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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS. RANDOLPH. UTAH emptying the contents of a wiiter-ptn- l on me and searching my anatomy for injuries. The Vanished Freight fr By E. FLORENCE - ' v- yet? I had orders to run through to X, and expected to see No. 23 sidetracked here. Not seeing anything on the siding, I pulled up to investigate. ' Whats up? Didnt you smash into 23?" I gasped. Sure not, he replied. Whats the matter? Did you strike your head? My heads all right, I replied. Twenty-thre- e passed her in a blaze of glory some time ago, and if you didn't see her, where is she? Come, man, coaxed the engineer, get word along the line and find out when she is due. I dont want to stay here all day. But I tell you she passed here, I . insisted, and in desperation I rushed to the key and pounded- off an inquiry to the fellow south of me as to whether 23 had passed. The reply staggered me. He answered in the negative. Wheres that train? I shrieked. Tt passed here at 7 :30, I persisted. Just then the rear brakman came running up the track with a cap in his hand. Found this down the track,' he said. Thats old Jim Bludsoes cap; and If his cap is here, he must have passed here himself. Thats so, rejoined the engineer. But what am I going to do? I cant hang around here any longer. Well, I wired to the northern end for instructions, and got word to send the passenger along.. Then the word went over the line to the next station south to send out a searching party for the missing train. The track between my shanty and the next one south was closed to traffic pending the arrival of the searching crew. In due time they and reported pulled in on a hand-ca- r, that they has seen nothing of the missing train. I wired the Information to headquarters, and asked for instruc- 1 (Copyright) ! The Individual and the watery-eye- d one met on common ground. They had both been fired from the same freight, and were drawn to each other or, more correctly speaking, fired at each other, for they came near colliding in the process loose-jointe- d of ejectment. Must take us for blooming cannon-balls, grunted the 16ose;jointed one. , Yes; those fellows are certainly on the firing-linall right, replied the watery-eye- d one. Reminds me of the way Ive often floated through space in Kansas, riding bareback on a cyclone." So youve been In Kansas, too? d one. queried the Now, theres a state that can boast some about nearly everything. And, talking of cyclones, did you ever hear how they are formed. Houses, trees and cattle are gathered in its loving embrace, and the whole blooming outfit forms a sort of relief expedition to the afflicted place. The world moves, but Kansas is-- a whole moving picture show. It may leave a path of devastation Lehlnd it, but think of what would because of that airless void if the C. Q. D. was ignored. Thats so, replied the watery-eyeone. Nature has got railroads skinned alive when it comes to delivering the goods. Then, again, a cyclone is a great factor In promoting social intercourse. There are lots of people out there who would never see each other were It not for the fact that they are thrown together by the thoughtful I know of a couple of felcyclone. lows who had not seen each other for years, who met in the air, both joyriding aboard the same cyclone. Bill ! Hallo, shouted one ; I havent seen you for a good while. No, yelled the other fellow; I dont often get up this way. Speaking of railroading, said the loose-jointe- d tions. Open up the road for traffic and send men on foot to make a thorough search for that train ; we need it-- , came the answer. I did as directed, and swit the searching party down the track'. Told them to spread out on either side of the track and work along until they found the wreck, for I felt sure it must have run oil fhe track some- individual,. Id like "to relate to you some of my experiences In the railroad business. Back in the seventies I did down in Kansas, on the P. D. Q. road. I held down a shanty up along the line, forty miles from the nearest refectory. Did nothing much but give the trains clear track or hold them up to side-trac- d k where. The old P. D. Q. was a single-trac- k road, with shanties and sidings at regular intervals, at which a number of other jays like myself did the bra In work for the system. I was holding down this job In that Queen Anne cottage, with no great white way nearer than the milky baldric of the skies, nd the only Btars I could flirt with wre those winking at me across millions of miles of space. But I was not astronompass. . ically inclined gastronomy has always been my long suit, j Well, this particular incident I have In mfnd happened on one of those days when nature seems to be resting and demon-etratigetting ready for a grand-stan- d. ' "I seemed to sense something was going to happen, and felt as fussy as a f1 magnetized kitten. There was a southbound train due at my villa at 7:30 I had orders to hold It on the p. m. passenaiding until the north-boun- d ger, due at 7 :45, had passed. I set my signals and busied myself doing nothing until the south bound should arrive. I felt mighty glad of the chance for human compand ionship which the freight side-tracke- would supply. The sky had assumed a dirty-gra- y color. I felt certain