The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-07-15

r,,rs wore sniked. He had no other local means
of attacking the franchise or the caluinei'
any way the deed was done All "0l-N
he would do. ...o, rail.
Tbev didn't wonder long. AS fast as ralf'
ill., 40, cet over the rails, Joe Dale cams
Taoodaomon He almost literally threw tne
Do; planet ont of It's office windows, murderer II
ord 4,r,ned on its corpse He fired Fat bllen
fro,o tho presidency with force and arms II "ouu
ho,,o boon tragic If everybody had not oeen grim
-ia Of Dale's futile wrath. AS 1t was, lhe oiii,
satisfaction the irate railroad king got OUT u ~
was to tell few party leaders VINO pesoue
him TO continue the paper or SELL 'nal ho "0u.
,o+ tho Western Associated press lrahchise Ca
n,ra rather than see another 1901 p"iei INV
that in Iacedaemon. Even this sinai o"'i0'u ~.
+ion WAS lessened when Pollock lhslsIeu vi nA'
salary being continued to the end OF an ilon,oiau
four.year contract. Mr.. Dale went oaoN ~ Nv
York with new ideas about CITY poseeS anu
ways.
The episode, for 1t was only an episode III III.
rfa Of busy Lacedaemon, was soon almost ioi 81.
ton The cardinal had shown Joe Dae 'ha. ns
was boss of the town. Joe Dale nao cnoppeu "a
the cardinals presidential mead III le'ana'ion
Iohn na1o continued his business friend and Gus
toner. and the whole affair was dlSilisseu lon
mo cardinals busy mind as closed, with honor
even.
Rut Joe Dale was not through Will
o,Rrien, It is a railroad kings prerogauVe .
nunish, as we'll as to reward, ana 1or tne pun.''
ment Of OBrien, Dale laid a trap tne enecIi''
ness of which lay entirely In Its slmpici'''
Came John Dale one day to the cardinal an
said. Pat | have private tip that Dig MI
ing is coming off in Nipper stock. Buy nne .e
thousand at the market and holo on unlh
tell you to let CO.
"A1I right" said the cardinal, and bought a
other fen thousand as we'll for his own accoun
MINER advanced a point. He called IN he
chosen friends who formed pool and lnveste
heavily Nipper advanced two points, nVe POM
Pat bought more; he would pull out when Joi
Dale did and retire from active business Win
profits
John Dale himself had gone to New YORK
the day he gave his order to OBrien. Wlthn
dav MINER began to sag. Then it dropped belt
the buying point The pool put up more Iii
gins The stock still dropped, swiftly now, a
the other members of the pool became aiarm'
Pat treasured them. They're shaking out I
small blocks of stock" he said, Then you'll
her sky.rocket."
Nipper continued to toboggan. Pats frieI
were seriously concerned They talked OF s.
ing and pocketing their losses but ne sho"
them his hand. Look here he said, John
is in this thing up to his neck and we know wa
he gets his private tips. Here's what
has on my books alone. AS long as he holds
and keeps up his margins, I'm satisfied.
friends knew the cardinal; they knew he,
was up to his neck" they held on
Suddenly Nipper went down like mercury
blizzard weather The friends were vii
alarmed. They insisted that John Dale was CIV
Dick the double cross Though he Cid not
lieve IT, he wired to New York foT special
nriyate investigation Of John Da.es moveme
/ there. And after little delay tidiE3s came
l made the poolsharers very sick men. John l
t had gone to New York, had short talk with
K father. then gone straightway to his broker
k sold short ten thousand Nippcr at the market.
Profits on the sale as the stock went down w
4 nav his losses on the LacedaemGn purch
II Meanwhile Joe Dale would see to it that Mi
a did 90 down until Pat O'Brien was utt
It swamped.
d OF course the pool made haste to sell out
9 Dale's private tip had been prophecy. k1
e. had been made and O'8rien and bis friends
Il the slaughtered ones When the debris was
" ly swept I'D the cardinal. who had plunged q
d IL On his own private account. found himself
o. er by some S75o,00o, 1t had cost him that 1
b. to disobey the mandate Of railroad king,
"a he still Owls LacedaemoaA