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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-16
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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
the 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 flume disgoreed its
flood 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 red letter day for Dew
lin and his Tx, who caviled at the
more charitable. OF all this, however.
the object of their II 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 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 a
freshly printed placard tackled on the
wall. an offer Of reward for the detee-
ton Of the sluice thief. He read II
through mechanically. for as he read
there came from the street outside a
sound that touched a mufiled 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 1t 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 connoisseur. He
took step toward It, oblivious to all
about him.
He did not note that men were gath
ering. that the nearest saloon waa
emptying Of itz occupants. Nor did be
see girl on horseback. with tiny
child before her on the saddle, who
refined up sharply opposite.
The rider was Jessica, the child an
ecstatic fve-year-old she had picked up
on the fringe Of the town to canter IN
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-16
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP
TIERS,


CHAPTER david Stires, deter
mined to disinherit his scapegrace son
Hugh in favor of his blind ward, Jes-
sica Holme. is dissuaded by the girl
and Rev Harry Sanderson. The latter
who resembles Hugh greatly, sowed his
Wild oats with the younger StireS in
college, where he was known as Satan
Sanderson."
CHAPTER I.-Hugh returns and is
welcomed by his father. There is no
hope of Hugh'S reformation, but Jes-
slca, deceived by her blindness. loves
him: He plans to marry her.
CHAPTER Hillary lends him
CHAPTER IV.-Jessica is to marry
Hugh, and foreign surgeon is COM
Ing TO operate on her eyes. Jessica
whose sight is restored, is married to
Hugh, Harry officiating. although he
loves the girl. Immediately after the
ceremony Stires is informed that his
son has forged his name for $1,000.
CHAPTER Wary. sent upstairs
toTbring Jessica to the old man, is mis-
taken by her for her newly welded hus-
band. He kisses her.
CHAPTER VI.-Hugh fees, and Jes-
sica reproaches Harry for having led
him in evil ways in college. Stires signs
the will disinheriting Hugh.
CHAPTER VII and VIIL-Nearly n
year has passed. Hugh, who has been
In the mining country, returns and re-
proaches Harry for his downfall. The
minister in an effort to save him plays
cards with him on the altar table Har-
ny stakes gold and the spendthrift
waxen waters, each one representing
a day of decent living.
CHAPTER IX.-Hallelujah Jones' an
itinerant preacher, spies on the game
and breaks in on it with Harrys
bishop Hugh vanishes and Harry
jumps into an automobile for a swift
ride.
CHAPTER X.-The minister's car
falls into the river. and he is hurt
Harry. wakes to fin dhimself uncon-
scious of his own identity in a freight
car with tramps. He wears a ring
with his initials, III. s." but they sig
nifty nothing to him.
CHAPTER XI-JesSica, accompany
Stires, who is in poor health. is in
mountain sanitarium overlooking the
Little Paymaster claim and the town
of Smoky Mountain. In town she hears
the name Hugh Stires execrated.
CHAPTER KILN Smoky Mountain
Harry is taken for Hugh. He whips
Devlin, the town bully, Jessica wit
Messing the fight. His part is taken by
Tom Fielder, attorney.
Harry is struck by stone hurled at
him by one of the mob.
CHAPTER XIV.-JeSsica and Prem
dergast, Hugh's partner. take Harry
whom they both mistake for Hugh, to
the latters cabin.
CHAPTER XV.-Jessica is worried
by her supposed husbands illness and
goes to his cabin. Jessicas love for
Hugh returns.
CHAPTER XVI-Prendergas hints
to Harry of the shady source of the
money accumulated by the former and
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His fingers shaking with the black
rage in his heart. Prendergast gath
cred his few belongings. rolled them In
the white horse skin which he drew
from beneath his bunk and wrapped
the whole In a blanket He fastened
the bundle in pack strap. slung 1t
over his shoulder and left the cabin.
He settled his burden and went rapid
ly down the trail, turning over in bis
mind his future schemes.
AS 1t CHANGED. there was one who
saw his vinUctfve face. Jessica,
crouched on the Knob. had seen him
come and now depart, pack on back,
and guessed that the pair had parted
company. Her whole being famed
with sympathy. She could see his
malignant scowl plainly from where
she leaned. screened by the bushes.
1t terrified her. What had passed be-
tween them in the cabin? She left
the Knob wondering.
All that evening she was i'll at ease.
At midnight, sleepless, she was look.
ing out from her bedroom window
across the phantom peopled shadows,
where on the face of the pale sky the
stars trembled like slow tears. AK.
iety and dread were in her heart; a
pale phantom Of fear seemed lurking
in the shadows; the night was full Of
dread.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-16

