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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-12-24
JUDGE URGES A NEW PARTY

Judge Peter s. Grosscup of the United
States court of appeals, writing in the North
American Review under the caption, Prosperity
with Justice" advocates the rise of new po-
litical party committed to the policy of an equal
distribution among all men of the fruits of their
labor
Judge Grosscup holds that the society of the
future must be founded on "a proprietary CO.
partnership in corporate success" and adds that
he is now ready to renounce his loyalty to the
Republican party in favor Of new party which
shall have for its purpose the establishment of
policy of justice and equity to all mankind
The period of awakening in America, says
Judge Grosscup came with the administration OF
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-12-24

married man can always get lit
tie off his sentence for bad behavior
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-16

burying his face in the chilG's dress
and crying like a baby. be crossed the
street hastily to his own door.
Harry stepped to the pavement with
a dull kind of embarrassment at the
manifold scrutiny. He had miscon
strued Jessica's flushing silence. ana
the inference stung. The fierce zest
was gone. and the ranking barb OF
accusation smarted. He should apollo
gize to the owner. he reflected satirical-
ly, for helping himself to the automo-
bile-he who stole gold dust, he al
whose door the town laid its unferret-
ed thieveries. he who was the scape-
goat for the towns offenses.
That owner, in very fact, stood just
then in the hotel doorway regarding
him with interest. He was the sheriff
of the county. He was about to step
forward when IN interruption occur
red. A scuffle and a weak bark sound
ed, and q lean brown streak shot across
the pavement.
"Rummyr" cried Harry. "Rummy!"
Through some chink of the dead wall
in his brain the name slipped out, a
tiny atom of flotsam retrieved from the
wreck of memory. That was all, but to
the animal which had just found its
lost master the word meant a sublima
ton of delight, the clearing of the puz.
zle of namelessness that had perplexed
it's canine brain. The dogs heaven was
reached.
Down on his knees on the pavement
went Harry, with his arms about the
starved, palpitating little creature and
his cheek against its shaggy coat. In
another mornent he had picked 1t up in
his arms and was walking up the
street. He went back to his cabin with
a strange feeling of e~xaltation and dis
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at the recur-
renee of something of his old adven-
lures, disappointment at the flushed
silence with which Jessica had re-
ceived the child.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-16

you play the violin. Whatever has
been, | have faith in you now!"
She spoke breathlessly. in very aban-
don, carried away by her feeling. AS
she spoke he had turned toward her.
his paleness flushed. his eyes leaping
up like hungry fires, devouring her
face. At the look timidity rushed upon
her. She stopped abruptly and took a
startled step from him.
He turned from her instantly. His
hands dropped at his sides. The word
that had almost sprung to speech had
slipped back into the void.
Il thank you for the charity you
have for me-" he said, (which l in no
way deserve. IL shall always re-
member it."
She hesitated an instant, made as if
to speak. Then. turning, she went
quickly from him. At the edge of the
bushes she stopped with a sudden i'm
pulse. She looked at the handker-
chief she held. Some tiny lettering
was embroidered in it's corner, the word
"Jessica." She glanced behind her.
he 0du uOl HONeu. hOllllS II lhlO a
ball, she threw it back over the bushes.
then ran on hastily through the trees.
After a time Harry turned slowly,
his shoulders lifting in a deep respira-
ton. The white and flmy cambria
caught his eye lying at tina Dase of
the great knoblike rock. He went t
it, picked 1t up and looked at it closely.
"Jessicaw he whispered. The name
chung about him. The very leaves re
music. II had curious
sensation, as if while she spoke thai
very name had half framed itself in
some curtained recess of his thought
He pressed the handkerchief to his
face. The faint perfume it exhaled,
like the dust Of dead roses, gave him
a ghostly impression of the familiar.
He struck his forehead sharply with
his open hand.
Fool" he said, with a bitter laugh
"Fool!"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-16

