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w tho two modes OF expression.
But. later on. Mrs, k~,nsolving's hopes
and spirits were revived by tho capture
of a second and greater prize.
Mrs. Bellamy Bellmore had accepted
an invitation TO visit at Clifftop and
would remain eo- three Gays. Mrs. PEI!
more was ono OF the younger matrons.
whose beauty. descent and wealth gave
her a reserved seat In the holy of HOLES
that required nc strenuous bolstering.
She was generous enough thus to Gfvc
Mrs. Kinsolving the accoiade that was
so %poignantly desired. and at tho same
time she thought how much II would
please Terence. Perhaps II would end BY
solving him.
Terence was Mrs. K~insoivings con,
aged twenty-nine. quite good LODGING
enough and with two OF three attrac-
tive and mysterious traits.
For one. he was very devoted to mis-
mother. and that was sufficiently odd
to deserve notice. For others. no talked
80 little that Il was irritating. and ne
seemed either very shy or very deep.
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bring bricks into q villa bull, OF marble
n stone? I'm 80 sorry. but II makes
me think that age IL beginning to tell
upon Mrs. Fischer-suyppkins."
This house. continued Mrs. Kin
solving, was built upon the site OF an
old one used by the family during the
Revolution. There wouldn't be anything
strange In Its having a ghost And
there was R Capt. Kinsolving who
fought In Gen. Greene's army. though
we've never been able 10 secure any
papers to vouch for Il. II there Is to be
a family ghost why couldn't II have
been his instead OF a b~ricklayer's?"
The ghost OF a Revolutionary ances-
tor wouldn't be a bad idea" agreed
Mrs. Bellmore; but YOU know how
arbitrary and inconsAderate ghosts can
he. Maybe. like love. they are 'engen-
dered In the eye One advantage Of
those who see ghosts Is that their
stories can't he disproved. By a spite
ful eye a Revolutionary knspsack might
easily be construed to ne a nod. Dear
Mrs. Kinsolving. think no more OF II. I
am sure II was n knapsack."
But she told everybody mourned
Mrs. Kinsoiving. inoonsolabie. she In
sisted upon the details. There is the
pipe. And how are you going TO get out
OF the overalls7'
"Shan't get into them" said Mrs.
Bellmore. with a prettily suppressed
yawn. too stin and wrinkly. Is that
you. Felice? Prepare my hath, please.
Do you dine at I at Cllfftop. Mrs. Kin
solving?
$ Kind OF you to run In for q chat
before dinner, I love those little
touches Of informally with a guest.
They give such a home navor to q visit.
SO sorry: | must be dressing. ] am so
indolent l always postpone II until the
last moment"
Mrs, Fischer-Suyrnpkins had been the
irst large plum that the Kinsolvings
had drawn from the social pie.
For a long time the pie itself had been
out of reach On q top shelf. But the
purse and tho pursuit had at last low
cred Il.
Mrs. FiscnerlSuympkins was the he
l!ograph OF tho smart society paradins
corps. The glitter OF her wit and ac-
tons passed along the line. transmitting
whatever was latest and most daring IN
the game OF peep-show.
Formerly her fame and leadership had
been secure enough not 20 need the sup
port of such artiaces as handing Around
live frogs for favors at a cot!llon.
But now these things were necessary
to the holding OF her throne. Besides,
middle age had come 10 preside. tncon-
gruous. at her capers.
The sensational papers had cut her
space from a page to two columns. Her
Wit developed a sting: her manners be-
can more rough and inconsiderate, as
II she felt the royal necessity OF estab-
fishing her autocracy by scorning the
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ss O. HENRY'S LAST AND BEST SHORT STORIES ss
sabss

