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The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-02-18

"You here. Newmark?" he cried.
EYES," replied that young man. II
want to see this through"
with those clothes?' marveled
Orde. Its a wonder some of these
thugs haven't held you up long ago.
It's dangerous. You're likely to get
slugged.'
Il can stand it if you cam" returned
Newmark.
entirely to drinking. The second floor
was a theater and the third a dance
hail., Beneath the building were still
viler depths. From this basement the
riverman and the shanty boy generally
graduated penniless and perhaps I'M
conscious to the street. Now, your
lumberjack did not customarily arrive
at this stage without lively .doings en-
route; therefore McNeilPs maintained
a force of fighters. They were burly,
sodden men, but strong in their ex-
perience and their discipline. To be
sure, they might not last quite as long
as their antagonists could, but they
always lasted plenty long enough.
Sand bags and brass knuckles helped
some and team work finished the job.
Orde and his men entered the lower
hall as though sauntering in without
definite aim. The river boss wandered
about with the rest, a wide, good ma
tured smile on his face.
Presently he found himself at the
table of the three card monte men.
The rest Of his party gravitated in his
direction.
DO you think you could pick out
the jack when l throw these out like
this?" asked the dealer.
Sure. She's that one"
"Well," exclaimed the gambler,
"danged if you didn't! I bet you S.
you can't do it again."
Again Orde was permitted to pick
up the jack.
you've got the best eye that's been
in this place since got here" ex-
claimed the dealer. Here, Dennis, "
said he to his partner. "You try him."
Dennis obligingly took the cards and
lost. By this time the men, augmented
by the idlers, had drawn close.
Whether it was that the gamblers
sensed the fact that Orde might be led
to plunge or whether they were using
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To these people Orde came direct
from the greatness of the wilderness
and the ferocity of Hers Half Mile.
Such contrasts We're possible even ten
or fifteen years ago. The untamed
country lay at the doors of the most
modern civilization
Newmark. reappearing one Sunday
afternoon at the end of the two weeks,
was apparently bothered. He examin-
ed the Orde place for some moments,
walked on beyond it, Finding nothing
there, he returned and after some hes
itation turned in up the tar sidewalk
and pulled at the old fashioned wire
bell pull. Grandma Orde herself an
swered the door.
Newmark took off his gray felt hat
"Will you kindly tell me where Mr..
Orde livcs?'
"This is Mr.. Orde's." replied the lit
tie old lady.
pardon me-" persisted Newmark.
81 am looking for Mr.. Jack Ordc.
am sorry to have troubled you
"Mr. Jack Orde lives here returned
Grandma Orde. "He is my son. Would
you like to see him."
eff you please" assented Newmark
gravely, his thin, shrewd face masking
itself with it's usual expression of
quizzical cynicism.
| Newmark entered the cool. dusky in
terror and was shown to the left into a
dim, long room. He perched on ma
hogany chair and had time to notice a
bookcase with while owl atop, an old
piano with the following keys. hair
cloth sofa and chairs, steel engravings
and two oil portraits when Orde ap-
peared.
Newmark had known Orde only as
riverman. Like most fasteners, he
was unable to imagine a man in rough
clothes as being anything but rough
man. The figure he saw before him
was correctly dressed in what was
then the proper Sunday costume.
"Oh, it's you, Mr.. Newmark" cried
Orde. "I'm glad to see you" He led
the way into the hall and to another
brighter room, in which Grandma
Orde sat, canary singing above hel
head
Mother" said Orde, ''this is Mr.
Newmark. who was with us on the
drive this spring"
"Mr. Newmark and l spoke at the
door," said she, extending her frai
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s

ACK ORDG was the youngest and
most energetic Of large family
II that had long since scattered to
diverse cities and industries. He
and Grandpa and Grandma Orde dwelt
now in the big, echOing, old fashioned
house alone save for one maid. Grand
pa Orde, now above sixty, was tall,
straight, slender. His hair was quite
white and worn little long. His fea-
lures were finely chiseled. Grandpa
Orde had been a mighty breaker of the
wilderness, but his time had passed,
and he had fallen upon somewhat
straitened ways. Grandma Orde, ON
the other hand, was a very small,
spry old lady, with small face, a
small figure. small hands and feet.
She dressed in the then usual cap and
black silk of old ladies. Half her
time she spent at her housekeeping,
which she loved, jingling about from
cellar to attic storeroom, seeing that
Amanda. the maid, had everything in
order.
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ChapterE s

