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CONDITIONS GOVERNING THE CONTEST.

The prize of $4,000 will be won by the man. wom-
an or child who the most acceptable solution
Of the mystery from which last reels of mo-
ton picture drama will be made and the last two
chapters of the story written by Harold MacGrath.
solutions may the Thanhouser Film
Corporation either a Chicago New York. any time
up to midnight. December IL. They must bear post
office mark not This allows four
weeks after appearance of the last nlm re-
lease, and three chapter is pub
Ifshed in this paper which to submit solutions.
A board of three judges will determine which of
the many solutions received is most acceptable
The judgment this board will be absolute and hna
Nothing of literary Will be considered in the
the winner the $4,000 prize. The last two reels
which will give the acceptable solution to the
mystery, presented the theaters having this
feature a, soon practical produce The
story corresponding motion pictures will
near In the newspapers after
the appearance pictures practical With the
last two shown the pictures of the win
per his other Interesting features II
is understood the newspaper far practical
in printing the two chapters of the story by
Harold MacGrath, show picture of the sue
csssful contestant
Solutions to mystery not be more than
100 words long. questions TO be kept
In mind in connection mystery aid to q
solution;
No. 1-what becomes of the mllionatref
No. 2-what becomes o the s1,0Oo,oO0f
No. 3-whom does Florence marryf
No. 4-what becomes the Russian countessf
Nobody connected either directly Indirectly with
sThe Million Dollar Mystery" will be considered .
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entombed in the fortress. had my revenge. 1t was
who sent in the nfnrmaton practically bogus But
in Russia they question: they act and forget
So he had daughtcr'
He began pacing the floor, his hands behind his
back; and the watched him, oscillatng between
love and fear He to halt abruptly and looked
down at her.
Don't worry. You have no rival. III leave the
daughter to your tender mercies"
"The butler" she said, 'has full powers Of attorney
to act for Hargreave while absent up to the day the
girl becomes Of legal age 3.
'1ll keep eye friend Jones' From
on, day and night there will be cat the knothole,
and ware mouse Could you make up anything like
this girl?" suddenly.
"a fair likeness" @
"Do it. Go to that ship which picked up the at
and quiz the captain. Either the aviator Har-
greave is alive 1t is important to learn which at
Be very careful; play the game only you know how
toplay it. And if Hargreave is alive. win Toror-
row morning, early Tears of anguish, and all that.
Sailors easy when woman weeps. No color.
member; just the yellow wig and the salient features.
Now, by-by!" .' ..t
Aren't yoa going to kiss ne, Lco?"
lie caught her hands. "1here is species of Delilah
about you Olga. kiss tonight from your lips would
snip my locks; and need clear head. Whether we
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amateur billiardst Perhaps Jones the tacurn and in
scrutable lad not told him all he knew regarding his
masters past Well, wel he had in his time untanged
snarls The Office had turned him loose, free
lance, to handle the he fit to turn in the
story when it complete.
But what story it was going be when he cleared
it up The more mystifying it was, the greater the
zest and sport for him. Norton was like gambler who
played for big stakes and only big stakes stirred his.
cravings =
The captain of the tramp steamer Orient told him
the tale he had told the other reporters he had
picked up a man at sea. The had been brought
aboard totally exhausted.
"Was there ANOTHER body anywhere"
"No"
"What became Of him."
~ sent wireless and that seemed to bother him.
1t looked to me that he did not want anybody to learn
that he had heen rescued The moment that the boat
touched tn, pier he lost himself in the crowd. Fifty
reporters aboard. but he was gone. And could
only tell them just what I'm telling you.'
He had money!"
"About five thousand"
"Pleass describe him."
The captain did so. 1t was the same description he
had given all the reporters Norton looked over
the rail at the big warehouse
"Was it an ordinary ballocn?'
There you've got me. My Marconi says the
balloon part like any other balloons but the passen
business
against the wind"
Driven against the wind. Did you tell this to the
other chaps"
Don't think did. Just remembered it. Probably
invention; and now it's at the bottom of the
sea- Two men, as understand it. went of in this
contrapton One is gone for good"
"For good," echoed the reporter gravcly. Gone for
good, indeed poor devil! Norton took out roll of
bills. There's two hundred in this ROLL
"We?" said the captain, vastly astonished.
"Its yours if you will do snail favor"
"If it doesn't get me mixed up with the police. I'm
only captain Of tramp; and Of the haraor police
have taken dislike to What do you want me to
do?"
"The police will not bother you This man Har-
grcave had enemies; they either his life or
his money: maybe both. 1t is peculiar case, with
Russia IN the background: He might have laid the
whole business before the police but he chose to fight
it out himself. And to tell the TRUTH don't believe
the police would have done any good.'
"Heave her over; what do you want me to do for
that handsome roll of money"
eff any man or woman who is not reporter
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M MSMQ

