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Horse Entry Test Is Considered a Big Recordbreaker SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) wROWN COj.Vi, ir.ci., SfPt. 19. "Just the kind of a any we needed." exclaimed the optimistic Fred R.if, secretary of the Lake County Agricultural Society today when a visitor at the fair grounds remarked that it was "too bad the weather had to turn off nasty." "This isn't bad weather." insisted Ruf. "It isn't raining enough to hinder our work here and it is keeping the cro.vd small. You see, we don't want too many reople crowding around the opening day, especial! v f b n w r- V -j v ; 1 1 . V 'j Ha'nr'a of exhibits as we have this year.! The Judges have a ttemendous job on their hands and with a crowd pestering them it would he worse j et ." And so the secretary disposed of that fellow. "If it's K"insr to rain, I want it to rain th first of the week and Ret it over." says Fred. "If it rams hard, enough to make It too sloppy for farmers to work in the fields, that's all right. They won't have any excuse then for not attending the fair. It means bigger crowds. Then too, the race track will be just that much better for the speed events which start tomorrow. You don't hear Old Man Bailey crabbing: yet. do you?" And L. E. Bailey, superintendent of the spe-d department, wasn't crabbing. All he wants is fair weather Wednesday afternoon when his part of the big show starts. He points witn pr;ae to tne siring of horses which will step oft the j lively mil's this week. Some of the) best known track horses of the j country are listed. Look them 1 over. H?re they a-e. i WEUEJAY, SEPT. 20 2t Vce Eevo. black gelding; Kewana Riley. Joe Hartford. Chicago, III. Thomas Direct, sorrel geldlnjr; Empire Direct. Wm. Muster, Valparaiso. Ind. Robert Dillion. bay gelding; Sidney Dillion. Sam Church, Eljn. 111. Peter C. bay gelding; ExlTier. V.. N Muster. Valparaiso, lnd. Sady May. bay mare; Tree Gentle. A. A. Bothw!il. Gary, lnd. TH-I-SUAY, SEPT. 21 2i24 Trot The Great Wilton, b. gelding; Peter the Great. N". J. O Brlne, Chicago, HI. Fred S.. b- g-; Amberline. John S. Tobin, Chicago. 111. Queen Joley, brown mare; Ben Joley. A. A. Eothwell. Gary, Ind. 3.12 Pace Clarenton O. Norchon: T. Barton. H. McCarthy. Chicago. 111. Red Bingel. bay gelding; Parenharst. J. N. Turner, Hebron, Ind. Horace McKerren, s. g. ; Harvey McKarren. J. A. Tobr,. Chicago, 111. Frank H. Forbes, tiown gelding; Malcome Forftes. J. Line, LaPorte, lnd. Robert Dillon, bay gelding; Sidnev Dillon. Sam Chu-ch. Elgin. 111. (Continued on Page Five) SENTINEL SILENT; SUSPENDED TODAY After weathering a financial crisis for several months, the East Chicago Sentinel, founded as a dally about a year ago, succumbed last night and suspended publication. Joining a large number of newspapers that have gone under ail over the country since the war owing to the almos: prohibitive costs of publication and material. The Sentinel was a n'wsy, wellprinted publication and enjoyed a good circulation in East Chicago and Indiana Harbor and recently branched out into Whiting. Whether the newspaper will resume publication later as a wecklv has not been announced by the publishers. REGISTRATION CLAIM'S ALLOWED CROWN POINT. Indiana, Sept. 19. The County Commissioners met for their weekly meeting on Monday afternoon and allowed the registration claim, amounting to approximately $42.00 for each precinct, the inspectors being allowed $9.00 and clerks $6.00. Flans and speciflca tions were adopted for the hog barn whkh is to be held at the County Farm to replace the one destroye-1 by fire several weeks ago. Tlie rtjj. lar bills were allowed. NOTICE The B. B. & C. Company, retailers of coal, with yard at Augusta and Monon tracks, has changed the name of the company to the B. & B. Coal Company . The interests of Charles Creasbauro in the B. 3. & C. Company have been purchased by J. D. Beckwith and C W. Bowman, who now form the complete personnel of the B. C- Coal Company. J. D. BECK WITH. C. W. BOWMAN".

HE ISN'T OVER IT YET INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I N Ul A A I'Ol.l . Intl., rpt. 19. Adjutant General Harry SmltU has mniiT thlnics to worry about in the fiiursf of his official duties but he threw In the sponge when lip came ccfott a Jan-breaker included In thr IlMt of names of registrants the selective service during; the World war. Thin Is the name; (nst EiBiiirppalnnlttolnwapoalM. The man registered at East t hicajro.

