The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-11-01
CHAPTE ER X.

The story Wright had printed tho
Grst day and the repig II Dire" from
the Banner the next morning caused
thr News TO be- awaited with Gudis.
Eg.S'G eageruras on the second after
noon This Was heightened ON the
part OF the men ln the syndicate in
tereslod a tho franchise by the peril.
uent 4Iests0us put to them iu the
morning by News reporters. David
Eerr was called on the telephone half
"a dozen times by his lienteuan-s. and
aEauEaueU-s were made TO have
Hao open 'p ameralda Springs al
rhr-. thirty. the hour when the Eows
w.s issued
Although they were pared to dis
count some oI the story becaIss OF
fHu questions asked them get meT" of
rho ring men was prepared for a reyy-
A'I0u rl the scheme such as tine News
made Black headlines ran ACROSS
four columns and tle story also took
gp most of the second page lhern
MAS map OF the proposed lurerleban
route. and pictures OF pretty homes on
Maple Avenue But from one end of
the story 'u the other there was no
mention oi David Kerr or OF tine local
backing being given the bin bator"
'ue council 1t was expressly stated
that 'hr .ucorporators Of the new com
Iauy were merely dummies and that
'h-y We're acting in the interest If the
stock yards company
Amos Gilbert in an Interview denied
any knowledge OF the TRANSACTIONS say
ing that his connection with the stock
yards company Was merely nominal
and that he did not even know If the
company was Interested in tn" line
proposed He did not see how. as
company, it could be
Gilbert sat fin his office as soon rs he
secured a paper and read the story
word for word over the telephone TO
Kerr The latter promptly announced
that he would be home the UcAt day
and ordered that Gloria be taken from
Belmont on any preteNt whatever for
few days until the fight had been
allowed to die down The next day
was sunday. ON which Wright pub.
hshrd uo paper and Kerr would be
home before another issued appeared.
lie agreed with Gilbert that the Ban
uer ought to ridicuIe the alleged cX-
pose.
sunday night. much To her surprise
but not much against her will. Gloria
went TO St Louis with Mrs. Gilbert to
pick out furniture for Locust Lawn.
She did not know that her father had
returned from Esmeralda Springs that
morning and had been closeted all aft
nruoou with Gilbert and John Ken
daU who had hurried to Belmont in
response TO a telegram. The girl had
not seen Wright all day, nor had she
seen him Saturday, but there came
from him 4 box of roses at noon
IIttlo witch that she was. She meant
10 surprise him by sending him note
of thanks from St. Louis. Sne knew
he would Join her and Mrs. Gilbert
there on her hint that they would be
glad to see him.
Wright received her note and per
cciyed the slightly veiled invitation,
but he was too busy even to answer.
II was a week that contained more ex-
citement than Belmont had seen since.
a frontier village. it had struggled
with the question of whether the state
should seccde or remain in the Union.
David Kerr found himself confronted
by a formidable lire of battle. The
Banner kept pounding away at the
News. but the afternoon paper was
not to be diverted from its purpose.
The citizens on Maple Avenue formed
the Maple League. and wore buttons
on which were a maple leaf and the
legend. Help US save our homes" ."
The car line was to run through the
seventh and eighth wards, and the
aldermen in those wards were del
uged with letters, post cards, tele-
phone calls and personal visits. Fin