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 fifght-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 hollow ravine
to the southward-he could see it from
the cabin doorway-a stretch of break
neck road only mile ahead Could
the child hold on? Could he distance
those frenzied hoofs in time? The ar
row of the indicator stole forward on
the dial.
Far behind as the crowd watched a
cry rose from the hotel balcony. 1t
was Barney McGinn. the freighter.
with a glass at his eye. Hes gain
ing" he shouted He has almost
overtaken the horsev'
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
noiseless swiftness. Harry had re-
served with the nicely of practiced
hand last Increment of speed With
the front wheels at the horses flank.
he drew suddenly on this. As the car
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-16
(To be Continued.)
It Does the Business.

E. E. Chamberlain of Clinton,
Maine, says Of Bucklen's Arnica Salve:
ut does the business; l have used it
for piles and it cured them. Used it
for chapped hands and it cured them.
Applied it to an old sore and it healed
ii without leaving a scar behind" 25
cents at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-16

=
E- Stires and his apparent
curious transformation
was the prime subject of conversation.
For half year the place had known
but one other event as startling. That
was the finding some months before
of dead body-that of q comparative
stranger in the p!ace-thrust beneath
a thicket on Smoky mountain, on the
very claim which now held Prender
CAST and his partner.
The "amen corner" of the Mountain
Valley House had discussed the pros
and cons eXhaustively. There were
many who sneered at the loss Of MEM
DRY and took their cue from Devlin.
who, smarting from his humiliation
and nursing venom, revamped suspi-
cions wherever he showed his battered
face. In his opinion Hugh Stires was
playing a slick game"
"Your view is colored by your preju-
dices, DevIin." said Fielder. Hes been
blackleg in the past-granted. But
give the devil his due. AS for the
other ugly tale. there's no more evil
dence against him than there is
against you or mep'
'They didn't find the body on my
ground" had been the others surly
retort. land didn't clear out the day
before either"
The phenomenon. however, whether
credited or poohpoohed. was a draw
ing card. More than a few found oc-
CASTOR to climb the mountain by the
hillside trail that skirted the lonely
cabin. These as likely as not saw
Prendergast lounging in the doorway
smoking. while the younger man
worked leading a trench along the
brow of the hill TO bring the water
from Its intake. which Harry's quick
eye had seen was practicable.
The spectacle Of Hugh Stires, who
had been used to pass his days In the
saloons and his nights In even less be-
coming resorts, turned practical miner
added touch of opera bouffe to the
situation that to degree modulated
the rigor of dispraise. 1t was the con
sensus of opinion that the new Hugh
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-16

e SeuSatlOuS
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 obscurity, 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 moment as he put on his hat,
smiling whimsically, a little sadly.
He dreaded entering the town. But
| there could be no remedy in conceal
| ment. If he was to live and work
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 it there was
good reason for hesitation today. Ear
ly that morning an angry rumor had
disturbed the town. The sluice of the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-16

through with me-" he glowered, "and
you think you can go it alone" The
old suspicion leaped in the malicious
countenance. 'sWeli. it won't pay you
to try 1t yet. l know too much! Do
you understand? know too muchr'
Harry went out of the cabin. At the
door he turned. 1T there is anything
you own here" he said, take 1t with
you. You needn't be here when come
back"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-16


dergast's Shout
der and turned
him forcibly to-
ward the open
door. His other
hand pointed. and
his suppressed
voice said: "This
cabin has grown
too small for us
both. The town
will suit you bet
ter" So
Pr e n dergast
shrank before the
wrath whitened
face. the danger
| Gus sparkle In the
| eyes. you've got
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-16

he lifted the child from the saddle.
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 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
q little, from Harry's hands. One
long look passed between them-a look
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-16
81 Chapter hi I7Az
~

HE little town had been
unconsciously grateful
for its new sensation.
The return Of Hugh
Stires and his apparent
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-03-12
Cambridge

