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The Holly chieftain., 1915-12-03
Live Poultry.
Eggs.

Eggs, graded No. l net, F.
o. B. Denver ..........
Eggs, graded No. 2 net, F.
o. B. Denver
Eggs, case count, misc,
cases less commission. :!
Eggs, April storage, net f.
o. B. Denver ...........
The Holly chieftain., 1915-12-03
ParadoxicaI,

rs Smith running for Officer"
"Yes, and with all he stands for, it.
will be a walkover."
The Holly chieftain., 1915-12-03
Flour

Flour.
Selling Prices.
Standard Colorado, net .$2.55
The Holly chieftain., 1915-12-03
Hogs.

Good hogs ................ .6.30@6.5t
The Holly chieftain., 1915-12-03

6.5O
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-17
CHAPTER XVII.
The Shot in the Hills.

At camp they met a party, headed
by the foreman, just starting out in
search of them. Their absence had
been discovered only when Daily, COM
ing in from the north, where his work
had been laid out, had asked for San.
dry.
AT sight of him the three women
standing together at the foot-log gave
evidence, each in her way, of those
emotions which the suspicion of his
fate had stirred.
On Mas face was an unbounded
pride that he had come through, a
a of parts, a~bundantly able to care
for himself among a harder crew. On
Miss Ordway's there lay a vast relief,
while Siletz played with the collar of
her blue shirt with trembling fingers
and moistened her dry lips.
Sandry turned and looked up at the
darkened east with a profound joy. He
swept his eyes north to where the red
heaven fiared and staggered to his
office.
"Three hours, ma" he croaked in a
voice of warning, only three hours
sleep for all of US. If you give us
longer I'll forgive you"
1t was true, as Collins said, that
they had only begun to fight.
Through the hours, days, nights that
followed the saving of the East Belt
they took no note of time. Up along
the blackened, devastated valley the
soldiers moved their camp. Ma Daily
shut the cook-shack and suborned a
wagon to haul her big range up and
deposit it alongside the camp stoves
of Company H, where she dispensed
coffee to her men and all others with
impartial zeal. Miss Ordway, her skirts
tucked up from the contamination of
the burned earth which ose in hot,
black puffs at every moving foot. was
compelled to help if she would hold that
espionage over Siletz from which she
hoped to realize her ambition. A bit
ter hatred sharpened her blue eyes
upon the girl, and she ached to seize
her and tear out of her blouse that
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-17

the dun-smoke heavens and bay with
a long-drawn, silver note that was the
very acme of melancholy.
And then came a dawn when no one
came in for breakfast, when the sun,
coming over the ridge to the east,
was not visible. Only a pale light
turned the heavy canopy to Swallowed
pearl. The three women waited in that
silence which aver attends the walters
for men who face danger. They we're
used to the silence, for there was nc
accord between them. Ma Daily had
long ago shut this bird o. tn earth"
out of her good heart and Siletz hated
her with the fury Of the woman whose
mate is threatened.
At last a solitary Indian came down
the valley, running, his mouth full OF
excitement and dolorcus prediction.
The whole Of the Siletz would go. 1t
was the wrath of the Great Spirit
turned loose upon a wicked world. II
was the judgment. There was nothing
like it. He fell into jargon and re.
verified to the ancient gods, and Siletz
checked him sternly.
What do you mean, Quanna?" she
said, have you forgotten the Preacher
and the Bible? There is only one God
and he holds us in the hollow of his
hand. 1t is not the destruction of the
world. 1t will stop. What more has
happened, and where is Sandry of the
camp?"
Everything had happened. The
whole country was afire. Not only a
ridge or two, a valley in between, as
it had been here, a day, two days back.
but ridge after ridge, valley after val
ley-the world, the earth, the heavens.
Sandry vas somewhere up behind the
Hog Back.
For a moment the girl looked out
across the slough, lying like a dirty
ribbon between its gray and wilted
banks. Then she turned troubled eyes
to the general.
Mother" she said, II know it now
There's danger to Sandry, and I'm go
ing"
Child, you're wrong this time. San
dry's a man. Well as you know tn
hills l can't let you go. l forbid it"
They faced each other a moment
while Siletz tossed back her braids
and frightened her belt.
Pm going" she said quietly. Ma
Daily, who had raised her, said no
more; but as she turned to the stove
aimlessly-as was her wont in every
time Of trial, there was a deeper line
about her tremulous old mouth.
Swift as the wind the girl ran down
the valley toward the deserted camp.
Miss Ordway watched her and against
her will, drawn by some subtle excite
ment, some urging power, she, too.
gathered her skirts and began to run
across the putting ashes. At the lean
to she came upon the other Just lead
ing out Black Bolt, a shining beauty.
eager for the turf.
I'm going too" nanted Penny.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-17
CHAPTER XVI.
The Spirit of the East.


