The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 14, 1915, Page 8

2 Ey ere ee Same Name ty the Tha: (Copyright, 1914, by Harold MacGrath) “It all depends,” said the chief, “upon the. fact that they will be im- patient. If they have the ability to walt, we lose. But we can afford to risk the chance. The man who wrote this letter is not a counterfeiter. He's an old yeggman. We haven’t heard anything of him lately. We tried to corner hin on a post office job, but he slipped by. He may be a stool. Anyhow I'll draw him in somehow.” “There'll be some excitement” “We're used to that; you too. we've got to do is to locate this man Beggs. There are signs of spite in this letter. Very well played, if you want my opinion, What's this Black Hun- dred?” - “I'm not at liberty to tell just yet. Its a strange game; half political, half blackmail, It’s a pretty strong organization. But if they’re back of this counterfeiting, there's. a fine chance of landing them all.” Here the chief's assistant came in. | “Got eggs on the wire. Says he’l conduct you to the home if you'll H | or two; at least not till after the raid “Stop!” Said Jones Quietly. promise him immunity for some other offenses.” “Tell him he shall have immunity | on the word of the chief. But also | say that he must come to see me in | person.” Thelin Dollar Mystery By HAROLD MAC GRATH Itustrated from Scenes in the Photo Drama of the All ; | | | 1 nhouser Film Company “I don't believe it would be wise | for Beggs to see me here, I gave him | a good scnd-off—Sing Sing—five years | ago. He may recollect,” said Norton. “Suit yourself about that. Only, that. is in the house or not. Why worry?”. “It’s only the way I feel, is something ugcanny. in the regular- ity of that girl’s good luck.” - “Ah, but we're not after her this time; it’s the whole family.” “The servants too?” : “Everybody in the house will be under suspicion.” s “And can you trust Beggs?” “His life is in the hollow of my hand, You can always trust a man when you hold the rope that’s around keep in. communication with me by | telephone and I'll tip you off as to | when the raid shall take place. Lucky | you came in, T should have honestly | gone there and arrested innocent | people, and they would have had a | devil of a time explaining. It would | have taken them at least a week to | clear themselves. That would leave | the house empty all that time.” Norton did not reply, but he put the blotter away carefully. There was no getting away from the fact, but the god of luck was with him. “Do you know what's back of it all?” “T can't tell you any more than IL have,” said Norton. “Then I pass. 1 know you well | enough. If you’ve made up your mind not to talk a man couldn’t get any: | thing out of you with a can-opener. | And that’s why we trust you, my boy. Don’t forget the telephone.’ “I shan't. So long.” That same night Braine paid the Russian woman a brief visit. “I think that here’s where we go forward. The secret service will raid the house tomorrow and then for a few days we'll roam about as we bally please. I'm hanged. if I.don't, have every plank torn up and all the walls | pulled down. More and more I'm con- |vinced that the money is in that | house.” “Don’t pe too confident,” warned Olga “So many times have we been tripped up when everything seemed in our hands. The house should be | guarded but, not entered for a day is cold. I’m beginning to see traps every where.” “Nonsense! . Leave it to me. We shan’t stick our heads inside the Har- greave house till we are dead certain that it is absolutely empty. Olga, you’re a gem. I don’t think Russia will bother us for awhile. Eh? Paroft will not dare tell how he was flim- flammed. The least he can do to save his own skin is to say that we are fully capable of taking care of our- selves,” Olga laughed. “To think of his writing a note like that! Florence would have recognized—and no doubt did—a palpable attempt to play an old game twice.” “How does she act towards you?” “Cordial as ever; and yet... .” “Yet what?” “I thought her an ordinary school girl, and yet every once in a while she makes what you billiard players call a professional shot. What matter? So. long as they do not shut the door in my face, I ask nothing more. But do you want my opinion? I feel it in my bones that something will go wrong tomorrow.” “All right, sir.’ Star T Every Tuesd On Monday night, January 18th, Bates Lodge No. 190, . 