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Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-11-11
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"rss ihs sshs ~ fsiss frisndF
HMAnAips hands almost D,uohed
The diamond hOm The sky NJ
she oiuiDbed ~ n oven the
shoulder " WYNN Nhrnbin ~
II disappsafsd through The velvet win
dow curtains aiiprhed Ia n strong, dafb
nsi,
A. for Vivian Msrsion, abn caught
hsr breath win a greai RnlpinV sob,
aud then sbs shriahed Ia Wild alarm
snd palm fOr the hands that had 80
mysiariousiy tbrDitled her fair neck
and snnirhad from her breast tho great
borrowed jewel han been no gentle
onss
Ia an Instant the ballroom was Ia n
upfoar, Hnd a frightened nunhy hnu
run NJ tho nrsI Wild report there had
been n jewel robbery ~ the front door.
way and had blown thrae long, fright
qusysrina blasts upon a polite whiallu.
outsids the Randolph mansion Luke
I"'ull was suuttiins through the dark
nnss with ths diamond from the nky.
idilnn on tho outside aud waiting for
hls mistress, iiapnr, the gypsy queen,
and ilsthar, Luke had glanced through
thu low window only 10 have his case
fall upon the blnsing jewel
Never oversorupuluus lie always Ia.
msInbarsd thu whispered gypsy gossip
that Matt Harding, the dead husband
~ Hsssr had made nis fortune, now
possessed by iiaAar. by some bold coup,
Aud hsra, thought the desperate
Luke, WAS his chance Tor fortune, lie
Was quick 81 follow Out the svil i'm.
pulse
lie gained the street with the Wild
hsa 70 hids ths diamond IN the first
safs nook or ranny, anu then TO return
a. quickly ~ no could 10 bear the
brunt OF suspicion and ~ search,
insiAs the ballroom all was eonru
sion aud alarm, Women screamed aud
fulnisd. aud the msn. forvmost among
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-11-11

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Art5-r. for {. a14ti1n - having lon,
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gambling estzol--11--t Arthur had
geoe-0cs-y given Lin u1os, all O, tho
resi q t. proofs =. = tAe pawniny
Il tie diamond frou IT, sky
In-1 tie trznps striped Arthur and
pro'cs-c~t grzTeiy 70 shoot craps tor
lis ciOth=z- They were won by The
more fortunate Mr.. strap McGe@. NOR
fortunate II The fact that the dice were
IL and be knew how O. manipulate
them Bruised and battered = be WAS
Arthur could %; restraiu q iaugh AZ
the ludicrors aspect fhe tramp leader
presented II The dirty and dlsheyeled
evening clothes. with Arthurs broken
SIX hat percAed J4ululy o. lis head.
The freight STOPPED ~ q water tank.
and the three tramps Withdrew. With
many cscstic remarks ~ o. ring. Ar.
thur freed himself from bis b1nds and
with some repugnance lonned the
frowsy garments Of the tramp Then
BE. too. spraug from the freight car
and made through Il coruceid across
the country He rejected with a
smile. that the actions Of the tramp
would be bis salvation He was right
IN this. for shortly afterward Mr. Strap
McGee. despite his indignant protests
and explanations. was seized by rail.
road detectives and held on 4 tele-
graphic description OF his attire as Ar
thur Stanley. wanted for murder.
At sunset good looking youns
tramp stopped in the door ward Of
Alex Smiths farm and asked Tor work
The farmer put him 10 chopplng wood
for his supper. and 50 well did b,
acQuit himself and 30 soon did be gsir
the good graces OF the farmers wifi,
and the farmers little baby girl tina
despite the rags OF bis attire Johi
Poweli-for such was the name Arthu
gave-wus greeted on the barn noo
In the morning. after n restful night Il
the haymow. with a prefer OF stead.
employment
That same night by the wsyside
Quabba and his external revenue col
lector. the monkey Clarence. campe'
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-11-11

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Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-11-11

INTO the open doorway, but he misses
his hold and would hive fallen under
the wheels but that two strong ana dir.
~ hands seize him by the shoulder and
another pair ns dirty and M strong
grasp him also. ana he IL hauled into
the car like grain sack 10 find him
self snre on his side and looking IN
into the countennnccs OF three grin
ming. grimy knights of the rond.
you had close shave or II. bo"
wheezes the whisky voice OF the first
tramp To seize him. But gotcher.
Stevel"
TITS n plant. Strap" cautions "A little
rat faced hobo who has skulked In the
back OF the car and has given no
hand In hauling Arthur from the laws
OF death.
"Whntcher mean pnnt?" asks the
one addressed ns Strap
Cant you seer It's railroad bull. Z"
rctorts the rnt faced tramp would
any gay cat be wsarin' the soup and
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-11-11


