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. .— Editor of The Star: It has boon almost six months since you were burdened with anythin:; from my pen and I want ti say that since that time I have been a busy man. Having toured Arizona, 1 decided that it was time to call a halt and replenish my financial wardrobe, therefore, took a job ns deputy sher iff in a Mexican Mining Camp, in Pinal county in a town of hOOO Mex icans and a very few Americans, Not being much at ‘‘hablaring spanol” I had u very tough time of it for awhile to make myself completely under stood among my darker charges. However, with the aid of a .15 and good heavy club and my two gooi fists, I managed to give them a hirst of whnt I was there for and got along fairly well until someone discovt red that I was a democrat working in ?> republican county and after a few more months they accepted my restir nation and now I am hack in Phoenix working for one of the dnily papers, I always come back to the newspapci game when I get tired of police wotl:. I like this game but l also like to eat and sometimes a newspaper man doesn’t eat regularly, as most of them »re aware. However, 1 am eating three squares per day just now and the wile and brats are fat ns pigs, dust how long this will last all depends on m\ bos.-, and my temper. I want to tell you something about my experiences in this mining camp among the ntexicann and if there am anyone who doubts the vara city of what I am about to relate they arc welcome lo come and take the job, whicji is still vacant and asking for a good man to come and take it. iiivs n nrpuurs .inn. On the Dth of Inst May the deputy in charge at Sonora. Arizona, phoned me to come up and help them out, so wanting it little Antge I went, driv ing out in ;i ear which is !•(! miles fr m> Phoenix. Sonora is located in Pinal county in one of the most mountain ous sections of Arizona. In fact there is not enough level ground with it thirty miles of this place for a her. to build a nest without all the rolling out of it. I arrived sit my new adventure about !) p. m„ met the oth er deputies and they advised nv t > strap on my six gun and see the town with them. 1 started out with a halt breed by the name of Austin who wa < to be my working: partner henceforth. We visited all the pool halls and dives end other places where there wer» ,pothering!? of mexjonns and every thing looked peaceful and quiet enough and I thought 1 had fallen in to a snap. l>ut it was not pay day and Abe white mule that they ride around ,on pay days and days thereafter hud not began yet to flow. * The town being huddled around In the hills, mostly adobe structures, ap -ncurert to me at night to resemble nr old French town I had been quartered .in in France, and the dark skinned maidens caused me to remember my war days spent in Parley voo Land, but little did I bream of what was coming to me in the way of adven t.uve and excitement in this apparent ly quiet mining camp. l ay iJi.y ann i ruunic. By tho wayi haying i'll the mexi cans quartered together is a sort of recent experiment by some of the ofg mining companies ir. the southwest and in some measures is a success In others, that is ns respects their re spect for law and order nnd Ameri can* ways, it is u complete failure, for a J^oxican must he made to respect the laws of this country and when yon put him in a camp with seve> al thousand of iiis kind, he must be dealt with very severely before he will begin to get the idea ir. his head that the law must be respected. The first ray duy I was in this ramp we filled the jail to overflow ing capacity nnd several heads had to he (racked before many of them would submit to arrest. I first used my fists but after breaking a couple of fingers I derided that a .45 single action eol“ war the best method of bunging them to tho jail. A for; hours after the paymaster issued checks, wc were, my partner and I were in the restaurant or i 3' Bone steak when we heard some shot,: .in a pool hall just about the rnr.i in-ant where wc were eating. We rushed out and just as we were near ing the entrance to the pool hall out rushed a mexican holding his side which was bleeding profusely. After him rushed a mexican with an auto matic of small cafibre in his hand and iiring at his back. Without think . :ng what I was doing (as I did not have tip;c to think) I pulled my own 0in and rapped him behind the ear. Heedless to say he went down like S dead kcof and I .recovered the au tomatic in the next instant and faecal the -crowd which apparently