The Red Cloud chief., 1922-02-09
JHORRID WAR.

Synopsis. - Captain Phineas p.
6craggs has grown UP around the
docks OF San Francisco. and from
mess boy on a river steamer. risen
to the ownership OF the steamer
Maggie. Since each annual In
specti0n promised To be the last OF
the old weatherbeaten vessel.
6cruggs naturally has some din
Guilty In securing q crew. When
the story opens. Adelbort p. Glib
ncy. iikable, but erratic, q man
whom nobody but Scraggs would
hire. 10 the skipper. Neils Haivor-
sen. a solemn Swede. constitutes
the foreonstle hands, aud Bart Nc
GuRey, q wastrel of the Gibnsy
type. reigns In the engine room.
With this motley crew and his an
Gent weasel. Captain Seraggs IL
engaged In freighting garden
truck from Halfmoop bay To San
Francisco. The inevitable happen:
the Maggie goes ashore In a fog.
A passiag vessel haiiing the wreck.
Mr.. Gihney gets word to a towing
company In San Francisco that the
ship ashore Is the Yankee Prince.
with promise of q rich salvage.
Two tugs succeed In pulling the
Maggie into deep water. and she
slips her tow lines and gets away
In the fog. Furious at the deoep-
ton practiced on them, Captains
Hicks and Fiaherty. commanding
the two tugboats. ascertain the
identity of the Yankee Prince
and. fearing rldlcule should the
facts become known along the wa
ter front, determine on personal
vengeance. Their hostile visit 10
the Maggie results In Captain
scraggs promising to get a new
boiler and make needed repairs to
the steamer. Scraggs refuses to
fulfill his promises and Gibney and
McGuftey strike" With marvel
u luck. Scraggs ships a fresh
crew. At the end OF n few days
OF wild ~conviviallty 0ibney and
McGufey are Stranded and seek
their old positions on the Maggie.
They are hostilely received. but re-
main. On their way to San Fran
cisco they sight a derelict and Glib
ney and MoGuffey swim to Il. The
dereaict proves to be the Chesa-
peake. richly laden. its entire crew
stricken with scurvy. Scraggs at
tempfs to tow her In. but the Mag
gtc Ia unequal to the task and Glib
ney and McGuffey. alone. sail the
ship to San Francisco. their sal
wage money amounting to $1,000
apiece. His crew having deserted
him. Captain Scragys induces them
to return. At an "old horse sale
the three purchase two mysterious
boxes which they beliove to con-
tain amuggisd 'Orisntai soods."
They md. instead. two dead CHI
namen. Scraggs seeks to double
cross" his two associates. but Mr..
0ensy sutvits him and mahss a
satisfactory financial settlement
with the Chinese company to
whom the bodies have been con-
signed, leaving scrasgs out In the
cold. Gbnsy resents Mo0uffey's
acticn In lending money to scraggs
without consulting him. and after
a terrific wordy combat the three
separate. McGuffey becoming as
sistant engineer on an oil tanker,
oibney disappearing, and Scraggs,
forced to lay up the Maggie, takes
. subordinate position on a ferry
tcamer. Senior Lopez. Mexican
revolutionist, makes scraggs a gem
erous offer for transportation of
munitions to Lower California.
Srraggs accepts, and the old Mag
gle is once more put into commits
sion. Arriving ut hts destination,
Scraggs finds his old companion,
MIR. Gibney. Is the consignee. Time
having softened animosities. the re-
union Is joyful.