Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 15, 1902, Page 9

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1902 e T e DALE GEAR HEADS THE LIST Presideas and l. azer of Kanemy Ohy Amerioan Asseciasion 01 CFFICAL ANNOUNCEMENT CF THE SALE Stoek Company B George Assoet ¥ the Franchise— Tebean Can Serve fon Much Better in. Lomisyille, KANEAS CITY, Feb. 14.-~(Special Tele- gram.)—Offie!al announcement of the sale of the Kansus City Amerie: association base ball club by George Tebeau to a stock company, which local capital will control, ‘was made today by Dale Gear of (his city and A. L. Buell of Berlin, Wis. Loulsville needs & hustler and that is the reason why Tebeau relinquishes h's holdings here to establish a club in that eity. No changes will be made in the plans that Tebeau. mapped out for the local club for the coming season. In turning over 'hy new.club to the new owaers he relinquishes &Il hold on t layers under a Blues con-~ tract, The Kansas Clty American associa- tion club will be Incorporated under the name of the Kansas City Athletic assocla- with the following men Ia control: Q. P. Hardesty, a druggist ‘who s one of the city's oldest business men Dr. W. H. Condit, who all but bought the club from Tebeau last summer; Charles M. id A L, Buell of Berlin, ‘There Is sald to be no Hmit to the capital behind the club and the promoters promise the city will be given the best that money buy. e makes the club a local institution and one in which Kansas City will have a pride! Dale Gear {s to be president and manager of the club and Mr. Buell will be secretary and treasurer. ' Mr. Buell has not had much experience I base ball, but he {s a business man of high standing in Wisconsin and it is believed by friends of the club that a better man fo handle the finances of the club could mat have been sccured. President Gear sald today: “Thi puts the club in the hands of Ka City people and should make the fans even mcore loyal to us.. We will retaln all of the old players and besides will add many new ones. 1 am pow negotlating with a number of promising youngsters who have been bighly recommended to me. The prospecis ‘were never better and every fan can be assured that Kaosas Cily will see the fast- est’ kind of ball when tne season opens Ap 11,26." ., “Gear will have full charge of the play- ers,” sald Secretary Buel ‘He will keep up the work of signing players and every effort will ba made to give Kansas City a winner. The players will be instructed to report April 1, as we have several exhibi- tion games scheduled for early in the manth.” President Gear announced that the presi- dent was hard at work preparing the play- ing schedule and that the meeting for its adoption would be held 1n Chicago March 1. TOM JENKINS THROWS PARR | Amerfcan 'Champ Pats B Wreagler on the Mat Twice. BUFFALO, Feb. 14—Tom Jenkins of Cleveland, the chimplon American wrestler, tonight defeated Jim Parr, the champion of 4, in & match announced to be for the internatfonal chiamplonship. sk J voh W unl it falls, nu llm in 3-3'-\ i y and A :f? and 1 #.’3: R 2 "l -M n uuh ‘welghts. ! was Jenkine welghed 180 and | { that Parr r ped the “.n:a ll !Xl?!l 1 .--uu. Both had the and_were in rot S covaition faced each other at Convention re fully 4,600 s tators. J-nlm. b‘" . hvorlu In’.fh. betting, N ofte essive from the start .Ild Parr be one of thl the Cleveland man The '-y |n ‘which ‘he hnk’ ut sl an Leod, the Scotch wrestler, chal- lmsfl enkins for a match for a side bfl of §2500 and the largest purse offered & reputable RAIN PREVENTS GOOD RUNS Track 15 Wet and Heavy and Only Two Favorites Lai Firet, s piayed trom % to 1 Svent, but Annle Max her. In the last race to ‘a neck after a -sixteentha il T st Sty Oratossa tle, sell- Aefadslodnd, Vas: of & nlll. second, Patsy ol a_ mile, Io-- nmo FITZ WILL MEET JEFFRIES Agrees to I-r— Submitted . Champlonship Fight, neit ’fi, 5‘%‘?"" BEE :.y, .m.::‘.“r:"“' e, e ‘I" :“ M Ihfi g.- 1asd .;."‘.?r EEY o ba 55 Mn e Pucine WILL mfit_w M HART |5 Ban Johnson Says American League Will Make Ita Own 2SHICAGO, Feb, u~'|:-‘=‘I Jonnson, prest; Sont ema tor 'S Futeato, “gtnce Jim Hart the tatlure of the f‘ffi'r:? e Eebileh our awa boide book will be umfipr attempt to hr-‘:'mmhn the i FIGHT SIX ROUNDS TO DRAW Kid Broad of mu Young Mowait af Chieage Evenly -nfie‘. Broad of (‘ln.