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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-12-29
Banks Model Savings
Plan After War Stamps
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE.

COLUMBUS. Ohio. Dec.-A local
bank has adopted saving system
similar TO that used by the federal
government In its war saving cam
paigns. Patrons OF the bany may
buy for $50 certificates that will be
redeemed in five years at S10o. Pay
ment of $3.50 may be made for a Ger
tifcate that Will be worth $1,000 IN
five years.
America spent $4,000. 900 for
books in 1919 and $500, 100000 for
cigarettes
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-12-29

S. & Fl. Stamps are the Same as
Money. Save them this year and
Buy Xmas Presents Next Xmas
With Them.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14

you are white! What do you say to
givn' me whack at the bossin'
job?"
I took just one little glance at Dad
dy. and the mild blue eyes Said Eyes"
But you've got me under arrest
Mr.. Beasley," [ pointed out, just to
see what he'd say. ''You can't very
well close a business deal with your
prisoner, can your"
"Kill two r three birds with the one
rock he mumbled, examining the
stripped half Of his breakfast finishing
corn cake into his capacious mouth.
"TN chase you down to Angels and
turn you over to the majesty O the
law-the same beIn' by name old
Squire Dublin. Then I'll jump my
job O sortin' out the bad angels from
amongst the good angels and 60 out
and rustic your bail. Time old Bill
Dubbin's cheWin' over the law In SIGH
cases made and pervided-like he's
bound to do-I'1l serape up bunch O.
men and start 'eln up hereaways to
begin on the repairs. How does all
that strike your
If my laugh was a bit grim there
was warrant for it,
''It strikes me fair in the empty
rocket. my good friend L told him.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14
SHERIFF'S SALE.
Francois Picou ct ais VS.. Mrs. VIM
Roddy, Adm, ct ais.
No. 1852.
Twentieth Judicial District Court,
Parish of TerrebOnne,
Louisiana.

Notice is hereby given that by viz
tue of an order of court issued out
of the honorable aforesaid Twentieth
Judicial District Court in and for
the Parish Of Terrebonne, Louisiana
and to me directed, bearing date the
goth day of October, 1921, l have
seized and will offer for sale to the
last and highest bidder, at the prin-
cipal front door Of the courthouse in
the Town of Covington. Parish of ST.
Tammany, State Of Louisiana, be-
tween legal sale hours for judicial
sales, on
Saturday, January ri, 1922,
the following described property, to-
wit:
A certain parcel Of ground or
square Of ground, situated in the
Parish Of St. Tammany, Louisiana
at Covington, being Square No. 1902
New Covington; together with all
the buildings and improvements
thereon and thereto belonging, and
all rights and ways and servitudes
thereto appertaining.
Terms of Sale-Cash, in United
States currency.
WALTER GALATAS,
dict Sheriff.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14

Just at this present moment
couldn't finance one solitary, lonesome
carpenter-to say nothing Of gang
Of them, with half dozen steam
filters and boilermakers thrown i'm
Huh! workin' capital, you mean?
That's about the easiest thing this side
O. Hades-with a mine like the old
Cinnabar-with no more water In it
than what can be pumped QUITO back
you. I reckon your title to the prop
ertys all right, amt it?"
1T is; have a deed from my grand
father So much I said, but I didn't
so on to explain how the quick wit Of
a girl who now hated me had saved
that deed from being a mere scrap of
waste paper. Not that I knew how
she had done it-but the tangible fact
was safely In my pocket.
Fifteen minutes after this break
fast table talk I was bidding a tenn
porary good-by to the wreck on the
Cinnabar ledge, and was about to take
the road to Atropia with Beasley;
both Of us intent upon catching a way
freight to Angels. Daddy had lent me
the piebald pony for the ride to the
railroad staticn-this either with or
without Jeanie's consent: I didn't
know and forbore to ashland the
harlequin-faced dog was ready to trot
at the pony's heels. But the blue-eyed
maiden had shut herself up In her
room, and l thought she wasn't going
to come out and see me off.
At the final moment, however, after
Beasley had already steered his nag
across the dump head, and I was
about to climb into my saddle, she
came to the cabin door, and was both
curiously embarrassed and bit
breathless.
please! -one minute" she begged;
and as I took my foot out of the STIR
rup: "Do you know what they have
done with-with-'
with Bullerton?" I helped out.
mo, / don't know; but I suppose
they've taken him on to the county
seat at Copah with the others"
'"Then-then-please let him gol If
you refuse to prosecute"
MAKE yourself entirely easy" I
broke in, bit sourly, maybe. It'll
agree not to play the part of the dog
in the manger."
THANK you-so much p she MUIR
mured; and then she backed away
quickly and went In and on through
to the kitchen, leaving me to follow
Beasley, which I did, with the sour
humor telling me that Of all the puz-
cling, unaccountable things in world
Of enigmas, woman's vagaries were
the least Understandable. For, after
all was said and done, and after all
that had happened and been made to
happen, it seemed to be palpably APP
parent that jeanne Twombly was still
in love with the jeet.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14

