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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-15
SIX men PERISH
IN FOREST FIRE
Six Square Miles of Timber
and Two Logging
Camps Destroyed.

Bellingham. Wash.. May 15.-Seven
mon We're burned to death. six square
miles of timber and two camps of the
English Logging company near Ham
ilton were destroyed by a forest fire
which swept Skagit county, Washing
ton, last night.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-15
WILL PUSH WORK

Washington. May 15.-President
Taft has authorized Secretary Fisher
of the interior department to proceed
with construction of the Grand Valley
irrigation project in Colorado. without
rights. The water needed may now be
taken in any lawful manner by the
secretary
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-15
K. C.l MEET.

Green Bay. Wis. May 15.-The
knights of Columbus of Wisconsin
opened their eleventh annual conven-
ti0n here today About 200 delegates
are in attendance. The report of the
secretary shows an increase of 500
members and the installation of four
new lodges at Burlington, Columbus,
Delavan and Portage
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-15
TO Help HARMON.

Washington. May 15.-Senator
Pomerene left last night to join Gov
ernor Judson Harmon in the latter's
spea king tour of Ohio. Fl will speak
Wednesday with the governor at
Akron and Barberton and Friday at
Mansfield. Saturday he will speak at
Troy and Piqua.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-15

THE WEATHER. =
North Dakota: Fair tonight =
and Thursday. Warmer tonight. =
. . . . . . . .
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-15
WAS |NCOGN|T0
AS TRAVELLER
Was Taking Stroll Alone
When Stricken With
Apoplexy and Fell.
uNRECOGNlED HIS BODY
WAS RUSHED TO HOSPITAL
Was Returning From South Where he
Had Been Seeking to Recover His
Hcalth-His Physicians Believed he
Was Entirely Cured.

. LONG LIVE THE KING.
Copenhagen. May 15.-Chris-
tian was proclaimed king of
Denmark from the balcony of
the palace at o'clock this aft
ernoon in the presence of a large
gathering.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-08-01

splendid chance to get through these
woods to some spot where We can
board a train. The chances are all
with us right now-your noble baron
Is fooled again."
Fooled more completely than the
boys imagined. At the very moment
when Brockett and Solano lay painting
In their weedy lair, a large, double
listed, irascible man walked up to
Baron Zollern, who was just alighting
from a train and was gazing blandly
upon the unaccustomed scenes of Lit
tie Rock.
Baron Zollern?" demanded the
double-fisted and irascible individual.
1T ISIS me. Vot wish your" &C.
knowledged the baron, amiably.
The large. irascible mar seized
Baron Zollern with a clutch like that
OF a laundry presser. II want you,
FIRST" he thundered. land then l want
that gang that you hired to bI1ff the
conductor Of the Chicago train. I'll
put you where the fleas won't bite
you and then I'll collect your part,
ners!" {
And the genuine sheriff Of Little
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eddy those portions OF Texas which
made a great general declare that II
he had that state and the Internal
regions at his disposal he'd live In
hell and rent out Texas. Mesquite and
prickly brush; jungles bisected here
and there with thorny trails; habita-
tons almost as scattered and as sci.
dom visible as in the days when the
Comanche and the Lipan rode abroad
in the land-that is the Rio Grande
border. 1t is an ideal country for
%smugglers. cattle-thieves and revolu.
~tionists, just as 1t was once the happy
hunting ground Of the most pernicious
red men.
Still, it doesn't much matter what
the section Of the land may be, or
what the scenery may amount to. II
1t Is in these United States-and
there Is a patch Of fairly level ground
discernable-there will be a ball game
in progress any pleasant afternoon,
and the crack of the bat will rouse
the echoes where once the Indian war
whoop scared the birds. Hence 1t can
hardly be considered startling or even
remarkable to find good games in full
blast upon the Rio Grande-games
which may not be played with big
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names are Harry Brockett and Ramon
solano. amt they?"
Not exactly" parted Brockett. my
name Is Thomas Jackson and my
friends name Is Henry Hawkins"
y" don't believe you, young fefler."
dissented the sheriff, sternly. There's
nobody else on this train answers tho
description I've got here. and, further.
more" with one quick clutch he
twtned his fingers in Brockett's col.
lar, unbuttoned it, and jerked 1t from
the shirt-'furthermore, boy, the laun-
dry initials in this here collar is H. B.
Reckon you're the parties, all O.. X.
Come with me quietly-it'n be easier
for you II you do"
What's 1t all about? What's this
foolishness mean. anyhow" demanded
Solano.
"Oh, nothing. Nothing at ALL"
laughed the sheriff, his stern features
relaxing. only a wire from the prop
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Brockett chortled, to the intense an
noyance of an elderly lady across the
aisle, and seized the book. He i'm
mersed himself in its pages till ten
o'clock, when it was time for the first
watch to begin-a duty which had
fallen to Brockett by the Tipping of a
penny. Closing the book, he leaned
back against the plush. resolved to
keep his eyes open and give Solano a
fair chance for his three-hour nap
and discovered, as he gazed on his
companion, that the Cuban had stolen
an indefinite space Of time upon him
and was already sound asleep.
Nothing happened to disturb the
travellers through the night, but the
alienation of three-hour periods left
them in a more or less drowsy, half
dazed condition when morning came.
The train was bowling along through
the half-fenced, half-cultivated fields
of Arkansas; Solano was nodding in
his seat, and Brockett was trying to
absorb some more of the Anglo-Span-
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ish sentences, when a slowing up, a
kissing of slackened steam and a jar
ring stop announced arrival In the
town of Little Rock. Gazing from the
windows the boys were finding consid-
cradle amusement in the signs which
told of racial segregation-such plac-
ards, for example, as those upon a
restaurant, white Side" "Colored
Side" and other marks OF sharp dis
tinction, when half a dozen long, lean,
c~lay-colored Arkansans came tramp
ing down the aisle.
The conductor preceded the group
of Little Rock citizens, led them
straight to the double seat where
Brockett and Solano were reposing,
and halted abruptly.
These young men," said he, ARE
the only ones aboard who answer the
description. Go ahead and make your
own inquiries, sherif-that's all can
do for you"
"You two boys" said the leader OF
the Arkansans, impressively, had bet.
ter speak right out and tell me the
truth, now. and nothing else. Your
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Rock. without further delay or parley.
dragged the noble Baron Zollsrn head
long from the station platform.
CHAPTER XIII,