ously an antidote FOR the other nara
tive TO be effective"
True" said Terence. running two
fingers thoughifully into his crisp,
brown hair: that would never do. How
would IL work to see the same ghOst
again, minus the overalls. and have
gold bricks in the hod2 That would
elevate tho spectre from degrading tot
10 a financial plane. Don you tnink
that would be respectable enough
There was IN ancestor who fought
against the Britishers. wasn't there
Your mother said something to that
effect"
IL believe so: one OF those old chaps
in raglan vests and golf trousers.
don't care a continental for n Cont
mental myself. Blu, the mother has set
her heart on pomp and heraldry and
pyrotechnics and I want ke" to he
happy"
YOU are a rood boy. Terence" said
Mrs Bellmore, sweeping her silks close
TO ons side OF her. mo, 10 beat YOU
mother. SIT here by me. and lets -
ut the album. just as people used 81 d
twenty years ago. Now, tell me
every one OF them. Who IL this tai
| dignifed gentleman leaning against ~"
horizon With one arm on the Corinthiar
column
THAT old chap with the big feetT
| inquired Terence. craning his necS
''Thats Ere~at.uncle O'Brannigan. He
used to kssr a rathskeller OF tho
Bowery."
~ asked you 20 sit down, Terence "
you are not going 10 amuse. or ohe'
me. I shall report IN the morning th1'
saw a ghost wearing an apron an
carrying schooners Of beer. Now. tina
~ better. To be shy. AT your are Ter
ence. Is q thing that you should blush "a
acknowledge"
ITO be Contluued.)
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a lot Of visitors" Mrs. Jarr continued.
but I Thought Il was just her excite
ment In getting ready for their silver
wedding celebration. You know. the
stryvers have been married Just twsn-
y-Hvs years mex month. OF course,
they have a lot of rich friends and
could expect to get heaps of solid silver
presents. That's the trouble with get
ting old while you are poor. II you
are poor our friends. OF course. are
poor. too. and you only get q few little
things In silver. But the rich have
everything. And what do you think OF
a divorce between h Stryversf Well.
who'll he neNtf"
There's no solid Siver that comes
with a divorce. after being married
twenty-five years. thenr" asked Mr..
Jarr.
NO. isn't n too badT' replied Mrs.
Jarr. "If It were the custom. al least
one would have the consolation Of hav-
INK solid silver gifts from friends as
well AS alfnony from a husband.
Il knew she was thinking of cele-
brating her silver wedding-Mrs. Stry-
yer. | m~ean-because months ago she
told me about II, and she has alluded
TO It often. Ii was as though she said
to me Now. YOU might M well start
to put some money aside TO buy me q
handsome prr-ent, because III get 50
many valuable silver pieces that, OF
course. you being poor. you won't dare
to send me anything cheap and skinny
Only the very rich can afford 10 make
shabby presents. you know"
We'll. I'm sorry it's to be a separa-
ton instead OF a celebration said Mr..
Jarr.
We'll. I'm not" said Mrs, Jlrr, "it
saves me having to buy something foI
Mrs. Stryver that | couldn't AFFORD to
get FOR myself. But | was old that
Mrs. Stryver knew how Mr.. Stryver has
been carrying on for the longest time
but she was trying to hold OF from
suing him TIL she had held her silver
anniversary and got all her presents
But. understand that his behavior go
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a kinsolvlng that carried a hod. Every
one know. that Mr.. kinsolving's fat n
accumulated bis money by large build
Ing contracts. but he never worked a
day with his own hands. He had This
house built from his W plans; but
Oh, a hod, Why need she have been
so cruel and malicious7"
ct IL really too bad murmured Mrs.
Bellmore, with an approving glance Of
her fine eyes about the vast chamber
done In lilac and old gold. And II was
in this room she saw Il! oh. no.. I'm
not afraid OF ghosts. Don't nave the
least fear on my account. I'm glad you
put me IN here. / think family ghosts
SC Interesting!
but. really. the story does sound a
little inconsistent. I. should have ex-
pected something better from Mrs.
Fscher-SuyncSccs Don't they carry
bricks in hodsf why should a gfcst
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Terence interested Mrs. Beilmors DO.

