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PAGE SIX SAME PEOPLE “Mistress of Mystery estes ATTEND MOST MURDER CASES New Breed of Court Follow-| ers Give Bailiffs Diffi- cult) Problem | and | mo: db f . followers, en-| gendered by Chic: es of mur-| fer trials, confronts Cook county's | criminal court bailiffs with a diffi. | om the large class of | ers which apparently never » do but look for sen- | f has be-| type, with age by which | atta hey always can distinguish him in ‘ourt reom t ‘omen m audience at] Chicago's murder trials has been made up of the same in-{ dividuals, Slightly more than half fF the ever-present kent is but there ces have be mi as that of the j If} to officials of th { Schooled by cons’ < of court procedu murder fans” offers bailiffs most difficult task of disci Etiquette The fan quickly learns how to get] a sewt of vantage even when hur- dreds clamor knows how many warnings the judge will issue before clearing the court room of a disorderly crow Career of Carolyn Wells Be- gan When She Heard First Detective Story—Chess and uzzles Her Hobbies By GENE COH NEA Service Writer New York, Aug. 5. “It all began on arainy day. A friend dropped in and suggested that, to pass the time, she read aloud to my mother and me. The book one of Anna_ Katherine T had never 1 of a detee- I was just a girl then doand has before so much as h tive story D nto my t fh olyn Wells, Ameri- ess of mystery,” explain reer as one of the world’s outstanding writers of mystery tales! began. This incident was but a mateh to touch off well-prepared powder. Miss Wells, who off the book covers is Mrs. Hadwin Houghton, had liter- ally been raised on problems. Her father came under the genmral head-! ing of “puzzle hound.” i A Puzzle Fan “He taught me to play ch Iwas a mere baby,” she r s had some sort m about the house. 1 have able puzzle fan. spawn of the same les, magicians’ tricks, | ales, chess, charades, writing jingles and books and an- nlves some form of | Yne must have a corner in n that works that ‘: first volume was a collection CAROLYN WELLS were added, This was the beginning a sep: eral territory, outside the jurisdic- tion of Chicago and Illinois. The annals of four decades are voluminously filled with records of that fight, which continued after his death when his widow took up the gage, but with us little success. Now Home of Wealthy Today, with the smoke of battle for sovertignty still in the air, the district has — neverthele: ahead, until it has become one of the most precious pieces of real estate id, It is a veritable forest ye and spacious apartment buildings and hotels, the abode of the wenlthy and the socially prom- inent. a There is the ‘white and majestic Drake Hotel, and a number of other hostelries of the small calibre, and canyons of exclusive apartment buildings housing laf of the city’s elect. Marshall Field Hil, for instance, has an entire floor of one ‘of the large co-operative apartment struc- tures. There also is rising Northwest- ern’s “downtown” skyscraper univer- sity in variegated limestone. Three bui.dings, one a sky-reaching Gothic | tower, are nearing completion, and other units are to cluster about them. There also are the Chicago Riding | club, the Casino club, the Chicago Athletic club and other buildings identified with the social life of the city. \Gas Company Has | Unique Display in Broadway Window Consolidated 506 Broadway, has ar interesting window, showing the which the Hoffman gas water ‘The heater is opened, howing the way in which the water tirculates through the pipes, allowing forged| i Olson and-Munger m Are Attending Elks Meeting at Fargo p to the State Association.” for a quarter of @ century. He hes il apeaker at the banquet to-| been secretary for 23 years and i Pele will speak on the subject, has seen the order grow from 200,000. ¢ Grand Lodge and Its Relation | to almost s million membership. He was largely responsible for the $3,- | 000,000 war memorial building, te- E.