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Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-07-20
Immigrants HAVE NO
MONEY FOR TRAVELLING
Those Who Need Jobs Can't
Get TO Them -MCHdrg Thinks
Railroads Should Garry Aliens
at Cost While Everyone
Else Pays Fare.

Washington, July O.--Au appeal for
help from the farmers of the west to
the department of commerce and la
Dor, state that fifty thousand able
bodied men are needed daily to har-
vest the crops. Officials are helpless
to provide immigrant labor because
Of the penniless condition of the
aliens who are unable to reach the
locality where labor is needed. Assist
ant Secretary McHarg believes that
the only way to relieve the congested
centers of the alien population is for
the railroads to transport the immi-
grants at cost. to the sections where
employment can be found
Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-07-20
REMOVING DEAD
FROM COAL MINE
Three Bodies and Many Injured
Taken From Dca.h Trap.

Langendreer. Prussia, Iuly 20
The bodies of three dead, besides
many injured, have been recovered
after the fire damp explosion in
coal mine at Mansfield. Many arr
st'll unaccouutcd for.
Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-07-20
BOSTON WOOL
MARKET SLEEPY
summer Dullness Makes Trading
Slow--TerTitOries at 26 Cents

Boston, July 2O.-The summer dur
ness prevails IN the wool market A
quiet trade in territory grades is re-
ported in Montana and Wyoming
stock at 20 20 q cents. New Texas
stock is arriving and the price asked
is 2sQ30 orr72a73 on a secured ba-
sis. There is only a moderate call for
these grades.
Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-07-20
MGOpS PERISH At
CAHNONS MOUTH
Desperate Attack on Spanish Forces
Penetrated Even Wire Fences.

Melilla, Morocco, July 2O.-The at
tack by the Moorish tripesmen on the
Spanish forces Saturday night was
repulsed only after desperate fight
made a violent assault on a Spanish
battery, breaking through the barb u
wire defenses and falling at the
mouths of the cannon after hand-to-
hand lighting The attack lasted un-
III o'clock Sunday morning. The
Moors numbered 5000 and the Span-
ish 00O
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Prospects Excellent.

The best judges of investment con-
ditions, after careful study Of the en-
tire crop situation, a 5 reflected both
by the government figures here dis
cussed and reports from private
agents, take very hopeful view Of
the outlook. Should 90 per cent of
the present crop promise be retained
until harvest the result would be
tremendous addition to the country's
wealth and continued prosperity to
the farming classes which have long
been among the most well-to-do pco-
pie in the world. The promise OF this
prosperity is at the bottom of the
steady increase in security values and
the cautious optimism which is felt
everywhere in the United States to-
day. General business is improving
gradually-there have been no tre-
mendous strides vet made-and with
the adjournment of Congress and the
enactment of tariff measure this
betterment will be emphasized in all
lines. The railroads have a good deal
OF new financing 10 provide for with
in the next two or three months. but
the disposition is not 10 make excess
siye emission OF TO test the market
TOO Idi WINE tneie mas Dttn great
deal or liquidation I'm the stock mar
ket by those who desired to secure the
handsome profits made during the re
cent rise, there has been ready alb
sorptiou Of all the stocks that were
offered so that no Generalization
whatever has resulted. The bond
market so far has also stood the test
OF an enormous volume Of prOfit-tak-
ing sales, the offerings being largely
from banks and other financial insti-
tutions that have been constant buy
ers OF bonds during the last year Of
very cheap money. These investments
were natural inview of the fact that
the investment return on the securi-
ties bought was much above the re-
turn afforded by the money market.
but with the appreciation in the
Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-07-20
MONEY MOVES FROM
EAST TO MIDDLE WEST
General High Prices Indicate Pros
porous Year. Money Cheap and
Big Surplus tn Hands of
New York BdnkerS--In-
teresting Letter.

