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The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1921-04-07
The Conspicuous Result.

els bolshevism constructiver
"Only in one way" replied Miss
Cayenne. ut makes a great deal Of
conversation"
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Love may laugh Mt locksmiths. but
II never giggles mt the plumber.
The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1921-04-07

No ugly, grimy streaks on the
clothes when Red Cross Ball Blue II
used. Good bluing gets good results.
All grocers carry it--5c.
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Near Bait.

near bdtt.
Knicker-"DOes Smith still enjoy
fisbing?" Bocker-"Yes; he has built
pond In his cellar"
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PART ONE
CHAPTER I

Kcppcl Stuart. NJ. d., #. II. s.,
awokc with a start and discovered
himself to be bathcd in cold perspi-
ration.
He glanced nt the luminous disc
of his watch. The hour was 2:3o.
Stuart sat up in bed. slowly and
cautiously, looking all about him.
A faint clicking sound reached his
cars. The clicking was repeated.
There is someone downstairs In
my study" muttered Stuart
He walked barefooted ncross to
the dressing.table and took up an
electric torch which lay there.
lie walked rcsolutely to the door,
threw 1t open and cast the beam or
light on to the staircase. Softly he
began to descend. Before the study
door he paused. He threw open the
door, directing the torch-ray into
the room.
Cutting a white lane thru the
blackness. II shonc fully upon his
writing table. Papers and books
were scattered untldily as he had left
them. surrounding a tray full OF pipe
and cigaret ash. Then. suddenly.
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1.-THE GOLDEN SCORPION"
By SAX ROHMER


itation: "She awaited ye're return
with exemplary patience"
Really. l am sorry was d.
tanned" declared Stuart replacing
his boot. How long has she bee1
gone. them"
"Just the now. No more than two
or three minutes. trust she Is ne
worse"
"Worse!'
'"rhe lass seemed DER anxious -
see you"
"Well. you know. Mrs McGregor.
she comes considerable distance
$50 am given to understand. Mr..
Keppel." replied the old lady: asnd
In grand luxurious car"
Mrs. McGregor" = he walked
over to her and rested his hands
upon her shoulders-'you are SEQ
ond mother to me, your care makes
me feel like boy again: and ~
these gray days it's good to feel like
n boy again. Good night. Mrs. NO
Gregor. Don't think OF waiting up.
Tell Mary to show mademoiselle q
here directly she arrives-that y e
she really returns"
Mrs. McGregor slowly opened ~
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and tried 10 recall what had occurred
during the night No one was stir.
ring In the house, and he rose and
put on bath robe. Bright sunlight
was streaming into the room. and
he went out on the landing. fast
ening tho cord Of his gown as he de-
scended the stairs.
His study door was locked. with
the key outside Save for the untidy
litter OF papers upon the table. the
study was as he had left II on retir-
ing. III he could believe the evidence
OF his senses. nothing had been dis
turbed.
Not content with casual inspec-
ton, he particularly examined those
papers which. In his dream adven.
ture, he had believed TO have been
submitted to mysterious inspection.
They showed no signs Of having
been touched.
"well." muttercd stuart--"of all
the amazing nightmares!''
Keppel Stuart was a dark, good
looking man OF about 80. an easy.
going bachelor who, whilst not over
ambitious. was nevertheless n bril-.
liant physician. He had worked for
the Liverpool School Of Tropical
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Medicine and had spent several years
in India studying snail poisons.
At about 10 o'clock that night.
having been called out to a case, he
returned to his house. walking
straight into the study as was his
custom and casting light burberry
with a soft hat upon the sofa beside
his stick and bag.
Mrs. McGregor. the housekeeper.
a gray-haired Scotch lady attired
with scrupulous neatness, was tend
ing the fire at the moment. and
hearing Stuart come In she turned
and glanced at him.
He began to unlacc his boots as
Mrs. McGregor pulled the white
easement curtains across the win
dows and then prepared to retire.
Her hand upon the door knob. she
turned again to Stuart.
"The foreign lady called half an
hour since, Mr.. Keppel." rr
stuart desisted from unlacing his
boots and looked up with lively In.
terest Mile. Dorian! Did she leave
any messenger"
\ "She obsairved that she might re-
peat her veesit later" replied Mrs.
McGrcgor. and after moments hos
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NIADCE anna.
Calm when
Opens.
Faces Second Trial for Muir
der OF Husband; Is
Clad In Black

