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phernalia of the opium smokers pas
time
"Ycu know how COOKE" questioned
the yellow man, as the young fellows
handed him a few silver coins. You
not can cook, me cook for you?"
Not just yet" said Solano. Let
us rest a little-we are tired and need
to stretch out awhile before We
smoke"
"All lite. Yet get leady smoke, call
me. l cook for you" And the heather
shufled away to his eyrie hear the
door, where, with a mulatto woman.
he alternately chatted softly and cast
up accounts on the age-old counting
strings of the Monaghan race.
This is worth watching" whispered
Brockett. "Our black man may be in
one of those hunks, or he may come
in at any time. We can stay here a
little while before calling in our
friends or going out again."
A voice came to them from a nearby
bunk-a voice that they had heard be-
fore. Both boys started agitatedly as
they recognized its thick, oily tone.
but they restrained their impatience
by gripping each other with firm
though shaking hands.
"Ah done tole 20, nah fren'," came
the voice, dat dis heah place am
haunted. Haunted by a ghos' wivout
any haid. Dass right. Long time ago.
dere was a man done been killed
right heah. Dey cut of his haid, took
de haid away wiv 'em, IN left do
body. Evah since den dis heah haid-
less man have done haunted de spot.
Now an den he comes right in heah
an scahes de smokehs silly. Now n
den yoll see him in de yahd. Nah IA
fren'. dis amt no joke. Onst every 80
often dat haidless man comes roun'
heah, an Aim almos' suah dat he's
pretty nigh due. Didn't yo' neveh SEE
no ghostses oveh In Manila?"
(To BE CONTINUEDJ
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clothes, both were heavily armed, and
both seemed to regard the evenings
program as a rare bit of diversion.
Don't you worry, me lad" ,chuckled
Hogan, well get your nagur before
the stroke of twelve, an We'll get the
goods with him. He's nc spendthrift
nagur, that felly, an he'll have pretty
near all your money still with him."
I'D be willing" said Brockett, Ito
let him keep the money If he'd give
me back what else was in the belt"
Let him kape nothin'," growled
Flynn. "Wud ye encourage a chape
nagur to unlawful doin's? Ye'd spoil
him be lettin' him have money. Well
get him, an the money too"
Walking and chatting pleasantly,
the policemen led their companions
over a side street, and into an alley
that was blacker than a pail of tar.
No moon was shining, and the quartet
stumbled along, occasional smothered
remarks of a thoroughly profane ma
ture marking places where the stall
wart "coppers" stubbed a toe or
barked a shin. After penetrating the
alley for perhaps 200 feet. the police
men ordered a halt.
"Now, me sons" said Hogan, right
here Is where we have to show a bit
of generalship, ye understand. Go
youse two through this yard to a small
back door yell find at the far end.
Knock three times an whistle. Some
van will look at We through a peep
hole. Seem that ye are only kids, an
harmless-lookin', they will let ye in.
II ye find the big nagur there, 1t is up
to youse to open the door, sudden, an
let us in. II they hinder ye from
openin' the door, yell-we'n hear ye.
If the nagur is not there, make some
excuse-a friend ye wanted is not
there, or ye have no money to buy a
card av hop-an' come out again.
Then we'll hang around IN wait for
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SYNOPSIS.

Secret Service. Chief Wilkins, puzzled
over the theft Of the governments cipher,
calls to his aid Detective Pinkwell. They
think they have discovered a new cipher,
IN Nae :th the p Saaee 10y S:,p 5s9sk sndi t stasts sh foa
the ball park: Brockett, Chula Lon Kan.
a Siamese, Ramon Solano, a Cuban. to-
with some twenty other youngsters,
Of Wilkins st~enographers is seen to pass
a paper to a mysterious stranger. AZ
Of Brockett's cipher, the ball
player and Solano are engaged by gov
Brockett falls Into Yazimoto's trap. q
light follows. Brockett coming out on
f TOP; Messenger MnR M Mel me-. coming to the
FERROUS cipher; is also a ball player. Yaz-
imoto returns to Headquarters and re-
ports to Baron Zeliern his failure to OBJ
o eaaa dns ''P also r M1ss saw TO the ene baron sren.
Brockett and solano have encounter with
the baron in which the latter, comes out
second best. Brockett and Solano arrive
meet m sef Mcain nty' the %s* *fron aP Mann Baseball Il
manager Brockett and Solano arrive In
New York and run into a Chinese Tong
e %s1 rsf tsssd feaa q t. { S = : t az ma Has t R'sss
selves prisoners of Yazimoto. Kelly to
rescue. Kelly turns 10000 Jap money
over to Brockett., Brockett and solano
celeveland-bound; the baron detected in
act of. rifing solano's berth, Jumps from
train. At Detroit the messengers go to
rious manner and depart for Chicago Ar
robbed by a "transom thief" the baron
a SIT. in I rpecovering IN the o stolen A papers. 70 The nsa
messengers find the stolen papers In the
possession Of q giant negro.
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CHAPTER XIX.

