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FIRE MOUNTAIN
A Tale of Mystery, Treas ue, Love n the Sea.
BY NORMAN SPRINGER
Author of 1.-The Blood Ship"
ENsTALLNENT NO. FIVE.
NsTALLNENT NO. FIVE.

head. opposite HIM on the slcpIng
weather deck stood the glrl-"NIiss
Ruth"
She was, without doubt, an un-
commonly pretty girl, and h strange
costume h were aCcentuated, rather
than hid, her charms. \ serge skirt
came but little below her knees, and
beneath it Martin saw feet and ankles
encased in stout, trim, absurdly small
sea boots.
She wore a sailors pea-coat, open
at the front and disclosing 4 guernsey
covering a swelling bosom. Yes, by
George, she was a beauty.
How does your head feel?" she
asked.
He answered reassurIngly. and re-
membered that II was those brown,
shapely fingers that wrapped the
bandage.
Il am Ruth LIE Moyue," she con-
tlnued. 7 would like to thank you
for what you did last night. But
you can guess what it. meant to me
i, n girl. and Carew-"
Yes, Martin knew. He FASTENED
to say hat what he had done was
nothing, by George, not worth men
tioning!
"Of course. you feel strange and
lost she said. But you are II
Of us. now. You share in the ven
ture, and if We are successful-but
you will hear all about it after
awhile"
She broke off abruptly. looked aloft,
then turned to the helmsman.
Watch your eye, Oomak!' she
called.
The savage-appearing steersman in
Clined his head submissively and
pulled upon the wheel spokes. Mar
tin stared, surprised. What had his
enhancing bundle of femininlty to
do with the steering Of the ship?
"W-what are you on the ship,
Miss" he asked.
"Oh. I forgot tha you didn't
know" laughed the girl. why, I
am the mate"
The mate. This radiant, laughing
creature the mate! This slip Of u
girl! Oh. no. no wonder the boatswain
wept and spoke of posies, and the
~hunchback waIed poetlcal in descrlp-
ton. This girl
T. you seem rather surprised she
rallied him. Il see disapproval in
your face. But I assure you. I am
a very good mate. I even have a
masters ticket"
Martin suffered in his confusion
and tangled himself in a web of
denial. Then came a blessed inter-
ruption. Up through the companion
hatch, to which he still clug. arose
a serene-faced bid. man.
THE captain announced the De-
sklrted mate. Captain, here is Mi.
Blake-Mr. Blake. meet Captain
Dabney."
The old man stepped out on deck
and turned his head about uncer-
tainly.
Glad to meet you. lad" he said.
Tho captains eyes stared at him
without seeing him. He was blind,
In n talk with the bosun, Martin
gathered that Ruth was the grand
daughter Of the blind man, known
ns squire il" Dabney; that she
was orphaned; that his cockIeshell
OF a vessel had been her home since
babyhCou. They called her Mister"
Bred Of seam-n and to the sea. No
wonder she paced the deck so CON
fdeEtly. and flung n laugh into the
East W nd's very face!
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needs code translation. and latitude
and longitude; friend Blake carries
code in pocket. friend Ruth carries
position in head-so. there is plot
and counterpart; gumshoeing and
shanghaiing. You, my friend. at the
center Of one storm circle. Devious
and dcvilish Vaccinations assail you
at first with failure, for the mate
lost her wits, and the boatswaln lost
his balance. But Little Corcoran,
King of Legerdemaln, succeeds. With
his dcxtrous fingers he effects the
substitution by picking n young
gcntlemGn'5 pocket"
'NVhy, then it was you placed the
envelope containing the blank paper, %
commenced Martin.
EXACTLY. Your intuition Is re-
markable." stated the hunchback.
'But-please-do not look so shocked.
Observe: Ichi. the beast, picks Little
Blly's pocket, and the way to Fire
Mountain is lost; Little Billy picks
Mr.. Blake's pocket, and h way to
Fire Mountain Is r~egained! Is It not
beautifully simpler
1T won't take me long to tell my
part Of the story" commenced Cap.
tain Dabney. 1T happened last sum.
mer, up in Boring Sea. l lodged out
Of the fog.bank. where I had been
playing hide-and'seek with a Russian
gunboat. and saw tho sun for tho
hrst time in a week. and at tho same
tImo clapped upon Fire Mountain.
Ay, 1 had my yes then-good eyes,
too.
Fire Mountain. lad IS a volcano.
1t is q volcanic island sticking up
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We didn't investigate