- 'fl"n&‘:u ounds to & ln- lo- tie elab. all the way r able to gafn much” advantage &t any time. The Mowatt appeared to be afraid of Broad durinz the first round, but in the second he 'gained courage shd during the re- mainder of the fight was as willing as Broad to mix matters. During the latter part of the fourth round, in a spirited ex- Broad reached Mowatt's jaw with 0 ght lead. The blow sent = Mowatt sprawling to the flobr, but he was on his feet Iip n second and had a shade the bet: ter of the flerce exc e that followed. Broad went to his knees In the Aifth round from a right punch, but recovered quickly and. fenl dnto"a clinch. ' Both men . tried hard in the Jast round to gain the ad- vantage, but the milling was %o even that the only thing the referee coild do was to call a draw. FIRST TILT OF TOURNAMENT Protests Against a Play Mude by His Opponent, No NEW YORK, The first note of xlcond was sbunded ‘st the olose o the me of billiards between Dr. L. L. Norrie, both of whom are mombers of the Khickerbocker Ath- otlc "Ciub; whers he clags & amateur bil- lard tournament i belng held. Norris out: pointed his rival score of 400 to 1 &nd on a Second last Shot, when the balls were close to the rall near the bottom gushion, he made a pretty carom. and when the reterse, . ilc](ee of Phil- adeiphia, counted, “It's a shove.” ' Immedis ge spectators stood Up from therr scata and lonked in Amase: ment at the doctor, who still insisted the shot was a shove and not a stroke, Referce McKee was obdurate and in'the opinion of nearly every one in the hall the stroke was a falr one, The referee told Norris to ‘play for one” and Norris did so, Finpiag the game with a score of 40 (6 al's 34 far in the tournament Wilson H. urney of San Francisco stands high having won five out of the six games. But ‘should Norris beat Conklin tomorrow it would be a_tle for first place. In case Conklin beats Norris there will be a tie be- tween Conklln, Norris and Mial for second honors and the tournament not ended. WALCOTT LANDS A BAD ONE Stops Jimmy Handler with Viel Left Swing in the See- ond Round. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14.—Joe Walcott stopped Jimmy lllrl'u!l:r of Newark in the night. There never was boul when the Newark hoy hnd a chance. cott simply contented himself by using e left and landed it almost at will. Tn the 'first found Walcott sent yq;\dlar to the floor with a left on the wind, following it up with a left on the jaw. Handler took the count and went to & clinch. They sing when the gong sounded. ol q Walcott aropped d, with a left on the ’g\?nfi ,was one minute and lhlflyallx rc- onds. WHITFIELD INVADES PEORIA and a cash su ption. o niiiteld ‘ankes ‘that a”stockc co organized with a capital of uom He wnl i Jomorrow ize % "he ARMSTRONG WINS ON FOUL Gets Decision in Seventh Round Over Kid Parker of Denver. ol., Feb. u—nm Armstron; o}’c.m‘!‘n'f Von from Kid Parike 'A (olll in the l‘v.nth roun: vh- "was Dbee 1o at the Dnnwr A rary to agreem Iv\ a clineh lml the referee Parker and gave the decision to Am- ot esment to bresk clean worked o ? ladvantage to local man, in- ’a(lnl bein, tyle. Arm o vonl wu h g-rflm—- head. wmn once for elght 'hu P s joaster at Tony Ward ewine on nnn M ] orites Win. Feb. 14—Two B Ak HouBweil and Tambourine wers 'h"l!rI at the Exposition track today. The other winners were closely played sec- ond cholces, Results: l': lel“n olds and Il:'lrd. five m...."?. Second, L Sadle Southwell won, ..:f..é Syger- -olds, five furlongs and a halt, l:r“ Lulu Hemmond third. mboutine TI won, Clit- oo Face. 1‘ H i and apward. s This year-o ., sell- To e THanacust wom, A ine ! m: Tome third: cflme:fll:cm. Fourth race, year-olds and upwi 5, iling: Certain won, 2““0“' selling: third, e rlonge, " seliin ‘I:on‘r‘;l vnn'"'m“.'.'l turlongs, = sel Ty 8 | oy van Hines i 06, Four Prince, NEW ORLEANS, Feb, . The Four were the ~ seven won, Plllther l.eond Chll:l.dl. three furiongs oy “Allen ‘sec: A T one’ mil 3 Zact .P.he?‘ on, Uncle Tom sec- 1 lll.n one le: Banish d.;e I‘KOM‘ ‘&olu third. one mile and a six. Lindenella A0, ptan Fringe wan on_thi hlrd Time: 1:48 —Hegelman and Clvlmu‘h lee lhflr In d in the six-day wa u‘&'“' mateh. n-‘l‘r noy. E c“’t‘ll‘tr\-lulllvln.' m u’l‘ Sl R T e Bowling Tourn Because of the fliness of two of the con- testants first round of the two-man ment. which was fo each ent Wi e Th t -Il“ e to °'"'“ o flhouz fal by night (I nexe ll rk's Cotts Market NEW YORK, Feb. —COTTON—8pot, uh A middling uplangd, &a o-ud mmu. oo, "’umm closed'stea. teady: "Je l nc’m‘ v, 1.98¢; October, tead . with 0&!0“!’ 