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CHAPTER vi.
Back Home.

Every mothers son of the feudists
was numbered in the party that filed
across David Morelands mountain to
intercept the next south-bound train.
The old enmity was for the time being
forgotten. Members of one clan
rubbed elbows with members of the
other clan, and thought nothing Of it,
John Moreland himself carried one
end of the crude litter that held the
limp form of Babe Littleford; Bill
Dale carried the other end.
Close behind the litter walked Babes
father, seeming old and broken with
remorse for the thing he had done.
The grief of Ben Littleford was touch
ing now, and Dale was q little sorry
that he had spoken SO bitterly to him.
They reached the Halfway switch
ten minutes before the arrival of the
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Continued next week)

STATE OF WISCONSIN, IN CIR
CUT COURT FOR RUSK COUNTY
Julia f. Rusch, Plaintiff, VS..
Coon Mercantile Co., a corporation,
State Bank of Ladysmith, bank
ing corporation, 7. NJ Thomas,
First National Bank of Baudette, a
banking corporation and Il. A. Beau
mont, Defendants.
State of Wisconsin to the said Defend
ants and each of them:
You are hereby summoned to appear
within twenty days after service of
this summons, exclusive of the day of
service, and defend the above entitled
lctiOn in the Court aforesaid, and in
| case Of your failure SO to do judg-
ment will be rendered against you ac-
cording to the demand of the Coin
plant, of which copy is herewith
served upon you.
FALGE & STINE,
Plaintiffs Attorneys,
Z. O. Address, Ladysmith, Rusk COun-
ty Wisconsin.
The original summons and complaint
in the above entitled action is on file
in the office of the Clerk of the Court
of Rusk County, Wisconsin. This ac-
ton is brought to foreclose a mort
gage and effects the title to Lots
Twenty-One CD and twenty-five (22)
| Block One "a, MadisOn's Addition ia
the City of Ladysmith, Wisconsin,
Rusk County, Wisconsin.
First pub. Aug. 10, 1921. 1924
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And to his brother Abner, whose
right forearm was wrapped in a blood
stained blue bandana:
BLACK Adam is hid som'e res in this
meadow; go and ketch him, and don't
take no chanst with him. Shoot him
like daWg eff he tries to trick yer
dozen men ran to look for the
wOuld-be sniper. The Littlefords. still
armed, came dashing across the river.
Ben Littleford threw down his rifle
and knelt beside his daughter; he
Wrung mis- big hands and cursed the
day that had seen him born.
Dale held her close. His face was
as white as hers, and his eyes were
flaming.
why don't you shoot all your won-
enfolk?" he said to the Littleford
chief, and every word cut like knife.
It's by far the simplest way it's mer-
ciful, y'know. See, she isn't breaking
her heart over your murderous fight
ing now. No, keep your hands away
you're not fit to touch herw
They brought water and wet the
young WOman'S face, and bathed the
red streak across her temples. They
did all they knew how to do to bring
her back to consciousness, but, except
for her beating pulse and her breath
ing, she remained as one dead. Hours
passed, leaden hours, and her condi-
ti0n was uDohanCod
Dale beckOned to John MOreland,
who had just returned from having
seen Adam Ball caught, disarmed, and
imprisoned in an old tobacco barn.
Moreland FASTENED to Dale, the new
master.
When does the next south-bound
train pass the Halfway switch?" Dale
wanted to know.
MOreland looked toward the sun.
we could make 1t, all right but it's
a fast train, and it don't never stop at
the switch"
Then Wen hold it up," declared the
new master in voice of iron. This
Is case for surgeon. Get blanket
and two poles and make litter"
John Moreland FASTENED away obe-
diently. Dale turned to Ben Little
ford, who sat in a motionless heap be-
side the still figure of his daughter.
1T was only few hours ago" he
said accusingly, that this poor girl
told me she'd be glad to give her life
to stop your fighting, and now, per-
haps, she's done it! You're a brute,
Littleford. l like to fight, myself, but
not when it costs women anything"
The cOnscience-stricken hillman
gave no sign that he had heard. There
was silence save for the low murmur
OF the river and the tragic song of
bird somewhere in the branches Of
the big white sycamore.
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Tne two lnountai1eers and Dale
waited in another room. Dale hat In.
duceu John Moreland 60 unload llis
rifle, both chamber and magazine.
Babes father paced the floor anxious,
ly how and then. Moreland sat like
stote, with his empty rifle between
his knees, and watched his old enemy
queerly.
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SYNOPSIS.
Va

