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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02
CHAPTER XI.-Continued.

Darlington was armed. lie nauled
a pistol from his belt, cooked it and
leveled it fair at Strathgate.
Bring that boat into the wharf"
he cried, "or I'll shoot you like the
dog you are!"
Strathgate did not blanch. He bal
anced himself easily to the roll of the
boat and looked square at Caring
ton.
Would you add murder to your 9th
er follies?" he answered.
He was an easy mark, the distance
was short, Darlington was a sure shot,
and if ever a man had murder in his
heart it was in that of Ellen's hus-
band. Yet there was something in
the dauntless way in which Strath
gate faced him and in the fact that
the latter appeared unarmed, that
caused Darlington, with finger
upon the trigger, to stay the pressure
why don't you fire, my lord?"
cried Strathgate.
Draw your weapon, Strathgate,"
said Darlington, dropping the point of
his own pistol.
I'm sorry to say that I'm unarmed."
There was no use. Darlington could
not kill him under the circumstances.
He stood staring after him for mo-
! ment, and then raised his hand and
shook it in the air.
| God have mercy on you if I meet
you again." he cried.
'Take the peril to yourself, Lord
Darlington" Strathgate called out,
and with farewell wave of his hand
the cutter shot out beyond the extrem-
ity of the pier, and, catching the full
force of the breeze, which happened to
be blowing straight up the harbor, ne
cessitating hard beat out against it,
bore away toward the opposite shore.
Pistol in hand, Darlington turned
and confronted the astonished crowd
which had gathered in his rear.
What went he after?" he asked.
The men facing him looked from
one to another.
Darlington thrust the PISTOL back
into his belt, tore out his pocketbook,
opened it, and took out a ten-pound
note.
That for information.
One of the men whose boats Strath
gate had disdained to employ forced
his way through the crowd.
I'll tell you for the money"
Speak out 'Tis yours"
He come down here lookin' for a
man and woman, and Cooper, he
owns the boat yonder, said his broth
er put party containin' man and {
woman aboard the Flying Star or /
! ship like her last night"
What them" asked Darlington.
, Then he offered a hundred pounds
for the tastes boat to put him aboarl
the Flying Star afore she got clea
into the channel"
And he took Cooper's boat" sal,
| another boatman
1 is she the fastest in the harbor?
Y well, there's some as do say that Jir
4 Haights boats got the heels of her.
t Here's your ten pounds, said Cal
t rington. Where's Haight?"
D Here be, master"
S "A hundred pounds to you" sal
;. Darlington, IF you put me aboard tina
, ship, and another hundred if you pu
. me there before Strathgate."
! "And If | don't do neither?' r,
r turned Haight, quickly.
? Nothing" said Darlington. ut
sin or lose"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

The emperor Of China has promised
TO grant his people a constitution in
nine years. The people will probably
not be satisfied with his proclamation
for two leading reasons: One is that
the emperor, like the flowers that
bloom in the spring, has nothing to do
with the case, as long as the empress
dowager is still umpiring the game.
The other is that nine years are too
slow for reform in these rapid times.
Nov that her wall is down, even
China Is not going to stand still fer
nine years and watch the rest of the
world pass b. On the other side.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02
Teach Poor Women to Cook.

Some of the home economics clubs
of the east have established "centers"
with all cooking school conveniences,
where poor women may be taught how
to keep house and cook economically.
There is no fancy cooking taught, but
simply the things that are served by
the poor people themselves each day,
only they are taught to keep account
of the expense and cook econom.
ically.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

The suffragistS will doubtless be de-
lighted with President Eliot's declara.
ton of his opinion that women who
pay taxes should vote. And from a
man of his standing, 1t means a great
deal to their cause, even though he
declares fer limited suffrage only, He
is in danger, however, of being
mobbed by tae next invasion of CRATE.
fui saffrasettes, aad then very likely
he will be sorry he spoke.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02
Stabbed in the Arm.