8 ints ahnl o.ll::r:nomhl nnen.n.m’"- 3 lnmr points cmu the mrlul h prices 3 e LRI R2T@8 Be. Sec t! shows o e arae, ot which S8016 were Rineriekn cotion Mast Answ J! Feb. M. —Summons has been ‘-I;l'.‘wl ‘l:ll t. W. &IM: grnprl.mr of the pe ma nd- ITII lhflr “V.l Illl }"" fl‘-". o er T ot F A W- o ofu the city ordinance ety X TR TR o ”"’: |, IIIK formal com| nton s was made by Mayor Wi L A o S NS NP S N - Between the Flashes | 1 ® They tied themselves together with a long By THEODURE WATEKRS 4 rope, which they had brought for the pur- T pose, and went at it jike Swiss moun- i AT DAED AR IR AT ¢ #—9—®4—3-4® raineers, pushing and pulling one another | (Copyright, 1902, by Theodore Waters.) s, when he's sober.” up the face of rocks that rose sheer from As the sun dropped behind the nearby “Not much chavce to get‘rum up there,: ¥here the landslides blocked the gullies mountain raiige the telegraph CpEFAtor | The conversation waned and they fell (Broush masses of enow. in which they} of Siiverdale came out of her little booth | to watching the lights, Some times thess fOUndered to thelr armpits, along ledges by the siding to listen to the commen's would fiicker rapidly; again there would [rOm Which the lce threatened to send of the station loungers who had gathered be periods of continued light broken by 'nem burtling downward to join the skele- on the platform across the track. She was | intervals of darkness. None of the group '0h® Of the burrows lying stark in the rot & beautiful girl, but she was g0od (0 knew enouvh of clectric lighting to sug. SUICh: through forests, where the angle lcok upon, for the health of the Colorads foothills was In her face and form, and (he gold of the setting sun was in her hair. She leaned against the jamb of the door- way, her eyes half closed, absorbed appar- ently In the glory. of the fire-tipped pesks, but her ears were open to all that passed in the group, and once the line of her lips straightened d the gray of her eyes| turned cold when Lem Giffort, the temm- ster, spoke disparagingly of someone who Was not present. | 't & square deal, 1 say,” proclaimed ‘“Tisn’t a square deal, it, too. Here we go—" Lem constituted himself spokesmen for the town board—"here we go and give (he fat- test mining conceasion in the township, and in return he agrees to light the town free, and now that he's got the franchise clinched he goes and hides himselt on a mountain where no one can get at him and gives us the leavin's of the power he uses in his stamp mill. Look at them lights now! | Look at them and say, is it square?” | The line of the girl's lips softened into a faint smile. It was true that the electric | lights of Silverdale had been for several| nights past a fiickering mockery. Thay had fluctuated between full-head and no- | head 8o constantly that it was hard to eay | whether they had been mostly on or mcstly | off. But the idea of the town getting the | “leavings” of ap electric current amus:d | her, and the contrast in the characters of | Giftort and Richards was, figura:ively, miles | wider than the distance which then -c~‘ teally separated the men. She thought of | this as she gazed at the lofty little plateau ! b gest a possible cause of the trouble. The girl in the doorway still gazed pensively toward the now invisible mountains. It was while she stocd thus that the men saw her start violently and jmme- diately afterward take to gazing around her strangely, as though seeking the cause of her alarm. No one spoke for the mo- ment. Then she called 10 the sherift: “Mr. Black! Oh, Mr. Black! He strode toward her. es—yes Miss Coyne. “'Oh, the lights! Look—Look!" He gazed around and then back to her, mystified. “I see nothing wrong,'" he seid. The men crossed the road and gathered around wondering. She pressed her hand to her forehead and stared at the lights above the platform. She spoke almost in- coherently, as though doubting her own mind. “It may be—only an idea—but I thought— saw—a signal—the lights—" Suddenly she grasped Black by the arm, Wha s 17" ' and, pointing to the flickering bulbs, cried: “RICHARDS, WITH A NIMBLENESS BOR X GF WIS PRRIL, LOUSENED EIS CWN VIOLENTLY GRIP OF HUTCHINGS AND HURLED HIMSELF BACKW AR on which, when the day was fine she could see the glim of & waterfall and in one of whowe canyons she knew Richards must be at that moment superintending