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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-07-20

or more of his men, he walked rapidly
to the foot of the cliff where they
found the lifeless body.
jerks stole one more hasty glance at
Iris. The chief and the greater num-
Der Of his followers We're out Of sight
behind the rocks. Some Of them must
now be climbing to that fatal ledge.
Was this the end?
Iris bent forward sufficiently in her
sheltering niche to permit her to gaze
with wistful tenderness upon jerks.
She knew he would dare all for her
sake She could only pray and hope
Suddenly clamor of discordant yells
fell upon her ears. jerks rose to his
knees. The Dyaks had discovered their
refuge and were about to open fire. He
offered them a target lest perchance
Iris were not thoroughly screened.
keep close,' he said. '"They have
found us. Lead will be flying around
sOon."
She finched back into the crevice:
the sailor fell prone. Four bullets spat
into the ledge, of which three pierced
the tarpaulin and one fattened itself
against the rock.
Then jerks took up the tale. So Gu
riously constituted was this man that,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-07-20
By LOUIS
TRACY
Copyright. 1908. by
Edward J.Clode

quietly back until we'll ensconced in
the niche widened and followed for
her accommodation. There so seclud-
ed was she from the outer world Of
horror and peril that the coarse voices
beneath only reached her in murmur.
Pulling one end of the tarpaulin over
her, she stretched her weary limbs on
litter of twigs and leaves, commend
ed herself and the man she loved to
Gods keeping and, wonderful though
it may seem, was soon slumbering
peacefully.
The statement may sound passing
strange to civilized ears, accustomed
only to the routine of daily life and
not Injured to danger and, wild sur
roundings. But the soldier who has
snatched a hasty doze in the trenches,
the sailor who has heard a fierce gale
butfeting the walls of his frail ark,
can appreciate the reason why Iris,
weary and surfeited with excitement,
would have slept were she certain that
hour on earth.
jerks, too, composed himself for a
brief rest. He felt assured that there
was not the remotest chance Of their
lofty perch being found out before
daybreak, and the first faint streaks Of
dawn would awaken him.
When the morning breeze swept over
the ocean and the stars were beginning
to pale before the pink glory flung
broadcast through the sky by the yet
Invisible sun, the sailor was aroused
by the quiet f1uttering of a bird about
to settle on the rock, but startled by
the sight of him.
His faculties were at once on the
alert, though he little realized the dan
ger betokened by the birds rapid dart
into the void. Turning first to peer at
Iris, he satisfied himself that she was
still asleep. Her lips were slightly
parted in a smile. She might be
dreaming of summer and England. He
noiselessly wormed his way to the
verge of the rock and looked down
through the grass roots.
The Dyaks were already stirring.
Some were replenishing the fire, others
were drawing water, cooking, eating,
smoking long thin stemmed pipes with
absurdly small bowls or oiling their
limbs and weapons with impartial en-
ergy. The chief yet lay stretched on
the sand, but when the first beams of
the sun gilded the waters a man
stopped over the PROSTATE form and
said something that caused the sleeper
to rise stiHy, supporting himself on
his uninjured arm. They at once went
off together toward Europa point
"They have found the boat" thought
