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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-17
The Woodsman Had Snatched the Note
and Mas Eagerly CHANGING 1t
Through.

his cabin. with the intention of carry
ing the hidden bundles of money to
Texie and taking her into his full con
fdence, when he saw Mrs. Curry, fat
and portly, %hurrying across the
orchard at her pudgy best.
"Here's a note Texie left FIR y'u."
She held up an envelope, sealed.
left FIR me?"-he was in at the
gate in three strides and hurrying
across the yard-"where's she gomez"
"She got a letter this mornin'," Mrs.
Curry puffed, "and she said she'd hat
T. go t. town. She writ you this note,
mounted Brownie and rode away lick
ety-split. She said if she didn't come
back this evenin' l wuz t git you t
sleep at our house, and | wus t stay
with Aunt Liza"
The woodsman had snatched the
note and was eagerly glancing it
through:
Dear Jack:
I've had such wonderful news. Ken
amt dead, after all. He is In the citv
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TO the corner of the caDln where tn
chink was out between the logs.
Belden had just opened his letter;
Black Bogus was stopped over him.
Belden, as he read, suddenly uttered a
low exclamation.
s"T'night," he muttered-"at mid
night"
He swOre merrily.
81 knowed e hadn't reneged-l
knowed e hadn't"
Hold STILL" growled the other.
"Huh! !" he went on-"t'night-mid-
highland a clean s-weep-expects t
be with us 'imself." He glanced at
the envelope. IVY, he's in town
what the"
Belden took the envelope, stuffed
tn. letter clumsily back in it and put
it in his pocket.
"Wonder what e meant" he NUT
tered, 'by cautionin' us S dern pfnted
pitcher not t. hurt the gal-if she's
thar. If she's thar-where else would
she be? Says we mustn't hurt 'er, even
if we hat t. cut out an leave the
swag." He glanced away in the direc-
ton of the squalid cabin up at the
head of the hollow; a black look
crossed his face, and the man at the
chink wondered if he was thinking of
that scene at the pallet under the win
dow the night before. wonder what
e thinks we air. he went On. Don't
hurt 'er-if she's thar-h-l!"
The two outlaws hunted their pipes,
lounged down on the two boxes and
smoked for some moments in thought
full silence. Belden suddenly straight
ened slapped his hand down on his
knee.
"Must take some nerve he chuckled,
't' murder a man, an then preach is
funeral"
Black Bogus drew hard on his pipe;
puffed out the smoke slowly shrugged
his heavy shoulders.
"Nerye-huh-he don't give up the
spoon t. nobody when it comes t.
nerve, he don't"
Nearly an hour the two sat smoking
and internationally discussing their
plans, no detail of which escaped the
listener.
Belden was the first to leave. Black
Bogus waited several minutes before
following; finally slipped out, with far
greater caution than Belden had
shown; stopped low through the weeds
and only came out into the road when
$3.50 I;.Ao,ao .oAorA %ho uarH OF q
point where the bushes grew dense
along both sides.
The woodsman waited till he was
well out of sight and sound before
creeping from under the wild ucum-
Der vines and stealing through the
bushes up the hill. He had found out
what he wanted to know.
The landscape lay before him in all
it's midday splendor. Mrs. Curry had
doubtless just mended the fire in the
kitchen stove at the r%ed-roofed cot
tage, for white wood smoke curled up
from the chimney. But the air was
evidently too light and still to bear
it up, for it drifted lazily away, to set
tie in a long bank of airy fuffiness
that draped itself above the orchard
trees like the veil of a goddess lost
out of the skies. Above the homestead,
and farther away over the bottoms,
swift-winged swallows skinned the
air; a dozen or so b~lackbirds loped
down out of the woods and stopped
long enough in the big elm for a short
concert.
Down by the road gate Graylock lift
ed his head, whinnied, came trotting
up the barn-lot and the man set his
feet to the rough path that wound
down among the rocks.
He had let the horses into the barn
and fed them, and was on the way to
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-17

