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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-10-06

surprise that rose to his lips It was
the girl whom he had encountered at
the councillors cabin She was lean
ing forward as II in an agony Of sus-
pense, her eyes on the king, her lips
parted, her hands clutching at great
book which lay open before her. Her
cheeks were flushed with excitement
And even as he looked Captain Plum
saw her head fall suddenly forward
upon the table, encircled by her arms.
The heavy braid of her hair, partly
undone, glistened like red gold in the
lampllght. Her slender body was con.
vulsed with sobs. The woman near
est her reached over and laid a ca
ressing hand on the bowed head but
drew 1t quickly away as If at sharp
command.
In his eagerness Nathaniel thrust
his face through the foliage until his
nose touched the glass When the
girl lifted her head she Strengthened
back in her chalr-and saw him.
There came a sudden white fear in
her face, parting of the lips as If
she were on the point of crying out,
and then, before the others had seen,
she looked again at Strang She had.
discovered him and yet she had not
revealed her discovery! Nathaniel
could have shouted for joy. She had
seen him, had recognized hlml And
because she had not cried out she
wanted him! He drew his pistol
signaled for him, II she called him.
from its holster and waited If she
he would burst the window The girl
was talking now and as she talked
she lifted her eyes. Nathaniel pressed
his face close against the window,
and smiled. That would let her know
he was friend She seemed to an.
swer him with little nod and he fan
cied that her eyes glowed with
mute appeal for his assistance. But
only for an instant, and then they
turned again to the king. Not until that
moment did Nathaniel notice upon her
bosom bunch of crumpled lilacs.
From below the iron grip of the
councillor dragged him down.
That's enough" he whispered.
That's enough--for tonight" He
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-10-06
SYNOPSIS.

Captain Nathaniel Plum of the sioop
,Typhoon. lands secretly on Beaver is
land, Lake Michigan, stronghold of the
old man and councillor OF the Mormons,
who, has been spying on him, suddenly
confronts him and tells him he Is expect
ed. Plum insists he has got the wrong
man. Price ignores his protestations and
bargains for the ammunition on board
the sloop He binds Nat by a solemn oath
10 deliver package to Franklin Pierce,
president Of the United States. He agrees
to show Plum the Mormon town. St
James. Plum sees the frightened face
Price's cabin. She disappears, leaving an
odQr of lilacs. II develops that Plum's
visit TO Beaver island is to demand set
lootng of his ship some time previously
by men whom he suspected of being Nor
mons. Burke, his mate, has been left in
bard st. James II the captain does not re-
turn within a certain time.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-10-06
ereathIessIy He Looked In.

moment Captain Plum hesitated. I'm
der ordinary circumstances this spy
ing through a window would have
been repugnant to him. But at rres.
ent something seemed to tell him that
it was not to satisfy his curiosity
alone that Obadiah Price had given
him this opportunity. Would a look
through tnat little window explain
some of the mysteries of the night?
There came low whisper in his
ear
do you smell lilac, Nat? Eh?"
In another instant Captain Plum
had stepped upon the object beneath
the window and parted the leaves.
Breathlessly he looked in. A strange
scene met his eyes. He was looking
into vast room, illuminated by
huge hanging lamp suspended almost
on level with his head. Under this
lamp there was long table and at
the table sat seven women and one
man. The man was at the end near
est the window and all that Nat could
see was the back of his head and
shoulders. But the women were in
full view, three on each side of the
table and one at the far end. He
guessed the man to be Strang; but he
stared at the women and as his eyes
travelled back to the one facing him
at the end of the table he could
scarcely repress the. exclamation OF
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-10-06

saw the pistol in Nathaniel's hand and
gave sudden GREATNESS cry.
"Nat-Nat-"
He caught Captain Plum's free hand
in his.
Tell me this, Obadiah Price," whis-
pered the master of the Typhoon,
who is she?"
The councillor stood on tiptoe to an
swer.
They are the wives of strang,
Natl"
But the other?" demanded Nathan
lei. The other
20, to be sure, to be sure" chuckled
Obadiah. "The girl of the lilacs Ell?
Why. she's the seventh wife. Nat
that's all. the seventh wife,"
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-10-06
ITO BE coNT1NUEDJ


The Orleans museum has just been
enriched with curious relic of the
past which some workmen in making
excavations in the city came across
1t is a stone representing a grinning
figure, showing the teeth the coun-
tenance being repellent enough. In
this way the loquaclous woman, the
scandalmonger, was brought to her
senses. The stone, suspended by
chain, was placed round her neck,
and so accoutered she was compelled
to walk round the town in which she
lived. The stone is supposed to date
about the sixteenth century.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-10-06
CHAPTER III.
The warnlno.

