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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH South Dakota Bad Man Slain s Wayne Kelly, a Notorious Outlaw, Shot to Death by Deputy Sheriff. Sioux Falls, S. D. Wayne Kelly, accounted the last of the bad men of the South Dakota frontier, died with his boots on. After a series of thrilling captures, escapes and pursuits, he finally was cornered recently by a number of officers and was shot and killed while again endeavoring to make his escape from his pursuers. His career, for elusiveness, had many of the features of that of the famous Billy, the Kid. notorious southwestern outlaw, who kept the frontier of Arizona and New Mexico in a turmoil for a number of years, and his exploits, if told in detail, would fill many newspaper umns, and would furnish the material for a Zane Gray novel. Kellys stamping ground was in the thinly settled country in northwestern South Dakota, adjoining southeastern Montana and northeastern Wyoming, as well as southwestern North Dakota. The region has many wild and isolated hiding places, and It Is said Kelly was familiar with practically every square yard of the Immense territory in which he roamed. Escaped From Jail. In thjs region are the famous Slim Buttes, which marked the site of a bloody battle between United States troops and Sioux warriors, who were fleeing after the Custer massacre. Since Kellys escape from a jail in that region in August, where he was being held for trial on a charge of cattle and sheep rustling, officers all over the state have been on the lookout for him. Recently they learned lie was on a ranch near Covert, a small village on the Moreau river. The authorities were given a tip" that he had gone to the ranch to obtain his car, which he had left there some days before, and the officers, headed by Deputy State Sheriff Floyd Short, surrounded the place at night, some of the members of the posse concealing themselves in a shed which stood between the ranch dwelling and the barn. When daylight broke Kelly came from the dwelling and started toward the barn, evidently to feed his saddle horse, which the officers afterwards found there. As Kelly was about to pass the shed, the members of the posse ordered him to stick em up! Kelly threw his arms about half way up, and kept backing up, with the officers commanding h to put em higher." Kelly kept drawing back and finally his right hand dropped toward his gun, and noting this movement Deputy State Sheriff Short fired at him at close range with a rifle. The bullet struck Kelly in the right side, about half way between the shoulder and his waist, and he died almost in, Thinking a lookout was maintained, the officers crawled some distance to a point near the mouth, of the canyon. and then, seeing no sign of life, made their way into the canyon one at a time. This was early one morning. Kelly evidently felt so secure in his mountain fastness that no lookout was maintained. Therefore the officers were able to crawl up on the tent in which he was sleeping, and when they awakened him he saw the muzzles of several euns within a few feet of his face. There being no chance for resistance, he sur rendered. He was escorted to the frontier jail preliminary to the convening of court and speedily made his escape from it, as stated. Later Jack Kelly, Wayne Kellys father, was arrested on the charge of aiding his son to escape, and to this he pleaded guilty and was fined $500. Others were arrested for aiding him to escape, but were acquitted. N Stray Buffalo Bullies Prize Herd of Cattle Okla. N. B. Coker, farmer of near here, was startled by frantic mooings from his herd of prize catAltus, tle. Going to the pasture he found them huddled in a corner of the field cowering from the menace of a huge buffalo bull. The buffalo apparently was taking a keen delight from the fear of the bovines. Snorting, he would dash at them. Just before he reached one of the timid creatures he suddenly would halt and back away. Fearing harm might come to his peaceful herd Coker chased the animal away. Brass rings at the tip of its horns indicated it was a stray from some private herd. WON LIPTON TROPHY I 5 o Cambridge, Mass. Those who 6 use Widener library of Harvard 2 university must enter and leave 6 through turnstiles at which they 2 are inspected to determine 9 whether th&y have smuggled 2 books out of the building. 9 Whereas 125 volumes were 2 missed from the library during 9 the summer of 1929, but six 6 were illegally removed during V the summer of 1980. 