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C'J. HHE Afl iriSTITUTIOri
HOT JLTtnGDUTIKI
first Guardian Training
Camp in South A Splendid
- SncceM Gastonia Guar
d Ian Accorded National
Honor.
Miss Marian Harvey, guardian of the
,Janooa Camp Fire Girls, of Gastonia,
Who in company with Mrs. Joe Gribble,
of Dallas, attended the training camp for
guardians held at Bat Cave, near Hen
lersonvil)e, was awarded national honor
and recognition for her proficiency in
-vocal and instrumental music and camp
work.
3iss Harvey says that she did not
'realize the vast scope and high aim of
the camp fire work until she took the
course at Bat Cave. There she heard
aome of the most prominent educators of
America and became convinced that this
Institution, as called by one of the speak
rs, k the best of its kind in existence.
This educator is quoted as saying, "If
I eould not send my daughter to college,
the next best thing would be camp fire
activities."
Camp IFire is an organised effort to
find romance, beauty and adventure in
everyday life, to make tasks pleasant in
stead of drudgery, to care for the sick
and children, to work toward the health
of tha mind and body. Guardians are
eaneciallY uraed to take their girls camp
ing, to look ffter tkeir health, to induce
them to give semee to their cnurcn ana
town and home, to provide flowers and
books fossick" children anl 16' be of use
and service in every conceivable way.
There are nearly five hundred honors
napped out in the camp fire manual and
even different ways of winning signal
honors through homecraft, handcraft,
heahhcraft, eampcraft, nature, church
and patriotism. Gaston county has been
quick to respond to the splendid work,
made possible by the Camp Fires, by or
gnizlngS.welve eamps since February of
this year. Visa Harvey has been instru
mental in organizing camps at Lowell,
Bessemer City, Dallas and Gastonia. The
next step in prospect is a Guardian's As
sociation which it Is hoped will be formed
in the next few weeks. This association
will afford an exchange of ideas from
guardians who are skilled in different
venues of activities.
SAKE COLLECTION OF INDIAN
RELICS DISPLAYED HERE.
' Chief White Kagle, who has been in
Gastonia for the past week lecturing on
different subjects and selling his Indian
remedies, has an interesting and rare
display of Indian relies.n the window
of . Kennedy 's Drug 6tore. The thief
and his corps of assistants take great
pleasure in explaining the history of the
different curios. White Eagle, himself,
is especially proud of the bead work,
which is the work of his squaw ami shows
the result of much tedious lnbor'un her
part.
Iu passing the window one gets a
breath of the great, West, and an idea
of the romantic Indian life. The back
ground of the display proier is composed
of paintings of Indian tciees and explan
atory signs embellished on genuiue moose
hide. A hat made entirely of rattle snake
skins, skillfully tanned and woven to
gether, attracts quite a bit of interest on
account of its novelty and workmanship.
Tails of the elusive western pheasant,
snake skins tanned to the color of ordi
nary leather, and numerous trinkets of
educational and historical significance
are tastefully arranged in the temporary
museum.
CATTLE TESTS TO BE
CONDUCTED IN JULY
County Agent C. 'Lee Gowan announces
that July is the regular month for the
farmers of Gaston county to have their
cattle tested for tuberculosis. Last year
847 cows we.re given this test. The move
ment was gotten fairly well under way
last year and it is hoped that a greater
number of the farmers of the county will
take advantage of this opportunity of re
ceiving free tests for their cattle by an
expert federal tester. Any fanner who
has a herd of registered cattle of any size
msy secure this test on application.
Whether a cow has tuberculosis cannot
be detected by any external symptoms.
The only safe method is to apply one of
the three following tests: The subcuta
neous test, which consists of the injection
ander the skin of a, small quantity of tu
berculin; the intradermal, which is ap
plied by injecting some tuberculin be
tween the layers of the skin; and the
ophthalmic test, applied by placing oph
thalmic tuberculin in one eye while the
other eye ia used as a check.
