The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-04

president of the l.. V. q u. IL IT, " va"
rison S name WAS mentioned. They disc"sse'
the details of agreement
The T.. s. & NJ. Co was trying 10 close
y contract with Garrison binding MN 10 ae
liver a certain amount of coal weekly and
imposing ruiuous penalty for ms 1a.iurs
Ia do so. The r. Y. x L. II. X, CO., winch
controlled the lines over which GARRISON
mry,. shin his coal would prevent him from
getting enough cars, sidetrack the cars nv
did get and by any other means that might
he necessary make it impossible for MIN 10
deliver the coal The purpose Of this ar,
rangcmcnt was to force Garrison out oil
business and give the coal trust monopoly
For their part in the work, according TO
tbo agreement. the p. V. & l., Il. r. Co. was
IN Get all the freight business Of the coal
trust The L. s. & NJ, Co. was to get re-
b,..c on the price they paid Garrison for any
coal that he did succeed in delivering, ana
when he was put ont Of business their coal
was TO he supplied by the trust AT 10"
f;ruro roy N number Of wears. The terms
of this agreement were put in writing ana
.broe couspirators signed il. The written
agreement was left in Bishops care nut'I
tho T. s G. NJ co secured the signed con
tract from Garrison.
Scarcely had the photograph told the
story of the plot when Gilbert received Gar
rison's telegram insaructing HIM to proceed
no further with his Investigations.
"He is walking right into the trap,
thought Gilbert. "but he has not signed the
contract vet He must not call the thing
off at once. but keep up negotiations
He then wired Garrison the warning not
10 sign the contract
The next morning as Gilbert was leaving
his office he was called TO the telephone
Garrison wanted to speak TO him.
- have signed the contract Mr. Gil
bert said Garrison. 50 1t was too good
thing to let go. I thought
'Whati" shouted Gilbert. "Didn t you
get my telegram?
eyes, but I thought YOU didn Z know
''You re a fool, Garrison big fool. 1t
wonder she trust has not gobbed you up
long ago replied Gilbert angriy
"Sir' came the indignant reply, 'you
wouldn't talk like that in my presence
What do you meau''
''The coal trust wrote that contract for
she L. S. & NJ. Co. and
"How's that7"
"-the P. v & l.. r. r. Co are going
TO prevent you from delivering the coal. ~
Man, I'm ruined
"Not il YOU have sense enough to follow
my directions. Come to my office tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock. In the meantime
continue your preparations 10 supply coal on
the contract The trust people must not
learn that you know that they have trapped
you Good bve,D and Gilbert rang off,
Well, this is getting interesting be
thought "Garrison does not really deserve
to be pulled out OF this; but it will be worth
while to knock in the head the plans Of
those respectable gentlemen who flatter
themselves that they can trifle with the
laws of Justice as easily as with the laws
of their servants, the legislators. We shall
sec if they can, But Garrison was right;
we shall have to fight the devil in his own
wav''
Gilbert gathered from some words pro-
duccd by the phouograph that Bishops chief
clerk had been authorized to employ an adj
dtional boolSkeeper, and he determined to
ge. the Job: for man on the inside has an
obvious advantage over man on the out
side when it comes To getting carefully
guarded secrets
His letter Of introduction from President
Smith came again into service; but this time
he presented it to the chief clerk, who ush-
cred him at once into the presence Of Mr.
Bishop. The manager s Office opened into the
main office. Gilbert feared that Bishop
might have received communications from
President Smith tending TO weaken conf
dence in his veracity When the chief clerk
left them, however, he boldly asked il
President Smith had sent word vet when
he was coming to examine bis invention
Learning that the president had not an
uounccd thc time Of his coming and that
il was Mr.. Bishops desire that he never
would become intensely interested in il and
his cer.ain conviction that he would again
hear of 1t went out into the main office.
Gilbert S pleasant smile when nc came ont
Iod the chief clerk to believe that he had
had satisfactory interview with Mr.
Bishop.
" applied TO Mr. Bishop for a Job as an
accountant, said Gilbert. "'TIe requested
me to say 10 YOU that if YOU have not vet
put n man in that new position to give me
trial. y
No have moi filled The place re-
piled the chief clerk
Then IN in luck. said Gilbert ,'tC
YOU viii outline nv work | shall ,trv 10 GET
my hand in TODAY
Gilbert was pleased to note that when
seated at the desk assigned him no faced
tho door of Bishops office The man
whom the chief clerk assigned to show, Gil.
bert his duties concluded that he wss rho
mos' In1uIsitivc fellow he had ever met His
oeslre TO become acquainted with the de.
tails of his work WAS not so ,u,rLoa T.;