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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-12-10
CHAPTER XIV.
A Double Escape.


On Nauset Beach, in the shank OF q
midsummer night, two men spraWleo
on the sands, some distance back from
the water and listened to the heavy
humping Of their overtaxed hearts,
and painted.
Now and again one would lift his
head and stare out over the black face
OF the waters at little line or red
dish flames about a mile off shore, all
that remained to witness to the fact
that, an hour since, these two had
been in command of as trim a small
schooner as ever ventured the coast
wise trip from Portland to New York.
As far out again shone the star
board light OF a becalmed schooner
whose people had been directly respon'
sibIe for the disaster which had over
taken the smaller vessel.
In the course OF time, beginning to
breathe with more ease, one of the
two marooned gentlemen said:
What can't understand-anyway
is why these damned thugs out there
thought we'd be asses enough to stay
aboard the Seaventure and get burned
up"
The other replied: Did they?
Looks that way-doesn't it? II
they didn't, why were we permitted
to swim ashore at our elegant leisure!
There was nothing to prevent the1I
rowing round to cut US off,
Maybe they did. at that, and missed
us, Mr. Law-and- -Order!"
But"
We were a wee mite excited you've
got to admit It's just possible we
didn't hear the noise Of their oars
And it's black enough for them to
have overlooked US. A mans head
In the water isn't really conspic
nous object on a dark night
Tell me, Barcus. what's the near
est symptom of civilization?
Chatham village" said Mr. Barcus
six miles to the moth ards, and cut of
by an inlet mile or so wide at that.
Mr.. Law groaned soulfully.
Then there's the lighthouse or
Monomoy point" Mr.. Barcus pursued
three miles to the south"
Mr.. Law said nothing whatever tt
this.
"Of course" his companion reflected
morosely. this had to happen in mid
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-12-10
Saved bv Gold Chain.

A gold chain that she wore around
her neck, saved little girl of Cam
bridgeport, England, from serious in
jury, recently. She was on her way
to Sunday school, when bullet ex-
ploded by the wheels of trolley car
hit her on the neck She felt sting
ing sensation in her neck and discov-
cred bloodless cut about an inch
long. On looking in at a window she
saw that the chain she wore about her
neck was cut She put her hand into
the bosom of her dress to get the
loose end of the chain and found the
bullet. A, search of the tracks revealed
several exploded cartridges. The po-
lice believe they may be part Of the
shipment that was stolen from a
freight car short time ago.
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The commonsat precautions, how.
ever, made them pause and rest upon
their oars while yet . little way from
their goal.
Only an ominous silence rewarded
the utmost efforts OF their straining
senses; no sound was audible other
than the gentle whine Of an INCREASED
block; nothing was visible beyond the
sinister glare Of that almost stationary
green lantern
what think?" Barcus inquired in
a dubious undertone.
mo telling" Alan replied in the
came manner. "All a chance"
You've got that gun handy with
reference to the rife of which they
had despoiled the victim Of the sky's
ill-faith.
Here"
''Then-let's go to It! Give way!'
A dozen lusty strokes brought them
alongside the schooner, and as the
dory scraped the waist Of the larger
vessel the two young men dropped
oars, rose, and seizing the low gun
wales, lifted themselves to the deck
Nothing opposed them; the deck was
ignorant Of other footsteps than theiI
own, the schooner as silent as only 6
becalmed ship can be.
Without further consultation, Alar
led quickly aft and down the compan
ionway to the cabin, where dim light
burned-a smoky lamp swinging II
gimbals above a cluttered table.
OF the two stateroom doors one dis
closed an empty cabin, the other wat
locked.
Trying the handle roughly, AlaI
fancied he heard sound within. Paus
ing, he called, with thrill Of fearfu
hope:
Hello, in there!"
The respone was cry of incredulou
delight: "Alan!"
BY way of answer Alan hurled him
self bodily against the door. At tn,
second impact of shoulders backed b,
hundred and eighty pounds of solit
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-12-10
oOpyrisht, lOlA. By Louis Joseph Vance
SYNOPSIS.

