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him that II he'd show me horse that
want gon' to die I'd give him my
farm. felt that he had the worst of
best way | could, but before l got
through havin' fun with him he got
mad and went away and hired law
yer to prove that | was a liar and al
together the worst man In the COM
munity.
Il never got such a scorin' in my
life. l felt sorry for my wife and chill
dren. l didn't think that anybody
would ever speak to me again, and
told the lawyer that l would make 1t a
personal matter between me and him.
| expected the justice to decide dead
against me, but he didn't. He had
been horse trader himself
well, after the thing was over with
took the horse l got from the feller
and went over to his house about ten
miles away and turned the nag loose
sorry for him, but because 1 was
afraid Of myself-afrAld that couldn't
sleep, and l was workin' hard and
needed rest. Well, SIR, that night
the nag that I'd turned into the lot
ups and dies, and the feller swore that
| had hauled him there after he was
dead, and hanged If he didn't sue me
again. He got the same lawyer and
he made me out worse man than
was before. Made it appear that had
poisoned the horse and dragged him
over there. Then l swore that the
whole county couldn't hold me back
from takin' it out of his hide.
$50 the first chance l got l went to
town to see the lawyer. l went over
to the courthouse and he was maxim
speech, and l wish 1 may die dead if
the feller he was a skinnin' this time
want the very man that had sued me-
l never hearn anything like 1t. Tip
toed and called him all sorts of a
scoundrel; said that he had defrauded
me, as honest a man as lived in the
state. couldn't stand that, l walked
on out and after a while he came
along and held out his hand and called
me Uncle Lim,' just as if l was his
mothers brother. Then he clapped
me ON the shoulder and you could
have heard him laugh more than a
mile. He said he was a comm out to
go fishin with me.
"Well, l let him off, and after we
had got to be right good friends, l
asked him how he happened to be en-
gagged against my enemy, and this is
what he said: oh, wasn't Some
Of the boys told me you were comm
into the house and l knew that you
were troublesome when you set your
head to it, so as court wasn't in ses-
sion I started in to maxim a speech
against the fellow so you could hear
me- and he clapped me on the shoul-
der and you could have hearn him
laugh more than two miles this time.
Get lawyer with fun in him and
he's all right. Once 1 had some busi-
ness on hand-the settlement of my
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back to the hotel scolding helplessly
all the way as they scudded with the
wind. But Louise held the little tin
kettle firmly.
Men knew of Richard Gordon that
night that he was a marked man. The
secret workings of a secret clan had
him on their prescription list. Some
one had at last found this unwearied
and doggedly persistent young fellow
in the way. In the way, he was a
menace, a danger. He must be re-
moved from out the way. He could
not be bought from it-he should be
warned from 1t. So now his home
his work room and his rest room, the
first by many hours daily the more in
use, with all its furnishings of bache-
lor plainness and utility, that yet had
held a curious charm for some men,
friends and cronies like Langford-
was burning that he might be warned.
Could any one say, Jesse Black has
done this thing?" Would he not bring
down proof of guilt by a retaliation
struck too soon? 1t would seem as If
he were anticipating an unfavorable
verdict. So men reasoned. And even
then they did not arise to stamp out
the evil that had endured and hugged
itself and spit out corruption in the
cattle country. That was reserved for
another.
They talked of a match thrown
down at the courthouse by a tramp,
likely-when it was past midnight,
when the fire broke out with the wind
piercing gale, and when no vagrant
but had long since left such cold com
fort and had slept these many weeks
in SUMMER climes. Some argued that
the windows of the courtroom might
have been left open and the stove
blown down by the wind tearing
through, or the stove door might have
blown open and remains of the fire
been blown out, or the pipe might
have fallen down. But it was little
odd that the same people said Dick
Gordon's office likely caught fire from
flying sparks. Dicks Office was two
blocks to westward of the courthouse
and it would have been a brave spark
and lively one that could have made
headway against that Northwestern.
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Copyright by a. c. McClurg & Co.. i9O7)
SYNOPSIS.