The day passed somewhat dragging
ly, for time flies with leaden pin-feath-
ers when you are in a hurry. Brockett
and Solano knew that they had little
time left for action, and that il they
failed to recover the messages nov In
possession Of the big negro their jour-
ney would abruptly end, an utter fail
ure. Most of the afternoon and early
evening was spent in discussing the
giant black, and the chances Of finding
the documents still in his possession.
II only hope" said Brockett, that
He might very likely destroy them to
make the chance Of Identifying the
belt so much smaller, and to protect
him in the possession of the money"
Il hardly think So" Solano encour
aged the worried youngster. When
We get the negro, well get belt, pa
pers. money and all. And l think Of
ticer Hogan will come pretty near to
rounding him up. If anybody can"
Il wonder If the big fellow remem-
bered us from Detroit?' unused Brock
EFT. IF so, he might also remember
the card he passed us, something of
its general appearance, and, If he
opened the envelopes in the belt, the
duplication Of the writing might i'm
press him."
Hardly probable" dissented So
lano. HE was simply told, in De-
troit. to hand that card to us, and
was paid something to do it. He
might remember us, all right, but
would not be likely to remember any
thing about the message that he gave
us. Quit fretting about the whole
business. l firmly believe everything
will work out all right, and that the
lost envelopes will come back to you
before morning. Then we can hurry
towards Mexico as fast as you may de
SIRE"
1t was about nine that night when
Officers Hogan and Flynn-the latter
as big, as husky and as truly Irish as
his partner-summoned the boys fol
the expedition that should spell abso
lutte failure or a chance to retrieve
lost fortunes. Both were in plai1
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across a few inches of midnight gloom
at his companion.
Somewhat battered on the head;
somewhat damaged In the ribs and
knees; considerably mussed up as to
clothing, and. apparently, in JAIL" re-
turned the Cuban. "Otherwise I think
I am all right and perfectly happy.
Who pushed the building over on us,
anyhow"
Il haven't the slightest idea," rue-
fully responded Brockett. "All l can
remember is making n grab at that
negro, while you tried to seize the belt.
Then things seemed to go round and
round, and I began to look through a
big telescope at the evening stars.
Did things impress you that way"
Pretty much So" Ramon answered.
II distinctly remember having one
hand on that belt. and the other hand
on that large black mans necktie.
Then somebody turned off the lights
for an instant, turned them on again,
much brighter than before, and then
turned them of for keeps. l wonder
where we are?"
Jail, I believe you limited. Prob.
ably the best place for us-or for me,
anyway, after scoring such a failure
as this has been. I'm sorry l dragged
you into such a piece of foolishness."
Il came along entirely of my own
accord" said the Cuban, land l don't
think we have made a failure of the
expedition-not yet. We didn't gel
the belt away from that negro-true
enough-but we are a great deal near
er to 1t than we were an hour before
We saw him. There can't be many
black men like that one; it's almost
certainty that the Chicago police know
him and can locate him, and thinl
that when they find him he will b.
| quite willing to listen to reason"
"Yes-but how about making the po
lice listen to reaso first, in regard tt
ourselves and our a%ffairs?"
This vas a problem which required
weighty deliberation, and the unluck!
wanderers had just started an AMI
! mated discussion when there was
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-10-17
the black gazapo. Can ye make good?
Ye can? Then go to it."

