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Show 4 I & - . 1 MAGAZINE ' it AT SUBLET MINE MYSTERIOUSLY SET OFF, WITH FATAL RESULTS. 13 MfT- Clocks Dffi MJMEE, ' ft C , v - Little clocks big clocks fa clocks alarm Wouldnt it to have one always right' WelTl them; they go right, they tay riP And price la - - J right." v i BOYD jewelers 160 Victim' Clothing Burned Off and Their Features Are Badly DisCause May Never figured. Be Known. V s MARK miw-ti- i Automobile, Airplane, and Submarine Prove Hit Right to RihT Over the Natural Kingdom. er know u. A: the time of the explosion three miners on their way to work had stopped at the magazine, which is a considerable distance up a hill from the mine workings, to obtain powder, and four others who hud just come off shift were on their way to their cabins by way of the magazine. The force of the explosion tore the men's clothing Into tatters and burned and Incerated them until their feutures were almost unrecognizable. So great was the force of the explosion that the harness was blown from a span of mules uttached to a wagon near b and the wagon was The ' mules, reduced to fragments. however, escaped and have not since been seen In the vicinity of the explosion. One of the men whose clothing was in a blaze ran some distance and jumped Into a creek, lie was unconscious when taken out As soon as the explosion occurred a big force of men rushed from the mine to the rescue of the Injured and as soon as possible a special train, consisting of an engine and box car, was placed at their disposal, upon which the Injured men were brought to this city and placed In the Lincoln ' county hospital. Seven doctors were summoned and did their utmost to alleviate the sufferings of the patients, ull of whom were unconscious. Shortly after their arrival at the hospital three of the Injured men passed away. They are T. Imnga, Japanese; Fred Kentftnkel, Japanese, ami K. Shinn, Korean. 8TRIKE TIES UP COAL FIELD lndiana8oft Fuel Region Crippled by Unauthorized Walkout of Day J Laborer Terre Haute, Ind. Indianas coal field Is partially paralysed by an unauthorized strike of day laborers and drivers, following a similar action In the Illinois field. Fifty mines, near Terre Haute are Idle. President Ed Stewart of district No. 11, United Mine Workers of America, wired President Lewis urging a conference of miners and operators of the state In the competitive field for the purjiose of presenting the matter to the proper authorities for settlement. The day laborers claim they were JUOOAl SHU Ul - wage award. ISUJBSa pO)UlUIJ.SSp Service Men Co on a Strike. Saranac Lake, N. Y. Two hundred disabled soldiers undergoing treatment at the Home sanatorium here for tuberculosis, contracted while In service, are on strike against the United States public health service. This action wus taken upon receipt Here of an order from the New York office of the health service directing that all disabled men be transferred toserylee sanatorlums In other set1- - tlons of the country. Out of J215 disabled men, INK) have voted to disregard the order. The former soldiers have formed an organization to oomhat the proposed move. Committees have been a pix.il to work out some ptan of reorganization of the Home sanatorium that will be acceptable to authorities at Washington. nt-e- Subjected to Fiery Denunciation Chicago. William Bros Lloyd, mil- of the Communist Labor party, and nineteen aslionaire sergeant-at-arm- s sociates were branded hs cowardly, shrinking, disloyal rebels." when the state opened final arguments In their trial on charges of plotting to overthrow the government by force. May Stop JTraf f ic, Kansas City. Kan. Street cars here will stop and the city become dark lq five days unless coal Is shipped Into Kansas City very shortly. This was the assertion of F. G. Buffe. manager of the Kansas City Railways. -- Mills Closing Down. Ind. The steel mills of Gary Gary, were shut down Monday because of the coal shortage. Hundreds of workmen are idle. The rail mill, two big blast furnaces and a number of opeop hearth furnaces closed dow u. In the competition for jmnival, Mj. eating Insects must be green' h tlielr prey, or perish; vt like the bark; the tiger, striped lit, sunshine through the nisl.es. The A black sheep" t fittest survive. more than a figure of speech. The struggle for existence demand hi murder In the flock of white, cmtspi uous In contrast Adaptation or death. The crafty little chameleon the prince of color adapters. Faculties used, are