q -Instalment HAD
The 8 of Hearts is the death sign used
by Seneca Trine in a private war OF ven
geance which, through his daughter, Ju,
dith, a woman of violent and criminal
temper and questionable sanity, ne wWases w
aRainst Alan Law, whose father (now
dead) Trine held responsible for the ac-
cidsnt which made him helpless cripple.
Rose, Judlth's twin and double. learning
of her sisters compaign against AlAn'
Under dramatic circumstances Alan saves
Judith's life and 80 wins her love; put
failure to shake his constancy 10 Hose
settles Judith in her homicidal purpose,
she contriyes to burn a schooner In whlcn
Alan Is making a coastwise cruise 20
New York, marocning him together win
Barcus, owner or the schooner. on al
island south Of Cape Cod.
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est; the head was . vAomans. the face
turned toward him. the face of Rose.
He gasped wildly: Keep cooll Don't
struggled Put one hand on my shoul-
der and"
What happened then was never quite
clear to him; he only knew that he
was forced to fight for his very life
that the woman, a. soon as he came
within reach, flung herself upon him
like some maddened animal. clutchtng
his throat winding her limbs round
his, dragging him down and down.
Primitive instinct alone saved him.
He remembered later. most vaguely.
the elimination OF that duel beneath
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summer. A month earlier we'd have
had the life-saving patrol to look to
for protection. But the service is sus-
pended in June and July"
A silence col Fenced eloquently on
this assertion. broken only when Mr..
Law voiced a thought bred OF long and
malignant observation of the schoon.
er's green eye:
I'D give a deal to know who's
aboard that vessel"
You don't mean you think your reg,
uiar young woman"
It's possible Judith kidnapped
Rose in Portland. That's not so far
from Gloucester: motor car could
have caught that schooner before she
sailed TO waylay US. this morning. And
what better way to take care of an
able-bodied. full-tempered girl you've
kidnapped than to ship her somewhere
by sea. in the care of Trustworthy
hellions?"
Don't ask me-I've done very little
kidnapping for one of my years."
For tuppenCe," said Mr.. Law, "T'C
risk swim on to that boat and sec
for myself"
For two million dollars woult
mott" Barcus affirmed with great de
cision.
A moment or so later the line o
little flames went out altogether ant
unexpectedly: and the owner OF tn,
late Seaventure fancied he could hear
even at that distance. the hiss o
charred and smoldering timbers sucke,
under and drowned out.
Exit" he announced piaintivsl,
exit ssaventnre. with heroic geztnri
''R- I. p sOod little shlp:.
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Curious Suit.

A curious exposition Of callousness
and greed was recently made in a civil
suit brought against a Colorado sur
geon. He became interested in the
case of cripple whom he found beg
ging in the street, and by an operation
requiring great skill removed his dis
ability. The relatives of the cripple
promptly brought suit against the
physician for removing their means of
support, claiming that as cripple,
the youth had brought them in an av-
erage of about five dollars daily, while
now they were compelled to support
him until he could gain the means OF
earning his living The Judge prompt
ly dismissed the suit on hearing the
case for the prosecution.
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tral ship upon a spectral sea Of long,
oily swells and the complexion Of lead.
Hither and yon in the obscurity, fog
signals Of other shipping sounded a
concert of discordance--the man
power horn of a catboat crying the
warning back to the deep-throated
whistle Of q coastwise steamship and
the impairment drumming Of a motor
boats exhaust with the mufiier cut
out.
This last boxed the compass. sound
ing now near. now far. though the com
plants OF other shipping diminished
in volume and died away in the dis
tance, giving place to others still. the
Dlutter-plutter OF that motor was never
altogether lost; if at tines 4 faded
4 seemed certain always 70 return y
even louder Yolnms,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-12-10
Vera Cruz In the sixtsenth csntu.

vera NEuz VI NVo S'~SSSS" SSHosJs
Robert Thomson. merchant, visited
Vera Cruz in 1855. It had then not
more than three hundred households.
"This towne." he wrote. Is subject
to great sickness. and in my time
many of the Mariners and onicerS Of
the ships did die with those diseases.
there accustomed. and especially
those that were not used to the coun-
trey, nor know the danger thereof,
but would commonly go IN the Sunne
in the heat Of the day, and did eat
fruit of the countrey with much dis
order. Whereupon they were
cast into burning ague. Of the which
few escaped
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noo,. s,IeIde After Rescue.

What was apparently . determined
attempt at suicide By an Airedale ter
rier was witnessed by large number
Of visitors at Bray. County Dublin.
The animal jumped on the north
uier Of the harbor into the sea and
was sinking when some flshermen res
cued 1t. :.
When they. let II 60 the terrier made
4 dash for the other pier. jumped iAfs
the sea. and was drowned
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-12-10
PAS OF Day.

