The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 6, 1916, Page 4

HE SEATTLE STAR OF sCnIFes NORTHWEST LEAGU OF Newerarans Star Publishing Co. Phone Mata 606, Private pesos parimes Johnson, La Follette, Poindexter STAR—WEDNESDAY, | Next Week Pandora's Box BY JOHN A, MITCHELL EAEEESESEESS 0325333 A Novel feapsrvvirerrtrertii titi iremtiiscnisd A Week Tie: (Continued from Our Last lesue) ~~ CHAPTER Vu HE sheriff and his party of | deputies made a diligent search for Williston for many days to come. lt was of no avall He had disappeared, and all trac with ae if b 4 \'v@ Gor SEPT, 6, 1916. PAGE 4, To HAYS a | Kate I ride the range, | punch cows. alwaye go on the roundup, I'm fatr broncho- breaker, and | make Dunks ead clean lanp chimbiles ween times, he ited, bound to be terse, yet explicit, adviee of the bons There wae w gale of laughter TTT glibly, | By and Virgil Boyles Covrriabt Wechun A Novel) A Week b every svveys fers FETT) . If When the party separated for the! o| night, Gordon bad aot yet returned “4 | | CHAPTER IX | Gordon Rides into the Country Gordon rode aimlessly out of the) in| Mitte town with ite twinkling Hgnt He wanted olf a strange,| by to ri him, as completely enervating had laid] hold of hin lant | testimony all delection that the moment bis ad gone It pitifully inadequate—| ton—now that it was! | that was ccoming ex © are the only « keep up lik te will « rode a and for trical and Culberson, administra- “Say, old man, I've made a very My wife can't ty the Perc 4am cee WHAT |S IT IN CHINESE? Mr. Peltier of town will marry jto a widow of town whose name | was Slamick, now Lyon ig Meg |lish—-Windbam County, Cenn., | Rerver. tle ore CAUGHT NOTICE—The party who took a if trouble by Orwell, away some ap icdtetetus weeuness dav ifid pected. | for | Impressing the People The aim of the AD is to impress people with our PLACE, and the things we SELL. days did you say What do you suppose would happen if you were to CLIMB out on the ROOF OF YOUR SHOP and begin YELLING at the top of your voice! Gordon smiled “You needn't instat on it, Mr. Munson,” he advised, "We know it now, Where do you live?” “Hellity mn! I live at the) Three Bars ranch.” “In Kemah county?” “It sure is.” “What ts your business, Mr, Mun son?" “Jim's shorter, Dick. work for the boss, Mr yhat brand wan tt wearing?” | "10 what capacity?” Why, this is about what would happen— People would stop and look up, then more people would stop and look up, until presently you would have a crowd of them, all staring up at you. Then some leather-lunged’ fellow would hail you and ask, “What's th’ mat- ter—what're you yelling about?” | Then you in turn yelling for BUSINESS and TRADE!" Then someone would say, “For th’ love o’ Mike, is THAT what he wants I thought he was gettin’ murdered!” would answer back and say, “Nothing’s the matter—I’m Well, 1 I want all you good people to come over to my place Paul Lang. = : : iq the by Kven the court viled HE country is speaking very clearly the: ies ’ Man’'yini tint “vou have # and in ringing voice, it is speaking for honest,|'.Qncimer world-—body and soul | MURS mp Peet. Sisisy jured yourself already!” murmu ging ce, S sped g ‘y)} That the soul of him had really 4 the boss “Clean lamp chimneye Wyte eh git cag ie Kenerally belie Mary held no| 3% 45 : b } sty wibiiiads without Wil Mlitical machines and their candidates. after the return of the first| ’ his pula ie Nlolog, Ha hed “for.