and the secret of them kept from leak
ing out, still remained one Of the un-
solved mysteries, though Beasley sug-
gested that probably imported work.
men were employed, and that the work
had been done under jealous super
vision with all the needful precautions
taken against publicity. The tight
wooden box-which would figure as a
part of the shaft lining-had been
built, and into the box the creek had
been diverted by means Of the small
dam and the underground conduit
With the water admitted to rise in
the box to the level Of it's intake in
the creek reservoir, the trap was set
and was ready to be sprung.
Beyond this point there was a gap
we were obliged to bridge by conjec-
ture, but the differences We're all plausi-
BILE enough. Doubtless the plotters
had notified my grandfather that his
mine was flooded and was no longer
workable. Doubtless, again, he had
authorized them to buy the needful
pumping machinery and to install it
which they did.
In this barefaced impOsture the plot
ters had conceivably buuded some
thing upon Grandfather Jaspers adj
vanced age as an insurance against
any too-searching investigation; but
beyond this they had carefully dis
armed any suspicion that he might
otherwise have harbored by encourag-
ing HMM the actual purchase Of the
property-to take expert advice, and
by crafti1y printing him, by under
statements of the facts, to trust them.
Only rumors of what had occurred
at this visit reached Angels; but Beas-
ley could testify that my grandfather
had come and returned alone, and that
after the pumping demonstration had
been made he had seemed disposed to
pocket his huge loss and to call 1t a
bad days work.
The later developments were not
hard to figure out. Beasley was able
to tell us that the proposed railroad
branch to run to the new copper prop
critics in Little Cinnabar gulch was
now certainty for the very near FL
ture Hence the time was fully ripe
for the recovery Of the Cinnabar by
the pIotters. No doubt they had con-
fdent}y assumed that repurchase Of
the property-not directly by them
selves, OF course, but by an agent who
would figure as a disinterested third
party-Would be easy. Beasley said
that there had been some talk of an
undermining drainage tunnel, such as
Daddy and I had figured upon-this at
the time Of the springing Of the flood
trap-and that the cost had been esti-
mated at half million. Unquestion-
ably the robbers had assumed that an
old man who had already charged his
venture up to profit and loss would
sell for song rather than to venture
again; and in this they were probably
we'll within the truth.
But at the moment when they we're
ready to complete the circle Of i'm
posture. death-the death Of Grand
father Jasper-had stepped in to COM
plicate matters, Somebody-poss1bly
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14
'Hooray!" He Yelled. "Charley Bull
erton's Dreened Your Mine for Yet"

the mystery of the continuous grum-
bling roar which was still ascending
out of the wreck-covered mine shaft.
Beasley stayed with US, waiting, as
I took it, to get his breakfast before
he ran me off to JAIL and the three of
US fell to work clearing away the
fallen timbers and roofing iron, Dad
dy Hiram leading the attack and be-
ing the first to stick his head through
what remained Of the tangle and hang
1t over the edge Of the shafts mouth.
"Hooray!" he yelled, his voice
sounding as If it came from the inside
OF barrel; and then again. "Hooray,
Stannie, son by the ghosts Of old
Shadrach Meshach and Abednego,
Charley Bu1lerton's done gone and
done eggs-zac'ly what he said he could
do--dreened your II me for We. Climb
in here ard take . 90. II E!nr She's
effpty-empty as gourd-but, at
that, she amt goin' 10 be, very long! !"
A few more minutes of the strenu-
Gus toll cleared the pit mouth so that
we could all see. The bomb which had
exploded in the shaft had wrought a
complete transformation The stand
Ing food. which all Of our pumping
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14
was a secret no longer.


