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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-17
COAST LEAGUE FANS
ARE DIGGING UP HOT
STOVE LEAGUE STUFF

san Francisco. Cal. Dec. I5.-Base-
ball statigticians continue Industrious
~ to dclvc into the Pacific Coast
league records for material with
which TO tepale The winter months OF
the enthusiasts.
Los Angeles. 1916 Coast League
champions did not drop below The
first division during the year. Port
land and Satt Lake ala not qtop over
night In second place. although both
tcaps gtayod n few davs i'm first pIaco
at various fines during the wear with
these three executions every club in
the lenpue finished af least one pIay-
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-17

Coach Gilmour Dobie has been in
charge OF the team during the entire
time Doblc, however, has 10 his
credit three additional years Of 'un-
broken victory achieved before he took
tho reins at the University Of Wash
ington. IN 1905 ana 1907 he was IN
charge Of the North Dakota Aggics,
who scored total Of 332 points while
their opponents were unable 10 make
Ia single tally I'm 1905 Dobio coached
Ia Minnesota high school eleven which
went through the season indicated.
Thus Dubie has gone through twelve
successive seasons without once seeing
his chnrgc on the short side of the
score. another coaching record which
Is believed 10 be unappfouchcd Fl any
part of the country
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-03-10
CHAPTER VII.
Suspense.

suspense.
His secret uncovered, all that labori-
ously constructed edifice of art and
chicane which yesterday had seemed
so impregnable a wall between the
Lone Wolf and the world today torn
asunder, Lanyard wasted time neither
in profitless lamentation or any other
sort of repining.
Delaying only long enough to revise
plans, he put out the lights and left by
the courtyard door; for it was just
possible that those whose sardonic
within it had been to name themselves
"the Pack" might have stationed
agents in the street to follow their
dissocial brother in crime. And now,
more than ever, Lanyard was firmly
bent on going his own way unmatched.
His course first led him stealthily
past the door of the porter and across
the court to the public hallway in the
main body of the suilding.
Afoot, and in complete darkness, he
made his ascent Of FIVE flights Of wind
ing stairs, pausing at length before
the door of an apartment on the sixth
floor. A fash from pocket-lamp To-
Gated the keyhole; the key turned
without a sound; the door swung on
silent hinges.
Once inside, the adventurer moved
more freely, with less precaution
against noise. He was on known
-r1,,oJ ord oIovo. tho ona ri m ont
though furnished, was untenanted, and
would so remain as long as Lanyard
continued to pay the rent from Lon
don under an assumed name.
It was the convenience of this ref.
uge and avenue of retreat, indeed, that
had dictated his choice of this par.
ticular floor, for the sixth-story fiat
had one invaluable feature-a window
opening on the roof Of the adjoining
building.
Two minutes examination sufficed
to convince Lanyard that here at least
the Pack had not trespassed.
Five minutes later he picked the
common lock of a door opening from
the roof of an apartment house on the
farthest corner of the block, found his
way downstairs, knocked on the door
of the porter's lodge, chanted that ven.
cradle open sesame Of Paris, Gordon,
sill yous plait!" and was made free OF
the street by a worthy concierge too
sleepy to challenge the late-departing
guest
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-03-10
CHAPTER v.
Anticiimax.

The surprise was complete; but it's
a question which party thereto was
the more affected.
Lanyard stared with the eyes of stu
pefaction. his jaw slack. To his fancy,
this thing passed the compass OF
simple incredulity-it wasn't merely
improbable. it was preposterous; it
was anticlimax exaggerated to the pro
portion of the grotesque.
He had come prepared to surprise
and bullyrag the most astute police
detective of whom he had any knowl-
edge; he found himself surprised and
discountenanced by this!
Confusion no less intense informed
the girls expression; her eyes were
fixed to his with look of blank in
quiry; her face, whose colorlng had
won his admiration two hours since,
was now colorless; her lips were just
ajar; the fingers Of one hand touched
her cheek, indenting it.
The other hand caught up before
her the long skirts of pretty robe
de chambre, beneath whose edge was
visible a hands breadth Of simmer,
ing white silk with the toe of a silken
mule to match the dressing gown.
Thus she stood, poised for flight, at
tired only in a negligee over what, one
couldn't help suspecting, was her
nightdress-her hair was down, she
was professionally all ready for her
bed.
But Bourke's long and patient train
ing had been wasted If this man
proved one to remain long at loss.
Rallying mis- wits quickly, he made a
brave show of accepting this amazing
accident as commonplace.
81 beg your pardon, MISS Bannon-''
he began with formal bow.
She interrupted with gasp of won
dering recognition. mfr. Lanyard"
fie inclined his head second time:
Sorry to disturb you"
''But l don't understand"
Unfortunately" he proceeded
smoothly, 81 forgot something when
went out and had to come back for it. y
"But-but-"
"Yes?"
Suddenly her gaze for the first time
broke from his and swept the room
with a glance of wild dismay.
This ROOM" she breathed-"I don t
know it"
TT is mine"
Yours But
THAT is how l happened to-inter-
rupt you"
The girl shrank back pace-two
paces--uttering in low-toned mono
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-03-10

