Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-11-05

John Powell has played with high
stakes in a crooked game and has LOST.
His men who laughed ut him behind
bis 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. If you only had money to
drill deeper the oil is there. That
ey you sent east would save you!"
cts TOO late now, Jack; that money
saved something more to me than these
wells"
Pm from Pennsylvania" says Will
son.. II believe if We torpedoed the
big we'll we'd start the oil. l know it
ruins a we'll 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 he
agrees. The man Of law representing
the unpaid owners hears Of the plan
and arrives with an injunction.
But the desperate John Powell de-
Ges law. as when he was known as
Arthur Stanley he detied all order. The
lawyer is held back waving the scrap
Of paper" the injunction. The nitro
glyccrin charged torpedo is lowered to
the bottom Of the we'll, the heavy iron
detonator is dropped, and all run for
their lives. \ throb shakes the Garth.
and the derrick rocks. Then arises a
geyscr of mud and a spumiug fountain
of roaring oil and gas!
The big Good Hope well has come
in" a gushcr! John Powell is a mil
%liOnaire! .'
No such gusller has v been known
in those fields, as the long dry and long
dcspised Good Hope becomes. No oil
millionaire gets rich SO quickly as pop
ular young John Powell.
His associate. Jack Wilson. wearing
imprcssively his first dress suit, gives
him "the SWEETEST banquet with cab
aret trimmings that Los Angeles lead
ing restaurant has aver known.
Vivian Marston dimes with an elder
~ admirer at this same restaurant the
night of the banquet.
John PowelIs associates toast and
praise him for the pluck and resolu-
tio;a that snatched victory from defeat,
and ever Vivian's dark eyes are on the
,dashing and handsome feted Oil mag
nate. Her elderly admirer testify ell
dures the pangs Of jealousy. p.
But it is not love or sudden infatua-
ton that draws the dark eyes Of Vivian
Marston to the young millionaire at the
head Of the festal, board. Where has
she. seen this lauded young favorite of
fortune before? .
John Powelrs secretary enters def
erentially with a telegram. 1t has
come to the Offices of the Good Hope
Oil company, and the secretary, think
ing it important, brings it to the feast.
Arthur opens it and reads:
Esther Harding departed parts unknown.
Hagar Harding better. Bought in Stanley
hall for 500 U you sent. Will keep ev-
erything quiet. '- j." BLAKE.
Esther departed for parts unknown.
Arthur brushes the telegram in his
nervous grasp. Mechanically he hears
the friends that honor John Powell
chant jovially, "For he's a jolly. good
fellow" AS one dazed lie rises and
departs with his happy, facilitating as