/ renee and halting him. for he was al
ready riding away. be keerful. | dis
like t. see any harm fall on y'u-
them's bad people"
1t seemed to him that Graylock had
never stepped so slowly. Hitching him
in front of a small grocery on the
street, he looked at all the other hitch
racks in sight for Brownie-but
Brownie was not to be seen. Button
ing his hunting blouse about him so as
to hide the six-gun, he walked into the
alley.
The fourth door down on the right
proved to be a large. two-story, close
ly-shuttered wooden structure standing
almost flush with the narrow side
street known as Brickbat alley. There
was another building on the same lot,
a business edifice of brick, fronting on
the street proper and apparently occu-
pied by a saloon, and the two were
connected by a sort of covered porch.
All these facts the woodsman noted in
the second or two of his approach.
He knocked at the weather-stained,
implanted door. Such a long time went
by that he was just on the point of
knocking again, when there was a shut
fling inside and approaching steps. A
key ratified in the lock, the bolt clicked
back, the knob turned, a woman APP
peared at the very narrow slit the door
was allowed to open and looked out at
him. She was a large woman, in good
flesh, and not bad-looking.
'Is this where Doll Baker lives?'
yes; won't We come in?"
He entered. She closed the door,
turned the key in the lock-a fact that
he took due note of-and led the way
into another room slightly better light
ed. He noticed that both rooms were
rather showily and extensively fur
nished.
He took the chair pointed out TO him.
table a few feet away eyed him COW
ertly.
"And you are-?" he questioned, as
if continuing the inquiry begun at the
door. 1.GMsa4
Miss Baker-Dol1 Baker"
"Well, Miss Baker" he had to watch
his voice to keep it orderly and even,
give got a friend-that is. a lady
friend-that come t. the city t'day
from the country. 1 come in t'day M
self, and I'd kinda like t. hunt 'er up
and ride home with 'er. l was tol she's
here"
Regarding the obvious blind of the
sick brother, he said nothing, knowing
it was but a trick of the very
full Hopkins. The terrible letter that
had Frustrated the old banker seven
days before was in Ken Collins own
hand and absolutely genuine. There
was no sick brother.
The woman sat for near a minute,
studying him out of the battling Sits
of her eyes-clothing; hands; face;
feet-in a way she did not think he
saw.
what kind of a looking girl was
YOU friend ~ she questioned at last.
medium size, fair, brown hair,
brown eyes-with smiles in 'em-anG
remarkably small and purity hands and
feet"
well, she isn't here"
The gray-green eyes of the woman
watched him covertly through their
narrowed lids. He caught the look,
felt the caution.
"Where is she?"
"Don't ask me-"
"Tm awful sorry" he replied, in
tones he tried hard to make meek and
doleful. "She amt nothin' but iist a
raw country girl, and [ amt nothin'
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E&5ls
but jist a raw country boy. but we're
both from the same little town out
here a ways and l wanted t see 'er
awful bad b'fore she left-town.'
The woman still eyed him closely,
though her look seemed gradually to
become more curious than distrustful,
until at last she appeared to throw off
all suspicion.
Wen. Mr.-Country Boy" she said,
with an air Of %frankpass and a twist
Of her face betwe-H ; grin and a
smile. II don't know one thing about
your-friend. and thar's straight"
do yu know Prof. Caleb Hopkins?"
The question caught the woman off
guard. She started.
"Never heard of him."-she hest
tated; finally added but you might
go on through and ask Bill"
who's Bill?"
"Oh. friend of mine-bounces bar
out front"
The man studied her. In his eyes
there walked "A hardness that the Flat
woods had learned to know.
"Miss-Doll Baker'-it cost him al
effort to hold his voice even and calm
I'm right sorry + saw I'm doubtin'
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-17

CHAPTER XII.-Pap Simon looks
dresses an envelope to Jack Warhope
mot to be opened till his twenty-hrst
birthday" Texie, Jack and the preacher
go riding.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-17

CHAPTER Kiln the forest Jennie
Belden warns Jack that his life is in
''bides his time an when he strikes
he kills"
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-17

CHAPTER XIII-Texie and Jack
preacher takes great pains to prove he
can't hit a flock of barn doors. Jack
sees a face at the window of a haunted
cabin.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-17