Farm horses are in great demand in
this vicinity. ] II Townsend and Fred
Lohmaier each sold a car load last week
at good prices. This does not look as
if the automobile will displace the
equine very soon.
The sounding of the fire alarm last
Tuesday evening created a little ex-
element. The cause was small blaze
in the Martin Jarlesberg home. A lamp
placed too near a window set fire to
lace curtain. The fire was put out
without the aid of the fire department
and the damage was but little.
DR. Bilstad accompanied Ruben Olson
to Rochester, MINI, on Monday, where
the latter was to be submitted to an
operation for ulcer of the stomach at
Mayo Brothers hospital. The hospital
was crowded and as Is operations were
booked ahead they returned home, but
will go again next week when the Op
GRAFTON will be performed.
The farmers institute and cooking
school held in Cambridge last Thursday
and Friday was carried out according
to the published program and was a
success from every standpoint, and the
auspices it was held, can feelS@ustly
elated over the result. In response to
the prizes offered for the best ten ears
of corn brought to the institute, four
teen exhibits were entered and the in
stitute conductors stated that it was
the best showing of corn they had seen
this winter. First and second prizes
were given on white dent and the same
on yellow dent also prize for the
largest ear. The institute conductors
acted as judges and in making the
awards took into consideration the uni
formity of the ten ears, uniformity of
kernels on the ear, depth of kernel and
brightness and firmness of ear. On
White Dent Wisconsin No. 7 Lars 0
Lem & Son carried off the first prize,
while Lars Lee was awarded second.
On Yellow Dent M Jacobson secured
first award and John Holiness second.
Ernest Stark was given the prize for
the largest ear of corn, which was Of
the Iowa Silvermine variety.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-03-12
Deafness Cannot he s,ures,

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an infiamed con-
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus.
tachian Tube. When this tube gets in
famed you have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is en-
tirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal con-
dition, hearing will be destroyed forever,
nine cases out of ten are caused by ca
tarrh, which is nothing but an inhamed
condition of tie mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of deafness Caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send fro circular, free.
f. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
gE Sold by druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-03-12
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
FRIDAY, MARCH IL, 1909.
CORRESPONDENCE
Milton Junction

Mrs Walter Anterior returned to her
home in California Wednesday. She
was accompanied as far as Chicago by
her father, Mr. Philip Cole.
Frank Maxwell has rented the farm
known as the Paxon place, recently
purchased by A M Hull, and will move
next week.
Roy Brandt, superintendent of the
Iron River, Mich, schools, is here visit
ing relatives and friends. He was a
pupil and graduate of our high school.
Will Williams is suffering from a
broken collar bone which he sustained
while returning from GAINESVILLE Tues
day night. He was late for the train
and just managed to make the car
steps. The vestibule doors were closed
and he was unable for some time to
make any of the trainmen hear him and
in the meantime his shoulder struck a
post near the track, causing the injury
Charles Henry Thorpe was born on a
farm in the north hart of the town of
Milton, Wis, July II, 1869. In 1873 he
came with his parents to Milton juno
ton where he has since resided. Most
of his life since he was eighteen years
of age was spent in the Milton Junction
schools after which he worked in his
fathers store until about four years
ago, when the store was sold. Since
that time he has been associated in
business with his brother, so that his
his whole life since he was about four
years of age has been spent in this vii
lage, where he became well known and
was highly esteemed. His familiar
form and upright, modest but cheerful
spirit will be greatly missed from the
business life of the community. He
was i'll only about week and after the
first few days he did not seem to suffer
much,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-03-12
EvsnsviIIe

Miss Mae Simmons returned Sunday
night from Chicago where she has been
the past week for medical treatment.
She resumed her school work Monday.
Mrs VIM Denison was called to Anti
och, Ill, Sunday, on account of the Sc
rious condition of George Denison, who
was compelled to go to Chicago hos
pital for an operation for appendicitis.
Homer Waite, a farmer living near
Brooklyn. was struck by freight train
on the G & N w road at Brooklyn Sat
urday night and seriously injured. He
was taken to hospital at Madison but
cannot live.
Fred Harten, the bold young bandit
from Evansville who, with Bert Kreug-
er, planned to rob Banker CIV Carpen-
ter at Brodhead last Saturday night
and after failing to carry out this de-
sign, committed a murderous assault
on George Chase of that city, stole a
handcar at Orfordville and unloaded and
carried home large quantity of dressed
pork, hams and boxes of tobacco from
a freight car in the G & N w train
which carried them from Alton back to
Evansville at an early hour Sunday
morning, made his escape from the
Green county Jail at Monroe after a
desperate attack on Sheriff H L Ball.
It seems that the Harten youth has a
tendency toward breaking the laws of
the state, and easily induced the Krue-
ger youth, who is not over bright men
tally, to commit series of robberies
over at Brodhead. Fred Harten was
captured at East Madison Saturday
night by Police Captain Davenport and
Detective Boyd. Since his escape Har-
ten has been eluding officers and was
laboring under the impression that
everyone he met was after him. Early
Saturday night he arrived at his home
in Evansville and after securing his
overcoat started for Madison on a
freight train.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-03-12
Stouqhton

