Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 22, 1922, Page 8

off wnter. territory near the Canadian line. The discovery well on the structure of the same field. field have increased materially since reports was producing over 2,000 bar-| rels a ny. pleted a new well on soction 31-40-63 of the Osage field, Wyoming, with production estimated | at over 50 barrels settled. sti! fishing fer tools tn its test well) north of Riverton, Wyo., where op- erations haye been at a standstill for | over thres weeks. _belng drilled by the New York OD PACE EIGHT ‘ MARKET GOSSIP AND FIELD NEWS OHIO UL BUYS LAND IN KEVIN FIELD: BILLINGS, Mont., Juhe 22.—Reported purchase by ‘| Ohio Oil company of upwards of 5,000 acres on the Kevin- Sunburst structure of Toole county, including the discovery well of the Sunburst Oil & Gas company, was confirmed by F. E. Hurley, vice president of the Ohio, upon the occasion of a visit to Billings while en reute from Shelby to Casper, Wyo. Tt was that the leases taken over by the Ohio are in the heart of the Sunburst field and constitute the largest single tract of solid block acreage on the entire structure The Ohio has opened an office at Shelby. from which operations in the Sunburst field will be directed and has a large staff of geologists, engi neers and field men stationed there. Mr. Hurley indicated in a brief dis cussion of the Ohio's entry into the learned from Mr. Hurley it is expected that another huge eqs supply will be unloosed tn the Poison Spider field. at the top of the Embar at 2,263 feet, ie in the central part of the field on the SW % of section 34-34-83 and will ™mean much to the future of the en- tire district if successful. This is the first hole ever carried t othat depth in the field and a 28,000,000 foot sasser was cased off at the Sundance in order to make the test. It is ex- pected that the well will be completed Sunburst fleld that it is the inten mn of his company to enter upon an|the first of the coming week. ve exploration campaign immedi y io determine at the earlies pos California Pete Higher. sible time extent of the productive} F@vorabie dividend activities are a and its possibilities. competing with merger gossip in con- Four strings of tools have been or-|Rection with the strength of Califor! dered by the Ohio for immediate de-]7!& Petroleum. The earnings justify livery at Shelby. a 5% or 6% dividend rate according! to well informed quarters and it is said the stock is gradually discount- ing such conditions. Still higher prices are predicted for it. The Ohio has been one of the most active of the larger companies in ex ploration of Montana oil structures. To dzte the company has spent near ly a million dollars in its operations exclusive of the bet it has just put down on the Sunburst field. In the fact of descouraging developments. obstacles and mishaps that early would hav@ disheartened any but the most courageous and preserving of operators, the Ohio tested all horizons of possible production at Clear Creek. Howard Coulee, Big Wall and Ragged Point. The company placed a sizeable Mttle bet on the future of Billings when at a cost of 2,000,000 or more it piped natural gas to this city from Elk Basir, a distance of 72 miles, fol lowing thix with purchase of a busi: ness block and estxbiishment of head quarters here. Two Wells in Field. The Gordon Campbell syndicate well, pioneer of Kevin-Sunburst field, was completed some time ago on the NERNEX section 16-353. The ofl is Stock Transfer Announcement. The New York Oil company an corporation will be transferred by the Metropolitan ‘Trust company, 120 Broadway, New York city, instead of at the Casper offices as formerly. te PINE MOUNTAIN Lubricating “Nites of Oil Exceptional, Montana Visi- tor Finds. That Casper may become the dis- tributing point and gain world wide! distinction as the producer of high grade lubricants for aeroplane and oth- Sunburst Of] and Gas company hes Well estimated at better than 100 verre! SwWKSWH, | 