CHAPTER XIv.-Jack sees Blacl
Bogus handle counterfeit money in tn,
haunted cabin and pass it to thu
the two men talk of Pap Simon an(
his money. Shortly after, the alarm
is given n the old money-lender i!
found dead In his office. DisarrSngeC
furniture and the old mans scratched
face tell of a struggle, but the safe is
locked. Jack does his own investigat-
ing and solves the mystery
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-17

: CHAPTER W.-At the village store
and postofice Loge Belden, a newcomer,
says he saw the new parson with his
arm around Texie. Jack slaps him,
ticks him, shoots a pistol from his hand
and makes hin say he was mistaken.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-17

CHAPTER X.-Jack trails a night
prowler, who goes to Whispering
Spring, calls out the preacher with an
owl o and hands him a small pack
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-17

CHAPTER XV.-Jack faces the
what he knows. The preacher draws
his pistol only to find himself covered.
Jack disarms him and forces him to
counterfeit has been substituted. He
does not accuse the preacher of intend
ing to- kill Pap Simon. but escorts him
to the stage, forces him to leave town
and warns him not to come back.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-17

CHAPTER IX.-Al Counterman and
Uncle Nick Whites, friends of Jack,
agree that the festival desperate is
man wanted by the sheriff, that he is
harborin' with Loge Belden and that
they are planning to rob Pap Simon.
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La Toilette The Third Party And The Labor Party B

lists on local and state SCALE but has not yet dete
crvstallzed on national scale 1t is deep-gomg social
and political PROCESS and must understand II as
PROCESS At the same time the exploited farmers and
workers are splitting away, not only from the CAPITALISTS
but from tn wel-to-do farmers and small business men,
This development also is not fully completed and con
sunrnated but it is crystalline and more 1t is
deepgong political and social PROCESS, and we must
understand it as PROCESS. These two most important
social and political processes-first the class struggle
growing sharper between big capital on the one
hand and small businessmen and weto-do farmers on
the other hand and second the growing class conflict
between wet0-do farmers and small businessmen on the
one hand and exploited farmers and proetarian workers
on the other handare the basic facts of the newest de-
velopment of political life. But must realize that
we can only understand this development when take
as fixed fact but try to explain it tendency.
With rigid dogmas that farmers always reachOnary
at least conservative and that trade unions al
ways revolutionary at least progressive it is impos
sbe to understand at all the variety and richness of the
class struggle.
We must comprehend the main tendency, but we must
also understand the many transitional forms and trans
itiOna situations
La Toilette, the political leader Of the weto-do farm
and small business men is fighting against Coolidge
the president of the international bankers and big trusts
But he still has not broken with the Republican party
with the party of the banks and trusts La Toilette dub
bed Coohdge's first message as presentation Of the
standpa reactOnaTy theory of government La Toilette
accused Coolidge::
If it be courageous to champion the interests of rail
roads, the prOfeers, the coal magnates and our other
overOrds against the of the people, then in all fair
ness must be conceded that the President has earned
the tribute to his courage warmly accorded by many
OF the newspapers of the country"
La Toilette instructed his REPUBLICAN followers in
the Senate to vote for the DEMOCRAT Smith who is
against the EschCummins law rather than to vote for
the REPUBLICAN Cummns who is the author of the
most capitastic law of the United States La Toilette
lighting against the reactionary wing of the Repubi-
can party and is breaking party discipline in the fight
but he still remains member of the reaconary Repub-
ican party We see there transitional stage
The Farmer Labor Federation in Minnesota is fighting
the of the workers and exploited farmers AGAINST
the political machine of the wetodo farmers and small
business men, This Federation is class organization
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-01-11
EAKIHQUAKEN JAPAN AN EXCUSE TO CRUSH JAPANESE PROETARAT