that there was a cyclone sashaying around somewhere In my vicinity. I was wondering if my villa was in the' path of the whirling dervish, when go-b- comet. d smv a tra il When I cane t.) lue. -. funding on the siding. The crew wo1 Demanding withdrawal ; Is- . crepe-de-chin- crepe-de-chin- The Brief $tory of Hosiery by Representative Bacharach of New Jersey, a Republican member of the house ways and means committee, as a possible substitute for present objectionable taxes. Mr. Bacharach, who is an advocate of a general sales or turnover tax, said that he contemplated introducing such a bill as an alternative for the sales tax in case that fails to receive the approval of the ways and means committee, He said that he believed that a one per cent tax on the net worth of an Individual would raise at least $1,000,000,000 a year. Under his plan there would be an exemption of $10,-00- 0 allowed for each person. Personally, I am still of the opinion that the adoption of the sales tax plan would lie the simplest and easiest . THE plain stocking of silk or cotton, to occupy drop-stitc- h cerized cotton.. In gray there are plaid patterns, showing shades of gray, with white and lavender or with white abd black in large squares crossed by bars in white. Heavy ribbed sifks, sometimes in two colors, present themselves for those who prefer silk hose to any . other kind, for. every sort of wear. In a class by themselves are the fine silk hose elaborated with silk embroidery, with drop stitch stripes, with lace insertions or even, with beads. They are shown in colors and in black and white. This season hose to match low shoes and slippers, universally worn are preferred to those matching the dress. Therefore ' gray, beige, brown, tan (in many shades), gold and bronze are much in evidence, the gold color to be worn with cloth of gold slippers and silver gray with those of silver tissue. Some of these gold colored hose have gold colored beads applied to them in simp'e patterns. -- d xw:. . ccPYfcOHT tv varra Mtt jm?ul union Convocation within a short period of a constituent assembly with all the guarantees of electoral liberty. Among the acts charged against the American occupation of Haiti are : Taking of $500,000 of Haitian government funds. Death of 4,000 prisoners in the prisons of Cape Haitian and of 5,475 prisoners at Chabert. an American camp, R in the three years 1918-2Administration of water cifre and other tortures by American officers and marines, and the commission of numberless abominable crimes of which twenty-fiv- e cases with names and dates are given In the report. The report is supplementary to two resolutions calling for congressional investigation of Haitian affairs, one Introduced by Senator Hiram Johnson of California, the other, by Representative Bland of Indiana. - d What Is Your Worth as an .Individual? TAX of one per cent on the net A: worth of Individuals is suggested the imagination of the great majority of women when the time comes to acquire new Beyond an interest in the hosiery. qualities and prices in this particular variety of hose, they are not :concerned, and they can afford to be indifferent, since the plain silk stocking, in good qualities, is not outrivaled by any other styles. It is appropriate for the most formal and the most inTherefore the formal of costumes. story of hosiery is a brief one, dealing chiefly with variations , in silk weaves, with certain extravagances of style , and a very few innovations. one. These innovations are the only hose half-o- f that need to be illustrated ; everyone Oh, they built a mile and a track out 'to the scene, and the is familiar with the standard varieties wreckers salvaged the whole outfit. Among the newcomers there. are promThe strange part of It Is that a pros- ising cashmere hose, as shown in the perous settlement, known as The picture above, - woven in stripes or and finished off with clockLost Freight, sprung up at the v terminus. ing. Among them, as in silk, there are Thats so. replied the waiery-eye- d a few fanciful weaves, but they are You dont happen to .be not popular. The light weight golfing one. ind sports stockings reveal dark related to Anner Nias, do you? in No. replied the irown and dark green mixtures, which call m 1: vidual. My - familiars lave the appearance of being wool .d silk combined, but may be of mer- -' lank Hanson. So long., nard. Than! ;ni a very entertaining afiecoom. loose-jointe- lf of the occupying the n, d . ; land, three delegates of the Patriotic union of Haiti have presented to President Harding, the State department and congress a report in which the American marines and Haitian gendarmes are., accused of committing numerous atrocities not Investigated to match. One especially attractive, by the Daniels court of Inquiry. AMONG those present in every of the fashionably clad, smooth-face- d The report calls the American occucloth in navy blue with there are many that wear capes, and indistinct cross bar in red, has Inspired pation the most terrible regime of their number seems to Increase every the longing for a cape of it in many military autocracy ever carried on In day' and everywhere.' For all sports, hearts. For utility, capes and for the greatAmerican democracy. The for street and travel, for day and sports wear the knitted materials ap- three delegates