Williams news., 1922-05-05
HORRID WAR.

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 Syaopsts. Captain Pnineas P.
 Scra Kgs has grown up around the
 docks of San Francisco, and from
 n1sss boy on a river steamer, risen
 to the ownership of the steamer
 Maggie. Since each annual in
 specttop promised to be the last of
 the old weatherbeaten vessel.
 6craggs naturally has some diff
 euIty in securing a crew. When
 the story opens. Adelbert F. Gib-
 uey. ikable, but cratic, man
 whom nobody but Scraggs would
 hire. Is the skipper. Neils Halvor-
 sen, a solemn Swede, constitutes
 t1s forecastle hands, and Bart Mo
 Guffey, a wastrel of the Gibney
 type. refgnS in the engine room.
 With this motley crew and his an
 ciert vessel. Captain Scraggs is
 engaged in freighting garden
 truck from Halfnoon bay to San
 Francisco. The inevitable happens;
 the Maggie goes ashore in a fog.
 A passing vessel hailing the wreck,
 Mir. Gibney. gets word to a towing
 company in San Francisco that the
 ship ashore is the Yankee Prince,
 with promise of a rich salvage
 Two tugs succeed in pulling the
 Maggie into deep water, and she slips her tow lines and gets away fin the fog. Furious. at the decep-
 ton practiced on them, Captains
 Kicks and Fiaherty. commanding
 the two tugboats, ascertain the Identity Of the Yankee Prince and. fearing ridicule should the facts become known along the wa ter front, determine 9on personal
 vengeance. Their hostile visit to the Maggie results in Captain q Scraggs promising to get a new boiler and make needed repairs to the steamer. Scraggs refuses to fulfill his promises and Gibney and sMcGufey strike" With marvel crew. At the end of few days Of wild conviviality Gibney and McGufey are stranded and seek their old positions on the Maggie. They are hostiIely received, but re- main On their way to San Fran cisco they sight a derelict and Gib- ney and McGuney swim to it.lThe derelict proves to be the CheSa- peake. richly laden, its entire crew stricken with Ssurvy. ScraggS at esmprs to tow 1et in, but the Mag e1e is unequaI to the task and Gib- ney and McGuffeY,' alone, sail the ship to San Francisco, their sal wage money amounting to s1OoO apiece. His crew having deserted him. Captain Scraggs induces them to return. At an "old horse,' sale the three purchase two mysterious DOSeS WAlch they believe 10 con tain smuggled Oriental goods" They find. instead, two dead Chi namen- Scraggs seeks to double cross" his two associates. but MT. Gfbne$ outwits him and makes a satisfactory financial settlement with the Chinese company to whom the bodies have been con signed. leaving Scraggs out in the cold. sGibney resents McGuffey's action In lending money to Scraggs without consulting him, and after c terrific wordy combat the three separate. aMcGuffeya becoming as- sistant engineer on an oil tanker, Gibuey disappearing, and Scraggs, forced to lay up the Maggie. takes q subordinate position on ferry steamer. Senor Lopez Mexican makes Scraggs a gen erous offer for transportation of to Lower California scraggs accepts, and the old Mag gle Is once more put into commits sion. Arriving at his destination, Scrsgg finds his old companion. Mir. Gibney, is the consignee Time having softened animosities, the re- union Is joyful.