sharpened; jj neglected, they waste away into ves. tlgla the appendix in man. Ejes o( moles and burrowers are slowly closed wtlth skin and fur. The Daffy little lap dog has weak eyes. Hut ca. era toad with eyesight almost goa will recover dim perception In slowly graduated light. And cats improve their sight to ponetrat shadow land. Man noticed the pupil of his eyes contract in sunshine, ind enlarge In darkness saw the bat, tad understood. On all sides he saw this principle at work: Bears, fur coated, restrict-eto the cold; the dolphin, in the sea; the eagle, the bird of freedom, alert always to escape In flight. H i Le- Wlsl-newsk- i ADAPTABILITY! - " 4- y Kenmierer. Wyo. Four men are dead and four will probably die us tlie result of the explosion of u magazine at Sublet No. 6 mine of 'the Keiumerer Coal company, twelve miles north of this city, at 4:45 o'clock Monday afternoon. The cause of the explosion Is u mysl, tery, but it Is believed that Matt "1 years of age, powder man, lighted a match while In the magazine. As Wlsliiewskl was Instantly killed and none of the other Injured men was In the magazine ut the time of the explosion, the facts may never he main Yrna, OMEWIIEIIE In "Darkest Africa CapL L. II. Stevens of England is searching for the prehistoric monster whose reported existence has been disturbing the scientific world more or less since 1903. It Is supposed to be some sort of a dinosaur. Inasmuch as the t lizard that dinosaur Is a dates back to the Age of Reptiles. which antedates man on this earth by anywhere from 60 to 000 millions of yeurs, the scientists are naturally saying, with the country boy at the circus at sight of his first hippopotamus, Gosh, there ain't no slch nnlmllel" Still there was such an animal once. And people are saying they have seen such an animal now. Hence Captain Stevens' expedition to Africa. The eurller reports have been corroborated by two Belgian hunters, who report sighting a huge beast of terrifying proportions and attributes. Mr. Gapelle, one of the Belgians, says his party caught a glimpse of a huge beast rending his way through the jungle verdure, which defied zoological analogy. He snja it was In the general shape of a lizard, probably fifty feet long, with a thick tall like a kangaroos, a hump on Its back, and a terifylng horn on Us snout. The monster was covered with scales, which were colored with great blood-respots from which radiated pale green stripes. A English naturalist and collector, has written to the press that there Is every reason to believe there Is such an animal living In the heart of the unexplored Jungles, If not great numbers of them. During bis stay In Africa he heard the story from so many different sources, he says, that he ts convinced there Is some truth In tt. Fifteen years ago, when collecting In the Transvaal, I heard an Interesting story of a monster, half snake, half beast. My Informant, of the Rhodesian police, who patrolled near Barotseland, said he had approached within a hundred yards of it while It was lying asleep on the border of a swamp. It was, he declared, a hundred feet long, and Us strange appearance so frightened him that It awakened and glided Into the swamp before he could rafse hts gun. It traveled noiselessly and with great speed. "The country round about was quite unexplored. My friend told me that I was the first to whom he had mentioned the story, as he was afraid to tell his comrades because they would have laughed at him. Once again when I was on the French Kongo seaboard I heard fearful stories from the native hunters of the monster. I also heard the same stories on the way to the Belgian Kongo, where the present brontosaurus Is supposed to hare been seen. When you hear stories from three or four widely different sources I believe there ts some truth In them. Tou must remember that If you travel to Fernnn Fits and Sette Cams and go up Into the Interior, most of the country has never been explored. What creatures live In Us vast mysteries we do not know. Whether the brontosaurus Is a prehistoric survival or not I would not care to say. I firmly believe the creature exists, hut I believe It Is an unknown creature of more modern descent The brontosaurus, or whatever the strange creative ts, makes use of Us legs and Us body It glides. I Rhould Imagine It Is a very (fangerofis I am creature. But that It Is rot all a fairy-talcertain. I have been there, and I have talked with natives who will not pass a certain boundary Into an evtl land because