Even In the Arkansas hills news
travels swiftly, and the boys had hard
~ begun the second installment OF
their fight when they were halted by
. grinning and wholly peaceful negro,
bringing tidings from Little Rock,
with a request that they return forth.
with and give whatever evidence they
could against the German noble. "Ah
jes' bout rode a hawss to death, gem
men," protested the black man, IAN
when All couldn't ride him no longeh
In dis canebrake All done hiked suth-
in pow'ful to cotch yo'. De sheriff,
he lowed dat he'd glib me IS II All
brought yo' in, an dat he'd jest
c%.cnully kick de debbil outen me II All
didn't-an' SO All stirred mahse1 right
lively"
Three hours later the youngsters.
stained, muddy and thoroughly tired,
were having a friendly pow-wow with
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fer it-but somebody's got tub make
good fer them dawgs, an | reckon it'll
have tub be the German"
The travellers were accustomed to
receiving notes by now and they were
hardly surprised when Brockett, as
the train moved out, received a small
white envelope from the hand Of the
friendly sheriff.
Game by mail this afternoon"
cried the sheriff as the station receded
into distance. Mote to me with It.
Note said to give 1t to you as the
train started. Goodbye, boys, and
good luck go with you!"
And the note bore. In the same mys-
terious code, simply these directions:
"3BH Fin w w WP Pos Pc TIC e
2BH PB Pc TIC TIC BA TIC Fin TO
SB TIC w TO w TIC Fin ABB Pc SH."
Hurry along and look out for
trouble" Brockett translated. I'D risk
something that there's plenty OF that
article still ahead OF u.s."
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eYNOPsi0