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Vim reckless haste he threw him
sslf under ffelrbt csF af6 drew him
ssif ui,f,n me Lgakr beafn
His head sobs1 fnyn the mise and
The feantif,n III al he had ,.assod
through ~ the cfO~ded bDur ~ Mr.
h"nnDlphs ball Lyery bDDe IN his
N''t h'hFo ~ he he'd " the jDlfinY.
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bruised fr"m the position ~ 1hioh he
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me KrlnoinH wheels - dreadful i'm
p'Iss h'lleh upon Afthur ~ len ~ his
r""iHlnk Hfh"p ana end the nov ~
fnl irVrf ~ his HE beneath The clnnk
mK wheels mat ground nnd gronned
Denehih nm.
what was he after all but u living
fnlsehood ana cbchti %Ot Stanley
81 hhnley bnil, spending with free
hand ~ became a reckless gentleman
p", +" sypSy ihi"sior' " chcnt. vast
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g''i'e from Justice nnd bankrupt be
n"Ved ny All VINO ma known him ~
po inc murderer " Kind nnd gentle
p , m"n VINO ma never harmed him.
p", on 'Ie contrary hhd been his friend
una una been one or the agencies by
""'ch NO. hedge born gypsy. had
pee" re"fed u, n mansion under high
h"inc never MS.
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The sun., 1915-07-25
FIRST RULE DECISION
ON ROYAL AUCTION
Committee Penalties PLAYER
for Correction From "NO
Bid" to "No Trump"
MORE on EXCEPTIONS

THE srN takes pleasure in giving ,o
its readers the first decision OF the card
committee of The Whist Club which has
been made since the new laws went
INTO effect. As several persons submit, =
ted practically the same question III.
simplest form of 1t Is here given
Y deals and SAYS: NO bid" The sec.
ond player. A. says: "No bid meal
no trump" The several questions sub
mltted in connection with this situa-
ton are az follows.
IL this to lie considered a. simply a
slip of the tongue and the correction TO
no trump allowed 10 stand as the
players decla ton OF must he abide
by his nrst declaration OF no bid. and
II SO is there any penalty lyinv ngaius.
him for sivlns the Information that is
conveyed by his correction
The committee have decided that the
correction from no bid to no trump ia
a declaration made when any bid is
prohibited. and that the penalty is tina.
IT bars both the player In error and his
partner from any further bidding on
that hand whether the bid be allowed
TO stand or not and even II the op-
ponent. double or make a declaration OF
their own.
This decision rests upon two laws
Number 50 SAYS that pass or doub.
cannot b. altered under any circun,-
stances. SO that a slip of the tongue
is no excuse. AZ A passed BY saying
mo bid" he cannot alter that declara-
tion. ButN as he did alter It he Is
liable to the penarles set forth in
law so. section "a"
the law states that IL a PLAYER makes
any declaration during the period In
whicn he is prohibited from bidding
either adversary may decide whether or
no, the bid 80 made shall stand. and
na,,ber tho player In error nor his
mariner may further participate I'm tn,
bidding even n their opponents double
or declare
I, may he noted that this section "a
NJ law so refers TO laws 80 and s5.
and those who have copies OF the laws
should make a marginal reference to
loo, =, aiso
The sun., 1915-07-25

lieutenant with a letter OF conrrs,u.
ton and praise for the captain OF n,
Portsmouth. The British Officers me-.
ent were very much chasrned
But the Portmouth had a stIl! NOR,
spectacular service to perform ~.
helped to set king firmly upon t..
throne. On December IL, 1872. k...n.
hameha V. died unmarried. ana ~.
ended the line Of kamehamehas ,b,,
had ruled the Hawaiian Islands si,o.
1883. In January. 1873. one WIlNamc r.
Lunalilo was crowned 'ling and d.
after a brief reign Of 4 little oyer
year On February ~. 1875. Dava
kalakaua was elected King. bu, rsv'
I0lutionary party favored Queen FINN,
and was opposed to Kalakaus's ~.
gency.
II was then that the Captain NJ ~,
Portsmouth and the commander q,
another American naval vessel press,,
notified the authorities that thev so,A
land SAILORS and marines to preser,s
order IN case of need. and the shin,
were warped about so that their broad
sides could sweep the approaches -
the palace. This display Of sumner
for kalakaua sufficed. He was dr,
crowned and the revolutionary par,y
subsided.
King Kalakaua thereafter haj III.
friendliest feeling for the United stair,
and looked upon this country as spon.
so. for his regency. In way thers.
fore the old Portsmouth was ins,rr.
mental In binding the United S,a,os
and the Island Kingdom 10y closer tics
and thus made it both logical and essv
for Hawaii to come into tho Union
After many years of useful seryc.
Of varied character in the Uni,ad
States navy the Portsmouth VA.
turned over to the New Jersey Nay,,
Militia In January. 1895. Later IN.
old sloop-of-war was ass. .gned ,o IN.
United states Marine Hospital s.r,Ics
for quarantine duty. The ravagcs ,,
time made her no longer At for even
this field Of usefulness. and afta- being
tied up for many months at the nayy
yard. Norfolk, she was condemned ana
ordered to be sold. though the old ,ea
dogs OF the navy were reluctant 10 a..
her 20.
The sun., 1915-07-25

