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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-30
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Concluded From Yesterday
What do you mean?" asked
the magistrate. did Mr.. North
cote think his life was in dan
ger?"
"He knew it, sir. Mr.. North
cote was Ignace Prado, the presl-
dent of San Luca," answered Mil
ford.
That's rather an amazing
statement" said the magistrate.
81 thought Prado was killed in
the last revolution"
Yes, sir. That was the gener-
al impression. AS a matter of
fact, he escaped in a boat the
night the palace was blown up,
and boarded steamer in the har-
Dor, which brought him to New
York"
did he tell you all this on the
ship?"
Milford shook his head. mo,
sir; | knew nothing about it until
the other day. Mr.. Northcote
lived in a pretty big way in Lon
uOH at IlTSt. we uSeu TO enter
tain a goodish bit. Then one day,
about a couple of months ago,
something seemed to happen that
changed the master entirely. He
broke off nearly all his engage
ments and shut himself up in the
house"
HE gave you no reason for this
change in his way of living?"
Nothing definite, sir: but
knew that he fancied himself in
danger. Things went on like this
for several weeks-in fact, up to
eight days ago. That was the
third, If you remember, sir. Mr..
Northcote came to me on that day
and told me to order him a taxi
cab, because he was going out at
six o'clock. / ordered him the
cab, and he went off. | never saw
him again until the night he was
murdered"
"Accor> g % the evidence of
the police, "a the magistrate,
"Mr. John b returned to
Park Lane in h \ ce."
"Yes, sir"
"And do you mean to tell us
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said. "Your cousin may have
been a scoundrel. but, at all
events. he trusted you. and you
sold him-sold him like the dirty
little Judas lscariot you are. Be
sides that, you did your best to
get me- murdered"
/ Look here" he gasped. "You
are mistaken; on my honor you
are. It's no good being violent.
IL you want money"
billy" | said, lust open that
hall door. will your"
Then | jerked my prisoner
round, so that could see his face.
You appear to be under a
slight misrepresentation, Maurice, -
| said. I'm the first place, you
are not Prado's heir; and In the
second, | don't happen to be in
need of money"
Tightening my grip on his col
lar, moved him slowly back
wards across the hall toward the
front door.
Then with a mighty thrust. and
one swift, accurately planted
kick, sent him hurting down
the steps and out into the gutter.
With little cry of joy, Mercia
seized my hand, and before |
could stop her, raised 1t to her
lips.
II took me at least five minutes
tn satisfy myaalf that this inpnr-
rect procedure had been properly
atoned for.
The Prado fortune I divided
with Billy. suggested. then, di-
vidlng my half with Mereia, but
on due consideration we decided
not to divide, but to have and
hold pointly. For Mercia Is now
my wife.
| THE END.
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SER. lie took me into his sitting
room and l told him my story.
Then we set off together. We
hadn't got half way down the
street before he stopped and
Knocked at one of the houses.
Well take DR.. Robbins with us.
he said to me.
DR.. Robbins was up and
dressed. as 1t happened, sir. Di-
rectly the reverend gentleman
told him what was the matter, he
came along at once, and we got
down to Shadwell just as the
clocks were striking half-past one.
We went up to the house, and the
doctor he raped on the door
with his stick. The door opened
and the fellow I'd followed put
his head out.
We'll, sir, in a room up stairs
we found man lying and groan-
ing something dreadful.
" I'm a DOCTOR" says DR.. Rob
bins, and this is Father Merrill,
priest. You wanted to see a
piieht, you KNOW.
Yes, yes.' says the man. Then
Father Merrill bends over him
and takes both his hands.
Prado is dead says Father
Merrill, and an innocent man has
been arrested for killing him.
THE man on the bed gives a
kind of gasp and pulls himself
up on the pillow. No. no. he
whispers. L killed him. Then
he takes a long breath. Listen,
he says, L will tell you
THE Doctors got what he said
wrote down--he'll show 1t you,
sir.
He was one of the San Luca
lot-Da Costa his name was, and
he'd been watching the house In
Park Lane. When I drove down
in the taxi he'd followed me, and
he'd laid low outside till cleared
off. Then he'd sneaked In some
how without being seen, sir, and
knocked at the door of the mas
ter's room.
II suppose Mr.. Northcote must
have thought 1t was me come
back, for he unlocked II, sir, and
this Da Costa had got inside and
stabbed him before he could so
much as call out.
but Mr.. Northcote, sir, wasn't
the sort of gentleman to go under
easy. He'd dropped to the floor,
sir; but 1t seems he was partly
shamming, for when Da Costa
jumped on him to finish him, he
whipped out a knife and stabbed
him in the side.
"How long they Tough Da
Costa didn't know, but by the
time he'd finished the master he
was about done in himself. He'd
crawled away, sir, hardly knowing
what he was up to, and got down
| somewhere by the river. Here
he'd run across the man whose
house he was in now. He told
him he'd been stabbed in a street
row, and wanted some place
where he could lie up. The man
asked him IL he had any money,
and when Da Costa showed him
pound he took him in and there
he'd been ever since. That was
his whole story, sir, as he told it
to us. When he ended, he gave
one gasp and died"
There was a moment of tense
|, excitement in the court. At last
the barrister for the prosecution
rose to his feet.
ION behalf of the police, your
worship he replied, IL am pre-
pared to withdraw the charge of
murder against Mr.. Burton"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-30
brakes Clerk
Is Sore as Owl

