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Lily that 1t was time to turn in If they
wished to get any rest before the mos
quitoes got bad again, then sauntered
away from the fire and spread his
blanket. The rest followed and made
down their beds, then. drawing or
gloves and hat nets and rolling them
selves up In their coverings, fell to
snoring-all except the trader, who
lay for hours on his back staring up at
the stars, as if trying to solve some
riddle that baffled him.
They awoke early and in half an
hour had eaten. remade their packs
and were ready to resume their march.
AS they were about to start Gale said:
81 reckon we'd better settle right
now who has the choice Of locations
when we get up yonder. I've been on
stampedas wha-" :. saved a heap of
hard Ieenny.~
I'm agreeable" said Stark. Then
there won't be any misunderstanding
The others. being likewise old at the
game. acquiesced. They knew that in
such cases grave trouble has often oc-
Cured when two men have cast eyes
on the same claim and have felt the
miners causeless bunch" that gold
lies here or there or that the ground
one of them covets is wanted by the
other
''I'll hold the straws." said Lee. land
every Teller will have an even break."
Turning his back on the others. he cut
four splinters of varying lengths, and.
arranging them SO that the ends peep
ed evenly from his big hand. he held
them out.
1.-THE longest one has the first choice,
and SO on he said, presenting them
to Gale. who promptly drew the long
est of the four He turned to Doret,
but the Frenchman waved him cour-
teously to Stark. and when both he and
Runnion had made their choice Lee
handed him the remaining one. which
was next In length to that of the
trader Stark and Runnion qualified in
the order they drew, the latter ours
ing his evil luck.
Never min, ole man." laughed Pole
on; ''de las shot she's de sure wan"
They took up their burdens again
and filed toward the narrow valley.
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- THE }
AyBARRlER1
By
REX BEACH