| sil n. It he Yon out First, the battle between political freedom and expedition ° no trace of his body? hot like Justice MeAlieter’s, But) #ith bitter harehnene. | | " " : ‘ ; something in Gordon's steady, tho| Suppose he di bre . n, champion of independent thought and action, | search, which insted thru the vars ra te * 3 : ‘ |days of September, Langford was 4 os / elewolnm to ask @ gitk-a & | on the republican nomination for the senate. iF; , 2 Rie hase ta the Serlaveneee of the | s6Is 10 aa e eeigitbred, pro| A vlush te somethin Next came the same battle in Wisconsin, and there| "4%. He bad thought, honestly, | gaya HA) The examingtion proceeded, ‘The |tected, cherished girl Hike thatt0| cnet that the ruffians would not dare) nip was getting tiling "Windows| share this new, bleak, rough [fel things t veteran of political purity and justice, Robert M./ "ere, Deine pursued; but now he clouds had arisen from nowhere, |of the thought of hor doing It made jy, Follette : C : was Sreed so the come Care| seomlugly, and spread over the iit him gasp there in the darkness th a + | : ; | hardene tor La Follette, and he, too, was renominated for] , in {he fire! dark dave of is new he state proceeded to Mungon's|time, bis head bowed in den) seurs . : belief, he ke to Gordon, ‘ > > thought. It was dark when be “ U. S. senate on the republican ticket. young lawye eater moar end scepching]| ized. thet bie t Keiitictal blushes cam b letter to the “gal reporter.” In re questions, Gordon asked the wit-|0n the main trail \tor the women at drug store Washington, between the fearless and independent) «na from thence to the White home| [NRG, JOHNSON Hag JUST lin: wad ye 00 witee to|scolded’ “What made you be so un ry tor, Miles Poindexter, and the machine candidate, | sad 18 ne nore aoe cing | (CONS IN AND SHE AND j swear that the steer you had held| reasonable? Well, we started with) prgy | himaeit OTHER, WANTING TO KNOW HOW TH OTHER “ i the Lazy 8 rd “ 4 ‘ F ; same steer that wes the mascot of ave wandered into the lia pr And, if all signs of the times mean anything at all, |, ase slipped into the aad life) is ab THEY WERE VISITING OVER THE the Three Bars ranch?” |branch trail. Tho, to be wure, it has! ee tor Miies Poindexter will be renominated just as adaptably. Mary rallied under her | , a ir Mae! | “Know Mag? Swear to Mag?| We traveled it that I wonder at you./CAN DO ALMOST ANYTHING alli wghgS § Dick, | would know that cuss ef 1|Lena. Well, we'll just jog back. BUT MAKE A LIVING. ; A ge ag elgerage I met him on the golden streets of What's the matier now, silly?” —— | eee sconsin. in the dark eyes, bu' aro) the eternal city or ef my | His mare had shied A shadowy! wary TILL THEY GROW UP 5 9 neas shown ber, strong in her de q d rmination " < 0 ily Brown was called. After | approached Mr. and Mrs. Howard, at Valley iators Repudiated termination not to be # trouble t the preliminary questions, Gordon| “Is that you, Dick?” |View, Madison county, and they ARLY reports from the second, or “run off” primasies in " unavailing tears } A, eee ly cold t ea | No n, please tell the| man, yet he felt suddenly cold to| 7000) The Paris, Ky., Democrat. Mary, because of her abounding dey how yeu cates hte poncsecion tha sows of hig hens. Dimiy, halve’ eek candidate for United States senator, has easily defeated! jauetore tock advantage of the ? . 2 ¢ tog “Well . " from { whet must have) * B. Colquitt, who made his race on an anti-Wilson| giris’ absorption tn each other's aa Hee AR Bg MM godlell Hote 7 ret wrilacen Kousastand lo, Newwedd, why so som- © If such is the case, the republicans will have been hoist yenere ee i i sie: couple o' hands when | meets up| were vaguely visible in the hait-| Be Bs Besson ly their own petard. So confident were they that Colquitt.| join 1 pe Rs Po ig ne was) light ; ; ; > hf 4 ne e e bunch o° mi 3 of court. He haunted Yad nile. half dozen or so—among ‘em this\er fear,” said the man in @ mourn Pa pfu? Why, man, you are to s§, would be elected, that they have been persistently] ¥#* Bot looking now for s 4 "I'm hungry enough to | @ congratulated ‘i . c hippin’ any this fall, but th vouch for that.” | ng the attention of the independent voters to cnaeniaa erate ® pa due oan" : re pre 1 Meanwhile Gordon had buckled were for sale-—pert of a lot he had; Williston The astonished | Riss teclas ten inn tal ¥ the country with the news of “Texas’ repudiation | upshot of the matter waa, I took ‘em | "Williston! tx it really you?’ : " ‘ $ 7 sadly handicapped, with the whole ‘ " 7) oN, dildo q :'--f never should have known you |Wilson.” But Texas thought the matter over and de prop of his testimony struck from] Gye 4 iit i : ime hie b 1 was Just lackin') "None other, my dear Gordom! ) 7) merit jel wie cold ? : P ; , clean, two cars full.” Williston! My dear fellow!" re- The most disturbing _thing to the republicans is thatjance ht “You took « billof-eale for them,| peated Gordon sgain. “It is too Flancee—No, I'm not German counties of Texas, expected to roll up a big} The Kemah county court oom-| Williston mee wen Re, pretty, so I have to try to be nice, cent oo jecombes, ‘The fudge land business?” ssked the counsel] “Where do you usually put your|, “! sure did. I'm too old s band/from his mare and extending both | 2004) candidacy of Mr. Hughes has, perhaps, reached its| came with his court reporter to Vel for the state. to buy without bill-o'sale.” hands. “Shoke, old man! My, the| and the ebb tide has set in. Many good Americans . “On tho right hip.” marked as an exbibit, and offered )and blood, all right. Grip's good, There was a full calendar that| Kemah county, and I own and oper Do you elways brand your ept| ia ovtdsuse . one ee an vee fey eee Sng i Th Saale te k term, and the close of the first ate s cattle ragch. ’ in presen’ apaign. ey hardly new wh week found the court stil! wrestling} After Langford had clearly de-| A | tw State D1 q * ? - or how to vote. Mr. Hughes, realizing the deplor-|with criminal cares, with that of scribed and Identified the animal in] to" 078 ynow any J. R. outfit? | Stale vent on of thee thet doy, RR gt erties il al Pe rts ‘attack there. P ' Langford was most unsatiefi day. It was all in—for weal or for|the real significance of the man's week. Long before that, the town| “How did you happen to miss this| ive oontradicted bimeeif, and return taking quick hold of him, 4 ‘ 1 ioe ro Rio Grande, Mr. Hughes assumed that these men| #8? fling up for the big rustling /steer was a trifle contemptuous of any |ing up cheery and confident. |the older man, quietly. “It is a ented Texas and he elected to make Mexico the issue judicial party was safely|fact that an animal answering this|(r si, ‘oun’ wecting The litte] “Aad well ioe old ay long story. | was coming to you. : “I—don't know, Paul. | hope s0.| begin now?” Lathes, major issue to analyze and pass upon, they will be able/*ervice pve ange oe oe oan lhe» seen under suspicious de | 524 whispered to him, ‘That quiet little man from down Oe? Re eee do it in a fair and impartial manner. Sober judgment | rere ie ee eee ite * "Mr. Langford,” sald Small, to « i joor of the Whites’) | A bays FOR @ common sense must prevail thruout the country as it|possible to accommodate thelceived, you were not aware this}, pe from, Foe af ve Perth, bs ’ in T ‘ Sood fiven the office wasicreature had e strayed away a + PM id e? Langford was called away for a Lie low here until I send for|part of town, broke limb Wed: 7 with &)don was gone. He war not at sup in 4 4 ‘ Williston had come ta from White’s| “I was not ’ (Continued in Our Next Issue) must see it now, if he hasn't seen it all along, and helio be with e. She shysic-| “Who on, | Mysterious inflection ve pall — |months. He was standing by ong ¢ to be with Louise, She was physic:| “Who gave you this tnformation | bed, in turning eround gave hig ak. : . " ’ “Busines as explained loulse, in answer to} ? ly quiet, always sombeneyed. nonaren Niuewe, ot he bony 0 Business as well.” Langford’s unspoken question. “I, TION IN THE SELECTION OF) knee—The Morriliton, Ark, Demo . and Wheat CHAPTER VII what words Williston told you about ~~ insinuatingly, “you es FE HAVE to thank Rumania, anyway, for a 11}4-cent The Ame fe Oe the steer he sow ot the State of South Dakotajand the objection sustained by the most