New Orlans, La-Michel Grote, of
1911 Feliciana street. was stabbed
four times in the left arm yesterday
morning at the corner Of St Claude
and Louisa streets. Grote. who was
attended to in the hospital, refused
to tell the police anything about the
affair.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

One can tell at glance that Esper-
anto Is an artificial language and not
a natural growth, for it contains no
profane expressions, commonly called
swear words. To express his real
feelings in time of emergency each
user will be obliged to draw on his
own particular language.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

An improved apparatus has been
made by Dr. Fritz Lang of Munich,
by which the inside of the stomach
can be clearly photographed. The
camera is actually swallowed by the
patient.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

A fine of 800 has been imposed
upon Chicago concern for violating
the smoke ordinance. This sort Of
thing will help greatly in clearing the
atmosphere.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

The German emperor has again de.
clared that he wants peace and thinks
he is going to have 1t. London journal
lists will regard this as another covert
attempt to disarm Great Britain.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

A California man has married a
Sy because she succeeded in fasting
40 days. Perhaps he expects her
Just sit around and look pleasan
ehile he takes his meals out in case
( the cook leaves.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

Discoveries Of fake hold-ups for
moving picture purposes tend to fur
ther shake public credullty. 1t is lit
orally true that a man cannot believe
his ewes.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

DR., James F. Rymer, a native OF
Croydon, will soon gain the distinc-
ton of being the first fully qualified
English physician to carry on profes.
Ei0nal work within the Arctic circle.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

More than Go per cent. of the 500
100000 feet of logs cut annually in
Maine at the present time is spruce,
and much Of the rest is hemlock,
cedar and other woods than pine, and
yet Maine shows no tendency to call
herself the Spruce-tree state.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

An air feet is now confidently spO-
ken of as a necessary addition to the
modern up-to-date army. The only sure
way of doing nowadays, is contrari.
wise, to be in the clouds.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

The toadstool is figuring with grne-
some frequency in the news OF the
day. The safest rule in gathering
supposed mushrooms is: When in
doubt. don't; and even when sure.
don't be too sure.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

The tallest man in Florida is John
c. Killing of Fort Lauderdale. He is
6 feet 81 inches in height. He is a
giant The other King, as everybody
knows, Is one of the Cubs.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

Uncle Sam is going to build ten tor
pedo boats to travel 291a knots an
hour Uncle thinks that some time he
may want to go somewhere in a hurry.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

The Japanese worlds exposition has
been postponed from 1912 to 1911
This will make it impossible for a lot
of us to attend.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

China has now 200 newspapers,
with more TO come. The first thing
China knows it will attract the atten'
ton Of the wood pulp trust.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

A German editor has succeeded in
reducing castor oil to tasteless white
powder. What a cinch childhood is
getting to be, anyway
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

Scientists say that no person has a
perfect ear But the politician who
can get his auriculaT appendage TO the
ground is dead sure to hear things.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

Some men are proud OF the fact that
they kick when anything displeases
them-donkeys do the same thing.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

In the course of year ground
worms will bring to the surface about
ten tons of soil to the acre.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

Complaints from the Japanese about
taxation should be a pretty reliable in
dication that no reckless wars will be
speedily undertaken.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

Not until Gen Grosyenor gets
through figuring on them can we know
just what the returns from Vermont
indicate.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

Hanging periIOusly for three hours
over the Niagara gorge would seem to
be about the last word in balloon
thrills
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

Edgar Allen Poe has been appointed
city solicitor of Baltimore. The poets
have not been entirely diScredited.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

In the race between conservation
of the forests and the floods the hoods
have a long start
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

At the quarterly sac OF ivory IN
London recently total OF S5l2 tons
was offered for sale
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

Married life often begins with silver
and cut glass, and ends with broken
china.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02
CHAPTER XII.
Lady Carrington's Luck.