the black gazaoo. Can ye make good?
Ye can? Then go to it"
The boys walked through a yard
filled with mud. bricks and wreckage
Of every imaginable kind. At the far
end Of the yard they brought up
against a brick wall. They funbled
along this wall, soon finding the little
doorway. and tapped thrice upon the
panels. Somewhere in the woodwork
Of the door a spark OF light cleaned.
and they were uncomfortably aware
that they were under scrutiny. They
whistled softly and tapped the door
again. It opened and q Chinaman
confronted them.
"You want smoker"
"Of course We do" Solano answered,
The yellow man looked them over
and then beckoned them inside the
portals, shutting and boiling the door
behind them. C%at-footed, %noiseless, he
conducted them up a hallway damp
with mould, noisome with dirt and the
smell OF many nights of opium cook
Ing" and guided them into a room of
considerable size. A mattress, gray
with dirt. lay on the floor and on this
mattress three men-two negroes and
one white man-were stupidity reclin-
ing, while a peanut oil lamp burned
on a bit of mating nearby. and a
bamboo pipe was being passed from
hand to hand. The sweet, penetrating.
sickish smell Of opium thickened the
air; reaches ran, fearless and IN
quisitive, along the floor, and the
o of the poppy-god, silent, lost
in happiness, drowsed, smoked and
drowsed again, contented in their hor-
rible surroundings as monarchs in q
palace hall.
Cheap, fella, hims," said the China
man. you want bunk, yes?"
Curtains Of cheap, drab material
masked wide stretches of the wall.
From behind these curtains came the
hum Of subdued conversation and the
perfume Of the cooking hop" The
Chinaman parted two strips of the
drab cloth, and showed a bunk be
tween the curtains and the wall
Brockett and Solano looked up and
down the room. There was no sign
of their quarry. The boys quietly en-
tered the bunk which the Chinama1
had assigned them, and their host
quickly brought them the full para
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XVIII.

Just what happened between the
moment when the big negro brought
out the money-belt and the moment
when a full understanding of every
day affairs came back to Brockett and
Solano, neither of those young men
could fully detail. There had been q
cyclone, closely followed by an earth
quake, after which the roof had fallen
In, burying them under the timbers-
at least, that was how they figured 1t
all out when they began to sit up and
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changing of iron and a grating of bolts.
Some one turned on an electric light
nearby and the boys. blinking In the
CLEAN, saw that they were the occu-
pants of a dingy cell, perhaps eight
feet long by Eve wide. and sumptuous-
ly furnished with a long wooden
bench and an empty pail. The door
was slowly opening, and the aperture
framed the bulky figure Of a sturdy
Irish policeman, who chuckled good
humoredly as he gazed in upon the
captives.
well. how do ye young divils feel
after q little time to cool OIL"
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take notice again. They found them
selves in a dark, almost pitch-black
region of %obscurity and silence, with
a wooden settee sustaining their
weight and a stone floor echoing to
the touch of their heels. They found
their heads aching fearfully, while SUE
dry bruised spots on their backs. ribs
and shins demanded consolation. 1t
was so dark In their new quarters that
they could not see themselves or each
other, but each of them felt himself
strangely soiled and dirty.
How do you find yourself. Ramon? ?"
susried Brockett striving to peer
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Used or have to give it all up and ad-
init ourselves utter failures!"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
He KILLS BANDITS
Express Messenger Saves Train
From HOldup Men.
Stays One RObber With MaIIet
Shoots Another.

San Antonio. March 13.-Express
Messenger Truesdale prevented the
robbery of a Southern Pacific train
near Sanderson today when he killed
two highwaymen who had held up the
train.
The robbers boarded the train, No.
westbound, a few miles east of San
derson. The mail and express cars
and the locomotive were detached.
Then the engineer, covered by the
bandits revolvers was compelled to
run the coaches ahead. One of the
robbers took TrueSdale back to the
train and kept him under guard, while
the other covered the crew ahead and
started to rifle the safe and express
boxes.
TruesdaIe is said to have employed
the ruse of signalling to an imaginary
person back of his captor. When the
robber turned Truesdale grasped a
mallet and before the highwayman
could shoot, dashed out his brains.
Then, arming himself with the dead
robbers revolver, Truesdale waited
for the return of the other bandit.
After he had rifled the express boxes
the second man returned to the
coaches. Stepping from cover, Trues-
dale killed him.
All of the stolen property was re-
covered and the train proceeded.
Truesdale is a young man, recently
promoted to the express run. He lives
in San Antonio.
Search for a Third Man.
Ell Paso, March 13.-When South
ern Pacific passenger train No. 8
reached Sanderson, Sheriff Allen was
informed of the hold-up and immedi-
ately started a search for a third man
believed to have been a member of the
gang The suspected bandit boarded
the train at Dryden and, it is believed,
planned to join his comrades in rob-
bing the passengers had they sue
ceeded in looting the express car.
The suspect is thought to have dis
appeared in the excitement incident
to the hold-up.
Both the dead bandits were Ameri-
cans. book found in possession of
one of the dead men contained names
of a number of persons in Oklahoma
and Kansas. These were telegraphed
to the authorities in those states.
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Continued on Page Two.)
TAFT IS ENDORSED.
Republican First District Committee
SpeaI-s Out.

