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come a worthwhile and much appre-
ciated assistant. Not only did the
lad look after all details of their
trip, as well as taking care of the
offices, but many times his ingenious
mind so stimulated or aided Stones
own that more often than not they
were practically colleagues.
They had a compartment to them
selves at the end of the car, and they
were no sooner started than Stone be-
gan to discuss they case with the boy.
II don't know all the details, of
course" he began. but it's setting
after my own heart"
Then I can guess it, put in the
wise Fibsy. Man found dead in seal
ed room.'
You're a wizard. What made you
think of that?"
"'Cause that's the problem you like
best. F. Stone, Wise me up some
more"
ITS further interesting because the
victim is a great and good man: in
fact, the elect of the Uni
versity of Corinth."
MY! Somebody didn't want him
for president? That's the idea?"
apparently not. Nothing in the
letter about that"
who wrote the, letter."
whole estate"
He do the Job?"
mo reason as yet to think so. But
the criminal mustn't be guessed at.
The point is the locked room."
How was the killing done?"
stabbed. No weapon found and no
way to get in or out of the locked
room. Fine problem
"Yes-if we don't find a secret stair
way-or lying servant. Such cases
generally fizzle out that way"
"Fibs. you're a Boy Cassandra-"
whats that
Stone explained. for it was his habit
to supplement McGuires very scant
education by bits of information now
and then, when time served.
But there's Il queer clause in the
arrangement" Stone went on. III we
find the evidence leading in a certain
direction the chase is to cease"
THAT won't do"
''Of course not, and I'll soon make
that clear. But ! can't think il will
lead in the given direction, as that
implicat' a young girl, and rarely
indeed have / found criminal an
swering to that description
"'Tisn't usual-but YOU know. F.
Stone since the war girls are so in
no telling what they'll do. Me for
the gtrl-as a suspect
"Fibsy." you're a fool"
NO, sir. I don't admit il. See here
sir, if they're so 'fraid S'picion will
I, n to that girl. there's reason for
ii. Yet. as you can guess. if she didn't
do it, they want her skirts entirely
cleared
Pretty good deduction so far. But
we can't Judge nationally until we
know the facts"
The facts were told them when.
some hours later. they sat alone with
Maurice Trask in the room where
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John War,ng breathed his last.
I'm q plain man." Trask said. for
he didn't care to pose unduly before
an astute detective. i've come into
this estate of my cousin's--my second
cousin, he was. and I started out with
lain who killed him. But there is
some cause for suspicion of the young
lady ! expectto marry. And here's
the situation: IF you can solve the
mystery of DR.. Warnings death and
free that girl from any taint of blame.
go ahead. But II your investigation
leads to her. stop 1t. want to marry
her just the same, whether she killed
anybody or not. But IL she didn't do
1t l want to know it,"
Cant you learn the truth from the
young lady herself. IL she is your
fiancee?" asked Stone.
"Oh. she says she didn't do II, OF
course. But there's such an over
whelming mass of evidence-or ap-
parent evidence-against her that it's
the deepest sort Of a mystery"
Main facts first, Where was the
body found?'
I'm that desk chair. seated at his
desk. as he often was evenings. Read
wasn't looking for trouble"
Found dead in the morning? Been
dead all night?"
Yes. to both those questions. And
locked in his room. Had to break in"
And no weapon about?'
mot a sign Of any"
Then that cuts out all suicide idea
1T does and 1t doesn't. You may
as well say the locked up room cuts
out all idea Of murder"
"But it must be one or the other.
And isn't 1t more plausible to look for
some way that the murdered could
have gone away and left the room
locked than to think up q way that
the suicide could have disposed of
this weapon?"
Yes, that's SO. but want you to