jerks. "Well, they are welcome to all
the information it affords"
The chief gave some order, at which
they all hung back sheepishly. Cursing
them in choice Malay, the chief seized
thick faggot and strobe in the direc-
ton of the cave. Goaded into activity
by his truculent demeanor, some fol-
lowed him, and jerks, unable to see,
but listening anxiously, knew that they
were tearing the cheval de frise from
its supports. Nevertheless none of the
working party entered the excavation.
They feared the parched bones that
shone by night.
As he had not been able to complete
the communicating shaft it was not
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although he ruthlessly shot the savage
who first spied out their retreat, he
was swayed only by the dictates of
stern necessity. There was a feeble
chance that further bloodshed might
be averted. That chance had passed.
Very we'll. The enemy must start the
dreadful game about to be played.
They had thrown the gage, and he an
swered them. -Four times did jerks
rifle carry death, unseen, almost IN
felt, across the valley.
Ere the fourth Dyak collapsed Imply
where he stood others were there,
firing at the little puff Of smoke above
the grass. They got in few shots,
| most of which sprayed at various
angles off the face Of the cliff. But
they waited for no more. When the
lever of the Lee-Metford was showed
home for the fifth time the opposing
crest was bare Of all opponents save
two, and they lay motionless.
The fate of the flanking detachment
was either unperceived or unheeded by
the Dyaks left in the vicinity of the
house and well. Astounded by the fir
ing that burst forth in midair, jerks
had cleared the dangerous rock before
they realized that here, above their
heads, were the white man and the
maid whom they sought.
With stupid zeal they blazed away
furiously, only succeeding in shower
ing fragments of splintered stone into
the eagles nest. And the sailor smiled.
He quietly picked up an old coat, rolled
it into ball and pushed it into sight
amidst the grass. Then he squirmed
round on his stomach and took up a
position ten feet away. Of course those
who still carried loaded guns discharg-
ed them at the bundle Of rags, where
upon jerks thrust his rifle beyond the
edge of the rock and leaned over
Three Dyaks fell before the remainder
made up their minds to run. Once con-
WINGED, however, that running was good
for their health, they moved with much
CELEBRITY. The remaining cartridges in
the magazine slackened the pace Of two
Of their number. jerks dropped the
empty weapon and seized another. He
stood up now and sent a quick remind
er after the rearmost pirate The 9TH
ers had disappeared toward the locality
where their leader and his diminished
troop were gathered, not daring to
again come within range Of the whis-
Ting dumdums. The sailor, holding his
rifle as though pheasant shooting, bent
forward and sought a belated oppo-
nent, but in vain. There was no sound
save the wailing of birds, the soft
sough Of the sea and the yelling Of the
three wounded men in the house, who
knew not what terrors threatened and
vainly bawled for succor
Again jerks could look at Iris. Her
face was bleeding. The sight madden
ed him.
my Godv' he groaned. care you
wounded?'
She smiled bravely at him.
1T is nothing" she said ia mere
splash from the rock which cut my
forehead
He dared not go to her. He could
only hope that it was no worse, so he
turned to examine the valley once more
for vestige of a living foe
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CHAPTER XII