kBOUT a dozen of the crew APP
~ peared in the evening to go
n with Orde They set out up the
long reach>Of Water street, their
steel calks biting deep into the pitted
board walks.
For nearly a mile the street was
fianked solely by lumber yards, small
mills and factories. Then came a strip
of unimprOved land, followed imme-
diately by the wooden, ramshacklc
structures of Helrs Half Mile.
AS yet the season was too early for
much joy along Hell's Half Mile. Orde's
little crew and the forty or fifty men
of the drive that had preceded him
constituted the rank and file at that
moment in town. A little later, when
all the drives on the river should be in
and those of its tributaries and the
men still lingering at the woods camps,
at least 500 woods weary men would
be turned loose. Then Helrs Half
Mile would awaken in earnest from
it's Information. The lights would
blaze from day to day. From it's
open windows would blare the music,
the cries of men and women, the shut
fle of feet, the noise of fighting, the
shrieks of wild laughter, curses deep
and frank and unashamed, songs bro
ken and interrupted. Crews of men,
arms locked, would surge up and down
the narrow sidewalks, their little felt
hats cooked one side, their heads back,
their fearless eyes challenging the
devil and all his works-and getting
the challenge accepted. Girls would
fit across the lit windows like shad-
ows before flames or stand in the door
ways hailing the men jovially by name
Tonight, however, the street was
comparatively quiet. The saloons were
of modified illumination. The bar
keepers were Hstlessly wiping the bars.
The pretty waiter girls" gossiped
with each other and yawned behind
their hands.
In the middle of the third block
| Orde wheeled sharp to the left down
dark and dangerous looking alley.
| Another turn to the right brought him
| into very narrow street where stood
a three story wooden structure into
which led high arched entrance.
This was McNeilPs.
A figure detached itself from the
shadow. Orde uttered an eXclama-
ton. -
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"Pd like to see you get any three men to
agree to anything on this r'tver."
hand with dignity. eff you were on
the drive, Mr.. Newmark, you must
have been one of the high privates in
this dreadful war we all read about"
Newmark laughed. At Orde's sug-
gestion the two passed back into the
remains Of the old orchard.
Where have you been for the last
couple of weeks?" asked Orde.
Il caught Johnson's drive and went
on down river with him to the lake.
do not like the life at all, but the drive
interested me. 1t interested me so
much that I've come back to talk to
you about it. I'm going to ask you a
few questions about yourself"
ooh, I'm not bashful about my ca
reer" laughed Orde.
"How old are you? inquired New
mark abruptly.
Thirty"
How long have you been log driv-
ing?"
about six years"
"Why did you go into it,"
Because there's nothing ahead Of
shoveling but dirt" Orde replied, with
a quaint grin.
Il see," said Newmark after pause.
"Then you think there's more future
to that sort Of thing than the sort of
thing the rest of your friends go in
for-law and wholesale groceries and
In pl,inp and tho rest Of IT S''
There is for me-" replied Orde sim
ply.
"Yet you're merely river driving on
salary at thirty"
Orde flushed slowly and shifted his
position.
I'm not asking all this out of idle
curiosity. I've got scheme in my
head that 1 think may work out big
for us BOTH
"Well," assented Orde reservedly, Gin
that case-I'm foreman on this drive
because my outfit went kerplunk two
years ago and I'm making fresh go
at it,
"Failed?" inquired Newmark.
Partner skedaddled," replied Orde.
NOW, suppose you tel lie WudI Tue
devil you're driving at"
"Look here" said Newmark. abrupt
ly changing the subject, you know
that rapids up river fianked by shall.
lows. where the logs are always going
aground%
81 do"
"Weil, why wouldn't it help to put a
string Of piers down both sides, with
booms between them to hold the logs
in the deeper water?"
at would" said Orde.
"Why isn't it done, then?"
"Who would do it," countered Orde
''If DAILY did it. for instance, then al!
the rest of the drivers would get the
advantage of 1t for nothing"
"Get them to pay their share"
Orde grinned. I'D like to see you
get any three men to agree to any.
thing on this river"
How many firms drive logs on this
streamY
"Ten," replied Orde without hesita-
ton.
How many do they employ
""About 800 men,"
I
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Ghe
Riyern|dn
By STEWART
EDWARD WHITE
Copyright. 1908. by the Mcclure Com
pany. Copyright. 1907. 1908. by
Stewart Edward White
[CoNTINUED.1