CHAPTER I-sscret Service Chief WILL
t1ns. puzzled over the theft Of the Gov
32Tnment,s cipher. calls to his aid Detso-
discovered a new cipher, when the ofnce
boy. Brockett, tells them its 1.-The Dia-
mon Cipher" and starts for the ball park.
CHAPTER II-Brockett, Chula Lon
Kan, a Siamese, Ramon Solano, a Cuban.
tosether with some twenty other young
sters practice baseball playing until dark.
One OF wilkins stenographers Is seen to
pass q paper to mysterious stranger.
CHAPTER III-As outcome Of Brock
etts cipher, the ball player and Solano
Gus mission. Yazimoto. mysterious Jap,
calls on Brockett
CHAPTER Iv-Brockett falls into YAH
motos trap, a Tight follows, Brockett
coming out on top: Messenger McKane
coming to rescue.
CHAPTER v-McXane was bearer Of
the mysterious cipher; Is also q ball play
CHAPTER vT-YaZimoto returns to
headquarters and reports his failure to
obtain the cipher TO Baron Zollern; Miss
Lawson. the stenographsr. also reports to
the Baron.
CHAPTER vII-Brockett and solano
have encounter with the Baron in which
the latter comes out second best.
CHAPTER vIIr-Brockett and solano
arrive In Jersey City; make appointment
70 meet McGinnity. the Iron Man. base
ball manager.
CHAPTER IX-Brockett and Solano ar
rive In New York and run into a Chi
nese Tong war; rescued by q white man.
CHAPTER x-The place OF refuge
found to be a trap; md themselves prls-
oners Of Yazimoto. Kelly to rescue.
mulches Jap out of SO, 900.
CHAPTER XI-Kelly turns tho nson,y
over to Brockett.
CHAPTER xII-Brockett and solano
have encounter with tough gang, but are
protected by Kelly's men
CHAPTER XIII-On sleeper Cleveland
bound; the Baron detected in act OF riff
Inns Solano's berth. jumps from train.
CHAPTER XIV-At Detroit the mes
sengers go to ball game, receive hero
glyphs In mysterious manner and depart
FOR Chicago.
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er authorities in Chicago to arrest and
hold you two boys on complaint Of
some German feller-Baron Zoliern,
that's the name. Charge, stealing val
liable papers. VIII you come over to
the lookup nice and quiet, boys, or
must We carry your"
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CHAPTER XIV.

There isn't much that a be said
about certain stretches along the Rio
Grande. except that they are undoubt.
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(Contlnuedl

Sectional Maps Brookings county.
7x8h, at the Register ofice.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-16
Vim CAMPBELL is TOO FAST
Ran Himself of Pittsbure Team by
His E%aserness to Capture Files
In the Field.

Vim Campbell, who was traded by
q Pirates to Boston for Mike Don
lin, literally ran himself OF the Pitts
burg club. At least such is the opin-
lon OF Mordecai Brown.
Campbell has speed, lots of speed.
In the outteld his speed was a men.
ace, and at times he had Fred Clarke
In fear Of his life. Ordinarily, when
a ball is hit into the doubtful territory
between two outtielders, one of them
Will stop, yell to the other and let him
have 1t. Not so Campbell.
AS a result Clarke was not sorry to
get rid of the youngster for steady,
experienced Mike Donlin. At bat
Campbells speed, according to Brown,
was also a detriment. The moment
he faced the pitcher he was, in his
mind, starting for first. He never put
his whole thought on hitting the ball,
but was thinking of his start. Az a
result he never truly hit up to his
possibilities, and for all he is younger
than Donlin. was Of far less use than
the ex-Giant is expected to be.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-16

Manager Jennings has strengthened
his pitching staff by purchasing Bill
Burns of the Minneapolis club. De
troit really owed Bill Burns q job. In
1903, the last Of the Tigers fat years,
Burns pitched Jennings team into the
American league championship. Bill
was then a member Of the White
sox club. and was sent to the mound
against the Athletics in the second
game Of a double-header. He beat the
Athletics in this game, and the defeat
cost Connie Mack the pennant.
Il expect Bill Burns to become one
OF the greatest left-handers the Ameri-
can league has known" declared Jen-
nings.
Burns has the baseball knowledge;
he has the strength, and he has the
experience. Everything is in his ia
vor, and I am confident that he will
be n of Detroit's most dependable
pitchers this season.
Burns has had a peculiar baseball
life. First he was with Washington,
then with Chicago. then with Cincin-
natl, then with the Phillies. He had
varying success with each of these
teams.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-16