Cattle thieves despoiling ranches of
South Dakota. George Wiliston, small
E2HchmAn, runs into rendezvous of
thieves on island in Missouri river. They
hzEve stolen cattle from Three Bar ranch.
EIsngfcrd visits Willston and his daugh-
ter and Willist0n reports what he has
sSess1. to Langford, who determines to rid
country of thieves. Jesse Black heads out
saRz5- Bangford falls in love with Willis
toms daughter but does not tell her so.
E.65Ijse Dale court stenographer, and
Esiece of Judge Dale. visits Kemah at re-
sEtnsst of county attorney, Gordon to take
testimony in preliminary hearing. Gordon
Calls in love with her. After preliminary
examination Williston's home is attacked
and defended by his daughter and him
self Outlaws fire building just as Lang
ford and his cowboys arrive. Outlaws
carly OF Williston but Langford rescues
tie daughter. Without Wilistion evidence
against Black is meager, and case seems
tn be going against the state. Gordon
tAlzes a night ride and finds Williston,
vino has escaped from captors. The
courthouse at Kemah burns at night.
SCtiiiston holds tea party in his room
fj2nowing court house fire. and Mary Will
ihston and Louise Dale attend
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GIRL LAWYER FREES HERSELF,
Charged With vaerancy, Wellesley
Graduate Secures Quick Release.

st. Louis.-Evelyn Dorothy Clark.
graduate of Wellesley, who later stud
led law at Vassar and whom the police
charged with vagrancy, so skillfully
defended herself in court here that
she won her discharge. 1t was charged
she failed to pay her bill at the Plant
ers' hotel
What were you doing in st. LOUISE"
asked Assistant City Attorney King.
Il refuse to answer on the ground
that my answer might incriminate
me-" she replied.
objection sustained" pronounced
the court.
who is Ned, the Harvard student
who wrote that acquaintance with you
was so expensive that he had to get
job as telephone operator to recuper-
ate his finances?" asked King.
II decline to answer on the ground
that the question is incompetent, ir-
relevant and immaterial."
objection sustained" ruled the
court.
Have you studied law?"
Have you?" she parried.
"The prisoner is discharged" inter-
rupted Judge Tracy, who had listened
to the legal duel with impatience.
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CHAPTER XIX.
The e Escape,

