Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-04-21

Xne conference IN Suite % i~steu u1~
til nearly midnight, with Dyckman
painfully shadowing the corridor ana
sweating like a furnace iaborer. though
the night was more than autumn COOL
The door was thick, the transom was
closed, and the keyhole commanded
nothing but a square of blank wall OPP
posite in the electric lighted sitting
room of the suite. Hence the book
keeper could only guess what we may
know.
You have let in flood OF light on
Mr.. Farley's proposition, Mr. Goroon'
said the representative OF American
Aaueduct, when the ground had been
thoroughly gone over. Il don't MIND
telling you now that he made his firsr
oyertures to US on his arrival from Eu-
rope, giving us to understand that ne
owned or controlled the pipe-making
plants absolutely"
AT that time he controlled nothing,
as / have explained" said Tom, mot
even his majority stock in Chiawassee
Consolidated OF course. he resumed
control as soon as he reached home.
| and his next move was to have me
quietly sandbagged while he froze my
| father out. But father did not transfer
he couldn't. They are my personal
property, made over to me before the
| firm of Gordon & Gordon came into ex-
| istence."
| You are the man Wen have to do
| business with, Mr. Gordon. Are you
quite sure of your legal status in the
| case?"
IT have good advice. Hanchett.
/ ~. TJi pt1il a.
| ing, are my attorneys. They will put
| you in the way of finding out anything
you'd like to know"
LAS l have said, I'm here to do busi-
ness We don't need the plant VIII
you sell us your patents?"
Yes; on one condition"
THAT you first put us out Of bust
ness. You'll have to smash Chiawassee
| Limited painstakingly and permanently
before you can buy my holdings"
The shreWd- eyed gentleman who had
unified practically all Of the pipe foun-
dries In the United States smiled a
gentle negative.
THAT would be rather out of oul
line. If Mr.. Farley owned the patents
and was disposed to fight us-as, In
deed he is Motive might try to con
vengeance-another mans vengeance
at that"
Very well, then; you won't get wha
you've come after. The patents 81
with the plant. You can't have on
without the other" said Tom, eying hi!
opponent through half closed lids
But we can buy the plant to-mof
row. at a very reasonable figure Far
ley is anxious enough to come in ou
of the wet"
Excuse me, Mr.. Dracott. but yol
can't buy the plant at any price"
Eth? Why can't WEI"
Because the majority of the stool
will vote to fight you to a standstill.
But, my dear sir! Mr. Farley con
trolls IS per cent of the stock!"
That is where you were lied to or
more time" said Tom. with great cool
ness. THE capital stock of Chiawas
see Limited Is divided into one thou
sand shares, all distributed. My faith
er holds three hundred and fft
shares; Mr.. Farley and his son togeth
. err own four hundred and fifty; and tn
remaining two hundred are held l
trust for Miss Ardea Dabney, to be
come her property in fee simple whe
she marries. Pending her marriage
which Is currently supposed to be nea
at hand, the voting power Of these Nv
hundred shares resides in Miss Dab
news grandfather, and my father hold
his proxy"
This was the thunderbolt Tom ha
been forging during those quiet day
spent on the mountain side; and ther
was another pause while one migf
count ten. After which the man frol
New York spoke his mind freely.
your row with these people mu'
be pretty bitter, Mr.. Gordon. Are yo
[ willing to see your father and thes
Dabneys go by the board for the sal
. of breaking the president and his SON
3 II know what am doing" was Il
quiet reply. Neither my father nj
I Miss Dabney will lose anything that
: worth keeping"
l. Have you figured that out, too? TT
field is too small for you down her
Mr.. Gordon-much too small. Yc
should come to New York"
I you will fight us?" he asked.
The short circuiter of corporation
. laughed.
l. .eWerl put you out of business, If W
insist on 1t. Anything to ohlige."
= "You have it to do, Mr.. Dracott. {
T the day you have hammered Chiawa
see Limited down to dead propos
II ton, you can have my pipe patent
o II YOU will meet me at the Office
n Hanchett Goodloe & Tryson to-mo
II row morning at 10 o'clock. we will p
It in writing" Good night"
fTo he continued