was pan ic stricken and looked around for my partner to talk Spanish for me and find out what the trouble was. Ho was nowhgrc in sight and some Mexican* started to rush me to get my gun Why I didn't shoot I cun never sn> hut I didn’t and started in batting ’em over the head and just when I was ready to back up and kill a few an other deputy stepped in who could speak Spanish and gave ;nc a ham.; also tho deputy who had first did the disappearing act reappeared on the scene and explained that he had gone Jar h«lp. We got the crowd quieted mu! the injured man to the hospital and I told my partner then and there that the next time lie left me in such a tight to expect more trouble with me than til! the “Spicks” in Mexico could give hint. The wounded man died and we are holding the murderer ' in the county jail for the next term i of court. Thcr had taken on a little too much of the white mule and had had some words over their girl:; whbdi had brought on the trouble. What White Mule” is. In order that none will misunder stand what 1 mean by white mule 1 will explain. It is a distilled produel made from sugar, raisin ami corn mash and does not differ much in turtle from North Carolina Moonshine, the kind that Ike makes up above: Cusur anti drinks when he gets ready to write his tale to The Star- But the kick, moonshine never had the kick that white mule has. It will make yoe fight your grandmother, love your mother-in-law. lick the minister, kjsa the priest, tell your wife where you were on Saturday night and other wise make out of you what some fel lows in Tennessee tried to make out of the.poor Monkey—a fool. Mexicans call it “la mulio, or in no la” end they call an officer a Varda, sounding like shoat-ta. which has about the same meaning as pop. We have torn up over eighty mule outfits in Pinal county this summer and placed in jail many offenders, but for every outfit that is destroyed two more spring up in its place. Hunting stills in this open mount.aining coun rty is no cinch and one must he pret ty good at trailing to have any degree of success at it. minfinR Smugglers* One night nol lorig ago we went out on the trail to catch some smugglers that were bringing: in some mule on burros over the mountain trail. We placed ourselves ’near the trail in an Arroyo behind some mesijuite bushes and waited Pretty soon we heard them coining down the trail. All ex eept me had rifles and pistols, but I had a sawed off shot gun loaded with buck shot, as well as my six shooter, for the night was dark as pitch and drizzling rain and .shooting with a rifle in the dark is not very sure business. When the smugglers (two of them adn one bujrro) came opposite us. I stepped out and called halt in Span ish. My two companions, algo did likewise and we flashed our lights cn them just in time to see one of them reaching for a rifle that was laying across the burro’s back between the two kegs of mule. 1 let go with ti e sawed-off shot gun and mister hom bre sank to his knees and his pait aer started to run, I again let go with another charge of buckshot nr.d J this time not trying to hit, but I did 1 and another hombre went down, but before I could get to him he arose and went over the hill and at a gait that would have made n mountain goat die of envy. The hombre that reached for the rifle lay still and then we started out to catch the burro which was no easy task but a very necessary one for when one shoots a bootlegger he must have some evi dence on hand to convince the judge that he did not commit murder. We finally caught the burro with his tvc ten gallou kegs in tact strapped on his back, and we tied the wounded hombre across one of our horses and took him in. but. the rule to camp killed him, him being used to riding burros and walking therefore. The . judge let us go and the coronet's jury decided that wo acted in self de fense, but it drew some fire in ray di rection from a dark alley a few nights later and another mexiean went to the hospital with a broken leg. I tola ’em that I could not be hit by Mexi can bullets and some of them believed i it. Anyway, I deckled that Lfe in tV« minir.v ' »•> » lit tl^ tno exeit’rg for mo an 1 :>j- T wanted t-> stay A Mi'iJ, «, . • I i, „ III rtwnxti^, I , . , r. . » ra ) Ari.;(vnn in my prevent state an as possible, I Would unit hc{n-” , ,y-p. utv in a mining camp of only Mexi can pftnu’at'o’' The War is over nnv v "” nr,’’ I never was fond of r'volutions. However, I may be bark I on some foolish job again in the next few weeks, who knows? for I love : excitement. In