Terence interested Mrs Beilmors be-
cause she was not surs which II was.
She intended to study him q little long
or. unless she forgot the matter. II he
was only shy she would abandon him,
for shyness In a bore. II he was deep,
she would also abandon him. for depth
IL ~preoarious
on tbs afternoon OF tho third day Of
her visit Terence hunted up Mrs. Bell
more and found her IN a nook actually
looking at an album.
IT'S 20 good Of YOU" said he. 'to
come down here and retrieve the day
FOR US. I suppose you have heaxd that
Mrs. Fischer Suympkins scuttled the
ship before she left. She knocked q
whole plank out OF the bottom with a
he'd. Ny mother is grievins herself III
atout n. can't you manage TO see .
ghos. for us while you are here, Mrs.
Bellmore-a hang-up. swell ghost. with a
cotonet on his head and . check book
under his arm?'
THAT was a naughty old lady. Ter
cnce." said Mrs Bellmore. TO tell
such stories. Perhaps you gave her
too much supper. Your mother doesn't
really take II seriously. does she7"
II think she does" answered Terence.
"One would taink avery brick in the
hod had dropped on her. It's a good
mAmmy. and ] don't like to 500 her wor-
ried It's to he hoped that the ghost
belongs to the h~od-carricrs' union and
will go out on n strike. n he doesn't
there will he no peace in this family
I'm sleeping Ia the ghost chamber. '
said Mrs Bellmore pensively. But It's
so nice I wouldn't change II. even ~
were afraid. which I'm not. IL vouldn''
do for me 70 submit n counter story OF
a desirable. aristocratic shade. woult
~ I would 10 so with pleasure but
II seens TO mo IL would DO too obvi
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Jar was givfng
her Q husbands
oms-coming kiss.
Mrs. stryver u
going 60 get . a.
vorcs!"
rs that sof"
asked Mr.. Jarr.
although he didn't
care greatly.
Yes. I noticed
that she was act.
ing very QueerE
and running down.
town in her aueo-
mobilA and HAVING
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tentates.
To some pressure at the command Of
the KinsolvinEs she had yielded so far
as to honor their house by her presence.
for an evening and night.
She had her revenge upon her hostess
by relating. Wit grim enjoyment and
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Conscience and a generous amount Of
apparent surprise.
Fancy her telling everywhere" re-
c~apltulated Mrs. 1;!nsolvlng. that she
saw a ghost in the apartment she occu.
J ied here-our choicest guest-room-a
ghost. carrying a bod on It's shoulder
the ghost OF an old man In overalls,
smoking a pipe and carrying a hod!
Inc very abusrdity OF tho thing shows
her malicious intent. There never wa,
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sarcastic humor. ner story OF the vision
carrying the nod.
To that lady. in raptures at having
penetrated thus far toward the coveted
inner circle. the result came as a crush
ing disappointment.
Everybody either sympathized or
aughrd, and there was little to choose
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Itself. thanks to good
taste and good work
manship. Miss Stahl
had not Jared so well
at the hands OF the
architect Of her new
play. In Maggie
Pepper" Charles
Klein had given her
so much trouble that
the weight OF It was
almost as heavy a.
tho rainfall. that
brought out a small
army OF ~frst-nighters
In raincoats.
No poor working
girl struggling brave
~ against marrying a
merchant prince ever
met with so many
troubles as those
which pursued Mag
gle all the way from
the department store
Of which She was the
saving genius to her
humble home WHERE
In accents alcoholic
the ha!f-shot proprie-
tor asked her to b.
his partner for life
and then was shot by
a Matchmaking gam.
bier who had married
Maggie's shop-liftin,
sister-in-law Here a
last. after all he,
hard. good work. Mis-.
Stahl was left at tn,
mercy OF
maiOira mn
The first act ma,
PRO m s e d bette,
things. Mr.. Klein
who might almost b
called the playwright
of the COMMONPLACE
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A GHOST OF A CHANCE
The Story OF a Social Climber and a
a1od-C Carrying Wrath.