CHAPTER John Gale is a trad
er at Flambeau, rough outpost of
civilization in Alaska. His daughter
Necia is a beautiful young girl, gen.
orally believed to be a half breed,
daughter of Gale and the Indian
squaw Alluna, with whom he lives.
Some hidden burden weighs continu-
ally on the traders mind, and he
views with apprehension the arrival
of squad of soldiers at Flambeau.
THAT means the law" he says IN
easily to Necia, who has become &C
quainted with and admired by Lieu
tenant Burrell, commander of the
soldiers. lit becomes known that
Napoleon Doret, an honest, faithful
French Canadian employed by Gale,
is deeply in love with Necia. One
Runnion, a dissolute gambler and
bad man." arrives at Flambeau by
steamer and in a fight with Burrell
is worsted and forced to leave the
town. On the departing steamers
deck he menacingly says, II will re-
turn to take a hand in the game. l"
III.-Doret gives Necia handsome
silk gown brought by him from Daw-
son City for her. Arrayed in this,
she meets Lieutenant Burrell, who
falls madly in love with her, and he
wonders if her blood is really faint
ed. Gale reasserts that she is the
illegitimate daughter of himself and
the squaw. IV.-Runion returns with
Ben Stark, a professional gambler
and man killer with plenty of money.
Stark builds a saloon and dance hall
at Flambeau. 'No Creek" Lee dis
covers gold in a valley some miles
distant, and Necia persuades Burrell
to take her there and locate claim
for her, their trip requiring a day
and a night in the forest. ", vi.
and VII.-Gale, Lee, Runnion and
Stark have gone together to the site
of Lees discovery to locate claims.
They are met by Necia and Burrell
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THE BURRELL CODE.
YOT until his dying day will
~ Burrell lose the memory of
1 that march with Nicola through
the untrodden valley. and vet
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and a bitter quarrel ensues. Run
MON and Stark conspire to rob Necia
of her claims. Runnion wants the
girl, and Stark finds that Necia has
strange, unexplainable fascination
for him. His baby daughter had
been stolen years before. Burrell be-
comes the declared enemy of both
Stark and Runnion. A gun held by
Gale is discharged, the bullet acct
dentally, he claims, narrowly missing
Stark. VIII.-Gale knows Stark to
be an old enemy of his and father
of Necia, and Alluna, his squaw, says
kill Stark. Take the knife of my
father. To kill is the law" TX, x,
XII, XII. and XIII.-Nevia, believing
herself a half breed, fears she can
not marry Burrell, whom she loves,
as she learns that her tainted blood
will bar her from meeting the people
he naturally associates with, and she
overhears Burrell say he may not
marry her after all. Stark persuades
her to leave Flambeau after he his
covers her to be his daughter. XIV.
Gale tells Burrell of Necia's past
and that Stark has bounded him
from one section of the country to
another and that Stark does not now
recognize him as Gale. XIV. and XVI.
Stark sends Necia away in boat
with man she later discovers to be
the villain Runnion, and Stark, learn
ing Gales identity, wants Burrell to
arrest him. Stark goes to his own
house and there, meeting Gale, en-
gaes in a fearful duel in the dark
and is nearly killed by the trader.
Doret rescues Necia
from Runnion and leaves the latter
to die a horrible death. XVIII
Father Barnum arrives and marries
Necia and Burrell. XIX.-Doret,
'the man with the big heart" sails
away alone to forget his sorrows in
the wilderness.
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| calm ME, till he fall down Wen
paddle close up l dom know i'm no
more dan stranger, an ME an Johnnie
Plat is trap togeder wan winter.
Wat you t'ink Of data"
IL saw a fellow killed that way at
Holy Cross" interpolated the trader.
"'Hello!' / say. Watts de matterY
An den see something bout i'm dat
look familiar. Hees face she's all
swell up an bleedin' lax raw meat
The Frenchman curled his upper lip
back from his teeth and shook his
head at the remembrance.
"Jesu, OATS 'Orrible sight! Dem fly
| is drive i'm crazee Hees nose an ears
is look lax holes in beeg red sponge,
an bees eye are close up tight"
HE died before you got him in.
didn't hep
"Yes. He was good man too"
II guess you been purity glad for
| havin' Necia home again, eh?" ven
tured Poleon after awhile, unable to
| avoid any longer the subject upper
most in his mind.
Yes. I'm glad she's through with
| her schooling"
"She's gettin' purity beeg gal now"
That's right"
by an by she's goin' marry on
some feller-w'atY'
II suppose so. She amt the kind to
stay single"
"Ha! OATS right too. Mebbe you
dom care if she does get marry, eh?''
Not If she gets man that will
treat her right"
"Waal, wal! Deres no trouble
| bout dat" exclaimed Doret fervently.
mo man watts livin' could treat her
bad. She's too good an too purity for
have bad husban'."
"She is, is she?'' Gale turned on
| him with a strange glare in his eyes.
''Them's the kind that get the he dew
| lis. There's something about a good
girl that attracts bad man, particu-
| larly If she's pretty, and 1t goes dou-
| BILE too The good men get the hellions.
he can catch a good woman, and de-
! cent man usually draws critter that
| looks like sled and acts like timber
| wolf"
"Necia wouldn't marry on no bad
man." said Doret positively.
Neither man had ever spoken thus
openly to the other about Necia be-
| fore, and, although their language was
| indirect, each knew the others
thought But there was no time for
further talk now, for the others were
close upon them AS they came into
view Gale exclaimed:
"Well, If Lee hasn't brought Run
MON along"
"Humphw grunted Doret. Il don
fink much Of dat Teller"
| The three new arrivals dropped
down upon the moss to rest, for the
up trail was heavy. Lee was the first
to speak.
did you get away without bein'
SEEM" he.asked.
Sure" answered Gale. "Poleon has
been here two hours"
That's good / don't want nobody
taggin' along"
Runnion volunteered nothing except
oaths at the mosquitoes and at his pack
straps, which were new and cut him
| already. A. no explanation OF his
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ORCHARD
PROPERTY

80 ACRES-59 acres in timber, Of
which FL acres are under ditch.
5acres in orchard, Az acres in
bearing; largely Winesap apples.
IL acres in alfalfa; 4 acres more
ready for the plow. Good 4 room
house 24x26, stone foundation,
good cellar. Barn 2Ox30 It. Pack
Ing house. All fer $7,100. $4,000
cash will handle.
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had stalked beside him as he drifted
and drank from camp to camp, while
the gloom Of settled pessimism sour
ed him, and men began to shun him
because of the evil that seemed to fol-
low in his steps.
1--we been rainbow chasin' forty
years." he said, land never caught
nothin' but cramps and epidemics and
determinations. I'm the only miner in
Alaska that never made discovery of
gold and never had a creek named
after him
"Is that how you got your name?'
asked Runnion.
sit is. ] never was no good to my.
self nor moody else. / just occupied
space"
Finally Gale arose, remarking sleep
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CHAPTER V.
A STORY is BEGUN.

