"TIME brings all things."

Boot Hill

Surviving settlers of Dodge City, Kan., met there last week in a "Last Roundup." Hoar and weazened pioneers spun yarns of the bad days, recalled the town's early importance as shipping point for buffalo hide, as "payoff centre" after the Santa Fe railroad went through (1872). A parade was held with a covered wagon, stage coach, "buffalo bones" float (displaying a famed pioneer commodity), oldtime "soddie"

(sod-house) on wheels. In a great wooden tabernacle Evangelist Billy Sunday shouted against sin. The oldsters knew what he was talking about. They knew how the cowboys of the '70s spent their holidays in Dodge City. They had seen desperados run amuck, had joined in quick, relentless justice. Remembering, they climbed Dodge City's famed Boot Hill, burial place of many men and one woman* who died "with their boots on" (by violence). Although 32 of the bodies were removed to the town's cemetery in 1878, it is popularly supposed that several collections of bones still lie under Boot Hill sod. On this traditional spot the "Last Roundup" laid the cornerstone of a new city hall. Then a statue was unveiled of a cowboy, appropriately drawing his six-shooter, said the inscription: "On the ashes of my campfire this city is built." The figure was carved by O. H. Simpson, onetime pioneer dentist.

*An assassin fired through a house door, killed Dora Hand by mistake.

Operator

In Utica, N. Y., one Harry Hewlett, garage man, sued the N. Y. Telephone Co; and Mrs. Dorcas Stockhauser, telephone operator, for $10,000. His charge: since 1923 Operator Stockhauser. daughter of a rival garage man, wife of another, diverted all calls to the Howlett garage, sent them instead to her family's garages.

Larceny

In Portland, Me., Willie L. Sanborn has for 17 years gone to a well on the grounds of Pennell Institute to obtain water for his boarders. Recently he was convicted of the larceny of ten quarts of water valued at one dollar. Sentence was suspended; Mr. Sanborn was put on two years' probation.

Housebuilder

In Merrill, Wis., one John Aho sits in county-jail making birdhouses out of condemned slot-machines.

Null

In Bangor, Me., one George A. Powers sat on a jury for 33 days. Then it was discovered that he was deaf, that all verdicts reached during his service were null.

Hits

In Evanston, Ill., one Pauline Stasiak smashed her car into that of one Peter Pennacchia, backed away, drove off. Mr. Pennacchia left his wreck in the road, went to his garage and obtained his other car, drove around the corner and was again smashed into by Miss Stasiak.

Matador

In Mexico City, a man appeared on a boulevard, took his coat off and danced before approaching autos like a matador before a bull. When the motorists veered away, he shouted: "These animals have no fighting spirit."

Borne off to jail, straight-jacketed, he told the wardens he was a millionaire, would pay them vast sums for his freedom.

Imagination

In Knoxville, Tenn., one Ralph Cagle, cosmetic salesman, told doctors in a frenzy that he had swallowed his false teeth. They quickly X-rayed his throat and stomach, saw nothing of the teeth. Mr. Cagle continued to writhe and moan. Then Mrs. Cagle walked into the room carrying the lost teeth. The convulsions ceased.

Voice

In Manhattan, one Eddie Moran, 12, stopped on his way to school at the house of Mrs. Clara Hewes, 76, widow of a magician, strangled her in her bed, took three dollars from her bureau. Then he continued to school, sat through his classes, lost his money at dice. That night he was arrested for murder.

"I heard a voice whisper in my ear," he said. "I don't know whose voice it was. ... It said, 'Eddie, you can get some easy money.' "

Baby

In Manhattan, one Michael Schuster, 26, asked his aged mother for money to buy a drink. Mother Schuster refused, said she had barely enough to buy food. Michael then kicked her in the mouth until she dropped to the floor. At court the judge told him, "I'm going to give you six months. You are nothing but a dirty cur. I'd like to take you into my chambers and give you what you deserve." Mother Schuster screamed: "Don't send my baby away!" Michael was sentenced to ten days.