So quickly that Obadiah Price might
not have counted ten before II had
come and gone the significance OF his
new situation flashed upon CaptaA
Plum as he stood under the kings
window. His plans had changed since
leaving ship but now he realized that
they had become hopelessly involved,
He had intended that Obadiah should
show HIM where Strang was to be
found. and that later, when ostensibly
returning to his vessel, he would visit
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-10-06

Some statstician has figured out
that Americans lose $1O.0OO,OOO yearly
by leaving sugar in the bottom of their
cuffee cups, OF course they don't, but
still there is a certain. fascination
about statistics. They are so striking
ly useless.-Philadelph Ledger.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-10-06
Women as Criminals.

AS for women generally, Doctor Ber-
tillon gives them a good character.
They are "incomparably less often
criminals than men are" and when
they are, man is usually at the bot
ton of the trouble. London Tele-
graph.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-10-06
EneIand,s Cotton Importation.

Subject to considerable variation.
the average value Of raw cotton i'm
ported into England in the course of a
year is about S3O0,O0O.OOO
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-10-06
Industry.

"Is Jones raising chickens?"
mo; he is trying to raise his wife
a Chantecler hat"--Puck
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
OPINION IN RUSSIA.
Newspaper Comment Unfavorable to
PropOsed Naturalization.

ST PETERSBURG, January 1O.-The
Novoc Vremya i'll editorial leader to-
day discusses the American proposal for
the naturalization of the Manchurian
railways. The paper recognizes the many
advantages OF the project both to Russia
and from an international standpoint. but
advises the rejection of the first part of
the existing roads 10 China through the
financing Of an international syndicate.
IL recommends that the Russian gov
ernment support the Chin-chow and the
Amur railroad plan under the American
and British capitalists even though the
proposed line completes with the Russian
railroad. Conceding that the scheme of
naturalization would remove the threat
ening specter of Russo-Japanese war
empty Golfers of Russia, the Novoe
Fremya declares that as the Manchuran n
line is an Indispensable link in the sole
a crime TO abandon 1t before the expira-
tion of the contract of 1896, and when
the Amur railroad will have been COM
pleted. Up to the present time the road
has shown deficit, due largely to mis-
management and graft, but this will
largely be made up. The railroad is in
valuable 10 Russia, the paper adds, and
millions should not tempt the Russian
statesmen to part with II.
All of todays papers feature Secretary
knoX's communication, but editorial
comment has been deferred. generally
until tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
BAIL FIXED FOR REILLY
PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO STEAL
ING WISE LETTER.
Interstate Commerce Investigator
Appears in Court Handcuffed to
Italian Counterfeiter.

NEW YORK, January 1O-Thomas P.
Reilly, special investigator of the inter-
state commerce commission. pleaded not
guilty today to a charge of having taken
and published without authority a letter
written by Attorney General Wicker
sham bearing on the American Sugar Re-
fining Company prosecutions. Reilly, who
had spent Sunday in the Tombs following
his arrest Saturday, was brought into
court handcuffed to an Italian counter
feiter. When he was arraigned before
Judge Hough in the United States circuit
court tentative plea of not guilty was
entered for him by his counsel. Repre-
sentative Adams, who was allowed a
week to change the plea if he desired to
do SO. Bail was fixed at $1,000.
The letter alleged to have been taken
by Reilly subsequently appeared in a
magazine With other documents that
were printed in this city. it is alleged to
have been taken from the Office of United
States District Attorney Wise. in the fed
eral building here. Copies had been made
of the documents and the originals re-
turned to the letter files.
1t was intimated today that further
steps would be taken to fix responsibility
for the appearance of the purloined pa
pers In print.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
MUCH COLDER TONIGHT.
Will Warm Up a Little Tomorrow
However. Saws Garriott.