|lHOUGH his eyes, like live Goals,
glowered with sullen fire at the
strip Of sand and the rocks in
~ 'front.' his troubled brain paid
perfunctory heed to his task. The
stern sense of duty, the ingrained force
Of long years of military discipline and
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nous horror.
now of vital Importance should the
Dyaks penetrate to the interior. Yet
he thanked the good luck that had
showered such heap Of rubbish over
the spot containing his chief stores and
covering the vein of gold. Wild as
these fellows were, they we'll knew the
value Of the precious metal, and if by
chance they lighted upon such a well
defined lode they might not quit the
island for weeks.
At last on a command from the chief
the Dyaks scattered in various direc-
tons. Some turned toward Europa
point, but the majority went to the
east along Turtle beach or by way OF
the lagoon. Prospect park was desert
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(To BE coNTINUED)
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-12-29

Geo. E. Harris, of Mt. Vernon,
was in the city Thursday.
v. C. Vlarak was in the city today
from Kimball and dined at The Ray
mond.
Paul Landmann. of Scotland. was
in the city owe night and departed
Thursday morning for home.
Mrs. r. b. Hot and little daugh-
ter went out to White Lake to re-
main a few days with relatives.
Miss Emma Haynes went to Cam
ton: Thursday to visit a few days
with her friend. Miss Alice Conklin.
Mrs. W. 81. Il. Turneaure departed
for Madison, Wis. to remain q month
with relatives. Mr.. TuIneauIe has
'been there for several months.
BY watching wants one finds
Opportunity" 1t would be hard to
find a dozen want ads in which no
real opportunity is advertised.
w. II. Rogers, r. j.. Charming
and Nick Wecker, OF Woonsocket,
were guests at The Widmann over
night and went home on the freight
Thursday morning.
Thomas Wallace has been making
the rounds Of the yards OF the Fll-
lerton Lumber Co. in checking up the
business for the year, and returned
home Thursday mOrninu M
After Jan. ] the dry eoous mer-
chants and their clerks are going to
take things easy in the evening, as
the proprietors have agreed to close
their stores at $50 O'Clock.
Mrs. Margaret Shomer and o a D.
-. Shomer. departed Thursday
via the Milwaukee road for Portland.
Ore. II they like the country they
will make their future home there.
The Very Reverend Dean Shea ar
rived home from Yankton Wedues-
day evening. having been down there
10 attenH the funeral services over
the remains OF Father cassidy, and
twenty-five other priests were pres
ent. In the absence OF Bishop
.O'Gorman, Dean Shea preached the
funeral sermon.
Mr.. and Mrs JOS. Swift, jr., arriy-
ed home this afternoon from New
Boston, H.. at which place they
were married OH Thanksgiving Day.
the bride being Miss Emily Bras.
Swift has Teen sick at Elburn.
ILL.,, for several weeks with scarlet
fever and he has just got out Of quar-
antine.
Miss Roxy Buttertield entertained
q par'yo of fifteen young ladies and
gentlemen at her bone Wednesday
evening in honor Of several young
ladies who are home on their college
vacation. a musical contest was the
leading feature Of the evening, in
which the guests Illustrated the IT,
ties of the songs. John Dobson was
awarded the first prize and Mr..
Jones. of Huron, got the consolation
prize. Refreshments we're served
during the evening. The hostess was
assisted by MISS Virginia Edison, OF
Minneapolis.
While the audience at the opera
house was not as large as on previous
evenings, the Warner Comedy Co. pes
sented a fine. play in Tennessee, q
and Its features were applauded re-
q'lently. Miss Warner and Miss
Evans were both very acceptablesin
their characters, while Jack Benja
min and Robert Hazlett made typi-
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parts in fine shape. In his part 81
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nature all the time heE was on tho
stage. Good specialists were given
between the acts, Miss Warmers
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No country, where winter weather
is in THE habit Of prevailing, is pro-
ducing anything o aRreeable in
that line than is South Dakota at
the present time, and all fall, so far
as that is concerned. Here it is
Christmas, and time when extreme
~ cold weather is looked for and the
thermometer on Christmas day stood
at SO degrees during the day and in
the morning it was but q degrees,
just a little below freezing. Tuesday
the thermometer also touched 50 de-
grees and in the morning it was only
q degrees as tile coolest during the
night. Three years Tuesday, in
the early morning hours, the Their
mometer wens to 25 degrees below
zero. In the.past ten years this has
beer. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of any.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-26
eeeded in saving him he lost his own rifo
in the attempt
BAUM LEAVES 1T TO CLERKS
Manager OF Bennett's Submits Early
Closing Matter 60 Pop
uInr vote.