RESERVE AVIATORS MAY STILL
KEEP IN TRAINING
'WASHINGTON, June 18. Qualified
aviators holding commissions an the of
ficers reserve corps will fee permitted to
continue their training at selected army
Bold, the war department announced to
day. Equipment will be furnished by the
military authorities. The purpose, H was
aid, is to assist' qualified flyers ia keep
ing themselves ia training against a pos
sible emergency. '
Field designated for the use of reserve
flyers were: Carlstrom field, Arcadia,
Fla. Kelly field, 8aa Antonio; Laagley
field, Hampton; March field. Riverside;
7' Aer field, Sacrameale; Mitchell field,
' i ; Ton field, Fort 82L
PRESIDENT VILSOTS UlTf-
I.UTEJEC07ERT ASSUMED
Nine Month Illness Has Not
Daunted Hi Spirit or Im-
. paired His Intellect.
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, June 18. President
Wilson's nine months of illness "have
neither daunted bis spirit nor impaired in
the slightest degree his splendid intel
lect, ' ' according to the New York World,
which today published a copyrighted in
terview of its Washington correspondent
with the president.
; Within the last two months, the cor
respondent says, the president has gained
more than twenty pounds and his ulti
mate complete recovery is assured.
During the three hour interview at the
.white house, says the correspondent, the
long discussion of current topics and is
ues showed that the president "ex
pressed himself with characteristic Wil
soman vigor."
The president told the correspondent,
in discussing the political campaign, that
the league of nations was the dominant
issue and he expects the democrats at
San Francisco to repeat his challenge for
a referendum on the league. Th issue
is "too deep for political sculdugery,"
the president is quoted as saying.
The president was particularly vigor
ous Sin attacking the republican platform,
according to the correspondent. "The
republican national convention," said the
president, "was controlled by interests
essentially and scientifically Prussian in
inspiration and method." He said he
did not see how progresisves eould sup
port the republican platform.
President Wilson told the correspond
ent he had not aided any candidate for
the nomination at can Francisco.
In discussing the presidents physic!".
condition, the correspondent said, "His
face is not distorted in the slightest de
gree, as some of the unfriendly versions
of his illness have asserted. The Wilson
face is much the same aa it was, though
it bears the impress of great physical suf
fering.
"After he bad worked and we had
talked for an hour,, the president walked
from his office chair on the balcony to
the movies in the east room, slowly, cau-
iously, but with confidence. ' '
The correspondent described the move
ments of the president about the white
house and said "the very best proof of
the great improvement in the president 's
physical condition was provided when he
mounted three improvise! wooden steps
and entered the motor car, with only such
assistance as would naturally be given to
a Mrson convalescing from serious ill
ness. ' '
Tlie president walked with a slight
limp :ind used a cane, according to the
correspondent.
MESSRS. E. E. BOYCE
AND CHESTER RANKIN
BACK FROM HAITI
Gastonians Return From Jaunt Among
West Indies Visit Panama, Port-au-Prince
and Havana Report Delight
ful Trip Sugar Scarce and High
Messrs. Erskine E. Bo.yee and Chester
Kankin arriveil in wastonia a lew days
ago from a month's trip to Panama, Culm
and the island of Haiti in the West In
dies. They sailed from New York May
Kt and landed in Port-au-Prince ten days
later. On the return trip stops were
made at the Panama Canal and in Ha
vana, Cuba.
Botl gentlemen were highly plea-cd
with their trip. Asked as to the sugar
situation in Haiti, Mr. Boyce replied
that sugar was scarce and high, higher
even than in the United States. He ad
ded that what sugar they saw was not
refined, but a dirty, brown-looking color.
'It is not so hot down there," said
Mr. Boyce in reply to a question as to
the climate. "Haiti is a mountainous
island ami the climate is very delight
ful, tt is almost on the Equator. "
Although Haiti is a republic under the
protectorate of the United States, the re
cently enacted prohibition amendment is
not in force down there, Mr. Boyce ad
ded. WILL TAKE DEMOCRATIC
ROOSTERS TO FRISCO
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, June 18 The democrat
are not "mulish only firm," according
to Mrs. Frederick Tahl, chairman of the
finance committee of the Illinois demo
cratic women's committee, today in an
nouncing that thousands of little silver
roosters will be taken to the national con
vention at San Francisco in an effort to
familiarise the populace with "the real
party emblem. "
"I have gone into this question," said
Mrs. -Tahl; 'and I find that the donkey
was wished on the democratic party just
after the eivil war when the democrats
stubbornly refused the reconstruction
program of the opposite party.
"The democrats are aot mulish, only
The rooster ia a proud bird and has
something to erew about."
