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The Carlisle independent., 1917-04-12
SYNOPSIS.

Lieut.. Jarvis Hope is detailed by the United States naval board to investigate and report his findings on the invention of Dr. Ralph Burke, which serves to bring the submarine to a state of perfection The lieutenant arrives in Valdavia and is welcomed by the inventor and his daugh- ter, Cleo. On the trial trip of the inven- tors boat, a Japanese helper is surprised in the act of examining the mechanism of the ventilating device. Hope reports favorably on the new device but there are others interested in it. An attempt to burglariZe Doctor Burke's laboratory fails, but later Cleo finds him murdered in his bedroom. Cleo sells her fathers H. brary to get money; later she finds d note from which she learns that they contain the secret formula With Hope she races to the auctioneer's store only to find it in flames. Olga Ivanoff and Gerald Morton two spies in search of the formula, at tempt to capture Cleo when she calls at the house of Stephanski, the anarchist Hope rushes to her aid Morton shoots at him but the bullet hits a bomb, in the cellar, which explodes. Stephanski dies in the wreck of his house; the others escape. Hope and Cleo attend bah at Mrs Del mars. whose nephew has two of the miss ing books. Mahlin, a spy, attempts to steal the books. but is discovered by Hope; in the excitement that follows the books disappear.
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Coleman came hurrying up the

for Coleman came hurrying up the pier.
 Just run over to Jerry's place, will you, Bill" he called to the watchman, "and see if you can find my two fire men, Hennessy and Dillon?"
 50 Mister Morton and his friends is goin' to the islands too, eh?'' said Hook to himself q think I'll jest slip aboard, unbeknownst to 'em, and go along"
 Morton and his companions had strolled to the far end of the pier, where they stood deep in conversa- tion; Captain Coleman was busy get ting supplies from the storehouse; the watchman had gone across the street to get the crew; so that no one saw the one-armed sailor when he climbed aboard the Sea Hawk and disappeared down the companionway.
 s
 No one had been more astonished than Morton and Olga at the mysteri- ous disappearance of the books from the Delmar study. and their astonish- ment was increased when they saw the mystification of Hope and Cleo. But Olga did not believe in taking anything for granted. No sooner did she reach her apartment in the Por- tola Arms than, despite the lateness of the hour she sent for Sextus and related to him the exciting events of the evening I'm pretty well con- vinced," she concluded, that neither Hope nor the Burke girl have any more knowledge of what has become of those books than have, but I don't wish to take any chances. I want you to watch them closely for the next few days, Sextus, and to keep me informed of anything which seems suspicious. It will be quite safe for you to lounge about the lobby of their hotel, or even for you to take room there, for neither of them know you. If they go out, follow them It's possible that they know more about those books that disappeared tonight than we think they do, and 1 don't dare leave the city to search for the other books because 1t would mean letting them out of my sight"
 The following morning, from his table in the breakfast room of the ho- tel where Hope and Cleo were stay. ing. Sextus witnessed, without, how ever, being able to overhear, their conversation with Hook; when, after lunch, they departed in taxicab for the waterfront, he followed them; and from the pier he saw them depart in the launch for the Farallons. Five minutes later breathless from run ming, he was talking to Olga over the telephone.
 They've given us the slip" he panted. They've hired a launch and
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station on the Middle Farallon. imagine, therefore, that Fitzmaurice is making his headquarters on the mid dle island"
 How do you reach the islands?" inquired Cleo.
 We will have to take launch" ]" was the answer. There are no boats running regularly to the islands, and l find that the government tender won't go out again until next week. So I've sent Hook down to the water front to see if he can hire a power boat. Here he is now" he added, as the one-armed sailor appeared in the doorway.
 Well, Hook?" he inquired, were you able to get a boat?"
 Yes, sir" said Hook, touching his forelock, man-o-war fashion, I've found a good, stout little power boat not very big, she ain't, but she's well built and seaworthy and I'd cross to China in her. Morrissey, the feller what owns her. used to be an old ship mate O mine. He says he'll take us out to the Farallons for twenty dol lars"
 Couldn't you find anything larger?" asked Hope.
 There was a fine big boat sir, a sixty-footer, tied up at the same wharf but her skipper wanted fifty dollars for the trip"
 That's too much" said Hope de- cisively. We'll take the launch it will do quite as well. Tell your man to be ready to start at two o'clock"
 Little did Hope foresee the perils which awaited them off the rock-bound shores of the Farallons
 The launch which Hook had en- gagged lay at one of the piers which jut out into the harbor from San Fran cisco's waterfront like the teeth of a gigantic comb. Though Morissey, the owner-captain, had been told to be ready to start by two o'clock, owing to some engine trouble it was con- siderably past three before he was ready to cast of. Then came another hitch. Hook had disappeared.
 Now, where the devil has he gone to-" demanded Hope, impatiently striding up and down the pier.
 T guess he's gone to get a drink, sir," said Morissey, touching his cap. T saw him about twenty minutes ago heading for one of those saloons over on East street. I'll send a boy after him if you wish, sir"
 No replied Hope, we'll go with out him."
 Morissey was quite right in his sur mise; Hook, who was the possessor Of a chronic thirst, confident that he would have time for a glass of beer before the repairs to the engine could be effected, had slipped away on a
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SIXTH INSTALLMENT

