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The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-04

The discovery of pithblende in the
Columbia river valley, near Golden,
British Columbia, has been announced.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-04

The department OF agriculture esti-
mates that disease and exposure
caused a loss in meat animals in this
country amounting to $150,0OO,00 last
year. OF this only $2S 000,0 900 was at
tributed to exposure. The loss in meat
would have furnished more than o
years supply to the entire pOpula
ton of the New England states.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-04

Russia has officially stated its rail.
way mileage at 43,7SS miles, in addition
TO which there are 2,4S0 miles in Fin
land and 1913 in eastern China.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-04

At the last computation G91O) there
were 4,00S,S44 work people in the state
OF New York. 9S3,6S6 of them females.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-04
TABR|z CAPTURED
BY RUSSIAN ARMY
Great Persian City Is Retaken
BY Cars ForCeS-TurkS
Are Driven Out With
Heavy Losses.

Paris, Feb. "A dispatch to the
Balkan agency from Athens says:
Greece with all her forces will
come to the aid of Serbia in event
of a fresh invasion Of Serbia by
the Austro- German armies. The
greatest actively prevails now in
military quarters"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-04

A new deepest hole in the earth is a
well that has been bored in Silesia 70 Z
depth OF 7,34S feet 6,84S feet Of which
have been lined with iron tubing.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-04

Prince Francis Joseph, cousin of
the kaiser, was one of the officers Of
the Emden, and Is now a prisoner OF
the British. He is a brotherinlaw of
Manuel of Portugal 1t was reported
some time ago that the kaiser wished
TO marry the young mans elder brother
to the grand duchess of Luxembourg,
whose country Is now temporarily un-
der the domination of Germany.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-04

The average length Of human life Is
about 33 years, and of 1000 persons
only one reaches the age OF 100 years.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-04

BERESFORD-Col ]. w. Reedy, we'll
known stoclman and auctioneer. is seri-
ously Ill and has been taken to Chicago
for medical aid.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-04
Five Merchant Ships Sunk BY
Submarines, One of Which
Is Preying Near Gates
of Liverpool.
SHIPPING IS DEMoRALIzED
Believed Won Tirpitz Is Trying
to Blockade British Isles In
an Effort to Starve Out
Kaiser's Foes.

London, Feb. IA dispatch from
Southport, 10 miles from Liverpool,
Gays that a German submarine,
supposedly the U-21, was seen off
there early this morning.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-04
sALARIED OFFICERS BARRED
FROM GEE ALLOWANCES

Pierre S. D.. Feb. with the en-
the meeting of states attorneys in this
city several weeks ago Attorney Gen
eral Caldwell was asked to pass upon
the right OF the county judge to draw
fees for acting as chairman of the
county board of insanity, and as to the
right of the states attorney to draw
fees TO? acting as such chairman in the
absence Of the county judge. After an
invest gatiOn Caldwell holds that the
constitution makes the office of county
Judge a salaried one. and prohibits him
from receiving any other compensation,
and that any statute which attempts
to give the county judge fees for act
ing in the above capacity is in direct
violation of the constitutional provision
fixing the department on salary basis.
AS to the rights of states attorneys to
draw fees for acting as chairman of the
insanity board In the absence Of the
county judge, he holds that chapter 233,
laws Of 1909, places the states attorney
upon a salary basis and he is nowhere
given additional compensation for his
services on the board Of insanity. That
under the provisions of chapter ITO,
laws Of 1911. he is barred from receiv-
ing fees as such chairman, by statutory
provision, and that he cannot receive
any such compensation.
-
SIOUX FALLS-The local authorities
have been advised OF the surrender to the
police of Kansas City, Mo, OF Richard
Rleskabek. alias Richard Miller. a pa
rolled convict from the Sioux Falls peni-
tertiary who violated his parole about a
year ago and disappeared from the city
and state.
HURON-The intercollegiate debating
teams OF Huron college have been select
ed. The debates will be held with Macal-
ester college in Minnesota, Fargo college
in North Dakota, and Brookings, Mitchell
and Yankton colleges in South Dakota
The teams selected were as follows: At
firmative, c. f. Reeves st. Lawrence:
Clement Thomas, South Wales; FLOYD
Reeves st. Lawrence. Negative, Roger
Campbell, Aberdeen; George Longstaff,
Huron, and Charles Lundberg, Alcester.
The girls team selected to meet the Alb
erdeen normal team is made up of Jean
Brady, jessie Mckay and Louisa Hixon,
al Of Huron. .a
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-04-22
SYNOPSIS.