Did You Hear That pit. O. O. MELTON" has returned from a fishing trip in northern Wisconsin. POSTMASTER JOHN" I ROHDE and Mrs. Rohde leave today to drive to "The Shades." THE Orak drum and bugle corps played sixteen innings of baseball Sunday at Rill Rose's home. THERE is a silver spoon in the office of The Times, it was pickcd up after a picnic. Who Is the claimant? THOMAS UVKNE, 15 years old, is arrested by Officer Schaetzel. charged wi.h speeding. He lives at 426 Summer boulevard. MAT MUDWIG took a phonograph to a ricnic and left the crank at home. Xext time he will take the crank and leave the phonograph at home. POSTMASTER J. E. ROHDE is authorized to sell during September j at a price to yield 4 V. per cent. L. I S. treasury savings certificates pur- ! chased on and after October 1st, and j they are bargains. O. O. MATTHIES. who has been commuting to Chicago since 1903. figures that his mileage is equal to 1S0.000 miles, or more than s?ven times the distance around the erth and ne-s stjn at it. . . . MRS. LYD1A VAN' GILDER v.-iL -tt..' i Tr -11 open a concert season ai rv.enii in the Fine Arts building the eve ning of October 12. The Hammond Kiwanls club and the wives of members are planning to attend. WILLIS FORD, who acted as chairman at the Kiwania club this noon announced that on the first bright day the club's camera man would take pictures of lawns and gardens qualified in the city beautiful contest. CHARLES EVAN'S. 41 Sheffield avenue, who jumped his $1,000 bail to escape prosecution on felonious assault charge after beating his neighbor, is raptured at Evansville yesterday. Sergeant Singer was sent to bring him back. "HEART FAILURE" was the verdict of Deputy Coroner Benson M . Jewell, of Lowell, following an inquest into the sudden death of 15-year-old June Feltzer. who expired a few minutes after leaving the watrr where she had been bathing at Shelby, Sunday afternoon. UNDER the projecting shadow of a huge canvas tent the dance floor at Crown Point fair grounds gives promise of doing a record business. The tent itself is a mammoth thing. 70x70 feet in size. The Chicago H-ighls orchestra provides music. THERE is a sparrow conclave every evening at Larry Cox's. Recently Larry registered his objections by way of a double barreled shot gun. Before Larry started popping at them, there were about a thousand of them. Now there are at least 10,000 of them. Bring on the poison gas: DEPUTY SHERIFF HEIKES. of V.'atseka. III., who recently shot and killed a man in that city and according to press dispatches failed to give a satisfactory explanatTcn, was a foreman at the Edward Valve plant in Eat Chicago during the war. He way very popular with both employes and employers. THE Board of Works yesterday received bids on the concrete pavement on Morris avenue, from Columbia to Tapper and for a sidewalk on Kennedy avenue from Summer street to Black Oak road. Tomorrow afternoon the board will hear remonstrators on the Kennedy ave. widening and the Conkey avenpe pavement. HYMAN" LEVIN, shoemaker. 7S9 Walter street, is arrested on warrant sworn out by Edward Berwanger, former federal prohibition agent, now special agent for the Pennsylvania, railroad. The warrant charges grand larceny in connection with box car thefts. Levin, who is released on $1,000 cash bail, denies his guilt. AT the request of the Kiwanis club. Mayor Brown Is preparing a proclamation declaring Friday to be Hammond Day at the Crown Point fair. W. J. McAleer and W. E. Startsman are members of the Kiwanis committee in charge of Arrangements. 11 Hammond people who can go are urged to start from the court house at 12 o'clock Friday noon. Poison ivy takes on a beautiful redish hue early in the autumn an! is picked for ornamental purposes y some people once.