investigate both possibilities. You
would free Miss Austin at once.
"And-if things go against her-I
want you to-oh. hang it. it's hard to
put into words"
III do that" said Fibsy. "if things
60 against Miss Austin. YOU want Mr..
Stone to frame up suicide and de-
clare it the truth
Exactly that" and Trask looked
relieved at the thought all his cards
were on the table. ct don't want
Miss Austin suspected, but l do want
to know IL she's innocent"
Amy other suspects" asked Stone.
Not definite ones. There's the Jap
anese who abscondcd that same night
and. of course, there's the secretary
Gordon Lockwood. I'd like to suspect
nl!n, All rlgnt, ana ne mas q rOund
silver penhoider that just fits the
wound that killed Waring. But II
doesn't look like he did II. he never
would have left the penholder in evil
dence, and he would have arranged
matters to look more like suicide.
Then. too. how could he lock the
door behind him?"
THAT question must be answered
first of ALL" said Stone. "Ill examine
the room. OF course. but after the
local police and detectives have done
that. I doubt if I find anything en-
Tightening. So far as l can see. the
whole affair is unique, and | think
We will find some surprising evidence
and soon. Tell me more of this Miss
Austin. Who s she?"
Nobody knows. In fact. they call
her Miss Mystery. because so little
Is known of her. She appeared here
in Corinth from nowhere. She knew
no one, and is she began to make ac-
quaintances somebody brought her
over here. She met DIR. Waring, and
inside of twentyfour hours had so
bewitched him that it would seem he
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was tnstAntaneous-T
Yes; the doctors agree that IL was
Positively he had no chance to hide
or dispose of the instrument of
death"
And why should he? Suicides
never make their death seem a mur-
der, though often a murderer tries to
simulate a suicide.
'"Yet that wasn't done in this case,
or the murderer would have left the
weapon"
'That may be the very point he
neglected. Now, how did tho mur-
derer get out? Get busy, Fibs."
For nearly half an hour the three
been any secret exit, or any con-
oealed passage, it must have been
found. Fleming stones knowledge
OF architecture would not let him
| overlook any thing of the sort. and
nary.
No way out" Stone concluded,
finally; "and no way Of locking a door
or a window after departure from
the room. Looks as II the murder
No chance of natural death?"
with a round hole in his tuguIar
vein? No. sir The doctors here
won't n ssa1I' sa1nd for dol.a that; @ Try again"
| sHoii' uoh know when I've
had such bathing, intriguing case
as this appears to be at drst sight, 1t
may resolve itself into q simule nroh-
lem, but l can't think so now. Even
II IL were the work Of your Miss Aus
tin-how did she get in and out?
| On, she got in. all right, warinR
let her In. at the French window
probably that's when he locked his
door. But-say she killed him-how
aid she get out and lock the room be-
She couldn't. The window lock.
are bolts, and could not be shot from
planation. 1t is blank. utter mystery.
When can / see Miss Austin?'
Too late tonight, tomorrow morn
| ing Will have to do. But she won't
run away. The police won't let her"
Yet. they can't hold her"
They are doing so. They claim
she was the last one to see the vict i'm
Does she admit that?"
Not she. She admits nothing
You'll get nothing out of that little
sphinx
"All right. then. Mr.. Trask, II you've
finished your tale. suppose you leave
me here to ruminate over this thing
and I'll 60 up TO my room when ]
wish"
Trask went off to bed. and Stone
and his young assistant sat and look ed
at each other.
up against 1t. F. Stone?"
Il certainly am, Fibs And yet, the
thing Is so absolutely impossible tha,
there must be a solution within easy
reach. 1t can't be suicide, with the
! weapon gone. and 1T can't be murder
with the room locked up. . Now, as ii
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SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INsrALIMENrs

SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALIMENrs
John waring. newly elected to the presl-
dency of Corinth College. venerable New
England seat of learning, is found stabbed
10 death In his study. As he is at the PIN
nacle OF his career and about to marry Emily
motive for suicide appears. He had no known
enemies. There was no trace of weapon,
nor was there any way in which a murderer
could have left the locked room:
The next morning Nogi, the Japanese but
Ter. is missing, as are a valuable ruby stick
pin; worn by the dead man, and $500; known
made out in favor of his hancee. has appar-
emily been burned in the crate: Thus his
Trask. Gordon lockwood. DIR. Warnings sec
retary. insists firmly, even suspiciously, upon
Anita Austin, THE Mystery Girl" as she
has been dubbed by the inmates of Mrs.
Adams boarding house (because of her silence
concerning herself ard her business in Cor
Roscom, a prying old maid accuses her OF
visiting DR.. waring on the night Of his death
and of eens %ah in Shoes hs
fit. are found in the crusted snow leading to
and from Dr. warnings study window. More
over. the roll of bills and his ruby stickpin
are found in her possession, together with an
embroidery stileta with which the fatal
wound might have been made,
With hngerprint evidence against her. and
with unmistakable proof that it was the i'm
print of her button trimmed dress. which was
found on a plush chair-hack in DIR. Waring' s
study, Anita admits visiting him on the night
of the tragedy. Rut her story is so conflict
ing and her distress so apparent, that Maurice
Trask finds his sympathies enlisted In her
favor. His interest IN Anita is so evident that
It rcuses the Jealousy of Lockwood who is
secretly in love with her. Trask, however,
overrides all objections and constitutes himself
her counsel
Unable any longer to keep hack his feel
ings; lockwood confesses his love TO Anita.
Trask. infatuated with her, attempts TO hribe
her to become his wife, offering to drop all
charges and remove all suspicion from her
name, If she will but marry him. Enraged
at her refusal. he threatens To ferret out
her identity, partly discovered by his recogni.
tion of her 'Truesdel eyebrows"
With the hope of clearing up the mystery
Fleming Stone, noted detective, Ia called in
on the case-yet with a certain provision
made by both Lockwood and Trask. that he
shall cease his Investigations il Anita is
found implicated.
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| must be either suicide or murder.
| then It follows that either the weapon
isn't gone or the room itsn't locked
| up"
Wasn't. you mean"
| "Yes, wasn't. But / don't yot think
! purposely. For why would the secre-
tary take away the weapon to make it
seem q suicide"
"He would IL he did it,"
He didn't do it. Trask sees that.
The man Trask is a sharp one. He
sees all there Is to see. and since
| there's practically nothing to see that
solves the mystery he sent for me.
1t would be a good one on me. Ter
ence, il I have to give the thing up
as unsolvable."
THAT won't happen. F.. Stone. but
any way to look"
= The next morning Maurice Trask
| went over to the Adams house and
brought Miss Mystery back with him.
She came willingly enough. and the
| interview with the detective took
| place In the room of the tragedy it
self.
Stone noticed that the girl showed
| no horror or distaste of fhe scene and
even sat in the chair he placed for
her. which was the same plush-c COW
cred one that had received the tell
| tale imprints.
| Fleming Stone regarded Miss Aus
tin curiously. Not only was her
beauty all that Trask had described
1t, but there was an added quality of
fneness, a trace of high mentality
that naturally enough Maurice Trask
quite overlooked.
At first glance Stones thought was
THAT child commit murder:
Never" But a few moments later he
was not quite so sure of his negation
Fibsy just sat and looked at her.
He had no occasion to speak, unless
addressed, so. in silence, he merely
let his eyes feast on the piquant face
with it's ever changing expressions.
After casual questions, Stone said
directly, Did you know DIR. Waring
before you came to Corinth, Miss
Austin?"
mo" she said. little hesitantly
II had heard of him, but l had never
i seen him"
How had you heard OF him?"
There was much in the papers
about his election"
And that interested you?"
Not specially" she said, with e
sudden accession of hauteur.
And thereupon she became mos
unsatisfactory witness. She listened
to Stones questions with an absent
minded air, answered in monosyl
tables, or by a movement of her head
She even gave a side smile to Fibsy
| which, though it amazed him, alsr
filled him with a strange exultant JOY
and made him her abject slave a
once.
Stone went on, drawing out a string
of unimportant questions in a monot
onous voice, and at length he said il
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Fleming Stone to the Rescue.

