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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-15
(Continued Next Week.

rargo.-B. Il. Critchfeld, sales man
ager for the North Dakota Livestock
association, estimates that the gross
value of blooded animals sold at the
~ public sales held by the %organiza-
ton within the past twelve months
aggregates 100000.
Fargo.-Wholesale and retail music
dealers of North Dakota are to form
a union for the protection of their
craft. Professional players are al
ready organized, but the report that
music Consumers" are to organize is
said to be premature.
misunderstanding on quo Warranto
proceedings in the case Of Neil {.
Macdonald against Minnie j. Nelson.
who defeated him for the office OF
state superintendent Of public tnstruc-
ton, will be had ut the May term of
the Burleigl county district, court. .
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-15

desperate man had been established.
This in connection with the scar on his
face and the tracks, which the boots
Of Amos fitted, and the broken gun
stock convinced the jury of his guilt.
I remember well the look of the
venerable Judge Cady as he pro-
EOunced the sentence Of death upon
Amos Grimshaw. A ray of sunlight
slanting through a window in the late
afternoon fell upon his gracious cOun-
tenance, shining also, with the softer
light of his spirit. Slowly, solemnly,
kindly, he spoke the words of doom.
1t vas his way Of saying them that
first made me feel the dignity and
majesty of the law. The kind and ia
therly tone Of his voice put me in
mind of that supremest court which
is above all question and which was
swiftly to enter judgment in this mat
ter and in others related to it.
Slowly the crowd moved out Of the
courtroom. Benjamin Grimshaw rose
and calmly whispered to his lawyer.
He had not spoken to his son or
seemed to notice him since the trial
had begun, nor did he nov Many had
shed tears that day, but not he. Mr..
Grimshaw never showed but M emo
tion-that of anger. He was angry
now. His face was hard and stern. He
courtroom, his cane briskly beating the
floor.
The Silent Woman-as ragged as
ever-was waiting on the steps. Out
went her bony finger as he came down.
He turned and struck at her with his
cane and shouted in a shrill voice that
rang out like a trumpet in his frenzy:
go way from me. Take her away,
somebody. I can't stan it. She's KILN
me. Take her away. Take her away.
Take her away"
His face turned purple and then
white. He reeled and fell headlong,
like a tree severed from it's roots, and
lay still On the hard, stone pavement.
IL SCeluSu as IL SuOW WE'RE 1dllluS Oh
his FACET grew so white. The Silent
Woman stood as still as he, pointing
at him with her finger, her look IN
changed. People came running toward
US. I lifted the head of Mr.. Grimshaw
and laid it on my knee. 1t felt like the
head of the stranger in Rattleroad.
Old Kate bent over and looked at the
eyelids of the a which fluttered
family and We're still.
Dead" she muttered.
Then, as if her work were finished,
she turned and made her way through
the crowd and walked slowly down
the street. Men stood aside to let her
pass, as if they felt the power Of her
spirit and feared the touch of her gar
ments.
Two or, three men had run to the
house of the nearest doctor. The crowd
thickened. AS l sat looking down at
the dead face In my lap, a lawyer who
had come out of the courtroom pressed
near me and bent over and looked at
the set eyes, Of BENJAMIN Grimshaw
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-15

and said:
"She f1oored him at last. I knew she
would. He tried not to see her, but I
tell We that bony old finger of hers
burnt a hole in him. He couldn't stand
it. I knew he'd blow up some day I'M
der the strain. She got him at last"
"Who got him?" another asked.
"Rovin' Kate. She killed him point
ing her finger at him-so."
"She's got an evil eye. E%verybody's
afraid O. the crazy OF trollope."
Nonsense! Size isn't half as crazy
as the most of U.S." said the lawyer.
"In my opinion she had a good reason
for pointing her finger at that man.
She came from the same town he did
we in Vermont. Ye don't know what
happened there"
The doctor arrived. The crowd
made way for him. He knelt beside
the still figure and made the tests. He
rose and shook his head, saying:
tits all over Let one O. these boys
&C down and bring the undertaken"
bcuJdlulu NIllllSlldN, lllC llCllcoL man
in the township, was dead, and l have
yet to hear of any mourners.
Three days later I saw his body low
cred into it's grave. The little, broken
spirited wife stood there with the
same sad smile on her face that / had
noted when I first saw her in the hills.
Rovin' Kate was there in the clothes
she had worn Christmas day. She was
greatly changed. Her hair was neatly
combed. The wild look had left her
eyes. She was like one whose back is
relieved of a heavy burden. Her lips
moved as she scattered little red
squares of paper into the grave. I sup
pose they thought it a crazy whim Of
hers-they who saw her do it. 1
thought that I understood the curious
bit of symbolism and so did the school
master, who stood beside me. Doubt
less the pieces Of paper numbered her
curses,
1.-THE scarlet sins of his youth are
lying down with him in the dust"
Hacket whispered as we walked away
together. a
(END OF BOOK TWO.) o
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-15

