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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH Evil Spirits In Ecuador Wilds Assassins Paid to Carry on Strife Bred by (01d Land Grants. Guayaquil. The stretch of land lying between the Vinces and Pueblo-- ' viejo rivers on the western bank ol the Guayas contains some of the best cattle and cacao farms of Ecuador, and its dark, dank forests of cacao trees seem to be the stronghold of the spirit of murder that Is, deliberately planned slayings by hired assassins, who are ready for a few dollars to snuff out a man's life with a shotgun from behind some thicket, or, ns In the case of the recent Mendoza kill log tiiis city, even in a theater crowd. There are reasons for this, In the form of the land holdings. which date back to old grants either to former Spanish function-arie- a of the crown for services, or to old revolutionary soldiers. The grants have been sold In the form of shares which were never properly surveyed or delimited, and disputes over them engender hatred. The Inefficiency of the laws for punishing and other forms of lawlessness and the opportunity offered by the f refluent revolutions for some baudit or had man to commit crimes with Impunity to the war cry of "Viva other" also forced the larger plantatlonowoer8 te organize their 0wn bands of. guards In Paves Why for- - Slaughter. I But once the respect for human life was lost through Indulgence in wore or less warranted and killings of real bandits and robbers, It was an easy step to killing an obstreperous neighbor, who may or may not have had some right to his claims to land. One's sensations In riding for the first time In a large cacao plantation are errle. For miles one Is hemmed la on all sides by the closely planted trees at distances of nine to twelve feet the lops of - which meet overhead to shut out the sun completely, waking It impossible to see more than a couple of hundred yards at the most directly down the row one Is rldlug In. and then only In a comparatively young plantation. Every acre or so there Is a large matapalo tree with its many buttresses making Ideal hiding places for any sort of real or imaginary peril, and so even to the foreigner at peace with all the world there comes a feeling of uneasiness and even dread. One can Imagine the sensations of some hacendado threatened by. aneneruy- - or- oft one who has itad to use the law of flight ou some cattle thief. This Is where the recent murder of Enrique Mendoza, prominent planter, which has startled Guayaquil, bad Its origin. All the principals in this trag edy have holdings In this fearsome district, and while most of them had lived In Europe, the force of custom and perhaps circumstances was greater than the restraining influence of any associations abroad. deep-roote- d cattle-stealin- g sorae-bodyi- self-defens- e. legtti-wat- - e From the current versions of the crime. It seems that the younger Alberto and Enrique, considered themselves wronged by their uncle Felipe and his agent In Guayaquil, Lautaro Asplazu, and that EnThe rique had threatened Asplazu. actual killer, who was Imported for the deed from up the river, asserts he was hired by Aspiazu to do the job for 6, (XXI sucres, and that he wus promised immunity. Strange Third Degree. When this man, Carriel llncay, was In Jail he was submitted to a strauge form of third degree. When his food was brought in the sentry halted the bearer and said that all food for him was suspected of being poisoned, aud so it must be tested on a dog. Thereupon some of the meal was fed to a stray cur, which died In typical Tills so imstrychnine convulsions. pressed Carriel Pincay, although It was betraying one of his former mas ters, that he made a clean breast of all the circumstances of the recent killing, as well as of many more, telling of the famous alligutoi pool Into which Felipe Mendoza was said to have thrown several persons, and giving details of several famous murders in years past. Carriel Pincay, who had run barefoot all bis life and was dressed up so that he would not attract so much attention as he awaited bis intended victim on the theater steps, tried to run after stabbing Enrique Mendoza, who was leaving the theater after the Sunday evening performance with bis wife. But Carriel Pincay was caught easily. He said he could not run with shoes on, as they hurt bis feet. He received UK) sucres in advance tor his trabajito, or tittle job, and tiow, in jail and to be tried for murder, he is trying to get a lawyer to bring suit against Aspiazu and Mendoza for the 5,900 sucres which he asserts are due him. Men-doza- 54,000 Australians in Appeal for Wives Brisbane, Australia. Out of a population of 900,000, there are 54,000 males In Queensland state who cannot find mates. Canon Garland, the director of the Church of Englands immigration council, has broadcast an S O S, appealing to women between the ages of twenty-twto come to and forty-twQueensland. o o - Ex-Conv- ict Finds Hes Rated Noted Criminal Budapest. On being released from prison after serving a long term for murder, Gustav Nick, a Hungarian baker, visited a local panoptlcum and there among the other wax figures of famous criminals discovered bis