CHAPTER I.-Young Carlyle Wilburton
Dale, or bill Dale" as he elects to be
known, son of a wealthy coal operator,
John K. Dale, arrives at the Halfway
Switch, in eastern Tennessee. abandon
ing life of idle ease-and incidentally
bride, Patricia Clavering, at the altar
determined to make his own way in ire;
He meets Babe pv t HsdH cS yP,ea
ter Of the hills, takes him, to John More
lands home Moreland is chief OF his
"clan," which has an old feud with the
Littlefords. He tells Dale OF the killing
of his brother David Moreland, years
nan named Carlyle. Moreland's descrip-
ton Of Carlyle causes Dale TO believe
the man was his father.
CHAPTER II.-Dale arranges to make
his home with the Moreland family, for
whom he entertains deep respect.
CHAPTER II1.-ralking with Babe"
Iittleford next day, Dale is ordered by
s'Black Adam Ball, bully of the district,
to leave his girl alone. Dale replies
spiritedly, and they fight. Dale WHIPS
the bully, though badly used up he ar
ranges with John Moreland to develop
Dayid's coal deposits. Ben Littleford
sends a challenge to John Moreland to
meet him with his followers next day, In
battle. Moreland agrees.
CHAPTER IV.-During the night al
the guns belonging to the Litt!etords ana
the Morelands mysteriously disappear
.A= TIER V.-Dale arranges to go to
Cincinnati to secure money for the min
ing of the coal. The two clans find their
weapons, which the women had hidden,
and line up for battle. Babe" in an
effort to stop the fighting, crosses to the
Moreland side of the river, and is acct
dentally shot by her father and seriously
wounded.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
Southern District
League Officers Are
Now at MI. Vernon
Moved to the Center of an Enlarged
District

The headquarters for the Southern
! Illinois district OF the Anti-Saloon
] League are being moved from Car
bondale to Mt. Vernon The territory
! embraces twenty-seven counties
For fourteen years Carbondae has
enjoyed the privilege OF the office buf
a few months ago some additiona
counties were added to the district
so Mt. Vernon became the center oi
the district
The Office is great center OF in
liuence in one OF the greatest moral
movements OF the age in which we
live and was never more needed than
at the present time.
! The liquor interests were never
more thoroughly organized or deter
mined than at present. One oil the
leading men OF the country recently
said. at is almost unthinkable to me
that the liquor forces should persist
III their law defying program. The
notification OF the fifties was hardly
circumstance to the nation wide
program which the liquor interests
seem to be putting on. Evidently
they are laboring under the impress
sion that il they put i'll money enough
and persist long enough they will bt
able to make the American people
believe that Prohibition can not be
enforced and that they will get a
least 4 modification OF the presen
legislation. That would be calamity
untold.
1--WE never needed to keep on
forces strong and our working ma
chinery in better order than we dc
now. Weakening now would be dis
astrous. | hope that the leaders o
all the churches in Illinois and in tht
nation will join us in a program SC
vigorous that there shall never b.
any gaps in our ranks. The temper
ance forces just now need to bring
up all their reserves. Two-thirds o.
a victory will not do u.s."
The Anti-Saloon League worker;
come to this town with full purpose
to make it a center of influence
throughout the southern part of the
state in carrying forward the program
of the entire church to complete the
victory.
District Superintendent Leo. How
ard and Field Secretary c. J.. Dow
dell expect to be here by March |
Mt. Vernon News.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
HITS PENCE MEASURE
State Can Not Levy Special Tax On
Liquor, Says Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of the United
States has held invalid the Kentucky
laws levying special tax on liquors
withdrawn from bonded warehouses
Several million dollars in taxes al
ready collected by the state were in
volved
This decision of the court will no
doubt render invalid the action oil
the present Legislature in passing the
Pence bill, providing for the taxing
OF liquors held in Ohio warehouses
The constitutionality of the bill was
questioned when passed, and it is un-
derstood the Governor asked for an
opinion of the Attorney General be-
for approving the masure.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
THE PRICELESS THIRST

