» *1 lfc> . * McHENBY PI»AINDEALBRt / McHENRT» ILL #Tns Guard Has Desperate Fight With Rum Runners on Mexican Bordeii WIFE TELLS OF ENCOUNTER Knives and Pietols Were Used in Battle in Brush on the Banks of thi Rio Qrande--Automobile > «• «iddi«d. lidalgo, Toe.--One of the Mt d» "ftfrate single-handed encounters which aver took place between a United Slates customs officer and a gang of Mexican smugglers on the Rio Grande l>order fell to the lot of Dick McConneli, a government river guard here, a ifew nights ago. McConneli, accompanied by bis wife and two little 'daughters, was riding in an automobile along the Rio Grange, near town. Leaving the car, McConneli started toward the river bank. He bad gone but a short distance when be was fired upon from ambush. A bullet knocked off his hat. He >V8hed toward the spot from which the bullets were coming. He returned the fire as be ran into the brush and there came upon the two Mexicans. On of them grabbed him by the back at neck and a scuffle ensued, during •which be received knife wounds and bad his pistol holster cut to pieces. He drew a small gun, which he carried In the holster under his shirt, and fired at his assailr.nt, whom he killed, and the body fell into the rapidly rising Rio Grande. Mrs. McConneli, who was In the ear at the time of the attack, save the fallowing account: Wife's Aecount. "I and the children were la the ;^%ick seat of the car when we drove near the river bank, near the small boat ferry landing. As my husband got out of the car and started to go down the bank there came a flash of a gun. almost in his face, and his hat fell off and something struck the car. Dick jumped back, pulled his automatic and began to shoot. Again and again came the flash and something struck the car again. The children and I could see the man who was shooting Jftt my husband backing down under the bank and my husband walking toward him, shooting. "They both disappeared under the bank when we heard a noise like men fighting or struggling. I was getting nervous and did not know what to do. We beard three more shots and I heard some one yell out in Mexican. Shortly after my husband came to the top of the ban~ holding his hands to his face and told me to drive to Deputy Collector J. R. Clark's house and bring him and also a lantern. I drove as fast as I could and retarded with Clark and the lantern. "We found my husband's bat near the car with a ballet hole in the top of the crown. On the river bank we __ Hi*; a quarts of "Upon returning tc the car we found where three bullets had pierced the cowl, one of which passed tpftrttgh and hit the steering wheel, brijifclfitg a part of it off. One of the 'Miteta piercing the cowl, but spendtnt1 Its force against the Iron dash, wai picked up by Deputy Collector Clark and was said to be from a .46. The other hit the side of the cowl and glanced off." WILL BUILD AERIAL HARBOR Corporation at Gothenburg, Sweden, Prepares Plans for Joint Municipal Field. Gothenburg, Sweden. -- This city, with its extensive marine shipping facilities and its new free port, is now preparing to build an aerial harbor. It will have all the facilities required by sky pilots, an up-to-date service department and the latest conveniences for landing and taking off. A corporation has been formed to build the air station and operate it in conjunction with the city authorities of Gothenburg. It Is proposed that the city shall have the privilege of I •'WP 0i ",V* If* I picked up a iong-bladed knife. Lying | buying the company's shares in the enpartly in the water was a felt hat terprlse after ten years and thus take with three bullets In It. Near tin boat • over full control of the air port. '••'M Airplane Search; B, for Grain Pests Remarkable Survey Being Conducted in Texas by U. S. Agricultural Department 1MT SPORE BEING SOUGHT Annual Loss In Wheat Alone Due to Stem Rust Is Estimated at 64,000,- Q0O Bushels--Mexico Believef ta Be Source of Spore. San Antonio, Tex.