The scheme which had been elab-
grated and set in motion to "soak"
Grandfather Jasper was a premedi-
tated "holdup." The Cinnabar, in OPP
GRAFTON and producing to its capacity,
was worth, so Beasley asserted, all
that my grandfather had paid for it,
and more. But with the branch rail-
road built to its very door, its value
would be doubled. Two alternatives
had thus presented themselves to the
owners, who were Cripple Creek
mining SPECTATORS who had bought in
the stock at a low figure while the
main vein was as yet unexploited: they
could go on mining the ore and stor-
ing it against the time when the rail-
road, with its cost-reducing advan-
tages, should come along; or they
could suspend operations for the same
length of time, setting the losses CT q
shutdown over against the increased
profits When they should start up
again.
With our discoveries of the morning
the plan of the robbery became per-
fectly plain. Some giant Of finance
among the spectators had evolved a
scheme by which the mine not only
might be shut down during the inter-
val Of waiting for the railroad to build
over the bench, but at the same time
be made to yield bumper crop Of
profits.
Taking its various steps in their or
der, the first move in the game was to
sell the mine to Grandfather Jasper
while it was still a going proposition !;
and this was done But one of the
conditions of the sale (Beasley told us
this) was that the selling corporation
should continue to operate the mine,
not as lessee, but under contract
by Which the operating company
should receive a certain percentage of
the output; an arrangement which
gave the holdup artists ample oppor-
t,uity to prepare for the coup de main,
HnW these preparations were made,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14
SYNOPSIS,

CHAPTER 1.-Under his grandfather.s
will. Stanford Broughton, society idler,
nnds his share OF the estate, valued at
something like $4,000, lies in safe re-
pository," latitude and longitude de-
scribed, and that is all. It may be ident1-
ned BY the presence nearby Of a brown
haired, blue-eyed girl, a piebald horse
and a dog with a split face, half black
and half white. Stanford at first REGARDS
the bequest as joke. but after consdera-
uon sets out to find his legacy.
CHAPTER lion his way to Denver.
in his grandfather's will, Stanford hears
from . fellow traveller story having to
do with flooded mine.
CHAPTER 111.--Thinking things over.
ho begins to imagine there may be some
thing In his grandfathers bequest worth
while, his idea finally centering on the
possibility OF mine, as safe repos1-
tory" Recalling the narrative on the
train, he ascertains that his fellow tray
eler was mining engineer, Charles Bull
lerton. Fullerton refuses him informa-
ton, but from other sources Broughton
learns enough to make him proceed to
Placerville, in the Red desert.
CHAPTER Iv.-On the station platform
ct Atropia, just as the train pulls out,
Stanford what appear to be the de n.
Erandfather's will. Impressed. he leaves
the train at the next stop, Angels. There
be finds that Atropia was originally
Placerv1lle, his destination. Unable to
secure a conveyance at once to take him
to Placerville, Broughton seizes con-
struction car and escapes, leaving the i'm
preston on the town marshal. Beasley.
that he Ia slightly demented.
CHAPTER V.-Pursued, he abandons
the car, which Is wrecked. and escapes on
foot In the darkness, he is overtaken
by a girl on horseback, and THE dog.
After he explains his presence, she in
vites him to her home. at the Old CHINA
bar mine. to meet her father.
CHAPTER vI.-Broughton's hosts are
Hiram Twombly, caretaker of the mine,
and his daughter Jeanne. Seeing the girl,
Stanford Is satisfied he has located his
property. but does not reveal his identity.
CHAPTER vII.-Next morning, with
Hiram, he visits the mine. Hiram asks
him to look over the machinery, and he
does so. glad of an excuse to be near
Jeanne, in whom he has become inter-
ested. and he engages in the first real
work he has ever done.
CHAPTER VIII.-Broughton and Hiram
get the pumps started, but are unable to
lerton. apparently an old friend of the
to drain it in consideration of Brough
TOMS giving hm ifty,one per r Gent of the
property. SldHlOTu TeluScS 111Cu DuIIeA
ton offers to buy the mine outright for
$4,000 It had cost Broughton's grand
father more than half a million. Stan
ford again refuses.
CHAPTER IX.-Jeanie cautions Brough-
ton against selling the mine. under any
circumstances, and, apparently in spirit
of mischief, allows him to kiss her After
4 conversation with Daddy Hiram,
Broughton decides he will stick to the
property. ....":.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14
NOTICE TO MORTGAGE CRED
TORS.
Covington. Louisiana J
December s. 1921. I

Covington. Louisiana
December s. 1921.
In conformity with Section 62,
Act So Of 1888, notice is hereby CIV
en- to all parties holding mortgages
upon real estate located in the town
OF Covington. La, on which taxes
for the year 1918, 1919 and 1920
have not been paid, | will begin the
ale Of same at the Town Hall in the
town Of Coyington. La, on Saturday,
January IA, 1922. at II o'clock a.
m. and that a number of pieces e
property Of deIinquents are now be-
ing advertised in this newspaper IN
conformity with the law, preparatory
to such sale The attention Of mort
gage creditors is especially called to
these advertisements Of tax sales and
they are warned to take such steps
PRIOR TO sale as may be necessary 10
protect their rights.
L. A. PERREAND,
d10-Gt Tax Collector.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.
Succession of William II. Cook.
No. 1919.
Tventy-Sixth Judicial District Court,
Parish Of ST. Tammany,
Louisiana.