WoryriElite1 BY Doubleday. Page h Col
tic he published In book form after Scot. ~
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PART 7.

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- brow. Thus sha exnrossad
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-28
SAFETY AT
BOAT RACES
U. s. Government VIII Send Patrol
Boat to Dubuque for Service
During Carnival.

The United States government
promises to assist in the safety and
success of the Mississippi Valley Pow
er Boat Associations regatta at Du-
buqGe in July, according to word re-
ceiyed here today, by sending a patrol
boat to Dubuque for service during the
water carnival and marine parade.
According TO an &C of congress the
department of commerce and labor
has the authority to issue regulations
to promote the safety of life upon
navigable waters during regattas or
marine parades. Under the provis-
ions of this act the government will
send u S. patrol boat to Dubuque to
be on hand during the entire three
DAYS of the NJ. v P. B. A. carnival
to take care of the public interest and
safety and to see to it spectators are
kept out of harms way during the
races and parades.
II is likely, however, that there will
be more than one federal boat in these
waters July 4, 5 and 6, as several viii
be working in the vicinity of Dubuque
and will probably be authorized OF
permitted to take part in the carnival
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-28
NOTES OF
THE FIGHTERS

i The next important fight of the
week is to be staged this evening IN
Racine, Wisconsin. Those two asplr-
ants for. the late Stanley Ketchel ,
crown, Hugo Kelly, the Chicago ltai-
ian, and Johnny Thompson, the Syca,
more farmer, are scheduled to have It
out over the ten-round course. Thomp-
son, who left this country few
months ago as a lightweight, returned
from Australia full fledged middle
weight, and counted victory over
Bill Papke as one of his Australian
conquests. Kelly and Thompson have
been having merry war OF words I'M
til recently. when they finally agreed
on terms and signed UP for the fight.
A decisive victory for either means
that the winner will be one notch
nearer the middleweight goal. There
lis no legitimate middleweight cham
pion at the present time, the local con-
tenders being Thompson, Kelly, Klaus,
Gardner, Papke, Dillon, Houck and
one or two others, with the odds on
Papke and with Thompson good
second bet.
The victory OF Wolgast over the
celebrated Zone Round" Hogan, the
Pacific coast flash of lightning, serves
to eliminate the sOne Round" person
from the list of claimants to AID. VOL
CASTS mantle The victory was a decs-
i sive one. and at that it was big sur
prise, as Hogan was figured as the one
bet to take Wolgast's number. How
ever from some cause or another, MS
{ showing was remarkably poor after
Wolgast got started. and the Pacific
coast flash was obliged to appeal to
the referee to stop the scrap in the
second round, when it became appar
ent that Hogan could go no further
Hogan aud Brown were two OF the
strongest contenders for Wolgast's
title. Now it is up TO Brown, McFar
land, Moran or Jack Britton to show
i that they are better than the Michigan
) wildcat.
Norman Selby, known in pugilistit
: circles as kid Mccoy is broke q
as they say in the primeyal west, il
/ busted. He has fled petition in bank
i ruptcy in the New York United States
: circuit court. His liabilities are liste'
/, at 81 ,46041. and his assets at $50. O
| the assets, $40 is listed as cash ant
E the other $50 as wearing apparel.
E! Mickey" Sheridan, the ex-jockey
S had all the better of his setto witt
4 frankie White in their setto in Gary
a Indiana The lads went ten rounds
8 and at the end Of the tenth sessio'
S White was all in The victory TO
/. Sheridan puts him in line for nun
j. Der OF other bouts with some of tn
Il good boys of his class.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-28
HERMANN WILL
NOT INTERCEDE
Chairman Of National Commission
Turns Down Appeal From
AN IearneY

CHICAGO, April 2s-Chairman
August Hermann, of the National
baseball commission turned down
President AL Tearney's appeal that he
intercede personally in the Three-Eye
league fight and urge the northern
clubs to accept ten-club league. In
a message to Tearney, Hermann
stated that he could not make the
settlement of the league personal
matter and turned Tearney's appeal
over to B. B. Johnson, president of the
American league, for consideration at
the next meeting of the commission.
Tearney last night sent telegram &c
President Johnson of the American
league, asking him to make an effort
to induce the northern clubs Of the
league TO accept Quincy and Decatur
as members of the league without de
In,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-28
Defeated by Al-star Team For the
First Time in TWO Years, But
Champs Were Out
played.
BATTLE WAS sCoRCHER
Methodist Team Had an Off Night and
Fall to Connect With the
slants of Pitcher
Crimmins.