GEOaGEV.TEEMS,
NOTED rTMCIER, DEAD
Was First to Introduce Profit
Sharing, Insurance and Ser
vice Bonuses in Big Busi
ness. (By The Aatouvtted Press.)
NEW YORK, June 18 George W.
Perkins, financier, died this morning in
the Stamford Halt sanitarium, Stamford,
Conn.
It became known June 11 that Mr.
Perkins had suffered a nervous break
down but members of his family did not
intimate at that time that his life was
in danger.
Mr. Perkins was taken to Stamford
about 10 days ago when his son, George
W. Perkins, Jr., announced the change
was made to afford his father a complete
rest and seclusion from his friends who
sought his counsels during the political
campaign preceding the Chicago conven
tion.
The affection to which Mr. Perkins
succumbed is believed to have been the
result of influenza and pneumonia con
tracted while serving with the Y. W.
C. A. in France during the war.
George Walbridge Perkins, for ten
years- a member of the firm of J. P.
Morgan k Company, was reputed to have
first suggested to and persuaded "big
business" to adopt profit-sharing, in
surance, service bonuses, sick benefits and
old-age pensions.
It was Perkins who was also said to
have inaugurated the plan which permit
ted employes of the United States Steel
Corporation and the International Har
vester Company, in both of which he was
at one time an executive, to purchase
stock on installments and at less than
market value on the assumption that "in
dustrial justice is the most profitable of
investments, that justice promotes peace
peace promotes prosperity and that the
workmen's prosperity ia necessary to the
prosperity of the business man . ' '
Mr. Perkins was born in Chicago.
January 31, 1862, a descendant of Jacob
Perkins, an English ancestor who settled
in Boston in 1631 . His father, George
W. Perkins, long engaged in the shipping
industry at Buffalo, was later a pioneer
in the lire insurance neii . i ne son en
tered the insurance business in Chicago
wheu 15 as a clerk, became a bookkeep
er, an agent ana suDsequenxiy manager
of a Cleveland office. He went to Den
ver and in 1902 was made vice-president
of the New York Life Insurance om
pany. His achievements attracted the
attention of the elder Morgan; he was in
vited to lecome a memlier of the Wall
street firm. In this capucity he negotia
ed a number of big foreign loans. He re
mained with .1. P. Morgan 4: Coinpnu
until 1910. meanwhile becoming a di ro
tor of numerous large corporations in
tiding the steel and harvester compnii
les. a nuinlMT or raiirouus ami tne inu r
national Mercantile Marine Cumpnnv .
Retiring from business a fey year.-)
ater as he said, to nVvolc lnyscu T (
ther work of a public and semi public J
attire". Mr. Perkins wrote and s;okc
frequently on the subject ot iinlu-lna!
justice and when Colonel Roosevelt be j
a me Progressive candidate for the pies
ileney in 1912 he became chairman of
he National Executive Committee of tin
artv. Previously lie had lieen a Re
t
I
publican . The year before he had urged
a revision of the Federal Corporation
laws nnd in testifying Itefore a Con
gressional committee investigating tin
I'nited States Steel Corporation he ad
vocated the fullest publicity for all cor
porations. Despite the defeat of the
Colonel. Mr. Perkins continued active in
his advocacy of Progressive principles.
Mr. Perkins early in the world war in
interested himself in the matter of Amer
ican preparediie-s. He was a severe
critic of President Wilson In a speech
in Indianapolis in 1915 he declared the
"I'nited States was unprepared for
war'" and nrged immediate action Af
ter the I'nited States entered the strug
gle he endeavored to stimulate food pro
duction and by large purchase- of pro
visions at distant iioints sought to ,iv rl a
war-time shortage iu New York city He
was also active in Red Cross, Liberty
Loans and other patriotic drives. After
the war Mr. Perkins went to France to
investigate eharges of waste and inef
ficiency against the Young Men's Chris
tian Association workers abroad . He re
ported that while some mistakes had Im-cii
made there was "little ground for hon
est criticism . ' '
A clone friend of the late Mayor John
Purroy Mitchell, Mr. Perkins at on time
was prominently mentioned for th(
Mayoralty wjf New York. He was once
quoted as having said that New York
City eould save $25,000,000 a year by
"a proper cut in its budget. " He was
a trustee of Vassar College and Berry
School, Rome, Ga., and a member of
numerous civic, scientific, sociological
and philanthropic organizations. In
1911 Mr. Perkins received the honorary
degree of L. L. D. from the University
of Wooster and the University of Ver
mont. Mr. Perkins married in 1889, Mias
Evalina Ball, s daughter of Flames Hall,
of Cleveland, O., to whom two ehOdrea
were born, Dorothy and George W, Perk
ins, Jr., the bitter of whom was a lieu
tenant in the American Expeditionary
Force.