Chris Kittilsen, son of Mrs Levi Kit
tilsen, will leave next Monday or Tues
day with car of household goods and
stock for N Yakima, Wash, where he
will engage in farming. His wife and
baby daughter will follow him in week
or two.
Mr. and Mrs Martin Penewell have
returned from a visit in Kansas and
Oklahoma, where they spent the time
with Mrs Penewell's brothers, Henry
and Martin banks, the land and cattle
kings" for they have thousands of
acres and thousands of cattle.
Nels Quale, who twenty or more
years ago, was a long-distance walker
of considerable repute in this section,
has conviction that he can still hold
his own as pedestrian against anyone
in the vicinity of Stoughton, and is
willing to arrange match with who
ever thinks himself better walker.
Mrs Claude Page, who couple of
weeks ago submitted to an operation at
the Stoughton Surgical hospital, and
before the operation was in precari-
Gus condition, is sitting up and will
soon be able to leave the hospital.
Miss Alma Lunde, the 12-year-old
daughter of K Lunde, east of town,
who off and on for more than six weeks
has been sufferer from appendicitis,
was operated on at the hospital Monday
by DR. Iverson, and is doing nicely.
What is probably the most remunera-
tive farming land in Dane county, con-
sidering the total acreage, is 4O-acre
tract belonging to Dell McNiel and
located about three and one-half
miles from Stoughton in the town of
Dunkirk. The property has paid him
at the rate of 6 per cent on valuation
of $500 per acre for period of twenty
two years. Besides this income Mr.
McNiel has paid his taxes and insurance
regularly each year and still has bal
ance of $500 remaining from the pro-
ceeds of crops raised on this highly pro-
ductive piece of property. He has not
set figure on the land and it is prob
ably not for sale.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-03-12
Auction.

will sell at public auction on what is
southeast of Stoughton, 6 miles north
west of Edgerton and J mile east of
Hanerville, on Wednesday, March II,
commencing at 10 a. M, the following
described property: Black gelding, II
years old, weight 1850; bay mare in
foal, II years old, 1850; bay mare in
foal 13 years old, weight 1850; bay
gelding 9 years old, weight 1850, nice
driver; gray gelding, weight 1900; bay
mare coming years old; 2 black colts
coming 2 years old; l yearling colt; IL
mich cows; two year old heifers COM
ing in; 8 two year old steers; year
ling steers; 2 yearling heifers; yearling
bull; sows; so chickens. Mccormick
mower, hay rake, corn planter, sullxy
pillow, walking pillow, pulverizer, corn
sulkys, seeder, drag, tobacco setter,
Prout hoe, tank and heater, single cuI-
tivator, hog rack, tobacco rack, hay
rack, top buggy runabout nearly new,
2 set work harness, single harness,
leather fynets, truck wagon, wagon
and box, double buggy, 2 bundling
boxes with press, corn shelter, dump
planks, milk cans, 2 heating stoves,
cook stove, feed manger, woven wire,
$85 cream separator. $50 bushels of
Swedish oats, 225 bushels barley, Is
tons yellow corn, timothy seed, Is tons
timothy hay, seed corn and straw.
Household furniture and other things
too numerous to mention.
MRS. S. M. Cook, Prop.
w. T. Dooley, Auct. 14w2
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-03-12

10 acre Tobacco farm, in city limits.
New tobacco shed, frame barn, frame
house, good we'll. Other farms for sale
or rent. For particulars write
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-03-12
GAINESVILLE

State Veterinarian Clark condemned
nine head of cattle in and about James
vile as being sufferers from tuberculo-
sis. One COW belonged to VIM Haight
IN the city, one to John Clark in the
town of Harmony and seven tests out
of herd of IA owned by Patrick Cow
an OF the town of GAINESVILLE were suf-
ferers from the disease. The cattle
will all be killed.
A letter received from John Weber,
who was taken to Chicago to the Pas
teur institute for treatment, states
that he is getting along nicely and that
the doctors say he will be able to come
home soon. Mr. Weber was bitten on
the 10th of the month and was taken to
Chicago on the 10th. In his letter he
tells of woman and five children, all
OF whom were bitten by dog and
brought to the institute for treatment.
The husband was also bitten and died
in three days. The family lived in Iowa
and that state paid all the expenses of
taking the injured persons to Chicago
for treatment. A man from Marinette
who was recently taken to the institute
when it was expected that he would
loC recover, Is also improving ana is
expected to get well.
Ray Marsden, who was sentenced to
serve term in states prison by the
municipal court here in 1901, has been
again sentenced to Waupun. He was
arrested in Madison last Thursday and
gave his name as John Cronin but later
gave his true name. He confessed to
having committed a number of burg
laries in Waukesha.