Show desert dust by johnston J M Halg the oklahoma man that went barefooted all his life Is dead at the age of eighty four years he explained that he went without shoes in the belief that the earth transmitted invigorating influence to the body that shoes deadened so those of us that will have to go without shoes for the next year or two can adopt this old fellows ideas and make ourselves believe we are benefited by it judge symes in U S circuit court in grand junction the other day handed out some very light sentences ranging from one day to fifteen months probably the reason for it was that the most of them were old offenders they have been before him till he has became personally acquainted with them then there was no new beginners butting in on the other fellows territory things are progressing over in kansas since the hanging of their afeman as it always does when a mob lianes one of those rape fiends the first thing they do Is to throw the sheriff out when a mob takes a prisoner away from him then the next thing to do Is to reinstate him they have all that done now then they start out to arrest all that took part in the hanging it generally takes about six months to find out that they cant identify anyone that was in the mob life in prison Is the limit in kansas but when those people over there get a man on their hands that just has to be hanged they hang him and only in a very few cases have they ever identified anyone that took part in the hannings hangings hang ings tho city of los angeles and that notorious chamber of commerce of hers Is all up in the air they have just discovered that the geographies used in their schools are twenty five years out of date they have been so busy for the past twenty five years trying to graft the easterner that they have not had time to notice such little things but since the sucker crop seems to be about over for them the chamber of commerce has been noticing a few little things around home in a week or so by reading those old fashion obsolete books they mav notice that frisco portland and seattle are all on the same pacific coast that los angeles Is governor rolph of california has refused to pardon tom mooney that wis what most every one was looking tor so the public was not surprised there are a areat many of our leading men say that tom mooney was shanghaied ed by the california courts and a great many of the same class of men say that there Is ni doubt but what he was guilty bufa there Is quite few of our great men that do not want mooney out they are not afraid of any bomb that he would put under their bed they are afraid of his pen and tongue they know that mooney knows and that he has thet nerve to tell it and proof lo 10 back it up so as long as they keep him in it la a cinch he will be quiet |