Fear clutching at her heart, Cleo, followed by Mrs. Delmar and a throng of terrified guests, burst into the con servatory through whose roof Hope and his masked assailant had plunged In their mad struggle. The young of fcer, begrimed and dishevelled was supporting himself against a column His clothes were in tatters and from an ugly gash in his head trickled a scarlet rivulet His adversary had dis appeared.
 He got away" he croaked, 'T couldn't hold him. He broke loose and ran through that door into the garden"
 "Oh, my dear, my dear I thought that you had been killed!" cried Cleo, almost hysterical with mingled anx- iety and relief. Are you hurt badly, Jarvis?"
 Its only scratch" said Hope weakly, dropping into a chair which someone hastily brought.
 I'm going to send you home in my limousine said Mrs. Delmar Tt will be more comfortable than a taXicab. And I can never thank you enough, MT. Hope, for your bravery in grap- bling with that burglar. If it hadn't been for you he would have robbed the house."
 There is nothing to thank me for, Mrs. Delmar," said Hope. Any man with drop of red blood in him would have done the same. I'm only sorry that the fellow got away"
 By the way he added, turning to Cleo, i've mustn't forget about the books"
 I'll run up and get them.' said Cleo. q know just where they are."
 She was back a moment later.
 Why, Jarvis" she exclaimed breath lessly, "the books are gone!"
 Good Lord," groaned Hope, some one has got ahead of us again.
 It was after midnight when Hope and Cleo reached their hotel, so that It was with some surprise that they
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started for some islands outside the entrance to the harbor I think they call them the Farallons. They"
 But Olga cut him short.
 ''Is there another boat there that we can hire to take us to the islands?"
 Yes" answered Sextus, there's a big power boat that we could proba- bly get
 Good" said Olga Telephone MT. Morton that I will call for him at his hotel in ten minutes. Then wait for us at the wharf,"
 
 Little did either of the two parties who were now speeding toward the is lands dream that, from over on the Oakland side of the harbor a third launch was starting for the same des- tination. In it were three men: Nah lin, Satsuma and the Japanese boat man.
 What Olga had learned of the move ments of Hope and Cleo through the espionage of Sextus, Mahlin had sur missed. When, bruised, battered and aching in every limb from his encoun- ter with Hope, he reached his rooms, almost the first thing he did was to consult the copy of the list which Sat suma had obtained from Dawson. The next name, he found, was that of Ar thur Fitzmaurice and his address was given as the Commercial hotel. Call ing up that hostelry. he learned that MT. Ftzmaurice had departed His forwarding address, so the night clerk informed him, was in care of the To- cal office of the United States coast survey. The following morning Nah lin called at the coast survey offices only to learn that Fitzmaurice was at work charting the Farallon group and that it was uncertain when he would return. It was we'll into the after noon, therefore, before he and Sat suma started fo- the islands in launch which the latter had hired from E fellow countryman living on the Oakland side. Before leaving Mahlin took the precaution of calling up Hopes hotel
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brief visit to the nearest saloon. But leaning over the polished bar were some seafaring acquaintances, and, in their congenial company, the single drink that he had promised himself became two, and the two grew into half a dozen, so that nearly an hour had elapsed before, breaking away from his noisily protesting companions, he made his way, 8 trifie unsteadiiy, back to the pier. But the launch, in- stead of being tied up alongside, where he had left her, was now small black speck on the waters of San Francisco bay.
 The unceremonious fashion in which he had been left behind sobered Hook completely, and it was a dejected and very sheepish old seaman who turned his steps in the direction of the city.
 But it was destined that he should go to the Farallons after all, though in fashion which he had not antici- pated, for just as he was leaving the pier a taxicab drew up and deposited three passengers. One of them Hook instantly recognized as Gerald Nor ton, but the man and woman who &C., companied him he did not recall hav- ing seen before. At sight of them the old sailor stepped behind pile of lum- Der.
 They approached the dockman.
 We wish to take run out to the Farallons," said Morton. 'I under stand that launches for the trip can be hired here"
 The only small launch we have has just started for the islands, was the answer "A feller and girl hired it for the trip only about half an hour ago. But Cap'n Coleman might take you over in his big boat if you're will ing to pay his price. That's him with the blue cap down to the end of the wharf"
 Morton and the woman approached the man designated as Captain Cole man, while Hook, from the shelter of his lumber pile, watched from afar their conversation. It evidently re- suited satisfactorily to all concerned,
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A Terrific Blow Descended on His
 Skull and He Knew No More. found Hook awaiting them. Under his arm was package wrapped in a newspaper.
 Come over here," he whispered mysteriously, I've got surprise for you"
 Leading the way into one of the re- ception rooms, which was deserted at that hour of the night, he closed the door behind them and bolted it. Then. while Hope and Cleo watched him curiously, he laid on the table the parcel which he carried, broke the string and unwrapped the paper. Be fore them lay the missing books!s
 Great Heavens, man, where did you get them? We thought that they were gone for good Hope almost
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05
Chris High. Auctloneer.
Public Sale
PUBLIC SALE LIVERY STOCK