--One of the most remarkable surveys ever made under the direction of the United States Department of Agriculture Is now in progress in Texas. It is that of searching the air for the spore that causes rust on growing wheat and oats. It is estimated that the annual loss 3 * I Field Artillery Back From Germany • - ? -r v v ~ v ^ - - Here are some of the troops of the first division or the Sixth field arttlflsry arriving at New York from Germany on the transport CambraL Inserted is a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Brevans, their commander. In wheat alone due to stem rust Is approximately 64,000,000 bushels. It Is the theory of some agricultural scientists that the source of the spore which causes this enormous loss is in Mexico or perhaps South America and that It drifts through the air to the wheat fields of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and other states. Airplane Search in Progress. During the last two weeks an airplane search for the spores has been made at high altitudes above San Antonio. For this purpose an airplane from Kelly field is used, with Lieut. T. R. Booker as pilot and Wallace Butler as scientist Armed with a "spore trap" Mr. Butler has made six exposures at varying altitudes on each aerial Journey. These plates have been sent to the office of cereal investigation for examination. Thus far no reports have been given out of the findings. Anyone who walks through an oat field in this part of the state now will come out with his shoes covered with a yellowish powder which has brushed off from the innumerable little yellow leaves. This powder any fanner will tell one Is rust. In this case the leaf rust of oats. Every little yellow spot on the lepf Is a pustule of lear rust, each pustule being made up of from one to several thousand tiny seed bodies of spores which are pushed up through the epidermis of the leaf from a sort of root structure or mass of threads which are growing within the leaf. These threads are very minute and can be seen only by the aid of the microscope. The spores which are borne In such multitudes on the ends of little branches from these threads are also microscopic in size. The powder on the shoes after a trip through the oat field consists of millions of these spores. Dew Helps. When one of these spores falls on a drop of dew or other moisture on a leaf of oats It soon sends out a little root-like projection which, curling around this way and that, finds Its way into the breathing pore or opening In the epidermis of the leaf and so gets Into the leaf tissues. In due time It becomes the mass of threads which again send up tha mass of spores, and so the process Is repeated with favorable weather conditions about every two 7THIS CURFEW HITS PARENTS ALSO jtteld Guilty With Children Violation of Ordinance, fflty -Dads" of South Dahvta City '^Believe Parents Are Largely to -J. Blame for Children Running About street. «t Night. " ^ 4> Sioux Falls, S. 6.--The city of Lem- " Hon, 8. t)„ has one of the most unique icarfew ordinances In existence any- Itrhere in the United States. The parlegits are held equally guilty with the tatlldren for violations of the curfew. The ordinance provides that boys jand girls under seventeen years of *ge must be off the streets and at I ; WHtome after 9:30 o'clock each evening. IT# they are on the streets or other (public places after that hour they Imust be accompanied by their parents <at* some authorized guardian. The city "Dads" believe that par- 4gtts are largely to blame for their children running about the streets at unseemly hours of the night, and therefore placed a provision in the ordinance making the parents responsible with the children for violations of the provisions of the ordinance. Some of the parents who have been In the habit of permitting their children to remain away from home until quite late at night have regarded the ordinance as of no Interest to them, and as a result when their children were found running at large after 9:90 o'clock at night the parents themselves were required to appear in court and explain why their children were not required by the parents to be home by 9:30 o'clock. At one time several parents were In court on the charge of permitting their children to violate the curfew ordinance, and In each case a small fine was imposed, with the admonition that further violations by their children would subject them to hesvier fines. The dty authorities now hsve given notice that the curfew ordinance means just what It says and that It will continue to be strictly enforced, regardless of whose children may be affected and that neglectful parents will be taken into court no matter bow prominent they maj ta 4*' the community. ALBANIA HAS HO PUBLIC DEBT Occupies Unique Position Among Cu* ropean Nations--Monetary Sya> tem Based on Gold Deposits. Genoa.