ELWELL'S HOUSEKEEPER
MAY REVEAL STJEIO
Detectives Investigating Reve
lations Expected From Mrs.
Lorsen, EIweM's Housekeep
er. 'Br The Associated Press.)
NEW YOKK, June 18 The first legal
detention ia the mysterious case of the
murder of Joseph B. Elwell, wealthy
sportsman and whist expert, who was
shot to deat hin his home here last Fri
day, was forecast today by the district
attorney's announcement of intention to
have Mrs. Marie Larsen, housekeeper
and Edward Rhodes, chauffeur of the
dead man, held by the court as material
witnesses .
Assistant District Attorney Joyce, in
charge of the murder investigation at El
well's home, issued the following state
ment . ,
"Edward Rhodes, chauffeur for Mr.
Elwell, and Marie Larsen, housekeeper
will be taken to the court of general
sessions where we will ask that they bt
detained formally as material witness
es. "
NEW YORK, June 18. Detectives in
vestigating the murder of Joseph B. El
well, turfman and whist expert, today were
particularly interested in revelations ex
pected from Mrs. Marie Larsen, Mr. El
well ' housekeeper, and the owner of the
pink silk lingerie found in the Ehvell
rooms, who were to face each other and
answer questions regarding the hiding of
these articles the morning Mr. Elwell was
killed.
Mrs. Larsen already has revealed the
identity of the woman who is said to
be the owner of the lingerie and who is
reported to have rushed into Mr. Elwell 's
home the morning of the murder in an
effort to obtain her belongings. Her
name has not been made public.
Efforts also will be made today to
ascertain definitely whether Mgr. Elwel
went to bed the morning he was shot or
whether his housekeeper hurriedly made
up the bed after she found him in a dying
condition. Throughout the investigation
it has been assumed that Mr. Elwell had
not gone to bed, but in view of certain
retractions and corrections made in the
testimony of Mrs. Larsen she will be
questioned definitely on this poit.
District Attorney Swann said he had
not learned anything to warrant suspicion
that either of these women was at all
implicated in the murder, but that he
thought they had perhaps concealed evi
dence that might tend to reveal the per
son or jnrsoiis responsible.
EDWARDS DID NOT GO WITH
NEW JERSEY DELEGATES
Hy Tiie Associated I'ress.i
NF.WARK. N. .1., June In. -Governor
Kd wards, a candidate for the presidential
nomination on the democrat ic ticket, dial
not accompany the New Jersey delegates
on their special 1rain today for the demo
i t at ic convention at San Francisco.
Pressing official business at Trenton was
given as the reason for bis remaining be
hind. Delegates said lie would probably
attend the convention, however, if his of
licial duties would permit his leaving in
tMne.
AMERICAN RIDING TEAM
WILL SAIL JUNE 21
WASHINGTON. June Is.-The riding
team which will represent the I'nited
States army in the Olympic games at
Antwerp will sail from Huboken, June
"I, on the transport Antigone. The team
was selected from the entire army after
sharp ' competition and was given special
training at Fort Riley. Ka. thirteen
horses trained lv the members will be
taken abroad.
The team will gu first to Coblenz for
further training. It consists of Captains
Walter C. iShort, Berkley T. Merchant.
I. S. Martin, Sloan Doak. V. P. Erain.
K. C. C.reenwnhl, Harry D. Chamberlain,
John A. Barrv, ami William West.
$100,000 WORTH OF UQOOR
CAN'T BE TOUCHED
Held in Basement of George
F. Griffin, of Gold Coast
Section of Chicago.
! K Aociate1 Press.'
( HICAGO. June 1 S. Disposition of
liquor said to le valued at $100,000
stored in the basement of the residence
of the late George F. Griffin in the exclu
sive "Gold Const" district today was
puzzling federal authorities. A buyer
for the house is being sought,, but the
liquor, according to law, cannot enter
into the deal. It cannot be removed be
cause of the Illinois search -and-seizure
law. The widow, who desires to sell the
property, it was stated, might retain own
ership of the liquor, but she eould not
nse it after the sale, it, was said, because
that would mean its removal..
