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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-11-08

ne snerIn went up war agi way
last night" said the proprietor, resun-
Ing his conversation with the young
man.
with the intention of investigating
the eXplosion?"
Il rccLon that's it. He wants TO
make out whether the Sandy Bar chaps
told the facts or jest rung in a YER
sion of the 'Rabian Nights onto him
"Ive been up the trail and loo, ed
over the ground and there cant be
tho slightest doubt of what happened"
There was an %undCrtone Of regret and
sadness in the young mans voice.
"Hcre's the pint" returned the pro-
prietor, arGumentativc'y. rs it pos
sib!e TO snake a man Dg'n a earth
in that away"
Five nunGrcd pounds of dyna-
mite
81 know about that. There aia't no
question in my mind but that thai
much giant powder 'u'd lay out 4 riEi-
nlcat, but here: would it wipe out the
remains of a regiment. or of even one
man? 1t don't seem sensible. not Ter
me-"
There wasn't 4 trace of the wagon
left; and ii the wagon was spGnScd
out so ciicctualiy why not Darrcl?"
Ii vas the same argument used by
Cliif and ii was unanswerable.
We'll" was the logged aEswcr TN
alters have my doubts, anyways. One
things sure: Uncle Alb was in luck
ter cit jounccd out'n the wagon be-
fore the blow-uD, an The team was in
luck ter break away from the WAGON
an git out o RANCE. The sheriff is
comm back this afternoon an then
maybe well know more. Wonder W h
gets Murgatroyd's thousand dolllrs""
ut isn't likely that any one will get
it."
Hardly, that's a fact. 1t vas quick
action, don't yc thinll?" The rropri-
etor laughed j%estinely. The Sandy
Bar boys were saved a bad job that
might have loo, ed ugly for them be-
fore they got through"
They'd have Iynchcd Darrell if they
had caught him"
"Wouidu't they. though? They'd
have hung him hiGher'n Hannah an.
tween you an me. it would have been
good enough fer i'm"
That's where you're wrong. said
the youth. warmly; mo mob ever yet
had Il moral right to lynch 4
oh. shucl.s."
And il the Sandy Bar boys had been
able to carry out their lawless de-
signs they'd nave hung a nan whose
guilt had yet to be proved"
You're plum crazy" declared the
proprietor.
Where the discussion would have
led the two is predetermined. lust then
the Chinaplan walked through the Of
flee with his song.
"Brcailfus' Teddy" he ~nnoupce
and began ~hammcring out the alarm
in front of The door.
When Darrell sat down at the table
the proprietor posted himself at the
dining-room entrance IL watched him
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CHAPTER NH.
Darrell TALKS WITH AN OLD
oUAINTANCE.

The principal hotel in Sandy
was fulsomely known as the Cd
Central" Il was not pretcniiols
was lacking in many comforts ".
Mrs. GOrton and Miss Avery No
otherwise have considered nccessli
but there was nothing else for it
The usual crowd of hangers-on {
tered about the door of the Grand
tral when the driver of the .Anaco
stage drew UP before it and ha
with a flourish. Darrell stepped
and swept his eyes over the cur
faces of the assembled throng.
Almost the first to meet HIS
was that OF the young man whom
had met, under such tragic Giro
stances, at Hawllbill's, and WHOM
had later seen at the Half Way 10
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CHAPTER NJ.
DARREL FACES THE ISSUE.