dows were dark save where here and
sifted through a shutter. The evening
had closed gloomily, breeding storm.
Before Jessica extinguished the light
she searched in a drawer and found
her wedding ring-the one she had
worn for less than an hour. When
she crept into bed the ring was on her
finger. She had fallen asleep with
her cheek resting on it.
She awoke with a start, with a
vague, inexplicable u~neasiness, an in
stinct that the night had voiced an
unusual sound. She sat up in bed.
staring into the dark depths Of the
room. Her instant thought had been
of David Stires, but the tiny bell on
the wall whose wire led to his bed
room was not vibrating. She listened
a moment, but there was only a deep
silence. Slipping out of bed, she cross
ed the room and parted the curtain
from before the tall French window.
The room was on the ground 1oor and
the window gave directly on the lawn.
While she gazed there came a sudden
yellow flare Of lightning, and far dis
tant mutter of thunder spoke behind
the hills.
Still, with the unreasoning uneasi-
ness holding her, she CROPPED to the
door, drew the bolt and looked out
into the wide, softly carpeted hall,
lighted dimly by a lamp set just at
the turn of the staircase. All at once
a shiver ran through her. There. a
dozen steps away, the light full upon
him, stood the man who filled her
thoughts.
He stood perfectly still, without
movement or gesture, gazing at her
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-16


ing ride and rescue a
mysterious change had been wrought
in her.
In the past days her soul had been
possessed by a painful agitation which
she did not attempt to analyze. AT
moments the ingrained hatred Of
Hugh's act, the resentment hat had
been the result of that year of pain,
had risen to battle for the inherent
justice of things. At such times she
was restless and sat much alone. puz-
zling David Stires by meaningless re-
sponses.
She could not tell him that the sol,
whose name he never took upon his
lips was so near; that he whose crime
his fathers pride of name had hidden
through all the months since then had
gone down with the current, Stunned
by honest folk, adding to his one dis
NAL act the weight of persistent repe
tition. She could not tell him this
even though that son now lived with
out memory of the evil he had done,
though he struggled under a cloud OF
hatred. reaching out to clean deed anG
high resolve.
Now, however, all distrust and trepi-
dalton had vanished. Strangely and
suddenly the complex warfare In her
mind had stilled. Standing with Mrs.
Halloran, she had listened to the com
ment with shining eyes. Not that she
distinguished any sudden change of
opinion to turn persecution to POPULAR
ty and make the %reprobate of today
the favorite of tomorrow, but in its
very reserve she instinctively felt Il
new tension of respect. Suspicion and
dislike aside, there was lone there
who would again hinder the man who
had made that race with death.
For her W part, she only knew that
she had no longer fear of soul or sense
of irrevocable loss or suffering. The
Hugh she now loved was not the Hugh
who had sinned.
He must some time learn the facts
of his past. Was it not better to know
the very worst 1t contained now. TO
put all behind him and face a future
that held no hidden menace? She
alone could tell him what had clouded
his career. the thing whose sign and
symbol was the forged draft. She car
ried the slip of paper in the bosom of
her dress. and every day she took II
out and looked at 1t as at some malef-
cent relic. 1t was a token of the old
buried misery that, its final purpose
accomplished. should be forgotten for
ever. How to convey the truth with
as little pain as might be. this was the
problem. and she had found the solu
ton. She would leave the draft secret
ly in the cabin. where he must see it
1t bore his own name. and the deadly
word David Stires' cramped fist had
written across 1t told its significant
story. How it got there Hugh would
not question. 1t would be to him only
a detail of his forgotten life there.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-16

responded he swerved it sharply in
and, holding with one hand. leaned
far out from the step and lifted the
child from the saddle.
The automobile halted again before
the hotel amid a hush. The men who
a little while before had been ripe for
violence now stood in shamefaced ST
lence. 1t was Jessica who ran for
ward and took the child. still sobbing
a little, from Harry's hands. One
long look passed between them-a look
on her part trimming with a great
gratitude for his lifting of her weight
Of dread and conjunction and with
something besides that mantled her
cheeks with rich color. She kissed the
child and placed her In her fathers
arms.
Devlin's countenance broke up BE
struggled to speak, but could not. and.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-16
1Tzsaeos=4