Louis ]. Kreger, clerk In the
light and water department, Is
miffed and peeved, and sore as q
boil. If something doesn't hap
pen to clear the atmosphere, he
may flood the city with circulars
to explain that 1t is not Commits
sioner Atkins but Commissioner
Drake who made 1t possible TO
abolish the 25-cent fee for lawn
sprinkling. Kreger says Drake
and he evolved the plan after they
had reduced the cost of running
tehir department by $4,000.
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Copyright, 1913, by Geo.
DOran Co.
BEGIN HERE TODAY

John Burton. recently returned
from South America, finds himself
dead broke In London. Then he
meets his double, Stuart Northcote.
millionaire. who offers Burton
ten thousand pounds to imperson-
ate him for three weeks. He says
Burton's life will be in danger, but
VIII not tell him why. Burton ac-
eepts. the two men change clothes
end Burton goes to Northcote's
house.
There a beautiful girl appears
from behind a curtain in the study
and tries to shoot Burton. She
gives her name as Mereia Solano,
and accuses Burton, whom she mis-
takes for Northcote. of being re-
Burton escorts her out of the house.
The next morning he finds that the
butler, Milford, has been poisoned.
Northcote's cousin, Maurice Fur
nivall is there at the time of the
Doctors visit, insisting that Burton
end engagement at his country
= place. Maurice secures Burton a
substitute butler, a man said by the
employment agency to be highly
recommended by Sir Henry Tregat-
took.
Burton then goes in search of his
only friend I'm London, Billy Logan.
Not finding him at his boarding
house, he leaves a note, asking
Billy to join him. and returns home.
That night the new butler tries TO
murder Burton in his bed, then
flees.
Teh next evening Burton goes to
Lord Sangatte's dance and isthere
: introduced to Mercia. Here she
passes by the name Miss de Rosen.
She Is the house guest of the Treg-
attocks. Burton decides to walk
tan
within a few yards of his house he
Is stabbed in the shoulder. Billy
has arrived, has been on the look
out, and runs to the rescue. The
Would-b assassin escapes. Mean
time Milford has disappeared.
The next day Billy, accompanying
Burton to Furnivalls place In an
automobile, puts up at the village
Inn. lie discovers that Mercia. two
men and the wife of one of the lat
ter have just taken a house in the
neighborhood. lie saw one of the
men holding a secret conference
with Furnivall
The next afternoon while Maurice
add his guests are duck shooting,
Burton is fired on by the man Billy
saw talking to Furnivall
Furnivall hastens to London and
Burton joins Billy in the village.
They take the car and go to the
Holiies. the place Mercia and her
companions have rented. There
they force an entrance, and find
that Mercia is being kept a pris-
oner They overpower Guarez and
Rojas, and, leaving them bound,
start with Mercia for London.
Milford is put on the stand. He
says Northcote hired him only a
Few months before on board a
steamer of which Milford was stew
ard. They were crossing from New
York. Milford was washed over
board and Northeote rescued him.
Milford SAYS he thinks he was hired
because his gratitude led Northcote
TO put trust in him.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-30
BUSY DAY.