iof witches. We didn't investigate
no torches.
Then, way up on the beach, and
behind come big boulders. we dis.
covered the ribs of a whaleboat, a
Tust-eaten sheath.knife. and a board
that contained part of a ships name.
The lettering was almost effaced; we
made out the letters LUC-and be-
meath It h word, BEDFORD.
Nov, Billy, you commence-lt is
your yarn from now ong'a
my turn to tRlk?' exclaimed the
Continued on Page NineJ
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out of the water several hundred
miles of the KamchatlSa coast. But
I guess l had better tell you how
we came to be in Boring last summer.
you know, lad, I am a trader,
Fur is a mighty profitable trade. II
you can get enough fur, and at rea-
sonable prices, and for the last ten
years : have traded every summer
with the natives for their furs.
1.-THE Russian Chartered Company
has a monopoly OF the fur trade in
Eastern Siberia. and insists upon
about i've thousand per CEN proht
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who's Who and Whats Happened:

VINO VINO anu WIN habPShSe
Martin Blake, law clerk with 4 long
Ing for adventure. gets 4 taste Of 1t
when his employer,
josiah Smatt, who handles some
myster u cases. directs hin to carry
a sealed envelope TO
Capt. Wild Bob Carew, who Is to be
found in the Back Cruiser saloon
at Green Street and the E~mbarcadCro.
San Francisco. While Blake is get
ting his instructions as to delivering
the envelope,
DR.. Ichl, a dandified Japanese, sits
at Smatt's table. While Ichi previous
IL has beer closeted with Smatt. a
supposed book agent who Martin later
learns is
Little Billy, a ~hunchback. steward
Of the Brig Cohasset, apparently tries
to sell a Compendium OF knowledge"
The book agent. however, let's his
eyes rove all over the place as he
talks. His attempt at a sale Is inter
rupted by Smatt's summons. When
Blake with the envelope in his pocket,
rsenters the main part Of Smatt's
office he has a sense Of someone's
having Just left That night, on his
GRAND, Blake encounters
q bb6uh vi lAlb SUIEik5Glt blCO-
holically m%ournful over the disappear.
Gnce Of Little Billy. with whom he
had started out to buy a birthday
present for the briggs blessed little
mate" When Blake refers to Ich!
and Carew. the Bosum, q gigantic,
hless Englishman. becomes suddenly
be1ligerenG.
AS he nears the BLACK Cruiser"
Martin runs into Little Billy. whom
he tells Of the bosun's anxiety.
Though Martin detects no odor Of
liquor IN the hunchback, Little Billy
appears unsteady and. in seeking to
maintain his balance. seizes the law
clerks o~vercoat, in which he carries
b envelope Smatt was sending TO
Carew. Near the saloon Martin passes
q figure in q gray overcoat He en-.
ters the BLACK Cruiser and is put
in an empty room OF the lodging
house upstairs while Carey is to be
told Of his arrival. As he waits Ia
h dark room he hears a noise that
makes him look out IN tine to see a
group OF Japanese dragging a beautl-
tu white girl, clad in a gray coat,
along the passage. As he opens the
door, a fist shoots through. hits him
in the pit Of his stomach and knocks
him back Into the room.
The Jap messenger who comes 70
convey Martin to Captain Carew de.
clines to answer the law clerlx's
questions about the girl. and to
Blake's excited story. Carew him.
self an extraordinarily handsome
man-turns a deaf ear, demanding
that Martin deliver the message.
Realizing now that through the DO.
lice would come the best chance to
rescue the girl. whose gray overcoat
was lying on tho floor OF the Cap.
tain's room. Martin delivers the en-.
velope. AS he turned to 60 Carew
discovers tina the envelope contained
only blank paper. He roars out a
command that results in Martins
being assaulted by several Japanese
servants and
Spulvedo, keeper of the BLACK
Cruiser" Blake, knocked out in the
battle, comes to in 4 small, dark
room. His kicks against the door
bring q bullet crashing through it
and a command from Spulvedo TO
keps quiet Presently Martin hears
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job. The second morning after, we
found ourselves almost on top OF as
wicked a looking saw.tooth reef as l
ever want TO see.
THE reef enclrcled a mountain
that stuck straight up out of the sea
for about two thousand feet. 1t was
an old volcano-stiIl smoking. We
discovered a break in the reef, a little
bay bitten narrowly into the mounH
tain, and a beach.
'The mountain stuck up sheer IN
front OF us and on either side Of the
bay. II was full OF caves-riddled
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in dealings with the natives. Natu-
rally, the natives r more than
anxious to trade with a free.lance.
The Russian government keeps Il
little tin.pot gunbout cruising up and
Town to prevent poaching, and If
you are caught 1t means the mines
lor ali hands.
"But. Lord Any live Yankee can
dodge those lubbers. The last chase
they gave me was last August. we
made for a fog.bnnk. Three days
he rampaged around, looking for US,
and then he gave US up for a bad
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And 90 Martin was one Of the Jolly
company Of the brig Cohasset. There
was no n ashore to ErIeve at his
Disappearance. save his landlady.
He wa awestTucl by the fury Of
the clements, by the IImltIess OK.
panso Of ~upheavlng waters, by the
long, white crested seat racing down
the wind. He was beholdiug the rag.
ing main!
ae44o. Mt. BLhke3 SLAn 10 sec you
about. Nice little pun We have had
Tor n starting boost-about blown
out. I'm afraid"
The words. rich, thucaty. Hinged
with amusement. came down the Wind
70 Martins ears. Martin turned lls
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25
Building and Loan Assn.
to Be Organized in City
Opportunity for Laboring Man to Be-
come Home Owner-Chas. E.
Lucas, Secretary