II am glad to see you," said the
stranger.
"They say I am worth SEEING" said
Sally. "This is my friend, Mr.. Baynes.
When you are tired of seeing me, look
az him."
l shook the hand he offered me.
"Of course, we can't all be good
looking" Sally remarked with a sigh,
as if her misfortune were permanent.
Mr.. Horace Dunkelberg and I
laughed heartily-for I had told him in
a whisper what had happened to Sally
while Mr.. Latour looked a little en-
barraSSed.
MY face is not beautiful, but they
say that 1 have a good heart" Sally
assured the stranger.
They started on. I excused myself
and took a trail through the woods to
another road. Just there, with Sally
waving her hand to me as I stood for
q moment in the edge of the woods,
the curtain falls on this highly roman
tic period Of my life.
Uncle Peabody came for me that eve
ming. 1t was about the middle of the
next week that I received this letter
from Sally:
Dear Bart: Mr.. Latour gave up
and drove to 'Potsdam in the evening.
Said he had to meet Mr.. Parish. I
think that he had seer enough of me.
I began to hope he would stay-he
was so good looking, but mother is
very glad that he went, and so am T,
for our minister told us that he is one
of the wickedest young men in the
state. He is very rich and very bad,
they say. I wonder if old Kate knew
about him. Her charm worked we'll
argway-didn't it? My nose was all
right in the morning. Sorry that I
can't meet you Saturday. Mother and
I are packing up to go away for the
summer. Don't forget me. I shall be
thinking every day of those lovely
things you said to me. I don't know
what they will try to do with me, and
I don't care. I really think as you do,
Bart, that God has married us to each
other.
Yours forever,
"SALLY DUNKELBERG".
How often / read those words-so
like all the careless words CT the
young!
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-15
CHAPTER XII.
The Thinu and Other THINGS.

I returned to Mr.. Jackets house
late in the afternoon of New Years
day. The schoolmaster was lying on a
big lounge in a corner of their front
room with the children about him. The
dusk was falling.
"Welcome, my laddie buck" he ex-
claimed as 1 entered. "We're telling
stories O. the old year an you're just
in time for the last O. them. Sit down,
lad, and God give We patience! It'll
soon be over"
After supper he got out his boxing
gloves and gave me a lesson in the art
of self-defense, in which, 1 was soon
tc learn, he was highly accomplished,
for we had a few rounds together
every day after that. He keenly en-
joyed this form Of exercise and I soon
began to. My capacity for taking pun
ishment without finching grew apace
and before long I got the knack of
countering and that pleased him more
even than my work in school, 1 have
sometimes thought.
"God bless We, boy!" he exclaimed
one day after 1 had landed heavily on
his cheek, "ye've a nice way O. sneakin'
in with yer right. I've a notion We
may find it useful some day."
I wondered a little why he should
say that, and while I was wondering
he felled me with a stinging blow on
my lose.
"Ah, my lad-there's the best thing
I have seen We do-get up an come
back with no mad in ye," he said as he
gave me his hand.
One day the schoolmaster called the
older boys to the front seats in his
room and I among them.
"Now, boys, I'm going to ask We
what We want to do in the world" he
said. Don't be afraid to tell me what
We may never have told before and I'll
dc what I can to help ye."
For some months I had been study
Ing a book just published, entitled,
"~Stenographic Sound-Hand," and had
learned it's alphabet and practiced the
use Of it. That evening I took down
the remarks Of Mr.. Racket in sound
hand.
The academy chapel was crowded
with the older boys and girls and the
tcwnfolk. The master never clipped
his words In school as he was wont to
do when talking Familiarity with the
! children. . -
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-15