Company H, under Captain Donald.
son, they trotted swiftly up with the
,quickstep of hard-trained infantry
and stood in column of tours while
the officers sought the head of at.
fairs. Daily promptly sent for the
young forest. ranger, and in less than
it takes in the telling these two keen
witted W~esterners, the woodsman
and the soldier, were ready TO Crap
pie with the enemy. Light-marching
kits were dumped upon the ground
and the hard-muscled men took to
the hills and the timber under quick,
decisive orders. Two hours later
wagons arrived with commissary sup
plies and the smoky, blackened val
ley took on a military air.
1t was a Titan struggle, and 1t vas
indicative of the force that has n
quered nature-the human atoms toll
ing in s~emidarkness beneath the
threatening forest. choked by the
smoke, fiayed by the almost unbear-
able heat, menaced by the flames that
at n moment might sweep here or
there among the rocks and declivities
of the uneven hills and cut off escape.
That was the great danger they
guarded against-the possibility OF
getting hemmed in. Guards were de-
tailed to watch the vanguards of the
foe, to note the speed Of the flames,
the lie of the timber, the lines that
were likely to go fastest, following the
different growths, but in the mysteri-
Gus dusk and the silence of vast
mingled sounds they were impotent
and each man had to take care of him.
self.
The mighty boom of falling patri-
archs of the forest, hoary with a thou
sand years of age. crashing through
o~bstructing branches. shook the earth
each moment. With each suck 80
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packet of proofs. She was angered
al herself that all her c%leverness had
failed to recover them before this.
So the hours passed with smoke and
heat and a sun like a copper shield.
Men came and went in relays, sleeping
upon the ground for short shifts. rig
idly apportioned and observed. The
flood of flame, runner after an arrant
wind, had piled its forces in leaping
pillows in among the northern hills. 1t
seemed a thing of irresistible might,
but the toilworn men hung to its flank
with a logged persistence, ~emboldened
and encouraged by the success on the
east ridge.
Sandry, limping painfully, and bag
gard as a ghost, stuck with the an
guard despite Mas commands and
Daily's warnings. At each fresh sight
of his face the girl Siletz was wrung
with anguish. It seemed as If he could
bear no more and yet the spirit in him
drove him on.
Once she ventured a timid protest.
What is the timber worth If you
die?" she asked plaintively, and San
dry, still somewhat of a boy, parted
the yearning question.
who would carer" he laughed
wryly, would you, Little Squaw?"
The girl did not answer, but as she
turned away the ready mist sprang to
her eyes and he reached a contrite
hand to her shoulder.
Forgive me! l know you would"
1t seemed to Siletz as the horror
swept north and the men were lost
for hours In the dim Businesses, that
something was about to happen.
She felt. a precedence of disaster
which Coosnah shared, and they two
stood apart for long spaces Of time,
silent, listening, the muscles of each
drawn taut. From time to time the
great mongrel would squat upon his
launches. lift his heavy muzzle toward
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-17

against their will by its compelling
power.
I'm Johnny Eastern. all right. but
I'm going to stayl Who'll stay with
me?"
Out of the dense ~ohscurity came Col
Inns, a huge, fantastic figure, and stood
beside him without a word. In the ten
sion of the time Sandry reached out
a hand and gripped the giants shoul-
der.
"A dozen raen and we've wcnl" he
cried.
He saw the hating shapes turn,
gather another and another, retrace
their steps and spring back into the
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-17

CHAPTER I-Siletz of Daily's lumber
camp watches a Granger mishandle his
ho.rse in climbing the ridge and directs
him to the camp.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-17

CHAPTER IV-Sandry wisely decides to
leave immediate supervision in the hands
of Daily and writes to his father that
ne intends to get a handful of the wealth
In the uncut timber of the region.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-17

CHAPTER III-Sandry makes acquaInt-
Ance with the camp and the work he has
come from the East to superintend and
make successful
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-17

CHAPTER II-Walter Sandry introduces
himself to job Daily, foreman. as the
Dilingworth Lumber Co.. or most of It,"
The Washington herald., 1915-09-01
More German Insincerity.

