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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH 0000000000000000000000005 Murder Charged Fur Farmers Get t Million for Pelts Winnipeg. Fur farming in Manitoba is making big strides, the last available figures showing 230 farms iif the' province as compared with 12 in 1923 ' and two in 1920. In the last fiscal year pelts ga. th'e value of $1,2S6,537 were j, feen in. the province, muskrats Idling the most numerous', ,3?sj04 witK? .value, of $2S$,204i .jThe .rest, 'In prdqr, of Importance, .were yvqazel, mink - v Fail to Find Body of Boy v' Men Are Indicted for Killing. Wooster, Ohio. First degree murder indictments against Charles Uan nah and Earl .Conoid In connection with the mystetfojis, disappearance four-yeai;-o- ld MeWln both will be held withptitbafl Since they were held to the grand jury on ' charges of. child stealing three weeks have remained in jail in lieu' r "each.. J Based on Confess op. The evidence were indicted on both counts . Conohl is Reported jfo'fveT bepf l.fi;gefy Hhe exception being Y8 .recent confession, which I jljj . was presented to the grand jury by' Graven. In this confession Hannnh said that son. Junior, brought his Melvin Horst to the garage where Conoid kept his car and that there he (Hannah) killed the boy by striking him ovqr the head with a scantling., He asserted Conoid buried the body. But evfery place Hannah Indicated as the burial spot failed to bold any trace of the body. This confession, like two previous ones, was repudiated by Hannah. He said : The authorities Werent satisfied with the trnth, so I told them lies to get some sleep. Hannah's first statement was obtained by the prosecutor a month ago, after Junior, under rigorous questioning, had told the story of taking Melvin to Conoids garage on Cleveland avenue in Orrville. , Hannah then related that Conoid killed the missing boy and buried his ago-the- of Han-most- turned recently by VVltf grand jury despite the fac?TRe"boys body has never been found. The only basis for the indictments Is that Hannah in one of his many statements confessed that he killed Melvin and charged that Conoid disposed of the body. " ld num-fcariw- ? -- ffpik.wmlfi,. w . OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOpOOOOOOO v ld The grand Jurys action in returning the murder indictments without Melvins body having been found and without a scintilla of direct evidence other than Hannahs questionable confession to indicate a crime has been committed probably has few- - paral-- ' ' lels in legal annals. May Scare Prisoners. Voting of the murder indictments, further complicating an amazing and tangled mystery, was regarded as a criterion of the sentiment in Wayne county against Hannah and Conoid. Unless Melvins body is found the prosecution itself has little hope that the murder charges will stand, but the Indictments were returned, it was reliably reported, on the belief this action would scare the two defendants into giving more information. The authorities handling the Investigation endeavored to administer twilight sleep, a drug suppose to make a person unwittingly tell the truth, to Conoid. He resisted the ef forts and the potion was not admlr istered. Twilight sleep was administered unsuccessfully to Hannah. The indictments against Conoid and Hannah were returned after the grand Jury had beard the testimony of eighteen witnesses, many of them county and local officers conducting the investigation into the disappearance of the Orrvlile boy the night of December 27, 1928. The murder and child stealing Indictments were voted without recommendation of the prosecution. Prosecutor Graven said, and were based on the evidence the prosecutor and his aids assembled" since Melvins disappearance and in the month Hannah and Conoid have been held in the Wayne county jail for questioning. Graven said he was not greatly surprised that the murder indictments were returned. I merely presented the evidence and the grahd jury saw fit to vote the prosecutor against both men, said. I believe we have plenty of precedent for returning such indictments even though the body has not been found. This is an unusual case. We' are going about it in an unusual way with unusual results. While the plans for this trial of Hannah and Conoid go, f.orwacd bptb will remain the center of the fnvesTP gation seeking to determine Melvins ultimate fate which, the prosecutor admitted, was apparently no nearer disclosure that it had ever been. Authorities will continue to Hannah. Conoid has refused to answer questions unless his attorn ey& are pres' ent. Because of the murder indictments four-year-o- $10,000 ..bond body. The night after Hannah made this statement Conoid was questioned in vain for nearly twelve hours. He apparently broke after that siege and dictated to Mayor A. U. Weygandt of Orrville a terse statement. Without the slightest detail, that Hannah had killed the boy in the garage. , Same Name, Seek Same