PA, what's cartographerf"
I'm not quite sure, son, but think
it's a person who names Pullman
cars"
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There are men who can't even tell
the truth without exaggerating.

Ha woman has hunch that eVentu-
ates accurately she calls it an inspira-
ton
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-12-10

If you wish beautiful, clear, white
clothes, use Red Cross Ball Blue. At all
good grocers. Adv.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-12-10

| the sudden roar or steamship fog.
signal. so close aboard that it seemed
almost to emanate from the forepart
of the schooner herself.
As 1t was answered by shrill and
hoarse cries of terror or of warning
from a dozen throats, Alan found him
self released, his captors leaping fol
their lives to the taffrail.
He caught an instantaneous glimpse
of the knife-like bow Of great steam
er towering above the two-master-
sweeping toward 1t at a speed which
raised a smart Jet Of white under the
cutwater.
Someone aboard the schooner. will
the voice Of a steutor, beloved ter
rifed appeal;
stop your engines! Shut on you
propeller! Stop your"
Then, like the wrath Of God. th'
steamship overwhelmed the lessee
ship; its bow seemed to slice through
the schooner as a knife through
cheese. And the two halves were fairl.
driven under water by the frightfu
force of the blow.
Thunders deafening him, Alan wa
hurled bodily through the afr full,
twenty feet.
| When he came up he struck out Q
random, blindly tormented by tn
vision of Rose caught In the suck o
that gigantic wheel, drawn undeI
crushed and mangled BY the propelle
Of the vast black hulk whose flank wa
sliding past. like the face Of elf
ten yards behind his shoulders.
Il Aware OF several dark objects do
ting the surface within radius 3
Isaveral Vards. be swan tDr the neal
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-09-01
PIeases Local Salmon Men.

Southeastern Alaska cannerymen who were croaking about running at loss at the outset of the season are now jubilant. Many of the canners were so impressed with the belief that the prices paid for the salmon pack would not meet the running expenses of the canneries that they refused to operate during the season just clos ing. but those who did operate are not sorry. c. J. Alexander, of the Hoon- ah Packing Company who is now in Juneau, last night received cable gram giving the market quotations as follows: "Chums, S5 cents per dozen cans; pinks, 90; medium reds, $1,15; reds. $1.45.
 q guess that is some price" said Mir. Alexander, considering the schedules we've been getting for the past few years. At the beginning of the season no one dreamed that the market would take such a turn. We have done we'll and everyone that op- erated this season should feel satis- fed"
 Last year chums sold for SO cents; pinks. 65: medium reds, SO; while reds brought cnly $1I5. The prices quoted today are the best since 1911, when pinks scared to $1 and the other grades accordingly. The very next year, however the prices slumped to 65 for chums and never rose again un- til now"
 The Hoonah cannery got a bad start this season but has had good luck and finished it's pack on time. The run of pinks was lighter than for sev- eral years previously, but the run of reds with considerably higher value has been correspondingly better and Mir. alexander is feeling satisfied.
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-09-01
BAND GETTING READY
 FOR LABOR DAY DANCE

 On the evening of Labor Day. next Monday Sept. 7th, the Juneau band will start the autumn social season with a grand ball In Jaxon's rink. The This dance Ia really the Second An nuai Summer Dance of the band. The first annual was held at Sheep creek last summer. and Will be remembered by those who attended as the biggest event of the season. This year the band was unable to make connections and postponed the second annual af- fair, and will now hold the Labor Day Dance. Every member of the organi- zation Is lending his best efforts to make 1t successful affair in every way. Committees are buslly engaged in the preparations and the band will be out evenings that weather will per init, advertising the coming event.
 Tho large hall will be placed in fine condition. The hardwood floors will be ground to an excellent dancing sur face. A large orchestra will be one. of the features, and all the band boys will serve in uniform on the floor as committee, and do everything possible to make those who attend enjoy them selves.
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-09-01
AMERICAN AMBASSADORS
 DEMAND MORE CLERKS


