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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1927-08-11, Page 6MEXICAN POLICE FOLLOW DARING BANDIT TO SPAIN Reward of 50,900 Pesos Out' for Man Who Rifled lions. From Caches of Noel torious Outlaw Urbino - Tricked Padre .fot. Map Riches were Hidden by Brig-, and Who Later Was Shot in Dispute Over Spoils 1Vladrid.—There recently arrived at the Spanish capital, surrounded by all possible secrecy, several of the most astute and resourceful Secret Service officers of the Mexican gov- ernnhent, in quest of a milllouaire ban- dit who( after ono of the most daring strokes in the history of banditry), es= caped to the United States, and thence, before he could be apprehend- ed, made his way to Europe and pre- sumptively to Spain, where, with a re- ward of 50,000 gold pesos offered by the Mexican government for his ar- rest, he seems to be enjoying secure asylum. For ten years a gang of bandits of the most daring and desperate char- acter had terrorized the Mexican State of Chihuahua, with extortion of ransoms, outright robbery and 'vari- ous other crimes, including 'frequent murders. The leader was Tomas Ur- bino, formerly a landed proprietor, who for some reason had conceived and cherished a special enmity against other land owners. It was his delight to raid a rich farm, loot It of all easily portable wealth, mur- der its occupants and commit to the Stmes all the buildings and every- thing that could be burned. Extend- ing his operations, he would attack villages and small towns, terrorize the inhabitants, commit all sorts of atrocities and then retire laden with booty. . Some time ago, however, he • had a quarrel with one of his lieuten- ants over the division of the spoils, and drew his pistol to end the dispute with a :hot, but the other was "quick- er on the draw" and shot Urbino dead. Priest Bandit Trustee. Then happened one of the most. amazing things in all the annals of brigandage. While people were won- dering what had become, or would become, of the wealth which had been amassed by the dead brigand, a hum- ble parish priest, Miguel Barranza, came forward and announced that he was its trustee! He said that 'Ur- bino, who not unnaturally had long feared a sudden death, had made him his confidant, and given him precise information of all the places in which his treasures were hidden; with in- structions that in case of his—Ur- bino's—death, he was to seek them out and restore them to those from whom they had been taken. Astound- ed and half incredulous, the authori- ties bade the priest to lead them to the hiding place of the booty, and he did so. Going to a secluded spot. among the mountains, they dug and soon uncovered a strong oaken box. It was taken out, to be followed by - another and another, until no fewer than twelve boxes were unearthed. When they were broken open they, were found to be filled with gold coins, ingots of the precious metal, and gems, aggregating in value more than 4,000,000 pesos. So far as was possible, all this wealth was returned to its rightful owners; Urbino having thoughtfully marked 'each bag of coins or jewels' with the name and ad- dress of the man from whom he had stolen it! This was only one cache, and Bar- ranza said there were many others, in other. places. The authorities there- upon asked him to prepare a list of them all, with maps and directions for finding them. This required several days, and just before the priest. was ready to turn it over to the authori- ties a stranger called upon him and represented himself to be one of Ur- bino's lieutenants, who had further Information concerning other hidden treasures, which Urbino himself had not had opportunity to convey to him. Thief's Identity Discovered. To do this, he said, it would be necessary for him to see the list of hiding places which the priest al- ready had. Unsuspecting evil, Bar- ranza produced the list and directory which he had prepared; whereupon the visitor sprang upon him, knocked him down, bound him hand and foot, stabbed him with dagger to silence his cries for help, and fled with the list of treasures. In his haste, how- , ever, he dropped and left behind a pocketbook which established his Identity as one Miguel Aresquilia Lopez, from San Luis Potosi.. The priest, though badly wounded, was not killed, and was able present- ly to give information of the hiding places of the