The feudastc government of Japan has taken advant
age OF the fearful disaster that befe the country to
carry on violent campaign against the Japanese proe
CaC Arrests, MURDERS depOrtations of thousands of
Koreans are on the order of the day. This is an nm
OokedOr opportunity to crush the awakening JAPANESE
labor movement and the government is taking full adj
vantage of it.
News OF the seriousness Of the earthquake is inst
reaching the western world About 100000 people were
kllled-CHIEFLY WORKERS 900 were injured and
100000 rendered destitute. The district of HOMO.
which IS primarily WOrmen's section was one of the
worst sufferers THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND PEOPT r
WERE TRAPPED IN THE MILITARY warehouses and
burned to death 1t is obvious that the workers Quarters
OF the cities are congeste the houses are poorly built
ana IN addition escape was impossible Thus is Toxic
alone, $4,000 buildings were DESTROYED and 3A6 OOO
people made homeless. Yokohoma with population Of
4z5OOO lost 10000 in dead and wounded OF more than
one-fourth of the population.
Inc japanese government is taking great pains to con-
cea the material LOSSES There is no doubt that thew
huge and will seriously affect the economic life of the
country The destroyed buildings were insured 70 tho
amount OF 22OOOOOOOO yen q yen equals so cents or
gold rube). Many houses were not insured so that
the loss must be estimate at at least 35OOOOOOOO ven
Warehouses full of goods, shops (of which there were
ABOUT oOOOO IN Toxic aone large quantities of food sup
phes the value of which cannot even be estimated 2O0
600 tons of oil, went up in flames
The chief destruction however, was done to the fac
tories and transportation industry Seven-hnred and
SIX factories employing SO 900 workers. were demolished
IN KokomOma, the larger part of the 1862 factories in
Toxic, employing $4,000, suffered similar fate The
shlpbulding, spinning sugar refining paper chemical
electrical and material industries were the chief sf
ferers The spinning industry especially hard hit:
IL OF the largest factories operating more than 900 900
spndles, or ONE-QUARTER OF THE TOTAL. NUMBER
in the country completely destroyed Six thousand
weaving machines, oneenth of the total suffered de-
structon Only 10000 spindles are working at the pres
ent time.
Banks telephones uamways suffered huge losses. AL
though it is reported that the banks saved their books
they lost all other documents, such mortgages etc.
which will mean tremendous deficit But the most seri
Ors blow that Japan has sustained from an looe1iast
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and has the broad vision that the rnovo eERna
ened on national scale. But this coe- '1lV must -
not class-conscous it has friendly roa+;a eaent
Grated FaTmer-Labor party, but barbo.. with the
ency to nominate La Toilette as nraeid. Strong ~
ton is separate organization. ernbroa: This Fes
and exploited farmers of the state h,t ny The VoR
and has an organizationa unity with the =. V
party Of Minnesota which is at the same taIierl
of small businessmen and wel-to-do FARM. .lNe The p
GRAFTON is willing to go along with the Fo5. This "a
Labor party, and even with the Workers 1a'e0 Faos
it is willing to fight in the class stlugoIo - | That
but at the same time is willing to accent 'as @
political leader of the wel-to-do farmer 90, Oee
ness man. This again is transitional staa small bus
In South Dakota, where the poverty a.,
Of the poor farmers has developed the fa,bo,s
struggle between the well-to-do farmers and G @
farmrs is most sharp. Therefore, the c.ss pl0a'as
ness of the exploited farmers is the deanost '0nc
representatives Of the exploited farmers ~''e %
split with the representatives of the rich ''oI ,
than to accept Ford the candidate Of tho l 11s
They have rejected very decsively the notoal ia
Of the takers Of the labor aristocracv. and go,
direct leadership Of the revolutionary indnetI m
the leadership of the Federated FarmerT abor
even these poor farmers who are revolutionaat~ " by
not call themselves FARMERS any moro Ln y. !.
ANTS, who express themselves against nriy.to Il
even these farmers possess Illusions and tbor.
La Toilette for the presidency.
It is no chaos; we see before US rather +,....
stages Of strong fundamental tendencies
If we have grasped that clearly, then the tssl.
our Party are clear.
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workers of Japan face hard years ahead
The immediate situation of the workers is even nn
narrowing. America and England Immediately RESI-
nized the dependent situation into which Japan has bal