One federal official gave his opinion
that the stock eould be sold under a per
mit for medicinal purposes, while Major
A. V. Dalrymple announced he would
r demand the letter of the taw.T
' In the meantime two men are guard
ing the entrances to the basement. - , '
Seal the Armiagtea Cafe's ad es
6AST01 COIOTY MILLS
TO CU3TAIL FBODUCTIOri
Congested Yarn Market and
Traffic Conditions Respon
sible For 33 1-3 Per Cent
Curtailment.
As s result of a graduated program of
curtailment in the manufacture of comb
ed yarns in Gaston county cotton mills,
one million pounds of the product per
week will be withdrawn from the market
until conditions in both the yarn market
and a badly congested traffic in shipments
are relieved . Serious delays - in ship
ments of yarns from the Gaston county
mills have resulted a a result of the
rail strike and other disorders in the
North and East. As a consequence con
gested shipments are piled up in the
Northern markets and the market is
glutted. In order to relieve the situa
tion a temporary curtailment was deem
ed advisable and a program of decreased
output amounting to 33 1-3 per cent will
be inaugurated immediately in the hope
of steadying and stabilizing the market.
This curtailment will take form in var
ious ways. Each textile corporation will
decide as to the best means of tiding
over the slump. For instance, many of
the mills will not stop at all at present
Others will close down for a week at a
time, a policy that his been pursued in
Gaston county mills in former years
whereby operatives were given vacations
of a week or ten days during the hot
summer months. Other mills will re
duce the number of working days per
week until conditions become normal.
Cotton mill owners in Gastonia see no
cause for undue alarm in this proceed
ing. They universally state that the
curtailment will be for only a limited
time. No changes or disruptions in plans
for future cotton mills are contemplat
ed.
AFFECTED COTTON MARKET.
(By The Associated Press J
NEW YORK, June 18 The cotton
markefr lost yeasterday's late improve
ment during today's early trading. The
cables were lower, the weather map
favorable and unsettled conditions in
the textile trade was emphasized by re
ports that cotton yarn spinners at Gas
tonia, X. C. were going on short time.
The opening was steady at a decline of
four points to an advance of five points
and there was some Liverjool buying of
July and October at the start. Other
wise very little supiiort was in evidence,
however, and the market soon weakened
under liquidation or reselling by buyers
of yesterday. July broke to .'i7 : 115 and
October to .'I4:.'i0 with active months net
losses of JO to i't points before the end
of the first hour,
PRESIDENT TAFT SAYS
THAT AMERICA CANNOT
ESCAPE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
'By Tie Associated Press.;
BALTIMORE. June lh. Speaking at
a dinner given here last night bv the
Maryland branch of the English speaking
union of America, at which lie and JSir
Auckland Gcddes, British ambassador,
were guests of honor, former President
William H. Taft said that America could
not escape the league of nations ami that
the league would he adopted after the
"obscuring lights'' of the election lid
been dimmed.
"The war brought us new responsi
bilities, new burdens," Mr. Taft said.
"It is natural, therefore, that we should
lie slow in adjusting ourselves to these
new conditions.
"I tell you. my friends, that we are
going to join that league of nations. We
can see a gradual heading in toward the
league. After the next election, after
we look at the subject calmly, we shall
find ourselves endorsing the league. Tie
world is demanding that we join the
league. When on March 4 that thing is
going to happen which -we hoje in the
kindness of providence will happen we
will approach thin question calmly. The
republican party is pledged to an associa
tion of nations. This is only another
name for league of nations. With rea
soirabler eservations or the Lodge reser
vations, and they are acceptable to other
nations, we can foresee the stablishnient
of the league. ' '
Mr. Taft concluded his address with
these words :
"We are anxious for a solution o-f
England's troubles. We know that we
have no right to interfere with England's
internal problems."
HOOVER WILL SUPPORT
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET
WASHINGTON', June 18 Herbert
Hoover today announced formally that he
will support the ticket nominated by the
republican national convention at Chi
cago. In s statement issued after breakfast
with - Senator Harding the republican
presidential nominee, Mr. Hoover charac
terized the greater part of the platform
adopted st Chicago as "roast roe tjv
and progressive. "
s Prof Edgar Long and children ar
rived ia the eity Thursday from Due
West to spend s few weeks with Prof.