of tbe huge monsters which live In Its remote solitudes. an American living In LonWalter ;Vlnan don, Jheplstol champion and a hunter, also believes In the existence of this creature. The late Cart Hagenbeck told me before the war," Mr. Wlnans said, that two of his traveler on different expeditions and In different year had seen the brontosaurus In swamps In central Africa. I do not think It Is Impossible that some of the prehistoric animals have survived, and when several explorers have seen glimpses of what they think must be such animals they are most probably right It U not as If some one not used to recognizing them Instantly saw wild animals for the first time. These men are always on the lookout for new species and know all the animals by sight It Is possible that the ts one of extinct reptile and that the dodo these may still exist somewhere not yet explored. The quags too which existed until s few years ago, may still live In some unexplored part of Africa and the mammoth and the cave bear stUl wander In Siberia." Mr. Wlnans went further to satisfy the public and drew an outline of what this animal probably looks like. With that picture, which appeared In the Evening News, he appended this bit of descriptive .argument: The scientists draw this beast standing on its leg as a mammal would. Now no mnmmllaQ animal has the combined heavy talTand long neck tbl animal has. A. kangaroo has the heavy tan, but It Is built very Ught In front, with only short rudimentary legs. It uses Us tall as a third leg. In combination with Its two hind legs and works on a tripod so formed. The giraffe has a long neck, but It Js built light behind, and Its tall Is so light that It practically has no weight in comparison. The giraffe carries Its head high so as not to put a leverage on It Now the brontosaurus Is heavy both !n tbe tall and tbe neck, which, beside are both very long. If It stood as the scientists draw it. the tall 4 a alight puff ind nock would oVerbnlaiww ig I fifty-foo- big-gam- night-prowlin- fl - e t v d well-know- n so-call- so-call- e Mg-gntn- e sea-serpe- so-call- Eng-Hs- h . JfPUpT S0tT-v- rr J?Zrc?0SAZXRZA5 - of wind from the side would blow It over. It 1 ridiculous to think that an animal a hundred feet long would have legs close together In the middle and have of Its length sticking out In front and behind unsupported In the air. My Idea Is that the brontosaurus was s reptile, neck, practically a crocodile, with a snake-Ukand not a mammal, that It carried Itself as a crocodile does, that Is, crawled on Its belly when on land and did not walk on straight leg I think It crawled with its neck drawn back so ns to strike like s cobra and most likely had poisonous fangs. In fact. It was a big poisonous lizard, and that It was brilliantly colored, like them, and perhaps discharged poison through Us skin like a toad when Irritated. The best weapon to shoot It with would be the magnified Mriuser rifle, such ts the Germans used against tank only with an explosive shell three-quarte- rs e n Instead of an If I were younger I should be off after him." Anyway, the monster Is sufficiently real to have set the scientists disputing about his possibility, his Identity and his looks. They call him all sorts of names brontosauru trtceratops, tylosaurus and so on. One expert writes to the press: The animal In question can not be a bromo-sur- u If the Illustration in n. G. Wells book. Outlines of History, are correct The Illustrations show a very different creature from the descriptions in the newspapers of this one. What this one really appears to be ts a triceratop only that animal has two horns." Another zoologist heaps scorn on the entire Idea, asserting that while he believes there are undiscovered animals living In the heart of Africa, he doubts that a dinosaur or any other primeval beast exists anywhere today, ne writes: "The period in which they lived Is Incredlbly-remo- te as man counts time. Their bones are found In the strata of the Eocene period. The brontosaurus was remarkable for his very small head and small brain cavity. Ills whole skull was no larger than his neck bone. The name means thunder beast, and one species was well over fifty feet In length and weighed probably twenty tons or more." The evolution of man has been a long process so long that the geologists and other scientists prefer to dodge the question of the millions of years Involved and reckon tneravanerabelng anywhere from six to 45 millions of year They call the first era