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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-05
kNOVlLLE.


Knoxville.-Dr. Ames has been to
Des Moines visiting his father, George
Yin, who recently underwent an oper-
alton.
Prof. G. E. Shut has been in State
Center the past week looking after
some business affairs. He will go
there the first of September as super
intendent of the schools.
Dean Phelps is visiting in Charlton
this week with his friend. Donald
Brown.
Ed l.. Gardner has returned from an
extensive tour of some Of the west
ern states.
C. F. Israel and wife of Abba are
visiting Mrs. Israel's parents, Mr.. and
Mis-. j. P. w. Freed.
Mrs. Ore Smith of Melrose has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jas.
A. Fee.
Mrs. M. P. Forbes and children Of
Marshall, MINI, are visiting her sis
tiers, Mrs. Robert Mace and Mrs. Chas.
Wells.
T. S. Sherwood has returned from
a business trip to Nebraska.
Mrs. Fred b. Chaker has been visit
ing her parents in Bussey.
Misses Mary and Florence Bellamy
of Perry spent Sunday in Knoxville
visiting relatives. They are daughters
Of Finley Bellamy, an old-time resi-
dent Of Knoxville.
w. O. Froggart has been in Chi
cago the past week on business.
John A. Mccoy and Roche Mentzer
were In Des Moines Saturday.
Judge Gamble and wife have been
visiting their daughter, Mrs. j. A.
Wagner in Des Moines the past week.
Miss Edith Glass, who has beer. Wis
iting relatives in Knoxville the PAST
month, has returned to her home in
Atlantic.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Beveridge OF
Adams county, o., have been visiting
their cousins, N. r. and ]. H. Miller.
Mr.. Beveridge is a cousin of Senator
Beveridge Of Indiana and both were
born in the same house. Mr.. and Mrs.
Beveridge had been to Council Bluffs
to visit their son, who Is superintend-
ent of schools at that place.
Mrs. J. B. Elliott has returned from
q trip to the home of her daughter
in Bartlesville, Okla. Her daughter,
Mrs. Phillips, will visit here a couple
of weeks with her parents.
Rouze Hunter has left for Kansas
City where he will enter the employ
of the Jones Dry Goods Co.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-05
fyTTUMWA con RIMR

couple went to oquawka. H., and yis-
| tied over Sunday with Mrs. Joe Hall,
u cousin of Mrs. SwartEendruyer. They
returned to Bloemfieid Monday after
noon.
| Other Move.
| The Christian EIdeavor society Of
the Christian church will hold on loo
cream social ut tho home OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Altheide ono evening this
week.
Mr.. md Mrs. Leigh sprowles, Miss
Mildred Stocked and Mrs, sprowles Of
Cincinnati, o. spent from Thursday
until Sunday ct the II. G. Taylor farm
good time.
Miss Mamie Hancock left Friday on
an extended visit OF Haskins, Ia, at
the homo Of her brother Ross Hancock.
The Epworth league Of the Metho-
dist church will hold its regular service
at o'clock next Sunday evening.
Governor Carroll visited in Bloom
Monday afternoon before the Davis
County Teachers Institute now being
held at the high school building.
| Governor Carroll and James ROUGH
Of Bloomfield left Tuesday afternoon
for Selma, Ia. for weeks outing
| Mrs. B. F. Carroll Of Des Moines
will arrive in Bloomfield next Friday
/
George and Ed Goode shipped cattle
to Chicago Sunday
Keith Hotchkiss left Tuesday for
Linneus. Mo-. to spend a week at the
home Of his sister Mrs. Wv Traverse.
The county board Is in regular ses-
sion at the court house this week.
MI and - Mrs tss Henry Howard Of
little girl. Hazel Richards, from the
Iowa Childrens Home society.
The new carpets for the court room
have arrived.
Harry Sayers was Frustrated by the
heat last Wednesday while helping
stack hay on the Henry Guernsey
farm and fell from the stack.
Henry Harvey and sister Miss Julia
Harvey of Rochester, Vermont, are
guests at the John H. Evans home.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Harvey and
daughter of Oregon are expected to
arrive at the Evans home this week.
Mrs. ]. D. Sullivan of Horton. Kans.,
I is visiting Mrs. John Bradley. this
week.
Miss Belle Albert spent Saturday in
Mrs. j. Poole OF Laddsdale passed
through here enroute to Keokuk to
visit her son who is in the hospital.
Miss Ida Mcclure is visiting her
sister in Ottumwa, Mrs. Pearl Quig-
Hey.
Charlie Cunningham of Ottumwa
returned home this week.
| Miss Jennie Ferris of Douds passed
through here enroute to Floris to visit
| her sister Mrs G.. Carson
Miss Loreda Hayden left this week
for Seattle, Wash, for an extended
visit.
o. P. Dotson and Sandy Lutz spent
Saturday evening in Ottumwa.
| Mrs. Hester Pace of Bonaparte re-
turned home after a weeks visit with
her niece Miss Laura Garrett.
Miss Jennie HOFFMAN Of Douds re-
turned home after spending five weeks
in this city
| Miss Bess vass returned home from
Des Moines. where she has been at
| tending school.
Miss Anna Van Wrinkle Of Brighton
came this week to visit her friend
Miss Marshall.
Misses Villa LOOMS and Carrie
Israel spent Saturday with Mrs. W. v
Taylor.
Mrs. Kit Simmons and children Of
Ottumwa are visiting Mrs e. e
Wright.
Rexwell Finney spent Sunday in
Oskaloosa with friends and relatives.
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14