0.0. F. of ‘The Million Dollar Mystery’ The twelfth installment of which appears in The Times this week - at the and night Big Time For Odd Fellows. | Encampment are not only cordially Motion Pictures heater ay afternoon invited but expected to be present. “We want forty-five-chickens- cook- ed ready to'serve. Will45 Odd Fel- ‘call up either one of the committes « ‘I have it from a pretty good -in this house. his neck.” Still the frown did not leave Olga’s brow. With all her soul she longed to be out of this tangle. It had all looked so easy at the start; yet here they were, weeks later, no further forward than at the beginning, and added to this they had paid much in The Dictagraph Registered Every Word, lives and money. Well, if she would be fool enough to love this~man she must abide with the consequences. She wanted him all by herself, out of danger, in a far country. He might tire, but she knew in her heart that she never would, This was her one great passion, and while her mode of living was not as honest as might be, her love was honest enough and un- swerving, though it was not gilded by the pleasant fancies of youth. “Of what are you thinking?” he asked when he concluded that the pause had been long enough. “You.” “H’m, Complimentary?” “No; just ordinary everyday love.” “Ah, Olga, why the deuce must you go and fall in love with a bundle of ashes like myself? Ashes and bitter ashes, too, Sometimes I regret. But the regretting only seems to make me all the more savage, What opium and dope are to other men, danger and excitement are to me. written that I shall die in-bed, I have told you that already. There is no other woman—now, And I do love you after a fashion, as a man loves a com- rade. Wait till this dancing bout is “Good lord, are you losing you nerve?" cried Braine impatiently. “The secret service has the warning; they find the green stuff, and Jones & Co, will mog off to the police station. And there'll be a week of red tape_before they are turned”loose again. They'll dig into Hargreave’s finances and all We'll have all the, security tn the world to find out if the money There “found the exit and called to the men “{ shall haye to Tequest you and the |’ family to accompany. me to the » “But ‘itis all utterly impossible, sir! I know nothing of that money, nor how it g exe. It's a plot, I declare ‘on my oath gir, that I am innocent, that Miss Fi and her companion know nothing about. it.” | “You will have to tell that to the federal judge, sir. My duty is to take you all to the station. It would be just as wéll not to say anything more, sir.” ie : “Very well; but some one shall mart for this outrage.” ‘That remains to be seen,” was the terse comment of the secret service man. — He led his prisoners away directly. Norton and his men had to wait far into the night. The Black Hundred did not intend to make any mistake this time by a hasty move. At quarter after ten they descended: Braine’ was not with them. This was due to the urgent request of Olga, who still had her doubts. The men rioted about the house, searching nooks and corners, examining floors and walls, opening books, pulling out drawers, but they tound nothing. They talked freely, however, and the dictagraph regis- tered every word, The printing plant, which had so long defied discovery, was in the cellar of the house occu- pied by thé Black Hundred. Norton and his men determined to follow and raid the building. And the reporter promised himself a good front page story without in any way conflicting with his promises to Jones. Events came to pass as they expected. The trailing was not the easiest thing.’ Norton knew about where the build- ing was, but he could not go to it di- rectly. He was quite confident that its entrance was Sdentical with that which had the trap door through which he had been flung that memorable day when he had been shanghaied. When they reached the building he warned the men to hug the wall to the stairs. The trap ydwned, but no one was hurt. They scampered up the Stairs like a lot of eager boys; broke the door in—to find the weird execu- tive chamber dark and empty and an acrid smoke in their nostrils. This latter grew stifling as-they blundered about in the dark. By luck Norton to foliow. They saw Beggs at the top. of the stairway and called out to him to surrender. He held up his hands and the stairs collapsed. Real fire burst out: and Norton and his compan- ion had a desperate battle with flame and..smoke to gain the street. The fire was put out finally, but there was nothing in the ruins to prove that there had been a counterfeiting den there. There, was, however, at least one consoling feature: in the fu- ture the Black Hundred would have to hold their star-chamber elsewhere. ‘It was checkmate; or, rather, it was a draw. ‘ (To be Continued.) DONN M. ROBERTS form a line menacing Austria-Hungary now virtually in the possession of the [ENGLAND ANSWERS F * -. | Opens the Way for Negotiations "* tween Both Countries Regard- ing Shipping. Boy Washington, Jan, 11.