Nine prospective jurors TO deter
mine the innocencs or s,iir OF Madrv
Anna Sawyer. charged with murder
In the second degree for shooting her
husband. Howard I. Sawyer. last
May 10. wer. examined between
1880 and Irio Monday morning
without the exercise Of a single chai.
ienge for cause by prosecution or do.
fense.
The trial opened at 1910 a m 10
fore Judge Edward c. Mills OF walla
waiis. who. as visiting Judge. oc.
cupied Judge Gilliam's department of
the superior court
The II prospective jurors. as call.
ed. but whose examination was not
complete at ii:io. when Walter Full.
ton. attorney for Mrs. Sawyer. asked
for recess because his client was
indisposed. included seven women
and five men.
The case was to have opened a'
$50 before Judge John NJ. Wilson
Of Olympia. but Judge Wilson failed
to arrive.
The courtroom where the trial
Mrs. sawyer's relatives nor OF hcr
dead husband was present Mrs
Sawyer was attended by Mrs. c. T.
Lake. whom she called her Seattle
mother" Her own mother. Mrs. r.
Reiter. is III In Vancouver. n. G.
Mrs. Sawyer was clothed complete
~ In black. her dark. luminous and
sorrowful eyes showing beneath the
brim OF dropping straw hat. She
appeared to be calm.
One victory was scored I'm her
favor Saturday afternoon when she
was awarded the bulk OF the estate
OF the husband she shot.
The award OF the estate. appraised
at $4,000. but likely to mount into
hundreds of thousands II a marine
engine invented by Sawyer comes
into general use. was made by former
Superior Court Judge John 8. Jurey
sitting as Judge pro tenn
Judge Jurcy held that the laws OF
the state of Washington entitle a
woman TO her husbands estate II bs
dies without making a will, regard
less of whether she killed him.
Mrs. Sawyers plea at her former
trial for the killing was self-defense
She admitted the fatal shooting was
done May 10. 1920. on the shore oi
Lake Union, near the houseboat In
which they lived. When she wal
convicted a new trial was granted
by Judge Boyd J. Taliman because
Of alleged irregularities and a claim
OF newly discovered evidence by tn,
defense.
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war RISK
Office TO
STAY HERE2
Forbes Wires He's willing
to Consider Offer OF
Cheaper Rent

Tho war risk insurance office will
not be moved from Seattle to TIA.
coma
This was the belief OF Seattle men
conducting the fight against the pro-
posed removal. following receipt by
tho Chamber OF Commsrcc Monday
Of the following telegram from c. Il
Forbes director of war risk insur.
ancc:
I'm response 70 your wire Of sasur.
day. viii nay that economy must
be praeticsd 20 reduce rents over the
entire country TO the absolute mini.
mum. No steps In the carrying of
OF such program will be taken that
viii jcopardlre the service 10 be rem
dcred to disabled ex-scryicc men and
women. what figure for cheaper
rental WIN Seattle offcr7 No orders
have been issued 10 move offices
from Seattle. appreciate your In
tcrcst In this matter and request
your cooperation.
CHARLES n FORBES
The telegram was In response 20
strong wires OF protest sent Satur-
day afternoon by the Chamber OF
Commerce.
Arthur II. Priest. director OF the
civic bureau OF the Chamber Of
Commerce. left Seattle Sunday night
for washington. ID. c.. taking with
him several offers Of cheaper rent In
Seattle.
Congressman Miller wired Monday
that Forbes had agreed not to take
any action until Priest arrives in
Washington and presents Seattle's
offers.
These offers covered office space
below the figures submitted by TIA.
coma
Tacoma's best offer was 1857 per
square foot. One Seattle offer. that
of the Seattle Transfer building. ~
w. Connecticut St. used as general
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he saw something else.
Stuart stood quite still. staring at
the table. There was no sound In
the room. He crossed slowly, NOV
ing the light from right to left. His
papers had been overhauled method.
ically. The drawers had been re.
placed. but he felt assured that all
had been examined.
One step into the room he took
and paused--palsied with n sudden
fear which exceeded anything he had
known.
A white easement curtain was
drawn across the French windows
and outlined upon this
moon-bright screen he saw tall fig.
urc. II was that OF n cowled mani
Even as he looked. the shadow of
the cowled man moved--and was
gone.
Stuart ran across the room, jerkcd
open the curtains and stared out
across the moon.bathed lawn. its
prospect terminated by high privct
hedges. There was no one on the
lawn; there was no sound.
CHAPTER III
T1r Stuart awolxa In tho pnorptpg g
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Grease for Honey
Cause of Murder

