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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14
Charges Of Murder
Stirs McMinDyiIA

MeMinnyille, Or, Oct. l4.-seldo,,
has this section of Oregon been
stirred as it was today over The !,
rest of William Branson, %. and NJ,
William Booth, 80, in connection vii.
the murder of the woman's huSh,,5
last Friday at Wilamina. Booth Ma
shot to death.
Following preliminary hearing ar
Willamina yesterday at which il a..
yeloped that Booth had accused ri.
wife of undue intimacy with vons
Branson, both were being aell in ~
Jail here awaiting the action Of tbo
grand jury.
Branson is charged with the actual
commission of the crime and NJ
Booth with being an accOmplce.
Both prisoners are members Of pino-
eer families. Mrs, Booth is the mother
of four children.
the Province of Alberta. special 70.
ception committee has been appointed
by w. /. Staley, director of the agri.
cultural department of the commercial
club. They will have general charge Of
the meeting. John H. Scott is chair
man, and acting with him are George
w. johnson, Jr.. w. H. Steusloff, C. 0.
Constable, F. j. Rupert, and Russell
Catlin. President Kerr, of the 0. A. c.
and several others from the college als
expected to be here for the afternoon
and especially to hear the talk Of M.
Marshall.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14

ETY.. Besides the members OF this So
eietv, the dentists of the city have
been invited, and DR.. F. L. Utter has
been asked 10 read a paper on ''Pyor-
rhea Alveolaris. Another paper to
be read is one by DR.. J. Earl Else, or
Portland, who will take for his subject,
+" Vocal Infections from the Standpoint
of Medicine and Surgery. y Discussions
following these papers will be opened
by DR.. C.. Hartley and DR.. Harvey
Slater. both of this city. The meeting
viii be held in tine auditorium of the
Oregon state hospital at 1880 0 clock
next Tuesday evening, and is open TO
all who are interested in preventative
medicines.
Among the students this fall attend
ing the Capital Business College, are
many coming from the eastern part Of
the state. W. |. Staley, principal of
the college, attrioutes this to the fact
that within the last few years, he has
supplied many business men in tnat
section of the state with students from
the college. Those registering within
the last two weeks, all from Oregon,
are: George Disbrow, Dee; j. j. Ash
enfelter, Mikkalo; Marie Griffin, Dal-
las; John Tweedie, WOodburn; Frank
Belshee, Moro; Oscar H. Peterson, Dal-
las: J. r. McKinnie, Independence; E.
NJ. VanNuys, Turner; J. W. Mauk, In
dependence; E. E. Addison, Independ-
ence; W. W. Barry and George D. Bar
~, Richmond; Edith KainO, Marshfield.
In order to handle the crowds that
will attend the armory Saturday af-
ternoon to near the address of Duncan
Marshall, minister of agriculture for
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14

Woodmen Of the World for the Salem
district, was in Salem today on bust
ness Mr.. Jones resides al Metzger.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14

Or. r. T. McIntife, physician and
surgeon, PA Masonic bldg Phone 440.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14

So photo enlargements 95c, at Stock
ton s. Ask for coupons.
At meeting Of the student body Of
the Lincoln junior high school, the fol-
lowing officers were elected: President,
Walter Blumenberg; vice-president,
John Miller; seeretary, Miss Mabel
Gardner; treasurer, John Null; ser
geant, Albert Roberts. These offieqs
Of the student body VIII have charge
of the general activities Of the three
junior high schools. Athletic classes
win be organized next week, and with
in short time the Lincoln junior high
school win take up work TO get in line
with the best junior high schools Of
the state.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14

O, Il. striCklin, an assistant engin.
eer in the office of State Engineer
Lewis, has returned from making u sur.
vey along Trout creek and Hay creek
In Jefferson aud Wasco counties. This
survey was made in accordance with
the adjudication Of the water rights of
the residents in this vicinity
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14

DR.. @. Hartley, specialist, inflamed
bleeding gums and pyorrhea. 4l6 U. s
Bank Bldg Phone lS6. Noye
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14
All Around Town


NuBone corsets sold by Nine Lyon
at the Hob Mob.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14
Reliable piano tuner. Phone 2s54J