George E. Waggoner, district
manager of the Minnesota Building
& Loan Association, has been in Saul
Centre much of the time the past II
days organizing a branch of the as
ISOLATION in this city.
Charles E. Lucas, former superin
tendent of the Commercial Depart
ment of the Sank Centre Public
Schools, and of late secretary of the
Civic and Commerce Association Of
Little Falls, will be local manager OF
the Sank Centre branch as well as
looking after the interests of the Com
pany in Todd county. The Herald is
pleased to announce that Mr.. Lucas
will again take up his residence in
Sank Centre.
The Minnesota Building & Loan
Association is under the supervision
of the Minnesota Banking Depart
ment, and,i differed by some of the
most prominent fnanciers of the state.
i The Herald believes that the advent
of this association will be fine thing
for Sank Centre as it will make il
possible for many citizens who are
paying rent at the present time, to
become actual home owners. ~.
Under the plan of the Minnesota
Building & Loan Association one does
not need great amount of cash tc
start building home, and the month
ly payments on the home handling
the interest and principal pay
ments will not cost as he is paying
home owner as much as he is paying
rent for the same kind of house, at
the present time ..:.~rr-r
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25
Strong Stock Dramatic
Company Comes Next Week
Loragers Have Record of 233 Sue
cessive Weeks Corking College
Comedy Opening Bill

The Loranger Dramatic Company
which is booked to appear at the
Caughren Theatre all next week has
broken all records for long runs. This
company has been on the road for %.
consecutive weeks. 1t comes to Saul
Centre recommended as one of the
very best dramatic stock companies
that has ever travelled the northwest.
They present high class dramatic pro-
auctions and feature, vaudeville be-
tween acts. A car load of scenery
and lighting effects are carried.
The opening play on Monday nigh.
will be "The Call Of the Blood This
is a college comedy-drama and is the
great play which made Robert Edison
famous. H. Charles Robinson, lead
ing man of the Loranger Company
will play the part Of Strongheart, one
of his very best roles. Dorothy
Keene, the young coed who falls in
love with the big Italian, will be
played by Miss Elizabeth BARLEY, q
dramatic actress Of remarkable abil.
ity. "The Call Of the Blood" is q
scream from start to finish and is one
of the best comedies In the repre-
toire of the Loranger Company. The
play 70 be presented the following
night will be announced from the
stage each evening, as there will bt
complete change of program eacf
night. The prices for this attraction
will be Soc for, adults, and 15c TO,
children with war tax included.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25

Centre, to break down, as he alleged
the cooperative industry. He stated
that Minnesota cooperative cream
cries Assn, Inc, would go to any end
to help down the menace. This can
only be done, he said, by all friends
of the cooperative creamery getting
behind, shoulder to shoulder, in the
fight. He insisted that as soon as the
centralizer gets started, at least
20 per cent of the patrons of the To-
cal cooperative creamery will go to
the centraGzer. He said the expert
ence of other creameries in the past
proved this. He urged that every one
should get back and sign up farmers
to stand by their own creameries for
a series of years.
Mr.. Brand called attention to a
letter from Mr.. Heaton, we'll known
cooperative creamery man from Iowa,
In which he stated that the centraliz-
er will compel any cooperative cream
cry to fight. They will pay big prices
at first he said. -~s
Attention was called to conditions
in Texas. Because of the centraliz-
er's activity today there are only
three cooperative creameries left in
that state. Butterfat in Texas today
is only IS cents per pound while the
price In Minnesota for December was
from 81 cents to 81 cents.
The next five years will be of vital
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25
SERIOUS OPERATION

