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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-20
UNUSUAL VALUES.
In Force For Thursday, Friday and
Saturday at Benedict 4 1rintnalPs.

IN FoTce For IhuFSday, FrIoay ana
Saturday at Benedict 4 6rintnalPs.
In order to reduce our ready TO wear
stocks before Christmas we offer the
following values for the balance OF this
week.
Your choice of any ladies' coat in
the store, 80 1-3 per cent OFF. This in
cludes all but the white coats.
You may also choose any dress in
the house, party dresses excepted, at a
discount Of SO Id per cent.
All chiidren's and junior coats at
one half price.
Any of the children's wool dresses,
sizes to II, SO Ia per cent off. Head
quarters for satisfaction, Benedict &
Brintnaii.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-20
! THE BOWLING LEAGUE
Standing Of the Teams.

The games between the Blue Jays
and the Boosters, scheduled for Dec, s.
but postponed until Tuesday evening
resulted in two out of three for the
Blue Jays. Taylor, OF the Boosters
rolled e21 for high score of the evening.
and Spratt. of the Blue Jays. was high
average with 1855. The scores:
BILE LAYS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-20
Two Wills Prob oted

The wills of Mrs Caroline A. Atkin-
soL and Mrs. Carrie ". Olson. who died
n this city, were admitted TO probate
in the district court Tuesday.
Al the property of Mrs. Atkinson
was tequealhed TO her daughter. Mrs
Lulu n S,chless. except small be-
quest 70 ,ft- son, Lee S.sAtkinso1l. Mrs.
Nichless was appointed executrix. The
VIII was dated April Is. 1915
one-third OF all the property left by
Mrs. Olson was beaueaihed to her hus-
band, Peter Olson, and one-third was
given TO the son, Louis P. Olson, and
one third TO the daughter, Mrs Chris
tine Lorentsen. The son was appointed
executor without bond The will was
dated May 10, 1916. eHG
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-20
licensed 70 Wed.

Roy w. Pepper, mechanic, aged 81.
and Hattie Corrick, aged 20, both Of
Gilman.
Joe l.. Kirby. clerk, aged rs. and
Alma NJ. Weaver aged %, both Of Gill
main.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-20

B Miss Maude Wilson arrived home
Tuesday evening from Evanston, Ill,
where she Is a student in Northwest
ern University, and will spend the holt
DAYS with her mother, Mrs. Mary Will
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-20
Local Boys Wins Prize.

Harry z. Nichols. son Of L. /. Mich
OILS. 20s North Fifteenth street, and a
| student at Ames. was awarded first
place in the horticulture speaking con-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-20
m the PoIIoe court.

Frank Navaka, Mexican. and Will
liam Kent and Dudley Miller, arrested
for being drunk. were arraigned In the
mayors court. Navaka was fined $2.1b
anu tine costs, henl WAS ssu,
and Miller paid a fine of 81. 49,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-20

George Bondage. student at Du-
buque College, returned home Tues
day evening and will spend the holi-
days with his father, T. H. Bendfage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-20
M'C0RD OPEN NIGHTS
Christmas shopper Will Find Mecsrd
0roesry open TINS sv.,1,,s--;s;.
1 Thursday and Friday EVENING"
Phone Orders Appreciates.

For your convenience the McCord
grocery i21 West Main street VIII re-
main open evenings for tonight,
Thursday and Friday. Your telephone
orders will be appreciated too. De-
liyeries OF Christmas dinner wants will
be made Saturday morning, early. too.
Phones 2S4 and 1854. McCord grocery.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-20

Miss Marjorie Ketchum, who teaches
at Oskaloosa, came home this morning
for the holidays.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16