6 oooooooooooooooooooooooooo U. S. Army Puts Rubber Tires on Its Artillery Washington. The rumble of artillery caissons on steel rimmed wheels probably will be replaced by the swish of rubber tires on concrete roads in any future war, according to the annual report of Maj. Gen. Harry G. Bishop, chief of army artillery. Describing the new and revolutionary developments In artillery since World war days, Bishop said the army, during the last year, had built and tested two. supermodern 75 mm. gun mounts. Both are capable of and aerial fire. Also, both have pneumatic tires, bearings, and sprung carriages. Plans are being made for a similar howitzer gun in the 155 mm. class. It will have a pedestal type mount and will be capable of elevations between 0 and 65 degrees, and of traversing 30 degrees on either side the center. Further t will be capable of going into and out of position quickly. Weighing 5.000 pounds less than the present 155 mm. gun used by the army, it will be able to cross lighter bridges in safety. Other modern additions to army artillery during the last year have been caterpillar tractors for two motorized divisional field artillery units and 24 drive cargo trucks, General Bishop said. lour-whe- Truck Farms Now Bloom Where Outlaws Roamed Tucumcari, N. M. From the shadow of Mesa Redonda, once the wildest and most famed outlaw stronghold of the Southwest, each year now are hauled tomatoes, sweet potatoes, melons and a variety of other vegetables. In the days when fugitives from the law had the territory to themselves a few straggling homesteaders drifted near and tried to eke out a living. But the outlaws resented their action and few of them lasted out the year. The homesteaders came back, slowly at first. The huge tracts over which extensive farming had been tried yielded to smaller plots, and intensive farming was begun. Most of the land was dry, but E. J. Smith took fifteen asres of it and called it Willow Springs farm. There was a gurgling spring on the land. Smith dug out a little basin 100 feet square around the spring and installed two pumps powered by a farm tractor. 32,000,000 Qualified to Drive 26,500,000 Cars stantly. con- Thirty-twmillion Washington. persons were eligible to drive 26,500,-00registered motor vehicles in the United States on January 1, according to a statement issued by the American Automobile association. Of the 32,000,000 operators, 22,000,-00are in states which do not require that all motorists be examined on mental and physical ability to drive. Thomas P. Henry, president of the association, said the survey showed that the saturation point in automobile buying was still very far away," that traffic control was an urgent national problem and that' all states should require proper examinations for drivers. o stantly on Kellys trail for a period of three weeks in an effort to capture him, but he finally escaped the pursuing officers by swimming his horse across a swollen stream during the spring freshets. Kelly was captured last summer, but the officers' did not hold him long, for after being in a frontier jail for less than two nights he succeeded in making his escape with assistance from the outside. At that time he was traced to a canyon in the Slim Buttes, where he made his headquarters in a deep, ragged ravine, entrance to which could be made by only one person at a time. Turnstiles Checking Thefts From Library anti-frictio- n 1 Early last spring a posse was oooooooooooooooooooooooooc 0 0 J. Willard Colebank of town, German- Shelby county, Tennessee, naclub achievetional winner of the ment contest who was awarded one of the Sir Thomas Lipton trophies during the Ninth National Boys and Girls Club congress held in connection with the International Live Stock exposition in Chicago. 4-- 4-- H Cleveland Is Building a Municipal Stadium Cargo Boat on the Tigris River. advance In recent years. The natural Prepared bv the National Geographic Society Washington. D. C.) outlet for the country Is southeasttreat? between Great ward along its rivers to the Persian and her most important gulf. But Its customers and clients territory, the Kingdom of are chiefly to the northwestward and Iraq, which has been before the the northeastward across extensive representatives of the two ccuntries deserts and mountain ranges. These for nearly three years, has recently barriers have not yet been bridged by been definitely ratified. It recognizes steel rails. Gaps still exist in the Iraqan independence to take effect famous proposed ABerlin-toBagdad when Iraq becomes a member of the railway so that it is not even possible League of Nations. to move Iraqan products as far as the Iraq, present day heir of ancient eastern Mediterranean ports by rail. Babylon In the valleys of the Tigris and There are close to a thousand miles job of railway track In Iraq, but it is enEuphrates, has had an since the World war. in its efforts to tirely an Internal system. At no point . transform Itself into a modern state does a railway cross the Iraq border, It has had constructive nnns for The rail system, however, does perphysical development ; but politics, re- form two important functions in intersocial customs national trade It carries exports and ligion. and the age-olof some of its people have interposed imports o and from the port ol Basra, stubborn obstacles in the paths of the head of navigation on the for ocean going ships; and It concontemplated progress. The Iraqis have sought a status nects at Khanaqin near the Persian comparable to Turkey. Persia and the border with a motor road over which Hejas. al1 Important and independent is carried on Iraqs sizable transit Mohammedan states rather than that trade with Persia. of a mandated area on somewhat the In the absence of railways to the same footing as smaller and less pop north and west, all of the heavy freight ulous Syria and leaving and entering Iraq must move by water through tiie Persian gulf. Ever since the treaty of Versailles, But