The little county seat awoke In the
morning to strange sight. The
storm had not abated. The wind was
still blowing at blizzard rate off the
northwest hills, and fine, icy snow was
swirling so thickly through the cold
air that vision was obstructed. Build
ing were distinguishable only as shad-
ows showing family through a heavy
white veil. The thermometer had gone
many degrees below the zero mark. 1t
was steadily growing colder. The old
er inhabitants said it would surely
break the record the coming night.
An immense fire had been built in
the sitting-room. Thither Mary and
Louise repaired. Here they were
Joined by Dale, Langford and Gordon.
You should be out at the ranch
looking after your poor cattle, Mr..
Langford," said Mary, smilingly. She
could be light-hearted now-since a lit
tie secret had been whispered to her
last night at tea party where no
tea had been drunk. Langford had
gravitated toward her as naturally
as steel to magnet. He shrugged his
big shoulders and laughed little.
THE Scribe will do everything that
can be done. Honest, now, did you
think this trial could be pulled off
without met"
But there can be no trial today"
why not?"
did l dream the court house burned
last night?"
eff you did, we are all dreamers
alike"
Then how can you hold court?"
I'VE have gone back to the time
when church and state were one and
inssparable, and court convenes at 10
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handled money at all. He was q
millionaire, too, but he did all his
business with checks, and seldom had
more than 500 on his person, and he
was miserable and dyspeptic.
Now, of course, there are persons
OF imagination who go through life
using checks and feeling rich, but 1t
takes a good deal of Imagination to do
so, and for me the pretty green ten
dollar bill means ten times as much
as the check for ten dollars.
OF course, checks have their uses,
and I use them myself. When a
bill for some prosaic thing, like re-
pairs to the coal chute, comes in, /
send out a check In payment, but II
l am buying a book that I have long
coveted, you may be sure that hand
out real money for 1t. The book rep
resents something tangible, and l
will not insult the book dealer by send
ing him a cold, unfeeling check.
If l wanted to bring happiness to a
widow, whose husband had died leav-
ing her destitute, do you think that
would send her check for a thou
sand dollars? If you do, you don't
know me.
If were going to do the thing at all
would go to her house with one
thousand crisp dollar bills, and would
receive her thanks for each one. But
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brothers estate-and ! went to old
Tom Cantwell and asked him how
much he would charge me, and he ale
mosttook my breath with the amount
he named. / knew he was man of a
good deal of ability-liked fun, and Z
says to him like this: Tell you what
arrangement to make, colonel. I've
got mighty fine chicken out at my
house and If you can fetch out one to
whip him I'll engage you and pay your
price, but. if my chicken whips yourn,
why yol I 10 the work for nothin.' He
was man of ability and he agreed.
Ah, me, there amt such lawyers about
here these days. / recollect once
he"
But did the fight come OFF," some
one inquired.
"Oh. that fight? Yes, held tallow
candles for it one night, and you'd
have thought it was a snowin', the
air was so full of feathers. My wife
kept on calm out: Limuel, what
are you doin' there in the smoke
house. and | always answered: I'm
diggin' up a rat Go on to bed. I've
most got him now -
Il don't know how long they fit
other roosters were CROWN all around
the neighborhood when they got
through. But my chicken crowed last.
and the colonel gave me his hand with
feathers stickin' to it, and says, says
he: Lin, you've got me and I'll take
care of your business
BEST settlement | ever made. He
took care of the business right up to
the handle, and when he had got
through he lowed, he did, that he could
find bird that could whip mine for
the estate-said he'd put up his law
books and his house and lot against it,
but it looked too much like gamblin',
so backed down. Oh, he would have
done it. Ablest lawyer in the county.
It's a pity all lawsuits couldn't be set
tied somewhat in that way-as fairly,
l mean.
Il was just thinkin'," he added aft.
er a few moments Of silence, how
much trouble the old world has been
put to tryin' to govern man. Every
year or so the legislatures meet and
make laws and unmake them, always
experimental with man. The trouble
with him is he don't know what he
wants and don't know what to do with
it after he gets it. And the lawyer is
the outgrowth of his restlessness and
his ignorance"
Think there Will ever come a time
Wien there are no lawyers?" the young
advocate inquired, and the old man
scratched his head.
"Oh, yes, that time will come, but
it will be the time when there isn't
anything. The lawyer has come to stay
as long as the rest of us do. He's a
smart man and a good feller for the
most part, and is nearly always willin'
to forgive you when he has done you
wrong, and 1 want to remark right
here that this argues the EXTREMIST
liberality."
(CODyright by Opie Ready
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You do not hear much about Il
sale of your book; your friends say
nothing about it, but perhaps they
are keeping it's phenomenal success a
secret from you. You live in the
country, and you never see the Book
man, so you do not know what the
six best sellers are, but you have
your suspicious. At last the fate.
full day arrives, the familiar envelor
of your publisher comes to you
mail, and as you open 1t check flu,
ters out You remember the stories
of du Maurier and "Trilby," and how
his publishers sent him several thou
sands over and above the contract
agreement.
To be sure, 1t is only a check, and
not money, but, after al, any bank
Will convert a check into money if
you are known, and your book has
doubtless made you known through.
the wide world. =
You pick up the check and Gloss
your eyes until you are holding ii
right in front of them. THE Second
National bank of New York. Pay to,
the order of yourself $4750. Harp
Serb. & Co." !
1t isn't quite what you thought it
would be. The book is not one of
the six-yet. Still, after the first dis1
appointment is over, you reflect that
it is all clear gain, and you go to
the bank and have it converted into
new dollar bills, and then you go down
town to the bookstore and you buy
for years.
No, you don't. You know very well
you don't, for the same mail that
brought the check brought its antith-
esis in the form of a bill from the
gentleman who raised the price OF
beef on you, and the other gentleman
who charged you eight dollars ton,
for coal, and like a good little man.
you sit down and you write out two'
checks which take up AZ of the dollars.
But take my advice and get the bet
ter of fortune by taking the five-f1ftyt
that is left-and your wife-and going
into town for a small jamboree. Re-
member that jamboree, small though
it be, remains in the memory long,
after the memory of paid bill has
left you.
Pay the bills, but save enough out
of the cost of your clothes for littlet
jamboree. Clothes warm the body
but jamborees warm the cookies OF
the heart, and a man who neglects the
cookies of the heart to put Jaeger
underwear on his lusty limbs has
failed In his duty toward himself
and his better half.
- (ConyriGht. by Janss Pott- -&A-Gl.l y
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ONCE knew a
millionaire W h o
always carried his
m n ey around
with him in bills,
There were some
one dollar bills,
m ore ten-doliar
bills, and many
hundred and thou
sand dollar bills.
He always car
ried them In a
suit case with an
ordinary lock and
key, and he told
me that he was
happy just be-
cause he had the
actual money.
His bro t h e r
b a r dly ev er
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Cornered at LastI