The New York police are mystif1ed by a
series of murders and other crimes. The
principal clue to the criminal is the warn
ing letter which is sent the victims. signed
with a "clutching hand" The latest vic
tim of the mysterious assassin is Taylor
Dodge, the insurance president. His
daughter Elaine, employs Craig Ken
nedy, the famous scientific detective, to
try to unrave1 the mystery. What Ken
nedy accomplishes is told by his friend,
Jameson, a newspaper man. Enraged at
the determined effort which Elaine and
Craig Kennedy are making to put an end
to his crimes, the Clutching Hand, as this
strange criminal is known. resorts to all
sorts of the most diabofcal schemes to
put them out of the way. Each chapter
of the story tells of new plot against
their lives and of the way the great de-
tective uses all his skill to save this pref
ty girl and himself from death.
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ing It ON ner, atake this-keep it
near you.' 80
The noises ceased al. length, as
strangely as they had begun.
Half an hour later they had all gone
back to bed and were asleep But
Elaine's sleep now was ftfnl, con
slant procession OF faces fitting be-
fore her closed eyes.
Suddenly she woke with start and
stared into the semf-darkness. Was
that face real, or a dream face? Was
it the hideous helmeted face that had
dragged her down into the sewer
once2 That man was dead. Who was
this?
She gazed at the bedroom window,
holding the huge revolver tightly.
There, vague in the night light, APP
peared a figure. Surely that was no
dream face of the oxygen helmet. Be
sides, it was not the same helmet
She sat bold upright and fired point
blank at the window, shivering the
glass. A second later she had leaped
from the bed, switched on the lights
and was running to the sill.
& Downstairs Aunt Tabby and Uncle
Joshua had heard the shot. Joshua
was now wide awake.
"Wh-what was it he asked, puff
ing at the exertion of running up
stairs.
ST saw-a face-at the window
with some kind of thing over it,"
gasped Elaine. at was like one saw
once before"
Uncle Joshua did not wait to hear
any more. He ran out of the room
and into the garden beneath Elaine's
window.
He looked about for signs of an in
truder. There was not a sound.
He happened to look down at the
ground. Before him was small box.
He picked it up. Here's something,
though" he said.
Joshua went back to the house.
Whats in it?' asked Elaine as he
rejoined the woman.
She took the curious little box and
unfastened the cover. As she opened
1t she drew back. There In the box
was a little ivory figure of man.
all hunched up and shrunken, a hid
eous figure. 4
1t was the afternoon following the
day of our strange discovery Of the
fireplace done in sympathetic ink on
the apparently blank sheet of paper
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-04-22

Kennedy said nothing for moment.
Then he seized his hat and coat.
IF you don t mind he said, well
go back there with you. :
WI Fang, the Chinese master mind.
had arrived in New York,
Besides WI, the inscrutable Long
Sin, astute though he was, was
mere pigmy-his slave, his advance
agent, as it were.
New York did not know of the ar
rival OF WI Fang, the mysterious. yet.
But down in the secret recesses OF
Chinatown, in the ways that are devil
Gus and dark, the oriental CROOKS
knew and trembled.
Thus it happened that Long Sin was
not permitted to enjoy even the fore
taste of Benefits spells which he
had forced from him after his weird
transformation into his real self, the
Clutching Hand, when the Chinaman
had given him the poisoned draft that
had put him into his long sleep.
He had obtained the paper showing
where the treasure amassed by the
Clutching Hand was hidden, but WI
Fang, his master, had come.
The night following his arrival, WI
Fang was reclining on diyan, when
his servant announced that Long Sin
was at the door.
"Haye you brought the map with
you?" asked WI.
Long Sin bowed low again, and drew
from under his coat the paper which
he had obtained from Bennett. For
a moment the two, master and slave
in guile, bent over, closely studying It.
At one point of the map Long Sins
bony finger paused over note which
Bennett had made:
Beware Of poisoned gas upon open
ing compartment"
seAnd you think you can trace it
out?" asked WI.
Without doubt" bowed Long Sin.
He went over to bag near by,
which he had already sent up by an
other servant, and opened it. Inside
was an oxygen helmet. He replaced
it, after showing it to WI.
with the aid of the science of the
white devil" purred Long Sin subtly.
Outside, WI had already ordered
car to wait, and together the two
drove off rapidly. Into the country
they sped, until at last they came to
a lonely turn in a lonely road.
Long Sin alighted and disappeared,
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-04-22
Fifteenth EPISODE
THE SERPENT SIGN.