--Happy Albania is the term which has been applied to that country, for It is stated that It occupies the unique position among European nations of being the only country which has no national debt and has a gold monetary system. Mebedl Frasherl, the head of the Albanian delegation to the conference here. In an Interview indicated that all would be well with his country, "If only we are left In peace for a little while.- Capital to Have Eight Million Dollar Auditorium • t f e l t - ' ' s E ft tern m With the construction of the George Washington Memorial building the national capital will be given something <hat it has long lacked--a public auditorium of ample size. Here In the future will be held Inaugural receptions, national and international conventions and conferences, and all public ceremonies and celebrations. "The site for jfte memorial has beea donated by ronfress and the building will eost about 18^00^ This is a photograph of tihe architect's model. b : ;------ -- v Bitten by Own Teeth. , Washington.--Dr. Fred Repettl bad - J ke'm G Of ifvliifc uittvil stepped off a curb and was knocked down by a flivver. false teeth ta a hip pocket and when he fell the teeth were driven In the •i one Iowa Inci •V. \ \ • "Vandemaifo ^ A A. >•" •. .\ M I" ^ ' I - * * ^ ' "' w owa false taster, aapcttl|only part of tfc» one arm was fractured! but that was t flesh as far as the rubber gums, inflict- Be had htajm OR good Americans there Is no more Interesting period In United State| history than that whirti covers the settling and early development <rf the Upper Mississippi valley states which covers the third quarter of the past century. The immigration into Iowa is typical 'of that Into other states at about the same period, and a paragraph from "Vandemark's Folly," by Herbert Quick, adequately describes the scenes of that time. He says of that tremendous trek: Here we went, oxen, cows, mules, horses, coaches, * carriages; blue jeans, corduroys; rafts, tatters, allks, satins, caps, tall hats, poverty, riches; criminals escaping from Justice; couples fleeing from the law; cold-seekers bearing southwest to the Overland Trail; politicians looking for places In which to win fame and fortune; adventurers on their way to everywhere; Abolitionists going to the Border War; innocent-looking outfits carrying fugitive Elaves; and, most numerous of all, homeseekers "hunting country"--a nation on wheels, an empire in the commotion and pangs cf b i r t h . • • " - v • ; v There wfere many, *ery many, Interesting incidents that Went to make up "the history of tjiese pioneer days in Idwa that are covered by Mr. Quick In "Vandemark's Folly," but one of the most interesting is that dealing with the treatment of "claim-jumpers." The local newspaper, in an effort to secure an advantage for its political clique had in those early days referred to "Cow" Vandemark as a man with a "criminal record," and In later days In refuting the statement he tells the story of the "claim-Jumpers • as follows, in part: The story grew out of my joining the Settlers' club In 1856. The rage for land speculation was sweeping ovec Iowa like a prairie fire, retting things ready for the great panic of 1857 that I have read of since, but of which I never heard until long after it was over. All I knew was that there was a great fever for buying and selling land and laying out and booming town-sites --the sites, not the towns--and that afterward times were very hard. The speculators had bought up a good part of Monterey county by the end of 1856, and had run the price up as high as three dollars and a half an «cre. This made it hard for men who came in expecting to get it for a dollar and a quarter, and a number of settlers in the township, as they did all over the state, went on their land relying on the right to buy It when they could get the money --what was called the pre-emption right. I could see the houses of William Trickey, Ebenezer Junklns and Absalom Frost from my bouse; and I knew that Peter and Amos Bemlsdarfer and Flavius Bohn, Dunkards from Pennsylvania, had located farther south. All these settlers were iocateu south of Hell Slew, which was coming to be known now, and was afterward put down on the map, as "Vandemark's Folly Marsh." And now there came into the county and state a class of men called "claim-jumpers," who pushed In on the claims of the first comers, and stood ready to buy their new homes right out from under them. It was pretty hard on us who had pushed on ahead of the railways, and soaked in the rain and frozen In the blizzards, and lived on moldy bacon and hulled corn, to lose our chance to get title to the lands we had broken up