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HammondDairyCo.Wtll Erecl $100,000 Plant Plans and specifications have been prepared by local architects for new business buiid.'ngs and dwellings fr Hammond to total $330,000. Work will be started November first on the $240,000 two story brick structure which ts to repce the Maine Hotel, the Central block and other smaller 'bulldlng-s owned by the Bereolos Erothers at the northwest corner of State and Ilohman fctreets. The building is to have a foundation and steel ctixicture for a six story building and the owners plan 'o add four more stories as soon as tenants can be secured. The projeot has been delayed for some time owing to negotiations with the Indiana Harbor Belt Railway whereby the railroad was to have leased the upper floors of a six story building for its general offices. The owners and the railroad having failed to come to an agreement, it was decided to erect a two story building immediately and complete the 'building as soon as tenants could be secured. The new Bereolos building will be built twenty feet back from the present line and .under an agreement with the city the street will he correspondingly widened. The owners have also agreed to build and equip a commodious ladies' comfort station in the basement with a stairway to the street which will 'be leased by the city at a nominal rental and thrown open to the public. The city will employ attendants and keep the station in good condition. A. C. Berry, architect, who has supervision of the Bereolos building, will soon release plans to the con'trctors. The wrecking of the Maine Hotel and Central block will begin within thirty days, it was declared today. . $100,000 DAIRY FLAXT. Other building projects to be carried out this fall follow: $100,000 brick addition to the Hammond Dairy Company's plant on Oakley avenue. , Two story ibrick business block on Hohman street to be built by Don Spragia. The contractors are Danna, Gonman and Meyers. $10,000 building for Indiana Herb Gardens; Joe Meyers, owner; Morris Brothers, contractors. $15,000 bungalow in Park View; Dr. E. J. Jones, owner; George P. Pearson & Sons, owners $12,000 bungalow in Glendale- At; torney Bdwln Fredericks, owner; George P. Pearson & Sons, owners. Up to date, not including the biuldings mentioned above, the total building in Hammond this year reaches $1,923,435 00 as against $1,952,435.00 for 1921Building Commissioner Henry iz estimated today that building for the entire year will exceed two and a half million dollars. Building- so far this year by months follows: January, $49,600; February. $35.050; March. $187,725; April. $253,375; May. $248,100; June. $521,925; July. $40o!s75; August, $130,000; September. $96,625. ADULTS RAY IN TEMPLE Sixty men and women f mostly women) gathered last night to learn iheir first lesson in the art of playground and recreational direction. The fascinating study of play was held in the ball room of the Elk's temple under the inspiri-.ig super-;...-,n of Miss Sophie T. 1 Uiiback, of C immunity Service, .-? v Yo-k. Transmitting to h?r adult students a degree of ent.'jjsiasm and interest that evidenced itself throughout the evening's instruction by continued laughter, cheers and earneraderie, Miss Fishback accomplished a notable achievement when she sent the three score applicants away bubbling over with the Community service idea and every one a sworn apostle to the cause. It was the first lesson of the half dozen that will comprise the course the graduates of which will be Titted to lead the very work they are now learning, on Hammond p'aygrounds. in social centers at parks and wherever necessity warrants. Other lessons will be held tonight and tomorrow night at the Elk's home. Membership and training is gratis. It Is Tioped that the sixty people present last night will be greatly fjjgmented at this evening's class. Young and old. fat and slim, matron and maiden were prerent list night to learn the rudiments of the playground supervision. Aloert Bu.umbrger. New York rip resentative of Community Serrlce, addressed the g?atheringr on the purposes and alms of his organizations.

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EAST CHICAGO COUNCIL MEETING

