The Forrest City times., 1910-07-15

guns were spiked. He had no other local means of attacking the franchise or the cardinal and any way the deed was done. All wondered what he would do.
 They didn't wonder long As fast a rail. road king can get over the rails, Joe Dale came to Laeedaemon. He almost literally threw the Daily Planet out of It's office windows, murdered it and jumped it's corpse. He fired Pat 0'Brien from the presidency with force and arms. It would have been tragic If everybody had not been grin ming al Dales futile wrath. As it vas the only satisfaction the irate railroad king got o1t of t was to tell few party leaders who besoQght him to continue the paper CT sell that he would let the Western Associated press franchise ex- pire rather than see another fool paper like that in Lacedaemon. Even this small satisfae- ton was lessened when Pollock insisted on his salary being continued to the end of irou-clad four-year contract. MT Dale went back to New York with new ideas about city bosses and their ways.
 The episode, for il was only episode in the life of busy Lacedaemon, was soon almost forgot ten The cardinal had shown Joe Dale that he was boss of the town Joe Dale had chopped of the cardinals presidential head iu retaliation John Dale continued hls business friend and GUS toner, and the whole affair dsl ssed from the cardinals busy mind closed, "lfh honors even.
 But Joe Dale was not through aih Pat OBrien It Is a railroad kings presQeatiye to punish, well as to reward, and for the punish n4ent of O.Bren, Dale laid trap the effective ness of which lay entirely in tts simplicity
 Came John Dale one day 10 the cardinal and said Pat have private tip that a big kill ing is coming of in Ripper stock. Bsg He ten thousand at the market and hold on until tell you to let go"
 All right said the cardinal and bought an other ten thousand as well for his own account adv TIl al led in pzr chosen friends who formed pool and invested heavily. Ripper advanced two points, i've points Par bought more, he would pull out when John Dale did and retire from active business with his profits.
 John Dale himself had gone to New Yark on the day he gave his order to O'Brien. Within a day Ripper began 10 sag. Then f dropped below the buying point. The pool put up more mar gins. The stock still dropped. swiftly now. and the other members of the pool became alarmed Pat treasured them. They're shaking out tho small blocks Of stock" he said. Then you'll see her sky-rocket.n
 Ripper continued 10 toboggan. Pats friends seriously concerned. They talked of sell ing and pocketing their losses. but he showed them his hand. Look here" he said John Dale Is in this thing up 10 his neck and We know where he gets his private tips Here's what he has my books alone. As long as be holds and keeps up his margins, m satisfied" His
 
 was up to his neck" they held on.
 Suddenly Ripper went down like mercury in blizzard weather. The friends were wildly alarmed. They insisted that John Dale was giving Dick the double cross Though he did not be- lieve t. he wired 10 New York for special and private investigation Of John Dae's movements there. And after little delay tidings came that made the pool-sharers very sick men. John Dale had gone to New York, had short talk with his father, then gone straishtway 10 his broker and sold short len thousand Ripper al the market The profits on the sale as the stock went down would pay his losses on the Lacedaemon purchase Meanwhile Joe Dale would see 10 il that Ripper did go down until Pat O'Brien was utterly swamped
 or course the pool made haste to sell out John Dales private tip had been a prophecy killing had been made and 0Brien and his friends were the slaughtered ones When the debris was final ly swept up the cardinal. who had plunged fierce ly on his own private account, found himself poor CT by some s75o,000 II had cost him that muct to disooey the mandate of railroad king BUt he still owns Lacedaemon