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The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-02-17
The Girl, a Horse rnA =
and a Dog ! 5xH2z :

buffeting, Shaping and rubbing. maui
ing me worse than any Turkish-bath
pirate would have dared 10. 1t was
keen torture, but 1t turned the trick,
and by the time | was able to breathe
comfortably again, | had acquired a
beautiful spanked blush where | had
been blue-all but the great bruise.
r~ing-shaped, where the suction pipe
had bit me.
OF curse, Daddy was chock full of
sympathy and concern, mixed up with
a good bit Of curiosity.
"One Of the suction pipes | ex-
planned, beginning TO crawl back into
my clothes. Il was foolish enough TO
get under it and it grabbed and held
me. If YOU hadn't stopped the pumps
I'd have been a gone goose. l was just
about all in. as it was"
We'll, you found u the pumps are
suckin' all right, anyhow" he re-
marked.
They sure are; you'd think so If
you'd been where | was" Then | be-
gan TO recall some OF those mixed and
mingled impressions ] had gathered.
What kind of soil is there under this
tlOor, Daddy?" / asked.
Huh" he snorted what soil there
is on this here ledge You could mighty
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Shaft-houSe we shut W shop and vent
over TO the cabin to cook our supper.
The dog went along. but evidently with
reluctance. While we were crossing
the dump head he turned back and
once more started Off down the road
toward the bench below. but when he
found that we were not following him
he came to heel again. Still, neither
Of us had dog sense enough to guess
what was the matter with him.
Daddy Hiram and 1, being merely
stupid humans, were commenting upon
his queer actions, and laying them to
Jcanie'S absence, when again the dog
started off down the road, looking
back and barking when he found that
we were still sitting on the doorstep.
at that, since even solid ivory can be
penetrated if the would-be driller OF 1t
stays on the job long enough, We final
~ caught on.
Say, Stannie he's a-tryin' to tell,
us TO come on!' Daddy exclaimed,
starting TO his feet. "Methuselah-to-
gracious did il have TO take Us a hull
endurin' afternoon to figger out that
much dog-talk?"
1T looks that way" | admitted but
now, having ~"figgered' 1t out, we made
no delay. Daddy got his rifle and cart
ridge-bclt, and told me TO take Jeanie's
pistol for myself-which l did. And
thus equipped we took the trail, In!
dian-fling down the mountain road in
the darkness, Daddy Hiram, with his
gun in the crook Of his left arm, set
ting the pace, and the collie running
on ahead TO point the way.
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probably fifteen pounds the advantage
Of me in that direction but after I
had got the thumb OF my free hand
upon a certain spot in his neck, ii was
all over but the funeral.
.Jehu! how he swore when + crum-
pied him, and took his gun away from
him, and slammed him down on q bed
Of broken stone and stuck a knee into
his breathing machinery. But he
couldn't do anything; the thumb-jab
had fixed him. His head was skewed
over to one side and he couldn't
st%raighten IT,. ! CROPPED around until
l found that other p~aralyzmg nerve
Ganglia-the n at the joint OF the
third v%ertebra.
Listen TO what he says, Daddy! l
said TO the old man who stood looking
on with the face of a wooden image.
Then 10 Bullerton, who was now mere
~ a wad OF flesh gone faced under
the torturing touch: Tell what You
know, and all you know; and tell 1t
quick and straight" and l gave him
one more little prod on the agony
nerve.
With a preliminary shrek he let It
out by Titles, gasping between thu
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-02-17
Copyright BY Charles Scribner's sons