Archeozoic; it is ancient beyond all knowledge. Then comes the Proterozoic, with Its very primitive forms of water life, lasting 33 millions of year The Paleozoic, with fish, and .land plant lasted 43 million The Mezosolc, the age of reptiles and amphibians and of tree saw the first mammals ; It lasted 16 milThe present era, the Cenozotc, has lions of year seen the rise and development of the highest orders of plants and animals and the appearance of man ; Its duration to date Is put at 6 million year So thats what we are up against when we talk of there being at large in Africa a survivor of the Age of Reptile Anyway, we know these reptiles existed because we find their fossil remainsactually pretty much all over the world. Why, these fossil ar. so thick out In Utah U. S. A, that we have the Dinosaur National monument. Tou see. once upon a time, the waves of an open sea rolled over the spot where now stands Longs peak (14.255 feetL "King of the Rockies." la this sea sported the marine monster of loogagusnd. on its chores lived the grotesque creatures of the Age of Rer. Then the Rocky Mountains heaved themtile selves up and this great Inland sea had to run off Into the Arctic ocean and the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific. And then the rains washed down the mountains and filled up tbe plains with the scouring Some of the creatures In this Inland sea got mired SDd their bones are now found petrified in s remarkably perfect state of preservation. And Its no trick for s scientist who knows his business to reconstruct an animal from 'hi bone armor-pierce- .Mr. Gapelles monster seems to suggest the armored dinosaur, If thats the Stegosauru nes low, he isnt dangerous, Hes scarcely any herblvorou brains at all; thats why be la armored to protect him from his enemies. Hes about 20 feet long and 10 feet high. half snake The Tylosauru but a Dinosaur, half beast," isnt probthat though a Mosasaur, differably makes no particular ence. Hes a Beaserpentish sort of thing and probably requires afmore water than a morass ford according to the restoraThe Brontosauru y tion herewith reproduced, doesnt look especial formidable, except for his size. to pay h Tbe dinosaur that seems best able e Allsauru the Is way and keep on going teetlT and claws and looks as if he might rapidly. dinosaur However, the fact that the African does not seem to be exactly like any of his prehistoric relatives proves nothing. It may be that the fellow Captain Stevens Is after has evoluted like the rest of the world and Is prepared to preWhy sent something entirely new In dinosaur should he not have developed? Hes had at least six million years In which to Improve himself. The Outlines of History," IL G. Wells' new book, considers these early monsters quite fully. He says In one place: The earliest-knowreptiles were beasts with not powerful legs, very like bellies very and great crocotheir kindred amphibia, wallowing as the Mesozoic the In but they ; to this dile wallows day soon began to stand up and go stoutly on all four and several great sections of them began to balance themselves on tall and hind leg rather as the kangaroos do now. Another division was the crocodile branch, and another developed toward The Plesiosaurs and the tortoise and the turtle which left no were two groups the Ichthyosaurs measured 300 Plesiosaurus living representative was neck. half which feet from snout to tall tip of a of were third Mosasaurs group "The great But the largest and marine lizard most diversified group of these Mesozoic reptiles was the group we have spoken of as kangaroo-llke- , the Dinosaur many of which attained enorIn bigness these greater Dinomous proportions. saurs have never been exceeded, although the sea can still show In the whales creatures as great Some of these, and tbe largest among them, were herbivorous animals ; they browsed on rushy vegetation and among the ferns and bashes, or they stood up and grasped traps with their forelegs while they devoured the foliage. Among the browsers, for example, were the Plplodoccus carnegil, which measured 84 feet In The Gigantosau-r- u length, and the Atlantosauru disinterred by a German expedition In 1912 from rocks in East Africa, was still more colossal. It measured well over 100 feet! These greater monsters had leg and they are usually figured as standffigup on them r but" It hr verjr doubtful If they could have supported their weight In this way out of water. Buoyed up by water or mud they may have got along. Another noteworthy