Notice is hereby given that by
virtue of an order of Court, to ne
directed, bearing date the 18th day
of December 1921, I will proceed to
sell at public auction, to the last
and highest bidder, at the last place
of residence of the deceased, nea:
Talisheek, La, St. Tammany parish,
between legal sale hours for judicial
sales, on
Saturday, January %, 1922,
the following described property, to-
wit:
"a acres, bounded north by j..
Zimmerman, east by Mrs. NJ Stat
ford, south and west by N. .. q.
n. Railroad.
2 acres in southwest corner OF Sc
or of sW or section 10 township D,
range 13.
A strip of land 80 feet wide by z
acres long adjoining ten 5cre tract
of the n. O. G. N. Railroad. in sec
ton 10, township 6, range Is.
Also one lot Of household furn-
ture and kitchen utensils. tSee M
ventory on file at Clerks ot!ice.)
Terms of Sale-Cash, with ap-
praisement.
A. p. DICKEI,
DAFT Administrator.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14
CHAPTER XIX.
Angels, Desert and Urban.

. HuSctoy OSSeFL ana Urban.
Our stop-over in Angels, Friend
Beasley's and mine, was Of the short
est. Our business with Father Will
liam Dublin was the merest travesty
upon a trial at law, and was speedily
concluded.
Since there would be no passenger
train until afternoon, Beasley and
resumed our places In the freight's
caboose, and In due time were set
down In Brewster, the breezy little
metropolis Of Tmanyoni Park.
Here my captor-and friend-ap-
peared to be very much at home. He
took me to the best hotel, where he
was greeted with affectionate CANA
raderie by q clerk who wore dia-
mond big enough to serve for loco
motive headlight, shook hands with,
and introduced me to, number Of
gentlemen in the lobby, and presently
gave me orders to go up to our rooms
and take q wash" preparatory to
meeting a certain friend Of his at
luncheon; the meeting contingent upon
his being able to "round up" the friend
in time for the feast.
1t still wanted a half-hour Of the
appointed luncheon time when de-
scended to the lobby. A little before
one o'clock Beasley came in with q
middle-aged man who looked as If he
might have been the retired manager
Of a Wild West show not long-haired,
or anything like that, but with the
cool eye and bronzed, weather-beaten
face of one who lived under house
roofs only when circumstances forced
him to. A moment later was shak-
ing hands with Mr.. William Starbuck,
mine owner, ranchman, director In
the Brewster National bank, president
Of the Brewster Commercial club and
the prime mover In lot Of other civic
activities too numerous to mention.
may pass lightly over the events
Of the three days following; days In
which Mr.. William Starbuck, who
seemed to be known to all the old
timers In Brewster as Billy" and to
the younger generation as Uncle Bill
ly," labored untiringly in my behalf;
procured me the necessary working
credit at the Brewster National,
helped me in the Geographic ordering
Of new machinery, helped Beasley to
rustic up small army Of mechanics
to go ahead Of us to the Clnnabar,
and last, but not least, made my peace
with the railroad company In the mat
ter Of the stolen and smashed inspec-
ton car; this being thing which he
was easily able to do because he was
the brother-in-law, once removed. OF
the railroad company's vice president
and general manager. e=..-.s
On our last day in Brewster, and as
a parting favor, l asked Starbuck how
I should proceed in regard to quash-
ing the indictment against Fullerton,
and when l did so, he gave me
shrewd look out Of the cool gray eyes,
with gentle uplifting Of the shaggy
brows. EFF you are determined to let
Fullerton go, all you have to do Is to
do nothing. If you don't appear in
Copah to prosecute him and his would
be mine jumpers, the case against
them will be dismissed, as matter Of
course. But really, you know, you
ought to make an example Of Them"
'In the circumstances, I can't l
returned, SO we let it go at that; and
an hour later Beasley and were on
crr WOW hocl tO AtrODil and CHINA
bar mountain.
CONTINUED next week.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14