gravel of the tunnel spoil, and a full
troop Of cavalry might have passed
over II without leaving any visible
trail. Worse than all, Barney, the pie
faced collie, appeared now 70 be COM
pletely at fault. He was running
around In circles with his nose to the
ground a pretty plain indication that
he had lost the trail.
"Tll be bat-clawed and owl-hooted
IL | know what-all to do next" Daddy
puzzled.
He hadn't any the best OF me there.
and it was precisely at this point that
the Spiit-faced dog took 1t into his
head TO add another snarl to the knot
ted tangle. After galloping around all
over the place half a dozen times,
shifting at everything in sight, he had
finally come 10 a stand with his nose
at a crack in the tunnel boarding. The
next instant he had leaped through
the hole where the planks had fallen
away, and presently we heard him
whining and scratching behind the
bulkhead.
l don't know about Daddy Hiram's
heart, but | do know that mine was
doing fip-faps and back somersaults
when we ran up to see what the dog
had found in the tunnel. For a half
second after Daddy thrust his torch
through the hole | was afraid to look
scared stiff at the thought Of what |
might see. When | did look, | SAY the
dog digging frantically at the heap OF
caved-in earth, and, of curse TO my
disordered Imagination, the hole in
which he was burrOwing transformed
itself at once into a newly made grave.
Good Cod" / gasped; and then:
Look, Daddy-rlght under your
torch"
He looked and staggered back, and
would have dropped the blazing pine
branch if | hadn't caught it from his
had seen, was the unmistakable print,
in the soft earth just inside Of the
planking, of one of Jeanie's brown
leather riding-boots.
In another half-Second we were both
in the tunnel and Daddy was heaving
the dog aside from the hole he was
paving u i'm the earth fall. Snatch
ing up q brOken-handled shovel that
the former tunnel drivers had thrown
away, the old man flung himself mad
ly upon the dirt pile, and since there
Nas room for only One TO work at a
time, / stood at his elbow and held the
torch. / don't know what he expected
10 find hidden under the slide, but |
do know what | was afraid he was
going TO find.
After all, It was only a flash in the
pan, so far as any dreadful discovery
was concerned. Inside of five minutes,
Daddy, working like a man demented,
had dug the entire cave-in away, and
there was nothing to show for the
frantic shoveling-less thar nothing.
Again. l don't know how Daddy felt,
but I'm sure | was able to breathe
better, the Improvement dating from
the moment when it became apparent
that the earth heap had grown too
small under the shovel Stabs. to pos
sibly conceal a human body. D"
The collie had followed us and
Daddy Hiram scowled down at him.
"If that dog could only be like old
Gran'paw Balaam's donkey for a min
ute or So he unused. HE saw her
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go in there and saw her come out {;
likewise and the same, he must We
seer what she did after she come out.
Looks as If he wanted to talk and tell
us, don't he?
Barney was certainly giving a good
imitation of that, or some other anX
iety. He was friskiDg about and bark
ing, leaping up now and then to snap
ut an imaginary fly In the air. Daddy
caught him by his lower Jaw and held
him immovable. 500 find her, Bar
uey :" he commanded; good dog-go
find her."
The instant he MAS released the cot
lie acted as If he understood perfectly
what was wanted Of him. S~pringing
aside, he be21l 20 circle again. nose
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near put in your eye, l reckon. 'Tain't
nOthin' but rock, and blame hard rock,
at that"
That was my notion. But if the
shaft is in rock, why did they box it
so strongly with timber? Surely there
wouldn't be any danger Of Il cave in
solid stone
well, now, I'm dinged." he re-
turned, muSingly. Long as I've been
mOnkeyin' round mines and such, it
never once come to me to wonder about
that"
Speaking Of the wooden b%ulkheading
renewed that other impression, or rath-
er two of them one Of having the feel
ing that l was shut in a tight box at
the mOment Of the fiercest struggling,
and the other of fancying that l had
felt Il swirling thrush of the liquid ice
as we'll as the sucking outrush. But
the recollection was so confused that
| attached no Importance to it. Whep
IL man is fighting for his life ten or
twelve feet under water. p%ipe-dreams
are nothing to the things he can i'm
agine.
Il was while we were sitting at the
shaft-house door. hamm@ring away at
the old puzzle Of why the water leve.
never varied so much as h fraction Of
an inch in the shaft, in wet seasons or
dry-aS Daddy testified it nevc~ did
and why the subtraction of two six
inch streams ut Il velocity Sufficient to
stir UP q veritable whirlpool ut the
suction intakes should make no i'm
preston upon it, that | began TO no
tice the queer actions of the pie-faced
collie. Barney. First he would come
and stick his cold nose into my hand +;
then he'd trot I'VE to the cabin and
back, AMI MAYBE loaf q little way down
the road toward the bench level. Com
ing around to the shlft-hOuse again.
he'd sit beside Daddy Hiram, yawning
and painting as If he were waiting inn
patiently for us to stop talking and
pay some attention to him.
Poor old Barney's hOmesick, and l
don't blame him." / said. I'm feeling
Il good bit that way. myself, Daddy"
Then to the dog: Come here, old
boy :"
The collie came to lick my hand, and
while | was petting him l found a
pretty bad cash just behind one of his
ears.
"See here, Daddy" / broke out /;
the dogs hurt !"
We examined the wound and decided
at once that II was not a bite. 1t was
Il bruised cut, looking as if it had been
made by some blunt instrument or
weapon. | had a hot-iiash vision of
BVllerton kicking the dog with his
iron-shod heel in an attempt 10 drive
him back home, and il was SO real that
| couldn't shake ii of.
When ii began to grow dusk IN the
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-02-17
BESlEGEO!