Rescued by Kennedy at last from
the terrible incubus of Benefits per-
secution in his double life of lawyer
and master criminal, Elaine had, for
the first time in many weeks, a feel
ing of security.
Now that the strain was Off, how
ever, she felt that she needed rest and
a chance to recover herself, and it had
occurred to her that few quiet days
with aunt" Tabitha, who had been
her nurse when she was a little girl,
would do her a world Of good.
She had sent for Aunt Tabby, yet
the fascination of the experiences
through which she had just gone still
hung over her. She could not resist
thinking and reading about them as
she sat one morning with the faithful
Rusty in the conservatory of the
Dodge house.
I had told the story at length in the
Star, and the heading over 1t had
caught her eye.
It read:
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in BENEFITS effects, when the speak
ing tube sounded and answered it.
''Why-it's Elaine exclaimed.
Kennedy's face showed the keenest
pleasure at the unexpected visit.
Tell her to come right up he said
quickly.
opened the door for her.
''Why-Elaine-fm awfully glad to
see you," he greeted, "but l thought
you were rusticating."
Il was, but, Craig, it seems to me
that wherever I go something hap
pens" she returned "You know, Aunt
Tabby said there were haunts.
thought it was an old woman's fear
but last night heard the strangest
noises out there, and I thought saw
face at the Window face in he'll
met. And when Joshua went out, this
is what he found on the ground under
my window
She handed Kennedy box, a Pc
culiar affair which she touched ginger
ly, and only with signs of the greatest
aversion.
Kennedy opened it. There in the
tie ivory devil-god. He looked at it
curiously moment.
LET me see,' he ruminated, still
regarding the sign. '@The house you
bought for Aunt Tabby once belonged
to Bennett, didn't it,"
Elaine nodded her head "Yes, but
/ don't see what that can have to do
with IT, she agreed adding with a
shudder. Bennett is dead
Kennedy had taken piece Of pa
per from the desk where he had put
1t away carefully. Have you ever
seen anything that looks like this 2"
he asked, handing her the paper.
= Elaine looked at the plan carefully,
as Kennedy and scanned her, face.
She glanced up, her expression show
ing plainly the wonder she felt.
Why, yes she answered. THAT
looks like Aunt Tabby's fireplace In
the living room. -.
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with parting word of instruction
from WI, who remained in the car.
The Chinaman carried with him the
heavy bag with the oxygen helmet.
Long Sin hurried down the road
until he came to a trolley pole, then
he looked hastily at his watch. 1t
was twenty minutes at least before
the next car would pass.
Quickly, almost monkeylike, he
climbed up the pole, carrying with him
the end of a wire which he had taken
from the bag.
Having thrown this over the feed
wire, he slid quickly to the ground
again, then, carrying the other end
of the wire in his rubber-gloved hand
through the underbrush until he came
to passageway in the rough and un-
cleared hillside-a small opening
formed by the rocks.
1t was dark inside, but he did not
hesitate to enter, carrying the wire
and the bag with him
1t was nightfall before we arrived
with Elaine at Aunt Tabby's.
Kennedy lost no time in examining
the fireplace.
At one point in the drawing a pc
culiar protuberance was marked. Ken
ne1y was evidently hunting for that.
He found it at last and pressed the
sort of lever. A small section at the
side of the fireplace opened up, dis
closing an iron ladder, leading down
into one of those characteristic hiding
places in which the Clutching Hand
used to delight.
Let's go down and explore it,
suggested, taking step toward the
ladder.
Kennedy reached out ard pulled me
back. Then without word he pressed
the little lever and the door closed.
think we'd better wait while,
Walter" he declared. 81 would rather
hear Aunt Tabby's haunts myself.
We were sitting about the room
when suddenly the most weird and un-
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-04-22