f-hCES THE ISSUE.
There was a sole-leather trunk in
McCloud's room. 1t was locked but n
small key ring in a pocket of the cor
duroys held a key that gave access to
it.
No papers were found. There were
TWO suits of clothes-both of the best
qualty-a supply of clean linen, era
watts and other things usually found in
a g~entlenan's wardrobe.
Darrell closed the trunk di~sappoint-
cdly and carried his search through the
closet and dresser drawers. There was
nothing there. all McCloud's belong
lnSs, apart from what he had taken
with him in Il tr~aveling-bag, having
Deeh put away in the trunk.
The fastener had told the clerk he
intended to return on the morrow. but
1t was perfectly evident that he had
imagined he might be detained much
longer. Hat he left Anaconda with the
deliberate intention of destroying him
self?
When he went down stairs to dinner
Darrell was revolving this question in
MS mind. In the afternoon he read an
account of his death in a daily paper
and gave diliSent attention to the srue-
some details.
1t was a long article and began with
an account of the murder of St,,rsis,
the arrest of Darrell and his hight es-
cape from the Sandy Bar Jail. Then
followed a summing up of all the
known facts connected with the ex-
plosion on the War Eagle trail.
Nothing new was brought forward
but the author of the account IVES not
a doubter for he dwelt exhaustively
on the vicarious methods of justice and
pointed the whole affair with a moral.
Next morning another paper had
more to say on the subject. Sheriff
Scatterly had returned from the hills
after a personal investigation and gave
it as his opinion that the escaped muir
derer had been hurled into eternity
in substantially the manner described
by the men from Sandy Bar.
Abncr Gryce'S brOnchos had run
away: the wagon had collided with a
BOULDER beside the trail. the horses had
broken loose and the shock OF the COL
lision had set off the crystalized giant
powder That explained the arrival of
the runaway team. practically unin-
Jured, at the Wal Eagle mine.
Abner Gryce had been thrown from
the wagon when it took the turn, but
the murderer had stayed with it. Con-
~seqrently there was but one inference
to be drawn.
Thus far Darrell read with amused
Indifference The paragraphs that fol-
lowed. however. startled him and filled
him with CONSERVATION.
The report went on 10 state that
Scatterly, in returning from the War
Eagle mine. had had a mmunlcation
handed to him at the Half Way house.
Usually he too no notice of anonv-
nous letters, but in this particular
case he had made an exception.
The communication mad requested
him 20 call at Kansas Joe's DO cabin
in Lost Horse coulee. He had gone
there but. aside from evidences that
the tut had been recently used, he had
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In startled wonder the youth eaze!|
Darrell as he turned and assisted |
companions to alight.
Left and right the crowd brobe
permit the ladies an unobstructei 4
sage into the hotel. Darrell step
back to attend to the luggage wE
the driver was handing down to hin
An exclamation from Elise Az
caused him to turn in time to with
a dramatic little episode. Elise
her aunt had halted midway Of
lane of curious faces and the yoy
whom Darrell knew, was confront
the girl in blank amaze.
For II intense moment the
gazed at each other. ELISE" came
4 hoarse whisper from the young n:
lips.
He started forward, one hand wa'
ing before him. The girl reco!ied
stinctively.
The next moment she had pres
eagerly forward. Roy" she Il
INJURED.
But by then the young man had
treated into the ranks of the Cro
\ brief pause followed and Mrs. {
Ton taking her niece by the arm,
/ her into the hotel.
a ripple of establishment 81
among the spectators and Dare
puzzled frown on his brow, folio
ms friends quickly. Elise had 5
INTO a chair in the Office and her
was standing near her.
Darrell halted an instant to
a questioning look at Mrs. Coz
h understood and returned = =;
that left no doubt in barrels hin
There is a little parlor ups,a
he murmured: take her there. l
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ne -rerurnea. Iooglng.


She did so. a CLINT darted into Oar
reI's eyes. Between the Sturgis he
knew and the man described by Miss
Avery there were material differences.
Elise speaks OF her father as she
saw him last, five years ago." spoke up
Mrs. Gorton. He must hav changed
since he came west"
You have not seen your father for
five years?" asked Darrell, his eyes
on the girls face.
NO"
"And it has been a year since you
heard from him?"
Yes"
From hi part of Montana did his
last letter Gomez"
From Helena"
Then do o not think tina Helena
would be the best place to go and
search for him."
MIR Ormsby has instituted some in
quiries and thought it best for us to
come here, meet you and, if you would
be so good as to help us, go on to Sandy
Bar"
In a measure, Ormsby had cut the
ground out from under barrels feet.
He had withheld from the girl the as
sumed name of her father bur had
named the locality where he might be
our
Ormsby was inconsistent. Not ocly
that, but he had heaped upon Darrell
the unforeseen results of his inccn-
sistency.
What is your fathers fuil name,
Miss Avery?" Darrell inquired.
Ezra Avery"
Again Darrell lapsed into silence.
Il shall do my utmost to help you"
said he finally, and will make your
cause my own. There are no other
man upon my time and I can give
his my undivided attention. But
shall want you to agree to one thing
beforehand"
What is that, Mr.. McCloud?" re-
turned Mrs. Gorton.
Il shall want you to let me have
entire charge Of the search for Mr..
Avery"
we shall be grateful to you for re-
lievinS us of that responsibility" said
the girl.
Il am a peculiar man, in some re-
spects," resumed Darrell. 81 shall pur
my heart and soul into this matter and
you must trust my judgment implicit
~. If seem dilatory, or if 1 do things
you cannot understand, will you con-
nue. to have confidence in me even
though l offer no explanations"
A puzzled look crossed the elder
lady's face. Her companion, however,
gave an affirmative answer.
And l am to have complete charge"
added Darrell; Everything is in my
hands even to the point Of communi-
eating with the authorities. You have
not spoken with any one in Anaconda
concerning your mission?"
W. called yesterday to see the
Sheriff." said Mrs. Gorton, "but he was
out of town"
Il will attend to everything" an
nounced Darrell, briefly.
we had intended going at once to
sandy Bar" began Mrs. Gorton.
Darrell shook his head decidedly.
1T is a rough mining camp and you
must not go there until such a move
is absolutely necessary"
w are to remain in Anaconda"
asked Miss Avery.
For the present that will be best"
When they rose to leave both ladies
thanked him again. the younger one
impulsively giving her hand.
A sunny light all but dispelled the
sadness of her face. Hope was strug-
Cling to assert itself and Darrell was
the cause.
Long after they had left him he sat
in a chair by the window, the fair.
sorrowful features of the girl plainly
before his eyes. Never before had he
felt as he felt then.
He was involved in a hopeless tan
gle.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-22
The Southern Railway.