Miss Bess Smith, stenographer in
the office Of the state treasurer, has re-
turned to this city after a vacation Of
10 weeks spent in visiting in Wyom.
ing.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14

DR.. Mendelsohn, specialist in fitting
glasses correctly. U. s. bank bldg.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14

If you haven't tried a White Swan
lunch you are missing something.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14
State Highway Engineer Cantinc

left Salem today for Hood River TO look
over the contract Of the Newport Land
\ Construction company on Columbia
highway.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14

Upgrade is a Salem made cigar Of un.
quality.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14

Have Nine. Lyon fit you with Nu
Bone corset. The Hob Mob.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14

Eight prisoners were brought to the
state pen this morning from The Dalles
by the WaseO county officers. This is
the result of the recent term Of the cir
cult court in that county which has just
cleared the docket. The sentences were:
Is months to two years for adultery;
one to 20 years for a statutory crime;
one to seven years for larceny from a
store; two to 20 years for forgery;
two to 10 years for soliciting for wo-
man of i'll fame; TO years for burg
larry; and two received sentences Of
from one to 10 years for larceny by
bailee.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14
Notice To Our Customers

Wednesday Surprise Sale Of Cotton Bats at @
which yesterday advertised extra value that
the bait sells competitors store at $O On account OF big
competitor offered bats Zoe after
had purchased 79c To customers and of
being undrsd remarked them sell at SOC and completely sold
posng of 100 bats All who purchased bats the first
will be rebated c bait their duplicate sales check
We dd all times ready customers
and sales
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14

Chicken pie supper. The ladies of the
Central Congregational church, Nine
teenth and Ferry, will serve chicken
pie supper at the church, Friday even
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14

Photos enlarger for CSC, with each
81 purchase at StOekton's.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14

A meeting to especially consider
vocal infections mas been called
by DR.. H. J. Clements, secretary of
the Polk Yamhill- Marion Medical soci
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14

In order to handle the crowds that
will attend the armory Saturday af-
ternoon to near the address of Duncan
Marshall, minister of agriculture for
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-14

ing, October Is, $3.50 to $3.50. Adults,
zoe; children under u, 15e. Every
body invited.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-09-02

to be presumed that much, if not all,
of the complacency would have van
ished if he could have been an unseen
listener in the Farnham sitting-r room,
dating from the time when little Miss
Gilman battered off to bed, leaving
the father and daughter sitting to-
gether under the reading lamp.
At first their talk was entirely OF
the window apparition, the daughter
insisting upon it's reality, and the ia
Their trying to push it over into the
limbo of things imagined. Driven
finally to give all the reasons for her
belief in the realities, Charlotte related
the incident of the afternoon.
By this time the good Doctor BERTHE
had become the indignant Doctor Ber-
tie.
1--WE can't have that at ALL" he said
incisively. "You Gid your whole duty
in that bank matter; and it was a
good deal more than most young wom-
en- would have done. I'm not going
to have you prosecuted and harassed-
not one minute! Where is this fel-
low stopping?"
The daughter shook her head. Il
don't know. He gave me his card, but
it has the New Orleans address only"
Give it to me and I'll look him up
tomorrow"
The card changed hands, and for
few minutes neither of them spoke.
Then the daughter began again.
'"I've had another shock this eve
ming, too," she said, speaking this time
in low tones and with eyes downcast.
''This Mr. Griswold-did I understand
you to say that he had lost all of his
money!"
Eyes; practically all Of it," said the
father, without losing his hold upon
what certain great London physician
was saying through the columns of the
English medical journal.
But afterward, long after Charlotte
had gone up to her room, he remem-
bered, with a curious little start of
half-awakened puzzlement, that some
one, no longer ago than yesterday, had
told him that young Griswold was
rich-or if not rich, at least well
fixed"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-09-02
SYNOPSIS.