the dypsmo which supplied the town with llght. The glint of the waterfall had disappeared with the close of the January day, and Ricbards was cut off from the world without the canyon as he had ever been since the winter scows block the trail. There bad been a telegraph lins over “Yes—yes—look—it is a elgnal—he Is calling to us for help—there—one, two, three, four—(the lights of the town flashed up and down as ehe counted)—that is H. There goes the single flash—that is E. There—ses that long-drawn-out flash— t 18 L, and there, five guick flashes— that is P. Oh, he is calling for help. He has been calilng for days and I never guessed it; Oh, I never guessed!" The faces of the men remained blank, the hills on the wAy that had beem blased by the pole plamters, but on the mountain itself they were compelled to take the trail of the ground dipped to 45 degrees and where they had to haul one another from | tree to tree. Just before dawn they reached the “hermit's seat,” which is a fiat rock | jutting out above the second plateau, and here they built a fire, that those in the viliage might note ‘heir progress. When day broke they could see the pipe line which led the water from the falls to the | canyon, covered with smow and ice and gleaming like m snake in the sunshine. | Thes followed the pipe as long as they could and the roar of the water within gulded them whenever the big tube dipped | | out of sight in a snow bank. But presently | |1t got away from them altogether, when it ran out on the high trestle that spans the gully between the upper spurs, for the can- yon opened out of the oppos gully and they had 10 descend below the trestle. “It would be a short cut if we could cross that trestle,” remarked Lem Giffort, who made one of the party. They were | slipping and eliding down the slope and the pipe, riding on the slender framework, 1/ / ,/// -7\\ was then 200 feet above their heads. “Yes,” remarked the sheriff, drily. can think of no easler way of committing sulclde,” They followed the torrent that crossed the gully and as they eutered the canyon they shouted all together to make known thelr arrival. An anmswering shout came back, reverberating like the echo of their was the sheriff and he was gazing straight upward at the pipe on the trestle where 1f left the embrasure in the canyon wall. There on the brink two men were struggling—pulling one another backward and forward, apparently oblivious to the peril of their situation. One of them was actually astride of the great pipe, his legs clasping it as they might the sides of a fat horse. Tha other swayed over him, some- times on the pipe, eometimes on the can- yon wall, and seemed to have him in a powerful grip, which he endeavored to shake off. They panted and cursed and the noise they made came down with the peb- bles that rattled on the heads of the men in the gulch. The sherlff was quick to mct. “It s Richards and Joe Hutchings,” he cried. “They've had a run in—after me, boys! To the top, to the top!" and with a stentorian yell to the men on the trestle h which she had carrled on certain con- |and even the sheriff did not quite grasp her [ ran up the slope, his party following ;e: versation with the man In the canyom, |meaning ‘“Who is calling, Coyne?” he | gorce. Beb tho - Me'Daowmaber elorm. et/ Mews | osid. ~You g0 not mesn— Evidently thelr coming put new energy down the wire and it would be spring be- | «Yes—yes—from the mountain. It Is the 7 g gl o1 A sy Sty o into the men above, for the latter re- withstood the strain and she could follow them with her eyes out of town and balf ‘way up the first hill, the insulators from which they hw shining ltke a row of white buttons againet the dus] That line was charged with the might of thunder bolte, but its energy emanated from the earth {tself, for Richards had harnessed the distant waterfall to his dynamo in the can- yon and the resulting current was trans- mitted ten miles across country to the town. Lem Giffort continued his harangue and in the increasing darkness of the evening bis gestures were alternately revealed and the lights went uncertainly Other citizens joined the K, He ar- an ardent supporter of Richards. rived at a period of darkness and when the lights went up surprised Lem in the midst of a most virulent speech. Black was & large man and his intellect w vigorous rather than acute. But his opin- fon had welght in the community iy, Lem Giffort,’ yahoo