S%ynonsis. - Under his grand
fathers will. Stanford Broughton
society idler, finds his share OF the
estate, valued at something like
SAC, coo, lies In a safe repository
latitude and longitude described,
and that Is all. 1t may be identi-
fled by the presence nearby of a
br~own-haired. blue-eyed girl. a pie
bald horse, and a dog with a split
face, half black and half white.
Stanford at first regards the be-
quest asa joke, but after consider
alton sets out to find his legacy.
On his way to Denver Stanford
hears from d fellow traveller,
Charles Bullertor. a mining engi-
neer, a story having to do with a
hooded mine. He has a "hunch"
this mine is the safe repository"
OF the will. Fullerton refuses him
Information. On the station plat
form at Atropla. just as the train
pulls out. Stanford sees what APP
pear to be the identical horse and
dog described in his grandfather's
will. Impressed, he leaves the train
at the next stop. Angels. Unable
TO secure a conveyance, Broughton
seizes a track-inspectiOn car and
escapes, leaving the impression on
the town marshal, Beasley. that he
is demented. Pursued, lie ADAM
dOns the car, which is wrecked,
and escapes on foot. In the dark
ness he is overtaken by the girl.
The horse and the dog. After he
explains his presence. she invites
him to her home. al the Old lima
bar mine. Broughton's hosts are
Hiram Twombly, caretaker Of the
mine, and his daughter Jeanie.
Stanford does not reveal his iden-
tity. Hiram and Stanford go put
tcring about the mine. Stanford
gets interested in the work and
falls in love with Jeanne. who V
HIS life. Fullerton shows up at the
mine. He offers $4,000 for the Gin
nahar. Stanford says NO" Bull
lortOn makes threats. Somebody
throws n monkeY-wrench into the
pumping machinery. jeanne disap-
pears. So does the deed Of the
Cinnahar.
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CHAPTER XIII.


1t was Daddy Hiram who made the
first break.
Charley Fullerton, where's my
daughter!" he raped out, hurting the
question at the lOafer on our doorstep
in q sort Of deadly rage that you
wouldn't have thought possible in so
mild-mannered q man
You needn't worry about her vas
the cool response. Didn't you get the
note she left for you, saying that you
needn't?' Then, as If he had just seen
and recognized me: Hello, Brough-
ton we've missed Il day, but I'll give
YOU the benefit of it and not dock you.
Cinnabar for twenty thousand dollars
this fine morning? It'll probably save
You more or less trouble if you are
lie didn't get the kind of answer he
wanted; or any relating TO the mine.
Unbuckling Jeanie's gun and handing
Il to Daddy Hiram, / walked across TO
where ne was sitting, keeping a wary
eye on the hand which would have to
be the one to 60 after the weapon he
had once showed me hanging under his
left arm-pit.
MIR. Twombly has just asked you
where his daughter is, and you haven't
told him." | gritted. you've got about
ten seconds i'm which to tell him all
you know, and after you've done it,
I'm going to trim you!"
He had scrambled to his feet when
he saw me coming, and, just as | eX-
pected, that watched right hand fiicked
suddenly under his coat. At that |
rushed him and we mixed 1t promptly.
! got hold Of the gun hand before ii
got to the pistol butt, and at the clinch
we were all over the place, each Crap
ping for the underhold, and neither of
us paying much attention to the rules,
Marquis Of Que%ensberry or other. Bull
lcrton was a AeayyweiyEa, 81 had
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"Jerusalem-to-gosh! I'D about
n lief die a. be drowned to
DEATH!
(TO BE C~ONTINUED.)
Playful YOUNG Eagle.