fail or win, when this game is played you shall be my
wife" He kissed the hands and strobe out into the hail.
The cazed down at her small white hands
and smiled tenderly (The tgress has her tender mo-
mentsD He meant it!
She went into her dressing and for an hour
worked her face and hair till she certain
that if The captain Of the ship described her any
else he could not fail to give fair description of
Florence Hargreave.
But Norton reached the captain first. Other report
had besieged him. but they had succeeded in gath
ering the vaeuest kind of information. They had
description Of &argreave, while Norton had. Before
going down to the boat however, he had deved into the
past Of the Princess Olga Pergof 1t cost him pocket
full of money. but the end justified the means. The
princess Rad past worth mentioning Ey piccng this
and that together he became assured that she had told
the simple truth regarding the relatiorshpto Forences
mother cablegran had given him all TIE facts in her
history: there no gaps discrepancies 1t read
clear and frank. Trust Russian sec ct ager' to know
what he is talking about.
So Norton's suSpcions-and he ha.! entertained some
--werc completely lrled to sleep. And he wouldn't
have doubted her at all for the fact that Brainc
had been with her when he had introduced Hargreave
Hargreave had feared Braire that much the reporter
had elected from, the butler. But there wasn't the
slightest evidence. Braine had beer in Ne" York for
nearly six years The princess had arrived IN the city
bet year gone. And Braine was member OF sew
era fashionable clubs never touched cards. and seldom
drank. He expert chess player and wonderful
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CHAPTER iii.
The Safe In the Lonely Warehouse

THE princess did not remain long after the de-
parturc of the police with the bogus detectives
II had Decn a very difficult corner to wriggle out
Of all because Rraine had added his plans after she
mad left the apartment But for the advent of the med
ding reporter the would have succeeded herself
pparenty perfectly innocent of completely That must
be the keynote of all her pans to appear quite inno
cent and leave trail behind her. She had gained the
confidence of Florence and her companion And she
rethsr certain that she had impressed this lazy
eyed reporter and the stolid butler. She had told
nothing but the truth regarding her relationship. They
would find that out. She Katrina Pushkins cousin
But blood with her counted naught She had room
in her heart but for two things Braine and money to
spend her caprIces.
"How long has your highness known Mr. Braine ?"
asked the reporter idly he smoothed away all signs
Of his recent conflict.
90. the better part of year. Mr.. Hargreave did
recognize the other night. That was quite ex-
cusable, for when he last not more than
twelve. Ny child she said to Florence "build hopes
regarding your mother She is doubtless dead. Upon
trivial natter-I do not know what it was--she
confined the fortress That was seventeen years
ago. When you the fortress at St. Petersburg
you TO be-"
That is true enough"
81 did not recall myself to your father | did not
that moment to shock him with the renem-
brance Of the past. Is not Mr.. Braine remarkable
"He is, indeed affirmed Norton. "Hes superb
nguis knows everybody and has travelled everywhere
No matter what subject you bring up he seems well
informed"
Come often" urged Florence
Il shall, my child. And any time you need me- call
for After all l am nearly your aunt You will find
life in the city far different from that which you have
been accustomed TO-"
She limped down to her limousine. In tripping up
Norton he had stepped upon her foot heavily.
She is lovely" cried Florence.
well! must be my way, ALSO" said Norton. 81
IN worldly wise man Miss Florence AS Jones is
mere. Never go any place without letting him know;
not even to The corner drug store. going to find
your father. Some rescued. I'm going to lind
oIt whether it was the aviator Mr., Hargreave."
Jones drew in deep breath ami his eyes closed for
a moment. At the door he spoke to the reporter.
""hat do you think of that woman?"
Il believe that she has told the truth. She is
charming"
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aRAWE BUPGLAP/ZES THE kNREHOL5E -