that's been brought up on candles and coal ofl, you make me tired. You never saw an electric lamp before Rich- ards brought ‘em to town. If I wers you I'd keep my head shut about it. He's done more for this town in six months than you've done in your whole life. And because he had the pluck to put his scheme snappin’ at his he | & wounded buck. But Bob Richards isn't | down yet, you take my say o for it. Any man that'll put his pile into a game like this and put up wires with, bi hands like he did, ‘cause he couldn't afford to hire the work done, isn't going back of what he agreed to stand to. The lights arn't right, but he d koow it, or you bet they would b The girl in the doorway purred sofily ders swayed by the positiveness exclaimed emphatfe- * Lem Giffort, gazing at the ground, said somewhat deprecating: “He'll make & fortune out of It. Well, and wat if he does? returned the sheriff. “Doesn’t be divide it, That ressrvation land leid idle for years and the | township never made a cent out of it. It's got rome silver in it to be sure, but you know the money that was sunk years ago | trylng to get it out. It cost them $10 a | ton to haul coal in bags up the trail on the backs of burros and look at the line of sl etors there in the gulch where the béa used to fall over the edege of the trall The: 't & week they dido't lose a mule that way. But Richards don't need coal. Fe bad the sense to make the water- fall run his machine and he gives the town light free. What more do you want?’ “Must be kind of lomely stayin' up there In the canyon three months without 'onl' trom the outside.’ “Well.Joe Hutchings is with him. Huteh is good company.” ' Lup and up. Morse code—I taught him, you know—he has been flashing those lights up and down and calling to us for help all these nights and no one has heeded it, See—H-E-L-P— there, do you belleve it now? = Oh, dear, what shall we do—what shall we do?” Her condition verged upon hysteria. affected the men variously. Lem Giffort grinned, weak men sometimes do In #erious emergencies. One of the men sald, “Obh, pshaw!” In a doubting tome, but it Was easy to see that he belleved all he had heard. Anotker ran off down the main treet o1 the town, telling the news to whom he met. The sheriff wi dumb- founded. The girl looked from one light to another, reeding the message as it flashed and telling herself again and again that it It doubled their efforts. Once it seemed that the man astride the pipe, who was Hutch- inge, had congaered, for with a powerful effort he got Richards off his feet and there was ly & loosening grasp between him and eternity, but Richards, with a nimble- ness born of his peril, loosened his own grip of Hutchings and hurled himse)f vio- lently backward and clung sprawling the wall. Instantly Hutcbings turned over and on his hands and knees started to crawl along the pipe out over the abyss. y God, Richards, what ie it all about?" cried Sheriff Black, as he hurried u ‘Mad.” replied Richarde. “Stark ma Been so for a week. Tried to kill me and himeelf severs! times. Now it's something else. 1 was close to It that time. Look was “her fault—all her fault! at him; he'll go off there before he is half “Your fault, Miss Coyn: said the | way scros: sheriff at last. “Just so—but how?” Hutchings crawled steadily out on the “‘Because—because—I should have known, | wemmm—————eeeee 1 should have seen—because—O, they a up together and something dreadful has happened—0, can you net do something ? Must you all stand around bélpless when perhaps—see, you can read it for your- selves!" She turned and ran into the booth and began a wild search for her code book. It did wot occur to anyone that her ita- tion was out of proportion to the degree of interest which she might be supposed or- dinarily to teel for the men in the canyon. They were all too startled by the revelation of the 1i to think of that. She came out turning over the pages of the book and tearing some of them in her excitement. She held up the alphabet where all might eee and the thickening crowd followed her finger she polnted, spelled out the meaning of the fashes for themselves. Many spelled aloud like chil- dren learning a lesson, and the efect of the volces ringing in unison at every flash was strange indeed. But it wes stranger still and awesome when “a Bew word came forth—a word which opened with uests are the smile sl the letters M-A-D—and ‘then terminated the face