In the most exciting game of base
ball ever played in the Y. M. c. A.
gymnasium, the Methodist club, for
the first time in two years, last night
met defeat at the hands of an All-Star
team, 10 to s. The game had many
thrilling points and was not over until
the last Methodist man was down in
the seventh inning.
It was surely an off night for the
Methodists. Everything broke badly.
The club could not hit, the pitcher
was found with frequency, and the
champs were outplayed generally by
the All-Stars. Except for being wild,
Crimmins twirled strong game for
the winners.
Both pitchers were repeatedly in a
hole, and a big one at that. The Meth
odists did not escape single round
without having one or more bases
occupied, while in the sixth crimmins
left three men on bases after two had
scored.
The Methodists led in the early in
nings, but after the fourth the battle
went to the All-Star team.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-28
Former keokuk Twirler Is Making
Them Like it in the South
ern League and is
Going Well.
NEW ORLEANS TO 2 HITS
shutout His Opponents ia First Game
and Promises to Burn up League
Before the Season
Ends.

Willie" Prough is making good.
Who ever doubted that the former
Keokukian would make them like it
in the Southern league- In the first
game in which ne worked he held
New Orleans to two nits and scored
a shutout A New Orleans paper says:
Although in theory beauty SHOULD
let age take precedence over it. Pull
chritudinous Bill Prough of Birming-
ham paused not one fraction OF a sec
ond for Veteran T Breitenstein yes
terday afternoon Birmingham won
the game, second of the series, count
5 to zero.
Pulchritudinous Prough'' is written
for rhetorical effect, and not because
it is accurately descriptive. For the
pitcher, who last year was in captivity
to the keokuk Central Association)
club, is hardly as fair to gaze upon
as some OF the lilies that bloom in
the valley. His height is about sew
enteen times as great as his breadth
which is to say that his architectural
+ construction is much like that of the
Eiffel tower, minus of course, thS
I Swiss clock on top, and when his
fiinging arm goes to the limbo, Prougf
can earn a livelihood by posing as 9
model in match factory, or by COINS
into vaudeville and doing diving acts
into the barrel of a fountain pen
I Meanwhile, however, GLADYS" Moles
worth, Alabama impresario, vii
doubtless keep on paying him salary
to pitch, since he let the heavy New
Orleans artillery down with but twc
bingles yesterday.
Prough's pitching explains eloquent
ly the story of the defeat. The Peli
cans were shut out for the first tim
this season. AZ though to enaTiat
the elongated twirler, his teamate
played splendid ball behind him AM
:. won all the way.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-28
They sclievc Stark Has Good Ball
Club and Fear None of the
Other Central Associa-
ton Clubs.
FINISHING TOUCHES NOW
Few Days win be Given Over to Per-
fecting Signal Work-stark
Has Nucleus of Good
Club.

