The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-09-15
WAS NOT HIS FORTE
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..The son of the
millionaire haupened 10 he the only
,ennr,er I'm tho city roon, when he
civ editor came across n half-stick
line i'm the last edition of an evening
paper stating that the body of Il very
lovely Young woman of evident retine
ment, had been taken from the lake
late chat evening. and that the body
was at the South Side morgue.
The city editor instantly saw the
story in that, of course, but he had All
Of his men out on their evening as
signmentS. and so he handed the clip
ping to the new young man Who
thought he'd make Il hit i'll journalism.
and told him to hustle out and nail the.
story.
Here is Il chance for YOU said the
city editor in his kiuuiy way TO the son
of The eastern millionaire. 1T looks us
if ii ought to pan out INTO Il 1irst-page
spread story Dig up all the details and
get me a first rate story, and II wont
hurt you amy around here
The young fellow grabbed q bunch
OF o p paper and started out. He was
gone till II o'clock that night. Mean
time the South Sid police reporter had
telephoned in to the city editor that
there Was a big suicide story back IF
the finding of the young WofDan'S body,
that he himself was up to his ears in
some other Sizcable police stories, and
asking the city editor IL he had a man
out on the org case. The city editor
replied that he had, and he already saw
the bank head on the big story the uni
yersity EDUCATED young man was going
to bring in.
TT young fellow strolled into the
office a bit after II O'Clock, while The
city editor was out for a bite of lunch,
and he sat down at "a desk and wrote
about II hundred words. to the effect
that Il young woman of pleasing ap-
]pearance. with many jeweled rings IN
her fingers. had been picked up in the
IKE by some boatmen. and that the
body was icposinE on n slab at the
South Sid morgue He G>rthcr set
forth the fact that Il ~pOckctDOoE tiat
had been found within the drowned
( young wummn's waist had contained a
number of visiting cards, giving the
name of Miss S~o-and-So. and that there
was in the pockethook, in addition. an
unseuled letter addressed to an cX-
trcn1cly prominent young Chicago man
about town.
THAT all. che new young MAJ had
lust finished writing his little hundred
words when the city editor came in,
, and cspyius the Observation-Disclosures
Youth who had been out ON the big
story. he rushed over To his desk and
eagerly picked UP his copy. He came
near falling down when ne read those
! hundred words.
Did YOU go to the young woman's
address on Prairie avenue?' he gasped.
No.. sir replied the Journalist,
hunting through his pockets for IL
d match to light his cigarette. 4 thought
That AS long as got her name from
4 her visiting card that would do
The city editor packed UP to the
w.I.l. cooler To &c, "A drink in order to
uioie1eu his parcned throat.
".pjd YOU hun, w the man whose
name is given in that unse;llcd letter.
he managed to nrlicula,e.
",No. SIR was the reply; Il didns
s,,,,,,nse the poor old chan was to blam.
in any way, you know, and so /
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an two Jumps the city editor reached
one OF the non-collelian reporters. who
was writing "a story of no very great
jmportance. ana IN lust TWENTY-FIVE
seconds the non-coilegian reporter had
hi. ha, and coat on and was off in
quest of the details of one of the most
sensational suicides that had occurred
in Chicago in years.
THE non-collcgian reporter was back
at the Office by ] O'Clock with enough
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