Governor Bailey introduced the fol-
lowing resolutions endorsing President
Taft that were passed without dis
senting vote:
can congressional committee of Kan
sas. heartily endorse President Taft
and the unsurpassed accomplishm ents
of his administration. We are proud
of the enactment of the platform
pledges into laws and believe that the
party promises have all been redeem
ed. We are proud of his high states
manship as head of the party and we
declare for his denomination at Chi
cago.
1--WE also endorse United States
Senator Charles Curtis and Congress-
man D. r. Anthony and their work as
Republicans in congress"
After the resolutions had been pass
ed with a rush Governor Bailey was
called on for a speech. He declined
saying that the resolutions expressed
his sentiments.
Mr.. Anthony was then called for and
made the following short talk:
Anthony Made Short Speech.
81 wash to congratulate you on the
auspicious start you have made in the
First district in leading off the Repub
Hcan. campaign of 1912 in Kansas. The
progressive Kansas representatives. at
Washington have been saying that
Kansas would give what / would call
a sorry account of herself in this cam
paign. But this meeting today looks
to me like two delegates sure for Taft
at the congressional convention at
Atchison April 16.
''I left Washington for weeks visit at
home after pairing off with a Democrat
from Arkansas I believe that Taft by
all the rules of political fairness and JUS
tice deserves denomination and reelection.
And I believe he will win
The crowd present called for D. w.
Mulvane and ]. E. House for speeches,
but both declined. Then Al Bower of To-
peka, who was elected congressional COM
nitteeman from this place to fill the
vacancy left by the death of the late A.
T. Lucas, moved that the committee ex-
press in memorial form it's regret at his
demise. The motion was carried.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
His Supporters Claim Majority
of 81 Votes Now.
Wilson Men Urge Uninstructed
Delegates to Baltimore.
EIGHT COUNTIES SHOWED IN
Delegates VIII Not Be Able to
Reach Hutchinson.
Sheridan Charges Wilson Men
Are Organizing Bolt.

Hutchinson, Kan, March 13.--With
| the Clark men claiming a majority OF
81 delegates in the convention the Dem
ocratic leaders of Kansas and a num-
ber of early delegates to the Demo-
cratic state convention which opens
here Thursday are on the ground to-
day. Four delegates at large to the
national convention at Baltimore are
to be chosen and national committee
man for Kansas will be elected.
The Wilson men claim that the sc
uninstructed delegates to the .conven-
tion will really control the convention
They say these men can make the con-
vention favor either Clark or Wilson.
as they choose, so close is the fight be-
tween the supporters of the two can
| didates. The result. they say, will be
a split delegation.
The Wilson men are making their
fight on the stand that the interests of
the party demand an uninstructed
delegation from Kansas. They con-
cede nothing to the Clark men.
The congressional district conven-
tions, each of which is to elect two
delegates to the national convention,
will be held Thursday morning. Will
Sun men cldlnl lneSe VIII De OlN1QeQ
between Clark and Wilson. Clark men
claim they will carry the state for the
speaker.
Sheridan Claims the State.
B. ]. Sheridan of Paola, Clark's
manager, despite the claims of Wilson
men, was confident of Clark instruc-
tions by the state convention.
Our figures show we have a ma
ority of ninety-one votes on the con-
vention floor" Sheridan said. 1.-The
opposition is beaten and now they are
trying to get delegations already in
structed for Clark to bolt their in
structiOns."
Another feature that entered into
the fight was the fact that the dele
cations from Cheyenne. Logan. Co
manche, Grant, Sheridan, Wallace,
Meade and Wichita county will be
unable to reach here on account of
the snowstorm in western Kansas. 1t
is said these delegations are about
evenly divided between Clark and
Wilson.
Wilson Men Claim Wyandotte.
The four delegates at large prob
ably will be B. J. Sheridan, PaoIa; A.
NJ. Jackson, Winfield w. L. Brown.
Kingman and c. F. Foley, Lyons.
Wilson men claim that eight dele
gates from Wyandotte county elected
as Clark men did not consider their
instructions from the Wyandotte
county convention to mean they were
to vote for Clarkinstructed delegates.
Four Allen county delegates, accord
ing to the Wilson managers, felt the
same as the Wyandotte men.
The delegation from Cherokee
county headed by VIM. F. Sapp Ma
tional committeeman, is working to
convince the delegates here that the
convention should send an uninstruct-
ed delegation.
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BRIGHT FOR ANTHONY.
e. E. Brewster says He'll Win Re
nomination Easily.