Some thirsty people wall and
sigh because there IS no gin.
some day their costly thirst will
die, and comfort will begin. \
little while they'll dodge the
cops and go to wild extremes
to carry home a sack of hops
and work out home brew
dreams. y little while they'll
think it sport to trail the boot
leg shark through alley foul and
squalid court, TO some seques-
tered park; but they'll soon tire
OF all such brews that work
&c this commands. that make
4 man take off his shoes and
walk upon his hands. A little
while they'll walk in gloom and
yearn for things 10 drink, and
hair restorers they'll consume,
and many brands OF ink. While
yet this thirst OF theirs endures
they'll drink all things that
kick, and liniments and SPAWN
cures will make their innards
sick But all things perish and
decay, like roses in the dell,
and cen a thirst will fade away.
it its not nurtured well. And
to these wights will come
time, morning fair will come,
when they'll refuse to give a
dime to greet the Demon Rum.
And often they will wonder
why they used to wildly beef
because they lacked Il shot OF
rye to multiply their grief.
Walt Mason.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
Saloons Now Occupied
By Other Business
Rentals Now More Than the Liquor
Men Paid

The following report is from the
March 6, 1921, Chicago Tribune:
"One of the arguments used against
Prohibition was that store rooms
occupied for years as saloons at a
high rental would be tenantless if
John Barleycorn was knocked out.
Real estate men say that, on the con-
trary premises formerly used for re-
tail liquor purposes are rented at a
high valuation.
Take the Workingmen's Exchange,
for instance, at 426-28 South Clark
street. This place was operated for
many years by Aid. Michael Kenna.
1t was known far and wide as 'Hinky
Dink's.' The bar was eighty-four feet
long and the glasses in which the
foamy nectar was dished out were
called tubs
Twenty barrels of beer a day the
year round was the amount consumed
at the Workingmen's Exchange. A
half dozen other saloons in the same
block did almost as much business.
Prohibition went into effect and
the barrel houses were closed. Were
they tenantless? Some were vacant
a short time, but others had new ten
ants waiting.
'Hinky Dink's' place is occupied
by two Chinese merchants. All the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
HOLD STEADYi

We have reached the crucial
stage of the reform. The liq-
uorites have done with the
courts. They have been ousted
for the last time from the Su-
preme Court of the land. The
Volstead Act is law and that's
the end of that contention.
They are now employing their
last and mightiest weapon--the
attempt to discredit the law by
violent outlawry. 1t behooves
all friends Of Prohibition to
hold steady. Keep a sharp
look out. Stand in line of ac-
ton and be ready for fight upon
call. Victory could, even now,
be turned to defeat were church
men to break ranks or even
stack arms. - Northwestern
Christian Advocate.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
NEAR-BEER SALOONS DEFINED

The police of Boston are attacking
near-beer saloons as gathering places
for criminals. The police captain at
a legislative hearing declared the city
is running wild with gunner, thieves,
and thugs, who make their headquar-
ters in soft drink joints, and that a
majority of these soft drink places
are haunts for bootleggers. Jamaica
ginger which sold in two-ounce bot
ties for Is cents is now being sold
for Is cents and $1,00. He declared
that many proprietors of these places
carried whisky in their pockets to
sell to their unfortunate victims.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
Dry Sentiment Great But Wet
Forces Too Strong
AMERICAN PROHIBITION
is BITTERLY ATTACKED
If U. S. A. Stays Dry Scotland Will
Go Dry
DRUNKENNESS is APPALLING

In the March number of the Sat-
nrday Evening Post Kenneth l.. Rob-
erts describes the situation relative to
the liquor question in Scotland This
article tells in detail about the hold
the liquor traffic has upon Scotland
and about the recent battle between
the vets and drys. One OF the strill-
ing features of Mr.. Roberts story is
the report he makes on drunkenness
in Glasgow and other Scottish cities.
Compare the following with condi-
tons as We know them in Detroit.
Indianapolis, Cleveland, Minneapolis,
or even Chicago and New \ \ork in dry
American
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
NINE BREWERIES CLOSED

Last week nine breweries in Phila-
delphia were closed by agents of the
Internal Revenue Collectors Office,
This action was taken because these
breweries were manufacturing and
permitting to be sold beer containing
more than the legal alcoholic per-
centage. 1t is likely all OF them will
be heavily penalized.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
The Arrest Records