Twelve days have elapsed since German sub
marine sank the Arabic, killing two Americans
and it is full week since the German Ambassa-
dor to the United States sent dispatch to the
State Department asking that this government
suspend judgment and action until Germanys YER
sion of the destruction of the Arabic should be
received in Washington. This was followed by
various newspaper announcements to the effect
that Berlin would make disavowal, a pledge to
safeguard the lives of Americans in future or
would even announce the abandonment of the
savage method of naval warfare that provoked
this nation to the verge of severing friendly re-
lations with the guilty one. But no official an
nouncement has from Berlin as to Ger
many's intentions, and no excuse for so long and
seemingly unnecessary delay
Reliable evidence is at hand quite sufficient to
convince our government and people that the cir
cumstances in which the Arabic was DESTROYED
made that act of deliberate hostility against
the United States; and Germany must surely be
as completely advised as we are. Then why has
not Berlin before now confirmed the implied
promise of its Ambassador and sent to Washing
ton the message it asked to await? Clearly be-
cause German diplomacy, in its negotiations with
the United States has once resortcd to trick
cry and evasion Berlin is amused because once
dSdiu II ddS SuCccedcQ IN lffnftlng US to WORDS
when we meant action.
Germany may in the near future announce that
her naval warfare will be conducted henceforth in
a manner to conform with the demands we have
made and reiterated since the Lusitania was de-
stroyed with us Americans nearly four months
ago; but it will not be because of our demands.
our warning against the unfriendly act or our
threatened action in ahe case Of the Arabic
which she has succeeded in having dcferred-buti
because the time has arrived when il suits her
own convenience Completely outunatched by
American diplomacy. Germany has taken adyant-
age of our hesitaney to act when justice, clearly
established demanded Il. in further effort to
gain her own ends. at least save her face. Had
Germany been sincere in representations that pro-
duced delay in The Arabic case. she could before
this have given the United States government COM
pietr satisfsesion. That this has not been done
jnssihss The conviction that berlin Il now en-.
Essrd N pfepssina propossls that arc caleslsssl
. they iaa 70 fully mees this sossssmeu,'s sp-
prevail 10 esin further delay. In The evsee -
~ ~e demand !. eoses6sd there will 9 - -.
position er ihls aide - ee>el toeou>o ~ crno1
''pns ~ 81 sseIlv eooon11lpoa h eesocon . ~
nel1eone4 ~ moelv u11 1nc1m O. n onar
The Washington herald., 1915-09-01
NO DEAL WITH CARRANzA.
Denial OF Negotiations Bctweel
First Chief and German Agents.

r irst SuhSA unu ucTmum AEemtSs
Editor of the Washington Herald: To-
days issue of your valued newspaper
publishes what purports to be an inter-
view with an American citizen lately re-
turned from Mexico City, In which the
allegation is made that the agents of the
German propaganda looking to the dis
ruption of friendly relations between the
United States government and the gov
ernment of Mexico have been active in
the capital of the republic. 1t asserts
that the promoters of pro-German senti-
ment have dealt with supporters of the
constitutionalist government Of Mexico.
with view to arraying the heads of our
government against the government and
the policy of the United States. This
assertion is unqualifiedly false. The gov
ernment of which Venustiano Carranza
Is first chief has at no time dealt either
directly or Indirectly, officially or unofii-
cially with any diplomatic representa-
tives Of the German empire. or any dele
gates of the German-American propa-
ganda in the United States, or with any
Germans resident of the republic of Mex
ico
I trust that you viii give this denial
equivalent publicity to that accorded the
article of today.
With high appreciation of the value of
The Washington Herald as a medium for
the dissemination of accurate news, I beg
to remain, very sincerely.
August 81, 1915. E. ARREDONDO.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-01

THE primary object Of Washington's Q
visit to the country over the noun
tains was to procure good lands for
htmself and for his old comrades who had
made him their agent and adviser In that
matter. but his statesman's eye apprised
him OF the full meaning of the new mi
grafton now afoot along the western bor-
der.
For one thing. he saw now serious a
situation 1t might prove should this body
OF settlers. sure to grow greater and more
masterful from year to year. continue
for very long to look back upon almost
tmpenetrable mountains piled between
them and the eastern ports and high
waya
Their natural outlet, when once the
mountains were well behind them, would
be the Mississippi. their natural high
ways the streams which ran to the Gulf.
Ii was possible they might see their chief
advantage in a connection with the Span
tards at New Orleans rather than with
the well-nigh inaccessible eastern settle
-ments on the Atlantic seaboard-or even
with the English again by the highway
Of the lakes and the st. Lawrence.
The western settlers" he declared.
stand as it were upon a pivot. The
touch of a feather would turn them any
way"
He returned home to push again with
renewed vigor the project which for now
twenty years he had had at heart. and
which had in these new days Of inde-
pendence. as 1t seemed to him. become a
sheer political necessity. the opening of
the upper reaches of the Potomac to nav
igation. In order that the East might
there at any rate be linked with the
West by joining the waters of the Po-
tomac with the streams which ran down
into the Ohio.
This had been part Of the plans of the
old Ohio Company. of which the WASH
ingtons and Fairfaxes had been men,
bers The revolution had interrupted its
The Washington herald., 1915-09-01