Ions. Don Gaspar shouted and leaped
from his saddle, but before the warn
ing had reached the others RATA from
the hand Of one of the men had fallen
with deadly accuracy around Yank's
arms and body, jerking him violently
from the saddle. The thrower whirled
his horse to drag his victim, Don Gas
par fired and by great good luck shot
the animal through the brain. It fell
in heap, pinning it's rider beneath it.
In the meantime Barry had leaped to
the ground and from behind the shell
ter of his horse had shot the first rob-
Der through the body. Our two COM
panions now drew together and took
refuge behind some large rocks, pre-
pairing to receive the charge of band
Of half dozen who now appeared. The
situation looked desperate. Don Gas
par fired and missed. He was never
anything of a marksman, and his first
shot must have been a great piece of
luck. Barry held his fire. The rob-
bers each discharged his rifle, but
harmlessly. Then just as they seemed
about to charge in they whirled their
horses and made off into the brush.
1--WE could not tell the why" OBJ
served Don Gaspar.
The two men did not speculate, but
ran out to where Yank lay, apparently
dead, his arms still bound close to his
body by the moose of the RATA. Barry
cut the rope with his bowie knife, and
they rolled him over. They found he
still breathed, but that, beside the
shock of his violent fall, he had been
badly trampled by the horses. After
moment he came to consciousness,
but when they attempted to lift him
| upright they found that his leg was
broken.
At this moment they heard the sound
Of voices and, looking up, saw coming
from the other direction a band of a
dozen men, half of whom were ON
horseback and all of whom were arm
ed. This looked serious.
eve got behind the rock said Don
Gaspar, "but we think to ourself our
goose is cook"
The newcomers, however, proved to
and who now came hurrying up. Evi-
IDENTITY the robbers had caught sight or
sound of their approach. They were
much interested i'll the state of affairs,
examined the horse Don Gaspar had
killed, searched for and found the body
Of the robber Barry had shot. 1t
proved to be Mexican well known
to them all and suspected to be mem
Der of Andreas Aijo's celebrated band.
They inquired for the dead horses
rider.
"And then, for the first time" said
Don Gaspar, eve think of him. He
went down with his horse. But now
he was gone and also the horse of
Senior Yank. But / think he crawl off
in the chaparral and that the horse of
SenOr Yank run away with the other
horse of the dead man.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEKD
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16

evening OF three evil looking Mexicans,
shabbily clothed, but well armed, and
mounted On beautiful horses. We fed
them well, but saw to the caps of our
| revolvers and the security of our cor
raj before turning in for the night. In
the morning they departed before we
were stirring, without so much as a
word of thanks. These mysterious
visitors had given us no faintest ink
ling of their business or destination.
Don Gaspar stated fatty that they had
come to spy us out, having heard of
our presence in the valley from the
Indians.
'And l told them," said he triumph
antly, "that essoon we would be SEN
out for the food
He went on to argue that thus he
; had prepared their minds for the fact
that pack horses would soon be going
out By distributing the gold it's pres
ence would be unsupported.
| suggested a strong guard, but both
Bagsby and Don Gaspar opposed me.
There's enough of these we're rob-
bers to git us anyhow, even if we all
went said Bagsby, land that's why
l want to send the stuff out now The
place they'll tackle will be right yere,
if they tackle anything at ALL
l will not weary you with the pros
and cons. At the time l thought, and
| still think, the whole arrangement
most i'll advised; but against me was
the united opinion of nearly the whole
camp, including the most level headed
members of my own party. 1t was
finally agreed that Yank, Buck Barry
and Don Gaspar should take out the
gold.
They started very early in the morn
ing, carrying the treasure in saddle
bags and across the horns of the sad
die. l argued that Yank rode much
the lghtest and had the strongest
horse, and managed to get the others
to confide to him a full half of the
metal At the last moment we had
modified the original plan to suit ev-
erybody. The horsemen encountered
| by pack animals were to push on as
rapidly as possible in order to reach
! by nightfall the settlement where
dWelt the Italian friend. Once there
they could feel themselves reasonably
safe. Johnny, Missouri Jones and
would ride with them until noon as a
sort of escort for the uninhabited por-
ton of the journey. By that hour
we figured we should have reached the
outskirts of the regular diggings,
! where, our experience told us, our COM
paniOns would be safe.
Accordingly we pushed our mounts
hard. Unhampered by pack animals,
and aided by knowledge of the route,
we made great progress. By noon we
had passed the meadow of our nights
camp. After hasty lunch we accom-
panied our men a few miles farther,
then said farewell and godspeed and
hurried back in order to reach home
before sunset.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16