significant development thus far attendant to|®**inst Jesse Black was called soon |the court He only wanted the jury pania’s entry into the war. 4 ‘ } @ better part of « year,” con- day afternoon. No testimony was/|have told @ damaging story had vit tecauced, bowever, until the fol-|becn there, and aise to vemember| ames, “ARe?PrS WH Ongaging pulse of the financial world, and its sources of informa- Sr OOF eet tee a tale lesa lion bed Ainaapaaren: Wee Meld bat “Yes, Now, Mr. Langford, 1| ‘ ‘ ‘ “\atep, Gordon fought fo y : | are many and varied. The wheat manipulators rarely|(i°?' ott tense afternoon lave Williston or Williston’s stary,|(hOwle lke you to tell me hew A aie numbers.” | The slump in wheat indicates that the wheat barons are/not interesting to the crowd, Many |ever before these 12 men that there| vAbest 5,000 head.” H t of an early releasal of Russia's enormous stores of| had no hint of its deeper ‘neaning.|was a story—he knew it and they| who count your cattle by the thou A 7 piay—a certain braggadocio on the|crochet of the law forbade { sands, on your sworn word you| wo dey Pa Bay Guaeaean oe ad foal CP es yl elWhat did you do. efter voor ot | Ye hee out of the country | 5 Adrianople, Jonsta ople, and open ed tt mow Se be ns | 50% 7 P Pp DIE, ANG Open) re examination of witness tention bad been called to the eus-|)0t%,, Dent yan think you are ask ‘ . ij ffec L 4 big mouthful when you ask the The wheat market is seldom affected by sentiment. It) tiently waiting. Wiser heads than detention? feusiews tans vee oneek so Bn es and falls only upon hard-boiled facts, backed by ample|theirs knew that the game was al I informed my boys of what I és ornery steer, of others?” Tair ral hs é “We have chosen the right man,” |\look for the steer. * a the early elimination of both Bulgaria and Turkey from| ynispered Langford to Mary. They| “Were they successful?” Pe, ht Aas Py vom: great war. had secured seats near the front| “No.” posedly, "I have never sold him a and were of those who knew the| “Did this steer have a particular) : Tiffin for Coroner “He is great,” returned Mary. If| “He did.” anid ts fee We hae ee only her father could be there to ' i “He always ranged with a bunch| gq clean-cut young man, with a lot of pluck, energy and| Louise, sitting at her table withinjon what we call the home range.” fo ai eee vis. TEgneem, nthusiasm the bar, with faith in this man's “Near the ranch house? “Gosh!” i > fficient t move mou “wi half ‘ed rl He has never dabbled in politics before. He is not mixed boca iy ok preys Bos Ay gape Sag The question was unex with any political factions, cliques, or combinations. aiee him?” whe il ant taow tie tieeeen ak attectionstaly, é We rode the free ranges for) pick Gordon of all people! Then he . : : "Ye s, J ity is a guarantee of his standing in the profession. + oe r é ” % - ford, absently, for he was not look-|cattie held out 4 As coroner, The Star believes Dr. Tiffin wi , “ asked the same question, so it) 1 r Tiffin will embody aling at the girl reporter, nor were How many mat be sil. auae Merino Wine a} Dr. Tiffin |He wished for the sake of Willis-| “Why, we continued to look| aes ‘ton's “little girl” that there were| sharp unt!! my boy, Munson, found ne eee Munson's my room, at the Velpen stockyards, on the Court adjourned that evening|point of being shipped to Sioux} |friends were feeling pretty goo’! “You went to Velpen to identify | jabout It. this steer?” seat was filled early. Long before| “It was your steer?” the judicial party had arrived from Yes crowded to its limits, There was| been searching so long?” loud talking, laughing and joking. “The very same. opened and Judge Dale entered Then Langford came shoving his sad-faced, brown-e young wom a + an in his wake, who yet held herself WE ARE DANGEROUS PESTS Fine tolook at. Finer to smoke. Taste that fragrant aroma, Isn’t it the “finest” you ever tasted? 