The Arrest Records
During the first sixteen weeks of
1920 the number of persons who we're
convicted Of or who forfeited pledges
in Glasgow for offenscs involving
drunkenness was o.077 males aud
| ,544 fcnales-or a total of 7.421
hard-boiled souses in less than one
third OF year This number is
smaller than during prc-war year,
because certain wartime restrictions
still apply; but it is very much larger
than in 1918 and 1910, when Scot
lands liquor supply was greatly re-
stricted at the source. For the cor
responding period in 1918 there were
only 1.779 convicted drunks oi both
sexes in Glasgow, and in 1919 there
were only 1,426 OF them during the
FIRST ixteen weeks OF the year Now
that the wartime restrictions are
being removed the drunk is coming
into his own again with a loud. wet
splash
"Thc first thirty-two weeks OF 1920
showed 1z.l77 convictions for drunk
cnneSs i'll Glasgow, or ono conviction
for every twenty-thrce men more
than twenty-onc years of age. When
a Glasgow citizen of the wet persua-
sion begins to wave his army wildly
and deny that Scotchmen are partic-
ularly heavy drinkers it is easy to give
him the gentle razz by reminding him
that Glasgow alone spends as much
on drink every week as would build
$50 cottages at $50 per cottage.
Few are Arrested
at should be understood that the
number of persons convicted Tor Of
lenses involving drunkenness has no
bearing at all on the number OF per-
sons who are drunk. have never
had any Scotchman explain to me what
one must do in addition to being
drunk i'll order to be arrested for
drunkenness in Glasgow; but ii is my
/ impression that one can sop up all
the whisky one may be able to hold
and roll around i'll the streets and
howl and yell and cuss and finally be
dragged home by friends, and the po-
lice will look on with benignant and
imperturable eye so long as one
doesn't attempt to murder police
man or set FIRE to house or other
wise become rough.
"On Thursday night I walked
through the crowded mobs of Ar
gyle street from one end to the other
and back again. During the walk
saw only five policemen. four in pairs
and one alone. There were literally
hundreds of drunks. They weren't
men that were slightly under the in
fuence of liquor; they were in that
condition which is vulgarly known as
stewed TO the ears. They5were cling
ing to doorways and tumbling up
against the passers-by and falling off
the sidewalks into the cutters and
supporting each other in abortive at
tempts to proceed in some definite
direction which could neither be de-
termined by casual observer nor by
scientist equipped with instruments
for plotting the curve of their foot
steps. I saw two drunks, dragging
between them third drunken drunk,
stagger crafty under the very nose
of lone policeman. He gazed at
them broodingly, and as they stag
gered onward he wearily turned his
eyes away in search of more interest
ing matters.
But Many are Drunk
"On another night l saw two men
with monumental jags pitch out of a
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11
But Many are Drunk

"On another night l saw two men
with monumental jags pitch out of
doorway just where Argyle street
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11

other places formerly used for saloon
purposes in this block are now occu-
pied by business concerns, and rents,
say the real estate men, have been
boosted"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11

Federal in Judge Evans in Chicago returned
with
in trial violation of the Eighteenth Amendment
the alleged whisky
alleged OF the defendants and the
prominence the defense this
in
of Prohibi nlawsha brought before
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-03-11