Do those economists who profess to be deeply
concerned about the injury commence is suf-
fering as result of the allies blockade and who
yet persistently urge embargo on large class
of our exports really imagine that they are de-
ceiving the people as to their motives?
The Washington herald., 1915-09-01

With Col Robert NJ Thompson advocating
she immediate appropriation OF ssoo,cooooo for
. naval increase alone. and the organization of a
osantine army of 100000 men. il is not surpris-
iaG that Democratic leaders in Senate and House
ore already announcing their opposition TO any
<9nlsmplssed expenditure Of a sturendous sum
efe<e the nof'nAl appropriations ior army and
u1>< There s little reason 10 doubt thai sukssan-
~ rfosistnn Cor The national defense wilI he made
~ 4 neal Cesnsss hat there Il danger that she
&>1>>se <sths<'<<'s. hs making shs,t dsmsnds On.
p>1>~esnie nay sazmsnt shs errosissea end ss,n
~ y ~ sat has q shsy he'd bsss a,sss soa-
The Washington herald., 1915-09-01

The joint board Of The Brotherhood Of Enei-
neers and the Brotherhood Of Firemcn has cent
to all local bodies Of their organizations cali
which recites that the railroad brotherhoods.
wherever organiscd. ere beginning to realize that
all the orders mnss work together IN their struggle
viii shs sai!rcse' @ g 4sia shss:sr hssF. hiskss
Isa's e time ior tAese powerful and inlolllGent
unions 70 roalI1s shat 4 Il not the fni1roa6a bit
the ln1crseo>e Ceranefee end he Sse@e n6lIsooi
49, IS; s ssss: Ss;:s sss - sys :issas sss5 e E 8
re- va1e4 2e1 ~ s<e ss'1e9 ysEsnlI1s1 =
The Washington herald., 1915-09-01

plans: there was now added reason for
renewing them.
In the old days .he lands about the
Ohio had been deemed part Of Virginia's
domain.
Almost every s.ate upon the seaboard
had had at the hi.st grant from the
crown which read ai' IL 1t had meant to
set no boundaries at The west at all ex-
cept the boundaries of the continent IT.
self; and yirginia's grant was the Oldest
of them all.
Virginia claimed practically all the
western country which lay north Of her
own southern line, extended under the
terms Of her charter of 1909. which de-
fined her territory as running from her
boundaries at the seacoast "up into the
land throughout from sea to sea. west
and northwest"
But the other colonies as they were
formed had also received their charters
which had straight westward outlook.
practically without bound or limit this
side of the Pacific: and each laid conf
dent claim to its own long western strip
OF the continent.
1t was in part to quiet these conflicting
claims. in part to give herself. who had
no grant at all at the west, some parity
with her partners In the Confederation.
that Maryland had insisted. as a condl-
tion precedent to her acceptance Of the
articles. that all the western territory be
ceded to the Confederation itself. as Q
joint and common property to be held for
the use and benefit of all.
New York, accordingly, had ceded her
claims In 17S1: and Virginia so much of
hers as lay north of the Ohio, in l7S3
The other States were virtually pledged
to follow their example.
The West was already practically COM
mon property. Whatever should be done
to bind 1t to the East would bring 90 |
much nearer the promise dawn of q |
life.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-01
HISTORY BUILDERS.
The Signing of the Kansas-Nebraska