are H. Pauleus San-noformer Haitian secretary of forevening, there are capes and more pear to have put designers under a capes, so that any woman with an am- spell and in silk they invade the eign affairs and former minister to the bition to wear this most debonair of realm of capes for dress. One of these United States ; Stenio - Vencent, forgarments Would hasten, to gratify it. appears at the right of the picture, mer president of the Haitian ' senate, Probably the new materials used are showing a sofhewhat complicated de- and H. Perceval Thoby, former charge partly responsible for its great vogue velopment of the cape and the usual daffaires of the Haitian legation in and street suits that consist of a . fringe trimming. Washington. dress with cape to match, inBut for dressy capes nothing rivals, - The Haitian people, according to the stead of a coat, promote its reign. To e and all its sister crepes. report, in addition to reparations for the knickerbocker and coat suits of the wrongs and injuries done them, deof them, too many are There many wool worn for golfing, devotees of that : sire names sport add a cape to match for extra to remember the various trade abolition of martial law Immediate that have been given them, and they And courts warmth when it is needed. martial. A generous supply of materials make glorious wraps. Fringe is the Immediate reorganization of the suited jo capes for utility..' wear in- favorite trimming for them, but apcludes both wool and silk'weaves, plique motifs made of the material Haitian police and military forces, and smooth and rough, surfaces. Many of are ingeniously used on those with withdrawal within a short period of these capes look like a steamer rug the smoother surfaces and these are the United States military occupation. Abrogation of the convention of In a new role. The cape at the left wonderfully effective in of the two pictured is a fine example Many of these crepes reveal two colors 1915. of this comfortable wrap with itg scarf in their weave. go-b- n I read nothing in the proposed legislation that tries to control those everybody in this room knows to be the greatest profiteers not only during the war but at the present time that said this country has ever known, Mr. Brown. Why does not congress try to control these people who by their retail butchers associations lo the large distributing cities hatfe a closer organization than apy of the big trade union organizations in America? A recent survey of wholesale and retail meat prices in Chicago disclosed startling comparisons. Only last week I checked up on prices In two shops located directly across the street from each other. Meat obtained from the same packer was being sold in one shop at from 10 to 18 cents a pound more than the same brand , and cuts were bringing across the street. I was offered lard of a well known brand at exactly two and one-hatimes the price that brand was whole- sallng for on that day. Bacon costing wholesale 30 to 35 cents was offered at 55 to 65 cents a pound. Haiti Peeved With Our Leathernecks - home-stretc- What the Sam Hills the matter with that giddy choffer? thinks L Then it struck me all of a sudden that Jc about seven and a half minutes there was going to be trouble, likewise a lot of scrap-iroscattered over the ' scenery of the Sunflower state. The north-bountrain had already entered the same block, and the two betrains would meet about 'half-wa- y tween my bungalow and the next one south, on the curve around a grove thereabouts. In my mind I pictured the horror of the scene. My mind was full of the possibilities of the situation, and I was standing there, paralyzed, as it were, when suddenly there was a roar, and the topography of Kansas began doing the Wilbur Wright act. I was picked up bodily and hurled against that shanty of mine with sufout of ficient force to knock (lie The national live has declared war on the recall meat dealers., Everett C. Brown of Chicago, president of the exchange, appearing before the house agriculture committee in opposition to packer legislation, characterized the meat retailers as the greatest profiteers this country has ever known. He urged the committee to desist trying to regulate the packers and to concentrate efforts on breaking up the profiteering by the retail dealer. Mr. Brown furnished the committee Ith a resume of a survey which he made recently of retail prices in Chicago. These prices, he declared, often showed a jump of 100 per cent from the wholesaler to the consumer. WASHINGTON. d the stillness was suddenly fractured by the shrieking of the south bounds whistle. I got ready to do the reception act, and wondered why Jim Bludsoe kept his whistle blowing.. In a few' seconds the big engine loomed in sight. Along she came, like e a on the and suddenly I realized that the big galoot at the throttle "was going to give us the ; I grabbed my red flag and got busy with the wigwag performance, but old iron, horse swished past with his long, . brown tail of empty freights strung out behind like the appendage of a raee-liors- V. one-pie- After they had been gone about fifteen or twenty minutes, and I had raked my brain for a solution of the matter, I heard a whistle awfly off in the distance. It sounded low, appearing to come from the south. There was nothing due at my place for an