own. When he explained, however, to the owner of the panoptlcum that he had reformed and Intended in the future to lead an exemplary life the owner immediately removed the wax figure from the show room. Communists Attempt Jail Break With Smoke Bombs Jassy, Rumania. During the trial of 25 Communist agitators in the Jassy criminal court, two other Communists, who had succeeded In obtaining entrance Into the courtroom, threw three smoke bombs In an unsuccessful attempt to cause a panic and enable the prisoners to escape. France Will Finance Its Amateur Flyers Paris. A scheme for providing the French military and naval air fleet with a huge reserve of trained flying personnel by subsidizing amateur airmen has just been announced by the air ministry. Hereafter the government will pay practically half the cost, which Is about $4,000, when an amateur wishes to buy himself an airplane, also half of the maintenance. The offer is limited to French citizens and to aviation material Manufactured in France. The subsidy is iu the form of six different discounts. The first discount ranges from $320 to $1,360 on the original cost of the airplane, depending on whether it Is a monoplane, a biplane or a triplane. There will be an additional premium of $220 for metallic construction, another of $280 for safety appliances and another on the cost of the motors. As the maintenance, regards amateur will receive a bonus of $2.62 per flying hour , after the , first 100 hours of flight and higher payments proportionately on an Increasing scale. , , Civil War Vets Battle; One Dies as a Result Va. Two Confederate Jacob Heater, eighty-nine- , veterans, and W. M. Butler, engaged In a to decide which one should be first to go to a barbers chair a few days ago. Later Heater was found dead and Butler was arrested on the charge of killing him. Both men were inmates of the Soldiers home here. Heater served In the Civil war as a member of the Company D, Thirty-firs- t Virginia Infantry. Butler served In the Confederate nary. He is alleged to have blackened one of Heaters eyes. Coroner James M. Whitfield said Heater probably died of shock. Richmond, fist-cu- ff Japanese Admirer Plans Shakespeare Garden Tokyo. So ardent an admirer of the works of William Shakespeare Is Dr. SankI Ichikawa, that he has established what he calls a Shakespeare garden at his home In the Tokyo sub urbs. Doctor Ichikawa, who Is presl dent of the Japan Shakespeare so ciety, has made a list of the 100 odd shrubs and flowers mentioned tn the bards work and has commissioned a horticulturist here to collect them throughout the world for his garden The anniversary of Shakespeares birth was celebrated here at a special meeting of the Japan Shakespeare society. What the Well Dressed Dartmouth Boys Wear Here Is an array of Dartmouth students showing how shorts may be adapted for wear on every occasion. The revolt against the conventional trousers Is sponsored by the college paper. Many college athletes, Including the football hero, A1 Marsters, have come out for the freedom of the knees. These students Ore showing bow shorts may be worn for school, in the autumn, for afternoon wear, for study, for formal occasions, pour le sport, for emiformal ttlre and for the campus. 8cene on the Grand Canal, Venice. (Prepared by the National Geographic Society, D. C.) Washington, the opening of the travel season the paths In Europe lead again to Venice, woich, with Its nnlqne streets of water, seems to exercise a lure more potent than cities wholly of the land. T e traveler should not expect too much of Venice. It Is hardly fair. No great city can exist on narrow canals and be entirely a thing of beauty. One necessarily has had dreams of Venice and goes there with marked preconceptions. This follows reasonably enough, for so much has been written about this city of the sea, and of course the rosy, romantic aspect has been presented. If one does not set his mark Inordinately high Venice will charm him. Novelty will pinch hit whenever beauty strikes out. By all means the visitor should arrange to arrive in Venice by night. Under soft moonlight or under the rays of the dim and Infrequent street lamps, Venice puts her very best foot forward and strives to make the most extravagant dreams come true. The deep shadows under Its bridges and the palace arches, the mysterious narrow black canal entrances, the picturesque leaning posts, the gentle lapping of the wuves against the walls and steps, the swish of the paddles, the half brusque, half songlike calls of the gondoliers as they approach blind corners, perhaps the musical song of a gondolier In Che distance all combine to give one an entrancing entrance into the City of Canals. He leans back on his cushions during the long boat ride to the hotel for of course traveler and luggage must go by boat quite contented witb life. This is Venice, and It is quite as It WITH should be. What the Day Reveals. night arrival is a ru e but a successful one. It Is as though one should contrive to meet a once beautiful lady, qo longer young, at an evening garden party. Her wrinkles become soft lines. When they face you In the pitiless light of the morrow they will have a certain suggestion of familiarity and