The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-24
CHAPTER xv-cont'nued'

nv .,od him from the window, a triiie ,nS Valcne She recalled Bill's remark pul1rch ,nucheon. In the light of Brooks a' s,,anation, she could see no.nins ap,anO sna On the other hand, she knew wlVuS, SlO TSoostaff was not prone to Jump DlI ..sh conclusions. If he ob1ecteo to n .a,n .a1 manipulations of the Free Goiu wa,na ssl,u company, his objection was min,n' .au,, to he based on substantiai nA.s .nnds At any rate, she hoped noun s.v' " asogreeable would come of It.
 'Ds so che put the whole matter out or ,,. mind She dressed, and went u,, Dso,o.heartedly about her own affairs 'I n,rner time was drawing close when x. roturned home. She sat down by % u,ndow that overlooked the street 7. watch for Bill. Six passed. The s.whour chime struck on the mantel .ock Hazel grew impatient. petu- snt. aggrieved. Dinner would be sorved in twenty minutes. Still there wss m sign of him. And for lack of othor occupation she went into the hall and got the evening paper, which the carrier had just delivered.
 A startling headline on the front nooe stiffened her to scandalized atten- aon. Straight across the tops of two columns 1t ran, a facetious caption:
 WILLIAM wAGsTAFF IS A BEAR
 Under that the subhead:
 Husky Mining Man Tumbles Prices and
 prokers Whips Four Men in Broad
 Street Office. Slugs Another on
 Change. His Mighty Fists Sub
 due Society's Finest. Finally
 Lands in Jail.
 The body of the article Hazel read In what sob sister would describe u state of mingled emotions.
 William Wagstaff is a mining gentleman from the northern wilds of British Colum- bia He is a big man. a natural-born fighter To prove this he inflicted a black eye and split lip on Paul Lorimer, O broken nose and sundry bruises on James L Brooks Also Allen T. Bray and Ed ward Gurney Parkinson suffered certain contusons in the melee. The fracas oc- cured in the office of the Free Gold Min Ing Company. l564 Broad street. at s:3o this afternoon. While hammering the brokers a police officer arrived on the scene and Wagstaff was duly escorted to tty ha ell flo I~tA Ak hA counter in the Broad street office Wag- stan walked into the Stock Exchange, and made statements about the Free Gold Min Ing Company which set all the brokers by the ears. Lorimer was on the floor, and received his discolored optic there.
 reporter was present when Wagstaff walked on the floor of the Stock Ex- change. He strode up to the post where rorimer was transacting business
 T serve notice on you right now" he said loudly and angrily, that if you sell another dollars worth of Free Gold stock, III put you out of business"
 Lorimer appeared to lose his temper some word was passed which further in- eensed Wagstaff He smote the broker and the broker smote the floor. Wag- staFs punch would do credit to a cham Hon pugilist, from the execution 1t s!cash'. He immediately left the Stock exchange and not long afterward Broad nreet was electrified by sounds of combat a a tne gree Gold office. It is conceded @a' @ Wagstaf had the situation and his cop arrived None or the men concerned would dis ss sasS lne matter. From the remarks drop- Mya os wagstan however. 1t appears that ~e pohcy or marketing Free Gold stock consent ms "ieuse UT a,. sna. as IL may. all sorts of rumors vS,.h sh circuiation and Free Gold stock, ss Aeh s,l mas been sold during the past week s,. '.eh as ds dollar forty, found few talk hss s ~ par when Change closed. There men, V'en considerable speculative move ,ra ele stock, and the speculators scren, ss'hhing to wonder if there Is a W" Ws.u.ose loose in the company affairs.
 forenoo.a case will come up tomorrow peaca on, charge of disturbing the a ca,h was placed against him. He gave Wbsn uoha and was at once released. partiss ue nearing comes some of the yulea ,s so the affair may perchance di- Anv a' en iay at the bottom of the row. to imrnae nne within the power of the court to tha s,.. IS mere bagatelle. compared hana,y,,uu usunction of scientifically man. afternoee, iour of society's finest in one the cIa.a As one bystander remarked in 'rwsc 'rwass phraseology of the street:
 rs"asstafr's bearl"
 this to hAers concerned might consider
 '0 nave double meaning.
 sna aaael ,. dropped the paper, mortified tha rs mratnful. The city jail seemed lur,a very cry Pit itself to her. And the her I ,.i publicity, the lifted eyebrows of pla,n l'eaos' maddened her in prospect, mlph. street brawllng, such as one nahon. , expect from a cabman or n taxi band Tu', q not from a man like her hus. blams tS Sne S involuntarily assigned the cause u' uu nm Not for the cause-tbe to her was Of no importance whatever best fr,oa noat for the act itself. Their 1t. Jlmm,i Jruas She could hardly realize brohan a,lle Brooks, jovial Jimmie, With And pan, ra nose and sundry bruises ! who hoa au, Lorimer, distinguished paul,