River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-03-12

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no longer talked of going permanently
back to his mountains when he had
won the championship away from Jim
Hanford.
The consummation of biz career was
rapidly approaching The great cham
pion had even publicly intimated his
readiness to take on Glendon as soon
as the latter had disposed of the three
or four aspirants for the champion
ship who interviewed.
In six months Pat managed to put
away Kid McGrath and Philadelphia
Jack Mcbride. and there remained
only Nat Powers and Tom Canaan
And all would have been well had not
a certain society girl gone adventuring
into journalism, and had not Stube-
ner agreed to an interview with the
woman reporter of the San Francisco
Courier-Journal.
Her work was always published over
the name of Maud Sangster, which, by
the way, was her own name. The
Sangsters were a VIGOROUSLY wealthy
family.
The founder, old Jacob Sangster, had
packed his blankets and worked as a
farm hand in the west He had dis
covered an inexhaustible boraX depos-
it in Nevada. and. from hauling it out
by mule teams, had built a railroad to
do the freighting. Following that he
had poured the profits of borax into
the purchase of hundreds and thou
sands of square miles of timber lands
in California, Oregon and Washington
Still later he had combined politics
with business, had bought statesmen,
judges and machines and become a
captain of complicated industry And
after that he had died, full of honor
and pessimism, leaving his name a
muddy blot for future historians to
smudge, and also leaving a matter of
a couple of hundreds of millions for
his four sons to squabble over.
The legal, industrial and political
battles that followed vexed and anus
ed California for generation and cul-
minated in deadly hatred and unspeak-
ing terms between the four sons
The youngest, Theodore, in middle
life experienced change of heart.
sold out his stock farms and racing
stables and plunged into a fight with
all the corrupt powers of his native
state. including most of its million
aires. in a quixotic attempt to purge it
of the infamy which had been i'm
planted by old Jacob Sangster.
Maud Sangster was TheodOre's old
est daughter. The Sangster stock uni
formly bred fighters among the men
and beauties among the women, nor
was Maud an exceptions; also she must
have inherited some of the virus of
adventure from the Sangster breed,
for she had come to womanhood and
done multitude of things of which
no woman in her position should have
been guilty.
A match in ten thousand, she re-
manned unmarried. She had sojourn-
ed in Europe without bringing home a
nobleman for spouse and had declined
a g0odly portion of her own set at
home
She had gone in for outdoor sports.
won the tennis championship of the
state. kept the society weeklies agog
with her unconventionalities walked
from San Mateo to Santa Cruz against
time on a wager and once caused a
sensation by playing polo in mems
team at a private Burlingame practice
game. incidentally she had gone in
for art and maintained studio In San
Francisco's Latin quarter.
All this had been Of little moment
until her fathers reform attack became
acute. Passionately Independent, never
yet having met the man to whom she
could gladly submit and bored by
those who had aspired. she resented
her fathers interference with her way
of life and put the climax on all her
social misdeeds by leaving home and
going to work on the Courier-Jour
Beginning at 500 a week, her salary
had swiftly risen to $50. Her work
was principally musical, dramatic
and art criticism. though she was not
above mere journalistic stunts If they
promised to be sufficiently interesting
Thus she scooped the big interview
with Morgan at time when he was
being futilely trailed by a dozen New
York star journalists, went down to
the bottom of the Colder Gate in a
Divers suit and few with Rood, the
bird man. when he broke all records of
continuous fight by reaching as far
as Riverside