fear. that of finding himself strapped
in time of stress
The fold yielded up its hoard to a
sou-Lanyard removed and counted
over five notes of one thousand francs
and ten of twenty pounds-their sum
approximating two thousand dollars.
But il nothing had been taken away,
something had been added-the back
of one Of the Bank of England notes
had been used as blank for a men,
orandum.
Lanyard spread it out and studied it
attentively.
The handwriting had been traced
with no discernible attempt at dis
guise, but was quite strange to him.
The pen employed had been one Of
those needle-pointed nibs so popular
in France; the hand was that of an
educated Frenchman. The substance
of the memorandum translated as fol-
lows:
ITO the Lone Wolf-The Pack sends
greetings and extends its invitation to
participate in the benefits of it's fra
ternity. One awaits him always at
PAbbaye Theleme"
A date was added, the date of that
same day.
Deliberately, when he had conned
this communication Lanyard produced
his cigarette case, twisted the note Of
twenty pounds into rude spill, set it
afire, lighted his cigarette therefrom
and, rising, conveyed the burning pa
per to a cold and empty fireplace,
where he permitted it to burn to a
crisp. black ash.
When this was done his smile broke
through his clouding scowl.
well, my friend!" he informed the
author of that document which now
could never prove incriminating-"at
all events, have you to thank for a
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-03-10
SYNOPSIS.
q

At Troyons a Paris inn, the youth
Marcel Troyon. afterwards to be known
as Michael Lanyard. is caught stealing
by Burke. an expert thief. who takes the
boy with him to America and makes OF
him a finished craftsman. After stealing
the Omber jewels and the Huysman war
plans in London Lanyard returns to
TrOyon's for the first time in many years
because he thinks Roddy. a Scotland
Yard man. is on his trail. On arrival he
finds Roddy already installed as guess
AT dinner a conversation between C0mte
non about the Lone Wolf. celebrated
craftsman who works alone. puzzles and
alarms him as to whether his identity is
only guessed or known. To satisfy him.
Lanyard dresses and goes out. leaving
Roddy apparently asleep and snoring in
the next room.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-03-10

new sensation. 1t has long been my
ambition to feel warranted in lighting
cigarette with twenty-pound note,
If the within ever seized mel"
His smile faded slowly; the frown
replaced it-something more valuable
to him than hundred dollars had
just gone up in smoke.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-03-10
By LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
Copyright by Louis Joseph vance,

one had started in panic for the door
then stopped in terror.
Words followed-the strangest he
could have imagined-wOrds spoken
in a gentle and tremulous voice:
"In PHYS name! who are you and
what do you want?"
Thunderstruck, Lanyard switched
on the lights.
At distance of some six PAGES he
saw not Roddy but woman, and not
woman merely, but the girl he had
met in the restaurant.
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syllable of understanding, an "Oh!"
abruptly gasped. simultaneously her
face and throat famed scarlet with the
color that flooded them.
Your room, Mr.. Lanyard"
Her tone was so convincing in its
meditation of shame and horror that
his heart misgave him. Not that alone,
but the girl was very good to look
upon.
I'm sure" he began soothingly, 1T
doesn't matter. You mistook one door
for the"
But you don't understand" She
shuddered. This dreadful habit! And
/ was hoping had outgrown it! How
can explain?"
Believe me. Miss Bannon. you need
explain nothing"
"But I must. wish to. ] couldn't
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-03-10
THE LONE WOLF

it was with the reflection that, If
Roddy were really playing possum. he
was welcome to whatever he could
find in the quarters Of Michael Lam
yard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

went chug-chuggin' off through Fisher
mans Slue towards the main channel.
Five minutes more and we'd plowed
across to the very edge of the big salt
water and was headed down the beach,
with tangy little breeze pinkin up our
ears.
Once before I'd taken that jaunt, just
to see what it was like, and ever since
I'd been wantin' to do it again; but never
planned on town bilious plute along
for the sake of his liver. We hadn't been
hikin' half an hour, though, when Milo
begins to chirk up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