J. p. Baum. manager OF the Bennett
store. on whose decision Is said tn hinge
the matter Of the closing OF Omaha's re-
tail stores at o'clock, has returned from
the east. Mr.. Baum says he Is ready to
sign the agreement for early closing each
day except Saturday, provided something
stu better cannot be agreed upon.
The proposition submitted to the stores
and the clerks Of Omaha is to close at l
o clock Saturday and continue closing at
the regular time on other days. The object
of his plan is two-fold-to give the clerks
all their hours on at one time aud to ac-
commodate men who quit work at o'clock.
Mr.. Baum has prepared a letter to the
clerks, asking their vote on the question.
II Is as follows:
To the Retail Clerks Of Omaha: learn
this morning on my return from the
east that II Is up to me" to decide on
the hours for work during the summer
season, and that II has been agreed, subject
to my consent, to close at o'clock each
day. except Saturday. am very glad in
and 1 heartily favor 1t. 1 think, however,
that Omaha Is enough of city to justify
the better plan adopted In the eastern cities
namely, closing at o'clock on Saturdays.
and l therefore propose this plan rather
than the other.
the week is not nearly so much TO the
clerks, in my opinion, as would be the nine
hours from l to 10. taken or the hardest
day OF the week, at the tired end Of the
week
In connection with Sunday, Saturday aft
ernoon and evening will be of real benefit
to the clerks, and no serious detriment TO
the public.
The Bennett company asks postal card
vote Of the clerks Write us today whether
you wish Saturday afternoon or the
O'Clock plan. State where you are employed
and sign your name, We will announce the
vote and our influence will be Ii favor OF
which receives
Yours truly ]. r. BAUM.
II is expected that all the clerks will get
their votes in by Friday, so that they may
get Saturday afternoon of. II they decide
on Mr.. Baum's plan, and If their employers
reach definite agreement by that time
II they choose the s o'clock plan It is pro.
posed to begin the early closing next week
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-26
THEATER AGENTS IN OMAHA
Representatives of Outside Interests
visit Omaha with view of
Getting the OrDheum.

Agents of outside theater interests, pre-
sumably a burlesque circuit, which has
houses in st. Louis and other middle west
cities, have been In Omaha this week seek
ing to open negotiations with the Omaha
& Council BLUFFS Street Railway company.
which has control OF the building OF the
gregatlon desires to obtain a lease on the
Orpheum when the present lease expires
and open a burlesque house in Omaha.
The movements Of these two agents are
carefully guarded by those who know any
thing OF them. Secretary Leussler of the
street railway company, when asked for a
statement. said
81 cannot consistently discuss that mat
ter now. / would like to, but conditions
forbid. Nothing may come OF It and then
premature discussion would be a bad thing.
II, however. events transpire which fur
nish the basis for a business transaction
l shall gladly give out the story"
Mr.. Leussler said he could not even give
the names OF the men or the interests they
represented.
Carl Reiter. manager of the orpheum,
said:
ing whatever about this affair. l am not
worrying over the possibility of my house
being taken away from me, however"
Manager Burgess OF the Boyd said he,
too. was ignorant Of any movement to es-
tablish another theater or to secure con-
troll OF any house now in operation. Man
ager Breed Of the Krug could not be
reached.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-26
ONE CUPBOARD PLAN FAILS
Two Families who Cooperate on
Eating Expense Wind Up In
Court.

Jonathan G. Brakey and his wife, Lillian
J. Brakey, are suing William and Virginia
Nicholson to recover the sum of $l,500
The money is alleged to be due as the out
come of peculiar set of circumstances
1t is alleged in the petition of August
10, 1901, the plaintiffs and the defendants
entered into an agreement, born of mutual
confidence, respect and admiration, that
they would thereafter live as one family,
in one house and eat at one table. While
sharing each others satisfaction at COM
mon table. having separate sleeping rooms,
they were to bear the expense of the living
equally. Whether the table was equipped
luxuriOusly or in modest and vegetarian
fashion, the four people enjoying it's de-
lights were to share equally the expense.
This very edifying and neighborly agree
ment continued to exist up TO July 90 a
few days ago Then the plaintiffs seemed
to have taken separate account of the
expense to date and came to the conclusion
that while the eating might be salts
factory. Mrs. Brakey being a very fine cook,
as the petition bears testimony, the finan-
cial end was a triie twisted. They set
forth that they found that they had con-
tributed for food ct cetera, the sum of
x2.sG7.4t. Against this snug sum they say
they could only find $50, more or less, that
the other two members Of the cooperative
housekeeping firm had contributed. So
after some figuring and considerable cog
itation the Brakeys hired a lawyer and
instituted suit in the district court against
the Nicholsons for the sum of $500. which
they allege will just about cover the short
age they think exists in an equal division
OF expense.
1t is rot set forth in the petition whether
the co-operators have done as the Brook
Farm folks did and quit cold, or whether
they are still worrying along with this
legal difference unsettled; but the petition
bears evidence that one more earnest and
determined effort at cooperation in living
has failed.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-26
CONTEST OVER THE DIVORCE
Husband Protests on wife BrInEinG
Suit from Knox 60 Doug
las County.