would carry it directly to the United
States Supreme Court at Washington.
Here the defense, he said. would base
its case on outright attacks on the
.constitutiouality OF the entire Vol
tsead Act
Judge Says Conspiracy Proved
In his charge to the jury Judge
Evans made it clear that the only
question Mas the identity OF those
guilty. L
He pointed out to the jury that
the law had been violated and that
their only concern was the establish
ment of the guilt or innocence OF the
men on trial.
Il charge you that the shipment
of this carload of liquor from Hobb,
KY, was unlawful" Judge Evans said.
at was unlawful for any individual
to have this liquor in his possession,
One joins conspiracy when he know
ingly participates in it.
II is not necessary that partles 70
a co1gpiracv be acanainfed with each
other ii it be found that they acted to-
gcther toward a common end.
at has been shown that a conspir-
acy has been committed. A conspir
acy may be proved by circumstantial
evidence. as it is seldom that you can
get witnesses to a conspiracy itself to
testify in court"
History of the Case
Hetler Pcrlman and Greenburg
were accused OF engineering the
smuggling OF a carload OF Old Grand
Dad whisky from Kentucky to Chi
cago, distributing it at dead of night
to saloonkeepers, who came to the
railway yards with trucks, and then
stealing several truckloads, with the
aid of uniformed policemen, as the
customers weer driving away.
Thirty men were indicted. As the
trial proceeded the governments case
against twelve OF them, including the
owners OF the distillery several police
officers and some saloonkeepers,
weakened and they we're dismissed
Million Dollar Defense
During the trial the lawyers for the
alleged liquor violators were COM
monty referred to as the million dol
lar defense" 1t was understood that
the defendants were willing and able
to expend a million dollars if need be
in counsel fees in order to secure
verdict OF not guilty. Among the
lawyers Tor the accused liquor men
were Ex-Governor Dunno, Clarence
Darrow, Michael Igoe, former minor
ity leader in the House at Springfield
and candidate for states attorney OF
Cook county. Weymouth Kirkland,
Justin Mccarthy, and four former as
sistant l.. s. district attorneys.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-10-04

from noco J,co with tn
the arriving trec ,cars
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-10-04
METHODIST CONFERENCE
=, HOLDS 02ND SESSION

CHICAGO. Oct. Al. n. S.)-The
eighty-second session of the Rock
River conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church began today in the
Thoburn Methodist Episcopal church
here. The sessions will continue un-
til october IL.
As the Rock River conference is the
second largest of the Methodist
churches in the United States many
delegates arrived last night and more
were registering today.
Bishop Thomas Nicholson is the
presiding officer of the session, assist
ed by District superintendent Polemus
II. Swift and Rev John II. Delaney,
pastor Of the Thoburn church and the
conference host.
Important changes in pastorates of
Methodist churches will be announc-
ed by Bishop Nicholson on the closing
day of the conference.
J One of the outstanding features of
the seven day program will be a
course of lectures by Prof. Harry f.
Ward of the Union Theological Sem
mary on the topic. The Future Of the
the Church in Modern Industry" They
will be delivered on three days. start
ing tomorrow and will be open to the
public.
Participation of laymen in the con-
ference this year was expected to be
larger than ever before, because of the
growth of the Centenary movement
Meetings of the laymen's electoral
conference and the laymen's associa-
ton, the Womon's Home and Foreign
Missionary societies have been arrang-
ed.
A visit to the Union stockyards
whore the ministers will be the guests
of Swift & Co. and partake of a lunch
con given by the packing company i:
one of the entertainment features OF
the conference
Miss Pauline Lucille Mayo, of Oma.
ha. reader and impersonator, has beer
lensaged to give a program Sunda,
Afternoon. october 9. Evening sessions
will be featured by the singing Of va
rious church chOirs.
The annual memorial service anC
ORDINATION Of deacons and elders viii
be held Sunday October 8. BishoI
Nicholson will deliver the sermon a
the morning session and Rev. Charles
NJ. Stuart, president of the Garret
Biblical Institute, will be the speaker
at the memorial service at o'clocl
in theafternoon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-10-04
MEXICO CITY IS HIT
BY SPENDTHRIFT WAVE

MEXICO CITY, oct. Al. N. So
Many frills from New York, Paris and
London have been brought to Mexico
City in connection with the centennial
celebration.
Many shops and hotels now have
footmen in uniform at the door, and
pages-mtes of boys about as big as
large peanuts-attired in red-green or
blue
Automobiles contain vases filled
with flowers and all of the newest
embellishments demanded by fashion
or devised by ingenius builders. T.
While some of the officials cling to
the Jeffersonian simplicity of reVolu-
tionary fathers and walk or ride in a
small car with a familiar name, there
is a fast-growing tendency toward dis
play.
Much of the new life in Mexico City
is due to the increasing number of
Americans, who are to be seen every
where. There are Americans here of
every description rich and poor, hon.
est and otherwise,
In the crowd of Americans are
numerous promoters, who have for
the present turned their attention
from oil wells and silver mines to
| land-selling projects. Real estate men
Witrn Americans who come to Mexico
to buy land to make inquiries about
land agents before going into negotia-
| tions with them.
Land is cheap here in most places,
but some of the land would be high
at any price.