New York, July 2O.-The following
financial letter which is more of
general review oe conditions in all
lines. has just been sent out by one
of the largest banking houses in this
city, and, it is believed, to be one of
the most conservative and accurate
reports of the present season:
The turn of the half year found the
security markets still active with firm
prices, which within the last fortnight
have again reached record levels for
some issues. The semi-annual divi-
dend and interest settlement was ad-
iusted without difficulty, although
payments to be disbursed this month
are likely to reach 5000. 900, 600. July
usually represents a transition period
in the American markets and while
investors have been cautious making
careful purchases. the situation has
been immensely helped by the gov
ernment crop showing which is quite
extraordinary for this season. Inas-
much as the prosperity of the United
States is so largely based upon boun-
tiful harvests, the important points in
the crop situation are worth sum-
marizing at this time. They are: The
best aggregate crop showing that the
country has ever known, the indica-
tions being for total yield of 5.062,-
10000 bushels of all grains. or 722,-
000,000 bushels more than the har-
vest of 1908, and 220,000,000 bushels
in excess OF the total production of
1906, when the record breaking out
turn of 100000 bushels was
achieved. Corn will be the bumper
crop, the promise now being for 81
117,000,000 bushels, which would
make by far the largest crop on rec
ord; wheat gives indications of 693,-
600, 900 bushels for both spring and
winter, which is nearly S0,000,000
bushels above last years harvest; and
oats makes the best showing ever
provided at this date, with a promise
of a crop of 1,O30,000,O00 bushels.
These figures are very striking and
because of the favorable weather
prevailing throughout the crop terri
tory the indications are that the total
yield of all grains will be sufficient to
meet home requirements and provide
a fair eXportable surplus. Inasmuch
as the markets are virtually bare of
supplies. with exceptionally small
stocks on hand, the new grain will be
certain to command relatively high
prices The cotton crop is not doing
as well, but it is altogether too early
yet to justify the eXtravagant predic-
tions recently made OF a greatly re-
duced yield.
Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-07-20

Denver CoIs., July 20, local shswss
tonight or Wednesday.
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TRAIN ARRIVALS

No. I-7.45 P. m. zT\
No A. $50 p. m ~
No. 7--.Io. IS p. m.
No. g. $40 p. m. ~
No. c--tL4S p. m.
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after the other end. He's narrow but
he is straight. I've made it worth his
while. Some loose ends-it can't be
helped now. Maybe you'll find out
there are more difficulties in admins
tering big fortune than you fancied {;
and that it isn't the easiest thing in
the world helping fools who can't
help themselves. There are
all those Tidewater idiots . made
me read about you'll have to
attend to them, Mercer =. old
woman in the queer clothes
chorus girl those
old ladies who who had one egg be-
tween them for breakfast
you'll see to them all?"
YES" said Mercer, looking down
on the shrunken features with look
of pain and bewilderment. Eyes, sub,
I'll do my best
"And-we're even?"
81 reckon I'm obliged to call it So
suh," returned Mercer, with long
gasping sigh, "but-my Lord? you'd
better have let me go!"
Very likely" said Keatcham, dryly
"the city needs me. Well, Winter
you must look after that I've been
thinking why man throws his life
away as l did; he has to, unless he's
poltroon. He can't count whether
he's more useful than the one he
saves he has simply got to
save him you were good
deal right, Winter, about not doing
the evil thing to get the good. No
it's bad time for me to be taken; but
it's an honorable discharge.
Helen will be glad you know
I'm not a pig, Winter dc
what l tried to do where's
my kind nurse?" Janet was trying
by almost imperceptible movements
to edge a pillow under his shoulders;
he was past turning his head, but his
eyes moved toward her. 1--WE left you
wedding gift If
lived given to you; but made
it safe, anyhow. Mercer?"
His voice had grown so feeble and
came in such gasps from his torn and
laboring chest that Mercer bent close
to his lips to hear the struggling sen
fences. Mercer" he whispered, 81
want just tell you
you didn't convert mel"
Thus, having made amends to his
own will, having also, let us humbly
hope, made amends to that greater
and wiser Will which is of more mer-
ciful and wider vision than our weak
ness can comprehend. Edwin Keatch'
am very willingly closed his eyes on
earth.
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SYNOPSIS.