He had just realized that he was
hat-strapped for cash. He had given
his last quarter to the cabby, hours
back He was registered at a strange
hotel, under an assumed name, un-
able to beg credit even for his break
fast without declaring his identity and
thereby laying himself open to suspi-
cion, discourtesy, insult
OF course there were ways out He
could telephone Bannerman, or any
other of half a dozen acquaintance, in
the morning; but that involved expla-
nations, and explanations involved
making himself the butt of his circle
for many a weary day
There was money in his lodgings,
in the Chippendale escritoire; but to
get it he would have to run the gaunt-
let of reporters and detectives which
had already dismayed him in prospect.
O'Hagan-ahi
At the head of his bed was a tele-
phone Impulsive1y, inconsiderate of
the hour, he turned to it.
"Give me nine-o-eight-nine Madison,
please" he said, and waited, receiver
to ear.
There was a slight pause; a buzz;
the voice of the switchboard opera
tor below stairs repeating the number
to central; centrals appropriately
mechanical reiteration; another buzz;
a silence; prolonged buzz; and again
the sounding silence
"Hello," he said, softly, into the
transmitter, at venture.
No answer.
"Helloi"
Then central, irritably: go ahead.
You've got your party"
Hello, helloi"
A faint hum Of voices, rising and
falling, beat against the walls of his
understanding Were the wires
crossed? He lifted an impatient finger
to jiggle the hook and call central to
order, when-something crashed
heavily He could have likened the
sound, without a strain of imagination,
to a chair being violently overturned
And then woman's voice, clear, ac-
cents informed with anger and pain:
mol" and then
Say, that's my mistake. That line
you had's out of order. 1 had a call
for them a while ago, and they didn't
answer Guess you'll have to watt
Central. Central" he pleaded
desperately. 81 say, central, give me
that connection again, please"
"Ah, say! what's the matter with
line was out of order? Ring Off"
Automatically Maitland returned the
receiver to it's rest; and rose, white
Tipped and trembling. That woman's
voice,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14
PHYSICIANS Mean Trick.

A doctor was one day stopped in the
streets by one of his woman patients
whose malady was purely imaginary.
The doctor, who was known for his
intolerance of and nonsympathy with
such invalids, after listening some
what impatiently to the woman's de-
tailed account of all her feelings and
symptoms, told her to shut her eyes
and put out her tongue. She prompt
ly did so. On opening her eyes in a
few seconds the doctor was nowhere
to be seen, and the woman awoke to
the fact that he had left her standing
by herself in busy thoroughfare with
her eyes shut and her tongue hanging
out
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14
. rne eoees-r4EartlL CO.