38-2 rf Shai ieonad Ceebenatiat ieee er motors is not beyond the range of feet. This of] is from 40 to 44 gray-| possibility according to Honorable John A. Conant, Wisconsin senator, who has been tn the city for several days making an extefsive survey of the various producing fields and their products. Senator Conant, who with his broth- er, Ralph, flying ace during the world war,- conducts a successfill auto bus and aeroplane transportation line in his home state, after testing samples of Pine Mountain crude came here to investigate the field and its possibii- ties as a producer in commercial-quan- tities of the oil which had made good in his various practical tests. After a visit-to the field where prac- tical demonstrations of the ofl we made the senator purchased:a.substan- tial stock interest in the Evans Oil corporation, owner of the land and plans are now being made for the drilling of several additional wells in the immediate future. In an interview the senator ex- Pressed his opinion to a Tribune re- porter that Pine Mountain would somo) day rival Salt Creek, not from a stand- point of huge production but through the quality of the crude, it having those peculiar properties required for correct Inbrication of aeroplane mo- tors, which are hard to secure from ordinary oils and whieh can be ob- tained from this product with very little refining. These qualities make it worth several times the value of other oils and even a small producer would be of great value to its owners. “While this is my first visit to Cas- per,” stated Mr. Conant, “It will not be the last one, as I intend devoting considerable time to the interests I have acquired. We expect to develop the field extensively and “it is proba- ble that a plant will be erected to bring the oll to its highest efficiency. “I was simply amazed,” continued the senator, “at the great development and the possibilities of the latent -re- sources of this state. While I had heard a great deal about Wyoming I had never realized that such oil fields existed as I have seen since I came here." Arrangements are now being per- fected for a test on section 23-39-79, it Creek, where the company owns 3 Material for the rig and camp will be transported to the field next week and the hole started as soon as possible. Senator Conant left yesterday for |his home in the Badger state, accom- panied by Wallace D. Evans, presi- dent of the-corperation, who will also | continue to Chicago-and other eastern points in the interests of his company pated it the aa NEW YORK OIL SPUDS IN FOR BOLTON WELL The New York Oi! company spudded in yesterday on.a well on the south- one to two ‘The field is only 15 mites from the Canafian border and ft is stated that the Imperial Refintng company at Regina has offered $3 per barrel for the oil, furnishing = ready market for aM production. ‘The Great Northern runs through the center of the field making transportation eary. Gerat Falls, 125 miles south ts head- quarters for the ficld and that city is having all the experiences of a boom as ¢ result of the activity. Ubio Abandons Test. Ohio Of! company ts abandoning its test well'on the Howard Coulee struc- ture in Montana and casing is being pulle€ and removed, according to a report from Roundup. Oi! if found would be encountered. at too doep a epth to permit profitable develop- ment, it is said, and the weil ‘s not to be carried to the lower sands. On the Blg Wall structure the Ohio is underreaming at 2,240 fect. Other late Montana news includes report that the Adamas well in the Devil's Basin field ts down 950 feet with 200 fect to go to reach the Van Duzen sand. In tho same field the Reindup Ol] and Gas company has reeumed drilling after cementing Northfield Oil company has spudded in on section 20-24-4, near Genou, in the center of the Sweetgrass arch test is some miles distant from the Gordon Campbell-Kevin syndicate's Rocky Ridge Delivertes of of! from the Cat Creek the bringing in of the Mid-Northern | company’s No. 11 well, which at last | New Well in Osage Field. The Surety Ofl company han com- in northeastern Connolly y sin ¥ Fishing. Connolly Of! and Land company is) of Section 32-30-81 at Jfolton creek. ‘Work on Lino to Start. The recent production: enrountered at Construction work on the Profucers| Bolton creck has served to increase and Refiners’ gas Iine from Tvorton | | the actvities of the companies operat- to Lander, Wyo., also touching Hud-| son, is expected to start this ronth.