The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-09-24
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With Arthur Stanley that was. who
is John Powell now. how fares 1t!
How have his fortunes, fortunes to be
founded on stolen means. prospered?
Not well
Arthur has fallen into the hands OF
oil sharks and has invested the outlaw
plumber in the Good Hope wells. The
Good Hope wells have been q Joke OF
these oil fields. But who Ia to warn
guileless young investor?
John Powell has played with high
stakes In crooked game and has lost.
His men who laughed ut him behind
his back for his simplicity now feel
for him. Jack Wilson, his foreman.
seeks his despairing young employer
and finds him in the shanty that Is
the office Of the Good Hope wells.
II am sorry, boss,' says Jack, but
I'll tell you something. There Is oil
in the Good Hope. We've struck every
Indication. Ii you only had money to
drill deeper the oil is there. That mon
ey you sent east would save your
ITS too late now, Jack; that money
saved something more to me than these
wells"
I'm from Pennsylvania" says VIII
son. II believe il we torpedoed the
big well we'd start the oil. | know 1t
ruins well If the oil doesn't start,
and already the shysters are coming to
take the property away from you be-
| cause we didn't strike oil. and the last
| payment Is due. So let's do something
| desperate. boss; let's torpedo the big
well!'
John Powell is desperate, and ne
! agrees The man of law representing
| the unpaid owners hears of the plal
and arrives with an injunction.
{. But the desperate John Powell de
ies law, as when he was known az
Arthur Stanley he defied all order. The
lawyer lis held back waving the "scral
of paper, the injunction. The nitro
4 glycerin charged torpedo is lowered t
the bottom Of the well, the heavy irol
detonator is dropped and all run TO
| "A
and the derrick rocks. Then arises
geyser of mud and a spuming fountain
of roaring oil and gas!
The big Good Hope well has 'com
i'm gusher! John Powell is a mi
lionare!
No such gusher has ever been know
in those fields, as the long dry and Ion
despised Good Hope becomes No o
millionaire gets rich SO quickly as poE
ular young John Powell.
His associate, Jack Wilson wearin
impressively his first dress suit, give
him 1.-THE SWEETEST banquet with cal
aret trimmings" that Los Angeles leat
ing restaurant has ever known.
Vivian Marston dimes with an eide
ly admirer at this same restaurant tt
night of the banquet
John Powelps associates toast an
praise him for the pluck and resol
ton that snatched victory from defea
and ever Vivian's dark eyes are on tt
dashing and handsome feted oil ma
' nate Her elderly admirer testify e
dures the pangs Of jealousy.
But 1t is not love or sudden infatu
. ton that draws the dark eyes Of Vivii
Marston to the young millionaire at Il
head Of the festal board. Where HI
she seen this lauded young favorite
Q fortune before?
q John Powell's secretary enters dc
! erentially with telegram. 1t h
Is come to the offices of the Good Ho
T OH company, and the secretary. thin
II ing it important, brings it to the fea'
Arthur opens 1t and reads:
le Esther Harding departed parts unknov
ID Hagar Harding better. Bought in Stanl
=. hall for $4,000 you sent Will keep
r erythingfquiet. BLAKE
10 Esther departed for parts unknoN
r. Arthur brushes the telegram in
T. nervous grasp Mechanically he het
10 the friends that honor John Pow
chant jovially, For he's jolly. sc
n fellow" AS one daZed he rises a
" departs with his happy. felicitating