We had faced about and were walk
ing back toward Canton, 1 close by the
pony's side.
"May l kiss you again"
She stopped the pony and leaned
toward me and our lips met in a kiss
the thought Of which makes m lay
down my pen and bow my head a mo-
ment while 1 think with reverence Of
that pure, sweet spring of memory in
whose waters / love to wash my
spirit.
81 guess God has married us again."
I declared.
II knew that you were walking on
this road and 1 had to see you," said
she. "People have been saying such
terrible things"
"What?"
''They say your uncle found the
pocketbook that was lost and kept the
money. They say he was the first man
that went up the road after it was
lost"
"It's a lie-my uncle never saw the
pocketboOk. Some money was left to
him by a relative in Vermont. That's
how it happened that he bought a farm
instead Of going to the poorhouse when
Grimshaw put the screws to him."
g" knew that your uncle didn't do
it," she went on. "Father and mother
couldn't tell you. So I had to-"
"Why couldn't your father and moth.
er tell me?"
'They didn't dare. Mr.. Grimshaw
; made them promise that they would
! not speak to you or to any Of you,
family. l heard them say that you and
your uncle did right. Father told
mother that he never knew a mar so
honest as YOU Uncle Peabody"
Just her we came upon the Silent
| Woman sitting among the dandelions
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-15
CHAPTER KIN.
The Bolt Falls.

Three times that winter 1 had seen
Benjamin Grimshaw followed by the
Silent Woman clothed in rags and
pointing with her finger.
The trial Of Amos came on. He had
had blood on his feet" as they used
to say, all the way from Lickitysplit
to Lewis county in his flight, having
attacked and slightly wounded two
men with a bowie knife who had tried
to detaln him at Rainy Lake. He had
also shot ut ar officer in the vicinity
of Lowville, where his arrest was eff
fected. He had been identified by all
these men, and so his character as a
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-15
We Came Upon the Silent Woman Sit
ting Among the DandeIions by the
Roadside.

by the roadside. She held a cup in
her hand with some honey on it's bot
tom and covered with a piece of glass.
"She is hunting bees,' I said as we
stopped beside her.
She rose and patted my shoulder
with a smile and threw a kiss to SaleI.
Suddenly her face grew stern. She
pointed toward the village and then at
Sally.
"She means that there is some dam
ger ahead of you," I said.
The Silent Woman picked a long
blade of grass and tipped it's end in
the honey at the bottom of the cup.
She came close to Sally with the blade
Of grass between her thumb and finger.
"She is fixing a CHARM" I said.
She smiled and nodded as she put a
drop of honey on Sally's upper lip.
She held up her hands while her lips
moved as if she were blessing us.
IT suppose it will not save me if I
brush it Off" said Sally.
We went on and in a moment a bee
lighted On the honey. Nervously she
struck at it and then cried out with
pain.
"The bee has stung you," 1 said.
She covered her face with her hand
kerchief and made no answer.
swat a minute-Ill get some clay"
I said as / ran to the river bank.
I found some clay and moistened it
with the water and returned.
"There, look at me" she groaned.
1.-THE bee hit my nose."
She uncovered her face, now de-
formed almost beyond recognition, her
nose having swollen to ne Of great
size and redness.
"You look like Rodney Barnes" I
said with a laugh as I applied the clay
to her afflicted nose.
"And I feel like the old boy. 1 think
my nose is trying to jump off and run
away"
We were nearing the village. She
wiped the mud from her prodigious
nose and I wet her handkerchief in a
| pool Of water and helped her to wash
it. Soon we saw two men approaching
us in the road. In q moment I OBJ
| served that one was Mr.. Horace Dun
kelberg; the other a stranger and a re-
markably handsome young man he
was, about twenty-five years Of age
and dressed in the height of fashion.
/ remember SO well his tall, athletic
figure, his gray eyes, his small dark
.mustache and his admirable manners.
Both were appalled, at the look OF
Sally.
"Why, girl, what has happened to
your her father asked.
Then T saw what a playful soul was
Sally's. The girl vas a born actress.
Been riding in the country" said
she. as this Mr.. Latour?"
"This is Mr.. Latour. Sally" said her
father.
ThCS shock hands.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-15
TIL LI6f1T j. T..
IN TIE PLfARING
A TALE OF THE NORTH COUNTRY
! IN THE TINE OF SILAS WRIGHT
I EY
IRVINE nARHELLER
eMN HOLDEN DA AND l. Darrell OF THE BLESSED ISLES
KEEPING up WITH LIZZIE. ETC. ETC
IRVINE hARHElLER.
SYNOPSIS.
AUTHOR OF ~ -
eBEN HOLDEN. DRl AND |, Darrell OF THE BLESSED ISLES.
KEEPING up WITH LIZZIE. ETC, ETC