| ‘The Hope Engineering company has) has acquired all of section 33-30-81 in the contract and surveys have deen | this field. completed. It will cross tho Little! mile | ing in that field. ‘The Casper Bolton Creek syndicate This section is about a east of the New York location ind and Pope Agie rivers, A six-|and about a mile northwest of the re- inch line will be constructed from|cent big well driNed in by the San Riverton“to Hudson and a four-inch | Juan Petroleum company. from Hudson to Lander, capable of carrying 8,000,000 fect of gas a dny. .At Riverton the line to the San Draw field, from which the gas supply will be, drawn, Seer Remit your Mutual Benefit, Health and Accident dues to Robert A. say Pact cape Pia Byrts and Son, Suite 8, Trittine Bag. e212 ——<—— Jewelry and watcr: repairing by ex- Gas (Completion | Pending. pert workmen. All work guaranteed With the completion of a test now |Casper Jewelry Mfg. Co. 0.8 Bids. a Iie This test, which ts now cemented) nounces that hereafter all stock of the/ HOLDS PROMISE west quarter of the.southwest quarter| ; Las New York Stocks = Press Leased Wire, Hide & Leather pta. International Corp. . Pac: Central Leather |Chandler Motors __ ‘Chesapeake and Ohio |Chicaro Mi, |Corn Products Erie ..... Famous Players Lasky |General Asphalt Electric Inspiration Copper ...... nternational Harvester Int. Mer. Marine pfd. | International Beper Invincible Oil ... |Kelly Springfield ‘Tire Kennecott Copper | Louisville and Nashville |Mexican Petroleum | Miamt Copper : |Middle States Off |Midvale Steel ... Missouri Pacific .- New York Central ¥., N. H., and Hartford Norfolk and Western Northern Pacific .. Oklahoma Prod. and Ret Pacific Oil .. Pan Ameriean Pennsylvania Gas Iron and Steel €: Rep. Roya) Dutch N. Sears Roebuck . 4% Sinclair Con Oil . 3344 Southern Pacific . 8934 Southern Railway 23% Standard Oil of N. J. Studebaker Corporation Tennessee Copper 10% Teges Co. <a ise ses 48 Texas and Pacific 37 Tobacco Products $1 Transcontinental Otl 14% Union Pacific 137% United Retafl St 65% U. S. Ind. Alcohol . 56% United States Rubber 61% United States Steel 99%, Utah Copper 63 Westinghouse Electric 59% Willys Overland . 8% American Zinc, Lead ana Sm. 16% Butte and Superior Cala Petroleum Montana Power Shattuck Arizona Great Northern Orn . GRAIN DEMANG STRONG TODAY Fractional Gains Recorded Throughout List on Chi- cago Exchange. CHICAGO, June 22.—Reports from South Dakota that heat and drought were endangering the wheat crop tended to bring about higher prices for wheat here today in the early deal- ings. Unless rain came soon, it was said, the yield of wheat in a largo section would be reduced in a material degree. Heat damage advices from Ne- braska counted also as a bullish fac- tor. The opening which ranged from %c decline to \c advance, with July $1.13 to $1.13% and September $1.13% ta $1.13%, was followed by a moder- ate general advance and then some- thing of a reaction Susequently, predictions of a warm wave in the central’ west led to more Pronounced strength in the market, and so too did mention of black rust in Minnesota. The close was firm, % to 1%c net higher, with July $1.13% to Che Casper Dailp Cribune Oil Securities Furnished by Taylor and Clay. | Consolidated Royalty” 1. Capitol Pete Cow Gulch supiter Cpastal Kinney Coastal Lance Creek Royalty. Lusk Royalty Preston Mike Henry . Mountain and Nortwest Five Tribes Pet. Co. . Picardy .....