John W. Miller will sell at public sale
his livery stock, now in the Ketcham barn
east side of North Main street, Rockford
Ohio, beginning at 10 o'clock a. M, on
SATURDAY, January 1s, 1917
HORSES-Seven head, all good drivers
and in good condition.
TIARNESS-Hearse, cab, carriage and
single; fly nets, etc.
VEHICLHS-Two rubber tired cabs,
buggies, storm cabs, sample wagon. Six
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05
PROBATE NOTICE

NOTICE is hereby given that the fol-
lowing Executors, Administrators and
Guardians nave filed their accounts and
vouchers in the Probate Court Of Mercer
County Ohio, for allowance and settle
ment. and that the same viii be heard
on the 31st day Of January, A. d. 1917,
and settled and confirmed if no CHcep-
tiOns are filed thcretO
EXECUTORS FOR FINAL SETTLE
MENT
Elizabeth NJ. Laux, Executrix of the
Estate of John LauX, deceased.
EXECUTORS FOR PARTIAL SETTLE
MENT
VIM. Hair, Executor of the Estate of
Jacob Hair, deceased.
ADMINISTRATORS FOR FINAL SET
ELEMENT
Fred Ulmer, Administrator of the Es-
tate of John Ulmcr, deceased.
G. S. Younger Administrator of the
Estate Of J. %. Ward deceased.
Josephine Feltz, Administrative of the
estate OF Frank Sunderman, deceased.
Anton Hemmelgarn, Administrator with
VIII Annexed Of the Estate of Theodore
Hemmelgarn, deceased.
GUARDIANS FOR PARTIAL SET
ELEMENT
Mary Hemmelgarn, Guardian Of Harm
on Hemmelgarn ct al
c. S. Younger, Guardian OF Jesse A.
Gilbert
9. S. Younger Guardian of Paul Seal
schott ct al.
G. S. Younger Guardian of Amos H.
Reser ct al
6. S. Younger, Guardian of Jesse C. No
&. S. Younger, Guardian of Cyrus H.
Dated this 3rd day of January, A. D,
l0-' ORvHLLE RAUDABAUGH
Judge of Mercer County Probate Court.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05
Public Sale

On account Of leaving the state the un-
derSgned will sell at public auction on
the WenZlau farm l mile east OF Skeels
X Roads and / miles west of Scudder
and 2 miles north and ! miles west Of
Wabash and II miles west of Celina, o.,
on
WEDNESDAY,, January 10, 1916
commencing at 1890 p. m. the following
property tO-wit;
3 HEAD HORSES-consisting of l Bel
gian mare years old, weight 14OO; l
gray mare years old weight 1400; one
gray mare weight 1900; 1 Belgian mare
cot--a good one.
3 HEAD CATTLE Jersey COW years
old viii be fresh 1st of April, Jersey
heifer calf and / yearling Jersey bull.
FARM TNIPIEMENTs- mower,
cut Is acres hay, Moline disc same ds
new Moline riding breaking plaw, Amer
lean disc drill with fertilizer attachment,
Sattley corn planter, John Deere cultiva-
tor, single shovel plaws, wagon, nat bot
tom hay riggin, stone bed, sled, rubber
tire buggy set brass mounted double work
harness, 2 sets buggy harness, hay in
NOV, some corn fodder and dozen chick
ems.
tor, burner oil stove, wood heating
stove, cupboard. McDougal kitchen cabi-
net almost new: dining room chairs,
stand some vinegar in barrel, apple but
ter about rs cans fruit about 100 lbs.
sugar cured meat, canned sausage and
other articles too numerous to mention
TERMS-All sums Of $500 and under
cash; Credit of . months Will be given
purchaser giving bankable note. per
''"' vi GEORGE iec SdI e. NuNeEsTER, Jr
p. c. KNOX, Auctioneer.
q. F. STONER, Clerk
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05
ST. ROSA