within the last fev. years an effiplacing the country under mandate to cient and rapid system has been set Great Britain, became operative In up for the transfei of passengers, 1920. Iraq has obtained a greater and mail and light express overland beIt is tween Bagdad and Basra on the greater degree of Independence. the only c.ne of the twelve mandated southeast, and Damascus. Beyrouth, territories which has a king, parliaJerusalem and Cairo on the northwest. ment. and responsible government As Good, highways have a result of Iraqi insstence. the rela been constructed through long sections tlons between mandatory and man of 'he river valleys. dated territory were defined in 1922 in Across the deserts that separate a treaty between the governments of Iraq and Syria the ways are merely traq and Great Britain which looked natural earth roads, but they are in to the termination of the mandate fair condition, and over them powerwhen Iraq could enter the League of ful American-buil- t busses carrying Nations. Tills treaty was later re passengers, mail and express cover vised twice with Great Britain under600 miles in 24 hours. The quickest taking more specifically to nse her in mails, however, travel by the weekly fluence to obtain membership for Iraq airplane service win 'h extends from in the League If Iraq continued to Basra to Cairo. Airplanes fly apStill later Great Britmake progress proximately over the highway mute ain agreed to drop this proviso and to for a considerable part of the way seek League membership for Iraq between Bagdad and the west. nally In 1932. ft is the treaty Of the two great rivers of Iraq only so altered that has now been ratified the Tigris Can be used by boats. An Restoring Its Irrigation. important freight service, moving hunEmbracing the potentially fertile dreds of thousands of tons in large valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates river steamers, is operated between and large stretches of seml-ariand Bagdad and Basra. Special shallow-dra- ft l river boats ply the desert lands, Iraq has always been primarily au agricultural and pastoral Tigris op the river from Bagdad to country. In Babylonian and Grecian Mosul , and above the latter city considerable quantities of supplies are days the valleys were herring-bonewith irrigation canals and these were brought downstream on rafts. Below kept up by the Arabs In the days of the junction of the Tigris and Euthe Caliphate. The lands of Iraq phrates the combined tidal stream s were exceedingly productive and Its known as the Products and Industries. people were highly prosperous until 1258 A. D when the Mongol invasion Although some progress has been destroyed the Irrigation emtmi kments made in recent years toward the deAfterwards under velopment of industry inu the extracand headworks. Turkish rule Iraq became less and less tion of mineral wealth from the prosperous, much of Its 'nee fertile ground. Iraq is still predominantly an t valleys turned Into wilderness and agricultural and pastoral country. This condition is reflected in the exswamps. The aim of the m st thoughtful lead ports and imports. During the fiscal the exports. Including ers In Iraq Is to restore the irrigation vear 1927-2works which the valleys possessed goods in transit, amounted tn about $40,000,000. while the imports were , during L.eir golden age. This, how valued at tpprnximafely $54,000,000. ever, would be a tremendous task, reDates, valued at close to $6,000,000, quiring vast amounts of "apifal. which unable to at led is command the list of exports, followed by present Iraq cereals and flour. $5,000,000. The government has organized a deand Among the leading partment of irrigation and under its wool, $2,500,000. articles imported were textiles, valsupervision Is slowly bettering existued at approximately $8,500.000 ; and ing irrigation works and undertaking new ones. One of the most important sugar worth $3,000,000. The few Industries carried on in steps has been the construction of a permanent weir in the bed of tfic River Iraq are on a small scale. The resiDijala to replace earthen aams which dents maintain factories for spinning, were constructed annually, only to be knitting, carpet making, anc shoe manwashed away each flood season. Sevufacture, copper smelting and flour eral river regulators and escapes were milling. It Is only a matter o, time, how- -' constructed In 1928, and canals were ever, until the country will have an extended to revive areas that were important place among the regions passing out of cultivation and to bring producing and refining petrol cum. Two tens of thousands of acres of new financially strong companies hare concessions to explore and develop the land nnder Irrlgaflon. Incomplete. Syatem Iraqan oil supplies, and both have ' Railway In trnnsimrtation agencies, other brongbf In producing wells within the than railways. Iraq has made a marked past two years. THE - up-hi- ll d Shatt-al-Ara- Palestine-Trans-Jorda- b n. hard-surface- d d stern-whee- d Shatt-al-Ara- malaria-breedin- b. g 8 This architects drawing shows how Clevelands $2,500,000 municipal stadium will appear when completed. stadium, which will seat 80,000 persons, is expected to be completed In July, 1931. 9t The , |