Rupert Winter, U. S. A., visiting, saw the
suicide of young Mercer. He met Cary
Mercer, brother of the dead student.
Col Winter overheard Cary Mercer APP
parenty planning to kidnap Archie, the
co!onels ward, and to gain possession OF
Aunt Rebecca Winters millions. Miss
Smith was mentioned apparently as
conspirator. A great financial magnate
was aboard the train on which Col. Win
ter met his Aunt Rebecca, Miss Smith
and Archie Col. Winter learned that the
financial magnate is Edwin s. Keatcham.
Winter, aided by Archie cleverly frus-
trated a hold-up on the train. He took
ously disappeared in Frisco, Blood in
nearby room at the hotel caused fears for
the boys life The lads voice was heard
ute later a wOmans voice-that OF MISS
Smith. Col. Winter and a detective set
out for the empty mansion owned by
met with an explosion within. Mercer
appeared He assured Winter that Archie
had returned. The colonel saw vision
fitting from the supposedly haunted
house 1t was Miss Janet Smith. Col;
Winter to himself admitted that he loved
Miss Smith. Mercer told Winter that
Archie had overheard plans for a coup
friends on returning the boy to his aunt
had been arrested for speeding and when
he returned from the police station 10 ms
auto the lad was gone Mercer confessed
~ was forcibly OBTAINING Keatcham.
Mercer told his life story, relating now
Keatcham and his scoundrel secretary,
Atkins. had ruined him. the blow killing
his wife Mercer was holding him prison.
err in order that he could not get control
of a railroad which was the pet project OF
the father of his college friend. Endicott
Tracy Aunt Rebecca saw Archie in a
cab with two men Then he vanished.
She followed in an auto into the Chlnese
district and by the use of a mysterious
Chinese Jade ornament she secured a
promise from an influential Chinaman
that the boy would be returned Archle
returned and told his story, Atkins. for
mer secretary to Keatcham, being MS
second kidnaper. Col. Winter ana Tracy
returned to the "haunted house They
found Keatcham. apparently stabbed to
death Keatcham was not dead, now
ever. Cary Mercer appeared on the scene
Winter believing his actions suspicious.
The party removed to the Arnold home
They feared Atkins gang. The colonel
became temporary secretary to the mag
nate. A Black Hand letter was received.
The real characteristics of the great
financier were revealed. The puzzle or
the story fell into place, the blame Tor
the crimes being lifted from MERGERS
shoulders and placed upon Atkins. Love
of Miss Smith and Col. Winter FOR eacn
other was plainly seen by other members
of the party. Col Winter and Miss
Smith became engaged. Keatcham eX-
hibited great kindness toward both; me
following morning the terrible San Fran
cisco earthquake. quickly followed by
fire. aroused the party from their SUM
bCrS,
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An unsavorx Charity.