"How far do we Walk" asks Milo, gaz-
in regretful after the train.
81 forget says l. "All you got to re-
member is that there's a bed at the other
end of this road. Step out, man. Don't
drag your heels"
AS a matter of fact, that road WASH
intended for fancy pedestrian stunts
nothing but deep sand. And lonesome!
If there were any houses along the line,
none of 'em showed light. All we could
see was pines and plum bushes, and
half of moon dodgin' in and out between
the clouds. But it was first-class breathin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05
MAGAZINE SECTION for March 5, 1916
l l

Back home, says l. II had him leave
some grub, though, and an ak. My
scheme is to bunk out here for the night"
"Bully!' says Milo. Cant we build
some sort of shelter with this drift-wood?"
"That's what the ak is for, says l. go
to it,"
WELL, it wasn't exactly picnic weather,
specially after the sun went down; but
we had shack that was fairly wind-proof
on three sides, and roarin' fire in front.
Even if Milo didn't show up for so much
of an artist at broilin' steak, he seems
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

"By George!" says he, THROWN up his
chin and swelin out his chest. "Great,
isn't it? Look at that cloud effect. And
see that old schooner wallowing along out
there. What a surf, too! And we have
it all to ourselves, haven't WEI"
mo competition at all, says l.
We'd passed the second station before
he digs up his first uneasy thought.
"Oh, l say" says he. what about
luncheon"
1--WE don't feed until we get to North
Point" says L. -
"Oh!' says he, and lets out another link
i'm his stride.
DON'T know what there is about COW
erin the ground that way, specially a
long, lonesome stretch, that sort of makes
you feel like you'd done something worth
while. But it does. Bucks you up, clears
the bats out of the belfry, and gives you
the idea that you're some guy to do all
that just on your two legs without the aid
of taxi Simple, but it's so. Before we
was hardly in sight of the Point, Milo
begins unloadin' chesty opinions of his
performance.
say, tHouSu, lldt IL uSucc vi q ways
I've walked says he. "Isn't it, now?
Twelve! Oh, should say twenty at least.
Right along the beach, too. Rather
unique, call it, But hungry!'
"Me too" says l. "Thanks be, Pop
Applegard is on the job. See that
smoke?"
Also Pop had picked up a bushel Of
Cedar Creek oysters. and had lot of 'em
spread out on wire gratin' with their
shells gapin'. Ever tackle bushel of
roast oysters with an appetite like that?
Honest, when we got through we could
hardly see each other across the shell heap
between us. Then | let Milo roll up in
one of the blankets Pop had brought, light
big cigar, and snuggle down in the sand
and sunshine. When he woke up he
gazes around placid and asks where Pop
Applegard has gone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