Another spasm of frigidity is predicted
for the District tonight and early tomor-
row morning. Following the spasm, Prof
GarriOtt says, there will be slight
warming up of the atmosphere.
The minimum temperature in the last
twenty-four hours was twenty-five de-
grees at 8 o'clock this morning. 1t will be
decidedly colder here tonight. and by to-
morrow morning the mercury will go
down to fifteen degrees above Zero Prof.
Garriott added The wind velocity in the
District reached thirty-five miles an hour
in spurts last night.
Alaska is experiencing the coIdest
weather of the present winter A tenn
perature reading of fifty degrees below
zero was reported this morning from Ia
mana. on the Yukon river The weather
bureau receives telegraphic weather re-
ports daily from eight stations in Alaska
and the Yukon region. 1t is warming
up in the west" the forecaster explained.
''and it will moderate here tomorrow
The lowest temperature in the United
States reported today was from ten to
sixteen degrees below zero in Michigan,
Wisconsin and North Dakota.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
PARIS PREDICTS FAILURE.
Newspaper Characterizes Knox Pro-
posal as Audacious.

PARIS, January 10.-The Journal today
expresses the opinion that both of Secre-
tary knox's propositions, the one In the
interests of international arbitration and
the other looking to the naturalization of
the Manchurian railway, will fail.
The paper considers the first imprac-
ticable because it seeks to convert a
nor court into veritable international
arbitration tribunal, and characterizes
the second as an audacious move to
bring Japanese covetousness to book. 1t
is at a loss to understand why the
United States should now seek TO arouse
Japan's suspicious, saying:
1t is notorious that the United States
for long time has had it's eye on the
Manchurian markets and is asSiduously
courting China, but the chances of Chi
neSe regeneration are uncertain. Accord
ingly il is a big risk for the United
States to back a doubtful starter
against the winner of the last interna-
tional conflict
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
FORTUNE FADES IN 80 DAYS.
Two Young Canadian Girls Held
After Whirl of Their Life.

LOS ANGELES, January 1O.-The De-
tention Home yesterday ended a sight
seeing trip of two young Canadian girls
from Hamilton, Ontario who, during their
stay here, were the guests of a man VINO
bought $4,000 worth of Joy rides and
champagne in a month. The girls are
Stella and Ruth Smith, aged seventeen
and fifteen. They were arrested la It night
with two men who are now in the city
prison facing statutory charges.
The girls told the police they came
under the protection of a friend of their
father, and that this friend had inherited
a small fortune. The fortune lasted just
thirty days. Then the friend disappeared,
leaving the girls penniless and at the
mercy. according to their story of the
men arrested with them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
ICE GORGE AT PITTSBURG.
Ohio River Condition Menaces Ship
ping Interests.

PITTSBURG, January 1O.-Bankful
Of grinding mad crushing ice, the
Allegheny river presents menace to
shipping interests, should the present cold
snap terminate suddenly, as is anticipated
by the official weather forecasts. The
Ohio river at this point is ice gorged. the
foes extending as far back in the Allie
gheny river as Freeport River naviga-
tion has again been abandoned. Coal is to
be shipped south today by rail-
An estimated three million bushels of
coal lies unmoved in the coal tows drawn
up for safety at points in the Pittsburg
territory. Points below Pittsburg also
report ice gorges, Steubenville. Wheeling
East Liverpool and New Martinsville
w. Va, are icebound.
With rising temperature scheduled for
the next forty-eight hours shipping inter-
ests are greatly endangered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED.
Second of King Edwards Reign
Comes to an End.

LONDON, January 1O.-The second par
lament Of King Edwards reign came to
an end today. The ceremony of dissou-
ton was brief and formal.
Four privy councillors attended at
Buckingham Palace, where. at $50
o'clock this afternoon the king signed the
proclamation dissolving the present and
summOning a new parliament to meet
February Is. Within an hour the royal
writs had been dispatched from the
crown office to every constituency of the
United Kingdom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
IN WAKE OF STORM.
Deaths, Accidents and Suffering Re-
ported From Pittsburg.