In all the cafes and beer halls OF
Germany a large canister is placed on
a table in the center of each establish
ment Every time one of the guests
lights a fresh cigar he gets up and
deposits in the canister the end Of the
one he has just been smoking. This
receptacle is a sort Of alms-box with
a funnel-shaped lid. secured by means
of a paddock. A charitable association
supplies all places OF public resort
with these boxes for the purpose OF
collecting odds and ends of tobacco.
cigarettes and cigars. The produce
Of the sale is devoted to the purchase
Of clothing, which is distributed
among poor children at Christmas.
The charity is believed to be the most
malodorous and unsanitary on record.
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anese. running in from the carriage
side. She cannot tell whether Tracy
or Arnold reached the mangled crea-
ture on the pavement first. Arnold
only remembers how the carriage robe
tapped in Tracy's shaking hands be-
fore he flung it over the man. Tracy's
fair skin was a streaky, blush white,
and his under jaw kept moving up
there and down like that of fish out
of water, while he gasped, never ut
tering sound.
Young Arnold was trembling so that
his hands shook when he would have
raised the wounded man. Mercer
alone was composed although deathly
pale. He had the presence of mind to
throw the harmless fragments of the
bomb into the fountain and 10 examine
the interior of the car lest there
should be more of destruction hidden
therein. Then he approached the heap
on the flags; but Keatcham was able
to motion him away, saying in his old
voice, not softened in the least:
Don't you do that! I'm all in. No
use. They got me. But it won't do
them any good; you boys know that
will you witnessed; it gives a fifty
thousand for the arrest and conviction
or the killing of Atkins; his own cut
threats will betray him for that But
where's Winter? You damn careless
fools didn't let him get hurt?"
"Shure, sor, he didn't let himsilf
git hurled" Haley blurted out; he had
run in after Miss Smith, brandy bottle
in hand "tis the numbering dagoes
Is gettin' hurted off there behind the
big rubber trees; / kin see the dead
legs of thin. this minnit. 'Tis grand
cool shot the colonel is, sor.'
Bring him in, let them go; they
were only TOOLS painted Keatcham
weekly; but the brandy revived him;
and his lips curIed in faint smile as
the teaspoonful of water for her hypo-
dermic. Make it good and strong,
give me time to say something to
Mercer and Winter-there he comes;
good runners those boys are!"
Tracy and Arnold. acting on COM
mon unspoken impulse, had dashed
after Winter and were pushing him
forward between them. Keatcham was
nearly spent, but he rallied to say the
words in his mind He kept death at
bay by the sheer force of his will.
When Winter knelt down beside him,
with a poignant memory of another
time in the same place when he had
knelt beside seemingly dying man,
and gently touched the unmarried right
hand lying on the carriage-robe, he
could still form a smile with his stiff
lips and mutter: only thing about
me isn't in tatters; OF course you
touched it and didn't try to lift
me where I'm all in pieces. You
always understood. Listenl You,
too. Mercer. Winter knows the
things I'm bound to have go through.
I've explained them to him. You'll
be my executors and trustees? A
hundred thousand a year. not too
big a salary for the work-you can do
II. It's a bigger job than the army
one. Winter. Warnebold will look
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rious Winter could have laughed at
the grotesque reversal of their condi-
tons; Tracy and Arnold did laugh;
they were all taking their orders from
the man who had been their defeated
prisoner a little while back. Mercer
alone kept his melancholy poise; he
had obtained the aim of years; he was
not sure but his revenge was subtler
and completer than he had dared to
hope. Being zealot he was pos
sessed by his dreams. Suppose he
had converted this relentless and ire
mendous power to his own way of
faith; what mightn't he hope to &C
complish? Meanwhile, so far as the
business in hand was concerned, he
believed in Keatcham and in Keatch-
ans methods of help he bowed to
the innate power of the man; and he
was as simply obedient and loyal as
Kito would have been to his feudal
lord.
In a very brief time all the arrange
ments were made; the four men went
into the patio to enter the touring car.
They walked up to the empty machine.
The colonel stepped into the front
seat of the machine Something in
the noise of the engine which was
painting and straining against its con-
troll, some tiny sibilant undertone
which any other ear would have
missed, warned his; he bent quickly.
A dark object gyTated above the
heads of the other two Just mount
ing the long step; 1T landed with
a prodigious splash in the foun-
tain, flying into multitude OF
suffering atoms and hurting great
column of water high up in air. I'm
needing its shrieking clamor, the SOL
der sprang over the side of the car.
darted through the great arched door
way out upon the terrace toward a
clump of rubber trees. He fired; again
he fired.
In every catastrophe the spectators
minds lose some parts of the action.
There are blanks to be supplied by no
one. Every one of the men and wom-
en- present on that fatal morning had
a different story. Colvin was packing;
he could only remember the deafening
roar and the shouting; and when he
got downstairs and saw-he turned
deadly sick; his chief impression is
the backs of people and the way their
hands would shake. Janet Smith, in
side. dressing Haley's wounds, was
first warned by the tumult and cries;
she as well as Archie and Haley who
we're with her could see nothing until
they got outside. All Mrs. Melville
saw was the glistening back of the car
and Mercer stepping into the car and
instantly lurching forward. The ex-
plosion seemed to her simultaneous
with MERGERS entering the car. But
Mrs. Rebecca Winter, who perhaps
had the coolest head of all, and who
was standing on the dais of the arcade
exactly opposite the car. distinctly
saw Keatcham with an amazing exer.
ton Of vigor for a man just risen from
a sick-bed, and with a kind OF whirl-
ing motion. literally hurl Mercer out
OF the car. She heard the crackle
and a roar and Kito screamed in Jap
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From Mrs. Reoecca Winter to Mrs.
John S. G.. Winslow,
Fairport, Ia.
And it was delightful to discover
that you were so distressed about me.
| must be getting trife maudlin in
my old age, for l have lump in my
throat every time | have thought of
Johnny and you actually starting out
to find me; | am thankful my tele-
gram please, Peggy, do not call 1t
wire again-to me! loathe these
verbal indolences) reached you at
Omaha in time to stop you.
Really, we have not had hardships.
Thanks to Israel Putnam Arnold!
have a very admiring gratitude for
that mani In these days of degener-
acy he builded a stanch enduring
house. With union labor, too!
don't see how he contrived to do it.
Generally, when they build houses
here, they scamp the underpinning
and weaken the joists and paint over
the dirt instead of washing it off; and
/ otherwise deserve to be killed. The
unfortunate man opposite had just
that kind of house, which tumbled
down and burned up, at once; but,
alas! it killed some of the people in
it. not the guilty masons and carpen-
tersi
Our chimneys nave been inspected
and we are now legally as well as
actually sound; but we did not suffer.
We cooked out on the sidewalk, and
supplemented our cooking with young
Tracy's stove.
told you of Janet's engagement.
Confidentially, my dear Peggy, | am
bit responsible They met by chance
on the train; and | assure you, al
though chance might have parted us,
I did not let it. chung to Nephew
BERTHE. I'm sure he wondered why.
knew better than to let him suspect.
But success you can't share is like a
rose without a smell. So confess to
you. have made this match. But
when you see Millicent she will tell
YOU that she helped things along. She
has abused Janet like a pickpocket;
but now, since she has discovered
Janet didn't draw the Daughters carl
cature of her, she regards her as one
of the gems Of the century.
We are recovering from the terri
BILE events of which we wrote. 1t is
certainly relief that Atkins is killed.
He was one of the two scoundrels who
sneaked into the patio and put the
bombs into the automobile. BERTHE
shot him. You have no doubt heard
all about Mr.. Keatcham's death. He
was killed by the man whose wicked
nesa he had unconsciously fostered.
He did not know It, but I make no
doubt his swollen fortune and the I'M
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CHAPTER xvIII.-continued.