CHAPTER I-Barton Baynes, orphan,
is taken to live with his uncle, Peabody
Baynes, and his Aunt Deel on a farm OH
in a neighborhood called LicE-
ssslpn 6u aIoa5 the y6ar 1S his e e%n age %e eus
socially of a class above the Bayneses,
and is fascinated by the pretty face
n Inc clothes.
CHAPTER II-Barton me-ls r.ovlas
Kate, known in the neighborhood as the
''Silent Woman" Amos GrimshaW, young
son of the richest man in the township.
Rowing Kate tells the fortunes Of the two
boys, predicting a bright future for Bar
ton n death on the gallows for Amos.
R%eproved for an act Of boyish mischief
home with the Dunkelbergs. He reaches
the village of Canton and falls into a
sheep Of exhaustion on q porch. There
nent man in public affairs, who, knowing
Peabody Baynes, k Barton home af.
ter buying him new clothes.
CHAPTER III-Barton and his uncle
and aunt visit Canton and hear Silas
Wright read a ermon
CHAPTER IV-Silas Wright evinces
much interest in Barton, and sends a box
home. The election of Silas Wright to
the United States senate is announced.
CHAPTER v-when Barton is twelve
istence of a wonderful and mysterious
power known as Money" and learns
how. through his possession of that won
full and greatly dreaded man in the COM
munity, most of the settlers being in his
debt: After a visit to the Baynes home
velope,. which Barton is to read on the
first night when he leaves home to at
tend school.
drive a load to mill, arrives safely, but
in a snowstorm, unable to see the road,
the horses get into the ditch and a
Wheel of the wagon is broken: Uncle
enough to satisfy Grimshaw and obtain
an extension.
veal H s sc1ompanies ms MS s PurSis,"
the hired a to the postoffice at Can
t t6e t Rn the Journey way thf fyyg %set a F T6ey; a ara
held up by a man with a gun, who makes
the highwayman's demand of your
money or your life" Purvis runs away.
fore he can use it the robber shoots and
kills him. Barton's horse throws him
n runs away. AS the murderer bends
which he observes Wounds the thief, who
makes off at once, but not until Barton
had noted that his gun stock was broken
in peculiar names Search Of the
neighborhood for the ,robber is unavailing
and the stranger is buried.
CHAPTER vIII-Barton leaves home to
attend Michael Hacket's school. Amos
Grimshaw is arrested charged with the
murder of the stranger.
CHAPTER IX-Grimshaw seeks tt
bride Barton to be silent about his
%wounding the murderer of the man killed
on the road The offer is spurned.
CHAPTER x-Emissaries of Ben Grim.
shaw seek to kidnap Barton, or do worse.
He is warned by "Silent Kate" and es
capes.
CHAPTER XI-Uncle Peabody, Aun,
Deel and the neighbors celebrated Christ
mas "Old Kate" is one of the party.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-15

CHAPTER Iv-Silas Wright evinces
much interest in Barton, and sends a box
home. The election of Silas Wright to
the United States senate is announced.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-15

II am glad to see you," said the
stranger.
"They say I am worth SEEING" said
Sally. "This is my friend, Mr.. Baynes.
When you are tired Of seeing me, look
n, b;,,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-15

CHAPTER Wharton is asked to
drive a load to mill, arrives safely, but
the horses get into the ditch and a
wheel of the wagon is broken. Uncle
Peabody manages to get together
enough to satisfy Grimshaw and obtain
an extension.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-05
MINING COMPANIES PAY OUT LARGE BONUS TO EMPLOYEES

The second annual bonus pay ment by the Copper queen branch of the Phelps Dodge corporation and Calumet & Arizona Mining company, will be made to em- ployes Monday when S153.04O will be paid out in addition to the regular monthly pay roll.
 The Copper Queen bonus roll here and at Dougles will include approximately 1400 men. In Bis bee alone S34 men who receive their annual bonus for the first time last year, getting S100, will receive their second years pay ment of $110 each, or a total of S91. TAO. Forty-three men will re- ceive their first annual bonus of S1OO. The grand total will be s96,O40
 The Calumet & Arizona com pany will pay the second annual bonus 10 300 employees here. this
Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-05
GOVERNMENT NEEDS YEARS TO TRY OUT RAILROAD PROJECT
cBy Review Leased wire)