treasures, as he had set 3t down in the list Which his treed.. Brous visitor had stolen, The authori- , ties hastened thither, only to find that Lopez had got there before them and had exhumed the treasures. They fol- lowed swiftly upon hie trail, but 'lost it at the United States border. A lit - Ile later it was learned that he had , taken passage for Europe, and since then it has become known that he has landed "somewhere in Spain"; where ', Ane door not have to be a cynic 'to re- gard him as almost as exempt from "Nothing could Make ilia! Where the Prince Will Rest After Tour PRINCE'S RANCH .HOME SCENE OF PEACE AND PASTORAL, BEAUTY Amid the peaceful surroundin,ge of his Eel'. ranch near the High River, in his ears, the Prince. of Wares will spend restful days following his. busy. Alberta, Canada, and with the sound of the bleating of his pedigreed sheep I tour of Canada, and before he returns again to London. High Quality Tobacco Pays That it pays to produce leaf of high, quality can be easily proven by ex- amining the prices paid the growers for tobacco last autumn. In the case of the Ontario flue' cured type, prices paid for whole erops varied from 30 to 02 cents per pound. For Burley, and for cigar leaf in Quebec, crop prices ranged from 15 to 26 centsper pound. When it is remembered that a low price is often associated with a low yield per acre, it is apparent that many growers are producing at a loss, while their neighbors may be making a good profit. Cost of production data compiled at the Experimental Stations, at Har- row, Ontario, and Farnham, Quebec, have shown that it costs. from $150 to $250 to produceean acre of tobacco, the variation being due to varlettal seasonal, and other differences. As- suming $200 as a,' reasonable cost for producing an acre of Ontario Burley or Quebec cigar leaf, it may readily be seen that the man who sells 1500 pounds at 25 cents per pound clears $175. ,,Whaleas his neighbor who sells a 1000 -pound crop at 15 cents. loses $50 on every acre of tobacco he grows. The cultivator why cares for his tobacco properly during the growing and curing : season, and who .delivers a clean, well graded, carefully packed crop of high quality leaf to the deal- er, has the double satisfaction of re- ceiving more money for his season's labor, and of knowing that he has done his work well, and has enhanced his reputation on next year's market. • Vacation Efficiency Vacations? We skill get 'em, but it's a question of rushing like mad to get up all night getting things packed in the fiivver, starting the trip two hours behind schedule, determined to make our first day's destination by bate driving. - The trip has been as efficiently planned as though it were a business sales campaign. We will be here the first night, two hundredand fifty miles farther on the second night, three hundred more the next night, and so on, through a mad two weeks. We have even planned' the places where we will stop for eats. And so we tear through our two-week "vaca- tion" sitting at the steering wheel, bloodshot eyes fastened -upon the hori- zon which we are determined to over- take. Thethirteenth night finds us fifty melee behind schedule, and we have to drive half the night toget home 'in time to drag ourselves to the office onthe fifteenth day and tackle the ac- cumulated pile of work which has de- veloped in our absence. Such le our modern lire. Nothing But, Route, detection ,as. the ,proverbial needle in blush!" :iifaaeltacTt; I "Well,nothing but rouge," I girl CANADIAN TREE SEEDS EXPORTED Large Part Obtained by Forest Service . Extracted from Western Species Not only do "great oaks from little .acorns grow," but trees as large as any oak that grows may originate in a seed which weighs only the one - thousandth part of the weight of an acorn., The Sitka .spruce,:. a tree of Canada's western sea -coast, attains a height of 160 to 180 feet and a dia- meter -of eight to 12 feet; but the seed from which it springs is so small that it takes 300,000 of them, or even more, to weigh a pound. Seed of the western cedar, so well known as the source of shingles, has about the same weight. The seed of the Douglas fir, the largest tree in Canadian forests, weighs about one forty -thousandth ot a Pound. The white pine, once the standby of the eastern eumberman, and still the choicest wood in the eastern forest, commences as a little seed weighing about 26,000 to