Birmingham, Ala, June PA big
shake-up will De made 10 the next week
or two in the transportation department
of the Southern Railway. The system
will be divided into four districts instead
OF two, as at present, and an assistant
general superintendent will be 10 charge
of each. The present eastern district
will be divided into two districts, and
the western district will be divided into
two Following is the manner in which
the system will be restricted :
First District Washington, Danville,
Richmond and Norfolk divisions. Z. h.
Copeman will be assistant general super
intendent, the present title he holds on
the eastern district.
Second District-Charlotte, Charles
ton, Savannah and Jacksonville divi-
siOns. j. n. Scale, superintendent of
transportation, will be assistant general
superintendent.
Third District. Atlanta-Knoxville, Nash
vile and Asheville divisions; g. R. Loyal,
|. superintendent Of the Knoxville division,
will be assistant general superintendent.
Fourth Observation-Disclosures Memphis
and Mobile divisions; w. n. Fnreacre, as
sistant general superintendent, will hold same
office. Assistant Superintendent Harris, of
the Knoxville division, recently transferred
from the Birmingham division. will be made
superintendent of the former div sion.
The change is made necessary by the con-
stantly increasing territory Of the Southern
and the increasing business. Each assistant
general superintendent will be able to get in
closer touch with the shippers in his district
and closer personal uperintendency will be
exDected
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-22
Go.Between Wins.

After one of the most sensational race
ever seen upon the American turf Co.
Between, a fve-year-Old gelding, by
Meddler-Indigo, won the 500, 600 Subur-
ban Handicap Zone mile aud quarter J
over the Sheepshead Bay track yesterday
afternoon by six inches. Probably the
greatest slretch-runner in training, Go
Between, came from nowhere 10 the last
quarter Of a mile, and, struggling game
ly under Shaw's whip, took the rich
prize In the last Jump from Dandelon,
a four-year-old colt, by Hanburg-Pan-
sy, who was similarly defeated in the
Brooklyn handicap. Two lengths away
was the Medder mare Colonial Girl,
while, three lengths back, came Proper,
Agile and Dolly Spanker, heads apart
as named, with the others not far away,
and Sidney Paget's Cairngorm, the
most heavily backed horse in the race,
bitter disappointment. Dandeiion and
Cairngorm were equal favorites at 3 to !,
while Go Between WAS steadily played
at skies. Colonial Girl, who was framed
up for a killing, was backed down TO 10,
with a ton of money wagered on David
GideOn's Astronomer.
Wien the horses turned into the
stretch, having completed one mile, eight
Standardization, Gederstrom, Colon
ial Girl, Go-Betseen, Agile, Cairngorm,
Proper and Dolly Spauker-were racing
like troop of cavalry, neck and neck.
Unable to pick The winner al that point,
nearly 40, 600 spectators we're in an up
roar. As this remarkable vanguard
swept on Jockey Miller, wearing the
green silk Jacket Of F. K. Hitchcock,
drew away from the bunch with short
margin and looked the winneri but in a
jlffy Go Between, who had just begun to
ran, set sail after the Hamburg colt for
a heart.breaking struggle all the way to
the wire. Willie Shaw, the veteran
Jockey, put up the stronger finish, out he
had a game horse under him, so that the
continuation carried the day
Cederstrom made the running for a
mile, with Miller rating Dandelion 10
the place. some were inclined to criti-
else Miller for putting DAndelion under
a choking pull instead of allowing him
to run free, but majority of turimen
declared after the race that Miller had
done his best under the circumstances,
AID that no horse 10 training could have
defeated Go-Between.
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FRIDAY EVENING. JUNE %, 1906.