The colonel, however, had barely set
foot on the threshold when Mrs. Mel
vile appeared, propelling Randall,
whom she had rescued from the maids
closet where she was covering behind
her neat frocks, momentarily expect
ing DEATH but decently ready for 1t In
gown and shoes. Mrs. Melville her
self. in the disorder of the shock, had
merely added her best Paris hat and a
skeleton hustle to her dainty night
gear. She had not forgotten her
kimono; she had only forgotten to don
it; and it draggled over her free arm.
But her dignity was intact The in
slant she beheld her kindred she de-
manded of them, as if they were re-
sponsible, whether this Was a sample
of the Californian climate. Keatcham
blushed and fled with Colvin and the
giggling Arnold and Archie, who was
too polite to giggle
Mrs. Winter put on her eyeglasses.
"Millicent," said she in the gentlest of
tones, your hustle is on crooked
One wild glance at the merciless
mirror in the carved pier-glass did
Mrs. Melville give, and, then, without
a word, she fed
Randall" said Mrs. Winter, you
look very nice; come and help me
dress. There will most likely be some
more shocks"
81. Randall. trembling in every limb,
but instinctively assuming a COM
posed mien, followed the undaunted
old lady.
The colonel was going in another
direction, having heard a telephone
bell. He was most anxious to put him
self into communication with Birdsall.
because not even during the earth
quake had he forgotten an uglier peril;
and it had occurred to him that Atkins
was of a temper not to be frightened
by the commissions of order; but rather
RI make his account of 1t. Nor did the
message through the telephone tend
to reassure him.
The man at the other end OF the
telenhone was Birdsall. No telling
how long the telephone service would
keen I'D, he reported; wires were down
around the corner; worse, the water
mains we're spouting; and from where
he stood since he felt the first shock
he had counted SO fires. Ten of them
were down in the quarter where some
of his men had homes; and field
GLASS had shown that the houses were
all tossed about there; he couldn't
keen his men steady; it seemed inhu-
man TO ask them to stay when their
wives and children might be dying; oil
course It was his damn luck to have
all married men from down there.
"Wen. 1 reckon you will have to let
them go; but watch out, begged the
colonel. for you know the men we are
after will take advantage of general
disorder to get in their dirty work
Now is the most dangerous time"
Happily, Archie" explained Tracy
,ybose unauenchable college levity ne
earthquake could affect. happily m,
domestic jewel has been stocked VI
With rice and oatmeal, two Of the mos
ontritious of foods; and Miss Janet Il
natinq coffee on her travelling cofe'
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CHAPTER XIX.
from a Letter.

ENtTdCt TTUTII ICeSS''
From Mrs. Reoecca Winter to Mrs
John S. G.. Winslow,