potent, a pillar of the social order Sc
cure in it's shelter, and see her bounded
and driven by the forces of the Law,
harried and worried like an unclean
thing, forced, as it might be, to resort
to stratagems and expedients unthink-
able, to preserve her liberty.
1t was altogether intolerable He
could not stand it. And yeti was
written that their paths had crossed
and parted and were never again to
touch. Or was it? 1t must be so
written: They would never meet again.
After all, her concern with, her inter-
est in, him, could have been nothing
permanent. They had encountered
under strange auspices, and he had
treated her with common decency, for
which she had repaid him in good
measure by permitting him to retain
his own property. Their account was
even, and she for ever done with him.
That must be her attitude. Why
should it be anything else?
ooh, the DEVIL" exclaimed the young
man in disgust. And rising, took his
distemper to the window.
Leaning on the sill, he thrust head
and shoulders far out over the garish
abyss of metropolitan night The hot
breath of the city famed up in sitting
waves into his face, from the street
below, upon whose painted pavements
men crawled like insects-round NOV
ing spots, to each his romance under
his hat
The window was on the corner, over.
looking the junction of three great
highways of humanity: Twenty-third
street, with its booming crosstown
cars, stretching away into the dark
ness on either hand; Broadway, fork
ing Off to the left, it's distances merg
ging into a hot glow of yellow radi
| ance; Fifth avenue, branching into the
north with its desolate sidewalks oddly
patterned in areas of dense shadow
and a cold, clear light. Over the way
the park doomed darkly, for all its
scattered arcs, a black and silent
| space, well of mystery.
1t was late, quite late; the clock
in front of Dorlon's Che craned his
| neck to see) made the hour one in the
morning; the sidewalks were com
| paratively deserted, even the pillare6
portico of the Fifth Avenue hotel des
| titute of loungers. A timid hint OF
| GOODNESS, forerunning the dawn, rode
up on the breeze.
He looked up and away northward
| for many minutes, over housetops
| stenciled black against the CLOWNS
sky, his gaze yearning into vast dis
| tances of space, melancholy tingeins
| the complexion of his mind. He fan
cied himself oppressed by vague un
easiness, unaccountable as to cause
| unless
From the sublime to the ridiculou.
| with a vengeance, his thoughts tum
| bled. Gone the glamour of romance
| in twinkling, banished by rank ma
| terialism. He could have blushed fol
shame; he got slowly to his feet, ir
resolute, trying to grapple with a con
dition that never before In his exis
tence had he been called upon to con
| sider.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14
Either w ay.

Mr.. Wilkins had been sitting quietly
on nail key, perusing paper which
he had found on the counter. The
date of it he had not noticed Finally
sion.
whats this wireless telegraph sig
nal, this &C. o. D. they're talking
about?" he asked.
81 guess it's &C. @. D. amt it?' sug-
gested Holbrook, the grocer. ANY
way, it's a signal of distress" he add
ed, moodily.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14
CHAPTER K.

Breathing convulsive1y, wide eyes a
little wildly fixed upon his face in the
1amplight, the girl stumbled to her
feet, and for a moment remained cow
ering against the wall, terribly shaken,
a hand gripping corner of the pack
ing box for support. the other pressed
against the bosom of her dress as if in
attempt forcibly to quel1 the mad ham
mering of her heart.
In her brain, a turmoil of affrighted
thought, but one thing stood out clear
ly; now she need look for no mercy.
The first time it had been different;
she had not been a woman had she
been unable then to see that the ad-
venture intrigued Maitland with its
spice of novelty, new sensation, fully
as much as she, herself, the pretty
woman out of place, interested and at
tracted him. He had enjoyed playing
the part, had been amused to lead her
to believe him an adventurer of met
tie and caliber little inferior to her
own-as he understood her; unscrupu-
lous, impatient of the bubble of
meum-et-tuum, but adroit and keen
witted, and distinguished and set apart
from the herd by grace of gentle
breeding and chivalric instincts.
let this enjoyment carry him, she had
no means of surmising. Not very far,
not too far, she was inclined to be-
lieve, strongly as she knew her per-
sonality to have Influenced him; not
far enough to induce him to trust her
out of sight with the jewels. He had
demonstrated that, to her humiliation.
The flush of excitement waning,
| manlike soon had he wearied of the
game-she thought; to her mind, in
| distorted retrospect, his attitude when
| leaving her at dawn had been insin-
cere, contemptuouS, that of man re-
| lieved to be rid of her, relieved to be
| able to get away in unquestioned pos
| session of his treasure. True, the sug-
| gestion that they lunch together at
| Eugene's had been his But he had
| forgotten the engagement, If ever he
| had meant to keep it, if the notion had
been more than a within of the moment
| with him. And O'Hagan had told her
by telephone that Maitland had left
his rooms at one o'clock-in ample
time to meet her at the restaurant
No, he had never intended to come;
he had wearied; yet, patient with her,
| true to the ethics of gentle man, he
had been content to let her go, rather
than to send a detective to take his
| place
And this was something by the
way, to cause her to revise her theory
/ as to the manner in which Anisty had
managed to steal the jewels. If Matt
land had gone abroad at one, and with
out intending to keep his engagement
at Eugene's, then he must have been
| despoiled before that hour, and with
| out his knowledge. Surely, if the
| jewels had been taken from him with
his cognizance, the hue and cry would
have been out and Anisty would not
have dared to Hnger SO long in the
i neighborhoodi
To be just with herself, the girl had
not gone to the restaurant with much
real hope of finding Maitland there
Curiosity had drawn her-just to see
| if But it was too preposterous to
| credit that he should have cared
enough. Quite too preposterous. II
was her cup, her bitter cup, to know
that she had learned to care enough
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14
"To Orient -