A. w. Austin, former well known
Sank Centre citizen, but now living
at Glencoe, Mimi, underwent a very
critical surgical operation at the Ma
yo Hospital, Rochester, Monday for
stomach trouble, very similar, the
Herald understands, to one performed
IA years ago. The gentleman, has
been in poor health for some time but
his many friends in the city hope that
he may pass through the ordeal sue
cessfully and regain. his health. He
is the father of H. T. Austin of Sank
Centre.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25
MELROsE3 VS. sAUK CENTRE

Friday night Melrose High School
will send to Sank Centre two of the
strongest teams it has ever had. This
will be the first at home game for
the locals since the holiday season.
The Melrose team defeated Osahs
at Osakis by larger score than
Alexandria was able to do. Melrose
also defeated Long Prairie % to 5.
It is reported they have dribbler
on the team that no high school man
can stop. Very little is known of the
strength of the Melrose girls team,
but real scrappy contest is assured.
AS was stated in the Herald short
while ago, the local quint is much
improved. Since the .Osakis defeat
it has won two games by the very
one-sided scores of 40 to 9 and 80
to 6. In scriminaging with the local
legion squad much Improvement in
basket shooting and defense work
has been shown. Coach Morgan has
shifted the lineup playing Lembke,
Brown, Nelson, E. Lewis and Mac
Dermond. Staebler, Max, Don Lewis
and Hanson complete the squad.
The girls have been practicing dill
igently under the coaching of Miss
Gallagby. The locals have not been
scored on this year, and it is their
hope to keep their record clean.
: An out of town referee has been
hired and two good games of basket
ball are assured. The first game
starts at o'clock.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25
A NOTE OF WARNING

Mayor William Parker has asked
the Herald to urge the young people
who are in the habit of riding about
the streets of Sank Centre on skis or
with large string of small sleds, to
use care in rounding the corners and
keep in the middle of the street,
watching out for pedestrians, teams,
and automobiles. There has been one
or two very narrow escapes from SER
ious accidents during the past week.
Mayor Parker does not wish to inter
fere in the least with the out door
sports of the young people of Sank
Centre but he does admonish them to
cooperate with the city in preventing
accidents to themselves or others.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25
STUDY THE STATEMENT

The Herald this week makes the
first publication of the Financia
statement of Stearns County showing
a detailed report of the business trans
acted for the year ending Dec. 81
1922. This statement is one of the
longest in the State of Minnesota and
the Herald takes pardonable pride in
placing it before the tax payers a.
this time. Next week all the papers
in the coutny outside of st. Cloud vii
print the Financial Statement in ac-
cordance with the contract made with
the commissioners at the meeting
of January End.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25
Annual Meeting Of Sank
AXE Creamery Assn on
Monday Very Harmonious

AS predicted in the Herald of last
week, the annual meeting of the Sank
Lake Cooperative Creamery held in
the armory on Monday was the mos:
largely attended in the history of til
organization. President Oscar Lying
of the Association called the meeting
to order shortly after 100 o'clock.
At the morning session the report of
Secretary Geo. Strauss was read and
approved and Aaron Bosshardt, Oscar
Lying, and F. J. Minette were elected.
to succeed themselves as directors for
three year terms.
The secretary's report disclosed
some very interesting figures. In
1921 at the close of business Dec. 81,
the total business amounted to $117,-
953.71. For the yeor ending Dec. 81,
1922 the business amounted to $17O,-
O07.89, an increase over 1921 of
$52,O54.18.
The patrons were paid sos, 1884,
in 1921; they were paid $154,11S.21
for their 1922 butterfat-an increase
in 1922 over 1921 of $50,283.19. In
1921 the Sank Lake Cooperative
Creamery manufactured 304 ,27z
pounds of butter. In 1922, 453,151
pounds of butter were manufactured
In this connection the following
statement covering a period of six
years demonstrates in unmistakabie
terms the progress made by the Sank
AXE Creamery
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25
FARM BUREAU SECRETARY

j. S. Jones, organization director
for the Minnesota Farm Bureau, has
been named by the administrative
committee to act as secretary to fill
the unexpred term of F L. French,
who resigned early in the month. Mr..
French's term expires April 1. Mr..
Jones has been connected with
Farm Bureau work in the state since
shortly after the federation was or
ganized three years ago.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25
MAIL CAR BURNED

A mail car and tender on Great
Northern passenger train No. IL, en-
route to Minneapolis jumped the
track and burned near Sabin, Mimi,
Saturday morning. The. entire con-
tents Of the mail car were lost. No
one was injured.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25
Farmers Shipping Asso-
citation Has Good Year
Sank Centre Cooperative Organiza-
ton Does Gross Business of
$9O,J48.78 in 1922