Approves Ordinances of A ... appropriation and Does Other Business. Approving ordinances appropriating an abrogate sum of $12,831. taking under consideration pay roll appropriations amounting to $56.00o and opening the discussion of abolishing the position of deputy clerk, were among the major Items to bo acted upon by members of the common council when they met last evening. CHECK IlfMEDIATE ACTIOX Tho question of abolishing the position of deputy city clerk, which has been making the rounds of civic organizations, including the meetings of the Chanjber of Commerce and local bar association, was continued again by the council until after a committee from their number has met with these outside organizations and thoroughly discussed the advltablllty of dlsmisr-lng-this city court position. Attorney Abe Ottenhelmer, representing the local bar association, gave some very startling facts concerning the East Chicago clt court and its unparalleled power compared with other city courts in the state. He gave the h. story in brief of the local city court and how it has slowly risen to the only selfsupporting city department, not to be rivaled In the state. Making his appeal not to abolisn the position of deputy clerk. Attorney Ottenhelmer pointed out that such action would only hamper the efficiency of the local court, tend to place it back in the class where it was several years ago and probably throw a bulk of the present business to outside courts. Judge Allen P. Twyman. whose court would be affected by the proposed action, informed members of the council that he hafl not been consulted on abolishing the deputy clerk position and would like to have a voice in this matter before final action is taken. H's request was jrvanted. Five ordinances appropriating moneys for the several city departments, totaling $59,000. were referred to committees of the council for their consideration. The ordinances under investigation are: Appropriating $15,000 to be used for the payroll of the fire department. Appropriating $18,000 to be used for the payroll of the police department. Appropriating $16,000 to be used for the payroll of the street and alley department. (Due to the fact that this fund was exhausted, an ordinance appropriating $6,500 to be used for the current month's payroll in this department was adopted last night.) Appropriating $6,000 for the salary of the pumping station engineers. Appropriating $4,000 for the salary of the raibage payroll. An ordinance appropriating $900.23 to pay current bills of the health department was adopted at its third reading last night. An ordinance appropriating $300 for paying special Judges in the city court was adopted. An ordinance asking for an appropriation of $2,000 to be used for payment of street and alley materials was amended to read $1,000 and the ordinance adopted as amended. An ordinance appropriating money for the paynu-nt of a sewer cleaning machine was. adopted. A nordinance appropriating money to rurchase a new record machine for the off ice, of City Cle-k Wm. H. Miller was adopted. An ordinance appropriating $2,000 for police maintenance was adopted. An ordinance appropriating $1850 to pay for tr pairs and assessments on the new Magoun ave. pumping station as recommended by committee was adopted. An ordinance appropriating $200 for raying and refunding taxes erroneously assessed was adopted. ARRESTS ARE EXPECTED Before evening uneasiness in Garys officialdom will have been whetted to a feverish stage when it becomes noleed around that federal agents have served a warrant on one prominent city official and another on a well known attorney. The names of the two men were to be arrested were withheld by the federal men this morning as it was considered possible that there would be a slip-up In the plans to bag them this afternoon. Armed with the warrants. Deputy Marshal Sasse and Director Bert Mor gan with several of his agents 7eft Hammond for Gary at 1:30 o' '.c and it was expected that they would be back In Hammond before 3 o'clock. Charges against the men were contained in a complaint which was filed direct In the office of the U. S. district attorney at Indianapolis yesterday. The warrants were issued upon these complaints and were brough to Hammond today ior service. The greatest insult you can offer a Russian Bolshevist is to call him a "radish" this being the scornful epithet Invented by Trotski to designate those who are red on-lv on the outside.

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(BtLI.BTlN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. lfN President Harding this afternoon vetoed the Soldiers' Ilonns Dili In a vbrorotin measnge. "The House wi'l over-ride the veto and re pans it and the senate will sustain the veto, thus killing the bill.

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Ross Township's Unique Organization One lor Enforcement of Law SPECIAL TO THE T1VES M ERR ILLVILLE, lnd., Sept. 19. The Ross Township Detective Association will celebrate its thirtyninth anniversary September 29. This organization, which for nearly forty years has done efficient work In a quiet way, ls still active and has a hand in the enforcement of law whenever its services are needed. It is generally referred to as the Horsethicf Association, due to the face that the ef forts of the body originally were directed towards the running down of stolen horses and punishing the thieves. Some of tho charter members of the association were P. A. Banks, William Ryan. B. Eurge, I Boyd, Fred Knieter, Sidney Pierce, John Weis, John Mellon, Henry Hoffman, L. M. Randolph, Sam B. Woods, John Muzzall, ' Thomas Hpffman, M. F. Pierce, E. Boyd. William G. Woods and Dr. H. 1 Iddings. Of the seventeen named, there arc only four now llvinf. At the time the organization was formed it was a regular occurrence for someone in the township to have a horse and buggy stolen. The moral influence of the association, aside from the activity of tho men in nabbing the thieves, soon stopped horse stealing to a great extent. When thieving was done, the detectives never failed to get the culprits . The association is still active. Fred Krieter. one of the charter members, is president, and Sam B. Woods, another charter member, is secretary. "We are still doing business at the old stand," says Mr. Krieter, "the only difference being that we j include, all thieves and we are ready to give them a hot reception with our good officers. We have plenty of money in the treasury to carry on such work." CLUB VOTES FOR PROPOSAL The Rotary Club voted today un animously in favor of th.- proposed widening of Indianapolis Boule vard from the State line to b ive Points. This project is no wup be1 fore the city officials for considieration, the plan being to increase fory or sixty fe t in order to relieve the congestion now prevailing. This road is the ouilet for practically the entire State of Indiana to Chicago and at present is hopelessly inadequate. Th? Rotary Club will support the city officials in whatever necessary action must be taken to increase the effectiveness of this road. Miss Margarol Lamprell entertained th ; Rotarians with recitations.' Her rendition of one of Riley's pieces in commemoration of Riley Week was particularly pleasing. II p j Will Carry Complete Line Of Office School and Typewriter Supplies. Th?? Northern Indiana Printing and Stationery Company will open for business at the location formally known as the S and H. Green Trading Stamp parlors on South Hohman street on or about October tenth with a complete line of office, stationery, school and typewriter supplies. In addition to this there will be a Dennison department, with an experienced demonstrator in charge. The Dennison specialties will include basket ani lamp weaving, wax and bead work, and parchment shades. Pine needle work will also be introduced. The new firm carries as their motto: Fair prices, consistent with good work, and service unexcelled."