Written expressly for The Washington Herald)
By DIR. e. J. EDWARDS.
"One of my most highly appreciated
friendships was established years ago
with George W, Morrison, who was a
distinguished lawyer of Manchester. and
very close personal friend of Franklin
Pierce. Morrison was associated with
Pierce in some important law cases and
after Pierce became President of the
United States Morrison went to Washing
ton as his private secretary" With these
words Judge William FOLSOM, leading
citizen Of Henniker. n. H, began a mar
ration to me of the most trying moment
of Pierce's life In the White House at
Washington.
George Morrison told me the anecdote
which I am now about to relate to you.
There could be no better authority. since
Morrison was an eyewitness of that dra-
matte and exciting night in the Cabinet
room at the White House when Presi-
dent Pierce, after long deliberation. sign
ed the now historic Kansss-Nebraska
bill
"Of course all students of american
history know that the Kansas. Nebraska
bill represented the compromise of which
Stephen A. Douglas was the originator.
II repealed the Missouri Compromise Of
1890. which admitted Missouri as slave
State and at the same time Maine as a
free State. Its principal feature was the
giving of authority to those who lived in
the Territories-Kansas and Nebraska
being then great Territories-to decide for
themselves whether slavery be permitted
or not It was the issue upon which, six
years later, Lincoln and Douglas were
opposition candidates for the Presidency.
''Mr. Morrison said to me that Presi-
dent Pierce called the Cabinet together
one evening after Congress had passed
the Kansas-Nebraska bill Pierce. him
self, Morrison said, was disposed to
doubt the expediency of the measure,
but his mind was open. He had In his
Cabinet such men as Gov. Marcy. then
Secretary of State, and Jefferson Davis,
who was Secretary of War. His Cabinet
was a very strong one. Pierce was so
intensely concerned about the measure
that he paced back and forth in the
Cabinet room, being, in fact. on his
feet almost all of the time when the
matter was under discussion At last,
between and 3 o'clock in the morning.
the President said to his Cabinet, Il
want each one OF you to tell mo whether
he thinks this bill is right Every MEM
Der Of the Cabinet declared that while
the question Of expediency might be
doubtful the principle involved in the
bill was right, but they all said. Mr..
President. II you sign this bill your
political career will be ruined To this
The Washington herald., 1915-09-01

The chief of the Washington FIRE department
Ia his anhual report to the District Commissioners
recoffimends that Congress be asked to provide
for The services of Fifty additional men for the
Capitals protection. This would involve an ex-
penditure triiing in comparison with what is at
ssake, and Washington is quite able to afford it
Il Is to be hoped that the Commissioners will at
least ask for it.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-01
The Sound Of Shr,ppel.

Have you ever heard shrapnel, by any chance?
No? Well, it sounds much as anything else
like winter gale bowling through the branches Of
pine tree. 1t is moan. groan, shrek, and a
wall rolled into one, and when the explosion comes
It sounds as though some one had touched off a
stick of dynamite under grand piano. And it is
not particularly cheering to know that the ones
you hear do not harm you. and that il is the one
you do not have time to hear that sends you to the
cemetery-Scrbner's Magazine a
The Washington herald., 1915-09-01

Despite the receipt of pathetic letter from her
osband, informing her he is out of work, hungry
Iand nearly ready to commit suicide, Mrs. Elise
Cehrke has decided to continue her absolute di-
vorce proceedings" reads news item. Well,
why despite?
The Washington herald., 1915-09-01
The SehoI.r 4 Polit;c,.

As the translator of Virgil and as the governor
of Massachusetts, and Secretary of the Navy John
D. Long was instance of the scholar in poll
tics For one thing especially he deserves to be
long remembered. It was his Official order at
the beginning Of the Spanish war that turned
Dewey loose and started him on the way to Ma
Mia with instructions to destroy the cnemy's
feet. When Mr.. Long left the Cabinet the United
States navy was at the height Of its fame II had
scored At Manila and Santiago.-New York
World.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-01
MERCHANTS PLAN OPENING.
Advertising Men VIII Make Ar.
rangements at Luncheon To-day.


To further plans for the official fall
opening, September "a, the Advertising
Mems section OF the Retail Merchants
Association. will gather at a luncheon
in the Grill room of the Raleigh Hotel
today at 1s:3O o'clock.
George A. Lewis. chairman Of the
committee in charge of the luncheon. is
anticipating large attendance Of local
merchants. Several important matters
will be discussed in connection with the
fall opening.
Interest in the contest for the so Of
fered 70 the best window displays on
opening day. Is keen and the contest
should result In the most pretentious
exhibitions ever shown In store windows
here.
Ross P. Andrews. president Of the Re
tail Merchants' Association. appointed a
committee yesterday which will have
charge Of the opening. of which M. A.
Leese is chairman, and the others are
George A. DeNeele, Sidney West. Juliu.
A. Duehring and Joseph Berberich.