forced by the earthquake. They knew that hundreds
millions of dollars worth of building material and nj
chinery would be necessary for the reconstruction
country. This material will have to be procured an
1t was an act of the best business ingenuity for n
American government to start a relief campaign and
make the collections as large as possible. The Ansi
Red Cross, the official charity agency Of the lns
States government, began campaign to raise millions
dollars for relief Millions have been raised the banks
Wall Street and leading manufacturers subscribing
large sums. Samuel Gompers who loves the J@aA
workers so dearly Immediately dispatched $4,000 TO-
lief, and called upon the American workers to conFIa
to the Red Cross
The funds collected by the Red Cross will go to a%
anese governmental agency to distribute as 1t seq
That agency is the least fit to carry relief la
workers of Japan. The Government Of Japan VIII ~
1t that the militant workers receive no aid. VIII S@
them using this method as one of the means OF uS'.
ing the labor movement of the country The ian'D~
the thousands of prisoners languishing in japanese
Ons and of the reported COrean workers will de y ur
ger. THE FUNDS COLLECTED BY THE BOu IN an
SIZE OF THE UNITED STATES AND ENGLAND, Tlg
BE USED TO STAMP OUT THE ENANCIfaATrggT
MOVEMENT OF THE JAPANESE WORRIES LI ,crc
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT ACTING AS The Nv
FOR THIS BESTIAL ACT.
The revolutionary workers Of the world m ~ ~.
the aid of their Japanese comrades The neSu
NO comrade must fail to do his part!
The workers and peasants Of Soviet Russia nI T.nr
o1 r. E. LoIv,
workers. The Soviet Government sent sf The 81
to Japan, but the japanese government orugl'1 hsrS
sci, which bore the name "Lenin" to leave the n r
once. The Russian workers are continuing l5a4mb
Thirty thousand gold rubles worth Of food ID a' 6d
been dispatched will reach the starving
Japanese workers. a5
The revolutionary workers of the world mus uorsse @
share They must rush to the aid Of then '@ e todd
rades. The need is great. No comrade daIsi""
part!
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melting others to rotOus acts or any action which tends
to nct injury other persons or to destroy property
or who agtate for the purpose of causing disorders
whether by publication communication or by any other
MEANS and who spread false information in order to de-
Jude the populace subject to Imprisonment not ex
ceedng ten years fine not exceeding three thousand
yen.'
The brutality of the government reached climax in
the murder OF the leader of the Communist movement of
Japan Comrade Sakai The usual excuse was made that
ne was attempting to escape" THE TRAGIC END OF
LlEKNECHT repeated few days later the leader Of
the Anarchists, Osug was murdered in a most boetio1
manner together with his nephew. They were arrested
with other dangerous characters" and prominent MEM
bers OF the labor movement, and dragged to prison
Osug had been acting as agent of the Japanese gov
ernmenL spying on the labor movement of Japan and
emma short time ago he went to Paris and there took
stand against the Japanese government He ,o+,,,d
to Japan just before the earthquake and the
TOOK revenge on him for his daring to defend the workers
once more The bodies of Osug and his wife and nenb
were found at the bottom of a we'll The captain who
committed the act stated that he acted for the good Of
Japan believing that those who held such dangerous
ions Osugi, imperied the safety Of tho Sto+ .
government has admitted that "a out of the 9OO or
rested were bayoneted to death by the military autbo
Ties. The bodies were then burned How MANY y,o,o
were Killed IS unknown; but all evidence points to the
conclusion That the larger part of the prisoners if not all
OF them nave been brutaly murdered
The War Office expressed its regret at the ooo,,.o
and added that SUCH THINGS ARE INEvTT4BT TIM
DER MARTIAL LAW" IL O1'
Inc Japanese government is in panic and has estah
lSneo reign OF terror against the working class Hav
ing suffered Such monetary loss it is compelled to make
large aoregn loan 1t is carrying on negotiations for
loan of $5OOOOOOOO from the United staes J nor
OOoOOO from England. It will be compelled to ova y,o,
anees OF the sctest economy" both in the State bd
get and IN economic outlay. The limitation Of fl
means restrictions of mperiast activities: Janan |
nave 70 grant concessions to America and possibly Emo
lano IN emma She will have to reduce her army Roo+
ton OF economic outlay means Iengthenino f
reduction to pay for the workers. Many tens Of
oil workers are Obless the number will increase The