the pound, and many grow a diameter of 30 to 40 inches. The white spruce, the tree used in greatest quantity by eastern lumber- men and pulp manufacturers, starts life as a seed which takes 120,000, to make up a pound of weight. In order to give an idea of what this means, comparison may be made with some more familiar vegetable and weed seeds. The seed of the Sitka spruce or western cedar would weigh about as much as two dandelion seeds, about the same as a single seed of the carrot, chickory, or black mustard, and less than a single seed of garden cress or onion. British Suggestion - For several years the Forest Service of the Department of the Interior has carried on the work of collecting tree seeds of western species—a work be- gun largely at the suggestion of the British authorities who are undertak- ing ndertaking re -forestation of lands in England and Scotland. Besides a large seed - extraction plant at Vancouver, British Columbia, at which large quantities of seed collected from forests in all parts of British Columbia are extracted, ' three smaller ones are maintainer% in the Prairie Provinces (at Rocky Noun - tan House, Alberta, and at Indian 1 Head and Prince Albert, Saskatche- wan) to supply seed for experimental and reforestation work in the forest reserves and elsewhere. 'In the year 1926 about 11,000 pounds (five and a half tons) of seed ,was obtained from these different estab- lishments. Of this quantity about 1,500 pounds was Sitka spruce seed. A little arithmetic will show the possible number of trees that may spring from this quantity of seed. Over three tons (snore precisely, 6,400 pounds) of western•yellow pine seed, 1,700 pounds of Douglas fir seed, 500 pounds of western cedar seed, about the same quantity sof white spruce seed, and 151 pounds of jack pine seed were also produced. Mucha of this , seed is destined for use in reforestation Work in the British Isles. New Zealand also has taken a large quantity of the seed of Canadian trees for her re- forestation work, How's Vour, Spelling? Ilere are ten` words with which t6 test your friends' ability to spell. In a number of tests few persons got mule than five correct. The record scorele jiize. Ask you ;friends to great these; %esigttetyr Rarefy, Suiiol= sole,. •laptttn, Sacrilegious, Tratailuil lity, Beit shoo, Varese, : iinono, If a baby auk lies toward the mother auk, does he NI' awkwardly-? Clash Foretold by Lenin Recalled Anglo -Soviet Break Draws Attention to Prediction Made Almost Fro m Deathbed London (U. P.)—Lenin's • fear of a "clash between imperialistic States and the Soviet," which he expressed more than a year before his death in an article written for 'the official Soviet newspaper Pravada, has been justified, in the opinion of many per- sons, by recent events. Although in 1923 few took cogni- zance of predictions of the coming. "Soviet -Imperialistic clash" made by the apostle of Bolshevism almost from his deathbed, C-reat Britain's break with the Soviet and the many diplomatic complications which fol- lowed closely on the heels of this. break have caused many to turn back the pages of history to a chapter which appeared insignificant when ritten. "Peace between the Soviet govern- mental institutions and the imperialis- tic States is the only eure means of successfully coping with Russia's fu- ture problems," Leniu wrote. "Under the present state of interna- tional relations in Europe one State is placed under the heel of others— their victors. These victors are able to grant a few concessions to the op - retard the revolutionary movement and create a •semblance of social peace. A` "At the same time there are a num- ber ot Oriental countries, notably In- dia and China, which as a result of the imperialistic war find themselves completely beaten from their former foundations. Their development has finally come to be directed along the general lines of the European capital- istic system. General European fer- mentation has begun i nthose coun- tries and the whole world now clearly sees that they are beiz}g dragged in- to a processwhich will inevitably lead to a crisis for capitalism through- out the ,entire world, Suggested Tactics. "What tactics must Russia adopt as a-�•esult of this world trend? must carefully build up our State,` -maintaining the leadership of the workmen over the peasants, but increasing confidence in the latter and exercising the maximum