"Godw cried Bagsby, deeply moved.
Of those devils I meetr'
We returned slowly to the fire, car
rying the body, which we laid rever-
emily one side and covered with a
blanket. In all our hearts burned
fierce, bitter anger. Sullenly we turn
ed to prepare ourselves a meal from
the supplies our hosts offered us.
The latter were the father and five
sons Of a backwoods family from the
northwest, Pine by name. They were
all tall, heavily built men, slow NOV
ing, slow speaking, with clear, steady
eyes, a drawing way of talking and
the appearance always Of keeping a
mental reservation as to those with
whom they conversed.
Just now they stood tall and grim
behind US as we ate, and the gray
dawn and the rose dawn grew into
day. Nobody said anything until we
had finished, then Yank rose to his
full height and faced the attentive
men.
II want vengeance" he announced
in an even voice, stretching forth his
long, lean arm. "Those devils have
harried our stock and killed our pard-
ner, and I'm not going to set quiet and
let them do it, He turned to us.
"Boys," said he, 81 know you're with
me thar But I'm going to git our
friends yere to go with us. Old man."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16
OFFICE BOYS AT A PREMIUM.
Will Soon Be Extinct as the Dodo,
Y. M. C.. A. Man Saws.

Y. M. c. A. Man Says.
New York.-The office boy is going to
be as extinct as the dOdo, according to
S. G. McCOnaughey employment de-
partment secretary of the central
branch Y. NJ. G. A. He has scores OF
applications every month from those
who want office boys. but he can fill
only very small percentage because
the boys are not to be had.
THE reason seems to be- he said.
that families are in better financial
shape now than formerly and can keep
their boys in school longer and because
IN spite Of the diminishing supply the
demand continues to increase.
Boys now realize that knowledge is
power. They know that skilled labor
and technical school trained labOrers
are paid better wages than unskiIled
and shop trained labor. They know
the advantage of staying in school, for
they have learned that to do so will
give them large return later in dol
lars and cents
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16

you MIND and behave and don't come
back we're without'n you bring q
skelpr'
About o'clock of the second lay
Pine remarked quietly:
Thar they come"
| was instantly by his side, and we
strained our eyesight in an attempt to
count the shifting figures. Pines vi
sion was better and more practiced
than miEe.
'They are all thar" said he. land
they're driving extry hosses.'
Ten minutes later the cavalcade stop
ped, and the men dismounted YEARLY
They were, as the old man had said,
driving before them a half dozen po-
MES, which Governor Boggs herded
into the corral. Nobody said a word.
One or two stretched themselves.
Johnny seized cup and took long
drink. Yank leaned his rife against
the wall Old man Pines keen, fierce
eye had been rowing over every detail.
though he, too. had kept silent
"Well, Old" he remarked. II see you
obeyed orders like a good sojer."
The boy grinned.
Yes, dad" said he.
And then l saw what I had not no.
ticed before-that at the belt of each
Of the tall. silent young backwoodsmen
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16
Copyright, 1913, by Doubleday
Page e. Co.

where's McNallyE" Yank instantly
demanded. Hasn't he come in YETI"
We told him we had seen nothing Of
the missing man.
''Well, he'll drift i'll pretty Soon," said
Bagsby. 1--WE lost him in the darkness
not two hours back"
They set to frying some yenisOn
steak. EXcitedly and in antiphony
Johnny and l detailed the days adj
venture. Both the backswoodsmen
listened in silence, but without sus-
pending their cooking.
They didn't bother McNally," Bags
10y decided. They'd drive those bosses
away five or six miles before they'd
stop. And McNally was with us just
little piece back. He'll be in by the
time the veniSon is cooked
But he was not, nor by an hour later.
Then we decided that we must go out
to look for him.
eve can't see nothin till daylight"
said Bagsby, but we can get started
back for the last place we saw him.
1t was now about l o'clock in the
morning. Bagsby appointed Vasquez,
Missouri Jones, Buck Barry. Yank and
myself to accompany him. Don Gas
par was suffering from a slight attack
of malarial fever, and Johnny, to his
vast disgust, was left to hold him COM
pany. We took each horse, which
we had to ride bareback and with a
twisted rope war halter"
We proceeded thus for a long time
five or six miles, l should think. By
the underlined feeling of dark space at
either hand judged we must be atop
a ridge. Bagsby halted.
1T was somewhere on this ridge we
left him." said he Il reckon now
we'd just better set down and wait for
dawn"
Accordingly we dismounted and drew
together in little group Over the
top of the great ranges a gibbous moon
rose slowly. By her dim light l could
make out the plunge on either side our
ridge and the other dark ridges across
the way. Behind us our horses occa-
sionally stamped a hoof or blew
through their noses.
| lay fiat on my back and idly count
ed the stars. Happening to glance
sidewise, l caught the flicker of dis
tant light
"Bagsby," whispered. there's Il 4.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16
Birds Stop Gas Supply.