IE HIS address at the annual com
mepcement exercises of Cornell Univer-
sity at Ithaca, n. Y, yesterday, Dr.
Schurmann said:
To get and to have is the motto not
only of the market, but Of the altar ana
~ the hearth. The energy OF the nations
is pouring itself into production. we
are coming to measure mailman with
heart and mind and soul-in terms OF
mere acquisition and possession. {
waning Christianity and waxing Nam
monism are the twin specters OF our age
The idle rich are an excresence IN any
properly organized community. And L.
a democratic republic, in which every
man has vote, be assured that the
rights which convention grants to
property will be swept away II the
propertied classes become idle, luxur-
ious. selfsh, hard-hearted and in
different to the struggles and tolls OF
less fortunate iellow-citizens. The
vice of the age ia that men want
wealth without undergoing that toll by
which alone wealth is created. Among
She rich and well-to-dO business aud pro-
sessional classes grating" has been 30
common that the very idea of CONNER
cialism has become byword and re-
proach. Financiers, capitalists and cor
porations may be the most conspicuous
sinners, but equally guilty is the mer-
chant who cheats bis customers or the
LAWYER who shows his client how to cir
cumvent the laws or the scholar who
eloriEes his patrons success In business
irrespective Of the methods by which
that success was achieved, or the preacher
who trans6gures the ruthless cPPressoT
aud robber of six days into the ex'
emDlary christian of the seventh. we
are dealing with the virus of nnlver
sal infection. The whole nation needs a
new baptism of the old virtue of honesty
The love of money and the reckless Pur-
suit of it is undermining the national
character.
The above needs no comment. oad
facts which none can cOntrovert are sci
firth in their true light.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-22
COURT OF APPEALS.

The following opinions were handed
down in the Court of Appeals in Wythe
vile yesterday
Fulkerson va. City of Bristol. From
the Corporation Court of the city Of
Bristol. Reversed.
Anderson i Moore VS.. Commonwealth.
From the Circuit Court of Scott county.
Affirmed.
Norfolk and Western RailrOad Com
pany vs.. Sutherland. From the Circuit
Court OF Russell county. Affirmed.
Eureka Club vs. Commonwealth.
From the Corporation Court of the city
Roanoke. Affirmed.
Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Com
pauy VS.. Cash's administrator. From
the Circuit Court of Pulaski county.
Affirmed.
Quillen Va. Commonwealth. From
the Circuit Court OF Scott county. Re-
versed.
Norfolk and Western Railway Com
pany vs.. -tegalps administrative. From
the Corporation Court of the city Of
Bristol. Reversed.
The proceedings in the court yester-
day were rs follows: Cranes Nest end
Coke Company w. Mace. Argued and
submitted
Cranes Nest Coal and Coke Company
VS.. Virginia Iron Coal and Coke Com
pany. Argued and continued.
kegt cases to be called. Green ct ais.
VS.. Pennington, Virginia and South
eastern Railway Company VS.. Hill, and
Larkey vs.. Gardner.
Today about seventy applicants will
come before the court for examination
that they may be licensed to practice
law. A number of men from the
University of Virginia and other places
arrived Yesterday
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-22
TELYGEApmO BREVITIEs.

The Florida State democratic execu.
tive committee. in session in Jackson
Vile today, declared for Bryan, and that
the tariff would be the main issue in the
next campaign.
Henry Bailey, the negro who last
evening assassDated j. NJ. Lancaster, a
prominent merchant Of Vanceboro, n.
c., was captured today and hurried to
jail at Newborue to preyent lynching.
News from Demopolis, Ala, says two
women were mysteriOusly murdered
there last night. Mrs. Mahala Brown
who lived on franklin street, was found
with a broken neck near Lock No. /.
some distance from her home. An exam
ination of the small house occupied by
Mrs. Brown, revealed the body of Mrs.
Annie Smith, With her skull crushed and
n near by axe stained with blood, told
manner of his death.
Three tiremen were injured by the fall Of a
blazing roof and a dozen spectators slightly
hurt in an explosion Of large quantity OF
cartridges in a fire which started in the
Washington block at Main and Central
streets, Milford. Mass, today, and which
cauEed $4,000 property loss.
Cornell won the scrub foor-oared race at
mile and half at Poughkeep'ie, n. y to.
day Both varsity and Freshmen crews OF
the Ithaca college finished ahead. Pennsy j.
vania was second aud Columbia third,
Professor George B. Stevens Dwight, pro.
fessOr Of systematic theology in the 1al
Divinity School, died at his home in New
illness.
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Lizards in her stomach