fact I must have so much excitement in my life or it vtfonVi not be worth living. * When Arizona gets a little more I civilised l guess I will have to go to | OMnn. which mokes mo thing of the ! old*timer Who said “Cosh dim 1 ! haven't killed a man today. Hint th-s | town getting dull" If you print this, mister editor. I’ll •• probably come again soon, with best wisher to The Star and its many read ers, I am. Sincerely, —(BILL. (EDITOR’S NOTE: The Star is1 j glad to hear again from Cleveland, ; county’s “rolling stone” that writes' while rolling and we feel sure the thousands of readers of the tri-week-1 ly Star will appreciate another com munication from the recesses of his versatile typewriter). Plenty of hoys are glad school h:ja started. It gives them more mischief to get into. Tho .e p’onfv »g all along to get hack to work this fall will put it off pistil winter. Improved Methods Of Farming Urged | Governor iMii.can Calls Cpon Farm ers to I Vo Best Meant* of Solving Problems 1 mproved means and methods of farming were urged by Coventor An, gus Wilton .McLean in his address at | the official opening of North Care- j linn’s sixty-fourth annual State Fair. The Governor thinks intelligent effort and sound business methods will go a long way toward solving many ct our farm problems. “Diversification in its broader as pects, the dropping of slip-shod methods* the - beep-like following of the old lustii.u of planting one money < top, the blind following of other v.asteful precedents, is still the prime ptoblem oi agriculture” declared Gov ernor .McLean. Governor McLean said that on ac count of the economic conditions fol lowing th • war, agriculture' is not gen erally prosperous in America. Ho de clared that there is an over-produt - tion of raw farm products which can not he absorbed by the world mark ets. lie declared that the only appai- I cut remedies would he to reduce pro duction or increase foreign demand, and chat there is little hope for cith er of these. He held out as the rem edy “u suhft'tution of agricultural | products of higher grade in place oi! the lew-grade commodities*.. and the I marke ting of our product , in the fin ished state.” “In the cas<> of corn, higher label costs practically inhabit in North Caroline, its production apd sale at a profit in n raw state,” declared the governor “but coni said, in wester i j phraseology, ‘on the hoof,’ that is, in ! the form of hogs converted into meat j products and cattle for the produc- j tion of dairy products, promises a pr *- j fitahle return. Long-Staple Cotton Beat "In the growing of cotton, again, it is. a deplorable fact that mills which do make the higher grades are com pelled to seek practically their entire supplies■■■outside, of North Caroline. The longer staple, the better grades, ueco. snry for this more profitable manufacture, are almost wholly un available on our North Carolina farms, in spile of the fact that muc.i of our cottop land is capable of pro ducing them. In the Piedmont and other cotton-growing sections the longer staple of more tonsil streugtn is not only a possibility but a duty, ,to be obtained by care in seed selec tion, by proper handling, by powci ginning, by reasoned and effective mtirnKuiigr. Better Tnhbacco More Profitable “Whaf fa Ini' of cotton us prove markedly true of the other ‘ great rtnpie crop, tobacco. This.is the aris tocrat of our crops, calling for know ledge, experience and intelligence in high degree in both the production and marketing processes, and repay ing the application of those quali ties in liberal fashion .We have the soil and climate to produce the very highest grade of bright tobacco/’ loo often we produce as much as 90 pci cent of the lower grades, which arc sold for the most part in China and Japan. When these markets fail, from internal disorder or other causes, the hulk of our tobacco crop fails to brins a return sufficient to pay fc.r the cost of production. Vet on markets glutted with low - grade tobacco that brings an average rf about 15 cents pen pound, here and there will be fount a farmer whose ci >p yields him ai* average of 40 cents or more. This is the result of anything but luck. State Buys Too Much Food "North Carolina farms, of course, need diversification in the usual sense of the word, and need it badly. Our State buys annually some $250,000,000 of foodstuffs, from abroaii, practically every dollar of which should be saved, by the growth of there commodities r.rd products on our own bind. Every North Carolina farmer who buys corn • hoy com .nit A economic waste.” Hrs. L„ M. Scojrgin I| Buried at Sandy Plain* V. dow of Late L. M. Scoggins Leaves B won CMrfron. Made Home in Gaffney With Daughter. Mrs. Scoggins, wife of the lot-' L. M. Scoggins was buried at Sandy Run church October 2). Funeral services were conducted bv Rev. I. D. Harrill, and Key. Ii. M. Bridges. Her grandsons O. M. and .1. R. Large of New York, Fred Scoggin ot | Cramertoj^; Postmaster A. H.