About two o'clock in the morning,
as Ellen had expected the breeze
sprang up. 1t blew fitfully in cats
paws and light battling airs at first.
Ellen made the most of every posi-
bility presented, however. She was
desperately anxious to get to Ports
mouth and she handled her boat with
all her accustomed skill, rejoicing in
her possession Of it.
She did not awaken Debbie. She
let the boat drift while she herself
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

If man has money to burn. he can
easily find woman willing to furnish
a match.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

The Transyaal produces 100000
ounces OF gold every month.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-02

Ore from the gold mines Of Santiago,
Cuba. assays $40 to the ton.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-02
news Of WEEK SUMMARIZED
Digest Of the News Worth Tellinr Cor.
densed for the Busy
Reader.
WashInoton Notes.

Reckless automobile driving in the
canal zone Is to be prohibited in &C.
cordance with an order issued by the
president.
Lieut. Commander G. w. Logan,
secretary Of the general board Of the
navy, who has been assigned I" duty
as navigator of the, battleship ldahc,
will be succeeded on the general
board by Lieut.. Commander ]. l..
Joyne.
The isthmian canal commission has
authorized the rejection. of all bids
for cable railways and duplex ways
opened on Feb. last, on the ground
that they were too high and that
other excavating apparatus may be
more advantageously used.
A senate joint resolution authoriz.
ing the secretary of war to permit
the entrance to West Point military
academy as cadets Of not more than
seven native Filipinos, on graduation
to be eligible to commission in the
Philippine scouts, was agreed to by
the house committee on military af-
fairs.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-02
STRIKERS SEIZE DYNAMITE.
Governor Of Alaska Calls for Troops
and Taft Complies.


Washington, March 29.-Eight hun.
dred striking miners, most Of them
foreigners, possessed of ten cases of
dynamite and a desire to destroy
property and perhaps life at the
Treadwell mines in Alaska, was the
situation presented to Secretary Taft
yesterday by telegraph from the act
ing governor of that territory, who re-
quested the aid of federal troops. The
secretary acceded to the request with
out delay.
The order which went forward, d.
rected Gen. Bush, commanding the
department Of the Columbia. at Van
couver Barracks, to place a suficient
force at the disposal of the United
States marshal at Treadwell to as
sist him in the enforcement of the
law and to enforce and execute the
orders of the United States courts.
Gen. Bush responded that he had dis.
patched one company of infantry to
Treadwell. The distance is about 100
miles and the troops should reach
their destination in a day or two.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-02
Helm of Alabama Shoots Drunk.
en- Negro and Accidentally
Wounds White Man.
WILD ARRAY on STREET CAR
Congressman Takes Negro to Task for
Drinking on Car and Latter
Becomes Abusive.

Washington, March 29.-In a des.
perate ARRAY on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. car last night a negro and q
white man. were shot by Congressman
T. j. Heflin of Alabama. Thomas
Lumby, the negro. was shot in the
head and is in a critical condition,
and Thomas McCreary, a New York
horse trainer, is suffering from a
wound in the leg. The shooting Of
McCreary was accidental. Mr.. Helm
was arrested and a charge Of assault
with intent to kill was placed against
him. Later he was released on $4,000
bail.
demonstrated With Negro.
Upon entering the car Congress.
man Heflin observed two negro pas
sengers, one of whom was Thomas
Lumby, and who was in the act of
taking drink from a bottle of whis-
ky. There were a number of other
passengers, including several ladies.
Mr.. Heflin says he demonstrated with
Lumby and asked him to stop drink
ing, saying: Don't take that drink;
there are ladies here, and it is not
right. 1t is against the law for you
to do this thing in street car. and
hope you will put that bottle away"
1t is said that Lumby became Of
Tended at Mr.. Heflin's circumstances
and applied vile epithets. AS the
car reached Sixth street~and Pennsyl-
vania avenue Heflin and Lumby were
engaged in a desperate struggle.
Threw Negro OF Car.
Mr.. Heflin, who is a large. power.
full man, succeeded in throwing Lum.
by off the car as it came to stop.
Most of the occupants of the car
hastily alighted, including Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas McCreary. The negro
Cell to the ground on being pushed of
the car. He arose and 1t is said be-
gan cursing Mr.. Hefiin again, and
made motion for his hip pocket, as
If to draw a weapon. whereupon Mr..
Heflin fired at him through the car
window, missing the negro and hit
ting Thomas McCreary, who was
about twenty feet from the car. Mr..
Heflin fired once or twice again, one
of the shots striking Lumby in the
head above the ear. Lumby ran
short distance and fell An ambu-
lance was called and he was taken
to the emergency hospital.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-02
Expiodes Prematurely as Red
!, Was About TO Hurl II at
!: Squad of Police.
E-.!
10000 UNEMPLOYED IN RIOT
Meeting in New York Is Broken Up:
Socialists Charge Police With
lnciting Riot.