and built on. My land was paid for. such as It was; but when the people who, like me, had trailed out across the prairies with the last year's rush, came and asked me to join the Settlers' club to run these intruders off, it appeared to me that it was only a man's part In me to stand to it and take hold and do. . . I did not look forward to all the doings of the Settlers' club, but I joined it, and I have never been ashamed of It, even when Dick McGiil was siangwbanging me about what we did. I never knew, and I don't know DOW, just what the law was, but I thought then, and I think now, that the Settlers' club hud the right of it. I thought so the night we went over to run the claim-jumper off Absalom Frost's land, within a week of my Joining. It was over on Section Twepty-seven, that the claim-jumper had built a hut about where the schoolhouse now Is, with a stable in one end of it, and a den In which to live In the other. He was a young man, with no dependents, and we felt no compunctions of conscience, that dark night, when two wagon-loads of us, one of which came from the direction of Morterey Center, drove quietly up and knocked at the door. " "Who's theref' he said, with a quiver in' lUp voice. 7 •? , ^Open up, and find out!" said a man in the Monterey Center crowd, who seemed to take command as a matter of course. "Kick the door open, Dutchy!" As he said this he stepped aside, and pushaftme up to the door. I gave it a push with HP knee, and the leader jerked me aside, just lft thne to let a chnrge of shot pass my head. "It's only a single-barrel gun," said he. "Grab Mm!" I was scared by the report of the gun, scared and mad. too, as I clinched with the fellow, and threw him; then I pitched him out of the door, when the rest of them threw him down and began stripping him. At the same time, some one kindled a fire under a kettle filled with tar, and tn a few minutes, they were smearing him with it. This looked like going too far, to me, and I stepped back--I couldn't stand it to see the tar smeared over his face, even If It did look like a map of the devil's wild land, as he kicked and scratched and tried to bite, swearing all the time like a pirate. It seemed a degrading kind of thing to defile a human being in that way. Tha leader came up to me and said, "That was good work, Dutchy. Lucky I was right about Its ba*'_ lng a single-barrel, ain't it? Help get his team hitched up. We want to see him well started." "AH right, Mr. McGlll," I said; for thst was his. name, now, first told in all the history of tha county. \ "Shut up!" he said. "Hr name's Smith, y«* /.hMkbeadr e • • The next and the last stop, wss a way down «n Section Thirty-five--two miles farther. I was feeling rather wamble-cropped, because of the memoir, of that poor fellow with the tar in his eyes--bat 1 went all the same. McGiil pounded on the door. ' » "Come out," he shouted. "You've got company IT s There was a scrambling and hustling aroua# in the shanty, and low talking, and some oaa asked who was there; to which McGlll replied fer them to come out and see. Pretty soon, a little doddering figure of a man came to the door, pulling on his breeches with trembling hands as he stepped, barefooted, on the bare ground which came right up to the door-sill. "What's wanted, gentlemen?" he quavered. "I, caln't ask you to come in--Jlst ylt. What's wanted?" He had not said two words when I knew him for Old Man Fewkes, whom I had last seen back on the road west of Dyersville, on bin way to "Negosha." Where was Ma Fewkes, a ad where were Celebrate Fourth and Surajnh DoWlnh? And where, most emphatically, where was Kowena? I stepped forward at McGlll's side. Surely. I thought, they were not going to tar and feather these harmless, good-for-nothing waifs of the frontier; and even as I thought it, I saw the glimmeiv ing of the fire they were kindling under the tajr» k e t t l e . ' « * "We want you, you Infernal claim-Jumper!" said McGlll. "We'll show you that you can't steal the . land from us hard-working settlers, you set of sneaks! Take off your clothes, and, we'll give you a coat that will make you look mere like buzzards than you do now." "There's some of 'era runnln* awayf yelled one If the crowd. "Catch 'em!" t There was a flight through the grass from the ,M 4>ack of the shanty, a rush of pursuit, soi%|eeble -Jells jerked into bits by rough handling, SS)i presently, Celebrate and Surajah were dragged Into the circle of light. Just as poor Ma F<priM| her shoulder-blades drawn almost together , ' forward and tried to tear from her poor oM • hand^s arm the hand of an old neighbor of mine whose name I won't mention even at this lata v'iday. . . "Say," said a man who had all the time sat In one of the wagons, holding the horses. "You'd ^better leave out the stripping, boys!" They began dragging the boys and the old man toward the tar-kettle, and McGlll, with his hat drawn down over his eyes, went to the mass and dipped into it a wooden paddle which they had been stirring It. Taking as on it as it would carry, he made as If to It over the old man's head and beard. I could |ip9§^ ' stand this--the poor harmless old coot!