Yesterday was busy day at
the county trcasurer's office, be-
Ing the last for paying the half
year taxes without becoming de-
linquent. In one corner of the
assistant treasurer'3 office was a
pile of checks amounting to about
a quarter of a million dollars.
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of blood poison, asthma, rheuma-
tism, chronic and nervous disor-
ders, constipation and diseases of
the skin. kidneys, bladder and
stomach. TRY our remedies and be
convinced.
1t will not cost you one cent to
call. IL out of town, drop us a
letter and state your diseases.
N. VOW CHINESE REMEDY co.
1874 Pacific NV. 1917 Commerce.
Tacoma, Wash. Phone Main $3.50
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-30
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES.

Stadium High school COM
mencement exercises will be held
Thursday evening. jane IL, In
the High school auditorium.
Ernest Hoover will deliver tho
valedlctory and several OF tho
class will speak Diplomas will
be awarded by Claude +. Gray of
the school board.
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N. VOW CHINESE REMEDY co.

been doctoring with
out results. try the
N. VOW CHINESE
REMEDY co. whose
G Ill | N IL S II herbs.
barks and root
re m G d les ave
achieved some won
derful results. For
thousa nds OF years
the CHINESE people
have used these REM
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-30
Wedding Ends Carnival

The pretty wedding of Miss
Hazel MeAtee and Fred II. Brad
bury. closed the Moose Fair last
night. The ceremony was per
formed by Il. M. Card, superior
court judge and the dictator Of
the local lodge.
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we'll SO I wish TO write him this
letter 20 show the public that what
he has done for me he can do Tor
you. Respectfully.
AZ. en-, w: J. BAKER.
No. lffl Fairbanks ST.. Tacoma, WIN.
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YEE wO CHINESE MED. co.
i3f5Ns 40. Pacific nv.
Tacoma, Wash.

. ~ tiiD uDilCs
1 have been suffer-
Ing from chronic
stomach troubles for
years and found no
other medicines could
cure me until / be-
gan to take zee Wo's
Chinese Remedy. be-
fore l commenced
taking his remedy I
could not eat any
thing l wanted. Now
l can eat anything.
n Al "A a.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-09
Lands Not to BE Withdrawn.

Secretary Lane has, however. after
careful consideration, decided not TO rec
ommend To the president at this time the
witldra wal OF these lands, because OF his
belief that such action might possibly
result In retarding or prcjudiciug the de-
velopment OF new mining industry IN
those portions Of Colorado and Utah. es-
pecially at this stage. when private in
itiativc needs every ipducement TO test
out the real value of the resources. Al
though the oil shales are undoubtedly a
valuable reserve resource, being capable
Of furnishing large and reliable supply
both OF fuel and of fertilizing material
In the form OF ammonia salts, there
would seem to be no urgent public need
for withdrawing the land from prospect
ing and acquisition under the existing
laws. which are believed 10 be fairly adc-
Guatc 10 meet the present needs OF this
prospective industry. In dealing with a
resource whose present value is some
what ConJcctur;il. both a. TO market and
as 10 cost Of production. II seems wise 10
avoid placing any possible hindrancc
whatever IN tho way OF private enterprise
AZ the initial stage OF development, and
10 favor utilization by offering 10 real
producers cvcry premium that tho present
lgW 1fforJe
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-09
MDONALD-ELY DRIVES
UNDER MACEO ORE

Work has been resumed again in the
Golden Gate shaft OF the Mcdonald Ely,
according to reports from Lane city, and
it is stated that drift Will be run from
tho Golden Gate shaft to got under the
ore recently opened up In the Maceo
claim TO tho cast. according TO tho Ely
Exposition
For some time tho opera tons OF the
company hayo been directed toward pros
pectipg for a big ore deposit In the Maceo
and recently such a big production was
indicated from tho appearance OF the
orc bios that IL was expected the COM
pany would have to make shipments In
order to continue development work. IL
Is understood that n large scale OF op-
ere tons is planned when those in con-
troll of the company believe they know
sufficient regarding the formations
and the locs ton OF the orc deposits. the
existence OF the deposits being not In
the least doubted. Though no informa-
ton regarding tho details OF future
nJaus for the company have been made
bubble some such announcement has been
expected in the last few weeks. But II
the Lane CITY report regarding the work
ing plans is correct it probably means
that a beginning OF the larger develop
Inent Will be DELAYED until the drift from
The Golden Gate reaches the Maceo and
the orcbody found nearer the surface vs.
Iocated AS the distance which II is ct-
ti7nated II Will he necessary 10 drive is
about $50 feet this work will require
somewhere between thirty and sixty days
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-09
SHOWING IN GLADYS
SHAFT ENCOURAGING