- 203 Riverton Refg. 00% Royalty and Producers gs Western Exploration . Wind Ri United Pete . Wyo-Kans Wyo-Tex . Western Oil Fieids Western States Y ou NEW YOrx CURB CLOSING. Mountain Producers .$ 16.62 $ 15.87 Merritt + 10.75 ; beienrock Oil - 144 Balt C -« 17.00 salt Creek Cons. 12.37 n Marine Mutual SO. In ‘ities Service Com Fensland .. New York Oil 4|steels reacting ti yly- MEXICAN PETE. RISE UNCHECKED Eleven-Point Jump Recorded Today but Part of Increase Is Lost. The closing was strong. NEW YORK, June 22.—Prices were irregular, but mainly higher at the ac- tive opening of today’s stock market ‘The lower rediscount rate of the local federal reserve bank caused more urg ent covering of short contracts. There were a few striking exceptions, how ever, the most conspicuous of which was Mexican Petroleum which soon registered a loss of 2% points. On the other hand, California Petroleum rose 1% points, General Asphalt 1% and Marland Oil 1 point. Studebaker which was one of yesterday's most unstable issues, also gained 2 points. United States Steel, Baldwin Loco- motive and some of the secondard rails were fractionally lower. Oils and motors influenced the more uneven movements of the morning. Mexican Petroleum extended its de- cline to 3% points, from which it ral- lied four points. Pan-American A and B, shares, California Petroleum, Gen- eral Aspbalt and Houston added to early advances. The rise was checked befcre noon, sv-h leaders as Stude- baker, Baldwin @ independent Thero was heavy selling of Chandler, which fell First 4%s - Second 448 Third 4%s Fourth 4%s . Victory 4%s - Crude Market Grass Creek $1.90 Elk Basin 1.90 Lance Creek 1.90 Hamilton Dome 1.40 Rock River a Salt Creek Big Muddy Mule Creek BLACKSTONE IN ANNUAL MEET Entire Board of Diréctors and Officers Re-elected Here Tuesday. The anual meeting of the stockhold- ers of fie Blackstone Petroienm com- pany was held in Casper on Tuesday, at which the entire board of directors and officers was re-elected with over 700,000 shares of the stock being rep- resented either in person or by proxy. The treasurer's report showed the ownership of producing Salt Creek leases with an intrinsic value of $290,- 000.00, with no current liabilities and several thousand dollars cash in the bank. In a progress report submited by President Birck he stated that the company n had an interest in five producing wells on section 10-39-79, and that the sixth) well now drilling] had encountered a flow of shale oil at 830 feet with the gil standing 300°feet in the hole, This‘oil will be cased oft and the hole continued to. the second sand. On this lease the corporation has settled production of 1200 barrels daily of which 474 barrels are now be- ing sold to the Midwest. On section 13-39-79 where the company has a 30 $1.13% and September $1.14% to $1.15. Calendar buyers were again active in the corn market but were met by commission house selling. After open- ing %4c off to %c higher, July 62% to 63%c, the market sagged a little all around. Later, the market paralleled the ac- tion of wheat, closing firm, % to Tic net higher, with July 63%c. Bad crop reports especially from Iill- nois gave independent strength to the oats market, which opened % to 4c higher, July 35% and after a slight reaction, scored further gains. Provisions were steady despite weak- ness of the hog market. Closing Quottions.- Open. High. Low. Close. WHEAT— July - - -113 115 1.12% 1.13% Sept. ~ - ~ 1.13% 1.156% 1.13% 114% Dec. - — = 1.16% 1.18% 1.16% 1.17% CcORN— July - - - -62% .63% 62% Sept, -- 66% .67% 65% .67 Dec. - - - 66% 67% .66 67% OATS— July — - ~ 35% .36% 35% 36% Sept. - - .38 39% 38.8% Dec. - - - 40% .41% 40% 41% LARD— July - - - 11.57 11.45 11.47 Sept. - - — 11.80 11.87 11.75 11.77 RIBS— oe SS 12.40 Sept. — - - 12.30 12.30 12.25 12.25 Batter and Eggs. CHICAGO, June 22.—Bntter higher. creamery extras 36; firsts 31@34c; sec- onds 28@30c; standards 35%c. Eggs unchanged; receipts cases. Poultry allve higher; fowls broilers 32@42c; roosters 14c. 17,545 23%c. Potatoes. CHICAGO, June 22.