Long's parents, Mr .-and VIra. Hender
son Long.
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PRESIDENT VILSOTi'S
CHAUEGE ACCEPTED
BY DEE HJIE
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(By The Associated Press.)
WASHIXGTOX, June 18. President
Wilson's challenge to suDtait the pesee
treaty' to a referendum of the American
people was accepted today by 6enator
Harding, the republican presidential can
didate. "I am sure," said Senator (Harding;
"the republican party will gladly wel
come a referendum on the question of tho
foreign relationship of this republic sad
the republican attitude of preserved na
tionality will be overwhelmingly en
dorsed. ' '
Senator Harding's statement was ia
reply to the interview with President Wil
son, published today, in which the presi
dent discussed the league of nations and
the republican platform.
Herbert Hoover, whose name was voted
on to the last at the republican conven
tion, had breakfast today with Senator
Harding at the Senator 's reques.
Another visitor today was George
Clark, of Canton, O., chairman of tho
Ohio state republican advisory, eoauadttee,
who came to Washington to bay before
Senator Harding plans for the Ohio cam
paign. Bepublieans in that state, he de
clared, were ready to go ahead as soon
as the republicn nominee had endorsed
the 'plans.
DETROIT IS FOURTH
CITY 1.1 U. S.
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, June 18. Detroit,
with a numerical increase and rate of
growth larger than Chicago's and second
only to New York's during the last 10
years, is now fourth largest city of tho
country, displacing St. Louis and out
ranking Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore,
and Pittsburgh, all of which were larger
than the Michigan city 10 years ago.
Detroit's 1920 population, announced to
day by the ceneus bureau, is 993,739, aa
increase of 527,973, or 113.4 per cent.
Detroit is the only city of 100,000 or
more which has more than doubled its
population in the last 10 years.
Cleveland, also with a large increase.
has outstripped JSt. Louis, and Boston
and takes rank as fifth largest city of
the United States. The Ohio city had the
fifth largest numerical increase of any
municipality iu the country during the
last ten years, its increase having been
exceeded only by 'New York, Chicago, De
troit and Los Angeles. Cleveland's popn--lation
exceeds that of St. Louis by 23,000
and that of Boston by almost fin.000, ite
total being 7i)ti,H;!ti, an increase of 236,-
173, or 42.1 per cent over 1910.
With announcement of the populations
of Cleveland and Detroit the definite
ranking of the country's IS largest cities
has been established.
New York and Chicago remain first
anil second largest cities, respectively.
Philadelphia is the only one of the
eighteen whose. 1920 population Iras not
lwen announced, but the figures for the
Pennsylvania city are not likely to
change its rank as third largest munici
pality. Detroit had jumped i.JIji foiHh.
Ilace and Cleveland into fifth position,
forcing ISt. Louis into sixth, Boston into
seventh. Baltimore into eighth, and Pitts
burgh into ninth positions.
Los Angeles advanced from 17th rank
to 10th and displaced Buffalo, as well as
attaining the honor of being the largest
city west of 8t. Louis. San Francisco re
tained Uth rank and Buffalo dropped
from 10th to 12th while Milwaukee was
forced into 13th place.
Washington, D. C, another city which
had large growth in the 10 years, moved
from 16th to 14th position, displacing
Newark. J., which dropped into 15th
position. Cincinnati. 13th largest city in
1910, now ranks 16th, having been passed
by both Washingt( and Newark.
New Orleans, through the advance of
Los Angeles and Washington, was forced
from 15th rank to 17th position, while
Minneapolis retained its rank as 18th
largest city.
$600 REWARD OFFERED
FOR MURDEROUS ASSAILANTS
Public Raises This Amount For
Arrest Two Men Who Tied
George Underwood to Track.
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS. Mo., June 18.
A reward of $600 raised by public
subscription, was offered today for the
two men who robbed George M. Under
wood, of Garrollton, Mo., Wednesday
night, and bound him to a railroad trade
with the result that his left arm and foot
were eut off. Underwood will recover,
physicians attending him say. "
v Officers working on the ease said they
were not inclined to accept the single rob
bery motive proffered by Underwood as
the amount involved was only 1 70. la
addition to eoun'r c-T-'-rs a x de
tective agency fc.is bee a f-.j-ej and
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