| cently dedicated near Lincoln park, Chicago. Mr. Robinson has been e fi rominence in the netionat B. Obert A. Olson, exalted ruler, ond | geen SD George Munger, representative, of the local Eiks Lodge are in Fargo to- day attending the state meeting of ks at the Elks club house. The ses- ened at 10 o’clack this morn- K, Thonipson, secretary of here, had intended to at- ‘eo tend the Fi meet, but was unable to go, Fred C. Robinson, Sg grand secretary of the order, will be the Dopee BROTHERS SEDAN $1160. ereé in Binwwarck and In: are e Licenne numbers, extra tire aud tube, front bumper, rear bumper, jematic wind- scuff pintes, radiator locking cap, uickeled radiator sion lack, cowl ver stop light, all-ntee! body, cliher steel dine of natural wood wheels, 125.25 balloon tires, tire pump, high presanre grease gw ack, complete toot kit. ‘The wheelbaxe In 11 the rear springs 35 1 M. B. Gilman Co. Breadwaz. at Second He sells an automobile that he has personally studied, tested, analyzed, and Set head He accepts full local responsi ility for the car he sells and for the constant satisfaction of the man who owns it. He has invested money in buildings, equip- ment, tools, parts, an skilled men so that he can service your car promptly, efficiently, and economically. He has established ‘himself permanently in business so that owners of the cars he has se always find him ready to serve their m 1B. He keeps himself posted on all new develop- ments in the automotive field so that those who deal with him get the Benefit of all prog- ress made in the industry. He is a good automobile dealer. Go to him for cars, service and advice. Bismarck, Minot, Mandan, N. D. Distributors of Willys-Overland Fine Motor Cars. b ignores reprimands. He rades. At that time charades saan decors alae, Se | BREAKWATER BUILT BY SQUATTER curacy in forecasting verdicts. | word puzzles have today. i Bailiffs trace the origin of the Books of jingles, anthologies and breed back tothe Carl Wanderer and | children's books came in legion from |» Harvey Church murder trials, but her pen. not until after the Loeb-Leopold As for tase did they discover that the sume | Miss Wells nas ‘ seats in every eourt.| the leading authorities. She is an in- ie iimber of nota.|defatigable reader, Publishers | it to heat rapidly. 1 She window has been arranged in | preparation for the arrival of George tective and mystery tales, | *Peibold, special representative of loked upon as one of | the Hoffman Heater company, who ; pee ae: i ill be here all next week to demon- Aug. 5.-UP)—A small, ir-1 the late Captain George Wellington | Wi cto p of land north| Streeter, an eccentric personality | strate the Hoffman gas water heater. Russell | every part of the world hi und ajacent to; who fought for a generation a los- EAT Italian | name on their lists and she esl the “Gold Ce ‘as been dubbed! ing fight in Chieago courts to make | gangsters; every volume in every language with a high sounding name, good his claim to the land through | John Walton Winn; the Drake hotel | roncerne mystery or crime. ding “the billion dollar triang-| squatter sovereignty, which began sony eMartin Durkin, Robert Scott | her wealth of information she wrote) ie” But to Chicagoans for gener-| 1886 when hi have Txne’ of court fol- | # text-book on the writing of detec) ations to come it probably will be Lake tive, ghost and mystery stories which| known by the homely name of} ‘Sand Adds Acreage THE CURTIS HOTEL TENTH STREET AT FOURTH 4VBNUB MINNEAPOLIS, U. 8. A. MILLIONS BY ELEVATORS NEW YORK Aug. 5.—More than ten million passengers are carried -| every night and day on New York's greatest rapid transit system, its ‘thousands of elevators. ese run “Where the he most enjoys. Contempt For Order Deputy bailiffs entrusted with the disciplining of trial audiences have regarded with somevalarm the w- ing contempt for their admonitions of silence and order in the cour! The fans have heard such admon tions too often to be awed by th Lately, however, the aid of trial judges has been’ evoked, and the @jection of disorderly spectators has somewhat helped. Premier Poincare Is Again Given Confidence Vote Paris, Aug. 5—(). of deputies today again voted in Pre r Poincare by reject- ing to 2 a Socialist counter project for control of the tobacco monopoly, which the government pro- poses (o put in the hands of a private company ‘The chamber adopted M. Poincare’s sinking fund bill as a whole by a vote ‘of 420 to 140. It next took up the measure providing for a new con- vention with the Bank of France, authorizing the emission of new hank notes against the purchase of gold and gold valued foreign currencies. Protest Is Filed Against New Twine Tariff Proposal Jamestown, N. Aug. 5—A).— Jamestown and Valley City chambers of commerce have filed a protest with the interstate commerce commission against the new twine tariff rate pro- posal by the railroads which would make a spread of 14 cents: per hun- dred pounds on the 93-mile haul be- tween Fargo and Jamestown, The claim is that the new rate would in- crease the cost of twine to local farmers $15 to $25 per car lot. Friendship Tour Will End Tonight Ryder, N. D., Aug. (#).