EUGENE. Ore. May s.-Honcy
Jars containing grease caused
Mazeppa l.. Smith to shoot and kill
Joe Johansen during a quarrel early
this morning Mt the home Of the lat
ter near Heceta, in the extreme west.
ern end OF Lane county. Both men
are single and homesteadcrs. Smith
made his confession over the tele-
phone to Sheriff +. G. Stickels this
morning.
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ENGINEERS
agree TO
SUBMIT
wage CUT
Employers, However, Oh.
ject to Working Condi-
tions They Demand

Altho no definite official sct3oa
had been taken by the local seamsn's
lnions, the opinion was freely az
,ressed Monday that events were
Ihaping for an early end Of the ship.
ping strike that has tied up shipping
,oard vessels thruout the country for
the last eight days.
Hope for an early settlement wqe
ased chiefly upon the fact th6t
regulations between union Officials
md representatives OF the shipping
board were due TO be resumed =
Washington today. coupled with tho
act that the Engineers' associations
upon which the strike seems chiefly
10 depend for success. was willing
'ast Saturday to accept the new wago
scale.
The offer Of the engineers. how
ever, was coupled with demand foe
overtime pay. and certain other con
iitions that operators and the shius
,ing board at that time declaro4
hey could not accept
A new element was ADDED 20 ~
trike Monday when u - -
,ubiic that 5000 members xG4 s11
United Radio Telagrap W
ton In the united stsG ~ wnlr
out a IT,
a THE snoaphoruAap eongrfsos o4
per cent Of the professional commeps
ciai radio operators In the country
their waikout In equally ~ sertou
II not more 20. than the strike e ~
other ship employees.
MARINE ENGINEERS
VOTE 10 END STRIKE Is
At q special meeting Sunday
Marine Engineers Beneficial assoct&
ton No. 50. Of Seattle. voted By -
overwhelming majority to end IN
strike. The wage cut Of approG
|imateiy Is per cent. and the bouuo
plan suggested by Admiral Bcnsoo
chairman Of the shipping board
who Is acting as voluntary mediatoe
in the controversy. were voted Tor
by ITS members Of the associafion
II was reported from Portland an6
San Francisco. however. that loca1o
In those cities had rejected the sAuno
proposition.
A wire received from Admiral b.
son Monday by r. M. Semmea. dle
trict manager for the shipping board
stated that no new developmentD
were apparent in Washington this
morning.
SEMNfES THINKS MEN
READY TO GO BACK
II believe that the men as . who'll
are ready and willing to 90 back
to work." Semmes said today. N
II were not for their orders from To
union heads most Of them would .
back In Is minutes
Semmes reported that barring =
few threats against strike hrcakoT4
the walkout was being conducted q
an orderly manner.
At the Pacific Steamship company
offices II was stated at noon Monday
that the announced laying off OF -
employees had not yet been put into
effect.
Tho company was making every
effort to sail the steamship City q
Seattle for Alaska Monday night.
Altho the action Of the radio men
Is a concerted one, it Is not at the
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Miss Grace Mcclure. Of <fs y.
Roy st. entered Tho starunivcrsal
Film company contest a month ago
In the hope OF winning the $1,000
coniract 10 play In pictures at Uni
vcrwi City this summer. then cut
her contest chances adrift and went
TO los Angeles 10 enter the movies
on her own hook.
Miss Mcclure had been entered In
the contest semifinals by the five
judges and seemed In a fair way to
be picked for the finals.
Unfortunately. when the judges
learned she had left the city. they
had TO drop her from the contest.
This wns done when she failed TO
appear for the scmi-finai tryouta
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WHITES life UP TO C0YLE
Page One,
Column 3.