memory will make them less harsh. The first day In Venice discloses indubitable signs of ugliness as well as of beauty. Picturesque gondolas pass on the Grand canal. So do the unpicturesqne Venetian street cars" squat steamboats, little, but all too large beside the gondolas their sawed-of- f stacks belching dirty black smoke. They raise choppy waves, as do the swifter little motorboats. The gondoliers glar6 at them and the traveler joins them in spirit in the choice Italian curses that they must be ottering under their breath. More gondolas pass and the trash boats of the municipality. In the waters that seemed so fair last night floats every conceivable sort of rubbish. Yonder is the beautiful fsicade of a fine old palace, and besiiflf it a building from which the stucco has fallen in great patches disclosing ugly bricks beneath. Perhaps the stones are falling away, too, at the waterline, letting the waves reach in for an InGreen evitably greater destruction. siime covers the steps and the tilted wooden posts are rotting. Time is not the only desecrater of Venetian walls. The hand of the advertiser has been bnsy, too. And some of the walls that Dandolo loved and that scores of poets have sung about now inform the occupants of gondolas and street cars of products that can be purchased to their supposed advantage. But thanks to a night arrival these things do not worry the visitor over much. He turns rather to the domes of Santa Maria della Salute with a tangle of mast9 against the sky; to old the arch of the Ponte Rialto; to the Incomparable spires and domes of the Cathedral of A history-encruste- San Marco. d One finds that there Is a surprising amount of dry land life In Venice. A veritable maze of alleys and calll (little streets) and fondamentt (canal exist. The best one can hope to do in a short stay is to gain a superficial acquaintance with the main way between San Marco and the Rialto. Piazza San Marco. The ways, whether narrow alleys or somewhat wider calles, have no sidewalks, of course. The entire space, such as It Is. Is for pedestrians. At Intervals the narrow ways open np Into campl" as the little squares are called. The name, Piazza, has been reserved for the great square of San Marco facing the cathedral the ultimate in dry spaciousness in Venice. If one has only a picture knowledge of Venice, as all the world has not been there has, the Piazza San Marco will prove a surprise. The little open space that holds the famous statue of the Lion of San Marco Is not the real piazza but only the anteroom, the piazetta. Well behind the Hon column, around the Campanile lies n square greater than many a clfy with an unlimited supply of terra flrma d can boast. No wheeled or traffic uses this great square. It is given over entirely to humans and pigeons. Thousands of the latter make the Piazza San Marco their home, and there Is seldom a time during the day when one can cross the square without carefully picking his way to .avoid stepping on them. When night falls again and cloaks the inevitable tawdry spots of an old city built on piles, one forgets his criticisms of the day. Out on the lagoon at the mouth of the Trand canal. In a boat lighted by gaily colored lanterns, a company of musicians and singers begins s serenade. The gondolas of tourists Join the throng of slender black forms bobbing gracefully up and down, each with a silent, statuesque figure standing at Its stern. Soft music and the gentle swish of wavelets fill the air. The lights of the Lidos gleam in the distance while nearer at hand black masts' and spires stand out against the sky, the soaring shaft of the Campanile topping them all. The Three Lidos. Venices playground is the Lidos, the chain of low sand islands across the lagoon, which have ever guarded the city from the Adriatic. Without these Isles and the tide they control, Venice, or at least the Venice that Is so well known, would never have been born. On the Lidos were the original settlements that led to the establishment of the city of Venice on the Islands of the lagoons. When Attila and his 'lun hordes swept down on Europe in 452 A. D. many of the Inhabitants of the regions farther inland took refuge on the Lidos. From 742 to 809 the seat of government of the region was at Malamoceo, a few miles south of the present Lido bathing resort on the sam. Island. The encroachments of the waves during the spring and autumn storms, and the vulnerability to attacks from enemy navies, led. In 809, to a general exodus to the Islands on which the present city Is built. The Lidos today consist of three principal long sandy islands, divided by narrow water channels, and scarcely far enough above the .water to be distinguished from clouds when seen from a distance. The 'Litorale, or beach, of Malamoceo is the largest and most Important, as it contains both the famous bathing resort and the small village of Malamoceo. The Litorale of Pellestrina is a strung-ou- t village of fishermen and gardeners. Along it are portions of the greet seawall, for, although the Adriatic protected its daughter from the guns of a the vessels of the ages, it exacted constant homage in stone walls and breakwaters. side-walk- s) four-foote- heavy-draug- Mid-dl- |