Commissioner Bernard Evers look
ed after business in Celina, last
Thursday.
Jos, Lochtefeld was a Celina visit,
or last Thursday.
Miss Olivia kleinhenz made bust
ness trip to Celina, last Thursday.
Teacher II. II. Leugers was an Os-
good visitor last Wednesday,
j. w. Kleinhenz shipped six car
loads of hogs last week He is GER
tainly doing a rushing business in the
hog line.
August Lochtefeld and Henry
Hartings accompanied by his daugh-
ters Anna and Mary were Celina Wis
itors last Friday.
John Bruins and son Anthony were
st. Rosa business calerls one day last
week.
j. A. Kleinhenz was in St. Henry
on business last Friday.
Mrs. Mary Meiering was a Celina
visitor last Saturday.
John Huber and his sons, Frank
and Henry, of Osgood, and George
Huber and son Albert, of Wendelin,
We're guests of Chas. Huber and wife,
last sunday.
John Fiely was a Minister visitor
last Sunday.
John Fortkamp and wife visited
Louis Wildenhaus and family at Mar
Ia Stein last Sunday evening.
Miss Esther Schlosser, of st. Hen
~ spent New Years with Bernard
Albers and family.
on New Years afternoon the pews
were rented for the coming year in
the St Rosa church. They did not
quite bring what they usually did.
In the family of Joseph Lochtefeld
a new little baby girl was born on
New Years Day.
A pair Of brown kid gloves were
lost last Sunday on going home from
church between A. d. Meirings place
and where Henry Schlorman lives.
The finder will please leave them at
Lochtefeld's store where the owner
viii get them.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05
OBITUARY

Sunday at IL o'clock noon, Dec.
31st, 1916, Mrs. John E. Coughlin,
nee Lamm died at Wendelin, Ohio,
after long and very painful sickness
surrounded by all her children and
well fortified with all the consolatons
of her church. Mrs. Coughln was
born in Victoria, o., July 18th, 1868,
was married to John COughlin Nov.
27th, 1888. Her marriage was bless
ed with six children, two went into
the Happy Beyond before her, Will
liam and Leo, four remain to mourn
her loss; Michael A., Lawrence W.,
Kathryn E., Loretta M. Her hus-
band died three years ago.
Above dates tell in a few cold
words the fact Mrs. John e. Coughlin
or Caroline, as her friends would love
to call her in a familiar way, lived
and died. Whosoever knew her be-
fore her sickness and especially in
her sickness knows well enough that
cold dates are not enough and not
| sufficient justice to a lady like her.
| She was above all a true wife and
hers were many trials. She was a
limit when it meant to earn a penny
for her children to work for their
future temporal welfare. 1t was
above all her ambition to raise her
children for God and Heaven, teach
them honesty and uprightness, and
she was the outspoken enemy of any
sinister Here was the secret of her
success, she was honest in her busi-
ness dealings, people loved to buy
from her, she would not accept pay
ment for an article she knew was not
worth your money, she understood it
with wonderful sagacity, to supply
her store with the most necessary and
at the same time not overstock her
store, a business quality few men
possess and fewer women. That |
Caroline Coughlin was enjoying a |
very large circle of friends is evidenc-
ed from the fact that during the last |
fifteen weeks she was back from the |
hospital where she was operated upon |
last November just to prolong her |
life, hundreds of friends and ac-
quaintances called upon her to offer
their tribute of sympathy, and instead |
of them having to console her in her
sufferings, she would cheer up her
friends so much that they often left
thinking she was not as sick as they
claimed her to be. Alas! cheerful
and happily gifted lady and mother
has left us. She has gone to Heaven,
there to await our coming, we weep
at her mortal remains, we sob at her
grave, we implore Almighty to be
with her in His judgment
with the fond hOna Of meeting her in |
bliss.
The children of the above deceased
Mrs, John Coughlin, wish to extend
their hearty thanks for all favors re-
ceived form friends during the sick
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05