[coNTINUED.]
Everybody was ambitious. and the
young man, with ineXhaustible pa
thence, threw out the cards, the cor
ners of his mouth twitching sardonic-
ally at each wrong guess. At length
he called a halt. "By this time I'd
have had all your money" he pointed
out. "Now I'll pick the jack" He
made his swift passes and distributed
the cards. Then, quite calmly, without
disturbing the three on the cracker
box, he held up the jack of hearts.
An exclamation broke from the
group. Nolan leaned forward and turn
ed over the three on the board. They
We're the eight of diamonds and two
tens of spades.
"Thats how the thing is worked
announced Newmark. "Once in awhile
you'll run against straight game, but
not often"
But you showed us the jack every
time before you throwed them!' puz-
zled Johnny Simms.
''Sleight of hand" explained New
uldlh, lHe SinipleoI hihi VI puiuiihS.
"Where'd you get on to doing all
that, Newmark? inquired North. "You
amt tin horn yourself?"
Newmark laughed briefly. "Not l."
said he. II learned a lot of those
tricks from a travelling magician in
college,"
Orde had sat well in the back
ground watching intently all that was
going on. After the EXPLANATIONS fol
lowing the exposure had subsidized, he
spoke.
Boys" said he, chow game are you
to get Charles money back-and then
some?"
"Try u.s." returned big Tim.
"This games at McNeilrs, and Nc
Neill's is a tough hole" warned Orde
Maybe everything will go peaceful
and maybe not. And you boys that
go with me have got to keep sober
There isn't going to be any row unless
say so, and I'm not taking any con
tract to handle lot of drunken river
hogs as we'll as go against a game"
The thirty men of the rear crew
signified their intention to stay by the
procession.
you can't make those sharps dis
gorge" counseled Newmark. AT the
first look of trouble they will light
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ITO BE CONTINUED
Wise Fife.

Both father and mother strug-
gled yaliantly to teach little Effie
to repeat the letter GA" The child
emphatically refused to pronounce
the first letter of the alphabet, and
after many vain efforts the father
retired from the fight discouraged.
The mother took the little girl on
her lap and pleaded with her affec-
tionately.
"Dearie, why won't you learn to
say APP" she asked.
Because, mamma" explained
Effie, "des as soon as 1 say 'A' you
an papa will want me to say 3D."
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"Now,- suppose leaned
forward-"suppose a firm should be
organized to drive all the logs on the
river. Suppose it improved the river
with piers and dams, so that the driv-
ing would be easier. Couldn't it drive
with less than 500 men and save mon
ey?"
1T might" agreed Orde.
''If such firm should be organized
to drive the logs for these ten firms at
so much thousand. do you suppose it
would get the business?"
ut would depend on the driving
firm" said Orde. You see. mill men
have got to have their logs. They
can't afford to take chances. 1t would
not pay"
"Then that's all right" agreed New
mark. with CLEAN of satisfaction
across his thin face Would youl
form partnership with me having
such an object in view?"
Orde laughed.
II guess you don't realize the situa-
| ton" said he. WED have to have a |
few little things like distributing
booms and tugs and lot of tools and
supplies and works of various kinds"
well, we'd get them.'
How much are you worth?" Orde
inquired bluntly.
Twenty thousand dollars. How
much capital would we have to have"
asked Newmark.
! Orde thought for several minutes.
1--WE would need somewhere near
$75,0O0," he estimated at last.
That's easy" cried Newmark.
We'll make a stock company-say
100000 shares. Well keep just enough
between us to control the company
say $1,000 I'll put in my pile, and you
can pay for yours out of the earnings
of the company"
"That doesn't sound fair"
you pay interest" explained New
mark. ''Then we'll sell the rest Of the
stock to raise the rest of the money"
II must have something to live on"
said Orde thoughtfuly at last.
80 must l." said Newmark. well
have to pay ourselves salaries of
course, but the smaller the better at
first You'll have to take charge of the
men and the work and all the rest of
1t. / don't know anything about that.
I'll attend to the incorporating and the
routine. and I'll try to place the stock.
You'll have to see first Of all whether
you can get contracts from the logging
firms to drive the logs"
How can tell what to charge
them?"
well have to figure that very close
~. You know where these different
drives would start from and how long
each of them would take?'
"Oh. yes"'
"Well, then Well figure how many
days driving there is for each, and
how many men there are, and what 1t
costs for wages, grub, TOOLS Well Just
have to figure as near as we can to the
actual cost and then add margin for
profit and for interest on our invest.
ment."
Amanda now announced dinner.
Newmark looked puzzled and as he
arose glanced surreptitiously at his
watch. Orde seemed to take the sum.
mons as one to be expected. however
. In fact, the strange hour was the
usual Sunday custom in the Redding
Of that day and had to do with the
late church freedom of Amanda and
her like.
+ Come in and eat with u.s." invited
Orde.
, But Newmark declined.
Come up tomorrow night then, al
half past for supper" Orde urged
him. 1--WE can figure on these things
LITTLE"
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OUT: They have It all fixed. Force
won't do you much good and may get
some of you shot"
"I'm not going to use force" denied
Orde. ''I'm just going to play their
game. But bet l can make it 60"
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gave FUNDS TO
HIS FRIEND FOR
SAFE KEEPING
l.. f. COX CAUSES ARREST OF
G. CAUFFMAN, CHARGING
ENTERTAINMENT.