comes pump you tell them the went ashore with
a packet under his arm
Tie ,l;not in that"
Say that the man was gray haired, clean shaven,
straight with scar high up his forehead generally
covered up by his hair
That's battered down my lad. Go on.
Say that you saw him enter yonder warehouse, and
later depart without his packet.
Easy dropping my nadhooE'
That's ALL" Norton gave the captain the money.
"Good-by and many thanks.
Don't mention it."
Norton left the ship and proceeded to the office Of
the warehouse He approached the managers desk.
"liello Grannis OLD top"
The man looked up from his work surlily Then ais
face frightened.
Morton? What's brought you here? o, yes; that
balloon business. Sit dcwr
'"What kind of man is the captain of that old
hooker in the slip :"
"Shifty in gun running, but otherwise as square as
Gie. Looks funny to old tub like that fixed up
with wireless; but that has saved his neck dozen times
when he was running into moose. Not going to inter-
view ME, you?"
"No I'm going 10 ask you to do me little favor
"They always say that. But spin her out. If it
doesn't cost me my job, it's yours"
"Well there will be persons making inquiries about
the mysterious aeronaut. All want you to say is,
that he left packet with YOU that you've put it in that
safe till he calls to claim it,
Grannis nibbled the end of his pipe. "supposins
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OLGA EALL5 MO MOTIONS TPAp

~I mean that then you would have learned your
friend the reporter to arrive the scene at its
most vital moment"
What Norton ?"
Eyes. The trouble is with you, you have been
successful all these years that have grown overcon
ldent. tell you that there is desperately shrewd
man somewhere Sack of all this. Mark me, I do not
believe Hargreave is dead He is in hiding 1t may be
near by. He may have dropped from the balloon be-
fore left land The they picked up may be Orts
the aeronaut. The five thousand might have been his
fee for rescung Hargreave Here is the greatest thing
we've ever been up against; and you start in with
every day methods"
little woman don't let your tongue away with
you too far"
Im not the least bit fraid of you, Leo You need
me, and it has been more apparent than at this
moment"
"Al right fel! by the waysde this trip. Truth
fully realized it five minutes after the gone.
The only clever thing did to keep the mask my
face. They can't back at But the thing
looked so easy and it would have worked but for Nor
toms appearance"
You all but compromised That butler worries
little" Her expression lost its anger and grew
thoughtful He's always about somewhere Do you
think Hargreave took him into his conidence?"
Cant tel. He's been watched straight for forty
hours. He hasn't mailed letter telephored to any
place but the grocery. There have been kilograms
Some in that house knows where the money is and
it's ten that it will be the girl"
"She looks enough like Katrina to be her ghost"
Brane went to the window and stared Up at the
stars.
"Ycu have made good impression the grl?"
with his back still toward her.
81 had her in my arms"
"Olsa, my hat is off to you," turning, that his
face again in repose. "Your very frankness re-
garding your relationship will pull the wool their
eyes OF course they'll make inquiries and they'll find
that YOU haven't lied It's perfect. Not even that
newspaper weasel will anything wrong. Toward you
they will eventually up and you act without
their dreaming your part in the business We
must not be in public any This butler may
know where stand though he cannot prove it.
Now. I'm going to tell you something. Perhaps you've
long since guessed it. Katrina mine till Har-
greave-nevcr mind what his rhen-til Har-
ereave came into the fold. So of her was that
used her lure to bring him U.s. She fe! in love
with him, but too late to him. l had the salts
faction OF seeing him cast her aside, her and
leave her. In thing she fooled all. never knew
of The child till you told me-
Re paused to light a cigarette
"liargrcaye madly in love with her. He cursed
her. but he came back to the house forgive her,
find that she had been seized by the police and
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$4,000 FOR 100 WORDS

"The Million Dollar Mystery" story will run for
twenty-five consecutive weeks in this paper. BY an
arranEement with Thanhouser Film company Ii
has been made possible only to read the story In
this paper, but week in the various
moving picture For the solution OF this mys-
terry story $4,000 he given.
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SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO.