 WASHINGTON, Aug. 24..-American ambassadors to whom have been en- trusted the diplomatic affairs of the nations at war were calling today for additional help. They reported they needed more secretaries, attaches, clerks and interpreters to handle the great amount of extra work involved in their new tasks. Besides attending to stranded citizens of the United States, they are looking after the wei fare of thousands of subjects of other nations.
 The officials and the powers for whose diplomatic interests they are caring include:
 Ambassador Page, Lonaon-Austria and Germany.
 Ambassador Gerard, Beclin-Japan Russia, Great Britain ant France.
 Ambassador Penfeld, Yienna-Great Britain, Russia and France.
 Ambassador Herrick. Paris - Ger many and Austria.
 Charles s. Wilson, tde charge d. affaires, St Petersburg Germany and Austria.
 many
 Ambassador Page, at London, has asked for, six additional secretaries.
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FOR RENT-nice. clean rooms with ar without board, apply at City cafe, s55 Lower Front St. s-1l
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LAND CASE INVOLVES
 THANE MILL SITE


 Yesterday afternoon, late, protest and application to contest the appli. cation to patents sought by the Alas ka Treadwell Gold Mining company to certain lands In the Sheep creek sec ton. was filed by L. Thane, gener- al manager, on behalf of the Alaska Gastineau Mining company. The con test that is now on involves the whole industrial situation at Sheep creek in- cinding title to the lands occupied by the million dollar steel ore reduction plant being erected and now almost completed by the protestants.
 The Treadwell company is seeking patent to the Hunter millsite, and to lode mining claims known as Wow Wow, Robert, Hunter, Agnes and Be dun. survey 994 A and B. The Hunter millsite includes lands claimed by the Alaska Gastineau company as Home stead No. 8, lode mining claim survey 979, and on which the big steel quartz mill, service buildings and other i'm provements of the town of Thane now stand,
 The Agnes and Bedum claims are crossed by the Glacier and Silver Queen mill sites, survey S9S, owned by the Alaska Gastineau company and on which the old Sheep creek mill stands and iS at present used by the company for an experimental station; the traffic railroad of the Alaska Gas tineau company also passes over this land.
 The protestant alleges that all of the mineral locationes for which pat ent is sought by the Treadwell com pany are non mineral ground and that such locations were made solely to se- cure the riparian rights of Sheep creek and portion of which was under lease and option to the applicant at the time that the locations were made; also that the millslte location of the Treadwell company is made on bon afide lode mining claim which the pro- testant has continually occupied since prior to May 17, 1884.
 Protestant further alleges that Homestead extension, survey 900, was made for the purpose of erecting the big mill thereon, but that subsequent ly 1t was decided to erect part of the buildings on Homestead No. 8, lode claim.
 The protest is very yoluminous and much of the history of transactions in the Sheep creek properties is made a part of 1t.
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-09-01
SALMON GAMERS
 JUBlLANT OVER PRICES

SEATTLE. Sept. 1-The opening prices for 1914 Alaska canned salmon were fixed yesterday by the Kelly Clarke company, the Northwestern Fisheries company and other con cerns in this city. They range from 20 to 30 per cent. higher than they were last year. Tie prices per dozen cans were made as follows
 Reds-one pound tails, $1.45; one pound flats, $1.7O; one.half pound flats, $1.10.
 Medium reds-one pound tails, $1.l5; one pound flats, $1.S5; one-half pound flats, s.7s4a.
 Red tips and taiis-one pound tails, s1.S5.
 Pinks-6de pound tails, $,9O; one pound flats, S1; 6ne-half pound flats, S.7O,
 Chums-one pound tails. $.75; one pound flats, S.s5; one-half pound flats, $.65.
 Kings-one pound tails, S1AO.
 These prices range from 20 to 30 per cent. higher than he opening prices of last year.
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DRAPER CLUB TO MEET
 wEDNESDAY AETERNC

HEbNGOEfN fNE EFNNOCAN The Draper club will meet Wednes- day afternoon at 2;SO with Mrs. P J, Malone.
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-09-01
NON-PARTISANS MEET
 HERE THURSDAY