Atlanta has sold Catcher McMurray
to Rochester.
The Giants have released Pitchers
Evan Evans and Jack Terrell to Dali
las. W
Cy Young is a sporting editor on a
Boston paper. Now look for some real
dope on baseball.
Art Brouthers, last year in the Tri.
State and New York State, has been
signed with Youngstown.
Manager Harry Wolverton will keep
himself in trim in order to act the role
Of utility in1elder for the Highland
ers.
Frank Schultz Of the Cubs, has
made 48 home runs of IS pitchers
since he has been in the National
league.
Tesreau, the Giants big pitcher, is
the only exponent of the spitball on
the New York team. He's a hard man
to catch.
Otto Jordan, purchased by Chatta-
nooga from Atlanta, has been made
field captain of the Lookouts by Man
ager Smith.
Manager Dahlen Of the Brooklyns
predicts that Allen, his $4,000 left
handler, will be a sensation in the Ma
tional league.
New Orleans figures that it is to get
Grover Land from Toledo, the Mud
Hens in turn to get another catcher
from Cleveland.
Bob Bescher will give Ty Cobb a
battle for base stealing this year. The
speedy giant Of the Reds ia pilfering
the bases every day.
Bill Dahlen says he has q powerful
staff of pitchers with Rucker, Barger.
Stack. Knetzer. Ragon. schardt and
Allen to depend upon.
Ace" Stewart, one-time member Of
the Chicago National league club, and
a native of Terre Haute, md, died in
Terre Haute at the age of forty-two.
Gipe and Bonner, two Athletic re-
cruit pitchers, sent to New Orleans by
Manager Mack, went with a strong
string attached and may be recalled
next fall.
Manager McGraw has sold Pitchers
Evans and Farrell to Dallas of. the
Texas league. Evans was with Dallas
last season and Farrell was with
Spartanburg.
Clark Griffith may have another
pitching star on his star to be q At
side partner Of Walter johnson II
Cashion. the senators' young twirler,
comes up to his spring promise.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-16

Burns has q peculiar disposition. l
do not mean to say that he is eccen-
trio or anything like that. But he
isn't a fellow to jump every time the
inclination meets him. He thinks
about things. Occurrences that would
upset the ordinary man do not disturb
Burns.
"That is the kind Of pitcher We need
many times. No matter what the stu
alton, Burns is steady. He is never
ratified, and he never loses his nerve.
He will stick as long as anyone, and
with him a game isn't over until the
last man is out in the ninth inning.
Burns vas a fine pitcher when he
was in the American league before.
1t was seldom Detroit beat him. And
Detroit had just as good hitting club
then as any manager would ask for.
Yet our victories over Burns were al
ways Of the tasteless kind. One run
usually separated the winner from the
loser. And Burnside loser-was
pitching for an acknowledged weaker
club.
Burns will be one Of the regular
pitchers. I do not believe there is any
question on that point"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-16
MAKES DARING "TRIP
W. P. Edwards Of ~ecIamatio
Service Has Thrilling Adventure.
Government Enabled to Build Huge
Tunnel Five Miles Long from Gun.
nison Canyon az Result Of
Remarkable Feat.

Denver, Colo.-One Of the most dar
ing feats that has been accredited to
the men Of the reclamation service in
their battles Of converting the deserts
Of the west into productive farms was
The original trip through the swift wa
tiers of the Gunnison canyon.
In the years previous to the time
when the reclamation service went in
to Colorado and determined upon the
diversion Of the waters of the Gunni-
son river, that the arid lands of the
Uncompahgre project might be re-
claimed, man had never passed alive
through the Gunnison canyon. There
were many tales of adventurous In
dams and white men who had attempt
ed the dangers Of this canyon, but
none OF them had succeeded and lived
to tell the tale.
W.. P. Edwards was the first man
to accomplish this feat. He did it on
a rubber mattress, inflated with air.
Boarding his raft at the headwaters
of the Gunnison, he started on the
wild ride through its canyon with the
AuSo "a PAOSpCSGu6 AO1 q pO5SAUl0 OQ.
portunity to divert its waters and get
them upon the desert. !
This raft of air and rubber was be-
lieved to be immune to the shocks that
it would meet In plunging headlong
down the currents Of this stream. TO
a large extent, it proved worthy OF
the confidence that was placed in it.
To be sure, it lost upon occasion much
Of the form which 1t had in the be-
ginning. It was punctured and mend
ed and reintlated on many occasions.
At times it became merely a fiabby
bag that was thrown over the shoulder
OF the voyager as he waded down
stream over the rapids. At other times.
1t became merely a l~ife-preserver that
kept him afloat In deep eddies. j
At still other times the raft and its;
operator chung to the sides of rocks
and fought the currents in the face of
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-16
wa LOSES HER VOICE
Trainer Of Wild Beasts In Terror
When Gagged Grizzly Bear A.
taeks Her Husband.