Good progress is being made sinking
the Gladys shaft or the Ely Calumet
Copper company property situated on the
hillside north OF town. The shaft Is now
about $50 feet deep and President a. D.
Myers plans TO continue it down 10 the
S00-foot point before beginning any other
development work. Al 500 feet station
viii be cut and drift started TO cut the
orc through which the shaft has passed
between 200 feet and below.
Since the shaft reached the depth OF
200 feet II has been In mincrallZod for
nation a part OF which n exceedingly
good orc in small stresSE ono OF the
stringcrs was only an Inch wide when
first cut, but before IL dipped out Of the
shaft il was four feet vide and In tho
larger part u sampled ! q per cent cop
per with | ounce silver 10 the ton. Above
and below this porphyry was cut. that
underlying the vein being gray stained
with iron. Under that was found 4
streak OF iron ore several Inches thick
which also dipped to the southwest out
Of tho shaft. Next 10 the iron llmc
ca me in tho shaft on the east side and
that formation has continued. The lime.
however. IL filed with stringers OF cop
per ore and presents 3 very opcourac-
ing appearance holding forth the prom
se Of extensive deposits of orc al no
great distance from the shaft.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-09
GREEN RIVER FIELDS
RICHEST IN WORLD
Said One Company's San
Rafael Claims Hold 5000,
600, 900 Worth Radium.

Angus Cameron, president OF the Amer
icin Radium company. and whose mines
about twelve miles west OF this city are
said TO be the richest in the world. left
Thursday Tor salt Lake where he spent
day or so before departing FOR Phils-
delphia. says the Green River Dispatch
II Is estimated that in one claim belong
ing to his company in the san Rafael
swell. there is 100. eco, 900 pounds of r1
diuIn oIc Which VIII make between 100
hnh lhV ounces OF rHdium, worth more
than 5000, O00, geo.
Cameron Was moro willing to tall; free
~ than ON Former visits 10 TINS place.
lie saws ihst his mine here win hence
forth ship orc the year round and work
a iulI crew Of about thirty men at The
mine. \ large quantity OF ore sacks have
nccn ordered and upon their arrival ship
ncnts VII be started and continue at reg
ular Intervals
Cameron says the orc here ranges from
i TO per cent pure rIdlum bromides.
Inc Colorado deposits, he declares, pro-
duce low grade ore, and before being
shipped 10 his plant at SellersVillc Is
made into pitchblendc ingots to save
freight charges.
Cameron states that his company sells
10 physicians as small amounts OF radlum
as $4,000 worth. Asked whether radium
factories would be built at Green River or
salt Lake nc ridiculed the idea as he
said the chemicals used In reducing r5-
and are more costly. The cost of trans
portAtion OF the chemicals from the east
ern centcrs OF manufacture to the west
would be much greater than the cost OF
shipping the orc east owing TO higher
ireiGh, charges on weatbound traffic. 4
western factory would have 10 be located
AZ either Salt Lake. Grand Junction or
Denver he said and the haul to any OF
Tho tnTce cities would amount TO ono and
half times as much as tho freight rate
on through shipments from the ore fields
tn the factory at Sellersville.
Mr.. Cameron carries with him 4 small
quantity or radium chloride. The bottle
is about one half inch long and about
one sixteenth Inch in diameter. The "a
dunn chloride contains one-f1fth OF one
1nilligram OF radium. When taken into
= dark room. the radium slows through
the glass
Ii takes 100000 10 900 900 pounds OF
Utah orc 10 produce one ounce OF pure
radium, says AIR. Cameron. In the world,
al present, there Us less than third
of an ounce of radium and IL is valued
at from sl60,000 TO Sl90. 900 per gram. or
from SO, l20. 900 to 1920, 600 per ounce,
AZ the Sellersvillc factory the company
not only extracts radium. but saves by
products OF the Utah ore, such as ura
mum copper and gold.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-09
GEMMELL' s VIEWS ON
PROSPECTING MAT TER