A continuance was granted yes
terday in the case of C. Cauffman,
charged with embezZlement. Cauff-
man was arrested Saturday on the
complaint of d LIZ. = Cox, who said
ire-hatptacer s19e in the hands
of Cauffman for safe keeping and
that a proper accounting had not
been made of the, funds, It APP
pears that both parties had en-
gagged in a. celebration Friday night
when Cox turned over the funds to
Cauffmana9 On Saturday, when
Cox demanded his money he was
giyenuo$5 tvsIit was then that he
lodged ia complaint against Cauff-
man. f The sum Of $79 was, further
accounted for, leaving a BALANCE OF
about SIS Gaaffmaaan stated that
he had talked with, Cox during the
evening of their celebration + and
that. the. latterNhad agreed to ! sc
into the saloon business with him
He accordingly anpaid the, first
months rent on the White Front
saloon on Il lower Main = street AMI
also made several other small ex-
penditures from the funds Off Cox
The district, attorney. is investigating
the, case and it will probably be
called in -the,u justice court, some
time this week. Cauffman has, been
released on bonds pending, the, out
come Of theItrial, tsriup9l ad ysn
I t,sriff Fer,-r---T---------- ----~s5,,. 49,
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.BUYaaA TICKET ~.
And CONTRIBUTE TO
\: v. ". .. ia GOOD CAUSE
afus 9d1 To4 40ef 45dm35aa 10 gGt
xju9HT bins ---r---i a9of9av9S 4.
TONIGHT THE BUTLER RE
s .5il CEIPTs GO no THE Vol ls A.
a IL 59aei2h b5aUNTEERs.1l 2as aa a.
I .4oit B1oNrog q .vngdmnD nlinllE i-ans

Tonight the Butler itheater will
Ibsgalf tudrHasd ever t5s the Volunteer
fire depart men 1T ayahasthe receipts Of
the osyep pp iafwill BIZ used in liqui-
dating the present indebtedness that
hangs oyer tie gymnasium. The
ithleater has been donated by Nam
Iager Jake Goodfriend, who, is not
even deductihg the running ex-
Ipenses. The volunteers have been
busy selling tickets for, the past
week, and the committee stated
last night that over SEQ tickets
had been distributed to the differ
ient members Of the Organization, !
The program tonight will include
Ia number4sofi speciaities i'm addi-
ton to the regular show. Harry
B. Holland will do ventriloquist
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HOTEL ARRIVALS
MIZPAH HOTEL.

j.. Torfinkel, San Francisco; R.
A. Callahan, Goldfeld; Charles A.
Smith, Liberty; James Dermody, w.
H. Weisher, Goldfeld; w. D.. For
ster and wife, Tonopah; E. T. Pat
rick, Goldfeld; T. A. Hoffman, Sac
.ralnento; r. L. Voorhees, Blair, G.
w. Zlitler, Reno; H. w. Hutchens,
Cobalt, Canada; J.. e. Bray, Reno;
L. p. McKelvey, Blair; R. B.
Wampler, Round Mountain; w. H.
Warren, New York.
MANHATTAN HOTEL.
c. P. Boskest, Manhattan; T. E.
Thomas, Reno; James Reynolds,
nos oHrge1esc; Charles Buckley;
-Eofdfefd; r: Harris; Manhattan;
y. H. Farrell, Wabuska; JfMH Doc,
little, Goldfield;3 John H. Formani
Little Johnnie mine; Mrs. Mary
Wish, Rllyolite; IT. G. Godfrey,
Renos GLE. Norton, San Diego;
John Whistler, Goldfield; w. S
oyDonnelB san aFranrisco H. Bush.
ill., Reioa lEASggagAbEA
PALACE HOTEL.
/ G. A. Dudley, city; w. NJ W.
Abrams, W. e. Blair, Sacramento
/ dggx:fJ yG4LgL -t.annsl. Il
/ Special ltRehes at TO- pa me
a flor Now Ypars al tho Civ Palx.
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stunt with dolls. Professor Will
liam Shaffer, H.. H Atkinson and
A. H, Annawaidt win show some
fancy electric club and flag swing
ing. The show will be well worth
the price of admission. OF course
there is&no limit to the price of
admission nor To- the number of
tickets one person can buy. As
the volunteers need the money they
will not have to be- coaxed to ac-
cept contributions If you have the
evening to spare just purchase a
handful of tickets and witness the
starts promptly at o'clock.
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PERSONAL.
|. F,aAlys9I es,eIg %,rop