Office ConwSy, Ark. Two men by the same name John W. Peters have announced they will run for constable in next primary election in a township near here. Famous Shot Tower Is'- Aglow After 150. Years , Baltimore. Thefamous Shot Tower, wilBpreeerved here as a- memorial of jjie Itevolutionary days of 1776, for the first time in- - more. $ian 150 years. But tills time the gloWieVs mot the result of a seething fcaldron of fire for turning lead into liberty bullets, for which it originally - was used. - " , , ..Today, it represents merely a novel method of illumination, to be perma- J nently maintained as a living memorial of fire to the heroism of Continental , , troops. Clouds of steam are generated below in an automatic boiler and then released from the crest of the tower to be reflected, in turn, in the glare of cleverly concealed red and amber lights. The lighting effect, according to Illuminating engineers who designed and supplied the equipment, portrays In realistic fashion a fire under a boiling pot of lead, a familiar scene in the heyday of the old shot factory. When recently turned on for the first time, with what appeared to the uninitiated to bfl flames swirling .pf. the old tower of smoke ascendjjJVhe effect was said to be ing 24? W that witnesses stood the passing of a landmark. ' SMWe completion of the installation, the lighflhgreffects are turned on each Mother of Kenya Colony, British East Africa, Carrying Her Child, at All ' Burdens Are Carried There, by a Strap Slung Across Her Forehead. (Prepared by the National D.Geographic Society, Washington, as-th- 3Liienting Tike method fire Similar said) lllu4lflKsfloirofr-the vff NEW CAVALRY CHIEF 0 hecu employed is 'to used JjJt . War for farnqus Kansafe ;ity. UneaKtSeorets of Nature!. in Old Rips Home Cobleskill, N. Y. If Rip Van Winkle had taken his little snooze in the Hudson highlands lately, instead of during the Revolution, he would have had real occasion to rub his eyes on awakening. Man has lately .been prodding ' at nature in Mynberr Van Winkles old neighborhood, unearthing secrets at which Rip could only make superstitious guesses. What would Rip think, for Instance, of electric elevators, descending through a concrete shaft, 156 feet into the earth, into underground chambers where a myriad of electric lights play on the miles of stalactites and stalagmites? This is the engineering feat recently completed for the pleasure of motor tourists at Howe caverns here. Howe caverns remained unexplored until recently, because of the extreme inaccessibility. Incrsg . of motor travel in the neighborhood has led to the construction 0$' tjoads which place the entrance to the cavern's- on the main highway, forty miles west of Albany and thirty miles southwest ' of Schenectady. , . aues-txo- n Col. Guy Henry has been named by 'President Hoover to be chief of the United States Cavalry. He succeeds Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby. - Uncle Sams Heavy Air Artillery , . HIS bunting trip to Kenya and Uganda provinces In British East Africa, the prince of Wales, like most other hunters in that region of the .world, made his headquarters at. Nairobi, capital of Kenya colony. The largest shops in town cater to the sportsman, and natives in the vicinity earn a livelihood as safari boys, those who bear the supplies for the hunting parties. Specially equipped autos now follow the jungle trails and one may purchase a different type of gun to hunt eaclK variety of animal. In Its early days Nairobi was known tin town of East Africa, because of its houses and shops' constructed of tin and corrugated Iron. Handsome stone structures have generally replaced those earlier buildings. Wide, paved streets have supplanted dirt roads. Automobiles mingle with bicycles and jinrickshas drawn by natives. Nairobi is the capital of British East Africa and its attractive government buildings and large hotels .give the city a cosmopolitan touch. The government of the city is vested in an elected council. Women have a municipal vote. Most of the whites in Nairobi are English. The native population consists mainly of the Kikuyu, a mild mannered, agreeable people, and the Masai, once the most famous warrior tribe of East Africa. The bulk of the trade Is In the hands of the East Indians, of whom there are several thousand in the city. Venerable Land. Though Kenya calls itself the newest of, the British colonies, it is one of the oldest lands of the earth. Theodore Roosevelt, In speaking of his African hunting trip, said that the Masai often reminded him of the pictures of the soldiers of Tbothmes and Rameses made by the ancient Egyptian sculptors, in that thier faces were resolute and had clear-cu-t features. The same noted traveler said of this tribe that though the women were scrupulously clothed, the husbands and brothers, very ostentatiousof ly, wear nf clothing for purposes ' decency." ' .Still Hunt Sacred Book. ' The Gallas, though they are now of little importance