S1NUFsIs UF Cf1AF hhS VINH1 AND WV
Stanley Hargreave, millionaire, after miraculous
cape of the of brilliant thieves known
the@BIack Hundred, life of a recuse for
eighteen years HargreaEe night enters Broadway
restaurant face with the ganEs
leader, Braine.
After meeting, during which neither appar-
other, Hargreave hurries his
nihcent RiverdaIe plans making his
He writes letter the girls
chool in where eighteen before he
mysteriousy left the doorstep his baby daugh-
ter, Florence Gray. a visit the hangar
of q daredevil aviator.
Braine members of his band surround Hargreaves
night they enter the house the watchers
balloon the roof The safe IL found
empty-the million which Harsreave known have
day gone. Then announced the
balloon been punctured dropped the bottom
Of
Florence arrives girls school
Olga, Brafne's companion visits be q
Two bogus detectives CALL but plot
ny Norton, a newspaper
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(To BE CONTINUED NEXT SUNDAY,
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1914-01-09
Personal Mention

Z. d. Levers, OF San Francisco, is
a visitor in Carson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Taylor, II
Reno, are visitors in Carson today.
John J. Mullin, OF the Industrial
commission, left for Reno this
morning on a business trip.
II. +. Bartine, railroad commits
%sioner, returned this morning from a
visit to the riverside city.
John +. Shaughnessy, OF the
Railroad commission, departed for
Reno this morning on official bust
ness.
On business connected with the
Tax commission, Emmett Boyle left
this morning for a brief stay in the
riverside city.
Manager Robinson. OF the Carson
branch of Gray, Reid and Wright,
returned this morning from a briel
visit to Reno.
Fred Schonemann, representing
the British North American lnsur-
dllCt company was
city by the morning tram.
Judge James G.. Sweeney return
ed this morning from Tonopah
where he had been attending TO le-
gal matters before the Nye county
court.
James B. Worden. representing the
Carlisle paper house OF San Fran
cisco, is visiting customers IN Car
son today. He will leave Tor tAS
Comstock tomorrow.
George b. Thatcher, attorney gen
eral, departed for Reno last night &c
appear in Judge Harwood's court to-
day as attorney for the Macdonald
estate in its suit against the Eastern
Star Mining company. Assisting Mr.
Thatcher in this case is George a
Bartlett.
+. G.. Warehouse, manager OF tht
telephone company that Is operatinl
in Tonopah, was an arrival IN Larson
this morning, having just returned
from a visit to his family i'll Cali
fornia. Mr.. Waterhouse is interest
in the Waterhouse lease IL
Virginia and will visit that point be
fore returning to TOnopah.
Miss Charlotte Rogers, OF New
York, who has been visiting tn,
Oddie family at the governors man
sion, left this morning for Keno
from whence she goes to Colorado
Springs and thence to her New YORK
home. This was Miss Rogers frs
western visit and she has become Sc
e~ntranced with California and Ne
vada climate that she asserts she
will be soon coming back.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1914-01-09

ANDREW c. WALTZ, Plaintiff.
versus
ANNA CHRISTINA WALTZ, De
PENDANT.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1914-01-09
Tonopah Girl Dies In Reno

Geraldine Larson, AGED IA years,
died yesterday at the Sisters hospi-
tai, where she had been a patient foi
the last week. The child was oper-
ated on for appendicitis at Tonopah
on December 30, after an illness OF
five months. She was then brought
to Reno as septic poisoning had SCI
in, but she was so weak after her ar
rival that she could not stand an adj
ditional surgical resort. The decea5-
ed was the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
G. f. Larson of Tonopah. She
graduated from the Tonopah gram
mer school last June and was to
have entered the high school II
September, but was prevented by
her illness.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1914-01-09
Caioon, New. Dec. Is, 1918.
APPLICATION FOR AUTOMO

Tom and Jerry at Paxton's AVA
ms the inner man. Off
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1914-01-09

LEXINGTON, Ky, Jan. g.-Gcn
Simon Bolivar Buckner, former gov
ernor of Kentucky, and candidate ior
vice-president on the gold Demo
cratic ticket in 1896, died at his home
last night. He was 90 years OF age
being born in 1923.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1914-01-09
Situation Want q

Capable omar desires situation
for general homework. Apply or
address, Mrs. \. Calliber, zoos Cur
ry street. j.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1914-01-09

The State of Nevada sends greet
ings to said defendant:
You are hereby summoned to APP
pear within ten days after the ser
vice upon you of this if
served in said county, or within
twenty days if served IL of SAID
county but within said judicial dis
trict, and in all other cases within
forty days Exclusive of day OF ser
vice., and defend the above-entitled
action.
This action is brought to recover
a judgment against you granting to
plaintiff a decree of divorce forever
dissolving the bonds of matrimo1y
now existing between you and said
plaintiff on the ground of extreme
cruelty, as will more fully appear
from the verified complaint on file
herein.
Dated this 9th day Of January, A.
d., 1914.
(SeaD r. o. PATTERSON
Clerk Of the First Judicial District
Court of the State of Nevada in
and for the County Of Ormsby.
SWEENEY & MOREHOUSE,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Date of first publication Jan. E, 1914
6-W
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1914-01-09
BILE LICENSE