5° the cigar with that . ORE AIR-—1 fo days—| bad been spirited away in the night) ™ nd "Oh, Jim! Jim! You have per | eous, independent men against the corrupt] sone to another world came to be lye goa noemed 80 hope but why could they find lgatten that Judge Mele's court was You poor fool,” he said wloud, | tical debauchery was waged in California—and Hi) “arter 9 gationt dauntless seemingly care! gave brought} men, he, if he had the shameful }foreed to let cold reason have its Q blush i tical ringsters combined to accomplish the defeat) commit murder, knowing that they were thrown open. Damp looking | ¥!th him. But (he very sweetnens real But the people of Wisconsin rallied to/nad dared the worst, after all |the pratrle town He niewsly for @ long|ture 4 © | ; a" with faces lke October te- had written a second i 7 longer | "4 i j tlon After many ond searching | !7ed th his mare Was no rf a F Sta ») fm state c The next battle will be staged in our own state | trier (0 ene eee oe eice to Kemah Now "that's funny, olf gis,” tol gb Th Reiman Humphrey. This time the Boss did the driving) my wire are GUSHING Ovi over at the wtock-yard was the very|0Ur nosex Weatward, 60 you must) f: the White's oastiy, sweetly! | Gack PONCE ALL FORE NOON This was Jim's big opportunity. {been such « deuce of a while since| 4 GENIUS 18 A MAN WHO A 2 1e. : 7 s. | ee tho: ; ly as Johnson was in California and La Follette in} gentle minietrations grateta! to * Sa a from her bed, grateful for any kind full o' soundin’ cataracts! Yep form arose out of the darkness, It) Triplets were born recently to any one ty jeving way to weak WAG) & id to him Gordon wan not @ superstitions rive been named Toney, Oney and ‘exas, indicate that Charles A a ‘ beslth, healed of her wound repidly of the steer realized that the man had risen | HARD LUCK o company to ride often and at drivin’ the bunch myself with «|The outlines of the stone stoop join Judge Dale for autuma term lo 7 sing.” i 4 blood, Dick, nev polled considerably the largest yote in the first pri m Sent on man; he was seeking a cleverly spotted feller, He said he wasn't| ful volne “Alas, no! You see, she thinks situation and were preparing, it is reliably reported, ae , ¢ G * acne in tee Uc tah Be was bought from Yellow Wolf, 80 the| word burst from Gordon's 0% nephew's Piste Mayday AL d to be a party to the confidence game a odar him by Will n's disappear bout that many to make @ good,|Sorry { startled you." me you w so pretty.” Re “Where was itt” o ree, own?” we,” ) Tit cuajocity, went hegvily to Culberson yened on a Tuesday, the second| “Your name, place of residence, f course, Mr. Brown Rood to be true.” he cried, leaping | od it's such a bore. Have you ever ct u ar” pen on Monday Mg I Sigh age The docuwent was produced |fee! of you is—bully. You are fess been perplexed by the tangle of issues confronting the there?” | The hearing of testimony for the | aren't yout” weakness of his position, selected what he considered| Jes? Black yet uncalled Gordon |question, Gordon continued "1 do not.” case—so late that the defe: would | tim Who, Williston?” asked Gordon, day or Wednesday of the following| “On the 15th day of July, laat tory under cross-examination. He! wos. Misled by the howlings of a few disgruntled democrats "Well, Dick,” said Langford, com-| “I think you know, Gordon,” sald the case. "My attention was called to tho) crore to tangle him up in threads , 38 eT se os Aca “ returning seme. simplifies the proposition for the people. Having but|housed in the hotel, with the best | description, and bearing my Dread, 4, touched Small om the arm And well in, old man I will tell you everything. Shall 1) Feturn An hour later the two men separ- LEAST SAFE AT HOME Jof congested patronage. It was im-| “Prior to Information thus re-|y uiy eolee tron travel a grest| inom poe at Dem MeN heard ‘ ‘ f . S " . nigh moment. When he returned Gor-| you,” was Gordons parting word |nesday evening. Mr, Farish F Mr. Hughes is unfortunate in his choice of an issue.