In the symposium on What Is The
Matter With Prospecting" which the
san Francisco Mining and Scientific Press
has been carrying for some time. Is The
following from r G. Gemmell OF tht
Utah Copper company
II T. my belief that. az the presen,
time. money Is not available in ade-
qu8te amounts iOv prospecting and
for the development OF mineral
claims. but ! think This Is due very
largely TO the unsettled condition OF
business. With the Improvement in
business conditions ia this country
and abroad-which is bound TO come
sooner or later-captalists will be
anxious TO get their surplus money
prontahlS invested, and they VIII
then take a much greater interest In
mining projects More money would
he available for prospecting and for
developing claims n more small syn
dlCatcs or associations were formed -
for tho purpose Of handling claims,
and I believe that such syudlCatcs
viii be orgs niZcd when business be-
comes better and money easier. II
does not seem 10 me that the GOV
eminent should bo called upon TO give
financial aid 10 the prospcCtors. Tho
government could assist by heinE
more liberal in It's mining laws. and
hr giving greater protection To pros
peCtnrs and localors OF claims who
have compiled with all the laws and
regulations I'm the location Of their
claims. II is possible that IL might
he practicable and advisa bic for the
laws 10 be so modified that the gov
eTnment would protect the locator o.
claims who has complied with all
the requirements of law aga inst
claim jumpers and adverse litigation.
| do not see how better ma arket for
undeveloped mineral lands can be
created at the present time. When
times are better, perhaps some pIa n
could be promulgated that would en-
list the concerted action and sup
port Of the men who are actively en-
gagged in the mining INDUSTRY The
eastern investor is Specula tor I'm
stocks and is not n buyer OF mining
claims. Any plan of this kind would
therefore. have 10 hc developed and
carried out by the mining men Of the
west.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-09
QUOTATIONS ARE NOT
SURE INDEX OF VALUES

lnnumerable inquiries come 10 this Of
nee rs TO the value Of various mining
shares. says the Mining Investor 1t IS
not always plain what the inquirer
means. lie may desire 10 sell his stock
and wish 10 know what he can set for
Il. In such case 1t may be that the
market IS stagnant, there are no bids and
he can get only q nominal price, or per
maps nothing at all. From market
stsndpoint his shares might be without
represent an interest IN a property OF
large intrinsic value. 1t is snid that
there is a certain Cripple Creek company.
and probably if careful analysis were
made, there are several such companies.
where the actual cash hold In the treas
ury of the company amounts TO a sum
greater than the present market valua-
tion OF the entire outstanding stock
Ths condition applies in many cases TO
mining shares listed upon an exchange,
and II applies still' more TO unlisted
stocks. In fact a quotation on an un-
listed stock does not necessarily have any
connection whatever with the iutrinsic
value OF the stock. It's cole significance
III that some one would like TO trade in
that stock. 1t is not always true that
tnore is stock on the market al the price
Indicated. The holder OF unlisted mining
shares would not Re disturbed or In
which he may see on those shares. At
the best they do not represent Intrinsic
values and al the worst they arc intended
solely to mislcad and deceive. Reliable
brokers do an honest business In unlisted
stocks. and their quotations are perfectly
legitimate, but they are by no means an
index To tho intrinsic value of the shares.
One other point in this connection: It
Is unfortunate but IL Is almost unaNoid
able that even during the period in which
"A mining enterprise Is being financed by
the sale OF its treasury stock TO the pub
lie, more or less of the stock is likely TO
como back upon the market from holders
who, for some rca son or another. wish TO
dispose Of IL even to "a sacrifice. II Is
often possible for an investor TO pick up
II few thousand shares of such stock. but
II is not necessarily to his interest 10 do
so, even IL he can get II at much lower
price than he can buy treasury shares.
II nc has 500 to invest, for instance,
and buys treasury stock from the com
pany. tho 800 st!ll remains in his pos
session. since il goes directly into the
treasury OF the company in which he him
self secures an interest. He simply puts
his money a work for him to make his
shares valuable. But IL he buys the per-
sonal holdings OF some individual, he
parts with his S100. sewers all connections
With IL and II does him 10 further good
whatever II is true that he holds stock
In a mining company, but IL is \ coWpa ny
for which The has done nothing. lie is
stockholder, but IS not a true "share"
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