Juneau, Sitka, Chichagoff, Douglas, Treadwell, Ketchikan and Petersburg will be represented at the Non-Parti- san convention which will convene in Juneau Thursday morning to nomin- ate candidates for the Territorial leg islature. The convention was called by the mayors of several towns in the First Division.
 The Sltka delegation consists of Representative Arthur G. Shoup, mem Der of the House in the Alaska legis. lature; Rev. George E. Howard, with w. P. Mills and John E. Gamble as alternates; Treadwell-D J. Kinzie, Monte Benson. Tom McDonald. Jack Wilson: Douglas-M. J. O'Connor, Charles A. Hopp, Dr. Sergeant, Will fam Stubbins, NJ. S. Hudson, Julius Jenson; Chichagoff-F. A. Hills; Ret chikan-D. Smith Harris, J. Petting. CT, Richard Bushell, A. L. Petty and H. c. Kubely; Juneau--W. E. Britt, E. c. Russell. F. Wolland, R. P. Robert son, Mark Russell, John Reck, R. A. Gunnison, Lockie McKinnon, John G. Held, James McKanna, Capt. J. T. Martin, Jules B. Caro; from Peters, burg there will be a delegation but the members are not known as yet in Ju, neau.
 The Juneau delegation held eau. GUS last night, but nothing of the de, Alterations of the meeting has been given the public.
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-09-01
GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT
 SEEN AT GRAND THEATRE

 There will be an entire change or program at the Grand theatre tonlsnt' @ There are several excellent features with a wide range and covering drama comedy and instructive industrial pro- iects. They include;
 Building the Great Los Angeles AZ AZ ueduct"-by the American Film Co., one of the greatest engineering tea'S in the world. l., ,,, "The Man in the Sick Room" is by the Solax people.
 oDooley's Triumph. ,n This program will be rendered Iues' dov and "wednesday. The usual three piece orchestra with the latest songs will assist in entertaining.
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PIANO FOR RENT-124 Front St. -S-31-4t.
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AL.KI SAILED FOR NORTH
 AT MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT

SEATTLE, Sept. 1.-The Al-K sail. ed for Alaska at midnight last night with the following named passengers for Juneau:
 Jno. Maltz, Bey fluff, Max Ruth, J. c. Rock, Mrs. Sam F. Nochs, Mrs. NJ Parish, Doris Erwin. Paris c. Collins and wife, Mrs. H. Threadaraft, Mrs w F. Brltton, William Hanson, s. E Skarswoog.
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If you want a joy ride call up 57 or 321. 7-9-tf.
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REPUBLICAN,, OR cossAcK, OR
 BOTH?

Looking back upon the ruins of his once overwhelmingly splendid domin, ion. and seeing his enemies returned once more to their absolute rule, Bon aparte yet had the vision of the seer in looking into the future, and he said;
 Tn fifty years Europe will be either all Cossack or all Republican.
 Is that day dawnlng upon us, now that the spans of fifty years has pass ed?
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-09-01
ONE GOLDEN DAY IN
 MONTH OF AUGUST

According to Cunningham R. Reid. the man who holds the weather repu. tation of Juneau in the palm of his hand, Juneau was not "skunked" in the month of August which came to a close yesterday. She got a color-one clear, bright, golden, sunshiny day the other thirty were different accord ing to the record
 Here is what Mir. Reid says about the month of August speaking in cold (and damp) figures: "one clear day; three partly cloudy; twenty.seyen cloudy; twenty-nine rainy; preciplta- tion, 9.54 inches; maximum tempera- ture on the 18th, 61 degrees; mini mum on the 6th, 4S degrees"
 If you want n foy ride can mn 67
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CHANGES Ar EEpERAL JAIL.

Ike o'Mara and H. Smith have re- signed their positions as guaras aI the Federal jail and are succeeded Dy sam Christianson and James Mahon- ey. J. F. Mcdonald was recently ap- polnted taller by Marshal H. A. Bish' an
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-09-01
lonN RuLL MIeHT eET MAI.

If the Germans keep on they'll get the British people mad presently. Seattle Post.Intelllgencer
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-05-26
NEW HAVEN PROBE
WAS POSTPONED
Want Time to Examine Papers Of J. p.
Morgan and the Books Of
J. p. Morgan & Co.
tBy Associated PressI

Washington, May 26.-Further testi-
mony In the Interstate Commerce
Commission New Haven inquiry was
postponed today until June TO give
time to examine the personal papers
OF the late J. Pierpont Morgan and the
books OF J. p. Morgan & Company.
The delay caused rumors that Presi-
dent Wilson and Attorney General Nc
Reynolds conference on. the New
Haven matter last night had some
bearing on the postponement, but
nothing official was obtainable on this
point Attorney General McReynolds
wants to be in a position to punish by
law the men responsible for the New
Haven troubles. Another prospective
witness, Morton F. Plant, turned in
an illness certificate today. The doc
tor said his heart condition would not
permit him to go to Washington to
testify.