San Francisco.-Mme. Ricardo, 4
lion trainer, known as the singing
girl in the tigers den," is speeches.
as the result Of an attack upon her
husband by q bear at Oakland. The
woman was one Of the few in the
gathering at the circus who realized
her husbands peril.
When the grizzly bore her husband
to the ground the Woman screamed
for assistance. Ricardo remained
quiet, covering his head and face with
his arms.
Nine. Ricardo attempted to sing the
next day, but found that she had lost
her voice. Physicians fear it may not
return. Ricardo escaped injury.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-16

the danger of going over a cataract
into sudden death. But in the end,
after passing many dangers, w. r.
Edwards and his raft came out of the
mountain gorge to where the river
spreads out into a quiet stream on the
plains below.
When Edwards reached the hablta-
lions Of man he had with him the data
which was the foundation upon which
has been based one of the most spec
tacular engineering feats on record.
For the reclamation service has built
wagon roads into this precipitous can
yon and from a point at its bottom
has driven a great tunnel for five miles
through solid rock and through that
tunnel has diverted the frothing wa
tiers and set them to the business Of
making crops grow upon the desert.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-16
BASEBALL RECORDS
WORTH A THOUGHT

. Here are some Of the base
! ball records made In the old
days which the veterans delight
|. to talk about:
. In the thirteen years between
i! 1877 and 1900 "slIver" Flint
caught s35 games, and In e33
| Of them he wore neither mask,
: glove nor chest protector.
!. In tho sixteen seasons be-
tween 1876 and 1892, Adrian c.
Arson played In 1882 games
: and made 2,252 hits. His bat
!. ting average for the entire six
teen years was .344.
/ In 1875 Boston won every
game played on the homo
!. grounds.
In 1,555 games, covering
|: twelve consecutive seasons,
Mike Kelley had a batting aver.
age OF .221.-
Hugh Duffy, with the Boston
|. club In 1894, had the unprece-
!. dented batting average Of .43s.
The first no-hit game ever
pitched was by Joseph Mann of
, Princeton, N. j., against Yale,
New Haven. The game was
played In 1875.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-16
Reilly Trains Faust.

Charles Victory Faust lays his
splendid condition" to Barney Reilly
OF the Brooklyn team. While at Hot
Springs he was told that Reilly was
q famous trainer, and he Immediately
"cottoned" to him. Daily he visited
Reilly's room for his advice concern
Ing the medicine he should use.
Reilly changed the remedy every day
until Charles Victory's room looked
like a drug store and smelled like an
automobile accident.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-16
RESPECT for Our Elau.

Armando Marsans of Cincinnati al
ways hits them to the left field. When
questioned about this uniformity OF
bifs, Senior Marsans gave excellent
explanation. I'm re center field" said
Don Armando. ices M flag pole. and
on heem ees one American flag. Eef
I hit to center, I possible beet re
American flag. Never, never, no, no,
will l hit re glorious American flag,
SO l direct all heets to lef', where zere
e no such dreadfulness Of danger!"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-16
Yale Receives a Prehistoric Chair.

VAC HeceJVe0 q Preht6t0f16 ChaIF.
New Haven, Conn.-Yale university
museum has received from Ecuador,
South America. an interesting prehis-
toric relic in the shape Of q large
stone chair, carved 20 a crouching hu.
man figure holding up q stone seat.
The chair ts of q kind OF stone found
nowhere In the world except on some
Of the Ecuador hills. The donor -
Charles G. Brown, Yale. 1905.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-16
Freak Double PLAY.

Billy Sullivan got a double play at
Waco on a passed ball. Men were on
first and second when the ball got
away from Sullivan. He recovered
quickly and ran down the man be-
fore he could return to third. He
whipped the ball to Weaver. who re-
turned it, and Sullivan caught the sec
ond man Just a. he tried to slide into
third base.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-16
Lajoie's Long Service.

Larry Lajoie has entered upon his
seventeenth year in the major league.
During his 16 years service he has
failed to surpass the 800 mark only
twice. in 1907 and 1906. Not many
doubt the truth Of the oft-repeated
statement that Larry would have pass
ied the mark wen In these years IL re-
Moved Of the managerial worries.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-16
LOST ONLY ONE LONG GAME
Russell Ford Defeated in Ono Extra
Inning Contest Since Starting In
American League.

Russell Ford. who keeps a record OF
all the games he has pitched, dug up
figures to controvert assertions that his
delivery is such as to be weakening
on his arm.
I have lost only one extrainning
game since I've been in the American
league" said Ford, "and that was my
first one"
Ford then produced the following
record of the extra-inning battles from
the archives: 1910, lost in ten innings
to Mullin of Detroit, score 4 to 8; won
from Walsh of Chicago in II innings.
score 3 to 2; 1911. won in IL innings