I wash them dirty dishes you got to hand me out some grub.” “TN All you up,” Barbara promised. “End ali the coffee I want fuel, two machine guns and’ 1,000 rounds speeches Saturday, and Sunday, the| of ammunition and a huge ‘naval tor- Soplalista in the West having ex-4 pedo weighing ‘ js Ph ant WON Toro “Shut up, and get to work. There's the soap op the shelf,” Barbara sald. Pendl Pete picked up « dish si > You'll fall in love with “‘Bab’’ at the start. @ regular guy and a good pal all the time, this story of how she tamed the wild men.of.a Wild West town will give you more lauglis than) you’ve had in a month before. red J. Wats and Company. OF "PRECEDING CHAPTERS. ; a\ntbe, Rute tn thet desert but, soon dlocorsed te ‘Scrim, the owner, og ae om hes ot fendleton went ba walked out. were |the Last more, If he I've got him washin’ dishes.” There of the Pete's ti washin’ Barba and Pen sation, blazing. coming sees the out and and I'm it? toads and casing four ine Slim Bi magic. restaura “Thou, then he he said, You get goin’ to taken a unas, Who and reached for the soap. straightene Across the street half a dozen men, looking around restaurant, The streot itself “Is Bendleton Pete bo' asked Wilkes from the darkness. ment, and then there came a got cried Slim Burton from the suddenly and violently to: one from the ki " “And if there hap any hombre hereabouts as thinks: body want to raiseva! question. Then let it go at that, you hoi His right hand made.a lightni like movement, flame split the nij a bullet thudded into the endleton Pete returned his @um to its holster and went back into the he complained to the ceilfs a big heap of them dishes, ma’am, T nine front rs ‘shop tor serving poot caabler Sie begins " 7) ck inlo the dining-room, the tables. Phen to the front door and har the ce and wate! From the 4 tC the voice of was | wouldn't be € was decp silénce for a him washin’ | di Last Chance. “Pe urnin’ old woman—gét 7 dishes, ra Murphy felt herselt ndleton Pete, who had: chen during, the stood beside her, his Low rumbles.of rage from his throat. he’s washin’ "4 to’ humor of it, let him jase say so. I'm washin’ just as badias ever! of the Last Chance wit rhes of Slim Burton's head. jurton disappeared as if by nt. ht it was funny, they dia!” And looked at Barbara. “but I'm fame to finish ‘ent. that grub ready, ‘cause Tm be as hungry as a wolf when T get them dishes done. I reckon I've fancy to you, ma'am. CHAPTER VII. o'clock that Barbara Murphy pulled down the shades and locked the door. The mien of Dusty Bend had dined, and there would be no further business until the breakfast hour. “Tt ain't George Scrim, after they had counting W'at WI real natural at all,” she told the di réceipts. ain't, ma'am?” Serim b this business of the whole They're liable to burg gettin’ over chow thie early in the evenin’ Great cabaret! In towh people eat at thé usual hours to keep their engines runnin’, and eat worry none about the ‘Dusty Bend the swim. to sustal “Well, not goin’ to answer fool ques- for eatin’ at all?” en This bur "\York make their big profits out: of | the | bres Not axfast and dinner crowds’ ‘When just to keep alive they les; but when “Well, like that “We'd ought to take in more aifter 9 o'clock at night than a Banbara told him. “Gosh! make a fasin' another drink after 'e cas Sonn three,” Barbara ed. “You aimin’ to have th buy food instead of booze?” "== “Just you wait!” Barbare seid. “I'm goin’ to have a t here, and it'll be a dandy! Ti have dancin’, too, if we can get the: floor fixed up some. music. check: when: they're hearin’ “I reckon you can't flimflan Dusty Bend f * said. “No? sell wise to they'll fall for all the old cneen Tee just wa Scrim the front door and turned out the lights and then went into the Shorty work o dishes ai Barbara in’. An promise “ ma'am." “Here’ ber, Joe Barbara Chance clean aio “Take over you [to the [held ei thrown the slightest particle! people eat \pineh pennk they around a table to be fashionable ‘dig down to the bottom of the sock and shoot the whole wad."* bis. dinner?” “T don't see any of these hicks re- Dusty Bend folks, little one, I can ‘em gold bricks oF co: in the Atlantic Ocean, They “I'm goin’ forget. to be here early in the morn- ain't aimin’ former. She's the Billy Sunday of the lunch business, break & record.gettin’ over to the learn some day. lots of things besides booze, little one— “I'm goin’ to get me some, matam. Don't progress so fast that you this reformation to be the town couldn't stand itt’ Shorty Dodd and burried straight across the street Last Chance, His head was rect and his shoulders were three of the ffequenters and to a table in one.corner of thé ee (Do Not Miss To-Morrow's Thrilling at all other hours to be m And this burg eats only in life and lets it go at-that.” ain't that the only reamon Scrim asked her, Ain't three square meals: a @ay ugh for a human critter? “It's all right for hicks, ttle onél! ng has to be educated, T ean see. that, muppet ever try to have me arrested 1 just jictie Harboe tps on Ee naturaily pull out your whiskers one ig “catin'-joints in tie ee ae at a time—or maybe I'll drive ‘em in, jew I ef, Rever heard of anything we do all How can you expest. to man eat again after he’s had We've got to e Some people never look at a folks thataway!" Serie, From what I've geen lots ay be some of the new it and watch little Barbara,” departed, and Barbara locked Dodd had just finished » f washing and drying the nd was putting on his coat. to make it a doflar,* you told him. “And don't d don't you forget that Wttle you made me, either,” to’ forget. that, 8 your dollar. And, remem- Morgan, that you're a mam, Murphy is the Httle 26. I suppose that you'h to-night, but maybe Money can othes, for instance.” it slow, boy—take it slow! ur own boots, I don’t wan’ tgo sudden— + left the restaurant back. He nodded to two Instalment.)