—Potatoes firm on sacks, weak on barrels; receipts total United States ship- eerste sacked Bliss Tri- 75@3 cwt.; Arkansas umphs per cent Interest in 80 acres, arrange- ments are being made to drill a sec- ond hole, it being the belief of the of- ficers that financial condftions will warrant the expense, the loan of $20,- 000.09 borrowed from the Midwest jointly with the Bessemer interests having been paid in full apd arrange. ments having ben made with the lat- ter firm to accept the usual\pro-rata of produgtion. Arrangements have been made with the Ohio to drill tract ET, which was purchased at the sale of Government lands last June at Douglas for $21,000.00 and turned to the company, on a 60-50 basis with one well fred and a bonus in addition. Tlie recent completion of the Fensiand well has greatly enhanced the value of this lease, proving in on both sides. Well No. 1 is now down over 1,000 feet with indications very favorable for a good producer. The company retains a substantial interest in Blackstone Salt Creek Consolidated Petroleum company, the control of which was recently acquired by the Fensland and which is making great progress ir the development of its valuable Salt Creek acreage. It also has leases in Lance Creek and 6,300 acres in the Big Wall structure in Montana where the Ohio has a test well down 2,300 feet. Folowing are the officers of the company: President, Robert M. Birck; vice president F. G. Funk; secretary, FE. H. Smith; treasurer, H. N. Isen- berg. ' The above and Dr. Frederick Sa- lathe, W. J. McLaughlin and Edgar A. Mead constitute the directorate. > —$__ One of the foremost women astrono- mers in the world is Mrs. Isabel M. Lewis, who had had long service as expert astronomer at the United States nayal observatory in Washington. 3.10 cwt.; Alabama Spaulding Rose sacked No. 1 $2.25@2.40 cwt.; North Caroline Norfolk section stave bar- rels Irish Cobblers No 1, $4.25@4.65; eastern shore Virginia stave barrels sacked ines Triumphs No.’ 1, $2.75@ se 3 T PRM BITE ER Irish Cobblers $5.25@5.35. over three points. Food specialties. including sugars and Coca Cola, eased under pressure. Rails were dull and lower aside fro mthe firmness of New York Central. Call money opened at 2% per cent, Foreign Exchange, Easy. NEW YORK, June Hy —Great Brit tain demand 4.42; cables 4.42%; 60 day bills on banks 4.40. Belgium demand 8. Germany demand .30%; cables 30%c. Holland demand 38.50; cables 38.55 Norway demand 16.63. Sweden demand 25.60. Denmark demand 21.38 Switzerland demand 18.97 Spain demand 15.58. Greece demand 3.85. “Poland demand .02%. Czecho-Slovakia demand 1.93. Argentine demand 35.75. Brazil demand 13.75. Montreal 99. Metals. NEW YORK, June 22.—Copper easier; electrolytic spot and futures 13% @13%c. Tin easy; spot and nearby 31.25; fu tures 31.12. Iron-steady, prices unchanged. Lead steady. spot 5.75@5.87. Zinc quiet; East St. Louis spot and nearby delivery 5.35@5.10. Antimony spot 5.05@5.25. 4 Money. NEW YORK, June 22—Call money firmer; high 3%; low 2%; ruling rate 2%; closing bid 3%; offered at 3%; last loan 3%; call loans against ceptances 2%; time loans easier; 60 days 3% @4; 90 days 3%@4; six months 4@4%. Prime mercantile pa- per 4@4%. es Silver. NEW YORK, June 22.—Forelgn bar silver 70%; Mexican dollars 53%. London Money. LONDON, June 22.—Bar silver 35%d per ounce; money 2% per cent; discount ratese short bills and three months bills 2% per cent. eee BIRCK SURPRISED AT SALT GREEK ACTIVITIES After visiting the Salt Creek field yesterday, Robert M. Birck, president of the Blackstone Petroleum company, who has been here for several days attending to company and personal af’ fairs, stated that the progrees being made in that district was almost un believable to one who had been ab sent from the field for several months. Mr. Birck is one of the old timers in the field and his keen foresight and good judgment in placing his mon- ey there when development was being to 10c higher; top $1 9.35: she dtock steady