MenOminee. Wis.-TwO little spar
rows caused every gas user in Menom-
inee to go without gas for several
hours The birds built their nest in the
outlet pipe of the water tank through
which the gas is passed. During the
heavy rain the tank overf1owed be-
cause the nest clogged the outlet pipe
The overflowing Of the tank disar-
ranged the apparatus and shut off the
gas The nest was removed later and
the gas supply restored.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16

an even voice.
he said to Pine, "you and yore sons
help us with this job and We'll locate
you on the purtiest diggings in these
nils
'You bett' agreed McNally.
"You don't need to make my boys no
Offer" replied Pine slowly. ''Those
divils were after our bosses too, and
they'd have got them if you hadn't
come along. We'd been told by man
we believe that there want no Injuns
in this country or you wouldn't have
seen us sleeping es close to our fire.
Whar do you all reckon to come up
with them?"
Our old trapper interposed.
'"Their rancheree is down the valley
somewhars," said Bagsby, land We'll
have to scout for it. We must go back
to camp first and get Already"
McNally and I murmured against
this check to immediate action, but
saw the point after a moment. The
Pines racked their slender outfit. We
bound the body of our poor friend
across his horse and mournfully re-
traced our steps.
We arrived in camp about 10 o'clock,
to find Johnny and Don Gaspar anx-
iously on the alert. When we had i'm
parted our news their faces, too, dark
ened with anger. Of US all Vasquez
had been the only man who never lost
his temper, who had always q flash Of
a smile for the hardest days. Hastily
we threw together provisions for sew
eral days and arranged our affairs as
we'll as we could. We all wanted to
so, and Don Gaspar, in spite Of the re-
mains of his malarial fever, fairly in
sisted on accompanying the expedition.
"Senores," he said, with dignity,
this was my own man from my own
people"
Nevertheless somebody had to stay
in camp, although at first some of us
were inclined to slur over that neces-
sity.
"There's a strong chance that Injuns
will drift by and take all our supplies"
Bagsby pointed out.
Chances are slim in only a day Or
so. You must admit that" argued
Johnny. Lets risk it. We can scratch
along if they do take our stuff
"And the gold?'
That nonplused us for moment.
"Why not bury it," 1 suggested.
Bagsby and Pine snorted.
ANY Injun would find it in a min
ute," said Pine.
'And they know COLDS worth some
thing, too,'' put in Yank.
''This is a scout, not house moving
expedition" said Bagsby decidedly,
"and somebody's got to keep camp"
''I'll stay fer one," offered old man
Pine, his eyes twinkling from beneath
his fierce brows. give fit enough In
juns in my time"
After some further wrangling we
small white pebbles and one darker
were shaken up in hat. I drew in
the fourth turn and got the black!
Hard luck, son." murmured old man
Pine.
The rest were eager to be off. They
leaped upon their horses, brandishing
their long rifles, and rode off down the
meadow. Old man Pine leaned on the
muzzle of his gun, his eyes cleaning,
uttering commands and admonitions
to his five sons.
"You, Old" he warned his youngest,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16
WAS RACING TO MEET STORK.
But Policeman Found Cocaine and
Herein In Harvey's Parcel

New York.-A young man hastily
leaving the drug store Of Henry Ru"
bernstein engaged the professional at
tention of Policeman Flick, who asked
him what were the contents Of a parcel
under his arm.
Cant stop to talk to you now" said
the man, who later said he was Paul
Harvey. cts an emergency case, and
the stork will soon arrive. If you are
married you can understand the situa-
tion.''
Then he tried to dash off, but Flick
restrained him and insisted upon ex-
aiming the parcel. According to the
policeman, it contained large guam
tity of cocaine and heroin. Harvey was
held on burglary charge by Magis-
trate Brough in Morrisania court.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16