-
It's fonny ting how two brown eye
Was changin' everything
De cloud she's no more on de sky,
An winters JUS lax spring.
Dey max my pack so verys light.
De trail she's not SO long
I'd walk II forty mile tonight
For hear her sing wan song.
But now I'm busy max fortune
For marty on DAT girl.
An II she's tole me yass. OATS soon.
Bonheur! I'm own de WORT!
rOLEON DORET sang gayiy as
the trader came toward him
through the open grove of
birch, for he was happy this
afternoon, and. being much Of a
dreamer, this fresh enterprise awoke
in him boyish pleasure. Had not
this discovery Of "No Creek" Lees
been providentially arranged for his
own especial benefit? A fool could see
that this was a mark of celestial ap-
probation. and none but fool would
question the wisdom of the gods. Had
he not watched Necia grow from a
slip of thirteen and spoken never a
word of his love? Had he not served
and guarded her with all the gentle
chivalry Of an olden knight? Or
course! And here was his reward, a
gift of wealth to crown his service, all
for her.
"Whew," said Gale. slipping out of
his pack straps, 1.-The skeeters is badw
"You bet your gum boots" said Po-
leon. "Dey're mos so tick as de sum-
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fOteOh DOTet sang g1yty US |te auUt'
came tOlcdrd him.
mer day kill Johnnie Platt on de Por-
cupine" Both men wore gauntleted
gloves of caribou skin and head har-
nesses of mosquito netting stretched
over globalike frames Of thin steel
bands, which they slipped on over their
hats.
Lets see. 1t was you that found
him, wasn't it," said Gale.
Sure ting. I'm comm down for
grub in my canoe Wen / see dis Teller
on de bank walkin' lax he's in beeg
borry. 'Ba gar / say, 'dere's man
goin' so fast he'll meet hese'f comm
homer Den he turn roun' an go tear
in back, wayin' bees arms lax he's
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so ACRES acres in orchard,
acres in bearing, good varieties.
8 acres alfalfa. House 1890 it.,
with kitchen and dining room FAX
Is #. Bath. Water piped in
house. Barn 30x30 IT. All for
$1,000. $4,000 cash will handle
it.
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If you want your wife to love you
and have your meals on time, buy
her some Of those Beautiful Dishes
We are showing. Ten open stock
patterns to select from. Can sell YOU
a set from 800 to $4,000, and
IN GLASSWARE
GRANITEWARE
AND WOODENWARE
We Certainly Can Please You.
See our goods and our prices.
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Ladies' Linen suits

AT just one-half the regular price
are what we have left Of our Linen
and Repp Suits Here are a few
values in Suits which will be picked
up very quickly.
AT 80 30 is one White Suit
made in a good style thirty-six inch
coat with full skirt Was $500
AT SO. 80 are four Suits in colors,
are made Of a good quality linen I'm
ished goods, and in good styles. Are
Suits that sold at 1913.
At 81 IS are two Three.piece
Cotton Suits in blue They were a
very good value at 1915.
At 50 90 arc four Of our best
Repp Suits. made with an extra long
coat and Of a fine quality repp. Are
Suits that sold at $40 90.
AT So % are two Suits made Of
a fine quality Tepp. Are finished
with heavy lace insertion. Were
$40. So
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Will BE NO STRIKE.
chOcago Street Railroads Offer to In
crease Pay Within a Year.

Chicago, H., Aug 10 The crucial
point ID the dispute between the officials
of the street railway lines Of Chicago
and the 10000 employees was passed
yesterday BIZ the offer oi q maximum
scale of SO cents an hour 50 be paid by
August / l91i which was made ~
President John M Roach Of the North
and West side lines and the prompt ac-
eeptance az the same By President vii.
liam Qulnlin Of the North and West side
street car mons union, all possibility
Of q strike appears to be over.
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Ladies' Tailored suits

Here are few Suits Of exceptional
value, being in good eolOrs, and Of !
style that Is very much like the new
Fall suits, For an early Fall garment
you can more than Get your money
out Of them and still have a good
suit.
There are two Suits at less than
hali-price, Suits that sold for $40. 90.
now So 9S to close.
There are two Suits, in black. to
close at 50. 90. were regular SIS. 90
values.
AT So. 20 is one Suit in striped
worted material, is a 10 years size.
this was very good value at SO. So
AT 80 90 and $40 90 are few
good values in worsted Suits, made
very similar to the Fail styles. There
arc also few Of the better Suits in
this half-pricc sale
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Ladies' Separate Skirts

At one-half Of the original price
arc few Ladies Odd Wool Skirts,
these are a good styled skirts, but We
only have one Of size and they are
not the best selling sizes
your size is not here you cannot
do better than get one and have i ft-
ted to you.
When you can buy a good S.. 90
Wool Skirt at Sc 80 you cannot
afford to mend the old one
AT 81 30 arc few good values
in Skirts, that were So IS These
are a good style and the cloth is the
best We have had al the price.
AT So. 90 are a few odd Skirts, in
Blue, Black and Light CoIors, arc
good value at $1,000.
At Half-price are all Of our long
and short Goats many Of them arc all
right for Fall wear
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WAITS RIVER.

Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Curtis are visit.
ing friends in Barre.
d. B. Locke and son Allen Of Rutland
are in town for few weeks.
Mrs. Lucy A Foster Of Barre is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. o. $. Hodge.
Miss Gertrude Wood Of GFaniteville is
the guest Of her aunt, Mrs. 3. S. Locke
Mr. and Mrs n A. Mutt and daughter
Lola are spending the week visiting in
johnson and Morrisgille
Mrs l. Al Ranney has returned to her
home in Johnson, having been called here
BY the death Of her grandfather, David
S. Folsom.
AIRS. G. u Folsom left Wednesday
for Barton to spend few weeks with
before retaining to her home
in Readville. Mass,
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TALK OF THE TOWN.

There win be business meeting 81
the Labor day committee at 1880 thi.
evening in tea Quarry Workers rooms
IN the scampini building
Step in to-day and get delicious,
refreshing ice cream. Better still, take
home a quart 20 the folks The children
will greatly appreeiatlye ii Get it al
~TonyisH and you may be sure Of IFS
purity aud wholesomsness
S. j. segel and company offer dis
count on trunks for Saturday 81 Csc on
the dollar from former prices. Thus Il
81 trunk for So, a s. trunk for s875,
and now d a good time to buy trunk
and discard the old one. A large assort-
ment to choose from. Come early to,
morrow.
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A. p. Abbott O. CO.


It Is a curious aftermath OF the great
war between Russia and Japan ana 81
the vast program Of ambitious aggres-
sion which eliminated in the war that
the Japanese government has decided
to convert the Russian barracks az
Port Arthur into a high industrial
school ekolso gnkudol, The fact IL an.
nounced by the Oaicial Gazette. and
the numbers and ranks Of the officials
forming the faculty Of the school are
detailed The institution is to be under
the Jurisdiction OF the governor gen.
eral Of Kwangtung. Japan Nail.
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A Good Rssson.

To Justify his repeated use OF the
same wittioism, as noted in three Of
bis plays. ]. NJ Barrie says; I'VE
Scots abhor waste Did you never
hear Of the aged Saunders Carlyle,
who always drank of his whisky to
the last drop the instant It was pour
ed out for hinn?'
why do you drink down your
liquor fl that quick. greedy wayg a
stranger said to Saunders in a re-
proaehful tone.
:" 4 once bad one knocked over the
old man explained Modern Society
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IA. P. ABBOTT & co. Al n. ABBOTT & co. n
~The Daylight Store@
Our Quick Cleanup Sale.


half We have the Fall
coming IN this sale Ladies Tailored Suits Ladies
Repp
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The granite shed at Berlin i practi.
ealiy completed and stone cutting has
actually begun The erecting OF the
derrick was 10 small undertak king as
two stays had to be placed IN the lake
quite a distance from the shore.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-11-12
LITTLE GIRL FOlLS
GREAT BIG THIEF

NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-Through
the pluck of 1O-year-old Sadie
Friedman. Of Brooklyn, John Tay.
lor, six-foot negro, was arragned
in the Gates avenue court. where
he was held in $1,000 bail for
further examination.
While the child was sitting in
her fathers store, the negro tried
to steal roll of carpet. Sadie
caught sight of the escaping negro
and, running after him, she
grabbed him and succeeded in
clinging to his coattails until she
found where he lived. With her
father and policeman she went
to the place, but the negro was no
where to be seen. Inquiries were
made at a saloon, where the po
liceman was struck of the head by
cane and felled.
This proved the signal for a gen
eral fight and score of negroes
assailed the policeman and knock
ed him down. Other policemen
CAME to his aid and the thief was
arrested.
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CONTINUED
FEW FOR JURY
TO TRY GIRL SLAYER
FROM PAGE ONE.