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M. Rothschild was the proudest, happiest man in Hammond last night. He was fulfilling a promise made twenty-five years ago when he was presented presented with the customary Jewel by the Knights of Pythias lodge for having been a member for twenty-five years. "If I live another twenty-five years, I'm going to give this lodge a real party," he had said. Il did. The Pythian home at Hohman and Ogden streets, was a house of mirth all evening. Over 250 were present, all members of the Hammond lodge having received announcements of the event. Invitations had also been sent to Grand Lodge officer and neighboring lodges. For many old timers it was a grand reunion. Probably no evnt of its kind has been pulled off in the country. For a man to be a lodge member fifty years and never call for sick ibenefits is quite unusual. That is Mr. Rothschild's record. He joined the K. of P. lodye at St. Louis in 1S72 and has been in good standing since then . Seventy-five members of the Indiana Association of Tark Superintendents paid Gary a visit yesTirday. This morning they were taken through the steel mills of Gary, and this afternoon they will make their departure after viewing the steel city from on? end to another. Governor MoCray was scheduled to talk at the West Side Park, where a meeting of the park superintendents was held. The governor, however, could r.ot come. Lew Shank, mayor of Indianapolis, v ::i given a generous applause at the conclusion of a most interesting talk. Maor R. . Johnson was called upon, and responded with one of R, O.'s well known speeches causing the assemblage to applaud for more. ullelin INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO, Sept. 19. Rarld to normal conditions and big increases in car loadings and in re-pairings were reported by the railroads today as a result of the return In greater numbers under the Baltimore agreement witto the shop crafts officials. (BILLCTIM INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CAIRO. EGYPT, Sept. 19. Twelve thousand Greek troops were killed in fighting at Smyrna and an equal number were captured according to word received here today. (These Greek soldiers killed and captured do no-t include the victims of Turkish massacres.) Bl I-I.ETIV) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. Sept. 19. Extensive plans for pushing impeachment proceedings against Attorney Genral Daugherty before the House Judiciary commit tee are being laid by his opponents it developed today. (BI LI,ETrV) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ATHENS. Sept. 19. The Greek government is calling up the 1S0S and 1909 classes of m;li tary reservists to reinforce the Gendarmes it was learned today. Greek evacuation of Asia Minor

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it, , After the regular order of business had been gone through A. G. Deaver who knows them all, took charge as mister of ceremonies. There were a number of epeechea from local members as well as visitors, including grand lodge officiaCs. Mrs. Ljdia Woltera Van Gilder sang four numbers and was warmly applauded. The Dokie band stirred things up and everyone was in great spirits. Several jokes were worked on the prominent members. W. C. Belman slipped square into a terrible pred'.'ament right wlille he was telling some southern reminiscences. A policeman also started a riot by appearing with Rothschilld's coat and telling where he had found it. Following the good time the big crowd went to the dining room and l'Jncheon was served. Mr. Rothschild gave souvenirs consisting of rosette and tricolor of the lodge bearing the dates "1872-1922." The general wish was that he will be able to throw another party in 1947 when the next quarter century rolls sround. AT GARY With the adequate assistance of the Gary police department the officials were taken on a tour of the city. The new beach at Miller was visited. They were taken through Gary's pretty residential district. The schools received the highest of praise from the members. They were taken through the Gary schools and the Wirt system again received much approbation. At seven thirty o'clock last night, the convention wound up at the Gary Country Club where dinner was served. Each member of the association was greatly impressed with the formidable accomplishments Gary has achieved during the sixteen years it has existed. hs ben completed. v'nctv thousand Christian refupes now liave been landed here and a!l are in appalling condition lacking food, shelter and clothing. (BILI.ETIM INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERTCE WASHINGTON. Sept. 19. While the country was in the throes of a railroad and coal strike the retail cost of food dropped 2 per cent, in August as compared with July, the Department of Iibor announced today. The greatest decreases were in vegetables, po to toes dropping 28 per cent; Onions 16 per cent; and cabbage 15 per cent. Sirloin Steak dropped one per cent. Paving Ruling By Lesh INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Sept. 19. In an opinion submitted by Attorney General U. S. Lesh to the state board of accounts today, it was ruled that streets wholly within incorporate towns may be improved under the provisions of the three-mile road law. I'nder the ruling town s reets may be improved and the cost assessed against the entire township. Heretofore this law has applied only to roads lying partly within and partly outside incorporated towns.