AS Elaine glanced down the column
Jennings announced that Aunt Tabby,
as she loved to call her old friend,
had arrived and was now in the IL
brary with Aunt Josephine
With an exclamation Of delight
Elaine dropped the paper and, fol-
lowed by Rusty, almost ran into the
library.
! "Oh, I'm So glad to see you,'' half
laughed Elaine, as she literally flung
herself into her nurses arms. II feel
so unstrung-and I thought that If
could just run off for a few days with
you and Joshua in the country, where
no one would know, it might make me
feel better. You have always been SO
good to me. Marie! Are my things
packed? Very we'll; then get my
wraps"
Her maid left the room.
"B1ess your SOUL" mothered Aunt
I'm always glad to have you in that
fine house you bought me. And, faith,
Miss Elaine, the house is splendid
place to rest in, but / don't know
what's the matter with it lately.
Joshua says it's haunts."
"Haunts?'' repeated Elaine in
amused surprise. why, what do you
mean?"
Marie entered with the wraps before
Aunt Tabby could reply, and Jennings
followed with the baggage.
Nonsense" continued Elaine gayly,
as she put on her coat and turned to
bid Aunt Josephine goodbye.
Elaine went out, followed by Rusty
and Jennings with the luggage.
Nov for long ride in the good
fresh air. sighed Elaine, as she
leaned back on the cushions Of the
Dodge limousine and patted Rusty,
while the butler slowed away the
bags
The air certainly did, II anything,
heighten the beauty of Elaine, and at
last they arrived at Aunt Tabby's,
tired and hungry.
The car stopped and Elaine, Aunt
Tabby and the dog got out. There,
waiting for them, was Uncle Joshua,
as Elaine playfully called him. for
mer gardener of the Dodges, now a
plain, honest countryman on whom
the city was fast encroaching; jolly
old fellow, unframed by the world.
Aunt Tabby's was an attractive,
small house, not many miles from
New York, yet not in the general line
of suburban travel
Kennedy and had decided to bring
Benefits papers and documents over
to the laboratory to examine them.
We were now engaged in going over
the great mass of material which he
had collected in the hope of finding
some clue to the stolen millions
which he must have amassed as re-
suit OF his vil1ainy. The table was
stacked high.
A knock at the door told us that the
expressman had arrived and mo-
ment later he entered, delivering a
heavy box. Kennedy signed for II
and started to unpack it.
I was hard at work when came
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-04-22
THE cLUTcHINe HAND DEAD.
Double Life Exposed by Craig Ken
needy.

Perry Bennett, the Famous Young
Lawyer, Takes Poison = Kennedy
Now on Trail Of Master Criminals
Hidden Millions.
Evening journal., 1915-03-29
GOLDEN EAGLES AT BANQUET.

Grand Chief \. B. Warrington. of
the Knights of the Golden Eagle. gave
banquet of the grand officers and
installing team on Saturday evening
at Hollis Cafe. Past Supreme Chief
Garrett S. Smith was POSTMASTER.
Clayton's orchestra furnished music.
All reports we're favorable. The order
is in good condition in every part of
the State. The annual session of the
Grand Castle will be held at Rehoboth
Beach on Monday. April .. Those
present were; Grand Chief. n. b.
Warrington; Past Supreme Chief.
Garrett S. Smith: G. V. c.. William NJ.
Hooven; G. NJ. Of r.. Walter G. Hur-
lock- G. NJ of EN Stephen T.. Hamil-
ton; G. l.. George Autman: p. G. c..
William Huntsman: p. G c.. Thomas
Hetherton; p. G. C., John +. Mcdonald: /:
c. t.. Harry w. Robert. G. L.. b. Tav-
lor Nipple; Trustee. A. T. Beatty:
Grand First Guard, William HAYES
X. of f.. Harry Winninger. C. L. C..
J. Frank McElwce; Grand Second
Guard. II. G. Davis, and NJ. of r.. Cecil
L Ewing.
Evening journal., 1915-03-29
MRS. HOOD CILPIN, OF
Revolutionary STOCK dead

Mrs. Emily Olivia Hopkinson Gilpin.
widow of Hood Gilpin, died suddenly
yesterday afternoon at her residence.
No 26O South Fifteenth street, Phila-
delphia, of heart disease.
Mrs. Gilpin was a daughter of DR..
Oliver HoplSinson, of 1924 Spruce
street. Philadelphia. and great
granddaughter of Francis Hopkinson.
one of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence. Her husband, Hood
Gilpin, died about five years ago. He
was an attorney. and was a son of the
late Charles Gilpin. who was twice
Mayor of Philadelphia. He was the
last Mayor of the city prior to the
consolidation in 1854. Charles Gilpin
was a WilmingtOnian His brother.
Richard, conducted a hardware store
at Third and Shipley streets.
Although Mrs. Gilpin had been in
poor health the last eighteen months.
her death yesterday came suddenly.
She lived at her home with her daugh-
ter. Miss Gabrielle Gilpin, and Hood
Gilpin. Jr. She is survived by an
other son, Francis Hopkinson Gilpin.
of 251S South Lambert street.
Mrs. Gilpin, who was prominent IN
fashionable society circles, was a
member of the Colonial Danes and of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
Evening journal., 1915-03-29
CHARGED With BREAKING
into Second Street Store