amount of national economy. "Our advantage is that the whole world is in a state of revolution. "Our disadvantage is that capital- ism has succeeded in splitting the world and this • dilate, further :compli- cated by the fact that Germany—the foremost cultured country in capital- istic development—cannot succeed in getting on its -feet. Alt of the capi- talistic countries of the West are preying on her and are refusing to allow' her to rise. "On the other hand throughout the entire East hundreds of millions of exploited toilers are being driven to the last stage of human endurance. "In this article we are not interest- ed in the question of the inevitability of victory for socialism, but in the question of what tactics we should adopt, to prevent the western Euro- pean counter-revolutionary countries from crushing us. In order to insure our existence until the next military clash imiweeir ary imperialistic nations of the Wiest and the revolutionary nationalistic, nations of the East—between the ,most civilized States and the most backward States ---the letter must be (livilized. - %olut]on of Probiei i. pends on many questions. The over- whelming majority o fthe human race willbe forced toe fight by capitalism itself. The outcomeof that fight will be decided by the fact that Russia, India, China and the other. Eastern natigns represent the great majority` o fthe world's population This ma- jority is already drawn into the fight, therefore the final victory for social- iem is unquestionable. "Meantime we must face this ques- tion: Can we stand fast until the western European states complete their development toward socialism? "This development will not come by simultaneous ripening but as a re- sult of the exploitation of one con- quered country by another. Such ex- ploitation has influenced the entire Orient, where the revolutionary move- ment cannot be long halted." CRICKETS IN COLORADO Farmers Beat Tin Pans, Toot Horns to Frighten Insects Hayden, Col.—Beating tin pans, tooting horns and using every noise- ' making device at hand, farmers of this section are attempting to prevent an invasion of a huge cricket army in Routt and Moffatt counties.. - The crickets are arrayed against the crops along a five -mile • front,. twenty-five to thirty miles deep, ac- cording to Farrington Carpenter, Dis- trict Attorney and stock man, who has taken charge of the fight.' In areas the ground, he said, is covered with a mass of insects that complete- ly hide the soil. He added: "It is now the hatching season of the crickets, and during this period the insects will go forward at least six miles, destroying every growing thing, unless we can halt them. Noise frightens them, and they will not ad- vance as long as we keep it up. But that will not rid us of the menace." Carpenter has sent an application to officials at Washington asking the government to send a gas bombing squadron against the insects. Appeals also have been sent to the Red Cross asking for funds to aid in the battle. Until relief arrives farmers will continue to bombard the insects with noise, 'working in relays to keep up the din night and day. , "Meanwhile hhhltil r e can' ahIl we avoid cl ¢ 1 with urea imperialistic ,rates? Will the differences between the inhper'fal- L.:tic States shape themselves so far as iii give tis a pause' for breathing, as we enee received as n result of the Americana, „arid .Iapanese 'differences? "The solation of this problem do - 2 Hc -"What do you think of Lind- bergh's, feat?" ind-bergh's,feat?" She—"I'm 00 stuck on his face I never looked at 'erne' —" h: Mr. Snapper It is said that the pretticz,7t women always marry the i)[gest foh,tis'�r Mrs. Sus,pper—"Try your 'flattery 'orz 00111e000 else." ,"Say, that follow :01u7there looks just like your brother," o " tire, he is any sistor,," J. • SIMPLICITY This the Key Note of M* • Suinrner Frock Model in Washable Material • "Trfb Week" has a refreshing Hound on a .sultry day, wbeii the gtnestiOn dressing for 'both teLyie and ooMtert requires careful consideration, lid, Cording to the irictures' of Sweet, old'', fashioned frocks, tb,e Summer dkoclw of long ago were all tub froeks, and' it is easy to visualize the dainty teretti~I ness of the;veriety of freshly l.auncler-, ed musliva lawns, organdies, dotted! Swiss, linens• and; piques,. Summer silk made a, costume for formal aeca+ signs, but the younger belle was ale; ways at her loveliest in one Of they sheer stuffs with quantities of lace and embroidery of the most delicate sort) .'Whenever,, in pictures or in the thee, etre, the dress of that period is •shown,i its afscination le subtly griiiping, `Itj Is notbetter nor finer than this, fashion, of today, but It is different, with a' charm from which tete ultra -modern obyles do not detract. * * * .