Scientists have been grubbing pa,
tiently, almost feverishly, for years
in the hope of tracing the etiology or
source of the growing scourge of can.
Ger, and although no convincing data
have yet been brought forward, II Is
a general suspicion that the rapid
prevalence is due to overindulgencs
in meats.-Detroit NeWa
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-03-06

officers. They returned at late hour
last night and none of them have been
seen to learn what they have to report.
The Dewey school gave Birthday En-
tertainment one evening last week, with
a delightful program, arranged by their
popular teacher, Mrs. Jennie Farrar
Avery, in which the birthday Of distin-
guished Americans, such as Washington,
Franklin, Patrick Henry, Jefferson, Lin
coin and other patriots and statesmen
were remembered by recitations by the
pupils in story, essay and song and a
number Of patriotic songs were rendered
by the members Of the Dewey Glee Club.
1t was a most delightful and charmingly
inspiring patriotic entertainment, instill-
ing and strengthening love of our coun-
try in the souls of the young pupils who
participated and also the audience pres
ent. No one left the hall without a feel
ing Of greater love and respect for the
great men and women who had helped to
make our glorious country the free and
independent nation it is today. A corre-
spondent has supplied Nugget with a
copy Of the entire program, giving the
names Of the pupils who participated,
which, from the late hour we received it,
we regret we cannot print. The enter
tainment closed with the inspiring hymn
"America" led by the Glee Club and
joined by all the school and all the au-
dience.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-03-06
POTOSI.

The station and chute for dumping and
hoisting ore and waste from the 300 level
in the Potosi shaft have been completed,
and drifting with power drills has been
started from this point, both north and
south on the vein. At 80 feet south they
have run upon a streak of ore of the same
character as that found in the levels
above, much sooner than looked for, for
the ore did not begin to come in on the
upper levels until a considerable further
distance south was reached The rather
fine weather for the season has made Mr.
Masters, the manager, begin to consider
resuming work on the surface, preparing
to construct the new mill, for which the
grading was done last fall, and part of
the foundation laid The plans for the
mill have been made and portions of the
machinery and the timbers ordered, and
work will be begun and hurried to COM
pletion as early in the spring as practic-
able. 1t is designed to be mill with a
five stamp battery with all the latest
equipments for treating the rich but
somewhat refractory ores of the mine.
An experimental run of 80 tons of ore
made from this mine in local mill last
summer, demonstrated that mill can be
constructed which will save high per-
centage of the values.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-03-06
NJ N N g
IN OwYHEE COUNTY
COUNTY
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH

The upraise has been completed between
the adit tunnel running north on the VII
lage Blacksmith vein and the old Trask
shaft from which the rich ore was taken
years ago. The distance from the tunnel
to the bottom of the old shaft proved to
be 33 feet, and by good luck, without a
survey with any but crude equipments,
the upraise connected with the bottom of
the shaft, filled with water and debris,
almost exactly. All the way in the up
raise the shaft has been in high grade ore,
and that taken out has been stored at the
mouth of the tunnel, either for milling, if
arrangements can be made, or for ship
ment.
The shaft now gives good ventilation
and the miners can at any time begin
stopping with a fine body Of ore in the
tunnel to work on. Mr.. Curtis, who is
president Of the company and a leading
owner in it, is still in the East but looked
for home in short time.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-03-06
REYNOLDS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Grant and their
family bade goodbye to their many
friends and took their departure for Utah
where they expect to make their future
home Mr., and Mrs. Grant are old and
respected citizens Of Owyhee county, hav-
ing for several years past made their home
at Murphy, where they owned asnug and
comfortable little home, which they re-
Gently sold together with Mr. G. 5 freight
teams. Their departure is very much re-
gretted, not only by their neighbors and
friends at Murphy, but our community
as well. Mr. Grant, who has conducted
freight outfit for many years to Silver
City, DeLamar, and the different mines,
is good, genial fellow, and his cheerful
face will be missed by all of his old COM
rades who still freight on the road. May
these good people have naught but good
luck and prosperity wherever their home
may be.
Robt. Noble came over from Boise last
week, to look after business affairs.
Mrs May Southern is visiting with her
mother, Mrs Hudson, this week.
Chas. Johnston and James Keith came
up from Wilson, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Kelley will leave
for their home in Chicago. Wednesday.
The latter's mother, Mrs. Nellie Williams,
will accompany them as far as Boise.
The dance given here last Friday eve
ming, was well attended and every one
had good time. A delicious supper was
served by Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Brunzell at
the hotel.
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spective levels, in other words, to begin
doing more vigorous development work.
Everything continues to look propitious
about the mine and mill and it is the
general hope that the time is not far dis
tant when the stamps will be pounding
merrily, and another paying proposition
may be counted among the assets Of Owy-
hee. All hope SO, at least.
Mr.. Peter Steele, the president and
Of the Banner NJ. & M. Co.,
worn with care and hard work, went out
to Boise yesterday, accompanied by his
wife and Mrs. Nelson, wife Of the com
pany's treasurer, partly on a business trip
but chiefly for a few days rest and recrea-
ton.
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shape. The long mill tunnel has been
cleaned out and the connection through
to the workings above re-opened, which
greatly improves the ventilation. Some
extensive prosecuting work is in progress
from the middle horizon Of the mine in
the direction of the new Sommercamp ore
bodies, and it never has been better ven
tilated nor better conditioned nor had
most lasting future in prospect than at
this date
The company is employing a total force
Of 200 men and the management is to be
congratulated on maintaining the life and
operation of this splendid property with
the definite prospect of a continued yield
at decent margin of profit for some
time into the future, against some very
adverse conditions both underground and
on the surface.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-03-06
THE BANNER

Work is progressing on the new mill SO
satisfactorily that the manager feels con-
fident that it will be ready to start some
time during the latter part Of next month
and before the tramway can be completed
to supply it with ore. The batteries are
now in place and only one or two pieces
of timber of the framework to be placed
before that portion of the mill will be
complete. Two of the electric transform
ers are now on the ground and the other
one will soon arrive. The wire and in
sulators for extending the power line 1900
feet from the Blaine mill to the trans
former house can be put up at any time
When the mill is finished, it will be more
complete, modern and substantial than
any other in the district.
At the mine the usual steady progress
is being made in continuing Nos. and 4
drifts further north, and No. drift is
coming into the shoot OF ore in which No.
4 drift has been running for some distance.
The management is preparing to put on
large force of miners to prepare slopes
for taking out ore by the time the mill is
running, and also for beginning again to
drive the several drifts south on their re-
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-03-06
IN MEMORIAM.

WHEREAS, Almighty God, in His in
finite wisdom, has seen fit to remove from
our midst, our beloved Brother, George
w. Gilmore, whose death occurred at
sinker Creek, Owyhee County, Idaho,
February 14th, 1908, and
WHEREAS, Realizing that, however
sorrowful the task, we must bow to the
will of Him, who gave US life, therefore
be it
RESOLVED, That the members Of
owyhee Lodge No. ?, l. 0. 0. F., deeply
mourn the loss of our beloved Brother,
and be it further
RESOLVED, That these resolutions be
spread upon the minutes of our Lodge
and that they be published in the Owyhee
Nugget.
Silver City, Idaho, February 2S, 1908.
r. H. LEONARD JR., !
A. A. BERG, Committee.
c. G. BREEDLovE,