proud of the result. The potatoes was q
little cindery too, on the outside, but you
could eat the middles. Milo got away
with six, he claimed. And even after he
got to sleep he was eloquent about some
thing or other.
Anyway, when Pop Applegard came
to take us off, about noon next day,
Dixon was explainin' to me how he'd like
to do that sort of thing for whole week.
Il could, you know he insists. "I'm
not half so soft as thought. Really!"
Maybe" says l. "But you'll be lot
more ornamental with less smut on your
face. It's town for you now, and Turk
ish bath, and barber gettin' busy with
that stubble.
stuck with him until he'd gone
through the whole process, and with a
little clean linen and quick job of clothes
pressin' he looked as good as new.
"NOw,' says |, "Tm going to turn you
loose with your troubles again. You can
either chase them or let 'em chase YOU"
Shorty says he, Il can feel the whip
in my hand once more. IL believe l can
do the driving now. Anyway, I'm going
to have try at it,
wen, tudt was MoNudy. Auu uuTS-
day afternoon had report from him.
al say, Shorty he phones in, you
were right about Talbot. He closed a
splendid deal for us, and now we're hot
after another one. l have clean desk,
too. Got things on the jump, as it were.'
"Fine!" says l, $50 long as the jumps
don't get you
mo danger says he. "And, by the
way, since the cure is complete, l am
sending messenger up with that check.
l am much obliged too
And he leaves me there gawpin' into
the receiver. Five thousand, just like
that. Say, that's pickin' it off the bushes,
amt it? And him wishin' it on me cheer
full But suspect that Milo's amt the
only case of the kind in this burg, nor him
the only one willin' to pay the price.
Gee! must hang out bigger sign.
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< as you do the drivin'. And what
on could get in between nine-thirty and
our should have been just play. The
,ube with you, Milo, is that you've
,en lettin' your work drive you. You
ave up the whip. Not only your work
8 been drivin' you, but your play, your
ne, your club, everything. don't
= Nv how it begun. 1t don't matter.
= here you are, a squirmin, shirkin',
,icky wreck, with your nerves all raw
I'd your liver spotted up like leopard
sin coat. Even lost your Shawn nerve,
Int your"
lie mods and fingers the patches on his
Il.
Couldn't face your butler without
st ham under your arm, eh?" says |.
s'ell, we've fixed that. You're goin to
IN lot more bridges, too, before you
1T. First off, you're goin' to notify
rs. Dixon that you won't be home for
70 or three days. Better telegraph.
,ere's blank"
But, McCabe-" he begins.
81 know" says l. "a dinner party on,
Weekend guests coming, and maybe you
ought to pick out the linin' for new
nousine. Tremendous affairs. You'd
,alf shirk all of 'em. So we'll just cut
= the whole lot and see if it brings the
I'D to an end. Come, now! To Mrs.
10 Dixon. That's it. Called away
important business will do"
re moves over to my desk and writes
,, the message.
(which ends domestic complications,
VS. |. "Now for things at the Office.
hos got the best head down there?"
- 'Why-er-Talbot, l suppose" says
3,xon; "but he's the one | haven't
oxen to for"
"All the better" says l. "Tell Talbot
take full charge for spell and use his
IT, Tell him to clean things up gen.
lily, in his own way"
But we radically disagree, says Dixon,
the matter Of
What's the odds?" says |. wouldn't
~eak you if he was wrong, would it?
d ten to one he's right. Anyway, you
mt to start something-swing the whip.
e?"
1t brought the sweat out on Milo's fore
lead to write that order, but he did it.
"Now for that liver of yours says l.
Not that I'm much better posted on
ne human plumbing than the next one,
ut when | see a party with the whites
t his eyes lookin' like hard-boiled eggs
It'll the peel off. accuse his liver on
eneral principles. 1t can't furnish any
lbi. for one thing. and it listens sort OF
OCCASIONAL.
well take it out in the country
lays |.
Take what" says Milo.
Your liver" says |. course, you'll
we to come along, too. Let's see,
refs that Jersey Central timetable?
n! Next express at sX-twenty-two.
ut just leaves time for me to call up
house, notify Sadie not to look for
!. and throw few buds into a bag"
: But l have no travelling things with
-" objects Milo; "no pajamas, no
!, Don't worry says l. "When you
the hay tonight you amt goin' to
e whether your shoes are on or off.
starter you may shuck that mink
y I'd ulster and pull this sweater over
r head
;XPECT Milo begun to suspicion
his wasn't goin' to be any de luxe eX-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

Honest, When zoe got through zoe cOulG
hardly see each other across the she'll heap.
air, believe me, that this panicky Dixon
party was pumpin' in reg'lar. Course,
he didn't know where he was gon' or why,
but all that helped him to forget his
troubles. I'll admit he did take on a bit
along towards the last; but when
threatened to make him carry the bag if
he didn't quit beefin', he marched on
without another word.
And Just as we stumbled into Cedar
ton | finds my old friend George, the
mighty duck-hunter and hotel-keeper,
turnin' out the lights in the bar.
"How's the ice in the river, George"
says |.
"Oh, there's channel open below
Kinks, says he.
anybody got motor-boat in COM
mission" | asks.
"Guess Pop Applegard's old tub is rum
nin'," says George. "He was down after
geese Wednesday,
Then send him word he's chartered
for tomorrow, will you, says |. "And
have couple of good husky breakfasts
ready for us about five o'clock. Well
turn in now"
Milo he hadn't even waited for the
word. He'd gone to sleep standin' up.
No insomnia for him that night and next
mornin' had some job draggin' him down
to face platter of ham and eggs. He
wanted to know if thought such late
supper would agree with him. By day
light we were on our way.
Maybe you don't know that twelve
mile stretch of beach that keeps the
Atlantic Ocean from sloppin' into Barne-
gat Bay? Well, it's about the beachiest
beach you ever saw. Nothing but beach.
Oh, there's three lfe-saving stations scat
tered along, tucked in among the sand
dunes, but not another shack from the
time you leave Seaside Park until you
fetch North Point o Beach. Twelve miles
of hard packed sand, and nobody to it.
The sun was just slippin' up out of the
waves, red and gorgeous, when we landed
on the bay side and Pop Applegard
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-08-23