* Almost every sort of dress for mid. summer is now a tub frock. The question about each and every kind of materials is "will it wash?" and a large ,assortment of fabrics, sneer and fragile in appearance, is guaranteed to .wash and to come out good as new. There is "wash" a ik in a dozen weaves and weights.; indess ructible voile, and chiffon voile light as gose earner—that also may be put through a tub of/ •soap and water and oom•e forth none the worse for the .expert-` ence. There are many variants of crepe that launder "like a pockethand- kerchief" and "wash' satin and broad- cloth of . which many exceedingly, smart frocks and blouses are made. A twilled silk which is successfully laundered is much like m•en's shirting and is very much liked for sports things—ter tennis and beach frocks, and for the type of tailored blouses that are worn with suits and riding habits. All of these with ordinary; care and intelligence may be put through the soapsuds test with success and with -much .satisfaction becaus'a of the comfort and the economy of • hav- .ing a frock that may be freshened as often as one wishes. 0. * * * The long, .plain sleeve, which is left open at the bottom, closed with. 'a ,shirt cuff or gathered into a simple wristband, and the plaili, slightly full skirt which has a cluster of pleats or gathers in front, are two details of Summer styles that are easily adapted to the silk tub frock. If one observes closely many of the !smart costumes that are worn about town and in the country, they illustrR.,. a sophisticated simplicity which la their. charm.' Color is more, than ordinarily import- ant n these tub .frocks of sik, voile,' linen and cotton, for in this season, so magnificent in tints, and shades•, those selected for tub dresses must be net only lovely, • but warranted, to stand the soap -an -water test. It Ls almost incredible that in these frocks for every -day wear there should be wash able crepe de chine, toile de sole and washable satin in us -ch subtle shades os orchid, peach -blush, Phyllis, sea spray—a delicate green—mals, silmiat and••ivory: These have a delicious sound which in itself suggests all the beauties of Summer. - Printed wash- able radium in .garconne and floralia prints are among the soft fabrics that are used for lingerie as well as for the plainer tub frocks, Some of the other weaves in very supple silk are crepe de chine and crepe, chenette, 'crepe Ganymede, toile re s•oie-Cinder- ella, all of thein in the washable class known as to color by the. nleenrosqu.e names of romans., adimiral, marigold, polored, turf and morning glory, * * * * Pigue,. which has been in obscurity for years, is again shown in -tub suits. These have the appearance of etand- ing up well, 'throug'h the tub test, but only those that are cut with the idea - of their being laundered come opt very well. Waistcoats, jackets, stocks and other small articles are best made of pique. Almost all of the latest Sum- mer materials are reproduced in cot- ton—the pretty voiles, crepes, chiffons and some 'of the new patterns aro charming. ' These aro 'sudh 'faithful imitations that the difference is not easily discovered. Gingham is •very good the esason,'"in both the checks and Plain goods. These are used a great deal for frocks` for children and for various accessories. ' A novel• ty among these is the new neckwear, smart Eton collars and cuffs to match, intended to be warn with simple flan. nal and other ,sports frocks, Ed. Howe's rule for success is "Work hard, behave, and eat less."— The Outlook. For flirting in a London hospital a nurse has been dismissed. It is un- derstood that she was nursing a grievance; • Diner — "•Waiter, 111 have lamb chops with potatoes, and have the chops lean." Waiter --"Which way, sir?" Ate Ireland can raise something be sides Cain. Mayler M. Roche, of Ballyseskin House, County , Wxfor, reports harvesting 23 tons of sugar, beets per acre through the use of nitrate of soda on the soil, His nor- mal return unproved, sixteen tons.- p Prone The Outlook.