Huddled Bodies Found Behind Makeshift Bulkheads

f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVIC.l JACKSON, Calif., Sept. 19. Th. golden crypt of the Argonaut gar up its dead today in the same silent manner that the lives of forty-seven miners were cnuffed out three weeks ago. The work of bringing up the bodies of the forty-seven miners, found dead last night behind hastily constructed bulkheads, began early today. All persons were ordered off the Kennedy mine, through Mch the Argonaut disgorged from Its gold lined depths the remains of its victims. Coffins were taken below in which to bring up the bodies. All tha dead were found behind two bulkheads which the entombed men had constructed in a vain effort to save themselves. The oodles were decomposed so as to ni-ki identification difficult. Not one of the forty-seven had remained alive after the first few hours of the fire which broke out in the Argonaut shaft at midnight ou August 27. They were driven from passage to passage by the deadly fumes of gas and finally made a last stand on the 4350 foot level of the Argonaut behind two makeshift bulkheads. And there, one by one. they took their last breath and died for lack of air. Today the mining town of Jackson mourned its dead. In the relaxation of the grief that followed the twenty-two days' struggle to break into the Argonaut from the Kennedy mine, the knowledge that the effort was in vain, that all of the men were alroady dead hours before, the first shovelful of earth was removed in the drift had come with an irony too Mtter to be borne. The men were alive but dying at 3 o'clock on the rooming of August 28. By 4 o'clock they were in the embrace of death, huddled bodies lying still. This fact was established by two notes, one from William Fessel, a miner and chemist and father of a family, who perished, and the other from an unknown hand. Fessel's note was burned deep into the wood on the Innermost of the two bulkheads which the men frantically had constructed to keep out the gas. He had used the flame of his tiny miners carbide lamp and had seared the wood with tHis message: "Three A, M. Gas very bad. We are going to leave you. William Fessel." A second note, a pencilled scrawl, was picked up on the wet floor of the drift. It read: "Three o'clock. Too much gas." Below was a rudely scrawled figure "4." It appeared as if the writer had endeavored to write a message at 4 o'clock, but the gas . had already overpowered the men and they were falling into the sleep which was to be their last. The fact that the men died fighting poison gas caused by the burning of the mine shaft and in doing so stripped, their bodies of clothing to stuff in the cracks of the first crude bulkhead they constructed, added to the difficulty In identification. The brass tags handed out to each workman as he goes on shift were in this way discarded to a great extent and three of the men went on duty that tatal night three weeks ago minus their tags. The rescue workers are sticking grimly to their gruesome task, however, and will do their best to make identification absolute. Jackson has but one consolation today: Their sons died heroes. They died fighting. They had leadership and lived up to the best traditions of their calling. The manner In which their nearly nude bodies were found arranged In the crosscut of the 4350 foot level behind the double bulkhead shows they died quietly. Experts knowing the manner in which the deadly carbon monoxide gas works, expressed belief that the end was easy and quick once the gas reached them. One woman, a relative of one of the entombed miners, to whom news of their fate was too much, attempted suicide by pol3on!ng. Prompt action by friends in securing a physician probably will save her life. Compensation Insurance will probably reach the wlCows and heirs of the miners tomorrow. It will be the first installment reit-esentlng ft proportion of their earnings during the three weeks their fate was unknown about $85 per man. Later the state industrial accident commission will award death compensation. Clas conditions were reported to have delayed the work of sacking the bodies and the possibility existed that all might not be brought to the surface until tonight. It was reported some officials favored holding all of the bodies underground until they could be brought up tonight. Definite burial plans have not announced although it Is understood the interment will be handled by the mining company under the Jurisdiction of the state health authorities. The possibility of both state and federal investigation of the disaster loomed today with the receipt by B- O. Pickard, head of the United States bureau of mines rescue crew, of a telegram from Dr. H. Foster Bain, director of the United States bureau of mines, in which he declared the safety codes prescribed by the laws of many states are In- . adequate. Clarence Jarvis. rcp-e-senting Governor W. D. Stephens, had already announced that there would be a thorough state probe following the completion of the res. cue worV