License tags for 1914 are now
ready for distribution and may be
secured upon payment of fee.
Note.-The annual filing fee shall
be rated at 12H cents per horsepow-
err, the minimum horsepower rating
to be twenty horsepower, and such
fee shall cover state motor vehicle
license as from January 1st to De-
cember 3lst of each year.
Sec. 5. If the OTTO vehicle has
been previously registered. the IL
cense tag shall be returned to the
secretary of state, together with
proper remittance, and such secre-
tary shall Immediately issue to said
owner another license tag bearing
the same number, with the year for
which new license tag is issue
stamped thereon. Upon the sale or
exchange of ownership of a motor
vehicle, the vendor, except a manu-
facuC:>r or dealer, shall within ten
days return to the secretary of state
the license tag affixed to such motor
vehicle.
Application blanks may be secured
by applying to
GEORGE BRODIGAN,
Secretary Of State.
Caloon, New, Dec. Is, 1918.
APPLICATION FOR AUTOMO
At "Dick's Place" Saturday night.
Grand concert during the evening.
Everybody come.
--O-O-
Tom and Jerry at Paxton's AVA
ms the inner man. 6-ti
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To have enough wood around so the
tramp can pay for his meal, and for
kindllng and for CRATE fires, but it will
not give you a uniform heat.
Nothing Better Than KING Coal
for general heating purposes. Don't
forget that there are different kinds
OF coal. Be sure you buy heating
quality, not simply weight. Slate and
rock are heavier than coal and cheap
or.
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SUM MONS

In the First Judicial District Court
of the State Of Nevada, In and
for the County OF Ormsby.
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
DUELLING COUNT
Is MAN OF HOUR
Stephen Tiszai is Looked Upon
AS the Person Responsible
For War

Budapest, Aug. 19.-The leading
personality, the imam of the hour" in
Austria Hungary's crisis, is Count
Stephen Tisza, the duelling Premier of
Hungary. 1t is accepted here that
Count Tisza's influence was largely
responsible for bringing about the
declaration of war between Austria
Hungary and Servia and embroiling
all Europe in titanic conflict.
The son of Koloman Tisza, who was
Premier and practical dictator of Hun
gary from 1875 to 1890, Stephen Tisza
won the confidence of the Emperor
Francis Joseph in 1904 by his vigor-
Gus resistance to Magyar's attacks on
the military prerogatives of the
Crown and his more recent success in
crushing obstruction and opposition in
the Hungarian Chamber.
Born in April, 1861, Count Stephen
Tisza is now in his fifty-fourth year.
He studied at Berlin, Heidelberg and
Budapest universities. Entering po-
litical life as Deputy in 1886, he soon
gained prominence and acquired the
influence which intense conviction and
physical energy invariably command.
bN TtllkIOH All SdlNlIilSl, Ii
became, after the death of his father,
a leader of the Hungarian Calvinist
church, but managed to combine with
his religious fervour a passion for
craftsmanship and unusual skill as a
gentleman rider in steeplechases
After an unsuccessful commercial
venture, he devoted his whole atten.
ton to politics, and rapidly entered
the first rank of Magyar politicians.
In 1908 he became Premier and
leader of the Liberal party on the fall
of the Sell Administration but was
overthrown in a general election by g
coalition of opposition parties, which
had no other bond of union than hos
tility towards him. From 1906 unit
1910 he withdrew from public life
but returned to Parliament in the lat
ter year, became President of tn,
Chamber, and directed the struggl,
against Parliamentary obstruction.
Opposition hostility led to an at
tempt upon his life in the Chamber
but, undismayed, he continued hi
course. succeeded Count Khuen-Hcd
ervary as Premier in 1912, epected tn,
opposition from Parliament by arme,
force. and has since enjoyed unchal
lenged supremacy.
In the course of his second Premier
ship he has fought large number o
. saber duels against his most violen
opponents, wounding several of Their
| severely. He has long been marked on
as the future Austro- Hungarian Min
, ster of Foreign Affairs, and thong
he has not yet accepted that position
his influence is far greater than tina
: of Count Berchtold, the titular For
: eign Minister.