of the and she vuup suddenly, leaving the crowd which had | tothe pain which racks her body. Many beeh spelling sturdily apd the town| & woman :ntertains and wears a smile in dafkness. The women took upon| Whi'e her back aches and her umerves themselves something of the girls' | quiver with pain. Surely any medicine hysteria when this happeoed and the men | went about asking one another what the | trouble could be and urging the necessity | of doing something. What the something might be was not readily apparent. It was ten miles to the caoyun and the way over the foothille The mountain itsell was a hard elimb {n summer and o one had ever ttempted it in winter, for drifis filled the pesses and landslides often blocked the trail. Yet they were not & people to stop bhort of impossibilities. They bullt a great fire on a nelghboring hill in the hope that it might be seen by the men on the moun- tain and give them courage to bold 'out until help arrived. Then they organized relief party and bel midoight a dozen men, led by Sheriff Black, were half way to the mountain's foot. Thry followed the wires stroight across which offers relief to wonien would be worth a trial such conditions. But when the woman's medicive, Dr, Pierce's Favorite Prescription, is offered with the proof of efficacy in thousands of well attested cures, what excuse can then be offered for suffering longer? Dr. Pierce’s Favonte Prescription makes weak women strong and women well. 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Nodanger lm.l choking after you bare ven baby one or two doses mother -nm k«o a bottle of Dr. Bull's Bvrup in the house to be prepared for sud- den ncmed lm nug\ll babies’ I!v-hwhn-n"d by Be caretul and see t ‘Thousands of letters are mothers, Who say their Bull's Cough the gens t you + donot let an umlhbl.dfllrrn‘afiynn some i wot of your hea) e-mum--aun nmn"hnnmlukummm c‘:%m- at all m;n.:dl"‘; RIOTI o SMALL DOSE. PLEASANT TO TAKE. FREE.— ABumrlcnl d- JIId-mlBooim.en(lm tpaid t h iful lendar ane postpaid to any one who ‘-‘“pnwluolmthony'u ** jJust as good as He of his rofits only, ealth of thlnking your baby and mention this paper ice-covered pipe. The watching trembled for him, but he seemed devold of fear. When balf way over he stopped and looked back. The sheriff sntreated him to return, assuring him of their good will. But he only cried out mockingly and continued on his way ‘Follow me, Bob Richards!" he called. “Follow me now. No?! Well, I take your bést wishes to her for'a eneaking hound.” The rescue party climbed down the elope and ran across the gulch in the hope of heading him off, but the distance was too great. He got to the other end of the trestle ahead of them and disappeared in the woods. “He took the short cut—hey®" Lem Giffort, superficlally. ‘A sane man could not have done it,” re- plied the man next fo him. The sheriff drew Richards aside. “What aid he mean by ‘taking your best wishes to her? "' he asked. Richards dropped his eyes and seemed reluctant to reply. ‘‘Oh, just a crazy mo- exclaimed tion,” he sald, evasively. “No, that won’t do, Bob," replied the sheriff. “I've got to know what has been golng on up here.” “‘But, on my word, Black,” replied Rich- ards, “it is only that the man is daffy. You see, we've been alone up here together for three montbs, without a soul to speak to and with no word from the outside after the wire broke. It was enmough to drive any man off, and poor Hutch was blue from the firsi We quarreled about trifies and afterward called each other fools, and made it up again and again. At first we had the wire, but—well, you see, I knew little of the code and I used to caix to the telegraph operator in town—Miss Coyne you know—just to pass the time away, you know—and that used to make him wild, although I did not discover it until after- ward—sald I was making love to Ler over the wire—" “Which, as a matter of fact interrupted the sheriff. “Now, Black, friend, you must prom- ise not to bring her name into this. I merely, eh—talked to her on ordinary toples —and Hutch weni off about it. Perhaps it was the December storm, but I always believed that he broke that telegraph wire. He seemed greatly amused over jt—used to ask me each morning afterward what was the news from the station. He got violen® about a week ago. One night he hauled me out of my bunk just after I got to sleep. He had me by the throat and we mixed it up for an hour