either politically or economicilly, take great pride In their past They say that they once had a sacred book, like the Bible or the Koran, hut a cow ate it, and not being certain about the particular animal, 'in , their search' they are still opening the stomach of every cow that dies. , The most effective weapon of the Masai and Andorobo is the arrow which they poison with the Aeocan-therSchimperi, a small tree. They boiljthe leaves and branches until the mixture becomes thick and pitch-likIn appearance, and place it on sheets of bark, which they hide high on the branches of trees away from the children, until it Is needed. When an animal is shot with an arrow dipped in the poison, it dies almost immediately. The natives cut out the flesh around the wound as soon as possible and throw it away. The remainder is eaten and the blood is drunk. This love of blood as an article of food is common among many African tribes, several of. them going so far as to bleed their cattle and drink the blood hot or mix it with their porridge. The mixed breed known as Swahilis, who live along the coast of the mainland and among the thousand-and-onrepresentatives of other peoples of the world to be found in Zanzibar, have one claim to prominence among Kanya tribes their , language Is the one in If one common use in the colony. can find some one he Swahili speaks to converse with him from Natal to IN s nigKR C.) - e a e e Army air corps bombardment planes in formation. Each plane has a carrying capacity np to 4,000 pounds of bombs and has a cruising radius of 700 miles. Aden and Congo. from to Mombasa tha Uganda, westward of, and farther Inland than Kenya, Is a land where 30 years ago natives and wild animals roamed at will, seldom seen by the white man. Now the protectorate is an Important source of Britains cotton. Land of Cotton. Hemmed in from the sea by Kenya colony on the east, the Sudan on the north. Lake Victoria and Tanganyika territory on the south, and the jungles of the .Belgian Congo on , the west, the protectorate, which Is about twice the size of New York' state, has become And 90 per cent of Ugandas exports are cotton. The cotton crop In 1905 yielded Now more than about 350 bales. 200,000 bales are produced annually. It is not the white population but the nablack, tives who are the Uganda cotton barons. There are about 1,800 white inhabitants among a total population of more than 3,000,000. Many, of the whites are experts who operate experimental farms and instruct the natives in cotton culture. More than a acres of land are tended by the tribesmen. In eastern Uganda, where the best cotton is grown, native chiefs have large holdings. Their tribesmen take keen interest in small plantations, some of which are smaller than half an acre. ' Cities Replace' Native Huts. Where small native villages once stood, the traveler now sees prosperous towns. Entebbe, the capital, is a beautiful little town of bungalows surrounded by lawns bordering wide streets, shaded from the tropical sun by huge trees. It occupies a peninsula almost surrounded by the blue water of Lake Victoria. The government house is a gabled bungalow overlooking the lake. Save for a little business carried on in the Indian bazaars and the arrival of lake boats at the pier twice a week, Entebbe is quiet It suggests a summer resort rather than the seat of government of a large, prosperous colony. Although the capital is little more than a stones throw from the equator. Its climate Is not unpleasant The thermometer reaches 115 degrees by day but the njghts are cool, the mercury sometimes dropping as low as 50 de' J v grees. Contrary to popular opinion that, central Africa Is junglebound, Uganda has a of roads linking up various trade centers. On tha roads between important towns it is not uncommon to see natives riding bicycles and driving pleasure automobiles and motor trucks. And beside the road, modern steel plows are often seen turning the soil that only a few years ago had never been touched by anything but the crudest implements. There are numerous tribes in Uganda bnt it is the Buganda natives witli '. whom the traveler usually-comein contact. The forests of the west are Inhabited by pigmies. Lions, leopards, monkeys, hippopotamuses and elephants are stijl to be found there. The Buganda natives are intelligent, and according to the missionaries, easy to convert. Both men and women usually wear a wide, cotton cloth, sometimes brightly colored, draped about their bodies from the shoulders tc the knees. The cloth worn by a native may have been made from the raw product of bis own plantation, after having been woven in the mills at Manchester, England. Tali, ciumsily built and ugly, the men are brave, polite to travelers, and happy. The women, while not beautiful, usually wear a smile rather than the glum countenance of some of their neighboring sisters. Anglo-Egyp-tia- flat-nose- woolly-heade- half-millio- n n d cotton-growin- g well-ke- pt large-networ- s 1 |