enemy had fed. That cost Commodore
Armstrong three men killed and nine
seriously wounded. In addition the
squadron lost nine killed and twenty
two wounded. The Chinese admitted
a loss of 500
In the civil war the Portsmouth took
part in the operations upon the Mis-
sissippi directed against Forts Jack
son and St Philip. In 1872 she re-
fitted at the navy yard. brooklyn. for a
long cruise and was ordered to the
Pacific on surveying duty. On this
cruise the Portsmouth was COM
manded by Commander Joseph s.
Skerrett. a typical navigator of the old
school Of sailor officers. His main de-
light was seamanship. and the Ports
mouth was just the sort OF craft that
his professional heart desired.
ON March iG. 1873 the Portsmouth
rea ched Talcahuano. Chile, having
been eighty-three days and eight
, hours at sea after leaving the harbor
of New York. In going around Cape
Horn she experienced heavy gales. At
that season the weather in the neigh
borhood Of Cape Horn was bitterly
cold. Many of the men suffered from
frostbite and exhaustion. There was
only one fire that could he kept going,
and that was in the galley. where all
of the cooking was done.
To keep the men on watch from suf-
fering from TIE cold. and to make life
bearable between decks, bricks were
heated hot or solid shot were put In
the fire and then placed about in buck
cts of sand II was a battle night and
day for four weeks. only unfia gging
watchfulness and the finest sort OF
handling saved the old sloop OF war
from disaster. All hands were well
nigh worn out when the anchorage
was reached at Talcahuano.
Reaching Honolulu toward the end
of May. 1873. the Portsmouth made
that port her headquarters for more
than year while engaged in impor-
tant surveying work. During this time
the sloop of war won reputation for
her sailing qualities and ii was not
long before her commander was in
vited to try conclusions with the skip
per OF British naval craft OF the
same order.
the opportunity came when both
ships were bound back to Honolulu
after brief cruise. TIE friendly con-
ties, was on the moment the two ships
sighted each other. The circumstances
had more than one historical prece-
dent for our sailor officers had many
times outstripped their British rivals
in the past in this matter OF seaman
ship.
The harbor of Honolulu is a difficult
one to enter because of currents and
coral reefs. The British commander
played for sea room. Both ships had
every stitch Of canvas set To catch the
fun force Of the light breeze.
As the coast was nea.ed the wind
fell and the English ship was held off
from the shore. Not so the Ports
mouth. Her captain jockeyed his ves-
sci like yacht and ran in toward the
coast where fitful catspaws darkened
the waters surface. Cunningly he
caught each one II these helpful puffs
OF wind. and the wonderful old sloop
Of war answered TO each impulse. Tn
der full sail she gl!ded into port while
her competitor rolled in the calm miles
seward
So beautifully was the ship brought I
to anchor and her canvas furled that
Russian Admiral, then present. could
not refrain from expressing his ad-
miration, and accordingly sent his flag
The sun., 1915-07-25

z dealt and bid a heart. which held
the contract. A led the ten OF dia-
monds and z won the trick with the
queen.
AT this stage. II looks as IL there were
a fair chance to make the spade suit
by leading the ten and taking the finesse.
especially as there Is an outside ace in
the dummy for reentry, so leads three
rounds of trumps, hoping they will drop.
h won the third round and returned
the diamond. u won the trick with the
ace and started the spade suit, the
iinesse Of the ten going to BIS ace.
Another diamond from allowed 10
make two tricks In that suit. after which
ne came through the clubs with the Jack.
Dummy passed the first round. won
the next with the ace and led the suit
again so that r. might trump himself
into the lead for the second fnesse in
spades. This held but II gained nothing,
as the queen OF trumps made trick
and held II down to the odd and his
contract
The spade suit IL not worth playing
for in this hand. as il gives no ad-
vantageous discards unless II can be set
UP before the adversaries get In "a
make their diamonds and clubs. Even
then. the suit must lie right and II the
queen of spades is on the wrong side,
the whole hand goes TO pieces, ana
may be set for so or 90 points.
The correct play of the hand and all
that present similar doubt as to the
value OF plain suit, is 70 let the trumr~'
alone and play to separate them on the
short suits OF either hand
If II had returned the ace OF diamonds
at once, after winning the first trick
with the queen discdrdlng a Glib from
dummy, and had then led third dia-
mond for dummy to run, the drop would
have disclosed four diamonds originally
in rs hand. and afte. dummy had
trumped the diamond. two rounds OF
clubs, ace hrst. would nave cleared rs
hand of that suit.
Now II Is up to to guess what to do
next. His hest defence is probably the
queen or Jack OF trumps, to cover dunn
my's ten, and also TO stop the rum on
diamond. u would win the trick. and Il
would then be time for him to turn his
attention to the spade suit BY passing
up the ten, Il would he forced to give un
the ace. Now \ makes "A diamond and
returns a club, which Il trumps.
The iinesse OF the Jack of spades al
lows Y to play the king on the thiri
round, When y trumps he is over
trumped, but makes the Jack of trumps
at the end This line of play would have
given u three by cards. or two tricks
more than he actually made when he lei
trulnps prematureiy,
Suits that do not look good for much
when dummy goes down sometimes de-
yelop quite Unexpectedly and are thci
worth defending by getting the trump-
out of their way. Here is case tina;
came up in a duplicate game last win
ter
The sun., 1915-07-25
GOLD MINE IN CLAY ROAD.
Boy Dus II Ont with ~. Team
Of Mules.