Kenneth Griswold, an unsuccessful
writer because of socialisti. tendencies,
iolds up Andrew Galbraith, president Of
nc Bayou State Securities, In the presi-
tents private office and escapes with $780,
40 in cash. by original methods he es-
apes the hue and cry and goes aboard
ne belle Julie as a deckland. Charlotte
'arnllnm of Wuhaska, Mimi. who had
seen nm cash Galbraith's check in the
',nk, recognizes him, and sends a letter
u nrtrayai to Galbraith anonymously.
;IflsWold is arrested on the arrival of the
BOAT at St. Louis, but escapes from his
>aptors. He decides on Walaska, Mimi,
Is $ hiding place. and after Quitting
'ilnScIt properly. takes the train. Girls
VOID falls i'll on the sleeper and is cared
or ana taken to her home in Wahask;l
~ MarScry Grierson. daughter of Jasper
'rcrson, the financial magnate of Wa
tHtsHn M:.rgery finds the stolen money
II GrlsWOld'S suitcase BrOtfin detective.
axes the trail. Margery asks her father
:" get Edward Raymer into financial hot
water and then help him out of it. Girls
VOID RECEIVERS to find the stolen money
gone lie meets Margery's social circle
ana forms Il friendship with Raymer, the
ron manufacture. B:offin comes to Wa
:Y in search of the woman who wrote
ne anonymous letter to Galbraith. Mar
gerry takes Griswold to tn safety deposit
Tnuit and turns the stolen money over to
:'ln. Charlotte bluffs out Broffin and
Margery begins to watch him. Griswcld
outs his money in Raymer's plant and
commences to rewrite his book. Griswold
goes to dinner at Doctor Farnham's and
$ not sure that Charlotte has not recos-
7iZrd him.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-09-02
CHAPTER XIX.
Pitfalls.