-Green and Merrill Green of Moores boro, and John Lewis Scoggins of Charlotte acted as pall-bearers. The flowers were cared for by a group of life long friends and neigh bors. She leaves seven children Mrs. .T. R. Matheny near Cliff side; S. M. Scog gins, Cramerton; Mrs. W. W. Green and B. G. Scoggins of Mooreshoro; Mrs. E. G. Whitaker, Latfimorc; Mrs. C. F. Bianton, Gaffney, S. C. There are also 27 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Since the dcatii of Rev. J. O. Ma theny Mrs. Scoggins has made her home with her daughter at Gaffney, where she died. A brief service was held in the home by Rev. Cecil Cook, pastor of the first Baptist church of that place, for the benefit of the many friends ana neighbors who could not accompany the body to its resting place. As n result of the extensive use of cosmetics you can’t take a flawpsr at her face value any i ore. Aral wasn’t t hat her chief valu ■ 7 a i’Ottinjt Florida On Tin Map (L. K. Chapman in The Am-n ics (Mercury)) “The one mission in life of every newspaper in Florida (and every hamlet 1ms a weekly, at least) is to broadcast the virtues and splendor ■ of its home tow*; at, the ton of its voice. The bip dailies lead the way The papers pet their tune from the citizens and the citizens are .kept heated by the papers. If the mi. tor becomes lax and forptts to shout, rg." I he is rc.ii:by • the secretary of the of commerce. If ' ;.riiv,- honest and declares that. Main ■ i' a fright and tiic* trash b;,r | reds should !• • kept in the alleys, he. j is ittr.tunt.iy damned as ‘anythin*: but In boorter.” If he keeps it up, he j face;.: a future barren of advertising j and subscribers,” Mis-- II<Krtr.hrook of the home ; demon-truth.r division has prepared t < ■ i . . . : h -.co course in i i thing for the divinic n of extension at State c(.1 ’ 1 -- S- p s the tuxedo LINE OF FEEDS Ce-re-a-lia Sweets Tu xedo Dairy Tuxedo Chop Tuxedo Hog; Ration Tuxedo Starting Feed Tuxedo Chick Tuxedo Buttermilk' Starter and Growing 1VI 16 h Tuxedo Developer Tuxedo Sc: ateh Tuxedo Eifgmash Tuxedo Poultry Fat tener, etc.. It may cost 50c more per bag to [ feed Tuxedo Kggmasli and Scratch j! than it docs to feed Strr.ii.dit grains jj or home-mixed rations,- or thirty- } five cents extra per hen per ver.r.’ But—the average farm her. lays { seventy-two eggs a year. Fa! jut;- jj cdo the year ’round she \.lli lay s around ISO eggs. Many lay 175 to [ 200 eggs. With eggs selling at 3 cents I each average yearly, the hen has to J lay only one extra egg a month to pay the extra feed epst. The remain- E ing sixty-six eggs are clear profit. K Cleveland Feed Co Shelby, N. C. Tuxedo for Economical Transportation iuof make tills—the wssid’s finest lew priced t»G4tC!]fl xi. tk> In tnc Lnevrotct Loach you will get scores of dnusual quality features such as you would expect to find only on higher priced cars—dry disc clutch—crctra large brakes— semi-floating rear axle with one-piccc pressed steel hous ing—vacuum fuel feed with tank in rear—Remy electric starting, lighting and distrib utor ignition—fisher VV one-piece windshield, auto matic windshield wiper— and cowl lamps. Cotne in and see for yourself this remarkable coach value. Touring $525 Roadster 525 Coupe 675 Sedan 775 Commercial lie Ch«ii. - Express rrfl Truck Chtiefci* All bribes f. o. b. Flint, Mkii. ARFY BROTHERS, T ourin g Runabout *260' Coupe - . S20 Tudor Sedan 580 FordorSedan 660 Closed cars in color. De mountable rims and starter ctota on open cars. AH (triers f. o. b. Detroit More than 100,000 Ford Touring Cars will be produced for delivery to retail purcaasers during October♦ If you haven’t already done so, go to the nearest Authorized Ford Dealer and see the car that is meeting with this unusual sales response. See how recent improvements have added new beauty and finer riding com* torts. Note the close-fitting curtains that open with the four doors—thus making the car comfortable and con venient for all kinds of weather. As you check over the many improve ments, bear in mind that there has been no increase in prices*
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