The report of Secretary Herman
Hager at the annual meeting of the
Farmers Shipping Association in Sank
Centre, held in the Commercial Club
rooms last Saturday afternoon, dis
closed the fact that the association
had closed most successful years
business. In 1921 fifty-nine cars of
stock were shipped for which $62, O7s.-
II were received, and in 1922 sixty
seven cars of stock were shipped for
which $83, 286.87 were received.
In 1921 the flour and feed sales
amounted to $2,922.10. There was a
slight falling off in this department
in 1922 as the total sales amounted to
$1,799.75. In 1921 $4,028. 16 wort
of coal was sold as against 5000 Is
in 1922, making gross business oil
the year of $90,14S.78. The business
for 1922 was $21, 112.41 heavier than
in 1921.
The following cacmparative state
ment of livestock handled in 1921 and
900 will ho Of iptarocf.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25

year and he was empowered to ap
point the various committees in COM
pliance with his ideas and to call the
directors together as soon as practic-
able to formally act on his sugges-
ton.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25
ANNUAL CREAMERY MEETING.

The annual meeting of the patrons
Of the Little Sank Cooperative
Creamery, will be held at the New
Palace Hall in that village on Tues
day, Feb. 9th. All patrons are urged
to represent.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25


1919 ............. ZlO,S45
192O zZo,o4S
Increase in two years of 52,SO4 lbs
1921 .............. 3O4,Z14
1922 45S,Z14 .
Increase in two years of 224,3US IDS.
An increase in 1922 over
The price paid for butterfat cover
ing a IL month period from Jan. 1922
to December, 1922 ranged from 37c
per lb. in July to 60c per ID. in De-
cember, being an average price for
the year of fraction less than 42.7c
per lb. In the months of May, June,
July, and August the prices for but
ter were abnormally low, SO under all
conditions it, can be seen that the. To-
cal creamery paid remarkable aver
age price for the IL months period.
The extended drought in June, July,
and August, 1922, very materially re-
duced the butterfat receipts. Hao
conditions remained normal it is safe
to say that in 1922 the Sank Lake Co
operative Creamery would have man.
ufactured well oven 100000 lbs of
butter.
b The following report of Secretary
Strauss for the year 1922 will be o.
interest: <
- RECEIPTS
Pounds of milk received ...... 38,125
Average test of milk received 3.3
Butterfat in milk, lbs 49,. 1870 z
Pounds of cream received ....1, 400, 094
Average test of cream 25. 6
Butterfat in cream, lbs 49,. $50, 0s2. s
Total butterfat received, lbs 361,363. 8
Lbs. of butter made, .......: -. .453,151
Lbs. OF over-run ..............S '7S7 Il
Percentage of over-run :. % 3
Shrinkage, lbs 422
Average net price received
for butter sold lib. ...... 81 4c
Average net price paid for
butterfat, ID ............. AZ. 7c
Average cost of manu-
featuring per Id. .........- Sic
Received for 387 ,403 lbs, of
Butter shipped ....$ 1888 80
Received for 49,056 lbs Of
butter sold locally ........ 1890 IS
Received for STAG lbs. butter
sold at creamery ...... 2,339 4.
Received for 1854 lbs. Of
butter sold to patrons. 6,749 lie
Total receipts for butter sold 9,433 81
Received butter rebate -. "a. "a
! Total butter sold .......... .169,46 81
Received for cream sold 80. 62.8S
Received for buttermilk sold 236 As
Received for interest on
money in bank .......... 1Os IS
Received from patrons for
cans etc ............. 55 AS
Received from Swift & Co.
for empty barrels ....... 26. 95
Received for telephone calls GIG
Received from miscellaneous
sources ....-...... 26. IS
Received for freight claims 16. 81
Total Gross receipts
for 1922 ..... $170, 007 .89
DISBURSEMENTS FOR 1927
Total expenditures, manufac-
turing, salaries, improve
mantS RnllinmRnt
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Continued on Page 81
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25

: oscar Sukke and Charles horton
were elected as directors for the
Shipping Association for three year
terms. Harmony prevailed through
out the meeting and the stockholders
were mighty well pleased with the
showing made by Secretary and
Manager Herman Hager in 1922.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25


Total expenditures, manufac-
turing, salaries, improve
ments, new equipment,
taxes and insurance .$15,79 rs
Paid to Patrons by Check 147.4 SO
Paid to Patrons by Butter 6,771 .0C
Paid Patrons by Supplies. 55. sc
Balance on Hand ..... 1888