TerrenCe.
"Yes. sir"
"We're off for New England"
"New England it is"
start this afternoon. stay few
days, maybe a week. among the clas-
sic shades of Corinth.'
"Corinth 1t Is"
This somewhat laConic converse
tion was all that was necessary for
Fleming Stones assistant and gen
eral factotum to make preparations
for the trip, achieve tickets. and ar
rive. with his chief, at the train gate
at the proper time.
Terrence Mcguire. sometimes called
Fibsy, because Of a certain tendency
to mendacity. had begun as Stone s
Office boy, and, by virtue of his gen.
eral aptitude for detective work and
his utter devotion to Stone had be-
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THE MYSTERY GIRL:
A AThrilling Detective Story
BY CAROLYN WELLS.

Copyright J. b. \
ii4
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Continued tomorrow.)
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-02-24
RECORD BY BUHL HoLsTElN

Bull Herald: The remarkable re-
cord of 2132.9 pounds of milk and
1915 pounds of butterfat which has
Just been made by Korndyke Doede
OeKol, a purebred Holstein owned by
A. H. Jagels of Bull, is the highest
record made in the Pioneer Cow Test
ing association this year, according
to A. H. Roster, the supervisor.
Korndyke Doede DeKol is senior
three-year-old and freshened on jan
nary 1. She is a splendid Holstein
type, very straight and deep bodied.
She does not have the sloping rump
which is one of the characteristic
faults of the Holstein breed in this
section of the country Korniyke is
an example of Mr.. Jagels Holsteins.
His milking herd consists of eight
cows with three very promising heif-
ers due to freshen next fall All of
his cows and also his herd Sire are
descendants of the well-known bull,
Buffalo Duke Doede.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-02-24
CREAM BUSINESS NEARLY
TREBLED AT HAZELT0N

Hazelton News: To most people
of this segregation it will be big
surprise to know that the cream
business here has nearly trebled in
two years. That the dairy business
has grown in this vicinity was
known, but to what proportion it was
not discovered until Saturday, when
w. L. Mitchell, assistant cashier of
the Hazelton State bank totaled all
cream checks that had passed
through the Hazelton State bank
for the months of January 1921,
January 1922, and January 1928.
Mr. Mitchell checked up these
cream checks just for the sake of
comparison and found that the total
cream checks that passed through
the bank in January 1921, was $637.-
81; for the month of January 1922,
the total was $S17.47, and for the
month of January 1928, the total
was $2,228.2S or more than three
times what it was in January two
years ago. Daily average in jan
uary 1921, was s24.51; in January
1922, $31.44, and in January 1923,
the daily average was $3.50.
Two years ago the individual
cream check was around so to 81,
and a $25 cream check was a cur
iosity. Now $40, SIS, and even a
$25 cream check is common, which |
shows that the farmers are getting
more cows, and it also indicates
that the dairy business on this Sc
gregation is growing by leaps and
bounds, and it is yet in its infancy. |
The farmers who are milking COWS
are on a cash basis so far as their
store bills are concerned, and not on
ly that but as more cows are added
to the herd the cows will commence
to pay off other bills and the mort
cages.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-02-24
KRAFT BROTHERS TO BUY
PRODUCT OF CHEESE FACTORY

Through the fundamentally of
r. E. Shepherd, he and H. f. Laabs,
representing Kraft Brothers, the lar
gest cheese dealers in the United
States, visited the local cheese fact
DRY this week and presented a pro-
position which will probably be ac-
cepted, and if so it will mean the
greatest step forward the Wendell
factory has ever taken.
The proposition is to buy all Wen
dell cheese except that for use in
Wendell, and base the price upon the
quotations at Plymouth, wisconsin
These quotations at Plymouth con-
troll the cheese prices in all big mar
kets of the country.
The present method of marketing
the Wendell cheese through six or
seven wholesale houses in Idaho and
two or three brokers on the coast,
ties up so much capital that the To-
cal factory is seriously handicapped
at times. In fact the returns have
been so slow the past month or
two that the factory has actually had
to refuse additional milk.
Mr.. Laabs proposition will relieve
this situation as he will pay for the
cheese within ten days after loading.
Wendell Irrigationist.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-02-24

though the price this season was
much below last, he feels the results
justified the effort. He received be-
tween twenty-eight and twenty-nine
cents pound.
Having demonstrated the profit in
raising turkeys, Mr. Fraedrich will go
into the business much more extern
sively this year. Instead of forty
hens, he will start with 106. They
will begin laying about the middle
of March and he will begin to set by
April 1. He uses both hens and tur-
key hens for setting, and expects to
be through Matching before July 1.
He will keep an account sheet and
will know exactly the cost entailed.-
Gooding Leader
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-02-24
RAISING TURKEYS PROFIT
ABLE ON CANVAS PRAIRIE

A. E. Fraedrich, who has been en-
gagged in the raising of turkeys for
the market the past year, recently
received returns on his final shipment
and has figured up the seasons bust
ness. He is convinced that they offer
an excellent margin of profit when
cared for and given adequate at
tention.
From his forty turkey hens, Mr..
Fraedrich raised more than 500 birds
and received an average of $36.94
from the forty hens, after deducting
a considerable loss from coyotes. AL
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-02-24
MOUNTAIN HOME REPUBLICAN. MOUNTAIN HOME IDAHO
A DREAM