WASHINGTON, Jan 4.-Only by the proposed five year extension of government management of railroads can the government move toward a permanent and comprehensive solu- tion or the railroad problem, Director General McAdoo insisted today, in testifying at the senate interstate com merce committee's hearing on railroad legislation. Other plans, such as pri- vate management, possibly with limit ed consolidation of lines and with government supervision, Mr. McAdoo said he considered inadequate expedi- ents'' and "makeshifts" and he was prepared now 10 make no recommen- dation. if congress decides not to ex- tend control as he had suggested.
 EVades Questioners
 Questions by Senators Kellogg, Gore. Mclean, Townsend, Cummins and Watson were directed at MT. Me Adoo, in vain attempt to ascertain his ideas Of what course would be best as an alternative for the five year proposal
 Fear that railroad men would be thrown into politics in the presiden- tial campaign, constitutes one of the principal reasons supporting the five year suggestion, Mir McAdoO assert ed.
 "If the railroads are held only 21 months,' he said, "I fear the employees themselves would become objects of solicitation for one plan of campaign or one group of candidates. The rail roads of the United States must be kept cut of politics"
 He defended government operations against what he described as an 'at- tempt to discredit it on the ground that net earnings had been insuffi- cient to pay the compensation guar anteed by the government" saying the judgment of unified operation should be based on earnings only in normal peace time, and that this was another reason for testing government control for five years.
 Wants Adequate Test
 My judgment is that the test would show something conclusive-I do not know what" said MT. McAdoo. reply ing to Senator McLean's query: Gan we test one system by trying another?"
 To Senator Cores inquiry: Don't you think the railroads should be per mitted to construct, gravitating to-
 on pana
Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-05
NORTHERN PACIFIC UNLOADS CARGO OF WOUNDED YANKEES

This undertaking. impracticable today when transfer of the bed ridden wounded dragged along in to mid-afternoon, will be a simple one compared with the delicate task of lowering helpless men from the towering decks of the liner and hoisting them aboard the hospital ship Solace a mile off shore.
 While a watch of 10 or 20 men would be sufficient to hold title to the transport against salvagers, Captain Connolly decided to re- tain a skeleton crew of 25O to as- sist the wreckers, whose efforts to release the big ship have failed thus far to budge from the bed of sand piled around her hull.
 Captain Connolly reported to Captain Sterling. chief of staff of the third naval district in com mand on the beach, that his yes sel was taking no water The ship. he said. was in excellent condi- ton and the crew in good spirits, though anxious to get ashore.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-05
State Officials Approve War rants Taking Total of $6700 Out of Treasury, Under De cision by Supreme Court
Fritz Holmquist Named State Engineer, Pending Return of Maddock; Inauguration to Be Held Monday
fsnecial to The Revlewl


 PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 4-One of the last acts of Gov. G. w. P Hunt before retiring from his office was to ap- prove a warrant today for his back pay as governor Through the trans action he claims from the state s4000 in view of a recent decision of the supreme court in the back salary cases.
 Attorney General Wiley P Jones joined in a similar act, claiming $2700.
 Both warrants will be issued to- night. Until a court decision State Auditor Jesse Royce refused to pay the claims made by the superior court judges of several counties, but Hunt and Jones had not filed claims.
 A conference was held today, how ever. and the decision reached 10 "gO after the money" The time was short, Boyce was taken into the conference, and he agreed to get the warrants is- sued before Monday on which date Governor Campbell would have co sign them.
 Hunt knowingly remarked that 1t would probably be too much to ask Campbell to sign a warrant for the salary increase in view of the fact that Campbell had served without pay the greater part of the term for which back salary was paid.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-05
HoLMouIsr ENGINEER

PH0ENIX, ArIZ., Jan. 4.-GOv.-elect Thomas E. Campbell today named Fritz Holmquist as state engineer with the understanding that he will resign the office should Thomas Maddock, now serving as a lieutenant in France, return and desire the appointment. Holmquist was state engineer under Campbell's former administration and entered the race in the election for congress, opposing Carl Hayden.
 It is understood that MaddOck will return to Phoenix about March 1, and according to a cablegram the apOpint- ment was agreeable to him. He indi- cated that Holmquist will be con tinued as his assistant when he be- comes the engineer.
 A second appointment today was J. G. Compton, a railroad conductor of Tucson.tO be a member of the state board of regents. Compton is also in the lame duck class. having been de- feated as candidate for the corpora tiOn commission in the last election.
 George Doyle of Phoenix. will be secretary to the commission of state institutions.
 Democrats Hold Over
 While the republican committee is
 En--
Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-05

amounting to S55.0OO Twenty men will receive their first bonus. making S2OOO additional. or S57.- 900.
 Under the plan in effect with both companies. the bonus be- comes due and payable at the end of each year of an individual service. no matter at what period it arrives This means that men who remain steadily employed will receive a constantly increas- ing sum and that every month is bonus month" with the companies. In addition to each months pay roll, there are several bonus pay ments amounting to thousands of dollars. The first January pay day. however. marks the annivers- ary of the first bonus and more men receive their payments on this date than at any other time in the year.