The jeuUeler loetghed the dust Nth a dis
trustful fToton.
hydraulic company had been robbed
again. Some two months previously
there had occurred a series of depre-
dations by which the company had
suffered. The boxes were not swept
of their golden harvest each day. and
In spite of all precautions coarse gold
had disappeared mysteriously from
We rifles, this, although armed men
had watched all night There had
been much guess work. The cabin On
the hillside was the nearest habitation
the company's fiume disgorged its
food in the gulch beneath it-and sus
picion had eventually pointed Its way
The sudden ceasing of the robberies
with the disappearance of Hugh Stires
had given focus to this suspicion
Now, almost coincident with his re
turn, the thievery had recommended
1t had been a red letter day for Dew
lin and his ilk. who caviled at the
more charitable. or all this, however,
the object of their 81 told you SO"
was ~serenely ignorant.
Entering the town, there were few
stirring on the sunny streets, but he
could not but be aware that those he
met stopped to gaze after him. Some
indeed followed. His first objective
point was a jewelers., where he could
turn his gold dust into reader coin
for needful purchases. He saw a
sign next the Mountain Valley House
and entered.
The jeweler weighed the dust, with
a distrustful frown. but Harry's head
was turned away. He was reading Il
freshly printed placard tackled on the
wall, an offer of reward for the detec
ton of the sluice thief. He read it
through mechanically. for as he read
there came from the street outside IL
sound that touched a muffled chord in
his brain. 1t was the exhaust of a
motor car.
He thrust the money the goldsmith
grudgingly handed him into his pocket
and turned to the door. A long red
automobile had stopped at the curb
Two men whom it carried were just
entering the hotel. Something in the
sight of the long. low 'racer'' reminded
Harry-of what? His eye traced its
polished lines. noting its cunning mech
anism. its build for silent speed. with
the eager lighting of a connoisseur. He
took a step toward 1t. oblivious to all
about him.
He did not note that men were gath
ering, that the nearest saloon was
emptying Of its occupants. Nor did he
see a girl on horseback. with a tiny
child before her On the saddle, who
refined up sharply opposite.
The rider was Jessica. the child ar
ecstatic ~five-year-old she had picked ur
ON the fringe of the town to canter in
with her hands gripping the pommel of
the saddle. She saw Harry's position
instantly and guessed it perilous. What
did the men mean to do? She leaned
Forward, a swift apprehension in her
face.
Harry came back suddenly to a real
ization of his surroundings. He looked
about him. startled. his cheek darken-
ing Its red. every muscle instinctively
tightening He saw danger In the low
ering faces. and the old lust of daring
leaped up instantly to grapple with the
rejuvenated character.
Devlin's voice came over the heads
Vt the crowd as, burly and shirt sleeved.
he strobe across the street:
Hand wei the dust you've stolen
before you are tarred and feathered-
Hugh Stirosr'
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-16

not asuray now;
it was lost, but
1t has found its
way back. When
your M e m DRY
comes you will
e that it is
fate that has
eenleadingyou.
There was moth
ing in your past
that cdunOl De
buried and for.
gotten. w h a I
you have been
you will never
be again. | know
that! saw you
fight Deylin, and
! know why you
did it. | heard
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-16