E. E. Brewster, the new chairman of
the Leavenworth county Republican
committee, is looking after the prelilni-
nary arrangements IN connection with
the campaign of D. r. Anthony. Jr.,
for denomination for congress in the
First district. Mr.. Brewster has ta-
ken the place of w. 1. Biddle, who re-
signed as chairman of the congressiou-
al and Leavenworth county committees
before taking up his duties as post
master.
the counties of the First district and
has been paying special attention t)
Congressman AnthonyS nomination
petitions and he expresses himself as
being confident that Mr.. Anthony will
win the nomination by a big majori-
ty in the primary to be held August g.
Sentiment is strongly in favor of
continuing Mr.. Anthony in congress .
said Mr.. Brewster, land 1 predict that
he will have an increased majority in
every one of the eight counties in the
First district except two in Judge Stu
arts judicial district. There is no bet
ter way to obtain the standing of q
candidate than to learn what the yot-
ers say when nomination petitions are
circulated. Many Republicans are
signing Mr.. Anthony's nomination pc
titions this year who were for Mr.. Nc
Neal two years ago. This is especially
the case in Atchison, Jefferson and
Shawnee counties.
.-Only two Republicans, of those the
petition was presented to in Potter
in Atchison county, refused to sign and
one of them said he never signed a
nomination petition. In quite a num-
Der of precincts more Republicans have
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more SNOW COMING.
Weather Man Says 1t May Be Ex-
pected Tonight.

The weather man says to prepare
for more disagreeable weather. To-
pekans generally were in hopes that
spring was on the point of manifest
ing it's supremacy, but winter condi-
other day or two at least.
The prediction is that there will
be rain or snow tonight with warmer
temperatures over the entire state
and that on Thursday the mercury
will take a drop.
There is a disturbance at the Pa
cific coast that is working this way,
In fact, says sunny" Flora, the local
weather interpreter, the conditions are
unsettled over the entire hemisphere,
and rapid changes in conditions may
be expected.
The minimum temperature today
II degrees-was recorded at O'Clock
this morning. BY $50 the reading
was 25, and before noon the main
thoroughfares of the city were de-
cidedly sIushy. But five inches of
snow now remain on the ground.
Nearly two inches were melted off
Tuesday.
Notwithstanding the fact that con-
siderable snow has been melted off
today the temperatures have averag-
ed IA degrees below normal The
wind is blowing miles from the
southeast.
The shippers forecast reads: 'Pro-
tect Sc hour shipments north against
temperature of Is degrees: west
against "a; east and south. "a to 80
dacrees" The hourly readings
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GIVES OUT CREED.
Senator LaFOllette Makes Pub
lie His Platform.
Tells What He FaVOrs and What
He Opposes.

Madison, Wis, March 13.-The po-
1iticaI creed of Senator Robert NJ. La
Toilette was given out here today, de-
claring his belief in the initiative, ref
erendum and recall, direct nomina-
tions and government ownership and
operation of express companies and
his opposition to a ship subsidy, the
Aldrich currency plan and Canadian
reciprocity. In his platform the sena-
tor says:
'I believe in the initiative, referen-
dunn and recall and direct nominations
and elections not only as applied to
states but also in the extension of
these principles to the nation as a
whole.
''The equalization of the burdens of
taxation on a property basis, through
the adoption of graduated income and
inheritance taxes.
THE parcels post.
Government ownership and govern
ment operation of express business at
actual cost to the public.