Once a young eagle was observed
having a great game. 1t had found a
stack of peat, and, lifting a sod in its
claws, it flew up TO a great height. II
then dropped the sod and swoOped
down upon 1t at a terrific pace, catch.
ing it in its claws agsin. And 20 the
game went on, 4
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-04-11

lily OF Milwaukee. formerly OF East
Chicago, will be guests at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. p. II. Billeter on
North Barring ave, over the week
end.
BE a blue bird and attend the Blue
Bird dance, in connection with tee
carnival TO be given at the Wash
ineton grade school building. April
End. under the auspices of the
Parents-Teachers Association.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Mickey en-
tertained al Sunday dinner. Mr. and
Mrs. H. Z. Zoeger. their daughter,
Dorothy. also friends from Gary
Divine service at the Church OF
the Good Shepherd this week will be:
Wednesday. 1880 p. m. the Peniten-
tial Office and sermon. Thursday,
Holy Eucharist at 10 a. m. Good
Friday Mathis and sermon, 10 a. m
Litany and sermon, 200 p. m, yes
pers and sermon at 1880 p. m. Sat
urday the administration of the
sacrament OF Holy Baptism at 400
p. m. The public is most cordially
invited to attend these services.
Hazel X Groves and wife, with
Mrs. Groves sister, Mrs r. II. Hasse
Of TT Madison Ia, spent Sunday at
the home of their brother, Augu st
Johnson. in Crown Point.
The CEocus Club will be entertain
ed Wednesday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. A. Hill on Lewis st. Ham
mond.
Miss Mabie sontag Of the First
Calumet Bank force. spent the week
end at her home in Painield, Ill.
Mrs. Frank Simpson. who has been
spending the winter in Pueblo. Colo
returned to this city Friday. Frank
lin, the young son will remain in
Pueblo until the schools arc out this
summer
The home of Theodore Barr al
1896 Northeote ave, is under quar-
! antine for scarlet fever, Margaret
the ls' months old daughter of Mrs
Adah Richards who makes her home
with her sister, Mrs. Barr, is Ill OF
the disease. Mrs. Richards with the
| assistance Of her sister. Miss Edith
Watts, is caring for the children at
! the Barr home, while Mrs Barr who
is employed at the L. S. s. Lead
Refinery. is staying at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Tappan on
145th st, and Mr.. Barr is with the
Walter Watts on North Magoun ave
The Loyal woman's Bible class OF
the East Chicago NJ. Z. church meets
this evening at the home OF Mrs
Frank Dooley, on Northcote ave.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Rodda are
the proud parents of a baby girl borr
Tuesday, April 4th. Mother and babe
are getting along very nicely al THEN
i home. 1861 Magoun avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Lewis anc
daughter, Miss Florence, spent tn,
weekend in Oak Park the guest.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-04-11
EAST CHICAGO
AND
THE HARBOR
AT THE HARTLEY

Twenty-Five feet from Slam to
Mexico! Such was the startling
geographical jump accomplished by
players IN Fools Paradise Cecil
B. DeMille's newest Paramount pic
ture, which is showing at the Hart
ley theatre starting tonight.
For on the same stage at Para
mount Studio one found the inter
Tor Of a Siamese Temple with a
IN which reptiles awaited the sac
ridce-while- but a step away there
was q colorful cantina of an oil
town on the boarder between Next
co and the United States.
The hero Is a young ex-soldier,
who loses his all In the oil fields
Captivated by a famous French
dancer. he is blinded at one Of her
performances by an explosive ci-
gar. the gift OF a cantina girl. Fill
led with remorse. the girl nurses
and comes TO love the man-and he
is happy believing her the dancer
whom she mimics. Sight restored.
he Is an gered at the trick and fees
in search Of his FIRST love. Finding
her IN Siam, a series of dramatic in
cidents prove her shallow character
and bring him back to the woman
who loved him in his misfortune.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-04-11