Hurry lOOkc0 al n1l1s sui pl lSCu,
mind instantly recurring to the placard
he had seen. Here was a tangible ac-
cusation.
II have stolen nothing" he respond
ed quietly.
"Where did he get what he just sold
meY' The jewelers. sol query rose
behind him from the doorway.
We'll find that outt'~ was the rough
rejoinder.
In face of his threatening peril Jes-
sica forgot all else-the FESTIVE horse.
the child. She sprang to the ground.
her face panied and indignant, and
started to run across the street. But.
with a cry of dismay, she turned back.
The horse had caught sight of the red
automobile and. snorting and wild
eyed, had swung into the roadway.
"It's Devlin's kidd" some me cried
out, and Devlin, turning, went sudden
~ ashen. The baby was the n soft
spot in his ruf1ianly heart. He sprang
toward the animal, but the movement
and the hands clutching at the bride
sent it to a leaping terror. In another
instant it had broken through the ring
of bystanders and, frenzied at its free
dom, dashed down the long, level
street with the child clinging to the
saddle pommel.
1t was all the work of a moment,
one of panic and confusion, through
which rang Jessica's scream of re-
morse and fright Torpor held the
crowd-all save one. whose action fol-
lowed the scream as leap follows the
spur. In a single step Harry gained
the automobile. With an instantane-
Gus movement he pushed the lever
down and jerked the throttle wide.
The machine bounded into its pace,
the people rolling back before it, and,
gathering Roadway, darted after the
runaway.
The spectators stood staring. He'll
never catch him." said Michael Hal
loran, who had joined the crowd. Flu
neral Holow's only a mile away"
With others he hurried to the hotel
balcony, where he could watch the ex-
citing race. Jessica stood stock still.
as blanched as Devlin, wringing her
hands.
With the first bound of the car under
him, as the crowd was snatched behind,
a weird, exultant thrill shot through
Harry's every nerve. Each bolt and
bar he knew as one would tell his fin.
gers. Somewhere, at some time, he
had known such fight--through mel
low sunlight, with the air singing past
Where? When?
Not for the fraction of a second.
however, did his gaze waver. He
knew that the fiat on which the town
was built fell away in a hollow ravine
the cabin doorway-a stretch of break
neck road only a mile ahead. Could
the child hold on? Could he distance
those frenzied hoofs In timer The ar
row of the indicator stole forward ON
the dial.
Far behind as the crowd watched a
cry rose from the hotel balcony. II
was Barney McGinn. the freighter.
with a glass at his eye. Hes gain
ing!" he shouted. HE has almost
overtaken the horsel"
The horses first fury of speed was
firing. The steel steed was creeping
closer. A thunder of hoofs In pursuit
would have maddened the flying ami
NAL. but the gliding thing that was
now so close to him came on with
n~oiseless swiftness. Harry had re-
served with the nicely of a practiced
hand a last increment of speed. With
the front wheels at the horses flank.
he drew suddenly on this. AS the car
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-16
Not His Fault.

Dad-Johnnie. your teacher tells me
that you are at the foot of your class
How's that? Johnnie-That amt M
fault. dad. They've taken Tommy TufI
tut and sent him to a reform school,
Exchange.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-16
Continued from last week
Chapter Is.
IS

~ N the day following the
expulsion of Prender-
.Ax&3 CAST, Harry woke rest
&SAGA less and unrefreshed.
- Fleeing sensations
Knocked him-a disturbing conviction
that the struggling memory in some
measure had succeeded in reasserting
itself in the shadowy kingdom of sleep.
Waking, the apparitions were fed
again into their o%bscurity, leaving only
the wraiths of recollection to startle
and disquiet. A girls face lowered
always before him-ruling his con.
seriousness as II had ruled his sleeping
thought.
He took down from its shelf the
bottle he had rescued from Prender-
CASTS intention and emptied it of its
glistening grains-enough to replenish
his depleted stock of provisions. He
paused a moment as he put on his hat
smiling whimsically, a little sadly
He dreaded entering the town. But
ment. If he was to live and worl
there, appear he must on the streets
sooner or later. Smoky Mountain
must continue to think of him as it
might. What he was from that time
on was all that could count to him.
If he had but known 1t there was
good reason for hesitation today. Ear
ly that morning an angry rumor had
disturbed the town. The sluice of the
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-16
He stood perfectlu stu.

He stood perfectly still
She could see his face distinctly, sill
houetted on the pearl gray wall. 1t
wore an expression Of strained concern
and Of deep helplessness. The instant
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-16
Chapter 20

YER the sanitarium on
the ridge sleep had de-
scended. On its broad
grounds there was no
light of moon or stars,
and its chamber win
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
SUTTON INQUIRY
COMES TO CLOSE
FINDINGS OF COURT HANDED
JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL
Acting Secretary of Navy Winthrop
Has Evidence In Front Of Him
and VIII Investigate
Testimony
[By Associated Press ]