befere he quieted dowu. 1 had to be-always on gusrd against him. T could not leave him alone and the loss of sleep was tiring me out. Then I thought of snapping the switches in and out to at- trac. attentlon in town. I did it for sev- eral nights before he saw through it. Last night, while I was signalling, he jumped for me. ‘Ah,’ he sald. ‘At It agaln, are you?' The current went off and we had it out in the dark. I saw your fire and knew you were coming. But so did he. Then he tried to get away. 1 barricaded him in the switch room, but he broke out just as you errived. You saw what happened on the pipe—I thought it was all over, one: but you will not mention Miss Coy: name In the matter, will you, now?’ , you were,” “My boy,” answered the sheriff, “I dom't Colds Sre Quickly Cured by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy It acts on nature’s plan loosens the cough, relieves the lungs and opens the se- cretions, effecting a perma- nent cure. It counteracts any ten dency of a cold to result in pneumomn. | It is pleasant to take, both | children and adults like it. | Price 25 cents. Large size 50 cents. Eating Time— is always looked forward to with pleasure by those who dine at Balduff's restaurant— The reason is plain—The food, the cooking, the surroundings and the prices aré right— Give your mouth & picnic by patronizing ue —The menu comprises the best of soups, salads. meats, sandwiches, raw and stewed oysters besides a complete list of toothzome pastry and the finest tea, coffee. miik, cream and ice cream to be bad in Omaha—Prices are exceedingly moderate— probably less than are charged In any other high-class restaurant in this city for re- freshments of equal quality. W. S. Baldufl 1520 Faruem St ete., ' Saturcay. Boys' Day— Drex L. Shooman always expects the boys on Saturday and is prepared to fit to their feet & shoe at $1.50 that Las never been equaled anywhere else for leather with a good, heavy sole that will stand the hard knocks that a good, lively boy will give them—We take as much care in fitting these $1.50 shoes as we do any shoes in the country. Drexel Shoe Co.. Ya m\ Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Peliets st imulate the liver, Omak ltc Shue House. 4 blk'Al STREXT, near the money—Made of good, Lonest, belleve it will be necessary to mention the lady's name."” “Yen," “Thank you, old man. [-" continued the sheriff. “It will She told me all about not be necessary it before 1 lef." “What? “Yes, between you must have kept the wire hot you. But bow a man can make love by long distance transmission beat me—I'd want to get nearer than ten m:les." Richards grinned. ““There was another sheriff. Yer “Yes. thing,” eald the It seems that Hutch proposed and was nruml Just before he came up here news to “*Come, Hutchings,"” Well, why didn't she tell mb It I had coly known.™ g0 inside now and flash down the her that everything is O. K. She'll What'll you say? Well, it know 1 can’t tell you." turning to his party, the sherift boys; we've got to find poor Mortality Statisties. tha—Richard D l-:ngll-h 3451 South Dea Fifteenth street, a ged 1 year: Thomas M. on, Tmmanuel onvn ged 58 years, rie “Morrissey, 1923 soum ity third 1 Mre. Charlotte Ramg 8 south Ninetoenth atreet. aged el Blrthe~Ch irles Wailen, 003 South Seven- teenth street, boy; Walter T. Dinnick. 253 North Thirty-first street, girl; J Hughes, 180 Capitol averive girl: South T'wenty-sixth avenie, boy: R Gtel, 1312 Davenport atreet. boy: Feank ldu!lt n. Rascorshek, 306 Nort boy. 2709 Cuming street, ‘boy: Henry Thirty-fourth street, Marriage llcenses were issued yesterday to the followin Name and Residence Christ Stee, Mary Gl Niels G. Rosaina Douglas count asahor, Douglas co Peterson, Pottawattamfe C Larson, Omah: The Mo. Pac. Ry ‘Low- Rate Homeseekers' Excursions. Tuesday, - February:8 Tuesday, March 4 and 18 To ns Southeast and Southwest. rly all points In the South, For full i{nformation call on or address T. F. G 8. E. Cor. 14th and Douglas Sts Neb, Al are a we ha ooy hem. reprod tl’ New Edison Records rrived today. $5.00 per 8, $10, §20 and $0. ODFREY, Pass. and Ticket Agt. Omaha, These new records big _Improvement over the kind ve been seliing. You have no NOL IR aum’ oud tuya wepy We will put them on sale for time ma-y The pri were, rr‘ is .ll‘o made _es; new record: Edtson lozen. lucer out, Phono- 7. fEYDEN Paok. Clon 162 CHIGAGO ST cyils ani Phomographs SCHOOL VSHOES =