New York, March 81. - A red nag
futtered in Union square Saturday; q
bomb fell; two men lay dying in the
peoples playground, and New York
awoke to the fact that It harbored
those prepared to give their lives in
armed resistance Of constituted au-
thority.
The bomb was intended for police
men, who, with rough f1rmness, had
broken up meeting of 10000 unem-
ployed. It exploded prematurely in
the hands Of the assassin, horribly
wounding him, killing his companion
and slightly injuring four policemen.
Hunter Intended to Speak.
Robert Hunter, the noted sociolo.
gist. last night declared that he was
not only present at Saturdays demon
stration, but that had opportunity Of
fered he would have addressed the
crowd in defiance of police prohibition
and so brought test in the courts of
the right of free speech. Mr.. Hunters
position in the whole. matter was set
forth in statement over his sigma
ture given to the Associated Press.
The writer deplores the outrage" of
the bomb and refers to its author as
fanatic, who has injured the cause of
the unemployed. s.
Police Were Brutal.
Mr.. Hunter says until he arrived at
the square he was ignorant of the fact
that speechmaking had been forbid
den. He learned this of the police
and then he determined to speak in
order that the right of peaceful assem-
bly, and free speech might be tested
in the courts. He adds that he had
no chance to be heard, for presently
the police charged the crowd with in
credible brutality" Mr.. Hunter de-
scribes his own escape from under a
horses hoofs, tells how he was drag.
ged by officers from the steps of
building from which he had hoped to
speak, and how what was intended as
a peaceful assembly in furtherance of
aid for the unemployed was broken up
with scene that he thought could
not be duplicated outside of Russia"
Fanatic May Survive.
Selig Silverstein. the youth in
whose hands the bomb exploded as he
was about to hurl it at Capt. Miles
O'Reilly and his squad of twenty men,
was still alive last night. Though
the explosion tore off his right hand,
temporarily blinded him and caused
frightful bodily injuries, he may sur.
vive.
Seven men arrested after the bomb
explosion were arraigned in court yes.
terday and held for further eXamina-
ton. They are charged with taking
part in riot.
The general committee of the local
socialist party claim that the meeting
was made up of law-abiding persons
and accuse the police of melting the
people to riot. Many statements were
issued by individuals, all deploring
the act of violence and all taking the
police to account
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-02
DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKE.
chiIapa, Mex, Is Shaken ans confla.
grafton Completes Destruction.