|/ammed with cots at night. Mary jor been stolen? “For pleasure, maybe?” nd been bad th for sl : : ; phish a. | 2 Partly “He went away on his horse,” be very unhappy over the Texas news. ally strong again, but ever strange | Mr. Langford ne PEW WOMEN SHOW DISCRE-|limb a twist, breaking it athe st prior to the arrest of the w him ride into the country.” THINGS TO BE LEFT UNSAID. Mie dechhé wheat market thas 1 Contrary to expectation, the ca: This, of course, was objected to, bs dec! , an at collapse is per- after the sitting of the court Mon-|to remember that Williston could The Chicago wheat exchange keeps its finger tight upon peng jowing day. Inch by inch, step by|how mysteriously this same Wilils ‘ Lindy a mistake. This mpanelling of the fury was|but he might keep an imprension | pus eatte you range--ip found) it upon the markets of the world. This means, just a Others saw it in the light of child's |knew !t—a story of which some ¥ a, ow, Ms Lengiond. vou ei . 8, just as Dardanelles. ees and, went reetlecsly, (mpé- |pisious clreumeténces of the stear'a| ine (nt,fury (0 Swallow ® pretty | takably distinguish thie one ir pof. The sudden decline in wheat is an ominous portent) "#¢y on in deadly earnest had heard, and sent them out to! “ sini game was being played stamping ground?" because he was rather an odd crea . C4 ~ . . ‘ “Where was that?” . T)*. CHARLES TIFFIN, candidate for coroner, is aletip! The odds. were fearful ot tite ic ae casei” sald Mat: ‘Did you look elsewhere Was‘there any one in the county The endorsement given him by 300 physicians in this responded Tang: |sevoral days—wherever any Of My |remembered that the boss had been : | } = bar wae ra conception of the duties imposed by that office. Vote|his thoughts on her side of the rail./ you rode the court were surely mysterious | }net so much tobacco stench In tho| him the day before the preliminary with the jury box filled, The state's | City.” ‘The next morning every available) “I did.” fees |the hotel, the cramped room was| “The same for whtch you had The door in the rear of the bar way down the crowded aisle with a J. R” “It you mean what do I do, why, ferect with @ proud little tilt to the Then everybody would laugh, and move on, but at the same time they would begin THINKING ABOUT YOU As a result of all this there might be no immediate rush of new custom to your door, but by degrees most of the people who had composed that group of curious auditors would call and look you over. chin. There was not an empty seat | joutside the bar, Louise motioned jand he escorted Mary to a place |within and sat down beside her The jurymen were all in their jchairs, Presently came tn Gordon |with his quiet, self-reliant manner Shortly after Gordon came Small Small, the dynamle subject of much satire when the legal fra jternity talked “shop.” But seated beside Small was an inelgnificant looking little man, who was sald to = have come from the south part of the state. Nobody knew him, and nobody was interested in him, But Gordon knew him. He knew he was pitted against one of the sharpest, hrewdest men of bis day. Schwabacher Bros. & Co., inc. Gentlemen, I think we are Distributers, Seattle, Wash ready,” sald the judge, and the saine was on again, 0; The state called Paul Langford, its principal witness in default of Should they find themselves favorably IMPRESSED, they would probably conclude that your YELLING was justified and would give you their trade, But should they be disappointed because you failed to show them anything in particular that was better than ELSEWHERE, they would probably’ stray away--and the next time you yelled at them from your roof they WOULD NOT STOP to listen! The moral is—we GROW BY ADVERTISING, but we grow FASTER by LIVING UP to the advertising! 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