Within week from the day when
Raymer, angrily jubilant, had rescued
his imperiled stock, it was pretty gen.
orally known that Kenneth Griswold,
the writing man, had become the
fourth member in the close corpora
ton OF the Raymer Foundry and Ma
chine works, and Wahaska was ca
gerly discussing the business affair in
all it's possible and probable bearings
upon the Raymers, the Griersons and
and the newly elected directory of the
Pineboro railroad
Of all this buzzing of the gossip bees
the person most acutely concerned
heard little or nothing. Digging deeply
in the inspiration field, Griswold speed
lily became oblivious to most of his en-
compassments; to all of them, indeed,
save those which bore directly upon
the beloved task. Among these, he
counted the frequent afternoon visits
to Mereside, and the scarcely less fire.
home. He was using each of the
young women as foil for the other
in the outworking of his plot; and he
welcomed it as sign of growth that
the story in it's new form was acquir-
ing verisimilitude and becoming CRATE
fully, and at times, he persuaded him.
self, quite wildly, human.
When he got we'll into the swing of
it and was turning out chapter every
three or four days, he fell easily into
the habit of slipping the last INSTALL
ment into his pocket when he went to
Mereside. Margery Grierson was add
ing generously to his immense obliga
ton to her; hoping only to find
friendly listener, he found a helpful
collaboration. More than once, when
his own imagination was at fault. she
was able to open new vistas in the
humanities for him, apparently draw
ing upon a reserve of intuitive con.
illusions compared with which his own
hard-bought store Of experimental
knowledge was almost puerile.
II wish you would tell me the secret
VI yOuA AAAc~A 'N1Ouo NACF he 0X-
claimed, on one of the June afternoons
when he had been reading to her in
the cool half-shadows of the Mereside
library. "You are only child in
years; how can you know with such
miraculous certainty what other
people would think and do under con-
ditions about which you can't possibly
know anything experimentally? It's
beyond mel"
There are many things beyond YOU
yet, dear boy; many, many things"
was her laughing rejoinder; from
which it will be inferred that the epi-
sode in the Farmers and Merchants
burglar-proof had become an episode
forgotten-or at least forgiven. "You
know men-a little; but when it comes
to the women -. we'll, If didn't
keep continually nagging at you, your
two heroines-with neither Of whom
you are really in ]ove-would degen-
crate into rag dolls. They would, &C.
tually."
That's true; l can see It clearly
enough when you point it out" he i'd
mitted. putting his craftsman pride
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Gr1swold looked and was reasonably
sure that he could make out the
shadowy figure of a man leaning
against one of the trees.
THAT Is my shadow" she said, low.
ering her voice; "Mr. Matthew Brof-
fin of the Colburne Detective agency,
in New Orleans. He has a foolish idea
that I am in communication with the
man he is searching for, and he was
brutal enough to tell me so. What he
expects to accomplish by keeping an
absurd watch upon our house and dog
glng everybody who comes and goes, l
can't imagine"
"You have told your father?" said
Grtswold, anxious to learn how far this
new alarm fire had spread
"Certainly; and he has made his pro-
test. But it doesn't do any good; the
man keeps on spying, as you see. But
we have wandered long way from
your book. I've been trying to prove
to you that am not fit to criticize II"
mo; you mustn't mistake me. I
haven't been coming to you for criti-
cism,' was Griswold's rather incoher-
ent reply; and when the talk threat
ened to lapse into the commonplace,
he took his leave. Oddly enough, as he
thought, when he was unlatching the
gate and had shifted one of the newly
purchased automatic pistols from his
hip pocket to an outside pocket of the
light top-coat he was wearing, the
shadowy figure under the lake-shading
trees had disappeared.
It. was only a few minutes after tho
lingering dinner guest had gone when
the doctor came out on the porch,
bringing his long-stemmed pipe for a
bedtime Whit in the open air
You are losing your beauty sleep,
little girl he said, dropping into the
chair lately occupied by the guest did
you find out anything more tonight"
The daughter did not reply at once,
and when she did there was a note of
freshly summoned hardihood in her
voice.
I'VE were both mistaken" she at.
firmed. Condolences are always
likely to be misleading I am sorry l
told you about them He has certain
ly been present help in time of need
to Edward"
AS before, the good little doctor had
recourse to his pipe, and it was not un-
til his daughter got up to go in that
he said gently: Zone other word, Char
lie, girl: are you altogether sure that
the wish isn't father to the thought
about GrisWold?"
Don't be absurd, papa!" she said
scornfully, passing swiftly behind his
chair to reach the door; and with that
answer he was obliged to be content.
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underfoot,, as he was always Obliged to
do in these talks with her. II should
be discouraged if you didn't keep on
telling me that the story, as a story,
is good"
1T is good; l. is a big story" she
asserted, with kindling enthusiasm.
The plot, so far as you have gone
with 1t, is fine; and that is where you
leave me away behind. 1 don't see
how you could ever think it out. And
the character drawing is fine, too,
some of it. Your Fleming is as far
beyond me as your Fidelia seems to
be beyond YOU"
You don't knoW Fleming yet Have
you ever met Fidelia?"
mot as you have drawn her-no.
She is too unutterably fine. If she
had a single shred of humanity about
her, l should suspect you of meaning
to fall in love with her, farther along
to the humiliation and despair of poor
Joan, who, as you say, is mere daugh.
ter of men,"
But how about Joan?" he fretted.
is she out of drawing, too?"
Yes; you are distorting her the
other way-making her too inhumanly
worldly and insincere." Then, with an
abruptness that was like slap in the
face: IF you didn't spend so many
evenings at Doctor Bertie's, you would
get both Fidelia and Joan in better
drawing"
He flushed and drew himself up
with stabbed amour propre prompting
him to make some singing retort con.