ChiIapa, Mex, Is Shaken ane Confla.
grafton Completes Destruction.
City of Mexico, March 29.-.Chilapa,
town Of $4,000 inhabitsnts $50
miles north of here, in the State of
Guerrero, has been shaken by an
earthquake and burned.
The shocks, two in number, occur
red early last evening and were fol-
lowed by fires which, originating a
dozen places among the tumbling
buildings, joined in a confiagration
that swept the town.
Only meager facts of the disaster
are known here, and what has been
learned has dribbled in from a half
dozen sources more or less authentic.
Loss Of Life Not knSwn.
The loss of life, If any. as we'll as
the extent of property damage, is
problematical. Telegraphic commu.
nication was severed by the shocks
and the town is two days by horse.
back from the nearest railway sta
ton.
The reports that have reached here
agree that the town was destroyed by
the shocks and fire. enG that the PEG.
pie fled from the place terror.strick-
en-. Hundreds are praying in the
open places about the ruins.
Reports coming in from various
points in the republic show that the
quake was felt over {. very wide area,
but that in no place, with the excep-
ton Of Chilapa, was there a consid.
cradle loss of life CT property.
Town Is Destroyed.
Gov. Damian Flores, the chief ex-
ecutive of the State of Guerrero, who
is at present in this city, received
the first official advices from ,Chilapa.
They minimized the disaster, but
later returns show that the dispatch
received by the governor was ultra
conservative. The town was practi-
cally destroyed, though no lives were
lost. Most of the buildings that we're
leveled were residences.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-02
ROAD PAYS $500 FINE.
Liquor

Great Western Admits Sale Of Liquor
on Train in Iowa.
Marshalltown. Iowa, March 31.-The
Chicago Great Western Railway COM
pany, which was indicted on two
counts charging nuisance by the sale
of Intoxicating liquors on its trains
within the county last winter. and
which pleaded guilty to one indict-
ment Saturday. paid fine of $500 in
the district court. The other indict.
ment was dismissed.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-02
Crimes and Criminals.

James Lee and Lee Elerick, both Of
McCloud, Okla, have been arrested
on charge of robbing the State Bank
of Hoffman several days ago.
Because of a quarrel, George Weigel
was almost blinded by Ross Moses, a
fellow student of a business college at
Springfield Ohio, who threw pepper in
Ills eyes.
David Weber of Chicago was
robbed of five diamond. rings, valued
at $4,000, while returning from Jack
sonville. Fla, with his wife on the
Queen & Crescent railroad.
Sam Johnson of the four johnson
brothers, outlaws and alleged cattle
thieves, was shot and killed by men,
bers of sheriff's posse near Talihius,
"a Flora county, Okla.
Deputy United States Marshal H. C
Reese, while raiding an illicit distill-
cry in Chatham county, North Caro-
lima, was shot by blockaders and prob.
ably fatally injured.
Ferdinand Dudenhefer, formerly a
tax collector in New Orleans, who dis.
appeared year ago, has been arrest
ed at his home. 1t is alleged that Du-
denhefer was short in his accounts
about $4,000.
The Daily News Office at Rock Isl.
and was dynamited last week. The
press room was badly damaged. The
paper has been attacking gamblers
and advocating local license. No one
was injured.
Sergeant P. Kratz of the Seven.
teenth infantry committed suicide in
the cemetery at Camaguay, Cuba. He
left letter saying that he was de-
spondent because he had unjustly
denied promotion.
Burglars who entered the postoffice
at Aberdeen, Wash, broke into the
safe and secured $3.50 in coin, $3.50 in
stamps and number of registered let
tiers. They failed to find $500 In
gold contained in a small time lock
compartment.
DR.. Stuart MacDiarmid and Donald
A. johnson of Omaha, president and
cashier of the closed Green Mountain
Savings bank, were indicted on seven
counts returned by the grand jury at
MarshalltowR, Iowa. The indictments
charge fraudulent banking, embezzle-
ment, perjury. receiving deposits for
an insolvent bank and making false
entries in the banks books.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-02
WAIT PoPE's WORD.
Anna Gould and Prince Helie Will
Be Married.

Anna Gould and Prince Helie Will
Be Married.
New York, March 29.-Information
has been obtained from an eminently
authoritative source that Nine. Anna
Gould and the Prince de Sagan will
soon be married, statements to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
While no formal engagement exists
between Nine. Gould and the prince.
it has been a we'll understood fact
that they were to marry, and this was
known to the Gould family prior to
the sailing from France of Nine.
Anna.
The prince is to receive 100000
of the Gould fortune and an annual
allowance of $4,000.
1t is said, the sanction of tho pope
has been sought and the wedding
awaits this.