You fishermen!
What luck Sunday
Lake Washington croppie grounds
crowded.
w. ". @. gets orders for Memorial
day parade
Rotary club takes up campaign
for boy Scout three-year budxet-
James Buchanau succeesis Rudolph
Nttsell a. manager sf Assembly hosci.
Wants 1880 for hurt knee. Flor.
cnce Conncrs sues c. T.. II railway.
Chamber Commerce reports plenty
Of help on farms until harvest sea.
son.
Saturday ls National Hospital day.
Wounded service men TO be remem-
bered.
Weary wilkins tells Green Lake
school children Monday all about
thrift.
Army to hold summer military
camp TO train amateur wireless op-
orators
King Of Greece has not abdlcaied.
says c. u. fdluopoulos. local Greek
consul
Patroiman n. r.. Van Horne draws
5o.day suspension fer alleged fake
liquor raid.
Advance bookings show 81 parties
signed up for trip thru Rainier Ma.
tionai park.
More pressure brought TO bear. XXI.
wants club urges President Harding 10
visit Seattle.
Drive a carr Gotta get license
tpay 81 after June 10. according to
new state law.
Record OF burial place OF world war
veterans sought BY adJutant general
Call Main s7is
Northwest mills report more than
s2o.ooo.ooo feet lumber booked for
foreign shipment.
Cash prizes offered for Fourth OF
July posters. Information at room
i57 Stuart building.
Don Mcdonald. prohi. chief. wants
TO abaie Amherst hotel. 1910 Second
ave. under dry act.
Membership drive opened by Won.
ems Commercial Club. Call Main
1882 or Ballard 1850.
Christensen's hall. Thursday night:
Proposed Beacon hill motor bus ser.
vice up for discussion.
Campfire girls rejoice. Raise
$3.50. one-third amount needed 10
purchase summer camp.
Transfer OF headquarters state
military department to Olympia post.
poned TIN after August 1.
Last OF survivors OF sunken steam.
ship Tokuyo Maru left for Japan Sat
urday on Alabama Maru.
DIR. Jacob Gould Schurrnan. new
minister 10 China. invited to Seattle
by Chamber OF Commerce.
Rev. J. NJ. Wilson, former pastor
Westminster Presbyterian crurch. re-
turns 10 Seattle after nlne-year ab.
sence.
Got away twice: twice rccapturcd.
Abe Toroyoshi. Jap stowaway, de.
ported In irons Saturday on Alabama
Maru.
Unlucky owner Of ~ quarts OF
whisky. Edward Wyard. 2i5 Column
bia ST.. was facing liquor charges
Monday.
Yuen Tong. nephew Coon Dip,
Chinese consul, bound over TO fed.
eral grand jury on $500 bail. Dope
charges.
James Lupton. 25.. was in jail
Monday. Patrolman A. J. Hin says
he had loaded revolver and an auto
tire that did not fit his auto.
Electric wires placed at side
streams to keep migrating fish In
main stream OF Yakima river. ac.
cording to plans of state fisheries
board.
He gets nice trip. Deputy u. g.
Marshal Edwin II. Tobey TO take two
prisoners East. j. p. Wheeler. 10
Salt Lake; w. ID. Meeks, alias Miller
to Chauncey, w. Va.
Released on $3.50 bail. Geo. Tracy
charged with running bar at 1905 u
Hewitt ave. Everett. Final hearing
Thursday before u. s. Commissioner
Robt. c. McClellanJ
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-05-09
LET NOT THIS BOYS BLOOD BE
ON YOUR CONSCIENCE, WEE C0YLE

the gridiron, game on the track, game
on the field of battle. And it asks you
to DC game in the governors chair.
You are besought to give Isom White
a mere youth facing the gallows, a stay
of execution for 80 days. By that time
Gov. Hart will be back If lsom hangs
then, his blood will be on Hart's con-
science IF he hangs on May 20, you
must bear the responsibility.
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II this boy must be executed, what
harm will be done if reprieve of 30
days is granted? Give him his chance
10 battle for his life before Gov. Hart.
The Wee" Coyle of old, we feel,
would give him that chance. And Lieut..
Gov. William J. Coylc of today ought
to do the same. Let not frigid official
dom CONCEAL the arm-bloodedness OF
good sportsmanship.
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Posts $500 Bonds
for Eddie Cicotte

CHICAGO. May I'D. Cassidy.
Detroit attorney. today appeared in
criminal court and posted $500 in
bonds for Ed cicotte. indicted former
member of the White sox team.
Cicotte. who Is charged with con.
spiracy 10 throw" the 1919 world
series between the White sox and
Cincinnati Reds. did not appear.
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Confessions
of a Husband
| WELCOME TEMPTATI0N--AND
DODGE IT
tcopyrssA. 1871. TIE ssa,,I. r,ar,