YE cooked ourselves meal
VA and built ourselves a fire.
wv About midnight we heard
the sounds of horses rapidly
approaching. Immediately we leaped
from our hunks and seized our rifles,
peering anxiously into the darkness. A
moment later, however, we were reas-
sured by a shrill whistle peculiar to
Buck Barry, and moment later he
and Don Gaspar rode into camp.
We assailed them with a storm of
questions-why had they returned?
What had happened? Where was
Yank? Had there been an accident?
Don Gaspar, who appeared very
weary and depressed, shook his head
sadly. Barry looked at us savagely
from beneath his brows.
"The gold is gone, and that's an end
Of it!' he growled.
At these words a careful, dead 81
lence fell on us all. The situation had
suddenly become too serious for hasty
treatment. We felt instinctively that
a wrong word might do irreparable
damage. But in our hearts suspicion
and anger and dull hatred leaped to
life full grown. We frightened our
belts, as it were, and clamped our ell
bows to our sides and became wary,
watching with unfriendly eyes. John
ny alone opened his lips.
Lost? l don't believe it!' he cried.
Barry cast an ugly look at him, but
said nothing. We all saw that look.
"Where's Yank?" 1 asked.
Dead by now, I suppose" flung back
Barry.
"Good Godv' l cried, and under my
breath, "Then you've murdered himr
l don't know whether Barry heard
me or not, and at the time I did not
much care. His sullen eye was rest
ing on one after the other of us as we
stood there in the freight. Every face
was angry and suspicious. Barry flung
himself from his horse, tore the pad
from it's back, slapped it on the flank
and turned away, reckless Of where it
went He cut himself steak and set
to cooking his food, an uncompromis-
ing shoulder turned in our direction.
Nor did he open his mouth to utter an
other word until the general discus
sion later in the evening. Don Gaspar,
who owned the only riding saddle, un-
harnessed his horse, led it to water,
knee battered it and turned it loose to
Craze. While he was gone no one
spoke, but we glanced at each other
darkly. He turned, sat down by the
fire, rolled himself a cigarette and vol
unteered his story.
"My fren'," said he, with a direct
ness and succinctness utterly foreign
to his everyday speech, 'you want to
know what happen. Yer well, it was
like this
He told us that after we had left
them they hurried on as fast as posi-
BILE in order to reach the settled coun-
try. Owing to the excellence of his
animal he was generally some distance
in advance. At one point, stopping on
a slight elevation to allow them to
catch up, he looked back in time to
see two men on horseback emerge from
the chaparral just behind his compan-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16

nothing. But the horses swerved aside
from the long fiery flashes, and SO ran
into the picketed lot and stopped. The
Indians flew on through our scattered
line without stopping, pursued by a
sputter Of shots from our Colts re-
volverS.
"Awhile ago | was sorry we had to
stop above camp" said Bagsby, with
satisfaction, but it was lucky thing
for us. They had to come by us to
git OUT
and VasQuez:" Yank struck across
our eXultatiOn.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16
Seasickness.

Recalling the fact that deaf and
dumb people do not become seasick,
Drs. Lewis Fisher and Isaac III. Jones
in the New York Medical Journal draw
ear phenomenon. The end organs Of
equilibrium in the ear canal, the stat
ic labyrinth, is disturbed by the I'M
accustomed movement of the boat.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16
CHAPTER XVII.

We Send Out Our Treasure.
Z re had a good deal of trouble
N finding the exact spot where
wv we had left him, for we
could get no answer te oSr
calls. He was down in a heap, COW
cred with blood and quite dead The
savages had scalped him. In our long
companionship we had grown very
sond of him, for he was merry, good
natured, willing soul.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16
City Livery for Sale!

| offer for sale my livery stock and
bushes. Stock is good and bust
ness is good; but the condition of
my health makes it necessary that |
retire from this line of work.
Will consider a small trade in the
deal. JOHN r. BROWN,
Mineral Point, Wis.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Robbery.

7 e cooked ourselves a meal
u and built ourselves a fire.
~ About midnight we heard
the sounds of horses rapidly
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16

he said to Pine, 'you and yore sons
help us with this job and We'll locate
you on the purtiest diggings in these
nils
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-11-16

CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.