PITTSBURG, January 1O.-Deaths.
many accidents and suffering in the poor
er sections of Greater Pittsburg are re-
ported today. the result Of the ten-inch
snowfall of the past seventy-two hours.
Promised relief from zero weather condi-
tons failed to arrive Sunday. Icy pave
ments caused hourly accidents. Hospitals
report many cases of fractures, sprainS
and bruises.
At Wheeling Frank Cogfield. aged twen-
ty-five years. sweeping snow from the
roof of his house, fell forty feet when
his broomhandle broke, alighting on his
stantly killed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
Burns to Death in His Bedroom.

ALLENTOWN. Pa. January 1O.-J. P.
P. Kistler, a we'll known resident and
former tax collector of this city, was
burned to death today in his bedroom. He
was dressing when epilepsy probably
seized him and he fell helpless against an
oil stove he purchased last week. When
the firemen broke into the room they
found Mr.. kistler dead. He was sixty
three years old. widower. and left
three adult sons, all active firemen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
FINE AERO WEATHER
Great Crowd on Los Angeles
Aviation Field.
CURTISS FIRST TO FLY
Expects Today's Trial to End Con-
troversy With Wrights.
FRENCH WOMAN'S CHALLENGE
Mime. Paulhan Offers to Pilot Aero
plane in Race With Wife of Ameri-
can-Governors in Balloon.
cURTIss FIRST TO FLY
FRENCH W0MAN'S CHALLENGE

LOS ANGELES, Cal, January 1O.-A
fauWless day. dawning cloudless and
bringing with it mere zephyr of breeze
that f1oated rather than blew up from
the sea and over the valley between the
snow-capped mountains opened the in
ternationaI aviation meeting at Domin-
guez Junction today and witnessed the
first competitive trials Of aeroplanes in
America.
clatter from the great shelter tent
nearly mile away where motors were
being tested, met the ears of thousands
who crowded off the interurban cars at
the field directly after breakfast, though
the first flights were not scheduled to be
attempted until l o'clock. The noise of
these, sounding like several batteries of
machine guns in action, was mingled with
the comparatively gentle whirr of the en-
gines of the drigibles.
All of the machines were tested early.
Scores Of French British and American
mechanicians brought here by the aviators
and dirigible pilots were busy tuning up
the delicate mechanisms that drive the
nine biplanes and monoplanes which are
entered for the contests and the big cigar
shaped air craft belonging to knaben-
shue. And when the main body of the
throng of spectators began arriving
shortly before noon everything was in
readiness. Two hours later every face in
the field was lifted toward the sky as the
big dirigibles, the first to start. mounted
into the air. and, after a few revolutions.
hoated over the starting point, waiting
for the smaller, more uncertain and there
fore dangerous aeroplanes to take the air.
The grandstand. with the tiers of
boxes. holds nearly $4,000 people. 1t was
crowded before the first attempt at flight
was made at ii 30 O'Clock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
Burglar Resists Detention.

CHICAGO. ILL.,, January 1O.-Detected
when he was leaving the house of Mrs.
Bessie Shay with diamonds and other
Jewels valued at 5000 last evening, a
robber fought a desperate battle In the
hallway and escaped. leaving the woman
unconscious on the floor. Mrs. Shay, on
hearing the robber in another room.
snatched up a revolver and ran to stop
him. He seized her by the throat. threw
her down and beat her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
Editor Kelly Dies, Aged 70.

FREMONT. Neb., January 10.-R. D.
Kelly. editor of the Uehling Times. died
yesterday. aged seventy-nine years. For
nearly forty years he was actively en-
gagged in the newspaper business. most of
the time in Nebraska He began his
newspaper career in New York city and
was at one time Horace Greeley's Office
boy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
Oldfield Breaks Worlds Record.

LOS ANGELES. January 1O-Barney
Oldfield. driving his Benz racer over the
Ascot Park mile track yesterday, broke
the worlds circular track records for
two. th1ee. four and five miles. His time
for thSi five miles was 4.A Is. The
previous record of 4.26 was held by Ralph
de Palma.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
TO PRISON FOR A YEAR
FORMER EMPLOYEES OF SUGAR
REFINING co. SENTENCED.
Were Checkers on the Williamsburg
Docks, Where Weighing Scales
Were Tempered With.