Kaukauna, Wis. June ga Biru,
atwood woman has long sufferer from a
mysterious stomach trouble. At times
"rising something would almost
choke her. the. obstruction yielding only
to copious dranghts of water The
trouble finally bacame 50 alarming that a
physicians was called. To his prescrip-
ton Of physics and emeIics the sufferer
finally yielded several lizardliEe reptiles.
One was six inches in length. The
others, three in number, were very
small. They have been preserved in
alcohol, and are attracting much atten-
ton in medical circles as we'll as among
other people.
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Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications as they cannot reach
the disc 'sed portion Of the ear. There is only
one way to care deafness. and that is by
constitutional remedies Deafness is c8used'
by an inhamed condition ofthe mucous lining.
of the Eustachian Tube. When this tuhe j.
in6amed you have rumbling sound or im-
perfect hearing. and when il is entirely
closed. Deafness is the result, and MS the
inflammation can be iaken out and Il tnbc
restored TO its normal condition. hear viii
e destroyed forever: nine cases ont ten
are caused b. Catarrh, which Is moth but
an nhamed condition ofthe mucous 81 aces.
We will give you One funded Dollars
for any case Of Defines (caused by catarrhE
that cannot be cured By Hall's Catarrh Cure
Send forcirculars free +. J. CHENEY d CO..
Toledo. O. Sold by Druggies, 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for c0Dstusiina.
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viii Take an Appeal.

New York, June 22.-COunsel for
Mrs. Ellen B. Williams, who was de-
clared insane by decision of Justice
Greenbaum, OF the Supreme Court, will
appeal from that decision and ask that
the question be sent before jury TO de-
termne rs to the wOmsn's sanity. Mrs.
Williams claims that she is the widow of
E. G. Wlnans, of Baltimore, Md, and
that her share in his estate is being with
held from her. She is an English woman
of good family and went to j. PierpOnt
Morgan with letter of introduction
from Lord Sufield Mr.. Morgan tried
to straighten out the tangle, but il is
said that the woman became abusive and
threatened to shoot J p. Morgan, IT,.
and Charles S. Steele, members of the
banking firm of j. p Morgan q Co Mrs.
Williams was arrested and pending an
inquiry into her mental condition she
consented to 90 to a saniiarum where
her maintenance was paid for by the
British consul general in New York.
She was released from the sanilarium on
a writ of habess corpus before the de-
cision declaring her insane had been
handed down. She is now outside the
jurisdiction of the court.
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Warning To I1Iers.

Petersburg, Va, June EN- hear
ing an appealed vagrancy case from the
Mayors Court in Petersburg Yesterday,
Judge Mullen, Of the Hastings Court,
strongly commended the prs'nt rigid
enforcement of the State vagrancy law,
expressing the hope that the next legis-
a;ure would make the penalty six
months at hard labor The city au-
thorities are beginning to enforce the law
much more strictly, with the result that
already labor is becoming more avail
able. Numbers of Idle negroes and
others without visible means Of support
are applying for employment.
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From w Washington.

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. J
Washington, June u.
Attorney General Moody, acting for
the President, is preparing to drag the
Standard Oil Company into court for
violation OF the Sherman antitrust and
the Ekins anti.rebste laws. 1t is ex
peeted that al official statement will be
ISSUED on the subject after the Cabinet
meeting today. The contemplated action
Is said to be the result of the midnight
Cabinet meeting on Wednesday in which
she Attorney General, Secretaries Taft
Boot aud Bonspsrte, and Postmaster
Cortelyou participated. ], is known
that secret agents Of the Department OF
Justice and the bureau Of corporations
have been engaged in collecting evidence
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-22

AT THE Interstate Commerce Com
mission hearing in Washington yester-
day John B. Thayer, fourth vice-presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, as
serted that railroads should cOn6De
themselve strictly to The transportation
business and not own stock ia coal COM
panies. Mr.. Thayer has told exactly
what the railroads should do, which,
howeyer, turns out To be exactly what
they do not do.