--and I ft*'~ :: up and struck McGlll's arm. • "What In bell," he yelled, for aonav«f tar went on him, "do you mean !** 4 "Don't tar and feather 'em," I begged. "1 know these folks. They are a poor wandering family, without money enough to buy land away from any one." 'We jlst thought we'd kind o' settle down," said ! Old Man Fewkes whimperingly; "and I've got the money promised me to buy this land. So it's all right and straight!" The silly old leatherhead didn't know ha waa . doing anything against public, sentiment; and told Dthe very thing that made a case against him. 1 have found out since who the man was that • ^promised him the money and was going to take , the land, but that was just one circumstance in the land craze, and the man himself was wounded at Fort Donelson, and died in hospital--so 1 won't 'tell bis name. The point is, that the old man had turned the jury against me just as I had finished -my plea. "You have got the money promised yoa. hava ,$rou?" repeated McGlll. "Grab him, boys!" • * * I clinched with our man. and getting a rolling hiplock on him, I whirled htm over my head* aa I h&d done with so many wrestling opponents, and letting him go in mid-air, he went head over heels, and struck ten feet away on the ground. Then I turned on McGlll, and with the flat of my hand, I slapped him over against the shanty, with |ils ears ringing. They were coming at me In an - Undecided way: for my onset had been both sudden and unexpected; when I saw Rebecca raining from the rear with a shotgun In her hand, which she had picked up as tt leaned against a wagon wheel where one of our crowd had left It. "Stand back !** she screamed. "Stand back, or I'll blow somebody's head off!" * I heard a chuckling laugh from a man sitting In one of the wagons, and a word or two from him that sounded like, "Good girl!" Our little jnob fell back, the man I had thrown limping. ' and Dick McGlll rubbing the side of his b^ad. . »£he dawn was now broadening in the east, and it Was getting almost light enough so that faces . might be recognized; and one or two of tha crowd began to retreat toward the wagnaa. "1*11 see to It," said l "that these peqple wi® leave this land, and give ap their If * PRIZED HIS BIBLE ABOVE ALL ELSE v.V -;r_; fw , . * i h ,v » - ~ Writer's Poetic Dsscription of King Pa»lcfs Love of the Scriptprep ef His Day. In the days of King David the Bible was a scauty book; yet be loved It well, and found dally wonders in it. Genesis, with Its sublime narration of how God made the worlds, witb lis gllmpaes of patriarchal piety, and yferk disclosure* of gigantic rite; Exodus, with Its glorious marchings through that great wilderness. Its thrilling memorials of Jehovah's outstretched arm. and the volume of the written law; Leviticus, through whose flickering vistas David's eye discerned the shadows of better things to come; Numbers, with its natural history of the heart of man; Deuteronomy, with its vindication of the ways of God; Joshua and Judge* with their chapjESJV' II v . £ 1 1 .&kj hsrs of providence, their stirring Incidents, snd peaceful episodes; the ! memoir of Job, so fraught with spiritual experience; and the domestic ani nals of Ruth, which told to her grand- | son such a tale of divine foreknowledge and love and care, all converging on himself, or rather on David's sou and David's Lord; these were David's Bible, and he dasired .it beyond all his riches. But you hava yet an ampler Bible-- a Bible with pashms and prophets In it--a Bible with goapels and eptstlsa K", Y 7 Sad Mistake The fkuaibr waa away tnm | Their nooaa was In charge of a i maid. Occasionally an old w i came In to help with the cleaning. | day the maid opened the ! and was greeted by the an I "I've been ringing sod } riugmg," said tn« latter. Iyou r«>me?" "Von kep" on said tha maid, "that I etljr the tslaphoaa " •