The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-04-13
THE B~OTTINEAU cOURAlNT THURSDAY, APR. IL. 1916.

HIS credit was no better tnAn 3 news.
boys in q candy store. But he had
confidence that his ability. which was
quite remarkable In certain directions
would carry him through.
SO, snatching q few hours Of sleep.
he dressed himself with great care and
was ready for a days work that would
test his ingenuity to the limit. From
his trunk he selected two letter heads
and envelopes bearing the imprint VI
the Hotel Belgrade, New York. These
he placed In his pocket and jumped on
a car headed down town.
On the way down he drew from his
pocket q newspaper clipping, and to
make sure he did not overlook any
thing reread the following:
New York, June 2.-Mark Make.
piece Marriott and his daughters,
Edith and Helen Of San Francisco,
came within an c Of being left be-
hind when the Mauretania, on which
they had booked passage sailed this
noon. They were the last passengers
to board the steamship. and they only
made connections after the hardest
kind Of a sprint. 1t is doubtful II they
have yet recovered their wind.
A banana skin caused all the trou-
BILE. Said banana skin lay for twenty.
eight seconds on the edge Of the south
east corner Of Broadway and Forty.
Second street, and got in the news Of
the day before the white wing res
ponsible for the street cleanliness of
the immediate vicinity could gather 1t
into the receptacle provided for that
purpose by the City Of New York.
Mr.. Marriott left his hotel to make
an eleventh hour purchase this morn.
ing. At the aforesaid orner his left
foot slipped on the aforesaid banana
skin. His right foot Immediately con-
nected with the anatomy Of a large
negro, who jumped two feet in the air
and let out an ear splitting yell.
This scared a cab horse from a
peaceful doze into a runaway. Before
the horse was bowled over by a pass.
ing automobile a block away there
was an incipient riot at Broadway and
Fo~rty-second, with Mr.. Marriott the
storm center. The blockade lasted
twenty minutes and tied up traffic for
q mile in every direction.
Mr.. Marriott and the negro, who
gave his name as George Jackson, OF
Memphis, Tennessee, seemed to BE-
the handiest to arrest, and they were
taken to the police station in a patro
wagon. It required an hour of Mr.
Marriott's time, the giving of his ped
igree and the display Of his steam
ship tickets before he was allowed tt
depart. .
In the mean time his daughter,
were nearly frantic. MI. Marriott hu4
tied back to his hotel, and the three
made a dash for the steamship piel
MI. Narriott's eleventh hour purchas
was not made.
In a paragraph under this despatc
was an explanatory note which sal
that Marriott and his daughters ha
closed their house and left San Fral
cisco ON May Is for an extended pleas
ure trip.
JILL " LlVO 'VAlASO vi IAN "
per which had printed this despatch
Hemenway asked for the Sunday ed
tor, and when the benign old gentle
man who presided over that depar
ment appeared Offered to give hi
the Tip on a fine STORY" in q fe'
days, If in turn he might be aIlcwe
to examine the clippings in the offic
relating to Mark Makepiece Marriott
After some parley the deal was made
II am a cousin of his" explaine
Heminway. lam just from the Eas
and HIwant to sse how he stands OF
here"
Aneenvelope containing about thirt
clippings relating to Marriott wa
passed to Hemenway. Most Of til
slips told about big land deals, br
Hemmway was able to learn thes
facts: Marriott was a widower, abol
fifty years old and had two daughter
-Edith.and Helen, nineteen and twent
one years Of age respectively.
He had come from the East whe
young man. and had made a forum
specializing in timber lands. In th
envelope there was also a picture {
him, clipped from 1 lumber trad
journal.
Hememway then borrowed the III
, OF a typewriter over in the corner Z
the room and, placing a Hotel Be
grade letter head in the machine, Il
borpusly wrote the following letter I
himself:
New York, June
My Dear Archie:
/ hope you arrived safely in Sa
Francisco, and that you will be SUI
cessfnl in your business undertaking
When I return doubtless / will be abI
with my line Of friends, to help yo'
not a little. / wish we could have seel
more OF you here in New York, bu
/ realize that business is business
] have just received q long lette
from a business associate In Seattl.
which knocks my plans for a pleasur'
trip into q cooked hat, but 1t 1
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