—After spending much of yesterday within Mountrail county, where the condition ‘of the crops surprised and delighted the motorists, the Minot friendship tour this morning swung through southwestern Ward county toward McLean, where visits will be made this afternoon. ‘The 80 members of the expedition spent the night at Parshall, with a big donee as the closing feature of ing of entertainment. The tour be ended tonight with Max the last community on the itinerary before the return to Minot. ‘The excursion into one of the gar- den spots of the state has created even greater good will between the communities visited and Minot, de- clares G. D. Colcord, president of the local association of commerce, which sponsored the tour. Fourteen towns will have been vis- ited before the close of the journey, stops today being at Plaza, Makoti, Ryder, Douglas, Garrison, Coleharbor and Garden City, Kan., Au: In this town of 8,000 pop most ly located large water, is largest swimming pools in the coun- oot, 346 feet long and 210 . will accommodate a thou- tand bathers at a time. drawing card for scores of So ree Baie in gee by fe ct the poot is used as @ tksting "riok, ’ I Loipaig arate & notice: s oes must aot be brought into): has no peer. anity Case,” will appear in’ ‘The Bismarck Tribune, beginning Aug. 7. Everything Haw a Solution “And yet nothing is a mystery to is a form of ignorance or superstition, Everything has an answer and, generally, quite a simple one. ve read thousands of books on all the things purported to be niystery, and I've gone straight to the bottom, I’m ready to state, from my own viewpoint, that there are no mysteries, Everything has a solu- tion.” Miss Wells has little patience the mystery stories and crimes real life. She refuses to follow mur der mysteries in newspap “They lack the roundin lack form,” she asse 2 They are seattered and jumpy and rarely work t. She is a bridge addict. “L work a lot, but I play bridge more than I work,” she admits. Ot course she plays only with experts and her chess games are with cham- ‘Aptly enough, her marriage has a romantic link with her love of prob- lems. She had been creating puzzles of all sorts for various magazines. ‘And one of the most avid followers of her puzzles was Hadwin Houghton. He was one of the fans who followed. any intricate problem presented by mugazines. He sent in scores of prize- winning solutions, Thus a kinship sprung up between two people who had never met. One created the puz- zles, the other solved them, ally they met and romance solved their heart problems. Dotes On Difficult Tasks Difficult tasks of all sor this highly interesting personality. When ordinary, problems lose their zest she sets out on self-imposed quests. Thus two years ago, during a con- versation among writer friends, she suddenly expressed the determination to become a collector of rare book She suggested collecting Walt Whit- man and her friends laughed. “It can't be done,” they said. “All the rare Whitman's are collected. You're too late.” Today she has the world’s best Whitman collection. Re- cently she secured 2 paper-covered copy of the 1855 edition of “Leaves of Grass.” In_ rari ranks with the Gutenberg Bible or the first folio of Shakespeare. ¢ “And I've done it all without leav- ing this room,” she says proudly. “I worked out the campaign, just as a mystery plan. would be worked out. I studied to learn where such things could be found, . I wrote and inquired, sending requefts to every part of the nation.” She secured an astounding collec- tion of early American glassware in the same fashion. For, you see, it’s all part of the same thing—a problem waiting to be solve Which is why the author of “The Cuse” is “mistress of mys Where Did She Get That Graceful Figure? You remember her of course—not so long ago she was a regular scare- erow—skinny is a mild word for the wey she looked. ust look at her now——if ever a woman ‘had a perfect figure she has it—she is the envy of half the girls in_town, i It’s nothing to get excited about— all she did was to take on weight- filled out the hollows in face, neck ‘and chest — any skinny, weak, run down woman can do the same and gain a clean clear complexion at the ame time. 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