of former East Chicago friends. Mr.
and Mrs. Z. F. Ferguson and Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Kruger.
D. D. Dixon is able to be up and
around his home on Beacon street
after a fall he received in the Gar
field school building two weeks ago.
Mrs. Elmer McCutchen of Wave
land, Ind, was the week end guest
of her sister, Miss Aria Spencer.
H 4. Jones, assistant employment
manager at the General American
is able to be about his home. after
several days illness of the grippe.
Miss Alice Williams spent the
weekend at her home in Crown
Point.
The home and educational depart
ment OF the Indiana Harbor Won
ans club will hold their Public Day
meeting Wednesday afternoon at
Katheran House. This is a meeting
when all club members are invited
and each member allowed one guest.
The committee in charge have ar
ranged a very fine program. Mrs.
NJ. A. Given will sing. Mrs. II, NJ.
Hoyles viii give readings. and the
Juvenile Fashion Show promises TO
be most interesting. r. A. Mcdonald
of Karpen Brothers Furniture Com
pany viii speak on interior decorat-
ing and viii have samples to dem
onstrate his color schemes. The
program Will be followed by refresh
ments served by the committee.
Miss Thelma Cook Of North Ma
goun avenue was the week end
guest of Miss Madeline Dickinson
at her home in Gary
Mr. and Mrs. NJ. Z. Poffinberger
and family Of Mark subdivision re-
turned yesterday from Vandergrift.
Pa. where they had been on the sad
mission. laying their only son away.
Mr. Poffinbsrger is much improved
in health. he having been quite i'll
after reaching their former home
town in Pennsylvania
The civic department of the East
Chicago woman's club VIII meet
Thursday evening at the home of
Mrs. r. ". Royce. 4T21 Northcote
avenue Mr.. c. NJ. Reed will speak
on Indiana Banking Laws" 1t is
hoped All members Will attend.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-04-11
SENATOR NEW A
NATIONAL ASSET

The retirement OF Senator New
through political defeat in Indiana
would be d severe blow. not only
to the nations defenses. but to those
who manned them in peace as well
as in war. Not only on account of
his military services. but because
Of the earnest study he has given
problems of national defense since
he has been a member Of the Senate
committee on military affairs, has
Senator New become a national as
set.
During the war, Senator New was
one of the leaders In the fight for
those measure which brought the
conflict to an early and glorious
conclusion. He showed his sym
pathy for the army in the field by
securing the passage of the bill Civ
ing Communication for quarters TO
officers serving the field. This was
a great relief for temporary as well
as regular officers n the lower
grades. Senator New has always
been a friend OF the National Guard,
participating in the framing OF the
Army Reorganization Act, under
which It has been built up since the
war. At present he is earnestly
urging sufficient appropriations for
the development of the Gllrd and
the Organized Reserves.
The most gratifying feature OF
Senator News record since he has
been in the Senate is that he has
not supported these measures for
local political reasons. but because
he favors sane and reasonable pre-
paredness.
II is sincerely to be hoped that
the people of Indiana will take into
consideration the welfare of the ma
tion as well as local affairs when
they decide whether such a man as
Senator New will continue to repre-
sent the state at Washington.
Army and Navy Journal.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-04-11
PAST GRANDs MEETING

The Past Grands Association Wi
meet at Calumet Lodge, l. o. 0. +.
at Hammond, Thursday evening.
April Is. at eight o'clock TO elect a
president to succeed c. II. Reed o
East Chicago, who has been appoin
ed assistant Grand Secretary of tbs
Grand Lodge Of Indiana and Super
sixte enu 3klNOetaoin a ar ar ar ara
intendent Of the Odd Fellows Tempt
sixteen story office building a,
Indianapolis
Mr.. Reed, chief engineer of the
.. S. Lead Refinery at East Chica-
go, has rendered his resignation to
take effect on the 18th of the month
after having served in that capacity
for Is years. Mr.. Reed has been
identified with the Odd Fellows
fraternity for many years, having
held many county and state offices
IN the order, and his selection for
the second highest honor in the
state Is in recognition Of his past
services. The Past Grands Asso-
citation was formed in 1919 and IS
composed OF Past Officers Of Lake
County Odd Fellows Lodges.
The association in 1913 was in
strumental dn persuading George E.
Hershman OF Crown Point to allow
his name to be presented for Grand
Warden at Indianapolis Lodge SEES
sion and 1t was due to the efforts
of the members that he is now the
Grand Master OF the state.
Mr.. Reed viii probably leave for
indianapolis on April 18th to as
sumo his duties. Mrs Reed will
remain in East Chicago until the
school closes.