to 16c higher; bulls and calves slow, weak; stockers bulk fat cows and heifers $5@ canners and cutters mostly $3@ 4° bidding around"$8, mostly for veal calves; bologna bulls mostly at $4.25. Hogs—Receipts 38,000; market opened steady to Sc lower than Wed- nesday’s average; later Sc to 10c lower or 10c to 1c lower than the high time; top $10. bulk $9.85@10.85; bulk g@od light to heavy butchers $10.45@ 10.85; pigs fully ‘steady, mostly - 75@10.25; heavy weight $10.40@ ; medium $10.55@10.85; light 10 5@10.85; light light $10.40@10.80; packing sows, smooth $9.30@10; pack- ing sows, rough $8,90@9.40;. killing pigs $9.25@10.50. Sheep—Recoipts 12,000; steady to 15c higher; few spots 25c higher; sev- eral decks $12.65; medium to good Idahos $12.25@12.65; choice hand dry fed yearlings $12.25; sheep very scarce; one load fed western yearling ewes, weight 82 pounds, to breeders $11.10. Omaha OMAHA, Neb., June 22.—(United States Bureau of Markets.}—Hogs— Receipts 13,000; good hogs 10c lower; bulk 180 to 250-pound butchers $10.10 @10.25; early top $10.40; practical $10.30; bulk 260 to 325-pound butch- ers $9.90@10.10; mixed and packing grades 10c to 15c lower; closing dull, 250 to 350-pound averages $9.25@9.80. Cattle—Receipts 7,000; heavy” beef steers firm to 10c higher; top $9.50; medium lightweights and yearlings dull, weak; she stock and bologna bulls weak to 25c lower; other classes of stock generally steady. Sheep—Receipts 5,000; all classes steady; top Idaho lambs $12.50; native $12.35; yearlings $10.50; -rethers $6.50; ewes $5; feeding lambs $11. Denver Prices. : DENVER, Colo., June 22.—Cattle— Receipts 700; market steady, 15¢ lower; beef steers $6.50@9; cows and heifers $4@8; calves $6@8.50; bulls $2.50@5; stockers and feeders $5.50@ 6.50. Hogs—Recetpts 2,900; market 15¢ lower; top $10.20; bulk $9.75@9.90. Sheep—Receipts 1,500; market steady; clipped ewes $4,50@5.50; spring lambs $11@13. pti Be eS NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. In the Justice Court of W. E. Tubbs, Justice of the Peace. City Furniture Company, Pisin- tiff, Versus John Thurston, Defen- dant, To John Thurston, whose last known address was 2016 California street. Denver, Colorado: You‘are ‘| hereby notified that an action has been started against you in the Jus- tice Court of W. E. Tubbs, a Justice of the Peace in and for Natrona County, Statee of ‘Wyoming, to re- cover the sum of $198.65, money only, and that certain property be- longing to you and situated in Cas- per, Natrona County, Wyoming, has been attached upon the said claim n the said action. Now eunless yqu appear before W. E. Tubbs, a Justice of the Peace, at Casper, Wyoming, on the Sist day of July, 1922, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon and make answer to the plaintiff in this ac- tion, judgment will be rendered against you, and your property ap- propriated to pay the judgment and the costs of this action. This case is one of those men- tioned in section No. 5636 of the Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, authorizing service by publication and an affidavit, as required by Section No: 5638, has been filed in this case. Dated this 21st day of June, 1922. W. E. TUBBS, Justice of the Peace. Pub. June 22, 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27, 1922. ii se i . A Sing Sing convict has had a play accepted by a Broadway producer. (Continued From Our ae Issue) CHAPTER 3% THE NOISES OF SPACE. ‘T was early in the morning when Garrick with Dick turned into ; the driveway of Glenn’s house at Nonowantuc. “Any word of Vira and Ruth? queried Gienn. “Not yet. But there is something you can do. Have you had you breakfast? Then come along.” At Defoe’s boathouse-laboratory Garrick posted Glenn on _ guard. “Now, look here, boy—if you love Vira and want her back, guard this plgce as yoy would your life.” Gar- rick had med a rather ttern tone; he knew he must impress Glenn. “Inside and out,” he added seriously. “T’a like to be with you hunting the