-Great Brit” f Germans Reported Entrenche - on East Bank of Rawka Near Warsaw. ain’s preliminary reply” to the note from the United States government, requesting an. improvement in the the British fleet was made public here and in London yesterd-y,.by Aw, tual agreement: between the state de- partment and the’ British foreigm’ office, ‘ STILL WAITING FOR RUMANIA tn the view of the United States that commerce between neutral nations should be interfered with only when {mperatively necessary and officials of the Washington overnment con- _| strued it as conceding that the prin- Break in Deadlock in European War May Come When Balkan State Declares—italy May Act Soon. are ‘just and upheld by the previously accepted usages of international Jaw. The only formal comment made last night was contained in a brief state- ment issued by Secretary of State Bryan, who said: re “This answer be'ng preliminary and - not being intended as a complete re- London, Jan. 12.—A correspondent has sent the following dispatch from Warsaw: ‘ “The Germans have crossed the Rawka River bisely thirty miles west of Warsaw, have entrenched them- selves on the east bank and today at- tacked the most important line of de- fenses made by the Russians for the defense of Warsaw. “The defenses: include barbed wire entanglements as well as the most carefully built field trenches. “The Germans attacked the wire entanglements, today, were repulsed, but the battle continues.” War Waits New Entrants, Only a change in the weather or the entrance into the war of Rumania or Italy, or both, is likely to bring about any marked change in the military sit- uation in Europe for some time to come, But the belief is growing in those countries allied against Germany, Austria and Turkey that Rumania, with its well trained army of not less than four hundred thousand men, will throw itself into the conflict at an early date. This, in effect, would link Rumania with the extreme Rus- sian left now forcing its way into Hungary through Bukowina. Taking into consideration the Ser- vians and Mgntenegrins, this would the fill answer is received.” Briefly tbe British note while con- ceding the principles of the American government's contentions, points out difficulties in actual practice, refers to aileged shi) 3 and. cites statistics showing. an increase rather than a decrease in . certain neutral commerce, in support of Great Britain’s suspicions that Ger- many and Austria have been indirectly obtaining contr:band through neutral countries, The note promises, however, that. Great Vritain will “make redress” whenever the section of ‘the British fleet ‘may unintentionally exceed” the limits of international law. - While they are generally reserved in their comment, it may be stated authcritatively that high officials of the United States government regard , the tone of the note as entirely friend- ly and believe, moreover, that the dis- cussion which will follow it will bé earriéd on in the same vein, with & desire on the part of both countries to reach a ctory understanding. DANGER CF FOCD SHORTAGE House Resolution Calls Upon Secre- tary Houston for Information. Regarding Exports. Washington, Jan, 11.—A resolution calling on the secretarf of agricul- ture for information as to the produc- tion, consumption and exportation ef cereals, beef, pork and other food pro- ducts, and for details as to the prices along the entire southeastern frontier from Russia to the Adriatic, May Act Soon. Just as rumors persisted for days prior to Turkey’s entrance into the war, on the side of Germany, whi tended to discount the step when it eventually was taken, so rumors now center about Rumania and _ Italy. There is a strong feeling among the general public in France and England that definite action will not be de- layed long. ; British Again in Lille. London, Jan, 11.—-A dispatch to the Daily Express from Boulogne asserts that confirmation has been obtained of the rumors that the Germans have avacuated Lille and that the city is Representative Farr of Pennsylvan! Mr. Farr explained that he wished to ascertain whether there was any den- ger of a food shortage in the United States because of the enormous in- crease in exportation since the out- break of the European war. Smaller loaves of bread or an in- crease in the price is one Mkely result of the rise in wheat, in the opinion of Charles J. Yrand, chief of the fed- British, The Britis), reply to the American note occupies: the attention of the British press and public in the ab- treatment of American commerce Dy.’ ” The British communication ‘concurs: © ciples expressed by the American note = ply, we will postpone comment until, © fraudulent practices by - of wheat, was introduced Saturday. Fi wa We eee, It is not |. over and I may talk otherwise. And now I.am going to shake hands and hobnob with the elite—beautiful word! And while I bow and smirk and crack witticisms, I and the devil will be chuckling ‘in our sleeves. But this I'll tell you, while there’s a drop of blood in my veins, a breath in my body, I'l] stick to this fight if only to prove that I’m not a quitter.” He caught her suddenly in his arms, kissed her, ran lightly to the door, and was gone before she could re- cover from her astonishment, ui The affair went smoothly, without a hitch. Norton and his men gained the house through the tunnel without attracting the least attention. The Black Hundred, watching the front and rear of the house, never dreamed that there existed another mode of entrance or that there was a secret cabinet room. Half an hour later the head of the secret . service, accompanied by his men, together with “Spider” Beggs, who was in high feather over his suc- cess, arrived, demanded admittance, and went at the front of the business at once. ‘ : “Your name ts Jones,” began the sence of any important news from the battlefields. From the coast to the River Oise, where the country is under water and the rivers are flooded, the big guns have been engaged continuously, but 1 the water and mud prevent the infan- try from coming into action. Along the Aisne valley, * however, and I through the Champagne district as far as western Argonne the French eral bureau of Mr. Brand farmer will not be a first-hand bene- ficiary. of the soaring prices. good prices and good market, which markets. ‘Moreover, believes the Americay With have prevailed for the last few months, Mr. Brand believes a major portion of the 1914 wheat crop hae passed to elevator men and dealers. chief. The butler nodded, though his face evinced no little bewilderment at the appearance of these men. ‘ “What is it you wish, sir?” “I am from. the secret service and source that there is counterfeit money hidden ; More than that, I can put my hand on the very place it is hidden.” + “That is impossible, sir,” declared “Donn M. Roberts is the mayor of Terre Haute who was arrest- ed by the federal authorities for alleged ballot frauds. S scacacereunacaecacacnmecnnameanemaaamaamaael DYNAMITERS EARN PAROLE Quick Work on Cell House at Peniten- ; tiary May Free Structural Steel Workers. Leavenworth, Kas., Jan. 9.--The rap- idity with which they constructed the west. cellhouse at the federal prison hefe was one of the arguments put forward today by seventeen iron. workers, convicted in the “dyna- mite conspiracy” cases at Indianapolis;!‘tne war simultaneously. The- Morn- role‘ board, which convened hete. Hav- driven back. rc NEW GOVERNOR -IN KANSAS: Arthur Capper Formally Inaugurated in Representative Hall at Topeka With Simple Ceremonies. Topeka, Jan. 12.—With the inauge- ration here yesterday of Arthur Cap- per; the: first native son to be elected. governor, and the first to be chosen by’ the combined votes of women, aif men, Kansas has returned to. the Re- publican fold. Democracy, which for the last two years has been in com- pleté control of the executive and leg- islative branches of the state ment, relinquished its sway in afl ‘cept the state senate, which is Demo cratic by. the slender majority of one,. due to its election two years ago. . The inauguration ceremonies: were marked by a display of old-time Re- publican enthusiasm. It was just. when Governor Hedges and elect Capper, preced tice Johnston, led thi are -pushing their offensive and or- #anizing the ground which they have gained. These gains have been made. at: heavy cost. In western Argonne the Germans also claim to have made gains and to have repulsed an attempt of the French to carry their trenches in the Woevre and in Alsace. Report Russ Reverse. The only news from the east is the German report that the Russian of- fensive toward Mlawa has met ‘with no success, their force having been In the Caucasus the Turks have made ‘a stand on the frontier near Kara-Urgan and are fiercely attacking the Russian lines, There is no development in the near east, beyond the report from Sofia that M. Guenadieff, the former Bul- garian minister of foreign affairs, is leaving for Rome on a semi-official- mission, the object of which ig to as- certain the attitude of Italy toward. the possible future co-ordination of Itaio-Bulgarian interests in the Euro-: pean war, : More Nations to Enter. London, Jan. 9—From Paris comse @ report today that Rumania and Italy have reached an agreement to enter ing Post's Bucharest correspondent says; ‘ «umania is mobilizing 750,000 men, ¥