Primarily and as its etymology
shows the verb to orient means to
set an object in exact adjustment to
the east, thence by a natural corollary
to set it true with all the cardinal
points of the compass. Then in the
derivative and topical Specification it
is used to describe the attitude of a
mind duly adjusted to any standard OF
knowledge, morals or life.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14
A Schemer.

s1 notice a peculiar thing about
your hotel,'' said the boarder. In all
your guest rooms you have two very
narrow windows, when one bigger one
would do as we'll / don't see the
economy of such construction" You
don't eh?" chucklsd the landlord
well. il you'll figger awhile you'll see
that there amt no trunks made that
en- be passed out through them vim
doEus
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14
CHAPTER Discontinued.

But not to rest. The portion of the
mentally harassed, sleeplessness, was
his; and for an hour or more he tossed
upon his bed upon which he had
thrown himself without troubling to
undress), bordering, to no profit of
his, the hundred problems, difficulties
and disadvantages suggested or Gre
ated by the events of the past "a
hours.
The gray girl, Anisty, the jewels,
himself; unfiagging, his thoughts cir
cumnavigated the world of his ro-
nance. touching only at these four
ports, and returning always to linger
longest in the harbor of sentiment
The gray girl: Strange that her
personality should have come to domi-
nate his thoughts in space of time
so brief, and upon grounds of init
macy so slenderi Who and what was
she? What cruel rigor of circum-
stance had impelled her to seek live
fhood in ways so sinister? At whose
door must the blame be laid, against
what flaw in the body social should
the indictment be drawn, that she
should have been forced into the ranks
of the powers that prey-a girl of her
youth and rare fiber, of her cultivation,
her charm, and beauty?
The sheer loneliness of her, her
grace and gentleness, her ingenious
sensitiveness, her wit: they combined
to make the thought of her, to him, at
least, at once terrible and a delight.
Remembering that once he had held her
in his arms, and gazed into her starlit
eyes, and inhaled the impalpable fra
GRANGE of her, he trembled, was both
glad and afraid
And her ways so hedged about with
pertls! While he must stand aside, i'm
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14
SYNOPSIS.

Mad" Dan Maitland, on reaching his
New York bachelor club, met an attrac-
tive young woman at the door. Janitor
O'Hagan assured him no one had been
within that day. Dan discovered wom-
ans finger prints in dust his desk,
Maitland dined with Bannerman. his at
torney. Dan set out for Greenfelds, to
get his family jewels. During his walk
to the country seat, he met the young
ing his bachelors club. Her auto had
broken down. He fixed it. BY a ruse she
lost him. Maitland, reaching home,
surprised lady in gray, cracking the safe
containing his gems. She, apparently,
took him for a well-known crook, Daniel
his safe, took therefrom the jewels, and
gave them to her, first forming a part
nership in crime. The real Dan Anisty.
sought by police of the world, appeared
on the same mission Maitland overcame
him. He met the girl outside the house
and they sped on to New York in her
to- He had the jewels and she promised
to meet him that day. Maitland received
Mr. Snaith.'' introducing himself as
detective. To shield the girl in gray,
els. supposedly lost, was felled by a blow
from ''Snaith's'' cane The latter proved
to be Anisty himself and he secured the
gems. AniSty. who was Maitland's dou-
BILE, masqueraded the latter. The
criminal kept Maitland's engagement with
after falling in love at first sight. They
to meet and divide the loot. Matt
land revived and regretted missing his
engagement Anisty, masquerading as
Maitland. narrowly avoided capture
through mysterious tip. The girl in gray
visited Maitland's apartments during his
absence and returned gems, being dis
covered on return
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14