hour or so ; so I thought at first it was a relief party coming up to help solve the mystery, but as the sound continued, and did not get any louder, I concluded that, whatever It wras, it was stationary. The sound kept up for about ten minutes and then stopped. I waited for about half an hour, and then I saw one of the searching party returning on the run. In the meantime headquarters had been hammering me for news of the engine. When the special courier arrived, he was winded ; so I saw it was no use .trying to pump anything out of him until he got through with his breathing exercises. When he got his bellows working again, I learned that they had found Jim Bludsoe and his train about three miles down the road, about a mile and a half away from the track. Several of the cars were standing on end, but the engine and the .balance of the train were right side up, scattered over the face of the virgin prairie. The searchers had heard the whistle, and . proceeded to investigate. They had found the wreck as reported, with, old Jim standing in the cab, and battered. scared, wild-eye- d How the heck did they get there? one. asked the watery-eyeWell, they couldnt get anything out of Jim. He seemed plumb locoed. When I sent in my report over the wire they sent down a lot of experts to try and salvage the train. Jim Bludsoe was the only living critter left of the crew. They figured that the cyclone had caught up to the train on its wild whirl down the track, picked it up bodily! like a blooming airship, and carried it across the country to where it was discovered. ; This was verified by the crew, who came straying in like lost sheep from the prairie whither they had blown. , ' the them from that learned was It engineer had developed a crazy streak some time before passing my station and chased the fireman out of the cab. That explained why they gave my sigHowever, Jim Bludsoe nal the never had to answer for his crazy act, for the last I heard of him he was a in dippy domicile, quartered in an upholstered boudoir. And what became of the locomotive and cars? inquired the watery-eye- sos to let another train d Greatest Profiteers in the Country? GSfi - . loose-jointe- UNDER THE SPELL OF CAPES - As my gray matter resumed operations, I realized that it was the northbound passenger train that stood upon the siding. How the Sam Hill did you get here? I asked the engineer. Why, came in my engine, he reWheres No. 23 Isnt she In plied. method of raising additional revenue and at the same time bring a reduction in the cost of living and a return of business prosperity,, said Mr. Bacharach. , However, as an alternative proposition I am considering the presentation of a bill which will levy a tax of one per cent on the net worth of the individual to take the place of those taxes which I feel very strongly should be eliminated. Under the most unfavorable conditions, such a tax should bring in more than a billion dollars in revenue. Advantage of a one per cent turnover sales tax to the government, the merchant, and the small taxpayers wen claimed by its advocates at tlie opening heariftg on revenue legislation be-fthe senate finance committee. Charles E. Lord, New York, dry goods wholesaler and manufacturer, favored a one per cent turn-ove- r tax yielding $1,500,000,000, miscellaneous taxes yielding $1,000,000,000 and income .taxes yielding $1,500,000,000: He said that estimates made on the basis of prices prevailing a few months ago showed that a one per cent turn-ove- r tax would yield about $2,000,000,000, but that tills has been scaled down to $1,500,000,000 as a result of declining ,. . prices. or . Wm. Gilpin for National Statuary Hall? , the time arrived for Colorado, years old as a territory and 45 years old as a state, to select a dis-tinguished citizen for a place in. the national statuary hall in the national capito!? Senator Nicholson thinks so and proposes Wtlliam Gilpin, first territorial governor, as one of sufficient historic renown to make him worthy of being the state's first representative In the hail of fame. Each state in the union is entitled to two statues. More than half of the states now have representation, some with one and others with two. Just whose statue shall go to statuary hall Is a matter for the legislature of each . r.tate to determine. . I think that Colorado is now old enough us a state to determine on at least one of its early illustrious citizens as worthy of a place in this hall of fame, said Senator. HAS i was named by Abraham Lincoln as Colorados first territorial governor. Before he became governor he had served in the Mexican war and hail led expeditions against hostile Indians of the West. Indeed, it was Gilpin who influenced congress to name our state Colorado. He defeated a proposal, made by secessionists, to name the state Jefferson. He went to Colorado in a wagon drawn by oxen. He served Ilcholsi n. My first choice is Gover-to- r ns our territorial governor in ISO I and Gilpia.. who did big things for the 1SG2. He kept the state on the side vhole West, as well as for Coorndo. of the union, taking a position against le was one of the pioneers who helped secession. The whole West looks on i give the country an appreciation of iilm ns oue of the big figures of the ue great West, and who early recog- - early days. A . -- na-io- - ' |