WASHINGTON. Aug. 17.-Early an
nouncement will be made by the navy
department of the findings Of the court
inquiry which has been investigating
the death of Lieutenant James N. Sut-
ton, jr., of the marine corps.
Today the Judge advocate general
of the navy, Captain F iward H. Camp
bell, was handed copy of the findings
of the court by Major Henry Leonard,
the judge advocate ofSthe court of in
quiry, who returned with them from
Annapolis last night.
Captain Campbell placed the results
of the courts work formally before
Acting Secretary of the Navy Winthrop.
The latter and Captain Campbell are
looking into the testimony and the
findings before taking final action Mr..
Winthrop may announce his decision
in the case tomorrow. He certainly
expects to do so by the following day.
Broad discretionary authority Is
given the secretary of the navy In
acting on the findings of a court of In
quiry, and he may approve or disap-
prove In whole or in part send the case
for further inquiry, or order a new
court If, in his judgment, the clrcum-
stances warrant 1t.
In submitting its report the court has
followed an old time custom of present
ing the findings In manuscript and
in this form they take Ave pages of
legal cap. Just why this antiquated
method Is followed, instead of resort
ing to the more modern practice of sub
mittlng reports in typewriting, is not
known unless 1t is to avoid the
necessity of intrusting to some third
party the writing of the document.
Second to the verdict of the court as
to how Sutton met his death Is the in
terest as to whether 1t will report that
some of the officers concerned were
shown by the testimony to have been
guilty of breaches of the regulations
governing the marine corps. particular
Iy as the time has not elapsed-two
years-in which punishment for such
alleged infractions may be meted out.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
TRIO OF CITIES
UNITE IN FIGHT
OVER TELEPHONE
fContinued from PAGE one,

penses of said proceedings and appeal
but shall not be at any expense for at
torneys' fees for the services of coun-
sci from the legal departments of said
cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena.
Now, therefore, be it resolved by the
board of trustees of the city of Po-
mona:
Section l. That the said offer be &C
cepted; that Leslie r. Hewitt and w
B. Mathews of the law department OF
the city of Los Angeles and j. p. WOOD
and William ]. Carr of the law depart
ment of the city of Pasadena be asso-
ciated with the present counsel for the
city as counsel in said action; that
counsel for the city be directed to as
sociate said additional counsel; that
said counsel and associated counsel
be authorized and directed to
take proper proceedings for and
upon a rehearing in said action, in
case rehearing be denied, or upon re-
hearing the decision rendered be af-
firmed, then to take proper steps to
have the decision of the United States
circuit court of appeals reviewed by
the supreme court of the United States
and in case the said decision be re-
yersed upon rehearing and be appealed
to the supreme court of the United
States by the telephone companies.
then to make proper response to said
appeal"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
STRIKE OF HATTERS IN
THE EAST TO BE SETTLED
Union Members and Their Employers
Each Make Concessions, but
Label viii BE Restored

NEW YORK, Aug. 7.-An agree
ment for the settlement of the strike
which has kept between $4,000 and 25,-
600 union hatmakers out of employ
ment for seven months has been
reached between the executive council
of the United Hatters of North Amer
lea and representatives of the Hat
Manufacturers association. The agree
ment, which was brought about
through the intercession of Governor
Fort of New Jersey, has been ratified
by both sides and now only the for
NAL signing of the articles is awaited
by the union before resuming work.
Both sides made concessions. The
union label, which was point of Sc
rious contention, will be restored in
all factories under the agreement
Nonunion workmen who have been
filling strikers places will be dis
charged and the union employees who
went on strike will be re-employed at
the old scale.
An agreement will be signed, effec-
tive for three years, whereby disputes
will be settled by arbitration. EN-
ployes who refused to join the strike
in January will be allowed to rejoin
the union, and only union men will be
employed during the life of the three
year agreement.
Governor Fort will be the third party
in the arbitration board which will set
tie any disputes that may arise.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
GOVERNMENT RESERVES
LANDS FOR T0WNSITES
Certain Tracts In Indian Reservations
In Northwest viii Be Kept for
City Locations

SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 17.-An-
nouncement was made today by Supt.
James w. Witten of reservation by the
government of certain areas of land
in each of the three Indian reserva-
tions thrown open for public entry last
week for townsite purposes.
Four townsites have been established
in the Coeur dAlene reservation at
Plummer, st. Mary's, Worley and DEM
met. In the Flathead seven sites have
been reserved for townsite purposes at
Arlee, Revelli, Roman, Ravalli, Dixon,
Dayton, st, Ignatius and Poison.
Klaxta in the Spokane reservation has
been selected for terminal and townsite
purposes, but has not been reserved.
These townsites will be sold at pub
lie auction this fall. The Occur d'Alene
sites will be disposed of in September
at Coeur d'Alene. Dayton and Roman
in the Flathead will be sold to the
highest bidder at Kalispel, Mont, Sep
tember 7. Most of the townsites are
either on the Northern Pacific or the
oregon Railway e. Navigation lines,
and all of them are in rich agricultural
districts.