As sat in chair evening looking the of thu
CRATE
Der merged the last of wakeful moments.
1 thought coming from out the flames
A of efn sprighs that fitted in its glow
Then and in voice of music said
We come to give one wish, what will it be?
l. To be
Where WISH the thoughts of men.
As a a mansion
Where hveried attendants waited everywhere,
And in luxurious ease l found man
Ensconsed eidrdown and this is what heard him say
Aye am king puppet that dances ,na
When the powers do pull the string,
issue that mine
Oh Cod l wish that 1 could be
to a cast on a eli he sea flew,
And gate,
And found degenerate wit debauch
IN a within of his hounds,
And scion of the feudal lords thus spoke.
My wife, Eau! But daughter of a king
Who her fathers gold wed
Now OF knights will with soap, and foam,
Hi! Solutions, bring flagon
That drown sorrow and forget
private there a
Who's voice heard the world.
who's spoke in whispers,
the broken the widows orphans he had made
heard him Oh! that could he clean again,
pity
Then to he of wrought in clay
bricks his kiln
AS met by Frau with lusty arms and kisses too,
While kddies climbed his legs their part to do
When he home from work.
supper
with children 3
When pipe filled lit brought
Laid in square, carried up with plump
With loving hands, and this is what thought.
placed foundation right
kept level, joined with the
That crumbes could be built the gates of Heaven
God is good.
And then woke to find it all a dream
But from its memory drew picture of life
offered silent thanks the AM
a king, a millionaire,
But
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CREAM NETS LARGE SUMS

Gooding Leader; From July 10,
1922, to February l, 1928, the Good
ing Grange cream station paid $24,
457.SS to cream producers of this
section. The weight of the cream
brought in amounted to 1885
pounds. The highest price paid for
cream during this period was forty
six cents net and the lowest price
was thirty-three cents net. Since
October 3, a total of 1852 cream
checks have ben issued by the asso-
citation.
The report of Arthur Meinyer,
manager of the station, shows that
for the past seven months the pro-
duction has shown a gradual in
crease, and last week-the week of
Feb. 5 to 1O-was the highest pro-
duction week since Mr.. Meinyer has
been in charge of the station. During
this week 7119 pounds of cream were
brought in, for which S1135.59 was
paid to the producers.
The H. A. Padgham ranch was high
producer of cream for the month of
January, over 5000 being cleared
from butterfat for the month.
The following table, compiled by
Mr.. Meinyer, shows the amount of
cream bought each month during the
past seven months and the amount
paid for same:
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-02-24
TWO CARLOADS OF BUTTER
SHIPPED SINCE FEB. FIRST

Gooding Leader: A carload of ap-
proximately $4,000 pounds of butter
was shipped to the eastern market
Tuesday by the Marion Creamery
company. A previous carload of 20,
600 pounds was shipped to the Los
Angeles market on February 1.
Manager John Strating states that
a new pasteurizer has recently been
added to the equipment of the cream
cry, having a capacity double that
of the old one.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-02-24
PAUL DAIRYMEN SHIP IN
BULLS OF FAMOUS BREEDING

Rupert News: Better bulls fol
Minidoka county" is becoming a by
word to dairy farmers here, as is seen
by the good animals being imported.
Recently H. C. Hansen received a
fine, young animal with a pedigree
of aristocratie ancestors, from Penn
sylvania, and now comes word that
others have also prepared for pros
porous dairy future with fine male
animals to head their growing herds.
]. C. Merrill living north of Paul,
is the owner of Wisteria Calantha
Fidessa King, thirteen months old.
This Holstein bull is sired by Ora
hamholm Calantha Segis, a brother
of the new worlds champ four-year-
old Grahamholm Calantha Segis,
whose record of 34,291.S pounds of
milk and 1426.O7 pounds of butter
fat puts her at the head of the
who's Who" class. They are sired
by Dutchland Cremelle Calantha Lad,
whose twoDyear-old daughters aver
aged S34 pounds butter for year;
four year olds averaging over thir-
ty-one pounds butter in seven days.
1t is the kind of animals that are
necessary to make alfalfa realize $25
per ton in Minidoka county.