REHoRoTH BEACH, Del july e
Benjamin Joseph. son OF STATE Ssn,,o,
Harland NJ. Joseph OF MidNa,. does %,
have to 60 to Alaska TO get eod Va
has found " on the clay roads ,h,,
run through Midway into Eeho5o,n
Beach and which at this time n. r.
year are travelled ny many au,.no
biles. Young Joseph waits unit. hun
derstorm is over. bitches up par o.
mules and awaits Developments
The first automobile that CONF, a.o-s
generally strikes the clay and sk.I. ov.
into the ditch. The owner or tas ma,
chine gets out. Both wheels are buried
In mud Then Joseph appesrs The
owner OF the automobile sm.e as 10
sees the boy and the mule. Joseph
smiles as he sees the automobile and u
few minutes both smile toge;ne. to-
the machine Is back on the road and
the owner has slipped Joseph some
clay gold
Young Joseph makes no chaits bur
1t is a poor sport that doesn'' sip h m
several dollars. In one dal. a''s =,
particularly heavy rain. Joseph cleaned
up about 500. while almost any hta'r
rain Is worth from $40 20 81.
The sun., 1915-07-25
PASSING OF THE US.
SHIP PORTSMOUTH
Picturesque Old Sloop Of Wal
at Last Ends Her Days in
the Scrap Heap.
HER HONORABLE CAREER

Another picturesque craft of the old
navy is to he scrapped. For small
sum the Navy Department recently
sold the sloop-of-war Portsmouth to II
shipbreaker, and shortly she will he
cut up for fire wood and her timbers
split for the long copper bolts which
for decades held her oaken body
together.
The history Of this ship OF bygone
days is of especial interest now that
California is celebrating the opening
Of the Panama Canal. Indeed, there IL
connection between the past of the
Portsmouth and California's presence
in the Union
The Portsmouth was the first naval
vessel to unfurl the American flag at
the Golden Gate. Had she not arrived
when she did II Is possible that "A por-
ton at least of California would have
been claimed by the British. However.
Commodore Sloat was quicker than
his English rival, and in July. 1876.
her commander. Captain John Il.
Montgomery, tork possession Of lerba
Buena. now san Francisco. and there
II was in recognition of this act that
the Chamber Of Commerce of San
Francisco asked Congress three years
ago to ft the old ship for sea and TO
turn her over to the State of Cali
forna for a permanent exhibit after
she should head the national fleet in
its tr!umphal parade through the
Panama Canal en- route TO the exposl-
tion. Congress failed to grant the re-
quest and now the Portsmouth is
doomed to speedy demolition.
The Portsmouth was built at the
navy yard. kittery. Me. in 1894. and
rated az a first class sloop of twenty
guns. While known as a twenty gun
ship she actually carried twenty-five
guns In her prime: four inch and
eighteen 81 Founders. She was 1875
feet long and was Of a little over 1000
tons. Her crew numbered 2lO, and
with $4,000 gallons OF water aboard
and a fun supply of provisions she
was able to keep the seas for the bet
ter part Of six months. This inde-
pendence Of ports of call on the part
Of that old sailing craft is in notable
contrast to the dependence OF modern
dreadnoughts upon fairly frequent re-
plenishmcnt # fuel and food sup
plies
Some idea Of the sailing qualities Of
the Portsmouth can he gathered from
the records in the Navy Department.
When running free with a good wind
she logged fourteen knots an hour.
and when trimmed on the wind she
could he counted upon to make llia
knots. In all Of the essentials Of
sailing. steering. working into the
wind. scudiing or lying to. the Ports
mouth won the reputation OF hcing en-