girls,” returned Glenn promptly, “put tf sticking here will help me, depend on me. I'll be a sticker, all right. .Onty for heaven's sake, get those girls.”” Dick grasped his hand and Garrick slapped his back encouragingly. With one last look to seé that nothing had been disturbed, Dick grabbed up a small oak case and some other porta- ble paraphernalia and lugged it out to the car, “Never can tell,” he sald to Gar- WATCH Y top! why I grabbed this thing up, OUR STEP “I ike your radio frater- nity, Dick. They certainly do take an interest in one another and go out, of their way to do it. Dick laughed. “You should greed Fr mail! Why if they g like a ing they. almost take’ to as_&. personal insult—for a free service!” “There's a catch in it. somewhere," considered Carrick. “Now what does graph record—what's that?" Dick’ snrugged. His mind was or something else. Garrick, in his room having without avail tried to find out the identity of “K 902" from the! limited lists at the club, called the! Customs House in New York and re quested the looking up of the number in the motor boat registration unde. the federal law. He waited. “Just what I expected,” cag eo 2 Dick. “Marooned—away from for no one knows how long. canes 's the first thing I laid my hands on. Got the receiving apparatus—all but the antenna. Oh, very well—we'll see.” Dick snapped in place small clips which connected the bed springs <i Garrick’s bed—and the headpiece like a telephone r to his ears. ‘Bed springs—the iron fire escape —the gas and water pipes—the tele- phone wire—” he remarked as he tuned and adjusted, “almost anything may serve as an antenna in a pinch. The room telephone rang for Gar- rick. Tl was the Customs House call- ing. “We find,” reported the clerk, “that K 902 is registered by Patrick Devins, Bridgeport, Connecticut, a forty-foot cruiser, named ‘Lassi Want a description?” 2 Garrick had just finished copying it when a loud exclamation came from Dick. “By Jove—Guy! It's a message from Ruth! Repeated—twice. —here, I scribbled it on this book." “Please give this to the newspa- pers—It now develops that Jack Cur- tis, who attempted an elopement yes- terday with mo. has a wife—Mrs. Rac Larue Curtis. That is all now. Tell my mother I am safe and will be back the first chance E can swim ashore. Ruth Walden.” ‘The two men gazed at each other. “Looks like she's a prisoner,” scowted Dick. “The first chance I can. swim ashore?” “Yes .. . but, man, . Her mother!* Somehow Ruth had cleverly con- trived to communicate with the out- side world by radio. Together the! two hurried down the long corridor and up a flight of stairs to Nita Wal- den's rooms. Dick's heart was pound- ing, he felt, as loud as his knuckles on the door. He had heard from Ruth! Mrs. Walden opened the door. She was afraid. What did the sudden rapping mean? Her worried and wearied face searched Dick’s eyes. “About Ruth? Tell me, Dick!" Dick blurted it out. “Oh, what aw- ful people!” shuddered Mrs, Walden. “But Ruth says, ‘attempted elopment’ —that means Ruth ts all right. It didn’t succeed. But—what can you do now? Oh, there's my telephone ring- ing again.” She turned from the room phone bewildered. “It was that Rae Larue girl—ealling me. Oh, but there was hate and spité and jealousy in her voice! The little vixen!’ “But what did she say?’ calmed Garrick. “I can't begin to repeat the flood of words. Why, you'd think that I, Ruth's mother, had tried to frame up something against her! She said, ‘I'd have you know that Jack Curtis is my, husband! I married him in Chicago two years ago! I won't have that daughter of yours coming between us, and I've told him so. I'll squeal—I’ll hand the whole bunch over, first.’ ” “Bully! interrupted Garrick to Nita’s astonishment. “Got ‘em fight- ing among themselves. Hell hath no fury—and all that. You couldn't want a bettér guardian for Ruth than that woman scorned! And I'll bet you she'll do something—the first chance she gets. Here,” without waiting for any comment from the surprised Nita, “let me have the wire. Central ... where did that last call to the club come from? Can you trace it?” He put his hand over the- transmitter and aside, “In the city you can’t trace a thing. But out in these little Long Island towns these hick telephone girls listen in on the village gossip. Wait, you'll see.” Then, with his hand oft, “Yes, thank you.” He hung up “From the Gravel Works at the mouth of the harbor!” “T'll_be darned—our harbor!” ex- claimed Dick. “You'll be something else,” quickly from Garrick. “Your boathouse!’ “I hadn't thought of that. We'd better get down there.’ “Well, I thought of it. That's why I left Glen. You don’t need to ask it, Nita. I know. You're nervous and all upset. Yes, I thing doing seme- thing, anything would do you good. Have McKay drive us all down. And ‘e're not going to make a safe— They-were coasting down from the Bal. 6s, Bei. 6s, 1925 Bel. F.,, 7 Bel, 5. F.. sat Brit. S%s, 1929 ... Brit., 54s, 1937 F ef tir rip pore #f BE z Ist, 4%, 1925 . Jap. Gov., > 4448, 1925 Miss Far Vir. Ry.. Whit-Gles, 6s, 194 8 99 Pac. Tel and sa 97% top of.the hill a fey, hundred feet jammed on the brakes and scraped a couple dollars’ worth of rubber off the tires. Just over the top of the trees could be ween the root of the boatmouse. SET. sig ontisha eiaAiamase call stant was a rowboat with a girl and fellow in it, the girl in a bathing suit. ‘They semed to be struggling. The next instant, like a three-foot flash of a motion picture, there was a huge column of water and puff of smoke, black wreckage of the boat. It seemed. that, by a split second before, the two had struggled overboard or leaped. Then came the deep report, echoing and reverberating among the Nono- wantuc hills, é “Glenn!” excleimed Garrick, as Me+ Kay released the brakes and rolied down like a roller coaster the rest of the way. ‘They were in timo to see that the boathouse was unharmed. A little speed boat which they had not noticed now circled about. It picked up the girl and started off furiously toward the mouth of the harbor. A male object, Glenn, struggled feebly in the water. By this time Dick had hin coat off. He ripped his shirt as he ran down the dock and plunged off, almost unencumbered by that time. : When Garrick pulled them both out and had Glenn sufficiently revived to. find that there wer no broken bones, 4) he had begun to get the story. BS Glenn, it seemed, had been on the road-side of the boathouse from which | he had expected attack, if at when he had heard a noise und the workshop. The workshop was ¢ the second floor. Under it had b ® boat-shed. It had been convert into a hapgar by Dick, with a way down ‘into the water. In it he had a hydroaeroplane on which he was working, installing one of - new radio ideas. “I saw Rae, he panted for “She hdd come up to the boathouse, alone, in a rowboat with a little en gine over the stern. She was stick ing the nose of the boat under the boathouse in the channel between the skidway. I saw something smoking in the bow. ‘The engine was going slowly, keeping the nose of the boat up under the boathouse. I ran down and jumped into the boat. “2ty God, Rae,” I shouted. “Going to kil us both?" “With a boat hook in both hands she lunged at me but it hit my abguis f der instead of my head. ‘Damh your she cried, ‘I have had to say so man: nice things to you when I didn’t feel like it—here’'s another wallop! “I swung the boat free, gave the Pier a kick and it turned. The engine was turning over slowly and carrying us away. I got the boathook away; then she grabbed me. ‘You fool! Tal your hands off—before I bite ‘them off! . , . Look! It's going*to explode!’ It’s going to explode" Then T- jumped. There was that geyser of water and stuff . . . Someone picked up Rae in a speed boat... I félt as if that darn engine had hit me. till Dick got me! But . . . the béal house . . . is safe, fellows!’ , / ‘ Garrick smiled. “I could des to (Cintinued on Page Nine) 9 - ren Xin out ess oe ™ l