trasting the wells of truth with the
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I'm coming to that. This escape
we read about happened on a certain
day in April. 1t was the very day on
which poppa met me on my way back
from Florida, and we took the eleven
thirty train north that night You
haven't forgotten that Mr.. Griswold
was passenger on that same train?"
But, goodness gracious, Miss Mar
gerry! any number of people were pas
sengers on that train. You surely
wouldn't"
"Hush!" she said, and through the
lace window hangings Brotin saw her
lift a warning finger What l am
telling you, Mr.. Raymer, is in tho
strictest confidence; we mustn't let
breath Of it get out But that wasn't
all. Mr.. Griswold was dreadfuly sick
and, of course, he couldn't tell us any
thing about himself. But while he was
delirious he was always muttering
something about money, money; mon
ey that he had lost and couldn't find. or
money that he had found and couldn't
lose. Then when we thought he
couldn't possibly get we'll, Doctor Ber-
tie and ransacked his suitcases for
cards or letters or something that
would tell us who he was and where
he came from. There wasn't the liz.
t!est thing!"
(To BE coNrzNJED)
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the nov quite complete fulfillment of
the wishing prophecy. Miss Farnham
was going to prove to be all that the
most critical maker of studies from
life could ask in model; a supremely
perfect original for the character of
Fidelia in the book. Moreover, she
would be his tombstone for the truths
and verities; even as Margery Grier-
son might, if she were forgiving
enough to let bygones be bygones, hold
the mirror up to nature and the pure
humanities. Moreover, again, what
ever slight danger there might have
been in possibility of recognition
was danger outlived. If the first
meeting had not stirred the sleeping
memories in Miss Farnham, subse-
quent ones would serve only to widen
the gulf between forgetfulness and rec
objection by just such distances as the
Wahaska Griswold should traverse in
leaving behind him the deckhand Of
the Belle Julie. ~
How much this might have been
modified if he had known that the man
whose face Miss Farnham had, seen at
the window was silently tracking him
through ~ther~tree-shadowed streets is
a matter for conjecture. Also, it Is
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"He was; but he made his escape
again, almost at once. He is still
free man."
Instantly the primitive instinct of
self preservation, the instinct of The
hunted fugitive, sprang alert in the
listener.
"How can you be sure of that?" he
asked, and in his own ears his voice
sounded like the clang of an alarm
bell.
Again silence fell, surcharged, this
one, with all the old frightful posi-
bilities. Once more the loathsome
fever quickened the pulses of the man
at bay, and the curious needlelike
prickling of the skin came to signal
the return of the homicidal fear-frenzy.
The reaction to the normal racked him
like the passing Of mortal sickness
when his accusing angel said n her
most matter-offact tone:
Il know he is free; have it on the
best possible authority. The detectives
who are searching for him have been
here to see me-or, at least, one of
them has"
The hunted one laid hold of the par
tial reprieve with a mighty grip and
drew himself out of the reactionary
whirlpool.
1T is an outrage! l hope it Is an
annoyance past"
His companion leaned forward in
her chair and cautiously parted the
leafy vine screen.
Look across the street-under
those trees at the waters edge: do
you see him."
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brackish waters Of sheer worldliness.
Then he saw how inadequate it would
be; how utterly impossible it was to
meet this charmingly vindictive young
person upon any grounds save those
OF her own choosing.
THAT is the first really unkind
thing I have ever heard you say" was
the mild reproach which was all that
the reactionary second thought would
sanction.
'Unkind to whom?-to you, or to
Miss Farnham?"
Ask YOURSELF" he countered weak
ly, and she laughed at him.
Griswold did not reply to the laugh.
He was gathering up the scattered
pages Of his manuscript and replacing
them in order. When he spoke again
it was Of matter entirely irrelevant.
Il had an odd experience the other
evening" he said. II had been dining
with the Raymers and was walking
back to Shawnee street. A little news
boy named Johnnie Fergus turned up
from somewhere at one of the street
crossings and tried to sell me a pa
per-at eleven o'clock at night!
bought one and joked him about being
out so late; and from that on couldn't
get rid of him. He went all the way
home with me, talking blue streak
and acting as if he were afraid of
something or somebody. remem-
bered afterward that he is the boy who
takes care of your boat Is there any,
thing wrong with him."
Miss Grierson had left her chair and
had gone to stand at one of the win
dows.
Nothing that l know off," she said.
HE is bright boy-too bright for his
own good, I'm afraid. But l can ex-
plain-a little. Johnnie has taken
violent fancy to you for some reason.
and he has fallen into the boyish habit
of weaving all sorts of romances
around you. I think he reads too many
exciting stories and tries to make Won
the hero Of them. He told me the
other day that he was sure somebody
was 'spotting' you"
Griswold looked up quickly. Miss
Grierson was still facing the window.
and he was glad that she had not seen
his nervous start.
"'Spotting me?" he laughed. where
did he get that idea?"
How should l know? But he had
made himself believe it; he even went
so far as to describe the man. Oh. 7
can assure you Johnnie has an fmaei.
nation; I've tested it in other WAYS. :"
II should think sol" said the man
who also had an imagination, and
shortly afterward he took his leave.
An hour later the same afternoon.
Broftin, from his post of observation on
the Winnebago porch, saw the writing
man cross the street and enter a hard
ware shop. Having nothing better to
do, he, too, crossed the street and. in
passing, looked into the open door of
Simmons & Kleifurt's. What he saw
brought him back at the end of a re.
Elective stroll around the public square.
When he entered the shop the clerk
was putting formidable array of
weapons back into their showcase
inches. Broffln lounged up and began
to handle the pistols.