Blair yesterday.
John O'Keefe came over from
Goldfield yesterday. raf 9rfss4sa
Charles Kielhofer left yesterday
for a trip to Los Angeles s,aI1r
Charles. rDougherty 4 departed yes
terday, morning for San FRANCISCO,
p. jC,i 4PFesart was called to asacra7
mapeHptodslasterd1aaaylln oqn 4}lnEsipassr mats
tterrf,1utaa Ho Bid &E73.e$ in b91opp
Fred aEF4RiooNYg lbe, who ab leasing loab
Gllff9ard sans Inffioin fr8gmaa thatileamaJn
sunday n:yabr4isag etn9o g
Sid II umphreayyss 3 left YESTERDAY for
Wipqppe@mlaueea WheBe h5sfi liRGa has q aaEiffstie
.enghttgsse6mFnent ipn Yiewnoitoe44 tn9a
Father the Der.mpody cams over to
ITonopah Sunday, returning to his
home Yesterday I 9GfrclnliBpago c
T. 1. Vporsheis aoaff i the ,PiltttfAiRlprg-
Silyer Peak mine at Blair, earfiYea.
in 1this city yesterday ymorRing, r
Letson Ballet left Sunday NORM
ing, efor Toledo, Ohio, to attend, a.
meeting of fthe stockholders IF the
Buckeye Mining company. ..at:s d,roI
W. H. Thomas, local manager. of
the !. Tonopah and Goldfeld meat
market, visited Millers Sunday
where the oiq0mpaq'Ip fhh5a4sbtp branch
market. 4o- ~ tfaAhfoy,
Miss kTeegel, sisterm ofidaMiE;Sf..,
IHeBman ySchke Of Reville, 6Who,
has Ibeen Sfsiting here for sqTsrall
Imop5hs, lssayes this morning t1ior,
her ahome oPc Ohio. aoaayoIq,
| Ray Ro6b departed Sunday mgoafppi-I
ing for Reno to resume bis 5stp-,
dieso at tss. Nevada state pnTIiIypear71
sity, after syp}s5pgaRiRRife3sha. Christmas
holidays with his Folks, iis-nqldsslfel
John E. Bray, district superin-
tendent of schools. whose territory
includes Esiheralda county. came
dowiis from 1Behol yesterday to look
into school matters at Blair.
| Judge u. AZ. Saunders who has
been sojourning gatI Reno for the
last week returned ITO this city
yesterday with new ideas of DEM
ocracy which he contracted at the
Jackson banquet held in the north
ern city.H1aGHa
Gilbert C. Ross, district super
intendent of schools left yester-
day for Carson where he will take
the examination papers of those
who recently applied for teachers
certificates. The papers will be
corrected in few days
Mrs. Cleve H. Baker leaves this
morning for Washington, D. c.,
to spend few weeks with her
father, Senator George C. Perkins,
who was injured recently by fall
ing on an ley pavement Mr.. Per-
kins' condition is rapidly ,imbrov-.
ing. BOT a3t b9gnaaa5 an9 .i!ld a5
NJ B.oTCutter,a president of the
Tonopah and Goldfield railroad, SUI
perintendent r.. HI. Hanlon and
General Traffice manager WI d.
Forster, arrived Sunday morning
from Southern California on their
private car 900. President Cutter
and Superintendent Hanlone COM
tinuedaton east yesterday morning.
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Ed. WHEECE & SON

Dealers IN. 9 Rock}oaSpHip& COAL
wood, hay grain and yIfeedsttqAffsssl
hardwareKt Lumber, esasAo and limo
leum, canvass goods. ALI goods de-
livered free.
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