DODGE IT
AREN'T Edith and George . lot OF
funr' Dot asked as breakfast
-Edith u certainly live enough"
coufe0ed
THAT DOESN'T sound very enthu-
siaxttc. Don't 700 irks themy-
Il IKE them all right but dear.
- they exactly our sort7-
why. I don't know what you
msan Edith has been simply love
ly TO me-
had to confess she had She
would call by in her automobile to
take Dot to pay calls or 50 shopping:
II Dot had a headache one day the
other would telephone every day for
. wreck to find out how she felt: II
Dot wanted TO go to tho suburbs
Edith's car was at her disposal
Then we had gone to see them last
night and Edith had practically
adopted US slifelong friends. In
slsting on calling me by my first
name and making an engagement
with Us for later in the week.
would have died then and there
rather than hint at my suspicious
to Dot Somehow or other, man
never seems 30 foolish an when he
y trying to keep away from temp
alton.
'9 There Is no reason for this. but
a - -
would prefer TO be suspected Of any
thing else rather than virtue.
Besides. had only the vaguest
kind OF suspicious. After all, what
had Edith done except to try 20 be
q good hostess and to make herself
agreeable? IL had any other
thoughts 1t was my fault and not
hers.
SO I merely grumbled something
TO Dot about. George being coiorless
and Edith talking enough TO make
a man dizzy.
isn't that just Ike you-' she ex-
claimed. II so with all sorts OF peo-
pie for your sake--look at the Hen
dersons-they don't even put on a
clean tablecIoth when they invite US
for dinnerl cThis wasn't exactly the
truth: we had dropped In unexpect-
edly)
"And now when / find couple
like--and Edith Is perfectly lovely
to me--you make a face about IL
and say they aren't our sort Why,
II we aren't their sort I wish we
were."
"An say Is that II we had to
live on an allowance from your
father .in-law the way George Slocum
has 70 depend on his. we'd have to
yet along on pretty short ratonsr
It. was a mighty good retort, be
cause II was common knowledge that
George was hardly more than n
bookkeeper In his father in-law's Of
flee. and that the old gentleman
gave his daughter an allowance sew
eral times larger than the salary he
paid her husband
I chuckled over this on my way
downtown. tho why it should have
delighted me 70 much do not know.
Perhaps / would not have liked TO
confess how pleased / was at my
knowledge that Dot would pay little
attention to my protests and would
go on making dates" with the Slo-
Gums.
When I got TO my office I forgot
everything except the fearful mess
that things were In down there.
was deep In my work when a stenog-
raphsr. came to my desk and said:
Mr.. Howard, you're wanted on the
phone"
''f'ind out who II is," I growied.
Mrs. Slocum." the answer came
bpck in a moment.
Teli her I'm out"
(To BE Continued
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Moral: Don't Kick
an Old Tomato Can

BUTTE. Mont. May s.-when
Mrs. Francis Rowe went to the door
today to get her morning paper. she
fould II weighted down with . rusty
tomato can.
She tossed the can away.
A rattle attracted her attention.
She investigated and found two dia-
mond rings and wrist watch inside.
The jewelry was stolen from her by
two masked burglars q week ago.
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Her father. DR.. Royal A.. Mcclure.
was called by phone
ITS too bad" he said. You say
she might have wonY'
Friends Of Miss Mcclure were op-
timistic. however. that she will win
a high place In the pictures. anyway.
She has been In training for some
time II is understood she Is to play
small parts for a Los Angeles film
company.
Already the Judges have begun
their selections from the e5 girls In
the scmi.finals. Of those to appear In
the finals The judges hope to mar
row tho finals down TO half dozen
girls.
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Rob Delicatessen;
Escape in an Auto

After robbing the delicatessen Of
A. Toresi, 725 Union St. OF t3s. early
Sunday. two bandits escaped in an
auto. During the robbery one OF the
bandits kept ToresI covered with a
gun. while the other stood guard at
the door.
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Dear wsee":

Give Isom White chance, Wee. A
chance is all he is asking of you. Don't
let the dignity of lieutenant governor
ship, which, in the absence of the gov
ernor, imposes upon you the duties of
governor, dwarf your sense OF good
sportsmanship.
The state knows you and loves you
because you have been game--gsme on
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Trousers Burglar at
Work on Yes1er Way

The trousers burglar visited Il. NJ.
varon. l3l7h Yesler way. Monday.
He took pair OF trousers. a watch
and small amount OF cash.
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Pickpockets Work
Here; 2 Are Robbed

Plckpockets were busy Monday.
Elsie Hubert, 25 w. Roy st. lost
1915 In checks. while Mrs. NJ Under
hill. 1ii4 Marion ST.. was robbed Of
$3.50.
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yandeveer custia. prof. school
business administration, u. Of W..
TO address Municipal league Tuesday
noon. Biauc's.
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cow, ~ YEARS OLD,
STILL GOOD MILKER

ROMNEY. w. Va, May o.
Robert Kidweil has a COW "a years
old that Is still giving milk. Sew.
eraI years ago her first calf died
OF old age. The COW Is a great
pet In the family.
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Selling several pairs OF silkcn hose.
Alfred walling. 81. was caught In a
downtown department store by Pa.
troiman II. II. Harrington.