GOmperG eye, comes therefore as on a silver platter and beyond price; the inconsistency of his actions be- ing constantly displayed in his every now and then breaking a lance in the cause of a fayorite.
 To him now Wilson and the de- mocrats represent the ideal political candidates, notwithstanding the fact that it was democracy that fought hardest and longest against the Child Labor Bill And when the republicans "come back" with a reel tai of Wilson's Princeton break against labor, Gompers at least has no suitable answer to make. Will sons discovery of New Freedom is a comparatively recent one. He at no time was a man anything else but rigidly conservative and aloof from real sentiments of democracy. That was why he was discovered as the ideal candidate by Colonel Harvey, even when the reactionists were playing with Alton B. Parker. His complete change of front be- gins with his taste of office as Gov ernor of New Jersey. Then unions | did not seem so demoralizing when they gave him their votes, nor did the backward races seem all so backward when they aided him to office so that he could experiment.
 with his up-lift ideas.
 The main reason why it is highly i improbable that Hughes will ever
 attain to the liberal policies towards | labor which marked the friendly ad
 ministration of President Wilson is
 not on account of any inherent qualities which distinguish one man
 from the other. On the contrary their stars have followed paths through the Heavens almost idonti-
 cal as to social environment. "n1
 only when they enter the realm ot politics are their ways apart.
 For Wilson is a member, and be-
 cause a southerner hereditary
 member, of a party which in the
 evolution of things has come to
 identify itself with Little Business
 and competition as against the re-
 publican Identification with i.'g
 Business and financial and industyi-
 a! privilege.
 To prolong their holC upon the
 political power, democracy asoocia- l ta2 itself in a conservative way with
 labor so that labor may help out little business in it's struggle against Big Business. Where democracy is
 so strong that it can do without | labor's help as in the south where | democracy is the faith of the fath- CTS it repudiates any such an Ali ance It opposes child labor laws; 1 it allies itself with reactoinary state administration and associates itself with the privileged develop
 ment Of big business in it's textile coal steel and iron business in the sunny south.
 Gompers is provided with the role of catspaw by the shrewder leaders of the party, and when he
 gets his paws scorched in pulling the democratic chestnuts from the | iire-it is to laugh.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-08-23
OVERSTOCKG G1t

To the Public:-
 We have just finished stock talk ing, and find that we are heavily overstocked so are making enorm- ous reductions in Hardware-as much as 50@o in certain lines. Not withstanding immense advances out side, especially in Hardware ana Metal Goods, we are still selling on the basis of goods purchased the past two or three years.
 We will sell for cash only at these prices, and for limited time, until we bring our stock down to the re quirements of the Camp. If you have an order to be filled, let us figure on it.; we can save you money. We have proved it oo others, we can prove it to you.
 DARLING X DEAN COMPANY.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-08-23
CITY BATH HOUSE.

Moonlight Spring Water. (Boil ing HOt).
 A M. o. sOLBERG.
The Adair County news., 1916-10-25
Note the Exclusive Princess Points:

at prices from to 6 cents per pound.
Mr.. Pendleton had about a car load
engaged at 6 cents per pound and our
farmers that did not have their cat.
tie engaged, heard of him being in
the community, drove their cattle to
town and sold them to him at the
present market price. He brought
another car.
Fillmore Sparks and son, of Red
Lick, was in our midst last Friday,
looking after cattle. The grade of
cattle in this section did not come up
with the prices wanted for the cattle.
Mr.. Sparks is fine judge of stock
and buys largely in Metcalfe and Bar
rem counties.