The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-25

one caFo Feao smith and the other
read Jones' The: two recipients said:
Burns. hey?' in meditative voices.
"'You could hang a man on that
evidence said Burns"
New York's detectives are about
ready to each a safe-blower some
night and kick him to death. There
the city since January LIVERY known
form of the art having been employed
and now the "box-men'' are adding
insult to injury.
we picked up five wops the 9TH
er night" said a detective. 1T look
ed like a good catch. These Italians
picked a hole through the wall of a
pawnshop. Another hours work
would have put them within touch of
1.-THE valuables. We thought we'd
caught the men who have been maxi
ing all this scrap iron around town.
|, Now We think they're just hired
ing gang authenticated the hard part
of the job. When their laborers had
torn through thelswall it was the plan
of the contractors to appear, break a
hole In the safe,s and then leave on
the high speed. If this sort of thing
becomes common. a lot Of US police
men are due to find nice, light jobs in
a foundry. Ten or fifteen contracting
crooks, With well trained and disci-
plined gangs Of workmen, could strip
the lid off the town in a week."
1t just happens that Mrs. Klourka's
son holds a good clerkship downtown.
klourka herself can't talk English.
She is. a bright-eyed. brown-cheeked
Syrian m In Syria the mother
Of the household does some form Of
profitable work as a matter of course.
she would never think Of sitting down
prosperous. So that Mrs. Klourka
throws a bundle of rugs over her
shoulder every morning, and goes out
to sell them.
Enter the policeman. He saw Mrs.
klourka ring half a dozen d%oorbells.
h could no explain her err
rand to him--the rugs over her snoul.
der carried no hint for him-she' was
arrested. In court, slated as a 'sus-
picious character" she could only
look pleadingly toward the judge. The
docket was long and he was hurried.
The TACT that she did not answer. TO
the charge seems to have been suf-
flctent proof to. him..
six months" said he.
Mrs. klourka's son found her some
days later and secured her release
from n pcnitentlary. Mrs. Klourka
does not even yet understand what
had happened. So far as she can see,
she was punished because she cannot
understand English.
Harry II. Durant is a very we'll
known magazine editor uptown. The
other day he lost his emper. It was
not that a man in Memphis had tried
to sell to him Bret Harte's Luck of
Roaring Camp" but that the Mem.
phian hadn't even bothered to change
the m of this greatest of Califor-
MIA stories.
"Ill burn him up" said Mr.. Durant
savagely. So he wrote to the man in
Memphis: This is excellent. But l
understand that he copyright has not
yet expired on the Bret Harte stories.'
1t didn't feaze the Memphis man
He replied that he had looked tina,
matter up. and the copyright had ex.
pired some months before. So he
would be grateful for a prompt remit.
lance. Durant was angry for sure.
II promised MIR. Harte on his death
bed" he wrote. that ] would never
buy one of his stories after. 1t had
been bought and printed by another
publishing house."
The Memphis mar replied in a vii.
famous tcInper.
u This" said he. SIS outrageous. NJ,
time has been wasted shaflefully. Flo,