type we have figured ts the Trtceratops. There were also a great cumber of who preyed upon these herbivore flesh eater Of these. Tyrannosaurus seems almost the last word In ffrightfulness among living thing Some species of this genas measured 40 feet from snout to talL Apparently It carried this vast body kangaroo fashion, on Its tall and hind leg- - Probably It reared Itself up. Some authorities even suppose that It leapt through the air. If so. It possessed muscles of a quite miraculous quality. Much more probably It waded, half submerged. In pursuit of the herbivorous river saurian And along with these terrible beasts were e "These creature were the pteroBut bjrdltke though they were, they were dactyl not bird nor the ancestors' Of btfdThestruc- ture of their w ings was that of s hand with one web ; the wing of a bird is like long finger and an arm with feathers projecting from Its hind - And- these pterodactyls had no feathers."' pdgw.All of these creatures have disappeared from the face of the earth. Wells say They ended abruptly. They were extinguished, as though by the waving of a magic' wand, perbaps In order to make place for tuan; and Wells says that the ending of the reptiles is beyond all question the revolution In the whole h story of the earth before the coming of mankind. "It is probRbly connected with the c!oe of a vast period of equable warm conditions and the onset of a new. austerer age. In which tbe Miners were bitterer and the summers brief, but bn." r. bro-alosau- ru am-phlbla- ns ' por-polsell- ke bat-llk- bat-lizar- most-striki- ng g d therefore devised the automobile, tbs airplane and the submarine, to Jump from mountain top to oceun bottom. This adaptability of ills body of diversified surroundings has made bis monarch of the natural kingdom. RUSSIA LAND OF HOLIDAYS Almost Innumerable Occasion All Work Is Suspended and Spent in Pleasure. Wht Tim Russian people observe rigorously all religious holidays five at Christmas, ten at Easter, three at Camivil, and almost every week one extra day, when an anniversary of some salat ti celebrated. On these days everythin Is closed, and nobody works. The six weeks of fasting preceding Easter arc strictly observed by everybody, and the more devout do not even eat eggs or drink milk, and do not use sugar, be cause It is refined with blood. Tbe last three flays of Holy week are still more respected, for no food at ii consumed. For Easter Sunday, eery large cake sometimes three or four feet high, are cooked with beautiful ornaments on tbe top, and eggs skillfully painted. Both' cakes and eggs, with other eatable are brought os Easter eve near the church and placed all about ou the ground. v After the midnight mass s procession of priests and choirs comes out and walk around the church, blessing all the 11 food. Which la as arranged before then a market Easter Sunday and the two follow lng days are dedicated to paying via It Every man calls upon bis ae qualntnnces. Visitors are obliged ta eat and drink wherever they happea to go, otherwise they will offend the In host Eskimo Inherently Honect The Eskimo regards honesty s paramount. ne will never mlsrepresed fact and although he may want B wfl dispose of an article badly he rather depreciate It than run the rii of over praising. A man who Ilea B deceives another is severely punished An Eskimo will not permit s Mfe man to need for food or clothing, on he has enough for himself and family. War, to the of the North, Is unknown. ride differences by staging dance parka-hoode- d end otttslngngeac-otbeaa-f,-me- n set as Judges to decide winner y In this way honor Is satisfied. nIs unknown. In combating ature. fighting the walrue' tbe and tbe bear with primitive weapo1 the Eskimo displays unusual coelne and plans his way ont of dinger! extreme Superstition Taken SeriusF Ghosts and --"black magic" of laughed at In the Interior Under the mystic, awesome of the dank Jungle anything possible. -- White men have to respect the superstitions of tbe natives, and among tbe men w ho represent the co!n b In this far-of- f empire there occuU ta1f oped a rich lore of are recounted to the travel never a flicker of skentle'st . . Offended- . fr tloletThindinr" school didate for county dent has requested the Tore a. to refer to her friends who s , lng her In her caropalp' Arkansas Thoms porter Value of Imagination. Imagination Is tbe supreme f the gods and the degree of session Is the measure of ,nJ jh advantage over clrcumtn u measure of his clutch ot KeLiex. |