The Celina Democrat and the Gin
cinnati Post now $3.50 a year. The
SOC raise was made necessary by an
advance made TO us by the Post.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05
Public Sale

we, the undersigned, will sell at pub,
auction, on the farm known as the Fred
Koch farm, located one-half mile south
and one and one quarter mile west OF
Wabash, Ohio, on
THURSDAY, January II, 1917
prompt on the abve date the following
personal property to-wt:
HEAD HORSES-Consisting of one
brood mare in foal, years old, weight
1500 hounds; one mare years old, weight
1900 pounds; one gelding years old,
weight 400 pounds; one gelding . years
old, weight 1900 pounds. and one spring
colt
CATTLE-Nlne head of good Spring
ii HEAD OF HOGS-Consistin of one
good brood SOW with pigs by side, two
brood sows win farrow In spring ana IL
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05
Public Sale

The undersigned will offer for sale at
his residence miles north and % mile
east of Celina and mile south and sl
mile east of Mercer and q mile east Of
Tabor Church on
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05
Public Sale

The undersigned will offer for sale at
the livery barn opposite the CITY Hail.
Celina, Ohio, on
SATURDAY, January 6, 1917
Sale to commence at 10 a. m.
10 Head Horses.
2 Automobiles and I Auto Buss.
13 top buggies.
Storm Buggies.
3 cabs and i Coach, 2 Carriages.
sets double harness.
10 sets Single Harness.
Oil tank and other articles.
with per cent interest. Goog surety.
JOHN kUNTZ.
Frank Greer of Portland, Ind, Auc.
II q TIinders Clerk
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05

Howc OF solemny
o knowledge and belief
H. HOWCK Cashier.
and o January 1917
[sEAL SCELOSSER, Public Mercer Ohio
II. f. Haey w. L. TouVele Directors
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05

storm fronts, two storm blankets, etc;
Two Ford touring cars, and two Ford
cab tops. Plenty Of robes, blankets, roll
top desk, chair, wardrobe and mony other
articles.
Also gray horse, wagon. dump bed, hay
ladders, Cron storm buggy. Ihree new
"Storm King" Cabs, property OF j.; H..
Lloyd & Sons Write for Dill describing
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05

troyed was placed at about $4,000,
and one Of the satisfactory features
to Sheriff Adams was that each sepa.
rate collection Of il represented the
conviction of the man engaged in
peddling it.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05

ness of their mother as also for the
many expressions of coincidence upon
her death and the large attendance
at her burial.
MICHAEL A., LAWRENCE w,
KATHRYN E., LORETTA M.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05

Twenty-seyen car loads of soldiers,
including several car loads of horses
and eight cars of artillery, passed
through this city last Tuesday noon,
east bound over the Lake, Erie &
Western, enroute home from the
Mexican border The troops were
contingents of Maine and New oYrk
militia.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05

head Of shoats weighing about 60 pounds
each.
Also 50 head of Chickens, about 10 tons
Of good hay in the NOV, one No. 10 De-
Laval Cream Separator, good as new, and
other articles not here mentioned.
TERMS made known on day of sale.
CHAPMAN G. RUSH.
p. c. Knox, Auctioneer.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-01-05
THURSDAY, January II, 1917

Tabor Church on
THURSDAY, January II, 1917
Sale to begin at 12 m
HEA HORSES-Consisting of roam
mare coming 3 years old, weight 100; one
roam horse coming years old, weight
1100 one black mare coming Is years old,
weight 1900 Horses are broke single or
double workers.
FARM IMPLEMENTS-New McCor-
mick binder, good as new, used one sea-
son; j. /. Case corn planter, J. l Case
cultivator Mccormick disc, discs on a
side; Mccormick mower, foot cut; j. I.
Case Ia inch walking plow, 60-tooth drag
harrow, John Deere endgate seeder, s.
shovel cultivator, single shovel plow 31A
Turnbull wagan with bed with 2 sets of
side boards, set hay ladders, 2 double sets
of brass mounted breeching harness good
as new, double set of fly nets, set of bug
gy harness, log hunks, 50foot log chain,
80 feet of l inch rope and blocks, set Of
grab hooks, mud boat, sled, carriage pole,
steel tire buggy and other things not men
toned
TERMS-S500 under cash, over that
amount credit Of IL months, purchaser
giving bankable note. per cent. dis
count for cash.
F. E. SHOOK.
Chris High AuctiOneer.