NEW YORK, January 10.-FOur former
employees of the American Sugar Refin-
ing Company, convicted of underweigh-
ing frauds, were sentenced to one years
Imprisonment each by Judge Martin in
the United States circuit court here to-
day. The men sentenced are Thomas
kehoe, Edward A. Boyle, Patrick J. Hen
nessey and John NJ. Coyle.
The quartet were checkers on the docks
of the sugar company in Williamsburg,
where the discovery was made that the
scales used to weigh sugar imports had
been tampered with AS result Of this
discovery the American Sugar Refining
Company reimbursed the government to
the extent Of more than $2,OOO,OOO for
evaded duties and employees of the COM
pany were indicted for conspiracy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
superintendent's Case Postponed.

The jury convicted Oliver Splitter, the
dock superintendent. and the four men
sentenced today. There was disagreement
over the case of James F. Bendernagel,
the cashier of the refinery, one of the de-
PENDANTS.
Spitzer collapsed in court Saturday when
a motion for new trial for the men was
argued. and it was found that he would
have to undergo slight operation for an
intestinal sorder. For this reason Judge
Martin today did not pronounce sem
tence on him, but remanded him until
February II.
Before sentencing the men today the
court denied motion for a new trial
He took into consideration, however the
jury's recommendation to mercy and said
that ne would impose upon each of the
four men sentence of one year in the
Blackwells Island penitentiary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
Social Worker Dies in Shanghai.

NEW YORK, January 1O.-News reach
ed here today Of the death in Shanghai.
China, of Mrs. Ed.h Hallock Braddock,
New Jersey Children's Home Society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
Failure Is Predicted.

It is not believed, however that the
protest will prevent the confirmation of
Messrs. cuno II. Rudolph and John A.
Johnston. Members of the committee who
discussed the matter last week before
the local democrats took action declared
that the commissionership was not po-
litical office and that the politics of an
appointee was not to be considered
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
DEMOCRATS TO Be HEARD
PERMISSION TO FILE PROTEST
AGAINST COMMISSIONERS.
Selection of Two Republicans Oh.
jectionable-Committee Inter-
views Senators at the Capitol.

Representatives of the democratic GEN.
trail committee of the District of Column
bia will be given an opportunity to pre-
sent their protest against President Taft's S
choice for District Commissioner as the
successor to Mr.. West at d meeting of
the Senate District committee at l0:30
o'clock Friday morning.
The committee Saturday night decided
to do all it can to block the appointment
of any but a democrat as a successor
to Mr. West, and it began its efforts
early this morning at the Capitol and
at the Senate office building.
A delegation from the local democratic
committee came to the Capitol the first
thing today. In the party were Capt.
Wills, Bernard Is. Brown and Thomas B.
kalbfus.
Interview Democratic Senators.
They first called on the democratic men,
Martin, Paynter, Johnston. Smith of
Maryland and Fletcher, and received
promises from them to aid in the efforts
to secure hearing of their views before
the full District committee. Then the
delegation filed into the room of the COM
mittee and talked with Chairman Gall
lnger. He listened to their request and
granted it, setting next Friday morning
as the time for hearing the protest.
Members of the democratic deles alton
declared this afternoon that they had re-
ceived assurances from the democratic
senators they interviewed that the sena-
tors would aid them in their fight against
the confirmation of more than one repuo-
lican member of the board of District
Commissioners. The senators, however
do not go that far in their statements re-
gardng their attitude. They say they
want the full District committee to hear
the local democrats and they will take
what action they think best, after that
hearing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-10
Reply Will Be Friendly.

The kokumin, semi-official organ rep
resenting the view of Premier Katsura,
says that the Japanese reply to the
Anlericn note will be couched in friendly
terms because the suggestion comes from
a friendly power, but at the same time in
quires whether Germany and France
would be willing to neutralize Shantung
and Human provinces. The highest au-
thority is given for the assurance that
there is not the slightest foundation for
current reports that Japan is menacing
Russia. The relations and interests of
the two governments are said to be closer
than ever before.
News dispatches from the United States
published here and reporting feeling of
uneasiness in Russia have caused some
perpleXity in official circles, because re-
Gently the steadily improving relations
between Japan and Russia have been
strengthened. and, moreover. since both
governments are equally and steadfastly
opposed to the proposition of Secretary
Knox.