of wealthy rancher Alma, barely
20, is a poor girl with a widowed
mother, in her declining years. The
mother, whose life the tragedy has
undoubtedly shortened, lives three
miles from Auburn. with the one
sister and four brothers of Alma.
The girl had known Armes since
childhood. Four years ago was
born her love for him, and what
she thought in he runtutored mind,
was his love for her. To use her
words to the writer before the COM
mencement of the night session of
court, she had gone with Joe" for
that length of time. She had
trusted him implicitly. He took
her to all the dances and parties
and for most of those four years
all was happiness for her. They
were engaged. She tsill wears the
ring which she says he gave her.
Last June a beautiful girl came
to visit the Armes family. Joe
showed this newcomer some atten-
ton and Alma's torture became
acute. On Decoration day Joe took
the rival to the events of the day,
1t had formerly been his custom to
devote all his time to Alma.
KILLING FOLLOWS.
The ignorance and state of mind
of the girl will be placed in evil
dence by letter which Alma
wrote to Mrs. Armes, on May 80,
in which she informed the mother
that her dear boy is going away
and be with the angels in the sky"
1t is disconnected. ungrammatical.
declaration that she had implored
Joe not to go with Minnie" and
referred to her intent to go with
Joe ito our home beyond the sky"
where they would be happy ever
more"
On the night of June 5 she went
to the cabin where Jos was living,
and after a scene in which her
lover tried to make her leave, he
finally went with her. A shot was
heard. then another. When the
sheriff found Armes' body. shot
through the heart, the girl was
crouched in the bushes nearby. She
said she had intended to kill her
self and appeared dazed.
The girls child was dead when
born in the county Jail, few
weeks after.
The girl prisoner does not seem
to realize the seriousness of her
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As TO ALIENS.

Editor Spokane Press-The bur-
den of the complaint against grant
Sng the right Of free speec hto the
industrial Workers Of the World
seems to be that they are largely
foreigners. l have heard several
men say, "Oh, yes, I believe in free
speech, free assembly and free
press, but then, you know, these
men are foreigners, hoboes and an
archists and what not" And yet
these men will insist that in this
glorious nation the law is no re-
spector of persons. Consistency,
thou art indeed a jewel!
If foreign birth implies criminal
1ty or degeneracy, then naturaliza-
ton Is not process capable of re-
moving the faint. The stigma of
foreign birth must attach itself to
the descendants of foreigners, to at
least lesser degree. Perhaps this
is an explanation of the sordid
traits of the American people. We
are all foreigners, more or less, in
degree.
An incident that occurred in a
Chicago street meeting illustrates
the point. The speaker was evi.
IDENTIFY Of foreign birth. A smart
aleck interrupted the speaker by
asking why don't you foreign pau.
pers remain in Europe instead of
coming here and raising trouble?'
The speaker replied by asking
"Where were you born, my friend? o.
4 "In Illinois,"
I where was your father born?'
Y SIN New York"
where was your grandfather
born?"
"In Germany"
81 thought So" retorted the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-11-12
Pastor Harlan White Hears
Scriptural Quotations
From Spouse.

MARION, Ind. Nov. 12.-The
Rev. Harlan White, Sc, with three
wives living. was arrested today
at the instigation of Mrs. Jennie
Field-White, wife No. 3. who follow
ed him from Newago, Mich, where
he deserted her two weeks ago.
After leaving Michigan, White
went to Osgood to endeavor to
make peace with wife No. 2, Mrs.
Rosa Hudson-White, but was unsuc-
cessful. He then came to this city.
When confronted with wife No.
3 at the police station today White
admitted he was bigamist, and Is
now held in custody.
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REVEREND RTCAMZST
CAUGHT BY WIFE NO. 3

While admitting he was not d.
vorced from wife No. 2, he insists
he was divorced from wife No. /.
who is Mrs. Rebecca e. Ruby
White, living at Indianapolis. He
married the first wife in Randolph
county and deserted her Is years
ago, she has one daughter, Mr}.
Pearl B. Gallon, who lives with the
mother.
When wife No. 3 met her hu$-
band at the police station this
morning she had a ruffled temper
and repeated the Scriptural quota
ton which her husband had used
when proposing to her relative To
the Son of Man having nowhere 10
rest his head. The conversation
between the two was spirited.
White produced all the money he
had and handed 1t over to the irate
woman
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speaker; you were a pauped three
generations before / was"
II we are to discriminate against
foreign born people, let us start by
removing the chief of police, two
thirds of the police force and one
half of the city council. j. E
Arnett.