If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes
use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 OF
package, cents.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14

Among other high rollers we have
the elevated trains.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14

He's a stingy man who will not give
you smile.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14

A CERTAIN METHOD
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Pankller perry DavisD. This medicine has
tanned reputation 20 Csc $50 Soc.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-22
POTTERY COMPANY
SUED FOR ACCOUNT
Stock Holder Asks That Court
Name Receiver to Take
Charge of Concern

OAKLAND, Dec. 21.-Application for
charge of the Winsor pottery works. at
East Twelfth street and Park avenue,
was made today by L. C. Brinkmeyer,
who alleges that the persons in con-
troll of the company have defrauded
him by permitting one corporation to
lose its charter and transferring its
assets to a new company.
Brinkmeyers suit is directed against
the Winsor pottery works, a corpora
tion with a capital stock of 81 5000;
the Winsors California pottery and
terra Gotta works, which is now ex-
tinct; and the stock holders of the old
company, which are S. w. Winsor. Ser
ril Winsor, Mary B. Winsor, Lydia Z.
Winsor and c. L. Colvin.
Brinkmeyer says that he owned 100
shares of stock of the Winsor's Cali
fornia pottery and terra Gotta works.
worth So 900, in December, 1905, when
the company lost its charter because
the other stock holders did not see to
paying the annual state corporation
tax. He says that soon after this they
organized the Winsor pottery works.
to which they transferred all the prop
erty of the old company, worth $780,
600. Brinkmeyer declares that this
transfer was without his consent. al
though it was fraudulently made to
appear that he had voted for the trans
fer of assets.
The suit is brought to have the de-
PENDANTS declared trustees of all the
property SO transferred; to obtain the
appointment of receiver, and for an
accounting.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-22
COMMITTEES PLAN
GREAT CELEBRATION
Greater Oakland Will Give 1910
Noisy Greeting

OAKLAND, Dec 21.-Committees
have been organized to take charge Of
the program for the new years eve
celebration in Oakland. which is to
outdo all previous holiday outbursts
OF enthusiasm. open air dancing, band
concerts and fireworks are outlined in
the tentative program
Citizens Will be expected TO cooper
ate so that there shall be a genuine
5olIificatiOn, TO mark the opening of
Greater Oakland's first new year. The
general committee has been subdivided.
Those who will arrange the special at
fractions. outside Of the music, are
.. H Mclaughlin. c. c. Craig, Carl
Reuter- and 3. p. Miller. The music
committee is composed Of John F. Con-
ners. A. A. DenisOn and Herman Yard.
". Z. Gibson is general chairman
The chamber Of commerce and Mer-
chants committee, are represented on
the committee. as is also the annexed
district. II time permits, several nov
cities VIII be introduced in the cele-
bration.
The committee viii meet Wednesday
evening at the chamber of commerce
60 make further arrangements.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-22
WOMAN ACCUSED
BY HOTEL KEEPER
Draft on Her Mothers Name Is
Repudiated and Arrest
Results

OAKLAND, Dec. 21.-Mrs. Elizabeth
western ma gazine sketches under the
nom de plume of Bessie Murray, was
arrested this afternoon at Twelfth and
Clay streets on a warrant charging her
with felony at Sonoma. Locked in the
city jail she had Assistant City Attor-
ney W. H. O'Brien sent to her and will
attempt to settle the charges against
her tomorrow without returning to
Sonoma county.
The woman writer is % years of age.
She had been at Sonoma for only a
week, part of the time accompanied by
her husband, c. ]. Newman, who is
said to be an Iowa lawyer. He went
on a trip and his wife prepared to
come to Oakland. To defray her hotel
drawn against the name of her mother,
Mrs. Caroline Murray of Winterset
Iowa. The draft was returned marked
mo funds" and the hotel keeper at
Sonoma swofe out a warrant.
Telegraphic instructions for the
woman's arrest reached here today. The
police had previously received cards
asking Mrs. Newman's apprehension.
This is all mistake" protested the
prisoner tonight. Il drew the draft, as
l am accustomed to do, on my mother
She had left Winterset for Los Angeles
unknown to me, and the draft was
sent back to Sonoma. / have asked
Attorney O'Brien to represent me here.
1t was through O'Brien that the in
formation came that his client is a
magazine writer. He said she had been
obtaining material for stories in So
noma county