Notice is hereby given to the cred
itors Of this estate and to all other
persons herein interested to shOy
cause. within seven days from the
present notification, why the final &C
count presented by Herman H. Levy
administrator of this estate. should
not be approved and homolosatec
and the funds distributed in accord
ance Herewith.
By order of the Court.
GUY A. SMITH.
i7-2t by. Clerk of Court.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Aold-Up,

Beasley left me sitting on the door
step-I've a notion he had run out OF
handouts, else he might have clapped
q pair of them ON melville he start
ed his posse down to Atropia with the
captured raiders and their leader.
When he came back we took time,
Daddy and and the big marshal, to
size up the damage that had been
wrought, and beyond that. to dig into
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

There will be a meeting OF the
stockholders Of the Covington BANK
& Trust Company at their office Ill
Covington, La, on Tuesday, Januar?
10th, 1922, at 200 o'clock p. m,
for the purpose of electing a Board
of Directors for the ensuing year.
E. G. DAVIS,
d24-2t President.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14
NOTICE.

am applying for a parole, having
been convicted of manslaughter in
ST. Tammany parish.
d24-3t* JOHN PENN.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14

666 is a prescription for Colds,
Fever and LaGrippe. It's the most
speedy remedy we know. Adv.
n26-15t
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14
dict

Rub-Hy-Tism, antiseptic and pain
killer, for infected sores, letter
sprains, neuralgia, rheunatism.-
Adv. n26-15t
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14

Twenty-SXth Judicial District Court
Parish of St. Tammany,
Louisiana.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14
'SCOPYRIGHT BY CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS II

CHAPTER X.-Next DAY, curing stan
ford's temporary absence from the mine.
an enemy, without doubt Fullerton,
wrecks the pumping machinery. Trough
ton decides to have it out with him next
day.
CHAPTER Kiln the morning he finds
Fullerton and Jeanne have disappeared,
apparently eioped. He also discovers that
his deed to the mine has been stolen, and
as 1t has not been recorded. he has no
proof of ownership. Mysterious actions
of the dog cause Hiram and Broughton
to take the trail in search of Jeanne.
CHAPTER XII.-They find Jeanjes
nony. abandoned, but no trace of the girl.
When they get back to the cabin, Butler
ton is there, apparently awaiting their
Return.
CHAPTER xIII.-Believng Jeanne to
have gone with Bulerton, the, sight OF
the man is too much for Broughton, and
he uses him roughly. Fullerton denies
knowing the Whereabouts Of Jeanne.
Broughton orders him Off his property,
and he departs voWinS vengeance. Salts
fed Fullerton means mischief, Broughton
and Hiram fortify themselves in the
mine shafthouse and prepare for a siege.
Fullerton comes with a crowd of desper
ADDE'S and on their refusal to vacate, be-
gins an attack
CHAPTER xIV-During the day and
night the two successfully defend the
shafthOuse against attacks, lnclud!ng an
attampt to drown them out.
CHAPTER XV.-Almost ready to give
up. Rroughton is heartened by Hiram's
assertion that the sounds of the firing
must have reached Atropia, and an inves-
tigating party will soon appear.
CHAPTER XVI.-The siege continues,
Fullerton vainly endeavorins to induce
Hiram to abandon BroI ghton. He final
" announces his purpose to destroy the
shafthouse, with its defenders. They de-
fly him.
CHAPTER xVII.-Using dynamite, the
besiegers have Twombly and Broughton
at their last gasp when the rescung par
ty from Atropa arrives ,o beaded e1an by
is Daddy Hirams nephew. With the
party is Jeanle. AS an expla "a Of her
,a snE bar witch sh h nls
taken to have recorded, precaution he
had neglected. Beasley arrests Broughton
for the theft and destruction Of the con-
struction car.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14

For frst-class mechanics at Star
Garage. Phone ISL. Head of depot.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14
SUCCESSION NOTICE.
No. POI.

Succession of Rosalie Leon.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14

CHAPTER XV.-Almost ready to give
up Rroughton is heartened by Hirams
mist have reached Atropia, and an inves-
tigatin party will soon appear.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14

CHAPTER XII.-They find Jeanje's
pony, abandoned, but no trace of the girl.
when they get back to the cabin, Butler
ton is there, apparently awaiting their
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-01-14

CHAPTER XIV.-During the day and
night the two successfully defend the
shafthouse against attacks, including an
attanpt to drown them out.