MONMOUTH, April 2S.-The games
in Canton on Saturday and Sunday
will close the practice games for the
Browns. Manager Stark will bring the
recruits home sunday evening and
Monday and Tuesday will attempt to
teach them inside baseball.
While the practice season has not
been as successful as might have
been hoped, yet Stark is FAR from be-
ing discouraged. He is the kind that
is able to make the most OF the sew
eral defeats that have been registered
against his men. 1t gave him SPLEEN
did opportunity to judge the several
candidates in all phases of playing.
1 That he has a number of excellent
men is certain and all that remains
i to mould them into a winning team is
/ to perfect team work.
Stark has won the confidence OF
his men in the manner in which he
has given the recruit square deal
1t has been impossible to give as
i good a workout of the youngsters as
might have been had the Monmouth
4 club been able TO send them on
i spring training trip and thereby worn
the kinks out of the stale muscles
Yet Stark has given each recruit
show to make good and demonstrate
what he is able to do, and in spite o
all setbacks that may occur. he vii
have one of the real teams of tht
league before the season is we'll unde
J, way.
With such men as Eul, Walters
Hart, Irmscher, Lage, Swain, BE
night and Stark as a nucleus AM
plenty of good material to pick from
the Browns have nothing to fear fron
] the other teams of the Central Asse
citation
Monday and Tuesday will be deyot
J ed to practice lessons in team wor
and the revising of code of signals
In this is where Stark, as manager
: is second to none in the league. H
8 is a master of the fine points of tn
s game. He realizes that it is up t
him TO produce the team that is wo
: thy contender for the pennant. Tn
switching of the players from on
!, position to another Is about over, an
from now on it will be necessary fc
J. the recruit to make good or give wa
for someone better. Hard work Wi
mark the closing days of the practie
q season
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-28
ARBOR DAY
AT LINCOLN
Good Program Rendered by Pupils ir
commemoratlon OF the
Day.

The following Arbor Day program
was rendered today by the pupils OF
the Lincoln school:
Song Arbor Day-School.
Welcome to Arbor Day--Gertrude
Hayden.
The Trees of Iowa-Edwin Lantz.
Compositions: How Trees Protect
the Birds-Kenneth Lisle.
The Uses of Trees--Albert Strain,
William Meyers, Grace Wilson, Eddie
Heevner, Luella Smith.
The Trees l Like Best and Why
Edna Bentley.
Song. Springs Arbor Day--School
My Favorite Tree-victor Larson
Orville Allen, Jack Dose, Walter Coon
Victor Alltop.
Wonderful--Walter Coon.
Song, Cheer Up-School.
Roll Call Of the Flowers
Wilson, Gertrude Hayden, Luella
Smith, Ethel Hedrick, Gladys Russell
Grace Ramsey.
Hiawatha and the Birds Raleigh
ItdSSoW
Three Harold Gambrel.
Song, My Mate and School.
Addresses of Bird: The Robin
George Allen; Blue bird, Luella Smith
Woodpecker. Otto Raeder; Lark. Pan
sly lobe; Nightingale, Galord Steele
/ A Secret School
Song, The Brown Thrush-School
Who Stole the Birds Nest?-Eddi'
! Heevner, Ethel Moore, Russell Musser
Beulah Van Hyning. Iva Shannon.
/ Songs Of Spring: Seed Time. Th'
Robin, Springs Coming, The Swee
Singers, The Apple Tree, Spring i
| Here.
The Planting of Young Trees-B
school.
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nations show that there are now 81
$40 associations with membership of
896,747; an increase of 500 associa-
tions in the year. OF the $83,000,00
property owned by the Associations,
the American branches have $4,000
900; and Of the 1852 employed Of
ficers, 2,927. Germany has the largest
number of associations, s,29G; but
North America is second with 2,01T
The German membership is 128, 400;
British 1866; the American 496,591.
America also leads in its extension
work in foreign lands, for which =
spends 100000 and maintains 100
secretaries.
Stephen s. Jones Here Tonight
Stephen S. Jones. field secretary OF
the Y, NJ. G. A, among the Indians OF
the northwest, will speak in the Y. M.
c. A. auditorium this evening at eight
o'clock. Mr.. Jones is full blooded
Indian, and his story will reveal in
particular that the phrase, "the only
good Indian Is a dead Indian" Is not
true, but that the good Indian is a
live Indian and is enlisted In the
great work for the young men. The
meeting will be open to men and
women and all who can should avail
themselves Of the opportunity to hear
this interesting speaker. Mr.. Jones
is permanently located at Mitchell
South Dakota.