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Show 4 THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH ran Getting Little Ones Across the Street Miss A. Moses, a public school teacher in the Bronx, New York city, putting into practice her Idea for getting children across a busy street. The little ones are herded In a looped rope held by Miss Moses. OR SEA PAY THE PRICE rf i C Use Pigeons to Smuggle Drugs New Problem Presented as Birds Bring Dope Over Mexican Border. San Antonio, Texas. Carrier pigeons have been added to other dumb smugglers which must be watched by federal customs officers along the Mexican border and narcotic officers here. The birds are being extensively used for smuggling narcotics into this country, It was declared by customs inspectors here, and are proving the most difficult problem for the officials to solve. Dogs, donkeys, and even cattle have been used to smuggle dope In the past, but it was declared that only recently 'have pigeons been employed to any extent. Of course, the amount of the drugs that one bird can carry is small, but a small aluminum capsule attached to each leg is said to contain from $." to $10 worth, depending on the kind aud the undercover market prices. The officers attention was first attracted to the birds when a San Antonio pigeon fancier, whose name the officials declined to divulge, informed them that a pigeon sold by him several months ago had returned home with a capsule attached to each leg. Investigation showed the capsules contained cocaine. The fancier explained that he had sold twenty pigeons some time before to a Mexican whose name he did not remember. No record was made of the sale. One Avoids New Home. The fancier aided the officers in at- tempting to trace the birds without success. He explained that the purchaser no doubt had taken the birds to some place in Texas aud confined them in a loft until he believed they were broken to the new home and would return there when released. They were then sent to Mexico, there ' laden with dope and released. The bird which returned to Its for- - HEADS THE BANKERS $ John Lonsdale, head of the bank and Trust Co. of St Louis, is the new president of the American Bankers association. He was officially elected to the office at the annual convention of the G. ile-Commerce Mercant- mer owners loft is said to have been an old one, and these are declared to be very hard to break to another loft The others were younger and no doubt returned to their new home, each with its cargo of narcotic, It Is believed. The fact that San Antonio is the center of an active pigeon racing association complicates the work of the officers. No races are flown from Mexican points, it is said, on account falcons in that country of which have caused the loss of many birds in former years when San Antonio and Monterey fanciers held races. These races were abandoned on account of the falcons. There has always been some trade with Mexico in homing pigeons, in spite of the danger from falcons in that country, and shipments across the Rio GrandeT from San Antonio caused no suspicion until It was found that they were being used for smuggling. Even now officers said it Is hard to keep track of shipments of birds, although Mexican officers cooperate In the work. Birds shipped to border points are easily smuggled to other points and released. Birds Sound Alarm Clock.' Once the birds are released, intercepting them is said to be impossible. A flying pigeon is a common sight anywhere, and the homing variety does not stop until it reaches Its home loft. It enters the loft through a trap equipped with an alarm clock, and the owner can detach the contraband immediately, and it is easily hidden. Shotguns would not avail against the birds, even If the border patrol should see them while in flight. The carrier on long flights is always out of range of even heavy shot, and even in range theirrspeed would make them a difficr.lt target. The border is being watched for shipments of pigeons, but officers are confident as many are smuggled across as are shipped openly. Itjs an easy matter to confine 100 birds in a basket and ship them across the Rio Grande, it was declared. Once across, the work is easy. The unerring homing instinct of the pigeons does the trick. Officers point out that as far as they knew only one bird had been found with the goods on it and that was the one that returned to its former home. Thousands have been shipped across the border. It was declared. The more trips the birds make, the better for the smugglers they become. After a pigeon has been flown over the same route two or three times, it will be off like a shot as it is released. If the territory in which the bird is released Is strange to it, some time will be lost in getting orientated. Smugglers Raising Own Birds. Officers here have requested pigeon fanciers to keep records of sales, which is being done, but it is believed that many smugglers have established lofts and are now breeding their own pigeons. The birds are prolific, and It is not uncommon for a pair to raise as many as ten pairs within a year. These ten pairs, descendants of smugglers, will no doubt the next year be smugglers, and in return breed smugglers, it is feared. Officers report finding dogs and don keys used as drug smugglers, but as a rule the animal, although It carries more than a pigeon, can be used but once, as the success of Its mission costs Its life. The drug is usually fed fast-flyin- g I If John D. Wants Coffee He Gets It Ormond Beach, Fla. Michael Morrisey, favorite butler of John D. Rockefeller, knows that his employer abstains from coffee and governs himself accordingly One morning, however, when Michael was passing coffee to John D. reother guests, marked : Michael, Ill take coffee." The butler went on serving, unmindful of the request, so Mr. Rockefeller repeated: Michael, Ill take TFhe control of disease Is largely a matter of SANITATION. Yon have to keep incubators and brooders and hen or pay the price. houses clean Chicks will not thrive and become profitable unless they are raised under sanitary conditions . And Lewis High Test Lye makes sanitary conditions easy and sure. ... -- coffee. Michael The efficient paid but when Mr. no attention, Rockefeller was passed up for the third time, he said, firmly: Michael, I want coffee! And he got it. The editor ol this paper and hatcheries and poultry men everywhere will tell you to dis- solve 1 can of Lewis High-Te- st Lye to 10 gallons of boiling water for best results. TMs so- two-wa- y to the animal In a large metal capsule and the animal released on the other side of the Rio Grande to find its way back home. When it arrives across the river, where it has been kept for some time and well fed, It is killed to obtain the drug. Pigeons cannot only be used again and again, but they can be used for conveying the drug greater distances, the long distances only cutting the weight of the load. One thousand miles can be covered by a good fast bird easily, but it Is not believed the home lofts of the smuggling birds are located that far from their sources of supply. No Twin Beds for Year-Ol- d 85- - lution will cut right through the dirt and hlth and get to and remove the germs that destroy your chicks. Then dilution. spray with a book on a valuable Write for its poultry sanitation FETrFtaiofiToj, R-- K PHILADELPHIA ... FREE. V JAMES D. SWAN, Mgr. of Specialties THE PENNSYLVANIA SALT MFG. CO. 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