James Johnson, colorcd. was arrested
at l.3O o'clock this morning at his home,
No. 4l4 East Second street. by Officers
Riley aud Dutton on the charge of
breaking and entering the candy ana
grocery store of Taunon Brothers. No.
2lS West Second street
When johnson was arraigned in City
Court today he requested that his case
be continued until tomorrow. Judge
Churchman held him in 81 600 bail
On Friday night about $50 o'clock
some boys heard a noise in the cellar OF
Ianaon Brothers store. and made an in
vestigation and found that the cellar
door had been broken open. Hiding in
the cellar they found colorcd man.
The colorcd man quickly lSade his IS.
cape Nothing was missing. but it was
evident that an attempt had been made
to rob the quarter" gas meter.
Tho boys gave description of the
colored man 20 the police which result
ed in the arrest OF johnson.
Evening journal., 1915-03-29
While DreadnOughtS BOmbard BOsphOrus Defenses,
Cars AyiatOrs Drop Bombs Near COnstantinOpe.
Turkish Merchant Ship in Black Sea is Sunk
Under Fire aud Sailors Perish; Turkish
Torpedo Boats Seek Protection OF Forts
ANGLO-FRENCH FLEET CONTINUES
HAMMERING ON THE DARDANELLES FORTS

a Russian cruiser. but we're subjected
to a terrific fire from the Bosphorus
batteries and were forced 10 with
draw, Leaving the Turkish sailors to
perish.
Turkish torpedoboats emerged from
the BosphoruS when the Black Sea
Meet quickly retired under the pro-
lection Of the forts, according 10
Petrograd dispatches. During the en-
gagement enemy aviators appeared
over the Russian feet to observe it's
strength, but returned to the Bos-
phorus without dropping bombs.
While the Russian fleet was ham
mering away at the eastern defences
.of Constantlnople. the Anglo-French
squadrons at the Dardanelles con-
tinued their operations. During Sum
days bombardment the batteries OF
kalia-Bahr. near Kilid-Bahr, we're
completely silenced, according to dis
patches from Tonedos Island, and sew
eral new Turkish shore guns, recently
mounted. we're put out OF action. In
direct bombardmont Of Kilid-Bahr
from the Gulf OF Saros has been re-
sumed.
Military critics admitted today that
Constantinoplc Is in no danger Of fall
ing from the Russian attack on the
Bosphorus. The moral effect upon the
Turkish capital. however. must be
tremendous, IL was insisted in Ad-
miralty circles.
From the heights around Constan-
tinoplo the Turkish people undoubted-
~ can glimpse the operations, but a
few miles away. The boom Of Rus
sian guns can be heard distinctly in
the heart OF the capital. Tho Russian
attack was deliberately planned to
strike terror into the hearts of the
Turks, II was understood here, and
not as an important military opera
! tion.
According 10 tho best available in
formation here the Russian Black Sea
feet was recently reinforced by two
new dreadnoughts. completed at the
Black Sea yards. mounting ten 70
! inch guns each The Bosphorus forti-
! fications. however. are considered all
most impregnable and any real attempt
10 force the narrow strait would be
] disastrous.
Evening journal., 1915-03-29
by Tie United Press.

PETROGRAD March 20.-Thc first OF
the reintorccmcnts from the Russian
armies that besicgcd Pcrmysl have ar
rived in the Carpathians, according Go
dispatches from the front today, and arc
being sent into action near Lupkow.
Two army corps are now engaged in
the attempt to force a passage through
Lupi,ow and Nidrony and to press the
rctrcatirg Austrians back upon the rail
way leading south through Mezo Lahore.
Pen ling the success of this movement,
Slav force that pierced the Dukla sew
eral days ago in the direction of Bartfa
(Bartfeldl has halted near Zboro. The
Austrians who retrcated through Zboro
have fallen back upon Bartfa, leaving
gap of several miles between the OPP
posing armies. The enemy is making
every preparation to defend the railway
at Bartfa against the impending Rus
sian attack.
Savage encounters are occurring all
along the mountains from Lupkow TO-
1uchla, north Of the Nereczke Pass. with