Sherman Saunders, the banker Of Bloom
field, Knox county who Is being sued for
divorce by his wife, Alice Maude Saunders,
Is not going to allow plaintiff to have any
advantage that the law does not give her.
Mrs. Saunders, in her petition, alleges
that because of drunkenness and cruelty
she could no longer live with her husband
and that she has come TO Omaha to make
her permanent residence.
In an amended answer just filed the hus-
band swears that his wife. II acting in good
county, where they were well known and
where the expense would be comparatively
small. He objects to being brought to
Omaha with his witnesses and also to the
amount OF alimony and lawyers fee de-
manded He sets up that his assets and
estate have been exaggerated to about
double their value and that his current la
! bilities are such the real value of his estate
cannot be fairly estimated on the records
Of Knox county. AS a banker and manu-
facturer he says, his dealings make him
liable from day to day TO an extent that
can only be truly estimated by his neigh
| bors and business associates. In any event.
| he alleges that his wifes former condition
! in life and her method Of living while shar-
ing his bed and board would not entitle her
to more than $50 per month. She asks for
$1,000 per month and a very substantial
| lawyers fee.
Judge Sutton probably will hear testl-
mony in the case some time this week.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-26
LYONS MAY ANNEX OMAHA
Burt County Town May Extend It's
Limits TO the Metropolis
60 save Expenses.

John F. Piper, ex-county treasurer OF
Burt county and banker at Lyons, is In
the city. He came in on Monday and says
that he did not realize what a close call he
had Monday evening until reading The Bee
Tuesday morning about the kidnapping OF
c. J, Wilson Of Fairbury. He saw g num-
Der Of suspicious looking faeIvlduals around
his hotel, but he quietly slipped away and
thus avoided-what, he does not exactly
know.
Mr.. Piper says everything is booming in
Lyons. The Great Northern is building in
there and the usual excitement attendant
upon the building OF railroad into a town
these days is apparent. People are figuring
on all sorts OF schemes. talking about ele-
vators and other things. and Implying tina,
they may annex Omaha, so as to bring the
two cities under one government. one sci
OF Ofhcers and save both cities money.
But" said he, II am more OF an OBJ.
server than an active participant"
He says politics Is quiet everything Il
Berenely republican High-prlced wheat
BIG yleld and heavy weight IA a knOckdOWE
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-26
Judge Sutton probably will hear testl-
mony in the case some time this week.
FUNERAL OF MRS. P. C. HEAFEY
Large Gathering of Friends Pay Final
Tribute to Woman who
Suffered Long.

A large gathering Of friends attended st.
Peters church, Twenty-eighth and Leaven-
worth streets. Tuesday morning to honor
the memory of Mrs. Catherine Heafey, who
died Saturday afternoon at the Mercy hos
pital, Council Bluffs, after a long illness
Rev. Peter Mclaughlin, pastor of the
church, was celebrant in the reading of the
solemn high mass. Assisting Rev. Mr.. Nc
Laughlin were: Rev John Jennette, dea-
con; Rev. Mr., Walsh OF Norfolk, sub
deacon; Rev. ]. c. Buckley, master of cere-
monies. Rev. NJ. J. O'Conner Of Creighton
university delivered the sermon. The regu-
lar church choir rendered the music
The following friends Of the family acted
as pallbearers: Sheriff John Power T ].
OBrien, Thomas Flynn, J. f. O'Hearne.
p. J. McGrath, John Calvin, John Schenk
and A. V. Kinsler. The burial was at Holy
Sepulcher cemetery.
Mrs Heafey was the wife OF p. c. Heafey
of the undertaking firm of Heafey &
Heafy.